By Tim Stone on April 13th, 2008 at 8:13 am.
From March 2005.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Strafe Left: The Formative Years #25
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True Story.
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What is it with the flak gun?
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Heh, love Strafe Left.
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@Alex: You mean why pick it up? For the same reason you’d fit someone with concrete shoes if you wanted to drown them.
Nice comic by the way, Tim.
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Nice work, I like that the squid ink memoirs idea is the thing that tips it.
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For the first time I’m left baffled. What’s the reference?
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Silent Hunter III, I presume.
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I don’t really see a reference here. It’s just funny.
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You would figure they’d bolt the flak gun down to rpevent this sort of thing.
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I’m actually going through torpedo training in SH4 right now. So far so interesting. Probably the first game I’ve played where making use of a compass and protractor is vital.
But it is vitally cool when you successfully calculate and plot your torpedoes and sink an enemy vessel. See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG85lnyjI3w&feature=related
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Short Sunderland. Oh, you have to be a very special sort of nerd to laugh at that one. And I laughed.
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Would’ve been better if the last panel was just the silent grey guy standing with no one beside him.
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@Fraser:
You’re onto something there.
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Yeah Fraser, that’s what I thought was going to happen at the end. :( Poor grey guy.
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