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Rotten Red Rod posted:Honestly, this whole Survivor-style thing feels like a real bad way to pick a... What was it again? Some sort of important magic position. Having just read this comic for the first time yesterday, it doesn't seem like their leaders are particularly good, either!
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Paladin posted:Do you mean to tell me that, not only is time still stopped, but it has been stopped AGAIN? Time is still stopped, but everyone went off on adventures elsewhere, so it doesn't matter. They went to Paris, but stuff happened, so they left and went to England, where I guess things are happening? Probably?
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SlothfulCobra posted:It did cross my mind for a brief moment that maybe Higgs could be the Heterodyne son that everybody expected somehow time-looped back through the ancient past (never did figure out the math aside from 2 years > 9 months), but that's probably too nonsensical. I think he's either the first jager, for whom the jagerdraught worked perfectly or he's the thing after which the jagerdraught was designed. 
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Mar 16, 2019 14:19
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I've been catching up on my RSS comics feed for the first time in probably six years, and Gaia happened to be on there. The art is good, and the characters are all right, but I get the feeling the authors haven't thought very deeply about how and why their world works, so problems are usually solved by some new gizmo or magic power, and getting stuck in Oakdale was that comic's version of, "They're still in Castle Heterodyne." That said, it kinda feels like Gaia is nearer the end than the beginning, so that's more than I can say for a lot of other comics on my list. Hooray for archive reading.
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Mar 27, 2019 15:17
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Joe Slowboat posted:Ivy can't be Rothart's familiar, though - since he turns all bird-y when he goes husk, and Ivy's a cat. Husks do seem to absorb/merge with their familiar, which is why Goat Girl is... Goat Girl. Rather than just 'very angry Girl.' "I'm his."
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Apr 5, 2019 20:51
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Ashcans posted:I think that part of becoming a Husk involves combining or absorbing your familiar - all the Husks we have seen manifested some sort of animal traits (the one in the story has a crocodile head, Su-Yeong had goat traits, and Thierry had feathers and a very beak-looking nose. I believe Tetsu says that Su-Yeong's familiar 'would have been' a goat, and the peacock decorations suggest that was Thierry's familiar. Another possibility: Thierry saved Lucy from... whatever happened. Going husk as a child, maybe? And he's taken that burden on himself. Husks' magic probably comes from their eyes, and Lucy is missing an eye, so maybe he plucked theirs out? Anyway, what I'm getting at is: Maybe Ivy is his familiar, but the bird would have been Lucy's. quote:Also, it seems like Ana had twigged to Lucy's bluff with Ivy, because she mentions using someone else's familiar to fake your way through - I don't think that was common knowledge, Tetsu refers to Ivy as Lucy's familiar just earlier in the duels. That means that Ana knew that Lucy didn't have any magic, and was just pissed enough to beat them up anyway. I am worried that somewhere between Ana blowing up and getting wrecked, she's crossed over some line herself and gotten Husked. Notably, there is a print up today with the cast, and Ana noticeably doesn't have Merrylegs, while all the others have their familiars near by - she's also wearing the same kind of glasses as Su-Yeong. Ominous! Fortunately, we'd probably see her red eyes from that angle if she really was a husk. Or maybe that'd be too much of a tip-off this early.
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Apr 5, 2019 21:17
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Ashcans posted:I had thought that Ivy is lying here - as soon as Lucy leaves, Ivy complains 'I can't tell them anything without it all falling apart'. Lucy doesn't remember whatever happened, and seemingly has no idea that Thierry is a Husk. I had been guessing that Ivy and Thierry have set this situation up to conceal the truth from Lucy, including the deception that Ivy is his familiar - otherwise Lucy would surely wonder why he doesn't have one, and who Ivy belongs to. It's possible. I assumed she just means that Lucy is content not to question what happened to them as a child, and if they found out, the Magistration might have them killed for being a weird magical anomaly.
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Apr 5, 2019 21:33
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Speaking of birds, Ivy talks to "Piper" here, which seems to be a bird: http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-7-page-8 Also, on second thought, "Morgan" was probably Dr. Malliet's familiar, right? So if Thierry is Malliet, then yeah, something's up with Ivy.
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Apr 5, 2019 22:47
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Ashcans posted:Wait what the hell, this made me realize that my RSS broke or something when Unsounded went on a short break - I thought the dude had just ghosted because no more updates filtered through, but apparently it was just my feed? If I had a dime for every Web comic I've rediscovered five years later because they changed their RSS address and never told anyone...
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Apr 8, 2019 10:17
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Tenebrais posted:Also I feel like the closer Lucy gets to Su-yeong's situation, the closer we get to cracking open their whole secret backstory deal, which I'm looking forward to after all the theory-slinging earlier in the thread. Can't wait for them to become the most irritable (literal) power couple.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:49
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fritz posted:I'm not seeing anything? Tried in a couple browsers. In Chrome, with uBlock Origin, the first time I loaded the page it redirected after a second or two to a full-page "Oh no, upgrade your Chrome" screen. Android Blues posted:Yeah, I increasingly feel that the problem with writing dialect phonetically is like - it automatically positions the reader as someone who speaks with a "neutral" accent. If you transcribed practically any accent phonetically, it would sound weird and stupid, but characters who speak in the dialect positioned by the author as neutral, acceptable, non-foreign (and usually middle class) get to have their speech written out in standard English. It gives the text a perspective by saying, "now, this is the accent we don't write out phonetically, because this is the good and normal accent". The other issue is that, no matter how you spell it out, someone's going to sound it out differently than you wanted them to, especially if English isn't their first language.
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May 16, 2019 12:21
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Tollymain posted:people freeze up in unfamiliar and stressful situations Yeah, remember that January thought she could've fought Su-Yeong one-on-one. She brags about her family being cops, but she's probably never seen any serious conflict, and now poo poo's Just Gotten Real™. Sadly, we will probably find out exactly how capable she is fighting her former friends soon.
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Jun 1, 2019 11:35
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nankeen posted:where are all the chernobyl webcomics Sadly, Gone With the Blastwave basically ended over a decade ago.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Did it not? I admit I stopped reading DC a while ago but when I left off it was on an ever-slower crawl. Not while he's still making $4,172 a month on Patreon.
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Jun 24, 2019 19:56
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What a horrible night to have a curse.
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Aug 31, 2019 12:31
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J.A.B.C. posted:Tycho's rant is just some bullshit word salad to cover up the fact that he probably didn't play it I think the most generous reading of his post is -- heavily reading between the lines in the deleted part of that excerpt -- that his kids' friends, who are too young to have any real nostalgia for Earthbound, were telling him the game was a "parody" of JRPGs that tells you old JRPGs are bad, and he got mad at that.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:13
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I'm genuinely shocked that Albia hasn't been murdered yet.
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Nov 14, 2019 19:14
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Joe Slowboat posted:See I’ve been assuming Albia won’t be killed, mostly because I genuinely can’t imagine the Foglios deciding that ancient god-queens of an enlightened age are actually a bad thing. My hunch was that they'd clear the deck so Agatha could (eventually) step up and be the new god-queen, since they'd spent so much time talking about how Albia and company were just regular sparks who discovered the great big secret. But maybe that's not convoluted enough.
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Nov 14, 2019 19:43
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Julius CSAR posted:So I randomly stumbled into Sleepless Domain the other day, and holy poo poo, what an incredible comic! I've never watched or read any sort of Magical Girl anime/manga but I know most of the genre tropes. Was not prepared for how real poo poo got in chapter 2. I wound up reading the entire thing in like two days. Yeah, you don't have to know much about magical girl shows in general, but more specifically, it is extremely Madoka (the big magical girl genre deconstruction show about nine years ago). Hopefully, it stays more fun than Madoka.
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rannum posted:I still don't think this is going to be as punch-filled as people hope but man every time I think Cass has dug her hole as deep as it can go she'll throw out a line like "WOULD YOU STOP HUMORING HER" The easy way out of this situation would be everyone getting in a big argument and Undine probably freezing them all and saying, "This is exactly why my whole team died!" and spilling the beans which means I'm leaning toward HP showing up and dunking on Cass and making her feel unappreciated and resentful because things can't be easy.
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Sleepless Domain, Monster Pulse, and Never Satisfied seem to have decided it's time for drama all at once. Bad times for everyone! 
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SlothfulCobra posted:I also wonder how Queen Albion is going to react to the tentacle guy, and now that all the plot threads that Agatha followed to England are either dead or moved on, it seems like Agatha may want to leave soon against Albion's wishes. Still holding out for Master Payne to show up again too. Joe Slowboat posted:I'll believe Girl Genius is winding down the moment Lucrezia points into a time portal and shouts "Go back to being LIKE THIS!?" or something similar, like in the early days of the comic. And then somehow Agatha will avoid losing her Spark despite that being the obvious sacrifice she's going to make to save the world. Also, just thinking through the giant gaps in the timeline, even if they wanted to start winding everything down soon, there's way too much to explain from, like, the first year of the comic. Gonna be a long ride.
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Never look a gift dead god's heart in the, uh, aorta.
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capitaldelendaest posted:Has that happened yet? I haven't read it in a year or so (maybe three?). It has, recently.
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Bobulus posted:Incidentally, I've been thumbing through the Girl Genius novelizations, and it's got some interesting details added to the story since the comic was made. Do they mention, uh, anything at all about the gulf between "Oh no, the Other is attacking" and "I guess both Bill and Klaus had kids while being gone, and now Klaus and Barry are back"? 'Cause it's kinda wild how little they've ever bothered to talk about pretty much the whole main story of the comic.
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Just Offscreen posted:How the gently caress would that even work- she donates an egg through steampunk wizardry or some poo poo like that? I don't read GG. "How" is not usually the most pressing question in wacky steampunk mad scientist land. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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Tenebrais posted:Also a two-faced snake. (and his familiar) Hey, Seiji isn't anywhere on that page!
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Today in Girl Genius: “For me, it was last month!” Agatha cries, mourning the death of a character in 2006.
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Mr Phillby posted:Some friends of mine just put up a new website for Jump Leads, a webcomic from 2007 that's been missing from the internet for a few years. Man, it's been a long time since I thought about that.
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Tendales posted:Is there a functioning rss feed for FFaK? I want to follow it but these days I can't remember to check a website every so often just in case maybe updates. The bottom of the page has this link: https://feastforaking.com/feed/
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Tendales posted:Yeah that one broke ages ago, sadly. Oh, well. Odd. It's showing current updates. Maybe a bug in the XML?
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Pavlov posted:They do straight up say that people like FYGM girl are one of their problems, but like they say, they obviously have a lot of other ones. It seems just as likely the inciting incident was them trying to spite their master somehow I see it the other way around. They desperately want Rothart to be proud of them, to not blatantly loathe Lucy's presence and very existence, and if they could just win this competition, that would be something. But obviously, it was never meant to be, and it's not clear why Ivy would help them try in the first place.
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By the way, AXED just finished up. Felt a little abrupt to me, but at least it didn't run out of steam.
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Bobulus posted:The weird thing about the England arc (at least, so far) is all the hints dropped that the Queen is kind of a worse authoritarian than Klaus and would try to keep Agatha and all the others in England, not by physical might but by guile and sheer force of personality, but that isn't really paying off at the moment, since a bunch of them are leaving, ordered out by the Queen herself. I assumed she wanted to split Team Agatha up because she realized all of them together are too much chaos to wrangle at once. Mikl posted:Yeah, I just checked. 2011. Almost a year ago now, the comic suddenly called back to one of Agatha's early beaus, who died in 2006, which she refers to as, "last month!" I wouldn't even have remembered him if I hadn't just re-read that part of the comic.
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fun hater posted:tails gets trolled has come to a premature end today https://twitter.com/tailsgottrolled/status/1387172167284977667
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Oh hey, those two are finally back in Never Satisfied!
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girl dick energy posted:Never Satisfied: Getting some serious Richard Spender vibes from Thierry here. What a tweest!
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May 24, 2021 19:09
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poo poo seems to be gradually getting real in Never Satisfied.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:poo poo seems to be gradually getting real in Never Satisfied. I'm sure this is one big misunderstanding.
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Man, Oscar Wilde has a real knack for wandering into mortal peril. He'd make an excellent video game escort mission.
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