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2014-04-14, 12:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
I really wonder how many other webcomics generate this kind of discussion?
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2014-04-14, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
I actually taken my own line of thought regarding this side of the argument from SFDebris, in his review of "His Way", where he discuss the illogism of having Odo (a liquid specie who reproduce assexually) wanting to have an intimate relationship with a female character.
edit: however, it makes more sense for a being like Odo to associate/identify with a specific gender --> he was raised and developped among beings who all have this dichotomy.Last edited by Cikomyr; 2014-04-14 at 01:21 PM.
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2014-04-14, 02:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-14, 03:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
Yes you do.
Gender isn't sex. Gender is the grammatical concept which determines language elements like which pronoun you use. And "neutral", as it exists in English (and many other languages) is a gender.
Many languages do not have a neutral gender at all, instead having only the masculine and feminine genders. For instance in French, liver is masculine (le foie) and tooth is feminine (la dent). In other languages like German, there is a neutral gender but sexless concepts can still have a non-neutral gender. Note that despite the association with sexes, masculine does not imply maleness, and feminine does not imply femaleness. For example in German the word for little girl is Mädchen, which is a diminutive form of Magd (cf. English "maid"; a calque of Mädchen in English would be something like "maidling") and there's a rule in German language that all diminutives in -chen are neutral. So suppose you have a little German Girl named Gretel: if you refer to her as "Gretel", her gender is feminine; if you refer to her as a Mädchen, her gender is neutral. Some other languages do not have masculine and feminine genders at all, but instead have "animate" and "inanimate" genders, so a man and a woman would have the same gender, but a man and a table wouldn't.Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2014-04-14, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
Pfft. You should see some of the discussions on the (current) official board.
Just remember, as someone (*coff*me*coff*) once posted:
But we have no arguments here. We have civilized, rational, intelligent discussions, punctuated with the occasional burst of heavy weapons fire. But no arguments.
An armed Schlock Mercenary forum is a polite Schlock Mercenary forum.
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2014-04-15, 12:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
That sounds exactly like the sort of crowd who would read Schlock Mercenary.
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2014-04-15, 07:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
"Hey there. Just FYI, our main gun also happens to be a WMD"
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2014-04-15, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-15, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
More than just the ships. I'm not sure any of the Toughs carry a weapon that wouldn't qualify for WMD status depending on your definition of "mass." Man-portable anti-starship fullerened antimatter RPG's, concealed antimatter grenades, that little pistol of Murtagh's, everything Shlock has ever touched.
Actually, does Legs carry a sidearm at all? I don't remember.Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2014-04-15, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
It sounds more like the array irradiates the hell out of itself rather than whatever it's targeting. Also we know there's something going on with the ship, this could be an elaborate story to keep her from getting a look at it to see what it actually is.
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2014-04-15, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
It seems then, that I used a wrong term for what I tried to say. I never would have guessed, that the grammatical term for variety in personal pronouns is also gender. In my language the word used for it has nothing to do with gender and aside from feminie, masculine and neutral, there is also a distinction between personal and nonpersonal nouns. To makes things funnier, in plural form there is only personal-masculine and non-personal-masculine (or non-masculine-personal - I'm not sure, how to translate that). And then you learn, that some nouns don't have singular form even if they refer to single objects.
At any rate, I still think, that the choice of pronoun has little to do with the composition of the hive-mind in question, since one can have organs with varied grammatical gender and it has no baring on the gender of the whole being.In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2014-04-15, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-15, 10:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
+1--although it might not even be an elaborate story; it could be the unvarnished truth, and so long as what the Toughs are trying to hide isn't subject to radiation damage, it could be kept in the dangerous place just fine (although getting it in and out might be a problem!).
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2014-04-15, 07:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
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2014-04-15, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-17, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
In all fairness, arguing: "Yhea, I know there are thousands of fakers, but MY pill will genuinely enlarge your penis" is rarely a selling argument for scammers.
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2014-04-17, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Somewhere out there, there's a Nigerian prince who lost 100 lbs. in 30 days and makes $2000/week from home, who wants nothing more in life than to help other people.
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2014-04-17, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2014-04-17, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sanity is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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2014-04-17, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-17, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-17, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-18, 03:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
Last edited by Radar; 2014-04-18 at 03:32 AM.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2014-04-18, 10:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
The UNS does not play anywhere near as nice as the U.S. does in its grimmest moments. The UNS, in fact, appears to be an openly, unapologetically violent dictatorship whose legal system grants people with even moderate amounts of authority the power of life and death over any prisoner, permits torture to be used openly at the whim of any officer, and which is ready to kill anyone and anything who crosses it even minorly. I personally can't see much difference between the UNS and the Obenn, other than the amount of fur.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2014-04-19, 06:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
I got the impression that the UNS may have formal rules against that stuff; it just doesn't enforce them at all well. However, a recent footnote on one strip said the UNS legislative body is explicitly a plutocracy - so no, it's not even trying much to look nice.
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2014-04-19, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
The UNS, more precisely two representatives of one element of one branch of the UNS military, has been shown to be willing to take out the crew of one small warship and carry out a deniable strike with disposable mercenaries in order to preserve secrecy. Meanwhile, when the Toughs accepted a contract to take out a pair of street gangs (granted, that was a bonus to get paid more times for something they were going to do anyway), they used non-lethal means only, while the same was true when they believed they were hired for riot control, and they preferred to pay the Tough's superfortress to go away instead of simply sending a couple of battleplates to crush it into fuel. In addition, the UNS is an openly multispecies nation with very clear traditions of equality.
The O'Benn are openly xenocidal and plan to execute the entire galaxy for the crime of "existing while not being O'benn."
We've seen plenty of nastiness out of the UNS, to be sure. O'benn nasty? Not even close.
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2014-04-19, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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I agree with Gnoman. I mean, the USN have had some disreputable elements in its military and intelligence agencies, but they are just trying to preserve their security.
O'Benn are openly genocidal and warmongerers. They make me think of myself when I play a 4X space game
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2014-04-21, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary IV: Chrome and Punishment
Man, is there anything short of hard vaccuum that can hinder Schlock's hearing?
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2014-04-21, 09:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-04-21, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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