aldarion

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by aldarion 3y ago
Tolkien was not a medieval historian himself, but he was the next best thing to it: he was a professional linguist. And lingistics require knowing and understanding historical context in which languages had developed. Add to this Tolkien&#x
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by aldarion 3y ago
I actually read that blog a lot. Author really goes deep into detail, and all articles are excellent.
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Navy in Middle-Earth(warfantasy.wordpress.com)
73 points by aldarion 3y ago|78 comments
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Campaigns of John Hunyadi(warfantasy.wordpress.com)
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Army of Gondor(warfantasy.wordpress.com)
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Why Sci-Fi Plasma Weapons Wouldn't Work [video](youtube.com)
1 points by aldarion 3y ago|0 comments
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by aldarion 3y ago
I don't think you can use space opera there. It is more about the plot than it is about the setting itself. Basically, space opera can be science fiction, science fantasy, pure fantasy or anything else.
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by aldarion 3y ago
No, that just means it gets details wrong. But it is still science fiction - and (tries to be) rather hard sci-fi.
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by aldarion 3y ago
I don't think you can call FTL a "fantasy". It is simply a plot device necessitated by the interstellar setting.
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by aldarion 3y ago
Yep. Warhammer 40k and the Event Horizon are what made me fall in love with the genre.
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by aldarion 3y ago
"Is it really necessary to spell out that a civilization capable of building a FTL starship is also capable of building a sufficient defensive technology?" We have had ICBMs for a long time, yet no sufficient defensive technology
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by aldarion 3y ago
Laser weapons as such would be "hard" sci-fi precisely because we have working prototypes. Basically: hard sci-fi: we have concepts and understand how to apply them, but it may not be practical (e.g. Orion drive) soft sci-fi: we h
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Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy(warfantasy.wordpress.com)
87 points by aldarion 3y ago|173 comments
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Why Fantasy Elves Are Great Archers(warfantasy.wordpress.com)
2 points by aldarion 3y ago|0 comments
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Leopard 2 tank history and design(historyandwar.org)
2 points by aldarion 3y ago|0 comments
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by aldarion 4y ago
Interesting. I do think being in shape helps as well, though.
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Why Did Japan Attack the Pearl Harbor(historyandwar.org)
4 points by aldarion 4y ago|0 comments
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by aldarion 4y ago
I'm happy about this, though I might give the original Dwarf Fortress a shot again - I tried playing it (the original) before, but I simply couldn't make sense of what was going on on the screen.
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Warhammer 40k Web Comics(warhammer-community.com)
1 points by aldarion 4y ago|0 comments
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Operation Flash 1995 Part 1(historyandwarfare.wordpress.com)
1 points by aldarion 4y ago|1 comments
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by aldarion 4y ago
Since I am a Croatian, I found this article on Operation Flash fairly interesting. Article is in two parts, and fairly detailed - this is only the first part.
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by aldarion 4y ago
Found it through this site, and just remembered to come back here to tell you - thanks for finding this.
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by aldarion 4y ago
Nothing lasts forever, and we have been on the downturn of the civilization for the last hundred years or so. This is merely the time when we started running out of the reserves that our ancestors had secured us, and thus problems started b
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by aldarion 4y ago
Europe is shutting down nuclear power plants because apparently a lot of people (and many politicians) believe they will cause us to glow in the dark. Insanity.