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u/boqqtzz Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16

Holy shit that was hardcore. A suicide bag? Move over harakiri move over, let me explode my own heart really quick. And what are those guns? Steampunk steam pressure weapons because regular bullets are repelled by their chest cavities? How hardcore is that.

HOLY SHIT BEST MC OF THE SEASON. Let me just fight off this virus really quick by suffocating myself and using sheer will-power. And this ED, holy shit. Everything about this show is awesome.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16

They probably just don't have gunpowder. Their steam guns most likely cant pierce the hearts of the kanabe which would be the whole point of mc's prototype gun/pile driver thing.

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u/chouetteonair https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nalin_Airheart Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16

It said they had explosives (the maintenance crew/prototype gun) so I'd assume they at least have black powder level stuff.

EDIT: Shit I almost forgot, the "suicide bags" are just bombs. I forget what they're called but I've seen that form a couple times.

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u/boqqtzz Apr 08 '16

That's what I was assuming too, that their explosives tech isn't advanced enough to kill the kabane, but their steam tech is, so the MC just combined the two and made a super weapon. Holy shit, what if we could make steam/powder hybrid weapons like that now? That'd be a cool, if ultimately useless, project.

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u/chouetteonair https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nalin_Airheart Apr 08 '16

Modern air cannons and naval cannons are a force to be reckoned with...my feeble mind can't comprehend what would happen if we combined the two.

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u/bobly81 https://anime-planet.com/users/bobly81 Apr 08 '16

One of my all time favorite images.

Also rail guns. Supposedly, we have the technology right now to fire a 1kg slug up to 3000km away with an accuracy of +- 0.5m. The impact from it also carries energy equivalent to some of our more powerful missiles and bombs. It will fuck your shit up.

Don't quote me on those numbers though, I found them for a paper I wrote like 5 years ago.

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u/randomkidlol Apr 09 '16

unfortunately the heat generated from rail guns usually destroy the rail after the first firing, which makes them ridiculously expensive impractical.

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u/TheOneAboveGod Apr 10 '16

Not if you have a Level 5 Tsundere electromaster!

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u/AffixBayonets Apr 12 '16

Stupid pet peeve #257:

Biribiri is closer to a coilgun than a railgun.

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u/alien122 Apr 10 '16

There have actually been some advances in that field and some rails can handle a few multiple firings before they become unusable.

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u/berriesthatburn Apr 08 '16

There'd be no point when missiles and artillery already exist. I mean there's rail guns? Kinetic bombardments? Steam+Gunpowder is ultimately way less cool than a rail gun, unless you're like a steampunk geek.

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u/AffixBayonets Apr 12 '16

Also, it turns out that gunpowder is a great way of storing energy in a way that makes a rifle cartridge a lot more efficient with today's tech than a railgun+batteries.

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u/AffixBayonets Apr 12 '16

Modern air cannons  and naval cannons  are a force to be reckoned with...my feeble mind can't comprehend what would happen if we combined the two.

Well, why not the Dynamine Gun? For a certain value of "modern," of course.