Talk:Schlock Mercenary

message: The full recipe, while nice, takes an awful lot of space for a marginally relevant subject. Should it be moved to the relevant part of Wikibooks, and if yes, could someone with the faintest idea on how to do this do so? --Kizor 20:14, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if that's necessarily the right target, but yes, I think this should be moved somewhere, or indeed just removed.  I don't think the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates material needs as much length either, and the entire tone could do with a good deal of improvement, ranging at present between "chatty" and "gushing".  Alai 01:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chupaqueso in the cookbook

message: In this article Schlock Mercenary is discribed as Space Opera but in the article Schlock Mercenary characters it is discribed as Hard science fiction. To me it seems that the two articles should be consistent and personally I lean towards space opera. Anyone else have an opinion on this? Cmdr Adeon 16:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure this is a conflict. While they are offten contrasted, it seems from our articles that Hard Sci-fi is defined more by the plausibility and consistency of it's technology, while Space Opera is a thematic description. --Falcorian (talk) 17:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Falcorian is correct that something can be both space opera and hard science fiction.  Schlock Mercenary is definitely a space opera.  It is arguably also hard sci-fi, but that argument is couched in the assumption that future technology will enable different technologies.  For instance, off the top of my head are some elements that could be considered to break hard sci-fi "rules": teraport technology, gateway technology, and shields.  However, each of these things is (fairly) easily explained away by applying certain interpretations of Einsteinian or quantum physics theory.  In summary, Schlock Mercenary can be considered hard science fiction because the author treats it as such, taking the time to explain the "why" in addition to the "what" of the technology that the comic explores. Thanks, Dan Slotman 23:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Space Opera vs. Hard Sci-Fi

message: I took the pic to the right at a recent convention, and I think it should be used somewhere in this article. I'm not sure where the best place would be, though. Any ideas? Perhaps a separate article about Howard should be made? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure it will fit into the article somewhere. I have the impression that it's even more difficult to keep an article about a web cartoonist from deletion than one about a web cartoon. TCC (talk) (contribs) 05:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For future reference: Pretty much, but the rationale for that is one that I can't dispute. To wit, if "he does a webcomic" is more or less all we can say about a person, why wouldn't we be better off by just mentioning him under that webcomic? --Kizor 14:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pic available

message: I was reading the article and noticed that it had a huge gap.  A large portion of the article was deleted causing it to skip from part way into the technology section to near the end of the recipe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.62.132.101 (talk) 10:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: January 20 Reversion

message: I was under the impression that Taylor and his family were supported by Schlock Mercenary, with the result that it should be listed on the List of self-sufficient webcomics.  I am not certain of this though and I do not have any source.  Anyone else know?  --zandperl (talk) 20:12, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-sufficient? 

message: From what I can tell, perseveration is a form of following Rule 37.
76.191.157.25 (talk) 06:54, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rule 37 

message: The listed (and previously official) chupaqueso website appears to have had its domain name expire, as it is no longer pointing to anything at all. In fact, it is no longer resolving to anything.
I don't know when this happened or why, or how the page should be updated to reflect this, so could someone more experienced please update the page?
Raceimaztion (talk) 09:51, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the domain name is still registered under Jay Maynard and expires 30-nov-2012 (not expired according to the registrant godaddy.com, so the server may just be temporarily down. The archive of the site still exists at http://web.archive.org/web/20110207102613/http://chupaqueso.com/ . If the problem persists many days I suppose the external link could be removed. -84user (talk) 15:34, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Update (Revisiting this over a year later.) It appears the chupaqueso.com website server has been dead for over a year, but the domain is still registered to Jay Maynard: its registration is valid until 2013-12-01. However, such a dead link cannot be of any use to readers so I have replaced it with a link to the last archived copy. -84user (talk) 15:38, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chupaqueso site gone 

message: I'm not sure where to put info about the board game, so I stuck it at the end of Collections. Feel free to put it in a better place (also check out the game - it's fun!). rewinn (talk) 06:20, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Board Game

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message: Has the domain expired (2015/10/25) or something?  Seems to be on a domain parking (dotster-inc) website now.
80.176.229.143 (talk) 16:39, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The site works fine now. A post on the site's Facebook group  mentioned DNS issues.--Auric  talk 22:34, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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