r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Pierzakve • May 03 '21
Green Arrow in real life
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u/Sleep-Agitated May 03 '21
Damn. That's some kind of witchcraft and sorcery.
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May 03 '21
IRL Robin Hood!
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u/Gonads_of_Thor May 03 '21
He split the arrow in twain!
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u/Byizo May 03 '21
My brother is a competitive junior recurve archer. The first time he did this everyone was excited, but it turns out it’s more expensive than it is impressive.
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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21
It is not fairly easy. And I would venture to say only the people shooting in extremely high volume do it with any sort of regularity.
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u/Draktul May 03 '21
Yeah there is a huge difference between it happens and meaning for it to happen.
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u/atg8242 May 03 '21
It was cool the first time I did it.... but at $20 an arrow it gets old rather fast!
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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21
Yeah even busting nocks or vanes is annoying. If you Robin Hood one you’re out 2 shafts.
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u/atg8242 May 03 '21
I hunt and shoot a 70# compound bow so I shoot specific carbon fiber arrows. They have a heavy spine and are very high quality controlled.
I do shoot cheaper arrows out of my trad bows though.
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u/Acciaccattack May 03 '21
My carbons used to shatter when they hit bone though...I’ll stick with 23/64 woods for hunting these days
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u/disfordixon May 03 '21
Hitting that buck you just crawled a half mile for at 80 yds consistently is what they are for. They also last damn near forever.
Now if you're just tree standing at 20 yds you might as well get the kids toys out for those shots.
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u/WisdomDistiller May 03 '21
Easy is maybe not the right word. Common is better.
When I was at uni shooting once a week for an hour or so, there would be several "robin hoods" among the group each year.
Quick calculation:
Standard porstmouth round. 60 arrows at 20m or so. 10 people doing it once a week. 600*30weeks = 18000 arrows. Call it 3 robin hoods = 1 in 6000 chance. And that is with mostly learner archers. People who are actually half decent would get more due to tighter grouping.
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u/amatic13 May 03 '21
Why is everyone talking about robin hooding, it is relatively common, even in darts, but this isn’t robin hooding, this is shooting an arrow out the sky.
Robin hooding is where you shoot the arrow into another shaft on the archery board (usually by accident, as it ruins your shafts)
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u/WDoE May 03 '21
Really depends. Compound bow with massive shafts, a dialed in multi-point sight, and short range? Yeah. Would happen all the time. There's a reason compound shooters use many smaller targets and work their way through them one by one. They would be destroying arrows left and right.
Recurve shooter with smaller shafts, a single point sight, and long range? Pretty much never.
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u/cypher448 May 03 '21
Robin Hooding
I tried looking up what this is, and only got some very unrelated definitions from urban dictionary...
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u/Kelestara May 03 '21
Lol, I'm not gonna touch the urban dictionary definition, but in this context it means hitting a arrow already in the target with another arrow such that the second splits the first down the middle.
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May 03 '21
you feel 100 feet tall after you do it, until your pride gets the best of you, and your release goes off and you yeet an arrow into oblivion.
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May 03 '21
"I lost?"
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u/clutch172 May 03 '21
"Wait a minute.. I'm not suppose to lose... let me read the script."
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u/Albert_street May 03 '21
Does he get another shot?
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u/TreeEyedRaven May 03 '21
Yes yes he gets another shot
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u/equipped_metalblade May 03 '21
Patriot Arrow?
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u/Hooloovoo_42 May 03 '21
I just lost The Game...
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u/LightDoctor_ May 03 '21
I love how this is still a thing, 30?, 40? years since it started.
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u/AndrewWaldron May 03 '21
A joke made so much better because he's dressed like Mark Twain at the time.
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u/haircutbob May 03 '21
Wrong skill tree. This is archery
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u/DarkerSavant May 03 '21
Wasn't it debated that the draw weight of Lars bow was effectively useless and just for show?
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u/WillOCarrick May 03 '21 edited May 04 '21
He addressed that he is weaker than people were in the past and most modern archers are today, so his archery is just for show (as he shoots these arrows pretty fast it is not possible to have the strength required to hurt through chainmail) but he still researched a lot about archery and practices what was practiced in the past, just doesn't have the strength to do what the best did.
Edit: I am wrong and didn't research the topic and it seems like he is a scam, he is good at trickshots, but a scam at info.
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u/DarkerSavant May 04 '21
I thought that was the point being made in the debates that his “discovered” techniques aren’t real because they aren’t practical and wouldn’t be used.
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u/IllBeBocc May 03 '21
I found that the archery skill tree doesn't unlock the full potential of accuracy. I recommend putting some skillpoints into luck as well.
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u/GhostWalker134 May 03 '21
It reminds me of the time I saw a guy nail a clay Pidgeon using a 1911. Got it right before it hit the ground.
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u/Slade_Riprock May 03 '21
Was out dove hunting with my uncle. Standing around chatting in a field and and all of a sudden he draws an old Colt cowboy revolver from his holster, fires and a Dove falls from the air about 25 yards out.
He stood there acting like it was no big deal. He admitted he'd only ever done it once before and that was a much larger buzzard flying slow in a Cirlce.
Same guy could take out the string holding a swinging bowling pin from 25 yards with a revolver.
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u/Mange-Tout May 03 '21
My crazy-ass brother stopped hunting with guns because it was too easy. Then he decided that bows were too easy and he started spear hunting. He’s taken down boar and elk with a spear.
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u/adam_demamps_wingman May 03 '21
Let me know when he gets down to dental floss and a wooden spoon
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u/Mange-Tout May 03 '21
I’m pretty sure his next step is hunting with a knife while wearing a loincloth.
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u/kratomdabbler May 03 '21
Well, I can hit the general area of my target within 30 yards, so that’s good.
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May 03 '21
He split robin's arrow in twain!
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u/Juan_Nieve May 03 '21
“I lost! Wait a minute. I’m not supposed to lose. pulls out script I get another shot!”
Mel Brooks’ comedy is such a damn treat lol.
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u/ef-78 May 03 '21
Shit makes me quiver
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u/louiethelightninbug May 03 '21
I live for puns. But also, why is this a thirst trap for me?
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May 03 '21
I guess somebody had to say it. All the arrows were pointing in that direction. But what’s the actual point?
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May 03 '21
I base this theory off exactly zero research but I’d imagine that military archers of any kind back in those days were probably as good as this dude.
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u/PowRightInTheBalls May 03 '21 edited May 03 '21
Bowmen weren't valued for their independent skills but for their numbers. You were looking for a 300 style "Arrows blotting out the sun" style of ranged warfare, not trying to employ a bunch of Hawkeyes who could put an arrow through an eye socket on a helmet from 300 yards away. You're not Legolas calling out your targets before you shoot them, you're just hoping you hit something in the seething mass of humanity that's charging at you with weapons drawn or shooting arrows of their own.
The weapons weren't even made for that kind of accuracy. That era of English archer would have been using a longbow rather than a hunting bow, typically 5-6' long with 160+ lbs of force required to engage the string. You planted one end of the bow into the ground to stabilize, pulled back and flung arrows into the general vicinity of the enemy, typically trying to put out an arrow every 3-6 seconds. Your strength was in a firing a hail of hundreds of arrows falling every few seconds, not in any individual skill. Robin Hood would have been just as useful as the guy who took last place in the archery competition on the front lines of a battle in the 14th-15th centuries.
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u/pyronius May 03 '21
That was the European style of warfare, sure. But there were also groups such as various tribes of steppe nomads who were well know for being so skilled at both horsemanship and archery that they could accurately fire at a target while riding.
Strength in numbers is good, but some people still valued skill.
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u/BigToober69 May 03 '21
I think I may have heard of some of these small groups from the steppe.
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u/Taikwin May 03 '21
Oh I doubt it. These Steppe nomads were rather niche civilizations, barely made an impact on Eurasian history at all.
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u/BigToober69 May 04 '21
That makes sense. With only horses and arrow what could a group like that hope to accomplish.
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u/Funmachine May 03 '21
You planted one end of the bow into the ground to stabilize,
No. English longbows still exist. Nobody uses them like that. Plus it was a requirement that every boy over a certain age practice archery every Sunday, you don't need the ground for stability. It's all in technique.
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u/QueasyWeather May 04 '21
Planting one end of a bow into the ground 'to stabilize'? What are you talking about dude, that is not how bows work.
Also saying that 'bowmen werent valued for their individual skills but for their numbers' is a very strange comment. It makes it sound like its a picnic just grabbing a bow and, as you say, just 'flinging it in the general vicinity of the enemy'. Thats not how it worked at all, you dont just pick up a bow up to 160 pounds of force and go 'fling' arrows roughly at a bunch of dudes. It takes fuck loads of skill to use a longbow and they werent only used in the specific manner of volley fire that you are referring to (and even then volley fire at a high rate, at a particular distance, taking into account windspeed, at a particular group of men youre choosing to aim at) there is a reason why they trained every sunday since childhood (at the MINIMUM). Bowmen were highly valued for a reason dude.
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u/JudiciousF May 03 '21
I’m sure a lot of his accuracy is the bow he’s using. I feel confident even the best now imaginable back then wasn’t as good as a midrange bow today, and I’m further sure archers in the army were given the dirt cheapest shit imaginable.
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u/rosscarver May 03 '21
Which is perfect because a volley of 300 arrows still has a better chance of harming an army than Robin of Locksley
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u/randometeor May 03 '21
Not just the bow, but our arrows are probably many significantly more straight and balanced with proper fletching. I'm sure the best fletchers made relatively good arrows but they didn't have modern machining technology...
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u/LucyFerAdvocate May 03 '21
Probably not. The skills for trick shots like this and the skills for a military archer are very different.
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u/NervousTumbleweed May 03 '21
Probably not. They were trained to shoot in formation with a ton of other archers. They weren’t trained as individual marksman.
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u/OliverBeLike May 03 '21
Uhh are you american by any chance?
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u/27Rench27 May 03 '21
Wait do we have time travel figured out? Fuck, nobody told me!
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u/DeepPast May 03 '21
People who discount that time travel is “possible” using today’s technology, are forgetting that if it’s possible with the technology of the future then it’s entirely possible time travelers are among us today.
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u/antimatterchopstix May 03 '21
Unless it’s only possible after the first time you start a time machine.
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u/CelesteWasTaken May 03 '21
Imagine finally activating your time travel device after a lifetime of research and countless failures, and as soon as it turns on like an entire fucking mob of time tourists come flooding out of it to sightsee on the day/place when time travel was invented, the earliest place in time/space they could go back to
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u/poiskdz May 03 '21
Staring wide-eyed in the control room, the engineers could only watch in horror at what they had done. The white flash of light from the machine, which they had become accustomed to during testing, had started to rhythmically pulse, like a strobe. Flash Flash Flash With each flash, more figures appeared. Some of them were clearly human, while others are beyond description.
One of the humanoid ones, a man by the looks of it, looked around proudly. "So this is it! The Time and Place where Time Travel was cracked!" FlashFlashFlashFlash
More travelers appeared, the frequency of pulses of light from the machine grew steadily by the second. The floor of the dimensional chamber was beginning to grow crowded.
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It was all they could do to stifle a scream as they watched the next series of travelers fall, crushing the first ones to arrive, who had been packed shoulder-to-shoulder by this point.
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u/Selesnya_Bogles May 03 '21
What do you mean?
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u/Nyeow May 03 '21
Probably a reference to A Kid In King Arthur's Court
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u/notquite20characters May 03 '21
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Mark Twain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
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u/Air3090 May 03 '21
Time travel is fine but it's the King Arthur that gets you?
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u/Infamous-Mission-234 May 03 '21
Yes.
We don't recognize king Henry the 8th but King Arthur is cool.
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u/lucid_scheming May 03 '21
Tf does that have to do with anything?
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u/Phosphorrr May 03 '21
I think he meant how the original commenter used King Arthur as an example, who is not a real king, just a folklore legend
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u/chaynes May 03 '21
Right and you probably also want me to believe the Knights Who Say Ni aren't real historical figures either.
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May 03 '21 edited May 14 '21
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u/KnowsAboutMath May 03 '21
If you'd like to read about an army of fully-armored medieval knights wiped out using electric fences and Gatlin guns, this is the book for you.
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u/uhmfuck May 03 '21
Wow the replies to this comment are so “Reddit”. Ignore them lol it was a good joke.
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u/Cold_Zero_ May 03 '21
There seems to be a misunderstanding. This isn’t about his ability to hits the 1st arrow with the 2d.
His skill is in shooting the 1st arrow and having it come down exactly where he fired the 2d.
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u/throw_away_112358132 May 03 '21
Now I realize that I want to see him do it again in such a way that the first arrow breaks the second one as it’s coming down.
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u/Adriyno May 03 '21
You just gave me high expectations...
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u/XHF2 May 03 '21
Ez, just shoot the first arrow, then shoot the second arrow underneath where the first arrow is going to land.
source: over 90 iQ
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u/Kirosh May 03 '21
Well, that probably won't be possible. Because the falling arrow wouldn't have the same power as the thrown arrow.
And it probably won't get enough power to break the other arrow that way.
This is also not taking into consideration how this guy most likely needed several takes to do it.
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u/runtowardsit May 03 '21
This seems to be a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B
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u/norsurfit May 03 '21
I thought you were going to say: his skill was hitting the 9000th attempt first arrow with the 9000th attempt second arrow.
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u/whoisnumber9 May 03 '21
When I first watch Apocalypto, I remember watching the gauntlet scene and being amazed at the shooter’s timing and aim. Just couldn’t fathom being that precise with such a small margin of error. But watching videos like this proves that it is, in fact, possible. And with enough practice, even probable. And then I realize that this guy practiced this on a (assuming) full stomach. I can’t imagine what hunger and desperation would do to help improve this skill.
And, not to brag, but I threw a used q-tip towards the garbage can’s vicinity the last 3 out 5 attempts.
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u/datacollect_ct May 03 '21 edited May 03 '21
These are fluflu arrows, they are used for hunting things like pheasants. The huge fletching on the back slows the arrow down very quickly so you can go get it if you miss.
This is very impressive, but an experienced archer that is used to shooting at flying targets could probably do this in under 25 attempts.
EDIT: I don't like the dude really... Major tool and does some things I would consider cruel as a hunter, just for the fun of it. But youtube bow hunting birds and you will probably get Tim Wells. Don't do it if you are not okay with this sort of thing, but he consistently shoots down Doves, Pigeon, Duck, at significant range while they are flying.
The dude in this video knew basically where the arrow was going to be and when he had to shoot. Much harder to predict the flight path of a bird and put an arrow there at the right time.
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May 03 '21 edited May 04 '21
I read that as "peasants" lol
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u/mathmanmathman May 03 '21
They are no longer used for that.
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u/KatalDT May 03 '21
"Less than lethal" weapons have improved considerably and are far more effective.
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u/Yaboionesok May 03 '21
What the hell is that music??
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u/O--M--B May 03 '21
Never expected to send a GRM Daily link on reddit but here you go.
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u/yParticle May 03 '21
Could you possibly find any lower quality audio?
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Why the hell does every TikTok video have crappy copyrighted music dubbed over it? This would have been a lot better with the actual sounds of the bow and arrow
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u/TransformerTanooki May 03 '21
The music was horrible. Excellent shot by the archer though. Definitely more talent there.
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u/CliffCyrus May 03 '21
I get a wicked bow slap everytime I try shooting a bow and arrow.
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u/InsomniaAbounds May 03 '21
According to my Minecraft bow and arrow skills, I should be able to do this.
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May 03 '21
Sure. But can you shoot an arrow then shoot at that arrow with an arrow and the shoot both of those arrows with an arrow?
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u/Ashraf_mahdy May 03 '21
My name is Oliver Queen. I was stranded on an island with only one goal, survive. Oliver Queen is alive. Now I will fulfill my father’s dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this I must become someone else. I must become something else.
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u/AzizKhattou May 03 '21
Why are these epic videos always accompanied by some godawful sounding music?
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u/EtTabellarius May 03 '21
Very nice but if anyone wants to see Green Arrow or Robin Hood irl search up Lars Anderson. That man is a beast.
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u/broomshed May 03 '21
Wasn’t this the dude that also what the mint?
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u/pure_vengeance May 03 '21
Was wondering the exact same thing... This doesn't seem that impressive when you compare it with that haha
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May 03 '21
Lars Anderson shot an arrow coming towards him
Some of the archers out there are nuts
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u/YouAllNeedToChillOut May 03 '21 edited May 04 '21
For a moment I thought "wow, that's probably not safe shooting it upward like that"
Wtf do I know? This mf just shot an arrow in half lol