And I don’t care if you don’t get it. I get it.

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    7 months ago

    i mean, to be clear, this isn’t a doomsday weapon, this is what we call a mass casualty weapon.

    This is probably more closely related to starting a fire in the middle of a battlefield more than anything.

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        7 months ago

        i’m fun! You just need to be technically accurate when you’re having fun smh.

        Now to be fair, i do have an autistic interest in nuclear power, so i know more than the average person. But like, it only makes it funnier :)

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            i do have an autistic interest in nuclear power, so i know more than the average person. But like, it only makes it funnier

            “You know what’s funny?” Asked KillingTimeItself while flicking another match into the brush. “If we had the demon core here and I threw it and hit someone with it in such a way that it momentarily reached prompt criticality, it would be like stabbing them with the world’s slowest knife. Heck, even if you missed, it would still be like a cancer knife that would get them years later.”

            FlyingSquid looked on incredulously. “Man, that’s fucked up.”

            Just then, the brush caught fire, setting the active battlefield alight and casting a glow on TheFartographer’s face, who was jealous because he forgot to bring matches or a lighter. All three friends giggled and snuck away from the fire.

            Just then, TheFartographer got shot in the ass two inches from his butthole and died immediately. FlyingSquid and KillingTimeItself took TheFartographer’s shoes and looted his body, using the valuables to buy more matches in town. They really hadn’t gotten that close to TheFartographer in their time together and he could be a bit of a bastard.

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              you forgot the part where i would throw it at someone purely to do blunt force trauma because it turns out metal heavy.

              It’s just some gambling based on the fact that you might get some spicy electrons coming your way.

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      8 months ago

      It’s becoming a meme because every creator who has anything to do with nuclear or tragedy has covered the demon core.

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    The first time this thing killed someone was because they dropped a brick on it. The second time this thing killed someone was because they were fuckin around with it using a screwdriver

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      Yeah reading the Wikipedia article, the drop is unfortunate but the screwdriver bit, what a fucking moron. And he regularly did this while others observed, like fuck me if you’re going to be a dumbass, be a dumbass by yourself, dumbass.

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        Oh, for sure, the screwdriver was a “hold my beer” moment. The brick, though, I gotta disagree. While it was an unfortunate accident, we knew enough about radiation at that point to know even tiny accidents could delete you. Playing Legos around something I know could kill me in an attempt to ease it to the point of maybe almost killing me just sounds like a slightly better thought out way of asking someone to hold my beer

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    So like when, what I assume is an irradiated piece of metal, slipped in the back of Homer’s shirt he killed himself and like the entire town, right?

    The thing was glowing.

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    All it took is a good swing, and then your enemy are gone… as well as anything else in a couple of kilometers.

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      except for the fact that it would be more like 50m at most, assuming that you count still living for 20 years, and the fact that the person wielding the weapon has already melted into a puddle of goo by that point, yeah. It’s a weapon with a ranged attack.

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        Melee area effect weapons. There’s a wand of fireball in Balders Gate 3 that is bent and has melee range. This is like that, but the fire is only analogous to fire and the effect lasts longer and does damage slower