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Hempuli posted:GREAT is this just a beat for beat retelling of Forrest Gump now? I haven't watched it in like 30 years but I'm pretty sure this how it went
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Oct 14, 2023 02:25
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Noir89 posted:I like it, but I read it more like the intro to a Disney or Pixar movie about a dude taking care about a colorful and diverse bunch of skittish AIs being afraid of being in space but feeling comfort from their human companion. An accident will occur but they will pull through with teamwork and bravely facing their different fears in space :3 So wholesome!! I'd watch it. Or add it to the list of things to draw at some stage. Son of Thunderbeast posted:That's a very wholesome direction to go! My mind went in a "the AIs are sophisticated enough to experience subjective/qualitative feedback phenomena analogous to/exactly like emotions, and we haven't given them any sensory apparatus (or it's in disrepair/broken)" direction Welp, that's horrifying! It's fun drawing something with the right balance of vagueness and suggestion such that people come up with their own theories as to what is going on. Even if those theories are really unsettling. My thought was that the AI were literally afraid of the dark- and space after all is very very dark! It was a kind of reflection on the nature of super-intelligent AI, or even human-level AI. Our civilisation already has access to powerful, flexible, adaptable learning-engines housed in self-repairing support modules; they're called babies. And look how well they tend to turn out. By popular demand posted:Could work for a collab narrative game where every player has to tell a story to the rest as the scardy cat AIs are just passing the time while the human assistant is on break. Sounds like my sister and I, back in the day, telling stories half the night to distract ourselves from being scared out of our brains after glimpsing a few minutes of the X Files... Squidster posted:Using a recurring supporting cast is also a great creative solution to making the sidestories feel continuous with the frame story. If each side story had an entirely new cast, it would be both a stumbling block to the reader, and require more pages to introduce the new characters and their relationships. Instead he's built a convenient shorthand that lets the reader instantly catch up. Dude's great at this. Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt employs the same idea. It's an excellent, really beautiful book. Can recommend.
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Last time, on Vigils for Friends: Today: Well, that was an escalation.   
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He is definitely not the only person to die that way. Hippos are literally considered the most dangerous animal on the planet.
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edit: hup Cooking Papa - Cook 2: Bachelor's Chunky "The Curry" (???)      The way to a boss's heart to through his stomach.
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Oct 14, 2023 08:24
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Oct 14, 2023 09:49
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I love Joy. She has absolutely no doubt that she would win this random competition she just heard about, if there was any real incentive to do so. She stumbled across a side quest but doesn't really care for the projected quest reward.
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SimonChris posted:sexy horse loki good god
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Oct 14, 2023 10:34
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honestly you havent seen anything yet
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Ghost Leviathan posted:He is definitely not the only person to die that way. Hippos are literally considered the most dangerous animal on the planet. Hippos almost are the most dangerous, but it turns out ninja have the real ultimate power
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The Lord of the Rings       I'm pretty sure Gandalf is supposed to have died and come back to life here, but I guess the comic writers thought that would be too confusing.
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SimonChris posted:I'm pretty sure Gandalf is supposed to have died and come back to life here, but I guess the comic writers thought that would be too confusing. What the hell? That's one of the biggest things to just randomly omit. So Gwaihir just took him clothes shopping on the way back for fun then, I guess?
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Captain Hygiene posted:What the hell? That's one of the biggest things to just randomly omit. So Gwaihir just took him clothes shopping on the way back for fun then, I guess? What, you think the gray dye in his robes is colorfast? It all washed off in the pool at the root of the world.
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Captain Hygiene posted:What the hell? That's one of the biggest things to just randomly omit. So Gwaihir just took him clothes shopping on the way back for fun then, I guess? The next page flat out states that Galadriel healed his wounds, so it is not even ambiguous. I don't know why they felt that change was necessary.
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I'm very behind on the thread, but instead of waiting to catch up, I'll start posting an old comic I remember liking. The website is defunct, but at some point, I downloaded the archives - I haven't reread it since it was running, so I'm not certain if I still think it's good. I'll be discovering that along with the rest of the thread! Posting will probably be pretty irregular because I'm just built that way, number of pages per post will probably vary depending on how wordy I think they get. I'll start with a few more pages than I'll probably post at once going forward, just to get into it right away. And a fun teaser: the comic featured occasional guest art by KC Green, back before he was very well known. I'll flag those when we get to them, assuming they're included in the archives. Without further ado, here's How To Make a Sprite Comic in 8 Easy Bits!  We meet our protagonist and his friend, who I believe are both modified Maniac Mansion sprites.  Referencing some well-known sprite comics of the day here. The Final Fantasy one is, of course, 8-bit Theater. The Mega Man one I'm less sure about because I didn't really read a lot of those, but maybe MS Paint Masterpieces which is getting posted in this thread? Bob and George? I'm sure others ITT know better than I! Also, apropos of the poster in the background, here's Skinny Puppy.  I have no idea what the college AU comic he's referencing is, but on the TV we see sprites from Final Fantasy, Bubble Bobble, [???] and Mega Man. And in the final panel a hint at the main conceit of this comic: this is a world where game sprites coexist with regular humans (who are generally represented as edited sprites (mainly from Maniac Mansion as I recall), while sprites maintain their unaltered game appearance.  Introducing the protagonist's other friend, and further explaining the main conceit of this world. Once you're no longer starring in games, how do you support yourself? By working at 7-11 or getting cast in a sprite comic, for example.  Discarded game sprites need love too. Not the most amazing start to a comic, I suppose, but I do still like the main conceit and feel like it was probably pretty original at the time. I hope five pages isn't too much for people to read - later on I'll do less per post, and I know the comic eventually starts doing really long pages. It looks like the archives I have downloaded run up through page 162 - I'm not actually sure if that's the entire run of the comic, I'll have to look into it. On a different note, Tree Bucket, if you're still doing Halloween avatar variants I'd absolutely love one!
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SimonChris posted:The next page flat out states that Galadriel healed his wounds, so it is not even ambiguous. I don't know why they felt that change was necessary. Seems like the kind of choice made when you don't want to offend certain types of Christians by depicting a resurrection of someone other than Jesus, but that's probably a uniquely American concern
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The Bugle Call: Marching.      
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Seems like the kind of choice made when you don't want to offend certain types of Christians by depicting a resurrection of someone other than Jesus, but that's probably a uniquely American concern That's an interesting thing I hadn't thought about in a while since I've been around the books for so long. Growing up in a super conservative christian household, a lot of fantasy stuff was a no go based on stuff like that, but Tolkien got allowed in. Probably a combo of him coming from a catholic perspective and being kind of next door to C. S. Lewis. Maybe it was changed based on content, at least that's something more than omitting it due to complexity.
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Madam Ferrier is not messing about, what?
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I remember this, it was linked on VGcats (please don't judge me) back in the day which is how I found it. For the era I guess it was good enough for me to stick with to the end, kind of just fizzles out but there were glimpses of something half decent over its run.
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The Bikini Bottom HorrorKennyMan666 posted:Chapter 14, The Fight-O-Plankton Chapter 15: Blown up 
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Only David Hasselhoff can save them now
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So basically, Val went to Horrit and he went to Merlin and they just told him, "You're not cursed, you just have a crush on this girl. Do something about it, or get over it." He would do something about it, except now he's been sidetracked by homesickness. Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur(March 14-28, 1943)      
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:Only David Hasselhoff can save them now He vowed to be here, forever and always! E: dang, you come for the Prince you best not miss. By popular demand has a new favorite as of 19:25 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Got so excited about the eclipse today, I almost forgot to post 28TH CENTURY SUPERFAN         We're finally getting around to addressing the robo racism, but at what cost...at what cost  
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Captain Hygiene posted:Got so excited about the eclipse today, I almost forgot to post
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Owl at Home posted:So basically, Val went to Horrit and he went to Merlin and they just told him, "You're not cursed, you just have a crush on this girl. Do something about it, or get over it." He would do something about it, except now he's been sidetracked by homesickness. I know Camelot's not getting diverted from its oncoming civil war, but leaving Gawain to drink and stew doesn't feel particularly heroic to me :< Also holy poo poo, they straight up executed that guy. Squidster posted:The Bugle Call: Marching. Two things I find amusing: one, that this was how Ryuka chose to comfort Miura; two, that it worked.
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Emzedoh posted:I know Camelot's not getting diverted from its oncoming civil war, but leaving Gawain to drink and stew doesn't feel particularly heroic to me :< Val's bodycount is probably in the low triple digits at this point
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Kit Walker posted:Val's bodycount is probably in the low triple digits at this point Just like Columbus, He get the bloodlust. Just like Columbus, He get murderous on purpose.
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Woebin posted:On a different note, Tree Bucket, if you're still doing Halloween avatar variants I'd absolutely love one! Sure! Any preferences?
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Hyouge Mono Ceremony 21: Forlorn God       Goodbye, unnamed scarred samurai. Hope no one recognises you! Japan Tengu Party Illustrated chapter 16: Of Agents       Let him drop Shinobu, he can fly for god's sake.
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Emzedoh posted:Hyouge Mono Ceremony 21: Forlorn God I thought he got his neck broken and his hat / kimono are hanging from the black guy's (Yasuke?) hand
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Yeah, that's what I meant. If someone recognises his corpse, it could cause some trouble for Hideyoshi.
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