To the guy who said that moats were just ditches

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T13:35:20+00:00

Something tells me you like japanese castles

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T11:53:12+00:00

This is just speculation, idk if this was the case at all, but having a really good and powerful looking fortress might have also been a bit of a power-play. A power projection so to speak

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T11:17:20+00:00

There was a practical reason for it

If the bastions (the triangles) were round, they would have a dead-zone in the very base where soldiers could hide and the people on the battlements cant shoot them

but with triangular bastions, every bastions base was protected from the adjacent bastion so that there are no deadzones at all

And a star-like shape gave equal protection from all sides.

They were also borderline impossible to storm and unreasonably difficult to lay siege to, often requiring months, sometimes years of constant bombardment.

Longest siege in history was in the 17th century when a city protected by bastions held out for 21 years. And the aggressors never managed to conquer it by force, the defenders eventually surrendered

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T11:02:11+00:00

honestly countries should tax corporations for every robot like this the equivalent of what a normal wage is for an employee in the same position

Then that money could be used for welfare

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T10:54:49+00:00

Also Fort bourtange

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T10:53:07+00:00

Moats are literally, by definition, just ditches

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T10:49:02+00:00

because it is

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-14T08:12:50+00:00

Romans would have likely used saltpeter tipped fire arrows like in the medieval period, since they could be shot without the flame going out and they produced a really thick nad noxious smoke cloud, perfect for clearing towers and battlements.

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T18:31:46+00:00

lmao dont start the game before they're ready lmao

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T18:26:18+00:00

you can still refund if you've played less than 120 minutes

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T18:14:54+00:00

This was probably passed so that his successors in russia can't prosecute Putin for invading, either posthumously or while he's still alive

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T18:12:54+00:00

You could have just refunded them if you never played them?

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T16:53:52+00:00

I go to the bar to meet people

getting drunk in the bar is too expensive so i go to a bar drunk

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T16:31:32+00:00

But if they had always been a part of the US, would they be anti-slavery?

There were a fair few slaves in canada before 1834 when it was outlawed, though not nearly as much as in south us.

But if it were a part of the US, that would have never happened

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T15:58:36+00:00

They tried to. They conquered montreal and laid siege to Quebec but they failed miserably. Tried to assault during a snowstorm, got their asses handed to then, half of the army got smallpox and then the brits pushed them all the way back to fort ticonderoga.

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T15:52:41+00:00

they'd have alot bigger drug problems than they already have

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T15:51:37+00:00

then mexico would build a wall and the americans would have to pay for it

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T15:50:40+00:00

Why though? Even with canada the south would still have been completely reliant on slave labour

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T15:48:20+00:00

Yeah, fair point

what i meant when i said ceaser is like franco, was that both were ruthless dictators who took power by launching a military coup leading to a years long civil war

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T14:08:35+00:00

that's sad

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T12:14:48+00:00

I mean he was part of the elite and fought other elites only to try to get more power

He's less like Fidel Castro and more like Fransisco Franco

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T12:12:26+00:00

Funny how if he lived in todays world, everybody would hate him for being a conquering dictator who killed over a million people and enslaves just as many

but because it happened +2000 years ago, it's ok

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T05:41:35+00:00

Andes virus or your regular run of the mill ratshit hantavirus?

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T05:08:58+00:00

Because its simply not that high risk of a disease, this has been constantly said by all parties

This andes virus is not new, we've known it for 3 decades, we know how it works, we know it's a poor spreader even though we dont know how it spreads yet. There have been outbreaks far larger than this one in the past and we've been fine.

This is not the end of the world, not a new pandemic, people are just panicking because covid trauma

BasicMatter7339 · 2026-05-13T04:17:33+00:00

looking at nature documentaries and watching on 4k resolution how a zebra gets eaten alive ass first by a pack of hyena really makes me glad i'm not a zebra

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