• @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    I assumed all of Canada was basically like living in an episode of Trailer Park Boys or Letterkenny

  • chaogomu
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    141 year ago

    I’ve never liked Bat’leths. They’re bad. They make zero sense as a weapon.

    Wielded in both hands, it have all the reach of a large knife, but none of the maneuverability.

    You can kind of use a Bat’leth one-handed, but it’s clumsy and not at all balanced. It makes for wild swings that are more likely to hurt you or your friends than the enemy.

    You can sort of block with them, if the opponent is going to make an overhead chop. That looks cool on screen, but if the warrior with a Bat’leth was facing a warrior with a simple sword and shield, the warrior with the Bat’leth would fucking die.

    It’s just a bad weapon, and looks like it was made to impress mall ninjas.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Oddly enough, the poor design is on purpose. Think of it this way:

      “Cause it’ll hurt more.”

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        I always figured the block and struggle maneuver was the whole point. Like arm wrestling except the loser gets his eye poked out.

      • chaogomu
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        31 year ago

        It will hurt the user more, yes.

        It’s a bad weapon design.

        The guy who designed it for Worf in TNG, was inspired by a Chinese single-handed weapon. That weapon was not widely used because it wasn’t actually that good.

        Still, the deer horn knives are theoretically a sound choice for a weapon, provided your goal is to disable the opponents while likely getting skewered from range.

        The Bat’leth is just a useless hunk of metal.

        It was designed to be showy and look interesting on camera, not as a practical weapon, and it really does fail as a practical weapon.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          Agreed to a point. Klingons are a proud people. Any petaQ can pull a disruptor or transport you into space (O’Brien looking around suspiciously), but a true warrior will triumph even with a ridiculous handicap. “A fucking pencil!”

          • chaogomu
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            21 year ago

            I do understand the drive for hand to hand combat. That’s how I’m rating it. And even compared to other kligon weapons, the Bat’leth is just bad.

    • @lnsfw3
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      61 year ago

      They can. They just choose not to.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    As a Canadian, with the preface that some of my best friends are Americans and I mean this with all due love and respect, we see you as the Ferengi not the Klingons.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      Very fair. I’m Canadian and was torn between the two. I think you can make a case for either as America feels like hyper capitalism. But, the whole “guns EVERYWHERE” thing pushed me to Klingon.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    Perhaps it may come as a surprising opinion but I have met and known a lot of great Americans that are kind and polite to a fault while knowing some Canadians that are petty warmongering ignoramus.

    Nevertheless, I can understand that I probably haven’t met enough Americans from every States to have an overview of the ignoramuses that exist accross the border (beyond what is depicted, often exaggerated, in the media and memes — excepting the whole neverending Trump & Friends saga). Not that I absolutely want to meet them either, I have enough to deal with easily Facebook duped and misinformed relatives and sometimes colleagues.

    I somehow felt like sharing my general experience after seeing that funny comparison of perceptions.

  • Haus
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    31 year ago

    Want a challenge? Try to get DALL-E to paint a bat’leth.

  • The Barto
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    31 year ago

    The rest of the world: Wait, Canada and America aren’t the same?

    • Seven
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      11 year ago

      Me at work, in Spain, reading news about gun violence: Americans sure do like their guns!

      My Cuban coworker: Do you mean North America, Central America, South America, or Caribbean America?

      Me: … sorry. The USA.