Gen-cowheart - General Cowheart

Thoughts on zweihanders?

Zweihänders are SUPER fucking cool! If I had a spare $900 I would totally get one.

A lot of video games and other media actually get them wrong, though. Slamming a sword that big into the ground is gonna really damage the sword, but abruptly stopping something with that much momentum can severely damage your joints and muscles if you aren't careful. You want the sword to only come to a stop when it's either hitting something you want to hit or when stopping its movement won't injure you. The trick, then, is to let the momentum of the sword carry it into this very beautiful flowing cutting pattern where the sword and its wielder are working together.

So, in practice, zweihänder/doppelhänder/montante/spadone looked less like this:

And more like this:

Some fun zweihänder facts:

"Zweihänder" is specifically a German name for this kind of sword. "Montante" was the word for more or less the same kind of sword in Spain, and in Italy they were called "Spadone."

There are some particularly massive swords of this style called "Paradeschwert" that were purely ceremonial. I saw a few at the Chicago Art Institute last time I went that were absolutely enormous.

It wasn't too uncommon for these swords to have wavy "flamberge" blades.

The prongs on the blade are called "parrying hooks."

The Landsknecht mercenaries famously used zweihänders to push past enemy pikes and break front lines.

Aside from Landsknecht, they were also used by bodyguards.

Flamberge zweihänders are still used today by the Papal Swiss Guard for ceremonial purposes.

You weren't the one I thought was joking, it was the guy above you who thought there wasn’t a union. Just felt like reminding people of the chapters.

He actually cried for like 3 hours after this

bg3 canon modern au we can’t stop winning

Whenever an artist who makes dark content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so dark and nasty' and whenever an artist who makes wholesome content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so aggressively wholesome' and it's like you know I think maybe you can't tell whether or not someone is a predator based on their artistic output.

A poem I made

Golden eyed child of the ancient one

Do you know what you have done?

An arm and leg your sacrifice

Your brother also paid the price

A powerful truth you now have met

A taboo that must be kept secret

The laws of nature you have broken

A foul thing has been awoken

The crimson stone you now seek

But what destruction shall it wreak

Blood and steel shall be your way

Until the dark and promised day

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I made this poem for a creative writing class, and wanted to share it.

I was rewatching AoU and . . . people still think of Tony as narcissistic, uncaring and arrogant??? After seeing that movie??? a lot of Tony antis blab on and on about AoU and I just . . . Tony? The same Tony I just watched?

Tony, the one who when cursed by Wanda to see one of his biggest fears, sees his team dead? Sees aliens overtaking earth and the avengers lifeless, but himself alive? Who viewed his survival as just as bad as their death?

Tony, who Nick told, “you’ve invented a lot of cool things. War is not one of them” to?? Who Nick saw was hurting and regretful and tried to comfort rather than tell off??? Like damn how sad do you have to be for Nick Fury to comfort you rather than say you’re an idiot???

Tony, who was fully willing to die to save Sokovia? Who stayed behind the longest with Thor (who barely counts because he’s essentially indestructible) to ensure everyone was safe?

Tony, who didn’t mock Clint for the farm but rather envied it? Who did household chores and was respectful to Laura?

Tony, who acknowledged Steve’s leadership and didn’t try to place himself as team captain but instead differed to Steve unless he felt it would end in casualties?

Tony, who lost JARVIS, arguably one of the closest people to him, to Ultron but didn’t even have time to grieve before the fight?

Tony, who made sure Steve was happy before he felt he could leave a life that had only brought him pain?

This is super cool, but I feel like the names for the cleric and paladin should be swapped. The term paragon makes me think of character like Captain America and Superman, who I feel would be translated as paladins. Martyr however feels very religious to me, and since clerics are more religion themed than paladins are, I feel that martyr fits better there. But this is awesome art, and I really love that the fighter is a draugr.

core classes as undead :)

As a lover of mythology and folk, I love seeing series tackle each pantheon differently!!

Everyone shits on elf metal. Just because dwarf metal (GRANITE FORGE, UNDERBEARD) and orc metal (URROSH GROGAG, TUSK) are widely renowned and pioneers of the genre and style as a whole doesnt mean we all need to collectively bash LAST KING ELIANDOR'S DIRGE FOR THE FALLEN LEAVES PARTS IX-XXII

Watching all these social media platforms spiraling into disgust, I really think we need to consider alternatives. And I’m not really talking about finding different social media platforms, either, but rather changing the way we engage with and reach the content we want to see online.

As things stand now, we’re really just being corralled into ad-revenue pens at our own expense (i.e. being forced to see toxic content that’s terrible for our mental health but great for their engagement). It’s not for our benefit. It’s for theirs. In fact, we often get punished by their algorithms because we don’t post at their pace or share the kind of content they want.

But we’re stuck because we don’t feel like we have any other options, right? Because that’s the only way we can reach people and share our creations, right? To be honest, I’d rather subscribe to newsletters and visit personal blogs or websites. I’d rather pay modest, reasonable amounts to access a creator’s work than force them to rely on ad revenue from the more ravenous. But I don’t think we’re ready for that as a whole…