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Rotten Red Rod posted:It's probably my fault for saying "boobs", the game assumed I wanted to go down that road based on the association. I got trapped into an endless loop of calling the police or considering calling the police and deciding not to, forever, so what you say early on can have a big effect on what it gives you later. For example: quote:You call the police and ask them to send an officer to your location. A policeman and so on. I really appreciate the touch of them sending over an officer to let me know that they'll send over an officer later. TheHan posted:I’m actually...interested? In what this Orc wants. Obviously not the pages since they‘ve clearly been worthless this whole time, but maybe Snout will unwittingly lead him back to the Ink Witch and there’ll be tension as we see our hero traveling with a known danger. I'm interested but not so much in a "invested in the story" way as a "I genuinely have no idea where this is going" way. Right now I genuinely can't think of what Snout currently has that anyone could possibly want, except for the magic piece of paper which the orc has already shown no interest in. All he's really done is assemble what appears to be a children's book with some vague and not especially useful knowledge. Zinkraptor fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Zinkraptor posted:and so on. I really appreciate the touch of them sending over an officer to let me know that they'll send over an officer later. Myself, I am intrigued by the fact that the robber's name has, in turn, its own name. Nameception.
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Dec 8, 2019 17:09
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I tried to start a family by turning a tree into a woman and a bird into a baby but I kept getting "yes yes yes".
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RandomPauI posted:I tried to start a family by turning a tree into a woman and a bird into a baby but I kept getting "yes yes yes". Were you trying to name the bird Jolyne?
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RandomPauI posted:I tried to start a family by turning a tree into a woman and a bird into a baby but I kept getting "yes yes yes". I chose the name "Bort," went out with a Pesant girl named Gwen, and found out that the King had sent an assassin named 'Bort" to come and kill me. I told him, "My name is Bort, not yours. Go away" and he did, and I subsequently found out that I had somehow killed him and Gwen had vanished. I searched for Gwen in the woods, couldn't find her, gave up, killed myself, decided to come back to life, found Gwen's skeleton, resurrected her, buried her body, married her, had a child, and lived happily ever after. Yes, in that order.
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Dec 8, 2019 17:39
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Still a better love story than Dominic and Luna.
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Dec 8, 2019 18:26
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Zinkraptor posted:I'm interested but not so much in a "invested in the story" way as a "I genuinely have no idea where this is going" way. Right now I genuinely can't think of what Snout currently has that anyone could possibly want, except for the magic piece of paper which the orc has already shown no interest in. All he's really done is assemble what appears to be a children's book with some vague and not especially useful knowledge. I'm going to guess that whatever Dominic saw is something that people are fighting to possess or suppress, explaining Ink Witch's state at the start of the chapter. Orc Wizard recognized what the page he had was talking about and let Snout have it so that he could follow him back to his cave to get at the rest of his coveted/forbidden Deegan lore.
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Dec 8, 2019 19:29
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Dominic found that the "end of prophecy" is because all prophecy is generated by an ultra-powerful seer who lives in the heart of magic and sends out visions, but that seer is dying, so dominic valiantly took his place, so we can get an old wise sage dominic later.
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Nighthand posted:Dominic found that the "end of prophecy" is because all prophecy is generated by an ultra-powerful seer who lives in the heart of magic and sends out visions, but that seer is dying, so dominic valiantly took his place, so we can get an old wise sage dominic later.
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Yeah, one of the few things I still remember from the original Deegan was one of his students from the “now I’m a grumpy teacher” arc doing his homework and realizing that a ton of major prophecies from all over the world just so happened to all be made on the exact same day, despite originating from all sorts of different cultures. I forget if that ever actually had any payoff, or if it was one of those few genuinely interesting plot hooks Mookie made that he then quietly forgot about in favor of puffing up Dominic’s ego.
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Dec 8, 2019 21:11
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If I remember correctly that was just Dominic saying something like "Wow, great job, that's something older students are TAUGHT but you found that on your own" and that's it.
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Dec 9, 2019 00:49
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See, in the hands of the right author, that could at least be some kind of foreshadowing, if not the central question for a mystery that the characters try to solve. Instead, it’s really briefly brought up, and then just... never gets explored ever again?
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Dec 9, 2019 01:18
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If there's one thing this thread has proven, it's that Mookie retains his mastery of wasted potential.
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 Why did I believe.
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Death boops are the best drama
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...That is some prime material for editing into you know what.
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Dec 9, 2019 05:50
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Flashback time!
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Dear journal, Today I learned that Dominic Deegan, who I only care about because he gave some books to the open-air library that is pretty much the only thing I have in my life, was, 200 years ago, booped on the nose by an orc. So exciting!
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Dec 9, 2019 11:08
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Warming up that "Dom is perfect" square.
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Dec 9, 2019 11:27
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Maybe this time he'll have a dream sequence that's more than one panel!
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Dec 9, 2019 13:33
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I will rescind every criticism I've ever made of Mookie if Wednesday's strip is Snout waking up without having had a flashback to find his clothes stolen and his cave destroyed and the orc nowhere to be seen.
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Dec 9, 2019 13:36
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I know we're supposed to assume he wrote that second message right then, but without the plot contrivance of the ink magic, snout furiously scribbling out that message with a brush and ink seems dumb and implausible to me.
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The Little Death posted:I know we're supposed to assume he wrote that second message right then, but without the plot contrivance of the ink magic, snout furiously scribbling out that message with a brush and ink seems dumb and implausible to me. He wrote it there and then and the Orc waited patiently giving him a thumbs up the whole time.
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YF-23 posted:He wrote it there and then and the Orc waited patiently giving him a thumbs up the whole time. Oh god I didn't even think about that Even the small details are so bad
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Regalingualius posted:...That is some prime material for editing into you know what.
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Dec 9, 2019 18:23
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Let's be honest, the Doom Boop is way funnier.
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Dec 9, 2019 18:38
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Oh, I really don’t disagree at all, considering how... tasteless the original strip already was. Really, DD was largely solidly mediocre with a few kernels of good ideas that another writer probably could have executed better... And a few arcs and individual strips that made you wonder “what the gently caress, Mookie?”
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SardonicTyrant posted:As OP, I am placing a moritorium on jazz hands. We all had a good laugh, but it's really gross and there's plenty of other material to riff.
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Dec 9, 2019 19:03
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 tfw it was easier to draw a fist when not an artist than it was to edit that mangled hand to look like a fist
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"Dear diary, when I was passed out I met Dominic Deegan. I could hear him and talk to him because it was a dream"
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Get ready for more gratuitous dong shots, since Snout is always naked in his dreams, as he continuously mentions in his personal diary.
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Bets that Deegan et al will talk in the flashback, but it totally doesn't count because "it's a vision."
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Dec 9, 2019 21:20
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It’d be a fun gag if someone tries speaking to him in the dreamscape... And he has no idea what they’re saying, because he’s only ever known the written word.
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Doing a comic without dialogue stretched Mookie's creativity not by forcing him to express meaning through art alone, but by having to come up with a dozen different ways to insert text in his comic without technically being dialogue.
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Ague Proof posted:Doing a comic without dialogue stretched Mookie's creativity not by forcing him to express meaning through art alone, but by having to come up with a dozen different ways to insert text in his comic without technically being dialogue. Except written word conversation is absolutely dialogue in the technical and literal sense of the word.
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You're correct, soundless comic fits better.
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Too bad Mookie himself specified dialogue!
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SardonicTyrant posted:As OP, I am placing a moritorium on jazz hands. We all had a good laugh, but it's really gross and there's plenty of other material to riff. I thought they meant replacing panel 4 with dwarf.jpg
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