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Hall of Games / Re: How to destroy the earth

« on: March 29, 2009, 07:15:18 pm »

I'd probably do plenty of research into rocket creation, move to Russia. Construct a number of large, home-made rockets that would easily be detected by Radar and fire a good dozen of them from the East Russian coast.

They don't need to go as far as the USA, or have a real payload, but if they can travel for a decent amount of time and are large enough to raise alarms on radar systems, then It should end the world quite nicely.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: New T-Shirt Designs. Feedback, please!

« on: March 29, 2009, 05:27:01 pm »

@Brion:  made a call on the T-Shirt design or waiting for more comment on it?  Looks like image 2 of the original picture where she said "you are all my food" and image 3, the over-shoulder look with the scythe, are the most popular.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Ask Maytag: Questions Thread III

« on: March 29, 2009, 04:41:47 pm »

@admiral Apocalypto: I might have it, which one was it?

This question is for Bloody Mary...and ONLY Bloody Mary, Maytag shouldn't be there.

Mary, do bandits taste better than innocents? Or rather, do you get more satisfaction from killing people you feel deserve it?

is that the question?  'cos I think it might have been skipped.  I'll double check when I get home.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 29, 2009, 04:30:10 pm »

i love this chapter. Theres so much suspense but some of the stuff in this book you dont know about unless you read book 0.

im dying to know what sephira and crest are doing when she asks him to go into her bedroom and sit with her. i doubt they only talked

Personally I think Suspira might have come onto him and, despite the opportunity to end his virginity, Crest realised it was probably out of grief, confusion and a need for comfort so refused her advances... Probably pissing her off quite a bit.

I guess they've all been hanging out for 3-4 days, but who knows when Brion will reveal the truth of that bedroom incident.  Crest and Suspira certainly didn't seem to be warming up to each other an awful lot in the carriage.

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Free Talk / Re: The Chat Thread

« on: March 29, 2009, 10:20:45 am »

@smiles: This is the Free Talk area, who UIS mods for. AA mods for The Hall Of Games area.
@Malki: *meh* I've used the tactic for others before out of curiosity.  My wife's in a government investigations department so maybe I've learned some stuff off her after hearing about a few of the methods they use.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: FLIPSIDE ACTION FIGURES

« on: March 28, 2009, 07:59:29 pm »

I must admit, I think Bern just strikes the best badass, threatening entry pose of any character by a long shot.  Bloody Mary comes a close second but I can't think of a really good full body pose with Maytag.

Best i got is this:



But no knives, cards or unzipping of dress.

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Free Talk / Re: The Chat Thread

« on: March 28, 2009, 06:31:04 pm »

1. Like I said before, it'll be the last time he sees anything.
2. Shouldn't be hard to keep her in line until she gets some rest, but I doubt she'll try something like that again.
3. I'm all for it.  It'd be awful of me to object, especially after that potion she gave me helped me when we first encountered Mary.

(At the postscript) Thank you!

Simply take this post by Bernadette and search the forum for some of the less common words used in it, such as 'awful' 'especially' 'shouldn't' and the phrase "like i said"

There was also a post that she started with the word 'exactly'

Search the forums for those words and phrases and see who they match up with most often: Admiral Apolalypto

Note1: Although there were some matches with pozf but not as many.
Note2: The old forum was not searched.

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Free Talk / Re: something I need to find out

« on: March 28, 2009, 11:53:07 am »

There was an April Fools page ran in 2006 which was a spoof page of Crest's bust of Maytag and Bern in action back in Chapter 6.  Instead of seeing them, when Crest busted in he found Maytag and the Burger King in each other's arms.

Although that isn't the same image as whats shown on the main page.  Maybe try checking the gallery.

EDIT: speaking of April Fools, I wonder what he'll do this year.  I did like last year's Maytag sex doll, but maybe this year will just be a spoof page with a funny, spoof, revelation by Bern. *shrug*

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Flipside Discussion / Re: FLIPSIDE ACTION FIGURES

« on: March 28, 2009, 11:30:44 am »

All fixed Admiral, thanks for the heads up.

I'm surprised that Maytag's been shafted for merchendise yet again.  Votes on Bern and Bloody Mary but none on Maytag.  No one wants maytag holding a few daggers while striking a sexy pose?


By Delusion.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 28, 2009, 11:15:46 am »

Well, Crest has a nice sense of duty (i.e. take care of your mom) and he's stepped in front of danger to protect Maytag on at least two occassions.  He was also sickened by Maytag's betrayal of her boyfriend (Bernadette) due to a previous experience with a cheating girlfriend of his own.  However, one of his downfalls is that he looks upon most women as sex objects, which is why he's often tongue tied around them.  This might be explained by his mother who appears to have a grand desire to see her son have sex with many girls and give her lots of grandchildren.

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Free Talk / Re: The Chat Thread

« on: March 28, 2009, 10:44:09 am »

Anyone figured out who I am yet?

You are Admiral Apocalypto

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 27, 2009, 07:02:45 pm »

So Bern joined the Steel Vipers to get with Blackbird and took Clairen as a conselation prize while still hoping to get together with Blackbird... and SHE felt betrayed when Clairen turned out to be doing the same thing and simply got there first?!

I think this is one of the first cracks we've seen in Bern's moral high-ground.

...more to the point, how does this explain why she's stayed with Maytag, despite the cheating and all the indications she's given over time of wanting Maytag to be with her only?

All in good time the answers will come as always.

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Flipside Discussion / FLIPSIDE ACTION FIGURES

« on: March 26, 2009, 10:15:23 pm »

Shadowgirls recently submitted a design of their Shadowchild character to be made into an action figure/statue here:
http://www.patchtogether.com/?Designs_Details&Id=1124

I'm just wondering, how many people would buy an Action Figure of Maytag, Bern or Bloody Mary, given the option.

Looks like they'd retail for around $38.00 US. (give or take $8)

VOTE ABOVE

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 26, 2009, 03:27:00 pm »

Now now, let's not fight.  The next person to argue is either going to cause the comic to have lots of unnecessary fan-service, or no fan-service at all, depending on what is the opposite of what you wanted!

*thinks*
I HATE fan service. DON'T give us heaps and heaps of it!
*waits for fan service to roll in*
...yeah so I'm a smart-arse *shrug*

The stick up Bern's arse tends to be a bit possessive.  Obviously, the vast majority of the community of earth believe a monogamy and discretion is the way to go and will simply believe that Maytag needs to compromise her beliefs to conform with Bern's.  The reality is that they BOTH need to compromise, and Bern has shown that she's able do this by possibly accepting things like Kin's drawing and the ability to accept a certain level of Maytag's frivolous side that, up 'till now, she's hidden from Bern.  Likewise, Maytag has at least committed to stop cheating and is becoming more honest by not hiding the side of her that Bern might find hard to accept or simply giving her false promises by stating it won't happen again.  She compromised on the Slavery by agreeing to end it, and Bern (after a little more time) appears to be able to tolerate nude art of her.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 26, 2009, 10:19:08 am »

I think Bern has inspired Maytag to become a more responsible member of the community and I like to think that Maytag has inspired Bern to loosen the stick up her arse. 


jking

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 26, 2009, 06:11:07 am »

When was the last time you remember her REALLY playing out in her Jester suit?  She's been very serious of late.  Even the jokes she made with Mary in the cave.

In the old book I found her willing to shout out something obnoxious at any moment.  She even let the guys she was flirting with get close to Bern and she took them to places like the aslyum where she had them get into bar fights and sword matches with assassins.  I'm not sure she was convinced that her relationship with Bern was as strong as she thought... Until Bern walked through the portal for her: http://www.flipsidecomics.com/comic/book0/fs26pg36.html

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 25, 2009, 08:26:32 pm »

*meh* if I was serious I'd be going through Book 0... Well, I already had a little look through it, but just a quick scan for the general knowledge of the conversation at the Camp with Moss and Regina, plus the fight they had before the Maw showed up.  If I dig deeper, I'd probably see far more hints, but suffice to say that one thing really struck me when looking through Book 0... Maytag really has grown up.  I found her early wearing of the Jester suit made her act quite childish, but not so much since Book 1 (6 months later).

There's a heap of other interesting things to see in the interviews and even the notebook.  Bern hasn't revealed much of her past, she's ashamed of something in her past and she's been drinking since she was quite young.  She also avoided the question on if she's ever had sex with a man, but that might be simply because she hadn't revealed her sexuality at that point.

@umberissexy: and thanks for your PM to me.  Yeah I thought the response fit nicely *lol*.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 25, 2009, 07:22:39 pm »

Ebon of Haint: Hello Bernadette. You're lovely, and so is Maytag. You're very lucky. But haven't you ever suspected her as the kind of person to cheat on you? You seem to give her a lot of blind trust. What about her intrigues you so much that you gave up your dreams for her?

Thank you, but... I don't really feel comfortable talking about that subject.

hmmm, it would be interesting to hear her response now, but I suspect we're about to hear it in the comic anyway.

I wonder if there's anything to note in the face she made to that question.  The name is "eyes left"

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Free Talk / Re: Forumite Picture thread

« on: March 25, 2009, 05:54:22 pm »

*meh* I had nearly white hair when I was very young, but as I've gotten older it's turned to a more gold colour and just gradually became darker until it's what you see in the photos now.  Thats why I think of you as blonde, because I still think of myself as bonde but truth is I've probably passed over to the light-brown hair myself.

I love the pose in the 2nd picture, the dressup in the 3rd and the smile in the 4th.  1st picture is nice with the blur but can't make out much detail *shrug*

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Free Talk / Re: Forumite Picture thread

« on: March 25, 2009, 05:35:27 pm »

*whistles*

Funny. The first thing I thought was "What happened to those cute glasses?"

...Hang on. You've labelled one picture as Christmas last year and one as Christmas 2008... Aren't they the same day?

*meh* I'm a fan of the Christmas 2008 picture.  You really did accessorize nicely.

Thanks for sharing the pics Beautiful!

@Pozf: Well, she's still a sort of sandy blond (much like my own hair) but I think those old photos are from back when she was 14 or something.

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Free Talk / Re: The Chat Thread

« on: March 25, 2009, 04:57:33 pm »

@UmberIsSexy: Yeah, you got me. I have a thing for midgets 

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Artist's Den / Re: Draw Maytag Naked Contest, Submissions (Warning: nudity, obviously!)

« on: March 25, 2009, 04:42:39 pm »

...and two of Bern, and four of Suspiria, and...

1 of Vajra?

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 25, 2009, 03:51:05 pm »

@LordKat: *spits coffee across monitor*. But heck, Amen to that *PMSL*

Personally, I think Bern knows or suspects all.  She's stated that she knows Maytag, and with the story of how they met plus the admission by Maytag at that point stating she was scum and Bern would one-day think so too.  Granted, she might not know of EVERY incident, but she's probably directly aware of a number of occasions and suspects a good more, but she knows Maytag loves her. The will to cut herself to ribbons to save Bern and her thanks to Suspira for saving Bern proved that. Then Bern let go of her own conflicts with becoming a knight to finally come out and commit to Maytag.

I doubt there's any single moment of realisation as much as there's probably just her always knowing.  Considering Maytag's so good at reading people, I think she simply wanted to believe so bad that she was getting away with it and not hurting Bern that she mentally blocked out the signs.

SIDE NOTE: Considering all it's lead to, I think Glyph's eye piece was necessary.  It let the discussion between Bern and Maytag about everyone having permission start and it Let Bern really rip in to sorcerers abusing their power.

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Free Talk / Re: The Chat Thread

« on: March 25, 2009, 09:22:32 am »

its strange how that works    but then again i think Avionics/electronics on aircraft is run by magic.

Isn't it?

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 25, 2009, 08:21:31 am »

@Bernadette: So you don't read the comic... You just read the forums .  Well we don't think you're a fool Bern.

I do like that old pic of Bern.  Can't say why *shrug*

hmmmmm. Maytag's not a child ANY MORE.

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Artist's Den / Re: Draw Maytag Naked Contest, Vote for the Winner!

« on: March 25, 2009, 02:50:20 am »

WOOT!

Grats Zombiefruits.  I loved the pose you had Maytag in.

@Brion: So whats the next competition? Draw someone else, Draw someone else naked, Write an 8 page Flipside short story script, Draw a Flipside comic page, Colour a page?

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Flipside Discussion / Re: New T-Shirt Designs. Feedback, please!

« on: March 24, 2009, 08:18:50 pm »

I'd suggest hiding the eyes below the hair and some shading.  But I actually like her eyes.

Still, great pic ZF

@Brion: I'd suggest you have a competition for best T-Shirt design, but there could be copyright and ownership crap to deal with (even if they are your characters).

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 24, 2009, 07:31:26 pm »

The only further hints I can come up with are:

The few occasions that Bern has suddenly appeared in Maytag's defence.  Hard to imagine that she simply appears at the right time and place so I get the impression that she might have followed Maytag on occasion. This includes the rescue at THE ASYLUM and the rescue from Voulger.

The Conversation Maytag had with Moss and Regina at the camp headed for their Disolving test.  Bern was in a tent and may have heard the conversation.  The next day, Bern and May get in a huge fight but make up after their fight with the maw.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 23, 2009, 08:47:33 pm »

*shrug*, he usually seems to plan pretty pretty far ahead: http://forum.failureverification.net/showthread.php?t=403

As for looking for what we missed.  Heck, it's fun to see all the hints and just how well Brion has been shaping events around the fact that Bern has presumably known all along.  In many cases, actions and comments that may not have made sense previously or only had a simple, shallow meaning, suddenly take on a much deeper and surprising one.  Plus, you can sometimes discover new truths about events and characters, such as Shepherd's erase of Derrick's mind when we discovered that the Phalanx didn't posess that level of control over the brain, and the fact the Thin Man is known to have this ability/knowledge.

Granted, Bern's statement of knowing Maytag's sexual frolics might not reveal anything that interesting, but *shrug*.  It does make you wonder a bit about all those statements by Bern about honesty, in bed with Maytag, outside the knights palace/castle after coming out of the closet and at the camp fire with Crest.  But maybe she just remembered what Maytag had told her on the bridge each time.

It'll actually be interesting to find out why Bern hid the knowledge from Maytag and how Maytag might react to the fact that Bern has let her believe she was getting away with it all this time.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 20: Discussion (Part 2)

« on: March 23, 2009, 08:03:58 pm »

Yep.  The side story is about their breakup.  But I just remembered that there was a second story which is still online, about how he and Maytag met:

http://www.flipsidecomics.com/comic/misc/fsSStitl.html