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From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: the uac dilemma
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:39:39 -0400
At 11:17 AM 7/24/97 -0500, Michael Broadwater wrote these timeless words:
>At 08:51 AM 7/24/97 +0100, Simon T. Sailer wrote:
>
>>> C) One really good blow to the head or genitals will normally end a fight
>>> immediatly, as will a single sword/knife/cyberblade blow.
>>
>>Nope. totally wrong. If somebody has to fight for his life, even a
>>broken arm won't take him out. A kick in the genitals will end most
>>show-streetfights, but never a REAL fight. and a blow in the face
>>wont do anything but hurt the hand of the one who striked most of the
>>time... believe me, I know from RL experience. (ouch)
>
Heh... It depends on where, how, and how hard you hit them...:] I had one
dork hit me in the head as hard as he could once... The only thing he did
was make a red mark on my forhead for about 5 minutes, and break his hand
in 4 places. Then again, he hit me dead center in the forhead...
>Um...it all depends on how you hit. If you hit wrong (which it seems
>you're doing) then it'll hurt. If you hit correctly, it's not going to
>hurt _and_ it can be extremely devastating. How hard and how you hit is
>more important. This is wear training (read: skill level) becomes
>important in the fight. A better skilled opponent will hit correctly, and
>harm the lesser skilled opponent.
>
>But you are right on one thing: a kick to the groin's not going to stop a
>fight. That's why you follow it up.
>
>
>Rasputin-the-going-to-GenCon-for-free-magekin
>http://www.bcl.net/~rasputin
>http://www.blackhand.org/
>
>The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be
> when you kill them. -- William Clayton
>
>Gencon count down: 13 days
>
>
--
Bull, aka Steven Ratkovich, aka Rak, aka a lot of others! :]

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