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GunnerJ posted:It's interesting that Abaddon's said he hadn't heard of Exalted before people started mentioning it, because Throne has basically the same weirdo vibe and aesthetics that game's version of Hell. There's definitely a lot of thematic overlap between exalted and k6bd but Throne is nowhere near weird enough to be Malfeas. Where's the sun that's also a spear that's also a dude? The retrocausal desert? The snot-tentacle baby-loving Endermen? some of the demons would fit right in at Throne though. Himself probably has dual citizenship Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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K6BD has strongly diverged from Exalted!Hell as its story and setting were expanded upon, but everything from Preem Nand's Hell to the drinking contest still has the vibes.
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Yeah I should have been more clear, I meant the weird mutant devil-infested Throne that Alison got yeeted into at the start of the comic, at about that level of setting knowledge it felt a lot like how I imagined Malfeas.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:If TES is the prototype K6BD then what is the protoTES Glorantha gets thrown around a lot, read a bit and checks out, which gets to Runa posted:getting your writer high af and locking them in an office until they have a draft ready extrapolating that would be the Bhagavad Gita (the Mahabharata in general), the Buddhist discourses ("if you find Buddha on the road, kill him"), the Upanishads. From there microdose some acid to get those along with gnosticism and hermeticism and hell yeah it's a pretty impressive core
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Schwarzwald posted:K6BD has strongly diverged from Exalted!Hell as its story and setting were expanded upon, but everything from Preem Nand's Hell to the drinking contest still has the vibes. Yeah, I like the style in those chapters, but the change was pragmatic. It's really hard to tell a coherent story when your characters are that alien. Not to say you can't do it - Rice Boy has a lot of very empathetic characters who are very bizarre - but in the end I'm glad he ended up focusing on more humanlike characters.
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KSBD also reminds me of Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, a book about immortal, super-enhanced assholes who style themselves after Hindu gods and lord over the lesser folk.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Yeah, I like the style in those chapters, but the change was pragmatic. It's really hard to tell a coherent story when your characters are that alien. Not to say you can't do it - Rice Boy has a lot of very empathetic characters who are very bizarre - but in the end I'm glad he ended up focusing on more humanlike characters. They're still by far my favorite parts of the comic. Off the top of my head Prophet did a pretty great job telling a story fully immersed in that kind of otherworldliness, but John Prophet himself isn't a very interesting person in the way that any given character in KSBD is, and effectively every character and most objects and locations are Prophet. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Vattu's visual texture is untouchable and I loved the early chapters but it really ends up flailing around and settling on a very naive, kind of pat ending for a story about how empires fall. I hope K6BD sticks the landing better than that.
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The discussion on the nature of violence in the latest episode of Gundam: Witch from Mercury reminded me of K6BD and inspired me to make this edit:
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wdarkk posted:The discussion on the nature of violence in the latest episode of Gundam: Witch from Mercury reminded me of K6BD and inspired me to make this edit: I was thinking the exact same thing while watching that episode, almost said "Protect the rat!" out loud (they did protect the rat).
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habeasdorkus posted:Unsounded doesn't have the multiversal scope of KSBD, but absolutely does have a deeply developed world with its own mythology, religions, and origins. It's also flippin' gorgeous. Content warning from pretty much chapter 2 onwards for gore, and at a couple points around chapter 10 for attempted sexual assault of a minor. glad someone else beat me to it some substantial overlapping themes, too The author's elevator pitch: quote:The broadest summary would be: “An undead sorcerer makes friends with the betailed daughter of a crime boss, and the two set out into a world on the brink of political and metaphysical disaster, searching for a way forward and the truth behind their own existences.”
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Google Jeb Bush posted:glad someone else beat me to it  more things should have summaries like this.I nearly forgot about Unsounded. That means I've got years of backlog to binge. 
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OgreNoah posted:Lord of Light is such a good book. Creatures of Light and Darkness, however, was garbage
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Although it does contain an idea similar to ki rata
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The first half of the Books of Amber series was pretty cool. (the korwin ones)
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The Merlin books were alright, but they were clearly written as part 2 of a 3 part story. RI loving P, I guess.
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https://www.tumblr.com/orbitaldropkick/87187609921/mathangi-maya-mantra-quick-warmup-sketch quote:Mathangi "Maya" Mantra.
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Bilirubin posted:Although it does contain an idea similar to ki rata Tell me more.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:We're on the brink of being done Wat  Is this their magnus opus or something. I love grand stories but Im also a little weary of them(will it ever finish? That sort of thing).
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Ehhhhh. K6BD is grand, it doesn't feel one bit meandering. The plot is clear and clearly drawing toward a conclusion. It is taking a while, but I think that's more down to the quality of the output rather than the narrative dragging its feet.
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Skippy McPants posted:Ehhhhh. K6BD is grand, it doesn't feel one bit meandering. The plot is clear and clearly drawing toward a conclusion. It is taking a while, but I think that's more down to the quality of the output rather than the narrative dragging its feet. They're talking about Unsounded. Which, it does seem kind of insane that Ashley Cope is only halfway through.
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Mindblast posted:Wat It is. The good thing is that it sounds like the end of book 1 will definitely be a finale for a bunch of the cast and for the Silver plot.
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1649500341380042771/photo/1 “Secret techniques? Here, girl, I’ll show you a secret way to pick your teeth. Ha ha!” -Meti ten Ryo to her student Mathangi
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She's a complete idiot. But she's the right kind of idiot.
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RBA Starblade posted:Lol if that's actually the question that owned her It probably is! And her answer was probably that she was loving terrified of death, just like Jantris - every moment of their lives is based on death, dealing it out, obsessively terrified of their turn. Meanwhile the noodle vendor thinks about noodles. Even if they get killed in a universal war they were actually alive for a while, rather than spending their whole existence steeped in death
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I really love Abaddon's use of sound effects. "DOOM" is amazing every time it comes up in a really dramatic moment. The fact that doesn't seem to be an actual sound in the world, but coming from a feeling, is just sublime. Maya is making that sound with her face.
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RBA Starblade posted:Lol if that's actually the question that owned her
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habeasdorkus posted:Does this mean she's not poisoned by sword law? Head empty, sword sharp
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shirts and skins posted:Is that a statue of aesma?  Sure looks like it. Furiously dumbassing prostrate before the god of dumbassery
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