Hello, this is a question that I waited years before finally asking. Do you read other webcomics? If so, what webcomics do you recommend that us devoted readers start on? I have found so many personally beloved webcomics through this method, but you don’t post any links to comics you like. You don’t have to, but I wouldn’t mind checking out webcomics that you would personally recommend. I always take the comic’s author recommendations very seriously since they are already the creator of a comic I love. ^^ I hate to clutter your neat website so no worries if it is not something you are interested in doing. I have been so shy about asking you this question because I hate to come across as pushy, lol, but, hey I asked. It only took years. Lol.
actually, i don’t read anything. haha, it’s weird, and almost anti-intellectual, but i live in perpetual terror that i will see something i like, that will inspire me, and i’ll unconsciously rip it off. i’m very impressionable. so, it’s not out of a lack of respect for other creators, it’s just that i’m not really plugged into the community. which is a bit sad, cause i think i’ve isolated myself to my own detriment, i just don’t want my work to be derivative.
as for not asking me questions, don’t hold back! i’m pretty approachable, at least online, and i don’t mind sharing the info. wish i had a better answer for you. i will say, i’m playing a game right now i really like, called ‘citizen sleeper’. it’s very text heavy, and has the feel of a table top board game. the art is awesome, and the game has a cool dice spending mechanic i’m enjoying. i’ve been told it’s short though, so i’m trying not to just blast through it too fast.
Well, I figured that as long as she could point the rifle in approximately the right direction, the electronics could take care of the rest. The weight of a gun that size is actually just the barrel and steel mechanical bits. I packed an M16A1 for four years, and it’s mostly plastic, relatively quite light. A rifle with a wood or metal stock is quite heavy. I imagine that the rifle Usterhall grabbed from the guard actually weighs well under 20 pounds, so she can tuck it under her arm with ease. Small gyroscope stabilizers (inertia wheels?) would put the barrel on target, and the targeting electronics would produce a head shot every time. Usterhall would have looked through the scope, and selected the guy standing next to Owen. Squeeze the trigger on Owen’s neighbor, and the rifle does the rest. Easy-peasy.
I was going to say that’s a black eye waiting to happen with a scope up in Usterhall’s face, but then I realized– are these energy weapons? Would there be no kick? It’d make sense for the Tech Tree to have that kind of firepower.
Reading the comments I realized that I missed the point completely. I thought he was just shit-talking. Like “Isn’t that kind of a big gun for a girl?”
To be fair, if he was responding to her saying, “Is this fuck with the tech bitch day?” by saying that gun was too big for her (implying that’s why she missed), that would be an incredible comeback. That was a great take, Molotov.
haha, well, to clarify, she didn’t miss, she just shot someone else instead, out of frustration. sorry if that wasn’t clear.
the other comment that was speculating that these guns have no recoil was ‘somewhat’ correct. it IS way to big for her, and what i didn’t make clear, is that the hub on the back of the butt of the gun is actually a stabilizing, anti grav emitter. kinda like what owen has on his ride. anyways, that’s just a little clarifying diatribe.
The change of social leverage gives Owen options. Instead of just mouthing off to Usterhall, which got his vocal cords removed, he now has a real bargaining chip. Maybe it’s real leverage, maybe it isn’t. Maybe the big gun is more important than Elle. It’s really hard to say what values Usterhall has, beyond power. Owen is, of course, really gambling here. I think from his perspective, everything is up, including death. He has an asshole “father” and no mother. His life is scrabbling at the edge, until the day he dies. So if he gets the gun, fine. If he doesn’t, it’s no loss. He’s looking up to see bottom.
Hello, this is a question that I waited years before finally asking. Do you read other webcomics? If so, what webcomics do you recommend that us devoted readers start on? I have found so many personally beloved webcomics through this method, but you don’t post any links to comics you like. You don’t have to, but I wouldn’t mind checking out webcomics that you would personally recommend. I always take the comic’s author recommendations very seriously since they are already the creator of a comic I love. ^^ I hate to clutter your neat website so no worries if it is not something you are interested in doing. I have been so shy about asking you this question because I hate to come across as pushy, lol, but, hey I asked. It only took years. Lol.
actually, i don’t read anything. haha, it’s weird, and almost anti-intellectual, but i live in perpetual terror that i will see something i like, that will inspire me, and i’ll unconsciously rip it off. i’m very impressionable. so, it’s not out of a lack of respect for other creators, it’s just that i’m not really plugged into the community. which is a bit sad, cause i think i’ve isolated myself to my own detriment, i just don’t want my work to be derivative.
as for not asking me questions, don’t hold back! i’m pretty approachable, at least online, and i don’t mind sharing the info. wish i had a better answer for you. i will say, i’m playing a game right now i really like, called ‘citizen sleeper’. it’s very text heavy, and has the feel of a table top board game. the art is awesome, and the game has a cool dice spending mechanic i’m enjoying. i’ve been told it’s short though, so i’m trying not to just blast through it too fast.
gun … “it IS way to big for her”
Well, I figured that as long as she could point the rifle in approximately the right direction, the electronics could take care of the rest. The weight of a gun that size is actually just the barrel and steel mechanical bits. I packed an M16A1 for four years, and it’s mostly plastic, relatively quite light. A rifle with a wood or metal stock is quite heavy. I imagine that the rifle Usterhall grabbed from the guard actually weighs well under 20 pounds, so she can tuck it under her arm with ease. Small gyroscope stabilizers (inertia wheels?) would put the barrel on target, and the targeting electronics would produce a head shot every time. Usterhall would have looked through the scope, and selected the guy standing next to Owen. Squeeze the trigger on Owen’s neighbor, and the rifle does the rest. Easy-peasy.
yeah…. what that guy said. see? all planned. haha
He lost a voice but gained a finger.
Yeah … you weren’t alone in reading it that way. I’ll just leave it at that.
well, i don’t see owen being that particular brand of sexist. that being said, he kind of rekidnapped a gal, so who knows anymore.
I was going to say that’s a black eye waiting to happen with a scope up in Usterhall’s face, but then I realized– are these energy weapons? Would there be no kick? It’d make sense for the Tech Tree to have that kind of firepower.
sure. let’s go with that. that or magic. but definitely not poor planning on my part. ahem.
Reading the comments I realized that I missed the point completely. I thought he was just shit-talking. Like “Isn’t that kind of a big gun for a girl?”
haha, that’s hilarious
To be fair, if he was responding to her saying, “Is this fuck with the tech bitch day?” by saying that gun was too big for her (implying that’s why she missed), that would be an incredible comeback. That was a great take, Molotov.
haha, well, to clarify, she didn’t miss, she just shot someone else instead, out of frustration. sorry if that wasn’t clear.
the other comment that was speculating that these guns have no recoil was ‘somewhat’ correct. it IS way to big for her, and what i didn’t make clear, is that the hub on the back of the butt of the gun is actually a stabilizing, anti grav emitter. kinda like what owen has on his ride. anyways, that’s just a little clarifying diatribe.
The change of social leverage gives Owen options. Instead of just mouthing off to Usterhall, which got his vocal cords removed, he now has a real bargaining chip. Maybe it’s real leverage, maybe it isn’t. Maybe the big gun is more important than Elle. It’s really hard to say what values Usterhall has, beyond power. Owen is, of course, really gambling here. I think from his perspective, everything is up, including death. He has an asshole “father” and no mother. His life is scrabbling at the edge, until the day he dies. So if he gets the gun, fine. If he doesn’t, it’s no loss. He’s looking up to see bottom.
shoot, you make my story seem deeper than i thought it was. if i ever need a press release, i know where to go!
Wow! Losing his voice gave him balls of steel!
that’s how it goes. that’s why the characters who never say anything are so bad ass. haha