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Hey @dimonds456 genuinely what the fuck how are you such an insanely good poet and on a meme post /pos. I want to eat your writing skills.

i made these images the other day i need to keep them somewhere

Our knight’s biggest hobby: eat

I need a scene where they all hang out with each others and just chill

There's so many good combos in the game it feels like I'm playing a 2000s dress up game with link but this combo is prolly my 2nd favorite and definitely my attacker. The long hair and blupee noise gives the firece diety armor alot more of a mystical feeling plus the rupee padding saves a few hearts but it's more for looks cuz I never get hit ;)

So my husband is back on his medieval warfare and tactics special interest lately, and he was telling me about how so many battles were lost because the knights would just disobey orders and break ranks because they got too excited and just went full Leroy Jenkins. Prey drive switches on and they see somebody running and they just blank out and go.

Which seemed really dumb to me, like people couldn’t be that stupid, until I got walloped in the face by a memory from freshman year of college.

It’s almost 10pm in the dead of winter right before Finals, I’m out at college in a high altitude desert in the biggest city I’ve ever been in during my life. My dorm is on the second floor of one of the newest buildings, which are still surrounded by construction zones for the other new buildings going up. Just past the construction zones is one of the city’s major roads. There is still snow on the ground outside, the sidewalks are ice and rock salt, and the parking lot is a slush pile. (All of this is relevant in a minute I swear, stay with me here.)

We get a knock at the door. One of my roomies answers it. There’s 2 creepy looking muscle dudes asking for another roommate, E. E is creeped out and doesn’t want to go see them, but they won’t leave, insisting they see her and talk to her out in the hall. My spider senses are tingling, the social anxiety override kicks in, and I go full Mom Friend and ask them who they are and how they know her. And dudes just take off for the stairwell.

And I took off after them.

I need y’all to understand that I was an asthmatic at altitude in a mountain city in winter at night in shorts and a t-shirt and no shoes whatsoever, and I somehow made it down two flights of stairs, out the door, down the sidewalk, across a construction zone, across the parking lot, and halfway to the road screaming at two beardy dudebros twice my size to “get back here you little creeps”, all before I had consciously realized that I had left my apartment. Something about watching two creepy guys run for it triggered something in me, some latent instinct to Search and Destroy. Like Fight or Flight but I wasn’t the one being threatened, they were the ones doing the Flight, and I had this deep, ferocious need to FIGHT.

I full on blanked out, y’all. I literally have no memory of getting down the stairs or across the parking lot or anything at all until I was watching the headlights on the road thinking “wait, where are my shoes?” It’s a little black hole. I was in the apartment, they took off running, and then bam, there I was. It was like an out of body experience, I was hearing myself shout at them and thinking “I sound like such an idiot right now omg,” and then I realized What I Had Done.

Not only was it stupid, it was super dangerous. Even aside from all the environmental dangers, if they were some kind of kidnappers they could totally have snatched me. And yet there I was, barefoot in the snow and road salt with no phone, no inhaler, and I was still hollering after them like a dog on a chain when one of my roommates came down in boots and a coat to drag me back inside.

And honestly? I’m still miffed I never caught the guys. That was my takeaway from that incident.

So yes, I believe it now. People are so unbelievably dumb and the prey drive instinct is absolutely real.

@shizonrhu

@we-are-knight

Thoughts? I have had a few experiences like this before, and you seem the type to enjoy this story.

Yeah, this happened. Actually contributed toward the loss for the French at Agincourt.

It also contributed to Queen Zenobia’s loss to Aurelian’s legions at the battle of Emesa. Her infantry broke part of Aurelian’s lines and continued to pursue, drawing them out of formation and into flanking position by Aurelian’s reserves.

Ancient field-warfare relied very heavily on infantry maintaining formation, as a solid wall of heavy infantry like hoplites, phlangites, or legionaries lined up with weapons and shields ready was a formidable obstacle on any battlefield. One tactic was to try to goad them into breaking formation using archers, skirmishers, and other ranged units. Even though legionaries and hoplites and similar units wore heavy armor and bore heavy shields that were largely resistant to projectiles, lighter ranged troops might be able to piss them off enough to pull them out of formation and into a trap or flanking maneuver. 

The first time I ever came face to face with a bear I was having a conversation with a roommate outside our rented house in Asheville north carolina. Its head popped up over the hood of my roommates van and we looked at each other and I think I said “… that’s a bear!”

Next thing I know I’m at a full sprint in my neighbor’s yard with an axe in my hand chasing the bear into the woods and I stopped and slid like a fucking cartoon character and said out loud to myself “what the FUCK are you doing?”

I honestly don’t think I had a conscious thought until some part of my brain realized that the bear was way faster than me and I wasn’t going to be able to catch up.

Exit pursuing a bear. Legend status.

Really. So much of army stuff is just teaching people to follow commands at all times, under all conditions. Because human beings are bad at that! (So are most other creatures, so it’s not a human thing per se.) This is the reason for drill, repetitive training, development of muscle memory, strict hierarchy, and insistence that you can’t question the chain of command no matter what.

This drive is so intrinsic that “this army is inexperienced, they’ll chase us if we run” or similar ruses were FREQUENTLY used to massive tactical advantage.

This is both useful reference for my writing and an absolutely hysterical set of anecdotes, so thank you all

This is exactly how it went down at the Battle of Hastings (which is mostly famous because it’s the subject of the epic Bayeux Tapestry). Harold (the loser) had the high ground and superior numbers but his forces were undisciplined and fell for the “pretend to be scared and run away” trick multiple times.

God I LOVE “primal human instinct” things. Love love love them.

very important scientific test

I am not forklift certified.. ITS ME AND @lordsooga WITH OUR YIGA COSPLAYS AAHHHHH

Glory to Master Kohga!

A few months ago, I joined an art competition

Unfortunately, I did not win. So I figured I’d post it here

super special award for every1 who survived 🥇

i think we're all so brave, actually

i made a version for the americans so they don't feel left out

i made a version

for the americans so

they don’t feel left out

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

TODAY

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

I gotta take my chances

oh i get it. they're not even being subtle about it huh. red eyes, "why do you look like metal sonic". okay. okay

Concept for a Sonic Metal Virus Game:

In the comics everyone gets infected with a „Metal Virus“, created by Dr Eggman. It spreads with physical contact and turns every living organism infected with it into metallic husks with no ability of complex thinking, kinda like Zombies. For simplicities‘ sake, they’re called „Zombots“. Sonic gets infected fairly early but discovers a way to fight off the infection by going high speeds. It doesn’t completely heal him though, but it’s enough to help civilians (by fighting off Zombot Herds, not carrying the civilians, he STILL can spread the virus, even if he isn’t fully transformed yet). He is forced to maintain this high speed to not get fully transformed, which in turn makes it harder again for him to help civilians, which often causes a dilemma. Risk getting transformed but helping more people, or getting cleaner himself but risking losing more innocent people?

Now to the actual game:

Sonic will be infected right off the start in a cutscene for narrative purposes. That means in the gameplay he will be in the constant state of infection. This would be visualized by a Metallic texture slowly covering Sonic’s model. To fight off the infection the player is required to go a certain speed or surpass it. If not, the infection will takeover, the slower you go, the faster you get transformed. If you get fully taken over you die. Basic premise for this is basically „GO FAST“.

Now comes the fun part, STRATEGY

In the comics, each contact with an infected person will speed up Sonic’s infection process, forcing him to be rather careful with how he approaches combat and evacuation of the people.

In Gameplay this could be done via an infection counter or multiplier. The more enemies you attack the faster the infection spreads. This would force the player to strategize.

For the sake of this staying a high speed platformer and not a tower defense game, the dilemma I talked about earlier will be altered into „Do I attack and keep moving or slow down and find another path“.

This means that in a stage, the player will have to strategize to what the optimal option is.

A: Keep running the route you‘re on and tank a hit on your multiplier, which in return gives you less time to breath if you slow down, or

B: Risk slowing down and finding an alternate path around the Zombots.

This incentives the player to not only train reaction speed and thinking, but also incentives learning the level layout and enemy placement. Ideal for a game of Sonic’s nature, meant to replayed multiple times.

Maybe I‘ll get into multiple playable characters later if I have the motivation to do so.

Just wanted to get into detail to what my ideal Metal Virus game would look like 👍 . Matthasnocuts (a Youtuber) mentioned smth like this, and now that the comics are canon to the games I wanted to flesh it out a bit.

(Nobody‘s gonna read this LMAO)

hoping I'll finish this one day but the chances are. slim. anyways I am thinking about my headcanon that repeatedly burning off the metal virus seriously damaged sonic's fur and it's now fairly thin and brittle. he gets cold a lot more easily!! tails has his back tho

you know how companies test of their products are kid proof by unleashing a class of kindergarteners on it? or to test if it's bear proof they send it to yellowstone to let the bears attack it? tails does this with sonic

tails: hey wanna see of you can break this?

sonic: YES

and then tails watches and takes notes as sonic goes ham on it. sonic also fills out a survey afterwards of anything he noticed that tails should look at

this is canon btw

I want to eat the chao fruit so fucking bad

these would fix me

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tails wants to frolic and play in the rain, but sonic does NOT want to join

Be careful what it takes

11/18/20

Sonic Frontiers is good...