ClinicallydepressedpoochieSince America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your midevel wishlist?
Sorcery baby, alchemy, sooth saying, baby. Come one come all ill cure what ails you. I’ll summon portals and turn lead into #gold.
CarbonIceDragonTo be fair, quacks that claim to be able to do magical stuff are still around, some do quite well well for themselves even
SanctusReceiving land for farting good.
PostProcessTrebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)
ZagorathNah you’re spot on there. Trebuchets are absolutely mediaeval.
Mediaeviael
you ok there bud?
I wish I could have seen that as it happened, live
PolandIsAStateOfMindInvented in ancient China.
… During the medieval period…
IV century BCE is not medieval no matter where you look at it.
I think when most people talk about trebuchets, they more specifically mean a counterweight trebuchet, which is first concretely attributed to the Ayyubids in the 12th century.
Well to be fair to the intended use of yeeting landlords, burgies and their political pawns over fairly large distances traction trebuchet would be much worse.
Ha! Good point.
Guillotines for kings
davelGuillotines.
chtkIt goes Yah
HubiThat wasn’t really a thing in medieval times. I’m afraid an axe will have to do.
Trebuchet?
TugOf course! It’s the superior siege engine.
Imagine using this for execution
ÆnimaEspecially when you could hold a vote, letting the people decide the method. One option: yeet the person from the trebuchet. The second: yeet something at them from a trebuchet!
Bring outchyo dead vote!!
Yeet a person at this person from a trebuchet!
First used in ancient China around IV century BC.
We can get tripantium though, advanced evolution of it invented in XIII century France.
We can get tripantium though, advanced evolution of it invented in XIII century France.
It was an instrument used by the burghers in bringing about the end of European feudal lordship, replacing the feudal mode of production with the capitalist one.
It’s okay, we’re getting rid of history lessons too!
This might fit in mediaeval times, with the earliest possible recorded use in the 13th century, but it’s certainly not well-known until the early modern period and most famous right on the border between early and late modern.
y’all qaeda had those on Jan6. They can have 'em.
Samurai sword. But, probably they all have those as well.
ScottAnd the billionaires will be the first to try it out!
atomicorangeSic semper tyrranis
I would love it if taverns became a thing again, but only if they kept the time period theme up.
Taverns kind of are a thing, they’re just called hotels now.
SemperverusUnfortunately they have a significantly lower focus on alcohol and food - a stark lack of mead and mutton in particular.
darklamerThey’re just called pubs nowadays and many of them are still in business, with drink, food and music downstairs, and rooms for sleeping upstairs.
The one in my neighbourhood is newly reopened and serves fancy craft beer these days, but the basics are actually pretty much unchanged since a tavern first opened in that house sometime in the 1640s.
The Old Trip To Jerusalem is still open since the 12th century [* claim]
Boomer Humor DoomergodHaving most of the year off for festivals and holy days
Good news: take up subsistence farming, no healthcare, no electricity, and make everything yourself, and you too can have half the year “off”.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
I mean the reality was that the time “off” was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you’ll quickly realize it’s a LOT of work.
pelespiritMeh,
- They had horrible healthcare they couldn’t afford and WE have horrible healthcare we can’t afford
- They spent a lot of time at festivals and with their communities helping each other and WE spend a lot of time chatting on our phones, but mostly playing games.
- They spent a lot of time outdoors doing a lot of work but keeping active, and we can sometimes go for hikes or walks, but we’re Americans, we as a whole, don’t.
- They knew how an could fix things around the farm, we can watch youtube videos unless it’s electronic or DRM.
- They had witch hunts and misinformation and WE have witch hunts and misinformation.
- All of the food they grew was organic but they had to grow it themselves and we have to pay an arm and a leg for non-poisoned food.
- They spent all day working for the king and we spend all day working for billionaires.
- They have poor starving people during famines, we have a too big percentage of poor starving people (13% of US population was food insecure during 2023).
- They had xenophobia and WE have xenophobia.
All of the food they grew was organic
Without someone inspecting the water and the soil, how organic was it? ♪♫ Hello typhoid my old friend… ♫♪
Except for that, yeah. We still have listeria outbreaks, etc. that kill people. It’s not like we’ve moved on from that, and that’s with all of the poisoned food to make it “safer.”
FaceDeerWhen you delve into the details of what those bullet points actually entailed, they were all far far worse in medieval times.
Medieval cooking sounds a little bit fun. Beside, maybe, all the slaughtering of animals and heavy use of entrails.
And gathering your own firewood, and water, and making twice as much to prepare for winter, and the strongly reduced options.
I mean yeah, it IS fun for a bit, I do medieval reenactment, obviously I enjoy it. But doing it every day absolutely sucks.
take up subsistence farming
Where?
Gotta buy land first. A good amount too if you want to grown most of your own. (Like 10 acres.)
Plenty of places you can do this. Put “homesteading” into a search engine of your choice and you’ll get more information on the topic than you can handle.
You’ll also pretty quickly realize its a very hard, tedious life and we have it pretty good in many ways in the modern world.
xavier666Japan sells rural land for cheap
ObiGetting the visa is another story though.
Depending on the state and one’s farming capabilities, some people could already be halfway there! At least part of the year
Is Alaska still giving away free land?
No, but it’s like a dollar per square meter if you’re remote enough…
So you think in order for people to not work their lives away we would have to take up subsistence farming? With all the tech and machines we have the only viable way to not be a company man is to give away all of the luxuries we currently have?
How’s that Kool aid tasting?
That’s not remotely close to what I think the world SHOULD BE like.
It is, unfortunately, what I think the world IS like.
lololaFree time