• Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Oh wow, they just recently added a new elephant focused civilization to Age of Empires 4, and one of the new elephants has this armor! I thought it was an unusual looking design, but now I know where they got it. I had no idea there was so little remaining as reference for this kind of thing.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      What did you make it out of?

      Way back in the day, SCA folks were making chainmails out of soda can pop tops, which was awesome to me, since they weighed almost nothing when completed, but looked pretty convincing. But then the pop tops were discontinued…

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        4 days ago

        Oh, metal wire. I think galvanized iron, because I was a poor teenager.

        You’d take a copper tube, put a little hole into it, stick the end of the wire into the tube and the tube into a power drill. You spin the wire into a huge spiral which you can then snip into loose rings.

        LOTR was in theaters, and I’d discovered LARP. So I was WAY more motivated than I am now.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Oh, hell yeah. For sure.
          Colonialism in general makes me perfectly nauseous… like, just… fuck.

          Btw, Skullgrid, I couldn’t help but notice your ‘avatar card,’ for lack of a better official designation. And so I’m curious-- could you possibly link me to one of ‘banishings’ you did to the right-wingers in question?

          • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 days ago

            Not really, you can see those things don’t exist, but I didn’t keep receipts. If I was lying about it I’d add more. I basically argued with some bad faith conservatives and saw they deleted their account/community a bit after and took credit.