Hope you enjoy the video! I've missed the armour reviews, I must admit, it's good to be back. The Defiant Spark: a.co/d/eD6hKKk Trooper 4: a.co/d/7s2Wykg Chronicles of Hanuvar: www.baen.com/lord-of-a-shattered-land.html Just Stab Me Now (not the audiobook link yet): a.co/d/fklfDbO
The attack on titan one is fine. They fight godzilla size human monsters. They need agility to fight them. Just watch 1 clip and the lack of armor makes sense
@@kademelien9363 and there are historical references to gladiatrix "armor" that was more about exciting the audience than performer safety, but it's still not a great idea to fight pantsless
Squiddy man can also break through a helmet with his squiddy beak, if Baldur's Gate follows dnd rules as closely as it appears to (I've never played, and I'm not a dnd expert either, so...-shrugs-). But, yes, it really is entirely believable.
@@Caitydid561 While they _can_ do that, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they'd prefer to simply remove the helmet instead of having to bust all the way through if given the choice...
@@Amy_the_Lizard Yes, they prefer to remove helmets so as to eat the tasty brains inside. Yes, they're gross. They're called "Mind Flayers", which gives you an idea of how nasty they are.
When I watched the opening of BG3 for the first time and saw Lae'zel's no butt armor I thought 2 things... that has to chafe and I can't wait for someone to show this to Jill.
As a former Attack on Titan cosplayer, re: going to the bathroom: Or you just sew the straps on your pants and call it good. *Yours* don't have to hold up a massive mechanical device. That sh*ts made of EVA foam
I remember the AoT cosplayers back in the day all struggling with their leg harnesses not staying up lol Sewing them into your pants seems like a smart solution
I mean even if the "mechanical devices" are made of foam, surely that has still got to hinder mobility. In that they are heavy enough/reinforced, not to bend inappropriately. So turning around and walking into a bathroom stall to swat would be a challenge....
@@schemage2210 You'd make the removable (Velcro, magnets, hook-and-bar) so it's easier to put the whole thing on, and you can leave them on the counter/have a friend hold them when you need to use the facilities.
@@beckymurphy4714 Makes a degree of sense though having been to my share of conventions not even in cosplay, keeping track of detachable costume pieces which friends might need to watch or to put down somewhere safe, isn't as simple a solution in some cases.
@@schemage2210 Cosplayers make do! EVA foam is surprisingly light, but they were still bulky yes. I did have some clips on mine that were still attached on a bit of strap, so I could usually clip them together and hang them inside the stall with me. At least in the US most of the bathroom stalls have a hook for your bag/purse or such. Other cosplayers would have other solutions, that was just mine. I notice @beckymurphy4714 has described some other options too. Basically, I don't mean to say it wasn't still annoying! Just that there are ways to make it less annoying.
The problem is wrap-around blows. Come close and you can strike on the back even when standing in front. Armour is partly about not being scratched to death by such blows. And sometimes you've gotta run because it's the only way to survive.
All other things aside, watching this series has really made me notice that fantasy armour and real armour have an almost opposite take on the concept. Eventually, in the real world, we boiled armour down to "armoured vest and genital protection", whereas fantasy said "Armour everything BUT guts and genitals... ". Thanks for the laughs, Miss!
The first armour anyone gets is actually a helmet. It’s cheaper than body armour and protects a more important body part. Second is body protection or shield.
I use to work at a museum as a mount maker. I was working in conservation making storage mounts for random objects. One of them was a bronze Greek helmet, not sure of its age. When I turned it over I saw a white bowl shape piece fused to the bronze. After we looked at it under magnification we saw that it was the top of the skull of its original owner. Apparently helmets do not help 100% of the time. I found out later this is common with armor dug up from mass graves. The more you know...
Interesting point about Hector and Achilles armor. According to the Iliad, in this duel, Hector wore Achilles original armor that he took when he killed Patroclus (book 22 lines 322-323) which is described as being blazoned with stars. Achilles wore the famous set of armor described in Book 18 including the breastplate that was "brighter than gleaming fire" and the incredibly detailed shield. So the intricate armor really didn't say a lot about Hector so much as it said about Achilles' father Peleus, who it was made for.
True, but the movie ignored that bit and changed Achilles a lot. In the book he's very melodramatic and a bit pompous, but the movie feared that the audience wouldn't take him seriously if he was portrayed accurately. Also the director and producers were trying to hide the gay, although the actors weren't.
As the previous replier said, this is not what happens in the movie, though. Hector wears that same armor throughout, and Patroclus' body is not looted, nor does Achilles get a new armor.
The real question is why Achilles, who is canonically invulnerable, bothered to wear armor (other than shoes) at all. The leather jerkin makes a little more sense because his body was invulnerable, though whether "invulnerable" meant weapons couldn't hit him or weapons couldn't penetrate his skin is not clear from modern English translations. Maybe it's more obvious in the original ancient Greek? Either way Achilles probably wore armor only as a sign of rank because he didn't need it for protection. Unless he didn't know he didn't need the protection. it's been many years since I read the Iliad in high school and I don't remember if Achilles knew he was invulnerable or not.
Achilles was not invulnerable. ". . . the fighting Asteropaeus . . . hurled both spears at once-one shaft hit the shield . . . But the other grazed Achilles' strong right arm and dark blood gushed as the spear shot past his back . . ." (Book 21 Lines 161-169 - edited for clarity) The Iliad was written in about the 8th century BC. Achilles being dipped into the River Styx by the heel to be made invulnerable was a later myth. This later myth was written in the 1st Century AD.
@@padams7638 Not in the original Iliad, correct. The Invulnerability due to being dunked into Styx River is a later addition, I want to say Hellenistic or Roman, I forget which.
Maybe those "suspicious spaulders" are actually symbolic, designating membership in some organization or rank within it? Like gorgets (neck armor), that became part of military uniform for officers without any defensive properties by 18 century.
That was my thought with the Mournguard - not really up on my Thedas lore of late, but as a ceremonial guard for necromancers - the aged copper look is likely less aesthetic and more properly because it was a mortuary relic (ditto on its look of inflexibility and thickness). The geometry really speaks to it being heavily influenced by dwarf designs. The healer (female) version, the spaulder was very definitely symbolic and less armor. From the OVA that introduced Cassandra to the setting, we know Nerevar (I think that's the nation/culture) do wear practical plate armor for actual fighting.
Haven't played veilguard (still DEEP in the BG3), but the verdigris chestplate to me looked a little like the lower sides might have been overlapping scale. 3:55
Thanks for reviewing the Scouts for me, Jill! To be fair, this uniform is not meant to be armor and so it wouldn't protect from more than falling or rolling on rough terrain. These guys fight giants called Titans, so armor would be worse than useless; it would slow them down and get them killed. As for all the straps, it's to keep that heavy equipment on, but it does look odd if they aren't actually wearing it (that rarely happens though, since they have a different uniform for formal occasions).
Small detail missed for the scout outfits. They aren’t flying they are strapped to retractable grappling hooks. It is basically a climbing harness with an integrated harpoon gun. This isn’t armour, it is climbing gear.
(mostly for Jill) i cosplay Hange. while i have never done trapeze practice or stunt work in a harness, i have done a little bit of rock climbing and i would say the harness/straps system is probably similar to trapeze, stunt, or rock climbing harnesses. so yeah, none of this is armor. i think it would also be interesting if she reviewed the S4 uniforms though. which makes more aerodynamic sense and is more jet piloty looking... but then we got that weird 2 boxes on the chest xDDD anywas i can attest- lots of velcro and buckles everywhere! xDDD and the way my gear is assembled, when i'm not wearing the big boxes, the straps fall down, so i just straight up safety pin it to my pants. LOL also weird thing that no one sees unless you're a cosplayer or have seen official concept art, the leg straps are actually more of a *stirrup* situation going under the foot for some reason.
Sometimes a vampires underwear comes with great lore.(but my meta guess is that it's an unimportant clothing slot open for modders to add extra effects to.)
It’s also where we get the sage wisdom that “people who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones,” and the motto “Always Kill The Mouthy Ones.” Truly, words to live by.
@@Biittlespoilers for a very old game. In each of the original three games (Throne of Bhaal was meant to be BG3 but got cut down to BG2.5) there are metal pantaloons (Gold, Silver and Bronze). If you carry your save over from BG1, to BG2 and then ToB and find all three, you get special golem armour.
10:38. "I like the male. I like how it basically covers her entire body." That's how you get the dual-screeners to pause their Minecraft and actually watch.
A quick note that gear is to "fly", but not exclusively to "fly" (actually string up wires on trees and such). It also contains spare blades for the swords because they can shoot them out of the handle at high speed to kill titans. Also, there's a scene in the manga where they learn how to use these things, in that setup it's reminiscent of a baby bouncer. Also, I don't really think the leather functions as armour in the manga. They're up against titans, armour won't do much to save you if you get eaten. It's more just a uniform. Maybe the leather might be helpful to cushion a fall from a height but they're not trying to stop spear thrusts here.
The full body coverage is to protect from small pieces of rubble and shrapnel from their own and each other's swords, but it definitely isn't armour. Even if you don't get eaten, a glancing blow from a titan basically shatters stone into powder, so any armour a human could wear would be a pointless encumbrance making it harder to zip around the town/forest like four-point Spider-Man.
And to add further clarification for Jill, OP here is referring to the Attack On Titan "armor." As they were saying, the biggest deal for these people is the harness contraption that is wrapped around their waist, hips, and upper thighs due to that harness has to both support the person's weight as they "Spider-Man" through the air (the harness is connected to a cabling system) and to hold those pair of boxes that contain spare blades for their sword grips. As for the boots and jacket, I'd say that part is less to protect them from Titans and more to protect them from stray brambles or sharp corners as they "Spider-Man" through a town.
I think the leather is more just the harness for the ODM gear. standard climbing harness use to be waist and thighs. Safety harnesses usually go over the shoulders latching front and back so you can't flip and fall out of it. The straps going further down the legs could be stirrups to stop the straps cutting off circulation (like some recovery gear) and maybe to alter angle when travelling airborne. Quicker and easier to wear it than trying to get it on in a rush. So, Not actually Armour?
@@thatjeff7550 Just a minor correction, but the gear was never designed to be used around town. They were originally meant to use that outside the walls in an attempt to set up base there (yes, they got repurposed after the colossal titan attack). So tree branches yes, sharp corners not really. (although I didn't think of that originally)
For the not-Hogwarts lady, if you look above the... apron(?) it does look like it's quilted. If she's meant to be a lighter, more agile fighter then gambeson + emotional support spaulder might not be an entirely unreasonable armor configuration for her.
I suppose Achilles could be excused, as the only point where he NEEDS armor is his ankle, the rest is impenetrable as per greek mythology. So the armor itself more or less ornamental, and cause running around naked on the battlefield might distract from his glory.
Except that he wasn't invulnerable in the movie. The movie isn't strictly based on the myth, but tells a more grounded version of the tale (I purposefully said more grounded, not more realistic, because the movie has very little to do with realistic Greek history either :-) ), cutting out all of the blatantly supernatural stuff. They still talk about gods and some claim to decend from them, but no god ever shows up on screen (like they would on plenty occasions if the movie was actually retelling the Illiad) and there are no miracles shown that couldn't have a natural explanation.
Yeah, what the others said. Specifically I think in this movie he gets shot a whole bunch and the arrow in his ankle is the only one he doesn't manage to remove before he dies.
I didn't either until I went on a character creation spree and had to watch the opening cutscene a dozen times because I didn't realize you could skip it...unfortunately, once you notice it you can't unsee it...
Two red-headed British ladies teaching me things in one day, couldn't be better. Also, I do miss the old, ridiculous but at least enthusiastic covers for fantasy. Thank you for the book recs, they're going on the almost as ridiculously long list that only seems to grow.
Respectfully, bc I love this channel and respect Jill as a creator, I’d like to put my two cents in and say the Attack on Titan outfit should be under Not Actually Armor. The jacket at best prevents road rash when they fall skid along the ground or rooftops at a misstep but as actual protection, I disagree that it qualifies for Pretty Good. Other than that love the book recommendation and I agree with the rest.
Dragon Age the Veilguard has some really interesting armor, but yeah, the Lords of Fortune are basically all just dressed scantily. In game reason is that they are mainly treasure hunters delving into ancient ruins and down into shipwrecks in a tropical climate, so their not really meant for warfare combat. And as for the Mourn Watch, yeah, that warrior armor is meant to look like aged copper. They are a group of Necromancers, so all of their clothing is either regal, funeral robes or has a look as though it was pulled out of a tomb. I'm glad I picked mage for this faction, because they have some very fancy robes, and all of their robes usually have a hexagonal metallic emblem on them denoting their order.
I feel that if I were to scout through an ancient ruin, I would still like to protect my vital organs, no matter whether the climate is tropical or arctic...
I mean, tbf the actual heavy armour of the Lords wasn't reviewed at all. Just the light stuff that's not actually armour; where the spaulders and other single pieces are all decorative and worn as trophies.
i'm actually playing as a mage lord of fortune rn, and the thing is, that ridiculous armor *has no shoes*. like why would they do that, i'm traversing through a blighted swamp *with no shoes*. i put that armor on my rook just so isabela is not the only one dressed like this, and i do appreciate that having no clothes is gender neutral, but gdi. i would agree that esp mage mourn watcher, it's not actually an armor, it's kinda looks just like an apron for autopsy? a bit disappointed that a mage outfit in a mage-dominated faction is not more regal and cerenomial, but eh, that's that transmog is for.
Admittedly, from my memory, most of the (three) women in He-Man are completely covered, and the main character is running around like a background extra from a BDSM club
Seeing a new armor review kinda just made my day, ty :) I still wish to see the Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous characters reviewed one day (especially Regill and Arushalae, portraits with their "armor" might be easily found on fextralive)
@@ulfjohnsen6203 That's actually an interesting question because it was once cannon that folks don't get hungry/thirsty/tired as easily in the astral plane (where gith spend most of their adult lives) due to time affecting the body differently there, so some might be "out of habit" with regards to handling their biological needs when they get back to the material plane.
When they travel to the Prime Material Plane, they have to go to the bathroom all at once, like they saved up all their allowance for one big present. And then they start aging. I'd rather stay on the Astral Plane and worship the Lich Queen.@@l0stndamned
Eh, it's a lot like Roman legionary outfits in that regard, but with more leg protection. Personally, I think she just needs protection over her knees; the butt is often unarmored or lightly armored in medieval harness because sitting on metal plates would not be comfortable while riding a horse, and anyone who can stab through the horse's torso and the saddle isn't likely to be deterred by whatever armor you could comfortably wear there. You'll see some knights wearing mail in that area (though even that often doesn't even cover the whole butt), but others don't bother as mail is rather heavy and the area is essentially impossible to target while you're riding, and difficult to target when you're on foot. This is even more applicable to Githyanki, as I imagine that a dragon is more difficult to stab through than a horse. The legs, though, can actually be targeted fairly easily when the person is on a horse (though perhaps not so much on a dragon).
Honestly you could do a whole series with the armor in Baldur’s Gate 3. My favorite is the chain mail +1 armor. Because to my untrained eye it looks like pretty good armor, it looks super cool, and it dyes very well.
about the attack on titan armor straps its literaly only a climbing/abseiling/parachuting harness integrated into the uniform and is technically very practical. there are two straps which are not common in climbing/paracuting: the second tigh strap (wich exists so manovering gear can stably be attached) and the Bootstrap connector wich in this picture just replaces the 3rd tigh strap wich exist so the bladeboxes can be attached parallels to the thigh.
Midriff’s for all, now there’s a t shirt. My brain immediately went to 90’s marvel Thor, cape and shoulder pads and all, but then I remembered god of war ragnarok had a midriff armoured Thor and Kratos, so it really is ‘Midriff’s for all!’
Thanks for the armor reviews :) wrt the books, "The Defiant Spark" makes me think of the Girl Genius series of graphic novels by the Foglios - hilarious, imaginative, engaging adventures in an alternate world!
Achilles ironically only really needed armor in one specific location. Also, it would make sense for mind flayers to take Laezel’s helmet to do all the terrible brain and worm things that they do. Next time I fight a mind flayer in D&D I’m gonna have my character have a thick full place helmet and tell the DM that “no, he can’t eat my brain actually, I’m wearing a helmet”. I’ll let you all know how that goes.
Except for the first chapter of each main-sequence book being redundant exposition for people joining mid-series, Animorphs holds up _really_ well, and Katherine Applegate is a wonderful person. :)
@@CaptHayfever I thought it was largely ghost written for an age, that series. I more remember the TV show than I do the books. Might have to track some down.
@@leonpeters-malone3054 Applegate wrote the whole first half of the main series, all 8 specials, the last 2 books, & a random book in the second half. Ghost writers did most of the second half of the main books, but working from Applegate's plot outlines, & she heavily edited one of the books when its ghost-writer went too far off the rails. The TV show was terrible.
To nerd out a bit here, canonically the straps on Attack On Titan's ODM (Omni Directional Maneuvering) gear were there to allow the users to change direction by altering their weight distribution, in addition to the controls in their sword hilts. They had to keep their arms free for their swords so they could cut one meter chunks from the napes of the necks of the Titans. And they didn't so much fly as swing, like hands-free Spider persons dual-wielding swords. The massive boxes house the tanks for compressed gas to power the ODM mechanics as well as scabbards for spare sword blades, as the toughness of Titan flesh and bone tended to dull and break even the high strength alloys of the blades quickly. Incidentally, later variants of the ODM gear had more of an exoskeleton setup, with some armor plating as they were designed to be used against other people instead of Titans. I would highly recommend giving the Attack On Titan series a watch. The story has lots of well-earned twists that make even a second watch enjoyable, and there are fight sequences worthy of analysis, even if they are hand-to-hand engagements between 14-meter tall combatants.
Could always check out the armors that your companions in Veilguard wear? (While I hide my favorite armor in the entire franchise because it is WILDLY impractical, but just looks so freaking sick I can't help myself. The Skin That Stalks. Gorgeous. Creepy. Killer stats. Pair it with the flower crown and run around like the glorious menace I am.)
From what I understood, the belts on the attack on titan outfits are not so much to keep things tied down but to distribute weight over the body when swinging around on the ODM gear. Like, if they were being pulled up in the air, a belt wrapped around the bottom of the foot up to the waist (from which the grappling hooks shoot) allows you to not just be pulled up by the waist but the kind of stand on the belt as you are lifted in the air. I could be wrong about this, but thats how I always understood them. This makes the additional belts have a very practical use.
Fun as always! I was multitasking (working on Christmas present projects) and was confused by the books stuck in there, but not for armor reviews? Took me a minute to realize they're simply book recommendations, lol
Cheese: I visited the UK recently, and one of my favorite things about it was that pretty much in whatever grocery store I visited in the larger London area, I could find large blocks of aged cheddar for pretty cheap! And even in a wide variety of agededness levels!
Thanks for writing your book. I couldn't stop laughing. I have recommended it to a friend with literary tendencies. The way you have your 'writer' and characters interact is actually an interesting plot development tool.
Always love seeing the armour reviews. Not sure if you have seen them before, but the armours in the For Honor games armours might be interesting to watch for a future review. If I recall correctly they do research to give the armours a realistic look and fitting for the factions, albeit with some liberties of course. There's a lot of armour in it, but they do have a default sets visible on Ubisoft's website. Knights faction might be a good place to start, with the Peacekeeper and Lawbringer heroes. Conqueror and Black Prior uses shields if you want to see that, and the majority wear helmets to protect their noggins'
Thank you for another armor review. I always enjoy these segments. El Cid may be a long movie. But it has really good fight scenes. I would enjoy your take on the main duel in the movie.
Game director: As a female warrior, she doesn't need pants. Game designer: Why? Most women wear pants. Game Director: Because it's fantasy and she's a woman. Game Designer: . . . I wonder if they need another game designer on the next Mario Party.
"Because she's dragon cavalry, her lower body is mostly covered by the dragon saddle, and weight is an issue. Which is why the other women in the game, like Shadowheart, have pants."
@ducklinsenmayer7681 not a condemnation nor a approbation of the design since I have not played the game, but that argument makes it worse. if that is precisely the one situation where you'd *extremely* need pants. Riding on something, especially something that's gonna move a lot like a dragon is gonna be unpleasant and cause horrible chaffing. There's a reason horseriding is the one sport not practiced in shorts.
@@emperormegaman3856 1- play it. It's awesome. 2- the Githyanki are modified humans, they have natural damage resistance. They wear armor to protect them from things that do real damage. 3-there's a special saddle. 4-I understand your POV, I'm mostly pointing out that this is not sexist at all, the men also wear little leg protection, and the human women in the game wear regular armor. It's entirely about conserving weight.
@ducklinsenmayer7681 K' so just giver her cloth pants. To be clear, I get it's a fantasy game. It is just that this is such a common trope of scantily clad women in fantasy that it's just silly sometimes.
Regarding that flying armor: the straps to the boots make sense if their function is to prevent the waist from riding up when flying. Without something like that, the flying harness would be up under her armpits in no time. A parachute/climbing harness that goes from shoulder to bum would be better, but she at least can straighten her legs keep the harness down where it belongs.
Yeerks! Love the reference. Edit: Also, Veilguard's Antivan crows do have helmets, though you won't see named characters wearing them. Their medium helm, "the crow's bill", looks incredibly silly until you realize the character menu displays it with the visor up. Antiva's heavy helm looks almost as silly but has no moving parts, though at least it's labeled as a "parade helm." And if you thought the Mourn Watch armor was hideous, you need to check out their light helm, "smiling visage," and medium helm, "death mask." They're classed as armor in the game mechanics, but credit where it's due, in lore these are worn for ceremonial purposes. So I guess it's on the character for wearing ceremonial armor into battle. But the lore on all Antivan Crow helms makes it clear that some NPCs do intend to wear these silly things into battle, and specifically because they like the look.
5:45 My friend and I went to see Troy in the theaters while taking Latin and translating Virgil. We were scandalized and determined that it was really a misnamed, long form advertisement for Brad Pitt’s butt.
Oh, oh, I have several suggestions regarding music related armor! 1. Katrine Stenbekk from Kalandra in music video "Bardaginn" 2. Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil performance on Eurovision 2024 3. KISS, because sooner or later you'll get there anyway. Especially The Demon from the classic line-up (his outfit is most armorish)
You know what Jill, I think I have missed it too. It feels like ages since I watched one of your videos and I promise I haven't been avoiding you. Honest! 😅🤞😁
6:03 by this stage of the war (although it wasn't shown in the movie) Hector was wearing Achilles' armour, taken off Patrocles' body (although with a Trojan helmet rather than an Argyve one) and Achilles was wearing the new set that his mother had made by Hephaestus for her sons return to the war.
Life can be stressful and frustrating and videos like this are a light. Other than top gear highlights not much can make me laugh as much as these 'armour' reviews.
For the attach on Titan one, it's an under harness. Allowing them to shift their weight while in the air by pulling against their selves. But you wouldn't need others help getting it on and off...
Just a comment for Attack on Titan: The Aerial Maneuver Gear is effectively like strapping jet engines to your waist (technically grappling hooks, but from an applied force perspective basically the same). The straps are there in order to distribute the load to prevent the spine from breaking. You can't tell from the shot you used, but the straps on the legs don't attach to the boots at all, they actually go all the way down and wrap around the feet so you end up almost standing on the straps when they are under tension as if they were stirrups. As for protection, fighting titans is very much a "your only defense is not getting hit" situation; aside from protecting from minor falls, you are probably dead regardless of armor plating if you get hit (and are not a main character).
Hope you enjoy the video! I've missed the armour reviews, I must admit, it's good to be back.
The Defiant Spark: a.co/d/eD6hKKk
Trooper 4: a.co/d/7s2Wykg
Chronicles of Hanuvar: www.baen.com/lord-of-a-shattered-land.html
Just Stab Me Now (not the audiobook link yet): a.co/d/fklfDbO
The attack on titan one is fine. They fight godzilla size human monsters. They need agility to fight them. Just watch 1 clip and the lack of armor makes sense
Thank you for the books, and the armour reviews!
@@baskkev7459 the over the knee leather flap however, does not.
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Isabella (dragon age pushups) aint mage. She's a rogue :P
"Half plate doesn't mean you only wear half your clothes." - Awesome.
For me it looks heavily inspired by Roman/Gladiator armor
That entire exchange was hilarious!
@@kademelien9363 and there are historical references to gladiatrix "armor" that was more about exciting the audience than performer safety, but it's still not a great idea to fight pantsless
Half plate, no pants allowed.
Hey its easier to use the bathroom that way.
Considering squiddy man eats brains, i find it entirely believable that he took a hypothetical helmet away.
Squiddy man can also break through a helmet with his squiddy beak, if Baldur's Gate follows dnd rules as closely as it appears to (I've never played, and I'm not a dnd expert either, so...-shrugs-). But, yes, it really is entirely believable.
@@Caitydid561 While they _can_ do that, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they'd prefer to simply remove the helmet instead of having to bust all the way through if given the choice...
@@Amy_the_Lizard Yes, they prefer to remove helmets so as to eat the tasty brains inside. Yes, they're gross. They're called "Mind Flayers", which gives you an idea of how nasty they are.
Normal dnd does bugger all with helmets unless they are magical
None of the other Githyanki in the game wear helmets.
The honest laughter at being unexpectedly mooned by lae'zel made my day.
"Did the squiddy man take your helmet? That sucks." 💀
That’s rough buddy
Squiddy man is a foul brain stealer and helmet thief, but at least the lack of pants wasn't his fault! Hahahaha
I snorted with laughter, because I realized the pun, but I don't think she did when she said it. 😂
When I watched the opening of BG3 for the first time and saw Lae'zel's no butt armor I thought 2 things... that has to chafe and I can't wait for someone to show this to Jill.
Do scales chafe? Do Gith have Scales? Or is it more a frog energy?
@@aradraugfea6755 I think they're more frog-like. But on the other hand; no pants make it easy to go to the toilet.
I showed it to her. Back in Early Access, I think.
Well, I'm sure that I wasn't the only one.
I saw it and my first thought was "just stab me now"
A very Richard III death. (Dagger up the bum)
As a former Attack on Titan cosplayer, re: going to the bathroom: Or you just sew the straps on your pants and call it good. *Yours* don't have to hold up a massive mechanical device. That sh*ts made of EVA foam
I remember the AoT cosplayers back in the day all struggling with their leg harnesses not staying up lol
Sewing them into your pants seems like a smart solution
I mean even if the "mechanical devices" are made of foam, surely that has still got to hinder mobility. In that they are heavy enough/reinforced, not to bend inappropriately. So turning around and walking into a bathroom stall to swat would be a challenge....
@@schemage2210 You'd make the removable (Velcro, magnets, hook-and-bar) so it's easier to put the whole thing on, and you can leave them on the counter/have a friend hold them when you need to use the facilities.
@@beckymurphy4714 Makes a degree of sense though having been to my share of conventions not even in cosplay, keeping track of detachable costume pieces which friends might need to watch or to put down somewhere safe, isn't as simple a solution in some cases.
@@schemage2210 Cosplayers make do! EVA foam is surprisingly light, but they were still bulky yes.
I did have some clips on mine that were still attached on a bit of strap, so I could usually clip them together and hang them inside the stall with me. At least in the US most of the bathroom stalls have a hook for your bag/purse or such. Other cosplayers would have other solutions, that was just mine. I notice @beckymurphy4714 has described some other options too.
Basically, I don't mean to say it wasn't still annoying! Just that there are ways to make it less annoying.
The Gith are the kind of people who might purposefully not armor their backs because you're never supposed to turn your back to an enemy. :-)
That sounds like a perspective the Sontarans (Dr Who) would take, too… instead they walk around in boiled leather bodysuits with space helmets
The problem is wrap-around blows. Come close and you can strike on the back even when standing in front. Armour is partly about not being scratched to death by such blows. And sometimes you've gotta run because it's the only way to survive.
that only works in one on one battles. a real multiperson battle and you are going down fast.
I've never had the Gith pegged as especially rational.
They're also basically cavalry (on dragons) so a) reduce weight and b) sitting on armour is dashed uncomfortable
All other things aside, watching this series has really made me notice that fantasy armour and real armour have an almost opposite take on the concept. Eventually, in the real world, we boiled armour down to "armoured vest and genital protection", whereas fantasy said "Armour everything BUT guts and genitals... ". Thanks for the laughs, Miss!
And brains! Most RL armor covers those, while most fictional armor doesn't
The first armour anyone gets is actually a helmet. It’s cheaper than body armour and protects a more important body part.
Second is body protection or shield.
It's not Genital protection. It's artery protection, y'know... these thick arteries in your legs, that, when cut, lets you bleed out in 5 minutes?
The Lae'zel burn 😂 I hate it when in games squiddy people steals my pants.
Squiddy may be a Squidnapper, but they're not a Pervert!
If Mr Squiddy Man steals your pants, it was either a really bad party or a really good party. 😁
I use to work at a museum as a mount maker. I was working in conservation making storage mounts for random objects. One of them was a bronze Greek helmet, not sure of its age. When I turned it over I saw a white bowl shape piece fused to the bronze. After we looked at it under magnification we saw that it was the top of the skull of its original owner. Apparently helmets do not help 100% of the time. I found out later this is common with armor dug up from mass graves. The more you know...
very interesting.
also: poor guy.
Interesting point about Hector and Achilles armor. According to the Iliad, in this duel, Hector wore Achilles original armor that he took when he killed Patroclus (book 22 lines 322-323) which is described as being blazoned with stars. Achilles wore the famous set of armor described in Book 18 including the breastplate that was "brighter than gleaming fire" and the incredibly detailed shield. So the intricate armor really didn't say a lot about Hector so much as it said about Achilles' father Peleus, who it was made for.
True, but the movie ignored that bit and changed Achilles a lot. In the book he's very melodramatic and a bit pompous, but the movie feared that the audience wouldn't take him seriously if he was portrayed accurately. Also the director and producers were trying to hide the gay, although the actors weren't.
As the previous replier said, this is not what happens in the movie, though. Hector wears that same armor throughout, and Patroclus' body is not looted, nor does Achilles get a new armor.
The real question is why Achilles, who is canonically invulnerable, bothered to wear armor (other than shoes) at all. The leather jerkin makes a little more sense because his body was invulnerable, though whether "invulnerable" meant weapons couldn't hit him or weapons couldn't penetrate his skin is not clear from modern English translations. Maybe it's more obvious in the original ancient Greek? Either way Achilles probably wore armor only as a sign of rank because he didn't need it for protection. Unless he didn't know he didn't need the protection. it's been many years since I read the Iliad in high school and I don't remember if Achilles knew he was invulnerable or not.
Achilles was not invulnerable. ". . . the fighting Asteropaeus . . . hurled both spears at once-one shaft hit the shield . . . But the other grazed Achilles' strong right arm
and dark blood gushed as the spear shot past his back . . ." (Book 21 Lines 161-169 - edited for clarity) The Iliad was written in about the 8th century BC. Achilles being dipped into the River Styx by the heel to be made invulnerable was a later myth. This later myth was written in the 1st Century AD.
@@padams7638 Not in the original Iliad, correct. The Invulnerability due to being dunked into Styx River is a later addition, I want to say Hellenistic or Roman, I forget which.
Maybe those "suspicious spaulders" are actually symbolic, designating membership in some organization or rank within it? Like gorgets (neck armor), that became part of military uniform for officers without any defensive properties by 18 century.
That was my thought with the Mournguard - not really up on my Thedas lore of late, but as a ceremonial guard for necromancers - the aged copper look is likely less aesthetic and more properly because it was a mortuary relic (ditto on its look of inflexibility and thickness). The geometry really speaks to it being heavily influenced by dwarf designs. The healer (female) version, the spaulder was very definitely symbolic and less armor. From the OVA that introduced Cassandra to the setting, we know Nerevar (I think that's the nation/culture) do wear practical plate armor for actual fighting.
Haven't played veilguard (still DEEP in the BG3), but the verdigris chestplate to me looked a little like the lower sides might have been overlapping scale. 3:55
Ooh two of my favourite things; book recs and armour critiques. All this video is missing to be 100% perfect is cheese!
That's no gouda.
🧀
@@JohnDoe-nq4du Wesleydale? ( Wallis and Gromit reference )
Thanks for reviewing the Scouts for me, Jill!
To be fair, this uniform is not meant to be armor and so it wouldn't protect from more than falling or rolling on rough terrain. These guys fight giants called Titans, so armor would be worse than useless; it would slow them down and get them killed. As for all the straps, it's to keep that heavy equipment on, but it does look odd if they aren't actually wearing it (that rarely happens though, since they have a different uniform for formal occasions).
Small detail missed for the scout outfits. They aren’t flying they are strapped to retractable grappling hooks. It is basically a climbing harness with an integrated harpoon gun. This isn’t armour, it is climbing gear.
@ Well, it’s often called “flying” in the show, but that is true.
technically, it's a harness to distribute their weight to allow them to better hang from and balance with their ODM gear, not just to hold it on.
(mostly for Jill) i cosplay Hange. while i have never done trapeze practice or stunt work in a harness, i have done a little bit of rock climbing and i would say the harness/straps system is probably similar to trapeze, stunt, or rock climbing harnesses. so yeah, none of this is armor.
i think it would also be interesting if she reviewed the S4 uniforms though. which makes more aerodynamic sense and is more jet piloty looking... but then we got that weird 2 boxes on the chest xDDD
anywas i can attest- lots of velcro and buckles everywhere! xDDD and the way my gear is assembled, when i'm not wearing the big boxes, the straps fall down, so i just straight up safety pin it to my pants. LOL also weird thing that no one sees unless you're a cosplayer or have seen official concept art, the leg straps are actually more of a *stirrup* situation going under the foot for some reason.
@@ResaChiic The canon describes the harness being part of the control system for the ODM gear, changing direction by shifting weight in the stirrups.
Stealing clothes and swapping underwear was a thing in Balder's Gate...
No, I can't explain why
and I'm sad that knowledge is in my brain...
Sometimes a vampires underwear comes with great lore.(but my meta guess is that it's an unimportant clothing slot open for modders to add extra effects to.)
When I was playing through with some friends, we beat the shit out of Minthara and I made off with her gear. All of it.
It’s also where we get the sage wisdom that “people who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones,” and the motto “Always Kill The Mouthy Ones.”
Truly, words to live by.
Ah yes, the famous Golden Pantaloons.
@@Biittlespoilers for a very old game. In each of the original three games (Throne of Bhaal was meant to be BG3 but got cut down to BG2.5) there are metal pantaloons (Gold, Silver and Bronze). If you carry your save over from BG1, to BG2 and then ToB and find all three, you get special golem armour.
10:38. "I like the male. I like how it basically covers her entire body."
That's how you get the dual-screeners to pause their Minecraft and actually watch.
A quick note that gear is to "fly", but not exclusively to "fly" (actually string up wires on trees and such). It also contains spare blades for the swords because they can shoot them out of the handle at high speed to kill titans.
Also, there's a scene in the manga where they learn how to use these things, in that setup it's reminiscent of a baby bouncer.
Also, I don't really think the leather functions as armour in the manga. They're up against titans, armour won't do much to save you if you get eaten. It's more just a uniform. Maybe the leather might be helpful to cushion a fall from a height but they're not trying to stop spear thrusts here.
The full body coverage is to protect from small pieces of rubble and shrapnel from their own and each other's swords, but it definitely isn't armour. Even if you don't get eaten, a glancing blow from a titan basically shatters stone into powder, so any armour a human could wear would be a pointless encumbrance making it harder to zip around the town/forest like four-point Spider-Man.
And to add further clarification for Jill, OP here is referring to the Attack On Titan "armor." As they were saying, the biggest deal for these people is the harness contraption that is wrapped around their waist, hips, and upper thighs due to that harness has to both support the person's weight as they "Spider-Man" through the air (the harness is connected to a cabling system) and to hold those pair of boxes that contain spare blades for their sword grips.
As for the boots and jacket, I'd say that part is less to protect them from Titans and more to protect them from stray brambles or sharp corners as they "Spider-Man" through a town.
I think the leather is more just the harness for the ODM gear. standard climbing harness use to be waist and thighs. Safety harnesses usually go over the shoulders latching front and back so you can't flip and fall out of it. The straps going further down the legs could be stirrups to stop the straps cutting off circulation (like some recovery gear) and maybe to alter angle when travelling airborne.
Quicker and easier to wear it than trying to get it on in a rush.
So, Not actually Armour?
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Just a minor correction, but the gear was never designed to be used around town.
They were originally meant to use that outside the walls in an attempt to set up base there (yes, they got repurposed after the colossal titan attack).
So tree branches yes, sharp corners not really.
(although I didn't think of that originally)
Basically the Leather Jackets are there for the same reason Bikers wear leather, if you rub up against something it damages the leather not your body.
Im so happy Chappell made it into this list; as soon as I watched the vmas I wondered what you would think of the metal bikini.
Presumably classified as ‘Hot to Go’, or at worst ‘Good Luck, Babe’.
Equal opportunity midriff! 😂😂😂
Equal Rights, Equal Lefts, Equal middles 😂
Now, we need females wearing codpieces.
For the not-Hogwarts lady, if you look above the... apron(?) it does look like it's quilted. If she's meant to be a lighter, more agile fighter then gambeson + emotional support spaulder might not be an entirely unreasonable armor configuration for her.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SPAULDER 😂😂😂 You get a heart just for that
I suppose Achilles could be excused, as the only point where he NEEDS armor is his ankle, the rest is impenetrable as per greek mythology.
So the armor itself more or less ornamental, and cause running around naked on the battlefield might distract from his glory.
iirc, Troy was a more realistic take on the Illiad and Achilles didn't have his invulnerability, so that technically wouldn't be true?
Except that he wasn't invulnerable in the movie. The movie isn't strictly based on the myth, but tells a more grounded version of the tale (I purposefully said more grounded, not more realistic, because the movie has very little to do with realistic Greek history either :-) ), cutting out all of the blatantly supernatural stuff. They still talk about gods and some claim to decend from them, but no god ever shows up on screen (like they would on plenty occasions if the movie was actually retelling the Illiad) and there are no miracles shown that couldn't have a natural explanation.
Yeah, what the others said. Specifically I think in this movie he gets shot a whole bunch and the arrow in his ankle is the only one he doesn't manage to remove before he dies.
I have 100s of hours in Baldur's Gate 3 and I have NEVER noticed Lae'zel's lack of pants.
I did, she said lesbianly.
I didn't either until I went on a character creation spree and had to watch the opening cutscene a dozen times because I didn't realize you could skip it...unfortunately, once you notice it you can't unsee it...
I noticed in other scenes... :)
I love it when books "sponsor" your videos because I have liked every book you've ever talked about (including your own).
Two red-headed British ladies teaching me things in one day, couldn't be better.
Also, I do miss the old, ridiculous but at least enthusiastic covers for fantasy. Thank you for the book recs, they're going on the almost as ridiculously long list that only seems to grow.
I'm not English (though I am British and I do live in England) but now I'm curious who the other one is :D
@@JillBearup sponsor Jill, perhaps ?
@@JillBearup Jenny Draper maybe ?
@@JillBearup But how do you explain your cut glass RP accent?! 😉
@edwardlane1255 That was my thought too.
I love Jill giggling over the lack of pants!
An Animorphs reference, Jill continues to impress 👏
Yes! A yerk mention in 2024.
💪💪 so good
I'm in shock.
Oh, THAT'S where my brain recognizes "Yerk" from! It's been so long, I'd almost forgotten! Thank you.
Respectfully, bc I love this channel and respect Jill as a creator, I’d like to put my two cents in and say the Attack on Titan outfit should be under Not Actually Armor. The jacket at best prevents road rash when they fall skid along the ground or rooftops at a misstep but as actual protection, I disagree that it qualifies for Pretty Good. Other than that love the book recommendation and I agree with the rest.
Yay, more armor reviews! And the books do sound interesting.
Dragon Age the Veilguard has some really interesting armor, but yeah, the Lords of Fortune are basically all just dressed scantily. In game reason is that they are mainly treasure hunters delving into ancient ruins and down into shipwrecks in a tropical climate, so their not really meant for warfare combat.
And as for the Mourn Watch, yeah, that warrior armor is meant to look like aged copper. They are a group of Necromancers, so all of their clothing is either regal, funeral robes or has a look as though it was pulled out of a tomb. I'm glad I picked mage for this faction, because they have some very fancy robes, and all of their robes usually have a hexagonal metallic emblem on them denoting their order.
I feel that if I were to scout through an ancient ruin, I would still like to protect my vital organs, no matter whether the climate is tropical or arctic...
I mean, tbf the actual heavy armour of the Lords wasn't reviewed at all. Just the light stuff that's not actually armour; where the spaulders and other single pieces are all decorative and worn as trophies.
i'm actually playing as a mage lord of fortune rn, and the thing is, that ridiculous armor *has no shoes*. like why would they do that, i'm traversing through a blighted swamp *with no shoes*. i put that armor on my rook just so isabela is not the only one dressed like this, and i do appreciate that having no clothes is gender neutral, but gdi.
i would agree that esp mage mourn watcher, it's not actually an armor, it's kinda looks just like an apron for autopsy? a bit disappointed that a mage outfit in a mage-dominated faction is not more regal and cerenomial, but eh, that's that transmog is for.
Came for the cheese, stayed for the fun! Love your videos
A full armour review of the characters in the 1980s He-Man and/or She-Ra.
I forsee a fair bit of just stab me now! 😅 Equally, fully here for it!
@@vacuumdiagram I do too, but you can never have too much of a good thing!
Admittedly, from my memory, most of the (three) women in He-Man are completely covered, and the main character is running around like a background extra from a BDSM club
@@pettespizzaparlor3245 that description is 😅🤣 and perfect!
@@pettespizzaparlor3245- So is Skeletor.
The question is whether the women's outfits are armor or just pretty clothing.
Seeing a new armor review kinda just made my day, ty :)
I still wish to see the Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous characters reviewed one day (especially Regill and Arushalae, portraits with their "armor" might be easily found on fextralive)
Lae'zel really does run around with her bum covered by a few strips of flappy leather... Darling, trousers exist in this world, you can wear them--
I wonder if it is to quickly go to the bathroom. Do the Gith have some bladder issue perhaps?
@@ulfjohnsen6203 That's actually an interesting question because it was once cannon that folks don't get hungry/thirsty/tired as easily in the astral plane (where gith spend most of their adult lives) due to time affecting the body differently there, so some might be "out of habit" with regards to handling their biological needs when they get back to the material plane.
When they travel to the Prime Material Plane, they have to go to the bathroom all at once, like they saved up all their allowance for one big present. And then they start aging. I'd rather stay on the Astral Plane and worship the Lich Queen.@@l0stndamned
She does. At the end of the day she only wears her underwear and trousers.
Eh, it's a lot like Roman legionary outfits in that regard, but with more leg protection. Personally, I think she just needs protection over her knees; the butt is often unarmored or lightly armored in medieval harness because sitting on metal plates would not be comfortable while riding a horse, and anyone who can stab through the horse's torso and the saddle isn't likely to be deterred by whatever armor you could comfortably wear there. You'll see some knights wearing mail in that area (though even that often doesn't even cover the whole butt), but others don't bother as mail is rather heavy and the area is essentially impossible to target while you're riding, and difficult to target when you're on foot. This is even more applicable to Githyanki, as I imagine that a dragon is more difficult to stab through than a horse. The legs, though, can actually be targeted fairly easily when the person is on a horse (though perhaps not so much on a dragon).
We? We are so locked in. Nothing else in the world will exist until I finish watching this video
You love to see it! A wonderful tier list to wake up to and a good hearty laugh to go with it!
Thank you for gracing us with this glory!
Always up for more good books. Finally got yours and loved it!
8:57 "It's not selling out if it is your brand" 😜
This is the only video I've been waiting for more than Peruns Power Point Presentation on Procurement Policy
From the ridiculous to the...ridiculously detailed? :)
Perun also has some excellent deadpan humor, so I'm on board with all of the above.
Honestly you could do a whole series with the armor in Baldur’s Gate 3. My favorite is the chain mail +1 armor. Because to my untrained eye it looks like pretty good armor, it looks super cool, and it dyes very well.
She could do the same with dragon age some of the armour sets are pretty cool and there are plenty that fit in Just Stab Me Now
THE QUEEN IS BACK WITH ARMOR REVIEWS
I got altogether too excited to hear that animorphs reference in there. Dont think I've ever encountered another reader in the wild before 😂
10::00 Thumbs up for the Animorphs reference.
Hearing you speak, takes me back to the two years I spent in Coleraine. It's why I keep coming back.
Jill on watching Troy; the (bored) face that launched a hundred clips
Jill you are spoiling us! Thank you.
THE ANIMORPHS REFERENCE??? IM LIVING FOR THIS AHHH
Yerks? Thermals!
10:10 I was not expecting an Animorphs reference in a D&D game.
about the attack on titan armor straps its literaly only a climbing/abseiling/parachuting harness integrated into the uniform and is technically very practical. there are two straps which are not common in climbing/paracuting: the second tigh strap (wich exists so manovering gear can stably be attached) and the Bootstrap connector wich in this picture just replaces the 3rd tigh strap wich exist so the bladeboxes can be attached parallels to the thigh.
Ok I was thinking the boot straps would take the weight off the crutch and distribute it the the feet
Midriff’s for all, now there’s a t shirt. My brain immediately went to 90’s marvel Thor, cape and shoulder pads and all, but then I remembered god of war ragnarok had a midriff armoured Thor and Kratos, so it really is ‘Midriff’s for all!’
Great that you back and love the review!
💖😊oooooo, armor reviews! thanks! they always crack me up. and book recommendations, bonus! I love 📚.
Imagine my excitement waking up for work and seeing this! Love your fight analysis, but missed these so much!
Your videos make me happy, thank you for that.
3:00 Yup. "whoops" exactly what I would say. Greetings, a technical support call center worker.
Thanks for the armor reviews :)
wrt the books, "The Defiant Spark" makes me think of the Girl Genius series of graphic novels by the Foglios - hilarious, imaginative, engaging adventures in an alternate world!
Achilles ironically only really needed armor in one specific location. Also, it would make sense for mind flayers to take Laezel’s helmet to do all the terrible brain and worm things that they do. Next time I fight a mind flayer in D&D I’m gonna have my character have a thick full place helmet and tell the DM that “no, he can’t eat my brain actually, I’m wearing a helmet”. I’ll let you all know how that goes.
Yeerks?
Now that is something I've not heard in a long time. A very long time.
So long I feel old.
Except for the first chapter of each main-sequence book being redundant exposition for people joining mid-series, Animorphs holds up _really_ well, and Katherine Applegate is a wonderful person. :)
/Thermals/
@@CaptHayfever I thought it was largely ghost written for an age, that series.
I more remember the TV show than I do the books.
Might have to track some down.
@@leonpeters-malone3054 Applegate wrote the whole first half of the main series, all 8 specials, the last 2 books, & a random book in the second half. Ghost writers did most of the second half of the main books, but working from Applegate's plot outlines, & she heavily edited one of the books when its ghost-writer went too far off the rails.
The TV show was terrible.
To nerd out a bit here, canonically the straps on Attack On Titan's ODM (Omni Directional Maneuvering) gear were there to allow the users to change direction by altering their weight distribution, in addition to the controls in their sword hilts. They had to keep their arms free for their swords so they could cut one meter chunks from the napes of the necks of the Titans. And they didn't so much fly as swing, like hands-free Spider persons dual-wielding swords. The massive boxes house the tanks for compressed gas to power the ODM mechanics as well as scabbards for spare sword blades, as the toughness of Titan flesh and bone tended to dull and break even the high strength alloys of the blades quickly.
Incidentally, later variants of the ODM gear had more of an exoskeleton setup, with some armor plating as they were designed to be used against other people instead of Titans.
I would highly recommend giving the Attack On Titan series a watch. The story has lots of well-earned twists that make even a second watch enjoyable, and there are fight sequences worthy of analysis, even if they are hand-to-hand engagements between 14-meter tall combatants.
I need more of Jill's laughter, absolute delight. it made my day.
Love to see you back doing the armor reviews! Love what you reviewed! Super love that you have become an author! Congratulations on your success❤
1:22 We ALWAYS learn something 😊❤
Could always check out the armors that your companions in Veilguard wear?
(While I hide my favorite armor in the entire franchise because it is WILDLY impractical, but just looks so freaking sick I can't help myself. The Skin That Stalks. Gorgeous. Creepy. Killer stats. Pair it with the flower crown and run around like the glorious menace I am.)
From what I understood, the belts on the attack on titan outfits are not so much to keep things tied down but to distribute weight over the body when swinging around on the ODM gear. Like, if they were being pulled up in the air, a belt wrapped around the bottom of the foot up to the waist (from which the grappling hooks shoot) allows you to not just be pulled up by the waist but the kind of stand on the belt as you are lifted in the air. I could be wrong about this, but thats how I always understood them. This makes the additional belts have a very practical use.
Yay, Armor Review. I was missing this so much. Also, loved the loose hair
Fun as always! I was multitasking (working on Christmas present projects) and was confused by the books stuck in there, but not for armor reviews? Took me a minute to realize they're simply book recommendations, lol
Cheese: I visited the UK recently, and one of my favorite things about it was that pretty much in whatever grocery store I visited in the larger London area, I could find large blocks of aged cheddar for pretty cheap! And even in a wide variety of agededness levels!
We created cheddar and decided "this is the best cheese" and put it everywhere. To be fair, it's good cheese.
Thanks for writing your book. I couldn't stop laughing. I have recommended it to a friend with literary tendencies. The way you have your 'writer' and characters interact is actually an interesting plot development tool.
Ahhh, we love a good armor review!
I always love these videos. Your reaction to the Bae'zel's booty had me cracking up every time, because i watched that part 3 times. ROFL
I've been waiting for the lae'zel armor roast since the game came out, thank you so much
I love you, Jill, never stop doing this!
Always love seeing the armour reviews. Not sure if you have seen them before, but the armours in the For Honor games armours might be interesting to watch for a future review. If I recall correctly they do research to give the armours a realistic look and fitting for the factions, albeit with some liberties of course. There's a lot of armour in it, but they do have a default sets visible on Ubisoft's website. Knights faction might be a good place to start, with the Peacekeeper and Lawbringer heroes. Conqueror and Black Prior uses shields if you want to see that, and the majority wear helmets to protect their noggins'
I've missed you doing "Things you like". I love the book recommendations in this vid.
Always love the Armour Reviews!
Thank you for another armor review. I always enjoy these segments. El Cid may be a long movie. But it has really good fight scenes. I would enjoy your take on the main duel in the movie.
My first time watching through one of your armour reviews and I loved it 😂
Great Video, if i remember correctly a Armour Review Video was the first Video i've watched from you, watching this feels kind of nostalgic.
I've missed these and Sqiddy Man needs a psych evaluation
A new armor review vid, plus new book recs? Woohoo! 😍
To my slight surprise, pretty good writing in your book. Enjoyed it even after the series of episodes.
Perhaps the squiddy people are followers of "Sigvald the Magnificent" - pants optional
Game director: As a female warrior, she doesn't need pants.
Game designer: Why? Most women wear pants.
Game Director: Because it's fantasy and she's a woman.
Game Designer: . . . I wonder if they need another game designer on the next Mario Party.
"Because she's dragon cavalry, her lower body is mostly covered by the dragon saddle, and weight is an issue. Which is why the other women in the game, like Shadowheart, have pants."
@ducklinsenmayer7681 not a condemnation nor a approbation of the design since I have not played the game, but that argument makes it worse.
if that is precisely the one situation where you'd *extremely* need pants. Riding on something, especially something that's gonna move a lot like a dragon is gonna be unpleasant and cause horrible chaffing.
There's a reason horseriding is the one sport not practiced in shorts.
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1- play it. It's awesome.
2- the Githyanki are modified humans, they have natural damage resistance. They wear armor to protect them from things that do real damage.
3-there's a special saddle.
4-I understand your POV, I'm mostly pointing out that this is not sexist at all, the men also wear little leg protection, and the human women in the game wear regular armor.
It's entirely about conserving weight.
@ducklinsenmayer7681 K' so just giver her cloth pants. To be clear, I get it's a fantasy game. It is just that this is such a common trope of scantily clad women in fantasy that it's just silly sometimes.
**eye roll**
I have missed the armour rants and laughs. Yippee 🎉
Regarding that flying armor: the straps to the boots make sense if their function is to prevent the waist from riding up when flying. Without something like that, the flying harness would be up under her armpits in no time. A parachute/climbing harness that goes from shoulder to bum would be better, but she at least can straighten her legs keep the harness down where it belongs.
Yeerks! Love the reference.
Edit: Also, Veilguard's Antivan crows do have helmets, though you won't see named characters wearing them. Their medium helm, "the crow's bill", looks incredibly silly until you realize the character menu displays it with the visor up. Antiva's heavy helm looks almost as silly but has no moving parts, though at least it's labeled as a "parade helm." And if you thought the Mourn Watch armor was hideous, you need to check out their light helm, "smiling visage," and medium helm, "death mask." They're classed as armor in the game mechanics, but credit where it's due, in lore these are worn for ceremonial purposes. So I guess it's on the character for wearing ceremonial armor into battle. But the lore on all Antivan Crow helms makes it clear that some NPCs do intend to wear these silly things into battle, and specifically because they like the look.
Just ordered your book for my Thanksgiving vacation! I’m so excited to read it.
5:45 My friend and I went to see Troy in the theaters while taking Latin and translating Virgil. We were scandalized and determined that it was really a misnamed, long form advertisement for Brad Pitt’s butt.
Wellcome back Armour review
Oh, oh, I have several suggestions regarding music related armor!
1. Katrine Stenbekk from Kalandra in music video "Bardaginn"
2. Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil performance on Eurovision 2024
3. KISS, because sooner or later you'll get there anyway. Especially The Demon from the classic line-up (his outfit is most armorish)
What a fun mash of literature, anime, video game and live action. Thanks Jill.
You know what Jill, I think I have missed it too. It feels like ages since I watched one of your videos and I promise I haven't been avoiding you. Honest! 😅🤞😁
Finally successfully pestered my local library into getting a few copies of your book (and ebook!)
In case anyone in Charleston SC in the US hasn’t yet gotten a chance to read it- get on the CCPL waiting list 😁
6:03 by this stage of the war (although it wasn't shown in the movie) Hector was wearing Achilles' armour, taken off Patrocles' body (although with a Trojan helmet rather than an Argyve one) and Achilles was wearing the new set that his mother had made by Hephaestus for her sons return to the war.
Life can be stressful and frustrating and videos like this are a light. Other than top gear highlights not much can make me laugh as much as these 'armour' reviews.
WELCOME BACK!!!
For the attach on Titan one, it's an under harness. Allowing them to shift their weight while in the air by pulling against their selves. But you wouldn't need others help getting it on and off...
Just a comment for Attack on Titan: The Aerial Maneuver Gear is effectively like strapping jet engines to your waist (technically grappling hooks, but from an applied force perspective basically the same). The straps are there in order to distribute the load to prevent the spine from breaking. You can't tell from the shot you used, but the straps on the legs don't attach to the boots at all, they actually go all the way down and wrap around the feet so you end up almost standing on the straps when they are under tension as if they were stirrups. As for protection, fighting titans is very much a "your only defense is not getting hit" situation; aside from protecting from minor falls, you are probably dead regardless of armor plating if you get hit (and are not a main character).
10:35 "I like the male/mail" We were this close to a review of the guy in plate with the sword next to her :D
Great Stuff, Jill Bearup!
Luv your hair, too!