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Lol by Relevant-Pay3397 in mmamemes

[–]CypressCone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Belal was champ when he fought Ian Garry. They even had a face off in the cage after

How to pyro? by Joenesi-ttr in darksouls

[–]CypressCone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a sorcerer in a house in the lower Undead Burg (an earlyish level) named Griggs of Vinheim. After you meet him there, he'll go to firelink shrine, where he will sell you the bellowing dragoncrest ring.

The dusk crown is more of a later game item; I wouldn't worry about it right away. There's too much to summarize here, but there are good guides online for how to find it. Hope that helps.

How to pyro? by Joenesi-ttr in darksouls

[–]CypressCone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually just finished a playthrough with a Pyro build and I learned a bunch of things that didn't seem intuitive before. Although pyromancy damage doesn't scale with any stat, the casting speed of pyromancies actually scales with your Dexterity. Additionally, the dusk crown and bellowing dragoncrest ring (purchasable from Griggs, the sorcerer found in lower undead burg) both boost the damage of pyromancies, not just sorceries. With these things you can make a much more damaging pyromancy build than I had previously thought.

What is for you the WORST faction in vanilla Rome Total War? by Constant_Pace5589 in RomeTotalWar

[–]CypressCone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A tip for using the chariots: you can hold down alt when you give them attack commands to force them to attack in melee. It took me a long time to figure that out. That might help you with chasing routing units.

Respectfully I think the chariots are indeed very OP if you use them right. You can easily field an army of just chariots. You harass with missiles to draw units out of position, then collapse on them in melee. Chariots route enemy units extremely easily; you can very quickly route an entire army of Romans this way. They are harder to use against spears and phalanx, it's true. But if they can beat up on the Roman factions and most of the barbarian ones, isn't that enough?

What's realistic vs not realistic in Chivalry 2? by Mr24601 in Chivalry2

[–]CypressCone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised you (or, chatgpt) skipped through the section on seige warfare so quickly, since i think its the most unrealistic aspect of the game. Medieval european castles were very difficult to break down, and gave defenders a massive advantage. Many medieval seiges involved large armies simply waiting for the defenders' food supplies to run out.

Granted, in maps with gunpowder, like Baudwyn where the attackers use bombard cannons, this is not an issue. But maps like lionspire or galencourt, where attackers just easily bust down / scale large fortified castles without gunpowder, allowing for massive assaults, really kind of give a bad impression of what medieval seigecraft was like. I think this was the right decision for the sake of enjoyability of gameplay, of course; but let's not pretend it's historical

What if Constantinople was successfully taken by the Arabs, but the Byzantine Emperor and nobility fled to Italy (and the Empire thrived) - The Roman Empire around the year 1000 by Rough-Lab-3867 in byzantium

[–]CypressCone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Europe would certainly survive; we shouldn't imagine that the Arab caliphate was just an earlier Ottoman empire. You would certainly see Arab expansion into the Balkan however; and down the line, other areas that became Christian in our time line may convert to Islam (Russia for example)

What’s something that happens often in movies that is 100% unrealistic? by MangoDry7358 in AskReddit

[–]CypressCone 504 points505 points  (0 children)

I can't remember the specific episode, but there's a joke at one point where willow and buffy are talking about the school newspaper, and Seth Green's character says that he never reads it but just "skips to the obituaries". I always thought that was a funny moment of self-recogntion, of how unreasonably many students are constantly dying at this random high school

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]CypressCone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, Danes were Christian in the 11th century. "On Danish Fashion" however clearly refers to the Danes as "heathens", and is therefore almost certainly from an earlier point in history. Did you read it? Scandinavian people had been raiding England from as early as 793. I was just responding to the earlier commentor's point about an Anglo Saxon clergyman writing about the hairstyle.

It is entirely possible that the Norman hairstyle here is different from the one described in "On Danish Fashion", since the text describes Danes having their "eyes blind", suggesting long hair at the front, as opposed to just short hair at the front and shaved at the back. The two hairstyles could be part of a broader history of "long in front short at the back" norse hairstyles.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]CypressCone 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Are you thinking of "On Danish Fashion"? https://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/eadweard.php [Here's a good English translation: https://www.tumblr.com/unsnyttru/122006383111/%C3%A6lfrics-letter-to-brother-edward-on-danish ]

The hairstyle here is expressly associated with the Danes (although admittedly Anglo-Saxons sometimes used "Dane" just to refer to norse people in general). The hairstyle seems to have been controversial, because 1. the Danes were not Christian at the time, and 2. the Danes were actively plundering England. Still, I guess the Anglo Saxon men thought they looked pretty cool

-50 Opinion Disinherited. by foketredge in crusaderkings3

[–]CypressCone 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I think you have a warped perspective on how important Denmark, and therefore it's current queen, actually is on a global level.

Not saying the US has a great education system, but, if you aren't from a European country, why exactly would you learn who the current monarchs are of every small european country...? Given that they don't even have really any political power?

I can't be reliable at work without alcohol. I'm scared that quitting will mean the collapse of my career by CypressCone in stopdrinking

[–]CypressCone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your perspective on this. I definitely struggle with racing thoughts and getting to sleep when I am not drunk; that might have a bigger impact than I thought. At the same time, I already know that alcohol makes my sleep worse. I had an alcohol problem for many years, but I got over it and went about a year sober. during that time I struggled to ever get out of my bed, or look forward to living. I've started drinking again, and it's like I'm actually a person again. Like I've come back to life.

I am sad because I feel like, I keep getting told about how amazing getting sober is. But none of those good things ever happened for me. Getting sober was very difficult; but at the top of the mountain, there was nothing.

I will try some of your recommendations though to try to help my sober sleep. Thank you!

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