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Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords.

Just watch Olympic fencing; you get a very fast exchange that you can't follow, and then someone has a point. In a real sword fight, without armor, that's about what would happen. OTOH, when everyone is wearing armor, it gets a lot messier.

And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.

That is surprisingly common. Most people are really bad shots when they're stressed out. It's physiological; when your body dumps adrenaline into your bloodstream, you lose fine motor control. So unless you've trained extensively under stressful conditions, you're gonna have a hard time doing shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When I see armor fights I always think of how exhausting it would be very fast. I'd love to see exhausted people gasping for air. :P

Still, blunt weapons can still be 1-hit KOs or heavy hitters. But you don't see that either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is, honestly, not nearly as bad as you'd think. The weight should be pretty well distributed, armor doesn't have to be all that heavy to stop a sword, and the gambeson is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for piercing weapons. Blunt weapons, well, those are going to be unpleasant pretty much no matter what. You get really hot though; there's a reason that the Saracens did such a number on the crusaders when they were able to get them outside of cities.

Wearing a plate carrier is, IMO, worse than wearing a gambeson and chain maille.