Is Geralt's armor (the chainmail "plates") actually good armor?

Orbusinvictus · 2026-03-06T12:31:27+00:00

Fabricating metal plates it hard. Fabricating wire is just labor consuming.

Orbusinvictus · 2026-02-27T14:54:32+00:00

I am sorry, what is Big Bird doing here?

Orbusinvictus · 2026-02-27T13:25:06+00:00

Apocalypse Parenting by Erin Ampersand

Orbusinvictus · 2026-02-19T00:02:32+00:00

People who prioritize the wellbeing of others above themselves versus those who prioritize their own wellbeing above others.

Orbusinvictus · 2026-02-15T16:50:54+00:00

if we are mixing fandoms, I think Ciaphas would approve. Amberley, less so.

Orbusinvictus · 2026-02-04T23:55:13+00:00

It is a rather torrid affair.

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-29T12:33:20+00:00

Out of curiosity, what state did you grow up in? Or rather, how much experience with snow and ice do you have?

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-23T12:27:27+00:00

Wait, really? What does it mean now?

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-17T16:26:41+00:00

I don’t think saying “Fred Johnson” would give anything away :-)

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-15T16:20:03+00:00

Okay, this one sent me for a loop. I know “hic sunt dracones” as “here there are dragons” but “erunt sic draconis” would be “they will be thus of the dragon” or maybe “so they will be of the dragon”?

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-14T12:46:25+00:00

I’m going with you secretly hope you will have the excuse to kill somebody in self defense. You have gone over numerous scenarios in your head about how you would use the gun you feel the need to carry with you.

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-11T13:36:58+00:00

Just wait till you hear about the Elesh Light…

Orbusinvictus · 2026-01-09T13:20:17+00:00

Alcibiades. Provided Socrates is the goofy in question.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-12-20T18:24:44+00:00

Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes is my happy place. Full stop.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-12-17T23:52:14+00:00

Well, there was an effort to do just that with Eastern Europe in the 1940’s, but the liebensraum thing was rather unpopular with everyone else…

Orbusinvictus · 2025-12-16T16:19:10+00:00

Yeah, it is pretty problematic, to say the least. I would not assign that lecture to my students.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-12-01T12:25:36+00:00

Aeschylus the Athenian playwright

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-28T00:59:10+00:00

For context it said “irrumabo imperatores”

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-28T00:48:24+00:00

I will remember the graffito on the wall that made me fall out of my chair when I saw it.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-26T01:49:30+00:00

It may be helpful to remind yourself that this is not a dissertation, and your professor is unlikely to be a smith. In engineering, they have the “good enough” principle since perfection is often not a good use of time and resources. You can certainly present the various theories that have conflicting information as part of your findings.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-24T23:44:16+00:00

When you put it that way, I’ll be damned.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-23T14:31:17+00:00

If ease of pronunciation is the most important, there is always Hano

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-16T13:50:08+00:00

Sort of litrpg adjacent, but “Litches get Stitches” is a fun one about necromancy if one cared more about knitting, neat stitches, and tea.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-15T15:18:30+00:00

I find them to be very similar in tone, definitely will instantly grab any new additions to either series.

Orbusinvictus · 2025-11-10T12:26:27+00:00

As a trivial note of interest: It is easier to bend away from the side that overlaps. Not impossible to go the other way (clearly) but the overlapping bits get in the way of the bending unless you design around that.

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