• @[email protected]
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    183 months ago

    Wouldn’t Directed Energy Weapons make him burn and itch so bad he’d jump around?

    We have those, we’ve used them in real combat, but they don’t work like that.

    • @Snowclone
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      13 months ago

      In My experience energy weapons turn the victim into a toothpaste like glowing blue puddle.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Your fallout experience also tells you lasers have recoil, so I wouldn’t place any value in that.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Sure lasers don’t have recoil, but I see no reason a laser gun can’t have recoil.

          Anything from flywheel energy storage, a lasing medium compressed by pistons, massive magnetic fields created by high currents, who knows what’s inside that thing.

          A handheld laser gun has to generate a beam of such unrealistic intensity that I’d be surprised if the power stage didn’t buck in some manner.

        • ✺roguetrick✺
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          33 months ago

          Well, technically they do. Just they have about as much recoil as your flashlight does.

          • @[email protected]
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            3 months ago

            Yeah all the mass of the photons being propelled out has a real kick. /sarcasm

            No offence to you, at all, but the fact that your comment is a 3:1 ratio makes me sad for the future of humanity.

            • ✺roguetrick✺
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              -23 months ago

              Oh I’m just a general asshole and some folks realize it enough to downvote me. Pay it no mind.