So /his/ where and when is your comfy place and time?
Recently saw a thread about pre roman Iberia and it looked cosy as fuck.
Just imagine hanging out and fishing with your buddies and then nipping to the tavern for a night of booze and wenches as a squall rolls past.
>>1136517
>Just imagine hanging out and fishing with your buddies and then nipping to the tavern for a night of booze and wenches as a squall rolls past.
There are still fishing villages all around the world boy.
>>1136517
OP of that thread here, can confirm, constant warfare aside, iberian towns were comfy as fuck.
>>1136517
2016, at my island summer cabin.
>>1136584
Thanks man. That thread was fucking awesome.
>>1136517
Late medieval (15th century to be precise) Flanders/Holland. It's probably the closest you are going to get to that Witcher 3 novigrad feeling.
>>1136653
Having been to the Historim in Brugges that did look pretty damn comfy.
>>1136653
Witcher 3 is one of the prettiest game ever.
>>1136669
Still haven't finished it, haven't touched it in nearly 11 months actually. I quit within an hour after reaching Skellige.
>>1136653
I know Brussels square is chiefly Renaissance and Neo-Gothic stuff but it remains one of the most aesthetic squares in my opinion.
>tfw you will never live in Victorian times
15th century Venice or 17th century Berlin
>>1136517
1800s New Mexico. The thought of being in a semi-isolated town separated by miles of desert doesn't sound so bad when there's the beautiful wildlife, interesting people coming in and out of town and lots of Mexican pussy.
>>1137987
>Also a lot of them are ghost towns nowadays.
neat
>>1136517
>booze and wenches
>implying they didn't have strict sexual rules
>>1136517
probably a Celtic village in the highlands or maybe by the sea.
>>1138089
Also,seeing Pic Related even once without all the fucking tourists would be more than magical.
Fin de siecle, Europe. Especially Germany.
Victorian Era
I have thought about this a little too much.
Son of Barral I of Baux,1217-1270, Lord of Baux
Viscount of Marseille, brother of Bertrand II of Baux,1244-1305, living in a lavish southern French estate and touring both Italy and France, visiting the Champagne fairs in Troyes.
If only.
>>1136517
I often wish I was born about 60 or so years before I was born, doing what I do now, working in electronics. Mostly because I love old electronics and I hate all this incessant connectivity we must deal with. Just have a home phone and a tv with like two channels and the radio. Where social activity takes place nearly always in person, where all you need is a brief conversation or telephone call to make plans. Any time I watch movies from before cell phones, I am envious of that life.
Le wrong generation.
>>1136517
The reign of Antoninus Pius was the comfiest time of world history
Song Dynasty China before worthless horsenigger trash ruined it all. :( Kaifeng had steam-powered urban heating for the winter. There are things like restaurant menus and reviews from the time still in existence. A culture too focused on art and sophistication for it's own good against Jurchens and KHAN.
>>1138089
Have you been to rural New Mexico today? It's exactly how you describe, except it's a dirt poor shithole. Always was, even with silver boom.
t. Coloradan
>>1138146
Which one anon ?
>>1138089
>Tfw ancestors moved to New Mexico after the civil war to get away from the South after it had been wrecked.
>>1138116
>>implying anyone cared if you fucked a slave girl from a rival tribe.
I would pick Elegebalus time as emperor in Rome, simply for the fantastic orgies.
I think even a Roman town would have been pretty comfy
Victorian London for some reason.
>>1138465
mah nigga
stability is comfy
Being a terrace farmer must be rather interesting.
Not sure about comfyness.
>>1140452
What I do know is that you'd probably feel pretty safe from invaders having to waste their breath traversing mountains to conquer you.
And pic related probably used to be comfy before.
>>1139671
>>1138157
>>1136711
The post Black-Death Classical era.
>>1136517
Belle Epoque Paris.
>>1136517
copper age europe
Never conquered! and an amazing view!
>>1136517
>So /his/ where and when is your comfy place and time?
Pre-WWI manor house.
>>1140506
Technology advanced enough that I won't die from the plague, yet oldy timey enough to be comfy.
Boring anon here, I just want to not be a wagecuck and live out in peace, reading, learning new things, indulging myself in media, etc. Too bad I also don't want to be a parasite.
Any remote village with food, water and safety is the comfiest of all history. There is nothing to compete with it, village festivals, religious ceremonies, marrying people you grew up with, meeting strangers from distant lands who pass by. Work your farm all day and sleep with your wife after she's cooked dinner.
>>1136708
>>1136653
mostly baroque, aside from the Broodhuis and Stadhuis, but yes medieval Flanders is maximum comfy
I have a huge folder of this stuff, ranging from medieval to gothic to renaissance to baroque, if you want some of it dumped
Early life in Asia was probably pretty shit but I can't help romanticizing it, it looks so pretty.
>>1140610
Depends.
If you lived in Imperial Chinese village, you'll live in a cozy village with your neighbors being literally your family and will help you
Island SEA however is pretty much Asian Vikings with maritime kingdoms & raids. But that was mostly in the Philippines/Borneo. At least you get beachfront/riverside property though.
>>1140643
>help you find a waifu*
I mean.
>>1136584
Anyone got a link to this thread in an archive of some sort?
19th Century during the Great Game.
Exploring South and Central Asia while working under the British & Indian spying agencies.
Going into villages and pretending to be a Buddhist monk, Muslim holy man, or Hindu trader.
Secretly mapping all the lands I see including evaluating how an army could pass through them should the Russians ever come.
Wooing warlords and diplomats to join my side.
I know I'm romanticizing it but it just sounds so fun and comfy.
This thread made me realize progress is a lie and population growth has ruined earth.
>>1139623
>>1140752
Read beasts men and gods by Ferdynand Ossendowski. I think you'll like it.
>>1140522
Being a monk should be your comfyzone.
17th century Laurentie
True freedom
>>1140791
Already have, one of my favorite books though it doesn't beat Kim.
15th century venice
in ancient mesopotamia, there was a span of time we know nothing about. there were no wars and no destruction, so they didnt really leave anything behind. its estimated to be between 120 and 250 years, most people guess it was 170 years. those must have been the happiest generations in all of history.
>>1141319
also, living in early sumeria. being part of this group doing something completely new for the first time, dividing labor and building cities. just hanging around with your bros, seeing magic everywhere, believing in so many gods every human has a personal one, listening to that beautiful as fuck language, drinking beer and taking psychodelic herbs to have prophetic dreams. those truly were the days.
>>1140792
Plus being a monk in medieval times, your economical ease would grant you many pussies.
The captain of a merchant ship during the mid to late 1800's.
Just sailing around the world and selling exotic goods. Back before trade became so mundane and simple.
Imagine being sent back to the time of the Akkadians, knowing what you know now.
Looking around and seeing people doing things normal people do, socialising, fishing labouring etc, yet being completley unable to really contextualise any of it historically because it's so far back.
It would either be comfy or terrifying and I'm not sure which.
>>1141337
The Sumerians had alcohol as well, would and sleep on their roofs in the evening underneath the stars. They had a lot figured out very early, 5000+ years ago. All beginning from mud.
>>1140470
Yeah the most contact you'd have with warfare would probably be some courier riding up to your village and notifying you that instead of Huyping you're now to obey the victorious Hyuping.
>>1141319
>there were no wars and no destruction, so they didnt really leave anything behind
???
>>1141546
it's actually really hard to date anything that came before it. they wrote down stuff, but since it was in clay tablets, they just used those boring tablets from 50 years ago to fix a hole in the ground or something. nothing got destroyed, no cities were burned to the ground. back then, when stuff was destroyed, they just built a completely new city on top of the ruins, that's what archaeologists find. so no finds= no ruins and no ruins= no way to map that timespan.
>>1141687
the best part is he barely sings the first 3 or 4 lines. i always imagined sumerian to actually be a really quick language. most of the vowels and some of the consonants just assimilate each other, so i feel like it would just roll off the tongue really easily.
>tfw you will never hear spoken sumerian
i just wish somebody who actually knows linguistics would try to work with it for a change instead of assyriologists that only know cultural studies and also have to deal with multiple other cultures apart from sumerians
>>1141524
Ancient Mesopotamia was the shit man.
Japan has always beem the comfiest country, and the Edo period is the comfiest period of it's history.
being a member of a guild during the late middle ages in northern Europe. Comfy medieval cities, reasonably high life standards, stability.
Would probably be pretty filthy tough
>>1141753
You don't want to live in a city before the modern era. Death rates from disease were astronomical. If you want comfyness, pick one of the less strict Monastic orders and a nice wealthy monastery, then get a job as a scriptor. Spend your days decorating books with well-disguised cocks while sipping wine with your monkbros.
>>1140633
Rural/Small Town Japanese life looks 100000x comfier than any city
>>1141801
I hope you like terrible weather and rampaging samurai hordes. Also, ninja.
>>1141810
>terrible weather
Live in PNW, love the rain
>rampaging samurai hordes
I'll find the shogun who wins
>ninja
I'm not a politically important target
>>1141820
If I were to consider Japan, I'd pick some cushy temple or palace job in Edo. Peasants were literally liable to being massacred or drafted into military service at a moment's notice, they had virtually no rights.
>>1141687
> you will never hear the breeze blow through the poplars, as you look up at the sky on a cool night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c-hmFN610g
>you will never stare at tits all day in a Minoan palace
>>1141854
You'd get used to seeing them. But Minoa is definitely my choice for maximum comfy, I'd try to forestall the Mycenean conquest but desu I'm not sure what could be done.
>>1141871
As I recall from a documentary (can't remember which) some of the people in Bronze Age Crete retreated to defensive positions in the mountaineous interior. These positions could be accessed only on narrow passes, so few could defend against many.
>>1141928
That was much later, during the great Bronze Age Collapse, when every city on Crete and Greece was burned to the ground. The Myceneans took over the island some 200 or so years before that, and did so without destroying much.
>>1136517
Medieval Venice.
So comfy in fact, the Polos literally left their comfort zone to go find China or whatever.
>>1141524
>walking home piss drunk trying to find your house
>>1142031
If anything I'd like some Neo-Venezia. Born too early for that, my apologies for the not /his/ related.
>>1136682
Any specific problem with Skellige or did it just happen so?
1960s, san francisco
>>1140881
Yes dude. What could be greater freedom and adventure than living the life of a coureur-des-bois in the pristine Canadian wilderness?
>>1140452
>oh man
>all this is mine
>i'm such a good dog
Does anyone have an archive link to the thread?
>>1136517
The present is quite comfy desu. But if I had to pick one far in the past I guess it's tribal Scandinavia or Germania.
>>1142396
Just happend, quit after that feast thingy and never bothered to start again. I recall I had some full alchemy built.
>ywn attend a lecture of Justus von Liebig in the 19th century
>ywn work with Max Planck on thermodynamics
>ywn be Erwin Schrödingers library bro
JUST
U
S
T
I get nostalgic feelings for the >holy >roman >empire.
Not sure why.
>>1136517
Just a generic town/suburb in America somewhere in the 1980s-1990s
I imagine myself as a young teen just figuring out what I want to do in life, with a sense that there is still a lot to be mapped and discovered in this world.
When was the best time to be a white African? (Not just SA)
>>1141854
>tfw being a hellenic age king who was loyal and trusted Odysseus style
>sailing from one island to the other to trade and drink and party
>plowing island chicks all the goddamn time
>>1148008
Probably during the late-1800s to early-mid 1900s when Africa was understood enough that you wouldn't get fucked up from Malaria right away and the natives were still relatively friendly. Large areas of wild land for hunting and exploring but industry and modern comforts are available in the cities.
A man can still make himself up from nothing by staking his claim on the land. Mining gold, hunting ivory, farming the land. Rhodesia is still being built and the African Kingdoms are still alive.
The cultures are still separate enough to be unique and contrasting.
Before and after that is mostly a case of picking your poison.
>>1138455
As much as I hate the whole wrong generation faggotry, living before instant communication and the internet must have had a certain special comfiness to it.
A Phoenecian merchant, making buddies with your shipmates and sailing all over the Mediterranen selling your wares
Here and now.
I'm depressed, suicidal on moments. But life never before was so easy, relaxed, peacefully and there was never as much possibilities and choices as now.
>>1140752
Fucking this exactly. Sipping pink gins in Peshawar having succesfully returned with an alliance offer from the King of Baluchistan
>>1141854
Went to knossos, saw cuties, touched a boob. Can safely cross this one off my list.
>>1148617
This so much.
>410 BC
>Sailing to the fabled west to trade for tin and silver
>Get stuck in a storm
>Ships mast breaks, second ship of the convoy breaks apart and dozens die
>your own ships limps to a shore
>realize you and your men are stranded on some Baal fosaken land
>Horsemen appear on the adjacent hill
>prepare for raiders, fight to the death
>only to be met by a patrol from the Qart Hadasht
>taken to the New City of your distant cousins
>They think you bring news from Phoenicia
>Meet the senate
>relate your tale to the people
>get given a new ship and plenty of supplies to continue your journey to the west, now to Nova Carthago
>sail west in the most pleasent summer weather
>meet various iberian tribes and traders as you travel northward up the coast of Iberia
>reach the glorious Nova Carthago
>many months of toil and adventure into the iberian heartland
>return with a convoy laden with much silver
>sail back to the levant
>get rich and buy a plot of land in Iberia.
>>1136517
>You will never be born to a rich family during the Islamic Golden Age
>Never try to understand the universe in beautiful Cordoba
>You will never discuss philosophy and theology with your Jewish and Christian neighbors
>Never go to your harem filled with qt exotic girls from all over the world
>Never travel to Carthage, Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, and Khorasan with your bros in a caravan
>Never trade with the barbarian Franks, sophisticated Romans, and exotic Chinese
>>1149309
> Islamic
> Golden
> Age
>>1149357
Hey, don't shitpost in a comfy thread, that's pretty rude tbqhwy
>ywn be paid to study the secrets of the ancient world in the world's largest and most complex libraries
>ywn debate philosophy mathematics and science with the highest minds of your time, irrespective of race or religion
Islamic happy fun times were ok.
Me, personally:
>ywn attempt to trade with a group of native people for ancient trinkets with unknown meaning behind them
>ywn write a diary in perfect cursive script with neat sketches of the new plants, animals and things you see and find
>ywn accompany Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle
>ywn create maps of before-unexplored regions of the earth
>yfw return to England to share your findings on the world in universities, museums and the royal court with the highest minds of your time period
>not a judeo-arabic merchant in 11th c. cairo
why live
>>1140568
This. I long for adventure but also for the simple life you described, wat do?
>>1142041
>finally finding your house
>finding a group of strongly intoxicated strangers sleeping on it, being adamant it probably is their own.
>>1136517
>tfw used to live in a Scottish croft
It's extremely comfy. There's something extremely.. comforting, about being free of electronics and artificial light, sitting by the fireplace and reading a good book while the rain comes down on the machair.
When I have enough money I want to get my own croft, hopefully somewhere nice. I've always liked the machair on the Isle of Coll, but my favorite by far is the Isle of Eigg.
>>1138140
Good taste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foloi_oak_forest
Much of the early bronze age mediterranean looked like this before it was all cut down for fire wood.
>>1136517
Japanese peasant house, early Tokugawa period desu.
yeah living in times when diarrhea is a death sentence sure would be comfy guys
>>1152141
Don't harsh my mellow please
>get a cut on your hand
>guess I better write my will
>>1151993
>sumerian annie mays
Enjoy live and write poems while sitting in my oriental courtyard with my lovely wife....
Baghdad, Abbasid era
>>1138141
You can if you go at 4AM instead of after noon like all the other fats
>tfw never be a Mongol patriarch.
>never wake up to the steppe
>never get to make sure your sons are getting ready to watch your heards.
>never teach your youngest how to shoot a bow.
>never take a wife from those bastard tartars.
>no qt making morning meat and curds
Kizlar Agha/Chief Black Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem during the Kadınlar Saltanatı The Sultanate of Women.
>>1151705
Move to a village or some farm on the countryside. It's pretty easy to have a simpler life. If you really long for it, you could do it easily. You could move in next to pic related if you insist on cool pagan religious ceremonies.
>>1140483
pre-Roman conquest Britannia for sure.
>>1136708
Been there, can absolutely confirm this.
