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[-] stickly@lemmy.world 184 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That has to be one of the worst guillotine designs I've ever seen, send this child back to school.

  • no mouton
  • curve is simultaneously less effective than a diagonal and harder to make
  • tiny contact point with groove on the narrow blade side, basically guaranteed to jump on the way down or slip on impact
  • no head basket or splatter shield
  • no bascule, good luck shifting that body kid
  • no stabilizing supports

This thing is gonna paralyze the guy, send the blade flying into the crowd, and cause a slow bleed death (if any)

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 65 points 10 months ago

it's bc CEO didn't pay for Premium Guillotine(tm). CEO also had to watch 5 minutes of unskippable ads before being decraptiated.

[-] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

One of those tip screens pop up before the blade comes down

[-] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 42 points 10 months ago

don't judge school projects too harshly!

besides, you've described a great are performance, with a MESSAGE

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 28 points 10 months ago

This thing is gonna paralyze the guy, send the blade flying into the crowd, and cause a slow bleed death (if any)

I fail to see the downside

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

We haven't got all day!

[-] Mika@piefed.ca 23 points 10 months ago

A good guillotine? In this economy?!

Besides, it's probably way scarier to die from improper cut.

[-] comador@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier

One of the first guillotine victims, his execution reportedly failed initially due to a poorly fitted lunette (headrest) and a dull blade, requiring multiple attempts and hacks to finish, according to historical reports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jacques_Pelletier

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I would like to subscribe to guillotine critiques.

[-] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Because of inflation its cheap ☹️

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

You mean the CEO gets to suffer before they die? Bonus points!

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Well shit, I was hopin' you'd say that.

Donny!

Got a job for ya!

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This thing is gonna paralyze the guy, send the blade flying into the crowd, and cause a slow bleed death (if any)

That kid is going to turn into a real John C. Woods, and I'm here for it.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 10 months ago

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

I'm out of the loop. What's this?

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

a joke about gamers being the most oppressed minority

may have started as a ridicule of gamergate

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago
[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's a joke about abuse and the kid taking out the person who started the abuse train. Fuck are you on about gamergate?

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I was not referring to the post, I was referring to the comment i replied to.

If I wanted to react to the post itself, I would've commented on the post

[-] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

The slogan started during Gamergate and got bigger with sjw crap.

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

What slogan. There is no text in any of the panels.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

In the comment chain that you ….presumably read before replying to.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 10 months ago

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded. Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

[-] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

First they come for the rat poison drinkers. Second they come for strawberry apron wearers. Then they come for the gamers.

Never forget the prophecy.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

This made me feel better about my day.

[-] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Im glad to hear that. Though I wish we could see it happen irl.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago

Call me American, but I prefer the TF2 engineer approach:

Use a gun.

And if that don't work, use more gun.

... I hope Luigi has the best Christmas he can.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Uh oh

I posted that before I saw this on the front page... πŸ‘€

hmm I hear some dudes yelling outside my door and telling me to "open up", brb let me see what that fuss is all about...

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago
[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Shaking my society

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 6 points 10 months ago

Classic cycle of abuse. The abused becomes the murderer. Sad, nothing else.

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Nah this is a happy ending. Kill your masters.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

I mean it's not like the kid killed a random person. In a sense he's the only character doing any kind of root cause analysis.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

There is nothing sad about the death of a tyrant.

[-] Piege@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Poultry politics I call it

this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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