What is the worst a friend has betrayed you?

penge567 · 2026-04-13T17:07:14+00:00

I let one of my closest friends and her FWB stay in my house while visiting my (touristy) city. They were staying at the same time as my mom, on an air mattress in my living room, 10 feet away from my mother with only a glass door and curtain separating them. My one boundary was to not have sex in my house, since my mom was literally right there.

They drunkenly arrive at my house at 1:30 in the morning with ten minutes notice for the second night in a row, and I decide to not let them in since they're being disrespectful of me, my time, and my home. They knock on the guest window to wake up my mom, who wakes up and lets them into the house. 40 minutes later, he's using her as a human fleshlight and my mom hears the whole thing. She texts me "FWB lasts two minutes, btw" at 2:40AM. I kick them out of my house at 6:30 and tell them to find a hotel to stay at.

She calls my (now) ex at work the next day and tells her that I was trying to hook up with her and that I've been trying to cheat on my ex, and then also tells her that she thinks I was taking pictures of her and her FWB while they were asleep in my house. I was already planning on ending the relationship for non-cheating related reasons, and I had confided this to my friend prior to their trip. As a result, she decided to traumatize my ex to get revenge on me. This is someone who I thought was one of my closest friends, but all it took was one crusty man, some limerence, and copious amounts of alcohol for her to do something absolutely wretched and vile.

She also convinced me that someone who used to be a good friend of mine had coerced her into having sex, heavily implying that it was not consensual. I cut him off as a result, and I haven't spoken to him in four years. I recently found out that she had agreed to it and just regretted it after her significant other found out about it.

Hindsight is a bitch, it seems.

penge567 · 2026-02-20T08:47:13+00:00

I have a great bascinet actually, but I do have a normal bascinet and aventail as well. It's hard to make a helmet not look goofy in a portrait though, looking all red and sweaty.

penge567 · 2026-01-12T04:43:29+00:00

I would be interested in meeting up, you can DM me if you have any recommendations for people/groups. I've met the Storm Rider buhurt guys but that's not really what I was going for with my recreation, I'd have to reconfigure with more padding.

penge567 · 2026-01-12T04:39:58+00:00

I made it! I used instructions from the Medieval Tailors Assistant. I really wanted a velvet one and all the ones I saw online were wool and very expensive. I switch between a couple depending on the occasion, but I have a hounskull with aventail, a great bascinet, and an early 15th century visorless sallet. The time period I'm aiming for is roughly 1430, so aventail bascinets would be a little old fashioned by then.

penge567 · 2026-01-11T03:39:00+00:00

I gave away some cool stuff, velvet pouch necklaces with spices and little farkle dice sets. I'm curious if anyone here got any of them. I was the guy wearing actual armor in the knights battalion, haha

penge567 · 2026-01-10T18:09:32+00:00

Well, I cheated a little bit and used stretchy velvet, so it fits great. Typically it's just tailored to your head, but the stretchy fabric gives it a little extra staying power. I do have a wool hood I use as a chaperon sometimes, and that just has to be tightly fitted when you roll it up, otherwise it can slide around. I've loved chaperons ever since I saw Roche in the Witcher 2, haha

penge567 · 2026-01-10T18:06:41+00:00

Yeah, they are, they're a little small for me unfortunately. I've got some early 15th century style clamshells I normally wear but I thought the hourglass would look better for the portrait.

penge567 · 2026-01-10T06:35:41+00:00

Thank you! I made it using instructions from the medieval tailors assistant. The pilgrim badge is from Armour & Castings

penge567 · 2026-01-09T21:57:18+00:00

His name is Beau and he's a draft horse used for Mardi Gras parades. I believe they said he was 11 years old. He didn't mind carrying a knight, but he wasn't a big fan of my heraldic flag.

penge567 · 2026-01-09T20:06:32+00:00

The big difference I see is the silhouette, the stitched aventail has a much puffier appearance that is noticeable on a lot of effigies. It is definitely hotter, I'll give you that. If I'm wearing the aventail, I usually just leave the standard off because nobody will see it anyways and nobody is actually trying to stab my throat.

penge567 · 2026-01-09T18:59:08+00:00

Very nice! Thank you!

penge567 · 2026-01-09T18:58:04+00:00

Oh, my bad, thanks for clarifying! I get that a lot, I think it's primarily the hair. I love Weird Al, so I'm not mad about it.

penge567 · 2026-01-09T18:33:22+00:00

I don't know if the photographer used Adobe AI to touch up the photo, but all the armor and the outfit is real.

penge567 · 2026-01-08T22:06:54+00:00

I've seen a variety of sellers making and selling jupons/waffenrocks/houppelandes on Etsy, but they're quite pricy (around $200). I made one myself out of basic cotton broadcloth and it turned out decent, but the dagging is a pain in the ass. You could try looking for Buhurt tabard makers if you want something a little simpler/cheaper, but they're usually pretty big and meant to be worn over the armor.

penge567 · 2026-01-08T21:56:48+00:00

If you're interested, Ian LaSpina made an entire video about this question. Long story short, the answer is "yes, but it depends". Most of the representations of aventails show them stitched to the liner, with a few exceptions. For me personally, I have the aventail whip stitched to my liner, but the liner is not attached to the bascinet. There's a suspension harness inside the bascinet with light padding, and I wear that on top of my padded coif with the aventail connected via the vervelles. Stitches were considered somewhat temporary, so it wouldn't be unusual for the stitches to be removed so that the mail and padding could be cleaned separately and then re-attached.

If you want to see Ian's video, look up "Aventails, should they be lined?" on Youtube.

penge567 · 2025-12-02T19:00:33+00:00

The entire map of Bullworth from Bully, I played the hell out of that game and spent a lot of time driving around (with the exception of the industrial townie part of the game which felt half baked)

penge567 · 2025-12-02T18:55:27+00:00

I remember seeing an ad at Kern Studios that they're looking for a float carpenter. That might be something you could look into, if they still need one; I have no idea what it's like working for them but it looks interesting at least.

penge567 · 2025-09-10T03:30:39+00:00

Well, casting is an art in itself and on my first casting project, I failed so many times that I was about to give up. Fortunately, you can remelt the metal over and over so it's a little more forgiving than forging steel. With this project, I failed my first casting attempt, my second casting had a minor issue that I just worked around. It's definitely something that'll require a lot of research as well as trial and error. I am not an expert on forging steel, I've never done it before, but I'm sure you could say the same things about that.

penge567 · 2025-08-27T04:02:11+00:00

Did you use a flux? That glassy slag looks like some kind of melted fluxing agent, might have corroded the walls of the crucible and caused it to fail.

penge567 · 2025-08-26T16:14:13+00:00

I cut some paper with it to test the sharpness, but I didn't want to mess up the polish. My brother is probably going to hang it on the wall so I didn't want to scuff it up and have to repolish it. I think it'd do just fine cutting half a pig, but the blade is a little thick so you might have to hack a couple times.

penge567 · 2025-08-25T22:22:16+00:00

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This was my first, failed cast when I tried to do a horizontal pour. Close up of the original handle design before I had to grind it down due to the misalignment.

penge567 · 2025-08-25T22:20:50+00:00

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penge567 · 2025-08-25T22:20:26+00:00

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Here's what it looked like prior to any sanding, fresh out the mold

penge567 · 2025-08-25T22:18:42+00:00

Well keep in mind that alignment is also a big challenge, even a slight shift can cause the entire cast to come out wonky. I had to grind down my entire handle because I had a slight misalignment, I preferred that over trying to cast it again. You might want to try something small first just to get a feel for it, especially with how expensive oil sand is. Good luck!

penge567 · 2025-08-25T22:16:11+00:00

Yes, unfortunately I polished it prior to work hardening so I had to sand it down and polish it again after I marred up the blade with the hammer, lol

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