Thread 712589281

This is not a practical weapon. It's a farming tool.

Stop putting them into games.

>>712589281 (OP)
Anything is a viable weapon when you can swing it fast and hard enough, which superhuman video game characters can do.

>>712589281 (OP)
>This is not a practical weapon. It's a farming tool.
Skill issue

>>712589375
>*breaks on the first swing*

>>712589375
swinging a scythe like a weapon looks goofy

>>712589281 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ31uqH07E

>>712589281 (OP)
Practicality is a nonfactor in fictitious contexts.

>>712589281 (OP)
shut up fag

>>712589281 (OP)
Who cares? It's cool.

>>712589281 (OP)
Rule of cool, fag

>>712589281 (OP)
>no fun allowed.png

>>712589281 (OP)
>meanwhile the "practical" weapons were even more retarded

>>712589281 (OP)
The concept of using a scythe as a weapon comes from Christianity.

It was an ancient Christian metaphor for "reaping" your souls. According to the Bible when Jesus comes back He uses a scythe to reap everyone's soul. It's in the last book of the Bible. It is a farming metaphor because ancient Christians worked a lot in the fields.

Lol.

>>712589281 (OP)
Farm equipment was very often used for warfare, because serfs and militias couldn't afford actual weapons.

Start putting more farming tools into games.

>>712589479
why is the outside edge dull? why not make it sharp so you can swing back and forth

>>712589610
That's a pike not a scythe

>>712589525
>one handed scythe
even more stupid looking

i am one with the darkness
my scythe is an extension of my soul
with this power i will take yours.....

>>712589281 (OP)
Yeah, farming souls.

>>712589653
Actually it's a Saif.

>>712589653
Actually that is a scythe
A war scythe is a scythe but they just move the blade so its more like a spear

>>712589450
just make it out of mithril

Only certified homosexuals don't like scythes

>>712589281 (OP)
Reasilm is gay.

>>712589653
It's a war scythe made from regular equipment. Very popular in XVIII c. central europe. Pikes are supposed to be thrice that length anyway.

I already explained it.
It's a metaphor for harvesting people's ghosts.
>And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
A scythe is like the same thing but longer. Lol.

>>712589653
That's not a Pike, THIS is a Pike

>>712589281 (OP)
You didn't even post a real scythe

>>712590345
but i thought this was a pike

>>712589617
You would be doing next to nothing on the second swing, the grass is too pliant to be cut like how you're imagining. The scythe needs that inward curve to grab the grass and cut it.

>>712589281 (OP)
Don't care, looks cool.

i'm gonna fucking cum

>>712589281 (OP)
>straight pole without handles
fuck that thing would be so obnoxious to use

>>712590457
That's a dyke.
Not a pike.
Lol.

>>712590681
The handle is not aesthetic so it has to go, sorry, lol.

>>712589479
i deserve a gf like this

>>712590596
I want to make this zero sex appeal doek my wife!

>>712590159
>roman numerals
how many zoomies had to google what XVIII was lol

Scythes are just axes for retards

>>712590457
Nonono, that's a bike. This is a pike.

This is not a practical weapon. It's a farming tool.

Stop putting them into games.

I must reap

>>712589281 (OP)
Seethe and cope more, fag.

>>712590850
do american zoomies not get taught to read roman numerals???

>>712591010
they don't even get taught how to write in cursive
american zoomies don't become literate until the 8th grade

>>712590874
No, that's a mike. This is a pike.

>>712589281 (OP)
I keep it where my heart used to be.

>>712589281 (OP)
Seethe and cope more, fag

>>712589281 (OP)
Many irl weapons were farming tools. Scythe is a bit unwieldy, but not more than most of the oversized weapons you find in an average fantasy game

>>712589558
>Shows another farming tool

>>712589281 (OP)
Who's gonna tell anon that historically, farming tools are highly dangerous and most fatalities can be sourced from them?

Pitchforks are also farming tools.
Knives are for cooking.

>>712589281 (OP)
your moms pussy wasn't one either but then you happened.

>>712591098
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that is a kike. This is a pike.

>>712591243
degenerated cavalry weapon, ackshully

>>712589281 (OP)
Scythes bladed like OP are farming tools that are basically useless in combat.
The disconnect is that when farmers fought with scythes, they took the blades off and refixed them longways like >>712589610 >>712590159

>>712591396
no, this is a pike

>>712591396
>The "impaler bird" is commonly referred to as a Shrike, also known as a butcherbird, due to its habit of impaling its prey on thorns or sharp objects like barbed wire. This behavior is used to store food, make it easier to eat, and potentially attract mates.

brutal

>>712591525
A shrike can't carry a mouse

TITS!

>>712589281 (OP)
That's a Halloween prop

>>712591678
so it has more utility today than a farming scythe

>>712591010
They didn't even get taught to read half of the English letters.

>>712589281 (OP)
>This is not a practical weapon. It's a farming tool.
WRONG

>>712591678
>tang
>snatch
>toe
wtf...

>>712590457
Why are bicycles so pleasing to look at? I don't understand.

>>712592858
same reason most cars are; the soul knows an instrument of travel when it sees one

>>712591092
My students can't read cursive, they think it's some sort of specialist skill.

>>712593126
What are some other things they can't do that millennials could do in school?

>>712593126
It is. I've only been inconvenienced by being terrible at reading cursive a few times in my life.

>>712591010
>>712591092
>thirdies when a thread is about literally anything except screeching about Americans:

>>712589281 (OP)
Counterpoint: its cool

>>712589281 (OP)
>not a practical
But it's cool

>>712589281 (OP)
>Sorry boss I can't put this in our new game. A guy on 4chan said so
>Drat, foiled again...

>>712593230
I yelled at a kid yesterday because she couldn't spell skibidi. Like it's your generations retarded meme and you can't even fucking spell it?

>>712591010
They don't get taught how to read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhqEznkII6g

>>712589281 (OP)
FUCK YOU, it's awesome!

>this is not a weapon
>GIANT fucking sharp blade thing
lol

>>712593597
>lowest damage in the game
>not stall the final boss so that it can't even make a move

Why do they never make double-edged scythes? In fact why are most curved blades single edged?
>outer blade for slicing
>tip for piercing
>inner blade for hacking
any /k/ommandos wanna pipe in?

>>712593597
That's him. That's my main in every game.

>even in the era when he was nerfed and considered low tier he was winning tournaments
The core ability of a fuck huge scythe to drag people in is too strong. And you know, command grabs.

>>712589281 (OP)
But it's cool

>>712589569
lol wtf what retards

>>712591574
They can, don't fuck with them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U78XktMO30

>>712593878
Honestly same
I think humans just have an instinctual love for swinging things, and if they describe a graceful arc, all the better. The scythe is entirely impractical as a weapon, but it has flourish like you wouldn't believe.

>>712589281 (OP)

Heh. So true. Looks a lot cooler than it handles.

>>712594160
It's the same for iaido. It's totally impractical, shit for the weapon, hardly makes physical sense. It's all about that one beautiful swing though, with such visceral physical feedback from the sword colliding against the sheath.

>>712591515

With a nozzle that long, I can't hep but think engagements would be a but awkward.

>>712591631
Remember when questionable content was good

>>712589281 (OP)
But then again, we aren't practical! Chaos, chaos!

>>712589281 (OP)
Just give it a switch so the blade goes parallel to the pole and you'll have a proper weapon

>>712589281 (OP)
>This is not a practical weapon. It's a farming tool.

the grim reaper is but a farming tending to the crops come harvest time

>>712595323
sex toys

>>712591413
>>712591243
How the fuck do you use nunchuks as either of those things

>>712590345
That's the asshole of the lakes

>>712589281 (OP)
>In turn based RPGs: Status effect god, life and sometimes other resource drain, crits, instant death or HP% damage
>In action games: High attack speed, massive and broad hit box, often extending behind yourself
The GOAT

>>712589281 (OP)
How is a scythe not a good weapon? You can behead people with it.

I agree the scythe is a stupid fucking weapon, I don't know why the Grim Reaper made that shit popular he isn't ev

>>712596413
Lmao you got raped by Grim mid-sentence

>>712596413
ANOTHER ANON

R E A P E D

>>712589281 (OP)
That style of scythe isn't practical as farm equipment either.

>>712594112
did he just break that mouse's neck? nice

>>712595957
>He doesn't nunchuck his corn stalks
That'd be like growing potatoes without a flying guillotine. Do you even agriculture?

>>712589281 (OP)
You don't 1v1 muh honorable warrior's duel the fucking wheat. You harvest it. It is beneath you. It exists to be culled for your sustenance or any other purpose you see fit, because it has no agency. When a character uses a regular scythe rather than one with the blade turned 90 degrees to be a more conventional polearm this is what is being conveyed: a sheer disparity in power or ability and purpose. Obviously it doesn't always work and sometimes is deliberately subverted, but that's the heart of it.
Alternatively it is played completely straight with no symbolism: using a farm tool as an improvised weapon because the means, skill, and/or time to adapt it to a "proper weapon" are not available. Stick gives reach, sharp edge and point gives cut and stab. Done. It's crap, but crap is better than regretting all your life choices while bleeding out face down in a cow pat because someone else had long pointy things while all you fielded were your fists and harsh language.
>craptcha: A8YSS
ow the edge

>>712589713
OP is a huge faggot as always, in summary.

>Scythe
>ball and chain(flail but big)
>claws
Now these
These are weapons fit for a king

>>712589281 (OP)
Vidya scythes aren't at all designed like a functional scythe for cutting plants such as >>712590403
and also>>712591678
They tend to be double edged such as in this one which even includes a sort of reversed additional edge >>712590927
Even here, Zasalemel's scythe has two edges>>712593581
Or even this guy>>712596540


The idea is that they function a bit like a halberd but with a double edged, slightly curved sword sticking out of it horizontally.
They never existed in real life, but like >>712594010
depicts they would feasibly allow one to reach behind a guard and pull back with all your weight.

>>712597647
>Ball and chain
Meteor Hammer, commonly mistaken for a flail. You need to have a haft to be a flail.

For me it's a big club that looks like a giant fossilized turkey leg.

>>712589558
How did this and maces even get past r&d?
>here’s a weapon that takes an absurd degree of skill just to use without hurting yourself
>meanwhile I can swing a bat or axe immediately and kill you

>>712597738
I only said flail because it was the most well known thing to compare it to
I didnt know what a meteor hammer was until Wo long came to pc

>>712597869
I know it because everyone thinks the school girl assassin with the meteor hammer in Kill Bill is using a flail in her fight with Uma Therman.

>>712595957
I think you use them to beat/motivator your farm tools.

>>712594010
God the fumbled potential is still excruciating to this day
It's a yearning that I can't describe. Better that it had never existed at all than to have become what it is now

>>712597815
The amygdalan arm is pretty rad

>>712598352
It has scythes on it.

>>712589479
[chair clattering]

>>712589617
Farming scythes are curved, its the curve that makes it effective at cutting, not just that its a sharp metal blade. You won't gain anything with a back swing even if it was sharp. In fact you'd weaken the strength of the entire blade trying to do so.
Also probably the main reason is cost, its much cheaper to make a single edged piece of metal and those fuckers were used by farmers and field workers who historically were extremely poor or even serfs or slaves.

>swears up and down its a scythe
>is actually a rod

>>712595957
threshing grains. it's the same as a threshing flail.

>>712589281 (OP)
>Stop putting them into games.
but what if I have evil wheat fields to defeat?

you're not scything hard enough

scythes are fucking cool yo

>>712589281 (OP)
Shut the fuck up
It looks cool as fuck

Claws are cooler
And I dont mean those weird punching dagger things with 3 blades
I need a blade on each finger