Dark Pulse Posted August 26, 2019 5 hours ago, Gez said: Lots of people will say it can't be a rifle because it's unlikely the cannon is rifled; however if we're being pedantic it also can't be a gun because it doesn't use gunpowder. 'Tis true. Let's just call it the Pew-Pew Ballthrower. 5 Share this post Link to post
D4NUK1 Posted August 28, 2019 Plasma Rifle as gun shoot slow and rifle shoot fast 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted August 28, 2019 I have to know if the plasma gun has a rifled barrel before I can properly call it a plasma rifle. Unfortunately we never learn this information so it will always remain in a quantum superposition between gun and rifle. 4 Share this post Link to post
Dark Pulse Posted August 28, 2019 22 minutes ago, Linguica said: I have to know if the plasma gun has a rifled barrel before I can properly call it a plasma rifle. Unfortunately we never learn this information so it will always remain in a quantum superposition between gun and rifle. To me, the part you can see most clearly when the gun is lifted up post-fire is the rifled part, so yes, you should call it a Plasma Rifle, because I think this community would go apeshit if I were forced to transperambulate you into pseudo-cosmic antimatter via reactor shielding disintegration. 0 Share this post Link to post
Tompig Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) On 8/26/2019 at 6:37 PM, Rathori said: I think I'm gonna call it a Plasma Musket from now on. Hold up, where the heck is my mod where I can fight demons in the 18th century!? 4 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) Plasma rifles actually exist in real life. They can even sound like the DOOM weapon sometimes. But they're fairly weak, mostly emitting a white flash, followed by a mere projected gust which can blow light objects. Search for "plasma rifle" on YouTube. They look pretty cool too. 33 minutes ago, Tompig said: Hold up, where the heck is my mod where I can fight demons in the 18th century!? Realm667 actually has such themed "Undead Hunters" and the like, who are like the Former Human Sergeants but 18th/19th century themed. You can add them to your mod. 1 Share this post Link to post
Novaseer Posted August 29, 2019 Plasma Rifle, because 2016 was my first Doom game and that's what 2016 called it. 0 Share this post Link to post
incel Posted August 30, 2019 I call it "plasma rifle" in english and "plasmagun" in my native language. 0 Share this post Link to post
RonnieJamesDiner Posted August 30, 2019 If I’m being honest, I use “Plasma Rifle” in a lame attempt to sound “sophisticated” if I’m discussing the weapon in a serious forum post (I think because I used to see a lot of people refer to it as rifle on DW in the past, so I took to believing it to be the appropriate, technical, “cultured” terminology. Otherwise, I refer to it as the Plasma Gun, because I always have. 1 Share this post Link to post
MaxRideWizardLord Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) On 8/26/2019 at 3:23 PM, Gez said: Lots of people will say it can't be a rifle because it's unlikely the cannon is rifled; however if we're being pedantic it also can't be a gun because it doesn't use gunpowder. "Gun" is also a terribly generic and vague name, that applies to anything from a pistol to ship-mounted artillery. Whereas "rifle" implies a certain size category, a size category in which Doom's slot 6 weapon fits comfortably. So, plasma rifle it is for me. Though, to be honest, I generally just use "plasma". Likewise, the rocket launcher I generally just call "rocket". This is wrong, though. The "gun" is any ranged weapon that is emitting projectiles\anything of any sort by any mechanics, it doesn't have to be a gunpowder or powder of any sort; it doesn't even necessarily need to be pneumatically discharge it's projectiles. Hell, it doesn't even need to be projectiles, as Tesla Gun that shoots continous stream of lightning is perfectly fits in to it's literal description of a gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun Rifle is still a rifle only if said weapon using the rifled barrel to spin the rounds, with no exceptions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle Calling a weapon which isn't designed with helical pattern of grooves as it's core mechanics a "rifle" is simply incorrect. Edited August 31, 2019 by MaxRideWizardLord : Made typo that I found after Rathori quoted me. 1 Share this post Link to post
Rathori Posted August 31, 2019 5 hours ago, MaxRideWizardLord said: Rifle is still a rifle only if said weapon using the rifled rounds, with no exceptions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle Since we're getting technical--a rifle's called a rifle because it has a rifled barrel, not because it fires rifled rounds. The only kind of rifled rounds I know of are Foster slugs, and those are designed to be fired from a smoothbore shotgun. 0 Share this post Link to post
Yugiboy85 Posted August 31, 2019 I call it the plasma gun because I can abbreviate it to PG. I don't like my gun being abbreviated to PR (public relations) :) 3 Share this post Link to post
Dark Pulse Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Yugiboy85 said: I call it the plasma gun because I can abbreviate it to PG. I don't like my gun being abbreviated to PR (public relations) :) Wolf3D was voluntarily rated PC-13. 0 Share this post Link to post
MaxRideWizardLord Posted August 31, 2019 3 hours ago, Rathori said: Since we're getting technical--a rifle's called a rifle because it has a rifled barrel, not because it fires rifled rounds. The only kind of rifled rounds I know of are Foster slugs, and those are designed to be fired from a smoothbore shotgun. Must be typo on my side, my apologies. What I meant is rifled trunk, which is rifled barrel, yes (sometimes I mistake rifled barrel with spinning round, mostly due to the fact I'm not native english speaker. Mind you, I wrote that comment at 4 am), and since right after it I was talking about helical pattern of grooves, this is exactly what I meant by "rifled rounds". Maybe I've just wanted to say a spinning round and rifled barrel. 1 Share this post Link to post
Havoc Crow Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) been calling it plasma rifle, ever since I was a kid who was still learning English. Since the first time I saw "plasma rifle" on the help screen, it sounded... more elaborate and sophisticated? than "gun". 0 Share this post Link to post
KickAss Posted August 31, 2019 Hallo, the game calls it the plasma gun so its the plasma gun. MfG 2 Share this post Link to post
Gaia74 Posted September 1, 2019 1 hour ago, nicolas monti said: I used to call it "la seis" i understand why that name xD 1 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted September 1, 2019 On 8/27/2019 at 3:37 AM, Rathori said: I think I'm gonna call it a Plasma Musket from now on. I'll allow it, IF it's as slow and terrible as the person who made the Doom Classic Re-release trailer seems to think it is. (0:17) 3 Share this post Link to post
Rathori Posted September 2, 2019 19 hours ago, Doomkid said: I'll allow it, IF it's as slow and terrible as the person who made the Doom Classic Re-release trailer seems to think it is. (0:17) Spoiler I'd say that cat did a pretty decent job playing Doom. For a cat, of course. 3 Share this post Link to post
THEBaratusII Posted September 2, 2019 I used to call it a Plasma gun, but nowadays I call it a Plasma rifle. 2 Share this post Link to post
HLRaven Posted September 29, 2019 Plasma Gun for the win. It sounds better and in-game it says plasma gun, but when i was really young i used to call it laser gun 0 Share this post Link to post
BBQgiraffe Posted September 30, 2019 it is plasma RIFLE you fucking barbarians 2 Share this post Link to post
Robo_Cola Posted September 30, 2019 Plasma rifle sounds much more sophisticated in my opinion. Plasma cannon also sounds pretty cool. 0 Share this post Link to post
Eurisko Posted September 30, 2019 2 hours ago, STILES said: Plasma cannon also sounds pretty cool. THIS!! Cannon does sound a lot more bad ass. 0 Share this post Link to post
IncognitoMode Posted September 30, 2019 plasma gun because rifle is complicated enough 0 Share this post Link to post
Spectre01 Posted September 30, 2019 I'll chime in with the popular opinion that Plasma Rifle sounds cooler than Plasma Gun. 3 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted September 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, Spectre01 said: I'll chime in with the popular opinion that Plasma Rifle sounds cooler than Plasma Gun. lol I think the same. 2 Share this post Link to post