While the ridiculous Avenger cannon - which can fire enormous 30mm rounds at a rate of 4200 per minute - was the main reason for the Warthog's design, the A-10 was also famous for its rugged construction, able to withstand a ton of punishment.

I'm pretty certain it can keep flying with one of its vertical stabilizers off.

Kim Campbell is one of my heroes. She's a tiny little thing and she landed that plane without hydraulics, a feat that only a few pilots have accomplished.

Hahahaha, if it was DragonCon that joke wouldn't work.

I personally think the best fries come from Wendy's and the best burgers from Whataburger, when looking only at fast food. I don't eat fast food to be healthy.

My oldest son is now 18 and still looks forward to my new games — this is a huge source of pride for me, and a big motivation for me in my work, the knowledge that young people are enjoying my games. Making games that kids can also enjoy is really, really important to me... Their reactions are so pure...

Clearly you've never seen blued pattern welding before.

He welded on the tang? Oh great. Clearly a master smith. Ugh. Edit: oh, and he screwed on the pommel instead of actually peening it. Yeah, good way to make a really crappy sword from such beautiful metal.

Beautiful ripples AND it's black. He just had one more step to do.

He still could've made it black. There's a process called bluing that blackens steel and creates a protective coating, and blued Damascus steel (the term for steel that results from pattern welding) is even prettier than plain Damascus steel.

Only because the show's meteor was some special metal. Real meteor iron is shittier than the pig iron used in katanas. It absolutely has to be pattern-welded to be any sort of useful.

You see that sexy hunk of metal right there? Blued Damascus steel. It would've been EVEN BETTER if he actually bothered going the whole 9 yards.

You know what he could've done instead? Forged it from a meteor and then blued it so it'd actually look like the sword in the fucking show. Damascus steel is beautiful, but it's not accurate, so that means it's wrong. There's no other way to forge a fucntioning blade from meteor iron (which is basically pig iron or…

Yes, but he still could've blued it after the fact, which would've made it look nicer. I mean, yeah, the way her forged it was so much better than what was on the show, but A) jians were never made by pattern welding (though he gets a pass there because he tried to use real meteorite iron, which is even crappier than…

It's called bluing and he sure as fuck could've done it. He's a Hollywood smith, none of his reproductions are actually faithful. But nobody outside of those of us who are manic-obsessive about swords actually care.

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Now that, I can agree with. The way the whole thing flies apart could easily be caused by pressurized gas, and the materia could justify it flying back together.

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Amen brother.

You can call it steampunk, but you can also call it stupid. I'm so tired of steampunk stuff that doesn't make any sense. Kids, this is why you shouldn't go into engineering. It will ruin your fun, and how you look at steampunk items.