I knew we should have researched pottery instead of animal husbandry... Civilization V
Hang on, this isn't a Nintendo game. What's going on?
thunderstruck still has a ridiculous amount of katana wankery (though any amount greater than 0 is ridiculous)
"A real Japanese-forged katana like that is as sacred as it gets"
COME ON
If you can't laugh at it, I pity thee. TS has so much over-the-top shit like this, it's like the only webcom I've lol'd at audibly for the last few weeks. That goddamn flashback just a page back or so for example.
Edit: Oh, and the story has actually started going places now, so it's a sort-of interesting read besides the comedy value.
In ergo: Good webcomic.
Theres nothing redeeming about it no matter how often you post how sad it is we're to dumb to appreciatie it .
Getting a reallysalty vibe from this post but at least you didn't pull the old fetish comic card so I guess we're good.
I'm just at a loss understanding how eager the "offended!" stance has been in here for the last coupl'a months?
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I knew we should have researched pottery instead of animal husbandry... Civilization V
Hang on, this isn't a Nintendo game. What's going on?
thunderstruck still has a ridiculous amount of katana wankery (though any amount greater than 0 is ridiculous)
"A real Japanese-forged katana like that is as sacred as it gets"
COME ON
If you can't laugh at it, I pity thee. TS has so much over-the-top shit like this, it's like the only webcom I've lol'd at audibly for the last few weeks. That goddamn flashback just a page back or so for example.
Edit: Oh, and the story has actually started going places now, so it's a sort-of interesting read besides the comedy value.
In ergo: Good webcomic.
Theres nothing redeeming about it no matter how often you post how sad it is we're to dumb to appreciatie it .
Getting a reallysalty vibe from this post but at least you didn't pull the old fetish comic card so I guess we're good.
I'm just at a loss understanding how eager the "offended!" stance has been in here for the last coupl'a months?
There have always been comics that will have a disproportionate amount of people in the thread getting aggressively mad at for being bad. I think that's the real reason the thread is always on the edge of being banned, not the reasons people always worry about.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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I don't think any comic posted in this thread is so outright offensive enough that it mandates someone demanding it not be hosted on Imgur (and therefore not hotlinking) so they can AdBlock it rather than scroll past.
Never thought it'd be this hard, but it was and my commencement is the 10th of June and I'm excited! After that I still have to work on rewrites but no more classes and since the goal was always to come back to comics after school was done, that's exactly what I'm going to do. This means The Fox Sister's moving from the bottom of my priorities back up to the top and finally, FINALLY, we're going to finish this puppy off!
Seventeen pages to go and then it's onto the next story!
So perhaps it will start again soon?
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what if someone did that thousand fold rigmarole to actual good metal
is there some rich awful nerd who commissioned and owns what really is best blade ever forged by man
but it has like, sailor moon on it
The problem with the "thousand fold" thing is that there's more to steel than the number of times it has been folded, and there comes a point where you fold it too much and ruin it.
The folding process doesn't make good steel better - it's just a way of taking iron of inconsistent quality, and the folding ends up averaging all that shit out, so now there's no weak spot. There's early European swords that do the same technique, but it mostly stops once they get better smelting, because a tool that's about as good but takes a quarter of the time to make is a better tool.
It's the problem with just saying the sharpest sword is the best, it's a weapon of war and a lot more matters than how sharp it is. If you have a badass assault rifle that is perfectly accurate... But can't be repaired in the field and breaks all the time, it's still a garbage weapon.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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I knew we should have researched pottery instead of animal husbandry... Civilization V
Hang on, this isn't a Nintendo game. What's going on?
thunderstruck still has a ridiculous amount of katana wankery (though any amount greater than 0 is ridiculous)
"A real Japanese-forged katana like that is as sacred as it gets"
COME ON
If you can't laugh at it, I pity thee. TS has so much over-the-top shit like this, it's like the only webcom I've lol'd at audibly for the last few weeks. That goddamn flashback just a page back or so for example.
Edit: Oh, and the story has actually started going places now, so it's a sort-of interesting read besides the comedy value.
In ergo: Good webcomic.
Theres nothing redeeming about it no matter how often you post how sad it is we're to dumb to appreciatie it .
Getting a reallysalty vibe from this post but at least you didn't pull the old fetish comic card so I guess we're good.
I'm just at a loss understanding how eager the "offended!" stance has been in here for the last coupl'a months?
There have always been comics that will have a disproportionate amount of people in the thread getting aggressively mad at for being bad. I think that's the real reason the thread is always on the edge of being banned, not the reasons people always worry about.
honestly at this point my eyes just slide off most of the ones I don't like
I can't think of much posted here that really upset me
there's a scene in the bible where god gives a donkey the power of speech, but, CRITICALLY, there's not one where he takes it away. spinoff bible following the adventures of the only talking donkey in the world wherein she hilariously and accidentally sets into motion all the events we know from the regular bible: y/n/ABSOLUTELY??
I knew we should have researched pottery instead of animal husbandry... Civilization V
Hang on, this isn't a Nintendo game. What's going on?
thunderstruck still has a ridiculous amount of katana wankery (though any amount greater than 0 is ridiculous)
"A real Japanese-forged katana like that is as sacred as it gets"
COME ON
If you can't laugh at it, I pity thee. TS has so much over-the-top shit like this, it's like the only webcom I've lol'd at audibly for the last few weeks. That goddamn flashback just a page back or so for example.
Edit: Oh, and the story has actually started going places now, so it's a sort-of interesting read besides the comedy value.
In ergo: Good webcomic.
Theres nothing redeeming about it no matter how often you post how sad it is we're to dumb to appreciatie it .
Getting a reallysalty vibe from this post but at least you didn't pull the old fetish comic card so I guess we're good.
I'm just at a loss understanding how eager the "offended!" stance has been in here for the last coupl'a months?
There have always been comics that will have a disproportionate amount of people in the thread getting aggressively mad at for being bad. I think that's the real reason the thread is always on the edge of being banned, not the reasons people always worry about.
honestly at this point my eyes just slide off most of the ones I don't like
I can't think of much posted here that really upset me
It's much easier to ignore comics you don't like when people aren't complaining about them all the time.
But there's no way to really regulate that kind of discussion because there have been plenty of times where people like a comic but have issues with an aspect of a certain character or current plot point, or people who like a comic and people who don't like a comic discuss it together, and there are also plenty of times where comics were posted that everyone thought were garbage but then it turns out nope, they weren't you just had a bad initial impression of them.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Also, one of the advantages of heavier western weaponry was that even if it couldn't cut through armour, the weight meant it could effectively be used as a bludgeoning weapon to break bones.
I also don't know if you'd describe Samurai as 'great' archers exactly; it's more that unlike western knights, who had taken to wearing full-plate with gauntlets and greaves, most samurai armour left the hands (and feed) lightly armoured, allowing them the dexterity necessary to use bows. It's not so much that they were good or bad at archery (I mean, presumably they would be good), but rather that they weren't specialised infantry, and were training with bow as well as sword.
A 'western' comparison might be the Ottoman Sipahi, who generally were horse archers wearing mail, with the horse barded and they generally were also trained with sword and lance.
What is the name of this comic with the fox, witch, etc?
Also wondering what the guy's deal is considering said fox and witch don't exactly seem to be of the human-friendly variety and yet his word stops them from doing anything bad.
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Also, one of the advantages of heavier western weaponry was that even if it couldn't cut through armour, the weight meant it could effectively be used as a bludgeoning weapon to break bones.
I also don't know if you'd describe Samurai as 'great' archers exactly; it's more that unlike western knights, who had taken to wearing full-plate with gauntlets and greaves, most samurai armour left the hands (and feed) lightly armoured, allowing them the dexterity necessary to use bows. It's not so much that they were good or bad at archery (I mean, presumably they would be good), but rather that they weren't specialised infantry, and were training with bow as well as sword.
A 'western' comparison might be the Ottoman Sipahi, who generally were horse archers wearing mail, with the horse barded and they generally were also trained with sword and lance.
I was of the impression that your average longsword weighed only slightly more than your average katana at most.
What is the name of this comic with the fox, witch, etc?
Also wondering what the guy's deal is considering said fox and witch don't exactly seem to be of the human-friendly variety and yet his word stops them from doing anything bad.
Super secret
edit: and he's a monster too, the type of which will feel pretty obvious once he appears
Kana on
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
What is the name of this comic with the fox, witch, etc?
Also wondering what the guy's deal is considering said fox and witch don't exactly seem to be of the human-friendly variety and yet his word stops them from doing anything bad.
Super secret
edit: and he's a monster too, the type of which will feel pretty obvious once he appears
If you can post it, surely you can give us the name too. We won't tell.
What is the name of this comic with the fox, witch, etc?
Also wondering what the guy's deal is considering said fox and witch don't exactly seem to be of the human-friendly variety and yet his word stops them from doing anything bad.
Super secret
edit: and he's a monster too, the type of which will feel pretty obvious once he appears
If you can post it, surely you can give us the name too. We won't tell.
what the
Are you asking for spoilers?
mein gott
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I was of the impression that your average longsword weighed only slightly more than your average katana at most.
They could be as light as a katana, or heavier, depending on the point of history you're talking about, region etc. Although when I say heavy I'm not talking like, cumbersome or truly macelike. Their primary use is still cutting/slashing/thrusting. But there is, iirc, a period in the development of full-plate where cutting becomes obsolete, and so instead you had knights trying to knock each other out with concussive force, or break a bone where the plate armour hasn't been secured properly (since otherwise the force is well distributed).
Also, old medieval manuals showing pommel-bashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordhau although I don't think we know how often this actually happened.
(also, the use of gauntlets allows holding a sword half-sword, with one hand on the blade itself, for better thrusting against armoured opponents, something else that's not possible with a katana).
What is the name of this comic with the fox, witch, etc?
Also wondering what the guy's deal is considering said fox and witch don't exactly seem to be of the human-friendly variety and yet his word stops them from doing anything bad.
Super secret
edit: and he's a monster too, the type of which will feel pretty obvious once he appears
If you can post it, surely you can give us the name too. We won't tell.
Those kinds of comic names are the worst. Plug it into Google and you get a deluge of useless results. Luckily I found it by appending manhwa to the search, since it looks Korean.
Kinda wish I could post Tower of God in here but holy hell each update would be an endless scroll.
I was of the impression that your average longsword weighed only slightly more than your average katana at most.
They could be as light as a katana, or heavier, depending on the point of history you're talking about, region etc. Although when I say heavy I'm not talking like, cumbersome or truly macelike. Their primary use is still cutting/slashing/thrusting. But there is, iirc, a period in the development of full-plate where cutting becomes obsolete, and so instead you had knights trying to knock each other out with concussive force, or break a bone where the plate armour hasn't been secured properly (since otherwise the force is well distributed).
Also, old medieval manuals showing pommel-bashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordhau although I don't think we know how often this actually happened.
(also, the use of gauntlets allows holding a sword half-sword, with one hand on the blade itself, for better thrusting against armoured opponents, something else that's not possible with a katana).
Plate armour eventually split weapons development down the middle; in one direction you had maces and, eventually, spiked warhammers to pummel and pierce through the plates and, in the other, you had rapiers that were light and agile enough to be used exclusively as thrusting weapons against joints and eye sockets.
Then firearms made plate armour obsolete and agility in general won out for a time, until the science of ballistics and, ironically enough, the metallurgical improvements required to even make a worthwhile rapier in the first place, made carrying a long blade in war more of a liability than anything else; dead weight that doesn't keep you alive and could just as well trip you.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I knew we should have researched pottery instead of animal husbandry... Civilization V
Hang on, this isn't a Nintendo game. What's going on?
thunderstruck still has a ridiculous amount of katana wankery (though any amount greater than 0 is ridiculous)
"A real Japanese-forged katana like that is as sacred as it gets"
COME ON
If you can't laugh at it, I pity thee. TS has so much over-the-top shit like this, it's like the only webcom I've lol'd at audibly for the last few weeks. That goddamn flashback just a page back or so for example.
Edit: Oh, and the story has actually started going places now, so it's a sort-of interesting read besides the comedy value.
In ergo: Good webcomic.
Theres nothing redeeming about it no matter how often you post how sad it is we're to dumb to appreciatie it .
Getting a reallysalty vibe from this post but at least you didn't pull the old fetish comic card so I guess we're good.
I'm just at a loss understanding how eager the "offended!" stance has been in here for the last coupl'a months?
It so blatantly fetishizes japanese culture it would be redundant to point that out.
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The funny thing about samurai is a fact that Extra History mentioned about them switching sides over long term and short term rivalries, revenge, and power plays, while Ninja were actually the ones with honor and supported their causes through thick and thin and beheading all the enemy commanders between their lords and freedom.
Samurai:I'm the captain now!
Ninja:Wait here, captain. My men and I will cut you a path.
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I'm just at a loss understanding how eager the "offended!" stance has been in here for the last coupl'a months?
There have always been comics that will have a disproportionate amount of people in the thread getting aggressively mad at for being bad. I think that's the real reason the thread is always on the edge of being banned, not the reasons people always worry about.
I thought that ended?
She says she is going to update it soon
But that was 2 months ago
So perhaps it will start again soon?
The folding process doesn't make good steel better - it's just a way of taking iron of inconsistent quality, and the folding ends up averaging all that shit out, so now there's no weak spot. There's early European swords that do the same technique, but it mostly stops once they get better smelting, because a tool that's about as good but takes a quarter of the time to make is a better tool.
It's the problem with just saying the sharpest sword is the best, it's a weapon of war and a lot more matters than how sharp it is. If you have a badass assault rifle that is perfectly accurate... But can't be repaired in the field and breaks all the time, it's still a garbage weapon.
honestly at this point my eyes just slide off most of the ones I don't like
I can't think of much posted here that really upset me
Dang it mosquitoes, DANG IT
It's much easier to ignore comics you don't like when people aren't complaining about them all the time.
But there's no way to really regulate that kind of discussion because there have been plenty of times where people like a comic but have issues with an aspect of a certain character or current plot point, or people who like a comic and people who don't like a comic discuss it together, and there are also plenty of times where comics were posted that everyone thought were garbage but then it turns out nope, they weren't you just had a bad initial impression of them.
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I also don't know if you'd describe Samurai as 'great' archers exactly; it's more that unlike western knights, who had taken to wearing full-plate with gauntlets and greaves, most samurai armour left the hands (and feed) lightly armoured, allowing them the dexterity necessary to use bows. It's not so much that they were good or bad at archery (I mean, presumably they would be good), but rather that they weren't specialised infantry, and were training with bow as well as sword.
A 'western' comparison might be the Ottoman Sipahi, who generally were horse archers wearing mail, with the horse barded and they generally were also trained with sword and lance.
Also wondering what the guy's deal is considering said fox and witch don't exactly seem to be of the human-friendly variety and yet his word stops them from doing anything bad.
I was of the impression that your average longsword weighed only slightly more than your average katana at most.
Super secret
If you can post it, surely you can give us the name too. We won't tell.
what the
Are you asking for spoilers?
mein gott
Also, old medieval manuals showing pommel-bashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordhau although I don't think we know how often this actually happened.
(also, the use of gauntlets allows holding a sword half-sword, with one hand on the blade itself, for better thrusting against armoured opponents, something else that's not possible with a katana).
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Kinda wish I could post Tower of God in here but holy hell each update would be an endless scroll.
Plate armour eventually split weapons development down the middle; in one direction you had maces and, eventually, spiked warhammers to pummel and pierce through the plates and, in the other, you had rapiers that were light and agile enough to be used exclusively as thrusting weapons against joints and eye sockets.
Then firearms made plate armour obsolete and agility in general won out for a time, until the science of ballistics and, ironically enough, the metallurgical improvements required to even make a worthwhile rapier in the first place, made carrying a long blade in war more of a liability than anything else; dead weight that doesn't keep you alive and could just as well trip you.
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oh
oh no
Witchy
that's fuckin' protagonist gold right there
It so blatantly fetishizes japanese culture it would be redundant to point that out.
No, Yun-Hee and Alex were working out a plan to deal with the kumiho. We've only progressed a couple pages since she wounded it and it ran off.
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Samurai:I'm the captain now!
Ninja:Wait here, captain. My men and I will cut you a path.
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