To The Rescue 2016-03-10

[AmriloJim]

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/to-the-rescue/

Flowers... a given.
Feminine... that they are.
Delicate... what?

[GlytchMeister]

Minecraft! Xbox! Rediculously cute Pickle and Daylla!

[oldmanmickey]

Why do i see those two as being hell on wheels when they hit their teens and running the MIB by the time they are in their 20's?

[GlytchMeister]

Maybe not running it by 20... But definitely capable of being senior special agents by then.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Why do i see those two as being hell on wheels when they hit their teens and running the MIB by the time they are in their 20's?

Heh.

Castela, age 17:

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Castela age 27 (?):

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[Dave]

Careful, kids. It looks to me as if some evil mastermind has been practicing the dark art of Cubical Topiary in that area, and Delicate Flowers might be vulnerable to those mystical Bad Haircuts!

[Warrl]

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/to-the-rescue/

Flowers... a given.
Feminine... that they are.
Delicate... what?

"Flowers" is only definitely correct for one of them.

I don't think they know what "feminine" means yet, but okay.

Delicate?

In one of the fanfics, a couple of thugs try to murder Castela. The result is described in part as "both guys looking like they went body surfing through barbed wire". Castela is unharmed and not even particularly upset. And if you remember some of the scenes where she and Atsali nearly came to blows, this is entirely consistent with canon.

It's possible Daylla is delicate - I wouldn't bet on it - but the stinkweed definitely isn't.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I really did not need to see the Xbox achievement thing on a Minecraft instance to remind me of the complete and utter fail that has happened to my favorite game...

Other than that, I shall leave everyone with this.

[Gyrrakavian]

So, is this confirmation that Daylla is a plant person?

[Gyrrakavian]

I really did not need to see the Xbox achievement thing on a Minecraft instance to remind me of the complete and utter fail that has happened to my favorite game...

Other than that, I shall leave everyone with this.

At least the desktop version is getting hang glider cape things. In the upcoming 1.9

[Opus the Poet]

Yep, we are seeing where the tough-as-nails 17YO and older versions of Castela came from, starting with her imagination.

[oldmanmickey]

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/to-the-rescue/

Flowers... a given.
Feminine... that they are.
Delicate... what?

"Flowers" is only definitely correct for one of them.

I don't think they know what "feminine" means yet, but okay.

Delicate?

In one of the fanfics, a couple of thugs try to murder Castela. The result is described in part as "both guys looking like they went body surfing through barbed wire". Castela is unharmed and not even particularly upset. And if you remember some of the scenes where she and Atsali nearly came to blows, this is entirely consistent with canon.

It's possible Daylla is delicate - I wouldn't bet on it - but the stinkweed definitely isn't.

Yea they are just like Xena and Gabriell were.

[Catawampus]

What exactly is the meaning behind the little thingy in the top left?

[Dave]

What exactly is the meaning behind the little thingy in the top left?

I'm not up on the current games, but I believe it means something like "The player has achieved a goal by completed a certain sequence of steps, and is being awarded a prize. The goal/achievement/prize is known as 'Kicking Butt'." I'm not sure what the 50G means.

This achievement would, then, give the player certain new skills or capabilities within the game, enabling him/her to do things not possible before (or much more difficult before).

The name "Kicking Butt" implies that it's some sort of generalized combat skill. Probably more useful a power to achieve than that of The Spleen.

A lot of today's games have a strong focus on gaining these sorts of achievements, as a means of advancing within the game's levels, inter-player social rankings, etc.

[GlytchMeister]

Achievements are actually a kind of ranking system among gamers on Xbox Live. Gamers earn "Achivements" which are worth varying amounts of "Gamerscore". The more gamerscore someone has, the more likely they are serious (hardcore), experienced (been playing games a long time) or high-volume (play a lot of different games) gamers.

PlayStation Network has a similar system involving Trophies, and I believe Steam on PC uses something too, but I don't really pay attention to it.

I'm not sure about Nintendo Wii and WiiU. I have nothing to do with modern Nintendo. I stopped paying attention to them when the GameCube died.

...

Actually, to be honest, the only Nintendo consoles I ever payed attention to were the NES and the GameCube. I'm not exactly a big Nintendo fanboy.

[TazManiac]

Here's what I'm supposing;

Achieved a certain goal/level- awarded 50G,
comment/observation/encouragement- "Kicking Butt!"

I don't really touch Gaming on Consoles though, so what the frack do I know anyway?

[GlytchMeister]

Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. I guess I went a little too deep. You do something in a game, be it reaching a certain level or doing something goofy like shooting fifty smart-mouthed gargoyles, and you get an achievement worth some amount of gamerscore.

The "kicking butt!" Is basically the name of the achievement. They have descriptions that usually tell you how to get the achievement. Once you earn it, the description changes to say "you did this" instead of "do this to get the achievement"