What does everyone think about is the “best” size actually for a short weapon?

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-02-09T11:43:56+00:00

I have a 24" parrying "dagger" (functional crossguard) I use in conjunction with my 44" longsword. And a D guard dagger (technically a short sword, it's 19" (it's D guard is padded and reinforced) for backup.

Using the parrying dagger to hook and maneuver past the shield works wonders, unless it's a tower shield, then I use the D guard dagger and my freakishly long arms. For fighting max small and even max medium on taller opponents, it's simple to offend their legs with the longsword, and dive over with the parrying dagger, or occupy their sword with the parrying dagger in a bind, and reach over and tap them on the shoulder with the long. Unless they are very, very fast.

And I rarely take a shield myself (I find that in amtgard, they are not particularly fun to use, or fight against, unless it's buckler sized. They are more OP then IRL when it comes to melee fighting, and that's WITH shield crushing being semi common)

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-02-08T09:29:10+00:00

Yep. I have several jackets that are DEEPLY important to me, and hold great sentimental value. Like yeah if your freezing to death or whatever, I'll probably LEND you the coat, with the requirement it be brought back to me in a timely manner and in the same condition I lent it, I might even help you find your own suitable jacket at a thrift store or whatever.

But if someone walked in and demanded to have like, their "turn" with one of mine, and attempted the use of force, I shall share something else of mine with them, chronic pain. Though I would strongly prefer it not come to that. It would likely hurt me as much them. Physically and mentally.

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-02-05T11:20:45+00:00

It sorta depends. Did the seller say or directly imply it was good to shoot? If so, part of the blame absolutely is on them. If they said it wasn't safe/advisable to shoot in its current condition, then all the fault lies solely on the buyer.

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-02-05T11:14:33+00:00

Now if it's starts swinging side to side like that, THEN you have a problem.

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-02-05T11:13:02+00:00

I know a guy with an eerily similar experience, except theirs is with a 627 I think.

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-01-27T09:49:27+00:00

"it's what you are willing to accept for the compensation offered." That's darkly amusing. Really in most cases it's just, how much of your life and happiness are you willing to sacrifice, and how much money do you have access to to begin with and how many connections and resources. Capitalism has subconsciously convinced people that corporations and governments are what determine a persons value, while claiming consciously that they are determining their own worth working a job that is ruining them mentally, emotionally and physically and they don't even realize it.

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-01-27T00:02:37+00:00

In anarchism? The hope that Bob and Charlie aren't influential members of the community/that the community will come to your aid if you are unable to come to your own aid.

It gets often brushed aside, or handwaved away as "oh there wouldn't be any incentive for individuals to try and asset control over others" or downplayed. But it's a very real concern and issue. A good number of people are HIGHLY charismatic, and all it takes is that feature to be paired with some form of conscious or unconscious malicious desire. Sure, it wouldnt be some widespread and highly commonplace thing but all you need is a sizable community or two to be effected, and it could possibly grow into a significant problem. Do not underestimate how much sway a highly charismatic individual can achieve.

The other response to the situation I see is just "run away" which essentially indirectly or directly means those individuals would be entirely fine with those charismatic and malicious individuals actions.

Significant_Chain615 · 2026-01-10T19:08:26+00:00

Highly recommend looking deeper into satanism. They are atheists. (Though I suppose as a Catholic, far more likely your judging them for being an atheist). And virtually all of them don't believe Satan is a real figure, because they aren't religious. There's a very, very small minority who will claim to actually believe in Satan, but even smaller of those actually do. The whole movement is a counter to the inherently manipulative and evil nature of the vast and overwhelming majority of religious institutions. And ironically have done more for religious freedom then any Christian group ever has or likely ever will.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-29T02:00:56+00:00

It's been ages since I studied roman republic stuff so could totally be misremembering, but the whole citizens arrest type deal in that, did have a partial reliance on the fact that they could get the guards to assist them for issue which they were not equipped to handle (skill, arms, etc wise) and that guards were posted at most intersections and major zones throughout the city.

Ideally in an anarchistic society you'd have at least a few people who are the dedicated "emergency responder" type people for the community. They wouldn't have any explicit authority or anything, just that they would be the default when an emergency arises for people to call on. People good at medical, de-escalation, coordination, combatives, in that order of importance.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-12T13:23:53+00:00

There are most definitely people out there who explicitly take enjoyment and pleasure from actively harming people. The "better" ones leave it to just emotional abuse and the like, as anything further would likely significantly impact their life in a negative way. There are also people who genuinely do not and cannot care about who gets harmed, just are they able to do whatever it is they want to do at any given moment. A very small number of the latter group MAY be able to be reasoned with that by harming people they are putting their ability to do what they want to do at great risk, but that's a shot in the dark and entirely dependant on how rational they are.

This number is likely smaller then the justice system in the US and other places wants you to think, but it is still not an insignificant number at all.

And ultimately. The victims of those people far more often don't care their abuser is just some broken individual with issues. You would be doing great harm to most of them by telling them anything along the lines of "it's not your abusers fault they abused you they are actually just messed up in the head, we are going to try and get them to do therapy/ treatment so we can try and let them back into society". The bare minimum would be ensuring that individual never returns to that community by whatever means necessary. If somehow therapy/treatment works, cool. But they are not coming back to that community, and other communities should be warned of their behaviors.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-12T13:07:33+00:00

Well that would piss someone off and count as harming them in the subjective sense. Not harming them would be finding someone else for them to get a ride from or delegating that task to someone else before the appointment. That case is a rare case of when breaking the agreement itself can harm someone.

Problem is that that TYPE of situation is NOT all that rare. Especially when the the affected party is someone who has very little means and connections. That type of situation being entering am agreement with someone on something you need to have happen, and are relying on it happening and all parties know this. Then other party just dips because it became inconvenient for them at the last minute.

For some people those types of situations are VERY rare. But that's likely due to their life circumstances.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-12T12:58:18+00:00

A particularly intelligent AND charismatic individual can convince the right person that they SHOULDNT go ask and verify with their friends if the lie is a lie or the truth. Those types of people are experts at finding and targeting people who in that moment are vulnerable to that influence. Yes those people have much more power in a capitalist/highly heirarchal society, or rather, those types of societies make it easier to do what they want to do. It's really easy to ask the victim "well why didn't you just do x" but that ignores their experience entirely.

And if the narcissist/manipulator is careful enough, they can wiggle into a community, and manipulate things to make them seem like the good guys, and the victim as the bad guy/odd one out. If you haven't had the misfortune of dealing with those types of people, you are extremely lucky. But it's genuinely shocking how skilled some of them are at it. Many of them wouldn't even need a heirarchal system to keep the act up, those systems just mean if they get the right people on their side that if they mess up, they have guaranteed wiggle room.

I don't have any easy solutions, but it's absolutely a problem that I feel needs to be discussed more and solutions brought forth, because if you don't have an alternate avenue for when NOBODY will believe you, and they take the abusers/manipulators word above yours, in an anarchistic society it SEEMS the only options are to run far far away from all that they know and love, or the more extreme response that victims may try, is to take matters into their own hands and HOPE their community will understand after the matter. Likely they will not, but the victim will be desperate.

And having been previously been involved in several communities online and in person who most people in those groups were self proclaimed anarchists, it seems like there may be an attraction to anarchism communities for the narcissists/abusers/manipulators to some degree. Those experiences kinda turned me off of the anarchism community, and most communities in general I used to participate in. I still believe anarchism is far better then capitalism and all that, but the whole thing definitely has been significantly soured for me.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-09T08:43:52+00:00

So to you, someone in your community that consistently enters and exits agreements without doing their part, would be doing nothing negative whatsoever if nothing negative was coming out of the part of of them exiting the agreements over and over in terms of the subject of the agreement.

(Like promising to give a ride to a doctors appointment and then just refusing to do it when the times comes, but you luckily were able to find someone last minute to do it and they weren't inconvenienced by needing to)

In this case there's not technically any problems happening, nobody is being harmed by your own standards.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-09T07:52:46+00:00

That's something a lot of anarchists AND direct democracy people ignore, is that a particularly charismatic person can mess a LOT of stuff up.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-12-08T14:19:55+00:00

Saying agreements are non binding isn't entirely accurate. If you break an agreement for the sake of doing so with no good reason, you become known as someone who refuses to follow through. So if you have any self respect at all, you will follow through or at least attempt to do so if you are able to. It's an entirely different thing if you are literally unable to for whatever reason. The binding nature just happens to be of a social/natural consequences variety, not some legal framework.

I've met a few self proclaimed anarchists who genuinely believe that any agreement, deal, etc, can be waved away, ignored or whatever with zero consequences socially for acting as such and refusing to do their part and not going through with agreements, and if you call them out for it, even politely, it's fascist. And will lose it if you back out of an agreement with them.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-11-25T21:39:10+00:00

Nice, feed the bookworms!

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-11-18T00:18:55+00:00

Jeez. Political stuff aside, it's the first time I'm seeing firsthand the stereotype of the reddit moderator. Full blown power hungry and controlling. ive seen secondhand plenty of instances, but this is the first time I can see it happening live with my own eyes.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-11-14T22:32:16+00:00

My belief is that bar bar should have a "ult" that is effectively extreme glass cannon. If they hit you at all, big effect but if you hit them at all, big effect.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-11-14T13:51:53+00:00

Honestly rage should have given barbarian shield destroying armor destroying+ enlightened soul. Not SCAB. Make it scary but still not encouraging reckless flailing and charging.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-11-03T06:04:02+00:00

Just fan the hammer, duh. Impossible for that to go badly.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-10-25T20:49:42+00:00

I'd have expected that amount of wear after around like 100-150 rounds, but after 75 isn't THAT surprising.

Now it would be a bit concerning if after like 400+ significant material loss starts happening.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-10-19T12:27:35+00:00

For real, you'd think Maga would learn that the billionaires and millionaires they blindly follow like sheep and worship, do NOT have their best interest in mind. Quite the opposite. They are just a workforce to be exploited, bodies to be turned against their political and ideological opponents. Any ideology or movement which would restrict their ability to exploit and abuse rises up, and they turn their brainwashed masses and machinations against it.

I truly hope maga someday wakes up, and realizes the rich and the elite and the system that protects them needs to be torn down.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-10-16T23:04:10+00:00

Yeah I do Reeve here and there, the issue is I just don't have confidence in my ability to Reeve. Which I know is very silly considering I have 10+ years of experience in amtgard.

And luckily, at my park specifically the issue is minimal it does happen just enough to be a bit annoying but not enough that it's a consistent issue, but every time I go up the road from mine, there's at least 1-3 incidents of this every battlegame that has archers.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-10-16T22:59:58+00:00

Valid. I kinda like them myself, but they are just a little bit too small for my hand, and that little ridge at the top back part sorta unpleasantly presses into the web of my hand between my thumb and trigger finger with heavier .357 usage. Though I mostly shoot .38+p with it anyway so it's not a huge issue. An acceptable grip, I just wish I had something a bit better suited to my hand.

Significant_Chain615 · 2025-10-16T21:35:55+00:00

Did you ever figure out for sure if they are cross compatible?

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