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Meh, the way we use "the ___ wasn't loaded" isn't to call something a plothole, but for when Tats pulls something out of his ass whenever the situation looks like it might end badly for or reflect poorly on one of his precious females.

Oh, also, on that note. Seems this time, Liberty's hourglass was loaded. *Ba dum tshh*

edited 9th Dec '16 10:23:46 AM by danime91

Yes, another time we used the "It wasn't loaded" taunt was when Clio hacked into the billing system for the prostitution establishment and supposedly broadcast personal information about the customers' purchasing habits ... only for the readers to be told a couple of weeks later that she hadn't actually done that.

Basically, Tats seems fond of saying "Ha ha, only kidding!" a couple of weeks after a female appears to have succumbed to a physical or moral hazard.

edited 9th Dec '16 11:07:10 AM by Hexapodia

Adding to these posts:

Let's not forget he built up to the "it's not loaded" moment for more than two months! All the while showing Maverick's intentions clearly as meaning to kill Milton. Clearly pissed off beyond belief. He even showed her taking aim and then going after Slick when she spotted him. Then threatening and seemingly shooting him.

Remember that at the time Slick had kind of run his course story wise. He hadn't been in the focus a lot and it was really the first time Tats raised the stakes in his stories so high, after a long long period of empty feminist propaganda. So getting the fembot to shoot Slick seemed like a real possibility at the time and a chance to turn the story into something that was more than what it had been to that point. Then came the Mary Sue of Mary Sues and revealed that the gun wasn't even loaded to begin with.

It still baffles me how stupid of a choice he made narratively and it's still unclear to me what Tats may have meant to accomplish with it.

Since then I / we have used "it wasn't loaded" to refer to situations where Tats seems to imply that harm may come to female / black / gay characters, the danger they are in is real and they are going to do intentional morally questionable acts or these actions are retconned. Tange jumping a policemen with a katana or what's happening with Liberty now are perfect examples of "it wasn't loaded" in action.

edited 9th Dec '16 12:36:24 PM by hayate666

Personal goal: to get "it wasn't loaded" into the common vernacular as slang for "yeah, something bad was gonna happen, but then it didn't in the most Ass Pull-iest way possible".

edited 9th Dec '16 12:38:30 PM by danime91

Yeah adding that as a meme.

http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-12-10

HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT WORK?!

Death is a natural event, it doesn't pick on people because it likes to, it does it because your time has literally run out and you can no longer sustain your own life! And while I do think the Death of Discworld would slap this one upside the head for being so full oh himself, he doesn't do it out of malice but his job!

So how the fuck does kreeptonite, a thing that deters 'kreeps' work on something that is a representation of the end of life?! If Lady Liberty got sprayed would she start spazzing off too?!

The concept itself is so stupid it hurts, it actually, PHYSICALLY, hurt- ow, OW! DEEP HURTING DEEP HURTING!

edited 9th Dec '16 7:52:12 PM by Rothide

I like how the spray effect looks like fucking jpeg distortion

Simple. Death is usually portrayed as Male. Therefore he's a creep.

Excuse me for a second.

edited 9th Dec '16 9:52:04 PM by Metalix

Hah! Chekhov's Spray Can! I told you so!

So Death is a minion of the Patriarchy now? If wymynz could just spray Death away, would they live forever?

I wonder if the spray would work on Marvel's Death, since she's a woman there.

Same with Sandman's Death.

And Izanami.

By the way, Chekhov's Spray Can is evidence that that Tats plans these story arcs months in advance.

You'd think he'd do a better job of it ...

You would.

I wouldn't. Vote of no confidence.

i have no idea where this story is going now. From dramatic to silly, then back to men-are-evil... Does Tats have multiple personality disorder?

So Death himself is a villain now? What, Satan wasn't interesting enough? You needed more immortal and by definition undefeatable enemies?

... I cannot believe none of you thought that perhaps Death's drone was something he custom-ordered from the Devil himself — i.e. it's just one of the Patriarchy drones repurposed for Death's needs.

Honestly, I don't get it for another reason... the Drones are MACHINES. That single eye is an optic sensor - a lens. Kreeptonite should work basically like a spray bottle, fuzz up the images and create a few problems with target locking, but nothing more. Honestly, it's like trying to fight off a military drone with Mace (actually, it's EXACTLY that!)...

Does Tats have multiple personality disorder?

I think it's more likely there's another personality in addition to his own that Tats has to satisfy. Perhaps there is a Significant Other who is calling the shots, someone whom he does not dare to ignore.

And the fact that something mechanical can be bested by MACE to the face isn't infuriating enough on it's own, let alone said weakness appearing in a custom job?

On the other hand, they ARE flying eyeballs, so maybe it is not that weird. Even the Eyebots behave like they have actual eyes.

Perhaps this is just Rule of Funny/cartoon physics.

Which Tats keeps mixing with "Super Cereal" plot developments and allegory which just makes the jokes aggravating rather than funny.

The flying cyclopean skull has a new ability in this strip: It's apparently shooting (or "CHOOMF-ing") at them. Too bad Death didn't think to use this weapon when he was shooting at the Old Year on previous occasions — he could have saved himself a lot of trouble.

Which brings me to a prediction: Death will chase Liberty and almost dispatch her ... and then 2016 will stroll by, and Death will turn away from Liberty to chase a more important target.

edited 10th Dec '16 11:37:53 AM by Hexapodia

Wouldn't be the first time Tats drug out a story to that ridiculous a degree.

Bonus points if Tats manages to miss New Years by a week or more again.

edited 10th Dec '16 1:32:21 PM by Metalix

http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-12-11

Whatever.