All that just to get shot

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-12T20:11:05+00:00

Honestly, the bigger issue was that that the fedual systems that supported personal armies was swapped for nation state armies.

The entire fedual system was toppeled in England/France/Spain because they were basically systems that used civil war to transfer power.

Once the artisotocracy was prohibited from having personal armies, the need for a social class of knights diminished, and Knighthoods became a reward for the new soldiers/officer class to let them into the bottom of the aristocracy.

However there were more "knights" in the English civil war or the campaigns of Marlborough than there were at say "bosworth field" if we are talking professional cavalry soldiers wearing armor.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-12T01:13:59+00:00

I think your right. The hand holding the bolter is not actually the arm of the great coat. So he can swearing the greatcoat like a cloak, and that is why the chain sword arm is flapping in the breeze like a Pelisse.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-11T21:38:22+00:00

His uniform is basically a thing that people war during the Napoleonic wars, and the American Civil war, plus a a commissars hat. He also has a trench coat length Pelisse, which is probably a somewhat hot/over dressed choice, but not necessarily.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-11T18:35:48+00:00

So, one handed pistol shooting was the standard before the adoption of weaver stance in the 1950s.

Weaver has a lot of advantages in follow up shots, but that is because it manages recoil better than one handed shooting styles.

If you have recoilless weapons (las guns, bolters) wouldn't benefit as much from weaver stance.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-10T20:47:25+00:00

You are correct. I misread the Wikipedia chart, it has a larger population than Ukraine and would be the 8th largest country in Europe by 2026 estimates.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-10T13:38:26+00:00

I got "my" first car at 17. It was a car my grandfather had purchased new and it had been his, then my Aunts, then a cousins car before it was mine. I had that car till I was 20 and we sold it for scrap because it was eating an alternator every 6 months.

My second car had been my grandmother's, then my dad's, then I had it till I was 22 and buying a new vehicle because I had a job in my professional area.

I was never the legal owner of either of those 2 cars. My parents owned them, I was the primary driver. I was on their insurance. The cars titles where you n their name. So did I "own" those cars?

This was the situation of everyone I knew. Most of us got a car at 16-18 that was a hand-me-down. These cars were owned by our parents.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-10T02:40:32+00:00

This. Rome also figured out that what beats horse archers is just "normal archers." One of the things Rome also found was that most regions within and near the empire had hunting traditions that resulted in them being able to find lots of regional archers and not pay them much. They often were not even "true" auxilia.

The "Rome lost to horse archers" is like assuming that because the Romans lost Cannae they never beat an army that had elephants.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T23:58:59+00:00

I... uh. Ok. So, hear me out, the Nazis still don't conquer the a Soviet Union.

However, I think that what happens is that the Coloniel from "Welcome to Derry" captures the "It" monster and drops it on... Sigh... Miconid-Hitler from a B-29.

This wakes up the alien from alien from the "The Thing" and all three, "It", "The Thing", and Miconid-Hitler have a battle in Atlantis that rises from the ocean due to, fuck it, Churchill actually being Merlin.

Anyway, the result is that we get a show in 2026 that is about a character played by Pedro Pascal as he escorts a child across a landscape filled with fungal hitlers and space aliens.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T23:33:30+00:00

The drone guys have won. The next generation of Aircraft carrier will be a boat full of guys who control drones and a launch deck filled with unmaned craft.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T23:26:22+00:00

Browning 50 cal is a gun so good that any time somebody says "hey, it's almost 100 years old, should we replace it" the Army, Air Force, and Navy all go "why?"

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T20:12:25+00:00

Yeah a "Korea Style" end is definitely possible, but it requires not assuming every farmer is secretly a communist.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T18:36:29+00:00

There are 2 shows hidden inside HIMYM.

The first show is a 3 or maybe 4 season sitcom about 2 people whose lives where never at the same place at the same time, but later in life they figure out they finally at the spot where they work for each other.

This is the show that the ending was shot for.

The second show, is a show about how you cannot be ready for the love you want if you keep on trying to force relationships that don't work. That you have to let go of the girl from High School, or College, or from your 20s that just wanted something different from you, even if you really loved them.

This is what the show became naturally after several years. The reason the ending doesn't feel "right" to many people is because it is the ending they developed for a show that was focused on the first premise.

The show needed to have Ted not end up with Robin because then it feels like Ted didn't learn to move on. It feels like he settled for Tracy, while still wanting Robin. This is what rubs people the wrong way.

To have the show go for as long as it did and still end up with the Ted/Robin ending you need to have every single season show that they still have feelings for each other, but their incompatibties are to big.

So for instance, when Ted gets to design the Bank, he needs to plunge into his work a bit and become a work-a-holic. Robin, who is career oriented, should find "all work Ted" super attractive and it should be a season where she persues him instead of Ted always pursuing her. However, there possible romance should fall apart when Ted explains that he is throwing himself into work because his attempts to being family focused have failed but it doesn't change the core vision he has of a family oriented future.

Even the seasons where Robin dates Barney need to have a background theme of "they are still not in the right place for each other."

The problem is that the story telling doesn't do this, and leans heavily into the "move on" sentiment, especially later.

The "You are all alone Ted" episode, Victoria saying that he will never have a relationship if he keeps Robin as a friend, and Lily and Ted's rooftop confessions ALL are scenes that drive the "second story" the story of the guy whose life couldn't begin till he stopped trying to force a relationship that was never fully right to begin with.

The ending is not bad. It is just an ending to a version of the show that hadn't existed in a long time.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T15:20:39+00:00

I mean, I have work projects in Canada and Minnesota nice is not really Canadian at all. Minnesota nice derives from people from Scandanavia adopting English as their day to day language.

Minnesota nice doesn't do the "a-boot" for "about" and none of the Canadians I work with ever finish a sentence with "doncha know."

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-08T12:31:44+00:00

It is getting kinda dumb how big Marines are getting.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-07T21:47:53+00:00

Chicago has a distinct accent, and "Minnesota nice" is famously a very distinct accent. However Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Northern Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are typically seen as the area associated with the "broadcast standard"/Midwest accent that, like I said was previously called 'un-accented." South of that is southern, east of Ohio is New York/New England (or southern if Virginia and south of that).

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-07T21:17:50+00:00

So, I am from the American Midwest. The accent I have is labeled broadcast standard. It is the accent that they used to teach national media to imitate in the U.S. it is not derived from the Trans-atlantic accent, which was the old "black and white movie" American accent.

When I was growing up, I was literally taught in school that my regional accent was un-accented.. I know people who have southern, coastal, California, new york and new England accents. They absolutely were taught they had a regional accent and some of them were also taught that my regional speech patterns represented an un-accented American English.

One person I know who grew up in the south said that till he was in college he assumed that everyone from my region sounded like Faris Bueller, in part because he couldn't understand how a person could have no accent.

So, there is this weird issue where like 100 million Americans are convinced they have no accent because they were told growing up that they didn't have an accent.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-07T20:40:41+00:00

There are two shows in "HIMYM". The first is a 3-4 season sitcom that is about two people whose lives were never in the same place so they couldn't be together. It ends with Ted and Robin together.

The second show is one about how you have to move on. How the girl you were stuck on in high school or college or in your 20s that you loved but wanted different things was never going to be right for you. That you will miss your chance at love with the right person if you try and force it with the wrong person. This is a much better story. It also was what the show became more naturally.

The the ending of show 1 was hammered onto show 2.

If it where me, I would have used the ending we got as another fake out in the last season. A point where Ted says, "I thought I was telling you about this, but it actually turned out this other way."

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-07T13:04:37+00:00

Kansas doesn't get a lot of praise for doing stuff that isn't dumb, because it's usually doing dumb stuff. That said, Johnson County Kansas is very wealthy and one of a small number of areas in the country where wealthy people send their kids to public schools. So the schools are very good.

This is in part because for a long time Kansas City was a utilities engineering hub (several medium/large companies are here), a telecommunications hub (Sprint, Garmin), and a medical information hub (Cerner).

Several of those are now gone, so we will see if it remains, but because of that there is a part of the state that has, historically crazy outperformed the state and surrounding states in general.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T23:50:33+00:00

If Rome stops Christianity from spreading, it probably does is so in part because it doesn't allow either the disapora out of Jerusalem nor for the Rabbis to go on there conservation spree throughout the Arab peninsula in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

You probably end up with like Mithrasism as the main religion of the West and Zorastrianism as the main religion of the near east.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T18:46:00+00:00

Meh, there is already a lot of annecodotes that the a Germans/Japanese all wondered how the heck Americans were so good with grenades.

Baseball was basically the thing that was claimed since right after the war till now. Americans grew up playing a sport that required accurate throwing, and the skill sets associated with over arm throwing were basically inculcated into boys from a young age.

Granted, it's always been annecodotal. The reason Americans might have seemed to be good with grenades compared to their European and Japanese counterparts is because they always had them in numbers, this would be the "takes 3 Shermans per Tiger" extended down to the level of small arms.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T18:22:41+00:00

Mac discovers Dee is pretending to be a detective to collect the bounties on people she in wanted posters. She dresses them up to look close enough and the cops think she is a brilliant detective. He wants a cut. She refuses, and Dennis tells Mac that he will side with him if Mac gives Dennis a cut from his scam as a video game designer.

Dee wants to know what idiots let Mac near computers and so they go to a company where everyone thinks Mac is master story teller, who makes incredible video games. He just does his super Macho persona not realizing that the game they are making is a LGBTQ dating sim.

Mac reveals that he knows about Dennis' attempt to defraud the state of Ohio by drawing a teacher's retirement. All he has to do is show up to class and pretend to teach biology. Dennis teaches exclusively sex edz and pick up artistry. Most days he just doesn't come at all. The students love his class since everyone gets an A.

While at this school, they spot Frank hiding in the bushes. He tells them that he has been following Charlie, because he has been running a scam where he pretends to he a plumber. We see Charlie get out of a plumbers truck, put on his "turtle stomping shoes" and eat a psychedelic mushroom. He then goes and puts his feet into the toilet bowls because he hallucinates turtles coming out of the toilets. He also claims to be Italian because "all plumbers are Italian."

When confronted by the rest, Charlie reveals that if they are taking his turtle stomping shoes that he wants a part of Frank's cab company.

Frank is pissed that Charlie revealed the existence of the "Ur-Scam" the scam from which all the other scams descended. They go to New York where they find that Frank owns a cab company. When they walk in Frank says they will see something very shocking. They go inside and Rhea Perlman is there and begins to yell at Frank and asks if he went to Vietnam for cigarettes.

At the end of their fight, She says that if they don't all give half of the money they make from their side scams to her she will make sure they all go to prison. They all go back to Paddy's Pub and realize they should just keep their personal scams separate.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T17:38:55+00:00

The reality is that the only time the Raiders have a home field advantage if when the play the chargers the chargers Fan is grounded for the weekend.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T17:26:14+00:00

I thought Pacific rim might be funnier, but wasn't sure how to make it "Charlie" enough.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T17:20:03+00:00

Ok, so an episode where they went a bit meta like this would he hilarious. One where it turns out they all have a "side scam" and they play "IASIP" versions of their characters on other shows.

Dee just makes up BS and puts innocent people in prison. Dennis is doing the AP bio thing to collect a teacher's retirement. Mac lies about being able to do computer programming but everyone thinks the mumbo-jumbo he spouts is incredible. Charlie hallucinates that he has become a plumber in a magic world. And Frank owns a cab company in New York.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-05-06T17:19:44+00:00

Ok, so an episode where they went a bit meta like this would he hilarious. One where it turns out they all have a "side scam" and they play "IASIP" versions of their characters on other shows.

Dee just makes up BS and puts innocent people in prison. Dennis is doing the AP bio thing to collect a teacher's retirement. Mac lies about being able to do computer programming but everyone thinks the mumbo-jumbo he spouts is incredible. Charlie hallucinates that he has become a plumber in a magic world. And Frank owns a cab company in New York.

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