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[scrdest]

I guess that's *kinda* what the Dresden Files were like?
I'd love to see more of that though.

The first two books at least were pretty much exactly that. IIRC the first scene in the first book is literally a crime scene investigation, except both the crime and investigation are magical.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Law and Order: Wizard City

COME ON! Who here would POUNCE on this show? A Law Procedural show based in a magical, yet modern, realm with forensics and everything.

I'd eat that garbage up!

HECK I always wanted to read the Super Hero law Procedural comic where one of the villains was a sex offender who transforms into household objects like chairs for women to sit on... and one of the cops is a super intelligent Doberman with cybernetic implants allowing him to walk around and grasp things.

Woudn't the sex offender try to become a loofah or vibrator instead? (I am reminded of that scene from Stripes....)

[GiglameshDespair]

So I was watching... HOLY COW I don't remember the name... Peel and Teller? Whatever a clip from some Comedy Show... I'll spare you the details of the clip... but it ends with a title drop

Law and Order: Wizard City

COME ON! Who here would POUNCE on this show? A Law Procedural show based in a magical, yet modern, realm with forensics and everything.

I'd eat that garbage up!

HECK I always wanted to read the Super Hero law Procedural comic where one of the villains was a sex offender who transforms into household objects like chairs for women to sit on... and one of the cops is a super intelligent Doberman with cybernetic implants allowing him to walk around and grasp things.

You're talking about Mexican Standoff (ft. Key & Peele) by RocketJump

[Rose]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_(TV_series)

[scriver]

So I was watching... HOLY COW I don't remember the name... Peel and Teller? Whatever a clip from some Comedy Show... I'll spare you the details of the clip... but it ends with a title drop

Law and Order: Wizard City

COME ON! Who here would POUNCE on this show? A Law Procedural show based in a magical, yet modern, realm with forensics and everything.

I'd eat that garbage up!

HECK I always wanted to read the Super Hero law Procedural comic where one of the villains was a sex offender who transforms into household objects like chairs for women to sit on... and one of the cops is a super intelligent Doberman with cybernetic implants allowing him to walk around and grasp things.

You're talking about Mexican Standoff (ft. Key & Peele) by RocketJump

That was great

[Sonlirain]

So... i learned that in my country i can l buy a black powder weapon. No questions asked other than a personal ID.
And i can posses (and buy) as much black powder as i want but i'm not allowed to sell it... and neither is the shop.

Yay guns i guess?

Anyone knows how to make black powder?

[Orange Wizard]

Off the top of my head, it's five parts saltpetre, one part charcoal, one part sulphur.

Anyway, where do you live? America?

[Lightningfalcon]

All I remember is that you could farm some of the components you needed by getting a bunch of people to pee on a row of dirt. So better get working on that.

[Akura]

There's quite a few tutorials for DIY black powder.

What you can't make is the quality smokeless powder used in modern bullets. That requires expertise, large-scale manufacturing equipment, and hope that it doesn't explode in your face. There's apparently only one factory in the US for it, and I think they've had to relocate more than once because it blew up.

And the primer used to fire the bullet is even more difficult to make.

[GiglameshDespair]

You wouldn't want to use modern smokeless powders in a musket anyway; it's quite likely it wouldn't have the tolerances for it.

[Sonlirain]

Anyway, where do you live? America?

Slavland.

It's most likely a hole in the law no one bothered to patch up and sprouted into a low key but relatively popular hobby.
It only got some recognition lately because someone shot a robber armed with a knife in self defense and wrecked his hip.

So basically fun times.

[wobbly]

Your link is borked, at least for me. As to the question, no idea but probably cheaper, easier & more reliable, just to buy the stuff. Unless making it yourself is part of the fun, of course...

[Sonlirain]

Didn't you have me on your ignore list?
As for the link... i linked the google translate version of the site... and you are right. It has some issues. I think i managed to fix it tho.
I wouldn't personally make black powder for myself i was just making fun of the weird law that lets me buy a gun and be in possession of ammo/powder for it but not legally buy said powder without an European gun licence.
Or to be more exact i CAN buy black powder. It's just that shops are not allowed to sell it to me.

Basically it's a tangled mess where you can buy a gun like you buy a sack of potatoes and you are in theory allowed to fire it but all the steps between you and actually firing the weapon are basically this.

[wobbly]

Yeah works now. & nah didn't actually. As a general rule I don't actually ignore people & if I make an exception for 1 person I'd have to make an exception for everybody. I wouldn't take everything you read at face value.

& yep some laws are ridiculous that way. For some thing's I actually like it & think it works. Discourages you from doing it, without their being a big fuss for the hobbiest who have a genuine interest.

[Frumple]

Law and Order: Wizard City

COME ON! Who here would POUNCE on this show? A Law Procedural show based in a magical, yet modern, realm with forensics and everything.

... on one hand, that last sentence could be pretty interesting. On the other hand, I'm also pretty sure being a Law and Order spinoff is about the fastest way that exists to strangle a concept in the cradle, so that particular incarceration would probably be some variation of terrible.

But maybe it would give some competent screenwriter/TV developer the inspiration/excuse to make something nice? So I guess that's as good a reason for another Law and Order series to be made as you'll get.