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Quote from: Flying Dice on April 05, 2013, 09:34:22 pm

Why? Think of how much better the thing would be if it assimilated Australia.

The thing couldn't assimilate Australia. Australia would assimilate the thing.

Actually if I inject it with a modifier that allows it to absorb any kind of matter besides biological and launch it towards Australia, it could indeed assimillate the continent.

"Well, let's see, yeah, these are edible...
All right, chanterelles! These'll go great for special dinners or something."

After a while, Xantalos runs upon a veritable mountain of berry bushes. In the midst of picking them, he runs upon a deposit of oddly glowing flowers. "Well, I'm taking these."
He then continues foraging.

Quote from: Xantalos on April 05, 2013, 09:48:25 pm

Quote from: HugoLuman on April 05, 2013, 09:37:18 pm

[Heh, I'll have to keep an eye on this thread. BTW, being humans, at least at heart, newly arrived with human knowledge and human skill, you might find it easier at first to set up lean-to shelters or shacks above ground.]

(Yep. By the way, can someone (Zanzetkuken?) notify me when 2 days or do have passed so I can return with my phat loot?)

You could give interesting anectdotes of your time foraging. It's a good time to characterize yourself, even if you do nothing more than tell an introspective. For example, if you don't know much about foraging in real life, you can muse and think and try to cobble together what little knowledge you have to find something edible. Or you can rattle off your real-life expertise, as some on the other thread do.

(Oh I will do that, but it's good to have markers so I can RP accordingly.)

Have a theory about what's going to happen in a book? Wondering what the ending of that movie meant? Was that charger really a vampire? This is your thread. Speculate about stuff, wild mass guessing, all that jazz.

Aaanyhow, my point was that if Childsthing fires first Macready might be in too much pain from being on fire to kill him, especially if he runs right after he torches Macready, waits until he dies, and goes back.
By assimillation I didn't really mean full on tentacle thing, but more what Blairthing did with Garry - paralyzingly him by grabbing/ripping out his throat. Anyhow if we continue the debate we should go to the crossover thread.

[Heh, I'll have to keep an eye on this thread. BTW, being humans, at least at heart, newly arrived with human knowledge and human skill, you might find it easier at first to set up lean-to shelters or shacks above ground.]

(Yep. By the way, can someone (Zanzetkuken?) notify me when 2 days or do have passed so I can return with my phat loot?)

MSH:
True dat. Though Childs(Thing) has a flamethrower too, and he has it on hand while Macready's going to have to get his out from under his blanket thing. That one second will make all the difference.
Although IMO judging from the distance between them, if Childs is a thing and Macready tries to torch him, he's going to close to melee (they're only about 2 meters apart) and pull a Blair on him (hand ---> face).
Altogether I have no idea how the fight itself would turn out, though if he wins (or if you take the TV edit with the dog running away at the end as canon, it escapes that way), he's probably going to make it to something on which he can escape from Antarctica.

Quote from: Xantalos on April 02, 2013, 09:33:45 am

Quote from: Fniff on April 02, 2013, 09:28:59 am

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So, blowing up the base just to kill the Thing for once and for all is basically the same as getting a high enough score to break the game. Thus, you have now reached the mindset of Macready.

See, you can't derail this metaphor.

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Actually it's a metaphor for him willing to break TGE game rather than let the opponent win

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It's really more like an unconventional victory due to an unequal playing field. MacReady can't beat the computer's chess skills, so he destroys it. MacReady knows he can't win his "chess game" against the Thing conventionally, so he levels the playing field by literally leveling the base.

Best Case Scenario, MacReady kills the Thing. Worst Case Scenario, MacReady does not kill the Thing and it once again freezes in the endless Antarctic cold. No matter what happens, MacReady wins. Or in other words, checkmate.