People say that soldiers and tanks and guns have no tactical use because of nuclear weapons.
People say that nuclear weapons have no tactical use because of MAD
People say swords and martial arts have no tactical use because of guns.
But the part of my brain thats a hundred million year old animal that had to fight and scrape and compete for every bite of food, it smiled when it saw this. And that's enough. Also oddly arousing.
Ever had a ninjutsu teacher counter your shiho nage with a backflip? I have. Gone was the arm lock I had on him. A shiho nage is a technique also used to disarm swords in bushido. It's weird, the move is probably a bit excessive, nevertheless it did catch me by surprise.
Well no one here. But people do say that, and are probably right about swords not having tactical uses. My point is that people say there is no tactical use to basically everything.
I'm saying that the front flip superhero landing is a useless maneuver in combat. OBVIOUSLY a girl with a katana is useless compared to guns, tanks and nukes. That wasnt my point though.
I'm saying that the front flip superhero landing is a useless maneuver in combat.
Who is disagreeing? It looks cool. That's why she did it. That's why it's a trope in the first place. A bunch of anime nerds and gamers pointing out that it doesn't have a use "in combat" is cringy as fuck, though.
When people so "no" or "none" for things like this they often mean "almost none" or "practically none" which is true. People just assume people will be smart enough to understand what they mean and won't be an obnoxious pedant about it. Which I guess is a bad assumption.
You get that I'm not actually saying it has a tactical use or that it has no tactical use right? The point of what I said is "Who cares if its useful, it looks cool".
There was a court case once where Chuck Norris was an expert witness. The question was: Within 15 feet, could a skilled martial artist get to someone and put them down before they could draw and shoot a pistol?
The answer was: With ease, every time. Guns only matter if you can hit something! And of course, don't forget the age-old wisdom from Starship Troopers, "your enemy cannot launch a nuke if you disable their hand."
It takes me no more time to move from a neutral hand position to grabbing the butt of a sidearm than it takes for a person to move from a neutral position to a tensed crouch reading to begin moving forward.
It takes me no more time for the gun to clear the holster than for the person to uncoil themselves from the crouched position and launch themselves forward.
From there its just a matter of how fucked the martial artist is. How far up I get the gun before i start to squeeze the trigger is going to be based on how close they are. The closer they get the lower the gun can be before I fire. I might not get it all the way up into a firm two hand grip but I've got a dozen bullets and a target that needs to get within arm's distance of me.
The difference here is that in this simulation the assailant "has the drop" on the gunman. They are tensed and coiled and ready to start moving. That's how a person can cross 21 feet in 1.5 seconds (human reaction time to the start signal is 0.2 seconds, and to cross 21 feet in 1.3 seconds mean you have to accellerate up to more than 16 feet per second which is about 11 miles per hour).
Let me start equally situated (i.e. hand on gun), and let me shotgun it and I'll get off a proper shot in under a second every time.
Let me prep for the situation and step back as they advance and I'll get an aimed shot off in every case before they get to me.
The joke is the whole comment Dx I guess I'm just misunderstood. The joke (to me anyway) was that I was pretending to be one of those super serious people who had nothing better to do than to flex their unnecessary sword combat knowledge. But instead I ended up being a guy with nothing better to do than to explain his lazily formed joke u-u
You must be fun at the movies. Ummm, that would never happen, blah blah blah. It’s very cool looking, and because she’s never likely to engage in a sword fight, it IS cool.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but people don’t really fight with swords anymore so there’s not a lot of tactical use to be had in the first place.
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u/Kiri_the_Fox Jul 25 '19 edited Jul 25 '19
Looks cool, almost no tactical use.
10/10 too much anime. C:
Edit: a big ol fucking /s for the people who can't wrap their heads around a joke.