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Do not try this at home.  Unless you're hiding from a T-Rex whose had its DNA spliced with a frog.  Then this might still be the best strategy... y'know, unless it smells you.
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Standing Still

August 7th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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└ Tags: Knife Dude, max, veronica

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  1. Bernhard
    Bernhard
    August 7, 2014 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

    I think a T-Rex at an Anime con might suffer from olfactory overload…

  2. Langland
    Langland
    August 7, 2014 at 5:41 am | # | Reply

    Not that Max or Veronica should be heroes, but they could tripped that dude the 2 of them could have held him down til the police come.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      August 7, 2014 at 10:47 am | # | Reply

      You say that, but Max has a strong instinct to not get stabbed.

      • Langland
        Langland
        August 7, 2014 at 8:24 pm | # | Reply

        True true. but they could have done a surprise attack. Oh well it’s funnier this way. But the dude is probably on drugs which supposed the IRL guy was on when he did this at No brand this year.

    • Nex
      Nex
      August 8, 2014 at 9:35 am | # | Reply

      You know you should never ever try anything even remotely heroic against person with weapon, don’t you? Every police(wo)man will tell you that. Cops will always tell you to never try to stop or disarm any attacker unless s/he is going to harm you etc. and it is the last option. You are supposed to be good citizen and keep yourself as safe as possible. If you try something like you just suggested it is the quickest way to become one more corpse in their day and no one wants that. No one. As is said, there are full cemeteries of heroes and their only witness is the grass growing from their bones. (Really, did you just suggest to ground wild running person with knife in hand? By two people untrained in armed combat? Battling otaku lines doesn’t count for this. 😛 )

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        August 8, 2014 at 10:13 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, this is what I was trying to get at.

        Not to mention, the police are literally right there. Max and Veronica playing hero would actually be more likely to get the two of them hurt, and get in the way of the cops doing their job.

  3. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    August 7, 2014 at 8:35 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, my instinct is to get in the guys way… how I’ve managed to avoid living this long without serious injury is a mystery.

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    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

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    RISC is good


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