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#10001 Post by Aaron »

Civil War Man wrote:Three words: Black powder musket.

Cleaning that shit is one thing I don't miss about reenacting.
Do you use actual powder?

Cause I use pyrodex

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#10002 Post by Zod »

Losonti Tokash wrote:when you were shooting guns did you get actual instruction or was it like "hey here's a rifle there's a target go nuts"

i took marksmanship as a class in high school for 2.5 years so i'm curious
it was about 15-20 years ago so i'm not entirely sure, but it was an actual class (in theory)

but i think this was before we found out my eyesight was completely shit and i started wearing glasses
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#10003 Post by Losonti Tokash »

well yeah if you needed glasses and didn't know it that might be an issue

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#10004 Post by Civil War Man »

Aaron wrote:
Civil War Man wrote:Three words: Black powder musket.

Cleaning that shit is one thing I don't miss about reenacting.
Do you use actual powder?

Cause I use pyrodex
I used the real stuff. FFg black powder.

Basically had to give it a quick field cleaning after every single battle, then a real cleaning when I got back home. Otherwise it'd misfire more often than not by Sunday.

Substitutes were not recommended in general, especially not in the group I ran with. If I remember correctly, it was a safety concern. We used caplocks, and the percussion caps don't always produce a big enough spark to ignite pyrodex.

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#10005 Post by RogueIce »

So, about that whole pacifism thing, I have a counter-argument for you, adr.

Even Captain Picard had to lock phasers and fire sometimes. And Captain Picard is never evil.

WHAT NOW? :colbert:

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#10006 Post by Phantasee »

RogueIce wrote:So, about that whole pacifism thing, I have a counter-argument for you, adr.

Even Captain Picard had to lock phasers and fire sometimes. And Captain Picard is never evil.

WHAT NOW? :colbert:
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#10007 Post by Veef »

Phantasee wrote: CHECKMATE

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#10008 Post by adr-admin »

when analyzing the holy scripture, it is important to remember that the word of god is delivered to us in many ways and indeed can even be interpreted differently by heretics than how it is correctly interperted

captain picard has a pure heart (lol) and a keen mind

but sometimes pure hearts and keen minds can make mistakes, so the question we have to ask is did the story present this as a good thing and did it work out well in the end

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#10009 Post by adr-admin »

whoa i just had a philosophical epiphany

is an action right because captain picard does it?

is does captain picard do it because it is right?

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#10010 Post by Zod »

captain picard condones sitting by and letting entire populations die if they aren't warp-capable :troll:
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#10011 Post by Aaron »

Maybe you shouldn't base your morality on a tv show.

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#10012 Post by Zablorg »

you're right

that's not what captain picard would do

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#10013 Post by adr-admin »

besides the prime directive as seen through the holy canon is just

you know

by definition

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#10014 Post by adr-admin »

adr wrote:by definition
OR IS IT????????????
adr wrote:does captain picard do it because it is right?
but wait a minute

are you trying to tell me that we might be able to have morality without picard?

:psypop:

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#10015 Post by RogueIce »

adr wrote:are you trying to tell me that we might be able to have morality without picard?
Well of course.

This is why we have The Sisko.

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#10016 Post by RogueIce »

Aaron wrote:Maybe you shouldn't base your morality on a tv show.
Better than basing it on some dusty old book. :troll:

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#10017 Post by Zod »

RogueIce wrote:
Aaron wrote:Maybe you shouldn't base your morality on a tv show.
Better than basing it on some dusty old book. :troll:
i beg to differ

machiavelli is a font of wisdom for the ages
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#10018 Post by Akhlut »

Zod wrote:i beg to differ

machiavelli is a font of wisdom for the ages
I think that the Discourses on Livy were well-suited for Renaissance governments, but I don't think they'd apply all that well to the modern era.

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#10019 Post by The Spartan »

How hard is it to clean out and otherwise maintain a black powder rifle? I've never owned one, but I've occasionally thought about getting a Hawken.

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#10020 Post by Aaron »

Bought the same as a regular one I find. The flintlock itself is rather annoying but it takes about the same amount of time.

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#10021 Post by Aaron »

Oh, you gotta make sure to get any powder residue out because it absorbs water, making rust an issue.

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#10022 Post by Veef »

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 7#p3680717
Same reason you don't see any more straight sci-fi about the jungles of Venus, or food pills, or anything else real scientists have actually tested and received negative results for: Science fiction fans tend to know a bit about actual science, and will be unable to take you seriously.
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#10023 Post by Akhlut »

Man, if someone made a movie about the jungles of Venus today and it wasn't shitty, I'd enjoy it. I mean, shit, the only person who reasonably gets the science right, ever, is James Cameron, while most directors/writers/whatever tend to be liberal arts people and thus know approximately jack and shit about most science (not that that is really a personal failing, obviously).


Also, Her Majesty's Shithead pretty much came out and said that he hates everyone darker than alabaster.

I wonder if he's one of those BNP chucklefucks.

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#10024 Post by Aaron »

I would totally watch a show about jungle Venus. I wish I could remember the name of the novel I read about a naval war on Venus.

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#10025 Post by starku »

all the buck rogers xxv century ones

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