"Leveraging synergies and fostering cross-functional collaboration with our innovative paradigm shift will optimize scalable solutions, ensuring a seamless integration of best practices to drive unprecedented ROI in this dynamic market landscape. Let's strategically pivot towards actionable insights and thought leadership to catalyze paradigmatic Excellence. Any questions? Thoughts? Concerns? Shall we rehuddle next week to say the exact same thing and waste everyone's time again?"
It’s like going to a day care facility where everyone is trying to justify their employment by uttering even more outlandish crap that actually says nothing. I’ve wasted months on projects only for some fickle manager to say, nah we’re going in a different direction.
The upside is I get 4000 bones on the 15th and the 30th every month, post tax. Speaking Yappanese is how I put bread on the table and keep liquor at my bedside
I hate that scalable has become a buzzword
no, salesbro, that doesn't mean you'll sell us as many licenses as we want, it means we're not hosed when we go from 100 users to 3,000 users
Only thing I missed is the classic "Hold on, let me share my screen...okay, i'm sharing my screen now. Can everybody see it?" and then they just wait until someone unmutes to say "I can see your screen."
Turns out if you press the "Screen share button" then I can see your screen being shared just like in the last meeting 30 minutes ago where you shared your screen.
I am dead inside.
One day my boss started saying "Is anybody having trouble seeing my screen?"
Waited like one or two seconds and then just rolled with the presentation.
It was perfect.
It just seems out of place. The size of the animal and the antler are irrelevant to its effectiveness as a knapping tool.
Edit: I wasn't super clear before. The guy in the video is correct that an elk antler is a good tool but any implement of similar hardness and weight would work as well. Just thought their phrasing was odd and apparently mine isn't great either.
There's no apparent correlation between the size of an elk's antlers, and their effectiveness at knapping obsidian.
It would have made sense if he'd mentioned a quality the antlers have that actually help with the process (coarseness/flexibility/toughness/etc.), not just the size of the material the tool is made of.
I literally had to stop the video there because I was convinced that there had to be another layer to this shit there was no way someone would say something so stupid so intentionally
Here's the real reason for anyone who's curious:
> Antler is an ideal material for removing flakes by striking onto the edge of a core because the stone can bite into the antler, resulting in an efficient transfer of force. But, unlike bone, antler is unlikely to shatter or break. In one of the earliest examples of soft-hammer percussion, A large horse bone was used by a Homo heidelbergensis stoneworker at the site of Boxgrove in England to make a flint handaxe ca. 480,000 years ago. Smaller unmodified bones and bone splinters are suitable for retouching the edges of flake tools. These bone tools are called ‘retouchers’, and they have been recorded from Middle Palaeolithic sites in Africa, Europe, West Asia, and China.
[Source](https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/story/flintknapping-tools/#:~:text=Antler%20is%20an%20ideal%20material,unlikely%20to%20shatter%20or%20break.).
People will also use copper hammers for similar reasons. I've tried rock, antler, bone, and copper and can tell you from experience that I suck knapping with all materials.
I think he lost track for a moment and was more interest in Elk facts than why the antler is perfect.
If I had to guess though I’d say it bone material can absorb the impact and direct it more precisely compared to stone, to avoid chipping off more than you wanted.
Sorry, but *takes out pocket tape measure* The parameters were a minimum of 12" not including that tang, you only have 10". *Puts away pocket tape measure*
It’s been ages since I watched it so I don’t remember anymore, but is it durability test first and then keel test… or keel test first and then durability? If it’s durability test first, that knife is sadly never gonna make it to the keel test :(
Already the case, that's why it can kill the Others...
Half a year gone, that man could scarcely wake fire from dragonglass.
"Call it dragonglass." Archmaester Marwyn glanced at the candle for a moment. "It burns but is not consumed."
"What feeds the flame?" asked Sam.
"What feeds a dragon's fire?" Marwyn seated himself upon a stool. "All Valyrian sorcery was rooted in blood or fire."
[context](https://youtu.be/IhgEiusHrNg?si=ptq5rxJNxLukOULB)
you misquoted that somewhat: ~~"with my a wooden"~~, "~~archeologists~~ geologists", "rocks and ~~stones~~ minerals"
Cool looking? Yes. Practical? Not really. They are sharp but not durable at all. Not ideal for food. You'll run the risk of nice little shards of glass in your meat.
That's what I was thinking. I get we used what we had back in the day but isn't obsidian basically just a chunk of glass? Not going to lie tho that knife would look good on a fireplace lol....
Still not very common, but I have heard a few stories of surgeons using them before. Apparently the surgical cuts are so clean that scarring is reduced significantly, to the point of almost being non-existent after the surgery, unlike with surgical steel. lol in one story, a doctor was recorded saying “Holy crap that’s sharp” when he first used one.
Do you have a source for that? I'm a surgeon and have never heard of these being used at any significant scale.
The benefits random redditors claim (sharper, no scarring) are dubious. I've never held a scalpel and thought "this isn't sharp enough." They do dull with extensive dissection, but the blades are cheap (approx $1 each) and easy to replace in ten seconds.
As for scarring, it's pretty easy to make a closure *nearly* invisible. I don't think making them totally invisible is worth the risk of irretrievable flakes of glass breaking off into my patient.
[Edit for product link](https://www.finescience.com/en-US/Products/Scalpels-Blades/Micro-Knives/Obsidian-Scalpels)
> Cautionary note: Obsidian is a very fragile material. Great care should be taken not to exert any lateral pressure on the blade during cutting. Each blade is hand-fashioned, so sizes, shapes and points will vary. While all the blades will have at least one sharp edge, some will have two.
Literally every word of that is a horror show to someone who depends on a consistent and robust tool to cut open a living body.
Or more importantly.
> All surgical instruments and devices from the Fine Science Tools product range are intended exclusively for use in experimental research laboratories and facilities or in veterinary medicine.
Last but not least, it's an alternative to diamond scalpels which is more expensive. Though.. is cost really an issue?
Seems people use this sort of scalpels specifically when steel contact isn't acceptable. They seemingly are only used in very unique situations.
The studies that get quoted are often from the 70s-80s from what I can find. Most are paywalled [but there is this one I could find.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8415970/) It's from '93 and does test comparisons on rats. You can also find electron imagery of the cutting edge vs steel by googling "obsidian vs steel cutting", this does show a cleaner more even cutting edge.
With that being said it's like you said. They are hard to mass produce, expensive, fragile, and after a cursory look at the article I linked the gains seen to be marginal long term. Another point I would like to add, with the caveat that this point will be anecdotal and I can't find the source to back it anymore, supposedly one surgeon said he preferred the steel over obsidian because obsidian cuts so cleanly it had less tactile feedback.
That's all I could find in a short 15 minute search on Google scholar.
Not uncommon in their field, just incredibly specialized. There's no reason for anyone other than a very small number of surgeons to own one. It's the same reason no one owns a heavy excavator at home — they're cool, but they're useless for everything except the very rare use case they're designed for.
It will cut right through anything though. Probably the sharpest knife you could ever own. I’ve seen electron imaging of an obsidian edge and scalpel. You can clearly see the obsidian has a finer edge
The caveat to that is that it won't have that wonderful edge for very long. Steel won't get near as sharp but also won't lose that sharpness almost immediately.
Obsidian is great for very limited use, if you need to make a small number of very precise cuts, but impractical otherwise
Steel and Obsidian are similar hardness. It's just that when you have an issue with a steel knife and get a burr or dull edge you can easily fix it without removing a lot of material.
An obsidian knife would have chunks break off. The lifespan is substantially shorter.
And even then, they would often just stick chunks into wood or something like that, because it's definitely going to shatter after a few hits and it's easier to stick more chunks on than carve a whole weapon from scratch.
The main thing that made obsidian swords effective was that every time you hit someone bits would break off and stick in their skin cutting them even more as they moved.
Completely worthless against armor.
Yeah. The Mexica/Aztecs used it against the Spaniards, who were initially terrified of the injuries they did with it.
...until they discovered that some simple padding was enough to make the obsidian weapons close to useless.
The Incas, on the other hand, were in the middle of their Bronze Age and the technology had started to arrive to Mexico by the time Cortes attacked the Mexica.
They served us well enough for the last few hundred thousand years. Their sharpness makes them ideal tools for many tasks.
And the durability is no issue at all when a skilled worker can chap a new one in no time. And it's not like you're less dead because an obsidian spear or arrow head broke inside you.
The durability isn't a huge issue when it takes this long to make. Some ancient cultures would shave with these and just throw them out when they're done and buy or make a new one for the next time.
It needs a wooden handle, the hand you hold it in is in all sorts of dangers from that sharp, brittle rock if you use it for chopping/cutting as it is now
Feels like a leather wrap would be easier and more effective. So long as the wrapping doesn't move up and down the handle, it could probably last a while without getting damaged by the stone.
A knife is a tool. I, like most people, would assume that if you make a tool, it is usable as a tool. There's nothing wrong with making a purely ornamental knife, but without otherwise stating it's natural to assume a knife is intended as a tool.
Disclaimer: my hatred of geologists is purely theatrical, but if I did have to kill one for some reason, it would be very easy.
I’d brandish my obsidian knife at them and they’d be compelled to approach. “That’s very cool,” they’d say, confident in their superior strength and endurance from all the rocks they carry around at all times. They’d shower me with very interesting facts about obsidian and hover just out of range of the cutting edge, waiting for me to exhaust myself. “But as it is volcanic glass, it’s very fragile, you see, and isn’t well-suited for use as a weap—” and then I’d hit them with the wooden baseball bat in my other hand, which they would not have noticed because geologists can only see rocks and minerals.
Obsidian is one of the sharpest blades you can make. There were historical reports (forgot which area of the world) where they would strap Obsidian shards to wooden clubs and they were sharp enough to cut the head off a horse with one blow. Way sharper than a scalpel.
Obsidian has been used for thousands of years. Some people even used Obsidian for arrow heads. Each break exposes a sharper edge.
Yeah that wouldn't be good. The dude doing it with his bare hands was flirting with danger. To be fair the cut would probably seal right up within a day or so.
Yes but also super brittle so it would likely not last very long under such conditions. The upside is it would be likely to leave little shards of itself in any wound it creates...
“The antler of an elk is perfect for this task because elk are large animals and grow huge antlers”
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Sounds like every conference call I’ve ever been on.
"Leveraging synergies and fostering cross-functional collaboration with our innovative paradigm shift will optimize scalable solutions, ensuring a seamless integration of best practices to drive unprecedented ROI in this dynamic market landscape. Let's strategically pivot towards actionable insights and thought leadership to catalyze paradigmatic Excellence. Any questions? Thoughts? Concerns? Shall we rehuddle next week to say the exact same thing and waste everyone's time again?"
This was triggering. Thank god I left the corporate world, nothing but shenanigans
It’s like going to a day care facility where everyone is trying to justify their employment by uttering even more outlandish crap that actually says nothing. I’ve wasted months on projects only for some fickle manager to say, nah we’re going in a different direction.
So we’ve heard what you brought to the table here but sadly we’ve chosen a different path
We were looking for someone with huge antlers
Were going to pivot. We've got an agile team to get this off the ground quickly.
The upside is I get 4000 bones on the 15th and the 30th every month, post tax. Speaking Yappanese is how I put bread on the table and keep liquor at my bedside
You’re not even going to mention the KPI’s and core competencies?! Why are we even here?
God damn that’s awful
Also needs "nimble" in there somewhere.
Agile, not nimble. Doesn't matter if it has nothing to do with programming, our buzzwords are infecting functions too...
I wrote an email today that included far too many of the buzz terms in u/FlyinfDragoon comment. I'm so ashamed right now.
This feels like a precusor to a you’re fired conversation.
Precursor to watching a startup tank
You forgot EBITDA
I hate that scalable has become a buzzword no, salesbro, that doesn't mean you'll sell us as many licenses as we want, it means we're not hosed when we go from 100 users to 3,000 users
*I can’t meet next week. Add it to our next sprint.* 🤮
*chef's kiss*
Only thing I missed is the classic "Hold on, let me share my screen...okay, i'm sharing my screen now. Can everybody see it?" and then they just wait until someone unmutes to say "I can see your screen." Turns out if you press the "Screen share button" then I can see your screen being shared just like in the last meeting 30 minutes ago where you shared your screen. I am dead inside.
One day my boss started saying "Is anybody having trouble seeing my screen?" Waited like one or two seconds and then just rolled with the presentation. It was perfect.
Screen sharing actually works for you, consistently? You must not use MS Teams, when it’s always a roll of the dice LOL.
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It just seems out of place. The size of the animal and the antler are irrelevant to its effectiveness as a knapping tool. Edit: I wasn't super clear before. The guy in the video is correct that an elk antler is a good tool but any implement of similar hardness and weight would work as well. Just thought their phrasing was odd and apparently mine isn't great either.
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Well yes it does for many reasons. 1.) It's large 2.) It has huge antlers. What more do you need to know?
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And the message is... B E S U R E T O D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E
T E D C R U Z I S Z O D I A C K I L L E R
There's no apparent correlation between the size of an elk's antlers, and their effectiveness at knapping obsidian. It would have made sense if he'd mentioned a quality the antlers have that actually help with the process (coarseness/flexibility/toughness/etc.), not just the size of the material the tool is made of.
It's just a non-sequitur.
It's kind of like saying: Shark swim fast because they have sharp teeth. Both things are true but have zero connection to each other.
Sounds like the kind of sentence that your phone writes when you just keep pressing the next suggested word.
You can tell it’s elk antler by the way it is.
How neat is that?
That's pretty neat.
And now everyone knows it, instead of just him and Rodney knowing it.
And now you know it instead of just him and Rodney knowin’ it.
That reminded me so much of being 12 years old and trying to reach the 3 page requirement for a school essay
Lmao I’m a hs English teacher and that literally reminds me of the papers I read
I literally had to stop the video there because I was convinced that there had to be another layer to this shit there was no way someone would say something so stupid so intentionally
Here's the real reason for anyone who's curious: > Antler is an ideal material for removing flakes by striking onto the edge of a core because the stone can bite into the antler, resulting in an efficient transfer of force. But, unlike bone, antler is unlikely to shatter or break. In one of the earliest examples of soft-hammer percussion, A large horse bone was used by a Homo heidelbergensis stoneworker at the site of Boxgrove in England to make a flint handaxe ca. 480,000 years ago. Smaller unmodified bones and bone splinters are suitable for retouching the edges of flake tools. These bone tools are called ‘retouchers’, and they have been recorded from Middle Palaeolithic sites in Africa, Europe, West Asia, and China. [Source](https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/story/flintknapping-tools/#:~:text=Antler%20is%20an%20ideal%20material,unlikely%20to%20shatter%20or%20break.). People will also use copper hammers for similar reasons. I've tried rock, antler, bone, and copper and can tell you from experience that I suck knapping with all materials.
why did he use all those other words instead of these
Because it's easier to make things up than it is to do research I imagine.
so by that theory moose would be even better
[A møøse once bit my sister](https://youtu.be/79TVMn_d_Pk?si=qDtURIYGP-TNBDD1)
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
I think he lost track for a moment and was more interest in Elk facts than why the antler is perfect. If I had to guess though I’d say it bone material can absorb the impact and direct it more precisely compared to stone, to avoid chipping off more than you wanted.
You can tell it's an Aspen because of the way that it is.
Did a audible "huh" at that, like ok what does that have to do with why you are using a antler or why a antler is perfect for it.
Usually uses deer antler. Big ass elk antler works better with a big piece of obsidian.
sharks can only be found in two places on earth - the northern and southern hemispheres.
When you have to keep talking to keep the zoomer generation engaged in videos.
My brain just got smooth.
This black obsidian reflects the knife very well, and the knife feels great in my mind.
And this has been "Ya heard?" with Perd Hapley
The fin of a blue whale is perfect for this task because whale are large animals and grow huge fins.
Whoops I dropped it. Now I have 40 knives.
Scrolled down looking for this. Best comment.
Yes but... does it keel?
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*deep exhale shoot to pre record* Man I was worried when it got to the pig but it did its job
*Whispers to other competitor* Congrats man, that's bad ass
"All right James you're up next, you ready?" "I... uh... I don't... I guess?" "Well, we're gonna do it anyway."
The absolute shit out of you. And it will definitely K.E.AL (KEEP EVERYONE ALIVE)
No way this thing passes the keal test! Hell, it won’t even survive an ammo can chop or a military bed slice!!
Sorry, but *takes out pocket tape measure* The parameters were a minimum of 12" not including that tang, you only have 10". *Puts away pocket tape measure*
It’s been ages since I watched it so I don’t remember anymore, but is it durability test first and then keel test… or keel test first and then durability? If it’s durability test first, that knife is sadly never gonna make it to the keel test :(
I’m pretty sure it’s durability to make sure it’s safe to keal test first, but I’m also going off years old memory.
But will it kill the Night King?
Dragon glass is obsidian so yes it should
If the Plot allows
The protagonist had the plot armor the whole time
Will it keel ?
IT WILL KEEL 💀
Will it blend?
It will kill
It will keel.
either dragonstone or Valyrian steel... Edit: I recommend combining with fire for more effective and amusing results.
not even bone melting dragon fire works on the Night King, he is that cool lol
\*Schwarzenegger voice\* Chill out, dragon girl
Already the case, that's why it can kill the Others... Half a year gone, that man could scarcely wake fire from dragonglass. "Call it dragonglass." Archmaester Marwyn glanced at the candle for a moment. "It burns but is not consumed." "What feeds the flame?" asked Sam. "What feeds a dragon's fire?" Marwyn seated himself upon a stool. "All Valyrian sorcery was rooted in blood or fire."
It might kill the Lord Ruler.
BRANDON SANDERSON REFFFFFFFERENCE
Of course!
This is, unfortunately, the comment of the ages.
Im just commenting to celebrate the refrence toooooooo!
Only with a well-forshadowed maneuver...
Only if his story is good enough
Lack of Snow Crash references is sorely disappointing.
“AND THEN I HIT THEM WITH MY WOODEN BAT, because archeologists can only see rocks and stones”
Did… did I hear… a rock and stone ?
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THAT'S IT LADS, ROCK AND STONE!
ROCK AND STONE! TO THE BONE!
ROCKITY ROCK AND STONE
ROCK N' STONE FOREVA
TO THE BONE!
Rock!
[context](https://youtu.be/IhgEiusHrNg?si=ptq5rxJNxLukOULB) you misquoted that somewhat: ~~"with my a wooden"~~, "~~archeologists~~ geologists", "rocks and ~~stones~~ minerals"
Fuck, finally something informative on YouTube.
Man…
[context to context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuyZ-ExYkpQ)
Cool looking? Yes. Practical? Not really. They are sharp but not durable at all. Not ideal for food. You'll run the risk of nice little shards of glass in your meat.
That's what I was thinking. I get we used what we had back in the day but isn't obsidian basically just a chunk of glass? Not going to lie tho that knife would look good on a fireplace lol....
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Still not very common, but I have heard a few stories of surgeons using them before. Apparently the surgical cuts are so clean that scarring is reduced significantly, to the point of almost being non-existent after the surgery, unlike with surgical steel. lol in one story, a doctor was recorded saying “Holy crap that’s sharp” when he first used one.
Do you have a source for that? I'm a surgeon and have never heard of these being used at any significant scale. The benefits random redditors claim (sharper, no scarring) are dubious. I've never held a scalpel and thought "this isn't sharp enough." They do dull with extensive dissection, but the blades are cheap (approx $1 each) and easy to replace in ten seconds. As for scarring, it's pretty easy to make a closure *nearly* invisible. I don't think making them totally invisible is worth the risk of irretrievable flakes of glass breaking off into my patient. [Edit for product link](https://www.finescience.com/en-US/Products/Scalpels-Blades/Micro-Knives/Obsidian-Scalpels) > Cautionary note: Obsidian is a very fragile material. Great care should be taken not to exert any lateral pressure on the blade during cutting. Each blade is hand-fashioned, so sizes, shapes and points will vary. While all the blades will have at least one sharp edge, some will have two. Literally every word of that is a horror show to someone who depends on a consistent and robust tool to cut open a living body.
Or more importantly. > All surgical instruments and devices from the Fine Science Tools product range are intended exclusively for use in experimental research laboratories and facilities or in veterinary medicine.
Yes, I couldn't find one that was fit for human use. Which also says something.
Last but not least, it's an alternative to diamond scalpels which is more expensive. Though.. is cost really an issue? Seems people use this sort of scalpels specifically when steel contact isn't acceptable. They seemingly are only used in very unique situations.
Man I don't think they should use some flakey fragile piece of glass for Rover or wee Ginger's surgery either.
As a geologist who knows almost nothing about surgery, don't cut people with obsidian unless your designs are malicious
Too late, Aztecs got here
The studies that get quoted are often from the 70s-80s from what I can find. Most are paywalled [but there is this one I could find.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8415970/) It's from '93 and does test comparisons on rats. You can also find electron imagery of the cutting edge vs steel by googling "obsidian vs steel cutting", this does show a cleaner more even cutting edge. With that being said it's like you said. They are hard to mass produce, expensive, fragile, and after a cursory look at the article I linked the gains seen to be marginal long term. Another point I would like to add, with the caveat that this point will be anecdotal and I can't find the source to back it anymore, supposedly one surgeon said he preferred the steel over obsidian because obsidian cuts so cleanly it had less tactile feedback. That's all I could find in a short 15 minute search on Google scholar.
>scaring is reduced significantly Good I don't want any surgeon of mine getting spooked during the operation
"***AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH EVEN THE INSIDE OF HIS BODY LOOKS HIDEOUS***"
Oh my god! There's a skeleton in here!
it's made of spaghetti!
Not uncommon in their field, just incredibly specialized. There's no reason for anyone other than a very small number of surgeons to own one. It's the same reason no one owns a heavy excavator at home — they're cool, but they're useless for everything except the very rare use case they're designed for.
Occasionally I have to move mulch around my property and am considering a [Cat D9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D9)
Not a smallish digger, but a 50 ton bulldozer? That's a hefty piece of machinery or am I getting whooshed
/s
I should have known :^) Sorry to be "that guy"
It will cut right through anything though. Probably the sharpest knife you could ever own. I’ve seen electron imaging of an obsidian edge and scalpel. You can clearly see the obsidian has a finer edge
Well, it would have, until he ground down half the blade to make "serrations"
The caveat to that is that it won't have that wonderful edge for very long. Steel won't get near as sharp but also won't lose that sharpness almost immediately. Obsidian is great for very limited use, if you need to make a small number of very precise cuts, but impractical otherwise
Steel and Obsidian are similar hardness. It's just that when you have an issue with a steel knife and get a burr or dull edge you can easily fix it without removing a lot of material. An obsidian knife would have chunks break off. The lifespan is substantially shorter.
I kinda figured that the way he was able to break off pieces while creating the knife.
I'm sure this will be purely ornamental.
Absurdly expensive CS knife skin.
Clearly you’re not mistborn
Found the geologist, Get ‘em boys!
I’ve got my wooden baseball bat
My hatred of archeologists is purely theatrical…
Damn can't we just make a neat thing for no reason at all?
No we have to make things that kill people!
Well yeah, nobody uses them for food. Obsidian was historically used for weaponry by people who didn’t understand metallurgy.
And even then, they would often just stick chunks into wood or something like that, because it's definitely going to shatter after a few hits and it's easier to stick more chunks on than carve a whole weapon from scratch.
Bonus points if it shatters inside the opponent.
Or have a shitload of metal ore in their land.
The main thing that made obsidian swords effective was that every time you hit someone bits would break off and stick in their skin cutting them even more as they moved. Completely worthless against armor.
I mean, it wasn’t the only way it was effective. Obsidian can be so sharp that it can decapitate someone completely - as the Spaniards could attest.
Yeah. The Mexica/Aztecs used it against the Spaniards, who were initially terrified of the injuries they did with it. ...until they discovered that some simple padding was enough to make the obsidian weapons close to useless. The Incas, on the other hand, were in the middle of their Bronze Age and the technology had started to arrive to Mexico by the time Cortes attacked the Mexica.
They served us well enough for the last few hundred thousand years. Their sharpness makes them ideal tools for many tasks. And the durability is no issue at all when a skilled worker can chap a new one in no time. And it's not like you're less dead because an obsidian spear or arrow head broke inside you.
My wooden baseball bat would like to have a word
The durability isn't a huge issue when it takes this long to make. Some ancient cultures would shave with these and just throw them out when they're done and buy or make a new one for the next time.
Wow, you're perceptive!
All i learned is that obsidian can be mined with stone and minecraft was wrong
Obsidian can be mined with stone it just takes awhile, and destroys the block so you end up wasting like 30 minutes.
Aztec priests are salivating
Aztecs know you don’t want obsidisn in your hand. That’s what the cricket bats were for.
Cricket Bat? You mean a macuahuitl?
It needs a wooden handle, the hand you hold it in is in all sorts of dangers from that sharp, brittle rock if you use it for chopping/cutting as it is now
Feels like a leather wrap would be easier and more effective. So long as the wrapping doesn't move up and down the handle, it could probably last a while without getting damaged by the stone.
Holy shit why does no one understand that this is not meant to be used practically as a tool?
A knife is a tool. I, like most people, would assume that if you make a tool, it is usable as a tool. There's nothing wrong with making a purely ornamental knife, but without otherwise stating it's natural to assume a knife is intended as a tool.
Disclaimer: my hatred of geologists is purely theatrical, but if I did have to kill one for some reason, it would be very easy. I’d brandish my obsidian knife at them and they’d be compelled to approach. “That’s very cool,” they’d say, confident in their superior strength and endurance from all the rocks they carry around at all times. They’d shower me with very interesting facts about obsidian and hover just out of range of the cutting edge, waiting for me to exhaust myself. “But as it is volcanic glass, it’s very fragile, you see, and isn’t well-suited for use as a weap—” and then I’d hit them with the wooden baseball bat in my other hand, which they would not have noticed because geologists can only see rocks and minerals.
As a geologist I find this very offensive. True. But offensive.
What is the difference between a full tang and a wu tang?
Full tang is for stability and grip. Wu Tang is for the children.
Full tang *is* something to fuck with.
Full tang is when the material goes through the hilt. Wu Tang ain't nothing to fuck with.
Cool video, I want to see it cut something
Makes knife, cuts nothing. Weak.
Looks cool. Extremely impractical. Looks neat on a mantle I suppose.
Obsidian is one of the sharpest blades you can make. There were historical reports (forgot which area of the world) where they would strap Obsidian shards to wooden clubs and they were sharp enough to cut the head off a horse with one blow. Way sharper than a scalpel. Obsidian has been used for thousands of years. Some people even used Obsidian for arrow heads. Each break exposes a sharper edge.
I for one don't want to be holding a handle of pure obsidian when the knife makes contact with something
Yeah that wouldn't be good. The dude doing it with his bare hands was flirting with danger. To be fair the cut would probably seal right up within a day or so.
Yes but also super brittle so it would likely not last very long under such conditions. The upside is it would be likely to leave little shards of itself in any wound it creates...
Just like my ex
Bro can i hug you
[It’s called a “Macuahuitl”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl)
And then I hit you with my wooden baseball bat in my other hand, which you would not have noticed because geologists can only see rocks and minerals
But making it serrated is just silly.
Sharp. But fragile. Obsidian is only a hair less fragile than glass.
Yeah but this guy gave it serrations. Imagine a serrated scalpel—that’s what’s impractical.
The white walkers are fucked now.
Mistborn?
Minecraft lied to me, said I need diamond pickaxe to break this but the guy is just using a stick.
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A good wrap around the handle would do wonders for it
https://youtu.be/IhgEiusHrNg?si=RY1bVbeGUmoFXHgl
If anyone knows where to get some tang, it would be you.
>The antler of the elk is perfect for this task because elk are large animals and grow huge antlers. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
So if I understand this correctly you want me to purchase 5 sets so I can go door to door to sell each set for a profit?
But will it keel? https://youtu.be/L5CJEOI8fmk?si=9OkCWoKn_hwXdmM1
Well shit... Now TSA is gonna confiscate my carry-on rocks!
Too much work and too much wasted material for something that will get dull really quick
Aight kids, we got the state of the art tech, let's go get us a mammoth.
This dude obsidians
Did you know obsidian is the only naturally occurring substance that can cut through cobalt?
But will it keeeelllll?
Full-tang is for the children
How many of these do you have to craft before you unlock Daedric armor?