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SystemLogoff
Feb 19, 2011

End Session?

There is a lot I want to talk about with Lars that I can't yet. For now I'll say that I understand how easy it could be to retreat from the world into fantasy.

Also Whomp is pretty close to Lars anyway.

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Miz Kriss
Mar 17, 2009

It's only an avatar if the Cubs get swept.
I'm a janitor, and yes, my job is underappreciated. But I work in a hospital and not a school.

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007

SystemLogoff posted:

There is a lot I want to talk about with Lars that I can't yet. For now I'll say that I understand how easy it could be to retreat from the world into fantasy.

Also Whomp is pretty close to Lars anyway.



This was also me until I moved out of my mom's house.

Qrr
Aug 14, 2015


get that OUT of my face posted:

Stuff from the future

Could you not wait a single episode for us to learn more about Hitomi?

Miz Kriss
Mar 17, 2009

It's only an avatar if the Cubs get swept.
I just realized that VN Punch Tanaka looks like Johnny Bravo and now I can’t unsee it

Tuxedo Ted
Apr 24, 2007

Miz Kriss posted:

I just realized that VN Punch Tanaka looks like Johnny Bravo and now I can’t unsee it

Huh. He's buff, he wears sunglasses, he's got a sweet pomp, and he forces an air of unstoppable confidence to mask a shaky core of insecurity.

Thats Johnny alright.

racerabbit
Sep 8, 2011

"HI, I WANT TO HUG PINS NUTS."
:frolf:

Tuxedo Ted posted:

Huh. He's buff, he wears sunglasses, he's got a sweet pomp, and he forces an air of unstoppable confidence to mask a shaky core of insecurity.

Thats Johnny alright.

Jimmy watches Cartoon Network with Uncle Lars, CONFIRMED.

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
Maybe this was already brought up, but are we done getting new transformations for the rest of the game?

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

C-Euro posted:

Maybe this was already brought up, but are we done getting new transformations for the rest of the game?

there's more

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider
Episode 27 is up!

Oh god. More visual novel. And finally the part I want to torture Katherine with is here. She LOOOOOVES Sailor Moon. Like watched all of it.

Tonight was the first night she was really excited to record. And it reflects in her energy. Man, we just got off the plane and she's stoked.

And then she gets sad at Principal Pulsating Mass.

I'm glad the visual novel section is over. It was a cute gag that went on for a little bit too long.

Even good dogs get erections sometimes and you just pretend they didn't happen and gently motion for the dog to stand up.

That's what we're doing here.

Commentary On



No Commentary




Sorry for the bad initial transition, I initially thought we could blitz through it in one episode.

Nope.

We could not.

I wouldn't do that to you.

Kad
Jun 2, 2019

Oh hey I can post this now! jimmy isnt a yellow flower bc i could have sworn i saw kasey say somewhere he considered making jimmy a pink flower but changed it



This is one of the texts you can see if you select flower during the art lesson:
"Jimmy draws a nice little house in a big, green field. Then he draws himself, growing tall and proud from the ground. He thinks that the lonely flower could use a family, so he draws four more flowers.

The first flower is a tall, skinny one with glasses, and there's a big, hefty, yellow flower right next to it. The other two are a pretty blue flower and a huge flower wearing a black hat.

...Jimmy feels kind of sad all of a sudden.

Maybe he'll draw more later."

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

This is beautiful :ohdear:

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider

Kad posted:

Oh hey I can post this now! jimmy isnt a yellow flower bc i could have sworn i saw kasey say somewhere he considered making jimmy a pink flower but changed it



This is one of the texts you can see if you select flower during the art lesson:
"Jimmy draws a nice little house in a big, green field. Then he draws himself, growing tall and proud from the ground. He thinks that the lonely flower could use a family, so he draws four more flowers.

The first flower is a tall, skinny one with glasses, and there's a big, hefty, yellow flower right next to it. The other two are a pretty blue flower and a huge flower wearing a black hat.

...Jimmy feels kind of sad all of a sudden.

Maybe he'll draw more later."


This is gorgeous. I'm gonna go see if I can dig up the other classroom text. I figured they matched the class to the form but it appears he wrote different scenarios for each class/form.

drat, that's a lot of love.

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
My wife was also a big Sailor Moon fan as a kid and made me watch it with her in recent memory. Sailor Moon's friend and her crazy Jersey/Brooklyn accent is totally real and amazing.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider

C-Euro posted:

My wife was also a big Sailor Moon fan as a kid and made me watch it with her in recent memory. Sailor Moon's friend and her crazy Jersey/Brooklyn accent is totally real and amazing.

Oh my god. You weren't kidding.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

My apologies for jumping ahead an episode, I forgot how long the VN section is.

The good thing about the Principal Pulsating Mass fight is that if you lose, you can just go back to Shinryu Academy and fight him again immediately without doing all the other crap to get to that point. That's fortunate because this is another boss fight that will take a few tries to master. Keeping track of the Brain Bats and what attacks they resist is hard.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider

get that OUT of my face posted:

My apologies for jumping ahead an episode, I forgot how long the VN section is.

The good thing about the Principal Pulsating Mass fight is that if you lose, you can just go back to Shinryu Academy and fight him again immediately without doing all the other crap to get to that point. That's fortunate because this is another boss fight that will take a few tries to master. Keeping track of the Brain Bats and what attacks they resist is hard.

Three are weak to magic, two to physical, one to holy.

One bat drains mp, one bat extends the principal's attacks to all party members, one makes him invulnerable physically, one makes him reflect magic, one casts analyze and one prevents startling.

One bat reflects magic, one bat counters physical, one bat is weak to holy and two bats have extra resistance.

Ideally you take out the extend and weakpoint bats first then work on the invulnerabilibats because the principal is actually pretty weak.

Or you do the YOLO grandma strategy of group attack and let God sort them out. Called shot and roundhouse murdered three bats immediately on my first go-round.

G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Aug 5, 2019

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat

Mods please change my username to Jelly Lawrence TIA

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider
Pines from the Jimmy Discord has actually provided the data from all forms for all the classes. It's gonna be a lot but I think it's worth reading.

code:
DAY 1 MATH:
	The teacher is starting the math lesson. Today,
	the class is going over multiplication. Jimmy 
	already knows all of the times tables, so he's bored.

Blob:
	Jimmy thinks it would be fun to do a little multiplication
	of his own. He divides his slime into two different
	Jimmies, then plops the other Jimmy into the empty
	desk next to him.
	The other Jimmy can't talk or move. That's because
	Jimmy's brain can only belong to Jimmy. So, the
	other Jimmy just kind of oozes through the slats in
	the back of the seat.
	Jimmy quickly gathers up the slime and pushes it
	back into his body. He feels a bit scummier now,
	and there's a piece of gum stuck to his cheek, but
	he's otherwise fine.
	He was really looking forward to freaking people out
	with his cool prank, but looks like he didn't think it
	through all the way.

Goon:
	Jimmy pops the collar on his leather jacket and starts 
	to take a snooze. The chair leans back a bit,
	then tumps over. All the kids have a nice chuckle,
	so he makes a mental note to beat them up later.
	Let's see, that's five rows, each with six children,
	minus the two kids with glasses and the shy girl in
	the corner...

Flower:
	Jimmy decides to pay attention anyway. He might
	not know everything about multiplication yet, so he
	diligently does all of the problems. 
	He's not seeing anything new, but...hey! Every 
	time he multiplies increasing numbers by nine, the
	last number decreases by one! That pattern helps
	him work even faster!

Bird:
	Jimmy decides to turn the problems into a race. He
	burns through as many problems as he can in five
	minutes, then he tries to beat that. After a while,
	he looks up and class is almost over.
	There are six pages of work done. Wow! He 
	won't have to do any math homework for the next
	week!

Bear:
	Jimmy doesn't have time for this garbage. He
	starts breaking pencils instead. He snaps his first
	pencil in half. Hey. Now he has two pencils. 
	He snaps each of those in half. Wow, now he has
	four pencils. This is a really great way to get more
	pencils. He uses his great bear strength to snap
	those in half. Now he's got eight.
	He should start a company that sells pencils.

Pumpkin:
	Math is beneath Jimmy, anyway. He floats out of 
	his seat and possesses the boy next to him. Let's
	see what he's done. Oh, wow! This guy thinks
	that six times seven is forty-four.
	Jimmy was going to change all of his answers into
	wrong answers, but it looks like this boy beat him
	to it. 
	Now he feels kind of bad, so he does half of the 
	problems for him, making sure to show his work.

Vampire:
	Jimmy can't concentrate on math; he's too busy
	thinking about drinking some precious blood. He
	thinks it would be pretty sweet to bite his teacher
	and drink all of her blood.
	But, well, he can't do that. If he did, then she'd
	become a vampire, and it would take, what, the
	blood from three kids before she was full?
	Three becomes nine, nine becomes twenty-seven,
	twenty-seven becomes eighty-one; the next thing
	you know, it's just a vampire school. These things
	tend to spiral out of control.

DAY 1 SOCIAL STUDIES:
	The teacher is starting the social studies lesson. 
	Today, the class is going over state capitals.

Blob:
	Jimmy imagines what life would be like in Juneau. 
	If he walked outside for too long, he would probably
	end up frozen solid. 
	Jimmy could mold his body into a cool shape first,
	then he would be like a statue. He could freeze
	himself into the shape of a butt, and then people
	would have to look at him. That would be funny. 

Goon:
	Jimmy imagines what life would be like in Carson City. 
	He could strike it rich at cards. He's already got a
	foolproof system. Whenever someone is playing
	cards, he could just pick their pockets.
	Then, he would dump all of that money into slots and 
	strike it big. If Jimmy were a millionaire, he'd 
	spend all the money on the best stuff. 
	He would buy two TVs so he could watch cartoons and 
	play video games at the same time. If his mom
	asked him where he got the money, he would tell
	her to go stuff it.
	He'd hide the rest of his money under his mattress and
	one day he would use it to become king of the 
	world.

Flower:
	Jimmy imagines what life would be like in Santa Fe.
	It would be really hot and dry. His petals would
	definitely wilt. But, he knows that the people there
	would be nice.
	They would probably water him and it would be
	warm and sunny. He'd grow strong and make
	lots of friends.

Bird:
	Jimmy imagines what life would be like in Boston. 
	It would be busy, busy, busy. He'd get to run
	around all day and be crazy, and no one would 
	notice.
	He could drink two pots of coffee and run so fast
	he could make time go backwards. He'd run and
	run until there were dinosaurs again.

Bear:
	Jimmy gets tired, so he takes a nap. He dreams 
	about what it would be like to live in Austin. He
	would eat racks and racks of ribs. 
	He'd probably eat so much, he would take a nap right 
	in a puddle of barbecue sauce. His fur would be
	sticky and matted, but he'd blend in just fine. Maybe
	later, he'd start a band.

Pumpkin:
	Jimmy imagines what life would be like in Des Moines. 
	He wouldn't be much for the city, so he'd move out
	to the country and find a good cornfield to haunt.
	Every night, he'd come out and spook people driving
	alone. Maybe he could convince a group of strange
	orphan children to worship him. They would live
	in the corn together and perform rituals.

Vampire:
	Jimmy imagines what life would be like in Honolulu. 
	It would be terrible. He'd be pressured to go to the
	beach all of the time. He'd never be able to get
	rid of his sunburn.
	Everyone around him would be happy, and that
	would make him more miserable. He'd try to
	bite into a coconut and suck out the sweet milk, but
	he'd probably just break his teeth.
	He doesn't even want to think of the dentist's bill.

DAY 2 SCIENCE:
	The teacher is starting the science lesson. Today,
	the class is learning about plants.

Blob:
	The teacher is talking about how chlorophyll makes
	plants green. Jimmy wonders if he's filled with 
	chlorophyll, too. Hey! Maybe Jimmy's actually
	a plant!
	Well, that wouldn't make sense. Instead of
	absorbing water, it just bounces off of Jimmy. 
	And sunlight just makes him fart. One day, maybe
	scientists will be able to classify Jimmy. 

Goon:
	Jimmy can learn about plants some other time. 
	Instead, he looks out the window. There's a
	well-manicured green bush outside. Later, maybe
	he'll shove a kid into it.
	Hey, what if it were poisonous? Then the kid would
	probably get a sick rash. That'd be awesome. 
	But, how can you tell which plants are poisonous and
	which aren't?
	Jimmy starts listening to the lecture more intently.

Flower:
	Jimmy is more interested in anything than he's ever
	been before. He listens and listens and listens,
	and before long he finds himself daydreaming 
	about all of the other wonderful plants.

Bird:
	Jimmy doesn't really care much about plants, but he
	knows this will be on a test, so he tries to stay still
	and listen. Halfway through the lecture, he thinks
	about what it would be like to squawk.
	He imagines that it would feel really, really good. 
	No, no, it would just be a squawk. It would just 
	be loud and make him embarrassed. But, then
	again...it would feel good...
	Jimmy's wing is flapping a little rhythm on his desk. 
	His feet scratch circles on the ground. He can
	feel it bubbling up...
	Squawk!
	...Everyone looks at him for a moment, then the
	teacher continues.

Bear:
	All of this talk about plants is making Jimmy hungry. 
	He smashes his paw through a nearby window and 
	pulls some leaves off of a hanging branch and starts
	munching on them.
	Everyone in class is glaring at him. Screw them. 
	If they want some, they can reach out the window
	and get some themselves.

Pumpkin:
	The teacher holds up a sycamore leaf and starts
	talking about it. This gives Jimmy an idea. He
	snaps his fingers, and the leaf ignites into flames.
	The teacher fumbles it from hand to hand, then it
	tumbles to the ground and she stomps on it. 
	She calms herself down and reaches for her next
	sample: an oak leaf.
	Jimmy readies himself for round two...

Vampire:
	Jimmy is mostly bored, but when the teacher starts
	talking about tropical trees, his pointed ears perk
	up. A nice mahogany would make a lovely casket.
	He could line it with red velvet and sleep so well
	during the day. Jimmy makes a mental note to
	transform into a lumberjack later.

DAY 2 ART:
	The teacher is starting the art lesson. Today,
	everyone gets to draw whatever they want.

Blob:
	Jimmy knocks the pencils aside and goes straight for
	the paints. He mashes his slime into the different
	paint cans and smears it together on his palette. 
	This is going to be a masterpiece.
	He flings his paint-drenched body onto the
	construction paper. Brownish paint streaks the
	ground around the picture. The painting itself is
	absolutely dripping.
	Jimmy hangs it up to dry while the other students
	stare, wide-eyed, at the mess.

Goon:
	Jimmy's really mad inside, so he tries his best to
	draw his rage. He starts in the middle of the page
	and scribbles with his pencil, making wider and
	wider movements, until the page is mostly black.
	He feels a little better, but his pencil's been worn
	down to a nub, so he flicks it at some nerd and
	decides to take a break for the rest of the class.

Flower:
	Jimmy draws a nice little house in a big, green field.
	Then he draws himself, growing tall and proud from
	the ground. He thinks that the lonely flower could
	use a family, so he draws four more flowers.
	The first flower is a tall, skinny one with glasses. 
	And there's a big, hefty yellow flower right next to
	it. The other two are a pretty blue flower and a
	huge flower wearing a black hat.
	...Jimmy feels kind of sad all of a sudden. Maybe
	he'll draw more later.

Bird:
	Jimmy's got lots of ideas swimming around in his
	head, but he decides to settle on drawing a boat. 
	So, he draws a nice, comfortable tugboat. Actually,
	scratch that. It's a yacht. 
	Make that a battleship. With big cannons all around
	it. And there are some airplanes flying overhead.
	And a shark peeking out of the water. And it's
	fighting a tank. And a UFO. And a, and a...

Bear:
	Jimmy just kung fu chops the art supplies with his
	enormous bear strength, sending the pencils and
	paint flying everywhere. The table underneath
	collapses from the force.
	The teacher clears her throat and says something
	about outsider art, but Jimmy is already curling up
	for a nice nap.

Pumpkin:
	Jimmy tries to pick up a pencil, but it phases through
	his hand. He hates when that happens. He
	concentrates really hard and starts to draw, but the
	best he can do is some stick figures.
	Frustrated, he singes the paper and watches the
	flames turn his picture to ash.

Vampire:
	Jimmy draws a nice picture of the grim reaper. He
	is slashing his scythe through a swath of children, 
	severing their heads. His right hand is reaching into
	a little boy's chest and pulling out his soul.
	Jimmy hands his drawing in, and the teacher
	doesn't know what to say. She's so taken in by
	Jimmy's artistic talent that a lily-white sheen of
	pure amazement has gripped her face.

DAY 3 MATH:
	The teacher is starting the math lesson. Today,
	the class is going over fractions. Jimmy already 
	knows how fractions work, so he's bored.

Blob:
	Jimmy splits himself into four different pieces. 
	One-fourth of a Jimmy slides off his desk and plops
	onto the ground, leaving seventy-five percent of
	Jimmy left on top of the desk.
	Jimmy gathers up the slime on the desk; now he
	is only three-fourths as large as he used to be. 
	Then he morphs into a trampoline and lets some
	kids jump on him.
	The teacher is not amused. Everyone but Jimmy
	settles back down and goes back to taking notes.

Goon:
	Jimmy plans to devote half of his class time
	pretending to pay attention. The other half, he
	slips his hand into the pocket of a nearby student.
	Hey! He doesn't have any money! Well, I guess
	they're kids, after all.
	
Flower:
	Jimmy decides to pay close attention, anyway, in
	the hopes that he'll learn something new. Yes...
	mhmm...Of course! Excellent! Yes, he already
	knows all of this.
	Well, at the very least, the teacher might have 
	noticed how hard he was working, and that makes
	Jimmy happy.

Bird:
	Jimmy is trying his best to listen, but then he hears
	the word "numerator." Numerator. It's fun to
	say fast. Numerator. Numerator. Numerator,
	numerator, numerator.
	Numeratornumeratornumeratornumerator...
	Jimmy kind of lost his train of thought. He shifts
	his focus back to his teacher and tries to pay
	attention again. 
	Hmm, what's that? Denominator. Oh boy. 
	That one's even better...

Bear:
	Man. The teacher won't shut up about fractions. 
	All this talk is making him want to pop open her
	skull and divide her brain in two.
	Instead, he just lets himself drift into a nice little
	nap, his teacher's words becoming a smooth, hypnotic
	drone. The numbers swirl and slur together in
	Jimmy's head.
	He dreams of living numbers working together to
	find a common denominator. It's the most boring
	dream he's ever had.

Pumpkin:
	As the teacher is discussing how to add fractions, 
	Jimmy turns invisible, hovers toward her, and
	possesses her. He begins to teach the students
	incorrectly as a joke.
	As he's writing out the problem on the blackboard,
	he gets distracted by the numbers, and,
	accidentally, he ends up solving them the right
	way.
	Hmm. Well, it's not as funny, but he kind of feels
	like a good teacher.

Vampire:
	As an immortal lord of the dead, Jimmy has no need
	to worry about such trivial things as fractions. 
	So, he gathers energy above him and explodes it
	into a cacophony of screeching bats.
	About one-third of the bats circle around the 
	ceiling as the children below scream in terror. 
	One-sixth of the bats dive bomb the teacher, who's
	ineffectually swatting at them as she runs for the door.
	The remaining half of the bats have already flown
	through the open door and are now blanketing the
	school in a shrieking black death cloud.
	Jimmy cackles to himself and kicks his feet up on the 
	desk in front of him.

DAY 3 SOCIAL STUDIES:
	The teacher is starting the social studies lesson. 
	Today, the class is learning about the presidents
	of the United States of America.

Blob:
	For some reason, Jimmy is really interested in 
	Howard Taft. He doesn't know anything about
	his presidency, nor does he care. Taft just
	reminds him of himself.

Goon:
	Jimmy doesn't care about the presidents at all. He
	wishes he were a part of a country without someone
	who told him what to do. This country would be
	called...Jimmyland.
	The only law would be "Do whatever you want." 
	Actually, there'd be one more law: "Don't piss off
	Jimmy." This is an important rule, because 
	Jimmy really doesn't want to be pissed off.
	He'd make this rule once he became supreme
	ruler of Jimmyland. Maybe he'd make other 
	rules, too, like "Give Jimmy lots of free stuff." 
	Jimmyland sure would be awesome.

Flower:
	Jimmy tries his best to memorize every president.
	He wonders if this is going to be on a test. Just
	in case, he starts to come up with a song to help
	him remember.
	George Washington is first
	and...umm...then comes Adams...
	Okay, the lyrics need a little work.

Bird:
	When the teacher mentions James Garfield, Jimmy
	is immediately impressed. Wow. He finished
	his presidency in record time! What an 
	impressive guy!

Bear:
	Jimmy's considering smashing up his desk and going
	on an old-fashioned rampage, but then the teacher
	starts talking about Theodore Roosevelt. 
	Apparently, the teddy bear was named after him.
	Jimmy imagines the soft, huggable little guys, and
	feels his heart begin to melt. Urk! No! Must...
	harness...endless...rage...
	Jimmy flips his desk over and runs through the
	wall, leaving a Jimmy-shaped hole behind him. 
	He knocks down some drawings push-pinned to a 
	cork board and rips a water fountain from the wall.
	Whew. That's better.

Pumpkin:
	Jimmy thinks it's pointless to learn about the
	presidents in school, so he travels to the astral
	plane and tries to find them himself.
	He runs into someone and asks if he's George
	Washington.
	"No," the man replies, "I'm Thomas Jefferson."
	Jimmy just shakes his head and hovers back to 
	class. Not even George Washington. What a
	disappointment.

Vampire:
	Jimmy is impressed at the number of presidents who
	are dead. With a little necromancy, he might be
	able to conjure his own army of dead presidents.
	Then, he could appoint one of them in charge at 
	random, and then watch them argue about it for
	hours and hours. Hmm. Maybe he should look
	elsewhere for his zombie army.

DAY 4 SCIENCE:
	The teacher is starting the science lesson. Today,
	the class is going over the solar system.

Blob:
	On Venus, it gets so hot that Jimmy's slimy body
	would liquify and evaporate before it reached the 
	surface of the planet.
	Jimmy imagines himself as a boiling hot green
	meteor streaking through the sky. If only there
	were buildings, maybe he could keep himself
	together long enough to really smash one good.

Goon:
	Jimmy doesn't care much about the planets, so he
	imagines them all as billiard balls in a gigantic 
	game of space pool instead.
	He'd whack the big planet with one of those long,
	wooden sticks, and that would totally wreck
	anything it slammed into. Hmm. Maybe he
	should actually learn the rules of pool.

Flower:
	On Mars, lifeless red dust dominates the landscape
	as far as the eye can see. The lack of any
	greenery makes Jimmy feel sad.
	As it turns out, the only planet that has any
	vegetation at all is Earth. Jimmy feels small
	and alone all of a sudden. But, he also feels
	like he's part of something very special.
	He smiles to himself and listens to the rest of the
	lecture.

Bird:
	If Jimmy were in space, there would be no wind
	resistance. Flapping his wings would just make
	him spin in circles instead of propelling him forward.
	He'd just flap-flap-flap-flap and not get anywhere.
	Lost in his thoughts, Jimmy didn't realize that he
	had been flapping his wings throughout the lecture.
	He's now hovering a foot off his desk, and loose
	papers are flying in every direction around him.

Bear:
	Jupiter has the most gravity of all of the planets. 
	That's because Jupiter is the biggest. Jimmy sizes
	himself up. He's got to have the highest gravity
	here.
	He sets his pencil down in front of him and tries
	super hard to pull it towards him using his gravity. 
	It doesn't budge. 
	Hmm. He'll have to maul his teacher and five 
	other students in order to have the most gravity
	in the room. Then he can finally harnass the 
	secret power of gravity.

Pumpkin:
	The sun is an enormous, self-fueled fireball. Jimmy
	is immediately interested. One day, the sun will
	expand into a red giant and eclipse Earth, boiling
	all of the oceans and incinerating the planet.
	Cool.
	
Vampire:
	Jimmy doesn't need to breathe, so he imagines that
	he'd be just fine in outer space. He could build
	a house on an asteroid and float around forever.
	Of course, there aren't any humans in space, which means
	no blood for Jimmy. He'd have to bring some
	snacks with him at the very least...just to tide
	him over until he reached a new solar system.

DAY 4 MUSIC:
	The teacher is starting the music lesson. Today,
	the class gets to play whatever instrument they 
	want.

Blob:
	Jimmy wants to find the most obnoxious instrument,
	so he decides to play all of them. He starts with
	a trumpet and blows it so hard that green mucus
	sprays all over the class.
	As they're trying to wipe it off, Jimmy grabs a 
	tamborine and bangs it against the side of his
	body. Instead of it making a sound, it just kind
	of suspends inside of him like fruit in a jello mold.
	He pulls the greasy tamborine out of his body and sets 
	it on the table, then he reaches for a guitar. His 
	teacher pulls it away from him. "That's enough for 
	today," she says.

Goon:
	Jimmy plans on becoming a big-time rock-and-roll
	superstar, so he pushes some kid out of the way
	and grabs the guitar. That's right. It's time
	for Jimmy to wail out a rad solo.
	His fingers fly across the fretboard, but instead of
	a rad solo, it just sounds like a bunch of random
	clicking across the muted strings. Man. This
	is hard and stupid.
	Jimmy gives up before more people realize he's
	not a rock god.

Flower:
	Jimmy knows that the best way to learn is to start
	from the bottom, so he picks up a recorder. Toot,
	toot, toot! It doesn't sound very good. Jimmy
	knows that. But, practice makes perfect!
	Jimmy dutifully plays a scale up and down until he
	gets the hang of it. He's working on figuring out
	the notes to "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but he runs
	out of time.
	That's fine! He knows that next time, he'll learn
	and get even better.

Bird:
	Jimmy rushes ahead of all of the other students and
	goes straight for the drums. He doesn't have a 
	keen sense of rhythm, but that's okay, because the 
	key to playing drums is being really loud.
	Jimmy bangs on a snare drum as loud as he can. 
	The kids are holding their ears, but Jimmy knows
	he can do better. He knows he can go even louder.
	He starts hitting the drum as hard and as fast as
	he can. Soon, he's moving to other instruments,
	hitting baritones, trumpets, and saxophones with
	the sticks, making all sorts of fun clanging sounds.
	The teacher is saying something. It looks like
	"stop," but Jimmy isn't sure, as he can't hear her
	over his righteous drum solo.

Bear:
	Jimmy is trying to take a nice nap, but all of the
	other students are playing musical instruments. 
	He growls for them to stop, but they don't hear him.
	They just keep making horrible noise.
	Jimmy can't take it anymore. He flips his desk over, 
	grabs a flute from a nearby girl, and snaps it over his 
	knee. Then he punches a hole in a timpani and 
	chomps down on a banjo, shattering it.
	The teacher, shaking, grabs a nearby guitar and 
	starts playing a lullaby. Hmm. That's kind of
	nice, actually. Jimmy lays down and closes his
	eyes.

Pumpkin:
	Jimmy hovers over to a theramin and waves his 
	hand around. It's making a nice, spooky sound. 
	For fun, Jimmy makes himself invisible, but he
	keeps playing.
	The other children have stopped playing around
	with their instruments. They're looking directly
	at the theramin, shivering. Then, the teacher
	unplugs it, and the sound stops.
	Hmm. Jimmy will have to find a creepy acoustic
	instrument to play in the future.

Vampire:
	Jimmy picks up a violin. He begins playing a 
	somber tune that reminds him of his homeland
	of Transylvania. Come to think of it, he's not
	sure how he knows how to play violin.
	He also hasn't actually been to Transylvania. 
	The other students are holding their ears. It's at
	this time that Jimmy realizes that he's just kind of
	making high-pitched squeaking noises.
	He sets the violin back down and creeps back to
	his seat, hoping no one saw him.

DAY 4 MATH:
	The teacher is starting the math lesson. Today,
	the class is going over measurements. Jimmy 
	already knows all this stuff, so he's bored.

Blob:
	Jimmy is interested in exactly what his volume might
	be. He squirms out of his seat and crawls to
	the teacher's desk, carefully so as to not alert her.
	Then he hops up and into a two-liter flask.
	Only part of his body fits, though. He pushes 
	himself into the flask harder, kicking against the
	desk, knocking various flasks and beakers to the
	ground.
	The class is laughing, and the teacher tells Jimmy
	to go back to his desk. Jimmy sits back down,
	but it's hard to see things when his head is mostly
	squeezed into a flask.

Goon:
	Jimmy measures his bicep, then flexes. Hurk! 
	Not enough to rip the measuring tape. He's going
	to have to get a good workout in, so he grabs
	a kid by the collar and lifts him up with one hand.
	Later, he gets the kid to write down all the answers
	for him on his English homework.

Flower:
	Jimmy tries his best to pay attention, anyway. He
	works through converting between standard and
	metric. He's gotten a lot faster at doing it in his
	head.
	That could really come in handy if he took a trip
	to Europe!

Bird:
	Jimmy places a mark on the ground, then he runs
	up to it and jumps as far as he can, then gets 
	another student to mark where he landed.
	He can do better. He sprints as hard as he can,
	then jumps once he hits his mark. He sails
	through the air and has to turn his head to see
	his old record.
	He's so preoccupied that he doesn't realize he's flown 
	over the teacher's desk and directly into the 
	blackboard. He peels himself off the ground and 
	coughs up a cloud of chalk.
	Whew. Let's see anyone break THAT record.

Bear:
	Jimmy weighs himself. What? That's not nearly
	enough. Jimmy's much beefier than that. The 
	scale must be broken. Jimmy slams down on it, 
	and the digital display cracks.
	There, that's better. The scale isn't even sturdy
	enough to display Jimmy's true weight.

Pumpkin:
	Jimmy looks at the thermostat. He wonders how
	hot he can make it. Instead of forming a fireball
	in his hand, he just releases a constant flow of
	invisible heat.
	The mercury rises slowly. 85 degrees. 95 
	degrees. 105 degrees. The students are
	sweating. 
	The teacher wipes her forehead with the back of her 
	hand and continues writing on the blackboard. Her
	hair is sticking to her face. The display on the
	thermostat begins to melt.
	Hmm. Jimmy supposes that he can't measure it
	anymore, so he stops.

Vampire:
	Jimmy wonders how many ounces of blood are in
	the human body. There's only one way to find
	out, but then he would have to spit the blood into
	a beaker, which wouldn't be satisfying.
	Then, you'd have to consider the mass of each
	victim. Do larger people contain more blood? 
	Are they directly proportional? This would require
	an extensive amount of research.

DAY 5 SOCIAL STUDIES:
	The teacher is starting the social studies lesson. 
	Today, the class is going over topography.

Blob:
	Jimmy imagines what life in a swamp would be like. 
	He could eat as many frogs as he likes and sleep
	every night in a big pool of slime! 
	The mosquitoes would be pretty annoying, but, then
	again, does Jimmy even have blood?

Goon:
	Jimmy doesn't care about rivers and mountains and
	the rest of that nature crap. He's a city guy. 
	He just wants to steal a sweet motorcycle and ride
	around town. Maybe start a gang.
	He thinks he should ask Punch for some pointers
	later.

Flower:
	Jimmy imagines what it would be like to live in a 
	forest. There would be trees and ponds and 
	flowers all around him. 
	Maybe a bunny rabbit would hop next to him and 
	nibble on some nearby vegetation. It would be
	pretty nice, but there wouldn't be many people
	around, so Jimmy is happy right where he is.

Bird:
	Jimmy wonders what it would be like to climb a 
	mountain. He would probably set the record for
	the fastest climb. 
	When he reached the peak, he would squawk the 
	proudest squawk he ever squawked. 

Bear:
	Jimmy wishes he could move back to the forest. He
	could sleep for months in a nice, cool cave. When
	he woke up, he could eat lots of salmon. Nobody
	would bother him.
	He finds himself drifting off to sleep. In his 
	dream, he's sitting in a classroom while some
	annoying lady is talking about maps. Oh, wait. 
	He's still awake. 
	Jimmy feels cheated and kind of pissed.

Pumpkin:
	As Jimmy looks at the oceans covering most of the
	planet's surface, the candle inside of his head begins
	to flicker. All that water could extinguish his
	flame just like that.
	Most of the world is a death trap. Jimmy feels a
	little scared. In order to feel in control again, 
	Jimmy ignites the ponytail of the girl in front of him.
	He wonders how long it will take her to realize her
	hair is--oh, there she goes.

Vampire:
	Jimmy imagines himself floating down a nice, moonlit
	river. Actually, scratch that. Instead of a normal
	river, it's a river of blood. That's much more 
	relaxing.
	Imagination is great. With imagination, you can
	make anything better.

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013

quote:

He's already got a
foolproof system. Whenever someone is playing
cards, he could just pick their pockets.

This is, incidentally, the only system that actually works.

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are
Oh man, that 9 times table trick just gave me a grade school flashback. I was, surprising no one, one of those annoying apple polisher kids. And I'd just transferred between 3rd and 4th grade from a school where I was relatively well liked for being a nerdy artist kid, to a school where if you weren't kowtowing to established gender roles, no one wanted to talk to you. In the middle of a math lesson, I jumped in to tell everyone that there was an easy mnemonic for multiplying 9s, and my teacher, of all people, told me to stop trying to look smart all the time.

Like...thanks. A+ teaching, way to put the love of learning your students.

theGrooseofLegend
Dec 29, 2013
Is there a reason Lars isn't actually countering physical attacks when you use Counter? I saw the Principal rampage on Lars while he had Counter up and I'm pretty sure he's supposed to hit back each time per hit.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


As a clarinet player, gently caress your gross rotten clarinet story

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider

SSNeoman posted:

As a clarinet player, gently caress your gross rotten clarinet story

I showed her this and she was unbelievably happy.


I'm not sure why Lars isn't countering. Doesn't matter. Next episode we start breaking the game.

Jade Rider
May 11, 2007

All the pages have been censored except for "heck," and she misread that one.


GrandmaParty posted:

I'm not sure why Lars isn't countering. Doesn't matter. Next episode we start breaking the game.

I think he had a weapon equipped that didn't allow counterattacks? I thought I saw one during the last shopping bit.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider

Jade Rider posted:

I think he had a weapon equipped that didn't allow counterattacks? I thought I saw one during the last shopping bit.

drat it. I forgot about that. I spend a good amount of time looking at our equipment in the next video. We go sidequestin'.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Right, the Bee Stinger doesn't allow the party member equipping it to counter. That's pretty important to keep in mind on Lars.

I assume I know one of the side-dungeons you're going to hit up, because if you don't go there now, you won't be able to go back there for a very long time.

get that OUT of my face fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Aug 6, 2019

Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

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Nap Ghost
One thing the thread hasn't really commented on here is what a butt Andrew can be. While the party go out to risk life and limb against the Pulsating Mass, he stays back and researches Helga -- who, while being family, is also an adult who is perfectly capable of looking after herself and presumably far away from the Mass's attention right now -- and, when he turns up no leads, loses himself in Happy Smile Woman manga.

When his family come back, having defeated the Pulsating Mass in battle and achieved exactly what he sent them out to do, all he has for them is sarcastic put-downs and a new mission, one that he doesn't even come along to because he'd rather read his books.

And the irony is, at least part of Buck's problem right now is that he's trying to process complicated emotions and grief. It's exactly the sort of thing that a decent father should be helping his teenaged son cope with. But Buck's a problem that can't be solved with rationality and logic, so Andrew just sends a nine-year-old with cancer to go sort his mess out for him.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

Whybird posted:

One thing the thread hasn't really commented on here is what a butt Andrew can be. While the party go out to risk life and limb against the Pulsating Mass, he stays back and researches Helga -- who, while being family, is also an adult who is perfectly capable of looking after herself and presumably far away from the Mass's attention right now -- and, when he turns up no leads, loses himself in Happy Smile Woman manga.

When his family come back, having defeated the Pulsating Mass in battle and achieved exactly what he sent them out to do, all he has for them is sarcastic put-downs and a new mission, one that he doesn't even come along to because he'd rather read his books.

And the irony is, at least part of Buck's problem right now is that he's trying to process complicated emotions and grief. It's exactly the sort of thing that a decent father should be helping his teenaged son cope with. But Buck's a problem that can't be solved with rationality and logic, so Andrew just sends a nine-year-old with cancer to go sort his mess out for him.

reminder:

Oxxidation posted:

e: i should also add that at another point in andrew's memory dungeon, it sounds like he's suggesting to helga that they just have another child when they inevitably lose jimmy. smooth talking there, champ

andrew means well, but it's fair to assume he's a little under-equipped in the "feelings" department

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

People have different ways of coping with grief. In Andrew's case, it's to double down on being analytical and caring about his children's academic well-being. Jimmy's condition is no excuse to fall behind on his studies.

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Buck is Anger, Andrew is Denial. Lars is Depression, of course.

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Tenebrais posted:

Buck is Anger, Andrew is Denial. Lars is Depression, of course.

Hmm, would Helga be more Denial and Andrew more Bargaining?

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007
Helga is Love.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Baba Is You.

Helga is acceptance. She's just happy to be with Jimmy some more.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Hmm, would Helga be more Denial and Andrew more Bargaining?

Helga is definitely Bargaining. Hell, the game opens with her pleading for Jimmy to wake up so she can spend just one more day with him because she thinks it will make her happy, no matter how that day turns out.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider

Whybird posted:

One thing the thread hasn't really commented on here is what a butt Andrew can be. While the party go out to risk life and limb against the Pulsating Mass, he stays back and researches Helga -- who, while being family, is also an adult who is perfectly capable of looking after herself and presumably far away from the Mass's attention right now -- and, when he turns up no leads, loses himself in Happy Smile Woman manga.

When his family come back, having defeated the Pulsating Mass in battle and achieved exactly what he sent them out to do, all he has for them is sarcastic put-downs and a new mission, one that he doesn't even come along to because he'd rather read his books.

And the irony is, at least part of Buck's problem right now is that he's trying to process complicated emotions and grief. It's exactly the sort of thing that a decent father should be helping his teenaged son cope with. But Buck's a problem that can't be solved with rationality and logic, so Andrew just sends a nine-year-old with cancer to go sort his mess out for him.

Keep in mind that, outside of the memory caves, these are all Jimmy's perceptions of how his parents would act. Especially Andrew and Helga.

Think back to Andrew's speech in the temple about doing everything he can. He knows he's weak and wants to do the best he can. Unfortunately, his strengths are in books.

Also keep in mind how fast Helga snaps out of her depression previously (when we lost Buck). These are his interpretations of their behaviors, probably not their actual behaviors.

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

nine-gear crow posted:

Helga is definitely Bargaining. Hell, the game opens with her pleading for Jimmy to wake up so she can spend just one more day with him because she thinks it will make her happy, no matter how that day turns out.

Oooh, good catch!

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!
So what does that make Jonathon? And Punch?

Miz Kriss
Mar 17, 2009

It's only an avatar if the Cubs get swept.
I think Punch could be acceptance in a roundabout way, though honestly he could be the entire process rolled into one due to his character arc and his haiku filled journey to figure out just who he is.

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Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are
There's 5 stages of grief, and 5 family members.

Maybe Jimmy is acceptance.

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