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Blizzlord

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Why the mining picks?
« on: March 21, 2012, 01:38:04 am »

After having done some absurd adamantine science resulting in that adamantine is shaped by a combination of dwarven psionics and faceplanting I wonder the following: why do dwarves need picks to mine rock when they can just smash it with the psionic forcesface?
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2012, 01:50:12 am »

They use the picks to amplify and focus their psionic abilities to compress and obliterate the rock and make those small lumps of rock/metal we see.
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2012, 02:16:03 am »

Mining guild regulations. Hitting rough stone walls with your face leads to sever beard damage.
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 02:33:51 am »

Dwarves need anvils to channel whatever energy it is they use to shape metals.

You don't want them lugging anvils around all day, do you?
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2012, 04:18:39 am »

Because their forehead, that they use as we all know to hammer metal into the desired shape, is not fitted to break rock.

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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2012, 04:21:05 am »

Dwarves were bound to hit rock walls with something, Originally many different tools were invented, and the miners were told to take their pick   :P
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2012, 04:28:57 am »

Dwarves need anvils to channel whatever energy it is they use to shape metals.

You don't want them lugging anvils around all day, do you?
Depends, how good a weapon is a steel anvil?

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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2012, 05:58:05 am »

Dwarves need anvils to channel whatever energy it is they use to shape metals.

You don't want them lugging anvils around all day, do you?
Depends, how good a weapon is a steel anvil?
Or a lead anvil, but if you wanna lug it around make it out of adamantine, they're pointy remember
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2012, 06:15:38 am »

Dwarves were bound to hit rock walls with something, Originally many different tools were invented, and the miners were told to take their pick   :P

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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2012, 06:59:27 am »

minging pickaxes are actually hyperintelligent symbiotic lifeforms made of pure energy that project a physical "shell" into the world. Unfortunately, they forgot to give the shell the ability to move. Dwarves abuse this and force the lifeforms to amplify their own psychic abilities in exchange for freedrom that will never be given to them.
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2012, 08:51:46 am »

Dwarves were bound to hit rock walls with something, Originally many different tools were invented, and the miners were told to take their pick   :P


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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2012, 08:53:40 am »

You seem to have missed the past five years.  The puns never ended.

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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2012, 11:42:54 am »

Dwarves were bound to hit rock walls with something, Originally many different tools were invented, and the miners were told to take their pick   :P

Indeed, and many cries of 'mine' were heard that day.

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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2012, 11:44:17 am »

They use them to pick their teeth. Obviously.

http://i.imgur.com/JThqm.jpg
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Re: Why the mining picks?
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2012, 11:52:39 am »

They use them to pick their teeth. Obviously.

http://i.imgur.com/JThqm.jpg

The Miner strikes Himself in the lower left tooth with his *iron pick* and the severed part sails off in an arc !


...wrong picking ?
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