Comment on Made one deadly slip

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s no way to “fire early” because they are watching for you to reach for your gun.

  The ‘conventional’ wisdom is to wait for the other duelist to reach for their gun because reflex is faster than conscious action.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No it’s not. Not even close

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    • PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      nbcnews.com/…/reactions-faster-actions-study-find…

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      • sneezycat@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Still, while participants moved faster when reacting than initiating, reactors only rarely beat initiators. The extra milliseconds it took volunteers to respond to the movements of their opponents greatly offset any benefit the reactive advantage granted.

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• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Honor is dead

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  • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But I’ll see what I can do.

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• Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Maybe the poster thought there was a countdown. Not this one though, so you’re absolutely right.

  It works better when both gunners care about innocents. Imagine the ranger couldn’t find hits hideout, a big enough place it wasn’t easy, and Texas red didn’t wanna shoot up the place he was living.

  The ranger might get a message saying a time and place, so they can meet without causing a bunch of damage or risking innocents.

  Of course, the moustache-twirling sort of villains wouldn’t work with that at all. Just can’t trust them. But there’s plenty of room for this to make sense sometimes.

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• tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  These were the “good old days” when fighting had rules. National armies would literally line up facing each other in uniforms with literal X-marks-the-spot targets.

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    National armies would literally line up facing each other in uniforms with literal X-marks-the-spot targets.

    The reason for armies meeting up like that, and in bright colors, is to avoid friendly fire, not because of honor or anything like that. When you have a bunch of peasants dragged from their homes and shove a musket in their hands, anything more complex than “Holy shit, holy fucking shit, do NOT shoot or stab the guys in BRIGHT RED, only those in BRIGHT BLUE” tends to get lost in the chaos of battle.

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