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@pyeitme508 Жыл бұрын
Oof 😅
@khathaway414 Жыл бұрын
Oh we Will love it. But what is with the broken heart?
@hehe3301 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the discount! Hoping you are feeling better!
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
Because Just Stab Me Now :D
@FrancSchiphorst Жыл бұрын
Link in the description is not correct (missing the my part) :)
@WolfbloodJakeWilliams Жыл бұрын
'Eh' tier was definitely needed, sometimes things that aren't great deserve to be damned with faint praise rather than outright condemned.
@joelpartee594 Жыл бұрын
I feel like Not Actually Armour should be outside the spectrum. Grey, maybe?
@DargonVessle Жыл бұрын
@@joelpartee594true, however there is already merch and all
@LD-Orbs Жыл бұрын
@@joelpartee594 I'm tempted to put "Eh." as grey. But I think Jill's colour scheme is better, while I would just complex it up without adding value. Now, if it was a three-dimensional scale, then "Eh = grey" would work... ok.
@marys4038 Жыл бұрын
@@joelpartee594 true, but since it’s a tier list having a fully separate category doesn’t really match the aesthetic, and having it in the middle is about as neutral as it can get
@markfergerson2145 Жыл бұрын
Or praised with faint damns.
@markmallon3923 Жыл бұрын
I laughed out loud at your confusion about Aloy’s (Horizon) headpiece, because it was ceremonial and when the NPCs gave it to her, she was like, “Thank you for this… What do I do with it?” There are so many different armours in those games, ranging from light cloth to scary-helmed metal, that if you did a lightning-round style video spending no more than 10 seconds on each, I actually don’t know how long it would take, because I’m still discovering new armours and I’ve only played one of those games.
@may.d.a.y Жыл бұрын
I've been going through H0Z for the first time recently, managed to forget i had headpieces switched off. saw one again and went OH RIGHT
@sunyavadin Жыл бұрын
Oh dear gods the Carja armour. I run about in Nora or Banuk stuff mostly.
@bthsr7113 Жыл бұрын
@@sunyavadin And some of that Banuk stuff looks very warm and insulated.
@kleingrrmpf Жыл бұрын
@@sunyavadin Yeah, Carja Blazon is weird... And sure, it's not protecting against melee but fire, but still, this doesn't even protect about fire 😂 Nora Silent Runner is the best. With Stealth Mods
@satalia11 ай бұрын
I like that the Horizon armor is clearly designed to only protect against the humans they encounter and not the beasties. Because how would you protect against a giant robot Dino without a Mech Suit? I also like that much of it is just ceremonial or clothing for the various climates you encounter.
@woodyenfermo Жыл бұрын
Appart of the age considerations, NO ONE is allowed to wear metal over bare skin except Sigvald the Magnificent
@azkon7975 Жыл бұрын
"This chafs so GOOD!" -Sigvald, probably.
@ianmills9266 Жыл бұрын
Did you see one of the early artistic renderings of rohirim armour?
@spacecat8511 Жыл бұрын
@@ianmills9266 Tbf that artist was just *like that.* Equal Sun’s Out Butts Out opportunist. Try telling me the guy was heterosexual. I won’t believe you. 😂
@ianmills9266 Жыл бұрын
@@spacecat8511 considering it was an illustration of a woman in mens armour? I'm not telling you he was 100% heterosexual.
@spacecat8511 Жыл бұрын
@@ianmills9266 yUP. 🤣🤣
@joshuadixon4090 Жыл бұрын
4:45 that is Aloy's special armor that projects forcefields to protect her before attacks hit. She gets it more from "lost" technology than being made by the blacksmiths
@gurusson Жыл бұрын
So it's a helmet that works? Excellent
@ingaschwanke1316 Жыл бұрын
@@gurusson The "helmet" is only a ceremoniel headpiece.
@PerovNigma Жыл бұрын
4:32 This outfit first appears in _Horizon Zero Dawn_ as the "ShieldWeaver". It was made by Aloy repurposing military armour from the 21st Century, and casts a forcefield across her body that protects against both missile and blunt force impacts. Also, it leaves her armpits exposed, which I guess is good for breathing, and is worth the vulnerability is you've got a forcefield. There were blue lights across the ShieldWeaver which seemed to act like motion-capture balls, spreading the forcefield across her limbs and head. Some of these lights were on the ShieldWeaver's tiara. By the time of _Horizon Forbidden West,_ the forcefield has either broken or run out of power, though the armpits are still exposed. Also, it's now called the "Nora Annointed", referencing a title given to Aloy in _Zero Dawn._ Aloy starts _Forbidden West_ without the tiara, having lost or discarded it, but is soon gifted the white/gold tiara by a monarch whose city she saved in _Zero Dawn._ So, no, the tiara in the screenshots is purely ceremonial. It might help to distinguish her, like a medal, but given that people have apparently never seen another ginger person, she stands out enough. Also, I'm thrilled to see _Horizon_ getting coverage on this channel, and I'm glad that you were shown *multiple* outfits, not just one of the *few* that exposes Aloy's abdomen. I'd love to see your thoughts on other outfits from those games, whether or not they're Aloy's. *TL;DR The tiara is useless*
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
"TL;DR The tiara is useless" is my quote of the day.
@rodrigocampos1302 Жыл бұрын
I would love a deeper analysis of Orizon's armor, considering all the tribal traditions put in the gear
@zeroblade6599 Жыл бұрын
The exposed abdomen outfit wasn't really armor was it? It's a Carja outfit, from a tribe in a warm climate (hence the exposed skin bits) it mostly just protects against heat damage, not physical damage. The metal bits are more decorative
@PerovNigma Жыл бұрын
@@zeroblade6599 Except that Talanah and Vanasha's outfits also have exposed abdomens...
@SYKRAL1 Жыл бұрын
@@PerovNigma Talanah is a large machine hunter first and foremost. When a 300 ton murder machine is barreling down on you, so you want to be able to take a hit, or get out of the way? Her armor is all about mobility. It’s even reflected in her fighting style. When she shows up in forbidden west, we see her wait till the last moment to dodge out of the way and counter attack the legs of a machine that was charging her. Vanasha is more of a spy and nanny than a warrior anyways. More rouge than anything else.
@rayjay7800 Жыл бұрын
I’m an artist and a client asked me to draw one of their fictional characters during a particular scene when they were in full fantasy armor. I had your voice in my head the whole time and thinking of all the ways I could avoid the “just stab me now” category 😂 I find your reviews very helpful and informative when designing armor-clad characters. Thank you for the awesome content presented in an entertaining way
@ladosis5596 Жыл бұрын
Girl, your opinions aren't vaguely entertaining, they're extremely entertaining
@scifiswordsman Жыл бұрын
I would go with particularly entertaining.
@jasperdrawings Жыл бұрын
It’s more like they’re vaguely intriguing opinions presented in a very entertaining and surprising educational way
@krose6451 Жыл бұрын
Indeed
@vrewq Жыл бұрын
Looks ready for another community vote . . . Extremely . . . Vaguely . . . Particularly . . . Very . . . With added cheese
@Benevolent_Fafnir Жыл бұрын
Exactly! The whole reason I watch this series is because of how entertainingly bad half of her opinions are 😂
@nebopolis Жыл бұрын
The Dune comment was (perhaps unintentionally) insightful, because they are the "goodies" as much as anyone in the story is buut.. the whole subtext of the story is about colonialism and "stern uncompromising and ruthless" people trodding over everyone. So the protagonists are held out as the heroes but you are meant to get a kind of off vibe about them and not be 100% comfortable rooting for them. I think the armor is sending the exact messages it should be for the story!
@scattalyzer Жыл бұрын
There is also the factor that even ignoring the Dune books and prequels House Atreides was threatened from all sides. They were popular enough to be singled out as a threat by the Emperor, they had a millennia long feud with the Harkonnens - who by that point were richer than sin due to their spice stores and having the fiefdom of Arrakis and out of a mix of nobility and sometimes naïveté they had gotten involved in some conflicts they shouldn’t have. Due to that combination of factors they were as heavily militarized as the Harkonnens, though compensating their more modest resources with the quality of their training. To me, the costumes reflect their lesser wealth as well as being symbolic of their sternness and preference for naked truth and honor rather than political artifice. If you compare the random Atreides soldier to a random Harkonnen goon in the movie it’s also obvious that the latter wear costumes that are designed for intimidation more than utility. It’s not enough to have an impressive number of military forces, your population and your enemies have to fear the sight of that uniform. It’s another nuance of necessity vs oppression for the sake of advancing the ruling house’s goals. (I’ll get off my costuming soapbox now, thank you for joining my Ted talk)
@CantankerousDave Жыл бұрын
Herbert's real message is "Beware Messiahs".
@reganator5000 Жыл бұрын
@@CantankerousDave or more broadly 'heroic leaders', and also 'sometimes alien stuff really is that', given, despite all the cultural commentary early on, it's later very clear that no-one has any real idea about Arakis' ecology and that it does incredibly weird things to people who try to live alongside it (such as turning people into worms)
@ImRuined666 Жыл бұрын
I actually commented on this above, but I think it's more that the Atreides, despite being considered honourable, and noble amongst the Great Houses, also have a long martial history and the armour simply reflects advanced combat armour, designed purely to fulfil a purpose, as opposed to represent "good" or "bad"... Even the Sardaukar's armour was much the same in this regard... Only the Harkonnens were clearly menacing in their appearance...
@drewmacstudio Жыл бұрын
Dune doesn't really have "goodies and baddies. " The Fremen are as ruthless as any of the colonial powers oppressing them. They wage a holy war against the entire empire as soon as they get the chance, despite Paul's best efforts to avoid it. They end up fulfilling the same role for the Atreides as the Sardaukar did for the baddies of the first book. The Harkonnen and Corrino are backstabbing each other to take down house Atreides and the Atreides & Fremen burn the galaxy in response.
@salimufari Жыл бұрын
Aloy's necklaces would also rattle a LOT. Making hiding & sneaking form robot animals that wanna kill us nearly impossible.
@dustymooneye5858 Жыл бұрын
Hiding would already be hard enough with that flaming red hair (and funnily enough, tall, red grass is the only place you can hide in! :P)
@PrettyPinkPersephone Жыл бұрын
You’d think the hyper advanced self replicating robots would have infrared vision at this point
@the_fenix_3247 Жыл бұрын
@@PrettyPinkPersephone I would say that robots in charge of terraforming earth won't need infrared vision
@dirpyturtle69 Жыл бұрын
@@the_fenix_3247 Infrared being apart of bundled sensor package to help the robots navigate makes more sense then the creators intentionally giving it inferior vision. You should also consider that at a certain point with technological advancement it’s cheaper to include new tech then older tech, see for example a crt being more expensive to build then a flat screen because the parts are no longer in production
@theninjamaster67 Жыл бұрын
@@dirpyturtle69 Eh gotta give the robots some weaknesses or Aloy wouldn't stand a chance doesn't really make sense for the robots to have big exposed fuel canisters either but it would suck from a gameplay standpoint just slowly bringing down their health with arrows and stealth gameplay would be literally impossible if they didn't have a small cone of vision and had something like infrared.
@VampyricDoge14 Жыл бұрын
Oh, man, the take on Dune armor. The funniest part to me is that those characters are supposed to be the good guys, but they're also a house attempting to project strength in a situation where they know they've been set up to fall. So, you're pretty much spot on with everything.
@afriendofafriend5766 Жыл бұрын
They literally aren't the good guys. They're the less bad, but still really, really bad, bad guys.
@jarkkovahamaa7272 Жыл бұрын
"Supposed to be the good guys" in the sense that they think they are and they want to let everyone know they are good and decent.
@VampyricDoge14 Жыл бұрын
@@jarkkovahamaa7272 Let's be honest, aside from the Fremen, House Atreides is the most morally good faction. That puts them at a neutral alignment, and I'd argue LN because realistically most of the morally bankrupt shit they do is shit they have to do to survive. And it fails, because they aren't willing to stoop low enough to get an actual edge.
@matthewcallahan7209 Жыл бұрын
And also in the original books, they are also villains as are all charismatic leaders.
@tbotalpha8133 Жыл бұрын
One of the weirdest things about armour in Dune is how it... doesn't seem to matter? The story makes a big deal out of how personal shields work - they slow down anything moving too fast, essentially. Like you're walking around wearing an invisible cushion. It means that guns are useless, because the shield will just slow the bullets down until they're harmless. And it means that quick thrusts and hard swings with melee weapons are useless, because the shield will just slow those weapons down, too. So everyone has adopted "slow" fighting, where duelists have to make slow thrusts and cuts, to avoid triggering their opponent's shield and nullifying their own attack. It sounds really clever and logical, given how the tech has been described to work. But... if the fighters wore body armour as well as their shields, slow fighting would be completely useless. Armour needs high-force, high-impact blows to defeat. Which you would only get from a weapon travelling at high speed, concentrating its force into a single point, such as from a sword or spear-thrust, an arrow, bolt or bullet, or a warhammer or warpick. But if the shields can slow down such attacks until they're useless, then an armoured and shielded fighter should be invincible. They wouldn't even need modern body-armour. A full coat of chainmail would suffice. Hell, you could tape tupperware tubs to your body and become untouchable.
@willwiles2420 Жыл бұрын
You'll be pleased to hear that it's canonical (it's in the book) that the Dune stillsuits smell bad
@matthewturpin6429 Жыл бұрын
OK I feel weird asking, but am I the only one confused by what Jill meant by the shapes on the stillsuits? I paused the video and stared but couldn't actually figure out what piece she was talking about.
@tarmaque Жыл бұрын
@@matthewturpin6429 The unnecessary codpieces, including on the women.
@julianelehmann Жыл бұрын
@@tarmaque How sure are we that those are unnecessary? Whole purpose of a stillsuit is to collect all your liquid emissions...
@ThePCguy17 Жыл бұрын
@@julianelehmann Unless they're unisex, the ones on the women were still quite unnecessary.
@scattalyzer Жыл бұрын
The codpieces might actually be necessary. In an environment like Arrakis, every drop of moisture is necessary, and crotches do sweat quite a lot. I don’t remember pee recycling being a thing necessarily, more sweat and general body moisture - there is a mention of stillsuit water tasting like tears - but it’s not a stretch to imagine having some focused moisture reclamation in that area.
@ondank Жыл бұрын
Medieval plate armour plus concrete sounds like an aesthetic that could be made to work tbh.
@wastelandgames9409 Жыл бұрын
Would be heavy as fuck tho
@Montyandrew45 Жыл бұрын
I think Elden Ring made an armor like that. Complete with a concrete slab shield
@kristianjensen5877 Жыл бұрын
@@Montyandrew45 In Elden Ring there's a shield made from something akin to a headstone called the "Fingerprint Stone Shield" described as "Part of the tomb of an ancient god". The armor you are thinking of is probably the Havel armour set from Dark Souls described as "...Apparel worn by Havel the Rock's warriors. Carved from solid rock, its tremendous weight is matched only by the defense it provides".
@talinpeacy7222 Жыл бұрын
I think she was less referring to the material and more the "breeze" block style. Basically thick, heavy armor but with lots of ornate patterned holes in it.
@frogqueen Жыл бұрын
Aloy's Carja Armour, the 'Just Stab Me Now' costume with the exposed midriff, is designed to look flashy and not actually be all that functional as armour. It's worn by high ranking members of the Hunting Lodge, whom are more akin to celebrities.
@SYKRAL1 Жыл бұрын
Part of reason for that is what the hunter’s lodge hunts. Mostly large 300ton machines. No armor, short of the shield weaver armor that gives aloy a forcefield, is going to let you take a hit from one of those.
@maxgrieve Жыл бұрын
I guess it's also worth noting that before the Derangement, hunting machines wasn't anything like as dangerous and the Lodge was originally established more or less as a leisure activity, where the Carja nobles could have spear-measuring contests. The Blazon outfit probably carries some hangovers from those traditions - the combination of silks and Glinthawk-inspired stylings, and the required skills for a pre-Derangement era Hawk being more in tracking and bringing down; getting into adversarial combat with machines would've been much rarer. Being light and fast would've made sense, even before one considers the climate of the Jewel. Weird to remember that for scores of generations before the Derangement and Aloy's time, the only conflicts in Horizon's new world were between people. Which is reflected in the more rounded development of, for example, the Kestrel armour or that of the Oseram Vanguard. And the nobles of the Lodge for the large part went nowhere near any of that. (Sorry Jill for all of us arriving in your comments with these cliff dives into Horizon lore.)
@liesdamnlies3372 Жыл бұрын
Well that may be the lord justification. Be honest though, it’s Dan service. Dem abs.
@PenumbranWolf Жыл бұрын
Brotherhood of the Wolf is one of my favorite movies and I love it aesthetically. That high-collared coat is commonly called a "Highwayman's Coat". Consequently the movie is about an incident involving something called The Beast of Gevudon, now believed to be a hunt for one of the last European Dire Wolves.
@chrisrudolf9839 Жыл бұрын
"now believed" by delusional cryptozoology fans who desperately want the beast to be real and who also believe in the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster, you mean ;-). The so called dire wolfs went extint already at the end of the last ice age (i.e. during the stone age) and the likelyhood of a small population of those giant wolve-like animals surviving in France until the 18th century without any reliably documented sightings is basically zero. The most likely explanation for the historical hysteria around the Beast of Gevaudan is a problem pack of regular wolves that lost there natural inhibition to attack humans.
@Maria.Annette Жыл бұрын
To be fair to Edelgard, at one point she had a full helmet and no weird armor cutouts. Presumably somewhere in the five year time skip, she decided it wasn't worth it and she wanted to go for the full aesthetic. I believe the overly large skirt and cape are meant to make her seem larger and more intimidating, which is probably for plot related reasons. She's also the emperor of a nation at war, her hair is distinctive for the same plot reasons as the big skirt and cape, and there may or may not be body snatchers out there. And for anyone who doesn't care about story spoilers, the reason is human experimentation as a small child, which turned her hair white and shortened her lifespan. She watched as all her other siblings died via these experiments, and has a whole boatload of trauma about it. Her failing health is presumably the reason for all the layers, with the big skirts and capes helping to hide how gaunt she really is. Lysithea, another young woman in Three Houses, had similar experiments done to her. She has less trauma about it, but has the same white hair and shortened lifespan. But she's a mage so she doesn't really wear armor.
@lianamackenzie8881 Жыл бұрын
I adore and revere her majesty the Empress of Adrestia and also all of Fodlan, but the "seem larger and more intimidating" cracks me up because she's SO TINY
@Maria.Annette Жыл бұрын
Edie and Lyssie both are the definition of "the Goddess made me small because if I was big then I'd be so powerful the universe would bow before me". Which is hilarious, because Sothis is also a short stack.
@whatsinaname1709 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, with the Flame Emperor armour, the fact that she would've had to be on stilts would probably be enough to put it in 'Just Stab Me Now' tier
@lianamackenzie8881 Жыл бұрын
@@Maria.Annette Being a small queen is just Sothis's bias, a mark of the goddess's favor.
@ariwl1 Жыл бұрын
The juxtaposition of all that armor on Edelgard's tiny frame will always be amusing to me. Granted, crest bearers are practically superheroes in Fodlan, which is just as well considering that armor, shield, and ax put together probably weigh more than she does and yet she runs around in it like it's nothing.
@HeroicCid Жыл бұрын
As a Fire Emblem fan, it pains me to say that Edelgard is one of very FEW female characters that could even get to the ‘Eh’ category. Almost all of them, even the theoretically heavily armored ones, have the bare thighs aesthetic that will immediately drop them into ‘Just Stab Me Now’. Fun seeing her on this channel, though. :)
@jeremyfeldmann79699 ай бұрын
Going after a person leg tends to harder then you think
@leo_warren Жыл бұрын
As someone studying at the University of Warwick, right next to the Engineering building, I can only describe modern day meets brutalist architecture.
@bryangb Жыл бұрын
It must have changed a bit since my day - back then the dominant external theme was white tiling, we used to say it was like a public lavatory, turned inside out. 😄
@KillahMate Жыл бұрын
7:04 Oh, let's just say the movie is _well_ aware of the messages it's sending. Part of the reason the Dune books are so popular is that they really go _in depth_ on the idea of 'goodies' and 'baddies'.
@TroySpace Жыл бұрын
According to the film makers, they're a sci-fi take on mediaeval knights. The uniform design is inspired by the Romanovs, to convey a sense of impending doom. There are other stylistic references to Japan, the Mayans and the ancient Greeks.
@kim-hendrikmerk4163 Жыл бұрын
In dune there aren't really any real goodies there are the harkonnens (not sure about spelling)(bad) and people who want to live.
@Specter_1125 Жыл бұрын
The first image from Vikings also have a helmet based on a burgonet. A helmet that didn’t come into fashion until over 500 years later.
@thegreattotemaster Жыл бұрын
With the outfits from Vikings you actually kind of got lucky with those particular examples. For a lot of the series, the viking characters wear a lot of haphazardly cobbled together dark leather and tiny metal stud nonsense, to the point that the show is sometimes referred to as "Bikings". :P
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
BAHAHAHA I LOVE IT. I mean, my Viking-related knowledge is patchy at best (which is better than nonexistent but...you know. History. It's not really my area of expertise) but even I don't think Studded Leather is historical armour :D
@johannageisel5390 Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup Do you know the channel The Welsh Viking?
@somedude6161 Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup those guys protecting the 'rich dude' on horseback were Saxons, not Vikings.
@kenpachi4iv Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup IIRC Studded Leather was made up for D&D based off of pictures of brigandine
@jrj5893 Жыл бұрын
@@johannageisel5390 I was actually wondering about that - he's done some great videos talking about those costumes.
@AndrewD8Red Жыл бұрын
03:18 See, THAT'S how we can be sure you're a professional 'Tuber; you managed to pronounce Aloy correctly, even though you've never played the game.
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
A little bird told me. :P
@AndrewD8Red Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup Hmm... this 'little bird' sounds like a smug know-it-all git to me... 😁
@MyHeartsBeat Жыл бұрын
The Tribe was amazing. It was weird but in a good way and so many people still keep the dream alive. My guess is: Jill was in love with Jack... because... who wouldn't :D
@TheAnalyticalEngine Жыл бұрын
On the matter of the _Horizon Zero Dawn_ series - whilst there are various metalworking societies in that series (the Oseram particularly), much of their armour (and adornments) comes from downed robots Also, there are various helmets (the Carja wear helmets, for instance, as do various Banuk) - IIRC some of Aloy's armour options are supposed to be fancy or ceremonial in nature
@Ithirahad Жыл бұрын
@Alex Pageau Advanced alloys can be pretty hard to work by traditional means, though. Cf. that one guy trying to forge inconel and (I think it was niobium?) by hand :P
@SYKRAL1 Жыл бұрын
@Alex Pageau the only ones who really do metalworking are the oseram, and they also do mining for their own iron. It’s why none of their metal have the distinctive off-white color of the machines in this world. It’s all black or grey.
@mildlycornfield Жыл бұрын
'Uncompromising' is certainly what I think House Atreides (from Dune) is meant to be going for, but they are in fact the good guys - or at least they're the people our protagonist is from. They also have bagpipes!
@falconJB Жыл бұрын
They are the protagonists, which should not be confused with the 'good guys.'
@enisra_bowman Жыл бұрын
@@falconJB well, the bar with "beeing the Good ones" is quite low with the Baron as the Bad one
@falconJB Жыл бұрын
@@enisra_bowman Yes but is it so low that you can commit mass genocide and still be the 'the good ones?'
@andrewcarlisle10 Жыл бұрын
@@falconJB well in the context of the show, House Atredies makes a great effort to portray themselves as "the good guys", and it seems that some in the books believe that, they have a great deal of support in the Lansraad, and they inspire loyalty. So it makes sense that they consciously portray themselves as the good guy. But to your point, they definitely are not the good guys they just have good PR
@Jan-gh7qi Жыл бұрын
@@andrewcarlisle10I think, it also depends on what you define as "good guy". They are inperialists, feudalists, have Assassin's, rely on Propaganda, so they are not really classic good guys, but the Duke is objectively a really cool dude who cares for his people and tries to do the most ethic thing possible in either circumstance. (Which on the other hand doesn't change the fact, that in the books, he is in charge of this huge propaganda-machine, all based off the image of him beeing a good guy. Dune is Just complicated...
@TheRealMmelone Жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, the last one of the horizon armour sets generates some kind of protective barrier around the user, which is why it looks the way it does.
@rmsgrey Жыл бұрын
In the original game, it generated an energy shield automatically; somewhere between games it lost its battery, so the Forbidden West version is mostly symbolic - it's a unique outfit that only Aloy wears, so it's a way she can be recognised, even if its defensive potential is limited. There's also a limit to how much benefit you can get from wearing armor when you're routinely facing machines ranging from the size of motorbikes to large trucks and the best defensive option is evasion.
@Bhoddisatva Жыл бұрын
@@rmsgrey Traps. Explosive traps, acid traps, electrical traps....traps are the best option.
@GolemsandGoblins Жыл бұрын
I would absolutely love to have her do in entire video about the outfits in just Horizon Zero Dawn, or Forbidden West, because some of those outfits can get downright absurd!
@bthsr7113 Жыл бұрын
And others are quite practical. Oseram Vanguard in particular stands out to me.
@Xexelli Жыл бұрын
Your opinions are interesting and well explained, but the real reason we want these videos is how you express your opinions. You are powerful and funny. We will always be here for that.
@Xexelli Жыл бұрын
Were I a medieval lord, I would commission the breastiest and most boobily of breastplates. My enemies would be unable to watch my sword or eyes ensuring victory. Had I the grand luck to be a lady instead, my codpiece would be the stuff of legends.
@Londubh Жыл бұрын
5:10 It's called a Highwayman's Coat (named for those poor souls who spent a lot of time riding/driving along the high ways), and is historically accurate as "Not actually armor." The slit in the back is, as you surmised, designed to accommodate riding a horse. The collar is designed to hide your face _and_ protect your neck: hide it from and protect it against inclement weather. Buttoned up so, it protected your face and neck from the wind, and it being so high means that there was much less chance of precipitation finding its way between your hat and collar, where it would be cold and damp _under_ your coat. And, of course, criminals loved the fact that that offered them a legitimate reason to have an article of clothing that can be used to conceal their identity. If you've ever seen a long coat with what looks like a double mantle, but with button holes on the over-mantle? Yeah, that's a highwayman's coat with the collar down.
@hoabinh555 Жыл бұрын
This is so much fun, I had no idea I would find you opinions so entertaining either but here we are 😀
@robertkluck1510 Жыл бұрын
You nailed house Atreidies portrayal and characterization basically perfectly, not blatantly bad or good but definitely stern and imposing
@madeline6951 Жыл бұрын
Alloy's armor is actually designed to protect her from various types of damage. The one you put in "just stab me now" is a set that is supposed to provide minimal physical protection, but instead help with fire and heat dispersion. The "beehive armor" (🤣) is supposed to be a set of fastly fashioned together sci-fy bits of armor on top of her own materials that generate a shield to negate some damage entirely. These armors are also representative of different in-game cultures, which is also nice.
@notoriousgoblin83 Жыл бұрын
Doesn't not wearing chest coverage make it easier to get burned?
@madeline6951 Жыл бұрын
@@notoriousgoblin83 yep, didn't say I liked this particular design, lol. But at least, to my memory, it's the only instance of boobplate in the game, so that makes me a little happier.
@thomasfevre9515 Жыл бұрын
I love HZD but as far as recall, none of these armor looked particularly covering. Except maybe the osera one that went for a blacksmith vibe.
@madeline6951 Жыл бұрын
@@thomasfevre9515 They are generally more clothes with incidental armor, rather than full plate, but I don't remember any other revealing sets? I _definitely_ remember cringing a little at this one, but other than that idk.
@gwilym1991 Жыл бұрын
All the 'heat' resistant armours are from the Carja lands and it'd basically they all men and women wear clothes that leave a lot of skin exposed basically because it's hot.
@lord0jackostar Жыл бұрын
Strictly speaking, Aloy’s first outfit; the Stab Me one, is the outfit for the desert area/tribe and the goal is to be comfortable in rathe high temperatures. The outfits aren’t so much armour as more slightly protective but still environmentally suitable clothes with some fighting protection kinda as a bonus.
@pollin522 Жыл бұрын
But that wouldn't be very environmentally suitable for a desert though. There's a reason people who live in deserts tend to wear clothing that completely covers the skin. Sunburn is nasty and any exposed flesh is very vulnerable to it, especially in the desert where the sand and rocks reflect sunlight which tends to make it worse. It also helps keep sand and dust off your skin in the event that it's windy or there's a sudden sandstorm. Deserts also tend to get very cold at night, so her outfit there is even less practical. So not only is the outfit completely inefffective as armor, she'd get severe sunburn quite easily.
@theninjamaster67 Жыл бұрын
@@pollin522 Great points and a good example of something more appropriate would be the sand benders in Avatar the Last Airbender light and breathable but covers everything including their faces still not really armor but it's not meant to be cause the sand benders are shown as tradesmen types or thieves in the case of the main ones focused on in the show but it would do a damn good job of protecting from the sun and sand they could probably do with a nice jacket or something at night though.
@jensennairn3786 Жыл бұрын
Also, that is supposed to be the armour of nobility as opposed to more useful armour like the shadow carja soldiers wear
@bthsr7113 Жыл бұрын
Carja territory is part jungle (especially around the capital), but yes, that would be bad attire for deserts.
@x--. Жыл бұрын
While I'd be too scared to wear anything that said, "Just stab me now," given how many folks might be tempted already, that "Not actually armor" hoodie rocks. Keep it up.
@jackojudge4351 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the Judoon (Space Rhinos) are wearing boots from New Rock. A brand I really appreciate. And it's kinda funny that New Rock apparently ships to Judoonia.
@TimoRutanen Жыл бұрын
Maybe New Rock secretly ships FROM Judoonia..
@minecraftingmom Жыл бұрын
We can see the shape of rings under the leather on the blonde Viking lady's chain, so it's looking like leather applied to the outside for pretty. (Or, more practically, to accent the figure of the actress)
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
Oh good! I could not see that at all.
@miramari732 Жыл бұрын
It looks like that and it even can be sort of explained as provisional "mending" when you miss one or two rings and don't have tools to repair that. I'm more concerned that she wasn't wearing any sort of gambeson under chainmail. Let's say that chainmail needs a lot of padding if one want to avoid extracting rings one by one from skin after being hit. Now I have flashbacks, ugh
@Valandar2 Жыл бұрын
Brotherhood of the Wolf was a well made period piece based on the story of Gevaudan. It's a very fun watch, with some bits a little unexpected. Definitely more fiction than historical, but enjoyable.
@KindredBrujah Жыл бұрын
I'm not so sure it can count as a period piece, given the content, but I do know what you mean. Good film though, well worth a watch.
@Valandar2 Жыл бұрын
@@KindredBrujah It's a Period Piece in the sense that it is supposed to be happening in a certain time period, around a certain event.
@KindredBrujah Жыл бұрын
@@Valandar2 Yeah, can't say with confidence what the requirements of a period piece are. This sort of seems like it qualifies and sort of doesn't.
@Biodebatable Жыл бұрын
Ngl, my brain was just screaming "bloodborne" every time footage of that film was shown
@snefansson Жыл бұрын
@@Biodebatable As far as I'm aware, that film IS inspiration for Bloodborne!
@BexTrokerKey Жыл бұрын
Yes!! The Tribe!! I thought I'd imagined it. So wish I'd had the confidence to have that hair 🤣
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
The hair was...really something.
@hansakkerman2611 Жыл бұрын
Sandwiched in-between "The Lost World" and "Farscape", another show with crazy hair. ( Edit. On the Dutch network it aired)
@cass7448 Жыл бұрын
90s children's drama shows were... very 90s.
@hansakkerman2611 Жыл бұрын
@@cass7448 well that's the thing. They showed the uncut version of Farscape, including all the horrific deaths and other parts removed from the BBC-cut. Off the top of my head: Villain getting cut in half diagonally, body parts left twitching. Eyes getting pulled out of their sockets, hands desolved by acid, someone's face getting burned off by fire, someone's face going through explosive decompression. Fingers, whole limbs and torsos getting sliced or bitten off. Copious amounts of bodily fluids of all description. I'm guessing someone at the network saw the puppets and thought "show for children" without verification. That aside, Farscape is one of the best sci-fi shows ever made. It's a bit out there and a slow burn, but it's a character driven show. Once Scorpius enters the picture, things get really good.
@hamasathecold7842 Жыл бұрын
4:55 As for Alloy’s armour, the metallic one, if I recall correctly that is the shield armour, which projects a protective shield. And her people, the Nora, can not shape metal, they scavenge metal off of the machines they kill and use their parts cobbled together for armour. Including, in this case, Shield generators.
@bthsr7113 Жыл бұрын
The Nora probably have some level of metal shaping, but not much. They're the smallest and least industrious, to the point of being stagnant (which is why they're lucky that their territory is the safest in terms of what machines live there.). They have a very strong weaving tradition though. As any bridge in their territory will tell you.
@james-cz4xx Жыл бұрын
You are an absolute delight. Keep up the good work.
@princecharon Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm not going to pretend that Maple's character design wasn't deliberately leaning hard into the 'sexy schoolgirl' aesthetic. It's a trend that's not going away, almost 'scène à faire' for anime and manga that feature teens. It's a big part of why a lot of people aren't inclined to watch some of their anime in public, even if it's one where the only sexualization is in the character designs.
@sailiealquadacil1284 Жыл бұрын
7:11 The entire aesthetic of this movie was very brutalist. Also also, I think people may have wanted you to review the Sardaukar armour. These guys you did were House Atreides. And yes, they're the good guys.
@fredbyoutubing Жыл бұрын
The are the good guy equivalent of America occupying a country. Definitely some grey areas in this story but we know what ends up happening.
@BiTurbo228 Жыл бұрын
@@fredbyoutubing Considering Herbert's war experience, it's almost definitely a reflection of the British in colonial places...
@HandleMyBallsYouTube Жыл бұрын
'Good guys' in this case is a very loose term. The Atreides were certainly better than a lot of the other houses, especially when compared to House Harkonnen, but they're still very much in it for the same reason any noble house would be in it.
@sunyavadin Жыл бұрын
@@HandleMyBallsKZbin I mean, they're in it specifically for the one thing the other houses *haven't* figured out, the Duke and his closest advisors' plan to recruit the Fremen as soldiers because Arrakis is the one planet that it's harder to survive on than Salusa Secundus, which the Sardaukar come from, thereby theoretically granting the Atreides the means of overthrowing house Corrino.
@lyooyiylklykyokyklky Жыл бұрын
A "not actually armour" hoodie lined with maille would be perfect!
@simongeard4824 Жыл бұрын
Surprise twist, it *is* actually armour?
@MatthewFabb Жыл бұрын
Great take on picking up the conflicting messaging of the armor in Dune. As those characters are initially to the audience supposed to be the good guys until context changes to show that they are also pretty bad.
@tenjenk Жыл бұрын
yeah, they're essentially just not as "inhumanly god fkn awful" as the other factions and given what historically happens later that can be contested from the perspective of the literal billions of innocent lives who got caught up in that families work for the "Greater good of humanity"
@gwilym1991 Жыл бұрын
In answer to the Horizon queries, the little head piece is a gift from a King as a symbol of authority basically. Regarding shaping metal yes and no. The Oseram are blacksmiths and their armour is made of regular metal, most other armour is salvaged machine parts and that armour they can't really shape. The armour you liked in zero dawn actually had a shield generator in it, by Forbidden West its run out of power.
@researchinbreeder Жыл бұрын
A fun note about Edelgard that you wouldn't really get from her official artwork in isolation is that she's one of the shortest members of the cast. Idr the exact numbers, but she only grows about an inch between her days in the Officer's Academy (read: highschool) and when you see her as Emperor in that armor. That axe looks insanely large and impractical, but most of that is because she's just that tiny; several other characters could probably wield that without looking (too) out of place.
@readyforlol Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah. It looks almost like a one-handed axe in Raphael's hands.
@jwenting Жыл бұрын
The armour pieces in Horizon Zero Dawn (and Forbidden West) are whatever they can find, stuck together with pieces of leather or fabric. A lot of the headgear (and some other pieces) is probably more ritualistic than meant as armour. My guess is the main character's gear options are also mostly created on those lines. Most of her options are clearly more geared towards protection against the elements (while still being sexy and highly mobile) than as protection against impact from anything (not surprising, given the kind of hazards she has to face, stealth and cunning are better protection against those than any armour an effectively stone age society with some access to pieces of metal and other ballistic plate material can put together). Dune universe, the armour's a mix of ballistic protection against guns and protection against knives.
@thomasbaker6563 Жыл бұрын
They have personal force fields in dune that creat a tremendous explosion if hit with Lazer weapons (think nuclear) and stop fast kinetics so lots of the flight should be hand to hand with swords.
@guymanhumanperson Жыл бұрын
and don't forget, from a game dev and character design perspective it's easier to have no headwear unless it is signature headwear of the person in question, especially when a character like aloy, has distinctive hair
@bdslade Жыл бұрын
Thanks for covering Aloy and a small variety of her outfits! She has so many that it would be a shame to just hit on one! Would love to see you cover them all one day. Others have covered the lore pretty well, but my headcannon is that Aloy is a fashionista as much as anything else, which is why she loves the tiaras and almost-fascinator-level helmets she sometimes wears. A lot of people in the world aren't super armored in the games, the outfits are more representative of cultures and dealing with the conditions in various parts of the world!
@insanelyinshape Жыл бұрын
So just to clarify on the Dune look, I'm going to do my best to give a little context. So, that armor is actually for the good guys. However the good guys and the bad guys in the Dune universe are really only differentiated by the restrictions that the good guys place upon themselves to be better than the bad guys. And plenty of people would argue that the theme of the entire series is the fact that you can't trust those in-power to begin with. So I would say you hit the nail on the head with regard to the look of the armor being stern and uncompromising. That is somewhat the MO for those characters, even though they are the good guys.
@ChocoKid26 Жыл бұрын
I did not expect to hear about the Tribe on your channel but I'm here for it!! For me the crush was always between Lex, Slade and Jack. :D
@sammiller6631 Жыл бұрын
Lex and Jack are bit of opposites. I'm not familiar with Slade.
@ChocoKid26 Жыл бұрын
@@sammiller6631 I got a broad taste. Think Slade was in last season. Also don't actually remember much about him other than his name and thinking he was cool, but when you're 10 that's enough for a crush😁
@hehe3301 Жыл бұрын
Your "stage" presence makes this more amusing, looking forward for seeing what is 'eh?'
@Trans_witch Жыл бұрын
She definitely uses her headpiece to Commune with the bees
@ranger24ff Жыл бұрын
Was honestly about to suggest Edelgard when she showed up. Honestly there are a lot of characters who go with the sort of armored ball gown look like Saber from Fate/Stay Night who I think popularized the style though I feel Edelgard has one of the cooler takes on it and she’s my favorite lord option for the whole fire emblem franchise
@Revyatheworldeater Жыл бұрын
I enjoy your videos. Random weird fact of the day; the "sexy school girl thing" you referred to for Maple has a name: Zettai Ryouiki or 絶対領域 (literal translation "Absolute Territory"). It's a design/style that is common in Japanese anime.
@alexanderougai4899 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it started out as a fanservice thingy, but it became so widespread that designers put the Zettai Ryouiki automatically without thinking, apparently. Nowadays you seldom ever see anime female designs without it
@zachwillett5853 Жыл бұрын
8:06 OK, I'm laughing. I know *exactly* what those are supposed to be. Someone learned armor craft from Dungeons and Dragons. That's Studded Leather armor.
@madeleinebeaton9967 Жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh the Tribe! Everytime I see these futuristic fashions mixed with Y2K gear my brain yells "oh no, this does not end well..." I always crushed on Jack, but I think you're more of a Bray kind of girl.
@merkur28 Жыл бұрын
OMG Bray was soooo hot!!! 🔥
@nicolakunz231 Жыл бұрын
Armor reviews are awesome. Your delivery is entertaining and informative. Uoure honest but still respectful of the context of the pieces you review. Always a good watch!
@laurenthomas7074 Жыл бұрын
I love your opinion on these because you are the perfect balance between informed criticism and letting people have their fun! Really these are such fun videos
@Taurmin Жыл бұрын
I resent that comparison of the glorious Sontaran race to potatoes! They are clearly humanoid thumbs.
@marc8788 Жыл бұрын
This is some great insight on character design. I absolutely despise designing armor since I feel like I never can figure out where to start but this has been a great place to start.
@khathaway414 Жыл бұрын
Yeah more Jill!!! I will always take all the Jill I can get.
@Neutral_Tired Жыл бұрын
04:38 worth noting, this armour also projects a full-body forcefield, at least in the first game, in the second game it's run out of power but she's still wearing it when the game starts. Also, the 'thing' on her head is a ceremonial thing given as a gift, it's meant to look nice not protect her.
@rksnj6797 Жыл бұрын
I love the Eh classification. Many things in this world generate an eh reaction, so it's a needed tier!
@ArmouryTerrain Жыл бұрын
I loved "The Tribe" it was a pretty good show that explored more than surface issues. Random crazy fact, the actor who played Lex, turned up in a wildlife docco. He now lives in Northern Alaska and works to preserve the Husky sled dog breed. With the Vikings series, it might have meant to be a coat of plates, which predated the brigadine.
@kumoyuki Жыл бұрын
yes. It actually looked like plates were sewn into it, to me
@gustavchambert7072 Жыл бұрын
Actually, helmets would have been by far the most common form of metal armour in the viking age. Mostly because the old noggin is pretty damn sensitive and very exposed. It's also not a very big body part, so it doesn't take a huge amount of metal to cover.
@revanruler6404 Жыл бұрын
Also the helmets she liked were completely wrong historically speaking, i mean they look like renaissance helmets.
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Vikings! You're playing a Saxon! Have a burgonet and some studded leather! :D
@gustavchambert7072 Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup indeed. I don't understand where Hollywood finds these people.
@revanruler6404 Жыл бұрын
@@gustavchambert7072 my guess is they hire historical experts then immediately ignore them and ask oppo the lovable moron from down the street
@nox5555 Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup well you need to come up with some visual differences or people cant follow the action.
@sofiadahlen1187 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for referencing The Tribe!! I remember seeing just a couple of episodes on Swedish television as a child and have not been able to find what it was named after. No one I know has seen it so I was almost starting to think it was all just a fever dream!
@Anti_Woke Жыл бұрын
Allow me to baffle you further - you're one of the most deliberately amusing KZbinrs to whom I subscribe, while also being admirably informative. Thank you. Can't help you with your fictional childhood crushes though, never heard of 'the tribe' until now.
@JeiFaeKlubs Жыл бұрын
Thank you for reminding me of The Tribe, I loved that show to bits as a kid but had forgotten all about it
@NocturnAlice66 Жыл бұрын
OMG I thought “The Tribe” was a fever dream I had when I visited the UK in middle school!! I could never find anything about it afterwards. Thank you for validating that I wasn’t hallucinating 😂❤
@austinaxley81 Жыл бұрын
So, to my knowledge, in Aloy's world there ARE tribes that can shape metal but the endgame armors that you're seeing are made from scavenged machine parts which contain futuristic alloys that they'd have no way of recreating so they instead incorporate them into a sort of splint maille type armor.
@pal1d1nl1ght Жыл бұрын
Don't worry. Maple is so absurdly busted and overpowered that enemies die from hitting her weak points. It is actually a better idea to hit her armour. In the show (I'm not sure which episode) a big burly man sneaks up on her and swings a morning star straight down on her exposed head and he was instantly vaporized. She didn't even feel it.
@Avigorus Жыл бұрын
Fun trivia: in the The Tribe, the character Zandra was played by the same actress who played young Hope in the Xena/Hercules shows (Hope was the evil goddess Gabrielle gave birth to that was killed by her spawn the Destroyer via arranged "accident").
@caroldewey5043 Жыл бұрын
It was fun to discover that you know a fair amount about Doctor Who! I enjoy your videos very much!
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
Don't ask me about anything that happens after David Tennant left, for I have no idea.
@waynesworldofsci-tech Жыл бұрын
I rewarded myself with a nice cup of Jill. I now have a smile on my face a metre wide, and my dog is looking at me like I’m some kind of lunatic. Me falling out of the chair laughing had him worried! Thank you Jill! Thank you very much!
@caerrie Жыл бұрын
Immensely thrown by the mention of Warwick university..... but reduced to giggles immediately afterwards, that *is* a pretty apt description!
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
I hear they've built some nicer looking buildings there now, but I saw the Dune guys and had insta-flashbacks to the Engineering department. Which probably hasn't changed.
@epicmarschmallow5049 Жыл бұрын
@@JillBearup Can confirm the Engineering department has not changed! There are some newer buildings but that's not one of them
@DSlyde Жыл бұрын
I think this might the first reference to The Tribe I've seen since it aired. Talk about a deep cut.
@samuelbynum5066 Жыл бұрын
I'm not 100% sure, but those helmets in the Vikings picture look like they're about 5 centuries off, which makes the whole look even more baffling.
@everwhatever Жыл бұрын
I just found your channel and I'm loving these videos. I appreciate your more flexible approach to the medium. Your consideration for the diegetic vs non-diegetic elements, the ease of putting it on and comfort of the actor, budgeting, outfitting multiple people and so much more that is often ignored on the more historic-fashiony side of youtube. I understand that an inaccurate portrayal of something you specialize in can be frustrating, but sometimes it can be acknowledged that even a getup that would be nonsensical in real life actually looks pretty cool in a movie, and that's most of its job.
@danielbickford3458 Жыл бұрын
The studded armor from the Viking show might have been someone taking a page out of DnD's studded leather armor.
@BOABModels Жыл бұрын
Warwick, yeah sort of concrete but it's no University of East Anglia. Even the student paper is called Concrete
@davidogundipe808 Жыл бұрын
You're videos are highly informative and entertaining, and can you also analyze the armours and sword fighting in the kingdom of heaven, please.
@pridler85 Жыл бұрын
just love the whipsword in Brotherhood of the Wolf
@scottmantooth8785 Жыл бұрын
*7:48**...either you were rich, a professional viking combat/berserker enthusiast or just really lucky at looting corpses*
@AngelGirlViolet Жыл бұрын
Wow, blast from the past with the tribe! Thank you for reminding me of the name I couldn't remember for years
@jaketheberge1970 Жыл бұрын
There are no straight up good guys in Dune but the guys you reviewed are as close as we get. Their family will eventually lead to A LOT of innocent people dying.
@michaelearl6765 Жыл бұрын
And the tech in this world includes personal force field generators which are effective against most projectile and long weapons, which is why elite infantry is wearing plate and carrying short swords.
@jaketheberge1970 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelearl6765 Yep. If you shoot one with a laser you get a very large explosion. So there are downsides.
@LoekZuijderwijk Жыл бұрын
And the whole series tends to look back at middle eastern and other historical stuff. So this might just be a call back to them being knight-like.
@caelestigladii Жыл бұрын
@@jaketheberge1970 “very large explosion” is a very large understatement. 😊
@frantisekvrana3902 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelearl6765 However, the Sandworms on the titular planet are attracted by vibrations. Holzmann shields happen to generate ultrasonic vibrations and attract worms from vast distances. This makes them unusable on most of Dune.
@avocadowitchknits6629 Жыл бұрын
Ohmygoodness I thought The Tribe was a fever dream! I remembered it super vaguely, but not enough to actually look into it! Thank you!
@marvinp90 Жыл бұрын
Edelgard!!!!! I have been hoping to see you review her armor!!! This armor was adopted after she was going for more inspire the troops than be on the frontlines. Also most FireEmblem main characters don’t have helmets. In Fire Emblem helmets are for nooks and redshirts. She does have another armor set called The Flame Emperor which did have a full helmet (To hide her identity) that seemed to me more practical. Fire Emblem is very erratic on the realism of its armor. If you want one of the best examples of stab me know look up Camilla from Fire Emblem Fates. (If you look up her intro video it gives you a good look at it and all it’s ridiculous glory, I have two words for you Battle Panties😂)
@Tylendal242 Жыл бұрын
There were a ludicrous amount of Battle Panties in that game. The Great Knight armour for women was ridiculous.
@dinofelis9343 Жыл бұрын
The Emperor armour is essentially just a heroic looking version of the Flame Emperor armour (with added boob padding, cause her actual breasts are not actually that large).
@ooriiaxx Жыл бұрын
it was never super realistic but fates was insane 💀 like effie?? the only exposed skin on her body is her face and the top few inches of her inner thighs lmao
@readyforlol Жыл бұрын
@@Tylendal242 My ex and I used to joke about horse riding women being forbidden to wear pants in that game. Also applies to wyvern riders and pegasus riders.
@lavrentivs9891 Жыл бұрын
Can add that the helmets in the "Vikings" images are from around the time of Elizabeth I, worn by pikemen.
@toreyzyre Жыл бұрын
Ah, my nostalgia! The Tribe! Given I like to imagine young Jill had standards, class, and taste, similar to current Jill I'm going to guess the clever and frequent group saving Jack was your would be wishful beau.
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
See, you get it 😁
@garryburton36 Жыл бұрын
I will just say, for anyone who hasn't seen Brotherhood of the Wolf, it is absolutely worth a watch. It's one of those rare films that qualifies as cinematic art.
@QALibrary Жыл бұрын
I hope you feeling much better now Jill
@ZoharielUK Жыл бұрын
Here for the Tribe shout-out! Was a huge part of my late 1990s, including lurking on the forums for hours on end. I'm guessing the crush is either Bray or Lex....gonna say Lex. Tai San was an early crush for myself
@JillBearup Жыл бұрын
Nope 🙂
@christopherwoods5150 Жыл бұрын
Love these. As a fan of various sorts of anime, Bofuri is maybe the most wholesome isekai there is. Taken less from the animators needing lolis, and more from best friends wanting to wear common gaming tropes, the show is very open about empowered girls, and creepers in MMO's. The other shield person on her team is a former reformed creeper (and a massive chatroom gossip), so they lay it out for him to be embarrassed about any implications. In terms of the armor color scale, it's her stats and skills that give her the main advantages, so, Not Actually Armor, imo. No practical person would use a shield that weighs as mush as he/she does, regardless of questionable bare thighs.
@MorsecodeZ Жыл бұрын
The armor in Dune is being worn by "the good guys" but part of the story is that it's not always easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys ... not sure if that was intentional though. Lots of the designs come from the descriptions in the books though.
@MotiviqueStudio Жыл бұрын
Would be cool to just do an entire episode on Aloy. Edit: Man I need to see Brotherhood of the Wolf again. Edit: The Atreides armor may have looked "ruthless", but you should have seen the Saudarkar. And the blood sacrifice. Though I can't recommend the movie.
@MaraWren27 Жыл бұрын
Omg ty so much. I had no idea what the name of this was. Only caught a couple episodes. The tribe.
@DrBrangar Жыл бұрын
For the world of Horizon: - Yes the society can shape metal, the Osseram tribe are even specifically renowned for their craft. - No that headdress doesn't have any plot point purposes, the thing that gives her some extra powers beyond normal is the little triangular chip she wears on her right temple, that was visible in the first image you showed. She has that (calls it a "focus") on regardless of the outfit.
@jwenting Жыл бұрын
yeah, as far as I'm aware the headgear is more of a clan/tribe identification thing than anything else. Same way that most all clothing is clan specific.
@jonathanwessner3456 Жыл бұрын
Ah, but the Nora are not Osseram. The Osseram and Carja shape metal, but the nora do not
@rmsgrey Жыл бұрын
More accurate to say that some societies in the setting can shape metal. The Nora, Aloy's tribe, don't have that technology, so any metal in their armour is either traded for, or repurposed machine parts. As for the headdress, my spot research says that it's a symbol of her achievements in the first game, presented to her as a reward. So it's pretty much entirely plot-based rather than being primarily practical.
@DrBrangar Жыл бұрын
@@jonathanwessner3456 The Nora also have smiths, they have plenty of made objects. They are very firmly isolationist, and only recently (like, Aloy's lifetime) began to do any level of outside trade. As for the repurposing of machine parts: 1) every tribe does this, 2) forging is a bunch of very complicated metalurgy that the machines already know perfectly, so why risk ruining something just to have it in a slightly better shape, instead of designing around the current shape. 3) The nora philosophy is minimal effects on nature.
@jonathanwessner3456 Жыл бұрын
@@DrBrangar i don't recall the Nora having any smiths. They have craftspeople, but, they are not big on smithing. With the Red Raids, wouldn't YOU want to be isolationist?
@Scuzzlebutt142 Жыл бұрын
Yep, remember the Tribe, never really watched it though. It was filmed in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, where I live, and remember seeing it on Tv several times and knowing exactly where they were filming. My dad taught at the school (when it was still a school) they used for one of the Primary filming locations.
@pentagonofpeople Жыл бұрын
Bonus little thing about Maple's "minmax" stats and her being in a videogame: At one point relatively early on, somebody sneaks up on her and hits her in the back of the head with a morningstar. However, since this is a videogame, it just checked that her defense stat is gazillion and so she hardly even felt it, even though she had zero protection there
@michaelcartmell7428 Жыл бұрын
Regarding Dune armor aesthetic: While the people wearing this set are definitely not the baddies, whether they are actually good is left ambiguous. They are definitely better than bad, but they are also an imperial occupation force. Pragmatism vs morality is one of the themes: Do what you must, or do what you should? Also, lore information: Projectile weapons have been relegated to specialty use in this universe, thanks to personal energy shields that block fast objects. But, to let the wearers breathe and move, the shields remain vulnerable to bladed weaponry, provided it is moving slow enough. So, this armor is the second line of defense, and doesn't need to be as fast to move.
@CantankerousDave Жыл бұрын
Now I'm hearing the commercial in Renn and Stimpy - "It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good!"
@falconJB Жыл бұрын
@@CantankerousDave Paul's new theme song: "It's Jihad, it's Jihad, it's better than bad, it's ..... 61 billion people murdered."