purple_shadows Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 Yar maties! Ok, so we all know my answer, but Xai and I were discussing it, and we decided that we would open it up to you fine folks. Feel free to comment about why you think one is better. Remember, these are the generic nijas and pirates (the pirates don't have peg legs, and may be very hot like Mr. Jack Sparrow ) *dances around the room waving a half drunk bottle of Rum* (not by me of course) "YO HO! YO HO! It's the pirates life for meeeeee!
Xaious, Master of Time Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 Yes, remember, generic pirate, generic ninja. No special supernatural powers....and No Jack Sparrow....Just as well, no t-shirt ninjas, either...
Zadown Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 (edited) Ninjas, because they are mammals and have the Real Ultimate Power. Ohhh, besides! Ninja looting, ninjaing and ninja buffing/healing are prodigious and brave acts of stupidity, stealth and skill whereas pirating is just downloading stuff from the Net. Which is cooler, huh? Edited January 14, 2005 by Zadown
Xaious, Master of Time Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 ..Pirates are Mammals too.....And they go like 'Yarr,' and "Aye" and..'Matey"... and also "Yarr, Aye matey Tha' be rum yer drinking."..And they drink rum, too...
Gyrfalcon Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 A horde of flesh-eating penguins! :ninja2::pirate::penguin::penguin::penguin::penguin::penguin:
Alaeha Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 In a fight? Simple. Ninja are assassins. Pirates are drunkards. The Ninja waits until the Pirate is passed out, and slits his throat. Or plants an arrow in the pirate from a distance. Or tells the Depp fangirls that there's a pirate in town, and lets the stampede do his work for him. And then the horde of flesh-eating penguins kills the Ninja. And the fangirls.
Venefyxatu Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 Hmmm ... tough question. Pirates are cool, but then again, so are ninjas ... Ninjas don't get the Jolly Roger flag, though, and the cool ships So I'm with Haley on this one : http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=121 (DnD players might like this comic ... it's an ongoing story, so if you like it best to start from number 1 ).
Katzaniel Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 You guys are all missing an important question. Is this fight on land or sea?
Zadown Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 There's no fight. There's just the glorious victory of the ninja!
Quincunx Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 No ninja's tale is quite as fun as Treasure Island.
WrenWind Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 ninja would win because they are trained disciplined fighters
Mira Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 ninja would win because they are trained disciplined fightersTraining and discipline are no match for a good flintlock pistol and a sharp cutlass
Alaeha Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 Training and discipline are no match for a good flintlock pistol and a sharp cutlass Which is why the Pirate would never see it coming. Can't fight what you don't know is there. And Training and Discipline are very good for learning how to sneak up on/ambush/assassinate people. Or just poisoning their booze.
jonathan_wolfe Posted January 15, 2005 Report Posted January 15, 2005 One must take an analytical approach to this burning question and perform scientific analysis to determine, who truely is superior. Hmm... well since we cannot ask a Ninja and a Pirate to fight to the death for us, we can consider the next best alternative, a video game simulation! Cheeky I know, but hear me out Soul Calibur 2, features two very paragons of both Pirates and Ninjas, Cervantes the dual wielding undead pirate, and Taki, the er.. vicious and unitard wearing ninja... Both are very capable characters in their own right, and I purpose that someone experiment and pit the AI against itself in this game to scientifically determine who the superior archetype is Any takers?
Valdar and Astralis Posted January 15, 2005 Report Posted January 15, 2005 Pirates. . .until the nearest gnome ninja flips out and kills everything around them!!!
Tamaranis Posted January 15, 2005 Report Posted January 15, 2005 Pirates are just somehow really funny lately. Like if you're out in the middle of a lake in a canoe, you can charge the other canoe, while shouting "Yar, I be a pirate!" You could shout "Yar, I be a ninja!" but then everyone would just think you're a jerk. But I do need to make a correction here... if the ninja in question is a generic ninja, then they do indead have mystical powers.
The Big Pointy One Posted January 16, 2005 Report Posted January 16, 2005 Ah, but if it were a ninja in the canoe, he would do some crazy stuff like running accross the water and sinking the canoe with his mighty ninja shurikens.
Venefyxatu Posted January 16, 2005 Report Posted January 16, 2005 Ah, but if it were a ninja in the canoe, he would do some crazy stuff like running accross the water and sinking the canoe with his mighty ninja shurikens. If he sunk his own canoe, he'd end up in the water And since I believe something was mentioned about no super-powers, he'd probably drown because he's not used to water. The superiority of the pirate is proven
Annael Posted January 16, 2005 Report Posted January 16, 2005 And since I believe something was mentioned about no super-powers, he'd probably drown because he's not used to water. The superiority of the pirate is proven But then you are assuming that the average ninja doesn't know how to swim, and that's a no no. Sooo..ninja's rule, and pirates drool. The end
Gryphon Posted January 16, 2005 Report Posted January 16, 2005 I once saw this really really cool picture of a ninja doing a river crossing... it was almost impossible to see him - almost like he was a rock in the stream. Methinks there is no fear of water for ninjas. I'd say that unless you've got a Captain Jack Sparrow on your hands mostly pirates are cutthroat brawlers - one short step above the unwashed masses because they can sail... or at least do what they're told on a boat. Ninjas even without mystic powers are highly trained (once their training has finished) effecient killers. In fact the only real difference between Ninja and Samurai was that ninja could be hired as killers, where samurai couldn't (damn honour systems). Ninjas win in my opinion.
The Big Pointy One Posted January 16, 2005 Report Posted January 16, 2005 The ninja wouldn't sink his own canoe, he'd sink the pirate's canoe. Ninjas can run across water. ;p
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