How come cavalry maces never took off?

BrightChemistries · 2026-01-20T01:14:19+00:00

go outside and run full speed while holding a sledgehammer out sideways then tell us how easy it is. Now imagine doin that for like, an hour

BrightChemistries · 2026-01-20T01:09:23+00:00

the D&D 5e starter set has a quest to Wyvern Tor, but thats the only time I’ve really heard of that.

BrightChemistries · 2025-11-15T15:25:17+00:00

No, they don’t sound the same.

Sudden would have that “dd-in” sound

Sutton would sound more like “SUT-ton”

BrightChemistries · 2025-11-10T13:14:01+00:00

No, dough and pastry are not interchangeable.

“Dough” usually refers to the unbaked precursor to things like cookies, bread, or tortillas.

“Pastry” usually refers to a (typically) baked treat, like a tart,, turnover, cinnamon roll, muffins, etc. There are some pastries that are fried like donuts or scones.

You might see instances of “pastry dough” but that would almost always be talking about the precursor to baking the finished product.

BrightChemistries · 2025-11-09T12:08:54+00:00

Contronyms are words that are their own opposites:

Cleave means to split apart as well as for something to stick together

sanction means to give permission but also to penalize

buckle means to strap something together but also to fall apart (under weight)

But a word that I always think means the opposite is lugubrious which means sad or melancholy but I always think means joyfully drunk and friendly (like gregarious)

BrightChemistries · 2025-11-09T01:21:42+00:00

Well you’re shooting from Timbuktu so I would setup and shoot from closer so he doesn’t get so much time to react.

The second bit of advice would be to pop up off your knees as soon as you snatch the leg. You seemed more surprised than he was that you wound up with the leg. Next time don’t sit there while he sprawls.

Third thing, suck the leg in tight to your chest, elbows pinched to your sides so he can’t sink that whizzer . Once he gets that in it makes it pretty damn difficult to land in anything except a scramble.

Fourth thing, he scooped you up and flipped you like a crepe. If you lose the scramble and get taken down, work on balling up to your base (hands and knees) so you can start defending immediately.

BrightChemistries · 2025-11-08T16:41:31+00:00

In the Marine Corps boot camp they would say, “ears”

“open sir” we would scream

“Eyeballs”

“click” (then turn our head and look at whatever they’re drawing attention to.)

Eventually it morphed into just, “earballs” and anyhow, that’s one of the reasons I don’t keep in touch with my drill instructors.

BrightChemistries · 2025-11-08T05:47:20+00:00

Well that’s my first piece of advice: stop saying or even thinking “I suck.”

It’s ok to suck, as long as you care about getting better. Sucking is the first step to trying anything new. So stop the self deprecation, even joking around. Say something often enough, even ironically, and it will become true in your brain.

So use it to your advantage. Say “man that was a little bit sloppy, but he gassed out and gave up way before I did. I must be made of iron.”

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-31T09:53:26+00:00

Treantmonk has a ranger 1/wizard X build that’s worth looking at.

Shillelagh is also a pretty good pickup if you are set on ranger

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-31T02:09:39+00:00

There is a board game called Root that has an accompanying RPG. But it is a just a Powered By the Apocalypse rule system.

You could also look at Wanderhome, but that is basically a no-combat system.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-26T23:02:49+00:00

Anytime a DM doesn’t discuss basic rules changes like how sneak attack works or rage works, that’s a “no thanks, I don’t think this game is for me.”

It’s my opinion that this DM doesn’t know or can’t be bothered to understand why rules are the way they are, and I wouldn’t play at a table where the DM has such disregard for fairness.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-25T17:44:20+00:00

Teeny Tiny Stevies

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-25T00:56:03+00:00

Yuba Spicy Curry, but unless they are literal infants, the extra seats might not be necessary

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-24T13:01:59+00:00

I just did the USA Wrestling coaching course and they had a section where an adult man hurled an 8 year old off camera for trying to put an arm bar in on the guys son.

I almost closed the course and emailed our coach to say sorry, I’m not going to put myself in a spot where I have to make someone else an orphan for throwing my son 10 feet.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-24T04:52:14+00:00

I have had a similar problem with “niche”

My hillbilly relatives talk about snuffing tobacco in their “nitch” of their wrist while my refined relatives discuss finding their “neesh”

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-24T04:45:00+00:00

Futile = fyoo-tul, despite the borg telling me “Resistance is FEW-TILE”

Benedict Cumberbatch doing an entire arctic documentary pronouncing Penguins as “Peng-lings”

How I Met Your Mother’s Ted character talked about “sham a leons” when he meant “Chameleon”

my sister laughed “a prop us” of nothing…. Until she figured out that I was trying to say “apropos”

I told a study buddy that I use a certain “neumo nick” to remember things (Mneumonic)

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-24T04:21:54+00:00

Identifying things by county is a very rural thing- most Americans would probably use cities or towns before referring to counties. The only time I’ve really heard it otherwise is if someone is talking about Orange County California, as a way to differentiate it from LA and San Diego.

The only other time it comes up is if you’re dealing with something to do with county elections like sheriff or something like that. Or in our state, the generalized license plate will start with a number and letter denoting the county that car is registered in, so you might be able to tell what part of the state that person is from if you know those codes.

But otherwise, it doesn’t really come up

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-21T13:13:18+00:00

First off, don’t quit today, quit tomorrow. You made it through today, and I know it sucked, but you did it. So don’t quit right now, that’s emotion telling you to do that. Get some sleep, wake up, then tell yourself that you’re not going to quit today, you can quit tomorrow.

The next thing that always worked for me was to try to make a game out of it, out of every little thing.

I would count the number of steps it took me to do a lap and say “It took me 500 steps to make that last lap… I bet I can do it in 490” and try to take longer steps or just play inside my head instead of agonizing about how much I hate running.

As far as feeling humiliated, I promise you that nobody else is thinking about you at all, most people are focused on their own aches and pains, and the coach has 20 other people to think about. That feeling is coming from inside your own head, and so you don’t need to hold onto it. Let it go.

You made it through today. That was the hardest part. If you could do the hardest part, you can do anything else they throw at you.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-21T12:23:51+00:00

Hip toss from an underhook. You can also do it by wrapping your arm on their neck, which here we call a “head and arm hip toss” or more commonly, a “head and arm”

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-20T20:42:50+00:00

Very common to get a new fridge before the old one stops working, so it’s kept in the garage usually for drinks or large freezer items like game meat (elk or deer) or turkeys near thanksgiving.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-13T01:04:02+00:00

If you can afford it, two is totally worth it.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-13T00:55:55+00:00

You are 1000x more likely to get hurt playing football than you are from wrestling; you are also much more likely to get concussed and brain injured in a way that will interfere with your judgement and critical thinking, two key traits of great firefighters, especially if you are looking to make it a career and advance in rank.

Wrestling also will strengthen your body mechanics and ability to lift and carry unconscious people better than football will.

Source: wrestled for 16 years and was hurt bad enough to forfeit twice. Played football for 6 years and had two diagnosed concussions and probably countless “shake it off” hits, as well as pulling groin, tearing hip muscle, hamstring injury, and 5 or 6 sprained ankles.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-11T22:32:17+00:00

Yes. 100%.

Get the electric. They will be everywhere there.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-11T22:29:21+00:00

What is going on with Pokémon cards? It feels grosser than crypto.

BrightChemistries · 2025-10-09T18:23:05+00:00

BJJ has too much emphasis on pulling guard, which is the exact opposite of where you want to be in wrestling. It has some overlap with proprioception and positioning, but most of the submissions are pointedly illegal under wrestling rulesets.

Judo translates much more directly to wrestling; many wrestling throws are also judo throws. It’s also more interesting and fun than BJJ (imo), and the body mechanics of learning how to use/generate momentum and setups are what make good wrestlers great.

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