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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 44: Discussion
« on: October 10, 2015, 04:39:30 pm »
Although Corona hasn't managed Phase 3 in seven years and May hasn't done so in the past few days, she appears to have an idea on they may be able to get through that phase. Perhaps instead of individuals going solo, they try going in as a group, with a mutual support system going to remind each other it's just like a dream and nothing bad is going on externally.

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Hall of Games / Re: The COOL "Last Post Wins" Thread
« on: September 28, 2015, 11:47:19 am »
Sorry I accidentally edited this post. ;.;

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 44: Discussion
« on: September 28, 2015, 11:44:00 am »
I wonder if stage 3 will be something akin to a full psychological assault.  Phase 1 is artificial fear, phase 2 is artificial pain.  What if phase 3 is more real than that, showing you what you truely fear the most, causing pain in ways that affect you not only physically but psychologically.

While May can ignore the pain happening to herself, what if phase three were to be something along the lines of visions of Bernadette being raped and tortured, even if she knows it isn't real, I don't think May would be able to ignore it.

You're not too far off, but I'd imagine despair (as has now been revealed) would be like seeing Bern being raped or brutally killed and knowing there's absolutely nothing she can do to prevent it.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: July 22, 2015, 02:53:37 pm »
I get the impression Bern interpreted the Warden's offer as Bern + Polly having sex with A. N. Other(s), rather than with each other - so you could argue that that is the catch.

Still, there could be worse catches than being coerced into having lesbian sex with one of your best friends...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: June 18, 2015, 01:04:56 pm »
"Keep up the good work, and you'll be paying down those marks in no time!"

Translation: "Keep fighting as well as you did today, and you'll be increasing our profits in no time!"

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: June 15, 2015, 12:55:34 am »
Nice, decent accommodation - but as ever, there's bound to be a catch - possibly revealed with this conversation with the Director (although last time he wasn't the most fluent person in the country, with his suspiciously specific denials about rape...)

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Hall of Games / Re: More Words!
« on: June 12, 2015, 03:14:24 pm »
bread

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Hall of Games / Re: ...IN MY PANTS
« on: June 12, 2015, 03:12:14 pm »
sorry I accidentally edited this post...in my pants. ;.;

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Hall of Games / Re: The COOL "Last Post Wins" Thread
« on: June 12, 2015, 03:10:54 pm »
BUMP!

Maybe we should start guessing how long it'll be before someone replies...

I'll plump for 2 days.

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Hall of Games / Re: Guess who's next!
« on: June 12, 2015, 03:07:40 pm »
And even longer since I last ventured into this corner of the forums :)

Maybe Ryuu will appear next...

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Hall of Games / Boardo!
« on: June 12, 2015, 03:03:18 pm »
Based on a round from the BBC Radio 4 panel game "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", let's see how this plays out in a forum...

Imagine the ultimate board game, which combines elements of every single board game in existence (and in several cases, tropes from quiz shows). The basic idea of Boardo! is to play this (fictitious) game - maintaining a veneer that it's a real game, but in reality making it up as you go along (e.g. move 13 spaces [nobody said anything about using multiple die, or even using die from tabletop RPGs], fall down a snake, find a Trivial Pursuit question and ask to go 50:50). As we're doing a forum variant, we'll call it "Ad-hoc Boardo!", whereby players can drop in and drop out as the game progresses, or even venture into adjacent rooms playing even more incomprehensible games (e.g. Mornington Crescent, which to the uninitated can sound like shouting out London Underground stations at random - but in reality there's an encylopedic-sized book of rules [<--blatant lies]).

So to start, I'll pick up two die and throw an 11 (phew! Avoided the penalty for double sixes!)...
[GO BACK 3]
Oh well, at least that square's empty...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: June 12, 2015, 12:47:18 am »
The House is certainly going to make a lot of money from the betting pool... :)

Now while it would be tempting for the Colosseum to bring out Bern regularly for fights, it would be more prudent to keep her for those who've got too big in the head and think they're invincible - teach them a lesson as well as drawing in the crowds. Besides which, the more fights she's involved in, the more she loses the element of surprise as word of her tactics spreads.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: June 04, 2015, 12:14:46 am »
Obviously, Bern didn't plan on this exact sequence of events. But the only way she could adequately fight him was to get up close (so making it difficult for him to use his weapon) - I imagine she heated up the one sword with the intention of making him drop his weapon and concede defeat, but she didn't expect him to not block her thrust with the other sword into his abdomen, or for him to try strangling her.

What the sequence of images doesn't adequately show is that when he lunged to grab her throat, she probably started moving the heated sword at that point, so it made contact shortly after the grab. What appears to take ~10 seconds or so in the sequence would only have taken a couple of seconds in reality - but is slowed down so we can get the exposition from Warden.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: June 03, 2015, 12:41:05 am »
# When Bern knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery... :)

(With apologies to W. S. Gilbert)

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: May 26, 2015, 12:44:32 pm »
If only she'd aimed her thrusting sword a little lower - he might have been in rather more pain if she'd prevented his ability to reproduce...

Still, Bern's currently being strangled while he's got a sword piercing his guts. If Bern has enough strength left to withdraw that sword, it's likely he'll start losing blood significantly quicker, at which point he'll have other things to think about. If she can hit him with her other sword (not necessarily thrust through him, but enough to cause another injury) it's possible he'd lose blood (and therefore grip strength) even quicker...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: May 18, 2015, 12:07:13 am »
So Bern's worked out his current tactic - now to work out a counter. I wonder if she could use one blade to halt the progress of the remainder of his weapon while using the other to cut off the stub, thus leaving him with the hilt only, and in subsequent moves progressively shorten the hilt?

At that point, she'd almost certainly need to bash his forehead with the flat of her blades to knock him out, as in hand-to-hand combat his size would have a huge advantage over her.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: May 07, 2015, 02:01:40 pm »
So now we learn he was a pole vault champion several years ago...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: May 04, 2015, 11:46:08 pm »
I wonder if the rules can recognise a stalemate? He's pretty much lost his girder!sword, so if he continues it's going to be his bare hands versus Bern's blades. I suppose if push came to shove, she could whack him on the forehead with the broadside of the swords and knock him out, while leaving him otherwise uninjured.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: April 28, 2015, 01:45:10 pm »
The way I see it, once this fight is over, it will (a) earn her 'A' rank status, (b) pay a few marks off her sentence, and perhaps crucially (c) enable Warden to put her into battles against the Colesseum's equivalent of Boring Invincible Heroes - after all, they're about 90% offensive measures, while Bern's about 90% defensive measures. It's possible Warden will notice that such a scenario could keep both happy - Bern will be playing by the rules and actively engaged in battles, but she'll still be sticking to her principles and not actively beating them up - rather letting her blades cause their attacks to rebound.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: April 25, 2015, 03:41:39 pm »
That first punch arrived while she was still processing having her ankle held. She needs to regain focus asap before the second punch has a chance to hit and move out of the way. Sure, she can't move her one ankle, but the rest of her body isn't restrained. Ideally, she'd set him up so he fell on top of ankle-holder, causing him to lose his grip and her to regain the advantage.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: April 09, 2015, 12:22:17 am »
It would probably be Bern's style to wait until he's tried every permutation with his sword, then say something to the effect of "You can't kill me with that thing, and I refuse to kill you. Truce?"

Not that he'd accept, but Warden may see the opportunity to take brute-force weapon users down a peg or two by scheduling fights against Bern - especially if she adds some choreography to her routine rather than standing in one spot (e.g. getting close enough to swipe through the waistband of their clothes while barely penetrating their skin) to make it less of "unstoppable force meets immovable object"...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: March 25, 2015, 01:34:34 am »
Currently, Bern only has one ankle pinned - the rest of her body is free to move, so it's possible she could duck out of the way of the beam. With a bit of luck, when it hits the ground, the shockwaves will cause sand mage to lose his grip. If she then keeps moving around the arena, she'll effectively negate two of her opponents (since it undoubtedly takes a few seconds to aim the beam / hand).

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: March 13, 2015, 04:17:12 pm »
Just thought: getting up close and personal to him not only would render him unable to use his huge swords but severely limit the ability of her to use her swords, thus reducing them to fisticuffs - where he'd probably have an advantage. However, if she kept her swords and angled down, if she got close enough she could potentially give him an orchidectomy and/or a penectomy...

...that is, assuming him holding his weapon above his head isn't a trigger for some other type of attack...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: March 09, 2015, 05:35:55 am »
Given there are two other opponents in the arena, Bern's best bet would probably be to somehow goad them into attacking each other, so whoever's left after the infighting would be severely weakened both physically and mentally, thus evening out the odds somewhat.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: The Criticism Thread
« on: February 21, 2015, 06:38:53 am »
Webcomics typically take far longer for events / stories to develop than other forms of storytelling - some webcomics have spent two years covering the events of a single day.

Sure, we haven't seen much fighting, but what we have seen is Bern explicitly demonstrating that she's a technical pacifist - she can and will fight, but only if it's for something she deems important (e.g. her father). She doesn't view earning brownie points with the Colosseum / earning her an early release as important enough. I think the Warden realised that when she came forth with her three options - left to her own devices, Bern would probably have chosen Option D (i.e. take the long, slow way out). Quite possibly realising that due to the nature of Options B and C, they probably wouldn't be content with her taking Option D, she chose what she viewed as the least worst option (A), only to be outbid by Polly (thus revealing insights into her character).

So while there wasn't much action, there was a lot of dialogue, and with it, character development.

(Oh, and of course, criticism isn't restricted to the negative end of the spectrum - criticism can be positive as well).

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 30: Special Voting Thread!
« on: February 21, 2015, 06:26:24 am »
1. Maytag (Dark Cell Storyarc)

Yes, I know we're in the middle of Bern's arc, but we've just had 60 pages worth of her in the Colosseum - besides which, taking a break from her gives Brion plenty of time to visualise the fight (where I suspect her determination coupled with the properties of both blades being weilded simultaneously won't make it the walkover almost everyone at the Colosseum's expecting).

Given the sequencing of the last five chapters: Crest (30), Bern (30), May (60), Crest (30) and Bern (60); ideally, we'd have a 30 page Maytag chapter followed by a 60 page Crest chapter then finishing round three with 30 page chapters from Bern then May to keep equal amounts of time on each arc (120 pages each, with each cycle having a 60 page chapter and two 30 page chapters).

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 42: Discussion
« on: February 21, 2015, 06:09:53 am »
And now Brion's been evil and left us hanging off the edge of a cliff for an interlude... :D

But, hey, at least he's giving us the chance to vote on whether we continue to see how Bern copes in the fight or flip back to the other two simultaneous arcs (Maytag in The Dark Cell, Crest finding Suspira and trying to make sense of what's going on)...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 42: Discussion
« on: January 12, 2015, 12:10:57 am »
Polly - that's not helping matters. You really should have omitted that last clause ("...unless she's willing to do two days.")

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Mistake Thread
« on: January 02, 2015, 04:44:16 pm »
Not the comic itself, but the Updates page (i.e. Flipside home page)  is currently looking rather confused...

1/2/15 Page 39 is done. (#2427)
12/31/14 Page 39 is done. (#2425  - no image)
12/29/14 Page 38 is done. (#2423)
12/26/14 Page 41 is done. (#2419 - no image)
12/24/14 Page 40 is done. (#2417 - redirect to bookend)
12/22/14 Page 39 is done. (#2415 - redirect to bookend)
12/19/14 Page 38 is done. (#2413 - no image)
12/17/14 Page 37 is done. (#2411)
12/15/14 Page 36 is done. (#2409)
12/12/14 Page 35 is done. (#2407)
12/10/14 Page 34 is done. (#2405)

...perhaps rename the entries for those that have been moved elsewhere on site / deleted?

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 42: Discussion
« on: December 11, 2014, 11:55:06 am »
Bern's probably more a Technical Pacifist / Mama Bear. Normally averse to violence, but threaten someone she cares about and it's probably a good idea to start running away, pretty darn quickly...

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