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Let staplers substitute for staple guns in surgery. - Studenterhue - 10-10-2019

As far as I know, while you can use regular knives in place of scalpels, among other substitutes, there isn't a back-alley equivalent for staple guns. I propose those red staplers you get from office supply closets should be those substitutes, allowing them to function as staple guns during surgery. (Just to be clear, I don't think it should substitute for the staple gun in the zip gun recipe.) After all, office staples, medical staples, paper, people, what's the difference?

RE: Let staplers substitute for staple guns in surgery. - Sick Ness Monster - 10-10-2019

If it's good enough for Amateur Surgeon it's good enough for the amateur surgeons of Goon

RE: Let staplers substitute for staple guns in surgery. - UrsulaMejor - 10-10-2019

I'm pretty sure that staplers already do stand in for staple guns...

Like...

I'm pretty sure that the staplers are literally just staple guns with a different sprite.

At least, that's how it used to be!
This is a bug.

surgery checks for:
Code:
    surgery(var/obj/item/tool)
        if(remove_stage > 1 && tool.type == /obj/item/staple_gun)
            remove_stage = 0

this should be:

Code:
    surgery(var/obj/item/tool)
        if(remove_stage > 1 && istype(tool,/obj/item/staple_gun))
            remove_stage = 0

The intent clearly was to have red staplers work for surgery, as staplers used to literally just be staple guns with a manually edited sprite on the map:

Code:
/obj/item/staple_gun{desc = "A red stapler.  No, not THAT red stapler."; icon = 'icons/obj/items.dmi'; icon_state = "stapler"; item_state = "stapler"; layer = 7; name = "stapler"}

My guess is that some coder decided that office closets should probably contain regular staplers instead of stapleguns like they used to:

Code:
/obj/storage/closet/office
    name = "office supply closet"
    desc = "Various supplies for the modern office."
    make_my_stuff()
        ..()

                [SNIP]

        var/obj/item/staple_gun/B6 = new /obj/item/staple_gun(src)
        B6.pixel_y = -5
        B6.pixel_x = -4

and made a child object; probably /obj/item/staple_gun/red

and since the surgery tool check does .type == instead of istype()... whatever coder did this broke office supply surgery.

RE: Let staplers substitute for staple guns in surgery. - UrsulaMejor - 10-15-2019

https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=13144&pid=140838#pid140838