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[โ€“] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Disappointing lack of chrome spray colour

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Me, in my ivory tower: Man, bandages as an art style really seems to be trendy amongst the wastelanders. I wonder why?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This comment actually made that choice click in my head, I'd never asked why that was before and kinda assumed it was to help protect the internals of a machine you couldn't fix from the environment but really it's more likely to be so you always have some bandages on hand (however sanitary)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

oh, I figured it was just the ideal binding material for broken parts (e.g. limbs, rifle butts) whilst providing comfort and stretch/tightness control.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Now I'm no apocalypse expert, but I feel like a knife taped to some rebar doesn't make for a very viable arrow, or at least not one that the pictured bow could fire

Edit: is that a curtain tassle they've used for fletching?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm also unsure about the purpose of the blood-stained bandages that keep you from holding the sub-machinegun's foregrip.
Or whether the sharp, jagged edges on the frame of the goggles might be an issue.
And what the fuck is the skull used for?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I can't comment on the other things, but the skull is obvious - it's for drinking, and the top half functions like a lid you can flap on and off, like a German beer stein.