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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't want to bodyshame, but man, that is an ugly gun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It’s the plastic lower, isn’t it?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's going to be gaymores next.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You mean the cousin of Seymour Asses? The asexual dog Gaymore Asses?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't want to offend anyone, but this sword is STRAIGHT

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

that's why I only use sabres and katanas ;-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

well, they're not straight, and they go nicely with my fedora...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You slay, babe

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Not when I'm done with it

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Swords clash with other swords. Swords were always gay.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But swords are also sheathed ! or... is that an allegory for closeted ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing you don't have your foreskin?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tactical transition? Is that for when you want your deadname to stay dead?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

A while back, someone suggested that only women should be allowed to own handguns, and that the guns should all be painted baby pink.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow, this actually exists? I thought it was a joke from this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2411696/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's nothin'! You wanna see some weird bombs? Watch this!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ooof. I hope that's a stain and not heat discoloration, otherwise that's not a sword, but a sword-shaped wall decoration.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hard to say, I've never seen a heat affected zone look like that. I also haven't foraged a sword.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I didn't know you can forage for swords.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you look in the right place, at the right season, there's all kind of swords to be foraged. Delicious with garlic and parsley

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Especially abundant near lakes in Britain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, my buddy Art foraged such a nice sword. Everybody calls him a king now. He even made a council like in the LoTR.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just moistened binks lobbing scimitars everywhere out there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

What if mine was given to me by a watery tart?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Poking the same sex since 3300BC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Don't tell him about stainless tig welding

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

slayyy ⚔️💑

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Heat affected zone on that sword is fucking ridiculous. Sure, you made it harder, but it'll shatter more easily, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Could just be a color casing process.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Uh... You might be confusing welding and heat treating concepts...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'll admit my knowledge of metallurgy is informed by a background in welding, but it's my understanding that the colors on that blade can only happen with a large temperature difference between the middle and its ends, likely as a result of the maker using a benzene torch on it for a few minutes. This high heat is going to do the same thing to the blade as it does during welding: it fucks up the temper. Heat treating is more than just making the metal hot; you have to make it uniformely hot, for a specific amount of time, and then cool it gradually and under control. Doing that doesn't give you the pretty colors, but it does give you stronger metal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I won't say that this blade is properly heat treated; it probably isn't. In welding, the problem is the wide variation of heat affects in a very small zone. You can have material that is very brittle just millimeters away from material that is very soft and ductile.

You're describing "normalization", which is a process that makes steel uniformly tough, but "plastic". When you flex it, it bends, and stays bent. "Annealing" is a similar process, where the temperature is raised a bit higher, and the cooling slowed even more. "Annealing" leaves the steel very soft.

In tool making, you're first looking for high hardness (acquired with a "quenching" process). This makes it very brittle; it has no elasticity.

Next, you're dialing back that hardness with a "tempering" process, which is done at a lower temperature than the normalization process, and the cooling can be much faster. When tempered, it's still very hard, (significantly harder than "normalized") but now it is slightly elastic. It will flex, but beyond a critical point, it just snaps; it probably won't take on a permanent bend.

These colors are oxide layers that form at temperatures in the "tempering" range.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I didn't know they added swords to CS2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I cast Scholar's Armanent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reading this made me instantly have the gay frogs song stuck in my head again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Frogs friggin frogs turn the fricking frogs GAY!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ok, but the frogs were becoming gay. Not saying Alex Jones is a decent person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Praise gaben

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

First the frogs. Then the togs. Then some blogs. Now these too?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They're called chem-flames

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You bleed rainbows when cut.

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