It's pretty rare that TR contest offer something more than just Topless Robot shirts. It not that I'm against giving away things, it's just that I need a good content idea first and foremost, and if there's some sort of prize that can be attached, so much the better. Which is why I'm delighted to tell you that the folks behind the Blacklight Tango Down game, gave me five free copies of the game and a great contest idea -- design your ultimate future gun.
Apparently in BTD, you can customize your gun in all sorts of way (you can see some of the various effects in the trailer above). Hurting people with bullets is all well and good, but I'm reasonably confident you guys can come up with some better alternatives. That bazooka that fires chainsaws would be pretty cool. A gun that fires kittens could be useful, since any enemy soldier with a heart would drop his gun and catch the kitten (at which point someone else could shoot him with a real gun). Obviously, the more insane and ridiculous, the better.
Each person gets one entry, 100 words max -- going over will disqualify you from winning (but Honorable Mentioning). Feel to draw your weapon and post a link to it in your entry. The contest ends at 12:01 EST Monday, August the 2nd. Two people will win both a TR shirt and a copy of the Blacklight Tango Down game, and three others will win the game or a shirt, depending on whether they have a PC or not. You guys have a great weekend. I'm going to be busy trying to figure out how to make a gun that makes the target question their love for their spouses.
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LT wins with an impromptu demonstration of the guns effectiveness
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I have an entry and a joke, Entry: A gun that fires 3 types of rounds, projected energy, standard slug, and a shrink-ray/ vacuum attachment for when you want to take them alive to torture later. Joke: A gun that fires a life sized Chuck Norris, in his prime, movie/TV version. To fight for you Because Chuck Norris always wins.
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Everyone have right to bear arms. Fourfathers never said nutcakes cant have guns so who am i to say nutcakes cant have guns. Maybe I will even fine you ten dollars if you dont have a gun. www.basilmarceaux.com vote for me for governor of tennessee
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The 38 special: Firing this at an individual would cause them to develope the most natural looking uber perky 38 DDs. It would also the target to have an uncontrollable urge to fondle them selves until they eiter pass out or expire from dehydration. Either way their hands would not be filled with offensive weaponry. I am not sure how well this would work against the female targets though.
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Romero Zombies obviously, Rage Zombies are not dead merely really, really, inexplicably angry, because the Monkey Virus made them that way... Romero Zombies are actually dead bodies, walking, moaning, and eating people, but still DEAD.
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My gun would be either helicopter-mounted or launched missile-style at an approaching army (humans, zombies, etc.) the projectile would split into 100 fully formed Flying Guillotines and target the heads (limbs, extremities, genitals) of the army in question. Once the Flying Guillotines are firmly in place, small retro-rockets on each FG basket would launch the Guillotine baskets far away. I'd call it the "Decapitate an Army" gun. My other idea would be to have a large missile projectile that splits into hundreds of flying, ravenous half lion, half eagle mythical beasts that would attack and eat any approaching enemy. I'd call this one the MIRV Griffin.
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A gun that builds a machine that builds a machine that builds Laser turrets. The first machine is a bomb too I guess.
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Wasn't that just a powerful stun rod with the side effect of sometimes making the victim vomit? Not the same thing.
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A small phaser like object with three settings, kill, stun, and Kirk sexuality hypnosis.
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The weapon is super effective.
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker stole my idea, even if they did come up with when I was 10 and had no idea what Orgazmo would do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcA-SJlD2-Y
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Thats not jail they're going to... its the Morgue.
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Not to nitpick, but the only thing you listed that was actually incorrect was "Wolverne's skeleton is made of Titanium". The others are neither correct nor incorrect--they're just unpopular opinions.
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I see nothing wrong with that last statement.
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I would create a gun that would recite incorrect things about well facts in the sci-fi/gaming/computer community. The enemy will then drop their weapons, and revert to defensive fanboys. For example: "Wolverine's skeleton is made of titanium." Or "Apple is better than PC." Or "Wiis is better than PS3".
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I would create a gun that shoots out a bunch of knife wielding midgets.
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Rage zombie or Romero zombie?
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I would make a gun called the LARP BUSTER. It would instill upon your enemies the desire to participate in LARP. At which point, you attack at them with your LVL. 5 LIGHTNING BOLT.
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I think they should develop a weapon that enhances your thoughts. Like you shoot yourself in the head with it to open up alternate ways to diffuse a situation. It coulda helped this guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3FGdjjythQ
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"The Double V Dey" - A double shot of Viagra shot followed up by Felicia Day flying around in her fairy outfit from The Legend of Neil singing the fairy song.<br><br>On the first mention of 'dragon style', the enemy would be so fucking horny they would cut off their own dick and beat themselves to death.<br><br>This will probably work on females too...at least the cool ones!!!
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I'm scared.
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This is easy... A trumpit that shoots bubblegum
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you know i feel like that would be more horrible if that was the result whether the target was wearing lingerie or not.
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A midget bazooka. It shoots midgets that are themselves shooting 9mm handguns. The midgets are also wearing pickelhauben so if they miss with their bullets they'll still have their heads.
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I forgot to mention. The camera is linked to a website that automatically loads pictures up of successful "kills".
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The Money Shot-gun: It's a shotgun you try to aim point blank at someone's face. It's a non-lethal gun that fires globs of gelatinized bear-spray. It would be the most unwieldy and reprehensibly vile looking gun on the planet. The accuracy all depends on user experience. However, if you actually manage to hit the target, the target is forever shamed and the shooter is automatically a saint of guns. Also there's a built in camera at the end of the barrel.
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The most dangerous gun I can think of. FFF Gun. Shoots every FanFiction Friday story into the head of the enemy, instantly rendering them braindead.
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the gun i would design would be the love child of hellboys good sameritin with optimus prime's rifle and instead of bullets it would shoot mini michel bays that on impact would cause the target to burst into flame and grow mechanical nuts. plus the gun would duplicate itself after firing each time it would never be gone
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Imagine this: A semi-automatic machine gun that is loaded with ammunition that, upon impact, unceremoniously rips a hole into the space-time continuum, allowing each bullet to come into contact with its target hundreds, if not thousands of times. Think with Portals, except with one portal on each side of the target, and one projectile hitting your enemy, into one opening, back through the other, and through your target time and time again. Fatality.
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"Obviously, the more insane and ridiculous, the better." DAMNIT ROB!!! Your giving out multiple shirts/games, why can't you give out 1 for a serious entry?? As for my silly entry? I don't know... a sniper rifle that fires matter/anti-matter bullets so it could blow up everything.
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'Cause bacon makes everything better. For the same reason, this should come with an attachment that sprays ranch dressing.
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My idea: a shoulder mounted gun with a camera, grenade launcher and lasers for measuring distance/speed of the target and the wind conditions. It would come with a headset that displays the video, tracks what your looking at and actively auto-corrects the gun to hit that point. It would also have GPS capabilities, so it could relay the exact location of the target, if you wanted aerial support. <b>And all from behind cover</b>. For targets that are <i>also</i> behind cover, you could just set the nades to explode a few feet behind their cover.
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I used to have a Champions character named Junction who could do this as a superpower.
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There will be no gun of the future. Not because of world peace, but because guns will have become outdated. I mean we don't arm the military with spears anymore. In the future there will probably be some quicker, more efficient way of killing people than using a gun. Sorry to all for being a killjoy!
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Everyone can carry guns, but if you kill someone you get murdered and go to jail.
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*Screenplay. Derp
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Sure, it also shows you what happened to the people you've been ignoring for the last few days, for no reason at all, and in no way does it help you move on, all it does is slow everything down so you can die without having to explain anything.
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Ok Uhm ridiculous. Please cancel out my previous entry I would like to replace it with the Full Hauser. A hand gun that downloads the Entire Series of Danny Tanner and the Girls from Full house into the brain of your victim... Forcing them to re live David Coulier's bad jokes and John Stamos's 80's cool over and over until the target commits suicide over the mental strain.
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The Cryptophallic Cannon. Millions of magically shrunken gibbering cocks are kept in a breeding chamber, and then launched at foes. The launch is soundless, and they expand from mote-size to typical proportions in mid-air, so enemies won't even see them until they're too close to dodge. Each gun is registered to its holder via magic, so that they don't turn on you, even if you accidentally break the chamber open. (Or do so purposefully, to unleash a last-ditch attack that will end all things.)
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60% of the time, it works every time.
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Does the gun also freeze the target and play Beethoven's 9th for an unintentionally hilarious few minutes before crushing them?
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My gun would be called the "cannondine"...when fired, it causes the victim to be stripped down to lingerie, and hog tied.
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Anti Nerd gun. For those type of nerds that make you feel ashamed which was in that other contest. It shoots out future George Lucas sceenplays. The nerd reads them and kills him/herself out of dispair. We have the technology and unfortunately, George Lucas.
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The Ballzooka. It would appear externally little different than a normal bazooka, perhaps a little larger in diameter. It fires a projectile of tightly folded, hinged metal arms and rods, propelled by rocket and guided by a genetic lock-on mechanism. Upon coming close to the target, it unfolds, resembling a very large face-hugger. After impacting the target at mid torso, the arms close and lock into place, pinning the target's arms and legs in position. A twelve pound weight attached to a pneumatic rod descends from the main structure and begins to pummel the testicles.
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I laughed for like ten seconds straight.
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The Devastator. It fills the target with the most intense form imaginable of the feeling that one gets from standing directly beneath the enemy's scrotum. Comes with a shard of the Allspark in the handle, because you never know when you might need one. Picture: http://imgur.com/EKncn.png
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The AOTA-gun. It fires all of the above mentioned bullets. Its huge and the bullets looks like double robot unicorn rainbows.
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Fantastic!
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Super! We needed something capable of accidentally destroying all life on Earth.
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see the Shinji Ikari gun mentioned above for what this gun is like.
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I see it more as a 100% chance for the victims to be 50% dead...as long as you do not check up on them.
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Thank you for your kind words but this was all James' idea so if this does get any special recognition I will turn it over to you James... I just had fun with a Brilliant Idea, Thank James for inspiring a moment of joy.
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No, just candy...that way my soldiers are all hopped up on sugar..Their special knife would when cutting the throat of an enemy sentry turn that blood into Mountain dew.
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The Daisy Ray. Its transmogrifying beam converts the target into a harmless daisy. A reverse switch allows for de-daisyfication in case of misfire. A lightsaber folds into the stock and can be removed for close combat, or for mowing down daisies that still may pose a threat. Both elegant and versatile, the primary function of this weapon is to be non-lethal, but incorporates contigencies should this goal be impractical.
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Sweet
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i 2nd this, like muse and artist they both did some beautiful art.
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How about the Tom & Jerry Gun....it fires anvils,frying pans,golf clubs,cheese graters,sticks of dynamite,comedy bombs,irons,suddenly closing doors,unfeasibly large fruit,steamrollers,locomotives,cliffs with tunnels painted on them,mousetraps, beartraps,large dogs and annoyed fat ladies with their socks down round their ankles.
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Mmmmmmm I like your idea.
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My gun is simple. A long range sniper rifle filled with jar jar rounds. What are jar jar rounds? I'm glad you asked. When a target is hit with a jar jar round, the round melds with the target and creates a life size replica of Jar jar Binks wacked out on crack cocaine.jar Jar is psychically tied to the target and will never under any circumstances leave their side. This replica is tied in to the targets vitals as well, hence if any harm comes to jar jar, this reflects on the target. After being hit with a jar jar bullet, the target will die most likely in one of three ways. 1. The target will eventually go mad and kill jar jar, and consequently himself. 2. The targets compatriots will kill jar jar and consequently the target as well. 3. Suicide. Meesa and yousa gon be goooood freinds!
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Yeah, haha. I love that people didn't catch that.
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Sounds like Kuma from One Piece.
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Good news, everyone! I've invented a gun that immediately shoots copies of Blacklight Tango Down back at people who give them to you, freeing up valuable time for getting destroyed by 12 year-olds in Starcraft!
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This gun instantly ages the target until he's 100 years old. It then drops a birthday cake infront of him. As he's attempting to blow out the candles you can either sing him Happy Birthday or stab him or be a jerk and do both.
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The FIL Mega 2000xl ( all good guns have large numbers, and words such as mega etc ): The FIL ( First In Line ) gun is pointed at any queue and automatically reserves a space at the very front, which you can occupy at a later time ( don't ask how it works, it just does ). No-one has been brave enough to test what happens when 2 FIL's are used on the same line!
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My Gun would be called the Romano Ray: When hit by it you would suddenly be accosted by an overbearing Mother, You would lose any sense of competency you might have and you would get an impatient wife following you around too. A side effect renders all siblings resentful of you believing "Mom and Dad always loved you best"
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The Bozo Bazooka. It shoots a hideously demonic clown costume that latches onto an opponent's body, complete with evil clown mask. This fools their allies into thinking they are an evil clown and causing them to shoot their own man. Because EVERYONE, without exception, would kill an evil clown if they ever came across one, with extreme prejudice. So, not only is your opponent dying at the hands of their own allies, they also have the indignity of dying dressed like a clown.
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Im sorry if this was done already... First, it looks like a giant super soaker with a large stone head at the end. When you pull the trigger of this fantastic weapon, it doesnt uhm...shoot bullets but rather vomits out smaller pistols which can be picked up and used. (Brutaliscious!) It also doesnt make a bang sound, it says "THE GUN IS GOOD! THE PENIS IS EVIL!" Its the one and only ZARDOZ gun! (NOTE: Wearing a pair of blue boxers on your head and drawing a goatee on your face with a sharpie is optional.)
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Ah, dammit, I was going to use the WALALALALA ACTION guy :'(
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The BIG BANG GUN. One use only.
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Ah, my first thought - but I couldn't decide if it should be Wolverines or wolverines. Either would be bad news.
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Ugh. 300 entries is too much so I apologize if this is a repeat: The Ice-9 Needler. It shoots Ice-9 bullets which cause all water in the target's body to freeze. This means that every hit is lethal. Shot in the foot? Dead. Shot in the hand? Dead. Just a flesh wound? Not any more! Just make sure all bodies are disposed of by cremation and dear God, keep it out of the ocean! . PS If I could enter someone else's gun it would be the Doberman Gun from The Far Side. The ultimate in home defense!
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My gun would turn people into comicsnix copies, I'd use it on the world leaders, they will no doubt immediately begin working on horrible and confusing erotic fanfics and explode the brains of anyone who could stop me. When all the worlds hopeful are reduced to semi-illiterate future meteorologists or brain-dead I will swoop in with the speed of a 400 pound pothead on a plate a pot-brownies and the iron-fist of a dictator to rule the world WHAHAHAHAHA!
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A watergun-like gun that shoots beer and never runs out of ammo. And it has a built in stereo which plays Will Smith's 'Miami' on repeat. Mm, good times.
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I would design the Bay Blaster. The Bay Blaster is unrecognizable as a conventional weapon, yet has devastating effects. Anything you point it at (if you are able to determine which part is the barrel) and pull the trigger automatically explodes, whether combustible or not. Stuffed animals, marshmallow men, dvd's of movies that lack plot and substance, all blow up in unlikely explosions. Great for parties and entertaining kids. Only drawback is that while holding the weapon you look like the world's biggest douchebag.
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My gun fires microscopic Uwe Boll's that eat away at anything good in your body, like your blood, organs, that slim jim you had at the 7-11 last night until all thats left is your skin.The real Uwe Boll collects it , stretches it (skin) out, and shows his latest piece of shit movie on it.
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The gun of the future needs to be small (for easy portability), box-shaped (for easy storage), simple (no handle, just a button on the side as a trigger so it can be used with either hand) and able to shoot anything. Literally. The ammo type is whatever you can find around you. Anything placed into the back of the gun is compressed, energized and (when fired) launched out at super high speeds. Basically a mini rail gun meets Doc Brown's Mr. Fusion. Prototype action shots! Military model: http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/50600115.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=E41C9FE5C4AA0A14731A81A9877C0169A3DF522AB4804A1734021F4DED4A76D9B01E70F2B3269972 Government model: http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/et_16.jpg
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My gun is a gun of peace. It's a gun that fire bullets that kill virginity amongst nerds.
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Now thats a Sexmachine! I love it (no homo) also i'm intimidated.
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My gun would shoot needles laced with an enzyme that affects the nervous system leading to the victim having an 'uncontrollable bladder spasm'.
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The Hello! Kitty branded Flying Panty Launcher designed for containing or creating riots in Japanese Cities. The gun would come in the shape of Hello! Kitty, in order to hold the gun one must put their hand up her skirt where you find that that the handle one must hold is a rather large Hello! Kitty vibrator, and the trigger is the Hello! Kitty vibrator rabbit add-on. Everytime you pull the trigger not only does a whole host of slightly used flying propeller powered panties fly out but the Launcher does this half-moan/half meow.
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Pretty sure anyone whos been thru high school will have built up some sort of resistance, too.
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I don't think someone named 'OccasionalMisfyr' should be designing a gun. Especially a gun that can shoot freakin' black holes.
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Street Name: The Pratchett
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A gun that fires not bullets, but nano-bot containing projectiles. The gun is a sniper rifle, designed to hit targets from a far range in a "fire and forget" mode. The bullets contain nano-bots, which quickly enter the body and burn out any and all nerve endings they find. This allows the sniper to quickly hit targets from range and move on, allowing the nano-bots to kill the target.
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Scooter, why the negativity? Of course it's both.
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I think it's only fair that games get a T-shirt for the inspiration, and Rando get the game for this amazing example of Win.
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I'm not sure about the technology for this one, but how about a gun which fires a tiny GPS dot with the ability to override all other GPS systems within a given area, like car Sat-navs. Great for assassinations, because the target never knows they're hit until they're run over by several cars minutes/hours later. You may also get guys turning up and asking if you're their lost dog.
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Bravo sir, greatest gun ever.
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Somewhere in the universe, a black hole harvests entire stars. Upon request, the harvested star is instanly spaghettified out the other end to any other point in the universe as a stream of small teardrop shaped slugs (each with the appropriate weight of the ex-star) moving at 99.9% c. That target point is specified as the location where user's eyes are looking. The trigger is a thrusting motion made by moving user's hips backwards, then forwards while simultaneously doing the opposite with user's arms bent 90 degrees at the elbow. The only authorized user is the thawed out of cryofreeze Ron Jeremy.
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I'm not sure I want a weapon that has only a 50% chance of existing.
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The Unrequited Love feature should have an "Emo" setting that makes its targets do mothing but write terrible poetry and cut themselves.
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Of course, you probably won't be able to tell when you've switched it on.
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The Whiny Loser: when killed by this weapon, enemies stand around complaining about headshot bots, camping, lag, framerates, map design, team balance, weapon fairness, the questionable sexuality, parentage and fecal diet of the player who killed them, etc, all delivered in the furiously trembling falsetto of an enraged twelve year old. The player can shut the enemy up by shooting them again, although the corpse will twitch and mutter something about f'ing haxxors.
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The "Michael B-ray Gun" fires an impenetrable pile of dogsh*t all over your favorite childhood cartoon. In the event that you accidentally shoot the wrong cartoon, switch it to "Shyamalan mode", which will clear the dogsh*t away. Side effects include whitewashing protagonists, pronouncing their names wrong, and moving the pile of dogsh*t onto a different franchise. In the event that your favorite characters are replaced with twin mechanical Jar-Jars, keep firing until you end up with G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. That's as good as it gets.
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I don't have a name or a design for mine, but I've always liked the idea of a flame thrower type gun that spews a stream of tiny nanobots that swarm the target and strip it to the bone. Or a bullet with a liquid tip that breaks when it hits the target, and releases a bunch of the same nanobots but doesn't kill the guy. So he's dragged back to the base to get patched up, the bots activate and start tearing the living shit out of everything. Not that creative, but I'd like it. >>
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Come on: If you're going to have a One Piece gun, at least have Weapons Left. Then you don't have to spend money on exploding baseballs, just cheap cola. As for the actual gun:can we get the automatic clue-rifle? I've cramped my arms with the clue-bat and clue-by-four.
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The N.E.T. (Never Ending Torture) gun: A gun that shoots micro black holes that suck you in and spit you out in an alternate world where time doesn't pass and you must forever listen to Rod Stewart...and watch him dance naked.
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Read aloud by the "WALALALA ACTION" Guy.
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how about a gun that gives you a great one liner... like from an 80's action flic or a Dirty Harry movie. a one liner worthy of John McClane or even the Governators long lost glibness. call it "the Quip"
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That was quite possible the most epic reference ever...Only thing that would have made it better: Black hole gun, won't you cum...
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