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hitto wrote

Reply to What TV shows are you watching lately? by twovests

I watched the Netflix Pluto adaptation. The ending fell a little flat for me—some of the final revelations didn't quite feel worth all that build-up—but there were a couple of twists along the way that I really enjoyed. Gorgeous animation, too.

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hitto wrote

Reply to howd they even get people to actually fight and kill in the knights times by I_got_killed_one_time

Brett Devereaux has written about this a bunch at his blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, here's the best summation I could find on a quick search:

On the other hand cohesion is the force that holds a specific unit together through the power of the bonds holding the individual combatants to each other and/or to their (generally junior or non-commissioned) officers. There are a lot of ways to build that cohesion: people are generally unwilling to abandon neighbors, close friends and relatives, for one. They are also reluctant to expose themselves to shame at home for having done so; shame is one of the few things people fear as much, if not more than, death. For armies that can’t rely on that sort of organic cohesion, it can be built by reconstructing the soldier’s unit as his primary social group. Drill can do this: it creates an experience of shared suffering and achievement which bonds the soldiers together creating strong ‘artificial’ cohesion.

https://acoup.blog/2022/07/01/collections-total-generalship-commanding-pre-modern-armies-part-iiic-morale-and-cohesion/

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hitto wrote

Reply to what y'all been playing lately by hollyhoppet

On a whim, I started replaying of Breath of Fire III. It holds up surprisingly well in some ways, and not at all in others, but in any case Balio and Sunder continue to be my favorite furry himbo villains.

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