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And everyone hates her and fear her because she failed to help them, and then she was a jerk. The plot comes full circles. But what about the traps?
I meant that I feel the need in what kind of predicament Rainbow Dash finds herself.
I meant that I feel the need to know*
Something's wrong with me today
Something's wrong with me today
No one typos like Gaston!
.....I'll go back to my corner now.
.....I'll go back to my corner now.
My guess is that the Poison Joke is making her speak in rhymes.
I doubt the poison joke removed her ethics. Its effects tend tobe visible.
It's kinda like an anti-twist... She's doing bad things, but with good intentions.
I think doing good things, but with bad intentions, would be less common.
Oh, wait. I remember writing a bit about the mafia owning a community center that was old and run down, so they hired a serial arsonist to burn it down, and collected the insurance money. Then they took the insurance money and...
Rebuilt the community center bigger and nicer than before.
Here's the thing. Kids that go to the community center are less likely to engage in gang activity. Less gang activity results in less competition for the mafia. There. Doing good things with evil reasons, and it's not just being ineffective.
How are you always so brilliant? An infinite supply of mentats?
It works, because they all hesitate. It's not a battlefield filled with enemies, it's their own backyard. And there's this guy running at top speed, bouncing all over the place in a densely packed cluster of them. It works wonders on african, asian, and central american militaries that are poorly trained. Well trained French foreign legion... Not so much. That was a lot of fun to write.
Oh, and to answer your question, I do image training. I picture myself doing lots of sit ups and push ups, and it makes my mind stronger.
Yeah, and then there's Agincourt, pretty much remembered because it was the only battle the English won in that conflict, and the matter of Louisbourg, which was really a lesson in why defense contractors need to be watched like hawks. Oh, and the English sometimes like to claim the Plains of Abraham, even though that was a case where both sides sent the worst general they could in the hope of losing that territory in exchange for something more valuable!
Don't look at me like that. I paid attention in Canadian history classes.
Don't look at me like that. I paid attention in Canadian history classes.
Pretty standard villain thing used in movies as well, where they build something for "a good cause" but it serves as cover or otherwise enables them to advance their evil plans.
If you look at V (either the original or the newer one), the aliens provide cures for human diseases. A good act, but one that also serves to advance their cause (healthier livestock, generate good will).
If you look at V (either the original or the newer one), the aliens provide cures for human diseases. A good act, but one that also serves to advance their cause (healthier livestock, generate good will).
I buy my games years after they're out, but that's mostly due to being poor.
It's made out of real semtex, too. None of that C4 crap.
She's nice a laptop, though. I love my little Sydney.
You named your laptop Sydney? Any significance to that name or just cause it's a nice name?
My laptop is named Sera, after a character I created which shares the same affinity to have "Blonde Moments" amd take forever to get up in the morning. :3
My laptop is named Sera, after a character I created which shares the same affinity to have "Blonde Moments" amd take forever to get up in the morning. :3
-Wil Wheaton, Acquistions Inc.
I tried to get back to her as quickly as possible, but a big black police van rammed me from the side and sent me into a schoolyard. Thank goodness there weren't any children there anymore. My vehicle was flipped upside down, and it came to a screeching halt against a swing set. The police must have fired a rocket or something at me, because the next thing I knew, I was a hundred feet in the air, and flying towards the bridge where my date was waiting for me. Considering my predicament, everything was going fine.
And then some jackass in an ambulance pulls up right where my ambulance was going to land.
Seriously, do you really think the rest of the story was that naive and innocent?
Okay, it sorta was, other than borrowing the ambulance. I was gonna bring it right back after I rescued the girl, honest!
I'm going to go against your grain, Raxon, for this one story--
Shadowrun campaign. Our team of four are hired to act as bodyguards for a group of protesters outside a bank. Think "Occupy Wallstreet". We're just there to ensure no one incites a fight, starts a fight, or gets involved in a fight.
Two teammembers get word that the bank's main branch hired some goons from out of town to try and disperse the crowd with "persuasion". The goon squad just landed at the airport when the two party members told team mate #3 (I was sadly the uninformed #4) to come help set up an ambush.
Team members 1 and 2 hijack the subway train the good squad was on and proceeded to mow down the squad with lots of bullets, effectively rolling "20s" all around. Team member #3 gets lost trying to navigate the subway and ends up at a Starbucks or something.
The two-man army then escapes down the subway tunnels and elude the cops completely, thus making a clean getaway.
Meanwhile, I was left alone to defend the crowd when the bank sent out two high level mages to take me down. D:
The next day, the bank's main branch released a news statement that they sent a group of negotiators to try and make peace with the protesters, but that the negotiators were all murdered in cold blood and they blame the protesters. The protest is immediately disbanded.
Bank 1, Team 0
Shadowrun campaign. Our team of four are hired to act as bodyguards for a group of protesters outside a bank. Think "Occupy Wallstreet". We're just there to ensure no one incites a fight, starts a fight, or gets involved in a fight.
Two teammembers get word that the bank's main branch hired some goons from out of town to try and disperse the crowd with "persuasion". The goon squad just landed at the airport when the two party members told team mate #3 (I was sadly the uninformed #4) to come help set up an ambush.
Team members 1 and 2 hijack the subway train the good squad was on and proceeded to mow down the squad with lots of bullets, effectively rolling "20s" all around. Team member #3 gets lost trying to navigate the subway and ends up at a Starbucks or something.
The two-man army then escapes down the subway tunnels and elude the cops completely, thus making a clean getaway.
Meanwhile, I was left alone to defend the crowd when the bank sent out two high level mages to take me down. D:
The next day, the bank's main branch released a news statement that they sent a group of negotiators to try and make peace with the protesters, but that the negotiators were all murdered in cold blood and they blame the protesters. The protest is immediately disbanded.
Bank 1, Team 0
For NPCs or antagonists, what about the stories that end with "The DM rolled a 1"?
Am I the only one who noticed Rainbow with a muzzle in the last panel?
There just aren't any safe words to use in conversation with you, are there, Raxon?
Oops, I forgot to talk in a deep manly voice.
If I get a reply from any of the following I am going to not play video games for one week: Raxon, Akouma or Lyntermas.
Wow, I mean, it's not like the guy who developed the polio vaccine tested it on his own kids, wife, friends and himself or anything.
It's not like she has anything else she can test her cures on.
It's not like she has anything else she can test her cures on.
The polio guy did not kidnap random people who later all went insane specifically due to the vaccine.
Also, poison joke probably affects... like... everything with skin. Start with Everfree rats, at least.
Also, poison joke probably affects... like... everything with skin. Start with Everfree rats, at least.
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verfree monsters have likely developed an immunity to poison joke so that plan is out the window
verfree monsters have likely developed an immunity to poison joke so that plan is out the window
It turned them bright colors, made them round, removed their wing cases, gave them dragonfly wings, and big, colorful eyes...
Tribbles, it affected Tribbles not Roaches, Roaches at least require 2 roaches to begin their uncontrolled exponential growth.
We got screwed on that deal.
That cleanup was so expensive that budget cuts reduced the parade to a one pony band...
@Moonrush
Hey, secretly could mean not telling everypony in Ponyville what she's doing. For all we know, she may have just given them the attempts at the cure without telling them she had no idea if they worked. And the reason no pony else knew WHY they were going crazy was because what ever the poison joke did to them was too embarrassing for them to even show anypony, and they went to Zecora because they assumed that any mysterious mare living in a dangerous forest on her own must obviously have a cure for things.
Hey, secretly could mean not telling everypony in Ponyville what she's doing. For all we know, she may have just given them the attempts at the cure without telling them she had no idea if they worked. And the reason no pony else knew WHY they were going crazy was because what ever the poison joke did to them was too embarrassing for them to even show anypony, and they went to Zecora because they assumed that any mysterious mare living in a dangerous forest on her own must obviously have a cure for things.
Making up a complicated explanation that contradicts what we know ("random ponies vanishing without telling anyone, occasionally coming back horribly insane" doesn't imply they went to go ask the nice, helpful voodoo zebra. Plus, 6/6 ponies in canon were fine with showing others their poison joke'd problems.) proves me wrong. Yup. Can't be that the song about foalnapping and making people crazy was actually about that. Must just be a helpful mad scientist using sentient beings as lab rats gone wrong. You should get a job at Aperture. /not awake enough to make that sound less insulting
No, instead he just injected children with a deadly disease, knowing he had no real proof this would work.
@The Batman
...I'm hoping that's just something to further prove my comparison point.
Of course, you could be talking about the guy who used the live virus. I was talking about Salk, who used the dead one, and released his cure first. Cause I know he tested it on his kids, a Travel Channel show wouldn't lie about museum stuff, I think.
...I'm hoping that's just something to further prove my comparison point.
Of course, you could be talking about the guy who used the live virus. I was talking about Salk, who used the dead one, and released his cure first. Cause I know he tested it on his kids, a Travel Channel show wouldn't lie about museum stuff, I think.
Pretty sure people understood how immune systems worked before they were capable of making vaccines, so... that'd be proof. Also, worst case scenario with the vaccine; get the disease you were going to anyway, since that's why you needed to be vaccinated.
Worst case with Zecora's cure; go from comedically altered (so Twilight and Rainbow Dash are out of a job, but otherwise there's not really horrible after the "oh my gosh my voice sounds funny" period, and it's clearly not contagious, judging from Applebloom piggybacking Appletini) to either presumed dead or proven insane.
Worst case with Zecora's cure; go from comedically altered (so Twilight and Rainbow Dash are out of a job, but otherwise there's not really horrible after the "oh my gosh my voice sounds funny" period, and it's clearly not contagious, judging from Applebloom piggybacking Appletini) to either presumed dead or proven insane.
@Moonrush
Yeah, it's already been stated in the comic that Poison Joke only affects creatures after a certain age. Plus, if it's anything like Posion Oak, then it can't be contagious because you get it from the plant itself. In the cartoon, Applebloom wasn't affected because she never touched the plants.
And the only way Zecora would know how her cures would affect ponies without testing it on them, and there's no way she could test it on any other creature in the forest cause they've probably learned to avoid the plants and wouldn't exactly be easy to catch, equipment she clearly has no access to.
I'm not say what she did was right, I'm saying it's not unheard of.
Yeah, it's already been stated in the comic that Poison Joke only affects creatures after a certain age. Plus, if it's anything like Posion Oak, then it can't be contagious because you get it from the plant itself. In the cartoon, Applebloom wasn't affected because she never touched the plants.
And the only way Zecora would know how her cures would affect ponies without testing it on them, and there's no way she could test it on any other creature in the forest cause they've probably learned to avoid the plants and wouldn't exactly be easy to catch, equipment she clearly has no access to.
I'm not say what she did was right, I'm saying it's not unheard of.