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Cvet would be very annoying in real life, but she's a great character. Shell is also great. One of my favorite things about Gunnerkrigg is its ability to deliver great faces.
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Wittgen posted:Cvet would be very annoying in real life, but she's a great character. It's a little thing but I really like how choosy Tom is with face shapes. Everyone's got a unique set of features. Families maintain parity between hair color and facial features. It's little details many comic authors neglect as the cast grows. Part of the reason I think Annie and Annie was so fun is because they have the same face which is rare for the comic. This is I think only the second character with the same nose shape as Parley.
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Wittgen posted:Cvet would be very annoying in real life, but she's a great character. This 100%. But also: Man, gently caress Cvet. This is extremely lovely to do, you dumb dragon.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:17
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Nah Cvet owns she gets the awkwardness out of the way immediately instead of making it take a chapter
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Oct 22, 2021 16:51
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cvet is the only good character left.
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Smitty is still cool george seems to kick rear end as well and dgaf
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Darth TNT posted:I don't like Cvet. I changed my mind. Bring back Tonychat  CJacobs posted:Nah Cvet owns she gets the awkwardness out of the way immediately instead of making it take a chapter
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Sorry at all the folks who don't like Cvet for your social lives
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Warmachine posted:I changed my mind. Bring back Tonychat Tony probably doesn’t like Cvet either. Who likes a gossip?
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Darth TNT posted:Tony probably doesn’t like Cvet either. Tony loves Cvet because she tells him exactly what everyone's thinking
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Oh no, Mort, no. https://twitter.com/gunnerkrigg/status/1451527612422103092?s=20
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CJacobs posted:It's a little thing but I really like how choosy Tom is with face shapes. Everyone's got a unique set of features. Families maintain parity between hair color and facial features. It's little details many comic authors neglect as the cast grows. Part of the reason I think Annie and Annie was so fun is because they have the same face which is rare for the comic. This is I think only the second character with the same nose shape as Parley. Although I seriously doubt Tom called anyone confusing Annie's blush with a romantic one, for anyone confused about the (admittedly rather subtle and subjective in real life) difference between a happy-surprised blush and a romantic-embarrassed blush, this chapter is presenting an excellent cartoon primer. C'vet haters  I would expect a Rogat Orjack with the social adeptness of C'vet to understand the difference between encouraging someone too shy to express feelings which are also mutual to act on them and using shyness to embarrass someone for the sake of cruelty  this hits some real phillipe level feels, iykwim Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 22, 2021 |
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Niavmai posted:cvet is the only good character left. Shell is standing right there dude! Who would let a kid see that?! What monster shows that to a child?! No French horror movie should be viewed by anyone who isn't A) an adult and also B) heavily into the horror scene already, and even then it's still going to be a rough ride.
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the takeaway from brawl is that deliberately trying to make a game anti-competitive also makes the game a miserable experience for casual players. unless you're 100% orange juice
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dragon enthusiast posted:the takeaway from brawl is that deliberately trying to make a game anti-competitive also makes the game a miserable experience for casual players. unless you're 100% orange juice Katt said this and Annie just nodded along.
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honestly this is the second time I've posted a reply in the wrong thread in the past two months, so instead of blaming my own self I'm going to complain about awful.app
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A gunnerkrigg reskin of 100% orange juice would rule so hard
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dragon enthusiast posted:the takeaway from brawl is that deliberately trying to make a game anti-competitive also makes the game a miserable experience for casual players. unless you're 100% orange juice Eventually I realized this must have been a post that accidentally ended up in the wrong thread, but at first I read this and thought I was having a stroke.
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dragon enthusiast posted:the takeaway from brawl is that deliberately trying to make a game anti-competitive also makes the game a miserable experience for casual players. unless you're 100% orange juice There wasn't really anything wrong with the gameplay (back then of course, it'd probably feel real bad after playing Ultimate) except for a single thing: tripping. What a monumentally awful design choice. Trying to gently caress over the competitive scene by adding tripping just made it so even casual players didn't get to have fun because they also tripped. Tripping felt lovely!
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Kat is on her 5th iteration of her own Project M.
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Brb, going to tell Mort what the saddest thing is.
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dragon enthusiast posted:the takeaway from brawl is that deliberately trying to make a game anti-competitive also makes the game a miserable experience for casual players. unless you're 100% orange juice
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Snake Maze posted:Katt said this and Annie just nodded along. 
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Shell is standing right there dude! are you trying to tell me you think pick-me simpgirl is as cool as sassy gossipdragon??? /s
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So they want to steal Coyote's power, but he shouldn't use his own magic doing it? Those are some dumb rules.
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I was not prepared for the nostalgia rush from Tom's comment on this page.
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dragon enthusiast posted:the takeaway from brawl is that deliberately trying to make a game anti-competitive also makes the game a miserable experience for casual players. unless you're 100% orange juice Space Cadet Omoly posted:Eventually I realized this must have been a post that accidentally ended up in the wrong thread, but at first I read this and thought I was having a stroke. lol
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Niavmai posted:are you trying to tell me you think pick-me simpgirl is as cool as sassy gossipdragon??? That hot take just set gillite on fire.
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Darth TNT posted:So they want to steal Coyote's power, but he shouldn't use his own magic doing it? Those are some dumb rules. technically he didn't use it to steal Coyote's power, but to save Shell's life, so presumably it doesn't count shades of the the scam the guides faction pulled on Annie
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Omega? That doesn't sound ominous at all.
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Negative Nancy stuff below if you want to avoid it. Sorry. I can't say I really understand why Annie is going out of her way to comfort this complete stranger when they just ran a dangerous experiment that could've resulted in dozens of people being killed and she's had less reason to trust the Court's employees than ever, including the shadow men who have acted a bit condescending to her at every turn. I feel like it wouldn't really be my first impulse to comfort someone who's angry about their secretive experiment blowing up and bringing consequences to one of the people who willingly endangered me to perform it without my knowledge. Like, this very possibly DID kill people! And Shell is defensive and upset, which isn't exactly the kind of attitude that makes me want to approach a stranger I have reasons to be hostile to. Shell is cute and all, but it just sort of feels like it's dragging on a bit for several pages about a character we barely know anything about? I guess the point is that they can't do much other than wait for Parley? But she could've gone and checked on the forest creatures herself as their medium instead of sending Cvet to do it, a big rear end dragon with sharp teeth who doesn't exactly have the social tact to avoid threatening rabbits and fairies. Meanwhile, Cvet probably would've loved to fluster Shell some more and talk all about her relationship issues. The sense of urgency about "oh we're trapped and in danger and have no idea what Loup's planning after he went completely berserk and creatures from the forest like ashrays could attack us especially now that the robot barrier is down, a thing that's common enough that it poses a regular threat if you travel through certain zones" doesn't really feel present as is, let alone with the segue into maybe-unrequited-crush slapstick/drama. Like, the expressions are cute, but I'd expect this sort of scene for... I don't know, a character we actually know? The stuff with teasing her and the fairies flustering her sort of falls flat for me when I barely know this character. Her characterization kind of begins and ends with "she really likes this one guy". That aside, interesting that she says "Omega said". Implies it's a person. Like, that's sort of an unnatural way to say it if it's an object - you'd be more likely to say "The Omega device said..." or whatever. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when Zimmy and Gamma are people, but everything up until this point has been alluding to it being mechanical rather than a person. (But of course, those aren't exclusive categories, see: what Kat's been doing. Maybe the prominence of that storyline isn't a coincidence and the court is doing something similar.)
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Tiny Myers posted:Negative Nancy stuff below if you want to avoid it. Sorry. Hell, with all the time travel going on, maybe Robot Goddess Kat *is* Omega.
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There Bias Two posted:Hell, with all the time travel going on, maybe Robot Goddess Kat *is* Omega. This actually feels possible. I've always thought it weird that the Court seems to be letting her casually liberate their workforce from their mechanical bodies and giving them new lives. In general, just... making an entirely new species and effectively creating life from nothing. Like, yeah, something something Juliette and the Seraph robots trying to keep her work under wraps, but that falls apart once the first new human-robot walks around in the Court, and even before that, it's no secret they keep tabs on their students, including trackers in their food. They'd never send someone down to check out her warehouse or investigate what she's doing with all the parts she's ordering? Her being key to their research would make a lot of sense. Plus, this is just a few chapters apart, with very similar wording. https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2265 https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2430 A way of looking into the unseen world. Something that Kat is coincidentally developing in a way that is implied to be much different from the way, say, Annie might see it. For example: the way she saw ROTD distilled extremely plainly, and how easily she seems to grok a lot of things that are so complicated they're not supposed to be understandable by humans, like robot code, or when she helped Annie save Jeanne's boyfriend from his shackles despite it being an intensely complex, maze-like device that was never meant to be undone. Zimmy also goes on to say that it's "a bunch of stuff that is only explained by not having an explanation", and talks about how it drives the court (and Kat) crazy. Perhaps Kat's true power lies in being able to distill the unexplainable into the explainable. We've seen her be obsessed with trying to solve and explain it several times throughout the comic. The omega device would then not just peer into the ether, but also simplify it into easy, digestible, recordable information. There's also been some foreshadowing about Kat going down a darker path. "You gotta keep an eye on her." "She almost went down a dark road." As well as the implication that Kat has an alternate-timeline self that lost Annie that had to break time to save her, and talk of alternate timeline selves in general. Could be that Omega is Kat from an alternate timeline, or similar.
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Or it could just be a fancy magitech calculator.
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Could also be some weirdo welded into a machine 40k style. A possible explanation for why to take the time to assuage Shell is to get her to share information. Note I say possible because I don't recall Annie ever really having the social acumen to do that kind of deception.
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Annie is being nice to Shell because she's a nice person who tries to be decent to others, even if she doesn't like them, this is pretty basic imo. Like if she can care about loving Coyote and Ysegrin, she can care about Shell.
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The whole extended bit focusing on Shell's romantic interests and being comically flustered really does feel like a weirdly sharp deescalation in tension, though.
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