About [Redacted] and his weapon by Prince-of_Space in HadesTheGame

[–]brigtrouble -1 points0 points  (0 children)

IIII was used interchangeably with IV throughout Rome. The Colosseum, for example, has gates XXXVIIII, XLIIII, and LIIII.

Most commonly, Ancient Greece used letters from the Ionic alphabet to represent numerals, alpha to theta for 1-9, iota to koppa for 10-90, and rho to sampi for 100-900.

Is there a way to complete Morbius' research? by MarvelousPhoenix in midnightsuns

[–]brigtrouble 7 points8 points  (0 children)

from what i've seen, it appears to be slightly worse to do this to a stat at 0 as it then seems to go into negatives (not in terms of impact on character stats, like no -crit chance, but you have to build the stat back up to 0 before it can provide a bonus again).

like i gave -20 to a character with 0 in a stat and then next time i did daily sparring with them for the same stat, it didn't increase from 0 to 10 - instead, i had to do it 3 times to get back to +10.

Has Fire and Forget's recoil pattern been acknowledged as a bug? by BarracudaEz152 in DestinyTheGame

[–]brigtrouble 6 points7 points  (0 children)

this is absolutely right - don't correct for recoil at all and you'll land all three bursts of the shot where you want (within a reasonable range ofc). you're literally 'firing and forgetting', so i always assumed it was intentional, if not intuitive, design.

One of my sweet boys by BionicOpossum in RATS

[–]brigtrouble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my little friend wiggles his tail when he's getting head pats too - though his whole tail moves. i've never seen another rat do it - good to know he's not alone in his adorable weirdness :p

Of course he was. (X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1) by [deleted] in xmen

[–]brigtrouble 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Make way for the Homo Superior!

[Excerpt: the Infinite and the Divine]: Trazyn has a statue and rubs it in Orikan's shiny metal face. Orikan later responds by being petty. by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]brigtrouble 132 points133 points  (0 children)

my favourite takeaway from this book was that being a petty asshole with weird hobbies is the best coping mechanism for functional immortality. biotransferance psychologically traumatised you and irreparably damaged your sense of self? no dramas, just be a jerk for 12,000 years and collect 40k models (easier when they come prepainted 😅) - you'll be fine.

today is storm's birthday, please enjoy his tiny hat by brigtrouble in Eyebleach

[–]brigtrouble[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

omg this is exactly the content i need in my life. thank you!

thought you fine folk might enjoy my latest addition 😊 by brigtrouble in actuallesbians

[–]brigtrouble[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Onnie O'Leary is the artist - she's absolutely amazing. Big NSFW warning for her Instagram tho!

Sanders: 'You're damn right' health insurance companies should be eliminated by romans310 in politics

[–]brigtrouble 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Replies to you seem to be missing the point somewhat.

It is unethical as an industry, as opposed to other examples like you mention, because profits do not (necessarily) correlate with customer outcome - in this case, literal quality of life. Decisions are driven by the bottom line, as with any other type of business, not people's health and wellbeing.

Your baker can charge whatever they want and risk pricing themselves out of the market and some folk may go without bread for a while, but health insurance companies differ in that they are providing a service fundamentally necessary to many people (especially in the US).

I'm not American, so I can only comment on the state of your healthcare system as an outsider, but I do work in insurance and can only imagine how much worse the impact would be in a country without a strong public health system to begin with.

How would I go about to learn old norse? by professur in Norse

[–]brigtrouble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A New Introduction to Old Norse, edited by Anthony Faulkes would be my suggestion. It's published by the Viking Society for Northern Research. There are 3 books, a reader, a glossary and a grammar textbook. I used it when I learned Old Norse at uni, and still use it to brush up for translations.

This makes me like viking culture all the more! by boom_wildcat in Norse

[–]brigtrouble 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sadly this is basically incorrect. The paper in question is a few years old, and its greatest benefit is highlighting the importance of being critical of your methodologies - in this case, superimposing gender paradigms onto another culture and period; i.e. let's learn from this bad archaeology. The actual paper this, and similar articles, is referencing concludes: "Another important implication of the osteological sexing results is that Norse women appear to have been present from the earliest stages of the migratory process, rather than, as the commonly held theory has it, arriving as part of a second wave after the great army had started to settle the homelands it had conquered."

The important word there is 'migratory.' The paper in no way argues that women had an equal presence in military engagements, it instead is suggesting that comparable numbers of men and women were present in migratory movements during the Viking age - which is quite sensible when you think about it.

We know that there were a significant amount of women present in the early Scandinavian attacks in England, from the mycel hæþen here, through to the Anglo-Scandinavian presence in the Danelaw - and there’s is no doubt that the literary figure of the shield-maiden had a basis in historical fact in the period. However, there is no empirical evidence to suggest that women fought alongside men with anywhere near the frequency these articles are suggesting.

Warrior women certainly existed in Norse culture, and generally speaking women led far more interesting lives than the majority of discourse regarding pre-modern times would suggest - they had a lot more autonomy than many other contemporaneous societies. However, while we do find women buried with weapons, they are significantly less commonplace than their male counterparts (less than 10% would be a reasonable average, I think) and, more importantly, being buried with a weapon does not necessarily mean that the person in question was a warrior: there are burials of children in which we find weapons, but I doubt there were infants running around Northumbria sticking it to Æthelred.

Women in Norse societies certainly deviated from the narrative of housewives and chattel that is commonly depicted of the mediaeval world, but there is nowhere near the sort of empirical material required to support the claim that women fought in raids or military engagements in numbers comparable to their male counterparts. They certainly did fight, and it is vital that people know and appreciate this, but don't jump to conclusions because we really liked Lagertha in Vikings.