Insecure Shadiversity ATTACKS Fellow Swordtuber Sellsword Arts 

oh based, hey sellsword

Honestly pisses me off that shad came for someone so wholesome

Is it hard staying calm with these unhinged rants be delivered? You seem calm about it, but I almost feel like you should be at least careful, they seem, not grounded in reality

We rise to assist like dark souls summons

I used to follow shad back in his macholication days but when he started whining about his garbage writings I noped out asap. I'll give you a follow.

phobe brainrot is too real

Nah, he’s also incredibly pretty.

Literally jusy being a normal guy

@@carrias1 Hah. I guess he does kind of give a vibe.

The outrage in response to that is an insight into what sort of dullard is impressed by Shad.

I can’t stand him because he’s a homophobic bigot

is he? only thing that is continuing is hate for shad. i dont care for him or even watch his content, but everyone is continuing this drama for nothing more than views, this video for example at the time i posted this comment, has 15k more veiws than anything Actual Jake has posted in the past month, other than shad hate videos mind you. to attack a mans faith by calling him a "typical Mormon misogynist" is very toxic in itself. and shouldn't be promoted by all of these offended tribesmen in the comments

@@Salizarwill did you seriously write an entire paragraph defending a guy who wrote essentially a rape fantasy novel?

@@fanime1 like I said, I don’t care for him, I don’t know him, the paragraph is self explanatory and not in defense of Shadiversity, honestly couldn’t care less

Did you actually read the novel or did you just learn about the novel from a youtube comment and now insist that. Because i didn't get that impression at all from the book which also has a visual novel and a short film in production. I would think that a book as horrible as you describe wouldn't have had that much success. @fanime1

😂 good one

Are they? Giga Based.

@@reaverfang377every HEMA club I’ve been a part of has a large contingent of queer fencers, and explicitly include inclusively language in the club charter. My personal best friend I’ve made in the community is a bisexual woman who is married to another bisexual woman. It’s incredibly common.

The largest HEMA club here in Melbourne is explicitly pro-LGBTQ. Shad's from my state, so he doesn't show up to nearly all events of the actual local sword community.

​​@@reaverfang377there are a lot of queer historical weapons fanatics It's a surprisingly common special interest for lonely nerds who want to be less lonely. I say that with love as one of them lol

@@Mercadian I remember wondering back in the day why he wasnt seen at Swordcraft, now it all makes sense.

That is a comparison that I am definitely going to steal to use when talking about this guy because it is too accurate 😂😂

I think what's actually going on here is Shad is to the HEMA community what Shad is to the art community: A guy who is unwilling to put in all the time and effort that true mastery demands, and who is intensely jealous and resentful of everyone who *was* willing.

Not really . Shad is an author and more just an overall historical nerd then a professional swordsman. However, unlike the guy who posted this clip and swordsart shad deals with accusations front on and doesn't hide his opinions which more often than not leads him into drama like this. This "reaction" video from shad was more of a self promotion and a redo of an older video than it was a genuine attack against swordsart. Shad even links and recommends swordarts videos (probably just to drive home his original point). The people shad talks to are just the other people who are part of shads videos(his co-host) phrasing them as just some old dude is rather ironic as shad didn't take this as an attack of his person but as an argument against his channel and his content. Shad isn't a major supporter of HEMA despite having p[practiced it in ages past and his focus is less swords and just combat overall hence his finding distaste in swordarts video

Not quite right coaching is a specialty People who are great coaches are not always any good at the game But these are people who are in The sport actively communicating with fighters While testing and failing and succeeding Coaching is its own art

Was it Ilyia?

I thought the whole low-quality ore was basic knowledge, how the fuck did shad not know this

@@feralguyver Yes, yes it was.

Misconceptions About Medieval Steel - Wootz vs Bloom Was the name of the response video from Ilya

Holy shit even Ilya has done a takedown on shad? I used to love man at arms - Sarah

Where did you get that nice Bowser profile pic? And i agree about Shad "Mor(m)on" Brooks.

This comment should be pinned. 100% correct.

@@aureliodeprimus8018 Made it myself yeaaaaars ago, by combining an image of the House Stark emblem from GoT and the Paper Mario:TTYD Bowser sprite.

Yeah, I see Shads vids sometimes in my feeds, and almost all of them are "All your favorite fantasy weapons are actually real and work." His vids are just nerd masturbation material now.

Watch this guy and Skallagrim if you're interested in this stuff. Avoid Shad and Metatron.

That reminds me when he reacted to trailer on movie about most famous Hussite leaders and thought Rosenberg rose was Tudors.

Shad hasn't got a clue what a Claymore is 😒 That 2 handed fantasy thing he bought's nothing like what anyone's ever called a Claymore, I'm British a Claymore's a fairly modern single handed basket hilted sword

@@valandil7454Now to be fair I don’t know what Shad’s Claymore looks like so if it is a super fantasy design then I don’t blame your criticism, but people have just associated the name Claymore for the old two-handed Claidheamh-Mòr. The basket hilt sword is more accurately a Claymore considering the swords of it’s time, but people have just switched the name of the two. It’s strange, but they both technically fit the category of “broad”sword.

​@@thiccboisincorporated7136 wrong. A Claymore is actually an explosive directional mine.

​@@valandil7454Claymore also refers to, in effect, a Scottish form of the longsword, maybe a bit outsized but otherwise just a Scottish form of longsword.

shocking. its almost like all this complaining about "woke" shit is actually a virtue signal toward his audience of alt right apes who eat that shit up like candy

Holy shit, that’s actually disgusting, like what the actual fuck. Like, have the decency of labeling yourself as non-con erotic fiction before making your protagonist a fucking rapist. At least then people will know how fucked up the story’s morality is.

That book is such a huge self-report it's difficult to explain it without reading it one-self.

That foul. Shad is garbage on all levels

@@av2674TRUE

At least C-Gal has real martial arts competence. His other idiocies are different story.

Shad is a writer and has some fun videos, why does his ass hurt so bad when an actual martial artist talks about his stuff, shad seems to be a mcdojo kind of guy sadly

His beef with this other swordsman has no piqued my interest in sellsword arts' channel. Lol

@@bleakautomaton4808 Most of what I've seen from Sellsword are random shorts of him doing HEMA demonstrations, and it's pretty neat

To my knowledge Skallagrim and Matt Easton are still cool. I don't watch much of that kind of content anymore, though, so it's possible there's drama I missed.

@@dynamicworlds1 Matt actually distanced himself from Shad recently because of who Shad is as a person, same with Skall a bit so yeah they're definitely still good

Tbf his goofy culture war side didnt start until about a year ago 😂. Its honestly the reason I disrespect him even more, cuz it feels like he doesnt even believe half of it and just says it for the reaction farming.

Being part of a cult can't help.

Suffering from success

Because money can't fix what's broken in you.

Mormons do be like Dat sometimes.

People thought he was someone who was passionate about something so he literally learnt about it. Turns out he's at best a right wing pop culture critic

I think the only thing Shad's murdered was his own credibility.

@@neoqwerty True, but that was not by a sword.

Yeah, that part's bizarre. "How can you claim expertise in swords when you've never been in a REAL WAR!?!?!?" My guy. We don't use swords in wars anymore. Being in a real war is not gonna learn someone how to use a sword.

He's murdered a few pizzas by the look of him... oh, wait, that's just his gambeson. My bad.

No one has experienced true warfare with swords and other such weapons being primary weapons in over a 100 years.The only place that I recall swords being used in recent history was in Rwanda... Prior to that it was WWI trench warfare which also had grenades, maces, bayoneted rifles, pistols and flamethrowers... If the only people who could talk about sword usage in battle, because of experience, then we should be listening to what a bunch of murderers who only practiced their swordsmanship on defenseless women and children have to say... which is no experience at all when it comes to _historical_ fights. :/

But as soon as he thinks or can claim gods okay with it he will do it

Sellsword only defends lgbtq because it benifits him.

​@@mckenzie.latham91 He would if he was physically able to. Dude doesn't seem like he's able to overpower his would be victim to begin with.

Rape was portrayed as bad during the whole book. It was like the biggest regret of the main character the whole time lol that is a pretty outlandish claim you’re making there just basing it off negative reviews 😂

​@@austina4104 Ah yes regrets the rape part But then enters a sexual relationship with a former child rape slave whose his main love interest And the literal trial scene has all the rape victims who had kids admit that having the kids was the best outcome And all the ones who didn't have kids are portrayed as upset that they didn't get a silver lining for themselves out of it. It is almost as blatant propaganda as you can do

I used to watch some of his content... including the double is just WEIRD... like, it was supposed to be a joke sword. Why do you parade it like this?

Lol yeah. "What now? This man INSULTED me? I mean, he didn't specifically reference ME, but... I just KNOW he MEANT me because -- um, well, anyway... THIS SHALL NOT STAND! I will EVISCERATE this man in the form of video footage! Ready thy camera, minion, for I intend to stroll menacingly up and down in front of my defunct theme park castle panels, spitting cutting verbal barbs while holding two eBay swords taped back-to-back, like a Rennaissance Darth Maul!"

The fact he literally said that you don't need to be an expert to tell people how to use stuff Is hilarious

How was it?

Spill some tea! Come on! Pretty please 🙏

Oh, and the other people he mentioned are similarly irrelevant

Like Bill Nye talking to Fucker Carlson nearly 20 years ago... you mean?

Sellsword is a homophobic loser who calls gay people homophobic and tells them he can’t be since he’s bi

Jazza is better and more good looking than him.

Yeah I've only just seen him say that, he's not just mental he actually made me go "whattt?" 😧 That's his brother. His brother's an educated artist. His poor brother, that was worse than anything he'd ever said before 😒

Metatron's a bigot? For some reason that doesn't feel accurate

​@@SkullOfTheRavenNope he definitely is.

@@KhorneliaIn what way? I haven’t seen much of him but I never got the feeling that he was a bigot.

@@Zarastro54 westside tyler did some videos on him, he's pretty unhinged. His twitter manifestos also speak for themselves.

@@Khornelia Okay, I’ll take a look.

I remembered them arguing about the Barbie movie, where Skall called him out for being embarrassing for being so upset over a Barbie movie.

@@jeremiahbullfrog226 That makes sense, I got only part of it where Shad calls out Skall for mindlessly defending women and Skall being confused about what point he was trying to make.

well. to shad men and women are completely different species that need to be treated differently or else. like.. society collapses or something.

I sure hope those women respecting allegations aren't true. I'd hate to believe that Skallagrim respects women. Next you'll hear about how he donates to the homeless. 😱

​@@billywerber9117i swear if allegations come out that he loves his wife(fiancee?)

Very much so, made a whole video reading bot comments to prove he wasn't a bad writer

we talking about shad?

@@FlareStorms yep

Between this, the AI and some other stuff I've already forgotten, I feel like Shad has a meltdown every couple of weeks.

He also had another meltdown when showing his AI art and his regular art a while back too because both were terrible

No do only skill. No take only throw. Lmao

I don’t totally agree. My dad taught a friend’s child how to play the violin without ever playing the violin. He got her through several levels of exams with flying colours. He did play guitar and could read music, so he had an understanding of stringed instruments, but he’d never used a bow. This was long before RU-vid too. I don’t think it’s something everyone can do though.

@@jaybee4118 Tbf there arent huge differences between how you play a guitar and how you play a violin, so he already practiced like 70% of the skill

Both have strings and are shaped like a lady silhouette with a big butt ​its just that you wack one with a stick and the other with your hand. @looyoo7608

💯% right

Underrated joke

I'm so glad we've got that song on a CD on repeat at work, otherwise I would not have caught that.

He's so shallow, he probably thinks this quip is about him.

The American HEMA scene actually has a ton of cringe nerds like this. The important distinction is they don't have Shad's ego nor pretend to be doing anything but fooling around.

That sounds like a wholesome kind of cringe

He's Australian (from my state too, and NOT well-regarded here), so it's Bunnings, not Home Depot :P

​@@Mercadian by the look of him he goes to bunnings mostly for the snags

And then saying he has a problem with the idea that you shouldn't instruct people how to use weapons and tools if you're not an expert.

@@mckenzie.latham91 *Exactly!* *Why's he act like it's such a Serious thing?* *I Wish I could Live in a Bubble like that* 😂 *My Last Retail Job a Few years back was at my Local Mall in my Midwest Hometown and there was 3 Shootings in the same year there.* *Swords are cool and there are very talented swordsman but there's no reason for it to be so Posturing and Ego based as if it's actually valid Self Defense anymore like Sheltered-Shad seems to think* *Mainly cause even the Great Sir Jamie Lannister would be no match for Detroit!* *Shads never spent much time in reality and it shows* *Unless that Gambison is Kevlar Plated...* 😂 🙏

That pretentious italian guy?

His nunchaku was terrible. As in it was badly made and improperly used. Using both hands to swing nunchaku is actually valid method of using it.

Shad's take on european flail missed the mark as well

I used to be able to go harder a few years ago, but my stamina has fallen off a cliff somehow. Guess I need to work on my aerobics again.

I feel the need to say that Shad would be a nutjob looser even among us larpers, at least here in europe (where larp is generaly taken more seriously, and is generaly queer friendly)

imagine losing a duel to a cuckold of house gay

The funny part is skall never even said that. If hes talking about the same thing I saw them "beefing" on, all that happened was Skall retweeted a meme making fun of shads bad takes, and shad got butthurt. Then Shad went on a giant rant about how skall betrayed him as a friend. Which then lead to skall respectfully deleting the tweets to keep the peace, after basically saying "sorry shad, were not friends tho, were just youtubers with a similar niche were not really that close but whatever." And Shad has taken that as the ultimate betrayal.

​@joetheschmoe1066 the idea of Shad being giga parasocial and weird to Skallagrim while he is just vibing and trying to be diplomatic and chill (ya know, like an adult) is so fucking funny to me.

​@@joetheschmoe1066 You should put a trigger warning before exposing people to that level of second hand embarrassment.

And apparently Matt Easton (who I respect) doesn't like him either because of his "conservative viewpoints"? That just makes me like Matt more.

@@Mercadian I think there's a conversation to be had about whether Shad was *actually* raised in some kind of deeply regressive and misanthropic community/religion, or if he's from a moderately liberal religion/community and just blaming the fact that he's a shithead on his upbringing.

I disagree. He started as actually fun source of info. Then he started showing his arrogance and spitefulness and killed his credibility real fast. In hindsight his level of knowledge was very shallow as well. Him starting as legitimate and then choosing to be arrogant idiot makes him doubly despicable.

Hey where did you talked to me before? Or were you just defending a homophobe?

@@wacawaka1802 Sweetie you clearly aren’t worth even a passing conversation with.

@@mckenzie.latham91 you didn’t is the answer.

Not much of a swordfight. Shad can't actually fight for shit, while sellsword is really quite good at what he does.

Me too 😏

​@@SarastistheSerpentshame Shad can barely push his widdle sword past his gut

I grew up Mormon, in Utah no less, and it has the same significance it does for the rest of the general population. With just as much excitement involved. The only times I've seen married people not wear their ring is for safety, like if they work around machinery. But beyond that? Engagement ring for the woman and wedding bands for both is standard. Mormons are weird, yeah, and there are definitely weird cultural things (the fancy sodas!!!) but they're also still members of the general culture and take part in most of it. You're coming across as a bit trolling, or maybe only talking about the very insular polygamist sects.

@@widdershinscryptid I wrote _religious significance_ intentionally, you are talking about cultural stuff. In Christianity the wedding ring is actually a sacred item and an integral part of the religious marriage ceremony. This isn't a "Mormons are weird" thing as you put it, Christians are the weird ones here. I don't deny the cultural customs you described, but the same can be said about people of other faiths (or no faith) wearing their wedding rings for cultural reasons. As far as I've seen Shad hasn't ever worn a wedding ring in his videos. My only point was that religiously speaking, he doesn't "have to". Sure, he "ought to" if he wants to fit into his society, but this guy has an adult play castle in his yard and he wears medieval cosplay all the time! No shade on those things, but I think it's pretty clear that he isn't concerned about fitting into society.

@@widdershinscryptidthat’s Utah mormons. Mormonism presents a bit differently in other countries. It would depend on if wedding rings were still a common thing in Australia for millennials.

I'm exmo- depends on the individual mormon and what sect they are in and where they live. In Utah there is a completely different base culture than the Colorado polygamist clan, and they are both very different from Indiana Mormons, which are basically just evangelicals with extra steps. My parents have a very normie-christian belief about wedding rings, but my brother and his wife just think they are pretty and a fun tradition. And that's just in the same region and sect and meetinghouse. But you are probably right when it comes to Shadiversity, I don't know him like that;D there's a lot of diversity! anyway thanks for coming to my tedtalk lol

I'm an ex-mormon convert and every married person in every ward I went to wore rings... I'm not a LDS anymore, but it still annoys me when people trash mormons, or any group, on unfounded claims, just for the sake of trashing them. The only piece of jewelry ever denounced by the LDS Church has been the wearing of the cross, because they believe it is more important to memorialize Jesus' life and his lessons, not his death and sacrifice. This is why you more often see mormons wearing an angel (the angel "Moroni") or a tree emblem (the Tree of Life) on their necklaces instead.

Imagine a community of, let's say, very opinionated engineers or artists and you have very nearly the idea. But the problem is that the historical record basically amounts to some books that are the only keyholes into an irrecoverable lived history. Whereas engineering or art are very well-studied subjects with a wealth of resources that can be easily demonstrated or proven empirically. Online. In a very accessible digital format. I'm not aware of any open drama or personal beefs though. Even r/WMA or r/HEMA simply don't talk about Shadiversity, or for that matter, John Clements very much. The latter is the OG HEMA drama lolcow who is now considered out-of-touch and cultish. And he's sort of the genesis point of HEMA splintering off into a bunch of anarchistic groups who try to figure out HEMA in their own splintered groups. There's a very much an optimistic belief in the subculture that anybody can figure it out independently and can contribute to "the art" through grassroots collaboration. I also have a mild suspicion that there's an unspoken culture of just not talking about drama that way because everybody likes to style themselves rly srs historians and martial scientists. If they think your opinion is really dumb, it's framed through the idea that your opinion is unlettered conjecture. It's very hard to just say, "this is my personal experience" because, well yeah, you're a random person on the internet. I think they're just being studiously polite to a fault. A lot of people clearly have pride in their knowledge and abilities and should just want to spank Shadiversity in a call-out fight. Stupid machismo? Maybe. Personally, I just think they're all stuffy.

​@@ved2360maybe because hema is not about youtubers, its about a martial art

@@taistelusammakko5088 Ah yes, because martial artists and the politics around martial arts is famously not plagued by ego and petty drama. MMA turns out a lot of right-wing chuds, by the way.

I was gonna say, don’t do lindybeige like that! He’s actually cool

@@DeathnoteBBhe’s a bit too into Evo-psych. And really nationalistic.

Fun fact about me and this comment: I am watching Jake on my television and paused it to write this on my phone before he made the 'some one would have to transcribe it' remark Same wave length Please transcribe it

No one no matter what walk of life they are has the right to who I should and should not watch and I find it very laughable that a man that unless I know from his own perspective has not been to a war to know the true meaning of a warrior sir you may claim to be a true warrior in your own video but you are truly not unless you have proof of your credentials have you been forced to go to war for the sake of your family have you had to look into the eyes of your enemy and take their lives because while you may talk about sportsmanship like how pop culture does and believe me you do in a way that I find it no different from the other swordsmanship content creators but you seem to talk about swords like as if you're a true warrior when I find that the most laughable piece of cap I have ever heard in my existence swordsmen were not the type of images that we have seen through pop culture nor were they talked about through history they were just as much as killers rapists and murderers has anyone else remembers those that were like that whether they be in the battlefields today or yesterday I find it very disrespectful to True man that had to go through such pain of fighting in war and taking up a gun to defend themselves just as much as men that had to be forced to take a sword to defend themselves and fight for their lives a weapon today baby some form of reminder of a past ling forgotten but that same weapon in the past was nothing more than a tool for survival I find it very disgraceful that you would say this and I find you have no place to tell anyone anything for you are nothing bit entertainment at this very moment if anyone wants to know swordsmanship they can go to places like you are still learning but if people just want to talk about swords and talk about the other medium that swords are even talked about nowadays which is the things of Pop Culture anime and so on they have their absolute right to do so and you are in no place to tell people otherwise I'm going to be honest and this may be brutal but know your place you absolute Jabroni

Edit fuck I think it got flagged as spam there goes a good ten minutes :( We teach kids how to use grammar for a reason, and I wish OOP did. But like that whole implication that peasant levies (which I assume that's what they meant by forced to go to war) had swords. No they didn't. Swords were expensive to make and it took time to train peasants to use said sword. Peasant levies were basically cannon fodder, they had spears and polearms because it wasn't hard to hold to pointy end towards your enemies.

@@dubspool I'm about to play it on my television with speech to text enabled and have my phone pick up Jake's reading and edit it post haste Like I NEED THIS

As a LB fan that does dissapoint me, but I wonder if it's true friendship or Shad being weird about someone they only taked to a few times

@@Speederzzz The silver lining is that it's not unlikely that Shad is just being extremely parasocial and assuming that Lloyd is a friend without being given reason to believe that.

Eh as an ex mormon we should have issues with that cult, like all cults

I take issue with religion generally. The problem is that people like Shadiversity thinks that I'm singling him out specifically. As an anti-theist, my view of the world is that you are just not that special. There is almost no difference between how a huffy neo-Pagan behaves versus a Mormon versus a Protestant versus a Buddhist. The problem is systematic and structural. No, don't tell me how I don't understand your rich centuries-old tradition, I don't care.

@@ved2360 mormonism isn't even 200 years old yet, just 6 more years

@@chillinsquirtle Paganism in its current iteration is barely more than a hundred. But honestly, it isn't the pedigree that makes religion respectable. It's that Protestantism or Presbyterianism or whatever is basically a cultural default, so for a lot of people it's just the path of least resistance, not a larp or an attempt to be especially antisocial, quirky or live out an escapist fantasy. It _can_ be, but just as often as not, it's just what they were raised on. Like I can't practically get mad at just a Joe Random Protestant for basically fitting in. But American Buddhist, I suspect, don't actually understand Buddhism. And tons of pagans and neo-pagans will straight-up tell you they can cast spells or do Chaos Magic and I'm really very tired about hearing about yet another religion claiming knowledge of some special esoterica that lets them indulge in the same inane escapism as Christianity.

@@ved2360, Lol. I'm an Anti-Theist because theology is harmful. Yet, some use it as their copium when a trained therapist would be better. :/ People don't like Shad, not because his of his religion, its because of his bigotry and his welcoming of Ethno-Nationalists... like WhatifAltHistory and Sargon of Akkad. Of course, he's also a huge crybaby due to his insecurities... Jazza released a video nearly 3 months ago in which he describes his own religious trauma... and how that effects him on the emotional level... it wouldn't surprise me that Shad also has similar trauma and his way to deal with said trauma just comes out as narcissism. It sad... but... Shad is still supportive of his religion despite the damage it has done to him and his borther.

Lindy’s bad takes are mostly on his website.

From another comment... Lindy was considering making a comic with Sargon of Akkad... so... that's an issue.

Lloyd is a conservative bri'ish guy. Not overtly, or at least he's not showing it, but he is. Kinda same thing with Metatron (beside being bri'ish), who at least has actual credentials on topics he's talking about.

Which is too bad since he made a collab with Hellofutureme, OSP, and Daniel Greene, who are among my favorite RU-vidrs. OSP even animated him. I wonder how they felt? Like they are really wholesome people who I doubt believes in the things he believes.

Its a common theme. At this point if a guy with some sort of purported expertise in some niche subject has a pattern of loud, proud ignorance on other subjects, I assume that's what he's doing in his niche, too, and getting away with it because of the niche.

i love how he does it then claims other people are being disingenuous, fuck man he loves that word so much

Best example of LARP physics: we were fighting uphill against a team defending the top of the hill. Realistically, the team at the top should've most likely won since they could attack our heads with impunity. In LARP physics, by the rules of the game, headshots weren't allowed, so we won by hitting the enemy team's ankles.

@@Mercadian I have said so many times that the very nature of the idea of "respawn" drastically changed the way LARP battles go.

WHHHHHHHHAAAAA? I never got that vibe from Lindy

@@MrJibbajabbawocky it’s hard to spot when the content is mostly straight forward military history.

Is it automatically assumed that you share the same political/societal views as anyone you might associate with? It didn't go ahead and was just a discussion during a video (no concrete plans) and they haven't collaborated since that I can see? The truth is that Lindybeige actually asked his community if he should even do the video with Sargon (he knew Sargon was divisive but not why) and they gave a mix of replies some giving warning and some obviously also being fans of Sargon at the time. This is kind of expected considering most of Lindybeige's content is British History, often from the point of view of British soldiers and is likely to have crossover with the nationalistic types who like Sargon. I disliked Sargon immensely (haven't thought about him in years such is his irrelevance) but let's not paint every single person with the same brush if they haven't shown that they have the same colours.

@@nathanthom8176 very true and I’ve been thinking a lot about the complex relationship between western historical and cultural studies and national identity a lot lately. Thank you for clarifying. Stumbled upon the hangout when I was 16 and had no clue they professionally separated shortly after announcement.

I was honestly surprised that they would cross paths at all. Lindy strikes me as a pretty typical liberal history professor type.@@nathanthom8176

Malls are still there. They aren't mall ninjas as that implies discipline to actually train and study martial arts. His fans just want justification for being idiots.

@@vksasdgaming9472 fair

Same here. I have a thing where my fingers randomly swell up sometimes, and if I've got any rings on when that happens it can be really painful and I can't get them off. I've never worn rings for that reason, but I don't need one to remind me that I love my husband and would never want to be with anyone else.

I was just sitting here thinking "shad is just nicki, isn't he?" Lol

I'm wondering if we should alert Gordon Ramsey, tbh. He might well be next.

Have you seen him talking about being an artist with his brother Jazza in a character sheet? He likes to believe he's an expert, and gets offended easily, also him doing ai art and still claiming to be as a good artist as his brother is hilarious

Not even a great one: he doesn't show up to any of the major LARP events in my state. He did show up to one I did attend, but with over 250 people, I never saw him. A friend of mine did and (and this is purely hearsay, I can't confirm any of this is true) Shad fought my friend, lost, threw a hissy fit, and left. He never came back to that LARP, nor have I seen him at (nor heard people talk about him attending) any of the major LARP events, nor at any of the other 2 largish LARP groups.