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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


Welsh is such a beautiful languge :swoon:

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freeedr
Feb 21, 2005

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Welsh is such a beautiful languge :swoon:

:mmmhmm:

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
https://twitter.com/mikey100mike/status/1496699886024093698

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

:garak:

Loiku
Jul 10, 2007

Megillah Gorilla posted:

They're in the same category as the ball on a chain thing:

https://i.imgur.com/tsQCPu0.mp4


Looks fly, but if you try it against someone who actually wants you dead, they will just walk right up to you and feed you the loving thing.

I like the direction they're going with the new Castlevania.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
https://twitter.com/NickyWoolf/status/1496691605176266759

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Looks fly, but if you try it against someone who actually wants you dead, they will just walk right up to you and feed you the loving thing.

Oh so they'll kill me with it?

Sounds like a pretty effective weapon.

Check mate.

Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49

That last line killed me

GATOS Y VATOS
Aug 22, 2002


Elissimpark posted:

Lol, while you were studying the "flail", I studied the...uh...



...the oar.

This is an Okinawan weapon. The people there were not allowed to have weapons decreed by the shoganate, so they improvised and created martial arts based on objects that were readily available. The oar and tonfa sticks (which were used for threshing rice) were two such weapons. :eng101:

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

This is an Okinawan weapon. The people there were not allowed to have weapons decreed by the shoganate, so they improvised and created martial arts based on objects that were readily available. The oar and tonfa sticks (which were used for threshing rice) were two such weapons. :eng101:

Those little sickles too. and I think Sai were used for jacking off

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

Milo and POTUS posted:

Those little sickles too. and I think Sai were used for jacking off

Were? you lose your set or something?

Xlorp
Jan 23, 2008


Milo and POTUS posted:

Those little sickles too. and I think Sai were used for jacking off

Learn the mystical Sai Sounding techniques

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

A fancy little mouse🐁!

Milo and POTUS posted:

Those little sickles too. and I think Sai were used for jacking off

then why was Raphael always so angry?

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
Everyone knows sai were used for sounding and butt stuff.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I found out sai weren't used for stabbing and it was the most disappointed Ive ever been

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

kazil posted:

then why was Raphael always so angry?

They're for jacking off human dicks, not turtle dicks

And if you don't know the difference, man are you in for a weird google search

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

They're for jacking off human dicks, not turtle dicks

And if you don't know the difference, man are you in for a weird google search

There was a horrors of porn where they made fun of all sorts of cartoon porn. The turtles were one of them

Some Pinko Commie
Jun 9, 2009

CNC! Easy as 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣!

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

They're for jacking off human dicks, not turtle dicks

And if you don't know the difference, man are you in for a weird google search

Has sound.

https://i.imgur.com/QVAfSuG.mp4

Robobot
Aug 21, 2018

Milo and POTUS posted:

I found out sai weren't used for stabbing and it was the most disappointed Ive ever been

Wait, then what the hell were they used for? Trapping swords is the only other thing I could possibly see.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Megillah Gorilla posted:

They're in the same category as the ball on a chain thing:

https://i.imgur.com/tsQCPu0.mp4


Looks fly, but if you try it against someone who actually wants you dead, they will just walk right up to you and feed you the loving thing.
PYF Funny Pictures: I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

Robobot posted:

Wait, then what the hell were they used for? Trapping swords is the only other thing I could possibly see.

I went and looked it up and it looks like it's used in that way but it's basically a riot baton with prongs for catching and redirecting attacks while you use the other hand to beat a motherfucker with a metal pipe

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Robobot
Aug 21, 2018

thecluckmeme posted:

I went and looked it up and it looks like it's used in that way but it's basically a riot baton with prongs for catching and redirecting attacks while you use the other hand to beat a motherfucker with a metal pipe

What a stupid weapon. I’d have stabbed people with it if I had been a ninja. Also I would have been super good at throwing stars. And I would have been able to do awesome flips and stuff and jump from the ground into tree branches and disappear with smoke bombs.

Why did they stop making ninjas again?

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

Robobot posted:

What a stupid weapon. I’d have stabbed people with it if I had been a ninja. Also I would have been super good at throwing stars. And I would have been able to do awesome flips and stuff and jump from the ground into tree branches and disappear with smoke bombs.

Why did they stop making ninjas again?

bring back Shinobi

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

Robobot posted:

What a stupid weapon. I’d have stabbed people with it if I had been a ninja. Also I would have been super good at throwing stars. And I would have been able to do awesome flips and stuff and jump from the ground into tree branches and disappear with smoke bombs.

Why did they stop making ninjas again?

A ninjas job is to remain unseen, hiding in the shadows. Bold of you to assume there's not ninjas anymore

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

A ninja exists every time I hold a blade for a circular saw and then immediately push down a gap between my big toe and next toe in my black work socks

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

thecluckmeme posted:

A ninjas job is to remain unseen, hiding in the shadows. Bold of you to assume there's not ninjas anymore

Well, obviously with the invention of electric lighting, there's fewer and fewer shadows for them to hide in. They may even be endangered, but it's hard to check.

Nicodemus Dumps
Jan 9, 2006

Just chillin' in the sink

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Well, obviously with the invention of electric lighting, there's fewer and fewer shadows for them to hide in. They may even be endangered, but it's hard to check.

Actually I think you'll find that more lights mean more shadows

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

FFT posted:

PYF Funny Pictures: I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME

no

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

thecluckmeme posted:

A ninjas job is to remain unseen, hiding in the shadows. Bold of you to assume there's not ninjas anymore
I'll always fondly remember some show I can't land a search hit on now -- some "modern ninja" dude was tasked with infiltrating a building with guards and whatnot to retrieve some thing

He showed up as a maintanence worker and walked out with it.

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

FFT posted:

I'll always fondly remember some show I can't land a search hit on now -- some "modern ninja" dude was tasked with infiltrating a building with guards and whatnot to retrieve some thing

He showed up as a maintanence worker and walked out with it.

That's how it works, you don't stab a dude with a katana while wearing a black suit. You stab a dude with a sharpened piece of junk metal while wearing the garb of whatever rote worker wouldn't get a second glance walking away from that particular building

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




Real ninjas did that too. The whole point of being an assassin is to blend in, after all.

The image of the black clad figure with their faces covered comes from kabuki theatre where that's how stagehands dressed.

Unlike modern theatre they would be on stage with the actors during the scenes, but it wasn't disruptive because they were always there and audiences just tuned them out



Legend has it that the costume first became associated with ninjas when a character in a play was supposed to be assassinated out of nowhere in a way that the audience wouldn't see coming, so the director had one of the stagehands suddenly stand up and stab the guy, then just go back to what he was doing

That must have blown their minds

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

flavor.flv posted:

Legend has it that the costume first became associated with ninjas when a character in a play was supposed to be assassinated out of nowhere in a way that the audience wouldn't see coming, so the director had one of the stagehands suddenly stand up and stab the guy, then just go back to what he was doing

That must have blown their minds

gently caress, that's cool as hell. I knew about the kuroko/stagehands, but I didn't know that story, and it blew my mind a little just reading it

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

gently caress, that's cool as hell. I knew about the kuroko/stagehands, but I didn't know that story, and it blew my mind a little just reading it

:same:

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

TITTIEKISSER69
Mar 19, 2005

SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS




thecluckmeme posted:

A ninjas job is to remain unseen, hiding in the shadows. Bold of you to assume there's not ninjas anymore

https://i.imgur.com/iqzKK3J.mp4

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

I first became aware of Ninjas while reading Shogun as a child and just assumed that was the beginning of it being popular in western culture but it seems silly now for me to think that.

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

flavor.flv posted:

Real ninjas did that too. The whole point of being an assassin is to blend in, after all.

The image of the black clad figure with their faces covered comes from kabuki theatre where that's how stagehands dressed.

Unlike modern theatre they would be on stage with the actors during the scenes, but it wasn't disruptive because they were always there and audiences just tuned them out



Legend has it that the costume first became associated with ninjas when a character in a play was supposed to be assassinated out of nowhere in a way that the audience wouldn't see coming, so the director had one of the stagehands suddenly stand up and stab the guy, then just go back to what he was doing

That must have blown their minds

It's like something out of Monty Python lol

Robobot
Aug 21, 2018
Not to take away from the land war in Europe or anything, but me finding out that my idea of ninjas were basically the equivalent of a kabuki roadie and sais were basically dumb looking clubs is just the cherry on top of a pretty crappy day.

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Railing Kill
Nov 14, 2008

You are the first crack in the sheer face of god. From you it will spread.

Loiku posted:

I like the direction they're going with the new Castlevania.

They already did this IRL. It's called Bloodstained, and it owns.

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