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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't want to bodyshame, but man, that is an ugly gun.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

It’s the plastic lower, isn’t it?

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Swords clash with other swords. Swords were always gay.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But swords are also sheathed ! or... is that an allegory for closeted ?

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing you don't have your foreskin?

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[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's going to be gaymores next.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You mean the cousin of Seymour Asses? The asexual dog Gaymore Asses?

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't want to offend anyone, but this sword is STRAIGHT

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

that's why I only use sabres and katanas ;-)

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

well, they're not straight, and they go nicely with my fedora...

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

You slay, babe

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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Not when I'm done with it

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[–] Dinsmore@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tactical transition? Is that for when you want your deadname to stay dead?

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

A while back, someone suggested that only women should be allowed to own handguns, and that the guns should all be painted baby pink.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Persen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, this actually exists? I thought it was a joke from this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2411696/

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ooof. I hope that's a stain and not heat discoloration, otherwise that's not a sword, but a sword-shaped wall decoration.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hard to say, I've never seen a heat affected zone look like that. I also haven't foraged a sword.

[–] Slovene 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I didn't know you can forage for swords.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you look in the right place, at the right season, there's all kind of swords to be foraged. Delicious with garlic and parsley

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Especially abundant near lakes in Britain

[–] dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, my buddy Art foraged such a nice sword. Everybody calls him a king now. He even made a council like in the LoTR.

[–] WeeneyTodd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just moistened binks lobbing scimitars everywhere out there.

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[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

What if mine was given to me by a watery tart?

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

Poking the same sex since 3300BC

[–] i_failed_turing_test@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Don't tell him about stainless tig welding

[–] lost_tortie@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

slayyy ⚔️💑

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I didn't know they added swords to CS2

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)
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[–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Heat affected zone on that sword is fucking ridiculous. Sure, you made it harder, but it'll shatter more easily, too.

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Could just be a color casing process.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uh... You might be confusing welding and heat treating concepts...

[–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'll admit my knowledge of metallurgy is informed by a background in welding, but it's my understanding that the colors on that blade can only happen with a large temperature difference between the middle and its ends, likely as a result of the maker using a benzene torch on it for a few minutes. This high heat is going to do the same thing to the blade as it does during welding: it fucks up the temper. Heat treating is more than just making the metal hot; you have to make it uniformely hot, for a specific amount of time, and then cool it gradually and under control. Doing that doesn't give you the pretty colors, but it does give you stronger metal.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I won't say that this blade is properly heat treated; it probably isn't. In welding, the problem is the wide variation of heat affects in a very small zone. You can have material that is very brittle just millimeters away from material that is very soft and ductile.

You're describing "normalization", which is a process that makes steel uniformly tough, but "plastic". When you flex it, it bends, and stays bent. "Annealing" is a similar process, where the temperature is raised a bit higher, and the cooling slowed even more. "Annealing" leaves the steel very soft.

In tool making, you're first looking for high hardness (acquired with a "quenching" process). This makes it very brittle; it has no elasticity.

Next, you're dialing back that hardness with a "tempering" process, which is done at a lower temperature than the normalization process, and the cooling can be much faster. When tempered, it's still very hard, (significantly harder than "normalized") but now it is slightly elastic. It will flex, but beyond a critical point, it just snaps; it probably won't take on a permanent bend.

These colors are oxide layers that form at temperatures in the "tempering" range.

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I cast Scholar's Armanent

[–] xxd@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reading this made me instantly have the gay frogs song stuck in my head again

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Frogs friggin frogs turn the fricking frogs GAY!

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ok, but the frogs were becoming gay. Not saying Alex Jones is a decent person.

[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 10 months ago

They're called chem-flames

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

First the frogs. Then the togs. Then some blogs. Now these too?

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Praise gaben

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You bleed rainbows when cut.

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