The problem with 'Historical Accuracy'

[@robertstull8759]

"People have always been people" is one of the most important lessons that any student of history should always keep in mind

[@Sylvie_without_surname]

That, and the all important lesson that nothing ever ends

[@isaiahwilson4943]

​@@Sylvie_without_surname I was about to disagree but that profile pic goes hard. You win this one.

[@LuxNovuz]

My favorite examples of this is when they excavated an old Viking hall or tavern, there was a carving on the top rafters that said something along the lines of "*name* was here". Or the graffiti in old roman towns, "*names* dick is small*. Rough translations mind you but, the meaning is there and that gives me a feeling like nothing else does.

[@jbear9]

​@LuxNovuz there are literal cave paintings thousands of years old that look pretty much identical to the walls inside of every bathroom stall. People have always been people and they always will.

[@egan452]

Of anthropology too

[@VeryShrimple]

"History doesn't care" bluminck 2024

[@Ironclad.Airsoft]

Put that on a shirt 🤙🏼

[@rachellereeve494]

History: I'm not bovvered

[@tible_toble_table_top]

I never noticed his name before. Its a play on bloomin heck 😭

[@1person69races8]

Why did i read bluminck as blue twink 😭

[@scamster71]

So history is like a honey badger?

[@Legithiro]

One of the universal laws of humanity: “Hey y’all, watch this”

[@tjenadonn6158]

"Hold my wine."

[@weldonwin]

"Hold my Garum and behold this!"

[@rpk321]

Witness me!

[@syrelian]

The first guy to do a sick flip like "Hey wanna see me do something cool?" and then lands on his ass

[@Sir_Hammock]

i like Agrum ☺️

[@happyvirus6590]

"The enemy Stand user could be anyone." This guy:

[@Cinaedfireborn]

This, the number of times I’ve run across modern individuals who insist that our ancestors were dumb or “wouldn’t do that” is mind-boggling! Because “people have always been people” 😆

[@prman9984]

The fallacy of evolution.

[@modernerdadaismus8430]

We are still idiots. Nothing changed.

[@vanillabatcave5677]

Yeah, people seem to think we had some sort of enlightenment a few decades ago and everyone before that was a robot with no imagination save a few notable figures.

[@grimsgraveyard3598]

They were dumb though in comparison that's indisputable.

[@grimsgraveyard3598]

​@@vanillabatcave5677in fairness by comparison the dumbest of us now would be considered above average by the simple fact they could read and write and do basic mathematics.

[@Nargon46]

I watched a video where a guy explained that the reason heroes and villains introduce themselves in great detail in Japanese media such as Super Sentai (Power Rangers), is because in the olden days, Samurai would challenge eachother to duel in the middle of mighty battles. If you were a samurai, you would earn a bonus if you killed an enemy samurai, based on their fame and credentials. So, when they challenged eachother, it was customary to give a lengthy summary of their exploits to eachother so the victor could turn in the losers head and identify them for the appropriate bonus.

[@sarahcashburger1560]

The same was true in much of ancient Greece. The more famous and recognizable men you killed in battle, the more famous and recognizable you became.

[@2-bit567]

Makes sense

[@michaeltulus4582]

​@@2-bit567it's for the Samurai's CV as well

[@Iceycube1404]

Watched that short, too. It's by Kyota Ko

[@SeleenShadowpaw]

@@sarahcashburger1560 Oh yeah, greek warrior philosophy is always overlooked when it comes to these strange rituals. But arrete, the philosophical lifestyle of the professional fighter, actually requires battle around two combatants to hold and witness their pitting of skills in incredibly ritualistic single combat, because for something to be better it actually has to be judged and witnessed as better. Not to mention everyone gets to loot the loser at the end, and that is how a lot of footmen made their living.

[@nbarnes6225]

I'm an academic folklorist and I tell people this same message all the time. Thank you for showing the historical artifacts to back you up! Awesome job!

[@orbatos]

This "humanity", in a word, is probably what has always kept me interested in ancient records and mythological fantasy (assuming there is a difference). There is so much cultural baggage around the idea that the ancients were somehow less logical, less curious, less playful and less intelligent than us that it biases our ability as a society to interpret even current events. Not to mention how historical and current politics/racism/propaganda affect things.

[@ShiroiTenken]

​@@orbatosI think it's what you said but also more. People can't fathom that folks living thousands of years ago were the same ol' humans as them, but at the same time they can't fathom that a society could have different values and historical context for their world view - similarly to (since you've mentioned racism) how most Americans can't comprehend that in many places (e.g. Europe) race is not important, especially when it comes to black people. Like, no-one cares here. People are not particularly racist here, it's more of a xenophobia.

[@2-bit567]

Do ya know about like, fae folklore?

[@MikePhantom]

YES name random number. YOU SURE ARE

[@nbarnes6225]

@2-bit567 I don't study that in particular. My area of focus is personal experience narratives and legends. Folklorists learn about theory and methodologies and then focus those things on what they're interested in. So I could probably analyze a folktale...but I don't know them offhand.

[@someoneawesome8717]

Something I find amazing about "messing around and showing off wasn't an invention of social media" is how we've found super ancient graffiti near the roof of a cave that translated to "this is very high" and that just makes me smile

[@Critter68]

Don't know about caves, but I'm pretty sure that was carved on a burial mound on the Orkney isles. Also, there's Roman graffiti on Egyptian tombs complaining about not being able to read the hieroglyphics and ancient Greek graffiti commemorating an intimate encounter between a man named Nikasitimos and a man named Timiona. There's tons of ancient graffiti and most of it is hilarious.

[@someoneawesome8717]

@@Critter68 wasn't there a stone recently found with some variation of "this is the farthest I have ever traveled" written on it?

[@Critter68]

@someoneawesome8717 I don't know for certain, but it wouldn't surprise me. Hell, you can do the "I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice" meme with Futhark Runes carved in the upper parapet of the Hagia Sophia. Both were translated to be "(Name) carved these Runes." Those names are Halfdan and Árni.

[@cyber_rachel7427]

My favourite one is Bath in the UK. Romans used to carve curses into stones and throw them in one of the fountains. One of them reads 'may the man, woman, or child who stole my cloak become impotent and then die' A close second is grafitti outside an inn in Pompei which reads 'oh weep you women! For my pen1s has given you up! It only penetrates the rears of men now!'

[@georgehh2574]

​@@cyber_rachel7427 Both of those are so good!! 😂

[@Anonymous-73]

What’s important to understand about historical accuracy is the one question humans _always_ ask after learning about something cool. “Wait can I do this?”

[@bluecav]

Good to know that “hey y’all watch this” has been a constant through history

[@FeatheredWingz]

Exactly! Looking at databased examples of translated graffiti found in Pompeii & Herculaneum was more than enough to convince me that people have always been people lol. There are a lot of ancient Roman scribbles on city walls like (paraphrasing): "I was here on this date" "My love, I'm sorry, come back to me!" "Today, I made bread" "I could whip Venus (goddess of love), she pierced my heart, and I'd like to clobber her with a cudgel in return" "Don't drink at this bar, the owner waters down the wine and saves the best for himself" This exchange is priceless: "Iris, I know you don't love [other dude's name], but please have pity on him - signed, his rival" Named dude actually responds: "Envious One, why are you getting in the way? Submit to the handsomer man that is being wronged." Rival writes: "I said what I said. Nothing more to say. Iris doesn't love you." ...and then there's tons of raunchier examples, all over the pace in those ancient towns. I highly recommend looking up the graffiti for a laugh.

[@Moonstone-Redux]

Academic sources even number the graffiti messages as if they were posts on 4chan.

[@katierasburn9571]

I still remember one that archeologists spent ages getting close enough to read and it literally just said “this is very high” lol ancient people had a sense of humour too!

[@EpicRandomness555]

That sounds exactly like now graffiti I love it. We don’t change lol.

[@FeatheredWingz]

@@EpicRandomness555 Right?! The first time I was reading through them, it started to feel like I was scrolling through an ancient social media feed.

[@manp112]

There where pipis* everywhere too drawn near public bathrooms like any modern public bath *I said it like that cuz I don't understand KZbin's limitations anymore 😅

[@libertyprime3827]

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense."

[@XenoflareBahamut]

Reminds me of anime character's special powers being explained midfight

[@libertyprime3827]

@@XenoflareBahamut Ew, weeb

[@schadowsshade7870]

@@libertyprime3827Tf?

[@DrewLSsix]

Happens all the time, people get really mad when a character does something randomly stupid, but people, including the ones complaining do randomly stupid things all the time. Or when the strongest bestest fighter gets taken out by a random bullet or stray arrow, or even in a head on fight with a normal not special not particularly skilled nobody.... thats just wrong. But outside of a narrative, badasses go down to random crap all the time.

[@darcieclements4880]

​​@@DrewLSsixex machina is extremely common as a driving force in the real world. It's just a matter of perspective on whether or not it's helpful. There's even a version of it accounted for in the modern theory of evolution called genetic drift😅

[@the-chillian]

For those unaware, the "Tiffany problem" is the perception that Tiffany is a purely modern name, when in fact it has been around since at least the 12th century. It's an anglicization of the Greek name Theophania, often given to girls born around the Epiphany, also known as the Theophany, on January 6th. So even though it strikes a discordant note for many readers to find a character named Tiffany in a medieval setting, it's perfectly legitimate.

[@wwm84]

A really fun one is a baby's name recorded in York in 1379. Baby's name? Diot Coke. "Diot" back then was a diminutive/nickname for Denise, and it's thought that "Coke" is a corruption of Cook. Regardless though, there was a person in the Middle Ages named Diot Coke.

[@the-chillian]

@wwm84 Now all we need is someone named Pepsy Sero.

[@Foogi9000]

​@@wwm84 I love History

[@thomaswillard6267]

Tiffany has not been around since the 12th century, that was a modern translation of a 12th century poem. Inthe original records it was still "Theophania". Thought given pronunciation standards, probably sounder closer to "Tiffany" than we might origihal surmise.

[@MrGrimsmith]

I was reminded of one sue of the name Tiffany in that sort of setting - Tiffany Aching in Wee Free Men by the late Sir Pterry. He also gave an alternate of Tir Far Thoinn which accrding to the book is "Land Under Wave" but may alternatively be a Gaelic joke referring to where the sun doesn't shine (Land Under Arse) :)

[@markjrcolin1210]

I love this message of “people have always been people, and people love to experiment and show off, and this is true for all of history”. It’s just an absolute, undeniable fact.

[@linkskywalker5417]

And superheroes are almost the equivalent of ancient myths from the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc. Almost, because although people in Ancient Greece have made statues with intent to worship Zeus or Hercules or whomever... Who makes statues of Superman with intent to worship them?

[@hex4569]

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1:9

[@EdwardPasternak]

The book of Ecclesiastes summed it up centuries ago "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

[@luckyafsdjflasioandfi6939]

Real praise jesus

[@aetherkid]

​@luckyafsdjflasioandfi6939 ecclesiastes was written before Jesus. It has nothing to do with him.

[@luckyafsdjflasioandfi6939]

@@aetherkid but still Jesus = God soooo

[@Dragonfire-486]

All this has happened before, all this will happen again...

[@zarynt1089]

​@@luckyafsdjflasioandfi6939If Jesus = God then that means he impregnated a human woman to give birth to him so he could save humanity from himself...think about what you are saying.

[@cheesykebs708]

To people that don’t know my vague understanding of the Tiffany problem is that when writers were writing medieval stuff they’d search for names for their characters and as it turns out Tiffany was a very common name in the medieval era but it’s also seen as a very modern name so I’m thinking that they’d rip people from their immersion if they used the name Tiffany they decided against using it even though it’s completely 100% historically accurate

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

Oh, that's interesting. It's one I've never heard of before but it makes a kind of sense. Even if you could get Tiffany in the regency period, if you had a character called it in Brigerton, etc, it would likely throw you off while some would rant online about naming a character Tiffany and others would spend the rest of the episode googling to find out if it was in keeping. Lol. So you have to make a decision of whether period accurate matters as much as emersion/suspension of belief. You would probably have seen a similar reaction to young adult fiction a few years ago if you saw teens in it named Elsie, Albert, etc, but of course, those names are now coming back into fashion (at least here, anyway).

[@Candlemancer]

Even more extreme would be Phoebe. Equally a normal, unremarkable name in modern day UK or US, or in Ancient Greece in 500BC

[@gferraro2916]

very interesting. thank you for the explanation!

[@purple-cho]

More specifically, as I recall (as a layperson not an expert) the name Tiffany developed from something like Theophania. Which, to our modern ears, sounds much more plausible! As for when that shift from the older version into the more current one happened, not a clue but probably much longer ago than most people would assume

[@DatBeanNat]

@@purple-cho Close, but not quite. It wasn't linked to Theophania. This CGP-Grey video discusses it in greater detail. -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/b32wo2iOicyYr6s

[@TheFalrinn]

There's also the fact that ancient Roman Gladiators would do sponsorships and popular ones were much more like professional athletes then we realize. Gladiator matches were also rarely explicit to-the-death matches, even if the death rate was far higher than we'd tolerate in a modern sports and the odd theatrical execution was mixed in.

[@a_karch]

Movies dont give a lot of historically accurate representations. And the majority of ppl is caught up in the version of history that media creates, because that's their only source

[@RorikH]

Also the whole "changing the name of sports teams to be less offensive" also goes back to Roman gladiators, as the "Gallus" and "Samnite" gladiator classes, originally consisting of Gaulish and Samnite prisoners of war, were developed into the Murmillo and Hoplomachus after Gaul was conquered and integrated into the Empire and the Samnites became allies (and were later absorbed) so as not to offend Gaulish or Samnite citizens/spectators.

[@Sylvie_without_surname]

@RorikH Oh Iupiter, ever since the Grachi Brothers everyone's so woke all the sudden. You can't say io Saturnalia anymore! Everyone's reading all this modern trash like Ovid and Sappho, I was born in the wrong generation. Young people these days don't even want to restore the old civic virtues

[@GreyPunkWolf]

​@@Sylvie_without_surnameI think there's been discoveries of similar rants that date back to ancient Egypt, basically whining about the younger generations being dumb and lazy and that the world is doomed, etc. Humans have basically always complained about the younger generations.

[@nicholaswhitman4620]

​@@GreyPunkWolfSo idiots have been whining about 'woke' for thousands of years?

[@martagaines7272]

"There's nothing new under the sun" goes the phrase. That phrase helps keep me humble. Love your page. Thank you.

[@20thcenturyboy85]

Dude, you have a spectacular speaking voice! Thank You!

[@greybey4385]

The difference between reality and fiction is that we expect fiction to make sense

[@wisteriapetalsinthebreeze]

Yes! Even the most fantastical fiction must make sense.

[@thatonefirekestral]

​@@wisteriapetalsinthebreezehave you read the Diskworld novels by Terry Pratchett?

[@DragonKnightJin]

"Why is reality sometimes so unrealistic? Because fiction needs to be believeable, and reality is under no such constraints."

[@DaemonetteBait]

​@@thatonefirekestral Pratchett has the ability to make a the fantastical make sense and the nonsensical to become mundane. It was a universe that was self aware and more than willing to enforce its own tropes.

[@riverlady982]

I think the same people who hate it when fiction doesn't 'make sense' are also the same people who have a really hard time when reality doesn't work out how they believe it should. I never really thought about how many times I have had a day where I've done and/or seen so many things that where so ridiculous and nonsensical that I began to worry I might be like Deadpool or something and becoming aware of the story or movie I was in, it's a weird feeling. People who spend enough time with me decide that I'm right that I'm a magnet for the weird and unusual things.

[@elementaryelknone6854]

Romans having billboards and advertisements between gladiator matches

[@GegenscheinVRC]

Gladiators having sponsorships from local businesses

[@miketacos9034]

Romans having scalpers outside the colosseum selling tickets (written on potsherds) to the plebs.

[@chrisquiett1776]

I completely forgot about that. My history teacher in freshman year told me. Funny how you forget about things that are interesting and relevant. Well I also used to speak Spanish and now I can barely make conversation 😂

[@elijahsmall5873]

Really? Wow! 😆😅

[@DaemonwarriorJulius]

People engraving insults on sling bullets 🤭

[@Qardo]

As I keep saying. Reality is stranger than fiction. Proof. Some of the most badasses of World War 2. They had poor eyesight. And yet some pulled off sharpshooting feats that boggled them mind. Like Admiral "Chin" Lee, Captain of the USS Washington. Trained his crew to literally snipe another battleship to death and the searchlights of destroyers. Mind you. This man was a 3-time Olympic gold medalist in sharpshooting. In both rifle and handgun. All with a bum eye.

[@GeekGamer666]

Perhaps having a bum eye is what lead him to work to develop the other eye and thus excel at sharpshooting? The senses of people who are profoundly blind become more acute to compensate for the lack of the other sense. I see no reason why it couldn't happen in a more limited sense with a deficit in only one eye.

[@Qardo]

@GeekGamer666 This is the US government we are talking about. There are other Metsl Honor badasses that had terrible eyesight. Rejected by either the Navy, Army, Army Air Corp, and Marines. Later, end up in one of these 4 groups to spite the one they wanted to join. End up being utter badasses. All because they failed an eye test (or in one case. Dude cheated the eye test and passed).

[@mastercoolguy2809]

Would I be correct in assuming you too watch the fat electrician?

[@JeremiahHildebrandt]

I see someone watches The Fat Electrician.

[@polandsilver3419]

I heard a quote from some writer that real stories have wery weird feel compared to fictional ones, because fictional stories try to sound real, when real stories do not.

[@voidmatic]

one of my favorite zines I have is called "we have always been here" and its all photos of cowboys being far more casual and candid than in the very poised photos we're so used to seeing (mainly because they were more common, as taking pictures back then was more expensive), but its documentation and stories of gay cowboys just happily going about their lives in that time period. I think this sense of "we have always been here" and this fun idea of doing little things that ancestors generations before us _also_ did is really lovely :)

[@AGDinCA]

_People have always been people._ Such a true statement. I've been arguing this for years. Everyone wants to think behaviors are current trends, when, most likely, they've been seen for ages. For example, so many people lament the laziness or incorrigible nature of today's youth. Truth is, every generation bemoans this same sentiment. I came across an article from a Boston newspaper, circa late 1890s (if my memory serves), and sure enough, there in the Opinion section was a bit written up by a get-off-my-lawn kind of guy. He had lots to say about how poorly the youth of that day were being raised.

[@Leylani-v6i]

One thing that a lot of people end up not realizing is that people in history were humans. Humans like to do cool things. Humans may not also care for their own best interest in doing those cool things

[@annaairahala9462]

Yep, those in history were the same as us today

[@carso1500]

As it turns out "yeah that sounds fucking cool lets do it" is a universal human thing

[@marcosgonzalez4207]

This kinda reminds me when people loves the Roman Empire but blames Spain for doing the same

[@runakovacs4759]

Idiotic eastern european ancestors of mine taking sticks and "jousting" on a frozen over lake, breaking bones and bruising themselves all over because it helped make winters less boring. "Nooo people were scared of getting injured because no hospitals!" eastern europeans: "haha wooden pole bonk you hard."

[@kalvincarld]

"Humans may also not care for their own best interest when doing cool things." A universal truth that transcends time. An unchanging and eternal law about the nature of man.

[@ahegaomemnon2059]

Honestly I bet they were doing weirder things and fucking around more than we do today, without the digital world to distract you, you have to fill the time somehow

[@bastienfelix4605]

Agreed, but what the heck is that username and pfp

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

​@@bastienfelix4605 I did not notice it and now I curse thee for bringing it to my attention.

[@DominoHarvard]

​@@bastienfelix4605 creativity + depravity = cursedness

[@angryvaultguy]

Yeah farming and dying from plague, war, famine etc When you did have free time they were probably too tired anyways and just rested which is what most people did since work was hard All the weird stuff is from rich people as always, but since in the modern world we basically have similar benefits to past rich people and so since we can indulge more we most certainly have more weirdness then any other time period Also I don't know where people got the idea that ancient people just had time on their hands lol they had work for most the day

[@bobmcbob49]

​@@angryvaultguysomeone has clearly never worked a blue collar job before

[@gracelynroberts-cn2hu]

I love the fact that people have always been people. It makes history a lot more fun because you keep running across these random things that make you go "what the hell--"

[@goodboi1725]

It’s what makes me wonder why people find history boring at all. There’s two things that you learn from taking an in-depth look at it: - People have always been people - Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana)

[@deusexaethera]

That Victorian chick looks seriously badass.

[@davemccage7918]

Would you hit?

[@samuelholmes3696]

This happened with the production of Schindler’s List. The main villain, Amon Göth, played by Ralph Fiennes, was something of a monster in real life. He was actually so horrible that he was, at one point, dismissed as camp commandant for being too cruel. During production of the film, it was decided that he should be toned down as a villain, otherwise the audience would find him too unbelievable!

[@piotrgrzelak2613]

That movie isnt based on anything though, it's just historical fantasy

[@zyriantel9601]

@@piotrgrzelak2613 …You’re joking, right? It’s based on _World War II,_ which was very real, and the people in that movie were very real people who existed. Sure, some liberties were taken here and there for the sake of the story - such as the aforementioned toning down of Amon Göth to not be as horrible as he actually was - but other than those changes, the movie was a blow-by-blow retelling of an actual event that transpired during the war. The year is 2024, and people are still trying to pretend like one of the biggest wars in human history didn’t happen. And we want to pretend like our ancient ancestors were the clueless ones…

[@piotrgrzelak2613]

@@zyriantel9601 War? I don't think you watched the movie. It was about a NEET music hobbyist hiding in the attic because he didn't want to go to work. There's also like an anti-job riot or something

[@zyriantel9601]

⁠@@piotrgrzelak2613 _…Schindler’s List?_ And you’re trying to tell me I didn’t watch the movie, when _you’re_ over here saying stuff that’s in no way, shape, or form related to it? Swear to God, if this is a troll, it’s the worst troll I’ve ever seen.

[@piotrgrzelak2613]

@@zyriantel9601 what's your source?

[@Schlaym]

It's one of my absolute favorite parts of studying history. Feeling close to people by seeing things we still do today, seeing them being dumb and goofy, or just as witty and dedicated.

[@kaidablu]

Sei Shonagon's "everything which cries in the night is beautiful except an infant" cracks me up. I love when people are just people

[@syrelian]

The countless endless instances, on trees, walls, doors, anything that can take a carved mark, of "I was here" "Name + Name

[@erikvale3194]

Reality is stranger than fiction. Because fiction needs to make sense.

[@annaairahala9462]

It's hilarious how an actual realistic person in fiction is the sort of person that would be called unrealistic or shallow

[@jacksono6565]

Id give you a like, but 69, ill give a comment instead

[@velvetbutterfly]

"The miracles of nonfiction surpass even the most masterful works of fiction writers can dream up. However, if someone lady of the lake rose up out of the water and offered you any book in the world... no one would ask for a history book. That's because reality isn't very fun." - Happy Chaos

[@sklaWlivE]

"History doesn't exactly repeat, but it does love to rhyme."

[@benjmenj]

Really loving these nuanced and super well informed takes on parts of Japanese culture Dogen! Thanks for sharing!

[@vipe650r]

Beautifully said. We often get so simultaneously detached from History and drunk on our own supposed progress that we forget progress ≠ evolution. People have been peopling as long as people have been people. And add to that that standardized training on the scale and uniformity we have today is comparatively new, and you would have had a TON of homegrown and regional variety within forces of a single nation, let alone between opposing sides.

[@zerogrey3798]

We used to like to go camping as often as possible. The wife was really into archery, she was Japanese and even took classes in her youth and was in an archery club. Anyway she would often bow fish on our camping trips. Caught her hanging upside down in a tree about 20 feet over the lake we camped next to on one occasion firing down into the water and pulling up some truly monster bass. That always impressed me.

[@vaasmontenegro481]

You won at marriage. Got yourself an Asian bow ninja waifu. Congrats honestly

[@heatherwoodley8244]

You divorced her though

[@sinnerthesinful552]

​@@heatherwoodley8244Did he? I didn't get that, from any point of his story

[@heatherwoodley8244]

@@sinnerthesinful552 The use of the past tense. Either that or she died. It should be "She is Japanese", the rest is fine. But I honestly read it as not only a story about the past, but that her being his wife is also in the past, due to that and the use of distancing language, (although I am aware that it's just how some people talk), but "the wife", rather than "My wife" coupled with her having been, rather than still being, Japanese.

[@juliadove1006]

I suspect that there isn’t an outdoorsy fisherman who doesn’t read that and feel just a little jealous 😘

[@Tmb1112]

“Haha trick shot!” “No way! He got a three sixty quick shot with his crossbow!” “What a legend” Phrases heard in 2023 and 1133^

[@comparatorclock]

I think the meme is " 360 no-scope!" But anyway

[@Orion_44]

@@comparatorclock quick shot is another term aswell, it applies here

[@YouCann0tSeeMe]

This guy is an Elf in disguise for sure

[@betainfinita1735]

Well that explains why he is so confident about it. Elves live for an absurd amount of time

[@betainfinita1735]

Well that explains why he is so confident about it. Elves live for an absurd amount of time

[@TheUnfortunate0ne1]

An elf with the worst aim ever

[@Gamercloud-tk2cz]

He’s given up on the disguise already

[@borndrago]

I really enjoy the effort you put into your videos So pleasant to watch!

[@KateFergeson]

This is why following you is a blast ❤

[@MichelleH-t6t]

You expected facts about historical accuracy, but it was me the Dio Pose

[@choiyatlam2552]

I think that was the Jotaro pose.

[@FawnTheCreator]

@@choiyatlam2552It's a JoJo pose, end of argument

[@AzerbaijanOficial]

Isn't it Josuke's pose?

[@giraffebean]

​@@AzerbaijanOficialthat's the hands on the opposite side

[@giraffebean]

​@@choiyatlam2552I think it's the one from the games

[@Katharina-rp7iq]

The guideline with historians in recreation is 'what can be done with the tools and materials we've found'? And if it seems possible it is likely that someone, somewhere, has done just that. As an example: there were a lot of merchants traveling around in the ancient world. And if there is frequent travel and trade it is certain some people would want to travel around to see monuments and landscapes elsewhere. In egyptian architecture there are inscriptions that read like trivago comments on the walls from educated to downright dumb to funny. Ads for flat rentals were posted in ancient rome. Kids were bullied for their style of clothing in school and teachers graded tests in red. It is highly likely people dyed their hair blue and green since it was absolutely possible to do that. Also people have been complaining about the younger generation's lack od manners, skill and discipline for thousands of years.

[@alexmartinez5859]

True. Walls in Roman cities often read like bulletin boards in local gathering places, work places, or stores. A good example of this is the walls in Pompeii. Walked through an exhibit on Pompeii a year ago that had artifacts and talked about how they were used. Graffiti was everywhere and was often used for advertisement or to insult someone’s appearance. Then there were the vulgar comments.

[@zoescott779]

Right? As much as things change, humans keep being, well human

[@cerocero2817]

The peoblem is that with this kind of thinking you can justify anything. If people colored their hair weird colours in ancient rome we would expect to find some evidence of that in art and literature. To be historically authentic one should stick closely to what we have evidence for and try and keep assumption and speculation conservative. Claiming something just because it is plausible without any positive evidence is analogous to Russel's teapot.

[@comyuse9103]

​@@cerocero2817it's objectively insane to think people didn't dye their hair, they had discovered dye by that point.

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

​@@comyuse9103Most likely they just didn't colour it bright and sticked with "natural" colors.

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

My favorite "people have always been people" is one of the oldest examples of writing, found on a rock in a viking site was finally translated and it basically said "I was here."

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

Lotta dick graffiti in Pompeii

[@Frombie_01]

There are quite a few examples of Vikings carving runes into various places they visited which are fine examples 1,200 year old graffittti and a sense of humour. Edit, pesky typo.

[@davemccage7918]

The Yu-Yan Archers can pin a hundred trees to a fly without killing the yard….

[@KorrinBeck]

Well said. I hope a lot of people see your video. The only thing is, is that social media gives more people a platform to show off, and the worldwide bar being set so high sometimes, showcases the exemplarily stupid.

[@mottwoman6775]

This is amazing. Thank you for this.

[@myrb2622]

The other annoying part of the "historically accurate" conversation is the idea that everything has to be utilitarian and super practical. Because humans are famously never spontaneous, impractical, willing to wing it in any scenario, and would never choose aesthetics over usefulness. Never. Ever. Not once.

[@annaairahala9462]

The common ones I see are dark/gloomy, either prim and proper or no morals, extremely practical or extremely stupid, and for some reason a lot less sex and drugs than was actually involved.

[@clothar23]

The cod piece proves everyone who thinks otherwise wrong.

[@CitizenMio]

Yes and that goes back wayyyyy back. People often look back at stuff like ancient romans and go: omg they were actually creative back then. But that's nothing, it's like last week on a historical timescale. Even when it comes to fashion, I've argued before that as soon as we figured out how to scrape some animal skin and drape it over our bodies, the way we did that would have had a creative, decorative element to it as well. That's just what humans do. Homo erectus made fire, tools and could plan and organise colonising distant islands almost 2 million years ago. Clearly we have access to a lot more technology now and there have been a lot of changes in our societies, some of them even progress. Plus a few physical changes. But to think that these people didn't sit around a fire talking shit, singing songs while creativity shaping something into something they thought looked nice or decorative, is nonsense. Of course they did, they weren't just surviving, they were living! It is far more likely that the stuff they made and the things they did simply didn't preserve well over such vast stretches of time. If a homo erectus baby was raised in modern times, there would be differences and they would be noticeable sure, but I think they would turn into equally annoying mobile phone obsessed teens. As soon as you roll into Homo sapiens, there wouldn't be any perceptible difference. Even adults transported to modern times would probably be able to adapt, given time.

[@rubaiyat300]

In fact very few improvements can even happen if there weren’t a subset of people willing to be impractical. That is not do what everyone is and has done but do it intentionally “wrong” to find an entirely new way or even entirely undiscovered process. Monks messing around with random chemicals found gunpowder as an example.

[@michaeltulus4582]

​@@rubaiyat300 the Chinese gunpowder invention comes from royal alchemists trying to invent elixir of immortality

[@X-SPONGED]

Things never wisened me up to this fact more than seeing old black and white movie bloopers. The professionalism back then makes you think people were so different but when the magic screen goes off, they speak just like us, they swear, they laugh, they blow raspberries at the camera for forgetting their lines. It's actually quite humanizing knowing we haven't really changed much. Problem is, realizing that we haven't really changed much also has it's..... *_DARKER_* implications.

[@phucjack6270]

Since it also show that the many evil commit in the past still can still be commit today .And we have plenty example of that already

[@gimmethegepgun]

On a related note, don't dehumanize evil people of the past by calling them monsters. Never forget that they were human and did what they did, and that's far more terrifying than them being monsters.

[@tlaloqq]

It is also helpful to remember that compared to modern people, most humans before the 1800s would be considered practically schizophrenic with their world views. I mean most modern concepts of the universe are fairly new

[@Scowls270]

Yes, and and very important to note. In Nazi Germany a very high percentage of the population was ok with what was happening to the Jews, when looking back one thinks "I'd be the hero" but they were just like us. Kind of sobering, and a good reminder to step outside the box to analyze and think for oneself to see if it all makes sense.

[@teatowel11]

Can you tell us where you found these blooper videos?

[@Crystalelements182]

"History doesn't care" and "people have always been people" are the best response

[@johnnybagofdoughnuts4193]

Except when people insist the fringe is the norm. A la Netflix. Or just make things up, like the Black Samurai

[@PersonThatExi]

"People have always been people." lowkey goes hard

[@Sacrosanct5910]

No. What this guy is trying to say is that there really is NO accurate account of history And he is WRONG He is also just one more cute face in a long line that is being used to distract you to rewrite history, in what is the greatest mass brainwashing event in all of human history & You are falling for it

[@Sacrosanct5910]

@@johnnybagofdoughnuts4193🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 You nailed it. But… You’re not up here with a cute face & prancing around, shooting bow & arrow with your feet to distract ppl from what’s happening So… your truth will be buried, and the mass brainwashing campaign will continue I see, what a miracle it is that you have managed to see, and hold on to the truth Do YOU realize what a big deal that is? 🏆🥇🫡

[@Sacrosanct5910]

@@johnnybagofdoughnuts4193 ​🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 You nailed it. But… You’re not up here with a cute face & prancing around, shooting bow & arrow with your feet to distract ppl from what’s happening So… your truth will be buried, and the mass brainwashing campaign will continue I see, what a miracle it is that you have managed to see, and hold on to the truth Do YOU realize what a big deal that is? 🏆🥇🫡

[@nolongersociable]

Tangent here but can we all just agree how awesome you are 😍 I can't even imagine the effort and determination it took to reach this level of mastery in such a field...

[@LunaBloom99]

Hey! That top-right archer shot has Cape Town in the background. What a neat little pic! I actually climbed the little mountain on the right of the image yesterday! Also, excellent points were made in the video. People have always been people.

[@digitaljanus]

And there's all kinds of mundane things we might never know about our ancestors. Like how they cut their meat or what songs they sang in the fields. Because it wasn't worth remarking, or later generations didn't think it was worth preserving, or the people couldn't record it.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

RECORD MUNDANE THINGS ABOUT YOUR LIFE SO YOUR DESCENDENTS WILL KNOW ABOUT THEM!!!!!

[@joostdriesens3984]

@@IndustrialParrot2816 I DONT KNOW WHICH THINGS TO WRITE DOWN MY WHOLE LIFE IS MUNDANE!!!!

[@Monkeylighthouse]

​​@@joostdriesens3984WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING!!!!!!

[@prettyrat.]

@@joostdriesens3984 write that down then!!! “i don’t know what to record, my whole life is mundane” lololol

[@juan-ij1le]

@@IndustrialParrot2816 basically a diary

[@animatediamond8944]

That pose on the tree at the end seems like something a particularly dramatic D&D Ranger might do

[@DeaDiabola]

So, just your average ranger, then?

[@themindeclectic9821]

I have a bard character with a strong ranger streak (antisocial bard. she just plays music with and on the behalf of nature) and she is like this. That was the first thing I thought of.

[@Nerdy-By-Nature]

​@@DeaDiabolaI was about to say 🤣

[@EponasArchangel]

Or an archer desperate for just the right shot… or fell off their perch and thought “well, as long as I’m still up here I’m still in the fight!”

[@filipegomes4290]

And then I got 19 on dice and the master tells me I fell down anyway

[@doomyboi]

My first encounter with the Tiffany Problem was the picture of the Chinese man smiling for a photograph in the 19th century.

[@armorbearer9702]

I imagine many cool trick moves were invented in the circus.

[@CgGoil]

That is an excellent point, sir. Its proberbly because how people lived in earlier times seems so foreign to us, that its hard to picture people from back then, as people with all of its flaws, creativity and goofiness. But of course they were. I remember seeing a small interview with a professor in classical music, giving several examples of fart jokes in 800 years old pieces of music.

[@Satellaview1889]

That tattooed Victorian lady was cool looking. I am going to steal that for a story as soon as I can

[@beth7935]

There are some great descriptions of Georgian-to-Victorian-era tattoos in convict records- one of my ancestors had several. Of course criminals & sailors were the most likely to have them, but tattoos in that era don't surprise me.

[@cam4636]

@@beth7935 Actually, tattoos were a trend among the aristocracy--specifically tattoos that could be covered up, so as to be 'scandalous.' Winston Churchill's mother had a tattoo of a snake around her wrist with a custom bracelet to cover it.

[@yumiuchiha2051]

Hey sorry I just wanted to point out that the woman depicted in this photograph is actually Maud Wagner, an American tattoo artist who, yes, lived during the late stages of the Victorian Era, but was (as far as I know after having done research on art pieces she as a person and this specific image inspired) actually an aerialist in a circus not "Victorian gentery" as he claimed. Just wanted to point that out because if you truely want to incorporate this in a story just make sure to be aware of this first.

[@oedhelsetren]

Historically, shock and awe as a diversion tactic is a real thing. An archer doing a trick shot might actually get a dumb person to stop and look directly at the arrow.

[@krakenpots5693]

Huh... king harold comes to mind...

[@kyze8284]

"Why is that person on their hands? THEY'RE FIRING THE BOW WITH THEIR FEET?!" *Thunk*

[@rency1803]

Tbh it's also a key thing in morale, like if you are a medieval footman and you see your buddy getting shot by a trickshot you would not have the courage to advance anymore. Battle in the past are often won by morale alone after all.

[@Exquailibur]

One of the oldest photographs is of Samurai posing with the Sphinx in Egypt, also cowboys, Victorian England, Samurai, and strait up pirates with the skull flag and everything coexisted. Also there are pictures of the American founding fathers drawn by a Japanese person at the time, one is of George Washington punching a tiger for some reason and also since they hadnt exactly seen many white people the illustrations of them look Japanese.

[@doomyboi]

I just assumed the Tiger represented the British Empire

[@comparatorclock]

OwO, what's this? 18th/19th century anime of George Washington punching a tiger?

[@Exquailibur]

@@doomyboi I mean John Adams and a giant Eagle team up to kill a giant snake too The original author wasnt taking it too seriously though, it was basically a parody made for fun more then anything.

[@Exquailibur]

@@comparatorclock It should be an anime

[@samaraisnt]

It’s not because they “hadn’t seen white people” it’s because that was a stylistic choice, that’s how they drew all humans. Those paintings don’t look very Japanese either, they look like a stylized face no one has. Art movements always stick to their own style. Same as how Klimt drew faces the same…he would draw everyone that way. Gauguin made people of diff races look just like his creations. This shows such a poor understanding of art style, just a myopic “Asians are face blind lol” caucasity. You would never say that about a European painter….I 🎶 wonder why

[@maxxandubar503]

It’s hard to remember this sometimes

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

I point this out in fashion history all the time! Conventional fashion historians rage at seeing women with bangs pre 1870’s, but I have a massive list of portraits painted before then showing women with bangs! And there are so many other idiosyncrasies too! I love finding things like this!

[@leokonge4624]

My favorite example of this is on a worksite you can have ten people doing the same task all very well and all entirely differently

[@ThatIrishLass]

As a reenactor, I was struck by how totally many of my peers misunderstand the point of reenacting a few years ago, in an incident that is going to live in my head rent-free forever. I posted an image of myself portraying a member of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteers, during the Civil War. My uniform was well-weathered, my kit was based on originals, everything was very authentic and true to life. I got compliments on the board about my Hardee Hat, an iconic piece of Iron Brigade kit, and people asked where I'd gotten it. Except that it wasn't a Hardee. It was a slouch, and when I said this, all the praise vanished instantly. I was told my whole impression was wrong, and that if I couldn't source a specific incidence of that particular deviation then I was doing it 'wrong'. As if every soldier retained his hat throughout months and years of campaigning. As if nothing ever wore out, broke, tore, got lost in a long march. As if no soldier had ever decided the Hardee was uncomfortable and opted for a substitute, or, in the case of what had literally happened for me, couldn't find a Hardee in their size and gotten a wider-brimmed hat that did fit. People have always been people. The point of reenacting is as a form of experimental archaeology. But there's this wild idea in the hobby that if you can't find it in a parade manual or a photograph someplace(both of which are more likely to give you the appearance of a parade-ready soldier), it wasn't valid. And I just find that baffling because, like, that's just not how human beings work, and sometimes it feels like some reenactors are more interested in getting a Good Grade In Recreation than they are in actually embodying a soldier in a way that properly functions as experimental archaeology. There's an old adage in the military; that no parade-ready unit ever excelled in combat, and no combat-ready unit ever impressed on parade. I guess I'm just baffled that so many people, from historians to writers, forget that people have always been people, and if it's a concession we'd make today, it's one they made yesterday.

[@MurasakiTsukimaru]

I'd piss those sorts off by wearing mismatched boots and a shirt that was the right-ish color but clearly not part of the uniform. Because I was a soldier who had actually been in the war for a while and I was just taking what I could get at that point.

[@PersonAliveYes]

Thank you! Nice. As an audience member, I prefer this level of realism. Ain't no combat-ready unit looking pretty or "standard". 😏😌

[@fernandogarcia3957]

WoW.

[@nitrocatofficial6939]

My dad reenacts in Va. I could not give a damn as a child but as an adult, I want him to take me on his guided tours again

[@wolfyboy]

Exactly! I doubt every soldier looked perfect after 3 months on the front line! But they depicted them like that, of course, for the looks.

[@alexjames7144]

"trends don't apply to individuals" is a line I like to use. Doesn't matter what most people fall into, most people won't actually be the exact average and many people will be way outside the norm

[@HowardWimshurst]

Wow, i have now seen the discourse around the history of archery turn 360 degrees

[@angelicart.6]

a blond british man replicating the pose of another fictional blond british man perfectly is something I’ve always longed for

[@beth8775]

"People have always been people" is my favorite statement and lesson of history.

[@lemmetalkaboutthis]

The Romans used to use graffiti like social media, to roast people, recommend or shame businesses, declare their personal opinions or who they fucked with the best. There's tiles with preserved cat and dog prints on them bc someone making tiles had a pet, the pet stepped on the fresh tile, and Stil the person chose to fire and glaze it, and the person shipping it tlstill shipped it, and the person buying it still bought it, and the person who set it still set it, and hundreds of years later, today, we still look at it and go "aww" People will and always have always been people

[@comparatorclock]

@@lemmetalkaboutthis when the tile results in eternal adoration

[@KasumiRINA]

They also had cancel culture, literally damnatio memoriae.

[@IndigoIndustrial]

Paintings on pots were 2nd gen Social Media. Cave paintings were 1st gen.

[@harleyhill3612]

And somehow through and through, we've always had some version of "Blank was here" and drawn dicks 😂

[@zeenoyb]

I love how expressive Jujube is. She's super into things right from the get-go with her reactions, it's awesome 😁

[@L1terallyJustAGuy]

That relief is obviously the man, seen from his back

[@StygianEmperor]

i love that your quiver still works upsidedown

[@omega13whitelucario95]

I believe because it's mostly like a snapping type one so they don't fall on accident Like you can snap them into place and not have to worry about them but are not all that difficult to retrieve either

[@gatekeeper9447]

And then I have my side quiver dropping five arrows every time I bend over to pick up one!😅

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

Not archery related, but I'm reminded of Caesar's recounting of the rivalry between the centurions Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo. One got cut off, and the other came to his rescue, and they fought their way back to friendly lines, each trying to outdo the other. I'm remembering from reading the story about two decades ago, so chalk any inaccuracies to my hastily approaching senility.

[@richardchisenhall387]

I wonder which one was legolas and which one was gimli?

[@katierasburn9571]

@@richardchisenhall387haha my first thought

[@DebTheDevastator]

My favorite fact is that Mozart was into toilet humor. Tons of his pieces reference poo or butt's, and his letters were very "risky" for the "time."

[@annaairahala9462]

Yeah apparently both he and his mom were known for it. Humour in general has been pretty consistent throughout human history, with some of the oldest written jokes being not too dissimilar to the sort of things told today

[@TheOneHistoryGuy]

He even wrote music that is sung by a choir which roughly translates to 'Lick me in the arse'

[@Hiddenreader]

If i recall correctly, Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about farts

[@Klutech]

@@annaairahala9462 I looked it up and it's true about Mozart and his family. Here is a line within a letter sent to his cousin (who apparently may have also been a love interest). "I now wish you a good night, sh*t in your bed with all your might. Stay well in body and mind / and try to kiss your own behind." That was for anyone wondering. lol

[@MySerpentine]

There's a Mozart piece called 'Kiss my Ass,' so . . .

[@Gadgetonomy]

You're a very impressive Archer mate!

[@davemccage7918]

That’s nothing! The Yu-Yan Archers can pin a hundred trees to a fly without killing the yard!

[@BWeManX]

I really love when "historically accurate" is just like modern shenanigans. Like Dante's Inferno basically being a self-insert fanfiction story.

[@fernandogarcia3957]

Fanfiction story with plenty of references to historical characters and Classical knowledge. Full with symbolism and the masterpiece that started Tuscan Italian language as the model and precursor of Renaissance. So, wash your mouth before speaking about high, great events, be it SpaceX or Dante.

[@BWeManX]

@@fernandogarcia3957 well at least he's not the only one simping for Virgil

[@amirshlomolavan]

If you can do it, it's not a question of if and where but only when

[@Kruhn]

You would've been a terror as a Merry Man in Sherwood Forest.

[@witchhazel4135]

Did he actually hit anything, though?

[@generalcodsworth4417]

It's very important to remember that social media didn't change our nature. It simply made some things way, way easier. People have always been showoffs who craved attention and approval from others, it was just hard to get a large audience when everyone needed to show up in person to watch you show off with no chance to edit out mistakes. Now, somewhere near 5 billion people own a cell phone and can access the internet to post whatever carefully crafted and curated content they can make for the other 5 billion internet users to find

[@sakura613]

Change the word people to extraverts.

[@stevencurtis7157]

"Look what I can do!" is such a universal "kid" thing to say that it's crazy to think the behavior hasn't been around forever.

[@camtheratman]

It makes me happy that showing off to your buddies is universal across human history

[@TheFalrinn]

Reminds me of how we have customer complaints that almost read like a modern yelp review....from ancient Sumeria. (it was etched into a clay tablet that managed to survive the ages). Or that the reason people tend not to discuss the actual subject matter of the Rosetta Stone is because it was....an update to tax law.

[@shadow_phoenix_alex]

Wasn't that the one about the bad copper?

[@TheFalrinn]

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of.

[@syrelian]

Everyone's favorite copper merchant and his pile of bad reviews Nobody even knows if Ea-Nasir's product was actually shoddy, or if those messages were him recordkeeping the people he refuses to work with anymore, or him internalizing feedback, or what, all we know is that he had a notable pile of bad reviews and its one of the few things that survived Also it makes a bizarre amount of sense that the Rosetta Stone contained law updates, if it was writ during a cross-over in cultures, the multi-lingual nature becomes self-explanatory, you can't rely on your entire population understanding your new laws in a single tongue if its notably mixed

[@comparatorclock]

It is 4500 AD. Amidst the ruins of the Front Range, archeologists uncover something that becomes known as the Rosetta Papers - a key gateway to learning the intricacies of the dead language once known as English. The contents? A copy of the Colorado State Constitution

[@silverhawkscape2677]

​@@comparatorclockAnd Colorado becomes remembered in the future.

[@jjstcase]

bro hit both DIO _and_ Jotaro pose, he's too powerful

[@angelicart.6]

he can’t be beat

[@alyssajordan777]

Short story even shorter “humans have always been human since the dawn of time” that is the most historically accurate you can get lol.

[@finnboltz]

This is a really interesting video, I'm glad it showed up, good job and thank you.

[@PsyrenXY]

Brb, nailing this up in the D&D subreddit

[@zakberliner7926]

This really changed my perspective on things. No matter the era, people were messing around, showing off, or doing crazy things out of boredom.

[@MurasakiTsukimaru]

ESPECIALLY at work. No matter what form of manual labor/blue collar your job is, there's going to be several points of "Betcha I can throw this to there from here", whether that be frisbee throwing a dish into a dishwasher, tossing a piece of concrete onto the truck from fifty feet, or landing one piece of wood upright on top of another piece.

[@zakberliner7926]

@@catpoke9557 I had never heard of that before, so I looked it up. Definitely not disappointed!! 😂 Same for an ancient Japanese scroll featuring a phallic contest! I guess, in the end, the more times change, the more people stay the same, even with potty humor

[@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023]

Bravo! Excellent message, awesome presentation ❤

[@macmcleod1188]

Your dancing and archery videos are next level. And you bring such a positive attitude to the world. I'm glad you are alive.

[@robertrub5503]

This was awesome. I love the message so much. Good job buddy

[@andrewmole745]

Excellent points, well presented and demonstrated.

[@christophertaylor9100]

Yeah that's the truth I discovered when researching polearms trying to find proper names. Turns out, just like today, depends where you ask. One might be a Glaive here and a Guisarme there and a Flemish Toothpick somewhere else. Just like what a carbonated drink is called: depends where you ask. In the deep south of the USA, pretty much everything is called a Coke. In the Northwest its called Pop.

[@Dragowolf_Rising]

You may also enounter "soft drink" or "soda" in the Midwest. Also the idea of strict categories for weapons is mostly a modern contrivance, retroactively applied to armaments of the past.

[@goggles8691]

​@@Dragowolf_Risingyeah back in those days they were just all "sickass murder stick"

[@therighttrousers343]

Avon just means river and that's why there's so many river Avon, people just going up to locals and asking what the river is called and getting the answer "Avon".

[@Foogi9000]

​@@therighttrousers343 Foreigner: What's the River here called? Locals: Uh... River

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

Ahem, because of Hollywood 70% of the Country calls it Soda

[@victorgbs]

"Honey the neighbour is doing weird shit with the bow for tiktok again, bring the dogs inside before we lose another one"

[@sbp4215]

perfect comment

[@bookies24k8]

The handstand feet archery move is the first thing ive seen blumineck actaully fail at. Good to know he's at least a little human like the rest of us. I was starting to get concerned, he can do everything and pull off outfits that us mere mortals couldnt dream of

[@ranman7688]

So true. Though it may be possible that I have had an original thought, the greater likelihood is that others may have had that thought before me.

[@carlost856]

Wow! Thank you for send down an aeolipile rabbit hole.

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

I often say the oldest phrase in human history is "hold my beer."

[@abydosianchulac2]

Well sure, what else would they have been drinking at the time?

[@RobDogman]

I'm convinced that's how Vikings found the new world. Someone dared B'orn to sail west. So he grabbed the whole family and a few barrels of mead and sailed west till he hit land.

[@angelicart.6]

@@abydosianchulac2prolly wine too

[@NerrawGnap]

Well, every D&D Ranger I make from now on will ambush enemies by shooting them while suspended upside-down in a tree. Said enemies may break the fourth wall to complain to you for giving me the idea.

[@willmfrank]

I'm still waiting for a movie or TV show in which Robin does that on a tree in Sherwood.

[@NerrawGnap]

@@willmfrank now *that* would be awesome!

[@x_rio_x]

If you keep the same DM and he takes a liking that could be such an a+ recurring injoke

[@TessaOswin]

The only things I can think of as actual history accuratacy issue are material that could not have been invented yet ect plastic. However even them often there may have been something use that made a similar result (whale baleen instead of plastic in corsets). If we are just talking about people then anything is possible.

[@syrelian]

And even with abnormal materials, if the means of production existed, there is a plausibility that some small amount of it existed, made by some eccentric who left no records, or had no desire to share it, or in some accident or natural fluke And a lot of materials we think are modern are not so much, natural rubber exists, as an easy one, and the Romans and Greeks had concrete, and of course we still don't know what exactly Greek Fire was, but its mechanical behavior is well understood, it was something like an oil or napalm that burned on the water, even if the material precisely doesn't exist, there's no reason to believe nothing similar can exist

[@gabrielaribeiro6155]

Although not really in the same price range as plastic, tortoiseshell was used in a similar way - a material that became malleable when heated and then held it's form when cooled. It was used to make beautiful containers

[@gabrielaribeiro6155]

You make a very good point, a lot of materials didn't exist or would be more rare and valuable because trading was a lot harder than today. Also, depending on how far back we're talking about, some plants, vegetables, fruits, etc, looked a bit different.

[@GeekGamer666]

Another factor is that there are some materials we can't get or ethically won't use (e.g. whales). I see no reason to be that historically accurate particularly if it's the boning in a corset (as an example) which can't be seen. That said, if there's no good reason to change something then keep it historically accurate. Don't say you're doing something historical and then half-ass it. It frustrates me to see that especially since so many people take what they see in a dramatic context as fact (when most of the time there are glaring inaccuracies both because of dramatic license and because of problematic behaviour).

[@ThaJew420]

This is why I’ve always said it’s really hard to come up with anything unique in this era. Anything most can think of has probably already been done at some point. Never seen someone shoot a bow backwards tho! Pretty dope!

[@ZT1ST]

When you talked about armies having each person change it up, it reminded me of the Pachelbel Cannon rant - the cellos were able to count how many times they did 8 notes in the song because they were bored of the song.