Infected Sword Enthusiasts - folded up to a million times!

[Pepsi-Cola]

I guess if that's a girl the whole "neckbeard atheist supreme gentleman" level is reduced significantly, but seeing as half of these dudes have long, greasy hair and skinny nerd bodies it's literally impossible to tell.

 

[Abethedemon]

I guess if that's a girl the whole "neckbeard atheist supreme gentleman" level is reduced significantly, but seeing as half of these dudes have long, greasy hair and skinny nerd bodies it's literally impossible to tell.

It's a girl. She runs a blog called Steff Metal.
http://www.steffmetal.com
While I think she's interesting, there is still somewhat of a "le metal connoisseur" mentality to her.

 

[Clown Doll]

When it comes to certain kinds of metal bands, medieval weapons (real or fake) are almost genre-mandated props for album cover pictures. That doesn't make the pictures much less awkward/cringey, but I don't really see the people more lolcow-y than amateur rappers taking pictures with ridiculous bling / shitty cars with expensive rims.

 

[TowinKarz]

Kinda like how it was mandatory for bands in the 70's to go stand on a railroad track somewhere to have their album cover taken.... doesn't make them foamers.

 

[Clown Doll]

Pro cuttin' strats.

 

[Abethedemon]

Can we talk about the people who impale themselves on swords for ritual purposes or shows of strength? I'm not knocking anyone's beliefs, but it looks pretty painful, yo.

 

[c-no]

Can we talk about the people who impale themselves on swords for ritual purposes or shows of strength? I'm not knocking anyone's beliefs, but it looks pretty painful, yo.

The former sounds like people who have some sort of problem while the latter seems to be full of bravado and idiocy. Impaling yourself with a sword is more or less a guaranteed visit to the emergency room at best and at worst, death.

 

[AnOminous]

The former sounds like people who have some sort of problem while the latter seems to be full of bravado and idiocy. Impaling yourself with a sword is more or less a guaranteed visit to the emergency room at best and at worst, death.

The performance artist Chris Burden used to routinely do things like shoot himself or have himself crucified for extended periods of time. There are people like the Jim Rose sideshow guys who specifically impale or pierce themselves. I imagine it has a lot to do with how you do it, and that people with some knowledge of anatomy can inflict injuries like this that are impressive while not actually being immediately life threatening.

 

[Clown Doll]

Can we talk about the people who impale themselves on swords for ritual purposes or shows of strength? I'm not knocking anyone's beliefs, but it looks pretty painful, yo.

You mean stuff like this?

It's kind of a grey area. I think the thread was originally meant to show cringey nerds trying to be "tough shit" posing with weapons and while the conversation has shifted around to talk about stuff besides just that, I think it'd be best to at least try to keep the discussion centered around the outright lulzy/cringey stuff to not have the thread become completely serious discussion about different kinds of weird rituals involving swords.

 

[BF 388]

The Archangle of Autism

 

[Abethedemon]

The Archangle of Autism

Isn't that Arin Hanson?

 

[CatParty]

 

[Army Burger]

Isn't that Arin Hanson?

that would be him

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

this is probably my new favorite video on all of youtube
DRAGON, TWISTER!!!

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

this is probably my new favorite video on all of youtube
DRAGON, TWISTER!!!

If I remember correctly, The guy is legit autsitic and a huge fan of Kenshin, so he asked his sister to film him while he *ahem* performs the special attacks from that Manga.
Just goes to show you, the guy doesn't even stand out amongst the sword enthusiast crowd despite his :autism:

 

[Skeletor]

When it comes to certain kinds of metal bands, medieval weapons (real or fake) are almost genre-mandated props for album cover pictures. That doesn't make the pictures much less awkward/cringey, but I don't really see the people more lolcow-y than amateur rappers taking pictures with ridiculous bling / shitty cars with expensive rims.

That's just because heavy metal is the cringiest of all music genres, with amateur rap a close second.

 

[Jozef]

Isn't that Arin Hanson?

Nah, Arin Hanson is more of a SJW cuck.

 

[Abethedemon]

Nah, Arin Hanson is more of a SJW cuck.

Maybe so, but he is, or at least was a massive weeb.

 

[Jozef]

Maybe so, but he is, or at least was a massive weeb.

He's a weeb too. Him and Danny were going to Japan, and Arin was cumming in his pants over how great the ramen there is. He said, "We need to get a "hot water maker [sic]" for our hotel room" so they can try the glorious instant ramen that's totally not the same crap you can get here.

But back to the sword discussion... how about katana chopsticks?

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Every time someone talks about how much they love ramen, but mean instant ramen, instead of actual, good, made-by-a-real-chef-in-a-real-restaurant ramen, somewhere a single tear rolls down a Japanese person's cheek.