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"With ISIS on board what can possibly go wrong" is the funniest "it wasn't supposed to be a funny line but thanks to real life it is now" line.
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Cat Mattress posted:Unless the names "helium" and "hydrogen" have been swapped around in the OOTS universe, there's no reason for the airship to explode. It's a magical helium isotype that reacts with oxygen!
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Abyssal Squid posted:OnE oF tHe ChArAcTeRs LiTeRaLlY sPoKe In AlTeRnAtInG cApS jUsT lIkE tHiS eXcEpT aLsO iT wAs InDiGo Holy poo poo I think Cam Newton is a Homestuck fan
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Cat Mattress posted:Unless the names "helium" and "hydrogen" have been swapped around in the OOTS universe, there's no reason for the airship to explode. it was an exaggeration for comedic effect
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I think they've been building up to something else with the airship crew, there's real tension especially between Bandana and that engineer. At the same time the story's got enough diversions to handle what with the god subplot, so I don't think they'll lose the airship unless they also find another way to get to the gate in time. My guess is the airship situation will come to a head right as they get close to the gate, taking it out of the equation somehow (mutiny, crash, what have you) so the Order won't have it as backup or a means of escape going into the final showdown.
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What the gently caress my stupid Korean internet provider has somehow deemed the Giant in the Playground site a harmful site. I.... I don't know what the gently caress has happened to result in such a thing.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:What the gently caress my stupid Korean internet provider has somehow deemed the Giant in the Playground site a harmful site. Send an email to Rich/site support as usually it's a certificate issue.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:What the gently caress my stupid Korean internet provider has somehow deemed the Giant in the Playground site a harmful site. Tell Rich to post "Dokdo is Korean", that'll clear things up.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:07
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:What the gently caress my stupid Korean internet provider has somehow deemed the Giant in the Playground site a harmful site. Maybe they read the forums?
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nimby posted:Maybe they read the forums?
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:What the gently caress my stupid Korean internet provider has somehow deemed the Giant in the Playground site a harmful site. So if GitP is a harmful site, what happens if you visit Goblins, you'll be deported?
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Thaddius the Large posted:So if GitP is a harmful site, what happens if you visit Goblins, you'll be deported? In North Korea, they do not have access to OotS, only the state-sponsored Goblins.
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Thaddius the Large posted:So if GitP is a harmful site, what happens if you visit Goblins, you'll be deported? Hell, how can you post on THESE forums?
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fool_of_sound posted:In North Korea, they do not have access to OotS, only the state-sponsored Fixed you culturally insensitive trolley! 
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fool_of_sound posted:In North Korea, they do not have access to OotS, only the state-sponsored Goblins. But to be fair the socialist realism version they get looks much better than the western art.
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Apparently the issue is with my internet provider and not one of Korea's many delightful examples of internet censorship, cause the site works at my work computer.Raenir Salazar posted:Fixed you culturally insensitive trolley! Nice.
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ikanreed posted:Do you think Rich is okay? Emptyquote
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ikanreed posted:Do you think Rich is okay? The magic works
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Rumda posted:The magic works No, no it doesn't. 
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It's weird how the goblins in Order of the Stick manage to be far more likeable and sympathetic, despite being overtly evil, than the goblins from Goblins, who are currently learning that child murder is actually an objectively good act.
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Aug 26, 2016 18:37
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Fuego Fish posted:It's weird how the goblins in Order of the Stick manage to be far more likeable and sympathetic, despite being overtly evil, than the goblins from Goblins, who are currently learning that child murder is actually an objectively good act. It's the old protagonist-centered morality thing, with a dash of "gently caress the establishment"- once you assume that your characters are the righteous oppressed, anything they do is righteous.
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You can brainwash kids to do any horrible act of terror, so it is in mankind's best interest to kill them all before it happens.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's the old protagonist-centered morality thing, with a dash of "gently caress the establishment"- once you assume that your characters are the righteous oppressed, anything they do is righteous. Yeah the thing about OotS is that everybody is allowed to be right and wrong about things. They have a real legitimate grievance but are pursuing it in a terrible way so they are right and wrong. Roy and co are... hell, in a different world Roy would probably have been on Redcloak's side, he's smart enough to take the long view and realize that helping the goblinoid races would get rid of their reasons to constantly be raiding peasants. So he's working towards something that hurts all the goblins because they and Xykon are being horrible so he has to stop them. ...Well, Xykon is actually just wrong because he's a wholly self-motivated dick. He's Lich Ayn Rand.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah the thing about OotS is that everybody is allowed to be right and wrong about things. They have a real legitimate grievance but are pursuing it in a terrible way so they are right and wrong. Rich said in start of darkness that giving villains a reason, any reason, that motivates them makes them sympathetic and he has to actively go out of his way to make xykon completely unsympathetic.
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All Xykon wants is a lovely cup of coffee.
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ikanreed posted:Rich said in start of darkness that giving villains a reason, any reason, that motivates them makes them sympathetic and he has to actively go out of his way to make xykon completely unsympathetic. Xykon is perhaps one of the few villains whose utter depravity and evil works in their favour, he doesn't feel one note. There's cartoon villainy and then there's Xykon showing them how it's done.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Xykon is perhaps one of the few villains whose utter depravity and evil works in their favour, he doesn't feel one note. There's cartoon villainy and then there's Xykon showing them how it's done. Yeah, this is very correct. I'm not sure how Rich manages it. Also, someone is going to have to explain the current Goblins child murder thing now.
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Xykon's approach to evil isn't stereotypical: he's a full-on unsympathetic villain, but he's not a hokey "power! UNLIMITED POWERRRR!" giggling megalomaniac or a detached movie sociopath type. He's just a guy who's mean.
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It helps that Xykon loves a good joke, especially if that joke involves turning people into zombies.
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Replace his zombie spells with laughing gas that drives people insane and he'd be a great Joker
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Rygar201 posted:Also, someone is going to have to explain the current Goblins child murder thing now. It's a lovely alignment debate to the extreme.
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Rygar201 posted:Also, someone is going to have to explain the current Goblins child murder thing now. So the yellow lumpy turd goblin became a paladin and managed to get his grubby little goblin mitts on a magical axe, within which was imprisoned a lovely demon for being a piece of poo poo. This axe needed to be wielded by a paladin brave and true to counteract the evil poo poo that demons wanna do. I'm skimming over eighteen paragraphs of info dump here, them's the cliff notes. Meanwhile, there's this other paladin in the story, called KORE, who is a one-dwarf murder machine out to eradicate evil as a concept. Except he does this by assuming anyone and anything that comes into contact with evil must be burned to the ground, including children. How he manages to retain his paladin powers while literally murdering children has been a Just recently the demon-imprisoning axe broke due to the DM being a piece of poo poo, so now the demon is trying to escape, and one of the lesser demons that was trapped in the axe ("like the fleas on the back of a dog" apparently) pops up to tell everyone that Kore created the axe and is still a paladin because, hey, murdering children is only evil if you're closed-minded enough to assume that everyone who doesn't share your viewpoint is evil. And this is what I get for following the webcomics thread 
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Didn't Kore do the child killing poo poo like half a decade ago IRL. Is Goblins really that loving slow?
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Rygar201 posted:Yeah, this is very correct. I'm not sure how Rich manages it. There's some sort of cursed paladin who killed goblin children or something. Goblins ask "how can he be a paladin", and a demon tells them "lol, u dumb", to which the goblins conclude that the paladin is actually good, and therefore, killing children is also good.
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nimby posted:You can brainwash kids to do any horrible act of terror, so it is in mankind's best interest to kill them all before it happens. Also, they're annoying.
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Fuego Fish posted:I'm skimming over eighteen paragraphs of info dump here, them's the cliff notes. WITNESS http://www.goblinscomic.org/08112007/ This is the axe literally farting out words at the goblin.
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