# ![@MarsdanVM Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1864371143106252801.png) @MarsdanVM Virtus Martialis

Virtus Martialis posts on X about $sabr, romania, hungary, poland the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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**Social topic influence**
[$sabr](/topic/$sabr), [romania](/topic/romania), [hungary](/topic/hungary), [poland](/topic/poland), [germany](/topic/germany), [in the](/topic/in-the), [russia](/topic/russia), [if you](/topic/if-you), [france](/topic/france), [italy](/topic/italy)

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@LandsknechtPike Gerardus Mercator - Flemish geographer cosmographer and cartographer (15121594) compiled this map published first in [----]. ROMANIA is used for the region around Constantinople showing that even in the West this name was used to a certain degree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1879269976026320921)  2025-01-14T20:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@LandsknechtPike Nothing to do with the Romans as a people or empire and more to do with city rivalry in Italy of those times. His Divine Comedy has political commentary ffs. I'm kinda getting the vibe that you're trying to make your point too much. You don't like ERE do you. 😼"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1879273260690608303)  2025-01-14T21:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@KuzeyTurkusu @LandsknechtPike While I admit that historical flame can be funny trying to dismiss ERE in medieval times or things like Ottoman accomplishments in the 1500s or Russia in the 1700s is like trying to pull out an eye to see better with the other one. Again it can be funny but it's stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1879554446537179585)  2025-01-15T15:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Knightly_Hist You pick a side and I'll pick the year. Cuz [---] [----] and [----] Maximilian I established the first Landsknecht units in [----] so why would we compare them to the Varangians By this logic Tercios are better than both and Charles V is No.1. but look at the date.😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1879989766000906374)  2025-01-16T20:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@LandsknechtPike @procrastixote I agree with the Acropolis of Athens to be kept as a place of classical antiquity. No stupid minaret or towers. They can be build elsewhere. Now I would agree that these constructions should be moved elsewhere rather than be destroyed but that's something else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1880214525179490792)  2025-01-17T11:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics You're not wrong. there are other pieces that look better (hilt in particular). And the blade is gorgeous but make it longer and fit it on a sidesword (perhaps it was before it broke and was remounted) and use a twin fullered blade that looks better on a katz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1880216844130480448)  2025-01-17T11:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics I didn't know that HT was the limiting factor. But I can see why a 90cm blade may be too problematic from what you are mentioning. There are a few asymmetrical sideswords (like the one in The Met) but even those have a symmetric tip"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1880285084072439904)  2025-01-17T16:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics Small addendum since after your message I saw this in an unrelated post. Do you know these: Lithuanian made Devil Forge If you want to get some HT independence maybe these will suit you. But probably costs per HT piece is an issue I don't know more. https://devil-forge.com/ https://devil-forge.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1880603791017566320)  2025-01-18T13:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Knightly_Hist I hope there's some armour under all that gilding. Thanks for sharing while I know about heroic style armours I didn't know about this one. Too ornated for my taste. Funny enough that's my complaint about a lot of Elden Ring armours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1881406165999120761)  2025-01-20T18:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@MedievalScholar So the consensus is: a good commander a good ruler but not comparable with the giants of history. Also Hollywood movies suck at representing European history and Europeans don't seem to bother to do so anymore. 🫤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1881423099163443623)  2025-01-20T19:26Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@shadmbrooks On rapiers why don't clarify that they just require more skill to cut so they are not recommanded for the public And I like the fact that you used conservation of linear momentum as a premise in a magic world. So use angular momentum conservation for rotations next.😉 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1881450826604196020)  2025-01-20T21:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@captainginyu23 @LandsknechtPike Are you joking There are numerous reports of how prosperous Italian cities were compared to German ones. Bologna with its university was a top city in Europe Florence had powerful banks Venice and Genoa dominated sea trade. Milan was a centre for swords and armour. Plus Rome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1881940013467967833)  2025-01-22T05:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@jlwoods0241 @elonmusk 100% agree At this point calling someone a Nazi outside the historical context or calling them Hitler should be automatically seen as slander/liable. Not only it will prevent trivialisation but will force people to learn history to find other tyrants to use for comparison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1882079218781335722)  2025-01-22T14:53Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@elonmusk And then MAGA and MEGA can fight Rocky [--] style 😇 That's why I want Trump in the White House to wake up Europe to the world being a dangerous place. You hear me you bull-riding old lady: WAKE UP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1882080532072443942)  2025-01-22T14:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AlexanderS70330 @OliviuG @Al_Stoyanov Looking on the wiki. isn't that the war in which Romania took over Budapest for some six months and kicked out the communists Are you saying to include Hungary's territories up to the Danube What's your point here 😏 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%E2%80%93Romanian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%E2%80%93Romanian_War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1882484260885680486)  2025-01-23T17:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@FranklinVH2 Tone aside this is 100% correct on so many levels. One relevant: only in about 1800s did Europeans started to take care of their own historical legacy. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo was written in [----] to bring awareness to the cathedral on the brink of destruction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1882509803286860193)  2025-01-23T19:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@IterIntellectus God bless Italy 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1882828808224682113)  2025-01-24T16:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@realmattforney This must be the most stupid chain of comments I read today. Check how Germans call themselves and how countries around them call them. Same for places like Scotland Netherlands and so on. It is common for languages to adapt the name of nations and countries. Stop overreacting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1883092396407402726)  2025-01-25T09:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@kuna125 @EddieSmith6800 @Tatsuya9JP Yes so instead of picking a colour that makes sense for the environment they chose a fringe possibility. What's the logic in that If reconstructions are based on guess works you make use of the most probable possibility. They didn't in this case due to political beliefs.😕"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1886083264642687417)  2025-02-02T16:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RAZ0RFIST [--]. I trusted the company to keep things historical. Now that is lost and I need to wait for a review to find out what else is wrong. [--]. I wanted to buy it day [--] now I'll wait until the entire game is out (DLCs and post-launch changes). [--]. Maybe I'll buy it at a discount. 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1887198782237913185)  2025-02-05T17:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Italian Sidesword from the 1500s of a style associated with Venice. I hope this is an original piece since it is one of the best-looking swords of this type. And this is one of my favourite types of sideswords"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1896186201880879545)  2025-03-02T13:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@jim_keats @nonregemesse I'll be honest I heard of this reasoning as well. As someone that will probably burst into flames if I would enter a church 😏 I think that's a good argument. BC / AD is more than fine it's historical it's cultural it's common sense at this point. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1897012470868484265)  2025-03-04T19:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@nonregemesse Like 1000% true As a small child I struggled to read a few words so I could understand the captions on such epic photos. I wouldn't have picked up a fart book. WTF is wrong with some parents.🤨 A stick is a gun or a sword sometimes both. Not a fart & co😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1897649760913203465)  2025-03-06T14:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Templarpilled If this is going to be as accurate as Braveheart. I'll still take it because Mel Gibson knows how to direct a good compelling movie. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1899932703220224029)  2025-03-12T21:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AnvanHofstade @elonmusk Most European countries have an unelected monarchy an unelected prime minister (based on parliament support) or/and a figure-head president. Only legislative elections are seen as a right. The system is not the same as in the US but it's hard for them to realise that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1900618523551953315)  2025-03-14T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PhDPennsylvania @thinkingwest He is taught (I guess depends on the location) But keep in mind that while he knew more than a 1500s scientist by the 1700s we were on the path of modern science. We know so much more now.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1902061932536058136)  2025-03-18T18:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@CultureExploreX [--]. Low interest loans for housing and immigration are two different things (while there is a connection between immigration and the housing market). But why only offer it to young couples Offer it to all citizens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1903155390247760119)  2025-03-21T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tom_Rowsell @mamboitaliano__ "Lacks harmony and grace. Tacky and disruptive." -- Needed to be said twice. 😔 In one of the best cities in the world full of genuine art at every step we didn't need "outrage" art. Next they'll transform the Uffizi into Manchester Art Gallery remove art for protests.😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1904131663086452937)  2025-03-24T11:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@TimothyEveland @retard_human_ai Thinking about it that's actually wrong. 🤔 They were quite popular in Europe since their introduction around [---] A.D. as they never left the continent since. One by one more regions adopted the sabre going from East to West until the entire continent only had sabres in use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1904988837010612228)  2025-03-26T20:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@LandsknechtPike Stephen Bthory King of Poland Grand Duke of Lithuania and Prince of Transylvania (Romanian Saxons Hungarians people). Hungary occupied by the Turks wars against Muscovy influences in the Romanian Principates - we see a very interesting mix in that part of Europe. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1905639639257350481)  2025-03-28T15:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@GhostOfPashka "Russia supported the Union largely because it believed that the U.S. served as a counterbalance to its geopolitical rival the United Kingdom." - it's just that nothing more to it. UK (and France) was neutral yet over 90% of Confederate trade with Britain ended by 1862.🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1906699811799040043)  2025-03-31T13:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RomeInTheEast Yea me too All the buildings that didn't fit the ancient theme put together in a village of sorts a few km away. Athens is known for the Acropolis but as is it gives the wrong impression that nothing happened in Athens since antiquity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1906778865487241488)  2025-03-31T18:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MemoryMedieval At some point I should understand better the mingling of Polish and Hungarian crowns in that era.🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1907364081377378373)  2025-04-02T09:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@CatholicFQ @CultureExploreX Florence. nothing prohibits me from travelling to Rome Pisa Bologna Brescia Urbino Milan Venice Torino Geneva Napoli. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1907511868438229234)  2025-04-02T19:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@iamyesyouareno Btw the British Museum also has. British stuff. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1907901578784420298)  2025-04-03T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@speakwithiron @Tom_Rowsell @SquirrelBait00 Come on How happy were you as a kid to get a spoon of honey instead of a Snickers bar. Let's not pretend here or excuse bad behaviours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1908218081144434957)  2025-04-04T18:00Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@TimothyEveland Can I cheat and go for sidesword 😉 It looks good in street clothes armour and I bet it would even look good in later military uniform"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1915366521833980026)  2025-04-24T11:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tom_Rowsell Was Woden/Odin equated to Mars I thought that Tyr was seen as Mars.🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1916774825042874596)  2025-04-28T08:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@statsglobe @theepicmap Add Ukraine Romania Moldavia Bulgaria Greece Poland Belarus. dude you are way off 😐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1917288152428933521)  2025-04-29T18:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Matt_MSTR2100 @InterestingSTEM Oh I did (2+1)*6 = [--] and the rest. +1 addition so much simpler. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1917542624895885566)  2025-04-30T11:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Matt_MSTR2100 @InterestingSTEM Btw [--] is also right if 62/18=2; 202/100=4; 212/147=3. But why some get 7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1917543758226227366)  2025-04-30T11:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Matt_MSTR2100 @InterestingSTEM I get it (I did a=c/b-1). I find that these reveal a bit about our own mindset than anything else. The fact that [--] is also a solution should be an even better proof for that (a=b2/c). i.e. we found one solution and we were good. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1917547489789440006)  2025-04-30T11:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@xmuse_ For anyone visiting Prague seeing the Mucha museum is a must 👍 https://www.mucha.cz/en/ https://www.mucha.cz/en/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1918323035506962483)  2025-05-02T15:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RomeInTheEast The opinions of William Edward Hartpole Lecky sound simplistic and pointless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1918324118514024590)  2025-05-02T15:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana I'm curious: have you tried to use AI to generate short animations from your illustrations🤔 E.g. a realistic illustration of a Roman centurion at the start and a different pose at the end with the AI needing to figure out the path (constraint to the movements of a real man)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1919075776361566495)  2025-05-04T17:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@WorldScholar_ Temple of Hephaestus - best-preserved ancient temple in Greece Sounds fitting that the god of manufacturing and crafting should have his temple show the ancient craft the best.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1919772633786102084)  2025-05-06T15:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@BiancoDavinci "The villa in its present form was completed in [----] by Cardinal Flavio Chigi." Either he commissioned statues of Dacians to compleat the old Imperial Roman look. or he just stole the statues from Trajan forum in Rome.😏 Hey Constantin did the same so it's traditional.🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1920921319081685114)  2025-05-09T19:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@GodsWhisper777 For me Pallas Athene was always more Pallas (primordial titan of warcraft 👍) than Athena. And yes I know that Pallas was also the name of the giant that was flayed by Athena (who then used his skin for her shield) or turned to stone by the Gorgon's head on Athena's shield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1921360685193179530)  2025-05-11T00:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@tommydragna @nonregemesse Good example I saw today. and this is HEMA safe but see the effect of catching a blade. Now imagine the blade was not sufficiently flexible. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FY3f1VNJg_8 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FY3f1VNJg_8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1922365973102764262)  2025-05-13T18:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"This collaboration between The Royal Armouries and the Doom video game developers made me remember a gripe I have with the series and "the story." Two Doom superfans in our very own curatorial team Of course we need them to react to the Slayeux Tapestry. Full reaction coming tomorrow ⚔ @Bethesda_UK #royalarmouries #history #Doomthedarkages #Doom #Bethesda #museum https://t.co/5155uYYlev Two Doom superfans in our very own curatorial team Of course we need them to react to the Slayeux Tapestry. Full reaction coming tomorrow ⚔ @Bethesda_UK #royalarmouries #history #Doomthedarkages #Doom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1922683591718232374)  2025-05-14T16:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ball1_ball @simongerman600 From Google: In the 1600s Vienna was a relatively small city with a population of around [-----]. Nuremberg was a significant city in the Holy Roman Empire with an estimated population of [-----] to [------]. I'm ok with that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1923837570376409111)  2025-05-17T20:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@TulliusNovus @ThePrimalDino @UpdatingOnRome Bad argument Western Roman Empire capital was not Rome at the end. When the Tetrarchy was instituted by Roman emperor Diocletian in [---] AD to govern the Roman Empire we even have [--] capitals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1923839933459972430)  2025-05-17T20:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TimothyEveland I'm saying that Mr Bean made him more money not that it's the superior show. 😇 Season [--] of Black Adder for me. first episode: work from home lying on your back. still cracks me up. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1924147189934113110)  2025-05-18T16:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Civixplorer I had a look (Romania Croatia Poland Czechia). the name listed have the same meaning: "new village". Now this may imply that people just expanded the old town/village and just referred to the new one as such or. .lots of village got burned down in the past (⚔). 😳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1924535449785151784)  2025-05-19T18:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Callaxes @DavidBanicaRO @Rux_Dacoromana Have you been in Bucovina in the North East It shares a lot with Maramures in the North West. 😏 So after you push the border on your drawing once again you'll get what people are saying that's a Carpathian culture foremost. And you're just drawing influences. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1924643869599162565)  2025-05-20T01:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@tommydragna @MemoryMedieval "besides one" Which one is it I was thinking Venice Florence in a limited timeframe. but that's not probably what you are thinking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1925114187551752665)  2025-05-21T08:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Melchioz29 @LandsknechtPike I was looking to see if it's Lucca (1429) instead of Pisa (since I was not seeing the leaning tower that was there in 1503) and seeing the painting as a later piece. But once you mentioned it I can see it in the tower (and Pisa) in the background. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1927471281089184195)  2025-05-27T21:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@archi_tradition Nah this is the best part. can you tell that the guy who built it was German and he liked the Landsknecht Maybe it's just my impression. 😏 Btw I went there because I heard he had a nice collection of arms and armour (7x more the pic). That was a man after my own heart.😊"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1928210872704368847)  2025-05-29T22:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@yeuxdargent A beautiful monument that borrows from the aesthetics of their forbearers to enrich the lives of the people. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1929446726730940772)  2025-06-02T07:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana One more thing. this was not just a weapon that emerged with the 1700s. In the Eastern part of Europe from Poland to Hungary the Romanian Principates and the Ottoman Empire we see sabres from much earlier times. the Middle Ages or even 800AD if we go back to the Avars.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1929624223632474167)  2025-06-02T19:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana Moldavians around 1450-1500s used sabres like the Polish did in the north or like the Turks did in the south Hungarians in the West and Tartars in the East. But they also used large cut centric two-handed swords a lot of them imported from Venice.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1929629047073488949)  2025-06-02T19:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MichelMoser371 @Rux_Dacoromana 😳 Alfred Hutton in the late 1800s was saying that if you want to learn sabre properly you should do smallswrod. The idea being that this way you learn distance reaction time foot work etc. Now I see why. This is indeed next level exchange. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1929639795933802601)  2025-06-02T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@lefineder Not tanks. more like a 'Toyota Hilux with heavy machine gun' of their times. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1930247301206839529)  2025-06-04T12:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PrvtRebo @nonregemesse Btw do you see the strap on the knight's thigh How that part of the leg is exposed. I (now) have a bruise as big as a palm there. Like the knight I didn't have protection there either. With a sharp let's say sabre you can cut through an artery (results in [--] min of life 😬)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1931688358754836753)  2025-06-08T12:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@tommydragna The pavese does pop.👌 A pal of mine has a new sidesword with blackened fittings. I find myself holding back from sniping his hands since I don't want to scuff his hilt. I would be in the same situation fighting against this guy. I just can't be the one that scuffs this pavese.😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1931793758216995110)  2025-06-08T19:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RomeInTheEast Their absence from religious spaces is indeed strange. This is the traditional way of doing it. Now that you mention it why aren't Orthodox churches using this And maybe not for all the iconography but just for some.🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1932091770482885085)  2025-06-09T15:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics Prediction: that grip is going to get rounder at the back and a bit curved overall. 😄"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1933882269027938400)  2025-06-14T13:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I was looking for another grounded manga related to swords and history. and I found Issak a manga about a lone Japanese soldier that embarks on a trip to recover a priceless possession in get this Europe during The Thirty Years' War. I feel like I found gold. 😳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1933944553377001630)  2025-06-14T17:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ABodorics Btw one of the pieces I saw it says Turkish kilij made in Hungary (during the Ottoman occupation). I know a bit about the Turkish/Hungarian/Polish 'controversy' on the creation of the 1500s sabre. But after looking: I think the links were too strong to have a sole creator.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1934648333928476913)  2025-06-16T16:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana You can call him Lord Kalidor. but we all knew he was Conan 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1935793827811389526)  2025-06-19T20:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@HarriusHaller @Rux_Dacoromana I actually can't remember if for me he was Arnold or Conan when I first watched Red Sonja (1985). 🤔 But I know by the time of T2 he was 100% Arnold. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1935796146913374556)  2025-06-19T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TimothyEveland Ok what's the context of the self-fellatio. Who know anything about this sculpture And they spent more time on making sure the butthole is realistic than the face of the statues above. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1936398145425944686)  2025-06-21T12:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@raqib_rsr @historyinmemes @grok With Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent) passing in [----] Piero II de' Medici (the Unfortunate) was head of the family. If he hired Michelangelo to build a snowman then I can see why and how de' Medici were kicked out of Florence. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1936430678498775286)  2025-06-21T14:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@historyinmemes And that's how the Venus Wars started We won but at what cost at what cost. 😢 Old people still remember the horror they had to endure. 😱"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1936456242119266477)  2025-06-21T16:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Robkearney1981 @CyberPunkCortes I know that I would prefer something older but still I would. use that sabre. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1936526479862456578)  2025-06-21T20:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@iljaandreev @stora_norrland I was going to make fun of Hungary Ukraine and Moldova for bringing the average down. but look at Turkey. WTF They basically brought coffee into Europe. Turkish coffee is a thing. so what's going on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1936716712847782206)  2025-06-22T09:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"c. [------] Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab Made in Constantinople That is mail worn over a tunic with few decorations. We keep seeing the same type of decorations over the armour at the chest level. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464376 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464376"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937112437938962520)  2025-06-23T11:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"c. 940-960 The Harbaville Triptych An Eastern Roman ivory triptych representing the Christ and saints in the Louvre. We get to see the arms and armour towards the end of the period of interest. Scale armour larger quillons on the spatha. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harbaville_Triptych https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harbaville_Triptych"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937116138782982518)  2025-06-23T11:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana Yes this and the plates held in The Met look on point with what you need. 👍 Btw you want to add some background soldiers right Maybe that's where you add a few cataphract armour.🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937117034065596834)  2025-06-23T11:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"c. [-------] Icon with Saint Demetrios Sculpted in elephant ivory. This looks like plausible armour. Even in the 10th C. we see no rush to use leg protections. I can see fabric/wool being used on the legs but not mail unless for the heavier cavalry. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465946 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465946"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937122082141229455)  2025-06-23T12:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nonregemesse [--]. US pays to NATO exactly as much as Germany. These are the funds to run NATO and the security budget (around $3.6 billion common fund budget). Defence budgets as %GDP are something else. [--]. Malta Luxembourg Montenegro. their role is to close the gaps - too small to matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937128357730075069)  2025-06-23T12:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana Pssst. since @nonregemesse won't see this. 😏 If you decide to add some Cataphract heavy cavalry in the background give them a Draco standard as well. 😇 ERE Soldiers & Draco Standard on Terracotta icons from Vinica Macedonia 6th or 7th century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937168204377346423)  2025-06-23T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@altRightmann @Michalis_Vlahos @Rux_Dacoromana @EumenesM59494 "Spangelhelm or Avar lamellar helmet" You probably know better. but I love that you touched on the mixing and exchanges going on (on all sides). Even with a piece that has 'Avar' in it it may have been made in the Empire and then gifted/sold out or used by the Romans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937402420721483926)  2025-06-24T06:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@memeslich 100% NO I was going to get over the bad character creator. I was going to stomach the narrations of my own game actions. I was going to push through the use of a sabre hilt on the rapier for my finesse build. but wearing a short-sword on the back is crossing the line. 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937521956095393934)  2025-06-24T14:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Sargon_of_Akkad "What a strange take on Europe". especially since they are using the EU flag yet they are referencing state structures for others; i.e. what did Slovenia do🤔 If some want to make an anti-colonialism point fine do it. But don't do it so badly that you are confusing others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937967300067680397)  2025-06-25T20:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Sargon_of_Akkad Btw in case you don't know. Slovenia was established as a country on [--] June [----]. Happy birthday Slovenia 🥳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937967700094931445)  2025-06-25T20:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tom_Rowsell @ultras_antifaa Why would Slovenia established on [--] June [----] (🥳) that is part of the EU have anything to do with Africa 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1937968728974745631)  2025-06-25T20:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@DiscussingFilm We know that actors directors & other names in Hollywood have terrible political takes. But what we didn't know is that they also have bad takes on movies. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1938655153772515613)  2025-06-27T17:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LandsknechtPike Sooo. Goth Frank or Vandal noble() - the others are not a choice. The Frank has no horse = disqualified. Goth looks better (has pants) = win Also Goths start in present day Romania and spread across Europe. Just saying: you get to see Europe as you work. Big bonus 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1940488107406803222)  2025-07-02T19:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OakSentinel [--] is not a functional sword design. The prongs from the hilt to the grip will interfere with how you hold and use a sword and so would the prongs from the pommel (remove them). To add functionality: elongate the ricasso make the finger-rings larger terminate inside ricasso"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1940708240817639899)  2025-07-03T09:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@RealHellenist @grok can you find the author of the image for me and a link to an original source if possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1940750371158478869)  2025-07-03T12:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@westernexile In principle. if it's over 30C at 21.00h eating something consistent is a chore. Better wait and eat later when it cools down. And you probably just got off-work at 19.00h and you rested in the 13-15h interval to avoid the heat so going to bed after midnight is fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1940753880402526489)  2025-07-03T12:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@westernexile In the North society adapted to make use of the daylight in winter so do what you need to do quickly and go home. No time to waste. In the South summer heat is a major problem. So the 'siesta' is a great adaptation at the expense of extending the work day into the evening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1940755052962148842)  2025-07-03T12:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TimothyEveland I am a bit curious about what went in the head of the artist. why the grounded knight depiction (by today's fantasy standards of huge pauldrons and all that) but explicitly naked women (no mini-bikinis here) and what's with the demon face in the window 🤔 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1941170527244275840)  2025-07-04T16:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Hieraaetus This map mirrors my perception that we either have East/West Europe in the sense of the Cold War. Or that in current times Eastern Europe is only Russia Belarus and (parts of) Ukraine. Mind you that still leaves half of Europe in Eastern Europe - it's still that huge 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1941172336255984069)  2025-07-04T16:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@hy_hy @Hieraaetus Get Austria and parts of Ukraine in (the area around Lviv) and you're not that wrong from a historical perspective. I would also accept that Romania is a region of its own sandwiched by other larger regions and one that managed to emerge as a singular country in modern times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1941173892258906553)  2025-07-04T16:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Swordaholic I'm looking at your Regenyei rapier. I have a 45" swept hilt I am waiting for a nice Kvetun I'm thinking about getting a SIGI cup-hilt for intense bouts I hope Regenyei will release their revamped rapier line soon and yet I still kinda want the simple piece you use here. 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1941641060561645913)  2025-07-05T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics I bought one (Cut 0).😄 Although I bought a flat-pillar one since I can get a larger one and for cheaper (about half the price). Since I'm trying to re-profile a diamond cross-section blade this should be better and I get two sides. I have the [--] half-cuts in case I need them.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1942246171021631739)  2025-07-07T15:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@urbanponds101 I got six or so at one time in my garden (in Eurp 😅). What is going on But whatever it is it feels good I'll take the W for wildlife. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1942905015741325628)  2025-07-09T11:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Leannenist @rokthecroat That sounds like a major downgrade in quality of life. Major downgrade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1942911890176221572)  2025-07-09T11:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@blagojevic_n @MorbidViews3 @praba127 @Leannenist @rokthecroat Switzerland Japan Germany. cash societies to a large degree. Notice a pattern with countries that have high quality of life vs ones that don't 🤔 Using cash needs to be a legal right (and it will be) in any civilised country. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1942913106063061274)  2025-07-09T11:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics "demonstrative punch" 😅 I was just thinking she would jump up and down to see how the armour feels. 🤣 "at least period civilian garb under it" Yep And on hot days like we're having now I suspect people in the period would just wear that. Forget about all that gambeson & co"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1942970303904366842)  2025-07-09T15:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MemoryMedieval Was this a gear (sabre breastplate helmet) used in 1300AD Bavaria though. 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943012606123610599)  2025-07-09T18:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Carm5012 @juskom95 @andreTRwi @OrwellNGoode 🤣 But wait I suffered a lot before as well. It's just that eventually things got better. And then even better - just in time for when I found out that CDs have an expiration day. The CD skips reading files and gives error. well download the music. you know from where. 🥸"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943019459490578877)  2025-07-09T18:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Carm5012 @juskom95 @andreTRwi @OrwellNGoode So it's not the scratches it's that fragmentation and chipping of the reflecting layers on some (maybe cheap) CDs as time goes on and the glue () breaks down. Looks like ants eat them. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943021946989351181)  2025-07-09T18:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"A Polish sabre at his waist something in this style. https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/search-result/advance/catalog/29124 https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/search-result/advance/catalog/29124"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943052552079032772)  2025-07-09T21:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"And a sabre with an Ottoman like hilt on the horse. https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/284128 https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/284128"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943053124907995293)  2025-07-09T21:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ilikeanonymity2 @visegrad24 Look at Norway and Sweden in the north. Both comparable wealthy countries (to make the risk/reward worth it idea). Yet Sweden has [--] and Norway has [--] like in the Eastern part of Europe. This shows that this it's clearly a legislation and implementation of the law issue 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943632127473353049)  2025-07-11T11:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Ilikeanonymity2 @visegrad24 Btw you get [--] robbery for [---] [---] people fine a slap on the wrist and telling the rascal to stop doing mischief may work. If that number is now [---]. wake-up realise that the old system doesn't work and adapt 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943633694826152005)  2025-07-11T11:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@luke_leisher_ It's just like Dances with Wolves. regardless of the ending we know that they will struggle with alcoholism and the place will become a theme park casino in the future.😏 But don't worry a blue hair lady who identifies as 1/32 navi will scream how they are exploited.😎"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943671176066134394)  2025-07-11T13:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JadeAtrophis They also said pass to Sweden and went straight for Norway. 😂 And with all the Russians and Serbians are in the same family they are refusing to let Serbia in. 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943739457900847473)  2025-07-11T18:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@MavDoodles @ShitpostRock I got that. but my point is that this (was) is too slow. I've been making .iso files for decades to avoid using the slow disks (e.g. Diablo [--] Starcraft). And now downloading them is faster than getting them from old hard drives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943766293766701103)  2025-07-11T20:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MavDoodles @ShitpostRock Related: I have an old PSP. I only played the games from the disk (well used to; I hope they still work). I would never buy a Switch that just sells you a code in a box and the idea infuriates me (why I never bought a PSP Vita). So I'm not for these shenanigans either.😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943770298610024645)  2025-07-11T20:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"A country struggles to spend even 1/3 of its defence budget on new purchases. Most of the money goes on paying the troops veteran services including pensions maintaining the expensive gear training exercises and limited operations (we'll assume no war)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943990499255206094)  2025-07-12T11:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"But let's say that the $40 billion is 1/3 of the defence budget this gives us a $120 billion yearly defence budget. Germany only has $80 billion. France and UK sit around $50 billion. Even the US 'only' has $800 billion to spend per year and China has $240 billion. WTF 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1943991684586459396)  2025-07-12T11:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@grok @WFC_Will @DanishCatharsis @Zyro_Zone @MichaelAArouet You're spewing bullshit now bullshit data any vibes [--]. You are using questionable prediction for the future. [--]. You failed to find actual studies. [--]. You used only [--] study and that was old. [--]. You listed incorrect numbers before we talked. [--]. You're (undeservedly) snarky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944012119541735449)  2025-07-12T12:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@grok @WFC_Will @DanishCatharsis @Zyro_Zone @MichaelAArouet A 1.2% difference is not that bad. Then again a 10bn difference matters. And so does a per capita GDP fell by 0.8% vs forecast 0.3% (i.e. can be interpreted as people doing worse with skyrocketing immigration). Btw even perfect data can be interpreted differently (vibes)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944019948696727858)  2025-07-12T13:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CyberPunkCortes Is it food Also is it a fish a reptile etc What is it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944058941044142105)  2025-07-12T15:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"And there is room for various themes of various degrees of complexity that blend well together. Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988-1997) explores democracy autocracy oligarchy fundamentalism corruption heroism sacrifice and determination in a nice space opera setting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944088206497964183)  2025-07-12T17:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"All this is to plead for the idea of knowing the type of stories you want to tell. Leave good vs evil stories to appeal to our basic needs don't try to make things grey. Leave history grey don't whitewash it. And leave aspirational characters as beacons as they are needed. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944089971469553885)  2025-07-12T17:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FrenlyFrenchBoi Let's see Romanian speakers chose to join forces with Bulgaria instead of the Eastern Roman Empire (surprising the Emperors that forgot about them). Greece hates Turkey and vice versa. And the ones that were part of SFRY went the genocide route. Yea no no problems there. 😬"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944094763835129916)  2025-07-12T18:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@NoaAARGH @FrenlyFrenchBoi You're right. 👍 I understand that the 2nd Bulgarian empire was started by Vlachs pushing against ERE over taxes (Latin/Greek language use animosity). But no new Bulgars came in at that time and we have Bulgarian language today so clearly they kept their identity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944327833083432970)  2025-07-13T09:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheCinesthetic Remember people you may allow Hugo Boss to dress your troops but you wear Prada 🧐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944423404213301458)  2025-07-13T15:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@NoaAARGH @darius_7227 @FrenlyFrenchBoi There is something that I'm curious about. I know Bulgarians see the Thracians as (part of) ancestors. But by the time the Bulgars arrived the Thracian culture was gone their culture was a Roman one. So why not say that Bulgaria has a Roman legacy My bet wars with ERE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944464767743131876)  2025-07-13T18:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NoaAARGH @darius_7227 @FrenlyFrenchBoi Cool "The Bulgarian-ERE relationship is practically 90% of Bulgarian history" I got that only from the ERE side 😇 so I'm happy for the confirmation that this is indeed a big thing for Bulgarians. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944470938205982859)  2025-07-13T18:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NoaAARGH @darius_7227 @FrenlyFrenchBoi Btw I like. Rome: join our church use our Latin alphabet. Constantinople: join us us the old Greek alphabet. Bulgarians: yeah F this choice we'll make our own 😇 Disclaimer: but for the sake of X historic fun I am on the side of ERE. 😈 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944473608123781236)  2025-07-13T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BarbarianDisco At some point they serve the same role in a story. Except for the misguided sexual fetishes of some what's the point of having more and more non-human humanoid races🤔 Probably it's just me but I like the simpler clear setting in fantasy. It leaves a story room to grow.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944684563080348044)  2025-07-14T09:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@simongerman600 So most people are right They go to Holland (Amsterdam Rotterdam The Hague Haarlem and Leiden). Nobody cares about the other part. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944692412468641872)  2025-07-14T09:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@elonmusk Such a waste of fire. hear me out rotatory chickens tied to the launch tower. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944705169528148370)  2025-07-14T10:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MemoryMedieval @CultureExploreX Lincoln Cathedral 83m tall. The Great Pyramid of Giza 138.5m tall. So that's not true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944706319375581333)  2025-07-14T10:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@3spen1 @WallStreetMav It was a cathode ray tube (CRT) that fired a focused beam of electrons onto a phosphorescent screen. and some electrons kept going moreso in the older days. Stop comparing apples and oranges. 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1944776879040311656)  2025-07-14T15:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@elan_maro @Knights_Path @shadmbrooks Shadiversity has some takes on swords that I don't share. So what He is one of the more popular creators in a niche community and a shoutout from him will help to spread the word more than a like from me. Not everything needs to resume to who's right (I am 😏) and who's wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1946615680280728042)  2025-07-19T16:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ShitpostRock As someone that likes micro-historical stories swords and historical sword play I can say that I like Skyrim and fantastic worlds in games. 👍 But I hate HATE the middle (e.g. Vikings show 🤮). This graph is 100% right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1946622857225613450)  2025-07-19T17:27Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@GeorgeJNasr @TimothyEveland That is a great scene but let's be honest they did this in the US as well. It's just that they forgot about it. Remember Bob Anderson He took care of: Highlander The Three Musketeers (1993) The Princess Bride The Mask of Zorro (OG) Star Wars The Lord of the Rings +👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1946854859027644427)  2025-07-20T08:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DubhDonald Warhammer 40k Imperium of Man racist xenophobic religious fanatics. still the best option by far compared to every other faction in that universe. 🤣 (it's like saying 1940s Germany are the good guys; imagine now how bad are the bad guys 😅)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1946944676948242833)  2025-07-20T14:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@relionwastaken I hate these buildings in Eastern Europe I hate them in Germany France Switzerland UK Belgium. I hate them everywhere. I just hate them 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947265162030850300)  2025-07-21T11:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ultrakurwa @relionwastaken All you are saying is that Poland allowed for shit construction to take place (especially if new buildings are worse than those terrible flats). Fine that happened I get it the 90s was thought on them. But now fight to increase the standards 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947267471695548914)  2025-07-21T12:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Yunacel @Damedaweld_ I thought the same until. .someone that practices Buhurt told them that this is not a modern attempt at armour fight. This is a modern attempt to redo the medieval sport of armoured teams bashing each other with whale bone clubs. So Buhurt is in fact part of HEMA. 😅🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947375342185795722)  2025-07-21T19:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Yunacel @Damedaweld_ So what I'm saying is that this is WWE but it's historic WWE. 🤣 They were wearing overly thick armour with too much padding back in the day as well. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947376092991656170)  2025-07-21T19:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nonregemesse A and B sitting in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First comes love then comes marriage then comes B with a baby carriage. 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947392104809775269)  2025-07-21T20:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@garbageland69 @Entropic_Zero @ShitpostRock Btw the exchange rate itself is a BS argument. as prices are different. The income disparity is what will make a US tourist feel it's getting a better deal not the currency exchange rate. Week/strong currency arguments matter in bulk transactions and delayed payments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947568179514855901)  2025-07-22T08:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Erik_SjonDK @eldeestephens @ssankar 🤣 This I can buy 😏 Having the space is something that US (or Canada and Australia) take for granted. Places like Denmark and the Netherlands are too small even if they are quite gorgeous. I can see the "envy" coming from them. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947613768394965222)  2025-07-22T11:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@garbageland69 @Entropic_Zero @ShitpostRock Switzerland (in the past) Denmark (1$=6.39 D-Krone now) Sweden (1$= [----] S-Krona now) Norway (1$= [-----] N-Krone now). so many exceptions. 😅 It's what I'm saying (i.e. income disparity) but people correlated that with currency exchange. It's not true as a rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947639973177438487)  2025-07-22T12:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Entropic_Zero @GjichVNoes1945 @ShitpostRock Btw I used tipping in countries where there's no such custom to get fast service in clubs. And you know what it works I was cutting in line at the bar and I was served with a smile. Tipping as a standard expectation is toxic. Japan has a good service culture. Don't ruin it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947643872915423349)  2025-07-22T13:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@garbageland69 @Entropic_Zero @ShitpostRock A basic AC unit is just $200. But I don't like AC air. In my southern home I have AC it's needed in the summer. In my northern home I don't. I don't need it. But it's annoying when I get a freak 37C (100F) day in the North. That didn't happen a few decades ago. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947674783602380849)  2025-07-22T15:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@garbageland69 @Entropic_Zero @ShitpostRock Yes I gave you a flavour of what I mean. Temperatures even in the South were not so extreme until a few years ago (i.e. the number of days over 35C were rare in a decade). And life was set around outside activities. In the North it was unheard of to have high temp. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947677373614170291)  2025-07-22T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@garbageland69 @Entropic_Zero @ShitpostRock As the climate changes people habits change as well. AC air is still deemed unpleasant but it's present in the South. It's rare in homes in the North but it will start to be included in homes as well. But this is not about money So stop misunderstanding statistics. 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947678220934868997)  2025-07-22T15:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics Wait which is which I had no idea wood was coming in some of these colours. Is the green one natural or some copper oxide stain or something🤔 Btw do they feel different in the hand So is the tactile feel different (if your hands are not callused from all the work 😅)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947683781801869753)  2025-07-22T15:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@SeaDogMax @nonregemesse 🤔 Go on. I never saw that in an armour fighting treaties. But you know what it would make for a nice brawl scene in a medieval movie. 👍 P.S. Reminds me of the fun fact that even in the Roman colosseum times hand-to-hand fighting was more popular than sword fighting. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947693314389803033)  2025-07-22T16:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana You mean a test between a sharp straight gladius and a sharp curved falx 🤔 In Europe a few countries have some strict laws about the ownership and use of blades. Two of them are Romania and Denmark. i.e. I am not bringing blades there for an experiment 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947740342247141836)  2025-07-22T19:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Rux_Dacoromana Btw I think in that column panel the Dacian is using a sica (right) not a longer two-handed falx (left)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947797635315761585)  2025-07-22T23:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Jeffyboythought @Entropic_Zero @GjichVNoes1945 @ShitpostRock There's a Shinto shrine nearby. give your donations there. A restaurant is a place to exchange money for goods and service. I wouldn't give you food for free if you couldn't pay after all. And are you trying to shut me down by giving undeclared (tax) money to my staff 🤨"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1947953879942877305)  2025-07-23T09:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@void_post @uncledoomer What do you mean "want" That's a fact It gets even better we get to drink beer since we're 16yo* and only have to wait until [--] for spirits. 🥳 And not just at bars anywhere. Drinking in public is OK* 👌 Get the hell out of here with your [--] BS. *limitations may apply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948064393410842972)  2025-07-23T16:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TimothyEveland You can see how around the 1600s the obesity crisis started. that or better guns. Yea ok it was the guns 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948158320688201964)  2025-07-23T23:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@W0jc1echowski @jackvaniadev @NilesSankey Also I'm a peasant boy in a rags-to-riches story sure I'll kill some rats to level up. But if I am a passing hero no I will not look for the missing key to your shed. Deal with that on your own. I need to focus on killing the vampire/dragon/demon/warlock in the castle. 😤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948771107193888838)  2025-07-25T15:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Emmacutestest @DudespostingWs [--]. It's probably valued with a historical view in mind. [--]. If it's gold it's deemed a treasure in most countries meaning he doesn't get to keep it. [--]. He may get a finder fee a percentage of the value of the treasure which is why it's in your interest to claim 4mil value.😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948849979461960052)  2025-07-25T20:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LOTR_Daily_ Wait. why don't we have a parody of LOTR 🤔 We'll call it LOTR = Long O To Ride. the O is for ring. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948851517022503247)  2025-07-25T21:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ArinEvergale @HEAVYWASH_ It does And it looks like he is using a gymnasium sabre trainer. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948858970501730371)  2025-07-25T21:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@elonmusk Or inflation That would also work to get you to $20 trillion valuation. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1948862045446688789)  2025-07-25T21:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@The_Lord_Otter I found out about John Carter and his world after the movie. I think the actress looked good for the part (large firm breasts in sufficiently skimpy outfits). Can you make a (live action) comic-book accurate version without making it look like porn🤔 If yes I'm up for it.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949089960071430414)  2025-07-26T12:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@The_Lord_Otter I like the idea of the rapier and gun or sabre and gun combo. For a fantasy world this is fun. Small gripe. John Carter was created in [----]. Mars had a different mystique back then. Can he go to Mars in an alternate universe It would help my suspension of disbelief. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949090771459551346)  2025-07-26T12:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@andrewtevans @The_Lord_Otter Please no. the singing in the audiobook makes me want to drop the series. It's a terrible inclusion. Those should have been an annexe call it Songs from Arda and have them all grouped with a few lines of prose before each providing context. Breaking into song is terrible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949420199519612967)  2025-07-27T10:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@andrewtevans @The_Lord_Otter "The world is about to end" Was it I didn't get that at that point nor in the series. Bad guy on the verge of victory yes but not the end of the world. But I digress. no singing in prose (and definitely not in an audiobook where the song is spoken) 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949475841379106835)  2025-07-27T14:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BeautyOfArda The elf looks surreal. The dwarf looks like a regular man in [---] A.D. armour. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949531212302954992)  2025-07-27T18:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Pirat_Nation I hope so 😤 Imagine paying so much money on kit PC consoles games. for it to look like a 1990s Zelda game. Scratch that. Nintendo is re-releasing Zelda at a new game price-point isn't it 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949534385159430375)  2025-07-27T18:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GordonNewell6 @nonregemesse I think it's just his pattern welded style. Damascus should be more homogenous in its irregularities with no large scale pattern. That's how I see it. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949542448851714501)  2025-07-27T18:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Nerdrotics Did you guys notice that in the 1st episode of season [--] of Strange New Worlds we see a wind turbine So in a universe with antimatter reactors teleports and replicators they use wind power. 🤣 P.S. That's when I stopped trying to watch this (stopped with STD in season 2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949596012433092743)  2025-07-27T22:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Classicbritcom Kate short for Bob. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949597868236386335)  2025-07-27T22:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Thunder_28606 @Nerdrotics (I got a better pic) It's even worse. just at the start they show a large wind farm in a valley in the middle of the wilderness in Montana. So again in a world of antimatter reactors using wind turbines like this is just a big FU to wild birds. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949729166229684704)  2025-07-28T07:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nonregemesse Caesar was filthy rich Like controlling a huge percentage of Rome's wealth. paying social benefits to Romans from his own money level wealthy 😳 I don't think it would have made a difference. (grain of salt I got this from the internet so. grain of salt 👍)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949832855292391504)  2025-07-28T14:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LandsknechtPike Mini hockey sticks gates a pillar No idea what billiard that is but I'm glad it didn't catch on. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949836300837597449)  2025-07-28T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Real123Here @MsMelChen I am curious to see what the agreement is actually saying. I wouldn't trust statements made by Trump during a live meeting. he exaggerates for his base (e.g. what he says about the Golf of America =/= what actually is written in the order). The devil can be in the details. 😕"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949875240428810694)  2025-07-28T16:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@EldritchNexus @MedievalScholar Could you play it on Switch with the OG game interface 🤔 Anyway I'm just saying that we can make (and remake/remaster this one) historic themed games. We have on the internet so much knowledge of the events clothes architecture arms and armour etc that we can do it. 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1949926275918766577)  2025-07-28T20:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@elonmusk V2 for a rocket. man you're not beating the allegations any time soon. 😅 I would salute with all my heart your efforts to move on to V3 but I think it would only make things worse. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950100026031505662)  2025-07-29T07:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@B0SSMANSAYS @not__vee @grok You can argue where the line in the sand should be but not that hate speech should be allowed without looking like a total tool. And this line in the sand should be set into law by an elected parliament not set by governmental agencies. Which is what I hinted at before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950103668335722685)  2025-07-29T07:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@overlookedpics @0zmnds "To boldly go where my stepfather and his BFF and who knows what went before" And I'm over her Thanks for the reminder that it was 🤏 close for her to be his stepmother. 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950214989043675469)  2025-07-29T15:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@B0SSMANSAYS @not__vee @grok Study map metric - hate speech laws and implementation - freedom of speech. the discussion is shifting with each post. Stick to the original point: arbitrary use of standards by executive agencies or parliamentary law. What is worse when regulating civil liberties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950233643190022261)  2025-07-29T16:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheVaultTecInc Now that you mention it. how the hell are bottle caps valuable in a world with so many bullets (and bullet making machines). Just stamp some Coke caps and buy the wasteland. 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950249306859942037)  2025-07-29T17:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@C4nn0n_F0dd3r You get to pick only one of the three. what's your choice - messer has a 70cm blade clip point no knuckle bow but fancy grip. - dussack has a 75cm curved blade small false edge yelman good basket hilt protection thumb ring. - sabre inf. British [----] pattern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950280175448445036)  2025-07-29T19:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@yesmam47 @She_Says_It_ @worldranking_ Good another person that knows how things grow.👍 (I also appended a picture; I feel like doing a public service on agriculture these days; and I'm a city boy 😅)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950494016820158737)  2025-07-30T09:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@machaia6386 @TheMiddleborne "one on the right certainly could" Then boy do I have news for you. It's as opposite of a leaf blade as it can be. 🤣 (original in The Met) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/29006 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/29006"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950564564686221555)  2025-07-30T14:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Me: fullers on swords don't just terminate abruptly on historical sword. There is a gradual transition. That one sword in The Met: think again 😤 (in my defence this was probably made mid-to-late 19th century in the style of the 15th century piece) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/29006 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/29006"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950565546556268695)  2025-07-30T14:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jjjjjjatr @Gleebus34 True Who the hell wants to die due to a $300 plastic injection molding drone. It's not epic cool interesting. nobody will make songs or movies about it or inspire the new generations. it's not even horrific enough to teach us the folly of war. It's just cost-effective. 😒"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950708787394044011)  2025-07-31T00:03Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@eletmuvesz @LandsknechtPike For the one on the right the hat throws me off. It looks like what I would expect steppe people to wear some [---] years prior. Last can we take a moment and appreciate how well 'serfs' dressed (and yes I'm sure it's a later romanticised look). 😏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1950845020321219019)  2025-07-31T09:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@UpdatingOnRome Lorenzo the Magnificent (dies that year) Pope Alexander VI (Borgia) Cesare Borgia Caterina Sforza ("Lioness of Romagna") Giovanni II Bentivoglio (tyrant of Bologna) Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Machiavelli Giuliano della Rovere (future War Pope) =Italian war gang = 2/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951040243442000266)  2025-07-31T22:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@UpdatingOnRome Casimir the IV in Poland (crushed the Teutonic Order) Stephen the Great in Moldavia (largest battle of the era) Vlad the Impaler in Wallachia Matthias Corvinus (1490) and Sultan Mehmed II (1481) miss the year - them still being around would have been perfect. 3/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951040910474526903)  2025-07-31T22:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@pureMetatron Bro I had one. I hate it 😤 I wanted a Nintendo. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951046418761916564)  2025-07-31T22:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"UK wants to police nudity there are talks in Australia to stop under 16yo from accessing YouTube and Ozzy is dead. This is my all-in-one answer (if you can see it 😏) https://www.youtube.com/watchv=S70MUXrsMwE https://www.youtube.com/watchv=S70MUXrsMwE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951056885764776109)  2025-07-31T23:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fakehistoryhunt @AndrewLivingst2 It's like beets. which I love to use in stews (along with purple carrots when I find them 😋). But I get that if you want to obtain a clear soup this is not something you would want to use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951279332715847948)  2025-08-01T13:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@AnnCastleWalton @fakehistoryhunt @AndrewLivingst2 I never had Golden Beets. but I already think they are less fun.🧐 Getting the kitchen to look like a crime scene is a feature not a bug.😇 (but for real I understand that the betalain that makes the red beets red are powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents 👍)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951297995174989984)  2025-08-01T15:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrHughT What are your sources Citation needed Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Pic or it didn't happen Grok is that true Anyway let's get back to the giants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951543468083343729)  2025-08-02T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is a [----] pattern (so made before 1788) light cavalry sabre made by Woolley in Birmingham. I own this antique. While I was looking at it I noticed how the triple fullers terminate. They are so uneven in their termination even for this late industrial era.🤔 @ABodorics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951695537608053218)  2025-08-02T17:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics If I bought a new reproduction sabre and I would get this level of finish for the fuller termination I would be angry. Even makers that state to have a philosophy of a more realistic emporium level finish do a better job now than past makers. I still love this antique 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951698194926071860)  2025-08-02T17:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@VVeltkrieger @DytrykJesionek Thanks👍 Simplistically I always saw it more like the Goths moved south and dragged some Slavic and Germanic tribes with them. They added local Germanic and Sarmatian and the non-Romanised Dacians in the East. Rome left Dacia Goths took over they left the Gepids took over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951699942763798553)  2025-08-02T17:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ABodorics Nice Check the post I tagged you in about fuller terminations on a sabre. I was thinking of your (LE) work when I was looking at them. Even in the industrial age fullers were "whatever good enough". But if you would do that on your pieces. I would scream bloody murder. 🤣😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1951949647926210864)  2025-08-03T10:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nonregemesse The upper part of a sword-grip and pommel of a late 8th century Anglo-Saxon sword found in the British Museum. Plus a very plausible replica of the full thing. Yea Anglo-Saxon did shit work. let's go with an iron bar with a stone in the pommel. 😠 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1893-0715-1 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1893-0715-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1952057564088193483)  2025-08-03T17:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ShellySidd70273 @tolkienzone Not a fan of Tolkien's writing style and chapters' setup. But I love his world and ideas. Peter Jackson adapted the world was faithful to the ideas while streamlining the story for a movie format. The Rings of Power made up a new world ignored ideas invented a shit story. 😠"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1952637306029973598)  2025-08-05T07:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@LandsknechtPike The way the sabre is drawn. every fibre in my body tells me that the hilt is drawn mounted upside-down. The pommel cap indicates how one should hold onto the grip. And the scabbard's chape at the end and the overall shape indicates an opposite curvature for the blade. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1953422571279397112)  2025-08-07T11:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The style of the grip shorter than on a katana with an increase taper towards the end makes this closer in style to a European (one-handed) langmesser or katzbalger than a two-hand katana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1953488461752565807)  2025-08-07T16:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I am imagining a European sword/messer/sabre maker being asked to make a katana being given a (Japanese) blade (which is on the shorter side for European standards; ok for 1h too short for 2h). This is so plausible as a result from someone that never saw a katana in real life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MarsdanVM/status/1953489423493939615)  2025-08-07T16:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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