iSoak'D 027: Clips

[isoaker]

Sidenote: special thanks to C-A_99 for his various reply posts that partly inspired this strip.



Other note: this will probably be the last iSoak'D comic for 2010. More coming in 2011! Happy Holidays, All!

[HBWW]

Aww, I'm flattered! Excellent point on the 1980's blasters too. Hasbro is pretty insistent on the misnomer though, as evident by their marketing of Nerf products. Apparently they are not the only one; there have actually been companies who sell firearms that have done the same, or so I've heard.

Nitpick: The guy holding the 1200 is holding by the reservoir cap lol.

Putting the 1200 and a new Nerf SS blaster (and mentioning the 80s blasters) in the same picture really shows how things have come along. Better to have had and lost than to never have had.

[isoaker]

Nitpick nullification: he's not holding it by the reservoir cap; his arm is going to the opposite side of the blaster as can be seen by the high-resolution graphics I use. The hand of that arm should really be holding the trigger and grip area, but somehow that got lost. Oh well...

As for the contrast between then and now... yes.. 'tis better to have had and lost than to have never had at all... sorta... though I'd much prefer still having whenever possible *hah*

[GJIV]

hahaha, once again, great isoaker_com, you have created a nice comic

I am still having great CPS Soakers out of the good old days...and as I see what shit hasbro brings out I will better keep them FOREVER

I am still waiting and hoping(does this word exist ? ) that the Hydro Cannon is useful at all...If it makes a good shotgun, I am satisfied, but the stream could be a 20 X:: or a 1 X:: ... Still in order, stupid seller needs more time...grrr. it will take me some more days to get it, but as soon as I have it, I tell you all about it^^

Tomorow is Christmas

[martianshark]

So the guy with the 1200 is CA99 and I'm the one with the Thunderstorm?

[HBWW]

@shark: *wink *wink. Maybe iSoaker was trying to insinuate something here. =p

@isoaker: Very clever nullification, iSoaker. The stick figure's non-firing arm is blocking the firing hand/finger from being seen!

Some thoughts: The most basic definition of a magazine is a container of ammo. Water is our ammo. So that makes water refill bottles and reservoirs, by definition, magazines. Of course, that basic definition of magazine assumes ammo to be used to refer to projectiles (Generally harmful ones.). Personally, I just use the term for any container that pushes projectiles into a chamber via spring, but the new Nerf SS blasters' swappable reservoirs do resemble magazines pretty closely so I won't be anally insistent on calling them swappable reservoirs. (Hey, I'm not that bad.) The container of ammo definition means large storages of large shells (such as those stored on warships) are also magazines.

But to make matters funnier, there is a Nerf blaster called the Magstrike, which is an updated design of early Nerf air powered automatics which used a clip (will go over appropriateness of calling it a clip later) containing a set of barrels that hold the darts together. The barrels hold the darts in place and also seal each dart as it passes over the air release, and the entire clip is pushed up slowly.

The piece that holds the darts together by far resembles a clip more so than anything else. Yet Nerf's packaging refers to it as a magazine. I wouldn't say that it could fall under the container of ammo definition, as "container" usually refers to something mostly or entirely enclosed. In short, they have basically completely reversed the terminology that people generally get confused. However, I'm unsure on the appropriateness of calling it a clip too, because it does not function like one. For the sake of simplicity, I still sometimes refer to it as a clip anyways.

Just some thoughts on it.