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SynthOrange posted:He just does a lot of squats every day. Pays off in situations like these. Or, as Jake put it in Adventure Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAcOLJlMNE&t=6s
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Keru posted:That could've been quite embarassing if he was in the bathroom, I think.
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Aug 31, 2012 13:42
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Kat is going to be jealous as hell when she hears about this.
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I can't scour the archives right now, have we ever seen what is that wrapped thing on Jimmy Jim's back?
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Cyphoderus posted:I can't scour the archives right now, have we ever seen what is that wrapped thing on Jimmy Jim's back? It's a ethernal big sword. I think it's ethernal, I'm just guessing that part. Lord Humongus fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Aug 31, 2012 17:10
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Phy posted:Over, say, some fairly sizable edifices? While wearing a red Cape even. Tom did say that the sound effect for when he does that ought to be "single bound". Lord Humongus posted:It's a ethernal big sword. I think it's ethernal, I'm just guessing that part. Specifically, it is this sword:  
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Phy posted:Over, say, some fairly sizable edifices? While wearing a red Cape even. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6hvOo2QOpA&t=213s
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Aug 31, 2012 18:24
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Fried Chicken posted:Who is that guy that just grabbed Carver? That's Robot grabbing Reynardine. C'mon, try to keep up!
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Keru posted:That could've been quite embarassing if he was in the bathroom, I think. I am really confused by this too. Guess Eglamore just happened to be in full armour and with a sword strapped on at the time. Or perhaps it's as someone said, and Eglamore stands ready and equipped the whole time Antimony's in the forest.
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Kessel posted:I am really confused by this too. Guess Eglamore just happened to be in full armour and with a sword strapped on at the time. Snapping the beacon probably makes something like this happen. That's right. Jimmy Jims is a Magical Girl.
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Wa11y posted:Snapping the beacon probably makes something like this happen. "I would have been here sooner, but I refuse to teleport before pulling the tiara off. drat transformations..!" Well, it looks like Ysengrin didn't get a hand (or sword) laid on him. I wonder if we'll see Ysengrin coming back to his senses and reflecting on what just happened - or better yet, piecing together that this too was a manipulaton by Coyote.
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I wonder why Coyote keeps trying to get Ysengrin to kill/maim Annie. Oh right. Trickster god.
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Kessel posted:I am really confused by this too. Guess Eglamore just happened to be in full armour and with a sword strapped on at the time. I think this is actually correct. He escorts her to and from the Court, so he's hanging out by the edge of the forest the whole time she's in there, waiting for something exactly like this to happen.
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The Walker posted:I wonder why Coyote keeps trying to get Ysengrin to kill/maim Annie. I think it's less him trying to hurt Annie, and more him trying to hurt Ysengrin (for whatever reason). He always intervenes to protect Annie, or he has so far. Ysengrin? He never STOPS hurting Ysengrin. Even real petty jabs, like when he's showing Annie Renard's body, and he makes sure to emphasize how YOUNG and HEALTHY and not OLD and DECREPIT that body looks. I wonder if it's pettiness, or some kind of endgame like wanting Ysengrin to switch sides like the faeries did.
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VictorGrunn posted:I think it's less him trying to hurt Annie, and more him trying to hurt Ysengrin (for whatever reason). He always intervenes to protect Annie, or he has so far. Ysengrin? He never STOPS hurting Ysengrin. It's Ysengrin's role in a story to be hurt. Everybody is supposed to find it hilarious when it happens. Ysengrin is all about strength, honor, and dignity. He parades and postures. Then he gets revealed to be weak, bestial, and ridiculous, and everybody laughs. It's how it works in the Renard stories. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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Sep 1, 2012 00:30
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Spikey posted:No. Jump Good. Jimmy Jims is John Carter?
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Cat Mattress posted:It's Ysengrin's role in a story to be hurt. Everybody is supposed to find it hilarious when it happens. You mean from folklore?
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A student posted:Jimmy Jims is John Carter? He's the Six Million Dollar Man.
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Spikey posted:No. Jump Good. You are the greatest human being ever for making a Samurai Jack reference As for content, I wonder if Ysengrin will cool off in any way after this or if he's gone completely kill hungry
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Actually, now that I read back the sequence of events... as silly as it is, I wonder if that was really Ysengrin. I love this comic. Anything that has me always speculating what will happen on the next update really has me hooked.
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The Walker posted:You mean from folklore? Yep.
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So someone PMed me and asked me what my avatar was from and I pointed him towards this thread/comic. He's been reading it and PMed me a second time:quote:[redacted] wrote on Sep 1, 2012 11:40: I'm not sure how to best answer this since ... it kind of doesn't get toned down. He's still early on in the comic.
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Answer that her flaws start to surface. And I wouldn't call Annie a Mary Sue at all. She's socially inept, has very few friends, cheats off her buddy to scrape by in school, has problems with authority, is kinda spiteful at times, and daddy issues out the wazoo as well as general emotional constipation. But then again, I suppose those were some of the flaws I mentioned. Tell him that she's not quiet and mysterious because she's a Mary Sue, she's like that because she's actually pretty goddamn hosed up. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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Sep 1, 2012 17:46
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Brannock posted:So someone PMed me and asked me what my avatar was from and I pointed him towards this thread/comic. He's been reading it and PMed me a second time:
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The use of "waify" in that context bothers me deeply. Same with "Mary Sue". Actually, the whole PM bothers me. What comic did he read? Because it seems very different from the one I've read. Bocom fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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I can see where your friend is coming from. I got a mary-sue vibe from the first few chapters too. Tell your friend that her flaws emerge more and more as the story progresses. Her unflappable calm turns out to be her suppressing her feelings and a symptom of her general emotional stuntedness. Her good grades turn out to be because she is cheating off of her best friend, etc. Just don't be as specific as I am being here, part of the fun is finding out these flaws for yourself. 
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Tom, unlike Surma, never promises to not lead Annie into danger. I think that much is made clear as the story progresses. VVV Definitely. It's kind of become shorthand for "female character I don't like" to some fans. Pastrymancy fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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Tell him he dosn't actually know what Mary Sue means and the word he is actually looking for is "Main Character" or maybe "Protagonist". I hate how the term morphed from a specific type of fanfic character to a word used to describe any character who has normal levels of main characterness and is also a girl.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:I can see where your friend is coming from. I got a mary-sue vibe from the first few chapters too. The best advice is that that friend should keep reading.
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Seeing as Mary-sue-ism also implies that it's an author self-insert of some sort (or at least used to before it lost all meaning)... I kind of doubt that Tom wishes he was Annie. But since the PM guy seems to not know that in the first place, yeah, I guess just say that Annie's flaws start to become more obvious in the future.
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Whitenoise Poster posted:Tell him he dosn't actually know what Mary Sue means and the word he is actually looking for is "Main Character" or maybe "Protagonist". Quite. A true Mary Sue is a strange beast, completely out of place in any decent story. I'm sure most people know this, but the term originates from a parody Star Trek fanfic quote:Mary Sue stories—the adventures of the youngest and smartest ever person to graduate from the academy and ever get a commission at such a tender age. Usually characterized by unprecedented skill in everything from art to zoology, including karate and arm-wrestling. This character can also be found burrowing her way into the good graces/heart/mind of one of the Big Three [Kirk, Spock, and McCoy], if not all three at once. She saves the day by her wit and ability, and, if we are lucky, has the good grace to die at the end, being grieved by the entire ship. One problem people have, especially in fantastical fiction, is that a standard protagonist character may share some features with the wish fulfillment Mary Sue. The classic example would be any story with a "chosen one"; Harry Potter springs to mind. He attracts a great deal of attention from the other characters in the story and is singled out, but the doesn't make him a Mary Sue because he's not flawless or perfect. He's of average intelligence, has enemies as well as friends and more importantly, a lot of people who are indifferent to him as a person and either don't care or are vaguely put out by his "chosen one" status. He bickers, fights, and makes poor decisions. He has a disastrous or just plain awkward love life for most of the books. He fucks up and pisses people off. He's a reasonably complex character with actual motivations and feelings. I mean, I *guess* in the first like, 3 chapters or so Annie comes across as a bit overly perfect, but those chapters are written almost like little fairy tales, with the large amount of narration and lack of much dialogue. It's a little unfair to judge based on the point where the comic is still searching for a voice and the characters are sketched out in the loosest of terms. Once we get to a point where there is enough information to come to a conclusion, it's clear all the characters have their own strengths and weaknesses.
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Not my friend, just some goon who messaged me.quote:[redacted] wrote on Sep 1, 2012 19:47: Looks like we have another convert!
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Put yourselves down for another convert; I reverse image searched a Coyote avatar and found this thread, then read through the entire comic in one sitting. All I can say is GC is the most refreshing fantasy I have ever read, and three updates per week are going to get me through a particularly tough final year of college. Incidentally, has this avatar been taken (I realize it'll need resizing)? I'd like to replace my current awkward rectangle one. 
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Not that I can see...? If not, here, have it avatar sized. 
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Here's an alternative for you. Also, happy registration birthday.
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Jon Joe posted:Here's an alternative for you. This is the only acceptable compromise. Make it so, Avatar Fairy.
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Hold please. Done. EDIT: 
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Wrist Watch posted:Make it so, Avatar Fairy. Dude, you don't invoke the Avatar Fairy! You pray for it and then pay tribute to the Gunnerkrigg donations fund in thanks if it deigns to bless you.
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You guys who are defending Antimony are mixing up what she eventually develops into with what she's initially presented as. In the first few chapters, she's talented at everything, gets out of every tight spot with uncommon ease, and there's no evidence of the social awkwardness that plagues her later on. Its another one of the humps you have to get over in early GC. "It gets better later" is absolutely a valid answer but "Its kind of lousy now" is a valid complaint.
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