Topic: Re: POINTLESS THREAD IIc: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN (Read 139761 times)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #751 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 07:23 »

Quote from: LeeC on 25 Apr 2011, 15:24

2nd on the left looks like a halberd but the 2nd to thr right looks more warhammerish.

Pretty sure they're all poleaxes, which are a very good weapon for armoured foot soldiers, actually. The relatively small blade delivers a lot of kinetic energy with each swing. Also you would probably be surprised just how fucking nippy you can be with a spear or long axe.

LeeC · « **Reply #752 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 07:24 »

Now a-days on the subway you can never be too careful.

i cant wait to be a dad

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #753 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 07:42 »

Some of the little kids at C2E2 were the best, especially the group of kids that did Avatar: The Last Airbender.

LeeC · « **Reply #754 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 08:03 »

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #755 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 09:38 »

Tom · « **Reply #756 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 14:51 »

anyone know where I can find an orange lantern ayn rand?

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #757 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 15:11 »

Tom · « **Reply #758 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 15:28 »

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #759 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 15:50 »

Have you had 100% of your daily recommended dose of adorableness yet?
Well, have this: Puppy jumping for joy!
Still need a bit more? Try this: Penguin chases butterfly!
Finally, Get that camera out of my face!

KvP · « **Reply #760 on:** 27 Apr 2011, 21:25 »

Bustin' royalty

ZJGent · « **Reply #761 on:** 28 Apr 2011, 04:00 »

God damn it Charles. This is why we locked you up in your great big inbred money-prison - because if we let you out, you only go and do something stupid like... try and connect with the youth of today.

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #762 on:** 28 Apr 2011, 08:23 »

A Lovecraftian Sex Ed Story

SirDudley · « **Reply #763 on:** 28 Apr 2011, 11:06 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 27 Apr 2011, 15:11

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I'd buy it.

JD · « **Reply #764 on:** 28 Apr 2011, 17:12 »

from Prince Harry's Facebook

Sorflakne · « **Reply #765 on:** 28 Apr 2011, 21:34 »

Quote from: the_pied_piper on 25 Apr 2011, 14:58

Quote from: Jace on 25 Apr 2011, 08:03

That dude on the left has a sweet sword but those are some pretty shitty halberds that the other guys are sporting.

Well, considering those are poleaxes and not halberds...

Poleax > pretty much every medieval weapon that didn't throw/launch projectiles.

And

redglasscurls · « **Reply #766 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 06:10 »

Can you guys all please shut up about old weapons? This is the nerdiest circle-jerk in the world and not in a good way.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #767 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 07:56 »

richlitt · « **Reply #768 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 08:08 »

I'm also not sure posting an awesome picture of a dog looking like Chewie in the same post really proved that point.

Halberds lasted from the 14th-16th century. They were right for that time period, I believe.

redglasscurls · « **Reply #769 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 08:39 »

Awesome star wars dogs= good nerdery

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #770 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 13:19 »

If talking about old weapons is bad nerdery, then what do you call the majority of the internet?

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #771 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 13:33 »

the bad nerdery label isn't an exclusive label. There is a lot of bad nerdery.

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #772 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 13:44 »

Quote from: tuathal on 29 Apr 2011, 07:49

As a history student, I feel the need to circle jerk about old weaponry.

Dear Fellow History Majors,

Please stop doing this and find a more intellectually substantial thing to talk about during class.

kthx,
Christien

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #773 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 15:02 »

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #774 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 17:21 »

Wow, I didn't expect my comment to garner so much discussion. A poleaxe (pollaxe) is basically just a Halberd with a shortened spike anyway (possibly even an evolution of the Halberd?)

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #775 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 18:54 »

Aw jeez, here it goes again. Have a corgi bent on world domination.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #776 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 20:30 »

Friend of mine got this in in fortune cookie tonight.

Dollface · « **Reply #777 on:** 29 Apr 2011, 23:45 »

Look what boredom made me do.

richlitt · « **Reply #778 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 02:48 »

I didn't add a caption, but don't worry - what you don't read here about world domination has already been thought by Ein yesterday. (Does that sentence even make sense?)

Man, I want a corgi.

ZJGent · « **Reply #779 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 07:36 »

Windows 7 is the Dark Side?

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #780 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 14:22 »

How Kate and William met

KharBevNor · « **Reply #781 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 15:40 »

Quote from: the_pied_piper on 29 Apr 2011, 17:21

A poleaxe (pollaxe) is basically just a Halberd with a shortened spike anyway (possibly even an evolution of the Halberd?)

Pretty sure neither is an evolution of the other; they're different weapons for different purposes used in slightly different times and places. There's lots of variation on the pole-arm theme, most of them variations or combinations of the long axe and the spear, or agricultural or building tools with hooks and spikes added on. You've got your bardiche, your bec de corbin, your daneaxe, glaives, mauls, voulge etc. all of which were quite specialised but similiar enough that someone who was competent in the use of one generally wouldn't be that bad in the use of another. Iirc (I don't have any reference books here) a halberd would have generally been used by more lightly armoured men of foot against cavalry and later on as a medium range weapon to reinforce pike formations before the full crystallisation of pike and shot tactics. Poleaxes are more of a weapon for combat on foot against other men on foot wearing armour, I think you'd probably find their use concentrated in the 14th and 15th centuries during the period when plate armour use was at its widest. I think there might also be some distinction about the length (poleaxes are shorter?). Also, looking back at that picture, I'm fairly sure those weapons are slightly innacurate anyway because they should have metal strips (the name of which escapes me) bolted down the sides of the pole that attach the weapon head, rather than just being hafted like a spear.

Then again, definitions of these things are hardly rigorously scientific. Even mass-manufactured pole-arms from the same maker would have all been slightly different.

Jace · « **Reply #782 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 16:32 »

JD · « **Reply #783 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 18:15 »

Cast holding spell on vagina?

Tom · « **Reply #784 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 18:18 »

I thought all vaginas had hammer space, I sure was misinformed.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #785 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 19:19 »

Stuff a bag of holding up inside, geez.

Tom · « **Reply #786 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 19:24 »

vag of holding?

LeeC · « **Reply #787 on:** 30 Apr 2011, 19:54 »

would see

Jace · « **Reply #788 on:** 01 May 2011, 05:00 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 30 Apr 2011, 19:19

Stuff a bag of holding up inside, geez.

Did you even read the picture lunchy? someone suggested that! And then later someone mentioned something about putting a sword in there too. So she could pop a squat and be ready to fight.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #789 on:** 01 May 2011, 05:24 »

Yeah i mean that would be the ideal option.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #790 on:** 01 May 2011, 10:51 »

It would make a nice contraceptive, though it would mean getting junk on your stuff

Cave Johnson quotes with a random quote option

Lupercal · « **Reply #791 on:** 01 May 2011, 14:56 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 15 Apr 2011, 15:05

Yeah the entire time I read that post all I could think of was

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Again, I disagree. A miscarriage is definitely not a joke, and I have no intention of making light of it. And it can be a tough and emotional thing for couples to go through, speaking from personal experience. And I know that it's often much harder on the woman than on the man. However, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of your life. People can move past it, and heal.

This latest post was just as oblivious as that.

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Allow me to first state that there was absolutely zero intention to offend anyone with today's comic. There was no ill-will, malicious agenda, or racism involved with arriving at the script for the comic. I am about as far from racist as a person can be

herf derf

No idea why I still read this comic. And the fact that Tim does stuff, gets all "I am right, of course" about it, then profusely apologises. After which he goes into the "well, actually I WAS right!". How he still has a readership for that shit-heap of a comic I have no idea.

Example due to backlash from readers:

Quote from: Tim

For the record, I've received about two dozen emails, and even more messages than that via Twitter, from black men and women who say they found the original comic funny.

I have yet to receive a single complaint from a person identifying themselves as black.

Two dozen!!!11!1
Out of a readership of how many hundreds, thousands?
Herp de derp

Yayniall · « **Reply #792 on:** 01 May 2011, 15:52 »

Dog does a thing

Dogs conga

Lines · « **Reply #793 on:** 02 May 2011, 05:53 »

Orbert · « **Reply #794 on:** 02 May 2011, 09:07 »

His hair looks like a raspberry. Not that that's a bad thing.

Alex C · « **Reply #795 on:** 02 May 2011, 12:15 »

happy trees

Tom · « **Reply #796 on:** 02 May 2011, 13:39 »

Quote from: Lupercal on 01 May 2011, 14:56

Example due to backlash from readers:

Quote from: Tim
For the record, I've received about two dozen emails, and even more messages than that via Twitter, from black men and women who say they found the original comic funny.

I have yet to receive a single complaint from a person identifying themselves as black.

Two dozen!!!11!1
Out of a readership of how many hundreds, thousands?
Herp de derp

Have you seen Buckley's other website.

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #797 on:** 02 May 2011, 16:03 »

Man, Bob Ross is a rare nectar distilled from pure relax and pure awesome.
His voice is spoken word Xanax.
It doesn't matter how crap a day I've had or how old I get, I feel so much better just watching him sculpt a mountain out of the goddamned ether.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #798 on:** 02 May 2011, 16:42 »

Orbert · « **Reply #799 on:** 03 May 2011, 10:03 »

Ooh, bummer. Doesn't help that that crab already looks pretty sad about what's going to happen.

I've never understood Charizard. You look at it, flying reptile that breathes fire, yep, it's a dragon alright. Except it's not dragon type. WTF?

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