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What is YISUN?
Mother
A lie we tell ourselves to have a purpose
Bliss
A paradox with no solution
Father
A strong female protagonist
The weakest thing there is and the smallest crawling thing
Creator
Everything in this miserable and hellish existence
A solution with no paradoxes
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paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I FIND THE PRIDE YOU TAKE IN YOUR HOUSE ROAST... AMUSING. NO WHIP, SHOT OF HAZELNUT.

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paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
Ulysses just came off as profoundly mentally unwell to me, never really considered the possibility of him being written to make the player go "well hang on now let's hear him out"

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I'm permabanned courier semioticstomper69

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

RocketMermaid posted:

The Maybe SORD

whof even FORGED this conksuck sword

DEMIUGRES???

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Bilirubin posted:

oh god now I am reading the sord section and somehow forgot the SNOOP DOGG SNOW CONE MACHETE

my favorite subtle Dave joke is that his stationary has a watermark of the movie poster for Soul Plane. when I finally noticed that I sighed so hard my heart stopped for a moment.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
just a heads up but Abaddon has reduced GUN to the $2 tier on his patreon for a bit, so if you have any interest nows the time to grab it

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

M_Gargantua posted:

Did Gideon Nav study the blade like Maya, or would she have taken Metis advice?


The only thing Gideon ever studied was porn rags and I think she'd be the first to say as much.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
the problem with homestuck is its fundamentally a couple to three dozen really funny bits and good character interactions strung together with a plot even the author admits was just kinda being extrapolated outwards to see how ridiculous he could make it

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I plunge through the ceiling in a shower of plaster and splinters, completely annihilating your coffee table upon landing flat on my face. slowly I raise my head to make eye contact and, through cracked and bleeding lips, speak words of utmost sincerity and direst import: "Vriska did nothing wrong"

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007


Potato Salad posted:

Working on it

Concerning

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
god dammit im such a loving simpleton this made me crack up

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
"People die when they're killed" yeah maybe if they're losers

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

The Demilich posted:

(accidentaly stabs entire six hand lengths sword into my torso & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]

my master cuts me in half with the maybe sword and asks me if i have a choice. i simply choose not to die. everyone in throne groans at my bullshit

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

yeah but he didn't not buy it nearly as hard as Maya wanted him loving Cut

"its actually very funny and cool, to me, that you have cut me in half" was more or less Juggernaut's response

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Elissimpark posted:

Frog-monk is going have an aneurysm when he gets round to sweeping the top of the mountain.

now I want allison to run into that guy that yelled at her for doing pull ups on a god again

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Emrikol posted:

It's honestly kind of odd that Incubus is useless without a sword. It's not like Meti didn't cover that contingency. Maybe he fell asleep during that lesson.

hes a phenomenally poor swordsman. he struck Maya ten times and failed to decapitate her. if anything hes better at blood alchemy, it seems.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
you hosed up, jagganoth! your ultimate attack ended up just making everyone hot

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I do not fear the man who knows 100,000 dunks, I fear the man who has performed one dunk 100,000 times

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
Talking to two kings of the seven part world is probably not even the weirdest thing that has happened to that guy this week

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I cannot emphasize how fun it is to see White Chain, after years of development from NO I AM A PERFECT LAWBOT to being a pawn of 2 Michael that hangs around Allison cuz bossman sez so, to Allison's really strict sensei, back to a lawbot that feels like she has to knock Allison the gently caress out for being a dangerous idiot...

to a goofy lightweight that needs a trip sitter hitting the local bar. i love just about every character in this comic.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Allison and the crew fuckin around in some market in Throne makes for the best scenes of this comic, hands down

honestly? given how they met and their early interactions, I love that White Chain's reaction to seeing Allison again is to start ugly-crying once they're in private. i think one of the things that defines Allison as a protagonist is how hard she impacts everyone she interacts with in the story. like even Zaid of all people, who has been in the comic what, ten pages total? comes looking for her.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Effaewy Geeoh Cioelle

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
Dave hosed off to become a cryptid

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Whirling posted:


HE'S DOING IT, HE'S FISHING

its not quite grilling, but fishing is also one of the Sanctioned Acts

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Hey, pal
The wormsters union #9094909 resents this baseless assumption

we got woims out dere makin sure yer kids dont get run over by some hard-on, and we push around a lotta little ol ladies from florida

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

maswastaken posted:

Rivalled closely by learning that Jadis literally saw it as her destiny to impale Gog Agog with her anti-arrow defence system.

looking into the Aperture That Annihilates You Instantly and seeing the full breadth and depth of Gog's antics across every universe and timeline. you have chosen the Path of Shtick and there is nothing down it but pain.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

TwoPair posted:

"It's gone from being funny to so terribly lame to ironically funny so many times my mind can't take it anymore!"

Jadis politely applauding for infinite pratfalls, which unfortunately only contributes to the chip on Gog's shoulder.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Oxxidation posted:

DETECTIVE HARRIER DU BOIS, Tequila Sunset, the Infernal Engine, the Shivering Man, the Apricot-Poisoned One, bearer of the word PALE and Fuckup of the Seven-Part World

Also a HUGE FUCKIN' COMMIE

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Whirling posted:

Solomon is backseat gaming and desperately trying to tell White Chain that she can in fact parry the giant fish. Will he succeed, or will White Chain continue to be a C-rank scrub?

"DOOOOOODGE!"

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

A.o.D. posted:

Teleporting Behind the Bastards.

...but Gog, you know who won't lock the world into an endless, futile cycle of nihilistic violence forever?

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I assume Gog's earliest appearance is mostly down to figuring out the character. That being said, her describing herself as a whimsical billion-year-old clown means that she is eternally doing one bit or another just to keep from getting bored. Mad, faceless idiot god? Yeah she's got that in her deck. Not her favorite, but the Mass loves the hits.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It also quietly solves the question of "Why does she simply not try to overwhelm everything everywhere by force with Worms?"

She probably has, multiple times, and it's just bo-ring now.

It also explains why she's the multiversal media maven of the current cycle. At this point it's just showbiz, and this time central casting sent over a damsel with some range to her.

Donkringel posted:

She has also heard the heir's reasons for want they want countless times too. She is genuinely curious to see if Allison says anything she hasn't heard before. Beating every bastard to death seems like it would have come up in the past.

This exchange kind of solves the question of whether or not Allison was the intended heir this time. Gog Agog remembers that she isn't supposed to be the one, Jadis knew that she would be the one. What that amounts to remains to be seen.

paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Feb 17, 2024

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Bilirubin posted:

Being her is reaaaaaaaaaaaly fun!

Gog's playing to an audience of one, ultimately. If a molecule of the Mass remembers, then all the Mass remembers. Jagganoth can't die, so he sort-of remembers

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Joe Slowboat posted:

This conversation feels like absolute proof that’s a big fat lie.
Become Gog-Agog! You’ll have a billion years of envy, depression, and selfish futility, but you’re good at putting on a fake smile about it!

Really is it though? Eat the worm, you'll see how pathetic Solomon David is, you'll see how venial and vicious Mottom is, what a walking corpse Mammon is, what a disgusting ineffectual creep Incubus is.

As for Jadis? She knows all the above, but the day she gets off her rear end and does anything remains to be seen

She's yet to find a solution for Jagganoth I guess, but that's the thing about the Mass. It remembers.

drat I love the direction abaddon went with gog agog

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I think questions of what Jadis does and doesn't know are kind of addressed by the fact she, as a character, screams in agony at the reader through alt-text. She knows literally everything always and forever. Jadis looked upon the true shape of creation and was shown Homestuck.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Diqnol posted:

Not gonna lie, all of these homestuck references are agonizing

This is a good comic independent of that perspective thank god

You now know a flickering fraction of a second of Jadis' pain

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

FuturePastNow posted:

the clown bit is a coping mechanism

Gog Agog sincerely seems to enjoy spectacle and absurdity, so I'm not sure that it is. Not to be too hard on the woman but there's a part of her that's an impression comedian at heart, so she might just be like that.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
It occurred to me that Gog Agog is the only demiurge to be completely upfront with Allison. Mottom had her whole thing of being terrified of her own empire, Incubus tried to turn her into pet ambition-ghouls. Jadis, like, tried? I guess? And she didn't do Allison any harm, but she's so inexorably yoked to causality her most defining statement is "it is what I do." Not as a principle but it is literally what she does. Jagganoth asked her to help eradicate everything, but let's be honest that was just a formality. But Gog has always been very straight-forward. "I'm your biggest fan. I'm made of worms and if you eat this worm you'll become me. How would you like to rule an empire?"

I think Gog Agog is completely earnest in everything she says. Allison is a new wrinkle in a formula she's sick to death of

paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Feb 18, 2024

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
There's an interesting parallel in Allison being the barista in over her head and Gog Agog being the silly, faceless, idiot god developing into the Rising King and the Mass who's word is Beast respectively

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paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Joe Slowboat posted:

Except Gog’s first major appearance was doing her “I’m a clown and your biggest fan” thing about how Allison should go fight “that meanie Solomon” back in King of Swords. Also “eat the worm.”
Gog was less up front with Allison on her first interaction than Mottom, who immediately asked Allison to take her place and explained why; Incubus, who opened with “I’m one-seventh of God” and gave her exactly what he promised, even if it was presumably hosed and would end up destroying her (but it’s also just… part of him, his own ambition, so it’s not like he lied about what he gave) or Jagganoth, whose first move was to monologue and then do violence.

Honestly Gog has already massively manipulated Allison to her own ends. This is Gog round 2 or 3, depending how you count Gog at the big battle.

Gog-Agog has been significantly less up front with Allison than any other demiurge with the possible exception of Incubus, who’s a weird case.

Allison has scars from what Mottom did to her, whereas the first time Gog Agog approached her she cranked Gog in the face and it was treated as a joke. Cio nearly split her head open when she was under Incubus's control

e. wait sorry do you think im saying gog agog is good? gently caress no, the only demiurge i stan for is jadis

paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Feb 18, 2024

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