Critical Miss: Mass Effect
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Poor Pitne For.
This comic made me lol.
A biotic Volus team mate in the form of Niftu Cal would just be so awesome they are always so grumpy. /pat. I always love that you turn the corner and he's in front of the snack machine. Biotics make you nom.
This comic made me lol.
A biotic Volus team mate in the form of Niftu Cal would just be so awesome they are always so grumpy. /pat. I always love that you turn the corner and he's in front of the snack machine. Biotics make you nom.
Congratulations. I can no longer play this game without thinking about Phallic imagery XDQuiet Stranger said:
Good show
Prison rape is pretty damn funny if the person deserves it. An example would be if that guy was a rapist and then happened to one day drop the Soap. Secondly, I think it's the stereotype of prison rape I think that is giving this comic its hilarity. I mean that's a pretty scary situation going into prison.stinkychops said:
Think of it this way
A. You're entering a hostile environment (Almost as bad as Detroit)
B. You might be cellmates with a complete nutjob
C. You could get shanked if you mess with the wrong person whether it be an accident
D. You're in a confined space with hundreds of big burly men who haven probably been isolated from the opposite sex for years. HELLO DESPERATION and Hello little Fish!
See? I find it funny due to the desperation for sexual relief amongst inmates. Call me sick and twisted, but honestly they put themselves in prison. Sympathy definitely isn't coming from me. And yes I've had family who's been to prison and they deserved it after what they did to our family. So don't pull the family argument.
*puts on my nerd goggles* (Which are just my regular goggles)Moriarty said:
Ah but you see the Volus wear their suits not because of their immune systems but because they would literally burst open at the pressures most people are comfortable with. Their cells contain ammonia, not water. It turns into a gas at room temperature, under normal atmospheric pressure and the air they breathe is similarly toxic to you and me.
As an asides I've always thought the Tali "I took some herbal supplements" line was pretty weak, especially since herbal supplements usually = voodoo snake oil witchcraft. As a special surprise for people who slept with tali in mass effect 3, she should now be dying.
I think you're being too kind to Penny Arcade there. I found the Dickwolves strip hilarious and all but is still a rape joke, it's using the concept of rape (even in a ridiculous context) as a mid punchline.Azuaron said:
The main thrust (sorry) of this joke is the application of the Elcor's strange speech pattern to a more extreme situation. But at it's core, like the Penny Arcade joke, it's still a rape joke.
If it ends up like what robot chicken did, that would be awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3jfbAcsfX8&feature=feedf
The joke is based on the Elcor. In the Mass Effect universe, they communicate through a bunch of different ways that aren't picked up on by other species(really subtle body language type things, don't remember the exact reason they gave). Because of this their speech is monotone since that is not how they normally express emotion, so they have learned to plainly state the emotion they are having at the start of their sentences.dalek sec said:
It was a bit of a punchline in game anyway since they pretty plainly tell you when they aren't being very sincere or are patronizing, but expressing it in the way of this sort of level is meant to be the joke here.
You're not making the distinction between a joke where rape is mentioned and a rape joke.Grey Carter said:
The Penny Arcade strip used rape as the most horrible thing they could think of: rape was not trivialized or an expected consequence, it was brutal and horrifying, and the heartlessness of the PC is amplified by it. This is how rape should be viewed.
In this strip, rape is the joke. It's an "expected" and "acceptable" part of going to jail, just another aspect of justice. The joke's only funny if the thought of the Elcor raping the Volus is funny, a stand-in for rape is funny when it is male on male [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale]. That's messed up.
Same joke idea (Elcor's strange speech pattern), but actually funny and not involving rape:
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