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Erev posted:I'm disappointed. The Thinkamancer thing seems rather pulled from the rear end. The entire plotline seems that way lately. Worse than usual.
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If this somehow ends up with the entire MK decrypted via some combination of Charlie's plans and Parson's panicked reaction to them, GK will have effectively swept the board. Portals to the main city of every kingdom, an entire loving army of casters from every discipline, including most of the best in the world, with zero upkeep, the draining of talent from every side who had casters there at the time and control of what used to be the safe haven for unaligned casters and the primary means of recruiting them.Otherkinsey Scale posted:So, huh. You'd think at some point in history someone would've tried linking a predictamancer with a changemancer, carnymancer (despite the ban) or something to see if it was even possible to change fate. Then again, this is a world where providing fresh mounts at waypoints to move commanders around was pretty much unheard of until Parson did it.
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Was there ever a stated reason for this hiatus? It's just been quiet for a couple weeks with no news.
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Let's hope the new colorist is more subdued with shading.
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You'd think he'd double up on textdump pages to give the art crew less work if things are so busy he needs to skip regular updates.
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I think it's funny that the great minds are all about not cheating and banning OP magic when their ability to link with other casters is probably the biggest, most overpowered cheat in the game. His worldbuilding on the magic system is really half-baked. Of the types of magic we've seen, a lot of powerful ones are looked down upon and a lot of potentially harmful ones are respected. Why are dirtamancers treated like lower class casters when they can massively improve a side's infrastructure? Why would any side ever trust a turnamancer they didn't pop? Why aren't dateamancers in demand with rulers who frequently engage in diplomacy? Why aren't predictamancers disbanded the moment they spawn since they often predict their own side's doom and seem to be more loyal to their predictions than their sides?
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Hob_Gadling posted:Two guesses: Third guess: It somehow sent him back to GK HQ.
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PMush Perfect posted:Yeah, it's predictable as hell, but Erfworld was getting pretty close to Wheel Of Time levels of 'too many dangling plot threads that will never get resolved'. It also doesn't help that Balder thinks every scene needs to be viewed from the perspective of nearly every character present. Better to just stick to the most relevant character and move on to the next plot beat before doing a scene that fleshes out another character. DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:love too introduce a major plot point, keep it bubbling in the foreground for 2.5 years, build tons of drama and super high stakes as characters vie to bring it about, hinge major sections of the plot on it, then resolve it as a complete wet fart of nothing in like 3 pages It was obvious it'd be one from the start. The only other option besides him getting sent back to Spacerock or back to Earth so he could have one of those character building "My real home is the fantasy world" scenes that have been done to death would be to have the scroll get destroyed somehow.
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I'm just glad they finally got on with a plotline they'd been building up.
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I like how Erfworld's buttcoin debacle got even worse since the announcement. 
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Rand Brittain posted:If this thread turns into another negativity festival, I'm just going to close it. One SFP thread is enough. No, don't. I want to see what will become Erfworld thread's Clevin.
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Rand Brittain posted:He's already said it's divided between six people. That doesn't change the fact that his solution is the dumbest option he could've gone for and he's managed to piss away some reader good will doing it.
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Looking like another missed update this week? I wouldn't mind so much if this comic were a bit better or moved at a faster pace. e: Never mind, it was just way late today. Inescapable Duck posted:I recall an early comic has Parson mention that he's getting fitter over time and losing some fat rolls, just from far more regular physical activity than he's used to. Although heading down that many stairs would probably get anyone panting, he doesn't seem to need to stop. (although he has spent some time in a prison cell getting regularly tortured and subsisting on school lunch meals, so mighta backslid a bit. Assuming his body still functions relatively naturally, anyway) Yeah, he mentioned getting more fit in the interlude after chapter one. The towers making Thinkamancy redundant isn't exactly true. Sure, their primary use to rulers as a means of expedient communication has been rendered redundant, but they still have a ton of other uses beyond communication and can still boost the power of other casters. As for the Barbarian casters, it's not like the Great Minds are engineering themselves out of a job with these upgrades, they know they're going to die anyway. super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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So Parson's idea of a treaty was putting up 25 million in gems as collateral on a loan that vassalizes TV as a tributary state? Makes sense.
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XkyRauh posted:It's Benjamin confronting a list of demands from Charlie. Ben tries to pick up vocabulary from HueHue. I probably missed something major, but I feel like nothing really happened, here. Secondary character we're supposed to care about #528 has been listed as a BIG DEAL by an author infodump, as though the last few updates dedicated to her didn't hammer the point home enough.
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Jillian continues to be the most boring plotline.
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Zeno's Paradox in webcomic form. The closer it gets to the climactic finale it's been building to, the slower it goes.Zoe posted:This sums up my annoyance with what the comic has become amazingly well and my problems with settings that overuse worldbreaking asspull magic in general. I was pleased at having the logic of the setting laid out and so many rules established in the beginning but they've as good as all been thrown out now. Anyone circumventing or breaking one could've once been used for incredible dramatic effect and now it's just happening every other strip. Doesn't help that the concepts of magic aren't explained very well, if at all for some types and even the few types we've encountered still have lots of secrets that can be asspulled from.
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Could probably have cut Caesar's half of the update entirely. At the very least cut 80% and intersperse the rest between the paragraphs of Jack's.
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I'd have let this interlude of "everyone gets a Temple" slide had it just been edited into a single update. We really didn't need two updates worth of  about some probably trivial side in order to get there, especially when we're all worn out from the slog of character bloat and plot creep.I really hate Tondy a lot because she was a prime example of it. How many updates did we have getting to know a character who died and won't be important unless she gets decrypted, which will be so far from the time she died they might as well have saved most of her backstory for after she's decrypted. ninjewtsu posted:What is SFP A miserable pile of Clevin.
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https://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/61963/state-of-the-erf-part-2 posted:Hoo boy. Yeah, let's do this one first. Let the bummers continue. I'd feel bad if I hadn't scoffed at this from the start. Don't base your finances on buttcoins.
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Another new side, presumably this long spiel is going to lead into them getting a Temple too. Another point for the "Dateamancy being undervalued makes no sense" argument. Seems having one on retainer would be useful for sides that heavily emphasized beast taming and handling in their doctrine.
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PMush Perfect posted:What I really don't get is why Rob "Send it back four times because minor details are off" Balder would be okay with such mushy art. Control freaks are actually really lazy when it comes to their own role in a project. When they drive everyone away their projects fall apart.
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Even the official comments are getting sick of this poo poo.Pawg From Produce posted:Erfworld Facts: Jillian's sword is called Three-Edge because she fucks the handle. IPTSF 37 Not surprised I missed that, the prequel story was the most boring thing in the comic, probably still is.
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How is this comic still getting fanfic? How does anyone still have a positive enough outlook to write one?
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Latest page looks like a rejected David Dees piece.
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I see they're going for the "Everything you've been told up until now was a lie" school of Unreliable narration. This doesn't work when 1, we've been told barely anything about the world and 2, there was no reason beyond character rants to doubt the temples as anything but a complex outgrowth of linking magic disciplines to make a side's nerve center behave like a unit.
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"What if everything you believed was a lie?" You're the one who told me everything I'm supposed to believe, so were you just wasting my time or what?
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