Trebuchets as a valid defense option
Trebuchets aren’t really a tool for defence. They have tremendous range and aren’t exactly speedy to load, aim, and launch.
Unless you meant defence in the same way that a country’s military operations are known as “defence forces” regardless of intent, in which case carry on.
Random pedestals with swords driven into them lol
Maybe a system where strange women lying in ponds distributing swords might actually be better
Sounds like a rather farcical aquatic ceremony
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Can’t hurt at this point.
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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.
I watched the Knights of Valor (full contact jousting troupe) perform at the Glengarry Renaissance Fair a month ago.
It was the most exciting sporting event I have ever seen. I want it normalised in arenas where the knights have sponsorships and good insurance.
If I recal, only lords or people from royalty where able to not only afford the armor but they where the only ones who could compete…
So the jousters would be congressmen right?
I support this idea as long as peasants get to bet on the outcome.
[sicko voice] Yes. HA HA HA. YES
Guillotines obviously.
guillotines are renaissance era.
Coinciding (by happenstance no doubt) with the fall of monarchies.
See, that kind of back talk puts you first in line for the period-inaccurate execution.
Does it matter if they are meant specifically for the ruling class?
Giant shirtless executioners then, I guess.
I’ll take the entrails of a priest.
I wouldn’t mind bringing back public executions.
A blowtorch and a pair of pliers.
Inns, especially if they’ve got an enormous pot of perpetual stew, and people are giving out quests.
Inns like that existed during the enlightenment up through the invention of the railroad. In the medieval era you slept in a church or maybe someone’s home.
That sounds an awful lot like restaurants and jobs…
Yes, but tavern wenches are assumed to be included.
Those are just called lot lizards now.
There was perpetual stew?
Moats. I was kidding at first, but I’m now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.
Moats were cool until I learned that toileting holes were often positioned such that the urine and feces wash down into the moat. I’m gonna have to take a pass on that lazy river…
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
Weird ass slices in public parks everybody has to garden in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-field_system
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) How many ass slices per person?
Yes
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Just take 1, they’re pre-sliced for your convenience.
Royal beheadings
As somebody who lives in a kingdom, yes! Fucking parasites!
Thailand? Or the UK?
Netherlands. Thailand and Morocco are even worse I guess. There, you’ll get punished harshly for beinig openly anti-monarchy. I feel sorry for those countries.
Thailand’s King is something else. Here’s a photo of him being picked up for his coronation.
I don’t know much about the Netherland’s laws other then you can loose or get your driver’s license restricted if you’re diagnosed with Autism
This is untrue, you can drive if you have autism. However, formally you’d have to undergo an extra “examination” which in practice is a 5 minute talk that’ll cost €300, oh and, you have to pay it yourself.
Even driving instructors tell you it’s bullshit and won’t bat an eye for not doing that.
If you get found out of not having done this examination, and an accident occurs, however, then the police may be an ass. Which is bullshit as there’s your medical diagnosis, and autism should by itself not have consequences for driving ability. Dementia however…
Peasant uprisings, to take down the kings of today.
Let’s do an EU4 Dithmarschen world conquest run from here on out.
be the change you want to see in the world
The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.
Let’s bring back paddlin’ while we’re at it
That’s a paddlin’.
… And masochists? Please be specific.
Comfy bed.
This was one of the really interesting plot elements in World War Z, where towards the end of the war where they couldn’t really afford to be wasting resources on prisons, they brought back corporal and public punishment. They’d put people in stockades to let the entire community know they were caught doing something like stealing their neighbor’s firewood, or publicly lashing executives who were war-profiteering, and only imprisoning the absolute worst offenders who were incapable of integrating back into society.
For a silly zombie novel, it honestly has a phenomenal amount of prettt interesting social commentary, and is absolutely worth a listen to the unabridged audiobook.
Hand to hand combat
