What can we replace the scabbard trope with?

Uhh... a baldric?

>>44080587
The intestines of our enemies.

>>44080587

What's wrong with it?

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>>44080587
A protagonist

>>44080587
>scabbard trope
Que?
What trope?
The fact that a scabbard is a simple, and common way to carry a sword?

>>44080587
I don't think these words mean what you think they do.

>>44080587
The intestines of a protagonist, crafted into a baldric

>>44080587
Magnets fitted under the back of your armor.

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>>44080693
This guy gets it.

>>44080707
...
I really like that, actually. Make an angled trench down the back lined with lodestones.

>>44080587
>trope
No. That's not how that word works.

>>44080707
lmao that's what I'm actually doing with one of my settings
the world has biomagnetic minerals and people use them to make mounted up magnetic holders on their backs, and also make weapons with a specific part made of that mineral so they can just hold it in place by reaching back, and it doesn't fall unless you jank it off

>>44080658

>scabbard (n.)
>c. 1300, from Anglo-French *escauberc "sheath, vagina"

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scabbard&allowed_in_frame=0

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>>44080587

>>44080770
Ok.
So it meant vagina 700 years ago.
Big whoop.

>>44080793
>>44080770
And Penis meant "tail."
Eymology is fun.

>>44080778
I actually really want to see someone carrying an umbrella stand full of swords around.

Or, better yet, a golf bag.

>>44080707
>>44080735
>>44080747
Seriously? That shit has been used in video games already as an excuse not to model and animate sheathing and unsheathing because it's hard. It's something you visually associate with lazy fucking devs as a gamer.

>>44080815
Etymology* I mean.
Would help to spell it right.

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>>44080707
Does it come with hair gel?

>>44080815
Boy used to mean slave.

>>44080770
That's hysterical.

>hysterical (adj.)
>1610s, from Latin hystericus "of the womb,

>>44080815
And, generally speaking, the most popular dagger in Northern Europe and Britain for centuries was the bollock dagger, which is literally designed to look like cock and balls and is sheathed right in front of the wearer's crotch.

>>44080824
It's also much easier to sheath and unsheath that way.
They go together quite well.

>>44080824
As the first guy, that was the joke, yes.

>>44080850
>bollock dagger

Ha! I didn't know about those. Now I do. Thank you, anon.

>>44080841
Yes, "hysteria" was what happened to women when it was believed their uterus became unhinged and floated around inside their bodies like a sick eel.

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>>44080850
Holy shit, it is.

>>44080850
why

>>44080707
>>44080824
I fucking loved Mass Effect's weapons so much. I'd literally just draw them and "holster" them constantly because it was so fucking cool to watch. Plus it gave a lore-friendly way for the characters to lug around a squad's worth of weaponry at once, along with the grain-of-metal excuse for infinite ammo and no magazine (but they had to go and fuck that up in the rest of the series)

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>>44080747
You know what'd be really scary?
Magnetic golems.
One swing and your weapon is fucking stuck, unless it's a fucking quaterstaff.
Also they'd be great meatshields, since they can protect their masters from arrows n shit.
Truly, a horrible creature.

>>44080893
>circumcised

>>44080932
Why is a penis dagger the most popular or why was it sheathed right in front of the crotch?
1: Everyone loves a good dick joke, and imagine how much you can get done when you're carrying an (fairly lethal) artificial dick right there at all times.
2: With the handle facing up (As if your dagger was the fully erect dick that it emulates), your arms are already close enough to there most of the time to make it easy and quick to draw, since the blade is short.

>>44080981
>they can protect their masters from arrows n shit

Wouldn't they need a shitload of energy to build a electromagnetic field strong enough for that? It'd be easier to zap them with that energy and be done with it imo.

>>44080932
>get in a fistfight with a dude
>the front of his shirt comes up for a second and you realize he has an erection poking out the top of his pants
>wait no
>that's a knife
>he's not going for it yet, but he might
>you can grab it before he does though
>but it looks like a dick
You've got a very difficult choice to make.

>>44080937
You sir are a man of exquisite taste.

>>44081000
Also, it was probably perceived as extra defense for your junk, since there's a sizable piece of metal right in front of it. Peace of mind and all that.

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Here is an option, the sword is held by a snap thingy on the belt.

However, I think it'd be fucking crazy to carry your sword with it's edge bare. A properly sharpened sword would most likely injure the person carrying it. Not to mention the wear and tear from being exposed to the elements.

>>44081000
>Everyone loves a good dick joke

Oh, but it was no laughing matter.

>>44081020
Fair enough, I didn't think this through.
Still, a beast in melee, especially against armoured opponents.

>>44081035
>everyone in your gang suspect that you're gay
>it's true but you prefer to keep it private
>you have a crush on your gang leader
>you don't want to creep him out
>you want to tell senpai your sexuality in private and probably ask him out if he's cool with it
>he's watching the duel

The hardest choice

>>44081035
Always go for it.

If it's a knife, you now have his knife. If not, you've literally got him by the balls.

>>44080932
Proper humiliation during rape requires an artificial penis to tell your victim that they are so worthless that they aren't even worth sticking your proper male reproductive organ in them. The tool used to threaten them also being used to forcefully penetrate them just cuts down time and costs involved in the rape by about half.

>>44080587
>laser swords
>switchblade sword
>butterfly swords
>belts with a magnets
>retractile swords
>magic swords
gee i dont know is it still a trope, i mean beside the quickdraw and back to scabbard i don't even see why use one

>>44081054
Keeping the edge bare is more likely to damage the sword than it is to damage you.

Vadi recommended that a fighter only keep their blade sharpener "four fingers from the tip", because hitting lower on the blade (mezza and lower) is more bludgeoning than cutting.

>>44081065
It's okay bro, it's magic, who cares.

>>44080981
>Magnetic golems.
Nothing compared to gunpowder and flint golems, one swing and BOOM!

>>44080932
Because people have changed much less in the last few thousand years than we think. Apart from being generally fatter I guess.

>>44081221
>Cue pompei grafitti

>>44081243
Please do, that stuff is great.

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>>44081000
>why was it sheathed right in front of the crotch?

Probably something about emphasizing virility or sexual dominance, similar to how pistols nowadays are occasionally tucked into the front of one's trousers.

>>44081267
With less chance of injuring your penis as a helpful bonus.

>>44080587
Op mother

>>44080981
You could achieve similar effects with an electrically charged golem moving around.
Moving electric field = magnetic field by Maxwell's 3rd law.

>>44080824
I've never seen that or any explanation given for the floating back weapons that are so ubiquitous.

>>44080770
That's not a "trope" you fucking hoser.

>>44080587
>scabbard trope
Be honest, OP. You ate paste way past elementary school, didn't you?

>>44081582

A trope is any harmful pattern or repetition. That includes words. Deal with it.

>>44081599
>trope
>harmful
"no"

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>>44081599
>harmful

>>44081599
It's especially harmful to women.

>>44080770
Funny, my native uses the same word for "sword sheath" and "vagina" to this day.

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>>44081599
You're fucking hilarious.

>>44080587
A scabbard is a tool that works pretty well. Actually, it's not even a specific tool, it's the name for the general function. If you stop using conventional scabbards and start using something else instead, you haven't "replaced" scabbards, you've just invented another kind of scabbard.

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>>44080587
>scabbard trope
what trope?

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>>44080778
I'd call that idea stupid but..... yeah, you know what? It's fucking stupid.

>>44081734
>If you stop using conventional scabbards and start using something else instead, you haven't "replaced" scabbards, you've just invented another kind of scabbard.

Good point. Maybe we should stop using phallic weapons altogether?

>>44081599
Who in the halibut refers to a vagina as a "scabbard" that isn't a medievaly person who got time traveled to the modern times or some quirky Amish dude who snuck onto the internet?

Just say vagina you goon. Vaginavaginavagina.

>>44081839
I dunno, levers are still pretty good at magnifying force of impact and tubes are still pretty good at focusing expanding gas to push a projectile accurately, so it doesn't seem all that necessary.

>>44081839

>non-phallic weapons

So napalm and chemical weapons?

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>>44080823
have you tried the dresden files?

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>>44081925
>non-phallic weapons
>napalm and chemical weapons?
>spraying harmful fluids from your metaphorical wang

I guess bombs and grenades tend not to be very phallic. Same goes for those experimental laser weapons fired from dishes.

And perhaps we could even it up by loading our silos with egg-shaped missiles. More female imagery there.

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>>44080937
along with the grain-of-metal excuse for infinite ammo and no magazine (but they had to go and fuck that up in the rest of the series)

Yeah, them adding in heat sinks as an "ammo system" pissed me off so much for several reasons.

1. It was obviously just a move to make the gun-play more like every other shooter when it really didn't need to be.
2. They gave some shitty excuse about how heatsinks increased firing rate since they negated needing to worry about venting and therefore everyone adopted them because "that's what is better" ignoring the fact that
3. They added an entirely new logistics concern to anyone looking to use any heatsink using weapons. Now every armed force would need to worry about constantly supplying their troops with heatsinks alongside other supplies. Or at least they would, except that heatsinks magically grow out of the ground apparently based on how easy they are to find.
4. If you ever ran out of heatsinks you couldn't fire your guns at all. It would be cool if you could have hybrid system guns where heatsinks allowed you to "overheat" your weapon, eject the sink, then go right back to firing without needing to worrying about venting; but no, the guns are incapable of being fired despite them still have plenty of ammunition.

>>44080815
You heathen, stop mispelling aymology.

>Aymology, n.; the study of ayys and their wayys.

>>44082197
>heat sinks as an "ammo system"
Really? I thought the ammo in ME2 and onward was just regular bullets again.

Still, I wish they stuck with the old infinite ammo ones. You'd think someone would say "wait up, this thing has INFINITE ammo. Why don't I at least use it as a sidearm to my ostensibly-superior regular gun?".

>>44081839
>>44081925
>non-phallic weapons
>instead, weapons that resemble vaginas

How does it work in your setting, /tg/?

>>44082169
I've heard of it. A girl I used to work with seemed to love it, and I've been meaning to take a peak.

>>44082485
whips, nets and throwing anus?

>>44082485
Strangling bags.

>>44082485
Headcrab rockets.

>>44082294
>Really? I thought the ammo in ME2 and onward was just regular bullets again.
That's how it functioned in-game to make it more like a generic shooter. But they actually were, according to the fluff text, heat sinks.
Yes, it's stupid, but then, Bioware went downhill in 2 and full pants-on-head retarded in ME3.

>>44082485
Cluster bombs
Bag of grenades
shaped explosive charges
the throwing anus
I tried fairly hard

>>44082485
Bear traps.

>>44080937
>but they had to go and fuck that up in the rest of the series

You can kinda blame the test groups for that.
They originally had it a combination of ME1 and the rest. You could eject and cycle through heats sinks to instantly restore them, or you could wait for it to gradually cool down on its own.
The people they had play the game would constantly eject the sinks until they had only one left and just used that, completely ignoring all the ammo pickups and crates.

>>44083158
>You can kinda blame the test groups for that.
I guess that explains how Inquisition wound up aimed at people dumber than a box of rocks. I thought it couldn't get any less mindless than DA2, but they proved that even it was still too complex for the target audience.

>>44080793
Wanna fight about it?

>>44083561
I'm still pissy about modern dialogue trees. I don't want good sides and bad sides, chaotic or lawful or any of that shit.
Just give me a list of exactly what my character will say on selection and let me pick which one I want.

>>44081105
>hardest
Ha.

>>44081063
Improper dick placement is akin to death itself. There's a reason tailors always ask which side you dress to.

>>44080707

>drawing weapons from your back
Nope.

>>44083634
Yes, actually. Where you at?

>>44083677
For all the rough edges on the original Dragon Age, I still liked that the moral choices weren't given as specifically "good" or "bad."
Like the elves/werewolves bit.
Help the dickhead elves by butchering the rampaging werewolves and have elves in the final battle? Kill all the elves and recruit werewolves for the final battle? Kill one dickhead elf to cure werewolves? Can't remember what effect that had on the final army.
But still, both sides had merits and faults and you weren't directly penalized by the game for choosing one over the other.
Other than Morrigan disapproving of every action you make.

>>44080999
>erect

>>44082485

Portals.

>>44083677
>Just give me a list of exactly what my character will say on selection and let me pick which one I want.

This so much. They used to do this, then cut it out because I guess it gives the player too much control or something. Then you wind up with fallout 4 making the choices essentially meaningless, since you're lucky to get five words describing a conversation option, all of them express the same idea with a slightly different tone and wording, and the NPC's dialogue is often literally unchanged.

>>44084602
Voice acting killed a lot of conversation depth

>>44084602
I miss arena-daggerfall Bethesda

>>44082485
Magnetic fields.

>>44080823
mifune from Soul Eater?

>>44085342
That was also partly explosive to be able to be a sort of sword mortar and rain swords and police tape fucking everywhere.

Got to love a character in an anime about people who turn into magic scythes who fight witches and still manage to make things ridiculous. Plus he had the best theme.

>>44082580
Its pretty fucking good.

>>44084602
One time I liked it was DA:II, and the Humorous dialogue choice.
Because it made Hawke just not give a fuck. Ever. He didn't care if you were a demon, a prince, a lord, a beggar. You were going to be insulted.
Thing is, I played Humorous on my second playthrough, and it was like Hawke was in on that, that he knew he was in a rather substandard game. He knew how it all ended, how everyone in his game was being a prick. So he ran with it. Really made the whole experience enjoyable to have my Hawke along with me poking fun at everyone.

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>>44082485
Flying guillotines.

>>44081654
Tropes are against women, it's right there in the title! Tropes Vs Women!
Incidentally, a title drop is a trope.

>>44082485
Divorce settlements.

>>44082485
Vaginas. Just straight-up vaginas.

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>>44080684
inconceivable.

>>44080815
This explains front tails in penguindrum

>>44090451
>penguindrum

Did you mean Daimidaler?

>>44082197
If they decided to use bigger bullets with their own heat sinks it would have been another matter.

>>44082580
Probably one of my favorite book series of all times.

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>>44080670

>>44081691
Not sure if related, but in my language the word for "scabbard" and "whore" are almost the same. The word for scabbard has one extra letter, but sounds quite similar.

>>44088076
If you take DA:II as a kind of meta experience, it's a game about a story being told as a story by a consummate bullshitter and storyteller, then some of the broken bits become more amusing. Instead of it being lazy game development, it's a matter of Varric being Varric.

"You slaughtered how many enemies and no one noticed? What, did they just fall out of the sky?"
>"Yeah, let's go with that."

>>44080707
Have fun getting hit in the back by more projectiles.

>>44080793
Considering that vagina meant scabbard in Latin, it's not that much of a stretch.

>>44091264
>neither is your mother's vagina

>>44091263
No? The kind of magnet that would deviate a bullet or arrow that hard would also make unsheating the weapon impossible.

>>44082169

I've read them. At no point does Dresden or anyone else walk around with more then one or two swords.

>>44081879
Be careful, vagina is latin for scabbard. You wouldn't want to offend any time-travellign Romans, would you?

>>44092755
I think he was referring to how Michael carries Amorrachius in a hockey bag, and Harry wound up keeping two of the Swords and his staff, canesword, and maybe blasting rod in an umbrella rack.

>>44091743
Rekt.

>>44080823
"What do you think? The half-hand or the long sword?"

"You get a little more control with the half-hand over the long, but this guy is pretty big and you may need the extra oomph to hack a few bits off him."

"Weelllll, okay, my wife just got me this one and I've been dying to try it out anways"

>>44091263
That's what a shield on the back is for.

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>>44080826

I think you mean "entomology" as the first human languages were taught to us by the insects.

>>44081691
pochwa?

>>44081691
SWE?

>>44093362
/x/ pls

>>44080587
I think you are dumb, and this topic is dumb.

>>44084602
There is a mod that will fill out all the dialogue options. It's a godsend over the vanilla tree.
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1235/?

>>44081691
this.

>>44083853
It's possible and was done. Not with magnets that would probably have a fixed position though.
Just don't mind (mute him or something) the annoying jap in the Video. And skip to ~2:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_eKksZCrg

>>44091263
I would rather get shot in the magnets than my spine. If the bullets deviate from my spine or other fleshy bits to strike at my magnetic lodestones, I'm 100% happier about it.

>>44080932

So the in front of the crotch thing is not necessarily ballock dagger related, it's just a really easily reachable and locatable place to store a knife. If it's at the side, how far along your side is it, will that split second cost you? If it's behind your back, will the time it takes to reach it cost you again?

Then as regards the design, at least in England, bollocks and phallic imagery and other signs of virility and fertility are fucking everywhere in the post-black death era. As far as I'm aware,the church is like "aww shit we need more peasants, better start and add campaign for SEX" So then you get bollock pouches and bollock daggers in 15th-century England, and I've seen a lot of pewter pilgrim badges that are just massive cocks or people bearing such appendages, or phallic necklaces and so on. Apparently that sort of thing gets you in the mood.

>>44081546
Then you're not paying attention. Even in Final Fantasy VII, where it really started, the design sketches had notes about the magnet harness for Cloud's sword.

>>44093097
Yeah she was.

>>44091263
Do you realize how strong a magnet would need to be to actually attract the little steel that might be in a bullet sufficiently fast to make a difference?

Let's just say that at that point your biggest issue isn't bullets, it's getting your back unstuck from your car.

>>44080893
here in Britain, there's a term; to give a bollocking, which means to tell someone off severely, i read somewhere (probably wikipedia) that it relates to the bollock knife, as bollocking someone could have mean chibbing them

>>44090554
Does anyone have the full image of this page?

>>44092847
Blasting rod was in a basket next to the door, with his gun, holy water, garlic, salt and iron filings
I like how Butcher never covers how Dresden is getting his guns (besides the Winchester and the big one from Skin Game) outside of "I don't have a CC permit so I have to hide it/can't bring it with me"

>>44084621
>Voice acting killed a lot of conversation depth
DX:HR managed fine.

>>44082485
>>instead, weapons that resemble vaginas
>How does it work in your setting, /tg/?
Monstrous females with swallow whole attacks

>>44089016
Not all of them swallow via their mouth

>>44098642
I remember that thread too <3

>>44099834
>I remember that thread too <3
You're going to have to be more specific

...Huh, that I have to say that probably should tell me something

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>>44082485

>>44090490
What exactly did this prove?

>>44099922
I will never not laugh at the grin on the lady with the throwing anus.

>>44100009
You and me both.

>>44082580
is bread y gud.

>>44097087
Police source, in at least one case.