gotta pay the troops somehow

Castle doesn't need people to operate it

and gotta pay the lord who has the troops

It's literally just a structure

or buy some vitamins

A castle wall still keeps people out fairly well if the gate is locked; Whether or not it's occupied.

or a water filter

@Eirshy wrong

@𝕯𝖊𝖗_𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖗 if its not occupied, people just get ladders

@Eirshy a castle without the manpower to defend it doesn't satisfy the purpose of being a castle

True enough; And those ladders are Pirates.

Literally mot and bailery

bailey*

>tmw Steam purchases are that the base game includes only the first "chapter" of content and the rest of the game is piecemeal DLC with no DRM necessary

It's a castle which is unoccupied most of the time till shit goes down

@Eirshy mot and baileys aren't all that a castle is

then you retreat into it

Motte and Bailey

Look my point is that a castle doesn't oppress anyone by *existing*

It can situationally do so

@Eirshy castles are also social centers, housing, tools of power projection, military installations, and storage space

but it doesn't in and of itself

that's not how the English saw it

okay, let me rephrase this then, eirshy

@Calbeck Fucking brittish spellings lol

*garrisoned fortifications*

Even garrisoned it doesn't necessarily oppress those around it

DRM always oppresses the legitimate user

It physically *cannot **not*** oppress the legitimate user

What was it... the Brits built castles throughout Wales, one line forward at a time, because the Welsh couldn't bust castles and over time the Welsh civilians acclimated to the English in their towns.

@UnfilteredGarbage i'll talk about this more in a bit, busy rn

Victory Through Incessant Occupation

@Calbeck thats actually what i think is the best plan for solving the sandland problem, but russia/china would complain

yup

@Eirshy the people who have a vested interest in not having the game pirated are still legitimate users of the game software, though. DRM oppresses 99% of its audience for the benefit of the designer, just like a castle in that regard.

Syria: people forget that Russia's there because the Assad regime provides them with Russia's ONLY Mediterranean port, and losing it would fly in the face of their national aims/goals going back to the goddamn Ottoman era

@UnfilteredGarbage No, because the *castle itself is not oppressing anyone*

Additionally

@UnfilteredGarbage we need to rephrase this for his tiny brain

THe castle isn't treating the peasants as enemies

*standing guards*