Gnomish Engineering Leaves a Mark…
Gnomish Engineering Sure Leaves a Mark…
Melvrick needs to get our more. I will not be updating Tentacle Tales for the remainder of the month but will start again in December mainly because of the holidays and being gone for a week or so.
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Comic Dialogue
(If you have Wii Gloves for you wee little fingers it’s also electronic Braille.)
Melvrick the Chaste: “We have to look for Berri, she might be alive!”
Purbert: “Argh! When we get out we’ll see what we can see in the rubble…”
Purbert: “See nothing but wanton destruction. Typical gnomish engineering.”
Melvrick the Chaste: “There is NO WAY Berri did ALL of this…”
Purbert: “You obviously haven’t had enough experience with gnomish engineering.”
Mel’s concern for Beri might be the only actual true friendship in the comic. Everyone else is compelled, a master-servant, or driven by lust. Well, there’s Beri’s GADs also.
So… Beri brings out the best in people? That is a scary thought!
pretty sure the GADs fall under servant-master as well since Berri built them and all
Actually, they consider her their mother, which makes it a parent/child relationship with them.
…that poor squirrel…
At least that squirrel wasn’t part of the “family,” so at least it wasn’t a case of *incest* rape…
I would like to take this time to point that in D&D, there is a race of gnomes known as “tinker gnomes.” No one know what their lifespan is, because they have a tendency to blow up before anyone can figure it out ^_^
Yeah, I remember them…I’ve even got a game supplement book (oh, somewhere in these stacks of boxes), a whole book just chock-full of examples of Gnomish engineering. As I recall, a lot of their design principles were apparently based on “cartoon physics.”
Quite entertaining, those Gnomes are; as long as you run for the hills as soon as they start asking for volunteers & just watch from a distance…
Yeah. The only folks that can top them would be the R&D department in Paranoia. But only by a little bit.
And that would only be because the Paranoia R&D Dept. has access to higher levels of technology to start with.
But what Berri accomplished with just a few disparate items in her backpack & a couple of old, broken down Agrimechs…
Abandon ship.
Abandon planet!!
I’m recalling a toy company from long ago, who had a particular way of advertising. Does the phrase “Built Tonka tough” ring any bells around here? I mean, I had some Tonka toys when I was knee-high to a knee & those things are sturdy…Well-engineered out of steel, instead of the cheap plastic shit everybody builds nowadays.
Could it be Berri was one of their founders, or maybe Berri is emulating their principles?
Yeah, even remember the ads where they drove a real truck over the side of a cliff, and then tossed a scale model Tonka truck over the side… guess which one was still in perfect condition at the bottom 😀
I remember that commercial.
A commercial I *wanted* to see but they never made:
A playground bully tries to intimidate another kid into giving up his Tonka truck. The little kid indeed let’s the bully have it…right upside the head.
Final score:
Tonka & the little kid: 1
Bully: 0
No the only race they could invent a device that increases the size of the entire rest of the universe rather than simply shrinking themselves to make them a little smaller!