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Scion Listened to Jack, maybe because he got the Communicator shard. Didn't Taylor get that one too?
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Four Words chat: "Who is your daddy?" Or, even better: "I am your father." "There is no God" "Yo quiero Taco Bell" Dietrich fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Aug 27, 2013 |
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Faldoncow posted:I'm still curious on the Endbringers. The sheer volume of capes that have been lost to them seems like it wasn't worth it if they've been held as an anti-Scion force from the start. I don't know, Saint seems like a guy trying to do what's right and making some bad calls. Somewhat of a foil to Taylor in that way.
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Sep 3, 2013 14:24
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veekie posted:The difference is just that while they're both in over their heads, Saint never admits it, even to himself. Which is what makes him useful as a foil.
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Sep 3, 2013 16:04
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I don't know about you guys but I'm torn up over the death of Clockblocker.
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Sep 4, 2013 13:38
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SerSpook posted:Simurgh is an interesting case. Pretty much a perfect, or near-perfect, precog. How much of what it does is intelligence, and how much is it just Contessa on steroids? Even that would require some intelligence, sure, but not necessarily that much. Just picking whatever future seems to have the best results based on whatever she's been programmed with or whatever. Does anyone have a link to the chapter where Simurgh did the communication block? I want to re-read that section.
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Sep 5, 2013 16:51
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Out of each frying pan, into a series of slightly larger frying pans, still have no idea where the fire is.
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Oct 3, 2013 13:38
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Virigoth posted:also, still have no idea what the fire is. What if it's frying pans all the way down?
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Oct 3, 2013 13:49
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It seems more likely that Gilag or whatever her name is will become the new (fake) second entity than Taylor.
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Oct 8, 2013 14:59
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veekie posted:The Black Knight, who can't lose as long as he's fighting a parahuman Sounds more like Taylor to me.
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Oct 14, 2013 14:11
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veekie posted:Except she is not likely to be mistaken for a man. Her father had the same shard, just never triggered.
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Oct 14, 2013 14:29
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Mostly I'm just saying that description doesn't say Jack to me. Number-man, maybe.
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Oct 14, 2013 14:36
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veekie posted:Note how it's phrased. The Black Knight is described like an attack dog there. Taylor, however she winds up, will be a Master type due to the Administrator shard, not something you use in a head on attack. Number Man is extremely strong head on but only really powerful when used behind the scenes, he has more uses than direct assault. I don't really understand where you're drawing that from. His powers weren't really a universal trump of any sort. He was just really good at orchestrating capes and making them do what he wanted them to do though manipulations.
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Oct 14, 2013 16:44
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Way too many things going right in this story right now.
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Oct 22, 2013 15:26
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Tollymain posted:I wonder how many people will blame Taylor for the deaths that took place under her control and how many will realize they probably would have died anyway? I doubt she's planning on living long enough to find out, but I'd wager the majority will see that they've done more damage to scion and suffered fewer casualties under Taylor's control than they ever managed operating individually and that only the few, the proud, the jackass will take personal affront to her controlling them.
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Oct 24, 2013 13:47
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That was a pretty awesome take-down right there.
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Oct 26, 2013 20:11
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Oneiros posted:Bolded your problem there. There were like 5 of us.
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Oct 28, 2013 15:12
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I would really prefer it if she were dead. It makes her whole story of sacrifice for the greater good that much more powerful. And I'm tired of every single media I consume being set up for sequels.
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Oct 29, 2013 18:23
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For some reason I can't listen to Royals by Lorde without thinking of Taylor.
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Nov 15, 2013 18:29
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I didn't like the idea that Taylor lived because I thought her sacrificing herself for humanity was crucial to her narrative and what made her a remarkable hero character. So at first I was a bit miffed, but then one little interaction flipped me on the issue. Contessa spared her because she decided that she needed to die for the greater good. She knew that anyone who could do the terrible things Taylor did and feel wholly justified had lost their humanity. That was the test. Great ending.
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Nov 19, 2013 20:41
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Silver2195 posted:I'm not sure how well elements like Japan being essentially a Third World country due to a giant tsunami and the Japanese villains in the first arc would go over in Japan. Are you kidding me? They eat that poo poo up.
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Nov 24, 2013 05:14
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I'm starting to like where this new story is going.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:43
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Boil is shaping up nicely.
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Dec 16, 2013 16:47
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Ok, I finally read pact 1.2-1.4, and I'm quite impressed. I think it will be a good read.
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Jan 3, 2014 19:30
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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:I figure that Molly was picked over Blake because Granny had said that she would choose a woman. A lovely familiar that turns out to be un-intuitively awesome when used appropriately.
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Jan 14, 2014 02:38
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Virigoth posted:This new story by Wildbow needs "something". I'm losing interest fast unfortunately. It was a nice cliffhanger at the end of the post, but meh. He's doing quite a bit of system-building but all the progress seems to be tangential to the stated problems of the story, which doesn't feel very satisfying. I can't leave the house! I'm eating oatmeal for every meal! Let's bind a spirit of hypothermia to this hatchet.
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Jan 28, 2014 14:40
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pumpinglemma posted:He can't safely leave the house without having enough magical or political power to defend himself. Binding ghosts gives him some power, which he can bootstrap into more power by using them to get a good familiar/implement/demesne. That... doesn't seem tangential at all. What's tangential-feeling is that it's not well explained exactly how having a hypothermia hatchet confers power. (Which is exactly what we're about to find out.) This is mainly a comment on the pacing of the story thus far. I think we're seeing foundation being laid for a great story, but the pacing means that a lot of future-interesting things seem present-boring (to me, anyway).
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Jan 28, 2014 15:24
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veekie posted:I think at present the problem is he's basically unarmed and without options. All he can do is bullshit his way through things. With the hatchet, he has a weapon, a bomb even, that can be used without destroying himself. He needs more weapons, defenses, warning systems, senses, etc, before he is strong enough that the sharks stop circling. I mean, I get all that, but that's only because I've been told all that. I have yet to be shown any of that. And the "we'll just get an errand boy to handle getting your stuff for you, the cost of this service will be deducted from your allowance" resolution to his being stuck in the house is a bit of a let down. So it's kinda hard to feel like anything substantial has actually been accomplished though Blake's agency in the face of all the problems that (on the other hand) have been quite effectively shown, rather than told.
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I'm pretty excited about the way wildbow handled Fae in this update. It's a take I haven't seen before.
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Feb 1, 2014 18:26
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Well that's a creative way to deal with Blake.
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Feb 25, 2014 15:28
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How does he keep coming up with such badass ideas?
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Mar 6, 2014 15:43
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Rabbit punting for fun and profit.
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Mar 11, 2014 15:20
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Hugoon Chavez posted:I hadn't even considered this but it seems pretty probable! I think wildbow has imposter syndrome in a bad way.
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Mar 27, 2014 14:01
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Hugoon Chavez posted:^ I have no loving clue what Evan is. By the rules of Pact so far, ghosts are just energy stuck in an event or idea. Evan acts like that, sometimes, then like a thinking being, other times. Which one is it? If no one "Collected him", then shouldn't he be all there? It's either a soul ro a ghost, makes no sense if he acts like both. My take on Even is that he's a soul that is becoming a ghost. Wildbow has wisely stated about 40 times thus far that you shouldn't try to put labels on things in this universe.
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Apr 3, 2014 16:15
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Leave it to a Canadian to invent a magic system where part of your power is determined by how polite you are, even to your enemies.
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Apr 15, 2014 18:44
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This is gettin good.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:43
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Yet again, Blake starts kicking rear end and solving problems and Rose brings it to a screeching halt.
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Oct 28, 2014 16:24
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Namarrgon posted:What the hell just happened? I'm not sure if I understand. That was my take on it as well. I have no idea how this is going to wrap up soon in a satisfactory way.
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New update. molly is a drat bell.
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