“immigrants are great for the economy,” as a blanket statement is absolutely not a fact. Immigrants from educated, developed parts of the world who are healthy and eager to work are great for the economy.

Responses like this always make me chuckle.

What was mentioned was Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations. It likely depends on which African nations, but you’re too focused on the semantics of what he said and not the sentiment.

Haha, and saying I am doesn’t mean I am... Just sayin

I’m sorry, but you sound extremely agitated and thus biased in regard to this topic.

Ah, the age old troll behavior, call a person a racist and the argument is over....

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put Dark Souls on something easily throwable.

Well typically you’d be carrying more than just a sword. I’m working from the perspective of someone who specializes in the early medieval North Sea region, so Norse, Anglo-Saxons, Celts. Basically all of those people, at least the ones wealthy enough to afford swords, made a habit of carrying other weapons, usually…

That would only work when holding the sword in a very specific way and against a very uniform background, so it’s nonsense.

Even pirates weren’t clashing and clanking blades. Striking edge to edge is a good way to ruin a sword quickly. You look at European fighting manuals from before the days of rapiers and a lot of it is like wrestling with the intent of avoiding your opponent’s blade until you get a clean shot. And they’d use every part…

You can see in the video just how precise the angle has to be...

How dare you employ anything like logic when discussing the miraculous KATANA and their majestic wielders the SAMURAI! /s

So that’s why!

Classic fanboy, all insults without any real argument.

I doubt it 100%, reflect the grown is hard, a more realistic tactic is use the katana as a mirror to blind the opponent with sun’s light as you can see where the light reflection go.

If you have nothing but a sword, you’re not bothering to try some voodoo shit with reflections and polish to try to gain the slight advantage

I think this begs for an anime, showing some useless brat train exactly this move to win a duel after 22 episodes.

History is often dictated by the wealthy. Swords were a rich man’s toy for the most part, so they have an outsized cultural cache.

That’s because most of Samurai fiction is based on the Edo-period, when military armaments were strictly controlled by the Shogunate, and the Samurai usually walked around with just their sword as the symbol of their status. And besides, swords were always the go-to duelling weapon.

I still find it interesting how much attention gets paid to the Katana, and swords in general, when they’re fundamentally just sidearms. Wars were won and lost on the backs of the Tanegashima, Yumi and Yari but most people don’t even know what they are.