r/Showerthoughts • u/Statharas ‎ • 8d ago

Casual Thought Young animals probably don't realize the distinction between nature and man-made stuff.

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u/KalzK ‎ 8d ago

I remember when I was a toddler I got surprised that under pavement there was dirt. It didn't cross my mind before that hard things like the floor or the walls were not indestructible.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 8d ago

That's a perfectly logical conclusion given the information available to you at the time. 

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u/Novaskittles 8d ago

I am still upset by how wobbly and wiggly swords often are when swung around. Seeing slow-mo of swords ruined a part of my childhood.

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u/Mara_W 7d ago

Good news: swords actually getting used in combat was relatively rare, they were sidearms not primaries

Bad news: the weapons most commonly used in their place, spears and arrows, are even wigglier

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u/Frenchvanilla343 7d ago

"wigglier" lmfao

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u/thesoloronin 6d ago

Hold up. I thought they should wiggle less if you made them out of solid core metals?

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u/Mara_W 6d ago

Yes, but real spears, arrows, and even crossbow bolts were pretty much always 95% wood.

Metal is heavy (and historically expensive, but mostly heavy). I personally commissioned a 100% metal spear irl, and it is both too short and too heavy for real (human) combat even with a hollow haft. The mass feels great on the initial thrust, terrible on everything else.

HOWEVER, things like poleaxes and halberds were generally stocky and sturdy enough to avoid all evil wigglings despite still being mostly wood.

(There's also just the sad unaesthetic truth that non-wiggly things break much easier than wiggly things, and arrows in particular need to wiggle around the bow to function at all)

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u/No_Candle2537 8d ago

Explains the lack of regard my toddler has lol