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Spreading your religion non-violently is white privilege.
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Hi, I'm BcAugust54, and I'm a titanic faggot!
I love how he can't actually answer Rupert's logic (I'm sure there's extenuating reasons, like, y'know, pee-oh-sees and women not being as reliable in certain positions as white men) so he just calls him a racist and bans him.
I love how he can't actually answer Rupert's logic (I'm sure there's extenuating reasons, like, y'know, pee-oh-sees and women not being as reliable in certain positions as white men) so he just calls him a racist and bans him.
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The other two thread replies are even better. "That's racist and it's not my job to educate you" and "Yes, corporations are so racist that they would rather set money on fire than hire black women".
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Corporations will beat down the door of any remotely qualified minority.The other two thread replies are even better. "That's racist and it's not my job to educate you" and "Yes, corporations are so racist that they would rather set money on fire than hire black women".
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See, his sin here was not wrongthink, it was inadvertently begging a question that would lead to wrongthink.
“Wait, why WOULD corporations shut out women if they could immediately slash their overhead by 23%?”
“Wait, why WOULD corporations shut out women if they could immediately slash their overhead by 23%?”
Wallace
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It sure sounds to me like the poster was right, as BcAugust54 is projecting his own neuroses here and putting his words into the poster's mouth. This happens a lot on NPCnet, probably because it's a great way to assign malicious intent to people.
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Interesting to note this is apparently only a "Western culture" thing. Anyone know much of how the psychiatric profession is viewed in the East? Given the working standards I hear are rife in Japan and the cuddly warmth the CCP shows its citizens I would have thought that the only reason the same skepticism does not exist there would be because it's worse but the mod seems to think differently.
"Or there may be further consequences down the line." Typed with one hand no doubt.
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So what do knights do when they're not out knighting around?
Tango Samurai is there with the hot take. AKAB!
Knights are just soldiers, right? Yeah I've watched Game of Thrones what of it?
Posters whose knowledge of the middle ages extends beyond watching A Knight's Tale weigh in.
Tango Samurai bows out in the most passive-aggressive way possible.
HE'S BACK! (to make a shitty pop culture reference)
More hot takes!
Isator tries vainly to maintain some semblance of historical accuracy.
Tango flounces out of the thread again after having his fun ruined by the bad meanie man.
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NerdShamer
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Long story, short; Knights are some rich guy's spoiled rich son who got sent to medieval boarding school for most of their childhood. During which, they learn how to fight and possibly lead an army. The more one fights, the more prestigious he gets. Eventually he gets his own plot of land that's on loan from the noble he served, he has his kids and the cycle repeats itself, provided that dear old dad didn't catch a morningstar to the head.
What these guys are describing sounds like either the tax collector or the rank and file, since a knight is supposed to be leading a column of soldiers and the average noble who would employ them should have an handful of them, at most.
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I don't think Tango's entirely wrong here. People tend to cling to the Arthurian legend when yeah, the Game of Thrones depictions are kinda closer to the mark.
And, as usual, you have retards like Isator Levie trying to apply 21st century thinking where it really wouldn't apply.
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Now it’s true that knights were often beholden to the whims of their lords, but the problem is that there is the obvious undertones of Tango’s sentiment that it’s bad to depict knights as being even remotely capable of making their own decisions instead of burning down a village just because their lord said so.
Also, I feel that Game of Thrones has caused people to overcompensate romanticist depictions of the medieval era with an overly-cynical interpretation that isn’t that much more accurate. It’s the equivalent of having all Sci-Fi become Warhammer 40k because you think Star Trek is too optimistic.
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Knights are still nobility, just shitty-tier nobility. A landed knight owned an estate and land along with whatever peasants and armsmen would be supported by it. Yes, feudalism does indicate that they have to do what someone higher on the totem pole tells them to, but they aren't just random schmucks with a lance to be bossed around to murder peasants. If a high-ranking noble wanted a bunch of peasants murdered, they could simply order their own ample supply of troops to go do it instead of threatening the local knights (who were probably related to them in any event, yay incest).
NerdShamer
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It was actually cheaper and more reliable to use your personal militia to take of a problematic village, since the knight's code of chivalry would probably get in the way of subjugating the commoners. Additionally, a knight was traditionally obligated for around 40 days of military service; but in practice, who knows?
But in feudal Japan, a samurai has the authority to summarily execute any peasant who disrespected him, along with anyone who refused to yield the road to his lord's caravan. This doesn't happen on a daily basis, but it did lead to Japan being bombarded when a foreigner refused to get off his horse.
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Also their offspring didn't inherit their title, hence shitty-tier nobility.
There were a lot of rules as to when it was actually okay for a samurai to do this. In actual practice, it was pretty rare for samurai just to go around murdering commoners for annoying them, and those who did were generally despised.
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It's almost as if these were functional societies populated at every echelon by mostly sane people.
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Wallace
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They have (mis)-cited Karl Popper before too. Anything notable about Fred besides his TDS and hypocrisy?
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Citing him is the equivalent of citing TVTropes?
I read him back before he went to patheos. Even commented on his blog a bit because I thought it was a group of decent liberals (what an accurate preview of SJWs it was...) I don't recall any degrees or signs of Fred having any authority other than a blog people read. He was a "religious" person who's religion seemed to consist of liberal politics and his feelings with "Jesus" slapped on the label once in awhile.
Came across him because I was craving a critique of the "Left Behind" series (why did I read so many of them...) It is a dreadful series of books, the equivalent of the SJW cartoons but for the evangelicals. I was at least enjoying some of his critique of their bad writing though he'd tangent now and then.
Then one day, he went on awhile over a single sentence in the first book. A description of a woman left behind as wearing "sensible shoes."
L.B.: In these shoes?
Left Behind, pg. 411 In a rare display of economy and pacing, we skip directly from Chloe's midflight conversion to this at the beginning of the next
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Needless to say, that was the post that clued me in to how far up his own ass Fred was. As far as I can tell, the guy just sits around his house, pontificating. He never bothers trying to go outside and say... "applying" his ideas. Or at least, that's the impression.
And it's not just TDS, he had plenty of BDS long before Trump was even close to the white house.
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Knowing RPGnet, I'm surprised that Isator didn't eat a perma for "threadcrapping", maybe the other retard should have complained about being whitesplained to.
If you wanna run historical campaigns or brew settings inspired by history, read the slightest bit of actual history in the period you're interested in. Please do not base your campaign on throneshit.
First, please define "medieval knight". This term applies to people who lived from roughly 800-1600 across a whole continent.
Second, the above being said, knights were generally not brainless murderous thugs
Third, please stop comparing samurai to knights
Fourth, kiri-suite-gomen was a very tightly regulated practice. A samurai had to act immediately after being insulted, could only make one cut, could not perform a coup de grace, had to report the situation to a local Tokugawa official immediately, and he had better have a damn solid case as to how his honor was actually insulted. If a samurai just decided to kill a commoner for looking at him funny from across the street, he'd probably be ordered to kill himself and his descendants would be disinherited.
Second, the above being said, knights were generally not brainless murderous thugs
Third, please stop comparing samurai to knights
Fourth, kiri-suite-gomen was a very tightly regulated practice. A samurai had to act immediately after being insulted, could only make one cut, could not perform a coup de grace, had to report the situation to a local Tokugawa official immediately, and he had better have a damn solid case as to how his honor was actually insulted. If a samurai just decided to kill a commoner for looking at him funny from across the street, he'd probably be ordered to kill himself and his descendants would be disinherited.
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