• demonquark@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    A horse? Seriously? No way can this guy win against a horse. Have you seen horses? They’re huge.

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Let me try, let me try:

    Lemmings, would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or 1 horse sized duck?

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      9 months ago

      Obviously the duck-sized horses, that’s not even a fight. What amounts to pretty much a t-rex, on the other hand…

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        9 months ago

        Nah, ducks have hollow bones, making them pretty crap in physical combat against creatures that don’t. As long as you can avoid the beak, you should be fine.

        Duck-sized horses, on the other hand, would still be faster and stronger than humans even if it’s scaled 1:1 relative to horse size vs duck size and there’s a hundred of them! You’d be swarmed in no time!

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      9 months ago

      If that’s an option, might as well allow guns and then humans win every time.

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    9 months ago

    Are horse legs actually fragile, or does it take a lot of effort to break one?

    If fragile, I think people are overcomplicating this. You’ll probably get fucked up in the process, but once the horse is crippled your grim deed is done. If they’re not fragile and you’ll need to seriously wrassle them down to exert enough force, you’re almost certainly dead.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Uh, no. And one kick can kill you

      Horses can kick forwards, backwards and sideways. They can rear up to about 12 ft tall and stomp your head.

      Plus they weigh about 1200-1600 lbs, although percherons weigh much more.

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        9 months ago

        Does my prep time involve sourcing weapons? I think a sledgehammer would do the trick if I can hide out at the fight zone prior to the horse arriving then sneak attack.

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      9 months ago

      You mean like, fighting a horse by punching it? No that fucker gonna kill you. You might win if you have a spear and you know how to use it. But if it gets to you with it’s hooves you’ve lost.

      Now if you can convince the horse you’re a lot scarier than you are, it might do what you want it to.

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        9 months ago

        Now if you can convince the horse you’re a lot scarier than you are, it might do what you want it to.

        Only reason why they don’t kill us on sight after all we’ve put them through: for all their amazing physical prowess, they’re also easily spooked idiots 😂

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    9 months ago

    Note, they are actually much larger than the average silicon version of it. The largest I could find was 43 cm long, which is OK to take. But normally, they’re ~1 m when e… oh wait, you mean “take” as in “win against”, nvm.