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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

From this channel.

I actually love this guy's channel, but this almost made me spit beer on my keyboard. It's all about blacksmithing and medieval weaponry and military technology and afaik he doesn't seem to be a chud.

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[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago

panting

Been watching Matt Easton for over a decade and Tod for many years too, and I've never heard either of them say anything chuddy. It's always the ones that aren't in a HEMA club and are mostly in it because of the aesthetics that are problematic. The sword geeks are really nice for the most part

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

Yeah they are great. Stumbled upon them because of my blank slate youtube algorithm and it being one of the channels the office VPN doesn't block on my work computer lol. Him and that brit twink archery guy are awesome. I think they have done crossovers too.

[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

I started off with Skallagrim when I was a teen and then started discovering all those other channels through those collaborations. Recently found SellswordArts through the twink archery guy and having a blast with their silliness.

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

lmao @ the fact that I said "twink archer guy" and everyone just automatically knows who I am talking about.

Edit: LMAO

[-] context@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

who else would it be? are there more twink youtube archers?

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

and if there are please share kbity

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

idk if there are but if so pls link

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

What about the twink blacksmith?

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

...Alec Steele? Never thought about it but he is, isn't he

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Especially grading on the blacksmith curve

[-] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

The archer twink is definitely a leftist of some flavor

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

You gotta watch Dequitem. He puts on plate armor and puts these theories to action with real blunt steel duels.

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

Definitely will. I need all the SFW slop I can get. Soulless office job and when I am not covering for people with way higher salaries I am usually just sitting there reading game journo sites and watching innocent youtube slop.

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Love when they do weird weapons. It seems to me that people who do experimental archaeology like the arrows vs armour stuff are more likely to be okay politically, might be a selection bias from me though

[-] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you might not want to look into Shadiversity...

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Shadiversity

Dude has extremely bad vibes to me so I've never watched any of them

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I love that they debunked the debunking fire arrows stuff. I fuckin knew they were real!

But like seriously I knew all about the ways they made those payloads because adjacent to my history studies I also studied medieval weapons tech and knew all about how they solved the problem of keep the flame alight in flight at speed. People take the fact that advanced physics didn't exist and just assume people couldn't just figure some stuff out based on incomplete knowledge of first principles of physics.

Nobody knew exactly why a trebuchet was more effective than a simple catapult but they figured it out and it worked and it was adopted widely because it was effective. Nobody knew exactly why flaming arrows would go out before reaching a target, but understood the utility of such a breakthrough and figured it out through a primitive use of the scientific method.

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

After smug ass ukkk incel LindyBeige did a video just going off vibes of 'no this couldn't happen' it became such a popular gotcha about archery, Todd coming in and demonstrating not only did they have these weapons they had advanced chemistry to make it happen was beautiful.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

LindyBeige lacks Todd's bear-like physique and would never be allowed in the shield wall. Also I bet he couldn't draw a longbow

[-] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you might not want to look into Shadiversity...

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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