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Are you positing that the author-artist put Susan and Diane on the cover in a fit of madness?

On a related note, I'm putting good odds on Ashley finding out about Ellen's origin if Magus is indeed involved.

There! See, JML? You need to have a word with your dishwasher!

Rice cookers can also cook quinoa, teff, and many other grains! Can be nice to add a little variety and a lot more nutrition. Summoning Elder Gods ruins the taste, though.

Essentially, "gold" is the official public-release version. And when you're releasing a physical disk in a pretty box possibly with assorted "supporting" material (such as a catalog listing the company's other recent products), the thing must "go gold" some time before it can actually be released - because most likely the assembly of the complete package is occurring in some second-world country and the result has to be shipped to the first-world buyers. With electronic distribution, of course, a product can "go gold" at 10 AM and hit the market at 10:05. Electronic distribution is also much less expensive than preparing masses of atoms and hauling them around the planet.

Oh, erm, good question. This is the first time I have done any project of this scale (i.e. someone else other than me and my schoolmates contributing), so I can't really say with any reliability how much of your time it would take. I can't really see this taking any more than 30 minutes per strip. Right now, I just need some people to read the lines, record them, then send them to me and perhaps give an opinion on the video if it needs any changes. I think that is a great idea, but right now I am willing to accept anyone who volunteers themselves. If you've done some voice work, then you already have more experience than I have. Maybe you can give me some tips or perhaps some training? I would ask @Danny Beans but he already said he hasn't got the most time. I really like the suggestion, but the vision I have for this is a EGS fan-serialisation made by EGS fans. Youth and age are two seperate things. Ignorant youth and ignorant age, not quite so. I hope not to fall into that last catagory. Indeed, burnout is not a nice feeling. Muahahahaha! My evil plan is coming into fruition >:) I'm probably just not an animation person altogether. I mean, I've seen SAO and part of Majestic Prince, but that's about it. Same guys that did Dragonball Abridged? ... From the clips I've seen, that can only end well... Eeyup, I'm a newly freed Brit here.

that would require a focus on either Tedd or Nanase though... probably something less obvious. Considering the likely hood of this first part being about talking to Edward about the events of the previous arc, I think he will confirm Susan's relation to Diane, whether or not he confirms the fact that Susan is adopted is something that can still go either way, Susan could still be the biological child of Mr and Mrs Pompoms and if Edward was involved in splitting her and Diane up for whatever reason then it would certainly explain him coming up with Ellen's backstory. But if Susan was also adopted, the whole Legacy bit could involve learning about her's and Diane's true parents, or at least the reason they were split up.

Bah. Whoopi Goldberg is great. You are just sore at her because she reminds you of Hachepsut.

Do we now need to add "Fork" to George Carlin's list?

Oh yeah! My bet is on Catalina's mark coming up some way or another in this arc, too. I mean, the title can certainly have multiple meanings, and the commentary is a little teasing already... What does the title for part 1, Legacy, stand for? Noriko?

It might be helpful to select a representative portion of dialogue for each character you want cast, so people can read the same text and you can compare. I've done amateur voice work, but I do not like my voice.

I love this cover. It makes you excited for the story that's to come. And I learned a new english expression as well.

No, that's a pile of red herring with a wig. *nods*

Actually, my thought on the color was simply to do with recent trends and not previous Sister arcs. Dan seems to find it quicker and easier to do non-color. Also, agreed. We're in this for the long haul. Strap yourselves in.

The only reason we see tiny DLC these days is because digital distribution is cheap enough and easy enough to allow for that business model. Before digital distribution, the cost of printing the content to disk and shipping it to stores, on top of the costs to develop the content, would have required a price point too high for gamers to be willing to pay for such a small amount of content. So the companies would have to create enough content to stuff onto the disk to justify the cost of making the disk.So if one of the developers came up with a really cool idea for a few additional missions after the product has already been sent to the printers, that idea will get discarded unless they can find enough crud to pad out the space on a disk. Digital distribution and DLC allows for small concept additions, as well as for concepts and content that didn't make it in the original product due to time and/or budget restrictions. The tabletop business has similar concerns. Splat books need a large-ish amount of content to justify the price to cover the printing and shipping costs. Though, as mlooney mentioned, some tabletop companies are taking advantage of digital distribution to allow for smaller content releases. I've seen a pdf full of story seeds (just the ideas and concepts of stories to get you started) for a few dollars, though admittedly it was dozens, if not, a hundred or so story seeds. Something that's nice to have if one is experiencing writer's block, but largely unneeded otherwise. Tabletop RPG's even have an equivalent to cosmetic DLC: miniatures. They're largely unneeded though can be really nice to have. Miniatures can help with immersion for some people, though the same could be said for cosmetic items in a CRPG. It's even technically possible nowadays to get miniatures through digital distribution, though that requires you to have access to the equipment for 3d printing.

In a sense, although there are some peculiar differences. As you know, in table top you could get modules or additional rules books, for the most part. Earlier in the video game industry, a successful game could receive an expansion which usually consisted of lower quality, but at least substantial content, like a splat book. Generally this meant you would buy another diskette or CD with more plot, adventures, missions... a selection of material with some sort of common framework. Honestly, it was sort of like a stepping stone to a sequel in many cases. However, with the advent of digital content delivery, developers realized that they didn't need to release these large collections of new content, they could sell very small pieces individually and potentially make much more money. DLC can be as large as a historical military campaign with maps, missions and new units in a strategy game, or as small as a few cosmetic items like hats and ties in an computer roleplaying game. DLC can thus be considerably worse than a splat book, because they can essentially sell you each page of the book separately, or indeed, just market a bunch of post-it notes with no rhyme or reason.

Reading Dan's comment on this one, it just dawned on me that DLC is the video games version of splat books for table top role playing games and like video gamers, table top gamers bitch about it being a cash grab by the makers all the time. I'm sure this is another duh statement but I'm slow sometimes.

And that damn music that plays in the background right after you eat it.

He wasn't wrong. He was just putting it off.