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nimby posted:And similar signamancy doesn't mean similar loyalties. If anything it probably means Albert feels the betrayal far more deeply than he would have otherwise.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:29
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Jan 4, 2017 18:34
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Albert seems to be a little Royalist poo poo. Cut his throat, Vinny. Parson needs to bring the guillotine to Erfworld. Royalism is a cancer that must be excised.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Albert seems to be a little Royalist poo poo. Cut his throat, Vinny.  He will be Erfworld's Robespierre
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:Why didn't Vinny hammer on the fact that Jillian had been lying to Don King and taking a massive amount of cash and magic from Charlie? Why wouldn't he present it as self-defense first, double-cross second? Does he know? he doesn't seem to know why Caeser is Overlord now.
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The name "the Spiteful Tower, or Spite" seems like a reference to something, but I'm drawing a blank.Onmi posted:Does he know? he doesn't seem to know why Caeser is Overlord now. Vinny was the one they asked "is Jillian getting support from Charlie?" and who returned all the intelligence that said "yeah probably".
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:The name "the Spiteful Tower, or Spite" seems like a reference to something, but I'm drawing a blank. What I mean is: Does he know that Caeser didn't croak Don?
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Onmi posted:What I mean is: Does he know that Caeser didn't croak Don? From Vinny's perspective, it probably doesn't matter who did the killing if he'd known the circumstances of why it happened. tl;dr I don't think the what matters to anyone involved, and half the parties don't care about the why, either. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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A.o.D. posted:From a royalist's perspective, his lack of complete obedience for his king led directly to Don's death, so from Albert's perspective, there's probably no meaningful distinction in how that event went down whether or not Caesar did the actual croaking himself. I mean I feel like it matters for Loyalty purposes.
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Onmi posted:I mean I feel like it matters for Loyalty purposes. Don was willfully choosing to hand Charlie a game ending victory. I dont think Vinny would care how the deed happened.
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The Ceaser/Bunny affair was presumably a secret, and she was supposedly super loyal becuase of ponzie thing. So even assuming Vinny knows the slightest thing about how Don died, it still looks like Ceaser pulled some poo poo somehow.
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We know from Book 0 that when a Ruler is croaked, even a Royal caster doesn't get any particular clue about how it happened. Unless Maggie offered her help (which I highly doubt, as Vinny would almost certainly have mentioned it in this update), then everything Vinny knows must come from hat messages sent by Caesar himself. Then again, Vinny definitely seemed to have respect for Caesar, so if the latter told him the truth (as far as he himself understands it) I think Vinny would have trusted him. Again, if Vinny felt at all uneasy about working for Caesar I think that would have come up in this update too.
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New side-plot time! Hope they find that wrench soon, cause this book keeps dragging on and on and ooonnnnnnn....
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nimby posted:New side-plot time! Hope they find that wrench soon, cause this book keeps dragging on and on and ooonnnnnnn.... Nah, I think they'll just pop up later. Or be condemned to an eternity underground. Much more importantly (and the whole point of this update): who took all the guns? Was it Charlescomm or the Thinkamancers? And which would be worse? Zoe posted:This was kind of disappointing, it seemed like Vinny was setting up for a What would that update consist of, though? Right now it's just Vinny capturing Faq, which after taking out the towers seems like it'll be pretty boring. The last one said pretty much all it had to about that situation.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:What would that update consist of, though? Right now it's just Vinny capturing Faq, which after taking out the towers seems like it'll be pretty boring. The last one said pretty much all it had to about that situation. Capturing FAQ doesn't need to be action packed or difficult. I'd have also been happy with it being so trivially easy as to be skipped over altogether and have the update deal with the aftermath. As it is not much was actually resolved in this one and it wasn't interesting enough in its own right to make another delay/barrier to progress sit right with me. It really feels like Book 3 is long over due in wrapping up some conflicts instead of getting side tracked onto new ones.
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NihilCredo posted:I hope Rob prefaces the next update with a hastily-scribbled END OF BOOK 3 / HERE STARTS BOOK 4 ALRIGHT just so y'all will stop whining that the story is "dragging" because of an arbitrary editorial marker. I was literature just thinking about this, hah
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I just want him to finish the current storylines before he loses another artist.
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nimby posted:I just want him to finish the current storylines before he loses another artist. They get paid per-update now through crowdfunding. Those artists aren't going anywhere. Hell, that's probably why the story is taking so long. The pace of Erfworld doesn't bother me, due to the fact that it at least updates regularly. I love Order of the Stick but the huge wait between updates has slowly drained my enthusiasm for it.
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Y'know, I hadn't considered that. I'm still in the mindset that the plot can end at any moment to be replaced with a prequel webnovel. Guess I'll stop complaining and enjoy the story 
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Yeah it does occur to me now with the new system having a breaks is probably not productive for their wallets. And the book ends tended to symbolize a new break coming on.
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When they get paid by the fans for each on-time update I wonder if a  like this one counts as an update.
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There's so much goddamn filler lately. It really destroys my hope that Balder knows where he's going with this. The occasional flashes of brilliance are the only thing keeping me here; I miss the tight plotting of Book 1. It really feels like a beloved franchise that's been turned over to fans, or something like the Star Wars prequels where the creator is just wallowing around in his creation jerking off.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:There's so much goddamn filler lately. It really destroys my hope that Balder knows where he's going with this. The occasional flashes of brilliance are the only thing keeping me here; I miss the tight plotting of Book 1. It really feels like a beloved franchise that's been turned over to fans, or something like the Star Wars prequels where the creator is just wallowing around in his creation jerking off. I think it has more to do with the fact that the series is crowdfunded per update now. He's in no rush to finish the series as it allows him to run a webcomic for a living without having to get another job. I'd probably do the same if I was in his position. The series would need to take a nosedive in quality to stop people from reading a free comic. Erfworld has also been really good about regular updating, so it's not like they are abusing their fans. It's hard to feel slighted when you have people in the world like Noah Antwiler, who make lots of money on Patreon for almost no content. I'd rather deal with occasional filler than someone like Rich Burlew, who doesn't need the cash but only updates Order of the Stick a couple of times a year.
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I actually really like all the text updates. Erfworld is really strong on characterization and I have fun seeing what they do about that, and going into depth about topics like the various caster specializations. I should probably start dropping them a dollar a month or something.
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Rand Brittain posted:I actually really like all the text updates. Erfworld is really strong on characterization and I have fun seeing what they do about that, and going into depth about topics like the various caster specializations. Yeah I contribute. I have no idea why everyone is so butt hurt about the pacing and there being, basically, a patreon for the comic.
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