Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
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Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
hanke@feddit.nu 2 days ago
He considered the test firings a success! Can’t help but feel happy for him.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He wrecked shit and killed a cow. Banger.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you made this today, but with precision ignition system and lightweight ultra high tensile wire rope, it would be catastrophic for that cow.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You mean it would be killed more instantaneously?
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
i had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Test fired in Georgia, cow remains raining clear up in Maine.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“It blew up and almost killed us, perfect.”
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 days ago
This looks like a success to me. Just imagine this: replace the thicket with the enemy army, you fire one shot and the rest of the army retreats.
AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
From the descriptions of the aftermath, I can see where the mangler squigs got their inspiration from.
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I’m pretty sure they fired chain shot from single barreled cannon. On ships, they have two cannonballs connected with a chain and they powder the barrel and load them both in the barrel, then when they fire it the balls spread out and it takes down rigging and masts on ships.
Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They did, but I love how unpredictable the double barrel cannon was and that the inventor thought it was a success
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It fucking depends on the target weakness bro.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Mats and spars? Bar.
Rigging? Chain.
Crew during close action? Grape.
Clearing the decks with the quarterdeck swivel gun before boarding? Canister.
Hulling below the water line, long distance attempts, and knocking away their guns? Round.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
every time I see bar shot I think of a tiktok post that said “giants exist, here is proof” implying it’s a giant nipple piercing
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 1 day ago
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Now with Vitamin R!
DonGirses@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That’s Palk™️
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Chocolate?!
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
So… Ranch dressing?
DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All my homies love grape shot
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Grape shot if for shredding ship hulls. At close ish range it blows through the hull turning it into foot long slivers impaling everyone behind it. Cannister is more anti personnel, and smaller.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Op tech
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
qualia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Loved this Gilliam banger as a kid. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, and Gilliam’s Monty Python alum Eric Idle are in it for those who haven’t seen. As an adult I see a lot of parallels with that movie and Tarsem’s “The Fall” (2006). They’re giving hopeful yet melancholic fairy tale energy.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We had a copy of this on vhs as a kid, grew up with it on repeat.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
apftwb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can someone make an copy of this but bar shot is clearly a nipple peircing.
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 22 hours ago
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I gotta go with round shot.
it really says “fuck you and your boat, I don’t even want to steal it from you”
Carcass is cool too I guess. But it’s no 6” hole punched through the hull.
yakko@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Ball gang rise up. It’s iconic, and dismembered men in formations wholesale, and knocked them down to boot. There’s usually no need for the rest of these innovative horrors, they just seem unsporting.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Langrage.
Kind of just the kitchen sink of whatever the fuck you had around. Often used by pirates because at close range when attempting to board you can shred a lot more people and also do a lot of damage to sails in quick time
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
The chain shot looks like it could hurt
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Chain shot was principally to take out rigging on ships, to leave them unable to steer and all that.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I imagine it spiraling
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
bar shot, because it also implies the existence of giants with piercings
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I’m just imagining giantess pierced nipples
My day has markedly improved. I be in my bunk
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days ago
Carcass shot. Who doesn’t enjoy a little incendiary cannon shot?
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 1 day ago
The Kinder Surprise Egg of cannon shots. I’m sold!
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 day ago
shibari shot~~~
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
Canister shot is great for sweeping clean decks full of disagreeable royalists.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Okay, so each has its use but I would offer this assuming we’re in a stern chase. Chain and bar to disable or at least lower speed and maneuverability so that the foe is unable to escape. Rake the stern with round to disable guns as you come up alongside, if you’re able to slow them enough, try to get raking shots from both broadsides by zig zagging your course. Canister and grape from your upper deck guns to sweep the foe if you intend to carry them via boarding, if not pound away with round shot and if you can, rake them again from forward if you over haul.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Canister shot all the way. Imagine having to charge a cannon position firing this stuff?
oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
_a man has a gun
hey man have fun
nice shot man
nice shot_
user_name@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Cross their T and rake the decks with grape shot!
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I came here for the drink damnit. I want something that does this
Its effects are similar to “having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think my cousin created a drink based on this; red bull, bacardi lemon and that weird stuff with the gold flakes in it iirc
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Goldschläger
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
that sounds pretty good, I’ll have to try it sometime
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Carcass shot was at least originally out of howitzers with a fuse to blow over the heads of the fired on. And it was like gunpowder and I think turnpentine and I forget wrapped in canvas with iron rings around it, the iron rings would turn into shrapnel when it exploded.
Every so often the fuse would fault and blow up the gun crew.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hotchkiss and parrot, because I like to put my own spin on these kinds of things.
luftruessel@feddit.org 1 day ago
What about cutlery? A nice fork to the eye
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 days ago
Canister shot.
I thought of something else when I saw the grape shot.
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 1 day ago
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Deadly shibari
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I didn’t know they had Pepsi when these were used…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Grape shot’s a great shot
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
What exactly is "pilk"´?
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 days ago
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
yuck!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I assumed it was some sort of old thing I hadn’t heard of, but searching yields nothing (but the Pepsi/milk thing). Which then made me wonder if the word’s a typo, and if so, what word it’s supposed to be. It appears to just be a rather random weird joke.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think the idea is that your dying enemies will probably get some of that foul concoction in their mouths, thus suffering more as they die. Probably will smell awful cleaning it too - I bet the carbonic acid in the soda sours the milk, so you’d have strange and smelly “cheeses” with that mix of deck’s bacteria. Perhaps irreparable and they have to sink the ship.
Atlusb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t forget Hot Shot (heated shot).
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 1 day ago
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
No minié ball? GTFO
sundray@lemmus.org 2 days ago
Please, I love all my children.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
I only have experience in video games, and in the vast majority of them the chainshot is the most OP shot type you can use.
Kraiden@piefed.social 2 days ago
I was gonna pick bar shot for similar reasons. I feel like the flexible chain would allow for too much loss of energy. Pure guess though, IANA 18th century naval warfare expert
SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 2 days ago
Not with that attitude, you won't be. :)
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In Sid Meier’s Pirates! it was the objectivity correct choice 99% of the time. Even a tiny ship could take out a ship of the line with a few well-placed chain shot barrages, and ships would pretty much always surrender the instant they lost their mast.
I think the story battles were an exception to the instant surrender rule, but without their sails you could switch to grape shot and pepper their helpless vessel until they had no crew left, then board for an instant victory.
I miss that game. I should load it up and see how it holds up.
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
In that game the OP tactic was ramming war ships with a canoe (it sails faster than cannonballs fly so you can evade them), then beating up the captain so his 2000 trained Marines will surrender to your 50 brigands.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sorry but this is only good on sea.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
Enemies can’t advance or retreat if they have no legs. 😤
otter@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I’m also thinking of video games:
www.bloonswiki.com/Grape_Shot_(BTD6)