I doubt the average person (in any time period) would go "hey, there's a place with dog-headed people"

Medeival folk weren't like, some kind of tards. They were superstitious, sure, but it often took a lot of circumstantial evidence to really get them worked up enough to use it as a justification to kill people.

you say that

Wallachia is 13th century Theocratic Romania

And even then, these periods where that happened were usually the exception, rather than the rule.

@Miniature Menace medieval peasants had no education aside from the church, they worked to live and not dying was a bonus, they had no need to be rational

Everyone needs to be rational to a point.

not really

look at leftists

Your modern views don't negate human nature

Even the choice to obey the church so you don't get labelled a heretic and excommunicated is an act of reason

No, that's an act of survival

Even leftists behave rationally based on their perception of reality, and their priorities.

People do irrational things to survive

@Miniature Menace

Some of the disparity is from people who get Pits because they want a tough strong dog. This shows up in the meme of the 100 lb Pittbull (breed standard is a maximum weight of 80 for males and 60 for females. No 100 lb dog is a Pitt by definition). This is further exacerbated by the lugenpress who know 'Pit Bull" sells more ad space so virtually any bull or terrier breed involved in an incident gets reported as a "Pit Bull Attack!"

Irrationality is doing something deliberately under the assumption that it will take you *further* from your chief desirable outcomes.

Did they ever state the date the show is set in? Because a lot of the technologies seem a bit later than that

Like, i would estimate late 14th/early 15th century from havibg watched it

But sure people who buy Pitts but do not bother to learn how to raise one properly are a large part of the problem.

@Miniature Menace that isn't the definition of irrational

I never played the games, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43PelSOB68

I'm operating on the assumption that the Castlevania series occurs in an alternate history where the church actually behaves in a stupid evil fashion. And that's how I've basically compartmentalized it.

One of the dumbest yet most entertaining anime’s ive ever seen was the GATE anime.

GATE was pretty good.

I just loved it for the dumb action

https://youtu.be/cYrTlEBxaDw

@Gservator Then it's not *your* definition of irrational. And that's fine. Are you going to argue that people generally make conscious and deliberate choices to take them further from their chief objectives?

Also not actually that dumb. Did a good job of avoiding being contrived.

@Nevis it's set in Wallachia, the year is 1476

I liked that blood bath.

@Miniature Menace no, it's not THE definition

>For Whom The Bell Tolls, instead of the in-show meme of Ride of the Valkyries
Not sure how I feel about this.

Also, this was _long_ before the church had any of the reformations that has calmed it down today. This was presumably before the Protestant-Catholic wars, in a territory right on the edge of Islamic invasion, in the grip of several competing monotheistic religions (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, whatever remnants of paganism remained)

I just grabbed the top search result.

It’s been a couple years since I watched it

@Gservator I literally don't care. Because that's not really what I'm arguing about. My criticism is related to *my* definition. Address how my argument is actually invalid using the way I have described my criticism.

Yeah, this was right on the cusp of the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and Islamic threat, then

@Nevis so for a modern view it's post crusade era Romania

Regardless, really sad that Bookwalker doesn't have it

@Miniature Menace you don't understand english if you think you can have your own definitions