And they could all coordinate by fax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#History
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Whoa.
He could have done it all in Katz’s Deli, opened 1888. At that point, the house band could’ve been rocking out on Zildjian cymbals that were already 250+ years old.
Now you’re telling me that Dracula keeps Kosher??
Consuming blood is not kosher!
Well Katz’s doesn’t serve blood. Clearly he’s there for a delicious corned beef sandwich.
It’s actually why he sucks the blood out first like that.
the house band could’ve been rocking out on Zildjian cymbals that were already 250+ years old.
Yeah, the mehter takımı would have gone hard. What is this, Yahşi batı?
Pirates are still a thing, they just don’t look cool anymore.
TBF, I think movies made old pirates look a lot cooler than they really were.
If you look at old drawings and depictions, they do look like we know them, but they may have been embellished even then. But Hollywood didn’t invent the image.
Shocker: movies are inaccurate.
This is such a good “Well, yes, but actually no” factoid. Coke back then was a medicinal drink with cocaine as the active ingredient. Nintendo originally made playing cards. Jeans probably would have repelled Dracula in the source text since they are associated with the working poor.
Coke was originally among many other “tonics” pushed back in the day, but it also wasn’t marketed under the name Coca-Cola while it was sold as a patent medicine tonic. It also was only was sold in that form for a few months before being made nonalcoholic and marketed as a beverage later that same year. Sales were initially poor and only picked up with aggressive advertising campaigns, which I suppose is a strategy that Coke never left behind and leads us to the world where we are today.
Still coulda drank a coke and “played nintendo”.
Yes, but a coked out, hanafuda playing Yakuza dracula would be terrifying.
It should be “playing with Nintendo” instead of “playing Nintendo” toe be fair. To be honest, “playing with Nintendo cards” would be the most accurate, but “with Nintendo” is still accurate enough and still gives the sentence the desired effect. But no, “playing Nintendo” isn’t correct. Unless they made some specific game variant and included the rules with their cards or something.
He would be playing hanafuda, which is the Japanese card game that Nintendo was producing at that time. Not as funny as imagining Dracula trying to beat Ninja Gaiden or whatever.
Was that a general game or something they designed? If it’s something they made “playing Nintendo” works.
I’m really overanalyzing this joke, it’s funny either way, obviously.
They’re traditional Japanese playing cards. They existed for centuries before Nintendo.
Fun fact: Nintendo still makes these! (Although they might be hard to find, because I think they’re only sold in Japan.)
Well, did they have their own proprietary game for their cards? Or were they just making poker cards?
That’s the question I’m asking!
While the Old West goes back a few centuries, I’d say the “gunslingers era” isn’t until the first Colt revolver becomes available in the mid 1830s. It took a bit of digging to find pirates that would have definitely been around late enough into the 1800s that they’d be contemporary with gunslingers and samurai (class abolished in 1870), but old school river piracy lasted, even in just the US, into at least the late 1870s, so I guess that all checks out, as long as you weren’t expecting Blackbeard or anything.
Piracy pretty much always exists. As long as valuables are being transported by ship there will be people who want to capture those ships.
Yeah, but modern pirates with small motorboats and automatic guns don’t have the flair that hollywood pirates are known for.
Actual 17th-18th century pirates didn’t really have that flair either.
They did live on sailboats, sail the caribbean and wear 17th/18th century clothes.
I don’t drink … Coke.
Is Pepsi okay?
Yes, I can also not drink Pepsi.
Pirates? The heyday of pirates in the Caribbean was around 1700, during the Spanish Succession Wars, IIRC. (Okay, I went to Wikipedia to be sure and it says the time from 1650 to the 1730s is considered the Golden Age of piracy)
To be sure, piracy still exists in various places in the world even today, e.g. near the Horn of Africa or the Straits of Malacca. But it seems odd to date it to the late 19th century…🤔
i’d watch it
Would make a good rpg party
How is this not already a movie?
Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai
… and we thought present day action films were over the top.
