Zer0 Kay wrote:Nope shoot equals a round coming out of the barrel. You don't pull the trigger of an unloaded pistol that you have up to someones head and say I shot him. You don't go to a shooting range just to pull a trigger. You don't depress a drigger when you shoot a rubber band. You are missusing shoot to mean the pulling of the trigger.
No I'm not.
I'm using shoot because it's the appropriate action-word here. I don't "trigger my gun", I
shoot it.
Zer0 Kay wrote:The phrase I shoot the gun. Means that you fired a round out of the gun.
Go back to school, learn the difference between past and present-tense. Then maybe we can have a proper conversation where you don't think everything I say is wrong simply because you're ignorant. And I mean that in a nice way, as advice because this -
what we have here - is not working.
Zer0 Kay wrote:You can't shoot an unloaded gun no matter how many times you pull the trigger. While even if the GB's BG is unloaded the pulling of the trigger will deploy the pylons. So shoot, deploy, sonic boom is as it was 10+ posts ago, incorrect. It is depress the trigger, deploy, shoot/fire/expel, sonic-boom.
This is why we can't agree on anything; because you seemingly refuse to read the material you're talking about. It says right in the book that the pylons are deployed each time the boomgun is fired. "The pylons and jets fly into action the
moment the Boom Gun is
fired". This is found on page 72 of R:UE under the
Weapon Systems heading,
RG-14 Rapid Acceleration Electromagnetic Rail Gun, second paragraph, last sentence.
You also refuse to read the posts of other posters, because I said this already - 10+ posts ago. I literally said; "the pulling of the trigger is what activates the pylons". 10+ posts ago you tried to tell me I was "wrong", now you're repeating what I said
nearly verbatum like I never said it.
Zer0 Kay wrote:So if my definition of shoot and pops and almost everyone... no, everyone elses definition of shoot is wrong and yours is right you may want to contact
merriam-webster and correct them as well as
dictionary.com and
Encarta and
Wiktionary
See, you're so caught-up here in attempting to prove that I used the word "shoot" wrong that you have no idea how I even used the word.
Here we have you listing four dictionaries all defining the word shoot very accurately. That doesn't really have any sway on your arguement though because
I never used the word improperly. All I said was that shooting the gun is what activated the pylons. This is a fact; I've even listed book, page, heading, and paragraph as to where it says this.
Here, I'll post another definition from the very sites you've quoted;
This is
shootAmazingly they have listed the following;
4.to discharge (a weapon): to shoot a gun.Incredible how they'd put such a definition in there.
Gee, I wonder
how a person would possibly discharge a gun?
Maybe it's the pulling of the trigger that does it?
I wonder what else the pulling of the trigger does when put in the context of the Glitterboys' Boomgun.....
Maybe it also deploys the pylons?
Zer0 Kay wrote:How are you going to try to turn this around to make it look like your right?
Turn it around?
Make it
look like I'm right?
I don't need to. I was never wrong to begin with; you just have this amazing ability to completely misunderstand anything and everything I post.
Zer0 Kay wrote:How are you going to try to make it look like we and every single dictionary are idiots?
You say this like I'm quoting everyone here. I'm only quoting you and Popscythe because you're the only two that don't seem to "get it".
And my word-usage never parted from the dictionaries' definition, so it looks like
I don't need to make the dictionary look like an idiot.
Zer0 Kay wrote:You going to try to find one instance where it says pull trigger (fyi:there isn't I already searched for trigger and anything relating to causing to fire rather than actually firing the weapon). Simply put the word shoot means you are firing the weapon and Rifts says pylons deploy first. The depressing/pulling/pushing (whatever you want to use) of the trigger, especially in a gun that is more circuits than moving parts, doesn't have to shoot the weapon first.
Or I could not and let the text of the action speak for itself.
Which I did, above.
Zer0 Kay wrote:It (the actuating of the trigger) could start a process in circuitry that will first deploy the pylons and claws and then shoot/fire/discharge/evacuate the round which upon leaving the barrel will have enough speed to create a sonic shockwave.
Yes,
it could.
But
it doesn't.
It deploys the pylons the moment the weapon is fired. Not
before, but
after. Hence the
past-tense usage of the word "
fire".