14159th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

Its especially funny when the One Good Centrist-Associated policy is cutting down zoning/environmental laws and making it easy to build a lot of houses so that houses are cheaper.

Which while good is pretty unpopular with the most passionate voterbase and way more popular with the highly educated “liberal elite” types. Like its antithetical to Jain’s whole concept of “Do Whatever Policy Is The Most Popular In Order To Get The Most Votes”

They are exploiting me…

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Extortion? Where?

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This shawarma is so good, I stopped feeling tired

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I’m excited for it. I have not been keeping up with Dreamworks as much as I’ve been following Pixar and SPA, but I think Forgotten Island looks really good.

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Guesses
  • I vaguely feel like they were used in the Crusades? But gunpowder was invented ages ago in ancient China, and I can’t imagine it took them that long to realize they could shoot things with that explosion. But I also wouldn’t consider a cannon a gun, so let’s go with 1200.
  • Whenever they would be mass-produced, so go 1400s.
  • 1300? I don’t really know when they started making stuff with metal.
  • 1100 to 1600, give or take 50 years.
Summary

First concept of a gun i believe was around 13th/14th century

Would say late 1500s going into 1600s is when it became the main workhorse of an European army

900s?

From Charlemagne to either the invention of the printing press or protestant reformation

Summary

500s
1300s
800s
1000–1400s. Hundred Years’ War, Joan of arc, crusades, that kinda stuff

U dont count

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Summary
  1. Song dynasty/Mongols used gunpowder weapons but i can’t remember if they had any guns or if it was mainly explosives… If you’re talking about guns in Europe I literally just read an article yday about it, I think it was 14th-15th century?
  2. I remember they had guns during the Hundred Years’ War but they played a minor role in battles… eh I’ll go with that as my answer.
  3. No idea
  4. Hm 800s-early 1500s?
    Charlemagne, Richard the Lionheart, Hundred Years’ War, Black Death, Crusades were the first 5 reasonable things I came up with

The first unreasonable thing I came up with was
Erfurt latrine disaster - Wikipedia

Summary

Somewhere between 1000 CE and 1200 CE is my guess. Maybe like late 900s, but I don’t actually know. I’m basing this off of “it’s early than most people would probably expect” and figure most people would be guessing like 1500 CE+. China had them well before the rest of the world did.

Guns or firearms? The exact definition matters here I think. The earliest forms of cannons were probably created in less than a century after the proliferation of gunpowder, and I cannot imagine it wasn’t used for weapons, generally, more or less right away. Like cannons were likely playing a not insignificant part of any military battle where a side had them. Taking my lowest estimate for “invention of guns” of 1000 CE, guns (specifically some kind of cannon) began to play a major role in some military battles somewhere in 1100-1200 CE. If we’re talking about firearms, I’m gonna guess like 1500-1600 CE depending on your definition of “being a major part”. Standing in a line and shooting at each other style warfare is probably in 1600-1700 CE.

Uh. Depends on what you consider plate armor I guess. The earliest form of plate armor is probably like 1000 BCE out of bronze. Armor like the kind we imagine knights wearing probably didn’t show up until like 1000 CE+, but plate armor, generally, has been around for a very long time.

Yeah idk you’re gonna get me on this one probably. Like 300 CE to 1200 CE. Jeanne 'dArc. Charlemange. Crusades. Black plague.

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YOU DONT COUNT

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NO QUIZBOWLER HAS EVER COUNTED

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Does Ash count? Or are we excluding Ash

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(Excluding Ash)

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Summary

“whenever they started making stuff with metal”
“1300”
brother the bronze age started in like 3000 BCE and bronze is an alloy. humans had been practicing metallurgy for thousands of years by that point.

edit: my tone is amusement but im realizing that probably didn’t come off here at all. im a psychopath that read part of a text titled “the history of metallurgy”

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In my head, Arete was asking about, like, the silver steel plate armor that you see in medieval-set shows.
Unsure if this is what plate armor they were actually talking about.

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Summary

Around 1800
Around 1900
Around 1000
Around 500-1300, Joana D’ Arc’s whole thing

i play pdx games do i count

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doing this so i can read everyone else’s. little thought put in

Summary

1300 probably

i know it was a while after the invention so probably 1500

500 at worst

like, after roman empire (so like 400) to right before 1800s
medieval events are like. martin luther’s 99 theses. if king arthur wasn’t fictional he’d be here but he certainly fits the aesthetic. various king fuckeries. holy roman empire, spanish inqusition, etc
american revolution is NOT medieval, despite fitting the time period. french revolution is the turning point for most of the world.
^ probably terribly wrong.