#better devils

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube video to check out:

Hey. Anyone who sees this, feel free to list other duplicate weapon names and I will add them to this list. I know there's more. There's one or two in each category probably. Let's see how stupid long this gets.

“Gotta admit, I never understood it.”

“What?”

“Hand cannons.”

“What’s to understand? Aim, shoot, big boom.”

“I mean the fundamental design concept of the weapon class. If you’re making what amounts to a handheld ballistic particle accelerator, why model it after an archaic rotary-firing kind of pistol from before the Golden Age?”

“Guess weapon designers are romantics sometimes. Have you seen, like, anything by Tex Mechanica?”

“Maybe, but for that matter, if you want to build a semi-automatic gun optimized for maximum impact per shot, why make a handgun at all? Stability and recoil are always problems, as is range, and reload mechanisms get tricky when you require such a small magazine, and—”

“Look, what’s your point?”

“I guess my point is: why aren’t hand cannons just scout rifles? You know how much better the ballistic performance characteristics would be on an extra-high-impact rifle platform?”

“Maybe hand cannons just aren’t the guns for you.”

“Maybe. Hard not to like this one, though.”

“Why? Explosive payload’s nice, right?”

“Sure, that’s not it.”

“Well?”

“It’s the feel of it. The weight in the hand, you know?”

“I think you might understand hand cannons after all.”