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Sizone posted:Evolution doesn't select for positive traits, it only selects against mutations that are detrimental to keeping the blood line going. In a small enough population, massive amounts of empathy wouldn't necessarily be a drawback. As populations grow, so do culture and technology which counter physical/psychological detriments. The sociopaths would rule the world! Oh wait they already do.
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Jun 17, 2013 17:30
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The prime minister and the president will take Athena and Shim as their second wives. ~Plume will start a war.
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Jun 17, 2013 21:42
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In the most shocking twist Thorsby has ever written, this plan will work perfectly.
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Jun 18, 2013 00:25
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It seems kind of surprising to me that Thorsby, who's progressive enough that he had an LGBT woman as the protagonist of his last story, would build a world relying on MEN ACT LIKE THIS WOMEN ACT LIKE THIS. I'm thinking the climax will involve the theory of war being disproven and gender-based  failing to predict behavior.
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Cobweb Heart posted:It seems kind of surprising to me that Thorsby, who's progressive enough that he had an LGBT woman as the protagonist of his last story, would build a world relying on MEN ACT LIKE THIS WOMEN ACT LIKE THIS. I'm thinking the climax will involve the theory of war being disproven and gender-based Or just prove to be working for the Tjargellos and Tjargellos only. By the way, we're all talking about an  UPDATE
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Jun 18, 2013 10:40
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It looks like Athena would rather educate people and end problems at their core than take advantage of her own knowledge of the problem's source (such as making the presidents fall in love with more females). The bit in the jail was an emergency situation that affected her directly, and if she'd instead successfully changed Shim's mind about the whole general matter, it wouldn't have been as efficient a use of Athena's techings. Now who's getting analyzed, Athena?
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Jun 18, 2013 11:19
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The latest update is a huge surprise.
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Cat Mattress posted:The latest Yeah, kinda creepy fan art always throws me for a loop too.
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Cat Mattress posted:The latest They're so tiny.  edit: That palace is about 200 meters tall, counting the tower. 
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Jun 19, 2013 11:39
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my dad posted:They're so tiny. Mmh. How d'you get there? Not-Plume is 14-pixels tall in the last panel. Assuming a height of 180 centimeters, that makes it about 13 cm per pixel. The guard in the same frame is about 350 pixels, so 45.5 meters tall. In the first frame, he is 17-pixel-tall, that makes it about 2m67 per pixel. So the palace has a roof height of 168 pixels = 450 meters; a dome height of 294 pixels = 787 meters, and a tower height of 426 pixels = 1140 meters.
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Cat Mattress posted:Mmh. How d'you get there? Not-Plume is 14-pixels tall in the last panel. Assuming a height of 180 centimeters, that makes it about 13 cm per pixel. The guard in the same frame is about 350 pixels, so 45.5 meters tall. In the first frame, he is 17-pixel-tall, that makes it about 2m67 per pixel. So the palace has a roof height of 168 pixels = 450 meters; a dome height of 294 pixels = 787 meters, and a tower height of 426 pixels = 1140 meters. I didn't do a pixel count. I used Not-Plume's size from inside the saucer (it fit my mouse pointer), assumed that it was his upper torso and counted it as 1 meter. First mistake, since he seems to be standing and is almost fully visible. Then I roughly counted the number of times my cursor could fit on the big guy and the result was 15-ish. The scale changes with every panel, though, he's significantly larger compared to Not-Plume in the latter panels. Then I measured his size to be close to two cursors at the palace and roughly compared the size of the palace to the size of the guard's closeup. It was ~25 cursores, which divided by 2 and multiplied by 15 is around 200, probably a bit less. This is all incredibly  AND wrong.  That said, we really can't accurately measure anything due to Thorsby's err... lack of drawing talent.
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Jun 19, 2013 12:23
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Did not see that coming. No. At least they seem pretty reasonable (or at least this one).
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Cat Mattress posted:The latest I love this. I hope it ends up having no bearing on the plot. Yeah, there's a size difference, but it's no big deal or anything.
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Jun 19, 2013 22:54
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I could see why humans would be wary of such a race.
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Jun 19, 2013 23:05
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They may have chosen the wrong side in this conflict to try to convince.
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ChairMaster posted:They may have chosen the wrong side in this conflict to try to convince. Chances are the other side would have been completely offended as well. Whose to say that Athena stating the theory is going to be what starts the war by getting this guy worked up about his wife count, and then it turns out Petrevolt let Athena and Not-Plume escape for that same reason. 
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Jun 21, 2013 20:30
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"She's sorry. Oh by the way, let me insult you exactly the same way." Real smart there.
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I love the tiny flying saucer landing on top of the cabinet.
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Jun 22, 2013 00:24
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It might have helped to rehearse this argument first. Maybe, you know, cite a few hundred historical examples...
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Jun 22, 2013 04:06
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1. I love how they have a tiny jail cell available with little air holes punched in it, and 2. I love how Thorsby throws out the big melodramatic romance reveal only for it to be immediately (but realistically) shut down.
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Jun 26, 2013 11:41
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I don't know. I just killed my boyfriend earlier today. This is a bit sudden.
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Jun 26, 2013 23:21
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Hahahahahah I like this Athena chick's style.
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dipwood posted:I could see why humans would be wary of such a race. What on earth kind of movie is that from? I keep seeing these gifs of naked cartoon giants fighting, and they are in the same drawing style as that picture, so I'm guessing its from some zany Anime?
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GyverMac posted:What on earth kind of movie is that from? I keep seeing these gifs of naked cartoon giants fighting, and they are in the same drawing style as that picture, so I'm guessing its from some zany Anime? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan Haven't seen the anime but the early parts of the manga are really good. Actually made better by the unusual or bad drawing style. Having to wait for each new update is so difficult, so glad I could just blaze through Hitmen for Destiny.
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This is the Thorsby-est solution to a problem ever. I hope it leads to another one of his insanely convoluted set pieces, like the ship/closet scene in Hitmen or the entirety of Lies, Sisters and Wives. With the added bonus that two of the major players are the size of ants.
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Personally, I'm betting on a Cyrano de Bergerac situation.
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Athena is so awkard.
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Crazy plan vs. stupid evolutionary remnant Calling it now: Athena's going to risk blowing everything by mentioning in the presence of their tjargello stooge that having a fetish for someone completely inaccessible to you is stupid. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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Calling it now: Hot, hot Thorsby tjargello presidential three way. Also calling that tjargello sex is something totally innocuous like reciting haikus or alternating the rainbow patterns on their fur.
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Here's the thing. Well, now we know why there's the size difference. The problem is how many books are there going to have to be? Oh and making sure that the rituals ends up knocking them off. At least their ears are big enough to presumably hide enough books. Athena's gonna blow it by messing it up, most likely. Probably with a ritual that involves saying something and her accidentally tacking on 'this is stupid' to it. Or some other kind of communication mistake.
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I can't help but feel that our heroes have momentarily stepped into the filming of one of Telltale Studios' point-and-click adventure games. Either that or a Tarjellan porn flick.
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Jul 3, 2013 08:12
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"I can't pick that up."
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Schwarzwald posted:I love this. I hope it ends up having no bearing on the plot. Yeah, there's a size difference, but it's no big deal or anything. I hope he takes this to the literal extreme, and they specifically don't 'small person in the ear' like we expect.
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Schwarzwald posted:Personally, I'm betting on a Cyrano de Bergerac situation. Dingdingdingdingding! Well, almost. Whybird posted:I can't help but feel that our heroes have momentarily stepped into the filming of one of Telltale Studios' point-and-click adventure games. Thorsby has actually made a couple of text-adventure games. If he did a Kicksta-- wait, he'd need someone in America to run one, and he's basically an outsider artist. If he did an Indiegogo for an adventure game with a programmer and everything, I'd pledge to it like crazy.
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Here for the party. I wonder what an actual 'poshcrawler' looks like.
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Probably the same, but real, just like imitation crab meat tastes like crab. Those guys look pretty strict 
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I bet they're hidden in her clothers or hair. Little Cyranos.
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Jul 8, 2013 09:09
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And another new comic. And the problem of having a bunch of tiny books presents itself.
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I'm calling it now, the president already has a(?) mistress, his bluster about monogamy is just for show.
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