When I was a non-US kid and watched cartoons in the 90s I never did think the guns in cartoons are lasers. I always assumed they are real guns who shoot bullets.

Why?
No idea. I think I assumed they draw the lines so it is easier to see if a weapon is fired especially on small CRT TVs.

Only as a grown man did I encounter on the internet the entire censorship thing where real guns are not allowed.

Did others AS CHILDREN also assumed that these are real guns with real bullets? Maybe because we watched shit loads of prehistoric anime that did have real guns all over the place?

Of course there was plasma and lasers however they looked totally different.

How was it for US children?

>>149698127 (OP)
Cartridges that fire super heated lasers
Much cooler for the kids

The DCAU shows stuck to real guns, at first dodging censors by explicitly using old-school 1940s weapons in BTAS, and later on swapping to a more forgiving network. Laser weapons started appearing in Superman, but they were never actually the norm. Rather than being tools of censorship, the appearance of lasers in Superman signified that whoever was using them was VERY well equipped, usually by Luthor. Regular goons still got ballistics.

>>149698136
>Cartridges that fire
You try seeing that bullet casing.
On a CRT!
That is 3 meters away!

Yes I was one of the far way from the TV kids!

>>149698157
>[What cartoons did censor the guns]

No brain censure anon I asked
>DID YOU AS A KID THINK THESE ARE REAL GUNS OR NOT!

>>149698203
And so the autist vanished!

>>149698203
>>149698197
/co/ autism

Ya know, Chewbacca wore a bandolier with white squares on them. I always figured those were battery packs, cuz blasters have to have an energy source to fire lasers.

>>149698127 (OP)
Tracer rounds are a thing for automatic weapons in militaries. Common confusion, especially with Hawk's spent shell casings there, LOL.

>>149699481
The bow caster is more like a gauss rifle. There is an actual physical projectile.

>>149699509
>Tracer rounds are a thing for automatic weapons in militaries
As a kid I would not know what these are.

I repeat the question:
>Did you as a child think these are real guns or not?

>>149699609
Not really no.
I did think they were intended to be lethal though, kind of negating the whole purpose.
Also Serpentor impaled Duke with a big snake in the move and what was clearly meant to be his blood was an off brown color.
They weren't fooling anybody.

CHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKA

>>149698127 (OP)
I could tell the difference, you just sound retarded and I knew it was usually a censorship thing too.

>>149699655
>Not really no.
So you did think they are real guns?
>They weren't fooling anybody.
There was nothing to fool here for me as a kid since I remember asking my mom why [cartoons] look so different since you have movies who look like real life and then these things who are so different.

Since these where stylized characters who do not look realistic and are cell shaded their guns being yellow streaked was not a problem I always simply assumed they are normal guns only they draw the shot this way.

Also we did have 70s anime here and they did use real guns.

>>149699672
>I knew it was usually a censorship thing too.
How?
Serious question.
HOW?

Did you have a school class talking how
>Ah yes kids because of censorship gun controversy we are censoring guns in cartoons now here have these 10 examples.

>I could tell the difference,
HOW?
Because cartoons clearly do not look like real humans BTW.

>you just sound retarded
And you clearly sound delusional. Do you even remember your childhood or did you awoke in the basement as a man child with encyclopedic knowledge of everything cartoon related?

>>149699655

doesn't negate the purpose. the idea was to not show children an object that they could find in their parents closet to prevent pic related.
>>149698157
>dodging censors by explicitly using old-school 1940s weapons in BTAS
it was generally agreed that kids wouldn't find a tommy gun lying around.

>>149699751
>doesn't negate the purpose. the idea was to not show children an object that they could find in their parents closet to prevent pic related.
And kids clearly where unable to see the difference between the unnamed cartoon gun and their parents gun, making this meaningless, not that I care. I love to have realistic guns in my cartoons.

Seriously if parents are so retarded that they let guns lay around the kids deserve to shoot themselves also if the parents are so retarded as to let their kids have access to drugs and chemicals the kids deserve to kill themselves.

Remember that america literally banned a kinder egg because one retarded kid died on one.
Clearly america needs to have eugenics laws to let the retarded kids die at this point.

And bicycles kill more kids every year then guns.
So do cars....

I hate the leftist media.

>>149698127 (OP)
>Did others AS CHILDREN also assumed that these are real guns with real bullets?
I didn't really spend much time thinking about it. To me, a gun was a gun whether it fired lasers or bullets. The distinction was not important—it was a pointy-shooty weapon to kill things at a distance. I'm not exactly sure what their goal was with this sort of censorship.

>>149699751
>it was generally agreed that kids wouldn't find a tommy gun lying around.
And the retarded kid can magically memorize and remember the model of the gun used in the cartoon? Instead remembering long pew pew stick?

>>149699713
In the sense that I did not think they were firing a actual physical projectile no

>>>149699795
>To me, a gun was a gun

Finally a sane answer.


>To me, a gun was a gun whether it fired lasers or bullets.
Do they shoot lasers? Because I as a kid was thinking a laser is a long beam who melts thins.

>>149698127 (OP)
I didn't think they had real guns. I thought the laser guns were because of how advanced the Joes and Cobra's arms were. I didn't become sensitive to laser guns being censorship until Spider-Man where the cops had laser guns.

>>149699823
>In the sense that I did not think they were firing a actual physical projectile no
What does this even mean?
Like are you talking IRL? Because movies and cartoons are not real and can not hurt you.

Or are you talking in universe?

>>149699840
Are you autistic?

>>149699838
>until Spider-Man where the cops had laser guns.
I STILL DID NOT REGISTER THEM AS LESSER GUNS, they where literally looking like normal guns to me.

I mean imagine watching this on a CRT TV.

>>149699848
Can you answer the question?
You worded it in a strange way.

>>149698127 (OP)
I did realize they were lasers, but given the yellow beams that anime guns tended to use to signify bullet paths I could 100% see people mistaking them for being intended to be regular guns, particularly in a series where the sound effects aren't as obviously lasery.

>>149699869
>I could 100% see people mistaking them for being intended to be regular guns, particularly in a series where the sound effects aren't as obviously lasery.
Thenks.


>but given the yellow beams that anime guns tended to use to signify bullet paths I could 100% see people mistaking them for being intended to be regular guns
Hold on....
Red pill me on the yellow paths in anime...
I was thinking they have normal shots .... or.... What? Pictures?

>>149699884
I need to go the fuck to sleep but I 100% remember some 80s anime would use yellow lines from the barrel to indicate a bullet shot.

>>149699916
I need pictures.

>I need to go the fuck to sleep
After you wake up or if someone else can.
I need to see this.

I am having the mother of all mind fucks right now.
Literally me right now with these yellow beams
https://youtu.be/LB3CybXl8rs?t=478

>>149698127 (OP)
People like to say that Burgerland is the place where
>sex bad
>violence good
But I feel like people genuinely forgot how the violence was ALSO considered bad and was under constant censor struggle

>>149700000
>>violence good
Only from the most fagtastic of European countries.
Daily reminder that lego to this day will not place real guns on their toys.
Because guns bad!

>>149700024
>>149700000
>>violence good
Only from the most fagtastic of European countries.
Daily reminder that lego to this day will not place real guns on their toys.
Because guns bad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCG3WgYxPkI

>>149698197
You'd have ruined your eyes otherwise.

>>149699829
>Because I as a kid was thinking a laser is a long beam who melts thins.
As a kid, I was generally aware of two varieties of laser beams—one was a tool for cutting, but the other was a projectile weapon. I'd played enough video games and seen enough sci-fi movies to be familiar with the concept.

>>149700000
The difference is that's only for kids. For adults, sex is still considered bad, which is the retarded puritanical part and what proves America has been held captive by Christfaggotry for decades.

>>149698127 (OP)
Censoring violence for children's media always makes it darker. Like having villains say "destroy" instead of "kill" sounds more violent like "I'll kill you so hard there will nothing left to bury"

This is one of those things where I feel like clickbait articles in the 2000's and general forum talk made people hyper aware of it.
When it comes to censorship, I'd notice the lack of sexuality/nudity and cursing more.

>>149700000
>>149700795
Euros taking offense at this is dumb because violence is inherently relatable to kids, sexuality is not. Kids on their own will play pretend games based off fighting and roughhousing because they enjoy that.

>>149698127 (OP)
How did BTAS get away with real guns in the 90s when things got real censor happy?

>>149702136
Partly using “ historical” guns like Tommy guns, and also coming in earlier when censors weren’t as alert.
Power Rangers was so popular it got a lot of parental groups confronting Fox kids which made their censorship harsher around 94. BTAS had completed most of its run on Fox by then.

>>149698127 (OP)
The gun Hawk is using in that pic actually IS a laser rifle. It's an XMLR 3A Laser Pulse Rifle, standard issue for Joes, in the cartoon at least.

For all the cool real world hardware Joes used, they also had tons of cool original laser wespons. I'd love to see some type of 3rd person cover shooter, but all the guns are classic weapons from the 80s toyline.

>>149699741
I knew that normal guns weren't usually allowed in cartoons because their too violent just like blood even if I didn't know what censorship was.

>>149702643
That makes it weirder when you think about it because there's one guy one the team who was a laser specialist, ironically not Zap who was the bazooka guy.

>>149698127 (OP)
Cartoon violence came full circle, the 2000s got away with lots of edge, but the 2010s gradually kiddified everything you can't show no blood or death on screen