FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for February 04, 2010

and he hasn’t even found Doomulus Prime yet…

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.

Ha ha!!!! Good ones donboyer and ARF2! :)

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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)

mercy versus genocide, the infinite war