FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for February 04, 2010
February 03, 2010
February 05, 2010
Transcript:
Jason: Paige, I don't think you understand! I've spent hundreds of hours trying to defeat the red orb guardian in this video game! You have to tell me how you got past him! You have to! Did you use the flaming sword? The screaming sword? The sword of death? The sword of pain? The ax of vengeance? The mace of might? The razor arrows? The exploding arrows? What? What? What? Paige: If you must know, I simply walked right by him. Jason: Well, of course you did once he was dead. Wait! I know! It was the sword of fury! Am I right? Paige: I don't think you understand, Jason...
donboyer almost 15 years ago
and he hasn’t even found Doomulus Prime yet…
ARF2 almost 15 years ago
The Red Orb Guardian is a sucker for the Spell of Ignorement.
Sheathe your weapons, chant, “La, la, la, la, la, la…,” and walk right past him.
DolphinGirl78 almost 15 years ago
Ha ha!!!! Good ones donboyer and ARF2! :)
ejcapulet almost 15 years ago
Yep, that’s a good way to handle a lot of annoyances - pretend they don’t exist and they just go away. It even works with perpetually annoying people.
Smiley Rmom almost 15 years ago
ejcapulet - I wish ignoring perpetually annoying people worked 100% of the time. Unfortunately, if the annoying person doesn’t pick up on being ignored as a “hint” to find someone else to annoy, they continue their ways. Sometimes it takes a 2x4 to get a mule’s attention. (Not that I’m advocating anything criminal.)
DragonPowered almost 15 years ago
Haha! This is exactly what was in a video game I was developing. There was a great dragon snoozing next to a chest, and the moment you got near the chest or attempted to open it the dragon destroyed you. However, if you ignored the chest and walked around the back of the dragon it kept snoozing and you could safely teleport to the next area. Some friends of mine fought for hours to defeat that dragon. It’s a matter of greed.
Hbeschizza almost 15 years ago
There’s quite a few games with tricks like this. Forces you to think outside the box. I remember playing “The Longest Journey” and in one point of the game you couldn’t understand what one man was saying to you. If you kept talking to him yo would get no where but if you would just stop talking and listen his words slowly became clear.
Craigor almost 15 years ago
Reminds me of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
“The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a creature that hails from the planet of Traal, and will eat anything. The beasts are impossible to kill. To deal with a beast, one should wrap a towel around one’s own head. This creature is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it assumes that if someone cannot see it, then it cannot see the person”
(thanks to Wikipedia for that concise account)
Tijaro about 4 years ago
mercy versus genocide, the infinite war