Just saying is all :)
I once saw a ninja and a pirate fighting. They were both killed by a lumberjack.
Is it possible that a lumberjack's axe is more powerful than the katana and cutlass combined!!!!?
I heard that when Chuck Norris was a lumberjack he didn't use an axe he used Vandamme's pointy head to chop down trees. Once he mistook the entire Koga Clan of ninjas as a small stand of birch trees and killed them all in one blow with a roundhouse kick. He doesn't use an axe kick any-more because the kick is so powerful he opens up fissures in the ground and that's how the Grand Canyon was formed.
About smurfin' time this got banished to the OT forum.
Chuck Norris is weak compared to Bill Brasky!
"Bill Brasky once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!"
Pshaw! Chuck Norris could show you a video of him making love to you, and that would then be the most beautiful thing you ever could see.
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Bill Brasky was being exalted on SNL a decade before Chuck Norris was on the internet! Bill is the original, also,Bill Brasky ftw. He also loves ninjas.
"He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!"
Bill Brasky is the real name of "The Most Interesting Man in the World". I sometimes wonder if he and Chuck Norris aren't shattered aspects of some greater entity that once ruled the cosmos...
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That's an interesting thought. Come with me and we'll talk about it. Would you like some punch?Bill Brasky was being exalted on SNL a decade before Chuck Norris was on the internet! Bill is the original, also,Bill Brasky is the real name of "The Most Interesting Man in the World". I sometimes wonder if he and Chuck Norris aren't shattered aspects of some greater entity that once ruled the cosmos...Bill Brasky ftw. He also loves ninjas.
"He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!"
Hey, wait a second! You're trying to seduce me aren't you? Well, it's working. Just don't let it happen again.
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Suduce! Oh, right, yeah, suduce. Drink the punch now? Pay no attention to the people sprawled on the floor. They're just sleepy.
Hey, wait a second! You're trying to seduce me aren't you? Well, it's working. Just don't let it happen again.
*drinks the punch, nothing else happens*
Mmmm, grapey goodness.
Nuh-uh.
Nuh-uh.
Is it just me or are Ninjas and Katanas so 1980's.
Nuh-uh.Is it just me or are Ninjas and Katanas so 1980's.
Only if your thinking about the "American Ninja" movies.
OK so not going to read the whole thread so some one may have already said so, first all katanas would be master worked just based on how long it took to make and the care that when into there crafting from a historical point. There are several examples of very old katanas that because of care and craftsmanship are still sharp and strong as there creation 100 plus years.
Second to say the Japanese steel was inferior to European still is not accurate, iron was very scares and had to be pulled from river, but because of the way the katana was forged the resulting steel was very good. Blade of katana are shorter then swords from Europe because of the lack of iron but the folded steel was very strong.
Third cutlass are cool, and pirates rule
also ninjas don't use katanas, only the Samurai class could while weapons of war, ninjas were not in the Samurai.
so pirates are still better.
I am willing to concede that Robot bet pirates, history has show this time and again.
in the paper, rock, scissors kind of way Pirates bets ninjas, I mean Pirates are still operating and ninja are long gone... we hope
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I am willing to concede that Robot bet pirates, history has show this time and again.
in the paper, rock, scissors kind of way Pirates bets ninjas, I mean Pirates are still operating and ninja are long gone... we hope
Whatever happened to swashbucklers? Did they evolve into pirates? What level do they evolve, and can they learn Thundershock?
that is a good question, I think that some pirates fall into the category of Swashbucklers, but not all swashbucklers are pirates and not all pirates are swashbucklers.
I am going to have to give this more thought, but I am pretty any one can learn thndershock if you work hard and stay in school
A swashbuckler doesn't always need a ship to buckle the swash. However a pirate is not a pirate without a ship to call home. That is your key difference between the two. Even if you encounter a pirate away from any sort of harbor he will eventually be returning to his ship and shipmates, as he is only on extremely extended shore leave.
It doesn't matter where he goes or what he does, or who he does, there is only one place he really wants to be. He could be married with kids in the highlands of some remote inland mountain, but give him half a chance and he'll back on deck in less time then it takes a gnome to think of a dozen different ways to pants you.
A swashbuckler doesn't always need a ship to buckle the swash. However a pirate is not a pirate without a ship to call home. That is your key difference between the two. Even if you encounter a pirate away from any sort of harbor he will eventually be returning to his ship and shipmates, as he is only on extremely extended shore leave.
It doesn't matter where he goes or what he does, or who he does, there is only one place he really wants to be. He could be married with kids in the highlands of some remote inland mountain, but give him half a chance and he'll back on deck in less time then it takes a gnome to think of a dozen different ways to pants you.
All this is true, but not all Pirates Buckle the Swash. Pirates are many and varied thing. Where as Swashbucklers all kind of fit into a closer stereotype.
I mean Pirates are still operating and ninja are long gone... we hope
That's what they want you to think...
In reality ninjas are still around, infiltrating everithing, coutries, governs, companies... You always know who is a pirate, but how can you be sure who is not a ninja!?!?:}? I could be a ninja. Your girlfriend/wife could be a ninja, your teacher in high school, or maybe when you were little, your nanny was a ninja! Any random Joe could be a ninja! Ninjas could pop out from anywhere, even from the inicials of random words on your computer screen...
I heard on NPR that five ninja's in training in Australia took out a mugger down the street from the dojo. SO some form of Ninja still exists.
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I heard on NPR that five ninja's in training in Australia took out a mugger down the street from the dojo. SO some form of Ninja still exists.
OMG someone other than me heard this story!?
I heard about this a while ago on a diggnation podcast but I was totally pumped when I heard it.
Was pretty dumb of the mugger to try to rob somebody in sight of 5 dudes in ninja training garb however.
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I heard on NPR that five ninja's in training in Australia took out a mugger down the street from the dojo. SO some form of Ninja still exists.OMG someone other than me heard this story!?
I heard about this a while ago on a diggnation podcast but I was totally pumped when I heard it.
Was pretty dumb of the mugger to try to rob somebody in sight of 5 dudes in ninja training garb however.
They were ninjas. You don't see ninjas.
More seriously, the muggers attacked the guy right near a hall that was at that time being used by a ninja-training class, I think some of the students heard the ruckus outside and went out to investigate.
''You should have seen their faces when they saw us in ninja gear coming towards them,'' he said.
MWAHAHAHA
In all seriousness, the katana is rated by the professionals as the deadliest overall personal combat weapon ever devised.Ya know, videogame designers.
Day are da Bomb?!?!?
In all seriousness, the katana is rated by the professionals as the deadliest overall personal combat weapon ever devised.
What experts were these?
When it comes to Ninjas VS. Pirates, I think it's plainly obvious that Robots win.
Nu-uh. Wizards win. Wizards ALWAYS win.
In all seriousness, the katana is rated by the professionals as the deadliest overall personal combat weapon ever devised.What experts were these?
1. Bad! No cookie.
2. I was killed by a katana once...I got better.
I'll get my damn cookie, one way or another!
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In all seriousness, the katana is rated by the professionals as the deadliest overall personal combat weapon ever devised.What experts were these?
Read carefully. He didn't claim that experts rated the katana, he said professionals rated the katana. Serious professionals. You can find them on Craigslist. Also in sewers with overgrown rats.
Musashi Documentary on Youtube
for anybody who cares past exclaiming "WEEEEEEABO FI_TAN MAGIC!" and laughing like the older brother in Weird Science.
Musashi was a badass. No argument there.
My issue is that the katana isn't any better than a European broadsword. Katanas aren't useless crap, but they aren't superior to non-Japanese swords, either. They are swords with strengths and weaknesses. They have a downright vicious cutting edge, but they are not very good against armor at all. That's what I want to hammer home. They aren't horrid weapons, but they aren't superior blades like is so often claimed, either.