You made us hurt you! It’s not our fault you can’t see how much better than you we are. If you just did everything we told you and let us take everything we wanted, this wouldn’t be happening!
Well apparently it can fire consecutively and without having to recharge for too long. I hope Claire can contain this blast since Hollister seems to be out of commission.
Yeah, looks like the blast is arcing toward Frigg & Ardaic. Hope the god slayer can shield herself from that blast with her glowy shield. Or even better, but less likely, bat it back with her glowy mace.
Okay, Silver Centurion. Now’s your time to get really impressive.
As soon as that next fuming green death orb comes into range, smack it up into the air like a badminton shuttlecock. You’re already in a perfectly posed position for it, just have to swing up instead of down!
Prediction based on thought that popped into my head:
Silver Centurion doesn’t do that. He lets the blast land on or near him. He lets it come, using his power only to protect himself.
Or maybe he doesn’t even shield himself (or can’t shield himself). He just accepts it as the cost of beating the Savage Races.
When all but one group wants peace, it just seems easier to get rid of the one, doesn’t it? Or beat it up until it complies. Even then, most of the Gastonian public seems to want peace, too.
DID every group but one want peace?
Because reading the comic, I never got the impression that Gastonia was the only faction responsible for the conflict. If anything, before the coup, the Savage Races coalition always seemed to me even worse, what with the rampant slavery and genocide.
Yeah, I don’t think the World’s Rebellion is such much about peace as they are about vengeance. At least initially. But maybe with the influence of cooler headers now in charge, that is changing.
As opposed to the rampant making-the-orcs-work-for-the-good-of-Gastonia and being-merely-prepared?
Pretty much from the start, they’ve done the same things, but the World’s Rebellion hasn’t used euphemisms for them. They come across as better, worse, or just the same depending on how one feels about euphemisms.
(Also, if you’re going to call the World’s Rebellion what the Gastonians call it rather than what its members call it, you should probably call Gastonia the Fascist State or something. Only fair.)
I’d also say that your question relates less to the current state of affairs in the comic than it would if the first word was present tense. We haven’t seen Penk address the state of World’s Rebellion slavery yet (by contrast to Emperor Taro’s stirring words on the subject of Iwatanian slavery), but I think “the Savage Races are and will forever be worse than whatever the nation formerly known as Gastonia is going by!” is a ship that’s sailed.
Uh, yeah, about that peace-making thingy… Not that it would’ve made a difference with an Iwatani in charge, but I don’t think the Rebellion ever made clear to GastoniaIwatania Fucknuggetia that their endgame is now peace and not extermination. Maybe get a big-ass horn or something and tell the city populace that “Hey, we’re here to depose your tyrant and get some sweet trade deals, please don’t put your heads in front of our weapons!” Might at least help the post-battle peace process go a little smoother, I dunno…
Problem is, who in fucknuggetia is going to listen, or believe? Think of the end of WWII in Japan, the only way this works is one side conquers the other and then doesn’t genocide them, thus disconfirming the conquered side’s previous beliefs.
At the end of ww2, according to documents declassified a couple years ago, Japan was trying to surrender and the us knew it. The bombs were to show the ussr that the us could use them, no more.
What we learned about it in school was propaganda.
A rather pointed accusation from Ardaic, put Frigg counters with her usual bluntness.
Ardaic remains unabashed.
It looks like both are about to hear a rather explosive rebuttal
Most buttal (and re-buttal) explosions mean sh*t everywhere; yep, that’s what’s comin’
That green fire-cracky sure gonna kick some re-butt-al, y’all.
Pivotal plot point incoming, take cover!
Help us, O-ban Dit Keynesnobi. You’re our only hope.
“How dare you accomplish peacemaking via violence? That’s what our superweapon is for!”
If you’re not willing to shell your battlefield champion, you’re not willing to lose.
Maxim 20, Gastonian version
You made us hurt you! It’s not our fault you can’t see how much better than you we are. If you just did everything we told you and let us take everything we wanted, this wouldn’t be happening!
Pretty much. Amazing how that doesn’t sound stupid in people’s head, but of course, they’ve got personal bias.
You know the worst part? That’s hardly fiction. It happens a lot in real life.
But well… At least they’re talking.
dammit, Cersei is at it again
Should I say Dont take a Glowey Shit to a Rail Cannon fight or should it be Dont take a Rail Cannon to a Glowey Shit fight?
I don’t know; let’s find out!
How do you not know with that avatar?
Well apparently it can fire consecutively and without having to recharge for too long. I hope Claire can contain this blast since Hollister seems to be out of commission.
I think it’s a different part of the battlefield, they weren’t affected by the first blast, not directly
Yeah, looks like the blast is arcing toward Frigg & Ardaic. Hope the god slayer can shield herself from that blast with her glowy shield. Or even better, but less likely, bat it back with her glowy mace.
Quickly Frigg, let Breath of the Wild Link into your heart… and your glowy shield tennis style backhand return.
I’m sure the civilians in the city the cannon’s firing from would LOVE that.
Hey now, Link’s been playing magical-projectile-tennis since at least Link to the Past.
Okay, Silver Centurion. Now’s your time to get really impressive.
As soon as that next fuming green death orb comes into range, smack it up into the air like a badminton shuttlecock. You’re already in a perfectly posed position for it, just have to swing up instead of down!
Prediction based on thought that popped into my head:
Silver Centurion doesn’t do that. He lets the blast land on or near him. He lets it come, using his power only to protect himself.
Or maybe he doesn’t even shield himself (or can’t shield himself). He just accepts it as the cost of beating the Savage Races.
so long, Frigg ; ;
Only one of the two combatants we see bothered with a shield. I think that’s about to come into play.
When all but one group wants peace, it just seems easier to get rid of the one, doesn’t it? Or beat it up until it complies. Even then, most of the Gastonian public seems to want peace, too.
DID every group but one want peace?
Because reading the comic, I never got the impression that Gastonia was the only faction responsible for the conflict. If anything, before the coup, the Savage Races coalition always seemed to me even worse, what with the rampant slavery and genocide.
Yeah, I don’t think the World’s Rebellion is such much about peace as they are about vengeance. At least initially. But maybe with the influence of cooler headers now in charge, that is changing.
As opposed to the rampant making-the-orcs-work-for-the-good-of-Gastonia and being-merely-prepared?
Pretty much from the start, they’ve done the same things, but the World’s Rebellion hasn’t used euphemisms for them. They come across as better, worse, or just the same depending on how one feels about euphemisms.
(Also, if you’re going to call the World’s Rebellion what the Gastonians call it rather than what its members call it, you should probably call Gastonia the Fascist State or something. Only fair.)
My kingdom for an edit button.
I’d also say that your question relates less to the current state of affairs in the comic than it would if the first word was present tense. We haven’t seen Penk address the state of World’s Rebellion slavery yet (by contrast to Emperor Taro’s stirring words on the subject of Iwatanian slavery), but I think “the Savage Races are and will forever be worse than whatever the nation formerly known as Gastonia is going by!” is a ship that’s sailed.
I’d honestly forgotten that “Savage Races” WASN’T what they called themselves.
…Possibly due to their inspiration calling itself “The Horde”.
BATTER UP!
“all of this this”?
Uh, yeah, about that peace-making thingy… Not that it would’ve made a difference with an Iwatani in charge, but I don’t think the Rebellion ever made clear to
GastoniaIwataniaFucknuggetia that their endgame is now peace and not extermination. Maybe get a big-ass horn or something and tell the city populace that “Hey, we’re here to depose your tyrant and get some sweet trade deals, please don’t put your heads in front of our weapons!” Might at least help the post-battle peace process go a little smoother, I dunno…Problem is, who in fucknuggetia is going to listen, or believe? Think of the end of WWII in Japan, the only way this works is one side conquers the other and then doesn’t genocide them, thus disconfirming the conquered side’s previous beliefs.
At the end of ww2, according to documents declassified a couple years ago, Japan was trying to surrender and the us knew it. The bombs were to show the ussr that the us could use them, no more.
What we learned about it in school was propaganda.
As is the biological essentialism below.
Being civilized means being more effective at savagery.
This was all just an excuse to have Frigg referred to as savage wasn’t it?
Well, you must admit, she’s never been exactly civilized, has she?