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How would a skeleton be able to produce an heir anyway? I dunno if these NPCs have really thought this through and it is ruining my immersion.
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Kylra posted:How would a skeleton be able to produce an heir anyway? I dunno if these NPCs have really thought this through and it is ruining my immersion. Magic? 
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Jul 16, 2015 09:18
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plant a bone in the ground
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Jul 16, 2015 09:21
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dogsicle posted:plant a boner
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Jul 16, 2015 09:30
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Kylra posted:How would a skeleton be able to produce an heir anyway? Two in the dooper one in the spooper
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Jul 16, 2015 10:22
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Kylra posted:How would a skeleton be able to produce an heir anyway? I dunno if these NPCs have really thought this through and it is ruining my immersion.
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Jul 16, 2015 12:23
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Dan7el posted:Is the MC Lich Lord the only PC "stuck" in the now-defunct game or do we find other PCs in the same situation later on? Based on LN info. He is old school D&D undead, no need for food, sleep, or showers. High resonance to cold, piercing, death magic, and mind control magic. High vulnerabilities to crushing, fire, and holy magic. I don't remember if normal healing spells heal or hurt him. He is also a level 100 min-maxing poopsocker, so prepare for all weakness to be countered by gear, build, and/or planing.
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Jul 16, 2015 14:03
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Serious Frolicking posted:I'm not sure about a lot of the story and characters, but Momonga is a great mc.
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Jul 16, 2015 14:45
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Hagop posted:Based on LN info. quote:"Nothing really compares to a truly awful cup of coffee. When you drink a good cup of coffee, you try to immerse yourself in that cup. You focus all your senses on what you’re drinking. How it smells, how it tastes, how it feels on your tongue. You savor the experience. But when you drink a cup of absolutely horrid coffee, you do everything possible NOT to immerse yourself in it. You try to shut out your senses from what you are drinking. Inevitably, you try to stave off the assault on your poor little innocent tongue by comparing it to all of the better coffee you’ve had in your life–reliving each cup in comparison to the godforsaken crap you’re pouring down your gullet now. So when you drink a good cup of coffee, you’re only drinking that one cup, but when you drink a bad cup of coffee, you remember every good cup you ever drank." I partly expecting this to come up. Turning yourself into a lich knowing what it entails can be shocking, Xykon himself hadn't considered the full ramifications of it. Being turned involuntarily into a lich with no forewarning would in a sufficiently darker story, lead to insanity. Though it seems the MC got a little lucky in that he still has touch/taste/smell.
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Jul 16, 2015 17:03
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Hagop posted:Based on LN info. Uh he isn't a min-maxing poopsocker, it's stated directly that he made his char for roleplaying reasons. He just is super powerful becasue everyone in the new world is sub level 10..
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Jul 16, 2015 18:31
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He also blew most of his paycheck on pay to win poo poo, and he's a packrat with mountains of low level consumables that are useless to him but priceless compared to what is available in this new world.
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Jul 16, 2015 20:17
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-Troika- posted:Uh he isn't a min-maxing poopsocker, it's stated directly that he made his char for roleplaying reasons. He just is super powerful becasue everyone in the new world is sub level 10.. He later describes himself as being in the middle of the upper tier of players individually. So very good but not super min-maxed.
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Jul 16, 2015 20:18
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-Troika- posted:Uh he isn't a min-maxing poopsocker, it's stated directly that he made his char for roleplaying reasons. He just is super powerful becasue everyone in the new world is sub level 10.. He later goes on to describe all the crap he did to make is spells more powerful, how much time and money he spent trying to gamble up a cash shop item, and a number of other character build shenanigans. He is just so much of a poopsocker he just doesn't realize it anymore.
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Jul 16, 2015 20:35
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Kylra posted:How would a skeleton be able to produce an heir anyway? I dunno if these NPCs have really thought this through and it is ruining my immersion. He's gonna cast Raise Dead on his crotch
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Jul 17, 2015 01:53
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this show would be better without the dumb mmo stuff
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Jul 17, 2015 01:58
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Davincie posted:this show would be better without the dumb mmo stuff It's basically Order of the Stick in Anime form from Team Evil's perspective. There's nothing MMO about it really.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:18
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Raenir Salazar posted:It's basically Order of the Stick in Anime form from Team Evil's perspective. There's nothing MMO about it really. Except the main character's perspective and personality? The fact that he's a dude playing as an evil lich and not actually an evil lich is sort of important to his characterization.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:29
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Except the main character's perspective and personality? The fact that he's a dude playing as an evil lich and not actually an evil lich is sort of important to his characterization. Do we really know this? Maybe he was an evil lich all along and merely dreamed that he was a human playing video games!
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Jul 17, 2015 03:12
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AfroSquirrel posted:Do we really know this? Maybe he was an evil lich all along and merely dreamed that he was a human playing video games! Maybe the skeleton was inside him all along.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:23
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Desuwa posted:Maybe the skeleton was inside him all along. That's super hosed up man I'm gonna have nightmares tonight
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Jul 17, 2015 03:47
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Desuwa posted:Maybe the skeleton was inside him all along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU513suJZzY
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Jul 17, 2015 03:48
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Imho that floating helmet is a god drat buzzkill.
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Jul 17, 2015 04:54
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Except the main character's perspective and personality? The fact that he's a dude playing as an evil lich and not actually an evil lich is sort of important to his characterization. Doesn't he do atrociously evil acts very very soon?
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Jul 17, 2015 14:53
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I just started watching. He's one spooky scary skeleton.
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Jul 17, 2015 15:29
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Raenir Salazar posted:Doesn't he do atrociously evil acts very very soon? I'm not really sure how that changes my point with regards to his origins and characterization? I mean, "becoming the mask" is a really old thing in character development.
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Jul 17, 2015 15:34
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:I'm not really sure how that changes my point with regards to his origins and characterization? I mean, "becoming the mask" is a really old thing in character development. Xykon's depravity escalated almost entirely solely after becoming a lich.
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Jul 17, 2015 15:46
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Raenir Salazar posted:Xykon's depravity escalated almost entirely solely after becoming a lich. You are the only one talking about that webcomic. No one else cares.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:45
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Serious Frolicking posted:You are the only one talking about that webcomic. No one else cares. And now we can begin I'm sure the enjoyable discussion about whether discussion of an RPG themed webcomic that references RPG mechanics is an appropriate reference point for an RPG themed anime that references RPG mechanics.
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Jul 17, 2015 19:12
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i don't think the badly drawn western webcomic is that a great point of comparison for this anime's setting/characters/etc. plus isn't the former based on p&p rpgs and not (vr)mmos?
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Jul 17, 2015 20:19
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dogsicle posted:i don't think the badly drawn western webcomic is that a great point of comparison for this anime's setting/characters/etc. plus isn't the former based on p&p rpgs and not (vr)mmos? The point is that this show has nothing that makes it distinguishable from a p&prpg in its nuts & bolts (or rather, it's a red herring); its characters referencing game mechanics as a short hand to enable the view a means of internalizing what happens on screen; its rather indistinguishable from Danmachi in this sense (they live in a fantasy world where the characters reference mechanics literally as laws as to how the world works). Since the MC here is a Lich who presumably does depraved crimes against humanity on a regular basis despite having no indication that these aren't in fact real life breathing sentient beings, because ultimately, out of boredom, I think this gives some rather startling similarities to Xykon.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:38
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Raenir Salazar posted:Since the MC here is a Lich who presumably does depraved crimes against humanity on a regular basis despite having no indication that these aren't in fact real life breathing sentient beings, because ultimately, out of boredom, I think this gives some rather startling similarities to Xykon. Yeah, no. He's pretty clearly not motivated by boredom. His primary motivation has already been brought up in the anime. It's figuring out what the hell is going on, and as an extension of that, to figure out if anyone else went through the same thing. Other than that he just tries to live up to the expectations of his minions.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:52
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The story seems to be less about the game itself, and more about people's ridiculous wow rp OCs bought to life.
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Cynic Jester posted:Yeah, no. He's pretty clearly not motivated by boredom. His primary motivation has already been brought up in the anime. It's figuring out what the hell is going on, and as an extension of that, to figure out if anyone else went through the same thing. Other than that he just tries to live up to the expectations of his minions. I'm referring to what I've heard others discuss, his actions after his information gathering period. Which dear god, if 'living up to the expectations of his minions' requires brutally murdering real people than yeah he isn't far removed from Xykon on a moral level. Because then he really is an evil lich tyrant regardless of how affable he is to them. Okay, maybe he's more like Tarquin; other than that I'm not understanding your argument. I'm saying "Hey he's similar to this other character" and you're saying he isn't at all similar? That doesn't follow.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:47
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Any and all fights in Overlord can be summed up as 'Daddy's trying to impress his kids and getting these stinking competitors off his newly acquired property'.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:48
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Raenir Salazar posted:I'm referring to what I've heard others discuss, his actions after his information gathering period. Which dear god, if 'living up to the expectations of his minions' requires brutally murdering real people than yeah he isn't far removed from Xykon on a moral level. Because then he really is an evil lich tyrant regardless of how affable he is to them. Okay, maybe he's more like Tarquin; other than that I'm not understanding your argument. I'm saying "Hey he's similar to this other character" and you're saying he isn't at all similar? That doesn't follow. Considering we aren't at that point in the show, maybe it would be better to hold off on any moral judgements here until you've actually seen what he does or does not do.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:57
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Also could you shut up about some dumb stickman webcomic, tia
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Jul 17, 2015 22:34
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Raenir Salazar posted:I'm referring to what I've heard others discuss, his actions after his information gathering period. Which dear god, if 'living up to the expectations of his minions' requires brutally murdering real people than yeah he isn't far removed from Xykon on a moral level. Because then he really is an evil lich tyrant regardless of how affable he is to them. Okay, maybe he's more like Tarquin; other than that I'm not understanding your argument. I'm saying "Hey he's similar to this other character" and you're saying he isn't at all similar? That doesn't follow. I'm saying boredom is far, far from his underlying purpose for doing poo poo. At no point does he even come close to taking any significant actions because he's bored. And no one is arguing that he isn't an evil lich tyrant. It's the entire premise of the story. Also, relevant, very general LN spoiler: The 'information gathering period' isn't even over in the LN, as he never gets any conclusive answers, which is a large part what motivates his current direction in the story
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I mean, seriously, making some lazy-rear end comparison to some cliché villain in another story based on some dudes discussing poo poo from the LN isn't going to produce anything close to an interesting analysis. It's as superficial as you can get.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Also could you shut up about some dumb stickman webcomic, tia
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Cerebral Bore posted:Also could you shut up about some dumb stickman webcomic, tia
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