Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "Metatron" channel.

  1. Wait you're not supposed to actually spend it all on salt and eat it!
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  2. ​ @Laurence0227  I don't think that's so much the case. Even in countries where brothels are legal (I am Dutch, you can just walk to a brothel at any hour here if you want to), porn is still FAR more popular. It's cheaper and more private and much lower effort. I don't think Romans would be surprised by the prevalence of porn at all when they realise that you can show moving pictures of that quality to anyone instantaneously. Porn is so obvious that it basically existed the very moment it was possible. It's quite literally human nature to seek sexual enjoyment.
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  3. Well, we do use it for all the good reasons as well. We don't just watch cats and argue with idiots. Most of the time we don't actually. In fact I think that as soon as they actually start to understand how prevalent smart phones are and how much we use them, that the way we use them is actually very easy to understand for a Roman. They probably would do the same things if they had access to them. Entertainment has always been a major drive for humanity and debate would be very understandable for a Roman.
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  4.  @GuukanKitsune  Yes, I know that (it's where the word salary comes from for example). The joke was just that, like @loganshaw4527 said, eating too much salt can cause a heart attack. So it was a joke made by taking your obvious figure of speech literally. But jokes are hard to get sometimes in written form.
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  5.  @Enyavar1  That's not really true though. Wood is still an afforable easily accessible resource. It's just far less efficient than steel is for making ships (and a lot of other things as well, wood is actually not that great from a pure material science perspective). It's more expensive and less effective (wooden ships have a lot more drag than steel ships, so it either costs a lot more fuel to get somewhere or you're going a lot slower). The prevalance of steel over wood really only happened after the invention of the bessemer process (which made steel significantly cheaper). Before that ships where made of wood, and forests where actually less in number and size at that time compared to the contemporary world. Brittania ruled the waves after all, despite the UK being famously laking in wooded land (forests in the UK are quite rare, it has been barren for literal millenia after most has been chopped down before even the Romans arrived in Britain). You don't actually need a lot of forest to make a ship. While I won't deny that pollution hasn't been a thing, forests are actually not really less in number than they were during Roman times (at least in Europe, we can't really say the same thing for South America for example), wood for building doesn't actually require that much land. Most forests were destroyed when humans started the practise of farming, because burning forests made for excelent farmland (and still is, most of the amazon that we are losing is not chopped for the wood, but burned for the farmland to grow crops). So a very large portion of human destruction of forested areas happened well before the roman times, and in the last century there actually have been fairly sizable efforts to reforest Europe and the amount of forested land has vastly increased, not decreased over the last century.
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  6. ​ @northvalley06 games have grown so much more in content value than the price. Just look at a game from the early 2000s. Modern games have 10x the content but are barely more expensive. Games are still insanely cheap. And that's the reason why all these gotcha mechanics exist in games. Making games is way too expensive that just a buying price of 50-70 dollars/euros cannot cover the costs. Contrary to public belief, games actually don't make that much money, there are tons of jobs in IT where you can make so much more money than in game companies. And if you don't like it, don't buy it. But don't act like you have some kind of moral right to cheap good games. You don't. I much prefer them raising the price than adding gambling mechanics into a game. THAT is an immoral practice that deserves all the criticism. But please stop this bullshit, you do not have a right to games. All you can do is be glad that there's an industry that is willing to provide them. And if you don't like the way they are priced, you don't have to do that. You do have that freedom.
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  7. He was a trained swordsman before he came to Japan. He didn't have to learn swordsmanship in 15 months from the Japanese. In fact, the fact that he already travelled several parts of the world, means that he had the relatively unique position of having learned several vastly different fighting styles, rather than only Japanese swordsmanship. If anything he had the unique position to have a huge advantage to become a better swordsman than anyone around him. There's absolutely no reason to assume that Japanese swordfighting styles are somehow better than other styles of combat.
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  8. Best way to defend against being killed: dont piss of people so bad they try to kill you. Unless you are extremely unlucky that you become the victim of a serial killer (and serial killers are super rare, luckily) you pissed of someone extremely badly if they are trying to kill you. Just be nice, by far the best self defence. Maybe someone tries to threaten you for money or something, well in that case you should run, and if you somehow can't because he/she is faster, well at least its not a concealed blade issue, so some techniques might actually work (although i agree its still bloody difficult). I like you videos, but I find it rather concerning that you wear armour because you are expecting people to commit intentional murder, which is extremely rare. It means you have either pissed of some really dangerous people really badly or you are aperrently on the safe side in an extreme way that is borderline phobic. For you I honestly hope it is the latter one. I do have to say I live in a very low crime rate nation, maybe things are different in some cities in the world, but still the likelyhood of entering a 'knife fight' or whatever you would call it, is extrely unlikely without provoking it. If you somehow get attacked by a attacked rapist or mugger, I would run away if I could and if I couldnt i would let them take my stuff, and probably even would let me get raped, if the only other choice is almost certain death. And the likelihood of gatting raped is also incredibly small, although that of course does not take away its horror. It is terribly and I firmly believe we should do everything in our power as a society to stop this from happening. But rearanging your daily life for something that is (expecially for a male) so incredibly rare seems crazy from my point of vieuw. I really can't follow your reason. Please understand that I do not desire to attack you personally, since don't know you. I just really don't understand why someone would go to such great lengths for something so unlikely.
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  9. Unpopular opinion here: Splinter Cell conviction was a really cool game. I don't get this hate for trying to innovate a series. Why would you want more of the same game? I mean if you want the older splinter cell experience, you can just play that game. I liked that they tried to send things in a different direction, it creates an actual new game, not just more missions for the same one.
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  10. So is Tortuga. Basically all the places are real in Pirates of the Caribbean.
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