In a culture where the only ranged weapons are bows basically, the breaking point is probably useful enough.
Maybe Homeworld, just took a different path than we did, and just scrapped the idea of guns altogether when they were still unreliable (due to reloading time) instead of innovating them to the point they were the better weapon.
It's impractical as an active battle weapon...due to it's wind-up.
It's situational, working more for surprise attacks, assassination, or some third very specific thing.
The one thing that possibly makes up for its wind-up is that it shoots multiple times. You could maybe score a hit if you're faster than your opponent.
edited 12th Sep '16 6:13:48 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Plus, you can use it as a punch dagger even without extending it. And if the Breaking Point can shatter a Gem's gem in one blow, it can probably destabilize the form if you miss the gem. Maybe strap some shields on the side, to protect the Gem and the weapon. It would be cumbersome for a human, but an Era 1 Gem could wield it easily.
trying using it on garnet. Unless she blocks it with hands by mistake you aren't going to kill her with it. Try using it on Pearl, have fun with that. Trying using it on Amethyst and while her gem is on her chest you still aren't going to hit it. And forgot about Jasper.
The only gem it might be usable against is Bismuth.
When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down with the lemons.For a first iteration of a weapon that's actually really fast. Even muskets in the revolutionary war took as long as 15 seconds to reload
edited 12th Sep '16 6:32:08 PM by xanderiskander
It hits that armor test dummy multiple times, that's what I meant.
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The fact that they didn't loop 3 times threw me off...I'm use to shows doing that, even if it's a bit overdone.
That fits Bismuth's character as well. Not giving the Homeworld soldiers the satisfaction of battle, ambushing an encampment and spring a score of these things. That, and we only saw the one, she very well would have improved the design. It's effectively a prototype proof of concept.
And since she made it, I'm sure we can trust her word that it's very fast. Plus, imagine setting up a minefield of these things near a battleground.
Everyone's welcome to their opinions and I'm certainly not going to claim otherwise, but downing an episode because the weapon's not a gun seems a bit arbitrary.
Vidalia readied a gun at a human kid and a Gem just fine. She wouldn't have done it, but the implication's there.
Heck the mere concept of depicting a war albeit without blood is still damn impressive. I never would've thought the show would've had the resolve or the budget to do that.
I could see Homeworld using handheld beam destabilizers. The Diamonds would probably reject bullets because they're not guaranteed to take out a Gem- Bismuth was able to hold on a bit after getting stabbed with Rose's sword, which an un-altered human used to easily take out some corrupted Gems. A similarly disciplined Gem could maybe spit out the bullet before they destabilized?
Yeah, they really should have kept the one they took from Peridot.
edited 12th Sep '16 7:23:28 PM by xanderiskander
I don't think this was ever posted in this thread, but I wanted to share this post
from a US marine about Bismuth awhile back, because it's pretty relevant.
He makes some interesting points, about the similarities and differences between Bismuth's situation, and a real soldier's. Pointing out how Bismuth was basically going against Rose's version of a Standard Operating Procedure, and how if they had the choice to use non lethal weapons that worked 100% of the time in real life like gems could they would always do that.
edited 12th Sep '16 7:39:08 PM by xanderiskander
None of them ever "want" to kill, but it's the only way for now.
Gems are lucky, mang. They have an absolute hope spot during battle.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.You know, I saw people saying in Bubbled that it was good to say that Rose had her reasons for shattering Pink Diamond, and how it shows that it's not just "good guys vs bad guys". But I don't think that that lesson's been fully established just yet.
While part of deconstructing that "good vs bad" narrative is to have the protagonists do morally questionable things, the other part is to have the antagonists have justifiable reasons for their actions. So far, the only reason behind colonizing Earth until it's unrecognizable seemed to be "because we can", and Yellow Diamond wants Earth to die for seemingly no reason other than "because it's personal". Maybe they could incorporate the "dwindling resources" plot point into their reasoning.
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" CroshawIt must be extremely personal if they're willing to forsake valuable limited resources...
Thas dumb, mang. You can't possibly justify this.
edited 12th Sep '16 11:20:34 PM by randomness4
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Maybe the showrunners are just afraid of showing kids anything that even resembles a gun. And that reminds me of something I don't see mentioned a lot: Why does a race of basically immortal aliens, thousands of years ahead of any civilization, that have mastered intergalactic travel and colonization, still use melee weapons to fight?
I'd really want to see an Indiana Jones moment, where a character with a blaster sees one of the Gems showing off their amazing weapon, and then poofs them with one shot.
edited 12th Sep '16 5:42:58 PM by BlueBlaze64
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw