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drow zelensky@dov.bsky.social |
One of the worst things that Game of Thrones has enabled (involuntarily) in a particular kind of almost exclusively male nerd is a permission structure for going UMM WELL ACTUALLY at "unrealistic" depictions of medieval life (which aren't even unrealistic, you're just an undereducated twat)
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ᴅᴏᴡɴ10⸻
@down10.bsky.social
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This is a television show that has dragons, yes?
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Jillian C. York 🍉
@jillian.bsky.social
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the worst thing it’s enabled is ruining Croatian cities
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Elsa
@notyourdove.bsky.social
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they also forget that drawing aesthetically on the popular imagination of medieval europe is not the same thing as being set in medieval Europe. as long as something isn't out of place with the rest of the setting, you can have things like potatoes and power looms also, why so few water/windmills?
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Land Moose
@landmoose.bsky.social
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You probably need this image more than I do
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Antonio Capicola
@chazornoquasar.bsky.social
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Ok but where are the farms
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this is ryan
@thisryan.bsky.social
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Especially maddening because the books are VERY concerned with medieval era TACTICS and the show is basically "IDK they all run towards each other screaming I guess" and you'd THINK these guys would be mad about that
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caffeine anxiety ego death
@mxdshipwreck.bsky.social
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In my experience far too many (male) nerds say "realistic" when they mean "dark, gritty, misogynistic and racist"
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@countanton.bsky.social
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But people had so much more free time than after industrialization— they went nuts when they lost saints’ days.
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Crungeoneer
@crungeoneer.bsky.social
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this has existed in nerdspace since the 1970s been putting up with "potatoes but no poc" as the default setting up till the last 10-15 years where the big-picture fanbase has become more mainstream and less racist
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Violet The Gummy Shark
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IDK, I'd say the massive central role of Christianity and its relationship with politics and legitimization of authority is extremely important in the IRL middle ages and if your RPG setting doesn't have a good parallel to that, might as well go nuts with whatever else.
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Zelnut ☕🍉✊ 🚩🏴
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A coworker from a previous job argued that "that's how it was back then," and I spent the rest of my time working with him asking him, with some frequency, about "historic Game of Thrones time" and asking if he was also an expert on the Flintstones era of history.
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drow zelensky
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@dayoldbaguette.bsky.social was just telling me about how a bunch of people responded to someone online looking for advice on what hobbies a medieval stasis commoner might have with UMM ACTUALLY IN FEUDAL SOCIETIES ONLY NOBLES GET TO HAVE HOBBIES I WOULD FIND IT UNREALISTIC
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Lizard
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The pop-culture pendulum keeps swinging between tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... and tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... .
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists
@dashwallkick.bsky.social
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there's a huge chain of connective tissue from "realistic" to "Aesthetically pleasing to me" and a lot of would-be fantasy nerds don't know how to make it work.
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Ace Creator
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I actually really love how realistic the dragons are.
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Blue Juice
@ericbertsch.bsky.social
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Why people enjoy "The House of Dragons" is beyond me. The sets are the same fake backgrounds as GOT, but the writing is utter crap. The whiney entitled white haired dude is intolerable. I avoid it now as if it were covid.
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Jellicoe Cats
@jellicoe-cats.bsky.social
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“They never bathed in medieval Europe!” Then why is the lute player reexamining his life choices?
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The Sasha
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And even when they are. If there are potatoes you don’t get to complain about it
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Jennifer Liang
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If it was historically accurate there would not be dragons. 🤦🏻♀️
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