Comments on: Finally, Arikos is Useful!

By: RyGuy

RyGuy — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:45:26 +0000

Now, hold on a moment, White’s teeth are clearly that of a grazer, a plains herbivore. His kind are very similar to an extinct relative to the horse that actually had hand like hooflets. But teeth will tell. So he would be disgusted with sapient carnivores that won’t use substitutes, in any event, but I think the true horror here is SAPIENTS EATING SAPIENTS. With the Celeste having broken down the breeding barrier, it all is equivalent to cannibalism.

By: Kermit

Kermit — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:55:25 +0000

Apparently I’m better at this after practicing for a day 😛

“just hit the
four t_m__ in the
same shot!”

Still not sure what that one word is, but I’m guessing that the guy’s talking about the four floating bars that hover around the players. The armor’s ablative ability relies on being able to distribute the force of a shot around the wearer’s body in a field, but if all the bars are lined up it creates a short window where the shot can go straight through.

By: Kermit

Kermit — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:05:26 +0000

It’s always trickier trying to decode tone messages that are hidden behind dialogue, so this is as far as I got:

just hit[?] the
four t_m[OBSCURED] in t[he?]
same shot!

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:03:58 +0000

@Brunhidden Hee. And then it hits the fan when Jigsaw learns they’ve made merch of *her* as well (along with the rest of the cast, mind you)…with Daisy grumbling that they got her face wrong. And in the background Qin looks thoughfully at something hidden by one of the other cast’s head while White Noise stands there beet-red commenting ‘I’m not *quite* that big, you know…’ (possibly made worse by Qin replying ‘I wouldn’t say that…’ 😉

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:55:36 +0000

@ Brunhidden: So, wait, there is a small, discreet, Slick “Hand Massager?”

By: Brunhidden

Brunhidden — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:35:51 +0000

@ Vulpis- see melody wearing undergarments with slick on them? perhaps she gets a slick body pillow? put him on anything we today would see hello kitty on

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:51:25 +0000

@Brunhidden Hmmm, I’m wondering if that might something done *in-verse*, actually, as a side thing…you know Melody, at least, would load up on the Slick merch… 🙂

By: e_voyager

e_voyager — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:14:07 +0000

remember the first episode was an exhibition match. that’s why it was in an arena and why the galaxy girl scouts (i wonder what happened to them) were the opponents. it was in part to show what kind of action the audience could look forward too and part to test the meddle and ingenuity of the contestants

By: Brunhidden

Brunhidden — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:46:51 +0000

thusfar it seems that the audience really likes slick and is not wanting him to die.

awesome, we have the hot guy that sells comics. put his fine booty on everything and make some money

unless he does die, and is made into an undead of sexy… naaaah

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:37:16 +0000

@nikolai60: Sure, StarOrg might be fine with a Total Party Kill, but Cypress’s family is running this gig, and if everyone dies, what, 5 episodes in, that’s probably not going to get them into the black on the project. Plus the awkward publicity when the innocent players are killed. Or having your “winner” violently die on interstellar television slightly after everyone else. And forget getting your next batch of murders and thieves to play.

I’d guess that the producers, at least, are trying to run a transparent game at this point (not clean, but, the kinds of dirty tricks that are rational to the format – sudden challenges and inducing drama, instead of surprise armies of Terminators). Failing to declare serious threats ruins their credibility and could induce the players to refuse to play in an entertaining fashion (boring tactics, maximized safety precautions, low speed “play”), or rebel.