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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149685 on: January 22, 2020, 07:34:11 pm »

Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flames (SLOW ACOUSTIC COVER... IN THE WATER)

When the Bard wants to be cool as hell but also maybe seduce the dragon.
One of the top comments for the video said something similar, when you want to slay a dragon but the bard decides to try and seduce it instead, paraphrased, maybe the words were in a different order
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149686 on: January 22, 2020, 07:35:02 pm »

Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flames (SLOW ACOUSTIC COVER... IN THE WATER)

When the Bard wants to be cool as hell but also maybe seduce the dragon.
One of the top comments for the video said something similar, when you want to slay a dragon but the bard decides to try and seduce it instead, paraphrased, maybe the words were in a different order

HA. I will be posting this regardless in my DnD discord.

We have a bard in our current game, you see.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149687 on: January 23, 2020, 02:00:12 am »

I realized while half asleep that I don't know what came between the printing press and the inkjet.
I know there has to be something there but I have no idea what it is
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« Reply #149688 on: January 23, 2020, 03:00:46 am »

Lithographs, flexo stamps, dot matrix printers, and laser printers. You're welcome.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149689 on: January 23, 2020, 03:05:22 am »

Also, old fashioned mimeograph machines.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149690 on: January 23, 2020, 03:11:41 am »

What's sad is that there was like 300 years of little innovation in the field; modern automatic printing is a surprisingly new invention.
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« Reply #149691 on: January 23, 2020, 03:14:34 am »

Not when you consider the stranglehold that was on information distribution, and the wildly disproportionate power allocations in place at the time.

It's a wonder Gutenberg was not assassinated, honestly.  Instead the church just tried to get super litigious.



Throw into that, rampant illiteracy for many generations, giving limited momentum to produce improvements.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149692 on: January 23, 2020, 03:59:01 am »

*insert doubt meme*

Contrary to the article there is the fact that the bible is one of the best selling / most printed books of all time according to the Guinness World Records, with ~ 5 billion sold copies as of 1995.

Though I can see the merit in the claimed effect on the nature of academics that did allow for a more "religious-free" higher education, it seems to me that having readily available and affordable copies  of the "approved information" was far more beneficiary to the church in the long run.
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« Reply #149693 on: January 23, 2020, 04:04:42 am »

I remember seeing stuff where they've found evidence that contradicts the hypothesis that all or most medieval peasants were illiterate, so I'd have to wonder what happened that would drastically lower literacy rates between then and the 1300's.

But then again, the Bible is in a special place in that just because you can't read doesn't mean you shouldn't have a Bible... It's more than just a text about religion, it is The Good Book, and is therefore both a status symbol and an item of worship.

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« Reply #149694 on: January 23, 2020, 04:08:55 am »

Catholic dogma asserts that lay people are not inducted into the deeper understanding of the meanings and messages behind Jesus's parables (partly due to Jesus saying he worded them explicitly to confuse the unwise), and thus should not be interpreting scripture on their own.

As a consequence, rather than having lay people read the bible and think/act for themselves, they wanted the lay people to always confer with a duly ordained member of the clergy, and get an official position.

Naturally, this lends toward a consolidated power structure.

Thus, the litigious shenanigans when people started getting books, especially the bible, without clerical involvement.
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« Reply #149695 on: January 23, 2020, 05:10:13 am »

Lithographs, flexo stamps, dot matrix printers, and laser printers. You're welcome.
Thank you :D
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« Reply #149696 on: January 23, 2020, 05:16:08 am »

My gym has recently launched a new marketing campaign; "Train your Brain!", which of course doesn't at all go into the actual neurological effects of exercise on the brain and instead mostly just rambles on about "You should workout and stuff because it's, um... Good! And if you do it enough, you can make a habit of it! That's double-good!"

Beyond that, the signs they've put up have some smug athletic person cheekily peeking up from the bottom of the poster Kilroy-style, and some meaningless little snippet like "Exercise lowers your blood pressure!"


At the gym itself though, there's a particularly egregious one that simply states "Working out has the same effect as antidepressants!"


Which... No. No it absolutely does not. The fuck.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149697 on: January 23, 2020, 07:18:16 am »

I remember seeing stuff where they've found evidence that contradicts the hypothesis that all or most medieval peasants were illiterate, so I'd have to wonder what happened that would drastically lower literacy rates between then and the 1300's.

But then again, the Bible is in a special place in that just because you can't read doesn't mean you shouldn't have a Bible... It's more than just a text about religion, it is The Good Book, and is therefore both a status symbol and an item of worship.

An enormous amount of what we "know" about the medieval and renaissance era was filtered through a very distorting Victorian-era lens. Even more is twisted by contemporary propaganda that later students took as fact.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #149698 on: January 23, 2020, 07:34:09 am »

Everything we know about the nefudvsk era us seen through a very distorted renaissancian lens to begin with

But relates to what Kagus said: The tunic alfabet is now thought to have stayed in use in parts of Sweden up until the 19th century (likely made unused by the public school system at that point).
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« Reply #149699 on: January 23, 2020, 08:54:35 am »

My gym has recently launched a new marketing campaign; "Train your Brain!", which of course doesn't at all go into the actual neurological effects of exercise on the brain and instead mostly just rambles on about "You should workout and stuff because it's, um... Good! And if you do it enough, you can make a habit of it! That's double-good!"

Beyond that, the signs they've put up have some smug athletic person cheekily peeking up from the bottom of the poster Kilroy-style, and some meaningless little snippet like "Exercise lowers your blood pressure!"


At the gym itself though, there's a particularly egregious one that simply states "Working out has the same effect as antidepressants!"


Which... No. No it absolutely does not. The fuck.

A lot of snake oil is health-related. And a lot of big companies in the health arena are snake-oil-based. Profit over all, you know. Vitamin C is one of the interesting cases there. There are 2 forms of vitamin C. There is an easy to extract version, which is less expensive because it's easier to extract, and a more difficult/more expensive version. Sometimes you see both in stores, with no explanation of why one is more expensive. Usually you only see the cheaper version that does absolutely nothing except get excreted. It's very good that (in the US at least) supplements and the like aren't regulated at all. Same reason you can get iron filings from breakfast cereal.
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