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Dracula could have played with Nintendo (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/vampires@lemmy.zip

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Tumblr post by badsciencejokes:

Nintendo was founded in 1889, making playing cards.

Coca-Cola was founded in 1892.

Levi's blue jeans were invented in 1853.

Dracula was published in 1897, set in that time.

We could have had Dracula wearing jeans, drinking a Coke and playing Nintendo and it would be accurate.

Reply from agentlemandragonsdelights:

This reminds me of something i saw several years ago.

Around this same time, wild west gun slingers, japanese samurai, and pirates all existed. So you could have also had a group of adventurers consisting of these three to fight Dracula. Wild just to consider.

Inspired by the recent post by @LadyButterfly@reddthat.com about how Dracula in fact does feature a wild west gun slinger who kills Dracula by stabbing him with a bowie knife.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

[–] mechanismatic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like you'd need to be specific about what kind of pirate existed in the late 19th century. It's not the stereotype of the Caribbean pirate from the Golden Age. There were regional pirates near China and India. But pirates in the west in the late 19th century were mostly suppressed. You might have a former privateer from the Civil War still alive in the 1890s and he might be in his mid 40s at the youngest.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah true, good point.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Small nitpick. Nintendo made playing cards when they were first founded. So you'd be playing with Nintendo, not playing Nintendo.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The original post does mention that it's playing cards.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

The nitpick was about the wording "with Nintendo" vs just "Nintendo."

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They also managed few ~brothels~ guest houses of questionable repute.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"They also managed few brothels guest houses of questionable repute." But "brothels" is subscript.

Gotta use double tildes on Lemmy to make that show up as struck-out.

They also managed few ~~brothels~~ guest houses of questionable repute.

becomes

They also managed few ~~brothels~~ guest houses of questionable repute.

While

They also managed few ~brothels~ guest houses of questionable repute.

shows up as the screenshot above.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

That's not our case in mbin ;) but thanks for the heads up.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Small correction. It's usually thought that Dracula is set a few years before it was published in 1897. Different calculations arrive at different years, but 1893 is one of the best fits.