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[-] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

That's not cool man...

They said medieval, that is way too late.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I dunno, that was invented to make beheadings more humane...let's go back to an axe.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Trebuchets, which btw are far superior to catapults.

[-] boydster 274 points 4 days ago

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago

Strange woman here, anyone knows where I can buy swords in bulk, preferably with a pond thrown in? It's for... a personal project.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

Are we to believe that famous actress Margot Robbie doesn't have some sort of connection for bulk medieval weaponry?

I am shocked and dismayed.

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[-] [email protected] 85 points 4 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 85 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Our leaders fighting in the wars they start.

You wanted it... go fucking get it cowards.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

That wasn't really a thing in medieval times. I'm afraid an axe will have to do.

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[-] explodicle 44 points 4 days ago

Inns, especially if they've got an enormous pot of perpetual stew, and people are giving out quests.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

That sounds an awful lot like restaurants and jobs...

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago

Peasant uprisings, to take down the kings of today.

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[-] [email protected] 101 points 5 days ago

Having most of the year off for festivals and holy days

[-] Tar_alcaran 34 points 5 days ago

Good news: take up subsistence farming, no healthcare, no electricity, and make everything yourself, and you too can have half the year "off".

[-] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[-] Tar_alcaran 32 points 4 days ago

I mean the reality was that the time "off" was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you'll quickly realize it's a LOT of work.

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[-] ArbitraryValue 87 points 4 days ago

My non-joke answer is apprenticeship. Kids could actually learn how to do a valuable job rather than graduating from high school with almost no useful skills.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Perpetual stew, good architecture, and no Twitter

[-] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

I just really like walking around eating giant turkey legs.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Fucking castles, duh

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago

Cloaks would be cool. I know that's more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn't matter.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Medieval aesthetics also really had cloaks, but big detached hoods were more common.

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[-] Leg 27 points 4 days ago

I have a cloak vendor bookmarked. I haven't pulled the trigger because I don't know if I wanna be the cloak guy, but dammit I want a cloak.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I unplug for a few days and this pops up on my feed. ??????????

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Child labor.

Oh, wait…

[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

Dueling. I say we use it as an option to reply to a civil lawsuit. Able bodied adults only, no proxies, and if you refuse then you have to do a trial and they can weigh your refusal as evidence against you.

Swords only, no guns.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

Catapults, just to irritate the trebuchet people.

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[-] paskalivichi 44 points 5 days ago

Guillotines for kings

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Weird ass slices in public parks everybody has to garden in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-field_system

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Kings, plagues, private armies (more late medieval and renaissance, but you get the idea), career military with hi-tech weapons tearing apart barely armed peasants. Idk, OP, seems like we got almost everything covered

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Trump already brought that one back.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Trebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

Royalty and nobility taking part in actual on-the-ground warfare. I'd be curious if that would have any effect on military operations...

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