Reading comics and the art of Strategies

[Frostyfrozen]

So anyone else remember or not the "Senryaku" / Thirty-Six Strategies. I read them back in 1995 via the beautiful Shi Senryaku books. Here is a few I think relate to our stand.

- Face the weary in a condition of ease. -
This is what we are doing and need to continue doing.  8)

- Lure the tiger from the mountains. -
We need to find what brings out the tiger as NCsoftcore is keeping to the woods of silenace.

- Offer a brick in exchange for jade. -
We all know what the Jade is but what is the Brick is the question :D

- Make allies at a distance, Attack nearby. -
Were doing this too I believe. . nice :)

- Point at one to scold another. -
And this is our plan for Blade & Soul.

- Let them climb to the roof, Then take away the ladder. -
This is what NCsoftcore is doing on thier war map. .The meanies!!  >:(

[eabrace]

- Offer a brick in exchange for jade. -
We all know what the Jade is but what is the Brick is the question :D

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the intend isn't to offer the brick by way of launching it through a window. :)

[malonkey1]

Huh...I suppose the 36 Strategems could be applied here. For some reason, my gut says "Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao." But What Wei must we besiege...Hrm...

[Frostyfrozen]

lol . . .lol . . .lol . .0ooh thankyou that was a great laugh. But NO your right it's not a brick though a window.

[Quinch]

Huh...I suppose the 36 Strategems could be applied here. For some reason, my gut says "Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao." But What Wei must we besiege...Hrm...

I'm more partial to the Seventy Maxims, myself...

[Vulpy]

My favorite has always been "kill with a borrowed knife."

I actually wrote two AE arcs for my SG mates that used the Thirty-Six Strategems as mission subtitles. Specifically, when the antagonist had the upper hand, titles were from the Strategems. When the protagonists had the upper hand, the subtitles switched to Sun Tzu.

<sigh> That antagonist was by far the most well-received villain I've ever designed, too. Shame I'll never get to play out the arc where he reincarnates himself as a troubled teenage boy, wins the heroes' confidance, and betrays them in the most emotionally traumatic way I could conceive...

Okay. That's enough of the marginally-related threadjack.

[TimtheEnchanter]

Thanks to Sun Tzu, I see no particular difference between business and war.

[Kaiser Tarantula]

Huh...I suppose the 36 Strategems could be applied here. For some reason, my gut says "Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao." But What Wei must we besiege...Hrm...

The phrase came about due to the idea that if you force an enemy to concentrate their forces in one place, you can strike somewhere else with significantly less resistance.

We're already "besieging Wei" as it were by attacking Blade & Soul (Anime Loli Simulator 2012, Pedobear-approved), in order to hurt NCsoft and convince them that giving up CoH might be better than taking repeated PR hits to their other games.

[TimtheEnchanter]

Do we have any proof that NCsoft is doing any damage control at all, beyond removing a few FB posts and a reply on Oct 2 that could've been typed out by any minimum wage crony?

[downix]

My favorite has always been "kill with a borrowed knife."

I actually wrote two AE arcs for my SG mates that used the Thirty-Six Strategems as mission subtitles. Specifically, when the antagonist had the upper hand, titles were from the Strategems. When the protagonists had the upper hand, the subtitles switched to Sun Tzu.

<sigh> That antagonist was by far the most well-received villain I've ever designed, too. Shame I'll never get to play out the arc where he reincarnates himself as a troubled teenage boy, wins the heroes' confidance, and betrays them in the most emotionally traumatic way I could conceive...

Okay. That's enough of the marginally-related threadjack.

Save him. You never know.