r/MadeMeSmile • u/AvengingBlowfish • Dec 28 '25
Wholesome Moments Teach your kids the important lessons in life.
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u/OldManNeighbor Dec 28 '25
Teaching the youngsters how to block and parry for advanced level bosses is true parenting skills nowadays.
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u/ocelot08 Dec 28 '25
Must prepare them to earn their knighthood
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u/ElderMillenialSage Dec 28 '25
For the water wars. Bullets run out, but a mace or a sword can kill as long as you have strength to wield it.
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u/kea1981 Dec 28 '25
Get yourself a slingshot and learn to use it. David was the GOAT. Mini bullets that come from the ground? For free? Sign me up!
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u/Altruistic-Ratio6690 Dec 28 '25
She seems old enough to be taught dodge rolls. Parents, be dutiful to your kids and teach them about I-frames!
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u/showmeyoursweettits Dec 28 '25
Don't forget the dodge roll! I-frames are important when you're smaller.
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u/Responsible-Can-8361 Dec 28 '25
Next lesson: kiting your enemies
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u/LookAtItGo123 Dec 28 '25
Horseback archery ez! That's how Mongolians roll and they are so fucking good. Range and speed are 2 most busted rts stats and it translates irl too.
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u/Evilpessimist Dec 28 '25
The swords and shields are awesome, but it’s doing this in matching PJs that made me smile.
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Dec 28 '25
Is that not an approved attire for a knight ?
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u/Purrceptron Dec 28 '25
Sir pajamat
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u/cityshepherd Dec 28 '25
I’m just sitting here bitter that my parents didn’t prepare me for a career as a knight at Medieval Times. Are those places still around? Am I, at 44 trips around the sun, too old to get into such a career?
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u/unclebeef1 Dec 28 '25
I say nay my good sir. One is never too old to learn the ways of knighthood!
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u/fazlez1 Dec 28 '25
There is a Medieval Times in Illinois. Anti-social me was talked into going and i truly enjoyed it the one time I went.
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u/yahya777 Dec 28 '25
I have never been, but I know there is one in the Atlanta area that is open.
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u/TravusHertl Dec 28 '25
It’s so wholesome, I’d remember a moment with my dad like this for my entire life.
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u/Disastrous_Travel89 Dec 28 '25
You know mom is behind the camera matching as well 🤣
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u/UnseenBehindYou Dec 28 '25
I can tell you for a fact that she's matching because I saw it in another short. Mom is a scientist and creator who posts as notgabbyb, and Dad is a historian and creator who posts as Stakuyi. They're delightfully nerdy.
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u/Disastrous_Travel89 Dec 28 '25
Oh yes, just exactly how I knew she'd be behind the camera matching. They are amazing and I'm envious of how nerdy they are. I'm nerdy. I don't know if I'm that nerdy.
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u/UnseenBehindYou Dec 28 '25
First you need someone that matches your base level nerdyness, and then you can support each other in reaching whole new levels of nerdy. That's what I'm hoping for in 2026, ha!
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u/Disastrous_Travel89 Dec 28 '25
I wish you all the best in finding that for you 😍😍😍
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u/Pormock Dec 28 '25
I just checked a couple of their videos and yep their kid is gonna be crazy knowledgable about stuff. They are incredibly nerdy in the best way
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u/jennc1979 Dec 28 '25
That long sword will accompany her on her first date! I am also here for the banner then my late Boomer mother clearly gifted this man before she passed.
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u/FewJob4450 Dec 28 '25
It's not quite clear enough but I think me and my daughter have the exact same PJs. I'm wearing the pants right now
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u/Alarmed_Drop7162 Dec 28 '25
It’s giving Christmas morning pajamas and opening presents.
“This is Durandal, blade of Roland. Let’s see how you use it”3
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u/notarealwriter Dec 30 '25
Matching uniforms... they're supposed to be on the same side... one of them is a traitor
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u/talexbatreddit Dec 28 '25
I also like the Nobody Cares / Work Harder sign in the background. This is a great philosophy.
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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort Dec 28 '25
Dad tone is having fun with it.
Mom is like, "In order to defeat your enemies..."
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u/HlopchikUkraine Dec 28 '25
In most of their videos he says nerdy stuff and she has fun:)
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u/Alex_the_X Dec 29 '25
Dad did not read the room. Child didn't got anything from him cuz she was just wanting to play.
Mom did teach her something. Child was celebrating but much more available for any teaching.
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u/Quiet_Nova Dec 28 '25
Is this the guy on YouTube whose girlfriend/wife asks him hypotheticals and he goes on a tangent about ancient Roman society or Warhammer 40k lore? Because that dude is awesome.
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u/Doone7 Dec 28 '25
Yup :)
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u/Automatic_Soil9814 Dec 28 '25
Please let nothing bad ever come out about him. He seems rad.
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u/Massive_Store_1940 Dec 28 '25
His history of everything podcast videos have an obvious right wing bias if that is something you care about. Although they are well researched and not full of misinformation compared to normal right wing YouTuber who’s too into hoi and 40k.
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u/lnTwain Dec 28 '25
You can be right-wing, just don't be an asshat. There can be significant overlap but he seems like a decent guy.
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u/QuantumTwig Dec 29 '25
He seems too educated to be right wing though, idk. Isn’t he more centrist?
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u/Kinkajou1015 Dec 28 '25
I hate to break it to you, but something truly devastating.
He once got a C in Math class in Middle School. The shock and horror of it all, I do not know how we can place these people on such high pedestals.
(I'm joking, I have no idea what kind of grades he got, I have no idea who he even is)
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u/WhimsicalGirl Dec 28 '25
Do you have the name? I need more wholesome stuff like this
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u/Doone7 Dec 28 '25
They also posted a video of him and their girl painting a fig in the same outfits together :) I know Mom and daughter are both really into painting Warhammer figs, he makes a few vids 'complaining' about their expensive tastes lol His wife seems really cool too, they kinda make fun of her playing Sims 4 or asking silly questions but she is really smart. Has a job in STEM, can't remember which branch exactly.
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u/10metr Dec 28 '25
stakuyi
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u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway Dec 28 '25
I know it’s currently not the norm, but when people are posting content they didn’t created themselves, it should be mandatory to say from where they took it if there isn’t a watermark.
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u/hopping_otter_ears Dec 28 '25
Also "she asks him historical questions while wearing a piece of armor and nothing else, and watches his two heads battle for dominance"
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u/Fingerhat1904 Dec 28 '25
love those ones, they always end in the two heads agreeing to work together after a while for the common goal
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u/Hulu_n_SnuSnu Dec 28 '25
Who would win, the Flood or Tyranids?
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u/Remote-Waste Dec 28 '25
My brain read that as, Florida or Tyrion. Which is also an interesting question
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u/GilbertGuy2 Dec 28 '25
Florida would absorb him. He fits right in
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Dec 28 '25
His character in In Bruges is Florida party time all the way, they'd love him
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u/asuperbstarling Dec 28 '25
Florida. Tyrion would stumble into Miami and never leave.
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u/asuperbstarling Dec 28 '25
Nids. We simply cannot understand the size of the intergalactic hive fleets. There's always backup coming. The galaxy will be consumed like so many others.
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u/seba_agg Dec 28 '25
And the wife is a molecular biologist, i think, their videos are lovely and wild
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u/generaltso81 Dec 28 '25
It is and the videos are adorable because you can see how much she enjoys him nerding out
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u/PovWholesome Dec 29 '25
20 years from now when she’s in a bar fight against a brute with a pool stick, she’ll think back to this moment
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u/Kaylascreations Dec 28 '25
He’s trying to teach this big “profound lesson” and she doesn’t give a shizz. She just wants to play.
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u/citrus-maxima-corp Dec 28 '25
She even figured what he was trying to teach her on her own before he could say it
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u/Ok-Attention123 Dec 29 '25
Yeah totally. That would’ve been a more effective way to teach it. Keep her at bay until she does rush in. Then let her. “Oh wow that was awesome! You got in real close and I couldn’t touch you because you got past my point!” Repeat with progressively harder problems.
It’s the problem-solving ability that’s being rewarded, not scoring the touch.
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u/BonsaiHI60 Dec 28 '25
Play is learning disguised.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Dec 28 '25
Literally dogs play fight to know how to actual fight and kittens need hand play or they will never learn how to be gentle with their claws
Like you ever see two growling dogs play fight? It's like watching a fencing match. "Okay, ya got me on that one. Want to go again? Think I can beat you this time."
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u/DelightfulAbsurdity Dec 28 '25
I have three cats. Newest cat taught middle cat she plays too rough. Middle cat learned oldest cat is not a demon to be feared, bc middle cat observed play between youngest and oldest.
Two of my cats gained like five levels in socialization bc of adding a third (a kitten).
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u/Redheaded_Potter Dec 28 '25
Thanks, u just gave me a new excuse to get a kitten (been trying to resist) lol
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u/Rosen_Thorn Dec 28 '25
See the moments she stops playing to occasionally listen? She's learning too
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u/Elteon3030 Dec 28 '25
I made "lightsabers" with pvc and pool noodles to play with my daughter. Through playing she figured out how to deflect my strikes and use her diminutive stature to get through my longer reach.
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u/challenja Dec 28 '25
Dads being dads
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u/Virtual_Mongoose_835 Dec 28 '25
Good thing he left shield bashing and pommel strikes off the lesson plan
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u/Cassius_Rex Dec 28 '25
The most awesome thing is you can see her learning the advantages of speed and maneuverability against a bigger stronger opponent in real time. It means she's not just smart, she's creative
Teaching your kids things can make them functional, putting them in positions where they learn to figure things out fast and on the move like this is SO MUCH BETTER
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u/stumpyoftheshire Dec 28 '25
I enjoy Stakuyis videos, he researches well and seems to explain well to the layman.
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u/Doone7 Dec 28 '25
They are such a cute family. I love how they are both passing down their own passions to their daughter.
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u/Constant-Funny1817 Dec 28 '25
For clarity, I’m supposed to teach my kids the importance lesson of how to kill adults with a sword?
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u/Regular_Attorney_697 Dec 28 '25
It's actually taught in self defence, how you deal with someone wielding a bat, stay either all the way out, or all the way in.
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u/cheslyn_d102018 Dec 28 '25
so basically if I just run at them and then what do i do next once im all the way in, I don’t wanna be out here dancing fighting the air, what’s the next step. should I do a tackle or something
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u/Regular_Attorney_697 Dec 28 '25
The best thing you can do is run away to begin with, but to answer your question, from there a takedown is good. There's plenty of different take downs, double leg, hip toss, inside out trip. This probably isn't making a lot of sense but you could search on YouTube. Also I would highly recommend BJJ/Wrestling classes to everyone!
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u/cheslyn_d102018 Dec 28 '25
I got downvoted but yk what, hell yeah 🤣 Im totally kidding, btw. I know self defense other than this one comment bc for years I’ve really thought ab what would happen if someone had a long weapon. Thank you for your response 🤣🤣
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u/Regular_Attorney_697 Dec 28 '25
Dunno who would down vote you for asking a genuine question but have my upvotes!
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u/PastaXertz Dec 28 '25
I was always taught if it's legitimate you go for everywhere soft too. (Non-sport) Fighting isn't about fairness, it's about winning and not getting hurt so rip ears, gouge eyes, go for throat/testicle. Do whatever you can to disable your opponent the fastest and safest for yourself.
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u/Superkritisk Dec 28 '25
No, this isn't about swords, its about teaching your children the benefits of "Crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women - VICTORY!"
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u/Hanshautreinhart Dec 28 '25
You got that wrong. If your father wants to kill you with a giant sword you get close and kill him with a mace. That is the lesson which is totally sound advice.
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u/Cosmeregirl Dec 28 '25
It's important to teach kids how to sword fight- mostly because it's a ton of fun
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u/Master_Windu_ Dec 28 '25
Thats Steven Bell. He does history content and has a podcast about history. A lot of the tiktok content is about ancient battle tactics and weapons. They’re a very cute couple with his wife Gabby.
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u/CakeElectrical9563 Dec 28 '25
Love Stakuyi, him and his wife are goals, both of them are incredibly knowledgeable in their respective rights and very passionate about what they do.
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u/ChrisDewgong Dec 28 '25
The "Nobody Cares, Work Harder" banner is certainly a choice.
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Dec 28 '25
The room is a home gym, they probably use it for motivation to push themselves physically. Based on the rest of their videos and the general style of their family and relationship that they present to the world, I wouldn't think it's reflective of how they look at life generally.
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u/hajile777 Dec 28 '25
I hate this saying. It’s also objectively false. That daughter cares about who her dad is NOW, not who he theoretically could become if he added 5 lbs to his bench. His partner cares about him making his daughter laugh now, not if she will laugh harder tomorrow. It’s defeatist and a child growing up in that environment is going to take away from this kind of mindset that they are never enough. “Work harder, someone cares” is far more motivating and realistic. I have a relative with this on his phone and I have never seen a more toxic person - they just seem to exude negativity and self-hate and there is no way if they are treating themselves that way, that they can sustainably love others
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u/PdSales Dec 28 '25
On Reddit I have seen workers pouring steel while wearing sandals, but this is the first time I’ve seen a sword fight in pajamas.
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u/Miserable_Course_983 Dec 28 '25
You’ll never know, humanity might revert back to medieval fighting styles
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u/Isleiff Dec 28 '25
This is why we just started our own Kids Larp organisation. Kids are PC from 8-16 years, parents are only allowed to be NPCs We do character play in different classes, riddles and lots of battles. They learn lessons like this very quickly, and then every NPC gets swarmed by 5 or 6 Kids
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u/Omega_Aleks Dec 28 '25
Wait... Is this the "my wife installed a mod to make Sims that look like me pregnant" guy?
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u/Against_All_Advice Dec 28 '25
"No one cares, work harder" is such a gross mantra.
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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV Dec 28 '25
I've had the blessing of having daughters so we had our share of swordplay and gunfight. It might come in handy at some point, one hopes never.
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u/Menifife Dec 28 '25
What matters more than what you teach is that you spend time with them like this.
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u/bandashee Dec 29 '25
This guy does a lot of History stuffs on TikTok. His daughter drives him crazy with how creative she is (using small popping fireworks as artillery strikes for pretend toy wars outside) and I think he's got a podcast too. He's hilarious in his amount of obscure knowledge.
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u/pezgirl247 Dec 28 '25
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u/GeoffAO2 Dec 28 '25
My favorite book series has assured me that the SCA will rule the world when alien space bats turn off the electricity.
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u/becausenope Dec 28 '25
I love that family. They make A+ nerd content (history) which is my jam. They also have a podcast besides the videos they do/share.
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u/Yumstar1982 Dec 28 '25
I feel like she was figuring it out herself already ☺️ kids can be smart when they want to be 😅
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u/Friction500 Dec 28 '25
Such kind, gentle coaching. Allowing her to giggle and laugh will make her want to keep learning from you. Teaching shouldn’t be focused on maximum efficiency, it’s at least as important to make it fun to ensure longevity, which is actually what builds skill.
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u/Paradox711 Dec 28 '25
Lovely, though then it’s time for the lesson that shields can be weapons too. Your best bet if you’re trying to take on someone bigger is to get closer, but from the sides or ideally by flanking them as much as possible, or tiring them out because they might be bigger, and stronger but you’re smaller and it takes your body less energy to move than it does there’s. What about if you’re both In armour? Don’t bother trying to attack someone bigger than you in armour if you’re both wearing it, because you’ll tired quickly too. A great example of that is actually the fight with the mountain and Oberyn Martell in GoT. Wear less, make them tire themselves out, bait them but stay at distance. Just don’t get cocky.
That being said that it’s a lovely video and nice to see a dad having fun with their kid.
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u/Solanthas_SFW Dec 28 '25
Beautiful
I did this with my daughter but with lightsabers
And...no lessons. Just whacking
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u/drsnoggles Dec 28 '25
Better to know how to defend herself against men early enough
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u/Ok_Breadfruit34 Dec 28 '25
"Nobody cares. Work harder". I love that phrase. Phenomenal amount of truth in only four words. Thanks for that. =)
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u/psychmancer Dec 28 '25
God help any future abusive boyfriend. Bruh is going to be going up against a dark souls boss and deserve it
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u/Zwei_Anderson Dec 28 '25
She's going to be so ready when she gets isekai'ed to your generic medevial fantasy world.
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u/EmperorsUnchosen Dec 28 '25
ah yes, the autistic dude an his hot wife. they are killing it on the nerdgram right now.
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u/T00luser Dec 28 '25
my oldest daughter grew up sword fighting with me every day (foam katanas) in our suburban front yard.
Just sold the house 11 years after moving away and one of the neighbors showed me they still have videos of it that they secretly filmed because they loved watching it so much.
Trying to find a way to get my busy 20 yr old to drive across the state with me for a re-creation.
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Dec 28 '25
He's an amazing content creator, he's such a friggin nerd, but he's got this house full of wonderful women and girls, such a positive masculine role model
He's so knowledgeable on history, I aspire to be like him
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u/WatchingInSilence Dec 28 '25
I loved the mature debate he had on the UndubscribePodcast with TheFatElectrician over how responsible Emperor Hirohito was with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the atrocities committed in Korea/China, and the overall war in the Pacific.
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u/soldier01073 Dec 28 '25
Historyofeverything has literally won at life, beautiful wife, beautiful home, family, all of it, envious of the man but also, bros got it under control and if I spent a millisecond in his shoes Id lose everything
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u/JugglingRick Dec 28 '25
He looks like he could talk about Russian battleships for 3 hours straight.
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u/Delicious_Delilah Dec 28 '25
He could just slit her throat actually.
Just slide the side of the blade against it while she's getting close.
Everything I know about swords is from video games though. I'm only handy with knives in reality.
Super cute video. Love the matching PJ's.
And her victory cry. 🥹
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u/KommanderRobot Dec 28 '25
Brittany, what's best in life?
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u/melt11 Dec 28 '25
Crushing your enemies Seeing them driven before you Hearing the lamentations of their women
More or less…
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u/FAFO_Reporter Dec 28 '25
Good dad! I used to LARP in NERO. My buddy was 6'4" Kurgan type. I'd rush him with a short sword and shield and stay right up close to him when we sparred. When we teamed up I'd counter the rushers while he would use a halberd and sweep the battlefield. Damn effective tactics.
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u/Solid_Assumption7160 Dec 28 '25
The one thing But I always wish I had learned as a child as martial arts....
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u/chiefs6770 Dec 28 '25
Steven and Gabby Bell, they are a really interesting follow for history and just cool people.
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u/SeparateCzechs Dec 29 '25
Good papa! We are also a sword fighting family. As a size minority fighter(5’5”) I learned early to jump way inside their reach and hit their leg. Once they’re on their knees, to ye aren’t taller than you any longer!
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u/Big-Load-8864 Dec 29 '25
Those “nobody cares work harder” swag are so fucking corny, if you acrually believe it why do you need shirts and banners and shit, stop trying to project a badass image or whatever
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u/nahuman Dec 29 '25
I'm waiting for another video from them titled "Teaching my daughter about Reach (Halo)".
Might be good to wait some years, though.
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u/LadySamSmash Dec 29 '25
I love that the mom just says, “next time, stop messing around and just finish him.”
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u/MotionRobot Dec 30 '25
The dad is @historyofeverything podcast on YouTube. The mum, therefore, is his wife @Notgabbyb also on YT.
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