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Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I only have experience in video games, and in the vast majority of them the chainshot is the most OP shot type you can use.

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    • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was gonna pick bar shot for similar reasons. I feel like the flexible chain would allow for too much loss of energy. Pure guess though, IANA 18th century naval warfare expert

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      • SolacefromSilence@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not with that attitude, you won't be. :)

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Sid Meier’s Pirates! it was the objectivity correct choice 99% of the time. Even a tiny ship could take out a ship of the line with a few well-placed chain shot barrages, and ships would pretty much always surrender the instant they lost their mast.

      I think the story battles were an exception to the instant surrender rule, but without their sails you could switch to grape shot and pepper their helpless vessel until they had no crew left, then board for an instant victory.

      I miss that game. I should load it up and see how it holds up.

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      • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In that game the OP tactic was ramming war ships with a canoe (it sails faster than cannonballs fly so you can evade them), then beating up the captain so his 2000 trained Marines will surrender to your 50 brigands.

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry but this is only good on sea.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Enemies can’t advance or retreat if they have no legs. 😤

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m also thinking of video games:

      www.bloonswiki.com/Grape_Shot_(BTD6)

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  • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Chain shot but it has to be fired from a double barrel cannon

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    • hanke@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He considered the test firings a success! Can’t help but feel happy for him.

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      • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He wrecked shit and killed a cow. Banger.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you made this today, but with precision ignition system and lightweight ultra high tensile wire rope, it would be catastrophic for that cow.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You mean it would be killed more instantaneously?

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      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Test fired in Georgia, cow remains raining clear up in Maine.

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      • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “It blew up and almost killed us, perfect.”

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    • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This looks like a success to me. Just imagine this: replace the thicket with the enemy army, you fire one shot and the rest of the army retreats.

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    • AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From the descriptions of the aftermath, I can see where the mangler squigs got their inspiration from.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure they fired chain shot from single barreled cannon. On ships, they have two cannonballs connected with a chain and they powder the barrel and load them both in the barrel, then when they fire it the balls spread out and it takes down rigging and masts on ships.

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      • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They did, but I love how unpredictable the double barrel cannon was and that the inventor thought it was a success

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  • DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All my homies love grape shot

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Grape shot if for shredding ship hulls. At close ish range it blows through the hull turning it into foot long slivers impaling everyone behind it. Cannister is more anti personnel, and smaller.

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Op tech

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I gotta go with round shot.

    it really says “fuck you and your boat, I don’t even want to steal it from you”

    Carcass is cool too I guess. But it’s no 6” hole punched through the hull. 

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ball gang rise up. It’s iconic, and dismembered men in formations wholesale, and knocked them down to boot. There’s usually no need for the rest of these innovative horrors, they just seem unsporting.

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  • AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It fucking depends on the target weakness bro.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mats and spars? Bar.

      Rigging? Chain.

      Crew during close action? Grape.

      Clearing the decks with the quarterdeck swivel gun before boarding? Canister.

      Hulling below the water line, long distance attempts, and knocking away their guns? Round.

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pilk?Image

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    • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pilk.

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      • RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pilk…

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    • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now with Vitamin R!

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      • DonGirses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s Palk™️

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chocolate?!

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    • AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So… Ranch dressing?

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  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    bar shot, because it also implies the existence of giants with piercings

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m just imagining giantess pierced nipples

      My day has markedly improved. I be in my bunk

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The chain shot looks like it could hurt

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chain shot was principally to take out rigging on ships, to leave them unable to steer and all that.

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I imagine it spiraling

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  • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Best one is a round shot, but only if Baron Munchausen is ridding it.

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    • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Loved this Gilliam banger as a kid. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, and Gilliam’s Monty Python alum Eric Idle are in it for those who haven’t seen. As an adult I see a lot of parallels with that movie and Tarsem’s “The Fall” (2006). They’re giving hopeful yet melancholic fairy tale energy.

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      • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We had a copy of this on vhs as a kid, grew up with it on repeat.

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Canister shot all the way. Imagine having to charge a cannon position firing this stuff?

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  • user_name@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cross their T and rake the decks with grape shot!

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I came here for the drink damnit. I want something that does this

    Its effects are similar to “having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think my cousin created a drink based on this; red bull, bacardi lemon and that weird stuff with the gold flakes in it iirc

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Goldschläger

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        that sounds pretty good, I’ll have to try it sometime

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    shibari shot~~~

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Canister shot.

    I thought of something else when I saw the grape shot.

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    • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Deadly shibari

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t know they had Pepsi when these were used…

    youtu.be/fZJNsDagK2g

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  • apftwb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can someone make an copy of this but bar shot is clearly a nipple peircing.

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    • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What exactly is "pilk"´?

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    • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pepsi and milk

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yuck!

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I assumed it was some sort of old thing I hadn’t heard of, but searching yields nothing (but the Pepsi/milk thing). Which then made me wonder if the word’s a typo, and if so, what word it’s supposed to be. It appears to just be a rather random weird joke.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think the idea is that your dying enemies will probably get some of that foul concoction in their mouths, thus suffering more as they die. Probably will smell awful cleaning it too - I bet the carbonic acid in the soda sours the milk, so you’d have strange and smelly “cheeses” with that mix of deck’s bacteria. Perhaps irreparable and they have to sink the ship.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Langrage.

    Kind of just the kitchen sink of whatever the fuck you had around. Often used by pirates because at close range when attempting to board you can shred a lot more people and also do a lot of damage to sails in quick time

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Canister shot is great for sweeping clean decks full of disagreeable royalists.

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay, so each has its use but I would offer this assuming we’re in a stern chase. Chain and bar to disable or at least lower speed and maneuverability so that the foe is unable to escape. Rake the stern with round to disable guns as you come up alongside, if you’re able to slow them enough, try to get raking shots from both broadsides by zig zagging your course. Canister and grape from your upper deck guns to sweep the foe if you intend to carry them via boarding, if not pound away with round shot and if you can, rake them again from forward if you over haul.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Carcass shot was at least originally out of howitzers with a fuse to blow over the heads of the fired on. And it was like gunpowder and I think turnpentine and I forget wrapped in canvas with iron rings around it, the iron rings would turn into shrapnel when it exploded.

    Every so often the fuse would fault and blow up the gun crew.

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  • Atlusb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget Hot Shot (heated shot).

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    • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No minié ball? GTFO

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    • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty sure they never made Minié balls for cannons.

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      • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Correct, If a shitpost is making me use out of time and place cannons, then I’m using minié balls.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please, I love all my children.

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  • oozynozh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    _a man has a gun

    hey man have fun

    nice shot man

    nice shot_

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  • luftruessel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about cutlery? A nice fork to the eye

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Grape shot’s a great shot

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  • m3t00@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette

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  • GargleBlaster@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You called?

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    every time I see bar shot I think of a tiktok post that said “giants exist, here is proof” implying it’s a giant nipple piercing

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