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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Hot take: Batleths are bad weapons. Probably introduced as a form of handicapping.

Shadiversity's take on Batleths which surely wont cause any controversy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsElSDXPgSA

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that was cannon? It's that not specifically mentioned somewhere? I can't remember when I heard it but I always thought that they were made to be hard to use, because winning a battle with a regular weapon is easy and therefore less honorable.

And if you watch the actors try to swing these things around they always look awkward.

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Give it to a bunch of bored monks. If they could make something as useless as two chained sticks into a cool weapon..

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