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TheHan posted:I’m not going to read this, I’m better than this. I did and I envy you.
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It's like a very prolix explanation of the title of the Gateless Gate/Mumonkan that has been repeatedly subjected to mechanical translation.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:31
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A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" And Joshu replied, "Well, yes and no. Yes because everything has the Buddha nature, and no because you're asking an idiotic question. So I'm replying with something vague and slightly contradictory, or at least I would be if my dialogue wasn't written by an utter cretin who doesn't actually understand any of this. Anyway, you've now leveled up and learned a new spell or some loving thing, congratulations."
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Jan 7, 2022 06:35
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God it feels like he is ineptly riffing on Yog-Sothoh is the gate, Yog-Sothoh is the key to the gate.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:37
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I think we're going to be very lucky if the far end of the next several pages isn't Snout learning to cast Dominic's favourite spell, SEE THE TRUTH.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:41
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If I understand the text it's "Snout you need to collect the Triforce of Order, Renewal and Challenges" repeated once again but written by a complete rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:47
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i just the amount of text in a no dialogue comic is incredible and the amount of copy-pasting mooks feels is acceptable is also incredible
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Jan 7, 2022 06:55
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I'm mad that the threefold self is literally just the precisely three glyphs we've repeatedly had put in front of us, and also none of them are a loving 'self.'
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Jan 7, 2022 07:31
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This is why all the copies of Dominic's book were remaindered and thrown in a landfill, except the one the sex shop bought by mistake, two hundred years ago.
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Jan 7, 2022 07:46
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I must admit, I wasn't expecting a brief on esotercism in this thread of all things. Makes me want to try the SHWEP podcast again. ^^^ it wasn't bought by accident - the proprietors recognized it for the jack-off manual it was.
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Jan 7, 2022 08:39
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Everything is just dialogue spoken by Wes Studi's character in Mystery Men.
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Jan 7, 2022 08:55
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Ordered and renewed minds are the path to Asinotaph? What kind of incomprehensible madness is this?!
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Jan 7, 2022 09:51
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I'm annoyed that he capitalized all the important nouns like City and Gates and Order, but not path
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Jan 7, 2022 10:46
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Dominic Deegan's legacy is that he totally sucks. Appropriate.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:46
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That's some really bad fake mysticism but the part that really bothers me is "It is." Wow. It is. Guys, Asinotaph is.
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Jan 7, 2022 13:01
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I didn't read the text because time and time again I read Mookie's attempts at some kind of transcendental philosophy and it's like reading a child's musings on the supernatural. It's frustrating, at least when he was drawing things happening you could laugh at the poor execution, but when he's basically just writing a somehow even more self-absorbed myspace journal I can't take it. It's dull. He's stupid, and it's dull.
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Jan 7, 2022 13:23
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Mookie makes shameless use of copy pasting and text dumps to save time but doesn’t seem to understand that the point of those shortcuts is to make telling the story faster. There’s no point in using all these time saving methods when you waste all the time you saved repeating the same thing over and over again. It’s like he’s only putting out pages to keep the timeslot.
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Jan 7, 2022 14:51
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Bismuth posted:I feel like holding your head with your elbows braced on the table is a classic exasperation pose, but holding your head like that while hovering the elbows above the table is odd. Like I GISed 'holding head reading' and theres a ton of that exact pose, except the elbows are always in contact with table with the exception of a couple pics of people sitting on the floor with a book in their laps It's hard to do the usual elbows on the table pose when you have weird elbow shark fins.
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Jan 7, 2022 16:00
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Nighthand posted:
this is hella esoteric writing for sure
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Samovar posted:^^^ it wasn't bought by accident - the proprietors recognized it for the jack-off manual it was.
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TheHan posted:Mookie makes shameless use of copy pasting and text dumps to save time but doesn’t seem to understand that the point of those shortcuts is to make telling the story faster. There’s no point in using all these time saving methods when you waste all the time you saved repeating the same thing over and over again. It’s like he’s only putting out pages to keep the timeslot. Yes! The whole comic feels like padding just to make sure he puts something out, but no one cares! Why does he do it
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Jan 7, 2022 18:06
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:Yes! The whole comic feels like padding just to make sure he puts something out, but no one cares! Why does he do it So he can keep getting invited to do his 'writing memorable heroes and villains' panel at conventions.
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Jan 7, 2022 18:18
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Mordja posted:You know, I only just saw this clip for the first time earlier today but it fits so well. The entire training sequence was great. Mystery Men is a good movie that was overshadowed by the other comedies that came out that year.
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ok so asinotaph is love or kindness or something I get it mookie love this softer world of magic where you can be resurrected by a vine creep against your will, or by your husband as long as he doesn't vaguely hear you hosed anyone else ever from a bog witch
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Jan 7, 2022 19:38
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PoptartsNinja posted:So he can keep getting invited to do his 'writing memorable heroes and villains' panel at conventions. And what an enthralling panel it is.
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Jan 7, 2022 20:13
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TheHan posted:Mookie makes shameless use of copy pasting and text dumps to save time but doesn’t seem to understand that the point of those shortcuts is to make telling the story faster. There’s no point in using all these time saving methods when you waste all the time you saved repeating the same thing over and over again. It’s like he’s only putting out pages to keep the timeslot. My assumption is that he's priding himself on maintaining his schedule, but he's also winging the plot, so he's stalling for time while he tries to think of something. That's why we get travel sequences when the characters don't have a destination, recap pages every time Snout acquires even the smallest tidbit of new information, journal updates summarizing what we just watched Snout do: anything to slow-walk the plot while Mookie tries to figure out what the plot is.
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Jan 7, 2022 20:50
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Yeah I'm still very certain that ultimately the whole point of this is so he can still call himself "Webcomic Artist" and not "Former Webcomic Artist."
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Nighthand posted:
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It seems like it would be incredibly easy to have them go 'obviously we need to go to wherever Asinotaph is' and then have a slow tour of this new era of the setting. A pilgrimage narrative isn't novel but it would be fine, I guess? And of course nobody knows where Asinotaph is and there's lots of dead ends and ultimately it's found in dreams and the friends we made along the way etc etc. This would be so easy and wouldn't involve any rancid bog witches.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Everything is just dialogue spoken by Wes Studi's character in Mystery Men. Soon, Snout will start wearing watermelons on his feet so Mookie doesn't have to remember how many toes he has.
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Joe Slowboat posted:A pilgrimage narrative isn't novel but it would be fine, I guess? I mean that's what this story WAS. They were supposed to travel to different libraries to find the book they needed. Then they visited a bog witch because Arudak thought she could raise the dead instead of doing that.
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Drakyn posted:"My god! A tome writ by the greatest wanker to ever live!"
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Mohawk Potato posted:God it feels like he is ineptly riffing on Yog-Sothoh is the gate, Yog-Sothoh is the key to the gate. Yog-Sothoth needs to go gently caress itself to open the gate! Mystery solved! Thanks Ghostbusters!
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I mean that's what this story WAS. They were supposed to travel to different libraries to find the book they needed. I don't think they through she could raise the dead. She was just a chandak Arudak wanted to talk to - and I think talk to her about his dead love wasn't event stated, just implied. What she was supposed to do is a mystery (in other words: she was supposed to tell them she hosed someone else and mookie knew that so the characters also knew they were supposed to talk to her). It is impressive how little the latest chapter moved the plot along. Just about the only things that happened is that Arudak learned he was in a love triangle and Kaianda was given a strong reason to question her humanity. Everything else we already knew - even Snout loving was immediately retconned as a new thing because he apparently does this all the time.
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The post hoc explanation for the lake chandak visit was that they needed to confront their fears and insecurities because the dream realm they're planning on accessing brings out and attacks one's emotions, and they wanted to prepare themselves before they experienced the real poo poo. How they know this when they haven't done it yet and we're still reading the book about it, I'm not sure. I think I can actually accept that as the idea, but I still suspect that Mookie conceived of it as an event happening on the way to another location, but just gave up and made it the destination because he couldn't think of anywhere else for them to be going to. It's the best explanation I can think of for having them be surprised to encounter the person they'd spent hours traveling to see in the place where she lived. Anyway: Again, I'm interested in whether or not the Callan-Maltak magic shift and subsequent Callanian industrial revolution happened. Dominic's last vision saw Callan's magic decline over the course of decades, which they'd replace with some sort of steampunk or magitech industry, while Maltak's magic would rise and their chandaks would return. Well, we've been to Maltak, and the chandaks are back, but the jet-propelled, riveted-hulled, heavier-than-air flying machine is conjured and piloted by – of all things – ink magic. So what's up with that? The idea of Dominic altering the nature of magic to prevent the rise of Callanian jock tech is funny enough, but I'm really amused by the idea that Dominic's epic final vision, obtained when he burned out his second sight looking upon the Heart of Magic, turned out to be one for three on poo poo that actually happened.
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YF-23 posted:I don't think they through she could raise the dead. She was just a chandak Arudak wanted to talk to - and I think talk to her about his dead love wasn't event stated, just implied. What she was supposed to do is a mystery (in other words: she was supposed to tell them she hosed someone else and mookie knew that so the characters also knew they were supposed to talk to her).  It was definitely stated. Although maybe Dominic is supposed to have misunderstood Arudak...? Maybe he was trying to, uh, save her soul or something? If so that's really dumb, if they're this close friends he should have explained himself better.
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There are so many words, and none of them are good. None of them. How do you write so many words in your dialogue-free comic and have approximately zero of them be interesting or revealing? This comic is just...masturbatory, and not because of the incredibly gratuitous sex scene which added nothing except a conflict that was resolved in a single page.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:
Wait, was that line in the context of visiting the chandak? Because I took it as a more general "Arudak wants to revive Kazya" and how the trip to the bog witch was related to that remained unstated. I could be misremembering, but it feels like a line about Arudak's quest more generally and not the chandak's relation to it.
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