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The_Red_Viper
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Dazed.
Canada3301 Posts
On August 09 2017 21:23 Plansix wrote: Uhhh...we have tons and tons of tracts teaching people how to fight in battle, from sword fighting to horse riding. The noble population were broadly literate, who were the ones that made up the professional portion of the military. Most of what we know is inferred from written records with historical reliability, including eye witnesses.Or the text is straight up inaccurate or lies. There were no word processors or printing presses back in these eras, so the people writing the texts are not the same people that commanded the military. Much of what we believe about historical combat is inferred from artifacts. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 10 2017 03:28 Dazed. wrote: Uhhh...we have tons and tons of tracts teaching people how to fight in battle, from sword fighting to horse riding. The noble population were broadly literate, who were the ones that made up the professional portion of the military. Most of what we know is inferred from written records with historical reliability, including eye witnesses. Yes, and we have to take all of that with a grain of salt, just like all other primary source documents. Even when someone says they are an “eye witness” to an event, they may not be retelling the event with any accuracy. All history is constructed from imperfect information. That doesn’t mean we get everything wrong, just that we shouldn’t treat what we believe to have happened as objective fact. | ||
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Dav1oN
Ukraine3164 Posts
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B.I.G.
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There are also scripts that are just assumed to be wrong by historians because they can't see how it would be the case. There is this dude who pretty much debunked our modern view of medieval archers by proving how it is possible to shoot multiple arrows within 3 seconds or so. He's on youtube if you're interested, just look for "world's fastest archer" or something. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Ncutable
Romania99 Posts
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ThomasjServo
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On August 10 2017 20:12 Ncutable wrote: From Imgur (not mine obv): After seeing episode 7x03 I was wondering how Jon Snow was planning on mining the dragonglass and so I came up with this. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxsCCd9jjA Source I was expecting it to be cut with Zoolander. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17271 Posts
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Odoakar
Croatia1837 Posts
Loving the Bran, I'm not sure why some people are complaining about his emo behaviour. The guy can see everything that has happened and is happening, what's the supposed to say 'hey sis, you remember our old nanny?'. Bran no longer gives a fuck about anyone, all the people are insignificant in the wider picture that he is now able to see. | ||
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B.I.G.
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Cricketer12
United States13974 Posts
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Sent.
Poland9200 Posts
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farvacola
United States18828 Posts
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Darkdwarf
Sweden960 Posts
On August 09 2017 08:31 KwarK wrote: New Zealand pays studios to shoot there. That's why NZ happened. Tax credits. Tax credits are afaik a big part of why GoT started shooting in Spain as well. | ||
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usopsama
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nVme
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and effff sam | ||
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shin_toss
Philippines2589 Posts
Rip GoT meme | ||
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Chewbacca.
United States3634 Posts
On August 14 2017 10:59 nVme wrote: what was the scroll arya read? and effff sam Haha, one of the pluses of watching on HboGo, I can pause and read them. It looks to be the scroll that Cersei had Sansa write to Rob after Ned's beheading, where she asked for him to swear fealty to Joffrey...Or maybe that happened before the beheading..I forget. Plays into the opinion that Arya was already forming of Sansa just being desperate to be in power. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
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Some good scenes though as well (Dany burning the Tarlys, Tyrion and Varys talking about it, etc) Not entirely sure what the scroll said, it was from Sansa though and Littlefinger wanted Arya to see it. So i guess it was placed there to seed distrust, which apparently was already starting to grow (not sure how i feel about that, seems a bit forced) Sam's storyline was/is still bad, they really let him find all the information by accident, it's kinda stupid. Dany and Jon will 100% be a thing this season, Dany clearly wants Jon's king in the south | ||
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