It’s… a birthday cake, right guys? it’s a knife to cut the cake for me?
Christopher Brady
The Knife is possibly the most versatile tool in human history. From murder to cutting food, it can do more things than any other tool can. No one will ever replace it. And a good steel/metal blade has got a weight and feel that nothing can compare.
Also, if you’re going to kill someone, commit murder, a knife will make sure you know. A gun is impersonal, cold and turns the target into just that, a target. With a knife, you can smell him/her and it makes it personal. It takes away all pretense of what your doing. And these two psychoes seem to want to make it as personal as it gets.
Teguki
Last panel, “son, I am disappoint.”
Crashworth
Bets that the virus turned his robot assistant psycho.
Erasing gunpowder from history would be pointless. Humans have been coming up with new ways to throw things at each other with lethal force for thousands of years. Take away gunpowder, and something would take its place – maybe some other chemical propellant, maybe high-powered rubber bands, or maybe something else entirely.
If you want to do something about violence, you have to change the people, not the weapons …
Bad example. It’s entirely possible to kill someone instantly with a knife; it’s equally possible to cause a slow, painful, bleeding wound with a gun.
Now an arm cannon? That’s a “civilized” weapon (if there is such a thing): little to no blood loss, and extremely high probability of an instant kill (if you can hit anything with it).
;)
Anonymous
actually… he’s kinda making the same point I was (in a twisted psycho sounding way)… now keep in mind I’m saying this from a soldier’s perspective, but with a gun, there’s no personal connection. you pull a trigger, there’s a loud noise, someone falls over way over there. with a blade, it’s YOU doing the killing. there’s effort involved, there’s sights, sounds, smells. with a gun… you might as well be shooting at a paper silhouette for all the emotional involvement.
Anonymous
yeah, I know, wistful thinking… in the meantime you have people like me, trained in violence to protect others from the same…
oddly that movie came up in a conversation today for me… now I’m definately going to have to see it, if only to get the references…
Anonymous
@TekServer:disqus (I’m replying to myself since there seems to be a limit to the reply chain)
military, currently working for NATO, though who knows where I’ll end up next
It is so bad! But I think most people our age saw it when bad movies were AWESOME. I saw it about a million times as a girl. USA used to play it every weekend.
There’s this scene where Wesley Snipes’ character is in a gun museum, because they don’t have guns anymore in THE FUTURE. So he breaks the guns out and apparently they just left them all loaded, why not!
Anonymous
*rolls eyes* yeah, bad movies were all the rage back then, I just never got around to seeing this particular one…
Zaraay
But a blood stained knife would be easy to plant to frame someone (who I don’t know)
The president’s face in the last panel makes me want to cry. I don’t particularly like the guy, but it’s like kicking a sick puppy. I wouldn’t be able to kill him – imprison him, yes, kill, not so much.
Y’all think that’s a bad movie!? You are definitely not connoisseurs of bad movies, then.
“Demolition Man” wasn’t great, but it pales in comparison to the likes of “A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell”, or any of the “Nukem High” series. Or, of course, the gold standard of bad movies: “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.”
;)
(Anything starring Bruce Campbell qualifies, too!)
Hm. Is that how it went down? I saw it again recently and remember just balking at that scene.
I think it is the perfect movie for 9-12 year-olds. It is goofy and full of action but the badguy really isn’t all that scary and there’s not much plot to digest. And the toilet humor, of course.
Stev
In hindsight, my comment on the last page was a bit over-the-top. Oh well.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Pres here was actually ripped underneath a fat suit that just happens to look like a uniform? I didn’t think so, either.
Actually, I think that would be a pretty cool twist.
If he was also more intelligent than he appears, and at least a median level psychic (but hiding both for survival purposes), he’d be transformed into a relatively dangerous force for whichever side he came down on.
:)
Luke
The saddest face!
ogrimm
die die die!!!!
squeaky
Aw, so sad! He just wanted to have a good time. :(
KryptonAngel
*raises hand* Ooh! Ooh! Lepas-sensei! Isn’t it right after they meet The Serpent? Hypnotic suggestion, perhaps?
Borgus
It’s really stupid and annoying to do the whole japanese-honorific thing if you’re not japanese. you’re just a silly little fan trying to be cute. oh sorry, “KAWAII”.
You just described the 1980’s. The “bad guy” was still the Soviet Union, but they weren’t all that scary anymore, what with Ronnie Raygun’s thumb hovering over the “Nuke ’em All” button, and the promise of the Star Wars defense system, that was going to shoot Soviet nukes out of the sky like a video arcade game.
TV plots were either shoot and blow everything up, lather, rinse, repeat, like the A-Team, or just “MacGyver it”. (Chris & Pascalle, I wanna put y’all in a Tardis, and send you back to the ’80s, so you can give my old favorites some character development and an actual plot)
Of course, it wasn’t all bad. MTV had music videos on all the time, not just a bunch of shows about knocked up teenagers.
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