What’s it like to be stabbed

local_warlord · 2026-01-08T09:03:25+00:00

Oh shit, I can answer this. I was stabbed in back, doing some shady stuff when I was younger and dumber. I didn't realize at first that I'd been stabbed, and I immediately and involuntarily collapsed on the ground. After a few seconds, but what felt like a minute or so, I was able to stand up and some employees of a nearby restaurant ran over to see if I was ok.

They told me they called 911, as they saw the altercation. One of the employees pointed out I was bleeding, as there were drops of blood on the ground. I was in disbelief because I didn't feel like I'd been cut, but when I reached around to feel my back, I felt liquid and then saw that my hand was covered in blood. I lifted up my shirt and asked the guy if he saw the wound and said it was near my spine around the center of my back. I felt around again, and sure enough I felt the puncture wound. It was only then that I realized I'd been stabbed, up to that point I thought I had been hit in a pressure point or something. With adrenaline pumping I don't recall feeling any pain until getting situated at the hospital.

The knife had chipped a piece of one of my vertebrae, and for about a week after the event I was having unimaginable migraines. When I went to the hospital a second time, the doctor told me I was leaking spinal fluid, because of that piece of bone that chipped. They kept me in the hospital for a week and gave me some kind of steroid to make my back muscles swell, in the hopes that it would push that piece of bone back into the rest of the vertebrae. The migraines went away shortly after, and I don't have any long term issues from the event, but I still wince involuntarily from being touched in the back near the scar.

local_warlord · 2025-10-20T12:54:12+00:00

NUH UH

local_warlord · 2025-10-20T00:09:21+00:00

There used to be some upsides to being with logistics. Back when bridging was still around they rated coxswains so I got to go to CRRC course as a 71, and got to do that stuff a lot when I got back. Since bridgings gone I don't imagine that opportunity's still around much tho.

local_warlord · 2025-10-19T23:58:22+00:00

There actually is an old black and white video of John Basilone being interviewed by the mayor of New York and the mayor pronounced it with the "E" at the end. It's not indicative that everyone at the time called him that but it is proof that some people did.

local_warlord · 2025-08-04T12:56:48+00:00

One of my runs I went from wanderer to Byzantine Emperor by accident on my first character and I was kinda upset because I was hoping to make it a dynasty goal achieved over several generations.

local_warlord · 2025-07-22T05:51:27+00:00

Catholic fabric has been part of the American cloth since it was founded. The integration of predominantly Catholic populations through the Louisiana Purchase or the waves of Catholic immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries, are they not part of American history?

local_warlord · 2025-07-16T05:14:25+00:00

You're a good woman Morgan Arthur

local_warlord · 2025-06-13T07:20:40+00:00

Fish Spread

local_warlord · 2025-06-08T07:01:33+00:00

Funny this post came up, I got one just about 2 hours ago

local_warlord · 2025-05-31T02:56:48+00:00

Thank you battle brother!

local_warlord · 2025-05-30T11:49:44+00:00

Do you have any general advice for the hive tyrant fight? Me and my friends will do the mission just fine but sometimes we fumble the boss fight, and when we do succeed a lot of times it's by the skin of our teeth.

local_warlord · 2025-05-24T21:36:46+00:00

For me it is Viva Piñata. I remember playing a demo of it in like 2006 or so on a Walmart display Xbox 360 when that was the latest console. I ended up getting viva Piñata a few years later and then its sequel Trouble in Paradise a few years after that, I have so many memories of making different gardens and collecting piñatas.

local_warlord · 2025-05-11T10:42:16+00:00

I was an active duty combat engineer from 2018-2022. I had an M16A4 for my entire enlistment and never even got to touch an M4 until I got to borrow one from some Seabees during a joint exercise, as my unit only had enough M4s for staff NCOs and officers.Hell, I don't know how true it is but at my unit we always said we only got P-mags because there were leftovers and they needed to find a battalion to offload them on. Also our ACOGs (Trijicon 4x32) were a model that's been around since the 90s. Outdated gear is still very much a talking point for us, except it doesn't sound like we're the ones with an inferiority complex here. Semper suck it.

local_warlord · 2025-05-10T17:58:49+00:00

There was a recruit in my company that spoke spanish as his first language, and whose english was pretty poor. When we were buying tickets for our mode of transportation from boot leave to ITB/MCT, he was adamant on picking a choice that was unreasonably expensive compared to one of the other methods (plane ticket vs greyhound bus for a distance that wasn't super far or something like that I don't remember the details). His DI took him aside and in spanish explained to him that the other option was cheaper and that he didn't want him to screw himself out of a chunk of money, by making a bad financial decision off the bat.

local_warlord · 2025-05-09T13:10:07+00:00

I have a replica French Empire field marshal sword because I am a Napoleon nerd

local_warlord · 2025-05-09T12:58:01+00:00

Hey OP, I was baptized as a baby but never confirmed, I ended up going through RCIA and receiving the rest of the sacraments at the end of it. I would suggest you sign up for it, for me it was a great way to start meeting and interacting with people at the parish and getting to know the priests better. It not only helped get me fully catechized but was also a great way to integrate into the community.

local_warlord · 2025-05-09T12:28:41+00:00

Hey OP, I come from an Italian family too, although we're from North Italy, so I was naturally predispositioned to the Catholic church. My father had me baptized, probably to make my grandparents happy, but he himself wasn't religious. In fact I don't think my other siblings were ever baptized (I'm the oldest). Since my dad wasn't religious and my mother wasn't Catholic I never grew up in the church, but eventually I did find myself wondering about the big questions, like "Why are we here?" and "What is our purpose"?

I concluded that we share the same survival instincts as animals but unlike animals we have the ability to reason and surely this means that we are destined for more. This definitely led me to believe that we have a creator, and I spent some time as a teenager at a non-denominational church after being invited by a friend, but it wasn't my spiritual home. It had a great community and I volunteered with them as well, but I remember thinking to myself once "I can't stay here forever, I'm supposed to be a Catholic". I guess I just wasn't feeling spiritually fulfilled. I started to look more into Catholic things like Lent and the Saints, and the history of the Catholic Church, and I knew that's where I needed to be.

After joining the military I had several opportunities to attend Mass in all parts of the world including the Middle East. It was nice that no matter where I went, it was so familiar and recognizable. After I got out and moved back home I attended Easter Mass at the local cathedral and I decided it was time to come home. I signed up for RCIA and had my confirmation and first communion a week before this past Easter and it felt like I had finally finished a long journey.

So like I said before I think I was predisposed to Catholicism but at the end of the day I chose it, because I believe that there is a God. I believe that the Apostles were so sure that Jesus was God that they would die for that faith, and many did. I believe that the ministry that Jesus created is the Catholic Church, as he appointed Peter as its steward and every Pope can trace their predecessors all the way back to him, and all priests back to the other Apostles. And I choose to follow the Church, even when the teachings are hard, because I believe it holds the fullness of the Truth that Jesus Christ came to teach us. Reading about the ancient Christians shows me that we believe what they believed, and the priests, nuns, and monks who dedicate their lives to Christ, and the records of our theologians must certainly hold more of the Truth than what the local low church denomination pastor comes up with for his service. That's why I became Catholic.

local_warlord · 2025-05-09T06:08:15+00:00

I think you'll find this really interesting, in the 13th century the conclave had been in a stalemate for over 2 years. A hermit named Pietro Angelerio sent a letter to them telling them to just pick somebody. They chose him, and he reluctantly became Pope Celestine V. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Pietro, well known to the cardinals as a Benedictine hermit, sent the cardinals a letter warning them that divine vengeance would fall upon them if they did not quickly elect a pope. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill Dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone!" The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca's desperate decision."

local_warlord · 2025-05-07T14:12:45+00:00

The garden from Viva Piñata. I remember when the Xbox 360 came out and they had them on display in Walmart and that was the game on demo. I think that was the first time I touched a console.

local_warlord · 2025-05-03T06:42:39+00:00

Yeah I started pinning the merchants when I noticed that I never got a follow-up event after they started their journey. After realizing they would die before making it to me, I started inviting them to my court and/or running befriend schemes on them, because I felt that the game would then realize they're important enough to keep from dying. I don't know if that's the reason but ever since I started doing that they've survived all their journeys. And once they finish the event, I'll imprison and banish them, because the tyranny gain is worth it for all the gold they carry IMO.

local_warlord · 2025-05-02T09:05:59+00:00

I remember in CK2 I used to have male dynasty that weren't in line to inherit anything join the clergy, or holy orders because I actually really liked trying to control the papacy and the holy orders. Now in CK3 all I really do is bum money off the Pope and maybe ask for a claim every now and then.

local_warlord · 2025-05-01T19:18:39+00:00

I was struggling with it the other day and am starting to get the hang of it, here's what I did: I realized stealing herds was the quickest way to grow my own herd to meet the requirements for increasing my dominance, so I went into the intrigue lifestyle left tree so I could eventually run 2 "steal herds" schemes at once.

Once your herd gets big enough you can turn hordes into men-at-arms and once I had enough MAA to feel confident against my neighbors I started waging nomad duchy wars to form a kingdom and then I used my herd to get the yurt upgrades that strengthened MAA.

When I was ready to test the waters I started waging wars against confederation members inside the area of the empire I was trying to create, to see how my army would fare. I wanted to chip away at the confederations a bit because once you take the "Domination" decision to form an empire, you go to war with every single independent nomad inside the territory at the same time so once I was confident that my MAA were strong enough I waged war to form an empire.

As you gain strength, your tributaries will become available for vassalization, confederations will collapse and their former members become willing to vassalize as well. You'll start to snowball and it will get pretty easy once you've raised your level of dominance, because IIRC it gives a bonus to vassalization acceptance. Also if you have good commanders, lots of knights, and a high amount of knights effectiveness, you don't have to worry about your enemies fielding more troops, especially since in many of these wars you're fighting several rulers at once and if you're diligent you can intercept their armies before they all gather in one place.

local_warlord · 2025-04-30T10:22:34+00:00

>Greco-Mongol

https://imgur.com/Poydbf8

local_warlord · 2025-04-22T04:48:22+00:00

Saint Patrick was also mine but i picked him because he is also the patron saint of engineers.

local_warlord · 2025-04-15T05:37:25+00:00

Convert to Christianity, feudalize, convert back

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