functional daywalker sword

when you say "functional" do you mean simply a "battle ready" blade or do you mean functional like it should have the "booby trap" handle with the silver spikes that explodes a vampires' hand if you don't click the switch?

Agreed. The Guard, grip and pommel could work... maybe... but that blade... blegh.

Easy there, guys. He must like the sword or it must mean something to him for him to put it as his signature. It sure as hell doesn't match my tastes in sword aesthetics (I don't care for the hilt OR the blade), but I don't feel an urge to rag and bag on it and discount something that is dear to him.

*shrug* Just my thoughts, I guess.

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Well said.

This is why I don't post a whole lot. It seems to me that my sarcastic attitude would too easily offend people here..

It's a strange thing, actually. This forum is easygoing... but then again it's not.
On other, perhaps not as "friendly" forums I'm much more quick to give people some snarky comments and such, because I know they won't take it personally in anyway.. They're even expecting it, maybe.

Eh, I'll just try to get used to the idea I'm not around lonely, jaded geeks here.. >_>

Hey, neighbor! Seriously, it's ugly, what do you want?

To answer the OP, Luna already did- PM johnlundemo1 here or send him an email off his site, www.odinblades.com - his is vastly superior to the United Cutlery one, which I have.

Yea, I guess I'm not a hundred percent sure why I posted that, lol. It was the middle of the night, I was tired, I just got back from a nightclass from 10-11:30 pm and wanted to chill out and check for any updates on the forum and I came across what seemed to my addled brain to be an informal hate-fest on something somebody cared about.

I'm not exactly sure why I took...uh..."offence?"....to it then. Here in the daytime after a night of sleep all I can see is how criminally dysfunctional that SLO really is. Had I been fully awake at posting, I very likely would have thrown in a few pithy pseudo-witticisms myself. ;D But looking back, I can still see something about throwing out phrases like "awful hellspawn," "MY EYES!!!" and "blegh" with no relevance at ALL to the topic at hand or the poster's question that doesn't sit too well with me. Maybe I'm being unreasonable for fear of being anywhere near the "douchebag" distinction, but I'd rather tread carefully than hurt someone's feelings for no real reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love me a good round of SLO-bashing--I've had a rollicking good time in some of the "look at this stupid thing I saw at Trueswords.com!" threads, but this thread wasn't about that. He wasn't posting about that sword, he asked a question about the daywalker sword and wanted a response about THAT. He didn't say "what do you think of this sword?--pic." And the sword is part of his signature. I don't feel super comfortable with doling out harsh judgments about people's personal "hallmarks" that they use as their identity in this medium. It would be like if shadowhowler asked a question about when the full line of new Atrims would be available from Fletcher's website or another distributor and the first response came from some jerk who said, "I'm not sure when they'll be available, but I'm pretty sure if you email Christian you could get an answer. On a sidenote, I must ask; what on earth inspired you to have such a brutally cheesy eye-searing excuse for a suit of armor as your avatar?!?!? I mean, I know you must have SOME reason, but that thing is BUTT UGLY. Yeesh. ;D ;D"
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Not really called for or even REMOTELY appropriate, is it? And yet that's exactly the situation that went down here, you know? Is it excusable here because Sean's armor (which is awesome, btw) is functional and the sword here isn't? I can't really, honestly, say that I think so. It's a small-ish thing, but the justification doesn't sit well.

Would I normally have said anything? No. Was a being a bit thin-skinned by proxy because of being absurdly tired? Yes, definitely. But I said what I said for some reason, and even looking back now I can't really discount those reasons entirely, if I'm being completely honest with myself. I do apologize for making a bit of a needless fuss, but I can't take back what I said. So I'm airing it out and looking at it. Take it as you may.

Well, that big ol' stream of consciousness post took long enough to write that whiteshadowwarrior posted his comment before I did--I didn't know his response to the situation when I submitted it. I had just come back to this thread and noticed how out-of-character my previous "Easy there, guys" post was and how it had ruffled some feathers. I was trying to figure out why I felt that way, more of an explanation for myself than anyone else. Trying to work out what bothered me. I'm not asking anyone to become a sycophantic pansy, lol--I'm not really asking anything. I wasn't trying to solve a problem (because as you said, I don't really see one) I was trying to understand a reasoning. My reasoning.

As for the avatar thing, I thought I made it pretty clear that it was an example of how jumping on someone's personal info is unpalatable, not a self-important dig at Sean. I used him as an example because his avatar is easily recognizable and bit unusual, and he's a stand-up, great guy. As far as someone jumping on mine, well yea, I wouldn't care--I'm not looking for your approval or anyone else's. But that doesn't mean I think it's a good idea to carry on like that. I'll always argue for kindness over being inconsiderate of others. I've had too many experiences in my life where sticking to my guns and not taking the feelings of others into account has needlessly hurt relationships to condone that anymore.


Besides, I don't need to "attempt to look" debonair. It just happens. ;D ;D

There you go. An excellent way to look at it, +1.



As far as a functional daywalker sword, maybe another option would be to contanct Brenno and see what he could do? I'm sure he could make an AMAZING vampire-slaying sword.