Comic for Thursday, January 25th, 2018
Jan25
More or less on time. I mean… totally on time besides that it supposed to go up early on Patreon, and didn’t, so… 😐 ; anyway, sorry. Been not feeling too great again. I dunno if I’m sick or didn’t sleep enough or whatever. Had a headache for a few days now. Maybe its just a surplus of morons at work. There is often a causal relationship there. Only problem of that is if that was the case, than I reckon I’d always have a headache.
Anyway… here’s a face we haven’t seen in a bit. Coulda made about half a comic about what’s happened since we last saw him, but, frankly, I think most of you can imagine most of it. That’d be summer blockbluster version of The Far Side of Utopia, where the explosions budget is bigger. 😉
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Heh. Rovak….who apparently specializes in three things, though he only ever points out the one. (Blowing stuff up, obviously. Mangled trains of thought and comedy being the other two.)
Curious about Marc though. Something about that seems suspicious….(maybe not in a bad way, just…..very curious.)
I’m just glad to see he wasn’t lost in Resh somewhere blowing stuff up with snappy comments where we didn’t get to see it.
From what we’ve seen and heard, Tyler is quite the powerful mage. He shouldn’t have much problem with most of what IDS can throw at him… the operative word being “most”. However, Rovak is darned near nigh immortal, so killing or even defeating him would be a real task. Then you throw the blue-haired teleporting assassin witch into the mix?
Wow! 😮 Talk about stacking the deck! And here I thought that IDS (or at least Biana’s and Sophie’s teams) were so full of themselves that they didn’t even consider Malsa a serious threat to their plans, even after what happened recently. But to hire all this outside help – mercenaries, one of which sounds to be Malsan in nationality no less – paints a different picture.
Should be either “supposed to not blow” or “supposed not to blow” in the last panel. Both are acceptable but the first is more conversationally accepted.
Also should probably be un-blow rather than de-blow. Un just means not something while de usually means undoing something that has already happened ( like decrypt means to undo encryption while unencrpted just means not encrypted).
I think Rovak is confused about the idea of not blowing things up. Since he doesn’t really have a good understanding of what that should entail, it kind of makes sense that he uses weird vocabulary like de-blowing.
I fixed the missing “to”; for the other one… As you can see with the “undo”; un also means to reverse the process in some cases; while unencrypted means not-encrypted, uncrypt would mean the same thing as decrypt (just we being slightly wronger [yes, yes, I know, more wrong 😉 ], …I think).
The reason I went with de-blow was I decided to view like debug vs bug. Ultimately in this case even if its wrong/nonsense I’ll probably leave that particular oddity as its just Rovak-isms that are not necessarily going to make sense at the best of times.
Realistically it should be (at best) not-blow up to be the opposite of blow up I think. Or just !blow up… but now we are probably seeing why I can’t type English like a normal person. 😉
I assumed it was intentional and that he was confused on the words because of defending instead of blowing up so he merged the 2 together.
!blow up
not [b]to[/b] blow this place up in the last panrl
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Gotta day, ‘surplus of morons’ is maybe the funniest sequence of words I’ve read in a long time.
I honestly can’t tell if to Peter this is “the anomaly is known and accounted for” (but doesn’t want to let on how much he knows) or whether he actually thinks it’s just not anomalous.
Oh, and I like Rovak’s shirt. (And was tempted to joke that you misspelled it.)
Wait… They chose him to DEFEND a place? What the sam heck were they thinking?
That an immortal capable of leveling buildings is EXACTLY the level of force required.
I didn’t recognize Tyler without his Veronica Lake hairdo and steely-eyed expression. O.o
Hmmm, Rovak’s less-than-fanatical loyalty to the I.D.S., and his interactions with Peter’s, um….associates . might make him even more of a wild card than usual. This should be interesting. 🙂
Seems like it is almost I-code time!
Act crazy. Eat lots of garlic. It helps keep the coworkers at bay.
Haha, well I have one of those down to a T and hasn’t worked yet. The problem is that generations of programmers before me have lowered the bar of expectations of programming behavior, so my craziest seems like quite well adjusted by their standards I reckon.
They sort of just expect it when you growl and bark at them and tell them what they want is stupid when they come to your desk with a pile of stupid things that there is no way should ever be programmed into the product 😉
Usually their only other real option would be to go to the offshore teams like their supposed to get their shit done… and trying to be more annoying that trying to get programming work done via an offshore team is a staggeringly high bar.
That expectation is why simply ceasing bathing is no longer effective.
On the other hand, coworkers are often relieved if I just skip conference calls.
Careful with those offshores. If you develop a reputation for being able to jockey them, things just get worse.