From this channel.
I actually love this guy's channel, but this almost made me spit beer on my keyboard. It's all about blacksmithing and medieval weaponry and military technology and afaik he doesn't seem to be a chud.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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I love that they debunked the debunking fire arrows stuff. I fuckin knew they were real!
But like seriously I knew all about the ways they made those payloads because adjacent to my history studies I also studied medieval weapons tech and knew all about how they solved the problem of keep the flame alight in flight at speed. People take the fact that advanced physics didn't exist and just assume people couldn't just figure some stuff out based on incomplete knowledge of first principles of physics.
Nobody knew exactly why a trebuchet was more effective than a simple catapult but they figured it out and it worked and it was adopted widely because it was effective. Nobody knew exactly why flaming arrows would go out before reaching a target, but understood the utility of such a breakthrough and figured it out through a primitive use of the scientific method.
After smug ass
incel LindyBeige did a video just going off vibes of 'no this couldn't happen' it became such a popular gotcha about archery, Todd coming in and demonstrating not only did they have these weapons they had advanced chemistry to make it happen was beautiful.
LindyBeige lacks Todd's bear-like physique and would never be allowed in the shield wall. Also I bet he couldn't draw a longbow