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-> ''"GPS satellites? Unmanned drones? Fucking laser sights? The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under ya. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that a six-inch blade never loses reception."''

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-> ''"GPS satellites? Unmanned drones? [[MemeticMutation Fucking laser sights? sights]]? The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under ya. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that a six-inch blade never loses reception."''
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Doesn't fit, SCRAMBLE was intentionally designed to fail, read the linked story


-> '''Interviewer''': So the SCRAMBLE gear was ineffective?
-> '''Wilford''': Ineffective? The goddamn SCRAMBLE were pieces of shit that killed the whole damn task force. You know only three people are alive besides me? All because some retard egghead thought of a “state-of-the-art countermeasure to SCP-096’s hostile reaction.” Those bloody idiots could have just put a bag over the target’s head and be done with it but no, we had to use state-of-the-fucking-art SCRAMBLE.
-->-- Wiki/SCPFoundation, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/incident-096-1-a Incident 096-1-A]]
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->''"A man with a sixteen-inch naval rifle is so apt to forget that someone with a stone axe can kill him just as dead...and that it's human thought, not weapons, that ultimately determine wars..."''
-->-- '''Poul Anderson''', ''[[https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/pictures/images13/asf196008127.jpg The High Crusade]]''
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-> ''"The Ewoks... that discerning fans hated because there's [[SarcasmMode no way]] the mighty Empire would struggle against a smaller, poorly armed force. What do you think this is?! Vietnam?! Afghanistan?! Little Bighorn?! The American Revolution?! The Maori?! Ethiopia?! Afghanistan, again?!"''
-->-- ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'', ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''
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-> ''"Shall we ask for a better quality of door so we can escape?"''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''
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-> '''Interviewer''': So the SCRAMBLE gear was ineffective?
-> '''Wilford''': Ineffective? The goddamn SCRAMBLE were pieces of shit that killed the whole damn task force. You know only three people are alive besides me? All because some retard egghead thought of a “state-of-the-art countermeasure to SCP-096’s hostile reaction.” Those bloody idiots could have just put a bag over the target’s head and be done with it but no, we had to use state-of-the-fucking-art SCRAMBLE.
-->-- Wiki/SCPFoundation, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/incident-096-1-a Incident 096-1-A]]
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-> ''"GPS satellites, unmanned drones, fucking laser sights? The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under ya. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that a six-inch blade never loses reception."''

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-> ''"GPS satellites, unmanned drones, fucking satellites? Unmanned drones? Fucking laser sights? The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under ya. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that a six-inch blade never loses reception."''

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--> -- '''Thor''', "Small Victories," ''Series/StargateSG1''

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--> -- -->-- '''Thor''', "Small Victories," ''Series/StargateSG1''''Series/StargateSG1''

-> ''"GPS satellites, unmanned drones, fucking laser sights? The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under ya. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that a six-inch blade never loses reception."''
-->-- '''Thatcher''', ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege''

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-->-- '''The Doctor''', '''''Series/DoctorWho'''''

-> "''That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!''"
-->-- '''Snidley Whiplash''', '''''Dudley Do-Right'''''

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-->-- '''The Doctor''', '''''Series/DoctorWho'''''

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-> "''That's ''"That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!''"
guns!"''
-->-- '''Snidley Whiplash''', '''''Dudley Do-Right'''''
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-> ''"The more complex a weapon, the more likely it is to have flaws. Kan Pojo was the best pistoleer I ever saw, then or since, but he was waxed by what was essentially a whittled rock when his state-of-the-art weapon failed."''
-->-- '''Admiral Helaw''', ''Literature/DeathStar''
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-> ''"The [[BigGood Asgard]] have tried to stop [[[GreyGoo the Replicators]]]. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking."''
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-> ''"The Asgard would never invent a weapon that propels small weights of iron and carbon alloys by igniting a powder of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur. ... We cannot think like you."''
--> -- '''Thor''', "Small Victories," ''Series/StargateSG1''
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-->-- '''''[[{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition]]''''', "Fighting a Close Combat"

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-->-- '''''[[{{Warhammer '''''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition]]''''', "Fighting a Close Combat"



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-->-- ''[[HonorHarrington In Enemy Hands]]''

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-->-- ''[[HonorHarrington ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington In Enemy Hands]]''
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-> ''"Basically, it comes down to morale," '''[Cordelia Ransom]''' said. "I'm not going to suggest that morale can overcome enormous material odds. All the courage and determination in the universe won't mystically enable a mob armed with rocks to overcome trained infantry in [[PoweredArmor battle armor]], and you wouldn't believe me if I told you it could, now would you?"''
-->-- ''[[HonorHarrington In Enemy Hands]]''
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-->-- '''The Doctor''', '''''DoctorWho'''''

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-->-- '''The Doctor''', '''''DoctorWho'''''
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->-- '''''[[{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition]]''''', "Fighting a Close Combat"

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->-- -->-- '''''[[{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition]]''''', "Fighting a Close Combat"



->-- '''The Doctor''', '''''DoctorWho'''''

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-> ''"...the best gun in the galaxy won't help if your opponent is bashing your brains out with a rock!"''
->-- '''''[[{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition]]''''', "Fighting a Close Combat"



->-- '''The Doctor''', ''DoctorWho''

-> ''"...the best gun in the galaxy won't help if your opponent is bashing your brains out with a rock!"''
->-- '''Fighting a Close Combat''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}} Rulebook, 3rd Edition''

-> "That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!"
->-- ''Snidley Whiplash'', ''Dudley Do-Right''

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->-- '''The Doctor''', ''DoctorWho''

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-> ''"...the best gun in the galaxy won't help if your opponent is bashing your brains out with a rock!"''
->-- '''Fighting a Close Combat''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}} Rulebook, 3rd Edition''

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"''That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!"
->-- ''Snidley Whiplash'', ''Dudley Do-Right''
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-->-- '''Snidley Whiplash''', '''''Dudley Do-Right'''''
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-> The hell of it was that a nineteenth-century bullet or even a Stone Age spear could still kill a [[SpaceMarine twenty-third-century marine]]. It shouldn't. It should not be ''allowed''. And that was it -- it was your sense of superiority that killed you.
-->-- ''TourOfTheMerrimack: The Myriad''



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->-- ''Snidley Whiplash'', ''Dudley Do-Righ''

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->-- ''Snidley Whiplash'', ''Dudley Do-Righ''Do-Right''
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->-- "Snidley Whiplash", "Dudley Do-Right"

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->-- "Snidley Whiplash", "Dudley Do-Right"''Snidley Whiplash'', ''Dudley Do-Righ''
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-> "That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!"
->-- "Snidley Whiplash", "Dudley Do-Right"
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-->-- ''Tour Of The Merrimack: The Myriad''

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-->-- ''Tour Of The Merrimack: ''TourOfTheMerrimack: The Myriad''
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-> The hell of it was that a nineteenth-century bullet or even a Stone Age spear could still kill a [[SpaceMarine twenty-third-century marine]]. It shouldn't. It should not be ''allowed''. And that was it -- it was your sense of superiority that killed you.
-->-- ''Tour Of The Merrimack: The Myriad''

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