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  • Obi-Wan taught Anakin and Anakin became Darth Vader, their style is called by nerds as “Form V” (five) and the real life equivalent would be something like a Kendo style particularly with longer heavier weapons like Nodachi.

    However, over time less dramatic and more useful techniques were introduced into the films like strong blocks, parry, and riposte and even crossguards. In contrast to how samurai fight with quick deadly strikes, drawn out battles were more common with european counterparts because they could make swords and armor out of stuff other than just rocks found on the side of the river smelted in a literal mud furnace.



  • I really like piefed but my choice of instance feels really incomplete. The ability to post images in comments is broken, for example, it just displays this:

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    I also can’t preview a comment before posting and the notifications looks like trash where most of the message is hidden and once cleared there is no “view all” they’re just gone forever. Also, the “context” button from a specific comment’s url isn’t there.

    But I still really like piefed, can’t wait for it to improve.













  • finitebanjo@piefed.worldBanned from communitytoFlippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comStill waiting...
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    4 days ago

    Euromaidan was peaceful until the anti-protest measures were used by law enforcement, the Berkut deployed to violently disperse them, at the request of the then failing government. It started with 1,500 and after the crackdown grew to hundreds of thousands. After multiple weeks news of riots began to spread, but much of it can be attributed to Russian propoganda trying to lable the movement as xenophobic and hateful.