[Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Merk » Fri May 08, 2015 9:37 am

Look at all those 40s somethings and their fucking kids who they dragged to the meetings against their will.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Fri May 08, 2015 10:11 am

Do you think the average DDR player can dance better than the average pretend Jedi can swordfight?

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Post by Merk » Fri May 08, 2015 10:50 am

No, no I do not. I say that because swordfighting has a high floor and low skill ceiling. How fucking hard can it be to just swing a big piece of metal around?
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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Fri May 08, 2015 11:27 am

Thats a good troll. If anyone here took fencing or kendo, get ready for a mad reply.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Pokebis » Sat May 09, 2015 2:28 am

Here's my mad reply.
I actually fenced épée a long time ago. Not exactly a lightsaber; it's a thrusting sword and the goal is to stab the other person with the tip before they stab you with your tip and you use the bellguard to parry and you can riposte and dodge and stuff. They had a nice little system where the tip of the sword had a device on it that detected a successful stab which was especially useful since sometimes each fencer's stab was within milliseconds of each other. I didn't play for very long, but it's a bit like the footsies in neutral in Street Fighter 4 except with your whole body and all of your attacks use your sword.

Honestly not sure how lightsaber duels would work, but I'd guess it's more similar to saber fencing? I've never fenced saber before so I can't comment on that. All the "lightsaber" fights I see is fat guys in T-shirts or bad cosplay repeatedly wacking each other's sword at weird angles and never actually attempting to hit the other person (which is probably a good thing because they aren't wearing protective wear). I can't really give a proper analysis on the skill involved in the game since I don't know the rules and have never tried it.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Riot » Sat May 09, 2015 10:22 am

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by SoDeepPolaris » Mon May 11, 2015 11:50 am

Pokebis wrote:Here's my mad reply.
I actually fenced épée a long time ago. Not exactly a lightsaber; it's a thrusting sword and the goal is to stab the other person with the tip before they stab you with your tip and you use the bellguard to parry and you can riposte and dodge and stuff. They had a nice little system where the tip of the sword had a device on it that detected a successful stab which was especially useful since sometimes each fencer's stab was within milliseconds of each other. I didn't play for very long, but it's a bit like the footsies in neutral in Street Fighter 4 except with your whole body and all of your attacks use your sword.

Honestly not sure how lightsaber duels would work, but I'd guess it's more similar to saber fencing? I've never fenced saber before so I can't comment on that. All the "lightsaber" fights I see is fat guys in T-shirts or bad cosplay repeatedly wacking each other's sword at weird angles and never actually attempting to hit the other person (which is probably a good thing because they aren't wearing protective wear). I can't really give a proper analysis on the skill involved in the game since I don't know the rules and have never tried it.
But if it was a real sword fight and you both stabbed each other within milliseconds, isn't there no real winner?
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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Merk » Wed May 13, 2015 9:50 am

Do you think when Spanish was evolving that they fat-fingered the "j" key and that's why the "j" sounds like a "h"?

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Merk » Wed May 13, 2015 9:47 pm

I guess you can gamble on Starcraft 2 matches now on the ol' bookie:

http://sports.bovada.lv/sports-betting/other-sports.jsp
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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Thu May 14, 2015 8:24 am

I bet you could make pretty good money if you knew vidya pretty well.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Pokebis » Fri May 15, 2015 12:41 am

SoDeepPolaris wrote:But if it was a real sword fight and you both stabbed each other within milliseconds, isn't there no real winner?
Not if the rules are whoever gets stabbed first loses.
The swords have a switch on the tip of them and you're wearing protective gear so your skin shouldn't be penetrated so you're only stabbed being in the sense of the motion. It can still hurt a bit, but it won't cause any damage.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Ho » Fri May 15, 2015 9:24 am

I think he's saying that if it were a real sword fight and not fencing, the result of both opponents getting stabbed within milliseconds would be that both opponents die and are therefore losers. :P
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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Pokebis » Fri May 15, 2015 8:27 pm

That's true, but it's not a real swordfight.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Post by Potter » Sat May 16, 2015 10:22 pm

Ho wrote:if it were a real sword fight and not fencing
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