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POV: Your overdue book fines have been piling up (i.imgur.com)

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I wanted to see the oubliette.

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[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't know what an oubliette was, so I looked it up.

It's a type of dungeon where the only entrance is a trap door in the ceiling of the oubliette. They are shaped like a bottle, narrow and vertical. The word comes from the French word "oublier" meaning"to forget"

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So you're saying you don't just have an encyclopaedic knowledge of medieval European torture methods?

Huh. Weird.

[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

I'm not a Iron Maiden Jim, I'm a bloody eagle!

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I learned the term from Baldur's Gate 3, personally.

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

I learned it from a comic book.

[–] FormerGameDev@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Quake, here, I think