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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27330 on: February 16, 2013, 10:09:07 am »

Was in the middle of a wiki-crawl when I came across this:

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According to a document, the Iranki, when Nobunaga was inspecting Iga province — which his army had devastated — a group of three ninja shot at him with large-caliber firearms. The shots flew wide of Nobunaga, however, and instead killed seven of his surrounding companions.

It was sourced to a published work, so I'm assuming that the research is accurate. In which case, I hope that the ninja were carrying multiple guns each, otherwise I'd have to wonder how they managed to kill seven people with three shots from 1570s-standard man-portable firearms.  :o
They weren't standard, they were actually closer to cannons. Needed to be to have a chance at taking out Nobunaga!

I'm imagining a cross between a sawed off and a rpg.
A sawed off grenade launcher?

Nice...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27331 on: February 16, 2013, 10:52:48 am »

Was in the middle of a wiki-crawl when I came across this:

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According to a document, the Iranki, when Nobunaga was inspecting Iga province — which his army had devastated — a group of three ninja shot at him with large-caliber firearms. The shots flew wide of Nobunaga, however, and instead killed seven of his surrounding companions.

It was sourced to a published work, so I'm assuming that the research is accurate. In which case, I hope that the ninja were carrying multiple guns each, otherwise I'd have to wonder how they managed to kill seven people with three shots from 1570s-standard man-portable firearms.  :o
They weren't standard, they were actually closer to cannons. Needed to be to have a chance at taking out Nobunaga!

I'm imagining a cross between a sawed off and a rpg.
A sawed off grenade launcher?

Nice...
Could have been buckshot/grapeshot, guys.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27332 on: February 16, 2013, 12:15:42 pm »

Was in the middle of a wiki-crawl when I came across this:

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According to a document, the Iranki, when Nobunaga was inspecting Iga province — which his army had devastated — a group of three ninja shot at him with large-caliber firearms. The shots flew wide of Nobunaga, however, and instead killed seven of his surrounding companions.

It was sourced to a published work, so I'm assuming that the research is accurate. In which case, I hope that the ninja were carrying multiple guns each, otherwise I'd have to wonder how they managed to kill seven people with three shots from 1570s-standard man-portable firearms.  :o
They weren't standard, they were actually closer to cannons. Needed to be to have a chance at taking out Nobunaga!

I'm imagining a cross between a sawed off and a rpg.
A sawed off grenade launcher?

Nice...
Could have been buckshot/grapeshot, guys.
Sawed-off grenade launcher is cooler.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27333 on: February 16, 2013, 02:08:13 pm »

Just another day on the road in Russia. The one just before is pretty good too.

These videos are as bad as tvtropes and in endless, renewable supply.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27334 on: February 16, 2013, 02:16:47 pm »

Just another day on the road in Russia. The one just before is pretty good too.

These videos are as bad as tvtropes and in endless, renewable supply.

They really are. It's a moderately different sort of magnetic attraction, though.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27335 on: February 16, 2013, 04:03:55 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27337 on: February 16, 2013, 05:19:06 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27338 on: February 16, 2013, 05:48:58 pm »

"I didn't wanna do any of those things until you specifically told me not to...."

This. This is not the response I was hoping for.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27339 on: February 16, 2013, 05:51:00 pm »

"I didn't wanna do any of those things until you specifically told me not to...."

This. This is not the response I was hoping for.
To be fair, being told to not do something does make doing it seem a lot more interesting.
Though no better of an idea.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27340 on: February 16, 2013, 06:11:20 pm »

To be fair, being told to not do something does make doing it seem a lot more interesting.
Though no better of an idea.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27341 on: February 16, 2013, 06:48:27 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27342 on: February 16, 2013, 10:55:48 pm »

Windows 8 has managed to fuck up notepad to the point where it is no longer usable for plaintext editing. It makes "helpful" formatting changes for you, utterly mangling any plaintext document you save while using this.

Let this set in for a moment.

Windows 8 has failed to correctly implement a basic text editor they already perfected a dozen years ago.

This is what we have come to.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27343 on: February 16, 2013, 11:03:48 pm »

I have a Windows 8 related gripe too. Well, not exactly Windows 8 related. Basically, I came to acquire a rather new small laptop recently. It's extremely crappy, and is the slowest piece of shit ever. Windows 8 runs very slowly on it, and it came pre-installed. I decided I'd install a Linux Distro on it, and I spent awhile downloading it and installing it onto the computer. When I try to boot up the different operating system, it doesn't work. I do a bit of research, and it turns out that newer laptops of that model have a certain option turned on that fucks up any other different operating systems besides windows 8. You can apparently turn it off, but some models don't even give you the option to turn it off. Guess which kind of model I have?

So basically I have a piece of shit laptop that has Windows 8 running on it, and I can't install a different OS onto it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #27344 on: February 16, 2013, 11:03:56 pm »

Considering Notepad is basically identical to the Windows 3.x notepad (but rebuilt for bigger memory models) it's more like 25 years old.
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