hyperme
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It's reasonably well-known that a Slayer heading to an orb or plate will happily mow down Guards and other Slayers with its hook, when they usually avoid doing that. This is because they don't check for stab-safety when doing that kind of move. This specific behaviour is unlikely to change.

However, stab-safety also applies to bombs and kegs, and it's a lot more unusual that a Slayer will explode themselves. They should probably make a decent effort at avoiding stabbing bombs and kegs no matter where they might be heading.

This probably won't break any rooms because it's very clearly weird, although some demos will get invalidated.

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averagemoe
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You know that this is actually canon, right?

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I remembered that story, but I thought it involved stabbing the other slayer directly. I didn't recall that there was a bomb.

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Doing demos checks for this change suggests that only one demo will get broken by it. And the demo that will be broken is the one that prompted the bug report. So this change is fine, I think.

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PR 877 (thanks, hyperme!)