I am Normal About Knights

Fuck Lancelot. All my homies hate the DeGanis.

[world-of-omen]

Wandering Sickness

“The kell are a queer folk, even more than most imagine. Walk ashore in Saltfork, or push through the rivers to Raleo’s market, and the innkeeps and peddling men will treat even a sailor with kindness. In their villages and kin-streets, they put themselves together like family. I’ve known kellac crews that’d risk the whole ship for the sake of their lowest cabin boy. Show them the same kindness, and even a stranger can be kin for a day.

But when one of them wanders away, something goes wrong with their hearts. Wandering Sickness, they call it. Rogues, madmen, revolutionaries, all of them. I’ve had a few in my company, and all of them had a tiger’s eyes. You’d watch their claws or the twitches in their ears, knowing how fast they could maul a man.

I heard say once, that when a Kell runs from home death makes ready two seats at his table.“

-John Littleborn, Words of an Old Corsair (1934, Presse Libre de Stryx)

[memorydatas]

does anyone else remember when michaels (art supply company) accidentally made omegle again

[shadowthian]

when they What

[memorydatas]

michaels added a feature for a while in sept. 2020 where shoppers could ask questions that would be answered live by other shoppers anonymously. which led to some good michaels interactions.

[stupidpetface]

[katabay]

His speech and the maiden's laughter on a self-same thread were wrought... (Parzival, Wolfram / trans. Jessie L. Weston)

cunneware & antanor :) god I think about these two so much. I've been all over the place as I figured out the main bones of a story, but these two have been a load bearing weight since day one because they're such essential fixtures for perceval and also for what I find most interesting about arthur and his court (and who is in the margins of that court) and how various systems interlock and fall to violence. finally. at long last. character designs.

Parzival, Wolfram trans. A.T. Hatto

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[pendragon-understander]

You can tell it’s bad when you’re staring at a post like this for a few minutes, wondering if THIS is the spell that teleports you past the parched desert of recruiters

[sexhaver]

[taraxippos]

[sabertoothwalrus]

[collapsedsquid]

[wingupingu]

i bet it feels good as fuck to be a late han dynasty umamusume officer and running a man through at 50km/h with a guandao

[salix03]

this kingdom is going to shit man

[fjordojustice]

An honorable mention that lives forever in my heart

[pendragon-understander]

They’ve started handing out the uniform black armor with the face obscuring helmets, too.

Seems like overkill for burning a peasant village, but apparently the kid there is gonna cause a lot of trouble.

[kleinergeist]

Odo of Bayeux was only about 19 years old when his half-brother William the Conquerer made him bishop of Bayeux in 1049. You may be thinking, "he should have been at the club", but don't worry because evidence suggests that he got to do a fair bit of clubbing.

One of the theories for his particular choice of weapon is that clergymen were forbidden from spilling blood, so he found a loophole by using a bludgeoning weapon. That probably wasn't true (there are records of other medieval warrior-clergymen using bladed weapons, and hitting people with clubs definitely gets bloody), but it's really funny to imagine a man of the cloth faced with a moral and spiritual dilemma and deciding that the answer was

[pendragon-understander]

I love the subgenre of medieval historiography that’s: “figuring out what the sources for AD&D clerics not getting blades weapons are”.

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The Yugioh world championships are in France this year and apparently Macron appeared on the official live stream to wish the players good luck which is insane in and of itself but it also resulted in one of the craziest unedited pictures of a politician in history:

[gowhiteboy-go]

[p3rpetual-moti0n]

wait is warhammer books or a game?

[pendragon-understander]

That’s the fun part. It’s both, and also psychological damage inflicted by tiny plastic soldiers.

[hungwy]

The Midwest is perfectly suited for a new Buddhist kingdom

[pendragon-understander]

And buddy, we’re trying.

[sandwichhour-too]

The king of all cosmos got a twitter account around 2008/2009 to promo katamari forever and some of his posts are really good. He's like Dril to me.

[fandom-man]

[alexanderwales]

One of the things I'm finding interesting about Next Fest is how good graphics have gotten for indie games. It's certainly not the case for even the majority of them, but some of these were made in Unreal 5 and are able to have incredible lighting systems while also being on incredibly small budgets.

Of course, sometimes that's married to a terrible developer UI or assets that don't match what the lighting system is doing, but as an old gamer it's astonishing that some of this is within the grasp of a one-person no-budget team.

[pendragon-understander]

Yeah, a lot of this stuff comes ‘out of the box’ in modern game engines: lighting, fog, depth of field, etc. They’re all ready to go, the developer just has to learn where the sliders are (so to speak).

Unreal Engine has been selling itself on that kinda stuff since…well the game Unreal was marketed on its big environments and pretty lights in ‘98. Unity has is to compete. Even the open source hippie option -Godot- has a lot of built in functionality to get that look.

The funny consequence is that the games spending the most effort/cash on visuals in the space are traditionalist pixel art. You’ll see 10+ artist teams on ‘indie’ titles, because someone has to draw everything to look that good from scratch.

Of course, the really impressive stuff to me is the tiny developers who harness this stuff to enhance their art design. Escape from Ever After comes to mind; a game by 4 or so people. It’s clearly a spiritual successor to Thousand Year Door, and feels like a visual step up despite having 1/10th the staff of that game.

[brenshor]

Congrats Raymun you would have loved 4 loco and tail gate parties

[pendragon-understander]

Duncan is our hero, our knight, a man worthy of his four pages in the book.

Raymun Fossoway is, by contrast, OUR BOY!