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akulanization posted:Her depiction in these stories isn’t an unknowable ineffable being, she hangs out with beggars and monk, commoners and heroes. Her being a god does not preclude her from being an angel or a human. Well, I mean, Aesma isn't really an unknowable ineffable being either, she's canonically a violent idiot who's learnt exactly one (1) lesson during her existence. I think all the gods who were featured in stories (except YISUN) were described with flaws and other "human" traits, that's one of the things I like about this whole mythos. But remember, YISUN is a consummate liar.
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What's worth remembering about stories of the gods is that even if they were literal historical accounts (they're probably not, but still), there's no reason to expect them to be perfectly accurate. Just look at the history Cio's writing.
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Joe Slowboat posted:People were very upset about the intentionally unpleasant monk lady’s weird piercings so it’s possible they’re either anti-horny or too horny, it’s impossible to be sure without reading the comments. Which, if I can do, I will not, because I love life. Tbf even Operant agreed the combat nun was Too Much. I agree. It crossed the line into just silly. This has nothing in common with combat nun tho.
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Dozens of people were mulched into paste this chapter but completely non-sexualized nudity for a single panel is a bridge too far. The internet was a mistake.
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Renaissance Robot posted:What's worth remembering about stories of the gods is that even if they were literal historical accounts (they're probably not, but still), there's no reason to expect them to be perfectly accurate. Just look at the history Cio's writing. I always read the under comic writing as a mixture of triptychs, folk tales, and religious sermons. They're intended to flesh out the culture of the world and maybe highlight and extrapolate on the themes of the current comic page/arc. Treating them like encyclopedia entries seems entirely against the point.
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Bussamove posted:Dozens of people were mulched into paste this chapter but completely non-sexualized nudity for a single panel is a bridge too far. i think for pg you can shoot people's entrails off non stop but are only allowed to say "gently caress" one time, and that lightning bolt is prob not covering enough to make rating
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Making war for 7 years:  Making love for 7 hours:  but seriously I don't think you can blame the internet for this one, violence good sex bad is a preexisting condition of WASP culture Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Aug 7, 2020 11:30
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Captain Oblivious posted:Tbf even Operant agreed the combat nun was Too Much. It was the kind of silly I thought K6BD was down with. I'm still disappointed that got changed.
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A.o.D. posted:It was the kind of silly I thought K6BD was down with. I'm still disappointed that got changed. What was the original like?
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JustaDamnFool posted:What was the original like? I remember a bondage suit, lots of spikes, rivets and a spiked plate riveted over the crotch. Maybe some nails hammered through into the skin? Can't remember. Definitely left an impression. My first thought was "how did her robes not snag on all these spikes?" but that was over thinking it.
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JustaDamnFool posted:What was the original like? Have you ever seen a nipple piercing? Well take that and then make it into body armor
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Her outfit was some spiky belts here and there, rest nude. Now it's all belts everywhere as a kind of leather armour.
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I'll admit, the Giant Cans Reveal was a bit eyebrow raising to me for a sec, but not because I'm a puritan who hates boobs and loves ultraviolence. There's just a history of webcomic authors (edit: to be clear, I am not counting Abbadon in this) being kinda creepily gratuitous about drawing their female characters in sexy poses that causes a kneejerk reaction sometimes. I'm thinking primarily about Aaron Diaz here. He (for example) had a blog post on how you have to draw your characters nude to understand how their bodies work without clothes before you can plausibly draw them clothed, which would be fine... except his only examples were women and I don't think knowing who shaves and who trims their pubes helps you draw clothed charters, but that was definitely information provided by his examples! I don't think Abbadon is an example of this, no matter how many jokes about musclelady fetish etc. anyone might make, but I think a negative reaction to nudity in webcomics might be at least partially a reaction to poo poo like that.
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The real scandal is drawing a woman in anything other than an ankle length skirt and neck high blouse. -someone in the 1950s, probably
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JustaDamnFool posted:What was the original like? Spoiler for sorta  
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I forget, how did that series of events end up curing his senility?
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ThingOne posted:Spoiler for sorta I love this but yeah ok
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He got so angry at his bank's destruction that he forgot he was supposed to be senile.
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Joe Slowboat posted:People were very upset about the intentionally unpleasant monk lady’s weird piercings so it’s possible they’re either anti-horny or too horny, it’s impossible to be sure without reading the comments. Which, if I can do, I will not, because I love life. 'Intentionally unpleasant' seems a bit mean. She's just a live-in carer for an OAP who takes her job extremely seriously.
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Shoehead posted:I love this but yeah ok Yeah, it definitely went a tad overboard, looking between the two. I'd have kept the SG-1-style melted-gold 001 though, that's just badass.
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TBH i am a little salty that I can't make one of coolest moments of triumph in this comic into my desktop background without people getting the wrong idea. But that's not a K6BD problem or an Operant problem; it's a society problem.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I forget, how did that series of events end up curing his senility? Having something happen that he actually wanted to think about, instead of many things he wanted to forget, jogged his brain back up into a working gear.
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Shoehead posted:I love this but yeah ok Yeah exactly. That's the exact kind of batshit insane I want to see immediately before a mind blowing two page single panel all out war splash page.
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Also having the count ruined in such a way that he can't possibly finish means he got to free up all those brain cycles for smashing the opposition.
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Alitur posted:I meant more in a sense of a liveblog or a live reaction. I am one of weirdos who like watching people enjoy what I enjoy. This woman did a read through of KSBD book 1 as a commission, but she liked it enough that she's gonna continue the rest after she finishes up FMA:B. https://www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=7223945 The posts: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kill-six-billion-39678872 https://www.patreon.com/posts/kill-six-billion-39740556 https://www.patreon.com/posts/kill-six-billion-39822146 Free thread where she posts the stuff after a delay. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/lets-watch-things-mostly-blind-idk.55194/ skaianDestiny fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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I'm totally fine with all sorts of poo poo including the mortal nunbat but somehow she kinda out of place. Idk I mean this is a comic with a ton of diversity but it just didn't click somehow?
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skaianDestiny posted:This woman did a read through of KSBD book 1 as a commission, but she liked it enough that she's gonna continue the rest after she finishes up FMA:B. I am one of her patrons, and I have already read through her impressions. This is what introduced me to K6BD, actually. Are there any other read throughs around?
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Renaissance Robot posted:I forget, how did that series of events end up curing his senility? the destruction of everything he'd built around himself granted him a deeper understanding of the word Tower, which restored him to something closer to his prime or, he got so angry he forgot he was blind
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Mindblast posted:I'm totally fine with all sorts of poo poo including the mortal nunbat but somehow she kinda out of place. Idk I mean this is a comic with a ton of diversity but it just didn't click somehow? I think what it is is it misses its mark and winds up looking more "this is my [001's] fetish" instead of landing at "I am a totally-metal poo poo-kicker, and you are proper hosed", which the redesign does a much better job of portraying.
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I quite liked the reveal that the beatific saint of the count was at least three times less reasonable than anyone else present, complete with mortification of the flesh, a ton of infected piercings, and Metal Hurlant style combat bikini. The new version is fine but nowhere near as jarring and that’s a loss from my perspective.
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Alitur posted:I am one of her patrons, and I have already read through her impressions. This is what introduced me to K6BD, actually. Managed to find this: https://krixwell-liveblogs.com/2019/04/07/patreon-bonus-kill-six-billion-demons-ch-1-2/amp/
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I always thought this review was an interesting take on queerness in KSBD. I'd love to see an update on it, to see what the reviewer thought of how Operant's taken critiques on board and developed his work as time goes on.
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ThingOne posted:Spoiler for sorta Wait, has this panel been revised twice? I saw a link to the page itself in the comments on the Yes Homo review and the new version isn't what I remember, either; I distinctly remember seeing her torso covered but I don't remember there being as much coverage on her arms & legs.
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ThingOne posted:Spoiler for sorta cold take but those commenters were boring and this was a serve
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From the second liveblog I linked:
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skaianDestiny posted:From the second liveblog I linked: 
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skaianDestiny posted:From the second liveblog I linked:
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sliami posted:cold take but those commenters were boring and this was a serve Yeah the original was better, because it was creepier and more obviously self-mutilating than new version.
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skaianDestiny posted:From the second liveblog I linked: holy moly habeasdorkus posted:I always thought this review was an interesting take on queerness in KSBD. I'd love to see an update on it, to see what the reviewer thought of how Operant's taken critiques on board and developed his work as time goes on. That was a pretty interesting read. I don't quite see things the same way but that's the value of reading others' perspectives. They're definitely on the money about the degree of brutality going on on Throne. poo poo's bad and I always thought it was incredibly chilling that WC is so casual about it while 'enforcing the law.'
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