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@sun someone fucked up and they had to fix it real quick?
@sun those are AA batteries
@sun those are AA batteries
@sun (or it being a laser rifle is due to FCC censorship and they forgot to edit out the cases)
Plasma cartridges, duh.
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@sun Mass Effect 2 has the same issue.
@sun same reason the blasters in Star Wars did.
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@nom @sun late 20th century cartoons were weird... basically what they would do is show kids cartoons in production to a focus group of old ladies and listen to all their objections about things kids shouldn't be seeing. they'd do things like make it so they couldn't show explosions, they could only show the smoke emerging from a hallway after the fact, or they couldn't use a knife to cut a rope because that'd make kids more likely to pick up a knife and try to use it for useful things, so they had to use a sharp rock or a pair of scissors.
guns and shit would be right out, but purple lasers and shit were often ok. what I suspect happened is that the old ladies objected to the use of guns, so they slapped some purple glow on the footage and called it a day.
guns and shit would be right out, but purple lasers and shit were often ok. what I suspect happened is that the old ladies objected to the use of guns, so they slapped some purple glow on the footage and called it a day.
@sun we watched this a couple years ago and it kicked ass 
@sun Chemical lasers are obviously the most powerful per weight.
@sun It's not a laser gun. Those shells are tiny portal generators into the punch dimension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtAmUKKYPFw
@sun Chem lasers, the 80s didn't have the battery/power generation tech required for repeating lasers so they had to use chemical power sources.
@nerthos the real reason is that in a movie they had more freedom than the show but not total freedom to make realistic guns
@sun The government only approves of guns when they're used for crime or shooting people's dogs in their homes
@noyoushutthefuckupdad @sun Around the same time we watched Masters of the Universe which also was not a bad movie.
@thomasroiloup @noyoushutthefuckupdad I thought it was kind of interesting that he-man was a vegetarian
@sun @thomasroiloup are anabolic steroids made from animal products?
Cartridge-based gas laser weaponry? Maybe the gas is released from the shells and a current from a power system in the rifle directs energy beams outward, even though that's highly ineffective. Gas lasers are retarded.