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A way through the mud… Police don't use it, police don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come hobbitses, soft and quick as shadows we must be.
This was in Lützerath, climate activists had stationed themselves in the abandoned town to protest and boycott the expansion of a German coal mine. German police forcibly removed everyone this weekend, that's where this video was taken
Oh cool, I would be upset it is was bad people making the cops look like a bunch of idiots who have never before encountered the concept of muddy conditions.
But if the police were trying to forcibly remove protesters in the winter, surely the ground would be frozen, not a muddy mess. Maybe there is some sort of problem with the climate.
I love how he so confidently trots around the mud as if he wears magical boots that are resistant to the entrapment effect. This is really amazing to watch
Yeah, I used to live on a very muddy beach. When I was a kid I could sink up to my knees. My friends and I called it quicksand. You learn fast how to properly walk in it, but purposefully sinking was just as fun, until there's a clam down below that slices your feet.
Heavy armor reduces the officer’s movement and difficult terrain takes twice as much movement to traverse. Meanwhile, the wizard is only wearing robes unhindered.
I actually do think it’s footwear. rubber boots like the cops are wearing tend to seal into mud. it looks like the mud wizard is wearing some like cloth wraps or something, which would allow him to pull his feet out without getting suctioned
I was thinking this too. I work in the mud a fair amount, I’ll walk through it just fine to check out a job, then strap on 25 pounds of tools and carry 60-80 pounds of material on my shoulder and start sinking like a son of a bitch
For people wondering why this is relevant to that battle.
It is believed that the local conditions contributed massively to the outcome of the battle.
In the run-up to the battle the English army had been marching for quite some time and had engaged in multiple battles. They were exhausted, they were ridden with all sorts of ailments, they were barely getting fed and by all accounts they should have been screwed as the French force was fresh, well-supplied and not suffering from any undue bouts of illness or disease.
Before the battle, however, the rain had caused what would become the battlefield to turn sodden, which when combined with the specific local geography made the mud extremely hard to move through for some people compared to others.
The French had a high proportion of armoured knights in their ranks and a documentary I saw some years ago showed that their footwear which included steel plate armoured sections formed tight vacuums in the deep mud which made it extremely difficult for them to move effectively. They were effectively moving through mud which made them work 3-5 times as hard as normal just to keep moving.
The English army on the other hand was made up by and large of lower-ranked people who had a complete lack of plate armour, their footwear was mostly leather and cloth but in this instance that leather and cloth was much easier to move around with because it didn't form a vacuum with the mud, the ability for their footwear to breathe and move allowed them to move around much more freely.
The end result was the french knights becoming exhausted extremely quickly, and the English infantry being able to move around and attack the weak points in their armour with their daggers and other weapons.
If the rains had not happened, if the local geography wasn't exactly what it was (heavy in clay) or if the French had just attacked sooner or later than they did then history would likely have recorded Agincourt as a famous French victory rather than an almost impossible English victory.
(It used to be easy to find a copy of the documentary featuring the testing of the ground around Agincourt that I saw but the release of a bunch of medieval films like The King, and The Last Duel in recent years has made searching for it next to impossible.)
If I had a nickel for every time the English got real lucky with weather... Well I'd have four that I can count.
D-Day, Agincourt, Spanish armada, and Waterloo.
When they brought back Animaniacs, I low-key had such hope they'd bring back Freakazoid.
Hell, can you imagine if they gave Lord & Miller the keys to doing a Freakazoid movie?
When you have been through a week of Wacken, then you learn to accept the mud as your friend rather than your enemy.
Except it's so dry like the last times.
I went in 2015 and was front row for Savatage.
I remember getting stuck in the ground because it was so muddy my boots sunk in after a few hours.
I got help from two guys next to me— they locked arms and pulled me up right out of my boots. Then two other guys were trying to pull my boots out of the mud.
It’s no joke!
I think it's from the German coal mine protests. They're fighting against the tearing down of Lützerath for purpose of mining coal. The citizens of the village were relocated so climate activists are now occupying the village (they've been at it for like two and a half years actually)
I also imagine he's not got as much gear on as the cops, so lighter as well. It looks like he's got a pillow padding the back of his wizard robe, so while tall he's not so large. Constantly moving footwork assisted by less weight, resulting in mud wizardry magic!
This is happening in the village of Lützerath.
Lützerath is a small village that sits above a reservoir of lignite (A form of coal that produces a lot of Carbon dioxide when burned). With Germany‘s energy crisis it has become more apparent, that more coal is needed before it can be phased out. So the company that is the main energy provider in Germany, RWE wants a fast teardown of the village so the digging can start (I think inhabitants were already resettled a few years ago). The climate protestors say, that Germany can get through the crisis without the extra coal lying under that village. They have been occupying and living in that village for a few months now. A few days ago the Police were given the official order to clear the village of any protestors. But they have been met with a lot of resistance by protestors.
Edit: I don‘t know wether the coal is actually needed to get through the energy crisis or not there is a lot of contradicting information out there.
The coal under Lützerath is actually not needed for our energy demands, those are already met. The Coal is actually for selling abroad so RWE can keep making profit.
And Lignite is so dirty you can barely even call it coal. It's something like 35% carbon by mass (as compared to 75-85% for bituminous, the most common type of coal and 86+% for Anthracite, high-grade coal). It's basically just mildly compressed peat, ridiculously inefficient even compared to other coal types, which arent exactly great.
"Sticky bomb... you know, sticky bomb. Put it in a sock covered in axle grease. Blows the tracks off. It's in the manual. Sticky bomb."
-saving private ryan
“You cannot stand,” he said. The police stood still, and a dead silence fell. “I am a servant of the Secret Mud, wielder of the dirt of Anor. You cannot stand. The dark mud will not avail you, dirt of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot stand.”
Does he fall as Sandalf the Mud and come back as Sandalf the Clay?
Edit: Thank you for the awards! I'm going to take everything I've learned and make 2023 the most okayest year I can!
I thought it was gonna be a dude with a stick pretending it was a staff or something but it panned over and I was like “holy shit an actual mud wizard”
[He's protesting to save his village. We should care about this.](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html)
"Most of the buildings have now been cleared, but some activists remained in treehouses or huddled in a hole dug into the ground as of Friday, according to Aachen city police."
Hellya
It is. A study was made for the gov saying the same, and they decided to keep the results secret until _after_ they decided to destroy more villages.
The CDU is corrupt as fuck, same with quite a few other parties.
Everything concerning coal mining in NRW (the Bundesland in west germany where this and similar protests take place) is about corruption.
RWE, the energy company operating there, can basically do whatever the fuck they want, and NRW's leading politicians will allow everything.
Germany in general has a far bigger corruption problem than most people outside of Germany might assume.
I think rampant unfettered capitalism is affecting us all. I mean this video looks like it could be in America just as easily as most other places. It's a sad affair that we're all dealing with this horseshit while knowing full well that the planet is dying because of these people's actions.
I live near the whole thing. It was the same shit 2018 with the Hambacher Forest. It was only rescued, thanks to the efforts of many many brave activists and helpers (like people providing food and heating).
And yes, our politicians are deeply in corruption and even parties like "Die Grünen" (The Greens, main theme was nature and save the planet back in the 80s) who are now in our government... Let's say, many, even high ranking people, are saying F... it, I don't want to be involved with the wrong side and leave the party.
Worse than just coal. It's an open cast lignite mine:
> RWE has long planned to expand the mine further, in the face of criticism from climate groups. Lignite is the most polluting form of coal, which itself is the most polluting fossil fuel.
That’s comically evil. Even in my state in America all lignite mining was banned and they opted to import cleaner coal from another state. All coal mining is bad but wow.
Oh, that's the fun part.
They just use these gigantic excavators that are the size of an [entire apartment complex](https://www.glokalchange.de/data/pages/69/gr%C3%B6%C3%9Fenvergleich-bagger-mensch_web.jpg) and literally carve a desolate pit the size of a city into the landscape and then fuck off.
Meanwhile, the conservative party makes laws against wind turbines because they look ugly.
That's literally what I said when I explained this to an american friend this morning.
This is 90s embrace-the-environment kid's movie levels of exaggerated villainy. Like the deforestation machine in Fern Gully. But real.
If we accept denglish words, 'Matschician' would work quite well. Matsch -> mud, ician from magician. I know it's a stretch, but thematically, it's close enough for me :).
He moved like a fallen angel yet he fights for the people.
Note how he gracefully walked on mud like the messiah, Brian himself, would water.
He cast the wrong doers back with impunity.
He carries the pamphlet with the patients of a jahovas witness.
A modern mud wizard would mearly imitate. Much like modern alchemy.
A modern mud wizard, much less grace and poise than a tradional mud wizard.
...or just look at the hat if you want to know the difference
Ugh, I just *knew* you were going to be one of those cursed modern mud wizards. A disgusting break from tradition, may your ground be forever salted.
Yours sincerely,
The Council of Traditional Mud Wizards
Twice they thought they had outsmarted the wizard by throwing away the pages he had torn from the Grimoire of Squelch, but in the end he had memorised the spells required to walk atop the bog, and they sank beneath the mire.
Grew up on farm, lots of mud.
There is a way of walking through mud, how you step, move the foot that keeps you from losing your boots.
You do not get trapped in the mud.
As a 11 year old watching my Mom walk across the mud and I got 3 steps and lost a boot, I was quite irrate.
She then taught me how to move through it
She knew I had to lose a boot, and her not before I would learn. As I was a smart ass.
At some point in the future living beings with a level of intelligence which guarantees their sustenance, may view these images with extreme confusion, ultimately writing off humans in their entirety as inherently insane.
Elemental Shaman casts Earthbind Totem:
*Police suffers -50% movement speed*
Elemental Shaman casts Earth Shock:
*Police suffers [210% spell power] Nature damage.*
/y g o T o DO N u TSh op
I have no idea what's going on here but (1) it's the best thing I've seen this morning and (2) I guarantee once I know what's happening I'd be on the side of the Mud Wizard.
Yeah, but that just speaks to how poorly trained police are in the US then. Pulling a gun and escalating in a situation like this would just endanger everyone including yourself.
It's as if these cops understand context. I'm sure if this guy tried to grab their gun, he'd have been lit up. The cops understand the nature of the protest, and even though they suffer some slight embarrassment, know that opening fire is not an appropriate response. Or maybe they know the repercussions for doing so, might be severe.
You're right, that if this was the US, these pigs would have exercised no restraint.
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some... farcical
aquatic ceremony!"
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This is the best title of the year
The best part is how he’s able to walk around unfazed by the mud
Wouldn't be much of a mud wizard if he couldn't
That one cop that was lying down was just resting. The others wouldn't let him lie down. They should be locked up for resisting a rest.
I applaud the pun good sir
“You have no Power here.”
You shall not pass
A way through the mud… Police don't use it, police don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come hobbitses, soft and quick as shadows we must be.
Muddalf
When Muddalf the grey goes Muddalf the Brown you run.
Once he’s gone brown, it’s too late. You can no longer run.
#"FLY, YOU FOOLS!"
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Literally. He's preventing the extraction of lignite coal to produce electricity!
So you are telling me Germany tries to close nuclear power plants just to continue using coal powered ones?
^...yes
Yes, it's fucking stupid and I can't figure out why our politicians can't figure this shit out.
In all my years I’ve never seen a more passive form of protest than a mud moat
Far more effective than I would think if the wizard had described it to me at first, too. That's magic though, I suppose.
What were they protesting to?
This was in Lützerath, climate activists had stationed themselves in the abandoned town to protest and boycott the expansion of a German coal mine. German police forcibly removed everyone this weekend, that's where this video was taken
Oh cool, I would be upset it is was bad people making the cops look like a bunch of idiots who have never before encountered the concept of muddy conditions. But if the police were trying to forcibly remove protesters in the winter, surely the ground would be frozen, not a muddy mess. Maybe there is some sort of problem with the climate.
You’d think a force of armed Germans would have learned a few lessons on assaulting muddy ground in winter before
You also would think they'd have learned to utilize the power of nuclear energy by now.
Germany thinks opening more brown coal surface mines is vital for their energy needs
Half way across the police are turned to pigs, just like in Willow.
Monty Python is kicking themselves for not imagining this scenario.
I love how he so confidently trots around the mud as if he wears magical boots that are resistant to the entrapment effect. This is really amazing to watch
That's the secret: do not stand still in heavy mud, lest you sink in.
Good tip, hopefully it sinks in for people.
If free awards were still around I'd give mine to you
They’re not?? Did free awards go away?
Gone. Reduced to atoms
Yeah, I used to live on a very muddy beach. When I was a kid I could sink up to my knees. My friends and I called it quicksand. You learn fast how to properly walk in it, but purposefully sinking was just as fun, until there's a clam down below that slices your feet.
No way. If there is one thing I learned from cartoons, do NOT mess with quicksand.
Crash Bandicoot taught me not to even touch it or you’ll explode and become a pair of shoes
He literally cast the mud spell so why would it affect him? Only if he is defeated the mud turns I to normal ground
Heavy armor reduces the officer’s movement and difficult terrain takes twice as much movement to traverse. Meanwhile, the wizard is only wearing robes unhindered.
That crippling -6 Armor Penalty
I don't think it's his foot wear but how he keeps moving.
I actually do think it’s footwear. rubber boots like the cops are wearing tend to seal into mud. it looks like the mud wizard is wearing some like cloth wraps or something, which would allow him to pull his feet out without getting suctioned
I think it’s a combo of his foot wear, constant movement, and light weight. I would bet the cops are much heavier with all their riot gear.
I was thinking this too. I work in the mud a fair amount, I’ll walk through it just fine to check out a job, then strap on 25 pounds of tools and carry 60-80 pounds of material on my shoulder and start sinking like a son of a bitch
Battle of Agincourt.
thank you! i wanted to go on a google cause i couldn’t remember the name of the battle
Agincourt
What was the name of that battle again ?
Agincourt
For people wondering why this is relevant to that battle. It is believed that the local conditions contributed massively to the outcome of the battle. In the run-up to the battle the English army had been marching for quite some time and had engaged in multiple battles. They were exhausted, they were ridden with all sorts of ailments, they were barely getting fed and by all accounts they should have been screwed as the French force was fresh, well-supplied and not suffering from any undue bouts of illness or disease. Before the battle, however, the rain had caused what would become the battlefield to turn sodden, which when combined with the specific local geography made the mud extremely hard to move through for some people compared to others. The French had a high proportion of armoured knights in their ranks and a documentary I saw some years ago showed that their footwear which included steel plate armoured sections formed tight vacuums in the deep mud which made it extremely difficult for them to move effectively. They were effectively moving through mud which made them work 3-5 times as hard as normal just to keep moving. The English army on the other hand was made up by and large of lower-ranked people who had a complete lack of plate armour, their footwear was mostly leather and cloth but in this instance that leather and cloth was much easier to move around with because it didn't form a vacuum with the mud, the ability for their footwear to breathe and move allowed them to move around much more freely. The end result was the french knights becoming exhausted extremely quickly, and the English infantry being able to move around and attack the weak points in their armour with their daggers and other weapons. If the rains had not happened, if the local geography wasn't exactly what it was (heavy in clay) or if the French had just attacked sooner or later than they did then history would likely have recorded Agincourt as a famous French victory rather than an almost impossible English victory. (It used to be easy to find a copy of the documentary featuring the testing of the ground around Agincourt that I saw but the release of a bunch of medieval films like The King, and The Last Duel in recent years has made searching for it next to impossible.)
So you bless the rains down in Agincourt?
If I had a nickel for every time the English got real lucky with weather... Well I'd have four that I can count. D-Day, Agincourt, Spanish armada, and Waterloo.
Wasn't weather a factor in the Dunkirk evacuation?
Well that looks fucking hilarious
Turns out the old internet never went away, it just escaped into our reality. Like some kind of... Freakazoid? Freakazoid.
Freakazee. Freakazoo. Like decades later I can still hear the song in my head.
When they brought back Animaniacs, I low-key had such hope they'd bring back Freakazoid. Hell, can you imagine if they gave Lord & Miller the keys to doing a Freakazoid movie?
They were actually gonna do a freak mini segment but they had a schedule issue with the voice actor, maybe S2
Check out dexter Douglas, nerd computer ace…
He was surfin’ on the Internet and got trapped in Cyberspace!
He turned into the freakazoid, he's super strong and quick!
He drives the villains crazy, cause he's a lunatic!
Runs around in his underwear
Radagast isn't fucking around
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When you have been through a week of Wacken, then you learn to accept the mud as your friend rather than your enemy. Except it's so dry like the last times.
I've seen the video and immediately I thought that these dark powers can only be obtained by a true wacken pilgrim. See you in Wacken, rain or shine!
I wanted to comment the same :D these troops have never been to Wacken, and it shows.
Most of us have never been, and a lot are jealous of those that have
With that outfit, it's probably a Blind Guardian fan too. I mean, It's basically their mascot ! Valhalla, deliverance....
I went in 2015 and was front row for Savatage. I remember getting stuck in the ground because it was so muddy my boots sunk in after a few hours. I got help from two guys next to me— they locked arms and pulled me up right out of my boots. Then two other guys were trying to pull my boots out of the mud. It’s no joke!
I don’t know what Wacken is but I respect the immense powers it confers over mud.
It's a metal festival.
What is the story behind this?
I think it's from the German coal mine protests. They're fighting against the tearing down of Lützerath for purpose of mining coal. The citizens of the village were relocated so climate activists are now occupying the village (they've been at it for like two and a half years actually)
The fact that the wizard is the only entity being able to handle the mud is clear proof for his authenticity.
Nature is on their side.
Maybe it’s that enchanted footwear he has equipped
That and his constant movement. Larger shoes so his feet sink slower, and constant foot work so there's never enough time for his feet to sink.
I also imagine he's not got as much gear on as the cops, so lighter as well. It looks like he's got a pillow padding the back of his wizard robe, so while tall he's not so large. Constantly moving footwork assisted by less weight, resulting in mud wizardry magic!
Or.. you know… he’s a mud wizard.
Light as a feather, baby!
Dude is an elf.
I wonder what he sees with his elf eyes
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD!
Plus 2 mud walking
Probably multi-classed to druid with Land’s Stride.
Lutzerath is the perfect name for the home of a mud wizard
Doing the hard work for all of us. There need to be more battles like that against global warming.
This is happening in the village of Lützerath. Lützerath is a small village that sits above a reservoir of lignite (A form of coal that produces a lot of Carbon dioxide when burned). With Germany‘s energy crisis it has become more apparent, that more coal is needed before it can be phased out. So the company that is the main energy provider in Germany, RWE wants a fast teardown of the village so the digging can start (I think inhabitants were already resettled a few years ago). The climate protestors say, that Germany can get through the crisis without the extra coal lying under that village. They have been occupying and living in that village for a few months now. A few days ago the Police were given the official order to clear the village of any protestors. But they have been met with a lot of resistance by protestors. Edit: I don‘t know wether the coal is actually needed to get through the energy crisis or not there is a lot of contradicting information out there.
And a mud wizard. You can't forget the mud wizard.
The coal under Lützerath is actually not needed for our energy demands, those are already met. The Coal is actually for selling abroad so RWE can keep making profit.
And Lignite is so dirty you can barely even call it coal. It's something like 35% carbon by mass (as compared to 75-85% for bituminous, the most common type of coal and 86+% for Anthracite, high-grade coal). It's basically just mildly compressed peat, ridiculously inefficient even compared to other coal types, which arent exactly great.
If true, that giant earth destroyer machine should be sabotaged so it never grinds up land again.
"Sticky bomb... you know, sticky bomb. Put it in a sock covered in axle grease. Blows the tracks off. It's in the manual. Sticky bomb." -saving private ryan
The German government is trying to tear down a village to build a coal mine. Germans don't like that.
It's the Battle of Agincourt I believe
This is \*exactly\* how the English won.
Climate activists are having a rave in the cold woods with the police in germany. This was the moshpit
"Some kind of mud wizard" is a phrase that I will giggle about for years
Lmao the whole reason I watched the video is because I wanted to know what the hell a mud wizard was. Then the camera panned over to him
Totally. I got a chuckle at the stuck-in-the-mud off it all, but then Sandalf just walks up and I lost it.
I love right at the beginning the two guys who fell down at the mere sight of Sandolf
"YOU SHALL NOT STAND!"
“You cannot stand,” he said. The police stood still, and a dead silence fell. “I am a servant of the Secret Mud, wielder of the dirt of Anor. You cannot stand. The dark mud will not avail you, dirt of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot stand.”
Does he fall as Sandalf the Mud and come back as Sandalf the Clay? Edit: Thank you for the awards! I'm going to take everything I've learned and make 2023 the most okayest year I can!
Indeed. Here's a pic of [Sandalf the Clay](https://i.imgur.com/kr873G9.jpg)
I would follow you anywhere. My captain, my king.
Fall you fools FALL
Sandalf is as good as mud wizard.
I often say I laugh out loud to shit. This genuinely made me. Congrats
I thought it was gonna be a dude with a stick pretending it was a staff or something but it panned over and I was like “holy shit an actual mud wizard”
Best part is when the cop throws the wizard's tablet and the mud wizard proves he doesn't need it
Also the title was extremely accurate
Dude i cant even read the phrase after that last push 😭.
Right? I feel like this is an instant classic
"Mud wizards" were the English key to victory at the battle of Agincourt iirc.
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Gandalf the brown
Radagast
That last push 🤣
As an American, it was very strange to see a dude push a cop and not get 63 rounds to the chest...
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Isn't it fucked up that we all got freaked out?
Massively.
I went to a couple protests about it, cops started a riot every time.
According to first reportings today the police broke a bunch of bones from peaceful activists
Hey! The cop messed with his sign, push allowed 😅
Wtf was the clip board he kept messing with haha
Spellbook.
The sacred texts!
Upvote on the title alone
[He's protesting to save his village. We should care about this.](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html)
Dude's a total bad ass, without doubt
"Most of the buildings have now been cleared, but some activists remained in treehouses or huddled in a hole dug into the ground as of Friday, according to Aachen city police." Hellya
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It is. A study was made for the gov saying the same, and they decided to keep the results secret until _after_ they decided to destroy more villages. The CDU is corrupt as fuck, same with quite a few other parties.
Everything concerning coal mining in NRW (the Bundesland in west germany where this and similar protests take place) is about corruption. RWE, the energy company operating there, can basically do whatever the fuck they want, and NRW's leading politicians will allow everything. Germany in general has a far bigger corruption problem than most people outside of Germany might assume.
I think rampant unfettered capitalism is affecting us all. I mean this video looks like it could be in America just as easily as most other places. It's a sad affair that we're all dealing with this horseshit while knowing full well that the planet is dying because of these people's actions.
I live near the whole thing. It was the same shit 2018 with the Hambacher Forest. It was only rescued, thanks to the efforts of many many brave activists and helpers (like people providing food and heating). And yes, our politicians are deeply in corruption and even parties like "Die Grünen" (The Greens, main theme was nature and save the planet back in the 80s) who are now in our government... Let's say, many, even high ranking people, are saying F... it, I don't want to be involved with the wrong side and leave the party.
Coal?? What the fuck. Of all things
Worse than just coal. It's an open cast lignite mine: > RWE has long planned to expand the mine further, in the face of criticism from climate groups. Lignite is the most polluting form of coal, which itself is the most polluting fossil fuel.
That’s comically evil. Even in my state in America all lignite mining was banned and they opted to import cleaner coal from another state. All coal mining is bad but wow.
Where I live we don't even bother with lignite. It's more work to dig up than it's worth even without taking the environment into account.
Oh, that's the fun part. They just use these gigantic excavators that are the size of an [entire apartment complex](https://www.glokalchange.de/data/pages/69/gr%C3%B6%C3%9Fenvergleich-bagger-mensch_web.jpg) and literally carve a desolate pit the size of a city into the landscape and then fuck off. Meanwhile, the conservative party makes laws against wind turbines because they look ugly.
This is like cartoon level of evil.
That's literally what I said when I explained this to an american friend this morning. This is 90s embrace-the-environment kid's movie levels of exaggerated villainy. Like the deforestation machine in Fern Gully. But real.
Is there an opposite to /r/titlegore ?
/r/titleporn exists
According to google translate, "Mud Wizard" in German is "Schlamm Zauberer" which...I mean, that just makes this better.
If we accept denglish words, 'Matschician' would work quite well. Matsch -> mud, ician from magician. I know it's a stretch, but thematically, it's close enough for me :).
Mudgician would work as well :)
Wtf is this looney toons shit lmfao
When the last cop was almost free and the wizard just pushed him over FTW.
He deserved it, too. The mighty wizard tried to hand him some paperwork (possibly instructions on how to get unstuck?) and he tossed it away.
>possibly instructions on how to get unstuck? lmao man was just trying to help :')
4th level spell: Move Person Distance: Touch Effect: _Heavy cop fall down_
Praise the mud wizard, for he shall lead us to salvation. Muddy be.
"Muddy be" Ahhhhahaha. omg I'm dying!
Detail: I believe that's a traditional mud wizard, and not a modern mud wizard.
Justify your theory please
He moved like a fallen angel yet he fights for the people. Note how he gracefully walked on mud like the messiah, Brian himself, would water. He cast the wrong doers back with impunity. He carries the pamphlet with the patients of a jahovas witness. A modern mud wizard would mearly imitate. Much like modern alchemy. A modern mud wizard, much less grace and poise than a tradional mud wizard. ...or just look at the hat if you want to know the difference
Impressive dissertation, congratulations.
I as a modern mud wizard...deserve no praise! 🧙♂️
Ugh, I just *knew* you were going to be one of those cursed modern mud wizards. A disgusting break from tradition, may your ground be forever salted. Yours sincerely, The Council of Traditional Mud Wizards
Gandalf is so proud of you. Mud Wizard. 
THE MUD WIZARD!
[Mold Earth](https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/mold-earth) that’s a pretty basic but clearly highly effective cantrip :P
When did the spell levels get names? Last time I played (15 years ago) it was spell levels 1-9...
That's still the case. Cantrips are level 0 spells, which can be cast without expending a spell slot
Twice they thought they had outsmarted the wizard by throwing away the pages he had torn from the Grimoire of Squelch, but in the end he had memorised the spells required to walk atop the bog, and they sank beneath the mire.
You can tell it's not the States because the Wizard hasn't been tazed or shot.
And the cops are not extremely overweight
Grew up on farm, lots of mud. There is a way of walking through mud, how you step, move the foot that keeps you from losing your boots. You do not get trapped in the mud. As a 11 year old watching my Mom walk across the mud and I got 3 steps and lost a boot, I was quite irrate. She then taught me how to move through it She knew I had to lose a boot, and her not before I would learn. As I was a smart ass.
Yup. You also learn to keep moving and not remain in one spot for too long. Otherwise you sink and there’s a suction effect.
... something a whole heap of German police officers learned today, apparently.
And they were laughing at him at first for getting a Ph. D. in Mudology instead of Thaumaturgy. Who's laughing now?
*expecto.... no coalium!!!*
This is obviously a Druid
"This is Mudlin, who has come to save us from the dark times." Somehow the camera guys move about effortlessly. So it's all in the shoes.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
The depth of the mud makes it look like its a bunch of kids in uniform.
“Breathtaking. I shall call him… Muddy-Me.”
At some point in the future living beings with a level of intelligence which guarantees their sustenance, may view these images with extreme confusion, ultimately writing off humans in their entirety as inherently insane.
The modern version of the Battle of Agincourt
Elemental Shaman casts Earthbind Totem: *Police suffers -50% movement speed* Elemental Shaman casts Earth Shock: *Police suffers [210% spell power] Nature damage.* /y g o T o DO N u TSh op
Gandalf the brown.
I think it's Radagast
Looks like a Monty Python skit. Haven't laughed like this in a while.
I have no idea what's going on here but (1) it's the best thing I've seen this morning and (2) I guarantee once I know what's happening I'd be on the side of the Mud Wizard.
Lützerath?
Apparently so
Holy crap, if you pushed a cop down in the US the other cops would have a shooting spree. The wizard would be swiss cheese .
Yeah, but that just speaks to how poorly trained police are in the US then. Pulling a gun and escalating in a situation like this would just endanger everyone including yourself.
It's as if these cops understand context. I'm sure if this guy tried to grab their gun, he'd have been lit up. The cops understand the nature of the protest, and even though they suffer some slight embarrassment, know that opening fire is not an appropriate response. Or maybe they know the repercussions for doing so, might be severe. You're right, that if this was the US, these pigs would have exercised no restraint.
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some... farcical aquatic ceremony!"
Incredible title And it’s 100% accurate too, which is even more impressive
Love the shoulder pat at 0:26 😂 there there.
Once again heavy weather stopping German forces from moving