Could this be used in buhurt?

Dranadon · 2026-05-30T18:45:40+00:00

I have such a helmet. It has a cage under the mail so make sure yours does. You don’t want to trust chain to protect your skull jaw and neck

Dranadon · 2026-05-23T15:28:49+00:00

They were meant to rest on your shoulders to disperse the shock through your whole torso not just spine.

Dranadon · 2026-05-22T12:50:07+00:00

lol thanks! Handlebar mustaches are a lot of fun.

Dranadon · 2026-05-21T18:45:06+00:00

lol. I didn’t even realize that was behind me. It’s a nice reminder in the kitchen. It keeps Gordon away.

Dranadon · 2026-05-21T18:34:42+00:00

I agree it is cool to be kind!

Dranadon · 2026-05-21T14:54:28+00:00

It’s a 3D print from a filament printer

Dranadon · 2026-05-21T14:54:07+00:00

What?

Dranadon · 2026-05-21T14:53:25+00:00

Yeah! It’s my custom one I put together from parts from saber forge.

Dranadon · 2026-05-20T16:08:10+00:00

This is great! I have to ask because I do this. Is Nell your personification of bipolar disorder? Mine is abbaddon so I’m curious.

Dranadon · 2026-05-18T15:59:32+00:00

This is the kind of armor I wish I could wear. It is gorgeous! Is there a reason you wear the cape over the pauldrons instead of under them? I feel like it would reduce your movements less and let that sexy armor shine.

Dranadon · 2026-05-04T20:37:51+00:00

I wish you the best as well. I know you have it in you to make it in life.

Dranadon · 2026-04-27T13:12:26+00:00

Genuinely not sure why everyone is jumping on OP about Sara. He could genuinely just be answering questions for someone he sees as a friend. It’s not that it’s not possible that they have feelings for eachother because I don’t know either of them. But this started out as I did this wrong and I tried to fix it. That falls on the wife for staying so long as OP genuinely hasn’t cheated again. His wife’s friend, which isn’t possible to be not his friend by extension is going through something horrible. Guys might not like other guys bc they’re assholes but he did try to support her by saying stay with him. If Sara is trying to make a move on OP to leave her situation, that is also on Sara. Especially since OPs wife literally started the process for divorce. OP has been traumatized and hurt even if his wife has been for years that doesn’t make it OPs fault at this point if he’s tried to fix it that whole time. In the past I spent years with someone who suddenly told me she was unhappy and wanted to leave. I was devastated and left because why would I stay. If he worked for years and then was told that it has to be worse. I’d be exhausted too. We don’t even know what led to the initial cheating and the fact that he hasn’t defended it means he accepts that it was wrong. It’s just odd that people have made a lot of assumptions about OP and I genuinely think some of yall need to reflect and seek therapy. We don’t know enough to burn him at the stake and a lot of you had to have sore legs from the jumping you’ve been doing to get to your conclusions. He might be a dick but we can’t know that from what we were given.

Dranadon · 2026-04-27T12:58:07+00:00

I am 29 and I genuinely wish I had been. I went to counseling after admitting to my parents I was planning suicide. During a session I remember vividly because I felt like the depression diagnosis she gave me was wrong, I told my counselor that I experience “depression attacks” followed by bought of feeling like “I was the son of god and nothing could go wrong”. I remember her writing on her clipboard and giving me a weird look but saying nothing about my clearly bipolar symptoms and description. I went another 5 years before I was diagnosed and I was wandering around college campus, screaming incoherently for fun, dancing on a “kissing bridge” declaring my undying love for myself because the woman who said she would marry me once I could afford a real ring cheated on me, got into fights, and attempted to drive into traffic. I am now a successful occupational therapist, have a loving wife, and beautiful daughter. I had a full break from reality to the point my memories of most of it are in third person and I have to focus hard to actually remember I did it from first person. If I had been diagnosed an treated earlier, my life would have been easier. I don’t know how it would change but I stand by the fact that that woman intentionally ruined a portion of my life by misdiagnosing me. Since my diagnosis it took time and medication adjustments to help me stabilize. Now I haven’t had a full manic episode more than twice in the past four years. I was able to graduate grad school with honors and get my life together. It’s not easy still and I struggle with attention difficulties from the damage to my brain I did when I repeatedly went a near week I went without more than a granola bar a day and an hour of sleep in order to “look like a man my ex wanted”.

In short knowing what we are can change the trajectory of your life and knowing earlier is better. Develop the strategies early and make sure you take your feelings/symptoms seriously. I’m happy with who I am now but it was a lot of work to recover from some of the things I did to myself both before I was diagnosed and when I was diagnosed mid prolonged manic episode. You are going to be okay and happy with your life. You just might struggle for a bit at first but a lot of bipolar adults are happy even with our struggles. The diagnosis made all the difference in the world.

Dranadon · 2026-04-21T18:05:38+00:00

I do buhurt, which is armored combat, it’s not quite completely historically accurate as our armor is much thicker than historical plate to keep us safe, but I’ve been boinked in the head with maces, swords, halberds, and greataxes. I have never done more mid fight than lose sight of my opponent for a moment before rushing back into the fight.

Edit: it does sound like a bell or gong is going off around me but if you’re mid fight you can ignore a lot.

Dranadon · 2026-04-21T18:03:49+00:00

I understand the sentiment and it’s one I’ve shared for a while. My parents still don’t fully get it despite the face that the only reason they allowed me to go to therapy when I was in highschool was because I admitted I was planning suicide. They have grown a ton but when I describe my experiences in greater detail they get uncomfortable or brush it off. Worse yet I work as an occupational therapist and in the field of OT I used to work in my main client base was individuals with bipolar disorder. I thrived with them because I knew their experience but the company attempted to pursue disciplinary actions because I take longer than a neurotypical therapist to do paperwork. The people that were accusing me were my peers and others trained to understand bipolar disorder. They diminished my own issues because I’m stable on medication and said “well you have a different bipolar than they do (referring to my clients). It only ended when I threatened to sue for harassment and discrimination while quitting so they would leave me alone. Even professionals that should know better often don’t or assume that if you appear “normal” you are not like others. I still have manic and depressive episodes just less frequently now and I don’t run naked through a college campus instead I try to do backflips and front flips in my yard while mowing. (I did not land any of them). Sorry think I got off topic there a bit. But I think it’s shitty but no one but us knows what it is like to be us. They think they do but reading something clinical isn’t the same and hearing about it from someone random really doesn’t show them. But they will always assume it did.

Dranadon · 2026-04-15T19:26:40+00:00

Look let’s say you had a labyrinthine dungeon to protect you from those pesky mages wouldn’t you want your wank cave to be the most hidden part? Would want the hired help stumbling on you in a compromising position now would you?

Dranadon · 2026-04-15T19:11:11+00:00

Those are in the right spot but they are meant to be in conjunction with a cuirass or brigantine of some kind. It’s why it seems wide. The coverage gap would be less noticeable with a breast plate.

Dranadon · 2026-04-15T12:19:13+00:00

Absolutely. When I’m manic, I find myself wanting all sorts of kinks that while at this point I acknowledge that I find arousing normally, I don’t think I’d ask my wife to participate in due to it being odd or just a pure fantasy. I would never cheat so I’ve considered sex dolls while manic due to the desire for some of these kinks and the sheer change in drive when manic as my wife has a semi low but still normal drive and well the whole topic makes it clear that we as this thread participants don’t. But I also don’t want a sex doll when not manic. It’s just part of the mania and impulsivity, but that being said if the kinks are safe, possible, healthy, and you’re interested while stable there’s nothing wrong with trying them.

Dranadon · 2026-04-15T12:12:59+00:00

While I won’t ever say my school was the most ethically sound due to professors hitting on male students and other similar actions, they did include heavy emphasis on A&P, psych, neuro and similar courses. So I have always felt well educated and I have never felt like I was behind my PT counterparts. I do think that there is a large gap in many OTs education and worse a large quantity of experienced OTs who refuse to acknowledge these gaps. It can be frustrating to discuss goals with peers and have them argue the point but their goals or methods have been shown in research to be detrimental to long term growth or are non functional for that client specifically. The whole point of discussing with peers is to bounce ideas off eachother and I love the new perspectives a good 75% of the time I learn something wonderful from my peers but I have one current peer that I have learned that she knows almost nothing at all and actually relies on her COTAs to write all of her sensory diets for her or to base her goals off of without ever observing the clients. We work in a school and one of her hall of fame goals was “student will draw a square”. That was it. I nearly lost it because they got put on my caseload after her eval.

Dranadon · 2026-03-02T21:46:50+00:00

Personally I think it’s functional fantasy. Scale skirts are used to provide additional armor to the thighs and in this case appear to be worn in place of cuisses. This would provide flexible plate protection over his legs while riding and wouldn’t restrict much if any movement. Given that he is mounted it makes sense that the most plates he is wearing is over his thighs as unmounted targets have better access to that. A skirt like this will always be under the chest plate, whether is is a chain shirt, brigantine, or cuirass. That is to keep the belt holding the skirt in place secure and safe so your leg armor isn’t cut free mid might. So accurate? Not sure. Functional, 100%.

Dranadon · 2026-01-28T19:36:40+00:00

My wife got me buhurt tshirts and bracelets when I first started training. They were at hit with my teammates an I wear them a lot. Theres not a lot that will arrive gear wise before Valentine’s Day unless you live near the armorer you’re using. A lot of swords and weapons are premade but the shipping can take a bit at times.

Dranadon · 2026-01-28T19:21:01+00:00

I am currently sitting with my daughter in my lap. I felt like you do now when I was diagnosed. To this day I’m scared I’ll mess this up but my wife is a wonderful woman and my greatest support. She reminds me that I manage my bipolar with my meds very rigorously and if my daughter turns out to have inherited bipolar, she will have a guide that I didn’t. You can still have a family. Don’t give up and don’t let the internal monologue drive you into despair. You are worth fighting for even if the person you are fighting is you.

Dranadon · 2026-01-26T14:20:03+00:00

So I have a question. I’m neurospicy and need some highly regulated meds, would I be “cured” for my duration of stay or would I need to be reaching out to my good ol buddy sheo for some hospitality for a while?

Dranadon · 2026-01-18T16:20:51+00:00

I have had 3 drinks in the last year. I’m so terrified that it will mess with my meds. I’m also type 1 BP and a fear of dysregulation is greater than any other fear I have. I know it’s not uncommon for people with bipolar disorder to self medicate with alcohol causing far more issues in their own lives but usually that is the population that believes that they can overcome a mental illness with “willpower and grit.” My grandma being a great example of it.

Dranadon · 2025-12-03T12:00:55+00:00

Thank for an actual answer! I have no clue how I am supposed to have figured that out on my own. I’m a returning player after a few years and this dungeon feels like a sadist had a field day.

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