The thing about science fiction "blasters" is that irl it'd be incredibly difficult to make a handheld energy weapon that works as well as a gun But then, sci-fi guns usually work just like real guns and not at all like lasers anyway So you can just pretend that's what they arehttps://twitter.com/JamesSACorey/status/1330075871152119808 …
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Star Trek pulls it off
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certainly you get less risk of lead poisoning though
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depends what weapon the other guy has imho
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and then there was a Star Wars writer going "Well I want these people to fight Jedi but they're nigh immune to laser weapons ... lets bring back shotguns!"
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Seems like they should be able to just force push the buckshot either back in your face or stop it dead Neo-style. Was that ever addressed?
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It might work well as a suppression weapon, though, assuming it can fire for a decent amount of time
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There’s a short story about a guy who gets his hands on a gun that fires a invisible silent vaporizing field and he gets eaten by a vast horde of animals because the weapon is so inconspicuous they don’t disperse
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Yeah this was what the "Pirate vs. Ninja" meme was really about Is the ideal style of combat total stealth where you kill people undetected at will Or is it the exact opposite, making a whole lot of show and noise so you can force a surrender without killing anyone
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This reminds me of how Lucasfilm sued the original Battlestar Galactica for being too much of Star Wars knockoff, and part of the response was to remove "blaster bolts"—instead the heroes shoot, and the target blows up with no visible laser.
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