which weapons would a modern day vampire hunter use? no wooden stakes, no crossbows, silver blades, no holy water flasks or garlic necklaces allowed, just modern cutting edge tech.
>>64754988On those 3? Muhh dick if you cache my drift
>>64754988None, because vampires don't exist. You may have better luck asking on /x/.
>>64754991tell it to flip farmers who kill and lynch people every year out of fear of them being aswang
>>64754988>which weapons would a modern day vampire hunter use?dones
>>64754988>What weapons would a modern day vampire hunter use?>Proceeds to refuse answers based on 'the things that kill vampires'. That's retarded OP, if it works it works, regardless of how 'low tech' you think it is. If you're going to take pneumatic stake launchers, frag grenades with pre-formed silver shrapnel, and waterguns loaded with garlic infused holy water then I guess just use something that hits them with enough of an explosive charge to liquify/vaporise their bodies - even dead flesh doesn't stand up well to huge and rapid changes in pressure. Or just go as close to credible as the Blade films ever got and hit them with 120 million lux UV lamps (about a thousand times more powerful than the sunlight that usually incinerates vampires in most portrayals of them).
>>64754996>tell it to flip farmers who kill and lynch people every year out of fear of them being aswangSo apparently the answer is a machete and maybe a can of gasoline.
>>64754996Its mostly just easier than paying back the loan they owe them or some other civil bullshit about who owns which bit of dirt
>>64755075>That's retarded OP, if it works it works, regardless of how 'low tech' you think it isI liked Code V's bullets that had some kind of carbon/resin mix where the carbon was made from rowan wood ash that was combusted, ground down into powder and mixed into resin to make a bullet that was a stake.Since the vampires die to stakes because magic, it doesn't actually need full penetration, you just give them a burst from an MP5 and they turn to ash because that's how their animating magic works.
>>64755091>Code VI meant Ultraviolet, I forgot the name of the show.Code 5s is just what they called vampires in that show.
>>64755091>Since the vampires die to stakes because magicI think it's meant to be that particular type of magic (with the wood of the stake representing nature, as the counter to the unnatural existence of the vampire) destroying its heart rather than just 'penetration from wood automatically kills them' - it's not like vampires would be terrified of a single splinter pierce their skin.
Shock glove
>>64755096I'm gonna assume it's specifically a stake because of Vlad's penchant for doing that to his victims
>>64755096>the wood of the stake representing natureRowan Trees are generally considered to have special powers against supernatural evil. They're used for witches, vampires, lots of things.The stake usually has to go through the heart but many versions have them slip right in instead of needing to be pounded in with a mallet.I can't remember where, possibly Buffy, but there was a show where someone has a toothpick and a rubber band but I think that was a joke.
A brick. You kill monsters by hitting them with a brick. A good friend taught me that.
>>64755116It's also cheaper than a divorce lawyer
>>64754988crucifix
>>64754988flamethrower obviously
>>64755115I think that just about everything in Buffy was meant to be some kind of joke, that was how Joss Whedon tended to write and think. If it's just 'any wood that pierces the skin' then load a shotgun shell with toothpicks and just bombard the vamp with them until one of them sticks. I assume that removing the need to hammer the stake home (I've not tried to push a wooden stake through somebodies ribcage before, but I assume it takes more force than the average human punch can deliver) was a narrative choice, because it allowed for cool fight scenes rather than getting a group of people to hold the vampire down while the stake was hammered into them.
>>64754988One of those sword-hellfires, retrofitted with fuck you sized wooden stakes
>>64755115>Buffy, but there was a show where someone has a toothpick and a rubber band but I think that was a joke.That leaves open a rather large drawback of splinters from wooden floors, furniture and walking barefoot outside would be fatal to vamps.
>>64755147>that was how Joss Whedon tended to write and thinkyepruined writing for decades already and still running
>>64755179>splinters from wooden floors, furniture and walking barefoot outside would be fatal to vamps.You've reminded me of one of the Discworld books where a vampire claims he's being prejudiced against because of unsafe work conditions after he went and worked at: A restaurant that specialized in Garlic, a religious memorabilia store, a pencil factory, etc. With the increasingly frustrated watch officer pointing out that _maybe_ it's not them, it's you choosing those places to work
>>64755185>making fun of snowflakes wanting the entire world to revolve around themwtf can we cancel Pratchett please?
>>64755190
silver bullets you stupid fuckers
>>64755181>ruined writing for decades already and still runningEh, I very much enjoyed all his works at the time.I still do more or less, I'm just struck by the saminess of them and how all his characters tend to speak with very similar voices.I think I first noticed this in Avengers 1 when Nick Fury was talking like he was one of the scooby gang from Buffy. I could never shake it after that and it detracted a little but that's really my only complaint about him. All his characters sound kind of the same and are inevitably somewhat quippy, even the "serious" ones.When he first started writing, this was very refreshing because we were hearing characters in a tv show that was a kind of fantasy/scifi/horror/sitcom be sarcastic and banter with each other the way that my crowd did irl.Other than his dialogue (which was fine on Buffy because they were all that age and went to the same school), I think the main criticism is that he really, really likes to writes strong female characters, his cast are generally somewhat diverse and he obviously hates and does not write for the alt-right.Chuds seethe over these things.Strategic humour in a grim episode really helps to make the show watchable. Unrelenting horror or dystopia makes me not want to watch the show, I'm probably going to drop out after the end of the episode and not go back to it.
>>64755209it's fine if it's just his writing and it's novel, I'm talking about the fact that everyone copied it
>>64754988>no wooden stakes, no crossbows, silver blades, no holy water flasks or garlic necklaces allowed, just modern cutting edge tech.Kids today, always tring to be funny. Vamp hunting is analog.
>>64755120Based Max Shreck imposter.
>>64755211>I'm talking about the fact that everyone copied itThe price of success.Honestly that sounds like everyone else's fault for not taking a good example and improving on it.Don't blame the ground breaking update to literature, blame the hacks that rip it off for the next two decades without innovating on it in any way we can detect.
>>64755147>it takes more force than the average human punch can deliverBuffy wws the Slayer, not an "average human". She was The Chosen One. Btw, way hotter than Olivia Moore. Just sayin'.
>>64755115>possibly Buffy, but there was a show where someone has a toothpick and a rubber band but I think that was a joke.I don't remember this scene in Buffy.
>>64755209Well timed comic relief is one thing, and can work well if it's handled sensibly. Joss just turned every plot beat, line, and visual into a joke (or close enough that it felt like that). That only works if you're explicitly writing a comedy, and the audience signed up for that sort of story. Otherwise it just undercuts the tone and turns the piece into a 'neither one thing nor the other' mess. Joss went too far with that in Buffy, just about kept it in check for Firefly (although that was helped by the characters he was working with there), but then retards turned it into the Marvelisation that's shitting up everything by expressly doing it well past the point where it was working and in places it isn't called for. It's not entirely fair to use Taika Waititi as an example for that, as he was obviously a lot more comfortable making comedies and did pretty well at that - but the decision to have a director him (and his less competent imitators) handle big blockbuster action films is exactly the problem that Joss started up.
>>64755264>That only works if you're explicitly writing a comedy,Yeah, I guess that's why Buffy didn't last as a series and Firefly did..
>>64755264Buffy by far is the best JW series as evidenced by its high ratings, many seasons and spinoffs.Firefly is super campy, but scifi nerds are okay with it. Orville is similarly extremely campy.
>>64754988
>>64754988Nuke. Drop the sun.
>>64755295Popular =/= best. Saturday Night Fever was extremely popular and yet it sucked as did all disco.
>>64755302>ImageThe positive integer (x) such that the ceiling of (x / 2) plus the floor of (x / 2) equals (x), and (x) is the solution to the equation (x^2 -8x + 16 = 0).
>>64755327>fake mathNegative numbers are imaginary.
It's like everyone forgot blade 1 and 2 exist.
>>64755343Thankfully.
>>64755147>, that was how Joss Whedon tended to writeJoss Whedon's """"writing""""" was mostly plagiarizing ideas from anime like Devil Hunter Yohko>>64755190Please yes.
>>64755264>Joss went too far with that in Buffy, just about kept it in check for FireflyThat's because one of these was a ripoff of a comedy show, while the other was a ripoff of an action/adventure show.
>>64755382>Joss Whedon's """"writing""""" was mostly plagiarizing ideas from anime like Devil Hunter YohkoCitation required, sour grapes anime dweeb.
>boohoo Alien Resurection was the best sequel but I hate Jossy so it sucks!
>>64755403>Teenage girl protagonist just so happens to be the chosen one, the current member of a long line of demon hunters. She just wants to be normal but her and her friends keep getting dragged into supernatural hijinks where she has to kill demonsYeah, I've heard that story before.>sour grapes anime dweeb.He did the same thing with Firefly too, even down to people fighting over the mysterious girl-in-the-box in the first episode. Anyway, I'm not sour about it, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I enjoyed both shows.
>>64755409>heard that story before.Yeah, the movie in '92. Also written by Joss. Early Hillary Swank notable.
>>64754991That's what they want you to think.
>>64755426>Yeah, the movie in '92Two years after Devil Hunter Yohko.
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>>64755473Nobody in America was reading that crap.
>>64755264>That only works if you're explicitly writing a comedy, and the audience signed up for that sort of storyI feel like the audience knows what they're in for with any Whedon show and so probably did sign up for it.>>64755302>2+2 but not 4OK, so first we have to cover some basic set theory...>>64755388>one of these was a ripoff of a comedy show>the other was a ripoff of an action/adventure show>ripoffpicrel
>>64755502>picrelDoes everyone know by now that was a Rob Reiner film and was over 38 years ago?
>>64755497Which is why nobody realized the con. Except Whedon, of course. Dude wasn't dumb.
>>64755357Someone is trying to ice skate uphill!
Oh my Stan Lee, I will now read your propaganda board!
>>64755511>Does everyone know by now that was a Rob Reiner film and was over 38 years ago?I doubt it, I feel like that's something people into film lore would know and most people would go "huh, ok" to.Huh, ok.>>64755524>nobody realized the con>conhttps://youtu.be/N3DhDX0vS8M?t=131
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