As an Old School Role-Playing Gamer, I've long enjoyed The Order of the Stick, a D&D-based webcomic by Rich Burlew. It is a stick-figure comic, but incredibly enough, it is an extremely well-drawn stick-figure comic with densely-written funny dialogue. Yeah, it's big-time geeky, but that's the way I roll. With funny-shaped dice.
Anyway, the latest chapter includes a bit of dialogue which reminded me a bit of the dialogue between the Occupy Movement and the 1%-ers.
Currently, Roy Greenhilt (the party's leader) and Belkar Bitterleaf (the psychotic halfling) have won their freedom fighting in the Arena of a desert city ruled by a despotic general (who happens to be the father of the party's dippy bard).
Roy has persuaded the General to also release a couple other prisoners he met in the dungeon, one of whom is the father of another teammate. (Yes, it is a soap opera).
Brought up from the dungeons, the Old Man confronts the General:
OLD MAN: Tarquin! You venomous snake in the sand! I should have known you'd --
ROY (whispers): Calm down! You're going to ruin everything! ...play it cool!"
GENERAL: Huh. You know, you do look familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?
OLD MAN: Maybe you saw me in the arena, General. I did a lot of dodging there when I was first jailed.
Oh, I know! Maybe you looked down and saw me when you were riding roughshod over my civil rights!
GENERAL: Perhaps. Or maybe I remember you from when you were biting the hand that was feeding you.
OLD MAN: Or maybe you saw me when I was throwing off the yoke of tyranny!
GENERAL: Or you were in the crowd cheering when I was forging order and stability out of anarchy!
ROY: Your definition of "playing it cool" substantially differs from mine.
The conversation goes downhill from there and Roy hustles the Old Man away shouting "Fascist!"
Oh, and don't miss the Apatosaurus joke in the second panel.
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