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Trebuchets, which btw are far superior to catapults.
None of you dumb fuckers has any idea what "medieval" means.
Magic of course.
Beheading kings.
Syphilis
Trump already brought that one back.
I just really like walking around eating giant turkey legs.
This has never been forbidden.
Bring back duels!
Perpetual stew, good architecture, and no Twitter
That's not cool man...
They said medieval, that is way too late.
I dunno, that was invented to make beheadings more humane...let's go back to an axe.
Child labor.
Oh, waitβ¦
Everybody needs guillotine.. That says something!
I unplug for a few days and this pops up on my feed. ??????????
Welcome to the internet.
Have a look around.
Inns, especially if they've got an enormous pot of perpetual stew, and people are giving out quests.
There was perpetual stew?
That sounds an awful lot like restaurants and jobs...
Inns like that existed during the enlightenment up through the invention of the railroad. In the medieval era you slept in a church or maybe someone's home.
Inns existed in large cities during the medieval period.
Public stockade.
I recently got into armored combat so, knights. If we're gonna kill each other, let's at least be civilized!
Peasant uprisings, to take down the kings of today.
Medieval peasant uprisings were inevitably put down and the perpetrators brutally massacred, and also their families.
The first successful uprisings weren't until the 1800s.
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Our leaders fighting in the wars they start.
You wanted it... go fucking get it cowards.
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Landsknecht fashion.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.
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The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.
This was one of the really interesting plot elements in World War Z, where towards the end of the war where they couldn't really afford to be wasting resources on prisons, they brought back corporal and public punishment. They'd put people in stockades to let the entire community know they were caught doing something like stealing their neighbor's firewood, or publicly lashing executives who were war-profiteering, and only imprisoning the absolute worst offenders who were incapable of integrating back into society.
For a silly zombie novel, it honestly has a phenomenal amount of prettt interesting social commentary, and is absolutely worth a listen to the unabridged audiobook.
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