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Patchwork Shaman posted:Who is that guy in your avatar? Antimony is a girl.
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I love my Mort avatar. If I could hug him, I would. But, avatar. Also, ghost.
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Apr 21, 2013 21:59
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Azran posted:I'm a terrible fan, I don't recognize Cosmobot's old avatar. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1122 It's relatively recent.
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Apr 21, 2013 22:24
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Being bitter toward your friend does not suit you, Annie.
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Apr 22, 2013 08:11
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I like how Smitty's response to finding a marble in his coat pocket is to simply make note of it and keep it there. I have to imagine he has other random objects on his person that will help others, save himself, or diffuse situations and he just keeps them where he found them.
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Iceclaw posted:Being bitter toward your friend does not suit you, Annie. That face is like anything but a bitter-face.
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Apr 22, 2013 08:23
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Apparently, helping a Chickcarney also causes you to grin like a maniac and your pupils to contract to pinpoints. He's...he's turning into Coyote. 
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Apr 22, 2013 08:31
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karmicknight posted:I like how Smitty's response to finding a marble in his coat pocket is to simply make note of it and keep it there. I have to imagine he has other random objects on his person that will help others, save himself, or diffuse situations and he just keeps them where he found them. Yeah, I was just thinking, Smitty's life must be oddly surreal, even moreso than all the other court people. When random insignificant things happen they're just his power preparing for the future, all randomness eventually falling into place.
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Apr 22, 2013 09:54
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The chickcharney holding out his talons is the cutest thing ever.
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Apr 22, 2013 14:34
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Smitty's outlook on life, namely ascribing significance to minor occurrences is pretty indistinguishable from that of a mentally ill person, except in his case all of those little things actually do mean something. Actually, doesn't this mean he's sort of an avatar of predestination? If he had the marble for a week, that implies that his meeting the chickcharney has been fated to happen at least since that point.
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Apr 22, 2013 14:36
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The Lord of Hats posted:Actually, doesn't this mean he's sort of an avatar of predestination? If he had the marble for a week, that implies that his meeting the chickcharney has been fated to happen at least since that point. Nah. People love to ascribe all sorts of meanings to coincidences; Smitty doubly so, apparently. He would have said the same thing had the marble turned out to be useful in another way.
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Apr 22, 2013 15:21
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Smitty, aged 35, has an intervention due to his extreme hoarding ways in Chapter 285. "NO! I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'LL BE USED FOR YET!"
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Apr 22, 2013 15:49
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I'm half-expecting the caveat to Smitty's powers being when he gets good luck it's bad luck instead. They were running away from the forest, after all
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Apr 22, 2013 16:10
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Annie accidentally flips Smitty's good luck/bad luck switch. World ends 24 hours later.
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Apr 22, 2013 16:35
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The chapter title marble is a different color than this one... hmm...
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Tunicate posted:The chapter title marble is a different color than this one... hmm... It's lying on the ground; maybe it's the lost one.
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Apr 22, 2013 17:07
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Smitty is basically an Adventure Game Protagonist.
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Tunicate posted:The chapter title marble is a different color than this one... hmm... What? The chapter title page is a talon. MikeJF posted:It's lying on the ground; maybe it's the lost one. Okay, double what? Edit: VV Oh, duh. I barely ever look at those. Brightman fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Apr 22, 2013 |
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Brightman posted:What? The chapter title page is a talon. Main page, scroll down to the chapter list.
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My goodness the Chickcarney is adorable. I want one for a pet now, I'll promise to give it marbles and chopped up rabbit to eat!
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Apr 22, 2013 19:04
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When he said that helping a Chickcarney is good luck I was rather surprised. I thought the Chickcarney was fairly creepy looking and it was going to be one of those "Encountering a Chickcarney is a bad omen and now we're cursed by it's dodgy chicken hands" things.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickcharney This link had already been posted in the thread previously. The whole "good luck if you help it, bad luck if you mistreat it" is a common pattern of fairytales.
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Apr 22, 2013 20:47
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Is the Chickcharney doing the Gob Bluth chicken dance in the first panel.
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Cyphoderus posted:They were running away from the forest, after all To be fair when we first see them running neither is entirely all that worked up about it, and Annie never gets afraid. She just finds it hilarious. If it was a massive big deal, I doubt she'd be laughing. Maybe it's just too much of a good thing, and now the citizens of the forest are rushing to crown Smitty their God-Emperor. FLEE FROM RESPONSIBILITY!
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Jeabus Mahogany posted:Smitty is basically an Adventure Game Protagonist. Except in that case the Chickcharney's opening words would have been "Thank you for finding my marble!" and leaving Annie and Smitty in the confusion that results from inadvertently sequence-breaking by being genre savvy in a poorly-made game.
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So.. Smitty is Maxwell Adams, from the Freelance Astronauts LPs?
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Ursine Asylum posted:Except in that case the Chickcharney's opening words would have been "Thank you for finding my marble!" and leaving Annie and Smitty in the confusion that results from inadvertently sequence-breaking by being genre savvy in a poorly-made game. Well, more in the sense that anything he picks up is going to be useful in some way.
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Cat Mattress posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickcharney You also have creatures where being an rear end in a top hat to them means they give you free stuff, like catching leprechauns for their gold. I can't think of any creatures that uniquely screw you over if you're nice to them (and are nice to you if you screw them over).
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ElementaryScotty posted:Is the Chickcharney doing the Gob Bluth chicken dance in the first panel. Have you guys even seen a chicken? Chickens don't clap!
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Jon Joe posted:I can't think of any creatures that uniquely screw you over if you're nice to them Meet Yallery Brown, one of the fae.
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Roland Jones posted:Meet Yallery Brown, one of the fae. Went to the library today to kill some time and was looking for books on real estate investment...ran across this while looking for the right section   From the few stories I've read so far, the morals all seem to be "Coyote is a dick" and so are a bunch of other characters, actually Seems Tom has done a pretty decent job of depicting him so far.
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:"Coyote is a dick" Trickster characters in mythology tend to be right assholes.
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I wonder if Coyote represents all the tricksters, or if there's others. I'd love to see Annie go up against Anansi.
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Daktar posted:I wonder if Coyote represents all the tricksters, or if there's others. I'd love to see Annie go up against Anansi. Well we know from Brinnie that Odin exists, as does presumably the whole Norse pantheon. And Coyotes mentioned other Native American spirits. Given the nature of the ether I think every myth is real. Should we start a countdown to vampires? 
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Prison Warden posted:Well we know from Brinnie that Odin exists, as does presumably the whole Norse pantheon. And Coyotes mentioned other Native American spirits. Given the nature of the ether I think every myth is real. Considering how much Darkstalkers stuff Tom's been doing? Yes, I think we should.
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Yes, it was very similar to this one too...
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Now the chickcharney is going to think Smitty gave him an inferior marble when he had it's actual one all along. 
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Faraday Cage posted:Now the chickcharney is going to think Smitty gave him an inferior marble when he had it's actual one all along.
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What if he's running from everyone that wants a marble.
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