My housemate has a question
ngon master
"what's with all the swords?"
After seeing my dominance war concept, and killingpeoples, and generally a lot of artwork here there and everywhere. He doesn't like/understand why we are all into swords.
i don't know either, i just think they are cool
your thoughts?
After seeing my dominance war concept, and killingpeoples, and generally a lot of artwork here there and everywhere. He doesn't like/understand why we are all into swords.
i don't know either, i just think they are cool
your thoughts?
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hmm, but mine is bigger.
P.S - Soworodu in japanese for sword.
-caseyjones
its like samurai vs ninja, and everyone knows samurai are 10000 cooler than ninjas !!!!
P.S - Soworodu in japanese for sword.
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Um... excuse me? Don't get me wrong, samurai are cool and all, but no way are they as cool as ninjas. Ninjas are basically rogue samurai who have become mercenaries (being a mercenary automatically gives you extra cool points), and they have a whole mysterious mythology to them. Ninjas are at least 1.5x cooler than samurai.
its for when ammo runs out
regardless of the time frame, swords will always be an effective weapon against flesh.
its for when ammo runs out
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I don't know, gunpowder isn't all that difficult to make... and I doubt people are going to forget how to make it anytime soon.
I don't know, gunpowder isn't all that difficult to make... and I doubt people are going to forget how to make it anytime soon.
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Yes, but people don't carry infinite amounts of ammo around on them.
Unless they're Bruce Willis
[edit] I was talking to Johnny
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I don't know, gunpowder isn't all that difficult to make... and I doubt people are going to forget how to make it anytime soon.
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Yes, but people don't carry infinite amounts of ammo around on them.
Unless they're Bruce Willis
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Yea but in the future your lazer powered blaster rifle will be nuclear powered and have enough energy for 300 years of continuous fire.
Um... excuse me? Don't get me wrong, samurai are cool and all, but no way are they as cool as ninjas. Ninjas are basically rogue samurai who have become mercenaries (being a mercenary automatically gives you extra cool points), and they have a whole mysterious mythology to them. Ninjas are at least 1.5x cooler than samurai.
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not to be contrary, but I'm pretty sure the rogue samurai were the ronin. The ninja's big thing is that they ignored the bushido code in favor of stealth and guerrilla tactics.. So the big shots in power would hire them to do 'dirty work' that was too dishonorable for their own troops/minions to do.
Not only do they carry sawed offs under their codpieces, but they also has the power of laughter!
It's hard to say for sure, since there isn't much written about the history of ninjas, but most of them were likely ex-samurai.
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hm..that makes sense
oh and swords in kill bill ??? amazing by its own !
medieval knight ftw!
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
It's all totally true!
http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm
Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
It's all totally true!
http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm
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Be sure to view this page in IE... the midi doesn't seem to play in Firefox (at least for me), and the "Big Pimpin" midi is an essential part of this page.
But they DID eat frisbees.
what's with all the swords?
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Swords look cooler than a character holding a giant, two-headed dildo. Unless, of course, that dildo happens to be made of leather with metal studs.
'nuff said
http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm
-caseyjones
everything else > emo
ninjas > everything
thus
pirates = worst
-caseyjones
If the request to commit sepukku was denied, then they became Ronin... master-less samurai... rebels...
ninjas, on the other hand, were frowned upon. They were extremely dishonourable, and very unlike the japanese ways.
Or at least this is how the system was during Sengoku (the civil war era prior to the Mieji Restoration).
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Swords are just cooler, does there really need to be any more explanation than that? I'd rather ask why people make so many boring world war 2 games :P
But more importantly, they didn't eat frisbees like the ninja, so everything else doesn't really matter. Ninjas are awesome unless you drop a fork. Then they become super awesome!
Those Samurai thought they were hot shit killing peasant's with impunity until they woke up with their face stabbed.
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BAAHAHAHAHA!
See... Ninjas > everything
PUN INTENDED!
-caseyjones
http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja_fun/shirt_ninja.shtml
As far as the whole sword thing goes, it's a romantic view of combat where skill and training was more important for survival than it is with firearms. With guns, skill does play a factor, but much less of one. Training time for military is much less for soldiers with guns than it is with swords.
How long is basic training for the modern military? Six weeks to three months, depending on branch of service/nationality? At this point someone is a fairly proficient soldier in a modern military.
With swords, it takes years of training to become proficient. Generally swordsmen would be apprentices/squires/assistants for years before being battle ready knights/samurai/warriors. If you saw a military man in the old days carrying a sword, it was because he was pretty much a badass, and knew how to handle it. By the time he was allowed to carry a sword, he'd probably already mastered various long range infantry weapons such as spears/pikes/halberds and seen quite a bit of action in combat.
Taking all of this historical context into account, here's what most people tend to think when they see an gunman and a swordsman:
Dude with sword: Badass killing machine
Dude with gun: Dude with gun
lol what i find ironic is how Ninjas swear by ninja, draw weird ninjas,as a Ninja nick, probably eat,shit and dress like one, can have a quote From Takezo in is signature Lol
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I do in fact eat and shit ninja, but it is hard on my budget. Ninja is, like, $20 a pound -- not surprising I guess since they are so hard to find in the wild. I am not a complete ninjatarian, but I try to eat ninja at least 4 times a week. Ninja are very high in fiber, so the shitting part is great-- the shits come out smooth, like miniature dolphins.
Drunken screaming crazy men clad in bearskins and wolfskulls > sneaky dudes in black pajamas
check out this dude
Egill Skallagrimsson
"at the age of seven, Egill was cheated in a game with local boys. Enraged, he went home and procured an axe, and returning to the boys, split the skull of the one who cheated him, to the teeth" ...nice
Seriously tho...Swords are 1000X cooler than guns.
War Photographer
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I once saw a clan of about 10 ninjas in a park one day while driving by. They must not have been very good ninjas because a: It was daytime, b: I could see them plainly standing around doing nothing, c: They weren't killing anyone. From thence forward the park has come to be known as "Ninja Park"