Terrorist: "Stop right there or I will kill the hostage".
Malati: "Let go the hostage and I will kill you quickly. harm the hostage, and I will kill you sloooooooooooooowly. But hey, at least you get a choice!"
Indeed. What most liberal westerners do not appreciate is that how easy it is to keep peace and order if you don't have to worry about things like "civil rights" and have much bigger "budget" for "false positives".
Saddam's Baghdad was one of the safest cities in the world wrt. regular crime.
Yeah.... Shoulda saw that coming. Rest easy, Citizen, Malati is here to butcher your kidnapper. This will be gory, so we recommend you cover your eyes.
Oh, and you might want to put on a plastic snuggie, just in case.
BTW. Cent, at the risk of sounding like an incredibly sick individual, great job on the second frame, where she's covered in the blood splatter, and the latin on the chalkboard is also a nice touch in frame 6!
The TRUE riddle is "How do I treat her if we are on a date?"
One cheesy one-liner.... JUST ONE! aaaand... the date is over in an inglorious manner!
(hmmm... dating Malati... maybe I AM an incredibly sick individual...)
Your choice you die from broken internal organs and spine, or roasted by Dragon Fire, she's my ideal woman. Just want to retire with her and we can go "Poisoning Pigeons in The Park" during our golden years. 25 Bonus Points to anyone who identifies the writer and performer of the song referenced.
]BING! BING! BING! Ladies, Gentlemen and Dirty Faced Kids, We Have A Winner. The One The Only (Thank all the Odd Gods of The Universe) TOKYO ROSE******
The radiators are just to give the school that "retro" "black board jungle" look that's come back in fashion for educational buildings in Nova Roma, right? And "smile" managed to remain meaning the same thing in Lamode.
well the sign is in "Standard" so you readers see it as english .. as for the radiators .. well Roma uses proven tech .. and they may be "retro" but they do the job..
Don't be dissin' on steam. It makes the world go 'round* even today :D
(Yes, I know that the world actually goes 'round because of the conservation of angular momentum and inertia. I live with a space nerd and have a black belt in pedantry.)
As a steam engine fanatic I would NEVER disrespect the vapor. Radiators use hot water though. The point is that cast iron radiators are sadly inefficient and have been replaced by baseboard, floor and wall units except for decor purposes. Salvaged and restored cast iron radiators can be rather expensive. New ones are very hard to find.
Some radiators use hot water, but other systems do use steam; it has the advantage of not requiring pumps, since it moves under its own pressure. It is, however, considerably less efficient than other methods in terms of heat loss.
Maybe it's just there for looks. Maybe it's a hiding place for trained snakes. Maybe students get handcuffed to it when they misbehave. Maybe it's just part of the set and Cent didn't bother to turn it invisible. :D
Hence my, "retro black board jungle" look being the architectural fashion for educational buildings in Nova Roma. If you want one room log school houses you can have them, you're the creator. You can have the Periodic Table being sung on tape over the PA if you want.
Speaking as a gardener and pruner, I find Mal's analogy apt :D.
In a roleplaying game I GMed years ago, the PCs were faced with a bad guy with a hostage. One of them carefully shot the *hostage*- nonlethally, fortunately- to give his pal a clear shot at the baddie. Which he did.
The first PC then wrote a best-seller in the campaign: "Shoot The Hostage: Non-Linear Approaches to Problem Solving"
Angle of the eyes/head aside, there's still some combination of (excuse the non-bio-terms)
how much downpoint the nose-corner of the eyes have, plus how much up-point the outside corners of the eyes have, plus the flatness of the curve of the upper eyelid, that is particular and uniquely Oriental-Asian, I believe.
I'm talking about the 2nd panel. Where we have a fairly head-on view of Malati's face. So it cant be much about angle; it has to be animation/model posing of the eyelid area, right?
Was curious whether the modeling for that eye pose come from you, or whether it was some preset from Daz, or some other wireframe designer?
I thiink its a combination of factors Malati is also squinting slightly against splatter.. as well as looking down while her head is up in a "Gah your bleeding on me.. sheeesh "
Malati: "Let go the hostage and I will kill you quickly. harm the hostage, and I will kill you sloooooooooooooowly. But hey, at least you get a choice!"
Saddam's Baghdad was one of the safest cities in the world wrt. regular crime.
Oh, and you might want to put on a plastic snuggie, just in case.
BTW. Cent, at the risk of sounding like an incredibly sick individual, great job on the second frame, where she's covered in the blood splatter, and the latin on the chalkboard is also a nice touch in frame 6!
One cheesy one-liner.... JUST ONE! aaaand... the date is over in an inglorious manner!
(hmmm... dating Malati... maybe I AM an incredibly sick individual...)
You just reminded me of this...
(Yes, I know that the world actually goes 'round because of the conservation of angular momentum and inertia. I live with a space nerd and have a black belt in pedantry.)
Even by today's standards, cast iron radiators is old fashioned. :D
Maybe it's just there for looks. Maybe it's a hiding place for trained snakes. Maybe students get handcuffed to it when they misbehave. Maybe it's just part of the set and Cent didn't bother to turn it invisible. :D
Hmmm, famous last words?
PS: vote! We are dropping. I believe at the moment you can vote as often as every ten/fifteen minutes...
Narration credit all goes to Rose
In a roleplaying game I GMed years ago, the PCs were faced with a bad guy with a hostage. One of them carefully shot the *hostage*- nonlethally, fortunately- to give his pal a clear shot at the baddie. Which he did.
The first PC then wrote a best-seller in the campaign: "Shoot The Hostage: Non-Linear Approaches to Problem Solving"
In Panel #2, I think the eyes accidentally came out Asian. Bias of the artist? ;-)
Even when squinting, non-Asian eyes dont really look Asian.
Or of course you could just retcon it and declare she was a partly important model, with half the eye components coming from Japan. aharhar.
how much downpoint the nose-corner of the eyes have, plus how much up-point the outside corners of the eyes have, plus the flatness of the curve of the upper eyelid, that is particular and uniquely Oriental-Asian, I believe.
I'm talking about the 2nd panel. Where we have a fairly head-on view of Malati's face. So it cant be much about angle; it has to be animation/model posing of the eyelid area, right?
Was curious whether the modeling for that eye pose come from you, or whether it was some preset from Daz, or some other wireframe designer?
So this is a History teacher she is talking too.