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[–] Bahnd 19 points 7 months ago

Trebuchets are just medieval siege weapons from the Trebuch region of France. Everything else are just sparkling catapults.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I thought it was tree-bucket as a kid.

[–] CaptainBlagbird 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

And when you have many together in one place, it's a yeet fleet!

[–] HappycamperNZ 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had tredge-bucket.

Thanks AOE2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm pretty sure that is where I was introduced to that word lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I did too and when I played Pokemon I thought facade was fakaid.

[–] Mr_Fish 2 points 7 months ago

No, it's a gravi-yeet

[–] Zachariah 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TIL when you rearrange the letters in “trebuchet” you get “yeet engine”