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[Iduno]

Is a flamethrower a firearm?

Is it attached to your shoulder?

[TamerVirus]

Then what’s Elon Musk’s Not-a-flamethrower, then?

[Kagus]

I call my flashlight a photon cannon, so it's fine

[Rolan7]

Yess exactly.

They're generally just an incendiary device. Not a gun of any sort. If you want a colloquial name, I hear "flamethrower" is in vogue

That's why it's a fire-arm not a fire-gun!  Swords and guns are armaments, surely a long-range incendiary device is too.
_{also arms are good at throwing}
Though to be clear, I agree it's not a firearm.

[Reelya]

I'd count it as a "fire arm" though, like a "laser gun" or "sound cannon".  Or by that token, "bullet gun".
I forget what it's called to use a noun like an adjective that way.  It might even be improper, but there's precedent

attributive nouns, apparently.

They're not improper because you use them all the time without thinking about it. Some examples I found - "history teacher". History isn't an adjective, but it's used that way in that example. "race horse" is another example. Other examples are "Alarm clock", "lemon tea", "school book", "grenade launcher" etc etc etc.

[Rolan7]

Is there a difference between "history teacher" and "alarm clock"? 
"Teacher" is based on the verb "to teach".  Is that related to "teacher" expecting a modifier like "history"?
"Clock" isn't from a verb.  We accept "alarm" as a modifier, like we accept "laser gun", but it feels different to me.

[MaxTheFox]

Ah. I was confused because in Russian "firearm" is translated to "огнестрельное оружие". Literally "fire-shooting weapon".

[Imic]

The Irish word for Gun is literally ‘Gunna’.

[Iduno]

Is there a difference between "history teacher" and "alarm clock"? 

One wakes you up, and the other puts you to sleep?

Ah. I was confused because in Russian "firearm" is translated to "огнестрельное оружие". Literally "fire-shooting weapon".

Yeah, the fire from the explosion that propels the bullet is sometimes visible. It's pretty neat.

[Naturegirl1999]

Last night I was listening to Terraria music and I started thinking about how cool a 3D virtual reality Terraria would be

[scourge728]

vivecraft

[Frumple]

Last night I was listening to Terraria music and I started thinking about how cool a 3D virtual reality Terraria would be

Alternatively kinda' terrifying. First person eye of cthulhu coming at you, especially second phase, could probably be pretty nightmare inducing. Gigantic screaming bloody tooth filled maw coming straight at your face like a friggin' freight train... and that's just the first boss. VR terraria would probably qualify as a horror game.

[dragdeler]

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[Kagus]

The Wall would be significantly more terrifying as well.

[Frumple]

Basically everything in terraria would be kinda' terrifying without the distance the side view et al provides. You sorta' need the separation to take an edge off things.

Take it another step and make the graphics basically realistic and you'd be a fair way towards pants-shitting. I think just about the only thing that's not approaching gruesome is, like, maybe the slimes, and most of the sky and hallow enemies (well, until a life-sized horse runs your ass down, anyway). Most of the rest if it's basically (hell, sometimes literally) straight out of horror genre critters. Bring that stuff to scale and de-cartoon it a bit and you'd be in like chainsaw horror territory. If you stop to think a bit about what exactly you're exploding into chunks it's a pretty messy game...