Comments on: Baby Got Backup!

By: e_voyager

e_voyager — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:36:16 +0000

should that happen i plan to be far away (dead or off planet) should the solyent menu every become a reality

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:22:21 +0000

@e_voyager: I just hope I’m not around when people have no choice but to eat each other. 😕

@The_Rippy_One: Perhaps more veracious than bitter? 🙂

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:55:29 +0000

E_voyager is just a little bit bitter about the local species…

By: e_voyager

e_voyager — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:20:31 +0000

@sulucamas creepy but true it was video of an intelligent spices being slaughter for food in a hybrid Celeste ship that lead in no small part to earth’s taking up arms against the Celeste hybrids. we on earth my kill each other by the thousands each hour of each day but we don’t eat those that can speak a recognized language and show provable signs of intelligence. it may be a saving grace for an otherwise insane / backwards species called man.

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:41:49 +0000

@The_Rippy_One: I get the impression that the Hybrids would eat the Talmi, like the Aztecs would eat Chihuahuas. If you're going to use them as slaves, why not use them as food? The RPG Rulebook almost says as much, and the footnote about SeHNS could be seen to match up with the notion. It seems like a strong way to exercise further dominion over an enslaved people, and might even have worked as population control, all while meeting a need for the carnivorous species before they had the technology to print meat. In the end, though, I really don't have much to go on, and probably shouldn't have thrown the notion out there as brashly as I originally did. :B

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:17:33 +0000

@Sulucamas: Well, yes, but there is borked, and then there’s “the engine is being held together by chunky salsa. And we are about to be hit by a meteor storm.”

The fanart idea was more or less Veled contacting an expert on such matters, a certain Mr. David Xanatos, who would listen to Veled laying it all out, and the last frame having him declaring that the situation was unmitigatedly borked. But I can’t script it to be funny enough to justify the time to actually draw it…

I could see the packing plant as a convenient place to get rid of bodies, something I could see Star Org needing. I’m not sure why the plant would be a hold over from Talmi enslavement, though..(honest curiosity here, can you lay out your line of reason)?

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:20:10 +0000

@The_Rippy_One: Yay, fanart! But, but isn't a Xanatos Pile-Up inherently borked? :3 And why be worried when it's all bound to be so entertaining? :D If Veled knows Gabriel from her past like Daisy seems to, perhaps she trusts him enough to handle MLH:FiD. That's a big, murky IF, though. The "meat packing plant" is probably one of many stubborn holdovers from the millennia of treating Talmi as chattel. The Org (or whoever is causing trouble) may have pointed the heads of the show toward a particularly nasty and well-armed one, but I doubt they were (directly) involved with its operation. But as always, who knows! :P

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:37:04 +0000

@Sulucamas: Okay, that’s a good point about Veled’s capacity, and I do think that she had a hand in getting the Scouts in, but I don’t think that she’d want her little harbinger of doom (followed shortly by MLHoD: Friendship is Death?) so fully out of her control…I’m also not sure how to tie in the “meat packing plant.” Star Org seems like it would have a better handle, and an easier time getting that kind of secret deathtrap/business venture up and running (what else would you do with your dimmest fanatics? They can’t all be named Xanatos Wilde…)

Assuming it isn’t some ninth faction.

Meanwhile, and I know it wasn’t intentional, but, thank you. I read your comment, and thought “borked Xanatos Pile-Up.” And now I need to make fanart involving that phrase. There is clearly something wrong, and I feel that I am not sufficiently worried about this turn of events. ;D

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:56:46 +0000

@The_Rippy_One: Very true. It’d still be very interesting to see how White’s demotion would be messaged to maintain the show’s legitimacy to the viewers.

I was assuming that Veled has enough “friends” in high places in the Org that she could coerce or Tone to control the message that eventually reached Cypress and Vince. She may not like them, but she’s still their Messiah. Heck, she could have gotten Melody and the Ministry of Love to do it for her. 😛

Oh right, the emergency soul shell! If it isn’t already borked, it’ll probably be out of juice by the time the next weekly episode rolls around, assuming Jigsaw can’t recharge it magically. Ruh-roh.

And I AB-SO-LUTELY think the show is at the center of a Xanatos Pile-up, though I doubt we’ll ever get to see some of the major players. 😀

By: e_voyager

e_voyager — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:58:59 +0000

@Brunhidden that seems a little Homer Simpon / Nedd Flanderish if you ask me .
@lavabat that sums up most cult religions if you ask me.