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2012-10-12, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
They may be hiding UNS involvement by hiring mercenary fleets. Don't forget also that for some reason a lot of battleplates are close to Earth. They may deploy one of those but only as last resort.
Last edited by teratorn; 2012-10-12 at 02:39 PM.
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2012-10-12, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Right, I didn't expect that. But isn't TAG a light cruiser? I'd expect a battleship or two to be sent in, and that would be far more difficult.
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2012-10-12, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Don't mistake Schlock ship designations for those 20th/21st century Anglo/American types.
Touch-and-Go was a originally a 450 meter Daehremman destroyer, now cut down to perhaps 300 to 350 meters (I don't believe Howard has said exactly), but still within the same size range as either a UNS destroyer (200-400 meter, eg Breya's flagship Athens was a 400 meter destroyer) or a UNS batlleship (eg, the embassy ship Terra Firminator was also about 400 meters.)
Their relative firepower or mission usage is unclear, but the Colonel Pranger (nee Integrity, later TAG) did not seem overly concerned about being fired on by what they mistook for a battleship.
A Schlockiverse cruiser is much smaller. Both the Kitesfear (Dragon class cruiser) and the Serial Peacemaker (modified Ob'enn troop ship but referred to as "cruiser size") were in the 30 to 60 meter range.
Of course, Ceepee was probably a bit more competent then Ennesby.ChowGuy - The LaChoy Dragon - Servant of the Tiger and disciple of the Wanderer
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2012-10-14, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Nothing like a weapon delivery system that manages to be about as horrible as the weapon itself.
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-14, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Whoever the girl is, she looks like she's dead by the fifth panel--even in comics, human jaws are not designed to open that wide! Scratch her being Krum, in that case.
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2012-10-14, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-14, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
This leads me to wonder why the toughs didn't have armor when they started, seeing as both Tagons wore the stuff during the terraforming wars. Maybe Captain Tagon just didn't have the budget for the stuff, and never really got into a position to need it until the stupid food commandos.
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2012-10-14, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
That strip suggests that the ship, before being torn in half and rebuilt, wasn't so outclassed by a UNS battleship that it wasn't worth fighting. It does not suggest that they could eliminate even one battleship with the ease that is being displayed in this current fight, especially since NSB readily admits he's not that good at it. Thus, the attack now is not being pressed with the force that I would expect. In other words, it's a trap.
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2012-10-14, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-14, 11:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
That would just change the decision of who plays the bees in the analogy.
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2012-10-19, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Ventura's reaction can mean one of two things. 1) that processing power is drastically important for some reason that we as non-AI-experts can't guess at. 2) the suicide order has gone through. 1 is probably better than 2, if only because it means Ventura is still around to help.
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2012-10-19, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
My guess is - it's being consumed by TAGII. She's no longer 'in the ball'... she's literally in the ship...
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2012-10-19, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Remember that one comic we had of "Trapped" Tagii going insane?
I think what Ventura realized is that, when they disconnected Tagii, all they did was shut her off from the ships systems, NOT the processing power. She's got all that processing power, and nothing to do with it. She just realized that, while they've been talking, Tagii has been trapped, alone, in her own mind, for what feels like centuries.
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2012-10-19, 02:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-19, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-20, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Wow.
Uhh..... yeah.
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2012-10-20, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Um... wow.
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2012-10-21, 02:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
It certainly sheds new light on Karl's comment about "If there has to be a sacrifice..." No wonder he's so hard on Kaff "still playing captain"; he's never forgiven him for hesitating. And I expect Kaff's never forgiven himself either and that's why he left active duty.
Last edited by ChowGuy; 2012-10-21 at 02:05 AM.
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2012-10-21, 02:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I agree with ChowGuy there. It certainly explains where the current coolness between Kaff and his father started.
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2012-10-24, 02:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
SpoilerHey someone that didn't get turned. And an important source of info.
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2012-10-24, 07:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I wonder why she's still herself. Did she never watch TV, and thus not receive the reprogramming, or is it something less likely to be a one-off, such as being female? I could see a transformation into a male soldier failing due to differences in female physiology.
On the other hand, these appear to be the Laz'r'us nannies which are pretty much super-tech, and they're also the same nannies that made her female in the first place; it would have to be something like an oversight by the programmers or a problem with applying an exactly identical program to everyone, it's certainly not a lack in basic capability.Like 4X (aka Civilization-like) gaming? Know programming? Interested in game development? Take a look.
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2012-10-24, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-24, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-24, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I think it's more likely she just didn't look at a TV since they started broadcasting the activation signal.
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2012-10-24, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Danita, she's an excavation engineer.
Unlikely, given her reference to "lately, I'm the greeter" I'm inclined to think her initial job being pretty much done, she's now being used to fill in on other duties(*). She may in fact have been among the first personnel on the scene, so escaped whatever corruption Crum/Emm later cooked up.
(*) Typical. We engineers do all the work of figuring out how to get the job done, then someogrebean-counter comes in and says, "OK, thanks, we'll take it from here."
ETA for smiley, lest I offend someogrebean-counterLast edited by ChowGuy; 2012-10-24 at 03:02 PM.
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2012-10-26, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
"The Magic Word".
I was waiting for someone to suggest they bug out. Red-hack is scary stuff.
So, predictions for the other shoe dropping? How soon will it be till something new emerges that makes leaving difficult or impossible? I'm guessing we'll see it tomorrow, and in 10 days Tagon's team, Elf's team, and Kevyn's team will all aware of it.Last edited by Thomar_of_Uointer; 2012-10-26 at 09:24 PM.
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2012-10-26, 09:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
My prediction: The evac gets interrupted by Krum's plan B.
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-27, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-27, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
It already *is* difficult to evac, IMHO--they have half their team at the bottom of a six-kilometre shaft, and we have no idea if Ennesby's control over the Touch-and-Go's teraports is precise enough to get them out. If they have to fly out then that's going to take time, and that gives opportunities for something else to happen that stops them in their tracks.
Plus, of course, the decision isn't Elf's to make anyway--it's actually up to Kevyn whether they pull out or not.