Major/Minor: Tokyo Yifft

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Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Zain posted:

I will say Twokinds is totally anime as gently caress with the story, but the characters are enjoyable. The older story is going to be a little cringy but I think he's gotten more of a hang of storytelling.

Tom may be a decent person but the characters and story are very weak. I can't recommend TwoKinds as anything except as an exercise in reading through a story that imitates very stereotypical JRPGs. However, when compared with this game, TwoKinds is a shining masterpiece in storytelling. I won't derail the thread with my criticism of that webcomic, though, but if you want to PM it later on to continue discussion I've got free time during the holidays.

Back to Major\Minor... Even with the flowchart I still can't tell what the hell the intrigue between Tiger Trump and Furry Gilgamesh is regarding espionage, mercenary work, planting evidence, and sending mail to two "assassins". Can someone do a newbie summary of this, please, and why we should care and where Rabies McCoghead fits in?

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 08:34

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:38

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Side with the idiot assassins. Kira can stay here and help turn the tavern into a Maid Tavern.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 04:04

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Night10194 posted:

I mean if anyone is going to know where the power crystals OR the holy maiden can be found...

Also, whoever called this Furry Idiocracy is right: Look at what they just said. They shot all the competent, non-sparkledog furries into space in a plan to see if they die when shot into space. Sadly, they died. In space.

The Great Spacejump Forward didn't work just as planned. With all competent intellectuals and bourgeois sparkledogs dead, Chairman Maw-o wished to bring about an agrarian revolution that will usher in communism and great socialist life for all. However, the people of Terra are now all starving or dying of poverty, and elements of the one-party rule wish to find an external solution to its problems. Dissenters desire a closed-border policy to prevent barbarian dilution of the culture and to avoid immigrants placing even greater strain on the food supply. With a tavern monument in place the fury of the people could be in check... for a time.

Olive Branch fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 6, 2017

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 04:42

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Samovar posted:

Not Chairman Meow?! For shame!

Originally the joke was Chairman Meow but then I looked at Velasquez again and I was like... is that a dog? What the hell is that thing? For a bunch of do-not-steal OCs, it's surprisingly hard to pinpoint exactly what species each of them is supposed to be.

I can't stop seeing him as a furry version of this specific version of Gilgamesh, though. I'd like to see him rock a dreadlock beard.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 09:18

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

I read Acheron as "Archaon" and immediately thought of this.

Watch out Rabies, you have a contender for the Power Crystals and the Holy Maiden.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 21:54

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Blarghalt, just wanted to say I appreciate you using Rabies cogface fanart in the dialogue/transcript. It adds a certain something to the trainwreck.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 01:42

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

LPix works for me. Baldurk was kind enough to host it alongside the LP Archive.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 01:52

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Quicksilver6 posted:

Oh good, a new terror to haunt me every time I close my eyes.

The final boss of Resident Evil 7.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2017 23:35

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Kangra posted:

I've been reading Rabies lines as being literally vocalized, not internal thoughts, and at times it works perfectly. I imagine a thoroughly refined, if somewhat affected, male British accent.

The entire update today pretty much works like this. Even the "the death of a celebrity is often commercialized" bit.

That said, Christ this game plods along so slowly. WHY is the death of a celebrity getting as much playtime as a succession crisis on a different planet?

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 21:30

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Let's not forget that Singe is a band manager. A BAND MANAGER. With the exception of stalkers and other mentally-unstable people, musical artists are more likely to harm themselves than be killed by fans or some random murderer. I don't think even the biggest musical star in the world has to fear something that would require motherfucking automated weapons.

In what possible world would this Die Hard-esque idea even sound plausible? This really is loving idiotic.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 03:52

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

What's going to happen is Rabies gets called into the otherworld and then when they find his cold, stiff body, Singe is gonna detonate the bombs.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 04:08

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Is Acheron really the only one panicked at the whole "we've weaponized a building" situation?

# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 08:13

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Is the whole "both sides have a point, we shouldn't judge" aspect of deathtrap building and siding with Singe meant to be an offshoot of the furry community's odd fixation with neutrality and maintaining everything tolerant and accepting on the surface so no one's feelings get hurt? That's the only way I can see this entire loving plot line making some sort of twisted sense: we shouldn't judge Singe because judging is bad!

Hell, the game has already tried doing this to Velasquez and Plair the tiger Trump, excusing away their idiotic pasts and views, and seems to be trying (I think) to set up Max of Armstrong "Murder Made Magic" Inc. as a tragic figure who is going to straight up kill a person to "reverse death". What the hell!

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 19:14

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Oxxidation posted:

Anyone in this thread who for some reason is interested in furries and existentialism being done well should check out Night in the Woods, it's pretty rad.

Also for something more relevant to the LP, when I first saw the screenshots I thought all the characters were just cribbed Deviantart assets or something. There's no visual congruity from design to design.

I'm actually doing an LP of NITW now because of the art style alone. The grounded story is definitely miles away from anything this game could muster.

Speaking of the congruity for the designs, only one artist drew all of them, right? I mean, that's the only consistency between them, but the biggest issue is the fact that every creature, either in Not-Earth and Terra, have their own sparkledog patterns. Are Rook and Shock related with their Shadowrun-like bolts of lightning? Are they tattoos? What's with all the fishnets? And why the hell does Singe not wear pants?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 23:00

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

El Mido posted:

Why does it say he's not showing any emotion when the portrait is clearly pissed off?

Actually, the "guard" mentioned in the text is the junebug police officer getting crushed in that sparklewolf's hand.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 07:54

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Obligatum VII posted:

The king's plan seems to rely heavily on finally dying of bleeding out at exactly the right moment.

He will give the speech and, on the moneyshot soundbite line, choke out a gout of blood and be considered a martyr because he was assassinated. Possibly by his two idiot henchmen.

That sort of action is worth two... no, three taverns!

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 05:05

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Kila must die.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 05:30

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

I haven't played any of the games or watched any of the animes that Klace is ripping off of here and because of that I have no loving clue what angle he's playing for.

what the gently caress is happening

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 00:52

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

It's "witches", not "werewolves". Pretty sure we didn't have a furry Giles Corey demanding more weight.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2017 19:43

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Why would you even write something like that? What's the motivation for a character to do that? What's the point?

Given Blarghalt's blessing, would anyone else with the game care to continue this trainwreck?

# ¿ May 17, 2017 22:03

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Ikasuhito posted:

It hasn't even been that long you goons. Its been what, three and a half weeks?

In post-Trump America, where scandals happen daily, three and a half weeks is a long time.

# ¿ May 17, 2017 23:47

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Popsicle because of several reasons.

1) Titfox was actually competent in getting us out of jail. Popsicle couldn't even escort Rabies to the palace from a goddamn tavern. Incompetence wins.

2) Popsicle can't fight half as well as Titfox. If (when) we're attacked on the road, the sweet release of death will be that much closer. Plus he just had drinks so he'll be even worse at fighting, and he may end up joining his idiot mentor.

3) We get to hear more about Popsicle's backstory... Both a blessing and a curse since reading this LP for its awfulness is why we're here.

4) Titfox may be a woman but she's definitely no Holy Maiden. Popsicle's belt fetish at least looks Final Fantasy-ish.

Olive Branch fucked around with this message at 16:23 on May 20, 2017

# ¿ May 20, 2017 16:14

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Blarghalt posted:

And here's something special to top the LP off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zm-9mTnFuk

You forgot Kila! Unless dead stays dead. gently caress Kila.

But thanks (???) for playing this game and showing it to us. The fact that this was Kickstarted successfully and sold on Steam for a profit shows this world is as unfair as Rabies is.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 03:28

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:38

Olive Branch: May 26, 2010; There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Curus Keel posted:

Let's hope he's never heard of the LP Archive.

Now I'm getting a mental image of Klace, in full costume, LPing one of his games with a facecam and bloviating about how much choice his games have.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2017 23:30

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