What does Veeky Forums think about lindybeige?
What does Veeky Forums think about lindybeige?
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>this is what I think is best when using a foam sword while larping therefore this is how medieval mercenaries did it
>also fuck America and the French, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
I liked his review of the Iliad.
That's the only video of his I ever really watched.
He's a pretty good source for historical info. He makes use of trust worthy sources and is unbiased in what he says.
He's wrong about swords never doing a schwing sound when drawn from a scabbard (scabbards with a metal throat do and they did exist), also he slightly underestimates dual wielding.
dual wielding really is garbage for formation battles though
the only time dual wielding is really effective is dualing, and only if at least one of the weapons is short enough not to get knocked by the other
Generally correct in broad strokes, goes full retard every time he tries to concoct theories of his own, very entertaining and charismatic, panders to the "nerd" side of his fandom a bit too much.
He did mention brass scabbards I'm pretty sure
He's a lot like British Internet Personalities, quite interesting and entertaining online, but you wouldn't like to be their friends IRL, they look like sour people.
I think we have this thread too often, and I think peoples perspective on him is laughably uneducated.
He's a great entertainer, he has good ideas, but he's not there to be a teacher all the time, sometimes he's just proposing new ideas.
could you mention a few examples of going full retard?
he doesn't larp.
>panders to the "nerd" side of his fandom a bit too much
And even then it's clear he doesn't understand RPGs. To put it in Veeky Forums games, he would be "That Guy" at the table.
Remember that video where he claimed it's silly for characters to carry around 10 swords with specialized advantages? And decided that instead it's better to have the party be incapable of defeating a giant turtle until the army comes along to flip it on its back and stab it to death? That's how you run a SHIT campaign. You take characters who are literally only in it to be heroes, and make them feel incompetent and, worse than that, unneccessary. If the military can handle giant turtles themselves, what the fuck are the adventurers even doing? What in-character reason do they have not to retire then and there? They're clearly not needed.
>he doesn't do European Extreme Campaign modes
pleb
>he can't play a campaign without resorting to his mary sue OP half-angel half-demon z-cup oppai loli char he made on CoC
I hope you're joking. You know that in D&D, even a level 1 character is at least above average, right? An average character would be a commoner or expert with straight 10s across the board.
>the only time dual wielding is really effective is dualing, and only if at least one of the weapons is short enough not to get knocked by the other
I think the main advantage of having the other weapon shorter is that then you can have the best of both world's - long reach of the longer weapon and the ease of use at close range with the shorter weapon. Especially as a self-defense pair of weapons it's better to have also a shorter blade that you can draw quickly or defend yourself in small space.
Intuitively I doubt that in a duel having two relatively long swords would be so problematic however. IMHO you'd have to be pretty clumsy to get them "tangled" or knocked at the same time. If they were good cutting swords fighting at close range wouldn't be that problematic either.
>"above average"
>can carry 50 spears and infinite gold "because it wouldn't be fun if I had to try"
Another reason to dislike DnD
>Intuitively I doubt that in a duel having two relatively long swords would be so problematic however. IMHO you'd have to be pretty clumsy to get them "tangled" or knocked at the same time. If they were good cutting swords fighting at close range wouldn't be that problematic either.
Also with two swords of approximately the same length feinting would be easier.
>can carry 50 spears and infinite gold "because it wouldn't be fun if I had to try"
You know that a bag with literally infinate storage place that can retrieve the exact object you desire as a move action is a relatively inexpensive low level object, right?
When you play in a world of high magic and fantasy, it's stupid to assume the enemy has access to retarded fantasy/magic shit (like giant turtles that are somehow unaffected by the square cube law) but restrict the players to what's "normal". Unless they're wizards, but then you end up with a party entirely made of casters.
I'm not going to contest that, but I think Lindy did specify it was a D&D game. Therefore my objections are still valid.
He did also specify that he disliked D&D. There's nothing wrong with criticizing a flaw even if the system supports it.
There's nothing wrong with criticizing the system. There's everything wrong with running a game specifically to make the players feel worthless, incompetent and like they have no impact on the world. I wouldn't blame any players who walked out on the game then and there.
I'm not saying the players should be guaranteed to win, or even neccessarily survive, every single encounter, but Lindy went out of his way to depict the players as incompetent and propose a solution a party of 3-6 adventurers simply cannot copy. He chose to run a D&D campaign, even if he dislikes the system he shouldn't be actively spoiling the fun of others.
>the army
>implying standing army
>history buff
That's not what he said though, his only complaint was that they took no specialized approach to a monster that obviously wouldn't give a shit if a sword was burrowed into it.
Also IIRC the soldiers were from an evil empire.
I think his complaints are valid, but if these kinds of things aren't pre-established, it's certainly dickish as well.
We have no reason to believe Lloyds friends aren't familiar or even appreciative of his antics.
>his only complaint was that they took no specialized approach to a monster that obviously wouldn't give a shit if a sword was burrowed into it
>obviously wouldn't give a shit
Not that obvious in D&D, where AC scores exist. There's an objectively established point where you hit so hard, you pass through his defenses.
>We have no reason to believe Lloyds friends aren't familiar or even appreciative of his antics.
Yeah, that would change things for that specific group. Still, I wouldn't play with him.
He is good at demonstrating real tangible things like swords and ancient history, but he doesn't understand modern combat, philosophy or indeed that England is in fact part of europe.
>spotted the antibrexit
i don't care about england, i just can't stand people dumb enough to think islands aren't part of the continent. England isn't its own little world apart from the rest of europe, it's just an island.
He's like a tolerable version of Skallagrim.
And a mediocre version of Matt Easton.
Matt Easton knows more about swords and non-firearm weapons more I'd say, but Lindybeige is more charismatic and entertaining.
i love him he posts good content
Lindybeige is a man who has finely tuned his senses to love the smell of his own shitty ideas so much that he instantly puts them on the internet, with little to no filter. He also is extremely smug and attempts to bait people constantly at other events, very sure of the fact that he could not possibly be wrong.
In short, these are the exact reasons why Veeky Forums defends him and likes him, because this is exactly what this board does.
the bad
>greeks made linothorax out of leather because I made one out of it and it seemed comfy at a dinner party I wore it to
>(insert larping/reenactment clip or quote) this is the reason people fought like this
>this thing I don't like never existed or was never utilized
>"soldiers" in the classical era went to battle with a guy at the back carrying a shitload of water bottles
the good
>lindybeige just shows you something he made
>why torches in movies are retarded
>cloaks are comfy
>blatant lies
Why don't you stay honest? I'm sure you don't feel like this without having a point, but blatantly altering what he's said isn't a great way to go about it.
Well water carriers are attested in some medieval sources.
Oh and he made a copy of a hollywood torch, what was the bastard expecting? Up next: why bullet blanks are not actually as lethal as in the movies... Fucking genius.
>Oh and he made a copy of a hollywood torch, what was the bastard expecting? Up next: why bullet blanks are not actually as lethal as in the movies... Fucking genius.
Because he was specifically addressing a movie misconception? He even talked about how that's not what they'd use.
Yes but now we have an entire legion of people shouting medieval people didn't use torches.
Pretty sure he does LARP and he even mentioned it sometimes. His video about cloaks where he explains a larping anecdote comes to my mind.
How is that his fault? also who says that?
I think it was reenactment?
Sent him a facebook message once, he is friendly but a bit autistic.
When I want to listen about archeology and his dissection of historical sets, however for weapons Matt Easton is the authority.
most people are friendly, you don't have to be so wary, qt3.14
He's not to blame for his viewers being retarded, at least not this time.
Reenactment is basically a kind of LARP, man. I can understand why reenactors don' t want to be associated with fatties dressed as elves, but they're different categories of the same activity at the end of the day.
There's literally no problem with partially basing your understanding of an instrument on real life testing on how it functions.
I never said there was.
>real
>life
>testing
>Hey guys, let's have a battle, and in order to make it realistic if you get touched by this thing you have to not use whatever limb I touched or you instantly die if I touch your torso or head
>also walking around at a below brisk fashion is a 100% accurate simulation on the wearing of arms and armor
this and the morbid obesity is why I hate reenactors
You people are being too savage
He's a good guy, and yes, many of his videos are speculation and rationalizing in his own way, but he's still fun to watch
in my opinion lindybeige is far better with fantasy and RPGs than with history. He's not perfect or anything, but he throws around some cool ideas. Making you think about how to beat a creature in an unsual way is a good thing.
He doesn't know shit about linguistics and, if his other stuff is anything like that, everything he says should be disregarded.
This
but his videos are still fun, you just need to not take them seriously
I like the nit-picky movie reviews the most
and fuck those vids when he talks about politics or british superiority
>>Hey guys, let's have a battle, and in order to make it realistic if you get touched by this thing you have to not use whatever limb I touched or you instantly die if I touch your torso or head
>>also walking around at a below brisk fashion is a 100% accurate simulation on the wearing of arms and armor
Except that's not at all what they're testing though. Obviously, real combat situations can't be done with reenactment, and lindy has never implied that.
His video on the Bren vs MG34/42 was sort of silly, he brought up some valid points but others were completely retarded
>if the bren wasn't superior to the mg why did the British gain ground every day since D-Day
>what is overwhelming numerical and air superiority
>what is collapsing German infrastructure and industry
>what is the soviet union
cant stand this idiot. awful personality and hes wrong more often than hes right
this guy is great and there are a couple others worth watching
I really liked his newest video about salt until Captain Autism bursted in.
While Lloyd is an interesting guy his humor is honestly pretty awful. Stoke Mandeville being one of the worst things I've ever seen.
I generally agree with his views on historical things, but the guy is an absolute classist buffoon.
>classist
The best way to be desu
Not to mention the fact that the bren gun still being used doesn't mean it's stellar impervious albionium 100 folded steel. The Madsen LMG from 1903 is still being used for crying out loud. He forgot the MG3 is a thing, too.
I'm pretty sure the germans got right trounced by briish know-how m8
tbqh m8 as a monarchist I'd rather have some shitberry picker be in charge if he's actually competent than some inbred dingleberry. Social mobility is good, ok
Lindy please go.
>but the guy is an absolute classist buffoon.
He is a step away from being satire of England.
What does Veeky Forums think of this guy
Norwegian autist with a dollop of green shit on his head married to a hobgoblin
>Medieval Europe was basically just England and maybe some French colonies ok? If something didn't exist in Medieval England then it simply didn't exist. :^))))
>My understanding of linguistics comes from 2 wikipedia articles and staring at my ceiling for a week, now listen to my hot opinions. No I didn't read any peer-reviewed papers, my self-absorbed Britishness clearly shows to me that English is the most functional language
>Chinese is bad because it doesn't account for pronounciation, even though it wasn't designed for it, but British who's whole shtick should be about writing what you're hearing, but fails at this because of stupid conventions is good precisely because of that
>Roman patricians only spoke Greek, m'kay?
>Medieval forests were basically just big parks, right?
>my experience with foam swords allows me to judge how war was waged in ancient Greece?
>What artistic license? What's that? If a movie isn't artistically accurate it's GARBAGE and TRASH
Tbqh Hangul is way more practical as a writing form than most other languages, I hate how snobby this guy is.
Post wife
Fair enough, marry the people you love, but she just comes across as autistic as he is.
I bet the people who set them up are very proud of themselves.
>That facial hair
Overestimates his grasp of "logic" and "reason". But overall very entertaining.
Also I'm not a fan of his "evolutionary psychology".
d'aww, a cute couple.
Yeah, if the guy would be just a tad humbler I'd love him to bits.
same desu
I liked that "funky funghi" joke of his in the forest video.
I sent him an fb message asking for his opinions on this formation I thought up. He did reply and gave his insights, but was a bit dry. I assume it comes down to Britishness.
If you're playing shitty D&D. OD&D or bust. Also that reminds me that lindybeige has shit opinions on the early versions of D&D
the problem with that pro-brexit video is not that he is pro-brexit, but rather that he is blind. I'm no fan of the EU myself, but he's awful at putting things in perspective.
totalwarformation.jpg
As in "this was made by a dumb TW player" or as in "this is the sort of formation that works in TW"? I barely even played TW, but I guess it may have influenced me.
who do you mean by captain autism
It's actually one of things people do a lot of in total war. Spear inf bent inward, some pikeman to take the brunt of the attack, swordsman to fill gaps, archers right behind them with skirm turned off, and cannons close by if TW2.
I recall in one of his videos he mentioned they met because they both had paganism and swords in their interests tab
Post his reply.
Dyed hair, beware!
Fuck katana plunkers
>neo-pagans
I've only played one game of DnD and i got bored af because it went so slow.
Everytime lindy makes a video about these games he seems to want speed them up.
skalgrim
>follow up to his bren-masterrace video
>everybody that disagrees with him are just dumb fanboys
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Why does this nigger keep calling the MG34/42 a "Spandau"?
Maybe if you had watched part 1 you'd know
He has a degree in archeology senpai. This meme that he is completely unqualified is wrong
yeah I know some books referred to it as such, but the actual name is the MG34/42.
it just annoys me.
>everybody that disagrees with him are just dumb fanboys
The joke here being that he is clearly an everything-british fanboy himself?
I generally think the criticisms of lindy are completely out of context and also often just completely fabricated, but his bias towards Britain makes for his worst videos by far.
>He has a degree
Having a degree in something does not automatically make your opinions correct user.
I know this firsthand. I have a very flashy degree and there's loads of stuff in my chosen field I don't know that much about.
>Having a degree in something does not automatically make your opinions correct user.
No one said it does, he's responding to someone claiming he has no formal qualifications, when he's been working with historical accuracy in many forms for much of his life.
Look back at the original post, notice how the "no formal qualification" criticism is clearest in regard to his opinions on linguistics.
A degree in archeology does not make you an authority on linguistics.
well, that's where your previous point comes in user, having formal qualifications doesn't mean much.
Let's be honest, it's less that he has no formal qualifications in linguistics and more that it's clear he never took a single class or read a basic intro textbook to it.
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