The mordern world boring - Comparision with vintage and medieval world

Don't you agree this era is boring. No adventures, thrills,etc.

Take the instance of vintage world filled up with Mafias, familys, gentlemen, real women, classic cars, respect and excitement.

Consider the medieval era preoccupied with masculine worriors, swords, horses, honour, life amidst forests and nature.

And today, all we can do is just sit in front of our screens to watch a movie or play games to get that feel. RPGs etc. are all played to get that natural feel but all the thrill, excitement is now shrinked to virtuality in a screen!

Take the instance of vintage world filled up with Mafias, familys, gentlemen, real women, classic cars, respect and excitement.

true_gamer007

Yeah unless you're black then sucks to be you

:lol: "Respect"

You wouldn't live long in the medieval era. I think you'd prefer boring over the possibility of constant death.

There was no concept of individual human rights. It simply didn't exist.

The church ruled your life who knows maybe it still does at least now you can choose not to let it.

You know how monkeys sit and pick bugs off each other ? This was a common practise in medieval households before bed time.

Peasants lived in mud huts and usually slept on straw floors with their pigs who kept them warm.

They had no concept of crop rotation for farming they reused the same fields and didn't understand why nothing grew, then the local lord would come and punish them, rape their women knock them up, and rob them.

You could die from a scratch, there was no concept of first aid.

Bandages were developed by accident. The normal method for treating someone with a wound was to pour melted wax on the opening. You kept doing this and cut off the parts that festered. During a siege this medic ran out of wax. He decided to use some rags. He noticed that after a week the people with clean rags were surprisingly alive and better off then those with wax. He recorded his findings and tried to put his ideas forth in a medical college and was laughed out.

You were property. You could not travel. If you travelled to another town you'd probably be killed. Strangers brought sickness, and possibly knocking up cousin sister wives or taking them away since inbreeding and rape was rampant in those times.

You'd most likely marry someone within your immediate family. It was common, still is in some parts of the world lol.

In the book The Deeds of Louis the Fat after a battle the King had to retreat from the english, gets lost and asks peasants for directions who make fun of him for claiming to be king, the king had to sleep with his armor on since he maintained his power at the behest of his lords. Louis would die after his face was nicked by an arrow, deeming the wound a scratch it got infected and he died.

Exciting stuff ! yeah not.

yeah, I can't wait to go back to the medieval age and die when I'm 30 as a poor farm worker. LZ71

Don't you agree this era is boring. No adventures, thrills,etc.

Take the instance of vintage world filled up with Mafias, familys, gentlemen, real women, classic cars, respect and excitement.

Consider the medieval era preoccupied with masculine worriors, swords, horses, honour, life amidst forests and nature.

And today, all we can do is just sit in front of our screens to watch a movie or play games to get that feel. RPGs etc. are all played to get that natural feel but all the thrill, excitement is now shrinked to virtuality in a screen!

true_gamer007

This may shock you but throughout the history of mankind the average person has had a pretty boring uneventful life of "grow work die". I'd imagine the amount of people having "adventures" these days is still, as a percent, around the same as it has been throughout history. Ace6301

This.

But really TC if you want adventure then join the armed forces.

Don't you agree this era is boring. No adventures, thrills,etc.

Take the instance of vintage world filled up with Mafias, familys, gentlemen, real women, classic cars, respect and excitement.

Consider the medieval era preoccupied with masculine worriors

.. These warriors are no different from the soldiers of today..

, swords

Would be a great way to go, get a deep knick by a sword and die due to a infection due to a absolute LACK of knowledge of micro-organisms or modern day medicines..

, horses, honour

Sorry but no.. The "honor" you talk of has been romanticized by modern era writers and pop culture.. Knights for instance during the Middle Ages acted more like Mafia thugs enforcing their fuedal system then anything coming close to the television depiction of them..

, life amidst forests and nature.

No.. Christian belief during the Mid to Colonial periods thought it was their divine mission to rip down nature and mold it to their own control..

And today, all we can do is just sit in front of our screens to watch a movie or play games to get that feel. RPGs etc. are all played to get that natural feel but all the thrill, excitement is now shrinked to virtuality in a screen!

true_gamer007

People who say this clearly have read little of the era.. During these very times half of Europes population DIED quickly due to Bubonic plague.. The region was rife with religious persecution, economic/social/religion/etc inequality..

Don't you agree this era is boring. No adventures, thrills,etc.

Take the instance of vintage world filled up with Mafias, familys, gentlemen, real women, classic cars, respect and excitement.

Consider the medieval era preoccupied with masculine worriors, swords, horses, honour, life amidst forests and nature.

And today, all we can do is just sit in front of our screens to watch a movie or play games to get that feel. RPGs etc. are all played to get that natural feel but all the thrill, excitement is now shrinked to virtuality in a screen!

But technically the belief that people died at 30 in the middle ages is a falsehood- yes, the average age was 30 but this was because 2/3 or more of kids died in their infancy. If you survived past age 10, you had a pretty good shot at living to see 50 or 60. Tokugawa77

That makes it even worse if you ask me.

[QUOTE="Tokugawa77"] But technically the belief that people died at 30 in the middle ages is a falsehood- yes, the average age was 30 but this was because 2/3 or more of kids died in their infancy. If you survived past age 10, you had a pretty good shot at living to see 50 or 60. JML897

That makes it even worse if you ask me.

You can call the era we are living in a lot of things. Boring is not one of them.

I don't understand why some people always say stupid sh*t like this. You've been playing too many video games/watching too many movies and not reading enough history of that era if you truly think there was so much more adventure back then. A normal person then had no more adventure than a normal person now. The only real differences are that they lived in more squalid conditions, had less freedoms, and died at earlier ages, etc.

You can keep your swords.

I'll keep my vaccines, plumbing, and a little thing called THE INTERNET!!!

Damn. You guys are drowning my expectations. But if you you are talking about short life, harsh conditions, you're looking at the dark side of that.

You play too many video games.

You can call the era we are living in a lot of things. Boring is not one of them.

DJ419

I find it insanely boring.

I find it insanely boring.

Ilovegames1992

Maybe it's just you.

[QUOTE="DJ419"]

You can call the era we are living in a lot of things. Boring is not one of them.

Ilovegames1992

I find it insanely boring.

Damn. You guys are drowning my expectations. But if you you are talking about short life, harsh conditions, you're looking at the dark side of that.

true_gamer007

There was no upside to it for anyone but the wealthiest.

Yeah, the modern world is boring. I miss carrying a sword around and slaying dragons. I use to be an adventurer like you, til I took an arrow to the knee.

But in all seriousness, the amount of things you could do with your life and experience is unfathomable in these times. How is that not exciting? You must still be 12 and have a curfew, forced to abide by your parent's rules and have no freedom. I don't know what kind of fantasy world you live in, or what kind of "hipster" you are but I enjoy life quite a bit. How do you "miss" vintage and medieval times when you never experienced it? Dumb.

What the hell does the first choice in the poll say???? And what do you mean by vintage? You actually think that living in old times, without medicine where the average lifespan was less than 50 years, having to hunt for food and live in fear of attack and death every day of your life is a good thing?

I have a book called The Burgundian Code. It details punishments for accidentally skewering people carrying your sword or spear around in the towns. it did happen.

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

I find it insanely boring.

Necrifer

Maybe it's just you.

Possibly.

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="DJ419"]

You can call the era we are living in a lot of things. Boring is not one of them.

FMAB_GTO

I find it insanely boring.

What's so exciting about it?

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"][QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

I find it insanely boring.

Ilovegames1992

What's so exciting about it?

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] How so?FMAB_GTO

What's so exciting about it?

Meh

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"][QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

What's so exciting about it?

Ilovegames1992

Meh

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] A lot of stuff like playing video games,watching anime/TV,reading soe epic books,learning the secrets of the creatures,and a lot more.FMAB_GTO

Meh

I'm living life a little too hard sometimes....

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"][QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

Meh

Ilovegames1992

I'm living life a little too hard sometimes....

In all honesty though, the past wasn't all that great, with the disease and whatnot.

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] Well I wish you have a happy life man.FMAB_GTO

I'm living life a little too hard sometimes....

Yeah. I party hard.

Isnt that what skyrim and L.A Noir for?

I wouldn't have minded living in the roaring twenties, well, except for that whole WWI thing that preceded it and that whole great depression thing that ended it. Other than those little problems though, I think it would have been a grand time. Thirties and forties would have pretty much sucked, but the fifties might have been all right.

Would never want to have lived in medieval times. Those people were peasants - they did back-breaking labor all day and when they got done in the evening, you know what they did for entertainment? They stared out the window.

I wouldn't have minded living in the roaring twenties, well, except for that whole WWI thing that preceded it and that whole great depression thing that ended it. Other than those little problems though, I think it would have been a grand time. Thirties and forties would have pretty much sucked, but the fifties might have been all right.

Would never want to have lived in medieval times. Those people were peasants - they did back-breaking labor all day and when they got done in the evening, you know what they did for entertainment? They stared out the window.

Jackc8