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infinite zest - 2015-02-12

Your collar


duck&cover - 2015-02-12

Bed head.


infinite zest - 2015-02-12

Hey Lindybeige, Simon Pegg called, he wanted his..

oh shit he's good at swords. I forgot.


SolRo - 2015-02-12

is he?

I thought he put all his points into Pedantry.


EvilHomer - 2015-02-13

He's OK with swords. Most of his points have been placed in Lore: Weaponry, Lore: Natural Science, and various social skills - Bluff and Diplomacy and a three-rank focus in Courtly Dance. Lloyd's physical stats, while serviceable, have not been min-maxed, and he's actually got more training in Greco-Roman shield-and-spear fighting than later medieval swords.

Compared to your average man on the street, he's good at swords. He'd certainly beat Simon Pegg in a fight! But he's only recently begun to take his Fighter training seriously (HEMA courses somewhere up north) and you can tell from his edge-alignment that his cutting technique has been honed in LARPs, rather than with a proper sword.


oddeye - 2015-02-12

jesus christ....


bongoprophet - 2015-02-12

I think I just now finally warmed to Lindybeige when he made that distinction between verse and poetry.


EvilHomer - 2015-02-13

Yeah, there's been a lot of drama around his stabbing videos. I'm Team Icepick Grip myself, but the only issue I had personally was that I find verse to be very distracting, and would prefer he kept his verse videos and his weaponry videos separate. Both Schola and Thrand were very polite and professional, but you can tell that there were hurt feelings on both sides of the shieldwall, and this made the whole affair rather difficult to watch. It felt like watching your family members get in a really passive-aggressive fight over Christmas.

(the general audience response in the comments section, though... that's a different story)

Might I suggest a "dagger" tag, OZ? Not to be a Lloyd, but this video is technically about dagger fighting, not swords.


oddeye - 2015-02-13

what about sword throwing like in that Iron Mask fella movie and Braveheart? Do they ever shoot swords out of like slingshots and stuff?

I remember a goofy Dwarven warmachine that lobbed axes at stuff in Warhammer, is that more or less realistic than a cannonade that blasts swords at passing naval vessels?

Could you make a good sword out of copper or would I be better adding some tin to make bronze?

Thanks.


EvilHomer - 2015-02-13

There are a number of videos on sword throwing scattered throughout the YT sword community; Schola discussed it once, as I believe has Lindy.

http://youtu.be/cor9VH66epU

For your sword cannon, what are you expecting to accomplish with it? Are you trying to cause hull damage, or do you want to use it against something else, like deck-crew or rigging?

As for the practicality of copper swords, I can't cite all the maths behind this answer, but I can say with some degree of confidence that the answer would be "no". Bronze was by the far the preferred choice of material for sword blades in the ancient world; copper isn't hard enough, and I believe that stout daggers were the largest blades ancient man could forge prior to the introduction of bronze. You might want to send Skallagrim a message about this, as I know he's a fan of bronze swords, and likes to talk metallurgy with his friends and colleagues.

http://youtu.be/C4qLhq5V2-o
http://youtu.be/AX67h1nxPZA


Raggamuffin - 2015-02-13

What if there were a whole universe made out of swords? And everyone who lived in it was a sword and the houses were sheaths?


EvilHomer - 2015-02-13

How would they be able to make sheaths if everyone is a sword? The ability to manufacture objects (such as sheaths) requires limbs and opposable digits, features which swords lack. The most sophisticated thing a sentient sword might do would be, perhaps, to fashion for itself a rudimentary shelter by digging in the earth, or by sawing precisely through a very large tree (tasks to which a sword, being a weapon of war and not a garden trowel nor wood-cutting axe, is not well-suited). But of course, neither earth nor trees, nor even indeed sheaths, could exist at all, as you have just postulated that *everything* in this universe is a sword! Earth, trees, and sheaths are not swords, and hence lie beyond the physical limitations imposed upon this universe.


yogarfield - 2015-02-13

Homie:

After seeing you converse at length on these matters, I'm now certain that you have your own YT channel devoted to swordsmanship. Let's see it!


EvilHomer - 2015-02-13

I wish I did, but sadly I'm far too camera-shy and self-conscious to make one. Also, I don't know enough about swords to contribute meaningfully to the debate. I once thought I could raise a few points for Matt Easton in regards to the bizarre South Indian whip-swords, the Urumi, but it turned out he already knew more about them than I did, and had discussed all the points I would have made, at great length and with better sources.

Every time I watch a new video by Lindybeige's, I think to myself, gosh, maybe I should start my own Youtube channel! But then I get distracted by work or video games or that crushing sense of futility, loneliness, and inadequacy, and nothing comes of it.


cognitivedissonance - 2015-02-13

If you're following it, Scholagladiatoria published a video stating that he has no beef with Lindy and that any controversy between them is imagined on behalf of the sword fanatic community.

Because the sword fanatic community is really THAT INTENSE, and any opinion or statement made about a sword unleashes a thousand sword maniacs to argue against it.


Toenails - 2015-02-13

The Old Man apologizes to the sea (of idiot internet commentators).


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