For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.

But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.

His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.

So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.

We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.

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      This is such a silly discussion.

      There is one group of people who define the word “piracy” to include “ad blocking”, and another group that define “piracy” so that it doesn’t. Nobody disagrees about the state of reality, both groups just think the other group has an incorrect definition. Which is a pointless discussion.

      Both groups can say “Ad blockers are piracy” and “Ad blockers are not piracy”, and they are both correct, for what they mean the word “piracy” to mean. The disagreement is about semantics, not about anything useful.

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