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Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

DrowningInDreams posted:

The valuable lessons about how dragon racism is bad.

Just kidding.

The fact that there's a sociopathic murderer dragon who can set other dragons on fire by touching them and she's presented as basically autistic but about murder rather than evil.

Does that mean she can never feel meaningful physical contact

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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
How big are her boobs? This is vital

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Does that mean she can never feel meaningful physical contact

Yeah I guess she's that character again. She also has to sleep on a dirt cave floor because she'd set any straw or other bedding on fire.

Applewhite posted:

How big are her boobs? This is vital

Unspecified (it's a children's book)

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Are the dragons who are catching fire from different elemental groups or is she burning up dragons that should be fireproof?

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

DrowningInDreams posted:

Yeah I guess she's that character again. She also has to sleep on a dirt cave floor because she'd set any straw or other bedding on fire.


Unspecified (it's a children's book)

When I was a kid, boobs were a normal part of children’s media. Also recently in the Pixar film Brave when the bear cubs motorboated the busty maid.

Parents shouldn’t be afraid of boobs.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Applewhite posted:

Are the dragons who are catching fire from different elemental groups or is she burning up dragons that should be fireproof?

I don't think the dragons are supposed to be fireproof but it is normal dragons. She has a dragon birth defect.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

DrowningInDreams posted:

I don't think the dragons are supposed to be fireproof but it is normal dragons. She has a dragon birth defect.

Did she set fire to her own mother when she was born or what?

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
When she “sets fire” to the dragons she touches, is it like, just burning where she makes contact or does one touch from her cause the entire dragon to burst into flames?

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here
Or is it like she alights a passionate fire in the other dragon? Is this metaphorical fire? If so I want my money back. :mad:

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

i'm looking for some sensible dragon centrism. some tax credits for small businesses, continuing education programs, maybe a little tort reform. nothing too crazy

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Applewhite posted:

Did she set fire to her own mother when she was born or what?

No. I guess eggshell must be flame retardant or something

Applewhite posted:

When she “sets fire” to the dragons she touches, is it like, just burning where she makes contact or does one touch from her cause the entire dragon to burst into flames?

The former

Fallen Hamprince posted:

i'm looking for some sensible dragon centrism. some tax credits for small businesses, continuing education programs, maybe a little tort reform. nothing too crazy

Betting that this will seem as weird and retro in the future as ancient roman arguments over grain reform

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
vegan dragons that eat people-shaped tofu

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

DrowningInDreams posted:

Betting that this will seem as weird and retro in the future as ancient roman arguments over grain reform

The way things are going most future political arguments will revolve around how to most fairly and equitably distribute society’s wealth in the form of human skulls

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Fallen Hamprince posted:

The way things are going most future political arguments will revolve around how to most fairly and equitably distribute society’s wealth in the form of human skulls

Sometimes I think nobody made it and we're all just being simulated by alien archaeologists based on the digital footprint we left behind.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard
Golden Treasure: The Great Green is on sale for $10 on steam right now. It also seems to run on linux via Proton based on my own limited testing.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard
Finished Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy. It was fun but not good.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
That’s disappointing to hear.

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Colonel Cancer posted:

Anprim obviously.

Okay, I didn't know what this was or that this existed as a... political subculture... something???

We're all dead and this is hell, right? That's why God has abandoned us?

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Time_pants posted:

Okay, I didn't know what this was or that this existed as a... political subculture... something???

We're all dead and this is hell, right? That's why God has abandoned us?

Lucifer is God

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard
I made a twitter thread of all my video game drawings/storyboards.

https://twitter.com/Alephwyr/status/1219393947107131392

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

DrowningInDreams posted:

I made a twitter thread of all my video game drawings/storyboards.

https://twitter.com/Alephwyr/status/1219393947107131392

You should post them here so I don't have to go there to get my dragon on.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Literally A Person posted:

You should post them here so I don't have to go there to get my dragon on.

Ok, what is a good free image hosting service? They seem to have all ceased to exist spontaneously.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

DrowningInDreams posted:

Ok, what is a good free image hosting service? They seem to have all ceased to exist spontaneously.

I use imgur. It kind of sucks but it works for now.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Literally A Person posted:

I use imgur. It kind of sucks but it works for now.

Ok, here they are

The beginning of Game 1, Liber Desperatio. "Pilot" (the player character) nukes a small village to test that the weapons systems of their ship are operational, on order of Supreme Commander Douglas Aiden. Elsewhere, ham radio operators discuss doomsday preparations.


The dragon Peter and his token Johnathon Programmer enter a village after the first flying/fighting segment of the "great contest". They are welcomed with the phrase "ours is a humble village, but a peaceful one" while executions occur in the background.


The dragon Peter and his daughter Scarlet participate in the first argument portion the "great contest" as they stand on magick pentacles. Somehow the conversation has turned to esoteric matters, and Peter is arguing in favor of Chaos Magick, while Scarlet argues for Hyperstition


Not actually part of the game. Another argument between Peter and Scarlet in which Scarlet conjures a basket of life-giving mushrooms by uttering the Konami code, as an attempted proof of her magical theories.


Peter invited to a formal dinner by Nicholas J Garbageman. Unfortunately, it turns out that the main course is human baby, as, due to an artistic "remix" of the concepts of Jubilee and the biblical firstborn sacrifice, Garbageman has accepted babies in return for debt forgiveness. Garbageman flees, and then a drunken dragon accidentally crashes into the building he fled into, destroying it.


First alternate "bad" ending: If Scarlet wins. Amid business discussion, an activist confronts Scarlet about the dangers of her products. He is chastised for unwokeness and implicitly threatened by, effectively, the company wokeness coordinator. Meanwhile, things cost too much.


Ranmaa's bad ending: Sociopaths Ranmaa and Feng are known in the future as people's heroes. A social credit system compels a man to narc on his environmental activist girlfriend, who is then choked to death in jail with a towel. He enjoys a cigar and promotion but is dead inside.



Emett's bad ending: Emett succeeds in his anti-natalist effort to kill all humans, but remains despondent and lies under a building until former drunk Topaz comes to get him. They visit the graves of Emett's former tokens. Emett realizes that mass murder didn't undo any suffering. Emett thus goes insane, flails around, tries to kill himself, fails, and winds up falling to the ground near Topaz again. Topaz tries to empathize with him but is not tremendously successful. After a long pause, Emett laughs.



During a very long psychotic dream, the ninja librarian Freddy Marus encounters Baphomet in a library. Baphomet tells him the library contains all knowledge, but the books hold only tautologies. He tells him not to read a certain book, but he does: It is akin to a google docs document being edited by millions of racist 4chan users or gamers. He dissolves into ink while screaming.


In the Feng sidestory DLC for the second game, Ranmaa asks an angry Buddhist monk to take him to the man who carved "an entire bag of dicks" in Mandarin in response to a Buddhist riddle contest. Thinking he intends to punish the man, the monk takes him to Feng, the guilty party. Feng is playing Mahjong for money with the Chinese equivalent of a redneck who he deals drugs to, egging him on to make a bad decision. He gives him drugs anyway to keep him hooked. The Buddhist monk arrives and begins lecturing Feng, who was formerly a monk but was expelled. As the monk is lecturing Feng, Ranmaa bites him in half, killing him.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

DrowningInDreams posted:

Ok, here they are

The beginning of Game 1, Liber Desperatio. "Pilot" (the player character) nukes a small village to test that the weapons systems of their ship are operational, on order of Supreme Commander Douglas Aiden. Elsewhere, ham radio operators discuss doomsday preparations.


The dragon Peter and his token Johnathon Programmer enter a village after the first flying/fighting segment of the "great contest". They are welcomed with the phrase "ours is a humble village, but a peaceful one" while executions occur in the background.


The dragon Peter and his daughter Scarlet participate in the first argument portion the "great contest" as they stand on magick pentacles. Somehow the conversation has turned to esoteric matters, and Peter is arguing in favor of Chaos Magick, while Scarlet argues for Hyperstition


Not actually part of the game. Another argument between Peter and Scarlet in which Scarlet conjures a basket of life-giving mushrooms by uttering the Konami code, as an attempted proof of her magical theories.


Peter invited to a formal dinner by Nicholas J Garbageman. Unfortunately, it turns out that the main course is human baby, as, due to an artistic "remix" of the concepts of Jubilee and the biblical firstborn sacrifice, Garbageman has accepted babies in return for debt forgiveness. Garbageman flees, and then a drunken dragon accidentally crashes into the building he fled into, destroying it.


First alternate "bad" ending: If Scarlet wins. Amid business discussion, an activist confronts Scarlet about the dangers of her products. He is chastised for unwokeness and implicitly threatened by, effectively, the company wokeness coordinator. Meanwhile, things cost too much.


Ranmaa's bad ending: Sociopaths Ranmaa and Feng are known in the future as people's heroes. A social credit system compels a man to narc on his environmental activist girlfriend, who is then choked to death in jail with a towel. He enjoys a cigar and promotion but is dead inside.



Emett's bad ending: Emett succeeds in his anti-natalist effort to kill all humans, but remains despondent and lies under a building until former drunk Topaz comes to get him. They visit the graves of Emett's former tokens. Emett realizes that mass murder didn't undo any suffering. Emett thus goes insane, flails around, tries to kill himself, fails, and winds up falling to the ground near Topaz again. Topaz tries to empathize with him but is not tremendously successful. After a long pause, Emett laughs.



During a very long psychotic dream, the ninja librarian Freddy Marus encounters Baphomet in a library. Baphomet tells him the library contains all knowledge, but the books hold only tautologies. He tells him not to read a certain book, but he does: It is akin to a google docs document being edited by millions of racist 4chan users or gamers. He dissolves into ink while screaming.


In the Feng sidestory DLC for the second game, Ranmaa asks an angry Buddhist monk to take him to the man who carved "an entire bag of dicks" in Mandarin in response to a Buddhist riddle contest. Thinking he intends to punish the man, the monk takes him to Feng, the guilty party. Feng is playing Mahjong for money with the Chinese equivalent of a redneck who he deals drugs to, egging him on to make a bad decision. He gives him drugs anyway to keep him hooked. The Buddhist monk arrives and begins lecturing Feng, who was formerly a monk but was expelled. As the monk is lecturing Feng, Ranmaa bites him in half, killing him.


uh...dang.

I was expecting something okay but this was like near mind blowing. Tour de force.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Literally A Person posted:

uh...dang.

I was expecting something okay but this was like near mind blowing. Tour de force.

Thank you

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard
Bump for more praise for my praiseworthy work with dragons in it

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

You know that part in the kabuki play where a guy yells iyoooo real loud I'm doing that but I'm saying "kyoon"

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

You know that part in the kabuki play where a guy yells iyoooo real loud I'm doing that but I'm saying "kyoon"

I think that is mean but I can't tell from context

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
Slippery Tilde
Dragons + Dragons know about equality since sjws and gamers taste all the same to them and are going to eat all humans.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
:goofy:

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
What 'bout dos wyrms tho?

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

DrowningInDreams posted:

Finished Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy. It was fun but not good.

Been a while, but I agree. Read it to see if it was a good book to recommend to kids. Don't think it is. Harry Potter is too famous, so most kids already either read it, or decided it's lame. Guess I'll stick to the Neil Gaiman one that starts with a murderer knifing (almost) an entire family and then is all about a graveyard.

Wait, poo poo, no, we're here for dragons, not kid books.

Uh, A Natural History of Dragons is pretty alright, but that's a "dragons as weird animals" series.

If you want "dragons as people", I guess that's E. E. Knight's Age of Fire books. Pretty much all the not-dragons in them are bad, and, if I remember right, there's a bit where the dragons decide that the best way to fight human dragon-riders on enslaved dragons is to start enslaving humans and forcing them to be dragon-riders. You know, the human's still the one riding, but the dragon is in charge. The humans can't get off unless the dragon lets them and the dragons can just eat the humans if they misbehave.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

If you want "dragons as people", I guess that's E. E. Knight's Age of Fire books. Pretty much all the not-dragons in them are bad, and, if I remember right, there's a bit where the dragons decide that the best way to fight human dragon-riders on enslaved dragons is to start enslaving humans and forcing them to be dragon-riders. You know, the human's still the one riding, but the dragon is in charge. The humans can't get off unless the dragon lets them and the dragons can just eat the humans if they misbehave.

That sounds like a good system.

Daikloktos
Jan 1, 2020

by Cyrano4747
Dodecadongdragons

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Nice dragons and cool images

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Good long post earlier OP I enjoyed reading it

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Nice dragons and cool images

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Good long post earlier OP I enjoyed reading it

What was your favorite image?

RepeatingMeme
Dec 27, 2012


this place is not a place of honor

no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here

nothing valued is here

what is here was dangerous and repulsive to us

this place is best shunned and left uninhabited


You know what, i think society as a whole would benefit from realistic dragon cock dildos. Can they make that happen?

Oh and proper socialism, that would be dope

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Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

DrowningInDreams posted:

What was your favorite image?

I liked the magic pentacles debate OP

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