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Offline Destructavator

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #75 on: June 15, 2012, 12:16:13 am »
*Cough*Plasma blade*cough*

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If you mean the Plasma Blade item in UFO AI, yes, I've known about that for as long as since it was added to the game - And unless things were dramatically changed lately and no one told me, it doesn't function the same as the light-saber weapons from Star Wars.  It does have a few similarities in common, yes, but still distinctly different.

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #76 on: June 15, 2012, 04:15:44 am »
Clearly your experiences have left deep emotional scars ;)

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #77 on: June 15, 2012, 05:57:54 am »
Plasma blade makes perfect realistic sense. Based from a plasma cutter, using a magnetic field arranged to attract the hot plasma down the length of the weapon, with the magnets protected by a thin ceramic layer to prevent melting. (Heat demagnetizes, so it'd have to be an electro-magnet anyway.)

Not a fast sword fighting weapon, but capable of cutting through a door.

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #78 on: June 15, 2012, 02:38:34 pm »
Plasma blade makes perfect realistic sense.
That's going a little far, but the intention was to make a joke regarding Destructavator's choice of "silly bull****" [sic] being something that actually has a superficially similar item already in the game rather than to make any serious critique of plasma blades.

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #79 on: June 16, 2012, 12:47:45 am »
Yeah. It's more like a chainsaw than a blade.

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #80 on: June 16, 2012, 09:51:59 am »
mmmm.... plasma chainsaw.....  ;D

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #81 on: June 16, 2012, 12:35:17 pm »
mmmm.... plasma chainsaw.....  ;D
*cough*

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Re: Mortars
« Reply #82 on: June 17, 2012, 08:49:28 pm »
nice  8)