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2012/03/19 18:34:10
Subject: Re:Those shiny power weapons...
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Fixture of Dakka
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mrwhoop wrote:A milk jug is not a single molecule thick edge sir.
But it is only one molecule. People are just being wowed by a buzzword.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
Freelance Ontologist
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. |
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2012/03/19 19:00:27
Subject: Re:Those shiny power weapons...
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Fixture of Dakka
On a boat, Trying not to die.
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DarknessEternal wrote:mrwhoop wrote:A milk jug is not a single molecule thick edge sir.
But it is only one molecule. People are just being wowed by a buzzword.
Mono Molecular in 40k refers to a weapon with a edge that is a molecule thick, allowing for a extreme cut with a lot of penetration.
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Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted At Times To Spit On His Hands, Hoist That Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats. |
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2012/03/20 00:30:50
Subject: Re:Those shiny power weapons...
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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DarknessEternal wrote:mrwhoop wrote:A milk jug is not a single molecule thick edge sir.
But it is only one molecule. People are just being wowed by a buzzword.
No, it isn't. The thickness of a milk jug is several billion molecules of some plastic or glass mixture, depending on what kind of milk jug we're talking about.
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It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised. |
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2012/03/20 00:37:09
Subject: Re:Those shiny power weapons...
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Banelord Titan Princeps of Khorne
Noctis Labyrinthus
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They're blue because they are Force weapons, and that is the color of a Grey Knight's focused psychic power.
That's basically it.
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2012/03/20 02:16:02
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Seattle
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Powerfields are often described in the fluff as a blue-white glow, or arcing bands of power, similar to electricity. Kind of how the payload of a plasma weapon is generally considered to be a blue ball or bolt, it's just a commonly-accepted description of the technology. This is, of course, not universal, as Commissar Hark's plasma pistol in the Gaunt's Ghosts novels is often described as firing a beam or stream of plasma, killing several targets with every squeeze of the trigger.
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It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised. |
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2012/03/25 02:56:16
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Hellacious Havoc
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DarknessEternal wrote:Some people don't seem to understand mono-molecular either. A milk jug is mono-molecular. It doesn't cut through very much.
Definition of MONOMOLECULAR
: being only one molecule thick
milk jugs aren't monomolecular my friend, at least the ones i use aren't
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Happiness is a delusion of the weak.
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2012/03/25 05:11:13
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Mutated Chosen Chaos Marine
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And unless you have a very well furnished lab available, your milk jug won't contain only one type of molecule either.
Anyway, the blue could be from the field destroying dirt oxidised molecules on the surface of the blade, leaving it with a blue sheen for some reason.
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Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. You can play the best chess in the world, but at the end of the day the pigeon will still knock all the pieces off the board and then gak all over it. |
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2012/03/25 05:17:42
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Fixture of Dakka
West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA
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My power weapons are metallic blue, because it looks cool to me, I am a mediocre painter, and I can't do the cool lightning effect any justice. 
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