Doesn't Anyone Wipe Their Face?
April 6, 2011
Sorry about the lateness of today's comic. I had an eye doctor's appointment yesterday and needed to get my eyes dilated, and since my eyes are a special kind of messed up I need about four times the normal dosage of dilation drops, which means my eyes stay dilated for a long, long time. But now my eyes are back to normal, or normal for me at least.
Today's comic hails from a little game series known as Dragon Age. One of Dragon Age's gimmicks is it's prolonged gore, a system that is supposed to make the aftermath of battles "more realistic." The idea works well on paper, if you're battling demons you're gonna get a little demon blood on you, but in game the prolonged gore translates to you having little tiny dots of red all over face after every battle, no matter what you kill. Giant fire breathing dragon or lowly sewer rat. But the thing that gets me is how blasé about it everyone is. You're fleeing for your life from a hoard of demons, you gain a little breathing room and you turn to your family and exchange small pleasentries all while your face is stippled with so many tiny red dots you look like you've come down with the chicken pox. It actually draws me out of the game when I have the prolonged gore turned on. You're covered in blood, wipe your face before you ask you sister how's the weather!