#moats

[la-hannya]

Did you how annoying it has been to finally find good translated examples of what consists of a traditional Japanese house or room for writing ideas?

[mothmiso]

Ruins of the past (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by _Tursiops

Via Flickr:

(1) Remains of the old prison at Fort Santiago overshadowed by the city towers. Manila, Philippines. (2) Decorative ironwork atop an old doorway at Fort Santiago, Intramuros. (3) The old moat and adobe walls of Fort Santiago are overlooked by the encroaching city tower blocks.     

[biggestqiblifan]

You can't tell me Crowley didn't know Halt would do this.

He knew exactly what he was doing.

Management genius.

[king-vivian]

Lifehack: you can use context clues like a horror game to make enemies think you keep a terrifying carnivorous monster in the moat, even if you really don't.

[paaxindigenouswitchcraft]

[forumgamer]

Rant about moats... and false infos

Okay, so bear with me for a moment while I have a little rant...

I am all in favour of people sharing info on their passions or their professional knowledge on social media, it’s a great way to get more people informed and interested in those things.

Except, of course, when you are utterly, obviously wrong.

So, I watched this video by a self-proclaimed historian, who shared infos on castle designs. And they confidently explained that the reason why moats were added to castles, whether dry or wet, was to counter the invention of the trebuchet, by putting as much distance between the castle and the trebuchet.

...

The trebuchet is a distance weapon! You would need a moat of a hundred meters or more to have a real impact on them, and most moats are nowhere near that size! Setting aside the fact that the overall efficience of trebuchets is still debated by historians, moats were not introduced to counter them.

Instead, moats counter the close-up siege devices, namely rams, ladders and siege towers. Furthermore, they make it more difficult to tunnel under the castle’s walls, which yes, was even done before the invention of gunpowder, occasionally. 

Maybe I should not invest the time and energy needed for this post, but... the self-assured certainty with which this young youtuber spread an utter falsehood ticked me off, I guess.

[gongyussy]

i watch baseball for the side quests

update: i think you should look at the reblogs for more important baseball hijinks

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[clatterbane]

Everything you want to know about Malmö's canals!

(These both go to an autotranslated version.)

A little bit of interesting history. Apparently these started out as a largely symbolic moat ditch around the Old Town with the waterfront as the final side, then got expanded to try to use as an actual fortification, then went through a phase as the kind of industrial dumping ground and sewer that you might expect in the 19th century.

Thankfully they have since been cleaned up to the point of fairly recent discussions about the city maybe opening up a swimming beach along there. And I wouldn't immediately nope away from the idea of fishing in there.

I didn't realize quite how much new land had been filled in between Gamla Stan and the current waterfront. We're talking nearly Boston level, scaled down to a still MUCH smaller city.

Over the centuries, it went from this, to this (cropped for mostly the central section on out):

Where the moated-in Old Town is just under the city label, with the now-museum castle over inside the smaller square of most in the big park area to its left.

All of that big harbor area was filled in. The temporal apartment we were in after moving here was in Västra Hamnen ("Westport”) sticking up there, looking out over the current coastline very close by. That little constructed peninsula got completely redeveloped as residential with some businesses within the past 15 years or so, after the whole harbor business declined and it basically turned into a former-industrial wasteland.

And a little wider view, showing the bridge to Copenhagen jutting off to the left, and part of the dividing line between Denmark and Sweden down the middle of the sound there:

You could just about see the other side from the waterfront park near Temporary Apartment.

[maegaasperion]

Castles Moats: Strategic Fantasy Designs

One of the more classic defenses that most people think of when the imagine the traditional castle will be that it is surrounded by a watery moat. Regardless of how true this happens to be, it has become such a popular troupe that whenever players approach a castle in a fantasy game, among the first things that they try to find some way to get past that moat. This might be going into the water to…

[jdrachel]

(via Life In Japan: The Triumph of the Lotus Plants | John Rachel) I described in a previous article how an area elementary school was using our local castle moat for a school project. In one end of a section protecting the castle on its south side, they planted  lotus flowers, purely to add some color to the huge puddle. Their work has come to fruition. It's amazing!

[mothmiso]

Kent - Scotney Castle (2) (3) by Jules

[whitedogblog]

Vischering Castle, 16th Century

Germany 🇩🇪

[king-vivian]

My sign guy just sent me a design for signs to be posted around the moat. He says he can have this plastered onto wooden planks nailed to a single vertical post every twenty feet by Thursday. What do you all think?

[dornonthecob]

Ahhh to live like a king, if only

[terriblepersongreatseamonster]

Just a few of the comments from YouTube that amused me.