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Ivancool

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Chaingun or Minigun?
« on: September 08, 2008, 09:54:21 pm »
Reading in wikipedia i found this "A chain gun has a single barrel while a Gatling gun has several rotating barrels. It is a common error to refer to Gatling guns as chain guns, particularly in connection with entertainment such as video games" so i think that in the next release of tremulous (1.2) the "Chaingun weapon should be renamed to "Minigun"

Source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gun
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Syntac

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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2008, 10:12:18 pm »
"Chaingun" sounds cooler. Although, "minigun" reminds me of the MythBusters gun that can set trees on fire.

[EDIT] Blah, typo.
« Last Edit: September 08, 2008, 11:48:54 pm by Syntac »
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2008, 11:01:58 pm »
Agreed. "Minigun" sounds too tiny ;-)
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Darth Futuza

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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2008, 01:38:33 am »
Aye.  And besides, Tremulous is suppose to be in the future.  By that time, the definition of 'chaingun' and 'minigun' may have come to mean very different things, even the same thing.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2008, 03:07:07 am »
It would appear that the term "chain gun" is a trademark of  Alliant Techsystems Inc and refers to a chain operated machinegun and not necessarily a rotating-barrel gun, whereas the term "minigun" often refers to a (relatively) miniaturised Gatling gun. I think they should be called kitten guns.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2008, 08:01:18 am »
I think minigun is a good name for such an impressive weapon.

It's ironic and intimidating.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2008, 07:11:10 am »
I think the Vulcan gun could also be a good description  ::)
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2008, 12:55:57 pm »
Lets just stick with Chaingun and not worry.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2008, 03:36:52 pm »
But by not worring about wether the Chaingun should be named Minigun, these people are relieving themselves of their purpose in life.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2008, 04:42:50 pm »
Was that called for?  I think not.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2008, 05:28:11 pm »
Anything lava says is called for one way or another
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2008, 05:37:02 pm »
Especially when there's children about that need a 20 by 30 foot sign to notify them that Lava Croft might not be entirely serious, and they should try to not be offended in the core of their young, unblemished souls.
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St. Vrayne

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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2008, 09:32:11 pm »
Fair enough.
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fingered banana

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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2008, 04:34:42 pm »
What about Multi Barreled Steel of Death
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Supertanker

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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2008, 05:37:37 pm »
Why not call it a machine gun? Everybody uses machine gun!

Although Fingered's idea has merits, I must say.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2008, 05:50:24 pm »
Quote from: supertanker on September 17, 2008, 05:37:37 pm
Why not call it a machine gun? Everybody uses machine gun!

Lamez0r was machinegunned by Haxxy's rifle
A machinegun turret was placed by Suxxy
Lamez0r was chaingunned by supertanker's machinegun
« Last Edit: September 17, 2008, 05:53:49 pm by Nux »
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2008, 08:02:41 pm »
Well, they could just give it a new model so it looks like an actual chain fed machine gun.
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2008, 03:04:50 pm »
Hmm...Minigun feels kinda small.Chain gun i cooler then minigun.But if we wanna have a realistick game we should call it minigun. :turret:
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Re: Chaingun or Minigun?
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2008, 03:20:04 pm »
Thank you for this fine necro, please do not do it again.

[edit] damn the K key on this keyboard!
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