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I'd also like to add that a weapon like a batleth is more than likely impossible to sharpen. Curves make your job much harder. I have sharpened both kitchen knives and swords by hand and with a belt sander because I'm a chef and a huge nerd. But not a huge enough nerd to make up a fake story about defending my animes from a level 3 Rogue.
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My deep, deep hope for the post-millennial generation is that they have a massive popular backlash against nerd poo poo. Like, when they hit their rebellious phase they key in to the fact that the best way to piss off their parents is to hate Harry Potter and Star Wars.
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Verisimilidude posted:I'd also like to add that a weapon like a batleth is more than likely impossible to sharpen. Curves make your job much harder. I have sharpened both kitchen knives and swords by hand and with a belt sander because I'm a chef and a huge nerd. But not a huge enough nerd to make up a fake story about defending my animes from a level 3 Rogue. Elysiume has a new favorite as of 05:20 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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LanceHunter posted:My deep, deep hope for the post-millennial generation is that they have a massive popular backlash against nerd poo poo. Like, when they hit their rebellious phase they key in to the fact that the best way to piss off their parents is to hate Harry Potter and Star Wars. This would be extremely good
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Who the gently caress likes vanilla frosties, thanks but no thanks, imaginary Wendy's employee
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life is killing me posted:Who the gently caress likes vanilla frosties, thanks but no thanks, imaginary Wendy's employee "Thanks, you guys are awesome. Also I wrote that down on the place mat for you."
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LanceHunter posted:My deep, deep hope for the post-millennial generation is that they have a massive popular backlash against nerd poo poo. Like, when they hit their rebellious phase they key in to the fact that the best way to piss off their parents is to hate Harry Potter and Star Wars. "That's it, Galadriel, Lando, go to your rooms!"
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, don't gently caress with real swords. $30 mall katanas can barely cut a 2 liter in half, but real swords kept sharp are going to gently caress up every bit of flesh they touch. My cousin is/was a swordsmith in Toledo, Spain. You wouldn't want to gently caress with him and any sword he made. People forget that they're made to kill other people. They don't even have to be very sharp, just handled with some degree of competence. You can see from the pictures how one guy tried to stop the blade with his hand. Bad idea without gloves, not really good with them either. And stopping the blade with your face isn't such a good idea, either.
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Khazar-khum posted:You can see from the pictures how one guy tried to stop the blade with his hand. That's a very natural reaction. It'd take lots of training to do something else instead. And by stop with his hand, I'm sure it was more like cower and shield his head with his hands out.
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Khazar-khum posted:My cousin is/was a swordsmith in Toledo, Spain. You wouldn't want to gently caress with him and any sword he made. People forget that they're made to kill other people. They don't even have to be very sharp, just handled with some degree of competence. You can see from the pictures how one guy tried to stop the blade with his hand. Bad idea without gloves, not really good with them either. And stopping the blade with your face isn't such a good idea, either. Just make sure he never sells anything to a six-fingered man.
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kimbo305 posted:That's a very natural reaction. It'd take lots of training to do something else instead. And by stop with his hand, I'm sure it was more like cower and shield his head with his hands out. Didn't work out so well, did it?
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Khazar-khum posted:Didn't work out so well, did it? I mean that blow might have been caught with the hand instead of the face for all we know.
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Some rare reverse stdh. I expected to see "I was at the mall in uniform with my medals and some jock called me a babykiller and spat at me, so I beat the poo poo out of him with my military training. Everyone applauded and the cops didn't charge me with anything" Or is that 
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is K-mart. I haven't seen one in about ten years.
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I know of a single open K-Mart in Ocala, FL. One of the most redneck of major Florida towns.
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A Marine was taking college classes between his deployments to Afghanistan. One of his courses had a professor that was an atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day the professor shocked everyone by walking into class, looking up and stating "God, if you are real, I want you to come down and knock me off this platform, I will give you 15 minutes. Several minutes tick by in silence, when the 15 min. time almost expired the Marine gets up from his seat, approaches the professor and punched him in the face knocking him off the platform and out cold. The Marine simply went back to his seat. The professor came to, visibly shaken and asked the Marine, "What the heck did you do that for?!" The Marine said, "God was busy protecting America's military who are out protecting your right to say stupid poo poo like that, so he sent me to fill in."
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LanceHunter posted:My deep, deep hope for the post-millennial generation is that they have a massive popular backlash against nerd poo poo. Like, when they hit their rebellious phase they key in to the fact that the best way to piss off their parents is to hate Harry Potter and Star Wars. "Someone help my incredibly buff jock son keeps knocking my anime dvds out of my hands"
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chitoryu12 posted:I know of a single open K-Mart in Ocala, FL. One of the most redneck of major Florida towns. Calling Ocala "major" is exceedingly generous
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Calling Ocala "major" is exceedingly generous It's got over 57,000 people as of the last census. That's what, 10% of the total population of Wyoming?
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Calling Ocala "major" is exceedingly generous It's basically a lone oasis (albeit filled with meth and prostitutes) in between Tampa and Gainesville so I consider it somewhat major. At least you'll find semi-respectable chain restaurants there. Speaking of K-mart though there was still one in Gainesville when I moved away a few years back. They are rare and terrible but they are still around.
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Yeah I'm sure a wall of text of threats would make someone turn humble/respectful and not elicit a call to the police. Also no whiskey is truly worth 10000 dollars a bottle and that is twice the highest price I saw for any bottle of that stuff after quickly checking google. Why can't people just say he stole something more reasonable someone might have, like a 300-500 dollar bottle? Why is it always the super rare thing that is the top result when you search for "most expensive _____"?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Speaking of K-mart though there was still one in Gainesville when I moved away a few years back. They are rare and terrible but they are still around. Are they still stores that are even notionally owned and operated by any business though? I'm picturing K-marts out in low-rent cracked parking lot areas across the US, still operating on some kind of institutional inertia. Cheerful people still open them every day, even though nobody ever comes in. There's no head office to report to, but because they haven't sold anything since 1997, the lack of a supply chain doesn't matter much. There are probably Caldor and Zayre stores out there still running the same way, in their own pocket retail universe.
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hogmartin posted:Are they still stores that are even notionally owned and operated by any business though? I'm picturing K-marts out in low-rent cracked parking lot areas across the US, still operating on some kind of institutional inertia. Cheerful people still open them every day, even though nobody ever comes in. There's no head office to report to, but because they haven't sold anything since 1997, the lack of a supply chain doesn't matter much. There are probably Caldor and Zayre stores out there still running the same way, in their own pocket retail universe. Last time I went in it it was pretty empty of customers and a lot of the shelves were half-full/empty. It constantly looked like they were going out of business but it stuck around in that state for years. There's basically no reason to go to kmart anymore when even the most rundown old walmart (which Gainesville's is) has a better selection and prices. I'd still exclusively stick to Target though for the much better+cleaner atmosphere even if they were more pricy.
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K-Mart chat: Oddly enough, here in Oregon, K-mart seems to be hanging on quite well. We have one here in Corvallis that's clean, bright, well stocked and not in a bad part of town. Same for Salem and Roseburg. There's also apparently 3 in Portland. On the other hand, Target and WalMart here are what you'd expect a K-mart to be, dingy, understaffed, and always out of stock. But then again, the dream of the 90's IS alive in Portland, I'm told...
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Yeah I'm sure a wall of text of threats would make someone turn humble/respectful and not elicit a call to the police. It is insane how pervasive is the idea that whiskey ages in the bottle.
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chitoryu12 posted:I know of a single open K-Mart in Ocala, FL. One of the most redneck of major Florida towns. There's one in Savannah, GA too. It is equally lovely a store as the rest of them with lovely employees who are rude and dgaf
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life is killing me posted:Who the gently caress likes vanilla frosties, thanks but no thanks, imaginary Wendy's employee The chicky nugs have already been devoured, much to our penefit, to ehlp us see the note left by the abused employee
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Speaking of K-mart though there was still one in Gainesville when I moved away a few years back. They are rare and terrible but they are still around. Can confirm: It's still here and doing business. The old, rundown Wal-Mart you spoke of is no more (doesn't matter if you were referring to the one on 13th or the one on Archer Rd., they're both gone), two of which were demolished and rebuilt in different areas.
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hey look kmart has a list of all their currently operating stores http://www.kmart.com/stores.html we don't actually need to self-report them town-by-town
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We don't NEED to but I also don't need to wipe my rear end after taking a huge poo poo
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InediblePenguin posted:hey look kmart has a list of all their currently operating stores Yeah, they're actually doing better than their sister store: Sears. But the entire Sear Holding Corp is slowly being driven out of business. Eddie Lampert is tries to run Sears and KMart as the prophetess Rand would want. As you can expect, it's not turning out well. Zero money is churned back to the stores or infrastructure. Instead they buy back stock and try to be a poor copy of Amazon online.
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InediblePenguin posted:hey look kmart has a list of all their currently operating stores Well, the joke's on you for thinking anyone here was going to check the website of a I mean, the website has to be run by the department store fairies and not by actual people because ffs how does Kmart still exist
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flosofl posted:Yeah, they're actually doing better than their sister store: Sears. Or do you forget Sears became famous by way of their mail order business?
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oldpainless posted:We don't NEED to but I also don't need to wipe my rear end after taking a huge poo poo More like oldtoiletpaperless
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WampaLord posted:More like oldtoiletpaperless Well, while we're talking about the Sears catalog...
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