Is there any explanation for the "scrapper"?

[The Nameless]

So, it's big, bulky and heavy. It looks like it's full of fancy tech, but we hit things with it like it's just a sledgehammer.

Why not just give us a sledgehammer, and call a hammer a hammer?

[ZomBeGone]

I think "wacker" would be a good name.

[The Nameless]

I guess.

I mean, I've gotta wonder how it even works. The weight distribution is all wrong for a striking implement. Hammers are shaped like hammers for a reason, This thing? Honestly you'd be better off using a crowbar. And it would weigh less.

[Da Boy O Kultur]

Who knows, maybe all the fancy gear on it is some kind of gravity generator/interia neutralizer so what you hit doesn't just fly off into space

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Da Boy O Kultur:

Who knows, maybe all the fancy gear on it is some kind of gravity generator/interia neutralizer so what you hit doesn't just fly off into space

Haha ok, I guess we can go with that. Completely implausible, utterly unscientific, but then, this isn't exactly a game dedicated to realism. xD

[sgrey]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Originally posted by Da Boy O Kultur:

Who knows, maybe all the fancy gear on it is some kind of gravity generator/interia neutralizer so what you hit doesn't just fly off into space

Haha ok, I guess we can go with that. Completely implausible, utterly unscientific, but then, this isn't exactly a game dedicated to realism. xD

You, so you have no problem with swimming in space, teleportation, alien monsters, AI robots with lasers, magical building by pointing a small device, but a special hammer with an edge and some tech - that's where you draw the line to realism an science?
Of all things, the scrapper is the most scientific item in the game.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by sgrey:

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Haha ok, I guess we can go with that. Completely implausible, utterly unscientific, but then, this isn't exactly a game dedicated to realism. xD

You, so you have no problem with swimming in space, teleportation, alien monsters, AI robots with lasers, magical building by pointing a small device, but a special hammer with an edge and some tech - that's where you draw the line to realism an science?
Of all things, the scrapper is the most scientific item in the game.

That's right! Hammers are of the utmost importance. Hammertime, hammerspace and hammershape are the essence of science-fiction and must not be trifled with!

[sgrey]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Originally posted by sgrey:

You, so you have no problem with swimming in space, teleportation, alien monsters, AI robots with lasers, magical building by pointing a small device, but a special hammer with an edge and some tech - that's where you draw the line to realism an science?
Of all things, the scrapper is the most scientific item in the game.

That's right! Hammers are of the utmost importance. Hammertime, hammerspace and hammershape are the essence of science-fiction and must not be trifled with!

there is absolutely nothing wrong with the scrapper, though

[ZomBeGone]

and remember... If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail!

[NNTorro]

Originally posted by ZomBeGone:

and remember... If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail!

I want a Jedi sword))

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by ZomBeGone:

and remember... If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail!

It doesn't even have to be all you have. Heck, it can happen just from focusing too much on the hammer.

Many of today's worst political nightmares are caused by this. A political faction describes its enemy in scathing terms; its followers, eager to heroically raise their voices in opposition and show how "good" they are, start seeing the enemy everywhere they look, and the result is a witch-hunt. Accusations fly over the tiniest 'clues' they think they see in anything from their victims' choice of clothing to little verbal slipups, and the innocent suffer more than the guilty even in the rare cases where what they oppose is actually evil in the first place.

The result? People rally around the target of the witch-hunt to protect themselves from accusations false or otherwise by robbing that accusation of its power and meaning, causing the fight against "evil" to backfire spectacularly and whatever was being hunted--which sometimes actually is evil--to become socially acceptable.

I mean, that's what happened to witchcraft, though it specifically isn't necessarily evil. If not for the Salem witch trials, "witchcraft" might still be a crime in America to this day, as it still is in a few places that didn't make such embarrassing spectacles. I could also draw a parallel to the Spanish inquisition; if it hadn't turned the 'heretic' from villain to victim, we could still see it on the books too.

And so today we have "woke", "racist", and a few other new (or at least newer than 'heretic' or 'witch') cusswords doing the rounds. Some of them really are evil... and the witch-hunters out to destroy them are going to make them look good by comparison. Thus doth history repeat.