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2010-04-13, 06:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
I apologize for the short most likely poorly worded posts, I'm currently in a hospital typing this up on my iPod. So far they've only lost twice, and one of them you said was fine. The other was adequately explained. The seal analogy works well - in the case I'm referring to it's more like a land mine, snipers or a grenade that the seals didn't know about.
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2010-04-13, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
I'm just saying that showing them acting in a way consistent with what they are shouldn't be that hard, plus Fay has expressed a complete disregard for how the soldiers should be acting or how tough they're supposed to be in her comments simply because "They're faceless mooks!" which is a pretty poor defense.
I, at least, am not asking for Fayte to get his ass handed to him - I'm just saying that if the intention is to have him completely slaughter a troop of special forces who, being special forces, should have intel and know what they're dealing with? Then even I have a problem with that.
If, of course, that's not the intention, then I apologize to Fay - but so far she's made it pretty clear that that's what she was intending to do.
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2010-04-13, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Someone could make a deset NPC and help Fay out or something...
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2010-04-13, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Another FI up. I'm done for today. G'night.
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2010-04-13, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-13, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
I don't remember exactly where it was posted (might be the IRC) but Fay mentioned that he plans to have the squad and Fayte fight so that Fayte still wins but the four of them and him are fairly even. (Don't quote me on that, please.)
What i don't understand is that there's been no indication besides Fayte's confidence that he's going to slaughter them like a forest fire slaughters trees, either, yet it is being treated that way.
I did look back for the comment you mentioned - what he said was that he considered going back and changing it but chose not to since it's his comic and four nameless facelesses. Mooks? No. But nobody's going to hear about how much their son is going to miss them when they die either.
A pointed statement that does not actually change the invalidity of your point in any conceivable manner. In fact, it kind of makes it worse (at least in my eyes) because humans are more emotional than logical anyway.Last edited by Kumo; 2010-04-13 at 09:58 PM.
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2010-04-13, 10:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Last edited by The Gremlin; 2010-04-13 at 10:52 PM.
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2010-04-14, 01:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
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2010-04-14, 05:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 06:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
For love of plot, I leave this thread for month or two to finish my exams and Peacekeepers have became so elite that PC:s don't stand a chance against them? It seems my fears on the matter were justified.
Let's see if I can add something original to "peacekeepers own you" vs. "peacekeepers are owned"- argument. We all know that Special Tactics Peacekeepers are not pushovers, but they should get this much of an advantage. Why? Because in the setting they have effectively limitless resources and reinforcements at their beck and call, and if PC:s try to do something original, Mask can just resort to "they bring in hundred peacekeepers more, you die"-card. What fun is it if the outcome of the fights is decided in advance by crushing superiority of Peacekeepers simply trough Elite Mook Zerg Rush? This is not very fair nor is it fun.
And second point concerning the behaviour of the Peacekeepers. I don't think every single one of them would do everything "by the book", nor I see the harm in letting writers portray them in their own invidual styles. Should they be portrayed as total morons who cannot hit a wall of office building while inside it? No, they should not be portrayed thusly and they have not been. One missed piece of protocol should not be allowed to topple the Canon status of comic. If Mask comes down amongst us and lays down the "ultimate rules of portraying Peacekeepers" then I would propably listen. Othervice it makes no difference as long as not done so wrong it has to be intentional.
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2010-04-14, 06:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Solution is simple: Get Rand to kill 'em.
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2010-04-14, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
If you had read my posts, at least, you would know that my point was not that they should be unbeatable - far from it - simply that they should be beaten in a matter that makes sense given their 'elite' status. My argument has been that 'Outsmarting the special forces = yes, Blowing them to hell without a challenge = no'.
So far, nobody has done the latter, but given that things appeared to be going that way, I spoke my piece. We have plenty of easily beatable Public Order peacekeepers, so why use the special forces in a comic where they are not depicted as special forces, you know? I'm not saying they should all be the spawn of Chuck Norris and Satan, I'm just trying to remind people that they should be competent, given that these aren't just any old random picked off the street, these are specially trained soldiers. They make mistakes, yes, but they shouldn't be bumbling mooks.
Once again, so far no one has portrayed them like this, but it's better to remind people preemptively than to have to argue after the fact. No harm done.
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2010-04-14, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
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I could make it so that your comic will fit in some time later. Next thing the werewolves are gonna do is head back to the citadel and try to get threeshades back on her feet.
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2010-04-14, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
It's a group.
Of Resistance members.
From various races.
All of whom are werewolves.
F'kin A!
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2010-04-14, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Well, after seeing your latest comic I was wondering if perhaps Fin could cross paths with the WereWolf group (and TS's body) en route to the citadel... I always wanted to ride a WereWolf...
Also, to feed your need for feedback: I was very impressed with wolfy ambushers, I like your stylez! Though I can't help but think that the drow's hair was the thing took the longest time to draw... It is very intricate.
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2010-04-14, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
It seems people can't take non-magic users as serious threats. Maybe some sort of UNA magic division? It seems weird that there isn't one, aside from the Ghosts.
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2010-04-14, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Last edited by Mina Kobold; 2010-04-14 at 12:21 PM.
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2010-04-14, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
He said 'mightier' not 'more convenient'
A bullet in real life might kill you if you are in plain sight without a bulletproof vest* while magic can summon creatures who shrug of grenades like pebbles, lay waste to entire cities, turn friend against friend and much, much more.
It might not be easy to get that much power but the magic itself is not weaker than bullets.
* I acknowledge that it's still incredibly dangerous, just nothing near magic.
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THAT. IS. NOT. MIGHT!
Might is potential and power, not how coonvenient it is to do it!Last edited by Mina Kobold; 2010-04-14 at 01:12 PM.
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2010-04-14, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-14, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXXI - The Gift of Fish
Oh stop being so lazy
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149053