Medieval Doomsday Weapon

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• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A longer stick would be preferrable

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t be a doomsday weapon if it didn’t also kill the wielder.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A few miles longer, just to be safe.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Demon Core flail

  18 blunt damage 65 radiant damage over time No saving throw

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    18 blunt, 65 radiant damage, 6 constitution damage, continuous 1 constitution damage per day.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh 65 is survivable. We’re looking at more like 650.

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    • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The folks exposed died a few days after. So it wasn’t instant. Very slow and horrible probably as all their organs and cells died at a molecular level and skin fell off.

      So damage over time and can not be healed. Would be accurate.

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    • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s damage over time, forever

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i mean, to be clear, this isn’t a doomsday weapon, this is what we call a mass casualty weapon.

  This is probably more closely related to starting a fire in the middle of a battlefield more than anything.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re no fun.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i’m fun! You just need to be technically accurate when you’re having fun smh.

      Now to be fair, i do have an autistic interest in nuclear power, so i know more than the average person. But like, it only makes it funnier :)

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s not fun about starting a fire in the middle of a battlefield?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make it the size of the moon. Now it’s a doomsday weapon?

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you tried to make one the size of the moon, it would blow up a bit past the time you got it to the size of an atomic bomb core. Or, if you did it slowly enough, it would go critical but stop being pure enough to explode.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i mean, maybe?

      I don’t actually know how the physics would scale up to that size, would probably cause all kinds of havoc.

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• ARk@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get it.

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Demon Core. It was meant to be part of a third nuclear bomb to be dropped on Japan, but after their surrender, the core was used in two experiments which both killed several people via exposure to lethal doses of radiation.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was used in hundreds of experiments, two of which killed the respective operator and injured others.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      2nd guy was asking for it. Poor, dumb, bastard.

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  • witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I favourite think about that story remains that even if everything had gone to plan and he hadn’t fully dropped the second half , it would still just be a couple of dudes with PhDs only slightly irradiating their own junk.

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  • kernelle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s becoming a meme because every creator who has anything to do with nuclear or tragedy has covered the demon core.

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• ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The first time this thing killed someone was because they dropped a brick on it. The second time this thing killed someone was because they were fuckin around with it using a screwdriver

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  • PugJesus@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    "Bro watch this"

    [everyone in the room dies horribly over the course of several days]

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    • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “just a prank bro”

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    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Didn’t they all have to stay in the same hospital room/area too? You’d be getting grilled for that till you die

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah reading the Wikipedia article, the drop is unfortunate but the screwdriver bit, what a fucking moron. And he regularly did this while others observed, like fuck me if you’re going to be a dumbass, be a dumbass by yourself, dumbass.

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    • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, for sure, the screwdriver was a “hold my beer” moment. The brick, though, I gotta disagree. While it was an unfortunate accident, we knew enough about radiation at that point to know even tiny accidents could delete you. Playing Legos around something I know could kill me in an attempt to ease it to the point of maybe almost killing me just sounds like a slightly better thought out way of asking someone to hold my beer

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bartender, I’ll have a screwdriver.

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  • HopingForBetter@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My hands feel weird…

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• magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good thing I’m always carrying a screwdriver

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• pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would anyone not get it, lol

  Demon core memes have been absolutely fucking everywhere

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  • menemen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me, I have no idea what this is about.

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    • problematicPanther@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look up demon core on Wikipedia. It was the core from a nuclear weapon. Some dumbasses decided to play with it in very dangerous and stupid ways and died.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, at least one person according to the comments.

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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly a bit surprised

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So like when, what I assume is an irradiated piece of metal, slipped in the back of Homer’s shirt he killed himself and like the entire town, right?

  The thing was glowing.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s when all the people of Springfield turned yellow.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Running away from demon core

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• ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All it took is a good swing, and then your enemy are gone… as well as anything else in a couple of kilometers.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    except for the fact that it would be more like 50m at most, assuming that you count still living for 20 years, and the fact that the person wielding the weapon has already melted into a puddle of goo by that point, yeah. It’s a weapon with a ranged attack.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Melee area effect weapons. There’s a wand of fireball in Balders Gate 3 that is bent and has melee range. This is like that, but the fire is only analogous to fire and the effect lasts longer and does damage slower

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• chtk@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I get it. Thanks to Kyle Hill

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ooh ya clap those cheeks

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clap them cheeks

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• GeekyOnion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “The Ultimate Cheek Clapper”

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “it’ll light up [the rest of] your life!”

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• boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fresh OJ

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• Beryl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Flail of Atomic Smiting, +7 against organic lifeforms.

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