Triforce!

[@AshleyArbelos]

its interesting how Mrs. F "happens" to be home to "open the door" the day pyrions cover is blown

[@TheWorldEnd2]

suspicious that. I used to be a normal-doorbell believer, but my opinion on this matter has changed as of late

[@john-marccartagenas6706]

Honestly that is what convinced me it was real.

[@piratewhoisquiet]

"home"

[@HectaSpyrit]

"Mrs. F" yeah right

[@gregryan6120]

On being boring and / or annoying to stop your personal agent watching you - used to work as Asda. This lady would come in every day (sometimes multiple times a day) and she was a bit odd but more importantly would flag employees down all the time to ask silly questions or just have a long chat about nothing while you were supposed to be working. Eventually staff would see her in the distance in the store and avoid the aisles she was on, every one of us were avoiding her because if you got caught then that’d be half an hour gone. Turned out she was stealing stock. Just walking out with it cos if a staff member saw her they’d turn on their heel and essentially run. Genius.

[@electrotoxins]

There's a CIA guide that was made during ww2 I think on sabatoge and there's a whole section on appearing annoying/boring/incompetent. I can't post a link or KZbin will delete this but it's found pretty easily if you search for it.

[@fauxpasiii]

42:31 The point in the podcast where ExpressVPN execs gather around a conference table to discuss how effectively their advertising dollars are being spent.

[@rocketforthree4479]

I enjoyed Pyrion talking about DnD. As a long time player, but beginner DM, I found it very eye-opening.

[@stephenhoy3544]

Honestly I dont know what id do without my weekly triforce podcast!

[@thecanadianguy1662]

These attacks in Pyrions doorbell must be coordinated some how, could be the Russian spy house, could be the bin men, or even the mail

[@Codsworth_]

Why would the bin men ring the doorbell?

[@MrMrchatcity]

Has Pyrion been compromised by the Russian neighbors? Pyrion if you're in danger have your avatar squint slightly when you speak then blink twice.

[@theeutecticpoint]

6:59- in the movie Casino the members of the mob would have their wives call each other and talk about inane drivel for 20 seconds until the FBI agents bugging their phones stopped listening to the call, then the mobsters would transfer their vital information, and then the wives would go back to chatting. No idea if that was based on anything real, but it was still an interesting detail.

[@HoboRoadshow7]

Brave of Lewis to talk about shit Kickstarter failures

[@BlueXonar]

Glad someone else thought it haha.

[@TheMiniMadCat]

When we were just coming out of caves, we probably had a plant that we chewed to keep our teeth clean, and would fashion tooth-picks. Dental care has definitely been about a long time and can be very primitive

[@Trumie]

In regard to the question about peoples teeth rotting in medieval England, without refined sugar teeth rot was very uncommon, the problem tended to be that eating such rough foods people wore their teeth down until they were useless

[@HoboRoadshow7]

Well I’d also imagine gum infections were common. Can’t have teeth if you’re gums are mush.

[@knitterknerd]

In the US, low-income people go to the emergency room for relatively minor illnesses because they can't afford to go to the doctor. A doctor can refuse to see you if you don't have insurance or whatever, but the ER can't. And let's be honest, minor illnesses can easily become emergencies if they go ignored, so even from a financial point of view, it's probably best that they get treated before it becomes serious. I have a friend who, when she was little, had spinal meningitis and nearly died, but it began with just untreated strep throat. I don't remember if she said why it hadn't been treated, but I do know that they were poor at the time. I mean, it's always a little more complicated than that, but this seems to be the biggest part of it. This is a contributor to the obscene amount of medical debt in the US in more ways than one. Hospitals are more expensive, so people are spending more than if they could have gone to the doctor. In addition, though, if hospitals are writing off absurdly high numbers for bad debt each year--and they really are astronomical--then they've got to make up that cost somewhere, right? Guess they now have to charge everyone more.

[@thefinal9923]

God, reading this just sinks my heart. You're so right, and it's so wrong. Why does healthcare have to be a business? I get it, you can't do it all for free ... but it just makes me so sad.

[@theGamingtrees]

Youre very correct, and its worse because Australia and other countries have already got systems in place where you can go to the doctor and get medical treatment and the government will pay for most of it with some of the tens of thousands of dollars of tax money that each person already gives them, meanwhile in America you can pay your taxes all your life and then get a treatable illness and the government will do nothing as you voluntarily die without treatment to avoid bankrupting your entire family (a true story from someone we knew who died of a treatable lung illness because his family would not have survived the debt)

[@Jokie155]

I'm not even going to make a 'Thanks Obama' joke, because fuck him and the US government indefinitely, and backwards too. The sheer lack of human compassion is appaling.

[@exphwon6022]

Love the podcast keep it up lads this is what gets me through my day

[@BD-yl5mh]

Lewis talking about kickstarter failures :P no hate, but I did giggle a bit

[@Cotif11]

57:00 Funny thing, the only reason we have shitty teeth nowadays is because increased (and unnatural) consumption of sugar. Your breath doesn't smell too terrible, and your teeth can survive for decades, IF you don't eat too much sugar.

[@josephshepherd6968]

The worst thing about the NHS for me was that when I worked as a nurse, I got knocked off my bike on the way to work, my arm hurt. I worked a couple hours of my shift, then when turning a patient my arm snapped, everybody heard it. I carried on for a bit but swelling and fever set in. I went to AandE and they said I had to go to the back of the line, I waited 3 hours. If they repaired me, I would have been able to help the system. As it was in that time I deteriorated and had to take some time off. After that they made cut backs and let me go. Wtf is going on with this system? Other than it being destroyed by capitalism.

[@josephshepherd6968]

My point being, of you help the system run then you should be priority, actual need excluded.

[@jameskovar]

National Health Service. Capitalism...

[@netwt42oz]

12:00 yogventures

[@onyxrafle8066]

Had to do a double take with your profile picture to make sure it wasn’t what I thought it was

[@valerieblackwell5765]

I've always run my campaigns [dm for 7 years] (i run 3 right now) with significant consequences like bodily mutilation for their actions or imprisonment (with opportunities to escape of course). But thats the worst of anything I do. This has made my players very cautious after one get a cool scar thats "burgeoning like the sun on burnt skin" and they then work much more cautiously. One of the themes, or perhaps oppurtunities, I like to explore is the players trusting everyone they see - I try to make it so everyone has their own motives and half the people there will have duplicitous means (to gain power). But my players know me, so I'm not really the target of that discussion, just feel the incessant need to ramble.

[@rich_in_paradise]

Much better episode this week. Lewis said they didn't have much to talk about, but you did, because it was stuff that happened in your lives. Doesn't matter if it's not super-interesting.

[@Wyattporter]

At this rate it’s gonna be another two weeks before armchair generals

[@darkestknightreturns]

The bit about Dyling Light 2 killed me, "I'm going to save these kids from the zombies, then I'm going to save them from you" LOL

[@skrrtle360]

steam notification at 28:41 spooked me

[@TheJohnnySlick]

Heh, I actually commented throughout that thread Pyrion Flax is referring to... regarding tooth brushing, I think they did do it on occasion but they also didn't really need to the way we do nowadays because sugar was essentially non-existent. When it got imported and was at first a special treat for the nobility, you'd better believe those folks had their teeth falling out like crazy (in fact, I think for a generation or two it was a sign of wealth to have your teeth blackened and falling out from sugar). Also of course nobody in any damn time ever willingly walked around covered in shit. Peasants may not have washed daily but they did wash regularly and even the nobles, who had that rep for never bathing, did so as another ostentatious display of wealth ("Look at me, boys! I'm so rich, I never break a sweat and have no need to bathe!") and at that they specifically bathed once a year (TBH probably more often than that but again, that was how they bragged about their wealth). I think this myth along with a bunch of others came from Victorians being snotty about how much more civilized than previous generations.

[@sunblade52]

The best way to get around the problems with online D&D is by having a small charge like 5 dollars for a 4-6 hour sessionits great money to time value as far as other things such as videogames where you can sometimes pay 60 for 8 hours and it weeds out the murder-hobos and since you put money into it you are more invested combine that with a free session 0 where you go over expectations with all players then chat to get to know each other while building characters

[@piratewhoisquiet]

For all my disagreements with Flax, at least he understands the monarchy pretty well. The Windsors would lose like five hundred points of dynasty renown if Lizzie abdicated and they've only held an empire level title for three generations, not to mention the losses of county control and negative vassal opinion modifiers on the inheritor. Absolutely ridiculous proposition.

[@ChonkyMonkey1]

Well, we podcasted

[@desOOOm]

Holy crap. I saw the doorbell post on the Reddit. Was hoping it would make it onto the Podcast!

[@vandlol]

Well - I listened to the end 🤷‍♂️

[@exvathi6850]

I remember one of high school teachers had assigned my class to read The Road.

[@tylermech66]

common people didn't really eat sugar at all, as such they didn't really need to brush their teeth to keep them from rotting most of the time. notably though, their teeth tended to be more worn down due to the stone ground bread wearing away at them their whole lives.

[@rreeeekk]

Love these videos you guys are great

[@theblackrose3130]

I waited hours with a broken arm that I'd convinced myself was fine for 3 days straight in a walk in clinic because I didn't wanna bother anyone lol

[@elizabethmeyer1888]

As an American my take on why the queen will not abdicate comes down to her uncle, Edward VIII who abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, that was a huge scandal and changed her whole life and she refuses to be associated with doing something he did. But that’s just my opinion

[@TeamVanityVideos]

Ah the Triforce Podcast, one of the only places you can hear the words "horse porn" in the middle of a sponsored segment. Nice.

[@BlueXonar]

The background is a different shade of blue, and it has made Sips bald!

[@Terinije]

Regarding royal tourism, always remember that France is the most visited country in the world, and their former palaces (mostly now museums) are a a big reason for that. Nobody cares that there aren't royals in there anymore. Get rid of the monarchy tomorrow, and loads of people would still visit so long as you keep the beefeaters. And tooth decay is mostly from sugars and processed foods, neither of which really were issues for Europeans until the past several hundred years.

[@SipsNumberOneFan]

Is A&E the UK equivalent to Urgent Care?

[@Codsworth_]

It's not often you hear the words 'horse porn' in an advert, god knows how they still get sponsors.

[@JEDJ3Di]

Sips should play state of decay 2

[@Mechanisttm]

That misspelling thing is a market ploy and bullshit.

[@willis32]

All very good points but I did have to physically remove myself from the toilet to be "alcohol sick" and therefore I cannot rate you highly

[@Mikemih]

Peacemaker is soo good

[@ColonelCatnip]

Beans. Lovely Beans in my mouth. I surly hope Lewis allows me to partake of his beans.

[@foorje]

Forgot to animate the mouths for the sponsor segment lol.

[@La_sagne]

11:53 shit Kickstarter failures who are trying to make a videogame, huh?.... Nah.. never heard of anything like that happening, Lewis!

[@michaelgarcia9672]

I'd love to see p flax playing a sw5e game.

[@darkmagician666]

re: teaching kids when to go to A&E / gp / take care of yourself. Parents should teach basic things like this, school is for academics, not for all teaching.

[@gwizdolby]

Low key I feel like Lewis was trying to talk over P-Flax while shitting on the Chinese. Don't do it Lewis. They are for them selves and would sooner eat You then put a penny in Your pocket.

[@gwizdolby]

This is a joke for the stupid people by the way. Or is it?

[@RallyRacingVideo]

@gwizdolby Hello again, please are there any chances to get some more information about the aircraft we talked under another video? Thats a big passion of me, would love to have a chance to talk with you. Please.

[@gnarwhale]

Fuck yeah

[@big_hamisch768]

Love you guys, i may only be 25, but as an southern born, chicago raised, educated country boy who didnt have a smart phone till i was 20, i relate to y'all a whole lot. Would love to hear your thoughts on whats goin on in Ukraine in the next one.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Entertaining

[@narsil1984]

History is mentioned, so to clear out the usual misconceptions: - people did brush their teeth. Less effectively and dental hygiene was an issue obviously. - the life expectancy stuff is NONSENSE. First of all, the average was mid 30s if I recall correctly. So no, in your 20s, you werent essentially dead. Also, the entire reason the AVERAGE is so low is that child mortality was insanely high. Childbirth itself was risky, survival between the ages 0-2 was low (it might have been as bad as 1 in 2 but dont quote me on the exact number). Even after early infancy, it was still higher than what we have today. The result is that people had more children to have a chance to get a few to adulthood, which was also important cuz adult children were caretakers of the elderly (as in many cultures today still). That however also impacts mortality among women, who would have 10 or more pregnancies in their lives, with more risks than today at every stage. All of that together means you had alot of people die young. But when someone reached adulthood, they could go on to live a long life frequently, 60s+ wouldnt have been out of the ordinary at all. Obviously, very old people wouldnt be as frequent but exist still.

[@Sem5626]

man dying light 2 was such a dumpster fire of a game

[@thaddeusbeadle6546]

Just so people know, people's teeth didn't used to rot out because their diet consisted of so much less sugary and processed foods. Dental issues didn't really arise until the early 20th century.

[@a.garcha199]

Agreed with pyrion on dying light 2, it sucks. I loved DL1 alot. This game has zero difficulty, literally no likeable characters, way way way way too much dialogue, and they turned it from a game more survival based to this RPG bullshit. AC did the same, it sucks. Adding hp bars to every game and these shitty 1 percent stst boost gear pieces sucks.

[@vandlol]

First!