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more of a cramped metal shell stuck on the top of a flying metal tower that breaks to pieces as it flies.

Warning! Rant coming up... I watched an interview with a man who had been a prisoner of ISIS. I he was kidnapped and held for ransom and it took something like 14 months before he was released. When asked about how he was treated and what kind of people the ISIS soldiers were he said that very few of those he met seemed to care about the religion other than going through the motions. What they did care about was having free access to people to torture and humiliate. He himself had been tortured in many ways and had been through nine mock executions. Usually he was told in the morning that he would be executed as they hadn't got the money, or alternatively they had got the money and had no further use for him. They then left him to stew for a day. When evening or whatever time they claimed he was to be executed at came they put a hood over his head and dragged him outside, got him on his knees, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Usually it was just a click, a few times they fired a gun just next to him. These mock executions wasn't ordered, it was just the guards having fun. Nine times he went through this, with some variations thrown in to keep him scared. Nine times different guards got their jollies from playing with mock executions, and that was just one prisoner. These guards came from all over, many from European countries, and they joined ISIS just so they could be assholes and torture people. Now this was a man, what they do to women isn't better in any way. Having heard that, I'm not surprised that some people might find it fun to join a bunch of misogynistic fascistic sadists in a video game. Hopefully there are very few of those who feels it's OK to do this in the real world. Unfortunately though there are some who do, and organizations like ISIS or Boko Haram and The Lord's Resistance Army in Africa are just too happy to recruit them. Sorry for the rant... I just had to say that there are people out there that are worse than what we like to imagine is possible.

I'm generally a man of peace, but these guys are so vile that I will make an exception and gladly cheer on their hopefully violent end. Bromans is such a good name for them.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=452 Well, there's goes the peaceful run. Go get em Grace!!!

I would feel bad for the Bromans if I did. Only I don't, so I don't.

Soon the living shall envy how merciful Damien's death was.

Also, being willing to admit that your own judgement is not flawless is a good thing--those who think themselves perfect allow themselves no room for improvement.

Gentle forumgoers all, Some of you may have noticed that I have been unusually short-tempered and hypersensitive of late. I am afraid that this is not your imagination. Due to RL circumstances I am under an unusually large amount of stress, and I have recently arrived at the reluctant conclusion that it is affecting my judgment. I will attempt to watch this more closely but I would also like to say that if you yourselves feel that I am reacting too strongly, you should not hesitate to point this out. The ideal would be to find a temporary or permanent addition to the moderator staff to cover for me while my current situation persists, and I intend to take this up with Robin. In the meantime, I apologise to you all and thank you for the patience you have shown. My best regards, The Old Hack

Well, then, kill all the Bromans and use them as fertilizer. Voilá, you've improved the world.

"We're sitting on top of four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon; in a thing that has two-hundred-thousand moving parts, and was built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good doesn't it." -- Armageddon

Ohhh! A new spell for Elliot... If I were Magic I'd give him an awesome autopilot... that followed the GPS instructions to the letter including obeying speed limits, traffic lights, and always stopping for pedestrians crossing the road. I'm not sure if I'd make him follow the roads at a height of six feet, or fifty, either way he'd be at the mercy of traffic, the spell having him follow the rhythm of road bound traffic while paying no attention to birds, drones or anything else that flies. I can visualize the look on her friends faces when they learn that Cheerleadra is stuck in traffic and can't figure out how to disengage the autopilot... It's probably a good thing that it's Dan writing this comic and not me...

Yes, the Nanase doll tucked in Elliot's waistband is cute! Talking back to the voice in your head is often a sign of madness . . . Anyway, I like the poses in the 4th and 6th panels. Elliot is indeed owning the Cheerleadra form and identity. Also, Elliot has confirmed here that the Cheerleadra form has super strength. Not "more powerful than a locomotive", but definitely strength that is implausible for a human--stronger than non-Guardian Nanase, likely stronger than Greg, and possibly able to lift an automobile overhead. Considering the number of people who want to change their bodies' apparent sex in spite of being made social outcasts for doing so (hundreds of thousands in America alone), I would expect that easily ten times as many (or more) would do so if it were reversible, safe, and not a source of social rejection. Everybody has had at least idle curiosity about how "the other half" lives, even if they don't want to transform on a permanent basis.

You do what you can to take it easy Hack, but don't think this makes you unfit to be a moderator, if anything this just a reminder that you aren't an emotionless robot and you're not immune to stress. In the time that I've been in these forums, I've seen you do your best to keep things civil and friendly. Allowing us to be able to say when we think something's not right is not only a sign of a good moderator, but a good person in general and I believe that's what makes this a good community.

Well there was the moment earlier in Elliot and Ashley's date, shortly after he transformed into Mall Girl. When Ashley asked if he was comfortable with being a girl, Elliot stated that "I guess sometimes I feel like being one more than the other." which could be enough evidence to say Elliot is genderfluid. But I don't think he was always that way like Tedd was, this could have been something Elliot never would have considered if he never got zapped in the first place. It makes me think that if everyone had the ability, either through magic or technology, to switch between genders at will, a good portion of people would likely become genderfluid.

Personally, I think it makes as much sense for him and Ellen to be agender or nearly so. The preference for being one or the other sometimes could easily be wanting to experience things differently. He doesn't really seem to care about the girl vs boy part of it so much? It seems like what he likes about one or the other form has to do with things secondary to gender or the sex of the body: anonymity, feeling attractive in a particular way, gender roles (how people treat him/what people find acceptable), height/perspective, seeing more colors of red, everything cheerleadra... Whereas Tedd seems to have a more basic need to specifically be a girl some of the time. He still enjoys much of the other stuff, but it doesn't seem to be the driving force. I could be wrong, but I would put Eliot as agender, or agender to mildly genderfluid.

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