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  • DoghouseCharlie [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    I was going to make a silly comment about how gold wouldn't make for good bullets but that got me down a rabbit hole of looking up what Oscar's are made of and if there have ever been bronze or gold bullets. Apprently Oscar's are solid bronze and gold plated. And while bronze bullets do exist they seem to be more for target practice and not serious shooting, and while there are some meme gold bullets I saw on YouTube, gold is actually not as soft as lead and therefore wouldn't be as suitable.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      10 months ago

      imagine that gold's heft would screw your ballistics as well.

        • Dolores [love/loves]
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          10 months ago

          i think the shooting direction is just off, the oscar is at its core a melee weapon. it must be rendered into a flail

      • comfortable_doug [he/him, they/them]
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        10 months ago

        I was going to make a smartass remark about how lead is obviously denser than gold, but then I looked it up and gold is almost twice as dense as lead, and now I realize my remark would have actually been a dumbass one, not a smartass one.

        • ZapataCadabra [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Embarrassing you don't have the periodic table of elements memorized.