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American Wizards

https://startrek.website/post/31212148

Nov 3 at 6:06pmWeb
Show threadgivesomefucksNov 3

If Middle Earth had guns, Gandalf definitely would have carried an AK instead of a stick.

Tolkein fought in WW1, it’s no wonder he romanticized a time when wars were fought with swords. His war was a meat grinder over literal inches. Just waved of bullets and bombs that killed indiscriminately.

So he built a world where combat was about skill and one highly trained and motivated person could beat 100 enemies face to face

The people in WW1 with the highest kill counts were the ones that spent 12 hours a day loading shells into artillery miles from the fighting.

Show threadGraniteMNov 4

See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”

“Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —”

“That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.”

“General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.”

“No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.

–F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Show threadthespcicifcoceanNov 4
i love how the battle scenes in the books are really short compared to the scenes where the hobbits are smoking, eating and enjoying life. i think tolkien romanticized more the simple life, peace and quiet and good tilled earth.
Show threadFuckfuckmyfuckingassNov 3
Tape over the slide will impede the action cycling. Also needs a stendo and a switch, to up the DPS of course.
Show thread[deleted]Nov 3
These are magic!
Show threadsp3ctr4lNov 3
I mean yes, but also, most (all?) glocks eject to the right, so… thats another problem here, the staff iself is gonna block case ejection, even if the action could cycle, in the depicted configuration.
Show threadFuckfuckmyfuckingassNov 4
True enough! A stick with a Y in it just under the trigger guard would be the ticket. Also just laughing at the idea that you smack the end of the staff on the ground to shoot.
Show threadsp3ctr4lNov 4

LOL, a new take on the phrase ‘boom stick’.

Yeah this here’s my America enchanted staff… she’s a slam-fire.

Show threaddigital_manNov 3
“I SHALL STAND MAH GROUND!”
Show threadsp3ctr4lNov 3
bonk - BANG!
Show threadLime Buzz (fae/she)Nov 3
[Reference] I cast Iron!
Show threadowenfromcanadaNov 3
I cast BANG
Show threadTribblesBestFriendNov 3
Tap for spoilerI cast « stop resisting »
Show threadAngryCommieKenderNov 3

I got a Potion of Resist Arrest!

youtu.be/CMyvIDLAub8

APAB (All Paladins Are Bastards)

YouTube
Show threaddanc4498Nov 3
Let’s get a GTA/Harry Potter crossover.
Show threadaudaxdreikNov 3

youtu.be/4cZqRzHnI8s

Wizards. Good ol’ Ralph Bakshi.

Avatar vs. Black Wolf

YouTube
Show threadGammaNov 3
What the hell I need to watch this
Show threadaudaxdreikNov 3
Oh yes, it’s a trip. I wish I could say it’s good, but well, it’s interesting?
Show threadaffenlehrerNov 3
Just watched it last weekend. Amazing style but a little boring and confusing
Show threadChicoSuaveNov 4
That’s Ralph Bakshi
Show threadAngryCommieKenderNov 3

That gets sampled in the song All Paladins Are Bastards

youtu.be/CMyvIDLAub8

APAB (All Paladins Are Bastards)

YouTube
Show threadAurenkinNov 3
You would not part an old man from his walking stick
Show threadMajorMajormajormajorNov 3
Walking stick block.
Show threadMechanismaticNov 4
Show threadMajorMajormajormajorNov 4
Ooh, even better. Ash is always the answer, good one, friend.
Show threadAshelynNov 4
Glocking stick?
Show threadsp3ctr4lNov 3

Wait untill you see my America enchanted gauntlet.

Yeah this was an actual real thing developed by the OSS during WW2, primarily for assasinations, the Sedgley Glove Gun.

One side is a plunger trigger, the other side is a one shot .38 cal gun.

… It pretty much just is a glove with a gun duct taped to it, it was used in Inglorious Basterds, and also real life, it literally is just punch someone in the head and also shoot them in the head at the same time.

Show threadRooster326Nov 4
Oh good. I thought the plunger was on the finger side. I was thinking I would blow my own ring finger off with this thing.
Show threadsp3ctr4lNov 4

The plunger is closest to the viewer of the image, the gun barrel is further away.

So, you make a fist, and the plunger extends out from uh, on top of the ridge between your pointer and index finger’s first knuckles, the gun barrel over to the right.

Should be fine if you keep you keep your hand as a fist.

I guess you could blow your finger off if you are wearing this, and then splay your fingers out against a wall, but with your hand straight to your your, all your fingers bent backward.

Like this.

That would uh, not be the recommened operation of the Glove Gun.

Show threadsparkle_gigglesNov 3
He gotta have something in case he runs out of mana
Show threadWilcoNov 4
Avada Kedavra = AK 47
Show threadGerowenNov 4
There’s an animated movie from the 70s I think called “Wizard”. This post reminded me of the end of the movie, 😆
Show threadComfortableRaspberryNov 4
There is a game called “trigger witch” that is based entirely on this concept
Show threadPieMePlentyNov 4
I cast “bust a cap”.
Show threadhazardous_areaNov 4
Harry Dresden would like you to return his staff.
Show threadRooster326Nov 4
Ahem it is a Blasting R9d
Show threadcuriousaurNov 4
Alakablam
Show threadthespcicifcoceanNov 4
iirc, pistols are pretty resistant to firing when they are dropped/receive a shock of some sort. So if slamming the staff to the ground, it might not go off. You’d rather strap a shotgun to it
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamNov 4
counterpoint: hipoint
Show threadMourningDoveNov 4

This reminds me:

I need to eat 4lbs of bacon, sexually assault a family member, vote against my own interests, and then get some duct tape.

Show threadcassandrafatigueNov 11
That rape had better involve gunhplay, young man, or I’m calling ICE!
Show threadMaeveNov 4
originalbotanica.com/blog/orishas-ogun-santeria/
Ogun: Orisha of Iron, War, and Unyielding Strength

Explore Ogun, the Orisha of iron and war, his myths, wives, colors, tools, and prayers that inspire strength, justice, resilience, and protection today.

Original Botanica
Show threadCaptain AggravatedNov 4
I CAST: SUCKING CHEST WOUND!
Show threadcassandrafatigueNov 11

There was a video game that did this. A silly multiplayer focused wizard game. Net code entirely unplayably broken on modern operating systems.

One of the big warfucker franchises released a ‘Vietnam’ dlc in incredibly poor taste, so they did too. Spells like ‘call airstrike’ and a staff thats just a machine gun.