Welcome to Gaia! ::

It's also worth mentioning that the dude has four fingers on his left hand in the 5th panel.

Those are the scariest looking muscles I have ever seen.

Like...truly frightening.

And I thought only Crawley used Baki images.

Also, the spirit gun counts as a gun and magic. No room to talk.

so can peanut butter... but you don't see anyone choosing sandwich spread instead of a gun unless they are against someone with serious allergies! blaugh

Simpler thing for a layman's hands to make a weapon useless, if you catch the meaning.

And it's funny, there are plenty of ways to neutralize weapons by hand in melee, and the weapons' fighting styles come with just as many ways to counter that. Most are not specifically, meant to counter hand to hand, because in reality most people would just not bother rushing an armed man without a weapon.

I've wanted a chance to use the sword some way other than just swinging away, but I don't seem to fight often enough to get into many adverse or varying situations.

Edit: That kind of stuff is more a matter of terminology than anything to me. When I say "magic" I generally mean supernatural things. Things that normal people just can't do. But the spirit is certainly separate from traditional "magic" just as there are various kinds of magic.

I think most "magic" on Gaia is spirit based at-will magic anyway.

Well... yeah. You don't draw a gun or a sword when a guy is right on you already. Better off using your limbs, or better yet, a knife.

I just know that there are also techniques for swords and guns for fighting people who get up that close to you when it's already drawn if you don't want to drop it.

*Does a Dempsey roll.*