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AriadneThread posted:it probably helps that zoss straight up told her that Zoss probably told everyone, I doubt he shut up much when he was alive. Allison just understands it on an infinitely deeper level. GunnerJ posted:This is the real secret to Allison's potential for Royalty imo:
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Pureauthor posted:Notably, Mottom's halo disappeared once she hesitated. "What did she just call me? What is a turbo? I guess I should be offended but...weird."
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 16:13 |
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Bell_ posted:I might be wrong. If Allison doesn't magic the gang away in the next panel, I don't see Mottom making it back to her home planet. What home planet? Mottom ate it. She is too fat
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 16:29 |
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akulanization posted:The blade of want is your ability to alter reality to more closely align with your desires through violence. and sovereignty is the state wherein one does not need to have that ability because it happens by itself
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 16:32 |
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"Don't think? Oh! Hey! I'm GREAT at not thinking!"
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 19:02 |
Lovely tribute to Luke and Yoda though Abbadon.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 20:48 |
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ZeroCount posted:Zoss probably told everyone, I doubt he shut up much when he was alive. Allison just understands it on an infinitely deeper level. Actually, much like Aesma, Allison's advantage is that she doesn't understand it at all.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 00:25 |
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Hey guys, how powerful would Don Quixote be in KSBD?
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 03:14 |
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thechosenone posted:Hey guys, how powerful would Don Quixote be in KSBD? He'd probably take down a windmill or two.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 03:40 |
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Mmmm....that's good paneling.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 04:10 |
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thechosenone posted:Hey guys, how powerful would Don Quixote be in KSBD? He's actually one of the 108 pursuers.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 05:30 |
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I wish you weren't joking.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 05:46 |
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Aurium posted:He'd probably take down a windmill or two. Windmills are a type of wheel, right?
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 05:56 |
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Thought: Royalty is the ability of a wise man to harness the power of an idiot's mindset when trying to solve problems.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 07:19 |
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Royalty is turning Will into Action, regardless of what other people say is possible or not. It is the ultimate form of daredevil hooliganism. A godly Hold My Beer. My favorite part of the art in these last updates is Mottom just straight turning into a corpse, instead of rapidly aging. She is so, so dead.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 15:23 |
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thechosenone posted:Thought: Royalty is the ability of a wise man to harness the power of an idiot's mindset when trying to solve problems. I mean, you could just cut out the middleman and skip straight to being an idiot
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 15:41 |
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Pureauthor posted:I mean, you could just cut out the middleman and skip straight to being an idiot we can't all be Aesma. and thank goodness for that.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 15:54 |
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Green Intern posted:Royalty is turning Will into Action, regardless of what other people say is possible or not. I wonder if her rapid decay is a sign that the fruit was not the only thing keeping her alive, and now that she's convinced of her impending death that power has vanished?
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Pureauthor posted:I mean, you could just cut out the middleman and skip straight to being an idiot That's real-world royalty, as opposed to K6BD Royalty.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 16:04 |
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So what's the difference between Royalty and all the idiots out there who are just stupid and impulsive but don't hold ultimate cosmic power?
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 17:11 |
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Rand Brittain posted:So what's the difference between Royalty and all the idiots out there who are just stupid and impulsive but don't hold ultimate cosmic power? A trip to the hospital/morgue?
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 17:22 |
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Rand Brittain posted:So what's the difference between Royalty and all the idiots out there who are just stupid and impulsive but don't hold ultimate cosmic power? Follow-through.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 17:32 |
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What I mean is that while one can be ignorant of what is possible and impossible for a little bit, you can't keep it up. like how the one guy hesitated when facing Aesma, he couldn't keep up the stupid. Since its so easy to know enough to gently caress you up, or just not be in the right mood, you have to go around the bend and become so smart you can reliably act like an idiot/simulate an idiots failure to realize some things aren't possible by realizing in your heart that they are not only possible, but banal to do. idiots only achieve royalty on accident for fleeting moments, the truly smart can manage it for like, a bajillion years thechosenone fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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thechosenone posted:idiots only achieve royalty on accident for fleeting moments, the truly smart can manage it for like, a bajillion years And the truly smart... probably started out as idiots.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 18:19 |
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Also remember Aesma was so stupid she eventually self-immolated. Also consider: why do we assume that being Yisun's favorite disciple is a good thing?
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 19:34 |
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Hansa was Yisun's previous favourite disciple, was Royalty, and was definitely not an idiot.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 21:08 |
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thechosenone posted:Thought: Royalty is the ability of a wise man to harness the power of an idiot's mindset when trying to solve problems. I feel like there must be a fair number of people in the KSBD universe who tried to imitate this while missing the first part and just loving died, because even here, just being an idiot doesn't make you magic. Because, as you say, the state that allows people to do insane poo poo in KSBD isn't actually idiocy, it's something else that's indistinguishable from idiocy when looked at from an overly narrow perspective.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 21:16 |
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Aesma may have been a fool, but she was a fool who could split into a dozen godly war forms, rain fire from the sky, and pick up the universe to hit someone with it.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 21:33 |
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It's very Nietzschean will-to-power in a lot of ways, but real Nietzsche, not the stuff twisted up to justify pathetic white dudes calling themselves supermen.
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:Hansa was Yisun's previous favourite disciple, was Royalty, and was definitely not an idiot. Hansa was a tryhard, the Vegeta to Aesma's Goku.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 21:41 |
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Demiurge4 posted:It's gonna be hard to keep up the cosplayers excuse when there's a whole loving (magical and flying) ship sticking out of her window. "Look, I had a lot more fun at the grand canyon that I expected"
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 22:17 |
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The Glumslinger posted:"Look, I had a lot more fun at the grand canyon that I expected" If any of her friends had known or guessed what "trip to the grand canyon" actually meant, that's going to be awkward.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 22:21 |
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She actually went to Burning Man and took too many drugs.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:It's very Nietzschean will-to-power in a lot of ways, but real Nietzsche, not the stuff twisted up to justify pathetic white dudes calling themselves supermen. The previous form of KSBD, before it became a webcomic, was a kind of MSPA style thing. In that, Alison meets of with Nietzsche lounging on a lounge chair in the space between worlds.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 23:57 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:Hansa was a tryhard, the Vegeta to Aesma's Goku. Actually the complete opposite, because he did not desire Royalty, it came easily to him.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 00:52 |
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Royalty is the power to cut infinity with the blade of Want. I've always taken this to mean that it is the will to carve up the possibilities of the infinite and shape them into something definite. Violence is certainly an expression of that, and similarly a Key of Kings gives you a channel to impose one's will on the world. In my mind, the difference between the demiurges and Allison / Zoss is that the demiurges approached enlightenment in order to win something, to be victorious, while Zoss and Allison would choose victory but never cling to it, instantly moving forth to shape newer and grander things. To cling, after all, is to stop, and Royalty is a continuous cutting motion.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 02:17 |
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TBH I'd guess all this royalty business isn't as much a coherent philosophy the author is trying to articulate through is fight-ladies web comic as it is some cold-blooded poo poo for his characters to say to a motherfucker before dropping white fire on them.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 02:25 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:TBH I'd guess all this royalty business isn't as much a coherent philosophy the author is trying to articulate through is fight-ladies web comic as it is some cold-blooded poo poo for his characters to say to a motherfucker before dropping white fire on them. I take the opposite view that it's clearly inspired by Buddhist concepts of enlightenment mixed with Elder Scrolls mythology. I feel it could actually be very clearly explained in a mechanical sense--just swap the "mindfulness" of Buddhism with imposing your will on reality with every waking moment. Zooloo fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Oct 3, 2016 |
# ? Oct 3, 2016 02:28 |
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Royalty is just telling Reality to go gently caress itself when it tries to tell you that you can't do whatever dope poo poo you want.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 04:44 |
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Who What Now posted:Royalty is just telling Reality to go gently caress itself when it tries to tell you that you can't do whatever dope poo poo you want. but, you know, in an enlightened way
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