Comments by "Cestarian Inhabitant" (@cestarianinhabitant5898) on "Thoughty2"
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Not ninjato, but wakizashi. The samurai had them too (yes the same sword that is used for seppuku), they're short katanas, just as sharp.
It's a bit of an overstatement that knights were the most capable fighters of the middle ages, they were not, they certainly were the wealthiest though which is what allowed them to buy expensive armor. Vikings are also not as unceasingly violent brutes as you claim (I should know, I'm their descendant), they can easily be compared to the pirates. They were foremost tradesmen, certainly strong, but not particularly well trained or organized in combat, but they were probably fearsome for the same reason as the samurai, they had no fear of death in battle, in fact they wanted to die in battle, it was dishonor to die outside of battle, which is why they actively sought battle. But they didn't do so unprovoked unless they were doing the same things pirates are best known for, which happened.
Lastly, you forgot a very formidable force in this list of yours, which probably belonged in second place rather than knights, and that is the templars. Sure they were also knights, but they were arguably the most powerful knights in history, they were so feared that their very masters (the church) had them executed out of fear of being unable to control them. I doubt they were even second to the famed spartans, they trained just as hard.
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It astonishes me how astronomically unlikely advanced civilizations (like humanity on earth) are. Not only do they require life to exist (which is not just rare, as in the universe contains relatively few places where life can exist in the first place, but life is also only possible for a few billion years in the lifespan of the universe out of something like a googol googol googol googol years (actual estimated number from somewehere about the rest of the universes lifetime, that's right, I'm not even counting the years before today here).)
But there are also fragile ecosystems where things like sewers and garbage heaps produced by advanced civilizations can become breeding grounds for potentially world ending pests. Humans might be a bit of a parasite for the planet, but rodents? Rodents are clearly worse considering the amount of time it took them to make an entire island from lush to barren. We exploit the planet, but rodents exploit the life on the planet. The most valuable resource a planet can have.
Now imagine this, a planet that has something like rats sees civilization develop. and amidst the garbage heaps end sewers, they emerge, but wait, they have natural predators, something like cats. Sadly though, that planet's cats are actually the kind of lazy we envision our cats to be and only hunt these things down when they're hungry or don't have anything better to eat. Bye bye civilization, also, game over for all lifebound life on the planet.
Now imagine this same scenario but for an underwater civilization, that would be game over for all life on the planet. These things work fast, it doesn't really take them as long to wipe out everything as it takes mother nature to develop a countermeasure.
And yet here we are, the only reason humanity still exists is because cats also exist. It's funny how all these people are trying to defend nature, when really, all the power is in the hands of nature. All it takes is a little epidemic that kills off most of the worlds cats and bam, no more humans. Sure, a lot of other stuff would be lost in the process but life could thrive again starting from scratch, or rather from underwater, over a couple million years. A drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. Humans apparently only still exist because they are allowed to exist.
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