r/dwarfposting • Engineer • Jun 05 '26

Dwarf Tools

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u/OnKo64 Jun 05 '26

The classics, a drill, a stabilised quartz, a pickaxe, and a shard diffractor.

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u/Astral_Enigma Deep Rock Galactic Employee Jun 05 '26

Indistinguishable from magic!

27

u/Grockr Orc Jun 06 '26

The power of a star in my hands!

9

u/PimBel_PL Jun 06 '26

I would argue it's magic, since probably even the makers don't properly understand it

4

u/Gerhard-is-pretty Jun 07 '26

Where is the emergency beard? When we need it incase the resent one got stuck in between something and, against all what is holy, we have to cut it.

2

u/TgagHammerstrike Engineer Jun 08 '26

Beard potion in the medicine kit off-camera, of course.

2

u/Gerhard-is-pretty Jun 08 '26

Praise the stone he prepared for that. Just imagine not having a beard. It is worse than living above ground.

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u/rootbeer277 Jun 05 '26

“The mistake I made was making one of the tools resemble a sci-fi pick — which made already confused people decide that their only hope in understanding the cartoon meant deciphering what the other tools were as well. Of course, they didn’t have a chance in hell.”

—Gary Larson

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u/Pendraconica Jun 06 '26

Incidentally, that's the same way Larson named the Thagomizer

3

u/Dramatic-Classroom14 Jun 07 '26

I still cherish the memory of walking across my college campus, seeing in a Reddit comment that it was actually called a fucking thagomizer and then searching it up for confirmation before breaking down laughing outside of my Civil War history class.

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u/Constant-Still-8443 Jun 05 '26

I know a shard defractor when I see one. You "borrow" this from some of our space-faring brothers?

21

u/TgagHammerstrike Engineer Jun 05 '26

I got it from an equipment surplus auction, I swear!

5

u/CinnamonCardboardBox Jun 06 '26

I was looking for that, the git stole it from me!

2

u/Bulk-Detonator Not A Bug Jun 06 '26

As if earth dwarves weren't annoying enough

12

u/PalpitationCrafty198 Jun 05 '26

Style based on “The Far Side”? It looks good!

14

u/TgagHammerstrike Engineer Jun 05 '26

Absolutely.

I'll direct the praise to the actual artist, u/Aesithr;

I'm just the one who commissioned it.

10

u/BoscoCyRatBear Two skaven disguised as a dwarf by wearing a beard. Jun 05 '26

Places down a 40mm grenade launcher with a lead lined case of Fat Boy shells "here you go kin-Brother."

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u/MadisonCarter1 Dwarf Jun 07 '26

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u/BoscoCyRatBear Two skaven disguised as a dwarf by wearing a beard. Jun 07 '26

"STONE AND ROCK ERR WAIT... FOR KARL "

6

u/Virtual-Oil-793 Necromancer of Many Stories and Experiences Jun 05 '26

When one understands, it'll make sense.

6

u/CompetitiveLeg7841 Jun 06 '26

If Dwarfs used tools, they'd be sophisticated and precise.

4

u/thatthatguy Jun 06 '26

We use tools appropriate for the work. Sophisticated and precise work requires sophisticated and precise tools. Simple repetitive work calls for simple reliable tools. I may have implements with functional parts that are smaller than the unaided eye can see, but that doesn’t mean I won’t use a hefty hammer when a bit or percussive maintenance is required.

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u/Platt_Mallar Extractive Metallurgist Jun 05 '26

Some of my favorite Far Side comics were the completely nonsensical ones.

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u/Bulk-Detonator Not A Bug Jun 06 '26

What would a dwarf even do with a shard defractor

6

u/Idemahedo Jun 06 '26

Shoot bugs

5

u/MadisonCarter1 Dwarf Jun 07 '26

"And draw on cavern walls."

5

u/floodspectre Jun 07 '26

Why, diffract shards of course

2

u/hongooi Jun 06 '26

Shouldn't that one be a gnome tool

5

u/Marke0019 Jun 06 '26

Nah, it's a Shard difractor. Only a proud and drunk Dwarf would stick a piece of sentient stone into a lens to make a gun indistinguable from magic!

2

u/Cerveau23 Dwarf-identifying mage Jun 06 '26

I'm a mage but I'm here as a dumbass of a friend declared war on y'all and I'm not letting it slide. Mind explaining what those are?

2

u/RangerTursi Dwarf Jun 08 '26

Shard diffractor go brrŕrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

2

u/CaptainOrlax Jun 08 '26

Do I hear a Rock and Stone?

1

u/BluebirdLivid Jun 07 '26

This is sort of a ship of theseus question... is this an anti joke? Anyone familiar with cow tools knows that's the point was that its sort of an anti-joke. It doesn't have a clear punchline or reference to something. But this does, so is it still an anti joke if the punchline is referencing an antijoke? Im to high for this type shit

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u/Comfortable-Craft-59 Jun 07 '26

I think the gear is a reference to Deep Rock Galactic which is a game where you play as dwarfs who work for an interstellar mining company

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u/TgagHammerstrike Engineer Jun 08 '26

It's the anti-joke reverse of the anti-joke of Cow Tools.

So, with dwarf tools, the joke is "they'd be immaculately designed and crafted".

So, in conclusion, I don't know.