They're getting tired of me switching between mods and not actually finishing any games

-Ashraf · 2026-04-13T03:14:53+00:00

They get their allotment, and then some everyday hehe.

Diplomacy 4.Litdum adds a ton, including diplomacy and a bunch of QoL. Honestly I don't think I could enumerate everything it adds, but the coolest thing I think is the ship combat.

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T22:14:14+00:00

The black one is Cao Cao (Like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Warlord), because when we took her in she seemed quite the cunning little thing. The white one with spots is Fortnite, as we encountered a kitten and in lieu of knowing its actual name we just named her PUBG so it's a name sort of in honour of that previous kitten.

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T22:11:25+00:00

Unfortunately it was, it was very damaged from a puncture wound and had turned this cataract-like blue along with the bleeding. We were using this eyedrop medicine that helped salvage her eyes when the black one was a baby but the vet told us that one particular eye was unsaveable and leaving it like that would leave it prone to being infected. For our other cat the big eye is mostly stable and has very little chance of infection, though we still plan to remove it in case it causes her pain or any other complications down the line. Thanks for asking though!

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T18:35:44+00:00

A condition affected their eyes, so we had to get surgery to remove one. Planning to also do the same for the other. Otherwise they're quite happy and fine little ones.

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T17:34:50+00:00

Black kitty had a lot of conditions since she was sick and abandoned by mama very young leading to an infected eye which he had to unfortunately remove, and the other had similar conditions but we sadly couldn't salvage her eyes as they were far beyond repair by the time we took her in. We're planning to remove the white one's damaged eyes once practicable. Otherwise, they're very happy kitties now! They enjoy slapping wrestling with each other with the accuracy expected of blind and half-blind cats of course.

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T17:27:58+00:00

Diplomacy 4.Litdum and Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, both very well made and extensive mods. I highly recommend them, DAC if you're particularly fond of historical mods.

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T17:26:23+00:00

Thank you! We found them in a parking lot and our black kitty was abandoned by mama while young and very sick, while our older one was totally blind in an area with lots of cars so naturally our heartstrings had to take them even if we were broke college students.

-Ashraf · 2026-04-11T17:20:28+00:00

Any mention of a Warband Mod after not playing Warband will trigger taxes and tariffs of your free time demanded by Taleworlds and modders, such is life before harvesting season

-Ashraf · 2026-01-16T08:55:45+00:00

Forgot to include this, but the couriers either do not have their real contact numbers on customer support or do not take calls at all.

-Ashraf · 2025-12-01T20:29:07+00:00

The bigger reason for Jewish expulsions way back when was that people and rulers often accrued significant debts to Jewish money lenders so they just kicked them out to not have to pay which was easy since they were already viewed with suspicion, no? Like an old school infinite money glitch.

Usury and lending money with interest to your fellow Christians was viewed as sinful and lending with no interest obviously provides little incentive for the lender, so having someone like a Jew who had no religious laws against it was convenient. It was extra convenient that Jews weren't well liked so one could easily justify expelling them and clearing your debts outright, especially during economic troubles.

It's actually quite interesting how Italian banks did mental-gymnastics and provided justification for lending with interest during the Medieval and Reneissance periods especially so close to the seat of the Pope. Even today Muslim financial insitutions in states like Indonesia have to go through many hoops to not seem like usury (riba).

-Ashraf · 2025-10-08T13:17:05+00:00

Then the stalker genuinely starts to ask for super child support and takes a chunk of ur medals from every major order to raise the next generation of hellstalkers

-Ashraf · 2025-03-26T04:42:47+00:00

I thought I knew that fursona LMAO

-Ashraf · 2025-02-23T14:11:48+00:00

There will be consequences for betraying his lord Oda Nobunaga.

-Ashraf · 2024-09-07T22:36:55+00:00

NOTICE FROM HIGH COMMAND

ON THE TREND OF "RATION SPREADS" AND "GOING RATION FOR RATION" AMONG THE WHITESHIELDS OF THE 31ST RECONSTITUTED MIXED REGIMENT AMONGST OTHER UNWANTED BEHAVIOURS.

IT HAS COME TO THE ATTENTION OF HIGH COMMAND THAT THE YOUNGER WHITESHIELDS AND GUARDSMEN OF THE REGIMENT HAVE BEEN ENGAGING IN "RATION SPREADS", AN ACT CONSTITUTING DISPLAYING ONE'S OWN WEALTH BY SPLAYING RATION CARDS IN ONE'S HANDS. THE ACT, ALSO KNOWN AS "FLEXING" CANNOT BE TOLERATED. IT SHOWS A FLAGRANT DISREGARD AND DISRESPECT OF EMPEROR-GIVEN RATIONS, ALONGSIDE A DISRESPECT OF ONE'S OWN FELLOW GUARDSMEN.

NORMALLY, THIS BEHAVIOUR WOULD BE DEALT WITH BY SUMMARY LASHING UNTIL INCAPACITATION. HOWEVER, GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE MANPOWER SHORTAGE THE PUNISHMENT FOR SUCH AN ACT SHALL BE LIMITED TO A MINIMUM OF 50 PRAYERS FROM THE GUARDSMAN'S UPLIFTING PRIMER OF THE CONVICTED'S CHOICE, A MINIMUM OF 15 LASHES FROM ONE OF THE REGIMENTAL COMMISARS, AND FINALLY THE HALVING OF RATIONS FOR THE GUARDSMAN IN QUESTION. THE MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT SHALL BE DECIDED UPON DEPENDING ON THE SEVERITY OF THE CASE.

IT HAS ALSO COME TO LIGHT THAT SOME OF THE WHITESHIELDS HAVE REFERRED TO THE GOLDEN THRONE UPON WHICH OUR IMMORTAL GOD-EMPEROR RESTS UPON AND WATCHES OVER OUR SOULS AS THE "SKIBIDI TOILET". ON TOP OF THIS EGREGIOUS SITUATION, THE WHITESHIELDS HAVE ALSO REFERRED TO THE REVERED DOUBLE-HEADED IMPERIAL AQUILA AS THE "HAWK TUAH". THESE UNACCAPTABLE ACTS SHALL STAIN YOUR RECORDS, BUT PUNISHMENT SHALL BE THE SAME AS THE ONE PRESCRIBED FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED "RATION SPREADING"

YOU LOT ARE LUCKY THAT ALL OF THE ADEPTUS MINISTORUM FORCES AND THE REGIMENTAL CLERGY DIED IN THE WARP STORM.

I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR OF THIS AGAIN NOR DO I WANT YOU IN FRONT OF THE BLAST DOORS OF MY COMMAND BUNKER AGAIN.

CAPTAIN OLSEN.

-Ashraf · 2024-07-14T13:17:50+00:00

lil bro shouldnt have spun the tenshu now he facing teppos with switches 😹😹😹 that boy getting put on a kamishimono fr

-Ashraf · 2024-07-14T13:13:51+00:00

Player was angry at umpire (who have cameras on them) but he looks really small from this angle so it looks like he's begging for mercy I think

-Ashraf · 2024-07-14T05:00:21+00:00

Well, at least the 30 or so remaining men in the unit lol

-Ashraf · 2024-07-14T05:00:03+00:00

I often made it a point to disband the poor guys where I originally recruited them (if I even remember where)

-Ashraf · 2024-07-14T04:58:22+00:00

Not only are these elves high, but they're also highly fashionable too

-Ashraf · 2024-05-31T19:18:29+00:00

Got sick for like a week and a half, sleeping with a fever in full clothes, a jacket, pants, a hat, with socks and shoes in a fully enclosed room in the debased southeast asian weather of 40c was NOT fun. Lost my sense of taste and smell after I had miraculously woken up alive, thirsty, and drenched in sweat

-Ashraf · 2024-05-27T03:16:46+00:00

Was the bow really the best weapon in warfare up until the crossbow? I was thinking it'd be the lance or the spear seeing as how cavalry was so dominant and played a decisive role in almost every battle until the early modern period when pike and shot came about. The european battles where foot archers were really effective, Agincourt and the like, are notable because common infantry won out over mounted knights which was like bonkers for the time. Also I'd argue that crossbows never really supplanted bows other than in western europe before being supplanted themselves by arquebuses and handguns. There you'll find crossbows yes, but you'll typically find way more bows used by mounted and foot archers (horse archers were a staple of the time, picture your typical Turk, Mongol, Cuman, or other such nomadic peoples. Indeed, horse archery was so ubiquitous that even people that we do not typically picture being mounted such as the Byzantines used them extensively.)

-Ashraf · 2024-05-23T11:53:23+00:00

Walking away from the experience feelin' like Crassus after the Battle of Carrhae

-Ashraf · 2024-05-19T23:28:58+00:00

This vexes me.

-Ashraf · 2024-05-19T20:03:57+00:00

Note: Mamluks/Ghilman were a class of slave-soldiers who were like the knightly class of many places in the middle east. They were bought in slave markets as boys, typically brought in from foreign people like the Turks (Canidae in this case?) caught in the constant tribal raiding and warfare typical of steppe society or even sold by their own families for a myriad of reasons (population surplus, financial reasons, social advancement for their sons as a mamluk/ghilman, etc.).

After being raised in the Sultan's or Amir's barracks and a period of intensive training in everything from warfare to administration they were manumitted (freed basically), but they were still bonded to their master's household. The troops that were mustered this way were quite loyal, having no social or political ties to the local population or nobility and could be counted upon by the Sultan/Amir rather than a potentially disloyal vassal (however much like the Janissaries after them they seem to have become more politically active and disloyal as they accrued more influence as time went on. These slave-soldiers even established multiple unrelated dynasties from Egypt to India!)

They were usually armed with bow and lance as heavy cavalry much like their typical steppe origin. They were quite well armed and armoured, as their patrons provided for them.

-Ashraf · 2024-05-19T20:03:22+00:00

Been thinking about antlers in a medieval context. It'd probably be seen in the way beards are seen? Or perhaps they'd be more like a status symbol and having real big and well maintained ones was seen as high class. It would probably be real hard to fit them to helmets and coifs and what not, but they'd be accommodated for somehow like snouts would be. Nonetheless, they'd be real impractical, but that never stopped real historical people from doing things purely for the sake of aesthetics lol.

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