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If you want to massively bring down the tone/ruin the mood, imagine the band playing mad about me.
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May 28, 2016 08:58
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Renaissance Robot posted:If you want to massively bring down the tone/ruin the mood, imagine the band playing mad about me. Not really, I already imagined the band playing some jizz
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May 28, 2016 10:08
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I see Admiral Splinter is there with his monocle. Wonder if he brought his Vice-Admirals Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raffael.
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May 28, 2016 10:17
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I'm the bug face guy quad-wielding wine glasses.
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May 28, 2016 11:13
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Those five columns in the background? I'm second from left.Renaissance Robot posted:If you want to massively bring down the tone/ruin the mood, imagine the band playing mad about me.
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May 28, 2016 11:55
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I'm the bald ordinary guy in the upper left, looking like he doesn't really want to be here with all these weirdos.
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May 28, 2016 15:17
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paragon1 posted:I'm the bored looking blue furry giant guy. Kelsey Grammer sure gets around.
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May 28, 2016 15:54
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I'm the guy with an Illuminati pyramid for a head to the right of the stage.
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May 28, 2016 18:57
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Shifty-rear end brown fat lady in bottom right, rubbing her hands deviously at some eyeless birdmen
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May 28, 2016 21:07
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I'm the face on the harp
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May 29, 2016 00:20
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Also in this scene, Mottom continues to be pretty great.
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May 29, 2016 02:03
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Fish Noise posted:Those five columns in the background? I'm second from left. nah edit: I think this is roughly av-sized.  e: it is not Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 16:54 on May 29, 2016 |
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May 29, 2016 16:36
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Update. So, it looks like I was right about Mottom making them children for the sake of visiting her husband, but only half-right on the reasons why. And now I'm very curious as to what state she has him in. I bet it isn't pleasant.
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May 30, 2016 07:14
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Roland Jones posted:Update. Whatever it is, it was definitely something with plenty of pun potential. So I'm thinking something watery, or a bird.
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May 30, 2016 07:20
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I think he might be dead, actually, not that this would necessarily make it impossible for them to visit him. Anyways, sounds like he was a real scumbag.
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May 30, 2016 07:35
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 SexyBlindfold posted:Whatever it is, it was definitely something with plenty of pun potential. So I'm thinking something watery, or a bird. some kind of boar maybe
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May 30, 2016 07:36
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Mr. Lobe posted:I think he might be dead, actually, not that this would necessarily make it impossible for them to visit him. Anyways, sounds like he was a real scumbag. I'm betting he wasn't dead, but yeah, he was a monster based on what we're hearing in this chapter. (Check out that alt-text.) It does however, as I said, explain why she had them become young before leaving. The whole "we're going to see my husband, but first we have to do this," where "this" turned out to be "become children" made the situation with her husband sound skeevy as hell, hence my post back when that happened. And it turns out he is, or rather, was, but it sounds like she dealt with him at some point and is keeping him around for reasons other than companionship. So, her becoming young is probably to mock and/or torment him, adopting the form she had when he first took her. Anyway, I'm betting on him still being alive, but transformed into something, or imprisoned in some excruciating fashion but kept alive by Mottom's magic, as her revenge and such. Though, even if he's dead, she's taking Allison to him to make a point to her, so I guess it doesn't matter on that front, but still. It should be interesting, whatever it turns out to be.
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May 30, 2016 07:54
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He has previously been described as "the late god-king." I guess people might just ASSUME he's dead, but I really don't understand where the supposed mystery ever came from?
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May 30, 2016 08:54
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I guess some people have never heard "visiting family" as a euphemism for going and standing in front of their grave for a bit? He's dead Jim.
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May 30, 2016 08:56
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Pretty much. There's only seven living demiurges remaining.
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May 30, 2016 14:37
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Mind you, Mottom does describe herself as his prisoner in the present tense, so either there's the multiverse's most spectacular case of Stockholm syndrome going on, or he still wields some meaningful power.
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May 30, 2016 14:46
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Darth Walrus posted:Mind you, Mottom does describe herself as his prisoner in the present tense, so either there's the multiverse's most spectacular case of Stockholm syndrome going on, or he still wields some meaningful power. I think your misunderstanding the situation. Mottom isn't a prisoner to Hastet specifically, but to society in general. Note how she points out Alison's dyed hair. People like Hastet will continue to exist regardless of if Hastet himself does.
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May 30, 2016 15:23
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Darth Walrus posted:Mind you, Mottom does describe herself as his prisoner in the present tense, so either there's the multiverse's most spectacular case of Stockholm syndrome going on, or he still wields some meaningful power. It's called patriarchy. Also drat this is a really nice twist on the usual "we're not so different" speech. Normally it's some bullshit about hidden potential and ambition where the villain of the scene is projecting hardcore and totally misreading the hero's motives, but this is just genuine "hey, isn't it hosed up how even though I rule one seventh of creation I'm still bound by everybody's expectations? Here's an example I know you can relate to *anecdote about sleazy partner having a thing for blondes*" Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 16:30 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 16:24
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Darth Walrus posted:Mind you, Mottom does describe herself as his prisoner in the present tense, so either there's the multiverse's most spectacular case of Stockholm syndrome going on, or he still wields some meaningful power. I'm pretty Hastet's either dead or in horrible never-ending agony, but she's probably talking about how said multiversal despot made her into an even worse multiversal despot and how she's now too jaded and bitter to stop being one even though she's very aware about what she really is.
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May 30, 2016 16:30
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Hastet's been on his agonizing deathbed for countless years, kept alive by a little nibble of the youth-fruit every evening.
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May 30, 2016 17:37
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This is pretty much the exact story that billionaires tell themselves though; I am a just person, the nature of power is to consolidated by ruthless sociopaths, if I conceded this power it would inevitably fall into far worse hands.
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May 30, 2016 17:44
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snucks posted:This is pretty much the exact story that billionaires tell themselves though; I am a just person, the nature of power is to consolidated by ruthless sociopaths, if I conceded this power it would inevitably fall into far worse hands. p sure nobody's been buying the 'poor helpless demigod' schtick, nor are they supposed to, at least at this point
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May 30, 2016 18:23
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:p sure nobody's been buying the 'poor helpless demigod' schtick, nor are they supposed to, at least at this point Well, Mottom might be, and she's the only one whose investment in that narrative actually matters.
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May 30, 2016 18:30
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I think her point is more along the lines of "I may rule a hundred thousand universes but I still need to keep up appearances".
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May 30, 2016 18:57
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Either way she still probably deserves to get her rear end kicked for all that she's done.
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May 30, 2016 19:24
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Tenebrais posted:I think her point is more along the lines of "I may rule a hundred thousand universes but I still need to keep up appearances". someone in the page comments brought up that maybe the reason she looks like a hosed up ghoul when she's among equals isn't because she's got a crappy immortality technique that makes her fall apart every few hours, but because that's what she chooses to be when she can, which yeah drat A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:37 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 21:35
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Tenebrais posted:I think her point is more along the lines of "I may rule a hundred thousand universes but I still need to keep up appearances". Yeah, it seems like she's trying to convince Allison (and may or may not actually herself believe)that the reason she is a rapacious empress is because it is inherently necessary. To play the leader of 111,111 worlds and balance to 6 other demiurges, you need to have a bit of an iron fist. And to be honest, I'm not sure she's wrong.
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May 30, 2016 22:11
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I don't think it's necessary, I think her point is more nihilistic. She was plucked from her life by a demigod, eventually gained the power to overthrow that demigod, but realized that power wasn't enough to liberate her. She plunders her universe because nothing matters and she might as well live it up while waiting for her inevitable slaying at the hands of the successor. She's trying to teach her that, while the Seven probably deserve to die, killing them won't change anything.
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May 30, 2016 22:49
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I feel like there's an angle of both "the seven need to die" but also "the seven are seriously hosed up people so don't feel too good about that". And this is why K6BD is so good.
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May 30, 2016 23:07
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:someone in the page comments brought up that maybe the reason she looks like a hosed up ghoul when she's among equals isn't because she's got a crappy immortality technique that makes her fall apart every few hours, but because that's what she chooses to be when she can, which yeah drat aw allison can you just hurry up and kill this intergalactic genocidal goku and move on to the next, she's making me feel bad
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May 31, 2016 00:17
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The way I see it, she killed (for some valued of "killed") good ole' Hastet and took his power, and after that was probably deeply into the whole "rule over all worlds with a fist of iron" thing for a long time. I mean, it's all she'd seen up until then, and she'd been subject to a kind of combination of abuse and high living standards that might gently caress a person up, so why should she care what happens to anyone else? But we're seeing her now, centuries later, and she's just gotten tired of all the excess. I mean, what, a single perfect rose plucked from the heart of a world-spanning forest with a sickle of silver at the stroke of midnight floating in a bowl of unicorn tears AGAIN? What the gently caress am I going to do with this thing? Just put it on the goddamned PILE. She's just going around in circles, doing what she's always done and what people expect of her, waiting for "his"* sword to be driven into her guts. She doesn't know anything else. For a long time, she was a prisoner of other people, but now the prison is inside her head. Of course, if she'd really learned the lesson of folks like Aesma, she'd know that now that she has this universe-spanning power, all that is fundamentally necessary for her to leave that prison is to really want things to be different. * I assumed this was Zoss when she said it. I still think that's the most likely candidate. But... maybe she's also thinking about Jagganoth.
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May 31, 2016 01:18
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Mottom = Mother Om. I just got that.
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May 31, 2016 01:40
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idonotlikepeas posted:* I assumed this was Zoss when she said it. I still think that's the most likely candidate. But... maybe she's also thinking about Jagganoth. Also I wonder if Allison is meant to literally kill the demiurges. The story has already played with euphemism and double meanings in prophecy, so...
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Well, yeah, Zoss's successor, wielding his blade (metaphorically).
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