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Luckily for you, I assembled a huge imgur album of that sort of thing. Here's a selection of them. There's about 566 images in the album and I add more periodically.                                                              
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It doesn't matter what side you take - if you're arguing about WH40ks half-assed lore, you've already lost.
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I add stuff to this album from time to time. e: It's mostly generic cyberpunk/near future stuff, with a few straight up Shadowrun images as well.                       
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Vorpal Cat posted:Does anyone have pictures of Monster Killing weapons. Things that look like they were clearly designed to take down inhuman target, Medieval tech or earlier preferably. If you're looking for things that actually existed, the best is to look at when humans actually had to face off against animals that were larger than them and highly aggressive. Think bears, boars, and big cats. In most cases, the best approach was to use a ranged weapon - a bow, a sling, or a javelin - and to be mobile - mounted on a horse or elephant, or on a chariot. If you had to face something like that on foot, you'd usually want a spear or pike. Particularly in the case of a bear or boar, which are aggressive enough to press home an attack despite being speared, you want a spear with a very broad head, and perhaps one with a cross guard or lugs. The broad head causes a large wound, but the major advantage is its harder for the speared animal to push up the haft of the spear. The crossguard or lugs do the same thing, but more so.   That second image includes what looks like a very large knife, but could also be a hunting sword. A hunting sword is really just a large, long dirk or knife with a single curved edge and often a serrated back. They're primarily for finishing off wounded prey of the large and aggressive type - the length means you can slash a throat from a good arm's length away, similar principal to using a sword in combat over a knife. In some cases swords like that, or just single edged swords in general (double edged straight blades would work but don't really get any special benefit in this application) would be used for hunting large game, but its mostly a showing-off sort of thing. For a more fanciful idea, there's this thing.  Now, it looks weird, but the idea fits with the bear spear and combines some features of another large animal killing weapon.    Whales are definitely very large, very tough, and can be very aggressive. But the way a harpoon works demonstrates a key difference between actual animals and fantasy monsters - animals tend to run away unless cornered. Bears and boars are partial exceptions, which is why they have specialist tools for hunting them. But a large, animal like enemy would be susceptible to a harpoon strategy - spear it in such a way that a line is stuck in it, then let it drag something heavy until its exhausted, either to death or to the point that you can close and dispatch it with another weapon (a lance was typical for whales, stabbed into the heart, but a hammer blow to the head or a cut throat on a fantastical creature could work as well). So about that key difference - most animals don't press home attacks the way a monster would. Humans long ago drove to extinction the large predators we'd regularly encounter that have those habits, with the exception of the largest bears and cats, but even cats tend not to fight that way. However, humans have long faced large, powerful foes who do press home their attacks - cavalry and elephantry. In both cases, you have a composite unit of a human guiding a powerful war animal, but the comparison to a monster makes sense. So most weapons used to deal with those foes would make sense for application against monsters. That means, again, lots of missile weapons, spears, pikes, lances, and other polearms. In fact, when the Romans fought war elephants the way they took them down was to attack with spears and javelins, getting them to turn to present a flank (usually less well armored), and then stabbing with a lance or spear. They'd also try to sever the elephant's trunk, which would cause it to panic, immediately making it as much a danger to its allies as to its enemies. In fact, a panicked elephant would usually try to run away from whatever panicked it, so it would turn a formidable weapon against its masters. In these cases, its less about specialist weapons than it is about technique. The same would probably hold true for monsters, so it may not be too strange that you'd take on an ogre or a landwyrm with your usual sword and axe and bow, especially if you are more often facing human-like enemies. Oh, and there's one other category of weapons that footsoldiers would wield against mounted opponents. Really big swords.   
Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 04:54 on May 14, 2014 |
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Less sperg arguments about anime, more posting cool art. Specifically, spaceships and starfighters.                  
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Bucnasti posted:
Literally everything about this is perfect.
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Young Freud posted:That title is misleading. None of the space pirates are bodacious The title of the light novels is Miniskirt Space Pirates. That being said, the show is actually pretty good, and they are pretty badass.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Alright guys, I need some unconventional cavalry, by which I mean, not horses, elephants, bears, or motorized. Hit me with your best shot!          
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AlphaDog posted:Can someone give me some clever, kickass and/or devilish octopuses? Not like octopus headed dudes or cthulhus, but octupuses (..pi? ..podes?) Eclipse Phase will be your friend, I'll have more when I get home later. 
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Gus Hobbleton posted:Hey, who was it wanted unusual cavalry? drat you beat me to it! Comrade Gorbash posted:Eclipse Phase will be your friend, I'll have more when I get home later. Anyways here's some more octopuses (or octopodes if you want to be pedantic - it's from Greek, not Latin!).       And for something a bit different:  Though I suppose she's really a heptapus.
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Silhouette posted:It's like some alternate timeline where the Vikings that landed in North America integrated with the natives and formed an awesome new society. loving awesome.
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How did they get out of that chicken-poo poo outfit?
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OB_Juan posted:My friend is starting up a post-apoc wasteland game. Anyone got any wasteland assholes, but not from Mad Max? Sorry to be late on this, but when Imgur did their site update it messed up some of my albums. This one at least is working properly.                    
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Young Freud posted:"Black Plastic" is pretty much the inverse of Apple white, where it's all slick and smooth and glossy, with high specularity allowing you to see the contours of the device or object and rounded corners so it's easy on the touch. The description sounded more like it was aiming for Giger-esque but didn't want to name check him for whatever reason.
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I'd suggest the raven. They are seen as fairly noble birds, and kind of majestic. But they're also carrion eaters, associated with secrets and war. They're a good fit for something sinister but not automatically evil. Also it's a great excuse to put people in black armor without them being bad guys.
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Tumblr of scotch posted:Pikes:
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Another in that vein.
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Someone should run Pugmire, clearly.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Why the mustache? Why does he look like every dad?
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Looking for art of female ninja that are a) actually wearing clothes and b) not super edgy looking. More stuff in the vein of this, basically: 
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oriongates posted:I have an extremely specific request: looking for a woman (preferably middle aged or older) who could plausibly be a doctor or scientist and has a pair of cyber arms and legs that greatly extend her height and reach, someone who's plausibly 7 foot + preferred. Anyone got any art that looks like that? Huszsersvn found some good stuff, but might also want to check out Cibo from BLAME!, especially the recent movie:   
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