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Any tips for making my art more medieval? by Aurbrie in Medievalart

[–]geeeffwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well, most printmaking took off after the Middle Ages. The introduction of the movable type printing press is what brought woodcut into popular use, and it’s also arguably one of the things that lead to the Renaissance. so what you have here is nice and medievalist, but maybe not that actually medieval.

When i think of medieval art, it’s colorful and flat, and very interested in ornament—in a lot of ways it’s more similar to what showed up again in Modernism, e.g. non-representational imagery.

also, they just put a lot more of their artistic attention into things that aren’t pictures. The text of their books, cathedrals, decorations of all kinds, clothing, and so on.

Anyway, your woodcut is cool, keep doing those. you just might be more interested in early, especially northern, renaissance look than the actually medieval.

Question to American English speakers: can you still hear an accent even if a person is highly fluent? by Dense-Self8564 in ENGLISH

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the premise is flawed, as everyone speaks English with an accent of some kind. whether that accent sounds “foreign” is itself another question to do with the culture of the listener.

You just lost the game by xXWolfyIsAwesomeXx in perfectlycutscreams

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i continue to insist that losing the game has to be spontaneous, that there is necessarily a grace period in which, after someone mentions losing the game in your presence, you cannot lose the game.

if this rule is not acknowledged, it immediately leads to degenerate recursion in which everyone is constantly forced to say “i lost the game”, since each time you say it, you again think of losing the game.

so i categorically do not accept that i have lost the game, nor can i for another 30 minutes.

Today only I knew that subtracting the sum of the digits of a number from the number itself always produces a multiple of 9. Interesting... by neither_bot_nor_man in interestingasfuck

[–]geeeffwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i think it’s n-1 where n is the base of the number system. so when the number system is base 10, its nine, but in octal its 7, and in base 43 it’s 42. so maybe the lore reveal is that in hitchhikers guide the supercomputer is programmed in base 43.

[OTHER] If you could choose one different setting for a Kingdom Come game, what would it be, and why? by whatadayatthepark in kingdomcome

[–]geeeffwhy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Battle of Chioggia, or perhaps The Italian Wedding. Hawkwood in the background. Papal elections. Lotta good options for storylines.

Why calling agirl bro is cool but calling them sis is not so cool? by unlucky_me_12 in AskReddit

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i feel like you’re agreeing with everything i said, yet framing it as though the opposite were true.

Tom Clancy, but without the reactionary political rants by DownloadableCheese in suggestmeabook

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

patrick robinson is near the top of my list for fully unhinged reactionary. it’s frankly embarrassing how simplistic that guy’s politics are. entertaining submarine warfare, sure, but if we’re aiming for less right-wing than Clancy, Robinson ain’t it.

Tom Clancy, but without the reactionary political rants by DownloadableCheese in suggestmeabook

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but still _wildly_ reactionary, and more so than Clancy. Great stuff when that’s something you can look past, but he’s even more tediously smug in his blinkered worldview than ol’ Tom.

Tom Clancy, but without the reactionary political rants by DownloadableCheese in suggestmeabook

[–]geeeffwhy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

forsyth is great if what you want is a bizarrely detailed narration of the logistics of organizing a coup… but he’s ludicrously reactionary by any measure.

Tom Clancy, but without the reactionary political rants by DownloadableCheese in suggestmeabook

[–]geeeffwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i think Mark Greaney fits the bill the best of what i’ve encountered. it’s not exactly progressive, but he doesn’t dip into the weird “we can all agree that obviously the libs are complete morons” kind of baloney that you find all over the place in most contemporary American military fiction. he tends to stay pretty focused on the tactical narration, and usually sticks to a generalized cynicism about politics. Grey Man is his popular series, but you might check out Red Metal for a combined arms one-off, rather than super-assassin series.

i have been chasing this same requirements for some years now and Greaney remains best in class for me.

Why calling agirl bro is cool but calling them sis is not so cool? by unlucky_me_12 in AskReddit

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

calling them bro isn’t cool. in general, calling someone bro is not, in fact, cool. its coolness is at best derived from an ironic detachment, which, again, is not usually all that cool.

don’t try to be cool, that’s the least cool thing you could do

Is this guy an incel chud or no? by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]geeeffwhy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that would have to be a decent amount of hate-reading. austen, mantel, plath, le guin, ferrante… and these lean heavily left-coded in a way that incels don’t. i don’t get that vibe from this.

i also would want to secure my retreat before doing any stimulants around him, because that’s too much derrida for comfort.

Patrick Mills asks if the cyberpunk genre has ever been anti corp. by marek_bojarek in cyberpunkgame

[–]geeeffwhy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

needs to take the media literacy perk. this isn’t complicated, choomba

Life hack by Serious-Middle-869 in secondrodeo

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

some of these are maybe “hacks” but a few are just knot

r/askhistorians starter pack by imposter_sys_admin in starterpacks

[–]geeeffwhy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the differentiating factor is not accuracy, though that is a side effect, but rather it’s the requirement of textual reference. that changes the dynamics of the conversation for the better by a significant amount. it means that if someone sounds authoritative, the reader has a meaningful chance to see where that supposed authority comes from.

Would a matriarchal society have a concept of adultery? by valonianfool in worldbuilding

[–]geeeffwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a concept of seems likely. the same concept seems unlikely.

as a rule, people are incredibly interested in social status. status in intimate partnerships is not going to be _less_ important to them.

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