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2021-11-06

by shaenon on November 6, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    November 6, 2021, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    “So how would you like to avoid extirpation by joining a Secret Rebel Force that doesn’t care what your shoes look like?”. 🙂

    • OneUniverse
      November 6, 2021, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      Hey! I wasted twenty hours learning to tie the laces! Oh, never mind; that’s about what I spent learning how to play slot machines.

  2. The Flower Cosmic
    November 6, 2021, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    If you’re that close to extirpation, why not just…defect?

    • Theris
      November 6, 2021, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know, why did they join on the first place?

      • dornbeast
        November 6, 2021, 2:07 am | # | Reply

        Good dental plan?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      November 6, 2021, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      Presumably for the same reasons one might hesitate to defect from the mob

      • StClair
        November 6, 2021, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

        from what I’ve seen of A-Sig, it’s not that they’re afraid, it’s that they’re simply too stupid to consider the possibility.

  3. Moe Lane
    November 6, 2021, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    So, once upon a time there were these two Chinese officials during the (not-at-all coincidentally) last days of the Qin Dynasty, and they had found themselves (and their troops) delayed on a official military callup, thanks to a flood.
    One of them goes to the other, “Hey. What’s the punishment for being late?”
    The other replies, “Death.”
    The first one nods. “Right. And what’s the penalty for armed rebellion?”
    Again, the other replies, “Death.”
    The first official thinks about it for a moment. “So, it just occurred to me: *we’re late*.”

    • Raymond Robert Price
      November 6, 2021, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Or the story of Liu Bang. He was a local constable transporting some penal laborers to a building project when some escaped. Knowing the penalty for allowing prisoners to escape was death, he released the other prisoners and joined them as a bandit chief, which eventually led to him overthrowing the Qin Dynasty and founding the Han Dynasty.

      • Moe Lane
        November 6, 2021, 1:38 am | # | Reply

        The Qin Dynasty did not make friends easily.

        • M
          November 6, 2021, 5:19 am | # | Reply

          It’s hardly unique to the Qin. There’s a reason for the English saying “May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb”.

          • arqyx
            November 6, 2021, 6:40 am | #

            “Hang for a penny, hang for a pound.”
            If you’re going to steal, go big.

          • Robert Nowall
            November 6, 2021, 6:58 am | #

            Agarn: The captain wants the money by nine-thirty?
            O’Rourke: Right.
            Agarn: We leave town at nine.
            O’Rourke: Ahh! For desertion you get twenty years.
            Agarn: So what? For embezzling army funds you get twenty-five. I just saved us five years.

        • evilmidnightlurker
          November 7, 2021, 12:13 am | # | Reply

          Only lasted two generations iirc. Not surprising.

    • Darkstarling
      November 6, 2021, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      I came here to tell this story, but alas ninjas have beaten me to the punch.

      …I’m late :p

  4. Robert Nowall
    November 6, 2021, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    How do you guys feel about shelling walnuts?

    • OneUniverse
      November 6, 2021, 8:27 am | # | Reply

      After the first twenty hours it gets kinda tedious.

    • TheWreck
      November 6, 2021, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

      I render my affection for “F-Troop” here, because the Reply function goes only so deep on this site, it seems.

      ANyways – I deeply loved that series! A great set of characters. Though, alas, it would probably never pass muster (and that’s NOT “pass Custer”…) these days!

      • Robert Nowall
        November 7, 2021, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

        Loved it when I was a kid, loved it when I was an adult and could regret it ran just two seasons. And it may be the ultimate source of the famous line, “I didn’t inhale.”

    • TheWreck
      November 6, 2021, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

      Better than shelling our new friends’ position….

  5. Daibhid C
    November 6, 2021, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    The trouble with sending your least competent cannon fodder to be wiped out by enemy forces is that it doesn’t actually do much about the enemy forces.

    • OneUniverse
      November 6, 2021, 8:26 am | # | Reply

      You do learn something about the enemy firepower and location of the weapons…

      • OneUniverse
        November 6, 2021, 8:28 am | # | Reply

        Plus, you save on loyalty bucks.

      • BMunro
        November 6, 2021, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

        Since they’ll be facing constructs, cryptids, and mad science, there’s almost certain to be some serious surprises in store. Under the circumstances, finding out what they are before you send in the _valuable_ troops is really quite important.

    • khn0
      November 6, 2021, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

      If you have enough fodder, your enemy can be frightened enough to open fire recklessly and injure themselves.

  6. Shadowmehr
    November 6, 2021, 10:03 am | # | Reply

    Well, that answers one of my questions from yesterday. Now how can Sweetheart turn this to their advantage? (I don’t trust E.B. And A.A. to think that quickly.)

    • Efogoto
      November 6, 2021, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t trust E.B. And A.A. to think that well.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 7, 2021, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t trust E.B. and A.A. to think much at all.

  7. Robert Nowall
    November 6, 2021, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

    These guys wanting to impress Central. Extirpation is close to essential. They’re the least trusted troops, on the front line—what stupes! It can’t be coincidental.

  8. BMunro
    November 6, 2021, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

    If desired, a “Cannon Fodder, and Loving it” T-shirt can be substituted for the loyalty bucks.

    • TheWreck
      November 6, 2021, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

      You can tell them it’s made of a special, experimental ballistic cloth that feels like cotton/polyester!

    • JoB
      November 7, 2021, 8:08 am | # | Reply

      [joins the market with a competitively-priced “BALLET PROOF” shirt]

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