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More people died by the spear than the sword, and if you don't like my opinion, I'll shove it up your ass with sharp stick! (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Long stick > any other melee weapon

[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (2 children)

the bow and arrow is just a logical extension of mankind's desire to poke each other at ever longer range.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

The natural wish to poke but not get poked back

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

rock->spear->bow and arrow->cannon->handheld cannon->auto-repeating handheld cannon->howitzer->ICBM->Predator drone

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

->relativistic kill vehicle.

You see it coming, omae wa mou shindeiru.

Only thing more scary would be triggering a vacuum decay event. But these tend to backfire quite spectacularly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Orbital weapons platforms fit in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Gotta have that reach.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Aliens see us as the water balloon planet.