THIS is what YouTube was created for!

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We gotta normalize open carry.

I wanna see people walking around strapped.

Guns, swords, bring it.

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I would absolutely walk around with a sword. Not a full sized one. Maybe an O Tanto.

[Dark Dick]

I'd carry a one piece weathered bronze ninja to boken with a 12 inch grip and 24 inch blade.

Years ago I had the epiphany to use an unsharpened sword or boken.

Blunt force is universal, even against armour.

I'd also use a weathered bronze one-handed short sabre and a weathered bronze buckler, if I was good with them.

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Years ago I had the epiphany to use an unsharpened sword or boken.

Blunt force is universal, even against armour.

See that's just it man...

So many people get obtuse and anal about a chip in the blade, rust on the blade, the point being rounded or broken off...

It's like they don't think a fucked up blade can do any damage or something.

Short of the damn thing breaking off at the handle, it's never REALLY unusable.

Check this shit out...



The shit he put that blade through, and (predictably) the blade only broke in half when he hit the spine against an IRON POLE.

You never hit the back side of a knife blade with a lot of force against anything hard. You have to expect the damn thing is gonna break because it's just not supposed to be used that way.

Even this guy was impressed with the performance of the (CHINA!) G.I. Tanto.

Crazy. He's HARD to impress.

And then to top it all off, he fucking SHOOTS THE KNIFE AT THE END~!

ROFLMFAOLOL.

That shit made my day.

In short, if I was gonna buy any knife... it'd be the Cold Steel G. I. Tanto, right the fuck now.

And remember folks... two is one and one is none.

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And *SOME* people rag so hard on that guy in the comments because they think the way he "tests" these blades is so ridiculous and over the top, and it totally is.

But you know who STARTED IT!? Cold fucking Steel, that's right. Lynn fucking Thompson, that's right.

The Cold Steel "PROOF" videos (VHS and DVD type shit) STARTED THIS PHENOMENON.

It's downright straight up fucking iconic is what it is.

Back the day, Lynn's proof vids were some of the original ultra viral meme videos...



84 million views.

People like to make fun of him too and call him a "Mall Ninja" (which is admittedly a funny title) but he knows his shit and his life story is amazing.

The way he just pulls out those RIDICULOUS (yet absolutely badass) Espadas...





His legendary "pocket sword", I mean dude nothing screams 'MURCA!!!!!!!!!!! like this bullshit...



I fucking love it.

[Mister Obvious]

The Espada XL is about the coolest fucking thing ever lmao.

But when you close it, you gotta use gravity in your favor cuz the blade is so heavy it'll fall without assistance.

Face that shit downward.

I mean my God...

It is a thing of fucking glory.

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Scary motherfucking looking knives, bwahahahaha.

LOOK AT THAT SHIT!

The GI Tanto is uglier than fucking sin, absolutely incredible knife.

Espada takes the cake.

But for the price, you always gotta go with the GI Tanto...

Beater knife that really shouldn't ever break, for any normal person at least.

As cheap as they are you could buy 5 or 6 of them and keep one in the car, two by the bed, one in the bathroom to go with the Glock, one in the kitchen...

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It's too bad Lynn sold Cold Steel, but... he did the right thing, he wanted to enjoy his old age. I'm sure he made enough bank, he'll die wealthy and leave a great legacy. Not just the money, it's the ICON status. American hero status. He was born/grew up in Brazil and his dad was a farmer. THAT GUY is a great example of the American dream when it REALLY works out.

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If the Espada had a theme song...

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Fapworthy.

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There's no way we're gonna get that lucky.

I wish we could depend on Apophis, but we just can't...

[Mister Obvious]

Anybody wanna thread my keyhole??

Anybody got a keyhole they want me to thread??

[Mister Obvious]

Lmfao.

[Mister Obvious]

Oh man...

These AI generated clips in here...

Some of them are really good.

Like the news clips are really good, but the other ones...

The tech is gonna get exponentially better and it won't take long, but I'd hold off on using it in vids until it's even better than it is now.

It's kinda like early CGI, it's gonna date the video.

[Mister Obvious]

Like even lo-fi video isn't as easily dated as the videos that are using early versions of AI generation.

Anybody at any point in history can have a low quality camera, you can't really ballpark a date on that shit.

[Mister Obvious]

UH-PAW-FIS!!!!!!!!!!

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13:15 lol the Apophis cult.

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ROFLMFAOOOOOOOOOO.

You know some shit like that would happen too.

I'd rather have aliens land, then maybe have the asteroid strike.

It'd suck if we didn't have contact with aliens before we get taken out by cosmic justice.

[Mister Obvious]

Very first video ever uploaded to YouTube, April 23, 2005...

[Mister Obvious]

Aw, man. Bummer. Bob from "Bob & Brad" is dead.

They made some great videos, had awesome products.

I bought one of their vibrators, the smallest weakest one because they make those things way too hardcore.

And no I DID NOT get it for sexual purposes lolol.

My reasons were legit. Everyone should own a good massager.

RIP Bob Schrupp. You did good.