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Magres posted:Yeah but from the view of characters in a video game, the player doesn't repeatedly die and retry things, just everything always goes right for us. It's not just that though. The player has a lot of... odd capabilities. 
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I'd say that the player character's potential for wildly inconsistent morality is related to CHIM, too. Saving a shopkeeper's daughter and then robbing them blind, or being the leader of the Mage's Guild and the Dark Brotherhood at the same time, or serving 15 different Daedric Princes for the loot while trying to save the world from another.
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May 26, 2015 19:13
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This is CHIM
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May 26, 2015 20:30
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pffft, any dwemer could do that
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May 26, 2015 20:42
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Strategic Tea posted:pffft, any dwemer could do that The dwemer are too busy being magical skin on a golem or something I don't even know what has anyone given Kirkbride a big enough pile of cocaine for him to finally get around to telling us what happened to the dwemer?
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May 26, 2015 20:51
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Brackhar posted:It's not just that though. The player has a lot of... odd capabilities.  Why would you assume this has anything to do with the player?
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May 26, 2015 22:11
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ilu kazerad
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May 26, 2015 22:20
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I'm proud of Kazerad for going so long without logging onto Steam, maybe he's actually going to update his comic
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May 27, 2015 03:29
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Kazerad posted:
Are you arguing that the player's horse has also achieved CHIM?
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May 27, 2015 04:35
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Brackhar posted:Are you arguing that the player's horse has also achieved CHIM? I think he is implying that horses in Nirn can just walk on any surface they like.
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May 27, 2015 04:51
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No, this is CHIM.
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May 27, 2015 05:24
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Lizard Wizard posted:No, this is CHIM. That's simply a typical khajiit day after partaking in copious amounts of moonsugar.
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Gruckles posted:That's simply a typical khajiit day after partaking in copious amounts of moonsugar. What kind of drugs explain this?
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Zoe posted:What kind of drugs explain this? The explanation's right there in the beginning, it's Sheogorath. 
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May 27, 2015 18:27
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Even then, it's easily explained by "Wizards: No sense of right or wrong."
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May 27, 2015 19:50
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Lizard Wizard posted:No, this is CHIM.
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May 29, 2015 15:07
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New Update! I like this one. More stupid faffing about at the beginning, but then we finally GET somewhere. Progress is being made! I like the sound of that magic item too.
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Iunnrais posted:New Update! Yeah, I really enjoyed this one, it was fun. Glad to see the shopkeeper was cool about all the damage, though. Didn't really expect that.
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That reward is going to be big trouble, for sure. So obviously they're going to take it. And probably still not get their robes drycleaned.
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Yay, Katia is going to be paid for her work!Pakled posted:Does Katia have a Rain Man-esque perception of the world that we didn't know about this whole time? I assumed it was a metajoke referencing the Elder Scrolls HUD, but that's me not having really played an Elder Scrolls game beyond the first so I don't know if Skyrim has measurement vision.
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DoubleCakes posted:Yay, Katia is going to be paid for her work! Ah, I've never played Arena so I didn't know about this. There's nothing like that in Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim to my knowledge. I figured that panel was showing some innate witchhunter-y sense Katia's always had but never realized wasn't normal.
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I am positive that Kazerad would not make a joke about something that obscure. I kind of doubt he's played Arena either. Pretty sure this is just one of Katia's latent abilities she doesn't realize everyone else doesn't have. I kinda like the idea of a story about an incredibly talented person who has been so downtrodden by misfortune that they eke out a miserable self-loathing existence, so convinced they're worthless that without outside intervention they would never even realize how capable they are.
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I figured it was a joke about the Elder Scrolls interface again. It doesn't list the exact widths of things, but your character does mysteriously know the exact weight and value of every object.
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Someone in the 4chan thread pointed out that, if Katia's sprite proportions in the comic are taken literally, that picture with the measurements means she is about two feet tall. I pointed out that her proportions change almost every panel and the measurements are more based off the source material. In retrospect, though, it's a little strange in-universe confirming the comic's art is nonrepresentative. It's kind of like that time one of the trolls in Homestuck referred to John as a "pink monkey" and everyone went "you mean he's NOT stark white?". Squeegy posted:I am positive that Kazerad would not make a joke about something that obscure. I kind of doubt he's played Arena either. Pretty sure this is just one of Katia's latent abilities she doesn't realize everyone else doesn't have. I've played a little Arena, though not much. I can't really deal with a lack of mouselook unless I'm playing as a huge, stompy robot or something. Peas accurately inferred my thought process on the joke (plus, it's kind of a running thing that she can tell time very accurately by looking at minor stuff like how much a wound has healed). Kazerad fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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A good update, I lorffed. Kazerad posted:Someone in the 4chan thread pointed out that, if Katia's sprite proportions in the comic are taken literally, that picture with the measurements means she is about two feet tall. I'd say it's an example of our pop cultural sensibilities being so shaped by The Simpsons
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Squeegy posted:I kinda like the idea of a story about an incredibly talented person who has been so downtrodden by misfortune that they eke out a miserable self-loathing existence, so convinced they're worthless that without outside intervention they would never even realize how capable they are. It's all just another aspect of her super tailoring skills.
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Guess Rajirra didn't have as much integrity as I thought. It's one thing to be self-serving, but you don't gotta be a jerk about it.
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Kazerad posted:Someone in the 4chan thread pointed out that, if Katia's sprite proportions in the comic are taken literally, that picture with the measurements means she is about two feet tall. I'd not worry about it IMO. In fact, maybe embrace it! Change the proportions around in scenes to create the biggest dramatic impact. The ability to be loose with proportions is one of the neat advantages comics have as a medium. See example from Kill La Kill: 
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Update, Katia looks really weird with her arms hidden by that cloak, it actually reminded me that this is technically still an MSPA Fan Adventure
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People really obsess over finding loopholes in things, don't they. You can't have a magical thing without people getting all lawyery about it. I liked the "Can I try on the invisibility cloak?" line. Hah!
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Blindly trusting magic is how you end up dead. If you're lucky.
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Iunnrais posted:I liked the "Can I try on the invisibility cloak?" line. Hah! Yeah, that one got a laugh out of me.  And I'm just thankful we didn't have three more updates of her obsessively asking an increasingly annoyed shopkeeper ALL the questions everyone suggested.
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I remember someone pointed out that Katia's self-doubt clouds her realization that she has talent: in this update she mentions being able to read night-writing, which I assume is like braille? I'd have to assume that's not terribly common of a talent to have.
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I'm confused, did she give the shopkeeper the sweet roll? Also she better get some points in Speech for all that haggling.
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There was an update, and she specifically gave the shopkeeper half of the sweetroll.
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Guys, guys. I know it's been a long time since I talked about statistics/experimentation stuff here, but I just discovered the coolest thing and I'm positive you're the sort of people who will understand why it is amazing: If you get a banner ad on a Booru site, Google Analytics will show what image people were looking at when they clicked the ad, AND for how many pages that person stuck around. Strange patterns are already emerging.
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Kazerad posted:Guys, guys. I know it's been a long time since I talked about statistics/experimentation stuff here, but I just discovered the coolest thing and I'm positive you're the sort of people who will understand why it is amazing: Please, please write up a post describing the trends between new reader engagement and the depravity of the porn on the referring page.
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