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PMush Perfect posted:That might be the largest contrast between "length of active thread participation" and "number of posts" I've ever seen. Two pages in seven years. That depends on how you define active, doesn't it?
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Scintilla posted:Alright. This one's much longer and more detailed. Thanks for this. I’ve been trying my hand at creative writing, and this should prove immensely useful for fleshing out what I already have in mind for my main antagonist.
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goblin week posted:So what would be Xykon’s theme music? I'm not sure what exactly would fit the notion of "lazy goofball who is also hypercompetent and terrifyingly powerful." I'd probably peg him with some sort of Heavy Metal. If we're drawing from the well of Final Fantasy themes, I'd peg him with Clash on the Big Bridge; it's frenetic, but with an undercurrent of danger. I'm mostly annoyed that he uses "Edea's theme" as an example, given that she has at least three different themes, none of which are actually labeled as such. I'm gonna guess Fithos Lusec Vecos Vinosec, since it projects a fair mix of cunning and power. Succession of Witches is also very insidious and threatening, but is way too obviously cold to fit a fire-themed villain, and Premonition is pretty melancholic. I'm more curious about the emotional themes, though. Redcloak is clearly fueled by revenge, with undercurrents of justice and hatred, and Xykon inspires abject terror, but what of the other way around? The Order has been largely indifferent to Redcloak until this very moment, but if the parley was meant to inspire a singular emotion, I'd definitely peg it as frustration. He kept getting side-tracked and taking jabs at Durkon, and when negotiations broke down, Durkon used what could have been his last words ever to call him a fucker. Xykon's emotional foundation is harder to pin down. What we're given of his goals is that he wants to amass power and never die, which you could pass as greed, lust or even fear, but I don't think any of that entirely scans. If his ultimate goal was to not die, threatening the very foundation of creation and the gods themselves when you're already immortal is not the best way to accomplish that. I also don't think he actually believes the Plan will succeed, given his evidenced distrust for Redcloak. I'd say he's guided by complacency more than anything; he's good at being a villain and he doesn't know how to do anything else, and bailing on Redcloak to find a whole new scheme to threaten the world and a new set of minions takes more effort than seeing where things go.
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Lechuck from monkey island is the same archetype, and his music fits xykon well enough
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I thought I had saved all of the articles back when Rich said he was taking them down. If I find where I saved them, I'll repost.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I'm not sure what exactly would fit the notion of "lazy goofball who is also hypercompetent and terrifyingly powerful." I'd probably peg him with some sort of Heavy Metal. If we're drawing from the well of Final Fantasy themes, I'd peg him with Clash on the Big Bridge; it's frenetic, but with an undercurrent of danger. Immortality with none of the downsides of being a lich, maybe? But, yeah, it’s something that I’ve been noticing: despite being the ostensible main villain of the story, it’s... still really unclear just what the hell is keeping Xykon going aside from sheer inertia at this point. We’ve gotten so much analysis of Redcloak from the story itself that Xykon has almost fallen out of focus. If anything, it seems like Sloth has become his most defining attribute, even after V gave him one hell of a wakeup call. He’s undeniably powerful, but he puts most of his creativity into being a petty dick, instead of making newer overarching plans as circumstances change around him.
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Xykon is just bored, not slothful. He wants to be entertained. Someone who slights him will suffer no end of energy and aggression, but he won't destroy you merely for being in his way. Unless it's funny. Ochul or V, if he sees them again, are in for the full brunt of his villainy
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Pope Guilty posted:I realized I would've started sometime in 2004 and that's a big oof from me.  It's been so long I have no idea how I first came across it or what my first strip was. Lost to the mists of time. (eta: Also, it's been seven years since my last post in this thread. What's my prize?) Fighting Trousers fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Apparently. Jesus. How do you figure this out? By hand or?
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Johnny Aztec posted:How do you figure this out? By hand or? It's on your profile. Yours is 2.37 posts per day. Though it's not necessarily accurate since.some subforums don't count your posts or even count them as negative. YOSPOS, BYOB, and FYAD, for instance. I assume CSPAM is there, too.
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HisMajestyBOB posted:I thought I had saved all of the articles back when Rich said he was taking them down. If I find where I saved them, I'll repost. This is the last snapshot of the main page for the articles on the Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20200216152147/http://www.giantitp.com/Gaming.html And likewise for the stories, which never got more than the Duke's Wolf by Amber E. Scott, in four parts. I've never read it and forgot it used to be there. https://web.archive.org/web/20200216152139/http://www.giantitp.com/Stories.html
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Xykon doesn't particularly have a driving motive in any normal sense. He seems to just want to... be as powerful as possible, for as long as possible, and does awful things both in service of this goal and to pass the time. He's like if a billionaire were to just shoot people in the street sometimes.
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ikanreed posted:Lechuck from monkey island is the same archetype, and his music fits xykon well enough LeChuck? Really? I'm thinking of LeChuck's various appearances and I don't think he's ever a goofball. Sure, he lives in a setting where comedy is a huge element, but he's generally a straightforward threat.
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paradoxGentleman posted:LeChuck? Really? I'm thinking of LeChuck's various appearances and I don't think he's ever a goofball. Sure, he lives in a setting where comedy is a huge element, but he's generally a straightforward threat. Rewatch the first cut scene with him and his first mate and tell me that again.
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I don't remember when I first started following OotS actively, but I do know that I at least read some of it around fall 2006 when another student brought it up during an intro group project at university I think maybe that was during the star metal arc, or just after it?
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Endless Mike posted:It's on your profile. Oh. I knew that part, but I thought Pmush was talking about this thread specifically.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Oh. I knew that part, but I thought Pmush was talking about this thread specifically. I mean if you feel like doing a little math and using the ? function... Counting this post, I have made just over 0.112 posts per day in this thread since Dec 21 2009
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Aug 16, 2020 19:06
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I don't remember at which strip I started following OotS, but it was very blue
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ikanreed posted:Lechuck from monkey island is the same archetype, and his music fits xykon well enough ...poo poo, imagine a Demon Zombie Ghost Pirate Lich. LeChuck is, certainly a good comparison yeah. He's totally a goof, or at least acting for the tropes. I mean, look at how he never really TRIED to kill Sheepcomb.
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"Oh hello, needlessly verbose newbie who's somehow familiar with all the thread references. It's a shame you didn't get here sooner, there was another guy I think you'd hit it off with but he got banned last year."
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Sloth feels right for Xykon to me. His primary goal is basically "ensure that nothing can ever happen to me that I don't enjoy."
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Shugojin posted:I mean if you feel like doing a little math and using the ? function...
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PMush Perfect posted:I napkin mathed mine, and I'm a bit under 2.5 posts per week, over ten and a half years.
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Aug 16, 2020 20:52
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There's been a lot fewer pages than I've made posts. I do not shut up.
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Did I just do the math backwards in this grognard thread
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how the gently caress did I fail to post at all in this thread during 2014, a year when this comic was going nuts with twists and turns
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Oh neat. April 30th, 2007 was my first post in this thread. Thirteen loving years, been reading this (at least)
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ikanreed posted:Lechuck from monkey island is the same archetype, and his music fits xykon well enough In "how will Xykon be defeated" chat, I had never considered grabbing a random bottle of root beer and spraying it at Xykon.
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Aug 16, 2020 21:58
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I discovered OotS through the comics in Dragon (or was it Dungeon?) magazine back in the early Aughts. I have no idea what strip was current when I went to the website because I went straight to the beginning.
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The main thing that this diversion has reminded me is that I need to buy the books. I’ve had a lot of entertainment from this comic over the years and although I bought some books in the Kickstarter, they were lost in a house move. I should definitely send some money Rich’s way!
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I have two or three signed books somewhere at my dads, he was at Origins in 07 or 08. The next year he got sick and had to cancel but that was the year I got the OotS boardgame
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I'm still holding out for the pdf release of Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales, now that the hard copies seem to be gone.
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PMush Perfect posted:That might be the largest contrast between "length of active thread participation" and "number of posts" I've ever seen. Two pages in seven years. I have less than one page of posts, and my first post is the third one in the thread. I /think/ I probably started reading while they were in the dungeon of Dorukan, but it's difficult to remember. Of the still-running web comics that I still read OotS is the oldest.
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maltesh posted:I have less than one page of posts, and my first post is the third one in the thread.
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PMush Perfect posted:That might be the largest contrast between "length of active thread participation" and "number of posts" I've ever seen. Two pages in seven years. I don't speak unless I have something to say. It's both a part of my internet life AND my real life!
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Sky Shadowing posted:I don't speak unless I have something to say. It's both a part of my internet life AND my real life! Hey, we’re like twins! Except I go from long lengths of extreme silence to manic-fueled word-vomit which gets me in trouble On Internet life AND real life! Twins!
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Caught up on page 253 (Harry Potter parody page), which looks to have been in 2005. Taking a look at my, uh, teenage LiveJournal, it looks like I was also into Sluggy Freelance, Shortpacked, No Rest for the Wicked, Girly, and a bunch of relative unknowns--Jesus, haven't thought of most of these in ages.PMush Perfect posted:That might be the largest contrast between "length of active thread participation" and "number of posts" I've ever seen. Two pages in seven years. aegof posted:Lurking is an art. it appears I have made one post per year on average in this thread Tjadeth fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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I started somewhere in the middle of the Miko plot line before they got to Azure City, because I remember waiting for strips to come out while they were meeting Shojo.
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I don't post much because I actually have very little actual D&D experience (older brother DMd when I was in grade school, and I played 4E for a few months in my twenties) , so I have nothing to add to rules-related discussion. My comic discussion is mostly "Comic Good".
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YggiDee posted:I don't post much because I actually have very little actual experience This attitude is a grave abuse of how posting was meant to be.
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