Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?

jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And even before ammo, people would name and/or engrave their swords.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And spears and slingshot bullets and arrows and armor and...

    https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/messages-on-missiles-to-sling/amp/

    Among other things, Greek bullets found inscriptions like “Got you!” or “Ouch!” In turn, during the war of Rome with allies (90-88 BC), engravings were found on the missiles: “For Pompey’s Backside!” (it is about the famous father Pompey the Great – Pompey Strabon’s Gnaeus) or “Take that!”.

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      War. War never changes.

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• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.

  https://signmyrocket.com/

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Uh oh, you are now afflicted with the ‘Big Sad’ debuff. Please prepare to die, imperialist scum. Slava Ukraini.”

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