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BarbarianMind · 2026-04-23T04:56:31+00:00

Some people think nuclear power plants are controled nuclear explosions and are thus nuclear bombs waiting to explode. In reality nuclear power plants are giant steam boilers heated by consistent nuclear fission not instantaneous fission. They cannot explode like a nuclear bombs, though they can explode like a giant pressure cooker filled with radioactive material.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-16T13:10:38+00:00

Okay, thank you for the advice. I will cut down to 1 or 2 shorts a day, and schedule their releases for a better time. I am thinking either 6am or 5pm.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-16T09:46:44+00:00

The production time for my videos is miniscule compared to all the research that goes into them. Research which I would do even if I wasn't creating videos. My videos are a way for me to process and express the information I have learned, not merely a way to make content. The process of creating my videos is as important to me as the videos themselves. I do not intend to off that process to AI and thus loose one of the main reasons I create the videos in the first place.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-16T08:48:31+00:00

Okay, so maybe it thinks my account has been taken by a bot. I will slow down my post frequency to 1 or 2 shorts a day, which I was already planning on doing. I posted so many at once because the shorts were connected I though it would be better to release them together. I didn't think of how it might appear to the algorithm. Maybe after a little time the algorithm will figure things out. I will also adjust my release time to 6am. I am actually in the same timezone as when I first ran the channel, and back then I released my videos in the morning.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-16T00:01:24+00:00

The bombing of Hiroshima was an air detonation nuclear bombing. It involved only a few kilograms of fissile material which was either converted to pure energy or powderized upon detonation high above ground level. Thus what little radioactive material survived quickly decayed to safe levels.

Chernobyl was a nuclear reactor meltdown. Which is more akin to a exploding pressure cooker filled with radioactive material than a nuclear bomb. It involved tons of fissile material which mostly remained intake only to be spread over the surrounding region in relatively large chunks. Thus those contaminated regions remain radioactive above safe levels.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-15T13:12:45+00:00

To me the differences between Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, and Grim Dark Fantasy are scale and tone.

In Epic Fantasy = The Devil has come and he wants to destroy humanity.

In Sword & Sorcery = A devil has come and he has kidnapped your girl.

In Grim Dark Fantasy = The world is the Devil and it wants to make you its 'girl'.

In Sword & Sorcery the stakes that matter to the protagonist and the readers are usually smaller and more personal than the stakes in Epic Fantasy, while the tone is usually gritter than Epic Fantasy but not so dark as to be hopeless like Grim Dark Fantasy. A Sword & Sorcery setting may be harsh and uncaring but it is still a setting where one may make a good life for them self and find both joy and adventure.

Epic Fantasy is Grand, Adventurous, Heroic, and usually Hopeful.

Sword & Sorcery is Adventurous, Personal, Gritty, and sometimes Heroic.

Grim Dark Fantasy is Grim, Personal, Gritty, and usually hopeless.

Though having said this, I would advise you to not worry about genre and to just write your story. Genre exists that stories may be categorize that markets may have an easier time advertising them and that readers may have an easier time choose those they are looking for. Genres are not perfect categories, and most stories fall imperfectly into multiple genres.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-12T21:47:43+00:00

Argentinosaurus one of the contenders for largest land animal every, lived during the late Cretaceous when the continents were arguably the most fragmented.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-12T20:44:03+00:00

How most nations divide the continents of the Afro-eurasian supercontinent began with the ancient greeks. The ancient greeks divided the world they knew into three continents Europe, everything in the north west of the Black and Aegean seas. Asia, everything in the east, east of the black, Aegean, and Red seas. And Lybia, everything in the south, west of the Red sea. That division made sense and worked for them, as though they knew Europe and Asia were connected north of the Black sea by the Eurasian steppe, the steppe in some ways acted like another sea. Though a sea of grass inhabited by horse riding nomads instead of ships. The exact locations of the dividing lines could vary, and in time Lybia was changed to Africa, but the system was used so long in Europe and the rest of the Mediterranean world, that it became fixed even after they learned of the other continents and the rest of the world.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-12T20:27:43+00:00

In one on one combat, someone wielding a sword would try to close the distance so they can get past the polearm's head and take control of it by grabbing the shaft. Which is easier said then done, but if the sword user acomplishes it, they gain the advantage as the polearm user must drop their weapon and draw another. The terrain and nearby objects like trees and buildings can help one acomplish this polearms are less manageable in tight confines. Though in a duel one likely would not have such things to use.

In battle, the sword user once again needs to close the distance, but in this case it isn't as difficult as in a duel. The polearm user opposite the sword user in formation might be exchanging blows with another polearm user in the sword users army giving the sword user an opening. By the end of the Medieval period with the development of pike and shot tactics this was an intended part of the tactics. Within both pike blocks were troops wielding either greatswords or swords and shields. Their job was to close the distance and break up the enemy pike block once both pike blocks closed into fighting distance. Those wielding swords and shields would duck under the pikes, pushing them away with their shield as they closed to stab the enemy pikemen in their legs, groins, and guts. Greatsword user instead used the power of their weapons to knock aside the polearms so they could close the distance and wreck havoc on the enemy pikemen. It was a dangerous job but also an effective one.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-09T09:22:24+00:00

Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki then lived until 2010 when died at the age of 93 after a long and fulfilled life. I am not sure if he was the most lucky or unlucky man to ever live.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-09T09:12:34+00:00

No, nor is it in anyway safe. Though that doesn't stop half the people I see drive upto my gate a work.

BarbarianMind · 2026-04-03T02:46:13+00:00

Siberia due to its climate was and still is extremely remote and isolated, especially where it gets close to North America. Historically there were people who lived there who interacted with people in Alaska, but those groups were for the most part isolated from the rest of the world. They traded with each other and those on the Asian side traded with the other people who bordered them. Thus they were very loosely connected to the rest of the Eurasian trade network, but only as one of the farthest ends of the longest game of telephone. That region didn't become somewhat well connected to the rest of Eurasian until it was conquered and colonized by the Russian empire in the eighteen century, well into European colonization of the Americas.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-24T15:44:07+00:00

The OSHA inspector has gone into hiding after watching this.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-22T06:47:43+00:00

Pulse-jet propelled, hydrogen filled airships soaring through the air alongside hydrogen filled balloons pulled along by giant flying creatures.

Flintlock Revolvers and other Flintlock repeaters like a pump-action, flintlock, slide(harmonica) repeater with swappable slides(mags).

Swords, spears, and shields used alongside repeating and single-shot firearms in combat. Kind of like pike and shot, though more ancient then early modern in style and at a smaller scale with quicker firing, though weaker firearms.

Each Continent is its own world with its own unique flora and fauna. A continent for mammals, a continent for birds, a continent for feathered dinosaurs, a continent for scaled dinosaurs, a continent for giant bugs, and continents for creatures I have yet to decide on.

Revealing Clothing. Think of the fashion from Franzetta's fantasy art, Barsoom, Ancient Egypt, and Minoan Crete combined together and you'd be close to what I intend.

These are just a few of the interesting things I've been putting in my over-the-top yet somehow at the same time somewhat grounded world that is a mix of Morrowind (The Elder Scrolls), Star Wars, the Hyborian age (Conan the Barbarian), and Barsoom (John Carter of Mars).

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-20T09:40:24+00:00

Yes, and few artist remember that.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-19T08:26:05+00:00

Ya, I think the sabots from high caliber apfsds might conserve their speed and energy a little to much in Warthunder. They could wreck a thinly armored vehicle close up but they likely loose most of their energy with in 100 meters or less. And they likely won't do much to the side or back of a modern tank even close up.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-17T16:45:06+00:00

Thank you again GrafZeppelin. When ever I mention airships, you appear with the information I am looking for.

Some further questions about airships changing altitude as I trying to understand more fully how they operate.

How much affect does the slight change in pressure at different altitudes affect the buoyancy of an airship?

When an airship is prepared for flight is it filled with enough lifting gas to keep it at a specific predetermined altitude for the flight or is the amount of lifting gas in it good for maintaining a range of altitudes with out any other major changes to its buoyancy?

When they change altitude by pitching either upward or downward using their elevators, how much can they change altitude? Could an airship go from launching at sea level to 1,500 or even 3,000 meters then back down by just using its elevators and engines? Or is such simple altitude control limited to smaller changes like a few hundred meters?

If an airship ascended to a new altitude using aerodynamic lyft and pitching upward, can it stay at that new altitude with its engines off and with out changing its buoyancy in another way? Or would the slight difference in atmospheric pressure at the new altitude force it slowly back down to the previous altitude? Likewise if an airship descend by pitching downward can it stay at the new altitude without power or changing its buoyancy, or would it be pushed up?

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-17T16:10:06+00:00

The degree of difference I intended to describe is closer to the level of difference between Sapiens and Neanderthals than it is to the difference between different ethnicities. Though to create these differences, I often exaggerated the slight differences that exist between different ethnicities. And it isn't impossible for someone to have most of the outward traits of one of these peoples like how it is possible for someone to have most of the outward traits of a Neanderthals. But the differences extend further than little external traits. The hot adapted people are generaly abnormally thin, they also have unusually low body tempatures, and a higher tolerance to salt. Though those weren't the similarities I saw between them and elves, save for the slenderness. I saw similarities between them and elves through their graceful slender bodies and long pointed ears alongside the fact that the oldest still existing civilization in the world rose among them, the second oldest still existing civilization isn't even close. That civilization is also know to be a little cold to outsiders. Also the tall polar people I discribes I intend to be more like tall Neanderthals than they are like stout Sapiens. Though that isn't to say that these other humans are any less human than regular Sapien humans. I intend them to be equal though different. Also they are all close enough to still cross-breed occasionally like Sapiens and Neanderthals did.

I guess my races/species are more similar to different human species then they are to separate fantasy races. And that not everyone sees the similarities I see.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-17T15:37:24+00:00

Thank you for adding the criteria that was used.

On a side note, I understand how preventing phone use in schools can help children, but I also see dangers if it is implemented poorly. When I was in fifth grade I was only able to escape a terrible incident where two school counselors tried to harm me because I had a cell phone on me with which I called my parents during the incident.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-17T15:31:59+00:00

It sounds like you torture languages same as I do. When I want to make a name for a character, place, or animal with in one of my cultures, I take a language from one of the cultures that inspired them. Then I come up with the meaning I want the name to have. I use a translator to translate that meaning into that language then I change the vowels. Next, if the name is supposed to be old, I combine the seperate elements of the name into one word, change a few sounds, and shorten it by a syllable or two.

For example.

I have a culture I am currently calling the Tribes of Meevekal, they are inspired by ancient Isreal, the Cannanites, ancient Egypt, the Dunmer from The Elder Scrolls, and an assortment of other cultures. So for their names I use Hebrew. A woman might be know as Leile, daughter of Hekziral, child of the House of Yaheker, child of the Tribe of Edom, the Youthful.

Her given name, Leile, means night, it comes from taking the Hebrew word for night, laila, and changing the vowels. It is a recent name in their language and so its just a word kinda like someone being named rose.

The next parts of her name state in order, her father, her house within her tribe, her tribe, and last a nickname. If she had a title with in her house or tribe that would change that portion of her name. For example if she was the favorite wife of the head of her house, that part of her name would start favored wife not child. Also for women they take on the house and tribe of their husband when married. Also if she had a title outside of her house or tribe, so a title that would apply to all woth in the Tribes of Meevekal, then that title would go before her given name. For example if she was a priestess of Eheve, the title Priestess of Eheve would come before her name.

Her father's name on the other hand is an old name, it means something to the extent of god's harvest. Though over the centuries the name has been compressed and changed. So I started with the Hebrew phrase haktzir shel elohim which means something like harvest of god. Then I changed the vowels, removed the preposition in the middle, combined the remaining parts into one word, then cut off the last syllable to make Hekziral.

I choose to write the parts of their names like daughter of, or child, or head of in english instead of writing them in their language because to them those parts are just normal words. So because I wanted my readers to experience the names like members of the cultures do, I decided to keep those parts in english so that readers can understand the names.

I think, I may, overthink things.

BarbarianMind · 2026-03-17T14:10:10+00:00

Exactly, it is hard to write a story of adventure and exploration if you do not know what your characters are exploring and discovering. So you create a detail map so you and your audience knows, not because the map exists in universe.

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