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2018-08-18, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
I count four of these ultra-fancy new battletetraeders. Looks like someone could really use all these chopped up Oafan hulls. And first thing they did was jumpstart a massive armament.
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2018-08-19, 12:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
I still don't see the point of this new battleplate design. Given that we know there's a limit to how big annie plants can be, these ones are *less* powerful than the pentagonal battleplates we've seen before--their only advantage is having much greater internal volume, and I'm struggling to see how that *is* an advantage.
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2018-08-19, 01:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-19, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Within the last few years, the UNS has seen at least two battleplates destroyed because of their dependence on gravitic weapons. A battleplate is an incredibly valuable strategic asset, so it's not surprising that there'd be a big shift in military doctrine as a result.
The 'bastions' at the edges of a Carbon-class battleplate have very good coverage with point-defence cannons, masers, railguns, and whatever those super-heavy turrets are carrying -- no matter how a target tries to manoeuvre, at least half of a Carbon's 'conventional' weapons should be able to engage it. Most of those weapons could theoretically have dedicated power sources, while the four annie plants allow the battleplate to still have most of the previous generations' gravitic capabilities.
It's possible that the UNS have gotten a lot better at building warships recently as well: it may just be a perspective thing, but this comic seems to imply that the carbons are also huge, even larger than the previous battleplate generations, and those super-heavy turrets could potentially be the size of the ship you'd get if you took a "lance frigate" like Juab and scaled it up to the size of a destroyer/super-destroyer/carrier.Last edited by lesser_minion; 2018-08-19 at 08:25 AM.
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2018-08-19, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Will see what happens, but right now this looks like more UNS ham-handed, heavy-handed, rush-in-before-you-understand garbage.
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2018-08-22, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Remember, when we first saw a carbon-class, we were told it was a 9+, and outgunned any prior ship.
So, either there's another giant annieball in the middle, or there is a traditional power plant in the middle that can power weapons if the annies are shut down.
Remember, they have dealt with shutting down annies and relying on capacitors. That would basically be limited by the size of the capacitor, right? Where can you put a giant capacitor in a normal flat plate?Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-08-22, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
At least Breya's ultimately in charge, at least for the time being, and can be counted on to put some breaks on the UNS's more ridiculous instincts.
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2018-08-22, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-01, 08:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Random observation. Today's strip calls the skyscraper / location where Tagon is "Tower of Barad-Mellon". If we take the word 'Tower' to have been in lower case, it's simply a building called 'Barad-Mellon'. My Sindarin is a little rusty, but that should translate to "Friend Tower". So it's the tower of Friend Tower. The tautology club meets on the first floor, in the room where the tautology club meets.
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2018-09-01, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
This happens in language all the time.
See, people referring to "ATM machines" and "shrimp scampi".
IIRC there's some hill somewhere that's been renamed repeatedly with the word for "hill" in each new language of each new people to come to the area tacked on to what it was called by the people already there... so that the name is now, literally, "Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill".Last edited by Max_Killjoy; 2018-09-01 at 11:16 PM.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2018-09-01, 11:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-02, 01:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think you're thinking of Torpenhow Hill there? While "Tor", "Pen" and "How" are all different words for "Hill", so that would be a quadruple tautology, it rather fails on the fact that there isn't actually anywhere called Torpenhow Hill! There's a village called Torpenhow, so that's a triple tautology, though.
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2018-09-02, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
The real question here is why does that tower not follow the standard PD naming scheme.
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2018-09-02, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Yes and no. Torpenhow is adjacent to a hill, from which it likely took its name. Unfortunately, tor and pen are both from the same language, and when used together they mean “top of the hill”. As you say, the village’s hill isn’t actually called anything either, so Torpenhow is a simple double tautology: top of the hill hill. Although I suppose it does get some irony points from not being on said top of the hill.
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2018-09-02, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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The bribe was accepted in self defense
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Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-09-02, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-02, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-02, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-02, 08:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be honest the only thing I can think of is that it wasn't built by Petey but a bussiness owner that set up shop in the Plenipotent Dominion.
Either that or there was simply no way to get "Friend Tower" to have the initials P.D. but, with me being fluent in only one language and only knowing a handful of words in a handful of other languages, I can't confirm that.
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2018-09-02, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-03, 12:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The bribe was accepted in self defense
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-09-03, 03:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-03, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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I like the bribery title as well.
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2018-09-06, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
About the current stuff, if you abandon your stuff for more than a few decades with no indication you will ever claim it again and others have been using it imo it eventually stops being your stuff. Maybe moving out when you come back is the right thing to do, especially if it wasn't your choice, but making any other claims like about the stuff the new owners sold off that is pretty shameless.
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2018-09-06, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Here there used to be squatter's rights, where if you could live in a house without paying rent for ten years, it became yours, but that law was changed.
If the owners were captive in the basement, that would not do under sqatter's rights, Tagon would be on kidnapping charges for that.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2018-09-06, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Even if, as in the comic, he didn't know they were there?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Toughs have zero indication that there were Oafan survivors around?
Well, other than the handful of resurrected Oafans that they made the actual deals with? To me that sounds like buying the house from the owner's inheritors, when the owners have been missing and presumed dead for 50 years.Last edited by Max_Killjoy; 2018-09-06 at 10:43 AM.
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2018-09-06, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Well in the house case someone would have to feed them to have living owners instead of corpses, nobody might believe that a new inhabitant was there but somebody else continued to sneak in food without him noticing. Though I guess the owners could serve as witnesses against that.
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2018-09-06, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
Yeah, I wasn't connecting those dots.
I was thinking that in a real house, you would have to know if people trapped in your basement were getting food and water, and flushing loos, there's no way you could not know there were people there.
However, the situation changes when the Toughs etc do know there are survivors there. The Oafans are in a virtual world I think? so they might be okay with the Toughs having the real can full of sky if they can migrate to an all-star for instance, but I think by rights it would be the Oafan's choice.Last edited by halfeye; 2018-09-06 at 11:03 AM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2018-09-06, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VIII: insAIne in the mAInfrAIme
I'm surprised we haven't seen anything from the resurrected Oafans yet. Maybe the ones in cyberspace have yet to really figure out there are ones out in meatspace already? One the one they last brought back was a VERY high ranker and would have proper authority. Also wasn't Iafa the proper authority there when the Toughs first arrived? Haven't seen Iafa either yet.
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2018-09-06, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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