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🏳️‍⚧️ she/they 🏳️‍⚧️ | suffolk | over 18 | bitches hate me for my rigid adheral to the rome statute (killing civilians is bad)
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my tags:

"bacony art" is for my art.

"baconyposting" is for my non-art original posts.

"asks" is for me responding to your asks.

"the bacony cakes official gigantic monolithic imaginary universe thing" is the tag for my universe i made up.

"png'd" is for pngs i make.

"scandalous imagery" is for art reblogs that are well, scandalous. filter it if you don't wish to see them!

"bacony's unwise ramblings" is similar to the above but for baconyposts (original posts).

i also do trick-or-treating all year round.

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prokopetz

Director's commentary bonus feature that periodically pops up a choice of what to "ask" the director to talk about next, and as it goes along it very gradually becomes apparent that you're playing a visual novel about dating the director implemented entirely via DVD menus.

What I'm getting from the notes is that a lot of you really want to play a visual novel about dating Guillermo del Toro.

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prokopetz

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons character #137: greatsword-wielding barbarian who refuses to give up their sword when entering areas where weapons of war are banned on the grounds that, owing to certain specific details of the construction of its blade and hilt, according to the laws of the land their sword is technically a pocketknife. They are willing to explain the particulars at length.

It's widely believed (though possibly disproven? I don't recall precisely) that this was the reason behind the invention Langesmesser! People were allowed to carry knives but not swords, so they invented a sword that legally fit into the category of knives.

Though, again, that's just the pop belief, it may not be the precise history.

Yes and no.

While it's generally agreed that the peculiarities of the langesmesser's construction were originally motivated by the need to conform with, or circumvent, a specific legal definition of what a "sword" is, there's no evidence that civilian ownership of swords was ever restricted in this way during the period; what surviving records we have seem to indicate that those German city-states which banned civilians from owning or carrying swords of war did so based simply upon the blade's overall length, not upon the details of its construction.

So the TL;DR is that we're pretty sure the langesmesser is (or at least originally was) constructed to be technically-not-a-sword, but we have no idea why.

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4skindjinn

My theory based on nothing but pattern recognition: Tax Evasion

Honestly, probably not a bad guess.

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narthted

My understanding is that its existence is a matter of the guild system and only certain guilds being allowed to make swords and others being allowed to make knives but not swords. So the cutlery guild or whatever made what were technically knives that were big enough to use as swords.

Also plausible, but as I understand it, purely speculative; if that is the reason, nobody at the time wrote anything down about it.

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lithominium

why would they actually write down that they're evading taxes

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prokopetz

Getting upset that a piece of media you've never seen is losing a social media poll to a different piece of media you've also never seen because you're fandom adjacent and you prefer the first one's vibes.

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fagknowledge

Walter wide was many things but it is extremely funny how he neglected his own flesh and blood teenage son in order to be an even worse father to a wholly different guy

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generalluxun

Thing is- it works both ways. The chat can see the streamer in the other world. A few DM each other, they're all seeing it. It looks real. What if it is real? What if the streamer asks questions they don't know the answer to? What if the stream goes down?

You have the streamer on one side living in a world completely alien to them, trying to survive. You have this group of mostly randos to each other on the otherside, suddenly invested in becoming a better support team than the apollo crew had. There are shifts, people buy reference materiels, some are trying to code redundancies or find a way to move the stream to a safer network.

“Chat how do I invent modern medicine. No I’m serious. I need modern medicine like right now, this guys gonna die from like the common cold because no one knows what ibuprofen is… ‘Alchemist Andy’ Hahaha! No, no no- chat it’s not funny I’m really stuck here in like middle earth! ‘-2’ oh come on! Guys the dark Lord is coming with his army of darkness and dragons that spew lightning what do I do! …no chat I’m not- Pfftt hahah! Chat! I’m not gonna put on the dark helm of Malakor! ‘Why not?’ Because it’s obviously evil! I’m gonna put this on and it’s gonna possess me and I’m gonna start spewing black bile and going ‘all hail the dark lord!’ …no chat I can’t!- okay fine I’ll put it on for like two seconds to see what happens.”

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