It's not very effective...

jonnyornonny:

xandorasbox:

goatkult:

ceorfaex:

tothedeathsheadtrue:

whiskey-wolf:

And this is what happens when a masterfully crafted katana collides with a masterfully crafted longsword.
Suck it, katana

HAH!

suck my fuckin’ diiiick

Aren’t katanas and longswords made for different overall purposes thoKatanas are slasher weapons made for cutting masterfully through human flesh so obviously it’s not gonna get through a fucking longsword which is really fucking thick and heavy and made for beating the shit out of people as well as hacking at armourA katana would slice the shit out of you guys so idk what the fuck you’re so smug about

^That.

This is basically going to reiterate what was said just above but yeah, the thing about fanwanking over weapons is that it’s completely pointless.
Weapons were made to suit a territories culture at the time.
I mean sure the Katana couldn’t cut through chainmail (and most armour of the west) but it was used in Japan for a damn long time because armour was different over there! Plus sword-technique was rarely blade-to-blade edge-to-edge - so this demonstration gif was basically showing the worst aspect of the Katana (it’s toughness) against the best aspect of the Broadsword (it’s durability and resistance).

I guess it kind of disproves all those fanboys who say silly things like “Samurai swords can easily cut through armour and other swords” (something I’m pretty sure a curator at the Royal Armouries in Leeds said).
And sword techniques aren’t really supposed to be edge-to-edge but in the middle of a fight you’re probably more inclined to block with whatever you can rather than strictly staying true to form, I guess. But saying that, I don’t know much about the fighting style of Samurai bar what I’ve seen in “documentaries” and Quentin Tarantino films.
Either way I would have thought that either sword would be able to take a considerable blow, edge-on, without bending in half which leads me to believe that the OP’s GIF might not be totally reliable.

Edit: Also, I know Katanas are magically supposed to be the sharpest swords in the whole wide world but it’s not like medieval European swords were dull sticks of metal. I know they were supposed to be folded dozens of times and that gives them magical properties or something daft like that but iirc they were only folded so much because the Japanese sword smiths were working with inferior raw materials to their Western counterparts.

xandorasbox:

goatkult:

ceorfaex:

tothedeathsheadtrue:

whiskey-wolf:

And this is what happens when a masterfully crafted katana collides with a masterfully crafted longsword.

Suck it, katana

HAH!

suck my fuckin’ diiiick

Aren’t katanas and longswords made for different overall purposes tho

Katanas are slasher weapons made for cutting masterfully through human flesh so obviously it’s not gonna get through a fucking longsword which is really fucking thick and heavy and made for beating the shit out of people as well as hacking at armour

A katana would slice the shit out of you guys so idk what the fuck you’re so smug about

^That.

This is basically going to reiterate what was said just above but yeah, the thing about fanwanking over weapons is that it’s completely pointless.

Weapons were made to suit a territories culture at the time.

I mean sure the Katana couldn’t cut through chainmail (and most armour of the west) but it was used in Japan for a damn long time because armour was different over there! Plus sword-technique was rarely blade-to-blade edge-to-edge - so this demonstration gif was basically showing the worst aspect of the Katana (it’s toughness) against the best aspect of the Broadsword (it’s durability and resistance).

I guess it kind of disproves all those fanboys who say silly things like “Samurai swords can easily cut through armour and other swords” (something I’m pretty sure a curator at the Royal Armouries in Leeds said).

And sword techniques aren’t really supposed to be edge-to-edge but in the middle of a fight you’re probably more inclined to block with whatever you can rather than strictly staying true to form, I guess. But saying that, I don’t know much about the fighting style of Samurai bar what I’ve seen in “documentaries” and Quentin Tarantino films.

Either way I would have thought that either sword would be able to take a considerable blow, edge-on, without bending in half which leads me to believe that the OP’s GIF might not be totally reliable.

Edit: Also, I know Katanas are magically supposed to be the sharpest swords in the whole wide world but it’s not like medieval European swords were dull sticks of metal. I know they were supposed to be folded dozens of times and that gives them magical properties or something daft like that but iirc they were only folded so much because the Japanese sword smiths were working with inferior raw materials to their Western counterparts.

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May 02

jonnyornonny:

scizorusedbulletpunch replied to your post: reasons I love this RP grand-strategy game I’ve…

He’s sending his son to act as his proxy at the wedding of Aerion and Anna. I am not impressed.

oh so he is, what an interesting development… I’ve just sent you another

~~your Teahouse just got captured and is being held by a vassal of the Mashima Clan lol try have a wedding now lol haha no but srsly it’s got captured and you gotta take care of that :/~~

Son of a…

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Apr 06

a guide to uk cities for foreign people

manchester: gays. you will probably get mugged.
liverpool: like manchester, but less gay. you will definitely get mugged.
newcastle: probably quite good for canadians as exists in permafrost and has never left the 90s.
leeds: it's a lot cheaper than london
bradford: leeds but awful
nottingham: gun death capital of the uk!
derby: intense rivalry with nottingham, literally no one else in the country or world gives any fucks about this.
hull: violently resist anyone who attempts to take you here
leicester: i'm not sure this is a real place
york: this is an illustration from the top of a christmas biscuit assortment
birmingham: NO.
brighton & hove: more gays. is only a pretend city. mild to moderate chance of mugging. contains some deeply annoying hippies. basically if san francisco was british.
portsmouth: there is literally nothing here.
southampton: exactly the same as portsmouth but smells of off milk
bristol: you have a 1 in 10 chance of ending up in a bbc recording. everyone sounds like a farmer or bob marley.
cardiff: you have a 1 in 5 chance of ending up in a bbc recording, and a 1 in 3 chance of being glassed.
plymouth: post apocalyptic wind tunnel full of drunk sailors pissing on depressed hookers. do not enter.
penzance: everyone here is from london now.
london: no one from london is actually from london and even breathing is expensive.
cambridge: windy and full of equal amounts of homeless drug addicts and public schoolboys. the junkies are nicer.
oxford: same number of cunts as cambridge but easier to escape from due to all-night bus to london
edinburgh: a goth turned into a city. basically london but slightly more scottish.
glasgow: it is impossible to tell whether people are angry or happy.
aberdeen: las vegas at the point when vegas starts crying uncontrollably
belfast: do not order "an irish car bomb" OR "a black and tan" here.
wolverhampton: really, really don't.
norwich: count people's fingers. mutations walk here.
coventry: like plymouth, bombed flat in ww2. like plymouth, failed to take the hint. like plymouth: do not alight here.
peterborough: you probably got off the train to Edinburgh a couple of hours too early.

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Apr 01

jonnyornonny:

balinanddwalin:

you can tell a lot about a person by who they think should rule westeros

Rhaegar Targaryen should’ve succeeded his father, stopping all this bloody nonsense before it began.

He would have done if he had just made do with Elia and didn’t decide to run away with Lyanna. Which is coincidentally the same mistake Robb makes, you would’ve thought he’d know better.

(Source: serselmys)

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Mar 30

aqueousserenade:

coledownlow:

I love this quote. I love this movie.

This scene impressed me so much when I first saw it. It still fills me with… idk something. I love it.

(Source: moistowlettes)

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Mar 28