why is he so disliked here
Why is he so disliked here
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Because he's right
He is wrong about literally everything he has ever talked about apart from World War 2 and to a lesser extent Republican Rome. He uses half-remembered anecdotes and his LARPing experience as a substitute for actual historical knowledge. He makes ridiculous claims in order to give an impression of going against the grain, which is the same sort of "they never taught you THIS in history class!!!" thing a lot of popular media rides on
It is not so bad in itself that he is wrong, he never claims to be a historian or any sort of expert or authority
But he is quite charismatic and entertaining to watch, and he has disparaged professional historians and archaeologists from time to time, so in spite of his amateur mistakes, his audience takes him as an absolute authority. I have seen people in his comment sections and elsewhere on the internet jubilantly proclaim that they do not read the works of professional historians or even trust their opinions, they just watch Lindybeige instead
>But he is quite charismatic and entertaining to watch
Really? I've seen people say this but he repulses me. Cant stand to watch his videos for more than 10 seconds desu
Scholagladitoria is where it's at.
I'm mad he doesn't get more attentions. He bases his points on actual manuals from the day.
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>England won the 100 years' war
He is the PERFIDIOUS ALBION personified and he uses his experience larping as evidence for how historical combat happened.
That said, some of his videos are passable. I liked his video on how Brits put an r at the end of words that otherwise end in vowels when the following word starts with a vowel. He then went on to point out that when Brits stress something they enunciate for once whereas Americans enunciate all the time and when they want to stress something they simply get lowder.
>why is he so disliked here
because he's a LARP-tier shithead inexplicably beloved by credulous idiots
This.
>He is wrong about literally everything he has ever talked about apart from World War 2
>apart from World War 2
Has he ever scored in the Cups?
to be fair, larping (as in re-enactment) can do a lot to help understanding
for example, we know very little of the paleolithic times because very few remains are left for us to study
so trying to live like them might expose what technologies and tools they must have had to survive
or at least expose how little we know
trying to re-enact a Spanish phalanx will do the same
it tests whether or not the writers made shit up or not
But they did
>england loses almost all of their territorial gains
>french retain french crown
???
He's great, dunno what you're on about.
reminder that Lindybeige claims:
>no one used swords, axes
>no one used horses
>no one used throwing knives
>no one used double strap arm shields
>no one used scythes
>no one used mail coifs
>no one used torches
>Pikemen didn't fight each other
>no one spoke French during the French revolution
>no one spoke Latin during the Roman Republic
>battle of Zama didn't happen
>Romans carried one pilum
>Vikings weren't real
>berserkers weren't real
>climate change isn't real
>stagnant social mobility isn't real
>castles were defended by three soldiers
>butted mail is better than riveted mail
>operation market garden was a success
>Napoleon was literally Hitler
>The Churchill was the best tank in WWII
>The English won the Hundreds Years' War
>british naval guns on Malta could lanuch projectiles into space
>british naval guns on Malta could lanuch projectiles into space
But that's true, NASA borrowed them to fire the Apollo missions to the Moon.
He's so boring though, suttering mumbling boring autists like him are why Lindy is popular.
People are mostly just memeing, sometimes he's wrong, but he's clear when he's using personal conjecture and his videos on historical weapons and armor are mostly just using simple anatomy. Seeing him BTFO Katanaplonkers and spiked armor edgelords is very entertaining.
He is seen in a negative light because this board has a decidedly anti-British lean.
Wherever they may in fact be from in Europe, their historical record is a matter of pride for them, regardless of its credibility.
>Anglo LARPer who never shot a gun in his life before last week telling anyone anything about fuck all
Nothing I couldn't get off an Osprey PDF
what a mongoloid
anglocentric retard
the french forever stayed on their side of the channel, and never again gave serious trouble to the land
>He's so boring though
He doesn't make flashy videos, but his presentation style isn't boring unless you have no attention span and don't care about the subject matter. He's there to provide information, and his videos are basically lectures.
Plus, he's hilarious. Matt finds ways to work jokes and subtle sexual puns into his videos a lot. Just after a minute into the video posted above, he starts talking about how pictures make things look smaller and "measuring his weapon" for the camera.
He did say Zama happened
No he isn't. He even reviews battles an weapons from popular historical movies and shows like GoT about how historically accurate they based on his research of the period.
Matt was actually the first youtube historian I saw and he got me into historical combat and weaponry,,, long before Lindy.
Also, lindy is the only who looks autistic, not Matt. He wears the same shaggy style of sweater vest with the collar turned up every video.
English lost.
We need to kill this copy pasta
Lindy vs Lars Andersen 1v1, livestreamed on youtube.
Who would win?
based lindyposter
they couldn't retake Calais, England won
Narcissistic faggot who thinks he's the smartest man in the world. Basically a British lanklet version of Vsauce, and gets a lot of facts wrong.
I will admit though, when he hasn't got his head so far up his own arse that he can taste his food digesting, he has entertaining videos and is good at doing visual demonstrations of what he's talking about.
Yeah I was surprised he's never shot a gun until the video he just posted. He's a history nut, and obsessed with weaponry, yet he's never even shot a "proper" gun (whatever that means), and has wooden sticks instead of actual replicas.
Which is strange, because skallagay and other scholfaggiotora have about 50 different swords and axes, whereas he seems to forget that weapons exist outside of larping with toys and making historically inaccurate youtube videos.
Argentina won the falklands war, the english for ever stay there and never gave any serious trouble to the land
He has zero charisma which is something very important to have if you're going to stand in front of the camera.
Because butthurt foreigners. It's not like we care but they have to do it to preserve their culture or something..
He is sometimes simply incorrect but acts like his statements are absolute facts. Some of the shit he says is really far-fetched, and he is really chauvinistic too.
I still watch his videos when I'm bored though.