(01-08-2014, 10:24 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote: I was unfortunately pretty young when Daria came out, so I only got to see a handful of episodes during the rare and erratic times when MTV chose to re-run them. The entire series was available on Amazon for only $13, so I pounced on it.

Turns out it's so cheap since they had to cut out all the music, but I'm still enjoying it. I'm only almost done with disc 2 but I know I'll be pretty sad once I get it all finished.

(01-17-2014, 01:39 PM)Mass Distraction Wrote: Yeah, scratching Revolution from my list. That series wasn't anything it was cut out to be. And seriously? Flintlocks? Really? What happened to the numerous iterations of the Kalashnikov? Or the guns American families are so fond of keeping in their homes? And you choose to use flintlocks, the least useful weapons since the 19th century. Allrighty then. What, you robbed a museum or something? A museum that miraculously had this amount of fully working flintlock guns? Yep, this is a way more plausible scenario than, you know, using modern guns. Because obviously those don't work without electricity and are way less in numbers than antiquities.

Rant over. Fuck sake.

(01-17-2014, 03:43 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote:

(01-17-2014, 01:39 PM)Mass Distraction Wrote: Yeah, scratching Revolution from my list. That series wasn't anything it was cut out to be. And seriously? Flintlocks? Really? What happened to the numerous iterations of the Kalashnikov? Or the guns American families are so fond of keeping in their homes? And you choose to use flintlocks, the least useful weapons since the 19th century. Allrighty then. What, you robbed a museum or something? A museum that miraculously had this amount of fully working flintlock guns? Yep, this is a way more plausible scenario than, you know, using modern guns. Because obviously those don't work without electricity and are way less in numbers than antiquities.

Rant over. Fuck sake.

I agree with you about the antique guns, but my guess is the explanation will be because many of the modern tools used to make guns or ammo used electricity. How many of the tools that could make modern weapons and ammo exist today that don't use it? I do like that they kinda went Civil War era type weapons in some cases even the swords and sabers bit.

(01-17-2014, 03:49 PM)Mass Distraction Wrote:

(01-17-2014, 03:43 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote:

(01-17-2014, 01:39 PM)Mass Distraction Wrote: Yeah, scratching Revolution from my list. That series wasn't anything it was cut out to be. And seriously? Flintlocks? Really? What happened to the numerous iterations of the Kalashnikov? Or the guns American families are so fond of keeping in their homes? And you choose to use flintlocks, the least useful weapons since the 19th century. Allrighty then. What, you robbed a museum or something? A museum that miraculously had this amount of fully working flintlock guns? Yep, this is a way more plausible scenario than, you know, using modern guns. Because obviously those don't work without electricity and are way less in numbers than antiquities.

Rant over. Fuck sake.

I agree with you about the antique guns, but my guess is the explanation will be because many of the modern tools used to make guns or ammo used electricity. How many of the tools that could make modern weapons and ammo exist today that don't use it? I do like that they kinda went Civil War era type weapons in some cases even the swords and sabers bit.

The swords and sabers I can understand, that's just conserving ammo. BUT, considering the ridiculous amounts of weaponry and ammunition existing in this world at this moment I can't believe people would go through every bullet in 15 years. What more, the chances of even finding one, let alone enough to equip a whole army with, flintlock guns that still work are ridiculously low. Besides, look at I am Legend, Last of Us and Land of the Dead. All of those are more than 10 years after everything went to shit and they still have modern guns, which I find way more believable than what this show has. Also the main character's (?) potential love interest was so obvious in everything he did that I got insta-bored.

(01-17-2014, 04:10 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote:

(01-17-2014, 03:49 PM)Mass Distraction Wrote:

(01-17-2014, 03:43 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote:

(01-17-2014, 01:39 PM)Mass Distraction Wrote: Yeah, scratching Revolution from my list. That series wasn't anything it was cut out to be. And seriously? Flintlocks? Really? What happened to the numerous iterations of the Kalashnikov? Or the guns American families are so fond of keeping in their homes? And you choose to use flintlocks, the least useful weapons since the 19th century. Allrighty then. What, you robbed a museum or something? A museum that miraculously had this amount of fully working flintlock guns? Yep, this is a way more plausible scenario than, you know, using modern guns. Because obviously those don't work without electricity and are way less in numbers than antiquities.

Rant over. Fuck sake.

I agree with you about the antique guns, but my guess is the explanation will be because many of the modern tools used to make guns or ammo used electricity. How many of the tools that could make modern weapons and ammo exist today that don't use it? I do like that they kinda went Civil War era type weapons in some cases even the swords and sabers bit.

The swords and sabers I can understand, that's just conserving ammo. BUT, considering the ridiculous amounts of weaponry and ammunition existing in this world at this moment I can't believe people would go through every bullet in 15 years. What more, the chances of even finding one, let alone enough to equip a whole army with, flintlock guns that still work are ridiculously low. Besides, look at I am Legend, Last of Us and Land of the Dead. All of those are more than 10 years after everything went to shit and they still have modern guns, which I find way more believable than what this show has. Also the main character's (?) potential love interest was so obvious in everything he did that I got insta-bored.

I agree with that point, the flintlocks that exist today are far from firing conditions, essentially a big pipe bomb since I doubt many would take care of it even if it was a family heirloom, otherwise as you said from a museum. One possibility though is they learned how to make them themselves. Then again, if you are teaching yourself how to make guns why not learn how to make a Winchester repeating rifle or a revolver if you want weapons that don't require high precision machinery to produce and just a lot of man power and man hours to do.

If I recall though, the militia/government went all martial law on society and said that all civilians are prohibited from having fire arms in case the locals rise up against "The Man." I think there was an episode early in season one where a guy was killed for having an American flag but before that he was being questioned about how he killed a deer. that is when a rifle was found, looked pretty typical hunting rifle. So maybe they only allow flintlocks to them for that reason as it still makes the regular people have the least amount of firepower compared to the milita.

(01-17-2014, 05:13 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: Honestly, the main reason why something like a flintlock is more likely that a good revolver or lever rifle is precisely because it does require complex machining. The weapon itself may be simple but making the parts and not having everything fail is a lot more complicated than a pistol with loose black powder inserted in the back and a ball at the front with a flint hammer. I haven't watch this show, (or any outside of netflix in over a month) but I doubt the common person is going to be a machinist.