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>"That character image is stupid, his/her outfit is way too flashy and impractical!"
>There are people who unironically apply this argument to games set in the late middle ages and early renaissance
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>>46154851
No. There aren't.
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>>46154851
>boobplate looks stupid and impractical!
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>>46156032
I still don't get why codpieces are a thing. Was the massive size of your junk supposed to intimidate the enemy?
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>>46156032
>>46156071
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>>46156032
Isn't that King Henry VIII's armour he had made when he was old and fat and unable to wear it?
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>>46156107
Well, yeah. It was supposed to emphasize it.
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>>46154851
>castles are unadorned gray stone building
>nobles are literally raping peasants 24/7
>knights need cranes to get lifted up on horses
>peasants never do anything but work and suffer in silence because of the mean ol' church
>peasants literally have no rights
>there are only farms, villages, and castles, no cities exist
>there are no non-Whites as house slave, mercenaries, or simply wandering merchants

I want these Medieval memes to die.
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>>46156108
that's not real armor, just a wallpiece

>>46156071
that's technically muscle armour, romans and greeks had that
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>>46156107
>>46156135
Codpieces came into fashion during the 16th Century. So did syphilis.

They were crammed with salves and medicinal herbs to keep your dickrot at bay
They didn't work.
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>>46156212
>>ASOIAF in a nutshell
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>>46157150
I know right? Westeros is so much shittier than any real medieval period that its a wonder that they don't have a dozen peasant rebellions a day.
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>>46156124
He had syphilis and needed the gigantic codpiece because his dick was in constant agonizing pain.
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>>46157895
>Be normie
>Dick falls off

The more I read about the Middle Ages, the more I'm convinced that the clery was the /r9k/ of that era.
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But OP there us such a thing as stupidly impractical outfits
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