Comments on: Goes Great With Eggs!

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:15:03 +0000

I’d guess the salsa rule just means she’s so dead, it’s done for…

By: Jigsaw Forte

Jigsaw Forte — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:59:35 +0000

@EvilSupahFly Her eyes are expressive, but the rest of her mask is not. The “permenant smile” is an intended effect, but it’s been in effect for more than just this page.

By: EvilSupahFly

EvilSupahFly — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:41:35 +0000

I just noticed this, but in Panel 1, it looks like she died with a smile. Was that the intended effect?

By: hariman

hariman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:32:58 +0000

Kalatash: Ironically, the Chunky Salsa Effect is the result of explosions bouncing off of walls in Shadowrun. It’s actually possible to survive such incidences of massive damage, if you’re both massively tough and extremely well armored. And incredibly lucky.

Chunky Salsa Rules are a rather different thing. Which we’ve already covered repeatedly.

EveryZig: I’d say that there’s half of the primary brain. I think the snakes either don’t have proper grey matter and are controlled by the primary brain. Although they could have mini brains that work with the main brain.

Either way, it’s obvious that the primary brain has to be intact and the snake heads aren’t enough to keep poor Sally alive.

EvilSupahFly: Thank you! Although I did NOT read that in a Harry Potter fanfic. It’s just one of the random musings that came from the depths of my mind.

By: EveryZig

EveryZig — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:12:58 +0000

By half “a” brain es she mean half of one of the small brains, or half of the total?
Chunky Salsa rule –>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChunkySalsaRule

By: Kalatash

Kalatash — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:04:45 +0000

As far as I know, the ‘chunky salsa rule’ comes from tabletop RPGs, which basically state that in certain situations, no matter how good your stats, you are going to suffer from a critical existence failure. I think in Shadowrun [which actually CALLS it the 'Chunky Salsa Rule'], the definitive example is throwing a frag grenade into a sealed room with your victim.

By: EvilSupahFly

EvilSupahFly — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:51:21 +0000

Killed to the Nth degree of dead. I like that. There’s “Half Dead” then there’s “Really Dead” and then you’ve got “Very Dead”. After that I think is “Extremely Dead” then there’s “Dead to the Nth Degree.”

Though I must confess, I think I read that in a Harry Potter fanfic once…

By: Janus

Janus — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:05:39 +0000

I can’t stop giggling over the argument. “SHE’S DEAD DAMNIT.” “STOP THAT.” “DEAD!”

By: hariman

hariman — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:24:52 +0000

The Chunky Salsa Rule. Jonathansfox has the best summation that I’ve ever read. Salsa Rules are the rules that state “I don’t care what special defenses, items, blessings or WHAT you have, YOU ARE DEAD!”

It’s reassuring to see that dead means dead once people get killed to the Nth degree of dead. Nobody Dies and Death is Cheap stories are annoying.

I wonder who is going to die (for our entertainment) next?

By: jonathansfox

jonathansfox — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:01:56 +0000

Salsa rule — if your head resembles salsa, you’re dead.