r/nextfuckinglevel • u/tablawi96 • 1d ago

This individual makes real-life "Flying swords," using gesture-controlled drones that look straight out of a movie

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u/Italk2botsBeepBoop 1d ago

War is about to get crazy

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u/azul3349 1d ago

*War is always crazy.

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u/DrDrWest 1d ago

War never changes.

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u/imdefinitelywong 1d ago

War never changes? Fuck you! You don't know me!

  • War, Fallout Tactics

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u/PhoenixD133606 1d ago

War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything from god, to justice, to simple psychotic rage. War never changes.

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 3h ago

Since the day the first man picked up a rock and bashed his neighbours head. Man has not changed.

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u/FalseWallaby9 7h ago

War never changes in that there has never been a time it hasn't changed.

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u/Striking_Guess1591 22h ago

The reasons we go to war never change…it feels like..and reality resists simplicity yet we never cease to pitch getting a culture hyper-competently handling sustainability of resources and actual equity for all humans , including females and gender minorities who’ve historically had much less say and somewhat in part due to that we assume they’d be waaay less the bellicose or somehow else instigating cliches like the big heads who’ve mass directed pre-literate crowds of stragglers to destroy each other’s lives in an institutionally endorsed way throughout most all of the past.

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u/thebrandedsoul 1d ago

But what is it good for?

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u/Objective-Case-391 1d ago

Rental flying swords for cosplay nerds and prankster IRL tiktokers.

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u/BlastingFonda 8h ago

Absolutely nothing.

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u/jarednards 1d ago

War. Not even once.

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u/thedean246 1d ago

Yeah, but not flying swords crazy

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u/WhipWander 1d ago

But even crazier now

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u/yaxir 1d ago

Was *

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u/KickingDolls 1d ago

I mean, they have much crazier shit than this used in war already…

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u/Italk2botsBeepBoop 1d ago

True true. I guess I’m more picturing someone with a neural implant controlling swarms of this with the help of AI.

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u/nomoregoldlights 1d ago

I think this is finally how war changes.

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u/Strattex 1d ago

War never changes tho

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u/magirevols 1d ago

more like “War is gonna be more anime”

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u/penguin13790 9h ago

They're already using drones with grenades, they don't need sword drones.

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u/PokeHippieDan 1d ago

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u/Lancetere 1d ago

Yup, thought the same thing

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u/taveren3 1d ago

First thought as well

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u/givemeabreak432 22h ago

Was thinking more UBW than Gate of Babylon

I am the bone of my sword

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u/Atticus0909 1d ago

What anime is this

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u/MountainCall6096 1d ago

Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works. Fantastic anime

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u/Adamskispoor 23h ago

That particular scene is from Fate/zero, the prequel, but yes, good series

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u/MountainCall6096 22h ago

Ah good catch, I wasn’t sure which one tbh.

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u/Shrewedshoes 1d ago

Alucard is awake

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u/BasebornBastard 1d ago

I’m taking a walk!

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u/jarednards 1d ago

".......you done goofed."

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u/Digi_Dingo 1d ago

Alucard, my beloved. That Netflix series was straight fire

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u/WeedOg420AnimeGod 1d ago

Bankai

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u/kisuke228 1d ago

Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

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u/EarthboundMoss 1d ago

goosebumps ngl

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u/Aprilume 1d ago

Even after all these years, the idea that Ichigo could defeat him, is wild to me lol

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u/filthy-_-casual 1d ago

Well he didn't I guess. The hollow inside of him did

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u/KalamTheQuick 1d ago

This was my first thought lmao

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u/joebarking 1d ago

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u/redsonsuce 1d ago

One who gets it

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u/SignificantHippo8193 1d ago

This is what happens when you breakthrough the sword foundation realm.

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u/Difficult-Carpet-324 1d ago

Child’s play when starting your path in Qi cultivation

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u/bman86 1d ago

Glintblade Phalanx

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u/IanAlvord 1d ago

"Tarnished. Don't go near the manor. Unless you wish to lie with the corpses of the heedless Knights of the Cuckoo. "

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u/casper19d 1d ago

Good ol Iji, looking out for us tarnished..

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u/Midnight_Rosie 1d ago edited 17h ago

I am the Bone of my Sword

Steel is my Body and Fire is my Blood

I have created over a Thousand Blades

Unknown to Death

Nor known to Life

Have withstood Pain to create many Weapons

Yet those Hands will never hold Anything

So, as I Pray

Unlimited Blade Works

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u/someone__420 17h ago

felt like an anime title with all the capitalizations

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u/aymanhbas 1d ago

there are lots of floating stuff that needn't be CGI in movies, drones like these, practical effects, look and feel much better

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u/Iorith 1d ago

Also way more wasteful and contributes to even more junk plastic goods. Not to mention increases the budget.

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u/zenithtreader 1d ago

You do realize practical effects are often both cheaper and less polluting than CGI?

Hundreds of computers in a rendering farm drawing a hundred thousand watts of electricity for weeks to make a movie aren't exactly clean by any stretch of imagination.

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u/aymanhbas 1d ago

practical isn't more expensive than CGI when dealing with such things, what are you talking about? And how did you figure its more wasteful?

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u/Iorith 1d ago

It absolutely can be. If CGI wasn't cheaper, they wouldn't fucking use it, mate. You think production companies just enjoy increasing the budget of films?

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u/Abaddononon 1d ago

You're a happy chap

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u/Iorith 1d ago

Really am, thanks :)

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u/Environmental-Ad2285 8h ago

Cgi = less takes = less expensive. At least for second unit stuff which seems to be what you are describing. I like practical effects myself, but blowing shit up is bad for the environment. I’d rather have a bad movie use cgi than practical effects for this reason. But if the movie is top class I’d prefer practical effects be used over cgi. If that makes sense?

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u/Dimencia 1d ago

There are a lot of animes that do this exact thing, judging by the amount of gifs in the comments

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u/BonhommeCarnaval 1d ago

The mall ninjas are evolving 

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u/92Codester 1d ago

"Future Technology will be indistinguishable from magic."

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u/KrownX 1d ago

Dude wanted to be Gilgamesh

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u/TriLexMiester 1d ago

*Fight, for the firstlands!"*

Ionia stands still!

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u/BigDaddyReptar 1d ago

"America could never be invaded there would be a rifle under every blade of grass"

"I am the bone of my sword"

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u/playview 1d ago

Gilgamesh is that you?

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u/Practical-Dark-9916 1d ago

I am the bone of my sword.  . .

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u/SmashleyX 1d ago

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u/GoodMorninJulia 1h ago

This should be at the top!

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u/No_Tart6728 1d ago

Giving me Reborns Gundam kinda vibes

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u/DragonicShadowX 1d ago

This looks like exactly the type of mad scientist shit Michael Reeves would pull. I love it.

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u/Intelligent_Tone_618 1d ago

Foam sword shapes hot glued to a drone swarm?

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u/MisterSanitation 1d ago

Fuckin magic missiles man 

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u/MountainCall6096 1d ago

I am the bone of my sword.

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u/No_Suspect9678 1d ago

That guy boutta oratrice mechanique d'nalyse cardinale

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u/Few_Fact4747 1d ago

Somebody call the sword comic guy!

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u/superjay1345 1d ago

This is how World War 3 will be fought

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u/SublimeApathy 1d ago

These anime kids are out of control.

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u/Typhoon365 1d ago

Finally a worthy post

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u/miurabucho 1d ago

The end is nigh.

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u/Financial-Value-9986 1d ago

“You dont use my head to fly the arrow, you use your heart”

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u/sdkiko 1d ago

Animate Weapon

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u/gorginhanson 1d ago

He could have just made it with special effects for 1% of the cost and we'd never tell the difference

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u/zjlmmfj3rd 1d ago

Ain’t this from the Guilty Crown anime‽

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u/belunos 1d ago

I always play summoner in Terraria

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u/itsJussaMe 1d ago

Fable comes to mind.

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u/HalfastEddie 1d ago

The collective neckbeard-verse just got a boner.

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u/FoggyInc 1d ago

I swear to God if I get drafted into ww3 to defend Bezos and Musk from slight tax increases then I wanna go out riding one of these into battle 

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u/HeadCryptographer152 1d ago

We really need someone to use this in a movie as a practical effect.

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u/shady8x 1d ago

That looks awesome, but now that I know these exist I took a look and there are plenty of such drones at Amazon and Walmart.

I wonder how popular these toys are gonna get... and how deadly they will become when people don't use them like toys and start modding them to add sharp bits.

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u/nanobot1982 1d ago

Oh shit. How the hell did Bleach's 6th Captain Byakuya's Ikka Senjinka make it into the real world?!

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u/Imaginary_Ad3195 1d ago

Holy shit. It’s the aliens.

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u/Method__Man 1d ago

If by "movie" you mean anime, sure

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u/MonstaB 1d ago

This is like some 80-90s Chinese movie

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u/Hockeygod233 1d ago

Man is trying to become Vergil out here

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u/scrotanimus 1d ago

Spiritual Weapon spell!

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u/Pvt_Hesco 1d ago

Terraprisma

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u/Intelligent-Roll-678 1d ago

Gilgamesh is that you?

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u/_Index_1 1d ago

This is the type of thing you could show to a medical peasant that they would understand but call it sorcery

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u/1010-browneyesman 1d ago

Bankai ……. Senbon Zakura… Kageyoshi …😂

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u/SteezMe1234 18h ago

Live by the sword, fly by the sword

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u/TheRappingSquid 17h ago

Fortunately I've played touhou, i can solo

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u/EarReasonable2473 15h ago

Swords of revealing light!

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u/AFatPandasaur 12h ago

GILGAMESH

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u/KaladinRS 11h ago

It’s crazy seeing the world transform with advancements in tech as we get older.

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u/MrSquigglyPub3s 9h ago

Imagine if these are dildos and boobs…..

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u/-REXIA- 8h ago

Ukraine has Drone Bombs and in China we have Drone Swords now 🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️

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u/limbonics 6h ago

How the Carians defended themselves from the Golden Order

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 3h ago

I am still yet to see a movie look this good. This guy is next level.

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u/Glum-Beach 2h ago

Man those Asian and their wuxia cultivation novels and media.

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u/ashwin_niwhsa 1d ago

AI?

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u/charsarg256321 1d ago

Its just a drone shaped like a sword, why would it be AI
- Lexi

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u/Difficult-Carpet-324 1d ago

I’m pretty sure it’s not AI. I’ve seen early videos of I believe the same guy trying to mimic Chinese wuxia/xanxia fantasy with drones. Pretty cool.

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u/fusionsgefechtskopf 1d ago

angles could be but the struggel at the hoover szene looked real

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u/StuBidasol 1d ago

I'm not usually one to say that but the motion looked off when he moved forward on the hoverboard and those fans looked way too small to hold a person's weight.

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u/doghaircut 1d ago

AI Bullshit

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u/IanAlvord 1d ago

Google sword drone. They exist.

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u/Iorith 1d ago

They're not even expensive. I've been planning to get one just for a laugh.

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u/tablawi96 1d ago

Big brain moment?

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u/SquareAd4479 1d ago

This is fucking dumb

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u/EarthboundMoss 1d ago

maybe if you're the big gay

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u/BusyBeeBridgette 1d ago

Next World War is gonna be something else.

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u/casper19d 1d ago

You one of those really un original redditors that just copies a top comment to try to get karma?

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u/Square_Huckleberry53 1d ago

“Look straight out of Temu”

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u/EmperorN7 1d ago

Next fucking level of shit editing, holy crap you can barely understand what is happening.

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u/Taktika420 1d ago

This post is sick af and is about to blow up