How bad IS Mal?
POSTED BY: Bytemite
UPDATED: Friday, July 2, 2010 14:37
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In short, "it go boom," yes.
Have to flex that muscle now and then. In all honesty, this was relatively benign, as much as it shames me to say.
I was going to exploit what I saw as the most likely response break-down and see if I could CONVINCE people I was reading their minds. Reading minds, controlling them, what's the difference? It's all them doing what you EXPECT them to do. I've had lots of fun with that before. Mostly involving the acquisition of lots of sweets and candy.
Have a cupcake?
~MadScienceByte
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Yes, cupcake good!
Although, admittedly I was "experimenting" on this end too, to see if by adding a comment that supported "B" which honestly sounded like it came right out of the captains mouth (a combination of celebrity endorsement and bandwagon trickery) would load the survey in that direction like a curve ball.
And you spotted it, right away, although you were polite enough to not actually call it like that, and so you tossed in the towel, and now I feel a bit guilty...
But not much, cause it *does* work in practice, just not with someone who has thought patterns so concurrent to yours - it wasn't even intentional that I drove it off the rails so much as force of habit, in all honesty.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirtyXanatosPileup
Ooops.
-Frem
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That's all right. By that point, the experiment was out of control, as the survey was already preloaded to B.
It IS kinda what I figured Mal would do as well, you know. But I outsmarted myself, and you and Chris playing spanner in the works, eh, well. The outcome was inevitable, I guess.
If the cupcake makes you start seeing or hearing anything odd, let me know right away, okay?
...Uh oh. THAT'S not good.
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Ha, pastry and sweets are like, my Kryptonite, and believe me, it's unlikely to compare to the incident at a gathering in Oklahoma...
See, someone brought brownies, and they were very, VERY good brownies, and went especially well with the homebrewed wine I was knockin back, nice stuff, bit of a kick to it...
Only no one thought to tell me those were "special" brownies, till I'd put away like eight of them, on top of the boozing.
Thus leading the meme (which stuck, oddly) that I prettymuch turn into Hinaichigo around sweets.
From your caffiene reaction I presume you prolly get the same effect off cappucino.
-Frem
(and yes, I actually do that chair-rocking thing, shaddap)
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Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
So here's a hypothetical situation/ethical dilemma.
Mal is walking through some dusty town somewhere. He's looking for Kaylee and Inara, who went for a stroll a few hours ago and haven't come back yet.
He comes across a group of slavers, and the captured slaves, kept in chains. Mal, being awesome, happens to overcome the odds and knock out all the guards in a fight.
He starts putting the guards in the convenient slave chains so he can go look for Kaylee and Inara, and so the slavers won't chase after him. The ones that are still conscious start talking to him, pleading actually.
It turns out that this is a very big ring, with scary bosses elsewhere, and all the slavers here are small fry. What's more, many of the guards are former slaves themselves, kept in line with threats against their families and an overseer, a real nasty piece of work. The guards are unarmed, most of them are unconscious, and the ones that aren't have basically surrendered.
The slavers may or may not have information about Inara and Kaylee, but mostly they're just an obstacle for him at this point.
Does Mal:
A) Force himself to calm his worries about Inara and Kaylee (and righteous anger towards slavers) down long enough to coach the guards on some lies (EDIT: or strategies) they can use to save their families
B) Shoot the overseer, and leave the slightly more innocent guards to sort out the problem with the big bosses and the threats against their families themselves
C) Shoot all the guards in the face, so they can't be identified and their threatened families will be spared
D) Not care at all, he's too concerned about Kaylee and Inara for any niceties.
Some of you may have seen a similar version I was asking in e-mail, I was getting such interesting answers that I decided to expand the discussion to the community at large.
Answer A,B,C or D, please, but if you come up with another option, I'd love to hear it, and might even add it on here.
EDIT: I assume he frees the slaves. I suppose he might not, but the choice about what to do with the guards seems to have a wider range of options and therefore is the most interesting for discussion.
that is an interesting question, shoot the overseer, and ask if the slaves and the maybe more or less guards that is caught between a rock and hard place, if they have seen to young women, one with dark hair and the other sstrawberryblonde? he might get a positive answer, could be they where taken too, perhaps taken to another group or simply laying unconcioua in the same group
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I really ought to come up with more of these, they're fun. :)
Definitely some more about Mal, but even maybe about the other crew, just in regards to how they solve problems. Everyone is probably going to imagine how they'd respond to a situation just a little bit differently.
Jayne's might be particularly fun. I'm already laughing imagining what might pose an "ethical dilemma" for him. It really wouldn't involve ethics as we know it in any sense of the word.
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what about one for River, or perhaps Simon
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I say D.
Too many uncertainties, otherwise. They might be lying. He would have to shoot unarmed, unthreatening people at very close range. It would mean meddling and he likes to avoid that. Plus, he's just a cold bastard.
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