Arms Akimbo
Akimbo
Arms Akimbo
In what passes for the real world, akimbo is used with 'arms'.
'Arms akimbo' : hands on hips and elbows bend like a bow, think of the fashion models turning on the runway or manikins in the department store window, Vogue 'zine covers. Posturing.
English is one of those "close enough" sports, so if folks get your drift
you've successfully communicated. After we learn to beat the rocks together, we can move on to the 'secret of fire'. Forum's aflame.
I think I saw the linkage of "guns akimbo" at DAC and it was a reference to Lara Croft. Tomb Raider's been two gunning it for quite a while.
This is where I started refering to Lara Croft as "breasts akimbo", because the back beat of the thread had to do with what sells in the game biz. "Legs akimbo" might have applied too.
Pardon this simplification, it need not apply to those with 'towering standards'. Breasts=sex, and guns=violence, and BEHIND this 'social interaction' is a 'social intercourse': guns=phallis=sex. Sex sells. ""....Happyness is a warm gun....""
Is it going to boil down to what's realistic now?
A two pistol mode could be adopted to a new FO engine,
if it engenders an appropriate "'40's-'50's-early'60's" B movie
style: elan and panache. Varmit killing with the Magnum Revolver's
fast action and hitting power was a feature in both FO, and FO 2.
Special skills might not be enough, a Perk might validate this two pistol posturing. An extraordinary skill would require a commitment of experience points, a high Perception AND Charisma, the expense of a Perk, and-or a deficiet on some other skill; as in the One Hander Trait.
Let the shallow of memory flash on "Woo-ism", the rest of us recall
the bravado of the Saturday Matinee; the floors sticky with spilt soft drinks and gooie Milk Duds.... 5 minutes to the end of reel, 16 bad guys to dispatch to glory, two "Peace Maker's": the deus ex machina, so "The Chosen One" can have time to kiss his horse and ride the love interest into the sunset, or visa versa......
Two gunning established in the genre roots, pre FOBOS, no big problem.
Post FOBOS: the problem now is Chuck Cuevas's superficial mining of the FO forums. I bet that it was here or DAC that he gleened out
"guns akimbo". Just like he may have learned that "Bettie Page"
was a known icon of '50's culture. But he's not talking to our worthy
ELECTED interviewers. {My eye ball time votes for NMA and DAC
jounalistic represntation.} So this is all a best quess.
Post FOBOS: the problem now is Chuck Cuevas's inclusion of
"guns akimbo" has created a backlash that may rule out twin
pistol simultaneous rapid fire.
The realism is not the physics of a parallel universe, an alternate time line like FO. The roots of FO culture are broad enough and could be flexible, if it conforms to the unique FO formula. A Natural Philosophy that delves into dimensions beyond the sex=guns=sex flat line between the X - Y.
(You all can do that math, right? X = Y = X, X = X, flat line on the graph, and flat line means 'dead' in many disciplines.)
The realism is the "gag reflex" in the here and now, the post FOBOS Syndrome.
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