delcaran
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- Comment on to lie about being the only country with mail-in voting 1 week ago:
In Italy there is no mail-in voting: you have to personally walk to your assigned voting place in your place of residence. So if you have your residence in Palermo but live and work in Milan, you have to go to Palermo to cast your vote. If you can demonstrate that you’re unable to walk and if you ask kindly some social services can take you there or some appointed officials can come to your home. The only form of mail-in is for Italian citizens living outside Italy, but still the must go personally to the Embassy to cast their vote, and those votes are the mailed to Italy.
Mail-in voting for everyone who asks is something that we badly need, but must be done right (which means not in the Italian way).
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 2 weeks ago:
I switch ti Bazzite on my gaming rig a month ago and felt great. I managed to install and mod Skyrim effortlessly and yesterday I installed Tarkov and SPT with no problem whatsoever. Highly recommend.
But check if your favorite games are compatible, mainly the multiplayer ones: Tarkov can only be single player PvE, GTA is story mode only and forget about Destiny 2. Not a problem for me, plenty of alternatives, but you should check for yourself.
- Comment on I miss Levis 2 months ago:
He’s right: I use only 501s straight, and after a year at most the fabric between the thighs is very thin if not ripped (yes, I am chubby).
On the other side, I have an old pair of jeans of unknown maker dismissed from my uncle which I use weekly for yard work: ten years in my possession, unwashable stains, destroyed sockets, but the fabric is still perfect.
- Comment on Oh, that's... umm.... 3 months ago:
Receipts? In Italy?? That’s both sad and funny
- Comment on Ten extra points for people who have seen the third show. 6 months ago:
One of the best, together with In The Mouth of Madness and The Thing. Carpenter’s trilogy of Apocalypse is peak.
- Comment on Ten extra points for people who have seen the third show. 6 months ago:
Prince of Darkness?
- Comment on Transformation 1 year ago:
The flamberges were never used in combat, they are cerimonial swords used in parades to display wealth and prowess: the flame shape of the blade was very difficult to forge, and only most proficient bladesmiths were able to do it, charging an hefty sum for it. Plus they are way bigger and heavier for most combat use.
Landsknechts used very big two handed swords swinged horizontaly at head heigth or above to cut the enemy pole weapons. As such, they were supposed to die quickly (two days of combat was the average), and they received double pay, double rations of food and better barracks. So the sword was as cheap as possible, because it was likely to be missing at the end of the battle. Plus the flame shape is not very sturdy and its quite impratical, its only really beautiful.
Source, I’m an HEMA athlete in Italy for an association that promotes the study of renaissance combat.