Heliotrope posted:

Honestly, I feel like "punishing" characters kind of contributes to that Lawful Good stereotype. Because if the Paladin's player decides to let something slide because enforcing the rules would be unfun for the group, DnD encouraged the DM to leap in and say "HA! You're not following your code! Lose all your powers!" And this case it was completely arbitrary and the "right" course of actions required knowledge the player didn't have. Does 5th edition still let the DM gently caress over the Paladin like this?

TheHan posted:

Y'now I bet being suddenly expected to write a script and hit a page count is hard as hell for Mookie, so he keeps spinning his wheels until he's burned enough pages to get to the good stuff. But...you could just use those pages to raise tension and develop characters...so maybe repeating things constantly is his idea of tension and character building?

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Keep this in mind, it'll make a post-comic moment in 5.4 very, very funny.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Ok, now that the chapter is over, we get one final epilogue page, and this is why I’ve been beating the drum about the “mystery” of the clones. I present it with no commentary. I hope you find it as funny as I did.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Eh they're all brainwashed, so they probably do that to normalize their mask use so they always do it in public and conceal the secret (lol).

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Wait til you find out the reason Robotnik ordered the load of human cargo, it's pretty lol.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

No that would actually be a pretty good reason, supervillain-wise. It's way dumber than that.

god drat it don't make me want to do another early update, i have my real job to do

Mors Rattus posted:

So, uh

First, why are Danica’s powers genetic, she’s a space cyborg plugged into a space machine

Cat Mattress posted:

Mookie did hit Dominic Deegan with a few setbacks, so he had to have known those were important for a story, that the hero has to struggle to make the victory more rewarding, but he never really accepted that.

Invisible Clergy posted:

the desert of Eldariat

SardonicTyrant posted:

I updated the op and crossed out the rule to not talk about original Dominic Deegan, because there's just nothing to talk about wrt Legacy.

Looking at a few posts in the beginning, posters were...well, I wouldn't say hopeful for Legacy. More like a bile fascination. It's amazing how things turned out.

SardonicTyrant posted:

It kind of seems like Mookie is trying to convey the tusks are as bad as that, but Luna looks attractive even with the tusks. So weird.

YF-23 posted:

Mookie is also a coward because IIRC over time Luna's tusks become way less prominent and her face doesn't look nearly as hosed up so the whole "external beauty doesn't matter" message gets lost.

Regalingualius posted:

Why was Hatsune chosen as the “aggressively enforce Death of the Author” default character?

Rotten Red Rod posted:

This doesn't really relate to the current conversation but I had to share it because it explains so much

catlord posted:

Besides, Doomslayer's a berserker in the most classical sense, even down to getting a boost by getting hosed up on drugs. What do you think's in a berserk pack, Mookie? A bottle of holy water and some communion wafers?

The Little Death posted:

Invisible Clergy posted:

If Tim is healed by fire, and he knows this, why would he bother with this dryad quest? It would be easier to get a mage to shoot a fireball at him which we see grows his eyes back.

He becomes less threatening every time he appears even if his appearances are marked by progressively more gruesome and numerous kills of nameless npcs.

Invisible Clergy posted:

Tim does not, at this point in time, have the ability to cast fireball 1.

Begemot posted:

"You will feel bad when you hear the made up reason I contrived for why this female character has to wear fetish gear all the time" is really all-time stuff. Especially since The End in MGS3 had the exact same thing going on and he didn't have to run around in a speedo, for some reason.

Heliotrope posted:

This apparently happened to several other communities that used to be fans of Dominic Deegan like the Livejournal one. They all went from liking it to hating it, which makes me wonder where the people who actually unironically like Mookie's work talk.

Ague Proof posted:

Is this some sick foreshadowing?

Mors Rattus posted:

I think the thing that bothers me most about Tim is he can’t decide if he wants the eyeholes covered or not. He deliberately wears the blindfold for, one must assume, fashion reasons, but then he always rips it off himself mid scene. There has been no scene he has been in where he kept it on, and he’s always the one to take it off.

The Little Death posted:

Did Donovan buy penis jelly-beans? or what else could they be shaped like?

Zerilan posted:

Comparing the amount of thought that Mookie and Thorsby put into their writing is like comparing a raindrop to the ocean.

The Little Death posted:

And this section ends with Celesto going on an incel rant about whores dancing for the drat Chads. With all that Celesto has seen including Dominic murdered Amelia, the fact that Mookie twisted it around so that Celesto's motivation, which Dominic never fights against and in fact largely agrees with, is about whores and sex is a really gross. The framing of this story never makes Celesto's motivations unsympathetic, so you're supposed to understand them but that his methods are wrong. you'll see that when Dominic confronts him. So here again we have an example of Mookie being extremely misogynistic and covering it up by having his villains be his mouthpieces.

Regalingualius posted:

When are they getting to the fireworks factory?

But really, I’m not sure if you could even call this spinning it’s wheels in the air at this point, since that implies that it’s at least trying to go somewhere with the overall story. We’re still no closer to finding out just what the gently caress the titular Legacy even is than we were at the beginning of the plot, aside from some overly-vague cryptic writings that read like the recruitment pamphlet for a cult.

To mangle the hell out of a metaphor: Mookie has a plot hook, but forgot to actually put any bait on it.

The Little Death posted:

YF-23 posted:

In case you missed that it happened, the pages where the Ink Witch and Arudak saw Bad Ink Witch and Bad Arudak and disappeared from the comic happened right after someone tweeted to mookie about the ink witch acting abusive towards Snout and mookie got pissy about it. So the armchair psychology theory here is that he got frustrated enough over it that he pushed the character off camera while trying to figure out what to do.

The Little Death posted:

It literally is. I think the thing I hate the most about Mookie's porn pictures is that they don't even really work as porn pictures. Just draw them boning for gently caress's sake! Own it, if you're going to do it! As it is, there's a weird prudishness that goes along with the drawings that I find way grosser than even some of worst fetish porn I've been exposed to by this website.

The Little Death posted:

Gonna leave it there for now, since this post is already long, but will post the final 2 sections soon so we can wrap this interminable arc up. As terrible as some aspect of the storm of souls was, I still think it's about as good as Mookie is ever written and doesn't approach the sheer dumbness of some of the things that happen after this point. I can't wait to introduce all to Serk Brakkis and Oblivion Folder again.

rudecyrus posted:

I may be wrong, but I remember Mookie posting that he had a cat, which pissed me off because Spark looks like a hosed up Pomeranian.

TheHan posted:

Too bad he hadn't read Emperor Joker, he could've ripped that off.

Course Mookie's so bad at ripping things off Celesto would've inexplicably turned into a clown mid-story.

TheHan posted:

The Emperor Joker storyline ran in 2000, with Storm of Souls starting in ‘04. The collection didn’t come out until ‘07 though.

The Little Death posted:

Momeegan's

TheHan posted:

Lmao at Klo Tark's sacrifice. Beyond him and Dominic knowing eachother for like...ONE day, it puts all these restrictions on magic that we've never seen before. Dominic teleported instantaneously several times this arc with no issue, but now suddenly teleportation is off the table and the only option is this very convoluted spell to switch places with Klo Tark and have him get atomized by the Elemecca instead.

And then it doesn't even matter! Somebody's gotta swoop in and give Celesto his punishment for being a bad boy and disrespecting Dominic (Not the exploding people!?) so Klo Tark is still around. The good guys totally and overwhelmingly triumphed and the bad guys got the karmic punishment they deserved. I wonder how he'd writing this ending now that he's denounced the idea of cosmic forces destroying your enemies.

Invisible Clergy posted:

What did you change in the image? It looks the same to me.

TheHan posted:

Remember when Snout and the Ink Witch found a library, but it was filled with the wrong kinds of books! Those books were full of sex and nudity, so they were owned by a gross freak. Not at all like our chaste heroes who just happen to find themselves naked and spooning every night.