Crippled man scoots to the side, out of danger.
Non-crippled girl keeps on the path the robot’s on, then stops and screams.
Fr’Nj just lost all of her fighter cred.
You sure? The machine’s never gonna get tired unless it runs out of “juice” or something. Running in a straight line at least maximizes your “energy invested to distance travelled” ratio. Zig-zagging only allows the pwn-bot to catch you sooner.
I always found it strange how some wild animals like rabbits seem to need about half a minute’s running in front of a car before realizing that just getting out of the way is a perfectly viable option. Its worse when they start out in the middle of the road, like they get stuck in some sort of equilibrium (farthest point from car is straight ahead). So naturally I don’t blame Fr’Nj, what with all the company time she spends around small animals ‘n such
Bullshit if that argument were true then no one would ever stop being racist. Plenty of people while surrounded by racist assholes have gone “wait this is wrong” with no one providing evidence that treating people that way is wrong.
As a druid, one has to look past the immediate concerns involving the robo-warriors and look to the root of the problem. This is something that needs to be nipped in the bud.
whatever is propelling it is likely under the bottom or embedded into the bottom. Would agree it wouldnt do well over rough terran probably at most the road… like the one its traveling down…
Considering every character’s thought bubble’s are color coded, and those match Bert’s I’d have to say your dead on. Not to mention, if he’s an adventurer, the racist comment might have just been part of the intimidation attempt. Like saying “I don’t care whether you live or die” whether or not he actually does care.
The thing is called Speciesism… how the perpetrators would be named I can’t say.
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism although it’s quite a different thing for Arkerra, where different species have higher-order-consciousness.
It looks like Fringe was going to get out of the way (even if she was doing it the wrong way: when being chased down a road, don’t keep running in a straight line in front of whatever is following {unless what is following is another person :P}), but then she looked back and saw Bert the sexist racist falling down in the path of the kill bot
Well i’m running down the road
Hoping not to be mowed
I got seven humans on my mind
Four that want to smash me
Two that want to bash me
One says he’ll just wreck my spine
You have no honour, like a woman.
The flail-bots remind me of that training machine from Dune.
And your avatar reminds me of a character from Dune…
Though it’s capitaine Jean-Luc Picard, from Star Trek.
he was in Dune, too
No way. That’s Leodegranz, from Excalibur.
Good old Gurney Halleck….
Crippled man scoots to the side, out of danger.
Non-crippled girl keeps on the path the robot’s on, then stops and screams.
Fr’Nj just lost all of her fighter cred.
To be fair, she never was a fighter.
Even though she was never a fighter, this behavior of her is just plain stupidity.
*Fr’Nj’s bashing ^^ *
And we definitely know she’s a lover!
Yeah, that ‘Run directly along the threat’s path’ bit is right out of Wile E. Coyote…
We really shouldn’t assume that those robots can only move in a straight line.
You still don’t run away in a straight line, specially along a semi-flat surface like a road or path
You sure? The machine’s never gonna get tired unless it runs out of “juice” or something. Running in a straight line at least maximizes your “energy invested to distance travelled” ratio. Zig-zagging only allows the pwn-bot to catch you sooner.
No, you dodge to the side, or at least run off the nice smooth level(ish) path
Did you learn nothing from watching Mad Max?
I always found it strange how some wild animals like rabbits seem to need about half a minute’s running in front of a car before realizing that just getting out of the way is a perfectly viable option. Its worse when they start out in the middle of the road, like they get stuck in some sort of equilibrium (farthest point from car is straight ahead). So naturally I don’t blame Fr’Nj, what with all the company time she spends around small animals ‘n such
…How is Bert still not off-panel?! Stop making that road larger!
Or stop making Bert smaller while zooming in just enough to compensate.
Sub-human girls? I suddenly no longer feel sorry for Bert.
Hes Gastonian. He knows no better cause he was taught no better.
Bullshit if that argument were true then no one would ever stop being racist. Plenty of people while surrounded by racist assholes have gone “wait this is wrong” with no one providing evidence that treating people that way is wrong.
Those people WERE taught better…
They’re self-taught.
^This.
Sub-human girls they make the rockin’ world go round!
http://www.nocturnar.com/forum/attachments/escritorio/30407d1338837974t-memes-wallpaper-276166_papel-de-parede-meme-freddie-mercury_1600x1200.jpg
Yeah, I did not realize bert was racist. BERT, YOU ARE RACIST, YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID.
not racist, speciesist
Maybe we can see Bert as a “complex character”, with both redeeming and damning qualities?
Or a simple character whose “follow along” trait makes him racist because that’s what the others are?
A simple character with complexities?
Never felt sorry for him in the first place, but I respected him more before the slur.
As a druid, one has to look past the immediate concerns involving the robo-warriors and look to the root of the problem. This is something that needs to be nipped in the bud.
Now wait a minute, how are these things moving? I don’t see any wheels and it would be hard to keep something like that from falling over…
whatever is propelling it is likely under the bottom or embedded into the bottom. Would agree it wouldnt do well over rough terran probably at most the road… like the one its traveling down…
I suppose the flails (heh) are in a sort of phase synch that allows the machine to wobble in a direction without falling over.
I bet Bert takes the hit. Those are probably his thought bubbles. He wanted to scare them off, not murder ‘em, I bet.
Considering every character’s thought bubble’s are color coded, and those match Bert’s I’d have to say your dead on. Not to mention, if he’s an adventurer, the racist comment might have just been part of the intimidation attempt. Like saying “I don’t care whether you live or die” whether or not he actually does care.
Oh hey, Bert’s a racist. I mean, I knew Bragga was, but hadn’t seen that from Bert before now.
Braggadoccio, racist ? Since when ?
“Unless you count the savages…and who counts avians unless you’re stuffing a pie?”
That’s not racist, the poor guy’s just hungry. ^^
What can I say? It reads like casual racism to me, something that is very prevalent in the world of Arkerra, even among some relatively good guys.
I was joking, yes it’s racism.
How do you not be racist in a world with actual Races?
Irish is an ethnicity, Caucasian is a races, wood elf is more like a whole ‘nother species.
So, would they actually be specist? speciesist? How do you even say that?
The thing is called Speciesism… how the perpetrators would be named I can’t say.
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism although it’s quite a different thing for Arkerra, where different species have higher-order-consciousness.
So Bert is sexist AND racist at the same time. Winning combo right there.
It’s the giant wheel in Prometheus all over again.
Bandit, that’s… that’s not how you… no. You’re doing it wrong.
Looks like total flailure …
Mace wielding robots: Good for what flails you.
You don’t need to fight to protect yourself, as long as you’ve got some mace and know how to use it.
Bandit in the last panel looks amazed that Fr’Nj’s about to get a-maced.
Ooh, and prediction? Fr’Nj endures no lasting damage, and is going to offer to heal Bert’s legs anyways.
KILL BOTS!
Quick throw wave after wave of men at them!
Fortunately, zapp brannigan is too busy in a different universe to completely screw up this one.
I’de tell you what happens next but it beats me… actually it just beats Fr’Nj.
It looks like Fringe was going to get out of the way (even if she was doing it the wrong way: when being chased down a road, don’t keep running in a straight line in front of whatever is following {unless what is following is another person :P}), but then she looked back and saw Bert the sexist racist falling down in the path of the kill bot
Well i’m running down the road
Hoping not to be mowed
I got seven humans on my mind
Four that want to smash me
Two that want to bash me
One says he’ll just wreck my spine