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Comment author: robot-dreams 09 January 2015 08:39:27AM 4 points [-]

+1 for probably missing more criteria than any other suggestion given here.

  • You do need expensive equipment
  • You do need to be in a particular location (ninja school)
  • You do need special credentials (what, you think anyone can become a ninja?)
  • Good luck getting reliable information online
  • Good luck learning without a teacher
  • If you make a mistake, you don't get "rapid feedback, leading to rapid growth", you just die
  • How is ninjutsu intellectually stimulating?

Admittedly, I think I'll have to grudgingly give you "unforgiving" and "badass".

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2015 04:12:27PM 0 points [-]

LOL. Not that this was an entirely serious suggestion, but what expensive equipment do you need? Why do you need special credentials or a school? Why any mistake automatically leads to death?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 09 January 2015 05:02:18PM 0 points [-]

what expensive equipment do you need?

Lots of rope, grappling hooks, throwing stars, daggers, blowgun and darts, noiseless shoes, noiseless clothes, smoke bombs...

Why do you need special credentials or a school?

You need at least very specialized training in infiltration, poisoning, different unarmed and armed combat styles, wilderness survival...

Why any mistake automatically leads to death?

Falling off a roof, falling off a tight rope, falling off a wall, swallowing your own blow dart, cutting yourself with your own poisoned dagger, being caught by the enemy...

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2015 05:08:21PM 0 points [-]

noiseless clothes

That would be a cotton T-shirt :-)

You need at least very specialized training in infiltration, poisoning, different unarmed and armed combat styles, wilderness survival...

In the same way that being a programmer requires very specialized training in microprocessor architectures, assembler, design and properties of algorithms, software architectures, standard libraries...

Comment author: polymathwannabe 09 January 2015 05:25:23PM 0 points [-]

You can teach yourself to code. You can't teach yourself to fight a dozen armed guards.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2015 05:57:03PM 1 point [-]

If a ninja has to fight a dozen armed guards, the ninja has already failed :-P

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