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[Peanut]

Oh, hey, guys! Wut's goin on in here?

[Cure]

Lame jokes, bad games being played. The usual.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

Deadliest Warrior on 360. Not being a fan of the show's gross historical inaccuracies

Wait...you're actually complaining about the historical inaccuracies of Deadliest Warrior? The whole thing is about seeing cool weapons being used, how could possibly be bothered by that? And really, unless the "experts" are using weapons that weren't actually used by the warriors they're representing, how else could the show be inaccurate anyways?

[Peanut]

So, it's business as usual? Good to know.

[Brodie]

Did you guys see Doom trying to brag about getting tail?

That dame looks 12, I wouldn't be touting being regarded as a possible sex offender at the mall, yo.

[Peanut]

My favourite part is that everyone just ignored him.

[XERO]

My favorite part was the car chase.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Wait...you're actually complaining about the historical inaccuracies of Deadliest Warrior? The whole thing is about seeing cool weapons being used, how could possibly be bothered by that? And really, unless the "experts" are using weapons that weren't actually used by the warriors they're representing, how else could the show be inaccurate anyways?

That's exactly what. They are shoving random weapons into the fighters' hands, mostly based on pop culture depictions.

[XERO]

They should use Caster Troy's guns from Face/Off.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

That's exactly what. They are shoving random weapons into the fighters' hands, mostly based on pop culture depictions.

I'm actually really interested to know which ones were incorrect. It seems odd that they'd just grab whatever weapons they had laying around for use in these things. I even personally know the dude who was the expert for the Russian Spetsnaz in that episode, through my fiance, and I certainly don't see him allowing them to just hand him a weapon they would have never used.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I'm actually really interested to know which ones were incorrect. It seems odd that they'd just grab whatever weapons they had laying around for use in these things. I even personally know the dude who was the expert for the Russian Spetsnaz in that episode, through my fiance, and I certainly don't see him allowing them to just hand him a weapon they would have never used.

Well seeing as how my background is mostly (though not totally) in Eastern weaponry, I can pick out just a couple off of the top of my head:

-They gave the Yakuza nunchaku and sai. The only traditional Japanese weapon Yakuza use are katana, and not even that often - it's not like they walk around town with one strapped to them at all times. They mostly use knives and of course, guns. Also, they used a Walter P38 as the representative of the Yakuza's gun, and I'm not certain, but I don't think those are standard issue.

-The samurai were wielding kanabo like it was an everyday field weapon, but the truth is, very few samurai used it because it's f***ing HEAVY. There's a reason there was a myth that the superstrong oni were amongst the few to be able to use it - because you had to be able to lift this HUGE solid iron club above your head.

-Ninja were given the ninjatou, but there is no historical evidence showing that such a weapon even existed prior to the 1950's, where active combat ninja had dwindled to nothing (the sad thing is, there's quotation, supposedly from my ninpo grandmaster on the Wikipedia page supporting its existence, when he's been a detractor of the weapon's existence in history. Stupid Wikipedia). Also, although it's not inaccurate, I find it ludicrous that they would choose the "black egg", a weapon specifically designed to not kill, in a show about testing a weapon's killing strength. Same with the shuriken, although they were known to strike fatal blows on occasion.

I also know a bit about CIA weaponry, and let me tell you, unless it was a top secret project, there is no way they use "exploding cigars". And if it was that top secret, they wouldn't be showing those on television. There's scuttlebutt that it was used in a Castro assassination attempt, but as far as I know that was a myth and a joke.

[Peanut]

Seems to me more like you're nitpicking than anything else. Just because a weapon is used sparingly doesn't mean anything, it's a cool weapon that WAS used, so why not show it off? It's not like they go into super detail about the uses of many of the weapons anyways, and they're certainly not going out and saying "THIS WAS A STANDARD ISSUE WEAPON THAT EVERY *BLANK* USED AND THAT'S A HISTORICAL FACT!". Who wants to see a dude wielding a regular old knife when they could be using a Sai or a hidden shoe-blade anyways? That's just good TV sense.

And showing off yet more standard issue firearms in an episode about the CIA and KGB would have been a huge missed opportunity. They even point out in the episode that the cigar was never actually used, and they were just showing it off for fun.

And how did I know that you'd specifically find problems with the Japanese warriors. Almost as if people who study Japanese crap end up being the most picky about minute details. I even recall the hosts commenting on how butt-hurt Japanophiles got over the Ninja losing to the Spartan.

[愛]

I don't mean to sound mean (or even insult myself), but people who study Japanese crap love to show off how much they know as a way of, I dunno...getting more friends or feeling superior or something. I see it all the time, and I catch myself doing it fairly often. It's a horrible habit.

[Ninjinister]

I'm trying to figure out how your request for my input turned into a tirade against weeaboos. The logic doesn't connect.

[Cure]

Got my first S-Rank with Borderlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaands.

[Peanut]

God. Finally finishing the last possible quest in Borderlands was super emotional for me.

[Wingnut]

I brake for garage sales...

[ThirdMarioBro]

Haha. Sweet score. Nothing like a boxed Super Nintendo game. Got this some time ago at a garage sell. Finally got it working and playable.



I made another score during the great Oklahoma arcade purge of 2010 (amusement rate hike is causing everybody to dump their arcade warez). Behold, my beauty -- picked up form a bar for cheap.

[The Clerk]

Just got Red Dead Redemption and Fallout 3 for my 360S.

Also condemned 1 and 2 for ten bucks total.

And yet, I still find myself playd COD MW2 most...

[Ninjinister]

Ooh, shiny.