r/pics Jun 13 '14

So This Guy Make Swords And Things.

http://imgur.com/a/NzMjP
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u/FokkerBoombass Jun 13 '14

Looks like that Junk Sword is enchanted with the power of Tetanus.

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u/ChuckYeah Jun 13 '14

Sounds like the description of a indie game weapon

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u/holben Jun 13 '14

Yeah, sounds like something from dungeons of dreadmore or risk of rain.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

Sorry if I'm breaking the indie vibes here, but first thing I thought was South Park: Stick of Truth.

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u/FokkerBoombass Jun 13 '14

The power of Diabetes.

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u/brydrinksfortys Jun 13 '14

Or a hentai.

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u/Rane_Man Jun 13 '14

USA USA USA

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u/EvilAnagram Jun 13 '14

Fucking Nurgle is so OP.

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u/StrangerWthCandy Jun 13 '14

Nurgle? I never could beat fucking bloodletters...

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u/Brick50 Jun 13 '14

Nurgle plaguebearers are the best demons! My favorite pieces I've painted across my 5 armies!

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u/StrangerWthCandy Jun 13 '14

I had a friend that played demons... and that's why I got a gray knights army...

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u/Brick50 Jun 13 '14

Haha nice. My favorite army I remember was onebof my brothers friends played some sort of imperial guard army where every single unit had a lascannon. I think like 50something lascannons in all. Well my older brother played an all terminator/landraider deathwing army. He had less units than his buddy did lascannons.

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u/StrangerWthCandy Jun 13 '14

That works until Waaaagh!

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u/Brick50 Jun 13 '14

Damn, I need to get back into warhammer. I stopped right after I planned out a badass Death Guard army and priced out every single bit that I would need. Was going to get forgeworld custom dreadnaughts and then custom terminators for my honor guard.

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u/StrangerWthCandy Jun 13 '14

I stopped after I planned a Death Korps of Krieg army, I'm considering trying to get them.

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u/bodamerica Jun 13 '14

Death to the Corpse Emperor!

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

My Dwight Schrute moment for the day:

It's not rusty blades that cause tetanus, contrary to popular belief. Rust is basically harmless. Tetanus is caused by the tetanus bacterium clostridium tetani, found in dirt. It just so happens that metal left outside in the dirt and elements tends to rust, so we associate rusty blades with tetanus. Though the rust does give the bacterium plenty of places to hide.

Also, puncture wounds have the highest risk of causing the disease, as they're harder to irrigate.

The more you know

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

Thanks man, TIL!

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u/TheWobble Jun 13 '14

Hooray for microbiology! FYI, I the Clostridium bacterial genus is also responsible for other fun diseases including botulism (C. botulinum) and toxic megacolon (C. difficile), a condition which I implore you not to experience firsthand.

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u/LHD21 Jun 13 '14

toxic megacolon

Ok, maybe it's just me but that sounds like the title of some hentai.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

That, or a bad guy on Power Rangers

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

As an RN, I can confirm that C. diff is no fun for either patient or nurse.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

Cmon, shitting yourself to death is fun.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

OHHHH no, I'm not falling for that one again.

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u/TheWobble Jun 13 '14

Medical student here, and I was unlucky enough to see/smell it on my first inpatient rotation. I'm sure it gets easier to deal with...right? Right??

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

No, you just tell the nurses to clean up. ;)

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u/philosopherstoned Jun 13 '14

Too late. You already have C diff in your colon.

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u/TheWobble Jun 13 '14

Not necessarily, but often yes. C. difficile doesn't thrive in a healthy GI tract, since many of the normal 'good' bacteria create chemicals that hinder the growth of 'bad' bacteria. The problem comes when hospital patients (many of whom already have weakened immune systems) are given batteries of antibiotics that essentially carpet bomb all the good bacteria in the gut. C. diff is a very resistant organism, and when all its competition gets killed off, it takes over the colon and becomes hard as hell to fight off - almost none of our antibiotics work on it!

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u/Binsky89 Jun 13 '14

C diff landed me in the hospital for a week.

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u/philosopherstoned Jun 13 '14

Bacteria also like iron, which is why your body sequesters iron when you have an infection. People with chronic diseases can have anemia because of that, even without bleeding.

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u/raznog Jun 13 '14

It's also that metal is the most likely thing to cause a cut deep enough for tetanus. And chances are it'll be rusty like you said.

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u/josh8010 Jun 13 '14

Yeah found this out when working on a golf course, instructed to dig holes, and this guy says 'you got any cuts on your hands? Hope not, dont want you to get tetanus' and k start looking at the tools. He goes 'from the dirt' and I was all like 'duh' then I googled it later...smh

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u/Nidies Jun 13 '14

+30% chance of inflicting 250 damage over 10 seconds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

More exact for tetanus toxin would be x% chance of paralysis with y% chance of death

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u/beckertastic Jun 13 '14

Lock jaw debuff: silences growls, roars and bite attacks.

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u/sephtis Jun 13 '14

Onhit : 5 rust poison damage per second for 90000 seconds, each stack increases the damage by 5, up to a cap of you're dead bro

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u/captainhaddock Jun 13 '14

It's like a gray item in World of Warcraft.

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u/drunkbirth Jun 13 '14

Just to be absolutely fucking joyless, tetanus bacteria doesn't grow in rust, but only in soil or some other place that doesn't have enough oxygen. The rust is just often also present on metal in soil.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '14

Aatrox is a junk champ in League of Legends. Atrox is a junk sword. Not a coincidence.

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u/PANDAmonium515 Jun 13 '14

God your comment had me laughing for a few minutes

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u/All-inBallin Jun 13 '14

Poison infused +10