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  2. Posted

    I'm wondering how many more it takes before she's got a Fat Man loaded and ready to go to town on some innocents.

     

    Also, huh, New Vegas has the Mothership Zeta stuff in it, doesn't it?

     

    Would be interesting to see Grace's opinion on what are basically the aliens of her universe except perpetually angry and crashed.

  3. Posted

    It just occured to me that it is very plausible with so much of Elliot transforming when he transforms, there's a reasonable chance that the teenage boy never needs to bathe again, for any dirt can simply be stored away in whatever dimensional trickery the magic is doing.

     

    Speaking as a man who was once a teenage boy, this can only lead to poor hygiene habits and a slowly descending spiral of acceptance of odours until one's magic stops even trying to hide it.

     

    Obviously this is all someone else's fault if this portent comes to pass.

  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, NaYa said:

    Elliot better get to reading his magic skill book as soon as he gets home...

    I wonder if he can take pictures and record videos too...

    lolnope

     

    Magic skill books are apparently a 'check rarely if at all' rather than the obviously illogical 'check the thing that is the manual for eventual Phenomenal Cosmic Power incessantly and constantly' that I would do.

     

    On cheating on tests... I feel that he'd have trouble transforming into Cheerleadra whilst in school for an exam. As this is really a side effect of the 'disguise' aspect of his power.

     

    However, since EGS magicverse works on the "you use it you keep it, you don't you'll weep for it" logic, so maybe he can use this effect whilst in his regular form later.

  6. Posted

    With people saying stuff like exposition sessions like these being awkward... That's the trouble with the episodic format of El Goonish Shive. Each issue has to entertain in and of itself for reasons I'm unsure on, which means we as readers catching each new update it'll be ok to read, but if we read them in one go, moments like this where the characters mostly just sit aroynd and get told the plot as has happened offpanel seems... Clunky, at best.

     

    But then again, EGS has always had this, and its main strengthhas been and always is that real consideration is put into these talky Q&A moments where the world is built up from characters discussing the world.

     

    It's not really a problem, per say, it's just awkward narratively whilst being interesting on an intellectual level. I'd read an essay Dan'd write about his setting thus far, detailing its many layers and facets, if he wrote one.

     

     

    Still love it though. 

     

    (plus this is the most negative in my life I have ever spoken about EGS' writing, so considering how positive this is mostly, I can prove quantatively that I want Mr Shive to go full steam ahead as is on his current course.)

     

     

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  7. Posted

    It's most certainly Sunny Smiles in the start of the game asking for help taking down some Geckos.

     

    Who are basically Kermit the Frog.

     

    Fallout New Vegas was a very strange setting when you take a step back and think about it.

     

    In any case, I see no reason why she can't just waltz on down to New Vegas...

     

    *krackathoom*

     

    Mind the Cazadores in that one canyon I got trapped in directly from Goodsprings. They've got quite a sting...

  8. Posted

    On 22 March 2016 at 1:01 AM, hkmaly said:

    ... single cell organism? How is that supposed to work?

    Well personally I considered Transport Tycoon an upgrade to Railway Tycoon, although it seems they aren't related. And Transport Tycoon was upgraded to OpenTTD.

     

    Also logical/puzzle games. Cut the rope, Trainyard express ...

    ... but it seems she's specially interested in pacifists RPG, which is really hard to find.

    At the end of the creature stage, breed one last time then make your creature look like the cell it originally was in the Cell stage. From Tribal onwards, you're locked into looking like a cell.

     

    It's amusing to find space civilisations consisting of the default carnivore cell model.

  9. Posted

    Undertale's designed with pacifism in mind...

     

    Although, Grace is a curious girl, and will eventually have...

     

    A BAD TIME.

    krackathoom

     

    In other words and stuff, Skyrim's interesting with a Pacifism run, especially on the Main Quest. Play smart, and you can possibly (you might need to kill Mirulnir at the Western Watchtower) get through the whole main quest part of the game and ONLY kill Alduin.

    Admittedly this means being on a constant dripfeed of health potions in the final run to Sovngarde where like 3 dragons and like 60 suped up draugr wail on you... And a dragon priest, but it's amusing to me to play a game where nobody dies but the cause of the bigger trouble.

    What else... Spore. I took over a decent chunk of my spiral arm as a blind herbivore friendly economist single cellsd organism through trading spice and doing happy friendly missions, and rejecting aggressive missions.

     

     

     

  10. Posted

    Dang I was kind of close with my unspoken 'like a baloon filled with magic but pinched off in the middle' theory.

     

    Dice is weird though. Can't imagine how that'd work... Maybe multiple sides represent parts of the world? So the Griffin-world, let's call it Avalon for simplicity, get the even sides, and Earth gets the odd sides?

    And which side it lands on matters in how much magic enters the world and where it enters...

    But that would make them seem more seperate. I don't get it that well.

    Plus, we know for reasonably certain that interdimensional transfers are possible (though likely difficult) from realities beyond this binary coin metaphor...

     

    Okay new metaphor to help me understand what with my name. It's like a rainbow, projected by a water droplet. Each world is a band of colour. However, it's a spectrum, and their colour-ness, their magic, their mojo, bleeds into the nearest bands, and transmissions can be transferred over but it takes energy and effort.

     

    What's happened in EGS is someone has been trying to separate the bands of colour into individual bands so that magic stays in its band and then makes that colour more vibrant.

    The problem is that this would make all universes part of the same spectrum.

     

    Maybe non-connected universes are when there's a double rainbow, oh my gosh, what does it mean?

     

    Need data. More data. Also need to stop being rainbow-magic biased. My bad.

  11. Posted

    So. Same magic pool. Two worlds, connected by a bond.

     

    Spooky girl wants to make this world where immortal beings can act freely.

     

    Energy clog. Magic is suddenly higher here.

     

    Right, got it.

     

    Pandora's making this universe slurp magic out of its conjoined twin universe. That's causing shenanigans, and drawing the space whale things along the current, feeding off the magic.

     

    Magic is hax.

     

    Conclusion: the end game as far as we readers is concerned is that Pandora's wibbly wobbling the local multiverse cluster so that she's unrestricted in a universe that has rules and structure permitting growth past the Dark Ages technologically.

     

    This wobbling has been going on for some time, before she even revealed what she was doing, causing cultural bleedover both ways... Magnus and his world, which is probably not the main world are involved somehow.

     

    Also, Tara is best griffin. "I'm not a scientist, I just slash things!". He's now Bones Mccoy in my mind. Forever.

  12. Posted

    11 hours ago, WR...S said:

    I think it's due to determination.

    I don't think she'd be heading for a bad time, Grace isn't the sort to do a Genocide run. Yet.

     

    Still, I think this is more a matter of Grace wanting to stay in Tedd's dad's good... Graces, pardon the pun.

     

    After all, she is a freeloading girlfriend of his son, living rent free, as well as a weirdness magnet on top of Tedd's weirdness magnettery in a town that is made of weirdness magnets and a declining population innocent bystanders. Plus she's totally anxious about how figures of authority see her (as seen in the school segment and how she deals with Mr Verted) compounded by a secret superpowered life she barely Clark Kents at all (Now Elliot, he Kents so hard that I think he has a thing for people with prominent S sounds in their name, like how Superman loves everyone with the initials LL because of a golden age in-joke that never had a punchline)

     

    Stressful sweater and slacks grab, go!

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  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, Matoyak said:

    Hmm. Possibility of Abraham being from that half of the world as well?

    Also, I'm guessing something vaguely Arthurian for the Griffin world.

    Also also, it's pretty amusing seeing "do you know how many laws of physics you're breaking" coming out of the mouth of a flying tiger-bird :P

    Tedd: "Question. The bits between the mammal and the bird bits. The intersection, where one taxonomical distinction becomes another. How?"

     

    Andrea: "Same way your lady friend is a squirrel girl."

     

    Tedd: "Oh, you have alien DNA patching over those bits too?"

  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    This could  be trouble.

    "We view the laws of physics more as polite suggestions" is a reality incompatible with "I cannae change the laws of physics, Captain."

    Carried to a logical extreme, this may indicate that the canon of EGS is fundamentally opposed to the universe of Star Trek.

    If this is true...

    Are we sure Susan can not have another major angst induced awakening?

    It only just dawned on me that EGS angst-awakenings are basically Worm's Trigger Events, only way less traumatic. Huh. File that one away for a terrible fanfiction later.

     

    Still, the laws of physics still hold even with law-breaking magic, since they hold in the absence of magic. Magic now explains the otherwise unexplainable, and it has rules of its own, hard rules.

    A new science will emerge. New rules, new laws, a better model of reality. And so there is progress.

  16. Posted

    The main thing that concerns me with the TF Gun combo testing is that it's doubtful it'll have anything to do with the main plot beyond establishing that they are doing science to produce an archive of different forms to choose from.

    This will help Tedd's ties to the uryoms, right, mske them more beholden to him? I believe that was the point of giving him a TF Gun? So he can build human forms for the aliens? More variety is good.

     

    A thought arises that it's likely that some 'humans' in Moperville are in fact transformed Uryoms.

     

    With a lot of the fun worldbuilding and fluff growth in EGS like periods of TF Gun usage (where limits are defined on the magitech item), I always wonder 'how will this pay off later'. We'll see, eventually, I suppose.

  17. Posted

    What with Avalon and them being Griffins from another world, it's pretty evident that they come from some place where King Arthur's line never ended.

     

    Camelot! Camelot! Camelot!

     

    We're the knights of the EGSverse Round Table, we swap genders when we're able, we fight aberrations and watch basic cable while eating spamalot!

     

    In other news, is anyone else seeing Ashley's hair as a spider? Dang legs poking over her forehead.

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