Smokin' Hot Glamour Shot (and other armour reviews)

I often find your armor shorts worth a grin. I don’t often have to hit pause until my laughter dies down, but “magical Australia” did it. Well played.

Casca's boots are proper riding thigh boots, with spurs and low heel. Here's an official figurine (ignore the knee joints, cause, action figure). The leather covers on the instep are probably covering lacing or something of this kind, like on a field boot. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T1/images/I/6126x+CKz+L.jpg As a matter of fact, when I'm finally somewhere good bootmakers deliver, I'm planning to order boots of this kind for everyday wear.

B-7

Seems to me shitfuckery knows no bounds...

Leak

Since the fall of Gallifrey!

Dalek Supreme

Since when was there another Dalek here.

Biscuit

You are right about the reason why she doesn't wear armor. "As a true barbarian, Amiri shuns heavy armor, rushing into battle armed with an enormous sword — a memento from her motherland — and her wild, unbridled rage. While her more fragile allies attack from afar with arrows and magic spells, she hurries to the frontline, with just one strategy in mind: do as much damage as possible, and beat the enemies to a pulp before they get a chance to do the same to her. "I'll survive. I always survive" is her motto, and so far it has never failed her." But that should make her fall into the "not actually armor" category. But I have to agree with Jill: Amiri is wearing armor and it's a bit weird and impractical. Don't get me wrong. I think Amiri is cool and her armor fits her character, but it's still impractical.

Jef Van Vinckenroye

Note about Amiri from Pathfinder: She's a Barbarian class from the roleplaying game. She's not supposed to wear armor. The lack of armor in the character portraits is probably a holdover from Dungeons and Dragons, from which Pathfinder branched, and both of which took inspiration from fantasized versions of Viking berserkers (minus the drugs) for both game mechanics and appearance. In both Pathfinder and D&D, Berserker classes are commonly depicted without much armor, if any at all. In D&D 5th edition, specifically, the Barbarian class even has a game mechanic that's lets their "armor" be counted from their Constitution and Dexterity, but only while _not wearing any armor_. That is, the class mechanic even _encourages_ them to not wear armor. Note: For other game mechanic reasons, Monk class and Wizards are also encouraged to not wear amor. Because games. And because D&D tries to be equally representative, all mechanics apply to male and female humans, or whatever species and/or race and/or other background your character comes from. And that creates openings for artists to be imaginative with their attire, which then become fodder for mockery due to the sheer impracticality.

John Cox

Good ad, got the book to read soon. Good point also re affordable protection, early stages of good rpg games do involve frantically armouring sections by priority (Iron Man starts as a full suit because Tony Stark is a Trillionaire.

Fenrir Wolfganger

😁I literally just came from their page. I'd a left leaning barrister friend in Melbourne who also loved Honest Government Ad's and said "They're usually on the mark". The sad bit is reading the comments and people around the world are going, "Hey, I thought that was just us".

Fenrir Wolfganger

Having survived in Australia for the last 16 years without dying I recon I can cope with magic stuff on the same level. Mind you trying to pick up and move an enraged echidna isn’t fun… and you should see the claws on a peeved Koala.

Dalek Supreme

Jill is very aware of the need for helmets, because she always gets banged on the head.

Anders

Not to be nasty, but I didn't much care for the alternating between ad and content style - I found it hard to orient myself, as it were, with the alternating between "being entertained" and "being advertised to".. Not a huge thing, and I'm obviously ignorant of how much creative freedom you had in how that was presented, but I figured feedback is feedback. Do with as you will. I did not consider the "prioritising areas when resources are limited" aspect, I enjoyed how you explained that. Potentially a good bit of visual storytelling!

Allan

"Magical Australia" - I wonder what an Honest Government Ad for that would look like... :D (c.f. https://youtu.be/dcqA5Sq8Dqw - basically all I know about Australia I've "learned" there...)

Leak

Ashley did have more practical hair styling and probably less make up in the first game of the Mass Effect series and indeed they do all have helmets of a sort because, well, space, but they don't tend to wear them when walking around "friendly" locations. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/6/6e/ME_ashley_charshot.png/revision/latest?cb=20210620044329

Cynical Rhys

Tier list!!! Yay!

Andrew Michael