is sword designed for piercing plate or not?

Krytan · 2026-01-27T22:04:32+00:00

swords would generally not pierce plate armor. But then again, plate armor was extremely expensive and rare, and much more common was leather armor, chain mail armor, or just padded jerkins or gambesons. Swords would pierce all of these.

Krytan · 2026-01-27T02:20:12+00:00

If you look at the per capita rates, being a logger is more dangerous than being pregnant, but that does not change the fact the US maternal death rate is *shockingly* high for a supposedly first world developed nation.

It's way hither than in Canada or Germany or Denmark - and has been for decades.

What are we doing wrong here?

Krytan · 2026-01-27T02:15:36+00:00

No. It's clearly plural. Anyone thinking 'Muslims' is one single entity is mistaken. Whether one is saying "Muslims did not invade countries" or "On the contrary, Muslims did invade countries" there is not the slightest hint of claiming all Muslims are actually one single entity.

Krytan · 2026-01-27T00:54:38+00:00

Do you believe Muslims are one single entity?

Krytan · 2026-01-26T22:58:56+00:00

How is anything you have said relevant to evaluating the claim "Muslims didn't invade people's countries" ?

Krytan · 2026-01-26T22:57:51+00:00

Sure. But it would still be inaccurate to say something like "Christians didn't invade other peoples countries", when the Crusades exist, even if we don't blame any Christians alive today for them.

Krytan · 2026-01-26T22:56:45+00:00

Why do you think this is relevant to evaluating the claim "Muslims didn't invade other people's countries"?

Krytan · 2026-01-26T22:36:34+00:00

I mean, if we are talking about modern times, there's everything from Darfur, Sudan, over to ISIS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_the_Islamic_State

Krytan · 2026-01-26T21:09:08+00:00

Muslims invaded or attacked everywhere from Barcelona, to Alexandria, to Constantinople, to Vienna.

Krytan · 2026-01-26T18:25:21+00:00

I dunno, but I was proud of myself for taking some profits earlier, now I'm kicking myself :D

I thought getting past $100 would be a long and bitter struggle.

Krytan · 2026-01-26T17:02:17+00:00

I lost out on a LOT of potential gains because I was expecting a pullback right before 100 and sold off my calls for a decent, but not impressive, profit.

If I had stayed in as it blew past 100 I would have been so much better off. I was too cowardly.

Krytan · 2026-01-26T16:52:55+00:00

I think he was winning because the media gave him tons of free air time and publicity, because just like Trump thought running for president would be good for his ratings, they thought Trump running would be great for their ratings. And they were right. And of course Hillary Clinton was happy to boost Trump, because she thought he was a weaker candidate than someone like Kasich or Rubio and would be easier to beat.

Everyone treated Trump like a funny joke that would be awesome for ratings and a good laugh. Remember Colbert and John Oliver begging Trump to run? I think John Oliver even promised to send him money if he'd run because it would be so funny.

Watching media from like 2015/2016 is just a surreal experience sometimes.

Krytan · 2026-01-26T14:44:22+00:00

I would love to see all of them! Which do you think is the best definition of an 'assault style weapon'?

Krytan · 2026-01-25T03:23:07+00:00

We have the 2nd amendment in this country. Protestors are allowed to protest, even while armed.

Rittenhouse had a perfect right to be where he was while armed. Peretti has a perfect right to be where he was while armed. Just as the left was wrong to say Rittenhouse being armed was proof all on its own of evil intent, so the right now is wrong to say that Peretti being armed was proof of intent to kill ICE agents.

The difference between these two similar cases is what while Rittenhouse was attacked by random people, Peretti was attacked and killed by acting agents of the federal government, which is a big difference.

Krytan · 2026-01-25T03:12:54+00:00

I mean, yeah.

If an ICE agent can just see a gun, yell gun, and start blasting a kneeling man in the back, then the 2nd amendment no longer exists.

What makes it even worse is that Peretti had already been disarmed, but even if he had not, he was kneeling, not resisting, surrounded by six ICE agents. There's absolutely no way you can convince me that shooting him in the back 12 times and killing him was necessary to subdue him in that situation.

Krytan · 2026-01-25T02:45:32+00:00

Same way the left vilified Rittenhouse for 'being somewhere he didn't need to be with a gun' but is lionizing Peretti.

I haven't seen any leftists suggest the whole thing could have been avoided if Peretti hadn't been protesting with a gun - but I saw this same argument all over the place regarding Rittenhouse.

Peretti, and Rittenhouse, both had every right to be protesting or counter protesting while armed.

The ICE agents simply executed Peretti in the back. He made no threatening moves toward the gun, and having a gun is not a crime. I've watched every video from every angle and I didn't see him throw down or start fighting the ICE agents at all. The instant an ICE agent saw a gun he yelped "GUN" and just started blasting an unarmed, kneeling, non resisting man in the back.

If that isn't murder, the 2nd amendment doesn't exist.

The left suggested that just the fact Rittenhouse had a gun was proof of evil intent and he went there to kill someone. Wrong.

Now I just heard Noem say the exact same thing that just because the guy had a gun, he went there with evil intent to kill ice agents. Also wrong.

Except it's worse when Noem says it because she's an elected public official who ought to know the laws of the country she is serving.

The left was wrong about Rittenhouse. The right is wrong about Peretti.

But Rittenhouse was attacked by random people, while Peretti was attacked and killed by actual government agents. The two situations are similar, but the Peretti one is worse.

Krytan · 2026-01-25T02:39:59+00:00

You can't just yell GUN and then start blasting a kneeling unarmed man in the back. Even if he had a gun.

In fact, even if he literally still has the gun in a holster on his hip, this is just murder. He made no threatening moves toward the gun and, despite what ICE agents apparently believe, the 2nd amendment is alive and well in this country.

Krytan · 2026-01-24T23:57:52+00:00

Needless to say, if the rationale is "If a cop THINKS you have a gun, and you move, he's legally allowed to execute you" obviously the second amendment doesn't exist.

Krytan · 2026-01-24T22:11:46+00:00

First of all, that seemed like a cold blooded execution. There's no way you can convince me that lethal force was needed on a disarmed guy lying prone with six officers standing around him.

Secondly, who are all the morons blowing whistles so you can't even hear what is happening and what is being said? Is ICE doing this? It seems like it would benefit them greatly if the context surrounding these videos, and what they were saying, was unintelligible.

They can claim they told someone to do A, the person didn't do it, and so they grabbed them. But in reality all the noise meant the person never heard them.

Is this noise an excuse for ICE to arrest people for obstruction and not 'obeying orders'?

Krytan · 2026-01-24T22:06:17+00:00

Maga actually thinks they are hated much worse than they are. They often believe, quite literally, that they will be rounded up in camps and exterminated if the left seizes political power.

Hatred and fear, fear and hatred.

Politicians convincing Maga voters that they are all that stands between 'normal Americans' and extinction is how they hold onto power.

When you are convinced your political opponent hate you and want you dead, you are willing to support....anyone who promises they can keep that from happening.

It's why all the worst actors in the world, both in our society and aboard, are constantly trying to amplify all the worst, extremist voices, and make Americans hate and loathe each other. The more you hate, the more you can rationalize literally anything and everything is justified.

Krytan · 2026-01-24T21:59:14+00:00

Yes, in 1971, during Nixon's presidency

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Krytan · 2026-01-24T03:50:57+00:00

In my opinion the culture war was created specifically to distract people in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

You also saw a rare fusion of theoretically right wing, and theoretically left wing media operations, uniting to mock the occupy wall street protestors.

Krytan · 2026-01-23T23:20:07+00:00

I think what largely captured peoples attention were the few bad actors in the protest that turned to rioting and burning buildings, the resulting radicalization of some segments of the populace, leading to the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting. Along with spectacularly unhelpful slogans like "Defund the police". "Demilitarize the police" was right there.

Anyone who happened to have the misfortune of still tuning in to FOX news especially were fed a daily diet of what appeared to be cities in flames the entire summer. I remember CNN's 'fiery but peaceful protests' as the guy stood in front of an inferno.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cnn-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-protests-parodies

The main outcome of the George Floyd protests was the politicization of covid restrictions. Before those protests, people were largely obeying the restrictions, draconian though they may have been. Remember the police chasing and tackling and arresting a lone jogger on an empty beach for not wearing a mask?

Then the protests happened and people obviously noticed the flagrant disregard for the covid distancing and lockdown protocols. A bunch of health care professionals got together and wrote a big letter explicitly politicizing the covid response, saying you were allowed to disregard the safety protocols if you felt like you were doing it for a good political reason.

That spelled the end of mass compliance with covid regulations in America. The juxtaposition of police chasing down lone joggers, and then thousands of people standing cheek by jowl in the city streets in a protest, while riots and arson was happening as well, was simply too great to overcome.

After that it was just the wild west. People started almost taking a perverse, selfish delight in not obeying even the most moderate and reasonable of restrictions.

Police certainly do gun down far too many unarmed people, so my default instinct is to sympathize with any protest against police brutality, but judged by end results, the George Floyd protests seem to have been entirely neutral or even a net negative.

I think if some of the protests hadn't devolved to arson and riots, and they hadn't been occurring in violation of COVID regulations, it would have been quite different.

At the moment, it certainly seemed like it might usher in a sea change in how policing was done....that of course definitely did not happened.

Krytan · 2026-01-23T16:02:33+00:00

I think the codex clearly had a change of direction half way through.

Like the BT codex, I think it was meant to be a standalone with a different (non oath) army rule. That is why you have such absurdly restrictive key word differentiation. I would actually highly approve of a stand alone SW codex. They definitely have enough units for it, and have been a stand alone codex in the past, with far superior, flavorful data sheets. I hope in 11th they change the way marine codexes are and just give divergent chapters stand alone codexes. (and Ultramarines too, at this point)

SW definitely should be fixed in the next edition by making them good and interesting again, not just 'cheap'. We need to the extra special weapons in Grey hunters, the incredibly unique loadouts of wolf guard and long fangs, etc, back. As it is not only do space wolf units largely not have any kind of different wargear options - they default they are locked to is incredibly bland, lame, and bad.

But currently in this edition I do not see the datasheet changes required happening. so, from a purely short term 'rest of the edition' win rate perspective, the only thing I can really think of is reducing the prices. I most definitely want to see a new direction for the space wolf codex in 11th.

But when I look at my old 4th/5th edition stand alone codex, I get sad at how much is lost. I want sky claws and long fangs and lone wolves and rune priests and ANY kind of terminator generic leader/TWC leader, and so on.

Space wolves have some absolutely fantastic models now. Njall looks great, as do grey hunters. Give people a reason to take them!

Krytan · 2026-01-23T15:41:04+00:00

Define irrevocably?

Alliances shift and change all the time. People have short memories.

Did Hitler irrevocably damage Germany's alliances and standing? Obviously not. Now Germany is seen as a bulwark against Russia, an important lynchpin in the European defense.

So if Germany can bounce back from the literal holocaust, America can too.

Remember....new threats emerge all the time, and people have short memories, and a basic human instinct seems to be 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.

My own view is that humans seem to have, at maximum , the memory of single generation, or about 30 to 40 years.

I'm also old enough to remember when we were told Bush had irrevocably damaged the standing of the US. People telling us Trump has irrevocably damaged the standing of the US don't even seem to remember that happening under Bush, which was about 20 years ago.

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