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[Necro910]

Why do we have five seperate words for gun projectile, anyway?

The bullet is the part that gets launched, a shell is basically just a round full of shot, a cartridge is everything but the bullet, a slug is pretty much a single giant round from a shotgun, and a round is the whole ammunition piece, if I recall correctly.

[Pray_for_Snow]

Why do we have five seperate words for gun projectile, anyway?

The bullet is the part that gets launched, a shell is basically just a round full of shot, a cartridge is everything but the bullet, a slug is pretty much a single giant round from a shotgun, and a round is the whole ammunition piece, if I recall correctly.

Then there are clips and magazines... which are really pretty simple to tell the difference between. Clips are rounds stacked together and held together in some way, magazines are containers in which rounds are stacked onto each other, and are detachable usually.

[PyroDesu]

And then you've got shot, which is the pellets in a shell
Then you have shell, but for the really big guns (Artillery) which is the round itself
And then there's missile and rocket, which are very different (One is a guided rocket, the other is anything that uses rocket propulsion, weapon or not)
Chaingun and minigun, (One is a machine gun that relies on external power to cycle the action, the other has multiple rotating barrels)
Munitions/Ordnance (The former is for all ammunition, the latter is for the big guns)

And so much more.

[ein]

It bothers me too, but it's not worth getting angry over~
You're better off politely expressing the difference to people~
They're more likely to retain it that way, too~

[Shinotsa]

And then you've got shot, which is the pellets in a shell
Then you have shell, but for the really big guns (Artillery) which is the round itself
And then there's missile and rocket, which are very different (One is a guided rocket, the other is anything that uses rocket propulsion, weapon or not)
Chaingun and minigun, (One is a machine gun that relies on external power to cycle the action, the other has multiple rotating barrels)
Munitions/Ordnance (The former is for all ammunition, the latter is for the big guns)

And so much more.

A missile is technically any projectile, thrown or launched. Though admittedly it is usually used to refer to rocked propelled ordinance. I was under the impression missiles were guided and rockets weren't. Granted just saying "guided rocket/missile" really takes the confusion out of it, but where's the fun in that? 

[Telgin]

The clip / magazine thing bugs me too, but not enough to get me worked up over it.

Now, sometimes my inner grammer inquisitor comes out and I read people mixing up then/than, screwing up there/their/they're, saying things like "I could care less", and so on.  It makes me rage inside for a few picoseconds, but not enough to bother actually saying anything.

[Shinotsa]

Telgin, your avatar made me rage. Not at you, no. Not even because I don't like Robotnik. I love Robotnik. My mom used to play Sonic when I was a baby to put me to sleep. Without him there would BE no Sonic since you can't have a protagonist without an antagonist. And hell, it's not like he ever poses an actual threat to anyone but himself.

But when people trivialize my favorite villain by calling him a completely ridiculous name it really gets me. I mean sure, he's a little rotund. Hell, he may even be shaped like an egg. But his villainy is in making ROBOTS to do his bidding. Not eggs! Excluding the death egg, but I choose to ignore that since it was filled with ROBOTS.

But to be honest I just didn't know until like 3 years ago that he even HAD another name. I don't really care much what his original name was intended to be, he was, is, and always will be that fat bastard Robotnik trying to ruin my day with easily predictable boss mechanics.

[Aklyon]

I'm completely with you on that, Shinotsa. Robotnik has a lot of robots, his giant ships are full of robots, and its just generally an cooler name than Eggman. Why did they change it?

[Rose]

Dr. Ivan Robotnik has NO OTHER NAME AND THAT'S FINAL!

[kaijyuu]

Isn't "eggman" a more accurate translation or something? A lot of his stuff is egg shaped so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a naming theme going on here.

[Aklyon]

Possibly, possibly not. But its like Balrog's Huzzah: First way is best way.

[MaximumZero]

kaijyuu apparently doesn't know what "And that's final" means.

[Tlc2011]

kaijyuu apparently doesn't know what "And that's final" means.

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When comparing that to the above poster [above zero's post]'s sig...

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[Euld]

From what I've been able to piece together, the Eggman thing came about from the comic, or something.  Apparently in the US version of the Sonic comics, Dr. Robotnik was successfully killed off ala betrayal from his nephew, Snively, and also Sonic beating the crud out of him.  After a number of episodes of Sonic and friends dealing with other villains, finding ancient relics, and converting Robotropolis to Mobotropolis, an alternate reality Dr. Robotnik showed up from space.  This Robotnik is the slimmer, weirder version seen in Sonic games today.  And apparently he goes by the name "Eggman."  I'm not sure why.  I may or may not be correct about this though.

Dr. Robotnik is still the better villain by far.

[Telgin]

Wow, I hadn't even thought of that, but yes, the whole Eggman vs. Robotnik thing makes me rage all day if I think about it.  Robotnik is my favorite villain ever.  He's been butchered beyond belief.  Actually, just everything that's happened to the Sonic franchise makes me rage.  They took my favorite video game franchise from my childhood and... destroyed it.

Anyway, as far as I've been able to deduce, Eggman has always been his name in Japan.  I don't care, Robotnik is just better than Eggman.  It also makes absolutely no sense to change it in the U.S. after he had been Robotnik for so many years.

Grr, this reminds me of how they ruined Mega Man X too... gah, everything I love gets ruined.