Dart Wars
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006A short time ago, in an office building not so far away… DART WARS!
It was a time of great peril in the office, riddled with foamy strife. The programmers, bent on the codification of a great and powerful game world struck out at the designers, lonely and few. Attacking from their hidden locations behind cubicles and design documents numbering in the hundreds, the designers have increased the frequency and intensity of their insurgent attacks.
Ok, so it’s a little melodramatic, but it sets the perfect tone for the constant battling that goes on with Nerf-based weaponry. I don’t know if anyone else works at a job where they can fire off a dart gun with seemingly lackadaisical intent towards someone’s head and get away with it, but we do. That might be because we all know that at any time we’ll be the next recipient of the same fate. Yet we persist.
What’s best about this is that we don’t just use the generic darts that come with the weapons. These Nerf weapons are heavily modified, deadly accurate, and use foam darts with glue on their tip to ensure they fly steady and true. But still, they’re all foam, so what’s the danger, right? Have a look at the rocket “dart.” There’s a warning on the gun that says “Do not fire at people or animals.” If you’re not supposed to fire it at people, what the hell is the point of even using the gun? Of course we’re going to fire it at someone! We want to see them launched against the wall with the force of this huge foamy beast as it tramples through the restless air on its way to individual destruction.
But I digress. We’ve all been busy, which is why no update lately, but we’re back on track and have at least 3 more comics planned for the short term. Hopefully the holidays don’t put too much of a stall on things after that. We’ll see.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Its amazing to see the escalation in the great nerf war around the office. It starts with the harmless purchase of a foam dart pistol and before long everyone in the office has armed themselves in “self defense.” Early on, co-worker on co-worker nerf violence is limited to consensual face to face combat, but it doesn’t take long to realize that shooting someone who isn’t armed or even aware they’ve been targeted is not only a necessary pre-emptive strike but also hilarious. People are starting to buy these giant nerf bazooka’s that pack quite a punch for a foam projectile weapon, it won’t be long before weapons of mass squishiness are used … and that will end us all.
November 17th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
We must not allow a nerfgun gap!