#big explosion

[vertigoartgore]

Jan de Bont's Speed turns 30 today. Feel old yet ?

[infinitebrians]

a comic explaining why grenade launchers are my favorite weapon type in destiny

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We'll come back Monday! Have the greatest weekend! :)

[whiskeyworen]

Pirate misadventures!

So last night me and my friends finally got enough of us together in Sea of Thieves to run a Galleon for like, the second time ever. Oh man, that was a trip. We got sunk by a VERY skilled reaper crew, got pwned by FlameBeard or whatever his stupid fiery head is, and got ambushed while in port by a sloop that made the mistake of firing on a four-man crew. Actually, we think that guy was logging out for the night and wanted to sacrifice his ship in glory. We totally get it. Either way, while we were unloading in port, he dropped anchor a little bit away and just started pelting the ship with his single guns. So...we returned the favor. In spades. We unloaded EVERYTHING we had on him. Cannonballs, Blunderballs, special balls, Flareballs, Mastbreakers....all of it. About 20 seconds of sustained 4-cannon fire and the sloop was gone. Later we ran into Flamebeard or whatever his fiery-talking-head is. At least, his Ships of the Damned fleets. So we tried to take them out, picking them one by one. It did not go well. We were doing okay until we had THREE ghost ships on the port and TWO on the starboard, and of those ships, one on each side was a ‘special’ Ghost ship. We did get some absolutely glorious full-broadsides off on them. Movie-quality awesome. Then something weird happened. We’d patched all the holes, at least we thought so. We weren’t taking water. But then all of a sudden, after a particularly BAD barrage, the ship just... sank. Bow first. Just went straight down. We don’t know why, but either we didn’t beat the fleets fast enough and the boss just instantly sunk the ship, or we took a single hit in a spot we couldn’t see on the bilge deck, or we hit some kind of ghost mine/powderkeg bomb that we didn’t see at all, but it instantly wiped the ship. So we immediately headed back there after respawn, because all our crap was floating in the water out there. Cut to an hour later, and some VERY close calls, but we got all our ghostly goods, and ran for port. (that’s when we ran across the Sloop who we ended up giving the 21 gun salute into his lower hull). Towards the end of the night, we were anchored off an island, and noticed a Skeleship was doing that eerie, slow approach they sometimes do. It was already within the calm water ring of the island, and wasn’t slowing down or turning. And it wasn’t aggroed. The plan was, if the Skeleship grounded itself, or stopped reasonably close to us, we were gonna take some powderkegs and blow her keel out and sink her right there. We had 4 barrels ready just for that. So I go up to the mast where we keep it (not gonna put those things in the hull dammit), and I go to drop one down the ladder. Except I have a brainfart, and click the wrongest button in the game. I lit the fuse. In a panic, I dropped the barrel, with the correct button which I was supposed to use before. So a lit keg goes right down the mast and sits in the middle of the ship. Near 2 of my 3 other companions. The only thing I had time to say over voicechat before the detonation was “Ohshit I lit it!” Instantly; 2 down. Mast breaks and throws me into the sea. Fire on upper deck. Holes punched in middle deck. Holes punched in bilge deck. I apparently went from Level 1 in Reaper’s Bones to 13.  I’m dying laughing, while my companions are just dying in general. I swear up and down it was entirely a mistake and an accident. But goddamn was it funny as hell. Even more so when I find out the guy closest to the blast had been going to pick up the barrel, and noticed it was lit right before it blew. So I’m not trusted with gunpowder anymore. LOL. Oh, the Skeleship? It did get close to the island. Sat there through all our chaos. Probably saw and heard us exploding. And then it turned away and wandered off. Apparently we were too stupid to pay attention to. LOL On another island, a bit later, we found a Red Sapphire Mermaid statue sitting about 3 feet from shore. So we loaded up the rest of the gunpowder we had left after my little...accident... and surrounded it. Keep in mind, the sun was setting, and night was setting in. It got dark very fast. Standing at safe distance, my friend shot one of the barrels. We expected an explosion. We did NOT expect one of that sheer SIZE and BRIGHTNESS. Because the statue was in the water, we didn’t get a fiery explosion with smoke. We got a water-blast. Pure white flare of white. It was bright on MY screen. My friend was closer since he was the shooter; the flare covered his whole screen. In his words. “...I think I’m blind now!” “That was an awesome explosion. I wonder when my vision is gonna come back?” It was the biggest and best blast we’ve ever seen or made happen. Even beats out that time we blew the keel out of a skeleship and watched the thing bounce on the water as the exploding keg lifted it out of the sea. One of these days, we are gonna assemble enough gunpowder to make a damned CRATER of an island....

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Start of a new episode! Enjoy! :D

[fluffyfuckingprincess]

KABOOM !!!!!!!

[raymons-monsters]

NEW PFP

[is-this-murder-ethical]

Are explosions an unethical way to murder somebody?

If so, would it still be unethical if you tell the person you plan on killing before blowing them up?

Please forgive me if you have already outlined whether or not explosions are ethical, I haven't seen all your posts yet

You are forgiven my child! Thank you for asking >:] I haven’t outlined much on my blog but this question has me pondering.

Short answer:

Explosions are unethical

I think you could find a way to make it ethical

Extremely long answer:

I try to avoid making personal judgments and just follow the rules I wrote because it’s funnier that way but bc I wrote it under the circumstances I did, sometimes it really requires some subjective interpretation (Like the Bible) but i usually give specific examples that help clarify a lot, and I tend to default to those.

So explosions are considered UNETHICAL!!! because and I quote, “pick a weapon based off skin. Your victim cannot be killed by the weapon easier than they are simply wounded. (Firearms, bombs, most machinery, and flais)”

So firearms is prohibited and so is bombs and I would assume explosions. But it is more interesting if you tell someone “I am about to explode you rn”

There is a section too abstract to post without editing lmao where i basically talk about a situation where if you are pointing a gun at a animal you are hunting and someone stands in front of the barrel and refuses to move. If you tell them repeatedly I am going to pull the trigger, you try to reason with them, warn them, and they still don’t move. You cannot be faulted for pulling the trigger.

I give some other examples but Basically I’m trying to express the idea of someone putting themselves in danger at your hands without your consent. Someone forcing your hand.

What’s interesting to me about this section Is I specifically given an example involving firearms which are again UNETHICAL!

But it talks about someone forcing your hand in the same section it also states “motive, mindset, execution, victim, and circumstance” as the quote “five pillars of murder”(amazing sentence) and that it’s possible to have an ethical execution but an unethical motive. BUT I also say that motive and circumstance can override the others in situations of self defense and ‘unwillingness’

So. I think you have found a loophole where you COULD kill somebody by explosion! But it would have to be under specific circumstances

1. In self defense under any conditions you can explode someone

2. If you have a well marked bomb or explosive that you are using to defend your property or wtv and it is just so clear that if you walk here you will explode and someone does it anyways

3. If you were like a scientist doing an explosion experiment and some guy refused to move out of the blast zone even after you asked him multiple times

But it would be UNETHICAL if you hid a bomb and simply told someone “I am about to explode you” and then did it. Because it was your intention from the beginning to explode that guy. Or if you set off on explosion that wasn’t supposed to be for murder originally but you knew someone unsuspecting would be killed in the process

Sorry for any typos I’m extremely jet lagged and dyslexic but I’ll use any excuse to analyze the text