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The New Comic Thread for Friday, July 17, 2009

thorgotthorgot there is special providencein the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
edited July 2009 in Social Entropy++
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  • Vargas PrimeVargas Prime King of Nothing Just a ShowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    BF1943 joke

    Also thorgot wins for lack of colon in thread title

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited July 2009
    I support this thread for being Munkus friendly

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I like the art.

    I don't get it.

    But I like how it looks.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    My first thought is that this comic is about some game's multiplayer.

    Everyone who plays multiplayer games are jerks and idiots.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I like the art.

    I don't get it.

    But I like how it looks.

    Gabe is in BF1943, waiting for a plane to spawn.

    Plane spawns, douchebag runs in and steals it.

    Douchebag flies plane directly into a mountain and experiences fiery doom, which is not conducive to victory for his team.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I like the art.

    I don't get it.

    But I like how it looks.

    I think it's about how the same frat boys who hog the vehicles in Halo but don't have a fucking clue what to do with them are now all over BF1943.

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    the backgrounds remind me of mario sunshine

    I like it

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  • DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Ahaha, fantastic.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    i think its about how its the same as BF1942 not as halo you poop

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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    i remember that happening all the time in BF2, as well

    bonus points when they managed to bomb the runway while they took off, killing you in the process

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    KalTorak wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I like the art.

    I don't get it.

    But I like how it looks.

    Gabe is in BF1943, waiting for a plane to spawn.

    Plane spawns, douchebag runs in and steals it.

    Douchebag flies plane directly into a mountain and experiences fiery doom, which is not conducive to victory for his team.

    that's not what I saw at all

    I thought the guy was running towards the plane and the rotor flung him into a mountain

    and I guess he had some grenades or something so he exploded

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    this is a klassic komic

    given that the exact same thing has happened in every battlefield game ever

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  • DmanDman Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I like it.

    I don't play battlefield but I totally get this.

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  • DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    thorgot wrote: »
    i remember that happening all the time in BF2, as well

    It's been like that pretty much every Battlefield game since 1942. The more things change, indeed.

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    i like the sky in the first panel

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    spono wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I like the art.

    I don't get it.

    But I like how it looks.

    Gabe is in BF1943, waiting for a plane to spawn.

    Plane spawns, douchebag runs in and steals it.

    Douchebag flies plane directly into a mountain and experiences fiery doom, which is not conducive to victory for his team.

    that's not what I saw at all

    I thought the guy was running towards the plane and the rotor flung him into a mountain

    and I guess he had some grenades or something so he exploded

    yes where can I buy this game please

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    spono wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I like the art.

    I don't get it.

    But I like how it looks.

    Gabe is in BF1943, waiting for a plane to spawn.

    Plane spawns, douchebag runs in and steals it.

    Douchebag flies plane directly into a mountain and experiences fiery doom, which is not conducive to victory for his team.

    that's not what I saw at all

    I thought the guy was running towards the plane and the rotor flung him into a mountain

    and I guess he had some grenades or something so he exploded

    Ok, yea, I wasn't even that far off base.


    I know nothing of BF1943 so now I have more of an appreciation for it. Also, I do want to play some multiplayer air warfare stuff.

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  • FellhandFellhand Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I thought the guy was running into the propeller in the second panel.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    planes are super effective against mountains

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  • DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Incidentally, I'm not one for console first person shooters generally but BF1943 is fantastic. It's way tighter than the overblown mess that the Battlefield games became.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    As funny now as it was in 2003.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    planes are super effective against mountains

    I think you got that reversed.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    New joke is same as the old joke.

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  • StarfuckStarfuck Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    that's why i don't fly choppers
    i'm bad at it

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  • naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    In my opinion, this strip is greatly improved by its title:

    "The More Things Change"

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Starfuck wrote: »
    that's why i don't fly choppers
    i'm bad at it

    Man I was a fucking Desert Combat Apache Ace.

    I mas moderately effective with the Blackhawk as well, both the transport and fire support versions.

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  • Octopus MelodyOctopus Melody Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Suicide crashing into things was all I ever did in the Tribes games.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The middle panel was confusing at first. My initial interpretation of it was that the guy was getting his dick chopped off by the propeller blade.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    This is interesting.

    It's like trying to see the old lady in that optical illusion.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I like to think that there is a secret wink to this
    Joseph Heller wrote:
    But Yossarian understood suddenly why McWatt wouldn't jump, and went running uncontrollably down the whole length of the squadron after McWatt's plane, waving his arms and shouting up at him imploringly to come down, McWatt, come down; but no one seemed to hear, certainly not McWatt, and a great, choking moan tore from Yossarian's throat as McWatt turned again, dipped his wings once in salute, decided oh, well, what the hell, and flew into a mountain.

    hidden somewhere in this comic.

    I mean, I don't really believe there is, but it makes me so happy to pretend so.

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited July 2009
    I initially took it as a single player game, and that the NPCs got to do all the cool shit while you watched

    I figured it out better on my second read through though

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    This thread is what happens to me every time I spawn.

    Unless I'm being sniped after spawning. Otherwise every vehicle I enter just crashes and burns.

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  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Man I hated when that happened to me in Battlefield 2.

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    It was terrible in BF1942 when the prick is so bad at flying, he managed to get 20 feet off the ground and crash the plane into the line of people waiting for it to respawn

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I used to play on a '42 server where the admins had a kick macro called "IF YOU CAN'T FLY DON'T TRY".

    Seriously, learn to fly offline.

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Flying the copters in 1942 was so much fun though, but I couldn't do it with a keyboard.

    Way easier with a game pad.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Squall wrote: »
    Flying the copters in 1942 was so much fun though, but I couldn't do it with a keyboard.

    Way easier with a game pad.

    Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D and keyboard.

    Pitch, Roll, weapons, and eject/parachute on the stick, Yaw and throttle/collective on the keyboard.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    This comic holds true to my memories of 1942. Glad to see things never change.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    PA will be able to make this comic indefinitely. Every person who plays these types of games has been Gabe in that situation. If not, you're the douchenozzle who just bitch grabbed the plane and flew it into a mountain. Nice flying ace of cocks.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    2002 was a great year for WWII first person shooter's. Allied Assault, 1942 and Day of Defeat's beta test.

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