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[Jacksinthe]

Incorrect. The sheath meets the tsuba halfway. Its disrespectful to your blade to not bring the sheath to the tsuba and instead let the sword slide in.

THIS MAN HAS NO HONOR!

 

[AuthenticM]

Please tell me this guy isn't one of us.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

bronycon: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=808_1359960215

I can't.

This is by far the worst thing I've seen in here.

This one made me legit shudder. I had to stop at like 30 seconds. I can't.

 

[CorvoSol]

Incorrect. The sheath meets the tsuba halfway. Its disrespectful to your blade to not bring the sheath to the tsuba and instead let the sword slide in.

THIS MAN HAS NO HONOR!

i don't know how many of you are an expert on japanese sword fighting (i am) but honor and etiquette are a huge part of it.

 

[Flo_Evans]

This guy is awesome. We should send him to fight ISIS.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

To clarify I was talking about an iaido practice sword, which is a real katana with no edge. I have one myself.

Flourishes and spinning the sword serve only one purpose - to intimidate your opponent. (Well, they look cool too.) However I see a sword spin as a strike opportunity.

But then don't you only sheathe after you've murdered everyone around you, so it's irrelevant?

 

[Marc]

Iaido is purely a demonstrative art. I don't know if you can learn Iaijutsu outside of Japan though. Not even sure a school of it even exists in Japan anymore. I'm sure the guy practiced on his own, but it's amazing he didn't cut his fingers off. There is a certain level of fear you have to overcome. That or he's completely disregards his own safety.

Are you sure you mean iaido? I knew a few practitioners and it was pretty practical, it just focuses on a first strike. 90% seemed to be drawing the sword as an attack. So not much in the way of fighting as it assumes the fight lasts milliseconds, which seems likely. Not flashy at all.

 

[manipulate]

HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AMAZING

 

[Regret Truth]

It's perfectly OK to ignore the fact that he said he would have disemboweled them if it had come to that. Killed them, in five steps, by disemboweling them for punching some dude he never met before. Eviscerated and killed two humans.

With a Katana. A Katana he carries around with himself all the time. And that without that Katana, he would be infinitely more dangerous.


It is fine to skip these parts.

This so much. Why does this dude get a pass just because one gif makes him look "cool"? lol


Also some of the other video posted in this thread has legit ruined my day...

-Furries eating and shitting people?
-Bronies cringing at other bronies?
-3DS real life loli sims?

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Are you sure you mean iaido? I knew a few practitioners and it was pretty practical, it just focuses on a first strike. 90% seemed to be drawing the sword as an attack. So not much in the way of fighting as it assumes the fight lasts milliseconds, which seems likely. Not flashy at all.

Iaijutsu seems to exist in schools today, according to Wikipedia anyway. The term is often confused with iaido either way, but iaido is available all over the world.

The very idea of iaido is to remove all unnecessary movement. The result is extremely elegant, but hardly flashy.

 

[AtomicSymphonic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96GqS9DuHdI

"Thou art I... And I am thou... Thou hast established a new bond... Thou shalt be blessed
when creating Personas of the light rail Arcana."

I KNEW IT. With headphones, baseball cap, and sword, he TOTALLY looks like someone out of Persona! More 3 than 4...

 

[Subpar Spatula]

I'm talking about his personal take on the whole situation. Anyone who talks about the use of weapons like swords would be responsible in saying that they're very dangerous and should only be wielded by those who are trained.

He wanted to kill two people who weren't threatening anyone's life. It was a fight.

His lack of restraint comes from his thoughts. He would find himself in prison if he had done what he wanted to do.

I believe a lot of people would be in prison if they acted without restraint. If he wanted to kill people he would have at that point. Why? It's the perfect chance.

 

[Timedog]

This is that moment When a guy actually verbalizes and actuates the inner delusions of grandeur that you as a nerd often fantasize, and the realization about how stupid and creepy your nerd ideations are sends you into a state of semi-permanent existential angst.

 

[Toxi]

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.
Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d12 Damage
19-20 x4 Crit
+2 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork
(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
2d10 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

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[mcz117chief]

To clarify I was talking about an iaido practice sword, which is a real katana with no edge. I have one myself.

yes, it is called iaito, I said that in my post

Are you sure you mean iaido? I knew a few practitioners and it was pretty practical, it just focuses on a first strike. 90% seemed to be drawing the sword as an attack. So not much in the way of fighting as it assumes the fight lasts milliseconds, which seems likely. Not flashy at all.

I can confirm this

 

[Exploding8]

I was expecting him to have no idea wtf he was doing based on everyone's posts, but he honestly seems pretty legit. Like yeah definitely crazy and questionable but it certainly seems like he knows how to hold that thing >.>

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

I'm fucking dying over here. Lmaaaaoo

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I must have a tolerance built up from years of Tim and Eric sketches.

Made it through the video no problem.

 

[Wynnebeck]

But then I thought

LOL I haven't seen Ghost Dog in years.

 

[daveo42]

While cool he broke up the fight, he does seem slightly off. Dude was actually planning on opening up one of the guys with his katana. Not sure about his actual skill with a blade, but he could have gotten into some serious trouble cutting someone up.

I think the interviewer was either really into the whole thing or tried to make him look even more awkward then he really was. Probably the latter, but it didn't seem to be that hard of a job for him.

I almost stopped at "they thought I was retreating but actually I was moving into their blind spot."

You gotta go in for that backstab damage to maximize your dps output man.

 

[I Stalk Alone]

LOL I haven't seen Ghost Dog in years.

I could see the guy ending up like ghost dog one day.

 

[InfiniteBento]

I still consider this the gold standard for cringe, however.

What the fuck.

 

[BKatastrophe]

This dude is awesome(and possibly dangerous).

This is cringe.

I can't. I've watched too many cringe videos and I can't. I'm broken.

This took way too long to get here.

 

[PS3GamerKyle]

This is that moment When a guy actually verbalizes and actuates the inner delusions of grandeur that you as a nerd often fantasize, and the realization about how stupid and creepy your nerd ideations are sends you into a state of semi-permanent existential angst.

okay, this got me good :lol

 

[Ominym]

I think I know why everyone's so upset about the DS cringe video. The DS in the guy's hands and the overlay are two different colors. So fucking immersion breaking.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

Call me when he can do this:

 

[ipukespiders]

The folds to the brim of his hat disturb me more than anything, including the mullet.

 

[FreeMufasa]

He needs to fight black man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CIEcdCBGEI

 

[thiscoldblack]

Incorrect. The sheath meets the tsuba halfway. Its disrespectful to your blade to not bring the sheath to the tsuba and instead let the sword slide in.

THIS MAN HAS NO HONOR!

Can confirm this. I'm an expert from the Edo period.

 

[Emerson]

The guy is obviously a bit of a nutjob but from watching the way he handled himself in the situation (particularly stiff-arming and shoving away the one guy rather than overreacting) it's obvious he is actually fairly well trained. It was a 1v2 fight and the outnumbered guy was getting wailed on pretty hard before he broke it up so I can't say I have any problem with what he did. People can be seriously hurt/killed pretty easily in a fist fight too you know, especially when outnumbered.

 

[CadetMahoney]

This dude is awesome(and possibly dangerous).

This is cringe.

I can't. I've watched too many cringe videos and I can't. I'm broken.

I didn't watch the vid, but I did read the comments, almost makes me appreciate the "top comments" system youtube has. I chuckled.

 

[Daigoro]

This is that moment When a guy actually verbalizes and actuates the inner delusions of grandeur that you as a nerd often fantasize, and the realization about how stupid and creepy your nerd ideations are sends you into a state of semi-permanent existential angst.

im sorry for your loss

Call me when he can do this:

have a nine head?