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Apr 2, 2016 07:37
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drat Though do we know when we're getting the real update? Tuesday?
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Apr 2, 2016 11:40
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team overhead smash posted:drat I think we're on a Tuesday/Friday schedule, but it might be tomorrow. Abbadon's already sent out the preview and I think that's usually the day before?
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Apr 2, 2016 16:50
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Jackard posted:... Allow me: 
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Apr 3, 2016 00:52
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Berk Berkly posted:Allow me:
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Apr 3, 2016 19:41
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Berk Berkly posted:Allow me: edit: tap tap tap
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Apr 4, 2016 06:10
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Apr 4, 2016 06:31
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From the look of her hand, Mottom isn't trying to hide what she really looks like anymore.
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Apr 4, 2016 06:34
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Berk Berkly posted:Allow me: Looks like old hag Mottom is back. Maybe the theories about the one receiving tribute being a decoy have something to them.
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Apr 4, 2016 06:35
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Yep, I'm betting that what I was thinking earlier is right, and the Mother Om the court sees isn't the real one. That, or we're having a timeskip/flashback. That's probably a pretty good gig, really, being the face of one of the most powerful beings in all creation. You get glory, admiration, and more power than 99.9% of anything that's ever lived, and all you have to do is sit back, look pretty, receive tribute, and annihilate anyone who irritates you. Just don't piss off your boss and you have it made.
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Apr 4, 2016 07:11
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I'm betting the Mottom we saw in the court was an illusion of sorts. It seems unlikely that someone powerful enough to kill with just one Red-White word and no wand would be content to be a body-double, as there's probably only a handful of such skilled sorcerers in all the worlds and also it feels like cheating to do the boss subtitles thing when its an impostor. Chances are Mottom's powerful enough to send a younger looking aspect of herself to do menial bullshit in court for herself while she chows down. Or Hot Mottom could just be a very loyal and very gifted understudy, who knows.
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Apr 4, 2016 07:33
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SunAndSpring posted:I'm betting the Mottom we saw in the court was an illusion of sorts. It seems unlikely that someone powerful enough to kill with just one Red-White word and no wand would be content to be a body-double, as there's probably only a handful of such skilled sorcerers in all the worlds and also it feels like cheating to do the boss subtitles thing when its an impostor. Chances are Mottom's powerful enough to send a younger looking aspect of herself to do menial bullshit in court for herself while she chows down. I think she might be an emissary. From the reference they wield a key of kings on behalf of the demi-urge they serve and presumably that gives them some juicy powers.
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Apr 4, 2016 08:44
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New page: http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-4-71/ Someone is not happy. Also very hungry.
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Apr 4, 2016 12:49
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Did she have dinner with that one person sitting there, or are all the empty seats vacant because she ate the occupants?
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Apr 4, 2016 13:18
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nimby posted:Did she have dinner with that one person sitting there, or are all the empty seats vacant because she ate the occupants? Yes? On a more serious note, do we actually know if she eats people? Has there been any alt-text to suggest as such?
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Apr 4, 2016 17:32
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TheCIASentMe posted:Yes? She regularly receives big shipments of slaves who are never seen or heard from again. She is an avatar of gluttony, unspeakably cruel, answers to no higher power for her actions, and has the appearance of a ghoul. Those dots alone are enough to draw suspicion of cannibalism.
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Apr 4, 2016 18:19
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The more we see of Mottom, the less I feel her Gluttony represents literally eating things. It seems more like conspicuous consumption turned up to 11. This banquet, for example - most of it just gets thrown out suspect. A lot of those dishes are made so one bite can be taken. That is to say... Anyone who's baked knows any recipe with eggs can only be scaled back so far. You're gonna use at least one egg. So if you only want one cookie, you either find someone else to give the rest to or don't bother. Mottom, though, has them bake the full batch just so she can have that one cookie.
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Apr 4, 2016 19:17
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I get the feeling that as we get to know the demiurges more the "seven sins" theme will be increasingly superficial. Especially since they have their own explicit seven-part theme with the names of royalty thing. Mottom likes to eat! She also runs a glorious palace of luxury and excess in all aspects, will burn down worlds to gain a single product, and is quick to demonstrate her mastery over magic.
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Apr 4, 2016 19:46
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Comrade Gorbash posted:The more we see of Mottom, the less I feel her Gluttony represents literally eating things. It seems more like conspicuous consumption turned up to 11. This banquet, for example - most of it just gets thrown out suspect. A lot of those dishes are made so one bite can be taken. Yeah, for all of Mottom's excess on display, we've only seen her take one bite of food in all her time in the comic. Her gluttony stems from her relentless accumulation of wealth, without any care or thought given to the wealth itself - all that matters is that she has all these things, and other people don't. Like with the world below her palace, where she took a liking to the fruit, and then made it so that no one but herself could ever have it again. On the other end you have Mammon, who represents Greed, who has hardly ever been depicted without money, and who owns a bank that controls and lends money to every corner of the sevenfold cosmos. He doesn't love money; he just tells it that to get it into bed. His object of desire is the sum and whole of his vice, unlike Mottom, whose vice is the desire itself, always in search of an object. The two of them probably don't get along well at parties, or at least they wouldn't if anyone could coax Mammon out of his planet-sized Scrooge McDuck vault.
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Apr 4, 2016 19:47
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TheCIASentMe posted:Yes? Well some of the dishes look like they're made from Servants and those are people.
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Apr 4, 2016 19:50
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Tenebrais posted:I get the feeling that as we get to know the demiurges more the "seven sins" theme will be increasingly superficial. Especially since they have their own explicit seven-part theme with the names of royalty thing. Mottom likes to eat! She also runs a glorious palace of luxury and excess in all aspects, will burn down worlds to gain a single product, and is quick to demonstrate her mastery over magic. yeah people are really trying to force the motif
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Apr 4, 2016 19:52
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/709653396857327616
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Apr 4, 2016 20:00
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Mottom's domain is the archetypal empire built on mercantile plunder. her gluttony is the hunger of the home provinces for the material wealth of the far-flung colonies. and furthermore, additional pop-marxist Zizek words. *sucks wetly on teeth* To reach heaven through violensh! Yesh! Thish ish true Leninisht work.
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Apr 4, 2016 20:01
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paranoid randroid posted:Mottom's domain is the archetypal empire built on mercantile plunder. her gluttony is the hunger of the home provinces for the material wealth of the far-flung colonies. and furthermore, additional pop-marxist Zizek words. mottom is already eating from the garbage can all the time
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Apr 4, 2016 21:23
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I could only phone browse while the April fools comic was up, does anyone recall the alt text?
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Apr 4, 2016 21:26
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quote:Q: So, how would Mottom *actually* react if someone publicly insulted her fashion sense in a barrage of plant-themed puns?
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Apr 4, 2016 22:47
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:Well some of the dishes look like they're made from Servants and those are people. Oxxidation posted:Yeah, for all of Mottom's excess on display, we've only seen her take one bite of food in all her time in the comic. Her gluttony stems from her relentless accumulation of wealth, without any care or thought given to the wealth itself - all that matters is that she has all these things, and other people don't. Like with the world below her palace, where she took a liking to the fruit, and then made it so that no one but herself could ever have it again. For a non-food example, look at all those pillows she rests on. I bet she doesn't use the same ones each day. I bet they all get thrown out at the end of the day - maybe even more often than that. Mottom always sits on fresh, new, never before used pillows. Pillows a couple thousand slaves are hand-making from silk, constantly, just to keep up. And then you've got thousands of other slaves making dye. Or digging up gold so new cutlery can be forged for every meal. I think she does consume all those slaves. Not literally. But she consumes them because her mode of existence is hugely wasteful. It takes the effort of entire nations just to keep her in new furniture, because she doesn't deign to use any piece more than once. And yeah sewing a pillow is just going to be boring, but the dyers? The lumberjacks who cut down forests to make her a new bedroom set every night, the miners constantly digging up new ore for her utensils? That's got to have a pretty high mortality rate. So yeah, she uses up people as profligately as she uses up anything else, like the food at this banquet.
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Apr 5, 2016 02:57
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Aurium posted:I could only phone browse while the April fools comic was up, does anyone recall the alt text? "im thinking of making these puns pretty rootine"
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Apr 5, 2016 03:05
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Got a little scared when I couldn't find the April Fools strip, but it's still here. In her badass burn delivery face, Alison looks like Souther from HnK: 
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Apr 5, 2016 04:42
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Comrade Gorbash posted:I don't think those are people. Both Servants and Man have been shown to be pretty variable in appearance, but we also know that there are non-people things that are related to Man - ie. animals. So those weird looking roasted things are probably either just animals from a different universe, or related to Servants the way a turkey is to a human. this is a good post and also in agreement with my thoughts on the matter
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Apr 5, 2016 07:26
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The worst part about binging through a webcomic is when you catch up. So uh, how do you guys deal with the downtime? Just whisky and sadness?
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Apr 5, 2016 07:40
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real fans learn to travel by division and follow the action live
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Apr 5, 2016 07:59
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Benson Cunningham posted:The worst part about binging through a webcomic is when you catch up. An ever increasing list of half-finished works cluttering up your bookmarks/rss feed, until every day is a disappointment where the one you were actually interested in is running late and the mediocre ones are still ticking on strong. Also you now have so many different plotlines in your head you can't remember why this character was relevant to the plot or even who the gently caress he is as it's been two years since he was seen last (three months in the timeline of the comic (if you're lucky)).
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Apr 5, 2016 09:39
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Benson Cunningham posted:The worst part about binging through a webcomic is when you catch up. And self-loathing! Very important.
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Apr 5, 2016 14:03
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Need more webcomics that wait to release full [but smaller] chapters, like the Koreans do. Makes a better read.
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Apr 5, 2016 14:36
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http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-4-72/ In which Allison finally gets that makeover, but at what cost? edit A makeover is achieved, but the damage is irreversible. K Prime fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 6, 2016 04:37
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K Prime posted:http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-4-72/ Mottom's, apparently. Looks like 'Glamor' was the right guess after all
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Apr 6, 2016 04:41
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I know that Allison didn't have a plan when she stood up to Mottom, but I don't think even she expected this would happen.
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Apr 6, 2016 04:44
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unfortunately, after burning her one casting of Be A Tree and Petals, Bithc, all Mottoms spells for the day were food related. so why not do lunch?
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Apr 6, 2016 04:48
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That explains Mottom's reaction. She's a multiversal tyrant with a flair for the dramatic but Allison wasn't providing much to work with.Jackard posted:Need more webcomics that wait to release full [but smaller] chapters, like the Koreans do. Makes a better read. Though maybe without the loads of unused white space, because I find it aesthetically unpleasing even if digital media don't really have to worry about "page size" in a physical sense, only in how it affects the reader's mental pacing.
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