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2013-10-26

by shaenon on October 26, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. wykstrad
    October 26, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    The sad face being made by the helicopter detailing is perfect.

    • Knuckles
      January 25, 2022, 10:18 am | # | Reply

      So glad I am rereading this. I would never have noticed that otherwise.

  2. Paul
    October 26, 2013, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Nick, she gave you back swearing and plays videogames with you. Cut her some slack, it isn’t like she’s going to bang Tip again if he’s all atwitter about Artie.

    • Ian Thompson
      October 26, 2013, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      Cut the Helicopter some slack, The woman he’s interested in Didn’t even realize they were on a date. And Now she is sharing a hotel Room with tip. How would you feel?

      • Dave Harmon
        October 26, 2013, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

        Could be worse — they could be skipping the hotel room and staying in him….

      • katrika
        October 7, 2014, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

        He doesn’t have a claim to her. If he wants to go on a date with her, he needs to verbalize that. To her. Otherwise it’s /not a date/. Do I ship Nick and Ginny? Yes. Is Nick causing his own problems right now? Yes. I feel for him, it sucks not to be able to say what you feel, but he’s being incredibly immature, sorry.

  3. Anderson
    October 26, 2013, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Escort missions always suck. Nick’s a gamer, he should know that.

    • Paul
      October 26, 2013, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      Not always. Bioshock Infinite wasn’t bad. Although one could argue that it was Elizabeth escorting you, so maybe from her perspective it was.

      • Ian Thompson
        October 26, 2013, 6:25 am | # | Reply

        Paul, the stuff with Elizabeth isn’t an escort mission, she’s a farming bot in escort missions clothing

      • Seth
        October 26, 2013, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

        I can think of better counter-examples. [i]Oblivion[/i] has at least one escort mission that I remember, but quest-critical NPC’s can’t die, so even though the escortee acts suicidal, he just gets knocked unconscious a lot, and doesn’t cause you to fail. [i]Afterfall: InSanity[/i] had escort missions, but the enemy AI was (with one brief exception) too stupid to attack the escortees, so they weren’t any worse than the rest of the game.
        But, yes, escort missions are typically nuisances (the beginning of Meat Circus in [i]Psychonauts[/i] was just horrible). It is better when the AI is escorting you. Sheriff Breaker kicked ass in [i]Alan Wake[/i].

        • Seth
          October 26, 2013, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

          Let’s just pretend I remembered to use HTML and not BBCode there.

        • Saberbeam
          October 26, 2013, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

          And it’s not always the escortee that’s in endangered by incompetent AI. I remember learning the hard way in Morrowind that you do not want to stand between you’re lightning bolt-wielding buddy AI and their target if you don’t like electrocution.

        • Enfield
          January 2, 2014, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

          let’s not forget Jedi Outcast, with that monkey-trucking R5 droid. ugh.

          • The Other Mike
            March 3, 2017, 7:17 am | #

            Of course, Jedi Outcast also had the mission with Kyle Katarn, who if anything was escorting you.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 7, 2014, 2:22 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s worried about, if you know what I mean

  4. TomT
    October 26, 2013, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Yes Nick you did. Bad Nick Bad.

  5. Anderson
    October 26, 2013, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Elizabeth was more an AI sidekick…escort missions require you to actually do some work, whereas ‘liz just took care of herself and threw money at you (which is why Alyx in Half Life 2/episodes doesn’t count either). The only true escort mission I can remember in gaming that wasn’t insanely annoying was that security guard needed to get through a locked door in Half Life (“Stand Back!……hello!”), who was both armed and only had to travel a short distance. And even that was sucky and mostly pointless.

  6. Anderson
    October 26, 2013, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    And once again, wordpress decides “Hey, user! I’m just gonna chuck that reply you were writing to a comment at the bottom of the page and say it’s not a reply at all, kay?”. That was supposed to be a reply to Paul.

  7. mnementh
    October 26, 2013, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    Why am I suddenly imagining Nick rescuing GladOS from “Impending Smashed Topatoes Freefall” and finally finding his soulmate…???

    mnem
    You know you’d save Caroline…

    • Shadowmehr
      October 26, 2013, 10:18 am | # | Reply

      Nick and GLaDOS? A gamer and a tester? They have similar senses of humor, but between his pacifism and her . . . well, just her, I’m not sure if that would be a match made in Heaven or the other direction.

      • She Who Must Not Be Maimed
        October 26, 2013, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

        Plenty of room for humour, whichever way ti goes.

  8. John Smith
    October 26, 2013, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    Nah, the end of Bioshock 2 is the ideal ‘Escort Mission.’ That game had lots of flaws, but my god I loved that bit.

  9. Zap Rowsdower
    October 26, 2013, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    Nonsense. GLaDOS is already married. To SCIENCE!.

  10. Prodigal
    October 26, 2013, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    I could slap Nick right now, if his hull wouldn’t hurt my hand.

    • Tetra Valent
      October 26, 2013, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

      Worse things have happened to you in this comic strip, so go ahead.

      • Prodigal
        October 27, 2013, 3:15 am | # | Reply

        Ok, point. Add “and if I still had my hands attached” to that. 🙂

  11. Kwaj
    October 29, 2013, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, right… that IS what Nick looks like…

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