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Jack Jack I think you might be hosed.
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Welp, Jack's in trouble now. I think we're about to see a proper good smackdown.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:42
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I wonder if he took the ring off and put it back on, he'd get his sword back. Well, it'd probably take too much time anyway.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:47
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Yes, Jack is fighting back. Or, at least, he was.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:49
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If you're wearing a ring, try taking it off without using your other hand. I'm not but I assume it'd be pretty annoying to do, though surely not impossible if nobody is distractingly rushing at you with a hammer.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:50
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Guessing the next couple of panels: Jack puts up his arm to launch Green/Red Miles in a fit of desperation, but John Hammers off his hand or arm before they can begin. And that will be that.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:51
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:If you're wearing a ring, try taking it off without using your other hand. I'm not but I assume it'd be pretty annoying to do, though surely not impossible if nobody is distractingly rushing at you with a hammer. Easy, use your mouth.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:59
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And here I thought the coup de grace would come after PM sliced off Jack's ring finger from off-panel while he was distracted with John. If Jack can't just teleport the sword back like he did in Cascade, then this'll work, too.Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:If you're wearing a ring, try taking it off without using your other hand. I'm not but I assume it'd be pretty annoying to do, though surely not impossible if nobody is distractingly rushing at you with a hammer. He's got tentacles for that.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:00
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Fighting a ferocious battle while standing on the severed hand of the universe itself is pretty badass. Also, yes Jack is hosed.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:02
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Good points. (Real dogs don't have big flexible monkey lips like humans do, but who knows about video game boss dogs who also probably don't fret about their teeth as much as I do? Though it'd probably still be a bad idea to be careless about that in the middle of a fight, the more so the sharper the teeth are.)
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Oct 1, 2012 02:04
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As once mentioned by Hussie and shown in Cascade, Jack can still bring out his Jaspersprite tentacles at whim. I presume he could use this to remove his ring or snag his sword if he really needed to. That is assuming Jack isn't just going to summon his sword back into his hand Thor-style like he has a few times in the past.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:05
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Honestly, I find it really hard to believe that Jack is going to die at all. It's in his nature to not ever die, despite everything wanting him dead.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:06
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Everything else aside though, it really doesn't speak well of John's mental state that he is able to go from zero to full throttle MURDERMODEMURDERMODEMURDERMODE that easily nowadays.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:07
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It'd be kind of fitting if John woke up literally right before he could deliver the final blow.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:08
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Nate RFB posted:It'd be kind of fitting if John woke up literally right before he could deliver the final blow. I think this has a good chance of happening, yeah.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGp9P6QvMjY
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Oct 1, 2012 02:11
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Boneless Jogger posted:I think this has a good chance of happening, yeah. And then PM shows up behind him and sticks a sword through his chest.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:16
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Captain Oblivious posted:Everything else aside though, it really doesn't speak well of John's mental state that he is able to go from zero to full throttle MURDERMODEMURDERMODEMURDERMODE that easily nowadays. I dunno. This breakdown is definitely been a long, long, long time coming. It wouldn't surprise me if John stayed this way to a degree, but I think this is an extension of the straw breaking the camel's back and the camel going on a partially-adrenaline, partially-fury induced rampage against his parent's murderer. In hindsight, that metaphor got away from me.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:20
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Oh no, Jack, watch out 
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Oct 1, 2012 02:21
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I doubt Jack is hosed. Not the least because it's be anticlimactic in terms of the narrative, but also because there's absolutely Caliborn's "Jack is my best loving friend" comment won't go somewhere. Of course, there are multiple Jacks, and he did fight another Jack before (Spades), so who knows. I think this situation is going to lead into John getting humbled despite his mad skills here, which will, as I speculated either, lead to him doubling down on the "prep for arrival" thing. It could also lead into John finally learning what the deal is with English, as I don't think the ship crew have any idea what they're dealing with, unlike the meteor crew. Could be wrong, though. Captain Oblivious posted:Everything else aside though, it really doesn't speak well of John's mental state that he is able to go from zero to full throttle MURDERMODEMURDERMODEMURDERMODE that easily nowadays. When you wake up in a dream bubble, you wake up as your memories in that dream: you begin in the default dream state until something spurrs you out of it. In other words, John was just having a bubble dream about his dad, Rose's mom, and Rose dying. And he awoke to Jack being there. So his natural reaction is, again, to freak out. Difference is, IRL John is more competent at his abilities than he was at the point in his dream. So even he's acting on the dream situation and impetus, he is not in the same place as his self was when he lived the moment that got him downed there originally. John probably doesn't know he's in a dream bubble at the moment. Doesn't really matter, though. Zorak fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Oct 1, 2012 |
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Oct 1, 2012 03:34
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I've a feeling Jack is going to get trounced, but not offed. PM might even swoop in to save him with some sort of "ONLY I GET TO KILL HIM" shtick.
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Oct 1, 2012 04:01
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I think John will directly hit Jack with the dice hammer only for it to output the lowest loving damage possible (maybe all snake-eyes for extra hilarity) allowing Jack to get his stabs on afterwards 
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Oct 1, 2012 04:15
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Midnight Raider posted:As once mentioned by Hussie and shown in Cascade, Jack can still bring out his Jaspersprite tentacles at whim. I presume he could use this to remove his ring or snag his sword if he really needed to. Close. Very, very close! Aaand now would be a good time for PM to enter the fray. Help a bro out, PM.
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Oct 1, 2012 06:17
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Man, what is even WITH Heirs getting strangled?
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Oct 1, 2012 06:26
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Yeah, go ahead, Jack. Strangle a Breath player. There's no way that'll fail in an unforeseen manner.
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Oct 1, 2012 06:28
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Yeah -- I dunno why John just doesn't, like, use his WINDY POWERS to collapse the lungs of whoever he's fighting and asphyxiate them. Granted, if Equis's demise hadn't shown us the opposite was true, I would have said that people in this comic don't actually breathe, due to the fact that they seem to be able to exist in space and whatnot just fine. Maybe I'm thinking about this too much! 
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Oct 1, 2012 06:53
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Can I just say that the backgrounds in the past few updates have been totally killer? Especially that big tall one showing just the huge swath of destruction behind the platform John and Rose's bodies are on.
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Oct 1, 2012 06:54
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Glory of Arioch posted:Yeah -- I dunno why John just doesn't, like, use his WINDY POWERS to collapse the lungs of whoever he's fighting and asphyxiate them. Granted, if Equis's demise hadn't shown us the opposite was true, I would have said that people in this comic don't actually breathe, due to the fact that they seem to be able to exist in space and whatnot just fine. Maybe I'm thinking about this too much! Players can't breathe in space, but the Medium, including the Furthest Ring, appears to be filled with something that is breathable and has a pleasant temperature. And which somehow doesn't ignite when meteors travel through it at lightspeed without noticeable relativistic effects. I'm prepared to chalk it up to the influence of the dark gods.
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Oct 1, 2012 07:12
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A good poster posted:He's got tentacles for that. Welp. I really like this "epic battle" portrayed in frames rather than a flash. Has there been something like this before (bar Beta Vriksa)?
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Oct 1, 2012 07:15
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Zorak posted:I doubt Jack is hosed. Not the least because it's be anticlimactic in terms of the narrative, but also because there's absolutely Caliborn's "Jack is my best loving friend" comment won't go somewhere. Of course, there are multiple Jacks, and he did fight another Jack before (Spades), so who knows. The one thing I wonder is whether or not a person has any conscious or subconscious influence over what memory they start out with in a bubble. Between the tantrum John threw over Davesprite's "Dad" note, and the general lovely mood he seems to be in, I can't help but feel that this has been a recurring dream for him. Standing over the corpse of your father every night is not good for one's emotional well-being. I agree though, that the best resolution to this little episode would be John getting dreamkilled by Jack, waking up in his driveway with a steely resolve in his eyes, apologizing to Jade for throwing a fit, and then getting serious about improving his skills. Seoinin posted:Can I just say that the backgrounds in the past few updates have been totally killer? Especially that big tall one showing just the huge swath of destruction behind the platform John and Rose's bodies are on. You can, and I would agree. 
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Oct 1, 2012 07:19
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Arthur Crackpot posted:The one thing I wonder is whether or not a person has any conscious or subconscious influence over what memory they start out with in a bubble. Probably no more influence than one has over an ordinary dream.
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Oct 1, 2012 07:21
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Speak of the devil's lovecraftian prehensile appendages. Radio Paranoia posted:Welp. Some of Jack vs. Bro(Plus Davesprite) was actually portrayed similarly in the comic before the second half was animated in Jade: Enter, and I remember liking that sequence quite a bit as well.
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Oct 1, 2012 07:22
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I wonder if choking a Breath player... a) is impossible because of their breath power or b) completely cuts them off from their breath power
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Oct 1, 2012 07:31
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I'm going to go with: c.) A pretty bad idea, because the time it takes to suffocate somebody far exceeds the time it takes to take somebody's head off with a tornado.
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Oct 1, 2012 07:36
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Cabbit posted:I'm going to go with: I think MSPA runs on cinematic asphyxiation time, so it's more like 30 seconds followed immediately by death and none of that inconvenient business of having to throttle an unconscious person.
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Oct 1, 2012 07:41
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The only way John wins here is if Vriska somehow joins the fight for a bit of two-on-one. While that would be impossibly cool, I am also looking forward to seeing what interesting and innovative way John dies this time. 
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Oct 1, 2012 07:42
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Roger Explosion posted:The only way John wins here is if Vriska somehow joins the fight for a bit of two-on-one.
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Oct 1, 2012 07:51
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Alternatively Jack just snaps his neck with a nice *anticlimax* sound effect 
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Oct 1, 2012 07:52
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I wonder if carapace people have ghosts. In other news, it looks like we'll reach 2mil sometime tomorrow. New sticker sheets of the 10k fantrolls headed our way. snucks fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Oct 1, 2012 |
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Oct 1, 2012 08:40
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Maybe if John took two years to level up his immunity to tentacles he wouldn't have this problem.
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