Cloaks and leather boots
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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Trebuchets, which btw are far superior to catapults.
Kings, plagues, private armies (more late medieval and renaissance, but you get the idea), career military with hi-tech weapons tearing apart barely armed peasants. Idk, OP, seems like we got almost everything covered
I recently got into armored combat so, knights. If we're gonna kill each other, let's at least be civilized!
Oh oh oh oh oh oh!
JOUSTING!
We can do it with motorcycles this time instead of horses!
OH ALSO
Private Military contractors should begin to dress like crosses between clowns and noble-knights again.
(hours later addendum) Bowing as a form of social greeting. We REALLY missed a beat when we didn't bring this back when COVID made people afraid of getting too close to each other.
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Child labor.
Oh, waitβ¦
Guillotines for kings
Weird ass slices in public parks everybody has to garden in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-field_system
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Hand to hand combat
Landsknecht fashion.
Trebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)
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I could be down for small beer being the main thing we drink.
A blowtorch and a pair of pliers.
Moats. I was kidding at first, but I'm now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.
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Receiving land for farting good.
Sorcery, alchemy, soothsaying, baby. Come one come all I'll cure what ails you. I'll summon portals and turn lead into #gold.
Or maybe the town crier. Hear ye, hear ye, elon musk hast tweeted about his balls.
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Dragons
