Reene posted:

No one's trying to psychoanalyze you, you huge weirdo. I do wish you'd stop making sweeping statements about the lifestyle and standard of living of someone I know a lot better than you do.

Who What Now posted:

Nobody said he was starving.

cant cook creole bream posted:

A good thread, or a good comic, you can't have both. That's how SA works.

cant cook creole bream posted:

A good thread, or a good comic, you can't have both. That's how SA works.

Reene posted:

ETA: I get the feeling people are fixed on this idea of this being nigh-starvation wages because some people think there's some kind of virtue in being a starving artist, but I promise you there is not and he's no less of a good person or artist just because he makes a decent living at it

Grand Prize Winner posted:

this thread was more fun when we were dunking on primitive navigation methods

ThaumPenguin posted:

cant cook creole bream posted:

"Starving artist" is a common expression. It's not meant literally.

Count Uvula posted:

I and presumably everybody else on this side of the argument brought it up for the exact opposite reason like ideally somebody who worked on a comic this good for several years would be making great money, not just "great money for a webcomic" that works out to a livable wage.

Dr Cheeto posted:

https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/967891684255260673

Nothing personnel

Phy posted:

So are they like a Lamborghini in that they are extremely expensive and flashy and fast (though not the fastest), or is it because they have a tendency to spontaneously combust

Phy posted:

So are they like a Lamborghini in that they are extremely expensive and flashy and fast (though not the fastest), or is it because they have a tendency to spontaneously combust

rulebook posted:

The METALMARK is SCC’s backbone-class line mech, fully equipped with SSC’s proprietary design and engineering hallmarks to ensure that it is just as survivable as it is agile. The METALMARK base model reflects SSC’s deep-space and long patrol heritage in its aquiline design, sturdy construction, and multiple redundant systems. All METALMARK models come standard with a SMITH CUSTOM LEATHER gimbaled pilot seat to ensure comfort on long distance rangings.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

My goal would be to somehow engineer a situation where it gets piloted into a trash compactor that was incorrectly locked out tagged out

Phy posted:

So are they like a Lamborghini in that they are extremely expensive and flashy and fast (though not the fastest), or is it because they have a tendency to spontaneously combust

ElMaligno posted:

Mechs are so cheap in lancer universe they might allow you to do it without having to engineer a situation.

Also the mechanic character I wrote would definitely mount this mech.

ElMaligno posted:

No, they have leather seats:

RandomPauI posted:

Just tell me that leather's Corinthian!

blastron posted:

We’re a hundred posts in and nobody’s said

kiss six billion demons

coolusername posted:

Kiss six billion demons

Red Metal posted:

SniperWoreConverse posted:

even if the guy driving it gets murdered?

If I was creating a setting for mechs and someone was like "sniper look at this manufacturer Smith-Shimano" I would be like

1) I dunno this sort of fuckin blows. Is this supposed to be some kind of knockoff Weyland-Yutani?
2) Backstory? No. The company should be "Smith & Shimano" and Rawhide Kobayashi was instrumental in getting them into mechs

SniperWoreConverse posted:

even if the guy driving it gets murdered?

If I was creating a setting for mechs and someone was like "sniper look at this manufacturer Smith-Shimano" I would be like

1) I dunno this sort of fuckin blows. Is this supposed to be some kind of knockoff Weyland-Yutani?
2) Backstory? No. The company should be "Smith & Shimano" and Rawhide Kobayashi was instrumental in getting them into mechs

Dead Reckoning posted:

Don't trigger warning your comic, Abbadon, just keep the pedal to the floor and soak up the hate clicks.

Dead Reckoning posted:

Well, in this case, it's that no one is trying to argue, "Perhaps the god-queen who reaps the flower of young womanhood from every world she passes in order to unnaturally extend her life is just misunderstood and is in fact not so bad." Allison rather literally blew up the "I'm really just a victim of circumstance" argument.
You can't keep calling Cio an addict unless you explain how "consuming human soul flames" is a disorder for devils. An addiction is not the same as a compulsion, which is not the same as a biological drive. Words have meaning.
That wasn't directed at you.

But Cio is a murderous monster here. She's been warning Allison about her nature in every way short of taking her firmly by the shoulders, looking her square in the eye, and saying, "I am a horrifying murder beast that feeds on humans and will eventually try to kill you." (And I'm starting to think that, even if she did, some posters would be saying, "Aww, she's being too hard on herself.") And then she tried to kill Allison in a devilish fury that didn't subside until she believed she had succeeded. Cio didn't stop herself from killing Allison, Allison stopped herself from dying by interposing the fanfiction diary, a remnant of Cio's struggle to become something other than her nature.

This would be dramatic irony if we knew something that the characters didn't, but Cio and the other devils have been 99% up front about what they are. The dramatic beat here is that Allison, (aside from surviving what was very much drawn to look like a deadly gutting,) accepts Cio in spite of having her illusions about Cio's nature violently stripped away. Allison has just had a first hand experience with realizing that a powerful part of herself is sociopathic, and very much needs to believe that a person can still be good and whole despite being capable of brutal murders. Can she similarly guide Cio to becoming a more authentic version of herself by coming to terms with Yabalchoeath? Maybe. But Cio is always going to be a devil.

This doesn't detract from the nobility and tragedy of Cio's story: Cio will never be able to become a simple fan fiction writer, because that identity is rooted in denial of an inherent part of herself. Someone who learns how to make a life for themselves while working around a condition or flaw or illness they can never excise, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, and the friends who accept them anyway... To me, that's a far more human and interesting story than, "it turns out that even the worst and most flawed people can simply stop being bad & sad, and resolve all of their flaws through The Power of Friendship (and lesbian crushes.)"

Bilirubin posted:

Reach Heaven Through Snogging

blastron posted:

We’re a hundred posts in and nobody’s said

kiss six billion demons

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Pff that mech ideff needs to be crushed brutally after the pilot flaunts all over the place for a few scenes