Oh wow, I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be a T-pose, I just assumed it was supposed to look intimidating or something considering the rest of her also looks off.
Yeah, I don’t know the origins — I assume it started with superhero comic books — but floating in that position is also a standard telekinetic threat display. Having trouble coming up with examples off the top of my head though.
It’s also the default pose for computer models of human and near-human characters… which means it sometimes shows up hilariously inappropriately when a program fails to load it’s character animations.
You could suggest non-violent resistance instead. I find people who go the pacifist route turn into door mats eventually due to not wanting to even be a part of the violence, but end up just being beaten down anyway.
While non-violent resistance is more about defense and parry tanking with self and group heals plus disrupts, so many disruptions and debuffs. The idea being to prevent the opponent from harming others or doing their evil deeds. Also use damage over time to show them the futility of a long and protracted war.
The problem is that if you’re in a group you’ll get credited with other toon’s kills. Her objective is to keeper her kill count at zero, and going solo and leveling through discovery, gathering skills and non-killing quests are about the only way to do it that we’ve found.
Pacifism is about not supporting war in any capacity, not even a supporting capacity.
Self-defence is something different entirely. Nowhere is it written that a pacifist must not defend themselves. Mahatma Mohandaz Ghandi even said that a refusal to fight is meaningless from a position of weakness.
I think the circumstance that the Quakers (not the players of the first person shooter, the other Quakers) did not participate in the War of Independence, but ended up on the winning side anyway (having taken the only winning move of the game – had Britain won, they would have ended up on the winning side as well), confuses Americans with the narrative of the brave soldier defending the civilian. Which doesn’t make sense, when you think about it, because the last thing a pacifist wants is to be dragged into the soldier’s war.
Of course there is also Lev Trotsky’s misquote: “He may not care about socialism, but socialism cares about him.” Pundits always substitute war for socialism. And not just in that quote, either.
What pundits always miss is that many pacifists died for their refusal to support the war effort. They were shot by the very people who had sworn to defend them.
You get your pet(s) to slaughter things for you. That is not pacifism.
But then, what can one expect from a game that treats it as cannibalism if you are an orc that eats a human, but not if a human eats an orc, or an orc eats an orc.
And if you are a neutral character, and an elf (chaotic) and a dwarf (lawful) are in the same room, both will attack you, rather than each other.
The game won’t even let you pay your debts to a shopkeeper with credit if you are blind (and non-telepathic).
But somehow you are an atheist if you refuse the help of the very tangible gods.
And you can beat things to within an inch of their life, but as long as you let your pet get in the actual killing blow, it’s still pacifism.
Cannibalism is based on your base race (and, as of 3.6.0, your current race). For humans, it’s any K or @ that isn’t explicitly an elf or Medusa (but eating her is a bad idea for other reasons). For gnomes, it’s any G. For elves and dwarves, it’s any @ or h that is explicitly an elf or dwarf, respectively. For orcs, it’s any o, but they’re not penalized for cannibalism (I had a cannibal orc – ate nothing but orc-flesh – well on his way to ascension, but I had a crash and couldn’t recover the save). Cavemen are also not penalized for cannibalism.
Aimee is a lass in Underland?
Yep, through the screen glass.
Oh yeah, that’s definitely Aimee. Only person around there who’d make that reference is a Nick, and we can see where our main one is right now.
All shall love him and despair!
I love how Aimee is in the default “T” pose.
Oh wow, I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be a T-pose, I just assumed it was supposed to look intimidating or something considering the rest of her also looks off.
Yeah, I don’t know the origins — I assume it started with superhero comic books — but floating in that position is also a standard telekinetic threat display. Having trouble coming up with examples off the top of my head though.
It’s also the default pose for computer models of human and near-human characters… which means it sometimes shows up hilariously inappropriately when a program fails to load it’s character animations.
The pacifist run of Undertale was actually pretty epic.
My wife is doing a pacifist Tauren in WoW right now, her level is up in the 40s now. You don’t want to know how many times she’s died.
You could suggest non-violent resistance instead. I find people who go the pacifist route turn into door mats eventually due to not wanting to even be a part of the violence, but end up just being beaten down anyway.
While non-violent resistance is more about defense and parry tanking with self and group heals plus disrupts, so many disruptions and debuffs. The idea being to prevent the opponent from harming others or doing their evil deeds. Also use damage over time to show them the futility of a long and protracted war.
The problem is that if you’re in a group you’ll get credited with other toon’s kills. Her objective is to keeper her kill count at zero, and going solo and leveling through discovery, gathering skills and non-killing quests are about the only way to do it that we’ve found.
Non-violent resistance is pacifistic.
Pacifism is about not supporting war in any capacity, not even a supporting capacity.
Self-defence is something different entirely. Nowhere is it written that a pacifist must not defend themselves. Mahatma Mohandaz Ghandi even said that a refusal to fight is meaningless from a position of weakness.
I think the circumstance that the Quakers (not the players of the first person shooter, the other Quakers) did not participate in the War of Independence, but ended up on the winning side anyway (having taken the only winning move of the game – had Britain won, they would have ended up on the winning side as well), confuses Americans with the narrative of the brave soldier defending the civilian. Which doesn’t make sense, when you think about it, because the last thing a pacifist wants is to be dragged into the soldier’s war.
Of course there is also Lev Trotsky’s misquote: “He may not care about socialism, but socialism cares about him.” Pundits always substitute war for socialism. And not just in that quote, either.
What pundits always miss is that many pacifists died for their refusal to support the war effort. They were shot by the very people who had sworn to defend them.
Which just goes to show who the enemy really is.
I love this comic so very much.
Come on, Baron; you knew Nick was a pacifist already.
Some games straight up reward the pacifist approach with Achievements like “Ghandi” and “Switzerland”. They’re actually pretty tough.
And here I thought you got the Gandhi achievement for nuking everyone else until they quit getting back up. 😀
Pacifist is one of the few major nethack conducts I’ve never done. It just seems incredibly tedious.
I can’t even do non-conduct Nethack–that people can do pacifist runs seems like basically magic. Tedious magic.
It’s a misnomer, really.
You get your pet(s) to slaughter things for you. That is not pacifism.
But then, what can one expect from a game that treats it as cannibalism if you are an orc that eats a human, but not if a human eats an orc, or an orc eats an orc.
And if you are a neutral character, and an elf (chaotic) and a dwarf (lawful) are in the same room, both will attack you, rather than each other.
The game won’t even let you pay your debts to a shopkeeper with credit if you are blind (and non-telepathic).
But somehow you are an atheist if you refuse the help of the very tangible gods.
Obviously the game was made by sociopaths.
And you can beat things to within an inch of their life, but as long as you let your pet get in the actual killing blow, it’s still pacifism.
Cannibalism is based on your base race (and, as of 3.6.0, your current race). For humans, it’s any K or @ that isn’t explicitly an elf or Medusa (but eating her is a bad idea for other reasons). For gnomes, it’s any G. For elves and dwarves, it’s any @ or h that is explicitly an elf or dwarf, respectively. For orcs, it’s any o, but they’re not penalized for cannibalism (I had a cannibal orc – ate nothing but orc-flesh – well on his way to ascension, but I had a crash and couldn’t recover the save). Cavemen are also not penalized for cannibalism.
Hm. I haven’t played for too long.
The Weird Al Ghandi would beg to differ.
He knew, he’s just going to keep making fun of him for it.
Clearly this game is in early alpha. Aimee’s character model is still stuck in the T-pose. 😛
This is why Baron M. suggested Nick get a look at Aimee before trying to date her…
…I mean, she *is* telling them to flee rather than get ready for an ass-whuppin’…
“Pay no attention to the girl behind the curtain…”
Does this mean it’s time for Lovelace to do whatever it was she came here for?
Weirdly, I’m very reminded of Photopia. Maybe Nick’ll pull out his wings and fly everyone out of the maze.
Aimee for President of the Overland.
Very nice character design. In a Queen of Hearts meets Pinhead sort of way.
Huh. Am I the only one who thinks of Castlevania?
See, I told you it was Schmingdom Hearts world.