Could this be the WORST FANTASY WEAPON ever made?
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2021
- This could possible be the very worst fantasy weapon ever depicted in pop-culture!
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"we have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke"
I am bleeding. Making me the victor.
@@Dfarrey are those squeeky shoes i hear weeeoooo
YES!
@@Dfarrey I'm sure on some planet your style is impressive, but your weak link is: this is Earth.
"Face to fist style, how'd you like it"
Prop designer: "We created a thing! Use it!"
Stunt coordinator: "Why do you hate me?"
hilarious comment!
It’s just the prop designers way of getting back at being in such a bad show
In fairness to the prop designer, they were likely told to make it by someone higher up the food chain who thought it would look cool.
You are too generous thinking that show hired a pro stunt coordinator.
What is sad to boot they have to train for those scenes. Like at any point any of the stunt people not actually go look I get it we're treated like trash but this is stupid.
If a flail is arguably useful when you're on horseback, maybe the double ended flail is intended for people riding two horses simultaneously 🤔
Its so stupid it might work
Honestly this would work if you just attach it to your saddle. The two ends would smash into heads while you plow through a formation. That said, it might injure your horse if you turn...
@@dojelnotmyrealname4018 honestly if you actually invested this much into this strategy that might not be a bad thing
@Cedric Reyes At that point though, wouldnt the bull be more effective without it having two things that might hurt itself?
@Cedric Reyes Ah, that makes more sense.
Double-ended weapons: double the benefits, square the flaws.
That's a good way of explaining it.
Twice the chain, double the pain.
Shad: 9:30
Double ended Staff. Name one problem with that
@@zagzig3734 I mean…
Balls-stick strikes fear into the hearts of all those who…use it.
The twin balls on the phallic construct of the shaft are a problematic visual indicator of the PATRIARCHY!!! 🤡
Fear and blunt force trauma 😏
Some people are just too stupid to know fear.
@@overlordmae9090 who write for Batwoman.
@@haillobster7154 No idea, but I bet their IQ qualifies them for Darwin Award.
I just want to point out that this weapon, in addition to being garbage, exists in a world that has guns.
That should be the epitaph for this 'weapon'.
Better to bring a knife.
@@cairsahrstjoseph996 the knife is at least concealable, safe enough for the user, and lethal at close range
I would like to add this is ostensibly in Gotham, where everyone and their mugger has at least one gun for unlawful activities.
That gave me the perfect idea to make this garbage weapon EVEN W O R S E!
Both of the flail heads are GUNS! THAT'S RIGHT! SCREW NUNCHUCKS, WE GOT GUNCHUCKS!
See, this was actually meant to accompany a secondary weapon. You pull it out, and while the enemy is busy laughing, you quickly draw your second weapon for a sneak attack.
The second weapon, a concealed pair of nunchucks.
The tertiary weapon, a concealed UZI.
Unless that second weapon is sword-chucks.
Ah yes, a sneak attack...OF GUN.
@@SephirothRyuah the best murrder sicide weapon
The only way I could ever see this being useful is if you had the superpower "The more damage you take, the stronger you get".
That way you can attack and power up at the same time. Then it's just a battle of endurance lol
Don't Saiyans get significant power boosts after recovering from near-fatal wounds? Clearly, this weapon belongs in the Dragon Ball universe!
@@jj48 saiyans get stronger just taking damage in general
@@sadluck420 no. Just of near death experiences.
So... that weapon could work for RWBY's Yang Xiao Long?
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 Could mess with her hair
I feel bad for the stick. It never deserved to be humiliated like that.
I don't know what to feel more sorry for, that stick or a recently neutered dog.
I know, right? All of that useless weight that it’s been chained to.
"stick"
You mean the quarterstaff?
@@aquapendulum *STICK* . *IS* . *STICK* !
It’s okay. Sticks have naturally high confidence b/c they’re packing loads of Big Stick Energy.
This weapon would make the enemy scared. Not because it's dangerous, but because they're worried for their opponent.
Lol tru
If someone is suicidal enough to use a weapon like this, I would stay clear away.
@@dancorneanu9144 It even sucks as a suicidal weapon, just use a gun lmao
For their enemy's health or their sanity?
@@JellyAntz thats why someone who use it is CRAZY suicidal, he literally beats himself to death rather than a quick bullet.
I've actually beat up a guy using that weapon. He got a serious concussion, his hands were rendered useless, not to mention bruises from head to toe.
Unfortunatly, that guy was me :P
Oof
That will teach him never being a threat to you again
Without even watching the video, I literally can't think of a single way you could use this weapon even half effectively other than helicopter wielding it.
Yeah make the staff longer and attach weight on relatively shot chains and helicopter with striking the enemy with only weights hoping that this barrage knocks them off balance. But that is like a weapon with only 1 move
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@@ivanmonahhov2314 And then hope that no one brings a shield to deflect the blow while they just move forward and stab you with an actual weapon.
Even if you helicopter wield it, and ignore the obvious impracticalities of it and inability to defend yourself, the flail would still likely be hitting your hands or arms if the chain was long enough to properly hit your opponents. It would be fine if it didn't hit anything, but once you do, it would likely hit you.
Maybe decent if you're short and strong (e.g. certain versions of fantasy Dwarves), but I think other weapons might work better than the flail.
Now onto the next set piece: Nunchucks with flails at their ends.
Go one step further: Sword-chucks, from 8-bit Theater. Yes, everyone agrees they're universally stupid in-universe, but think of the aneurysm Shad would have?
Taser nunchucks?
@@malcolmc.7288 Bladed nunchuck whip.
Cat O' Nine Chucks
lightsaber flail chucks with grenades on either end.
At this point, we should just make a double ended gun
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@@IINerdguyII at first I didn't see the PFP, so I thought you were giving the sauce for a 'story' that has a double sided gun for some reason.
Haha I can imagine to fire it you'd have to spin it around your finger and it has a circular trigger that recognises where it is in the spinning cycle.
It's so terrible that I almost want to see it.
A 180° curved barrel shotgun!
Oh it's been done. check out forgotten weapons. there some really odd ones.
Up next: double barreled shotgun... but one of the end is pointing the other direction.... toward the shooter.
I saw that one in looney toons
And another end pointing upwards?
I feel personally attacked.
My first epic level D&D character was a Gnoll Ranger that used a double-side flail.
11 year old me thought it was cool..
Younger me thought scythes and nunchuks were cool too.....until this channel happened xD
I do appreciate being enlightened though!
@@fredriddles1763 18 year old me still thinks scythes are cool if impractical. I have been disabled of the nunchuck belief.
@@mightbeapersonmaybe8379 War scythes are cool. The rotated blade makes them so much better.
They have those in D&D?
@@spastictreefrog It was homebrewed in.
iirc DM just ruled it as a two-handed weapon with innate multi attacks.
"Mom! He's swinging a stick with 2 glass bottles on it and having a stroke!" "Come away from the window, child. Emergency services are on the way."
*Emergency Services: "Okay guys, who's turn is it this time? Yeah, it's that guy again..."
I want a RUclips channel where it's someone pretending to be Shads neighbors. It could be hysterical.
@@TheShadowOfHumanity it’d mostly be them doing normal things with Skall yelling angry noises in the background, we’d enjoy seeing their reactions.
I know of a worse weapon!!!
Exploding Knum chucks!
Sword Chucks!
Axe Chucks!
And Dagger chucks!
Exploding sword!
Take that Shad!! I dare you to top that! If you do.. I'll send the video to three people who I think haven't subscribed to your channel yet! Like the comment if you'll do the same.😎👍
Hey guys! Someone argue with shad that this is a good weapon( I think it's terrible but I just want to see him rant on this weapon again...) ENTERTAINMENT!!
I actually "fought" someone in a tournament with a a double headed flail (foam weapons). He got the idea out of somewhere in Dungeons and Dragons. Anyways, he did have me confused for the first 15 seconds. Unfortunately, the two times he tried to attack me, he actually hit himself hard enough the judges scored them as self hits. As long as he rotated it in front of himself he actually had a decent defense (no better than a staff, but not bad) but as soon as he tried to strike, me, the judge and the flailer all had to dodge. Like I said, he hit himself twice, and I got the third hit while he was struggling to recover from his strike. Dumbest weapon ever. We ran over it in the parking lot.
I would love to do a "bad weapon" tournament. Take a bunch of pop culture trash and try to duel with it.
Yep, this straight out of the 3e Dungeons and Dragons PHB....
Its a horrible rendition of a tri-staff
Which is actually a Chinese martial weapon
@@snarglblargn4986 yo I heard your stick likes sticks so we added some sticks to your stick
@@mugenokami2201 sticks dont stick sticks. Sticks sticks sticks
As pointed out in Stargate SG-1, it's the difference between a weapon of "terror" (designed for intimidation and spectacle) and a weapon of "war" (designed to make the enemy dead, ideally in the most efficient way possible).
This double ended flail now represents the ultimate power in the Galaxy. I suggest that we use it!!!
The thing is, weapons of "terror" still need to be intimidating to an enemy who knows how to use weapons. For example, in the LotR movies, the Witch-king's giant flail may be less effective than, say, a halberd, but it's still effective enough given his strength and a halberd would not look nearly as frightening. This double-flail just makes you ask, "How's he going to swing it at me," and is about as terrifying as brass knuckle handcuffs.
This is a weapon of giggle, though. You literally can't use it without destroying any intimidation value- at least staff weapons, etc., are usable weapons.
"what the fr*ck is that?"
_-Sun Tzu, Art of War_
The thing about The Rule of Cool, is that it needs to be cool.
The thing about the two headed mace is... it isnt even cool lol. It looks like a yoke or a balance.
Ya, there was like 30 seconds of fighting in an hour long episode. It is far from cool.
@@seanpeery7780 did you seriously watch batwoman?
@@Ake-TL i watched this episode today just because I was curious how in the hell she was fighting by using this abomination. And this was funny xD
You mean unimaginably edgy?
This is the kind of weapon that a king might order people to duel with for his own entertainment.
Now that, that would be funny asf
Yet another amazing reason for this weapon to exist!
1 point when your enemy knocks himself put.
3 if you knock him out without knocking yourself out.
Yeah that sounds about right
Pit like 10 people against one another with said weapons, watch the circus begin
THANK YOU! I've been asking for this one. In D&D it's called a dire flail, and I have banned even the mention of them in my campaigns. And if I had to choose between the two, I'd pick the gopher-chucks every time.
Dire indeed
The hell are "gopher-chucks"?!
Nevermind I just found out
Could be a good weapon to foist upon misbehaving players.
DM - "You find a +5 Dire Flail of Impact."
Player - "Cool!"
Player - "I swing my dire flail at the ogre! A hit!!"
DM - "Roll again, please."
Player - "Huh? Okay. A natural 20!!!"
DM - "One of the flail heads strikes the ogre, doing 10 points of bludgeoning damage & 20 points of explosive damage. The ogre is blown to bits!"
Player - "YEAH!!"
DM - "Unfortunately, the other flail head critically strikes you. You take 20 points of bludgeoning damage & 40 points of explosive damage. You are also blown to bits. Roll up a new character, please."
The only context this weapon would make sense is if its user have access to any form of remote control. (telekinesis, magic, etc) You can't hit yourself it this spins far away enough from you. And even then, there's still better options...
This is why I houseruled the dire flail into manriki-gusari and to the nine hells with the stupid design in various core and sourcebooks.
Maybe "stop hitting yourself" would apply to this "weapon."
The secret to this weapon is simple. You walk up to the enemy, hand them the two-sided flail as you pull out literally any other weapon and say "Deffend yourself!" and watch as they beat themselves silly while trying to fight you.
THIS is why they make a comment section
This weapon is extremely effective because if you saw someone using it you would most likely die from that alone
This is exactly the one use I see for this: Exploit dueling rules that allow you to choose the weapons. It doesn't matter that the weapon is junk when the opponent has the same one, and less practice on how not to kill themselves with it.
All I could imagine is those videos about impromptu pillow fights with strangers but way less fun and a lot more dumb lmfao.
Hold one flail end to make it a regular flail, then attack.
Shad: "The flail is almost as bad as the nunchucks"
Flailchucks: "Hold my beer..."
I’m dead
Self-offense weapon
Beat me to it. Here's your thumbs-up. I am a fan of the "Hold my beer" schtick too. HOLD MY BEER PEOPLE UNITE!
@Captainzilla418 for your own sake learn to type
@Captainzilla418 but than we won’t have any people to be the them in an us vs them mentality witch wold jest be boring );
Flails were actually very useful when you needed to recruit peasants with no millitary training into your army (as Zizka did), as they resembled tools that were used in the fields by these peasants (specifically grain flail). In this case almost no additional combat training with this weapon was needed and with a good commander (like Zizka was), he had a quite efficient army (build just from "simple" peasants).
Alternatively, you give your peasants spears. Easy to make, easy to use, amazing in formations, laughs in the face of cavalry charges, long sticc good.
Wonder what medieval peasant farmers would think of their lord if he handed them this weapon.
🤔
@@kha4911 yup, they also work like pitchforks, so that's a plus!
(stab in, then lift or pull out)
As stated, spears, and I will add, single handed axes, are excellent weapons to give to a peasant army. You can literally train for a few hours and get an effective fighting force with the spear, and train a few more to get them decent in using a hatchet with a shield for a backup. I will add that a couple days of training (on top of the aforementioned training, and training them more in the skills listed above) and you can have them effective with a short sling and shield. With this, you can have a cheap, effective fighting force in long, mid, and short range.
Sickles were used in Asia, Northern Cental Africa, and during the Germanic Renassaince. In Japan, they modified them a bit and attached a chain that you could use as either a whip or wrap around your arm or tie to a horse.
In Poland, the use of modifying a scythe wasn't uncommon either. Literally, take the end off the scythe and put it on the end of the stick pointing away and you essentially have a spear. But unlike a spear with is used to thrust 99% of the time this weapon would be used to slash just like a sword. Like a sword attached to a spear.
It's so stupid, Shad can't explain how stupid it is. That's impressive.
This weapon is incredibly effective.
Seeing an enemy wielding this would be insanely intimidating because they’re powerful enough to have not already killed themselves in training lol
People get a brain aneurysm from just looking at it
@@mightbeahumanmaybe247 people die from cringe looking at it
Enemies will be thinking "Wait, this guy actually survived many combats DESPITE using this weapon? He must be incredibly tough and skilled to make up for it!"
@@Tennouseijin “he must be able to just shrug off blows like it’s nothing!”
@@Jessie_Helms I could see Rocky using it
Next week: Shad ties two bottles to both ends of a pair of nunchucks.
Make a huge chain from nunchucks lmao
To all three ends of a tripple chuck
If you tied enough nunchucks together you would have a good chain which can create massive force.
The Nun-Chail: Two times the pop-culture, four times the discomfort, all times the fail.
@@viviengemai9796 don't you mean All the fLail :)
This might actually be more dangerous for the user than the pistol in Cursed Halo
The amount of fun Shad is having with this just brings me joy :D
Gotta wonder what is going on in people's heads who thinks of things like this.
Every functional weapon could be cool, but not every cool weapon can be functional
And this isn't even cool looking. It just looks dumb
@@maxime2445 to us, but obviously someone liked it
If a weapon is not functional even in theory, it can't be cool. It defeats the purpose of it as a weapon, like a car with square wheels.
Could be some representation of a weight scale, which imo would be a far better philosophical prop weapon for a fantasy setting more than anything.
@irony Maiden, not entirely true. There have been tons of historical weapons that were never functional but were still put up on display for aesthetics.
No thought was put into this. There are weapons that are exaggerations of tested designs that work in their fictional universe, and then there are weapons that only work in their fictional universe because the plot demands it to work.
This entire weapon is made funnier by the fact that someone unironically thought it would be a cool badass intimidating implement of destruction. All I can do is laugh.
From what little I know of that show, and seeing that the shadowy figure appears to be a man, I can't imagine it's supposed to look anything but foolish and weak.
@@KairuHakubi | "It has a female protagonist, so the writers must hate men." - Someone who makes opinions of shows he hasn't watched.
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth I freely admitted I haven't watched more than a little of it, but what I _have_ watched shows a real pattern. It seems like Conroy's appearance was specifically curtailed to this paradigm.
There was also this incredibly irritating and stupid promo ad that aired all the time where she (not this one but a much prettier one, I guess she got replaced?) gave some money to an impossibly beautiful homeless woman (because those exist and aren't immediately given priority in shelters to get them away from the men, right?) and then the MAN nearby mocks her, saying it's only going to drugs or whatever, so she goes back and gives the ladybum a rolex. like yeah great job batwoman, you just made that poor woman even more of a target. but at least you showed that ignorant MAN trying to tell YOU what to do, right?
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth but the show is writen by people that hates men, specially if they are white
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth just the fact that they made her character black convinces me of the fact that its just another "Supergirl"
Honestly this thing seems to be most effective against the wielder’s ability to conceive a child
Someone should make a double-ended bow, or crossbow.
I want two longbows connected as a pair of nunchucks.
Double ended bow is just a bow with two strings
@Hannibal Burgers or a circle of wood with a string down the middle.
In 3.5 there was the Elven Double Bow
Kenshin was and always has been garbage and you need to accept that.
Swings flail: “Cracks leg bones” “hits balls” “breaks nose”
The opponent: hey bro are you okay?
“Shatters balls”
A weapon dumber than swordchucks, taking itself seriously...
"Discombobulate." Physical recovery six weeks, full psychological recovery six months. Capacity to swing stupid weapons neutralized.
-Le double ended flail thingie 2021.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Even Mr "I think Sword-Chucks are an AWESOME idea" Fighter didn't go THIS far off the deep end
Next time on Bat Woman: A gun that shoots both directions.
Isn't that arguably what rocket launchers and recoilless rifles already do? :P
Use it side way ways lol
So you can hit the enemy behind you! It’s brilliant! No problems!
Thank you for making me laugh the hardest I have this week today
@@seanheath4492 well yes but actually no. The end pointing down range is launching a projectile while the other isn't launching anything, just the pressure that was rerouted to reduce the recoil. that pressure is still very dangerous and even deadly, which is why you have to yell clear back blast while looking around and behind you too make sure its clear before firing such a weapon.
Can we have a "shad making noises" compilation?
I'd honestly love like some story where it depicts this as one of the best weapons in that story.
Background to it: everyone there gets more physically stronger temporarily from getting damage dealt to them.
The weapon of a Saiyan to get that Zenkai boost.
That would make world peace
I can go even stupider: The flail cross. You build a cross and attach a flail to each end!
That actually exist as a weapon. I seen it in a museum in Cairo
And put it on top of your head to fly off like the Inspector Gadget but with the added benefit of destroying any bird flocks that you might fly though.
Morning star of David
Stupid weapons, ranked by stupidity, weapons that can’t be properly held won’t be included
5: The flail cross
4: The Hexaflail
3: The double flail cross
2: flail X
And for the number one on this list
1: dodecaflail, it holds an incredible 12 flails
[DISCLAIMER] some of these weapons may or may not exist or at least not with these names
@@josipmarinic9663 Okay, this one needs to be sent to Adam Sandler for his Zohan sequel!
(edited to correct the actor)
Someone find this guy a scythe flail. That will be one hell of a 1 up.
Scythe with flail is actually the embodiment of ending your enemy rightly.
Wait, what do you mean scythe flail? Is it a scythe blade attached to a chain attached to a stick?
Describe it
Isn't that a kusari-gama?
@@Chaotic42Kami but on a stick. whatever stick it is.
I feel bad for laughing at a history buffs mental breakdown. 😂😂
"Lets put a third one in the middle!"
-someone who works on Batwoman, probably
"Mom the weird guy with the castle next door is having another stroke!"
"What weird guy? What castle? We live in Australia, our closest neighbor is miles away!"
They call this weapon “The Nutcracker.” Wield it and see for yourself.
*swing* *swing* OOOOOOOWWWW!!
I've just made a similar observation..
Favored weapon of the unsung 'Nardic' Warrior "Testacles"! (pronounced Testa-Clees)
@@malachiXX nutchucks sounds better
😂🤣 I laughed so hard at this comment, I nearly had an asthma attack. 👍🏼
I've never seen shad have a stroke and seizure at the same time XD
When the Mythbusters tested Kirk's bamboo cannon from the episode "Arena," Tory said "Any way you look at it, this is a bad idea. I mean, you'd be better off giving it to the Gorn and letting him shoot you."
Something similar could be said about this "weapon."
Ah, a weapon defined by "stop hitting yourself!"
Seeing an enemy with this would scare me: he's obviously very much not in touch with reality, and willing to suffer serious injuries to put you down.
You know what's better at doing ALL of those things?
A Bomb Vest
Compared to anything. A saber, battle axe, heck even a machete could run laps around this. Is it better then hands? Yes. But I could outpace that with it’s handle alone.
@@earthchansociety7769
Is it better than hands tho? If you just bait out attacks your opponent will hurt themselves. The only safe attacks they can do are super slow, straight lined and predictable. Nothing that will hit you. If they try to actually hit you, they will have to hit themselves as well. So I'm honestly not sure if it's better than hands.
Reminds me of the Penitent One with that description
@@ardynizunia9709 honestly, good point. Baiting them into thwacking their knee caps would be pretty easy seeing as how heavy that thing is. The speed difference alone would be significant.
I'm glad you managed to have some fun with this one XD
I have genuinely no idea how you could actually hit something reliably with that thing (without relying on pure luck) without hitting myself
The thing about cool but impractical weapons is that you can fantasise about using it even if in a silly way. This doesn't work at all here.
Also,it's supposed to look cool. This "weapon" fails at that too
Double Ended Flail: Features include ability to break bones, cause internal bleeding and cause severe injury or death. Warning: Product is likely to break bones, cause internal bleeding and cause severe injury or death to the user.
Pros: it's easy to kill someone with just a hit.
Cons: you might be the one who's accidentally hit by this
Nun-chucks: Two sticks separated by a length of chain
This abomination: Two chains separated by a length of stick
Now we need a rope or chain dividing the stick into two lengths to create the perfect hybrid monstrosity (i.e. head-chain-stick-rope-stick-chain-head). Actually, that might allow you to somewhat negate the swing on the other end. Good lord, this thing is so bad that deliberate attempts to worsen it just make it better.
The mighty chuck-nun of legend
@@LH_Vagrant connect both ends with a string and you have a somewhat useless bow
@@LH_Vagrant Sansetsukon?
@@LH_Vagrant With ideas this good I'm going to assume you work for D.A.R.P.A.
To be fair, its intimidating because no one knows how it will move, not even the one wielding it.
This made My day. The first few seconds.. I was crying with laughter after 8 hours of school. And I have 5+ hours of homework and this made my homework more bearable
This weapon reminds me of one exchange during friends D&D session:
- "Now, I'll show you how to die... wait, no..."
- "No, no, I'm watching"
legendary
This weapon, along with the nunchuks, are made to solve one major question:
How do you get a masochist to be effective on the battlefield?
I dunno about effective
Lmfao
Atleast a nunchuks aren't hitting you every time you strike.
Nice Joke
It’s like berserker rage. Inflicting damage on yourself pumps your adrenaline allowing a barbarian to rip a dwarf’s head off.
That flail is just midfight dodging practice
7:43 Shad having a stroke out of the sheer stupidity of the "weapon" xD Love your videos, greetings from Argentina.
Double flail weapon designer: It's one of the most dangerous weapons in fantasy history! How so? Well if the wielder doesn't know where the flail heads are going then the enemies sure as hell aren't either.
So it's like the beggar's bazooka for melee combat
"we want to weaponize one of those sticks you carry multiple water buckets with, how badly will that go?"
extremely is the answer
I kind of want to make a fantasy series just filt with weapons that Shad would hate
Except it’s not even that good because the enemy only has to worry about the side going towards them. The wielder has to aim AND not smack themselves.
@@oharehatmancaleb7
That's when you pull out and channel the inner berserker and flail wildly enough to become unpredictable yet not so wild you leave yourself open.
alt tittle: indescribable stupidity makes shad turn feral for 15 minutes
Thank goodness it's only 15 minutes, we need to avoid "Feral Shad"... for the safety of all!
Yeah, he reminds me here of his barrel videos...
As someone who grew up loving action movies, weapons, and martial arts, I love your content. Definitely helps with understanding the line between realism and fiction, and how the actual versions of said weapons or martial arts are pretty cool and, depending on the subject, and be extremely effective and fun to learn.
Shad is putting off some serious "Denis Leary-coffee flavored coffee" energy here and I love it.
“This is like the mangled, inbred version of a stroke”
-Shad 2021
Shoulda left out the Shad.
That description fits 2020/21 perfectly.
@@evilestmonkeey yeah lol 😂
😂🤣😜👍
"What shit rag was this abomination from?"
"It's from Batwoman."
"Ah..."
And a bunch of "roleplaying" games
It's called a dire flail if you wanna Google it
Hi Shad. One 'use' for a normal (single end, long chain) chain flail wound be defending a wall or boat striking down at 'invaders'.
I love how even in the still image the guy holding it looks confused.
Imagine: a nunchuck and you add flails at the end of them. Flail- string- stick- string- stick- string-flail.
Flail-chuck
Yes
So are they the Funchuks or the dual Nail
@Genesis Titanium bravo noble sir
Hmmm, must be very practical then
I've never seen someone have so much fun showing off how bad a weapon is.
😂😂😂😂😂 I have a headache now. Most interesting episode so far.
Maximillian comes to mind.
It looks like something a cheerleader might twirl around...
Use it as the equivalent of spinning your arms around saying "if you run into me it's your fault
The weapon is so stupid, it made Shad question his whole existence.
I have never seen Chad have an existential crisis on video before. What's next the fish from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Ok after thinking about it for a little bit I understand the weapon now. You have to fight while dancing as if you were Waltzing, then it becomes Super Effective! You must consider yourself a WMD with this double ended flail. xD lmao
@@InkBleedsDeeper Then you stop dancing and one of the flails went somewhere it's not supose to.
@@domomitsune5920 more like the Holy Hand Grenade
"If you want to give pain, you got to be willing to take the pain" - Rocky Balboa
Prop designer: gotcha!
the double flail is like sleep paralysis mixed with cancer.
Shad you should be a poet
Alternate title: Grown nerd wheezes and has a stroke for 15 minutes straight
He makes a solid point though.
Please longshot97 share the link to your talented bloodlines youtube channel. Lmao
... wow. Uh, weapon makers, little tip: DON’T DOUBLE END YOUR FLAILS
Triple end them instead!!
what if we double our double flails?
@@guillermoelnino and add swords
or ynow, DON'T DOUBLE END ANYTHING
@@oncreativemode5486 anything?
This weapon isn't just _dumb,_ it's _aggressively dumb._ Like, even if this thing was quaterstaff length or however long the haft needs to be so you can safely wield it, it would still be better to just have the weights directly attached to the stick.
@@zenstrata This weapon's actually from D&D. Given that the show calls it a Dire-Flail, same as D&D, it's definitely taken from it.
Alternatively known as a pole mace. Not a terrible weapon. I'd prefer a spear, but pole mace works too.
Or just use a stick!
The flail is a real thing and has some edge cases over a mace like trying to get behind someone's shield. This thing manages to throw away every advantage of the flail and brings more weaknesses. It's not more weight for an advantage or even more weight for no gain. At least the double bladed axe, for all its extra weight, allows the user to smack someone's head with a sharp blade if one side gets dull.
"Aggressively dumb" is a perfect way of describing that show.
Shad I'd love for you to do a series where you take all these impractical weapons and show how they could be practical in a world that has magic.
15 minute video of Shad just being utterly exasperated 😂😂😂 still enjoyed it 🤣
Shad: "It's from Batwoman"
ah, that explains its obvious stupidity. It fits the show perfectly.
There is simply not one single redeeming quality about that series, NONE. Not even the lesbians are getting it on with each other in the show. What is the point of a lesbian show, if they never lesbian with each other?
@@Ulvetann I still remember when the SJWs were against the show before it even aired because quote: "she's not gay enough". Like, there's a tier system for gayness?
@@dangerdash4393 so true story
Me and one of my female friends were hanging out with a mutual friend who just happened to be gay. Cool dude and wasn't obvious about it shall we say. Well he told us he was looking for a relationship with someone so my female friend set him up with another of her guy friends. This particular guy was the in your face flamboyant type. So couple weeks pass and we all ended up hanging out again. She asked the dude how the date went. Dude looked her dead in the eye and I quote "I don't date fairies I date men. We got standards too you know"
Is the show really that bad? Jesus.
@@dangerdash4393 They wanted an excuse to admit they hate the show
Actually there is a way to use it to have a huge advantage: throw it at your disarmed opponent. He will hit himself countless times while trying to hit you!
He is speaking the language of the gods
This dude has the biggest brain. I like that idea.
Tip my hat to you.
Next thing you know someone is gonna design a double - sided gun.
If someone came at me with that weapon, I'd probably die.... laughing.
"Who in their right mind..."
"Batwoman did"
Yeah about that, you're correct, nobody in their right mind would.
Shad: 9:30
Castlevania also did.
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Clearly the weapon's power is injury via laughter.
Shad clearly shows that it renders the opponent silent!
“This weapon is like the mangled inbred version of a stroke”
The first thing I thought when I saw the video title was 'Double Flail?' because I saw that on someone going over a childhood friends old homebrew creations (They were like, 10 at the time) for D&D, and that was one of the things. XD
"The most stupid weapon ever". Hold my beer, we could also set the ends on fire
no ,the stupidest weapon ever would be flail-chucks, two flails connected by a chain
@@snekkoheckko4466 jesus christ this shit must be made by suicidal people, how do you even think this would work in any kind of way
@@snekkoheckko4466 And use open-flame lanterns as the head, so it sets you on fire.
@@evillp12 thats the thing, it wont
@@snekkoheckko4466 that actually sounds like something which could have been useful in naval combat. maybe if it were shot from a cannon or something. probably would do a lot of damage to rigging
The only double flail that could ever work is a strong stick with 2 buckets on the end for lugging around, water.
You mean a yoke made for human use?
@@cgamejewels
As opposed to a yoke made for Martian use?
give me 2 buckets of water on either end of a stick, and i’ll make a man out of you
@@visno Yes please
But you don’t need the flails to do that. You can do that with a regular stick as well and better because it doesn’t have the flails making the water unnecessarily splash.
The horseback theory for flails make a lot of sense... You really don't want to drop your weapon if your horse is gonna keep riding past, leaving you unarmed.
"Let me die in peace, dammit."
-Internet Explorer, 2021
This makes me confident as growing writer and artist because now I know I can make something more reasonable then people making hugely budget movies/shows and not be so self conscious about it
Just remember to pander to the woke crowd and it will get tons of approval from the twits
Can you
Same. I guess my sword obsession prevents me from thinking of imagining such a stupid flexible weapon.
@@dredgewalker I will do the opposite because that crowd is contrary to my values. You know who I pander to? The awoo crowd!
@@dredgewalker as a writer the only reason I'd pander to them is to write a spoof book about them and their views.
Shad Fact: Shad punched a hole in a black hole
Shad Fact: shad has utilised time travel to stop even more dumber weapons in history being made
lol
@@twiddlerat9920 But he can only it so often. hence why we still find stupid weapon design.
@@501Magnum could be a Mandel effect thing in a few days if this disappears in a few days
@@toastytoast9800 i mean... it could be
Eagerly awaiting the 3 hour addendum to this video
Shad, you were an outspoken critic of taking perfectly good sticks and turning them into garbage. AND NOW YOU HAVE DONE THE SAME!
Poor stick-chan...
Flail: prepare for trouble!
This *thing* : make it double!
Lmao
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To denounce the evils of truth and love!
To extend our reach to the stars above!
Just as combat effective as Team Rocket.
Double-fail nunchuck: Amateurs...
This isn't even new. The "Dire Flail" has been a part of Dungeons & Dragons going back decades.
And no one uses the dire flail either.
It's called that cause try and use it in combat and you'll be a die-er.
Holy shit you're right
The spiked chain on the other hand...
What does it do, whenever you roll a 9 or below on an atack it hits you?
What are the stats? 1-10 automatic fail?
This looks like it was born from the darkest depths of shads nightmares.
The biggest takeaway, Shad has a unique dislike of dangley weapons.