That’s interesting. Do you manage to land those hits consistently once the element of surprise is gone? I also practice historical fencing (but I mostly do arming sword and langes messer, though I’ve occasionally dabbled with rapier), and my experience has been that taller people usually have the reach advantage.

Ducking and thrusting straight ahead of you makes basic geometry work in your favour for compensating the reach disadvantage (your arm has a 90° angle giving you maximum range), but it also massively exposes your head of your first hit doesn’t land, and prevents you from using footwork for a few seconds. Once your opponent’s has figured out your strategy it would seem like he would just have to stay a bit out of reach and counter-attack/riposte while you recover from your ducking

I would hoard hobbyist supplies and then never use them

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I love how overexplained this wrong answer is

They’re both inside me at the same time?

Or at least he would have made it less convenient to touch with your hands, like placing it in the middle of your back or something

Same, my first reflex was to quickly search for NATO

I hate that so much. “Oh, this hobby only brings you joy and happiness? Don’t you know you could make money out of it?”

If I saw a name like that for an astrolabe inventor in fiction I’d say the author was lazy

Wearing masks to hide their identities in case of capture? Am I missing something or is there a reason why their captors wouldn’t just remove their masks?

Edit : I’m dumb. It’s to protect EACH OTHER’s identities in case one of them is captured. My bad

If the US military ever obeys an illegal order from Trump to invade an ally country, then I’m afraid Trump’s not the only one to blame

Can’t wait to see how the EU officials will excuse this one

There’s so much to say about Brigitte Macron, like the fact she dated and then married one of her students while he was still a minor, or the fact that she has deep connections with France’s far-right and keep pushing her husband towards more and more conservative positions. And yet all those idiots can think about is the genitals she was born with.

Happened to me in real life and it really changed my perspective for some reason. I was at a bar with a group of people I recently met, and one of them asked me what I do. I sighed internally and started answering the premade answer I give everyone, explaining my job and the company I work for. He cut me off and told me “Yeah yeah that’s great, but what do you DO?”. I was taken aback for a second, and then I started telling him what I do for fun, what my hobbies were, etc. It really turned a boring icebreaker into a genuine conversation

Yeah, that veneer of good intentions and plausible deniability hiding the fact that the US has always been a warmongering country was the basis of its position as a world leader. Now it’s gone, and the bare, ugly truth is right there for anyone to see

Weirdly enough : Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. It’s an absurdly long game, each run lasting for more than 75 hours, but it ends like half an hour after your unlock the last level for your characters and you basically never get to experience playing as a true late-game party. I never played the DLCs though, so maybe that’s no longer true

Saying the quiet part out loud as always I see

The world’s biggest military superpower is now apparently willing to just kidnap anyone they don’t like, anywhere in the world, ignoring international law. That’s so fucking terrifying that I’m at a loss for words

Cowards

You laugh, but if any nation was able to plan all their decisions that far in the future we wouldn’t be in the middle of a climate crisis. Too bad that specific long-term decision was not the most useful