Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Modern History TV" channel.

And then he gives up halfway through and starts saying "shit" anyway.
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It's also very useful as a sound effect reel if you are making a game or tabletop RPG campaign!
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I had a very similar experience. There are things you can dump on "the pile" as well to reduce the smell very significantly. Lime was used in the outhouse I went to and it was quite bearable. The most annoying part was the rough wooden seat and the flies.
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The part where he looked at the camera was the best. It was as if he was saying, "Can you believe this guy is still talking after he said 'now I'll stop talking?'"
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That game has incredible attention to detail and is more "true to life" than any medieval RPG I've ever played. After reading Franz Schmidt's diary, a famous executioner from late medieval Germany, an offhand line I heard one of the characters say about "the executioner lives outside of town, which is proper as I'm sure you know" suddenly made a lot of sense. The only thing that bothered me slightly was the fact that, while it does try to portray everyone as religious (as they definitely were), they use God's name in vain way too frequently. I believe people used euphemisms quite frequently, and saying "Jesus Christ!" as a swear was almost as bad then as dropping an F-bomb is today.
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There is really a simple answer to any nonsensical use of money throughout history, which is to flaunt your wealth to everyone else. Yes, my castle gets covered in shit stains and I have it whitewashed monthly, what's it to you?
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Daneaxes were quite large. But still smaller than most fantasy axes. There was also no double-bladed axe, at most that would be used for woodcutting, and it was designed for convenience (one blade was sharp for trimming wood, and one was dull for felling trees)
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@Mitchell Meyer It's usually overestimated how dirty things were back then. Yes they didn't understand germs at all, but visually they wanted their house to look nice and nobody liked bad smells or dirt. Plus they had plenty of time on their hands (compared to how people consider time nowadays) and used it to clean, a lot. To this day cast iron cookware is cleaned without dish soap and people aren't dying from it. All you need to clean cookware is hot water and a good abrasive.
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He's wearing his arming jacket, which as far as I can tell is basically the minimum you'd need to wear for the armor not to chafe.
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I've heard that medieval physicians actually knew what diabetes was and how to diagnose it. They would ask the patient to urinate and then taste their urine. If it was sweet, it would therefore have undigested sugar in it, and it would mean they had diabetes (which I've heard was called "honey disease" at the time). Although they didn't know the inner workings of insulin, the pancreas, and so on, they did know that sweet urine was a symptom of serious problems and would recommend the diet be changed accordingly
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@buckshots2dabrain859 Again, for woodcutting, yes. There isn't a reason why you would want to add more unnecessary weight to your fighting weapon.
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Then you should be glad, since most people died of disease or other causes before they got to the battlefield.
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@Bluecho4 better, you could make it a story of intrigue by claiming you were pushed out illegitimately by someone in the guild who didn't like you. then it could be a quest that the party does later
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@buckshots2dabrain859 It was used as a symbolic weapon in artwork. There is no proof it was ever considered a serious weapon in war time, otherwise it would have been produced in greater numbers as a weapon. Of course, anyone can use anything as a weapon in war. Peasants have used flails for threshing grain as weapons. To argue that this makes them "weapons of war" is extremely pedantic. Another good example is the existence of nunchaku martial arts (rice threshing flails). The purpose is still hotly debated today, because the nunchaku are so obviously impractical as a weapon that one must wonder why a martial art was ever developed for them. A solid stick carved from hardwood would easily be a superior weapon.
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@bjorgthebarbking Believe it or not Oblivion isn't even the only game with horse armor DLC. Kingdom Come Deliverance had it as well.
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it's called licensing, that's what's replaced guilds
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@Arkantos117 you were talking about shady tradesmen, that's what both guilds and licensing were designed to prevent not sure why you would want price fixing to make a return, which is the other thing that guilds were known for
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@Arkantos117 i feel like you're resorting to completely uncalled for ad hominem, but okay, i've owned a home for 7 years boy oh boy people sure do be getting hostile for absolutely no reason
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I've heard greens and yellows were cheap and easy to make.
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@edi9892 I was referring to dye for clothes specifically.
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@buckshots2dabrain859 Source?
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@Arkantos117 cool, so now let me ask you why it took several lines of pointless bickering before you said something relevant to the topic? you could have just stated that last paragraph in your last post and it would have saved us both a tremendous amount of time but instead you wanted to talk about my home ownership practices also you're not so much complaining about licensing and industry standards as much as you are complaining about the modern legal system. i would hope you understand that swift justice necessitates a lack of vetting and due process which would, on the whole, be quite bad. grass is always greener on the other side, so unless you have a time machine, i'm going to doubt that guilds were "much more effective"
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@Mentocthemindtaker There is definitely some truth to that video but I think the quality of food is exaggerated a bit. I've heard that salmon were actually quite unhealthy (as in, the salmon themselves were unhealthy before they died) because of river pollution from medieval industry. Specifically in the Thames. Yeah, pollution was a concern back then, especially when everyone lived around a river that was also fished from. The vegetables and fruit from their farms were probably top quality though. I mean, it's completely organic, the stuff you'd pay extra for now.
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Jules Juerez They didn't die for the same reasons. It was usually due to extenuating circumstances, like diseases being passed through the food. We've eliminated those things, but we've replaced most of the food with over-refined stuff. Not all peasants ate that healthy though. Processed meats and sausages were very common in central Europe and aren't that healthy for you, plus you never knew what went in them. There was no FDA or regulation (technically there was for some things, but it's difficult to enforce when the Lord's men take half a week to march there). The bread was, however, much better for you.
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