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Well Nanase and Elliot did say they were going to report what they've discovered about; the Griffins, the other half of the world and how magic flow between them is blocked in Moperville, the increase in the number of vampires in Moperville and how Diane is Susan's sister; "tomorrow", so logically, Dan would have to start the next story arc with Nanase, Elliot and whoever else tags along getting Edward's reaction, exposition and advise on the subject on a Sunday. Right. So, Sunday won't be significant based on what will happen, but based on people getting to know what happened on Saturday. It may be Nanase and Elliot telling Edward. It may be Justin finally getting tested if he's awakened. It may be Sarah telling someone about her spell ... or Tedd telling someone else about his ability. It may be someone being told about Elliot being Cheerleadra. Or maybe Grace decide to tell something to Raven.

I've read Elenium and Tamuil. I see I should keep skipping Belgariad. Or what about Steve? Oh, wait, that was Skeeve.

Yes, she's been training. But compared to others, she didn't leveled much. Nanase got Guardian form, which is extremely powerful, Tedd realized (part of) his dangerous rarity, four characters were marked and four characters awakened.

Which is surprising given how gigantic the difference is. Not necessary. It might be something which already happened in Saturday or it may happen in Monday ... You mean the one linked from mentioned tvtropes page ?

Actually, the waving may excite the bull as well. It's just the color it doesn't see. Because bulls are colorblind. ... true. Cartoon bulls might see colors well.

Big moving parts are easy. Food is chemically unstable: the molecules inside food are moving and reacting. In fact ... lot of food is still ALIVE. Like, sure, not the cow, but fruit and vegetables are still alive when being eaten. So is the mold on cheese - like Camembert - or yeast in beer.

I don't think it's flaw. Lot of authors - and famous authors - write in same way ... only they are writing TEXT, not webcomic, and publish by books, not by page. ...Which will insure shock value when we run into what is essentially Grace without all that nice stuff holding her back. ... General Shade Tail? Well, yes, but writing with characters BASED on game have it's disadvantages as well. ... good example. In EGS, conflicts are rarely solved using power. Grace started most powerful, but got the least amount of "leveling" since start (well ... since Sister, she levelled quite a bit before that), and it was just using what she already had. So, others seem to be catching up with her.

I would second the Amber Chronicles, but I think Discworld is more important. He can wait with Amber until he would want to reintroduce Lord Tedd. I don't think there is any better book (not counting university course books) for explaining what "number of universes is infinite" MEANS. While good, I wouldn't recommend sci-fi to someone who listed fantasy as everything he reads.

That's not entirely true. While games are more sensitive to character power levels, an extremely powerful character in any narrative work can remove dramatic tension, requiring either contrivances or escalation to explain why the OP character doesn't simply solve the problem causing the dramatic tension. EGS does focus more on social aspects than straight combat, but given Grace's pacifistic, fun-loving, and over-all friendly nature, the most likely spells for Grace to get if she awakens would be social in aspect. It's true you still need SOME balance in narrative work. Difference is that in game, you need to balance all characters using just power of abilities. In narrative work, you only need to balance party against enemy (or did someone complained that Gandalf and Aragorn are OP compared to Merry and Pippin?) and you have much more tools for balancing, like specific disadvantages, bad luck, social aspects ... Exactly. She might get some guaranteed-to-stun-only spells, actually ... it's definitely something she's yearning for.

She don't use magic power for that either.

Dozens of chemicals that are IMPORTANT for the taste. Total number of chemicals in organic food is likely even higher. And almost all chemicals in food have 3D structure which MATTERS - even simple stuff like sugar have TWO different shapes, the D-glucose being normal sugar, important nutrient, and L-glucose, indistinguishable in taste but totally indigestible unless you are Burkholderia caryophylli. So, even if you don't insist on taste and texture, just matching the nutritional value would be challenge.

It doesn't explicitly confirm it, but it strongly suggest it. The summoning of tonfas was certainly earth magic. Agree. OK, we are fairly sure the next arc is going to be Sisters 3. Unless they are a part of it, we still have Sarah and Sam's "date" and Justin and Luke's date to deal with. That, based on "So a date in the mall" is going to take a couple of hundred strips each. So three arcs, let's call it 500 strips at 3 a week is roughly 3 years and 2 months. That will take care of the next 10 days or so of comic time. It will be, at most, early February comic time by 2019. I suspect at least one of the dates is going to be NP canon story line to avoid some of that, but still. Then another timeskip will happen and Grace's 19. I would be more worried about the 2020 estimate of Lord Tedd returning. I think he will return AFTER they finish with Pandora, and that would take them some serious real time. Luckily, this is comics, not game, so we don't need to care about it being OP.

I optimistically hope that it's the second and not the first. She's still embarrassed to admit it to HERSELF, IMHO. All Tedd examples are fun and teasing. I'm not sure how ready is Tedd for it being SERIOUS. But definitely more ready than Sarah.

... where? (Note that even I know what Splatoon is. Even played it once, on con. I suppose it was tutorial mission but still.)

And THIS is mentioned somewhere? Might not be StarTrek-level replicators, but the replacement Mecha is obviously not from storehouse, but freshly build. Remember than replicating mechas is MUCH simpler than food. I can't comment the rest as I'm not playing, just watching trailers and stuff. But this I agree with.

It depends. When did you stop watching? If you've only watched the Original Series (Ash's journeys through Kanto, Orange Islands and Johto), then definitely. Considering I DO remember Dawn, somewhere in middle of Diamond & Pearl ? Looking at images of episodes, either they mixed the order (again), or I started skipping before stopping completely. If I will still remember it at the time ... I suppose I won't return to it before retirement. Comics are better. I think it WAS hinted that he only doesn't need to pay in Pokemon center and similar places, so it might not even need to be government. Obviously. Wouldn't explain where those trainers get the money, also Ash doesn't battle that many trainers. Specially the construction workers was what I based my "source of cheap labour" comment on. On the other hand, they also seem to have pretty advanced technology. Automation can help a lot too.

Current population seems to be over 7 400 000 000 and did he really already used it? But yes. Number of readers of this comics is certainly lower. There are people who don't have Internet access, for example. Or people who would be executed for reading so open comics. Or people who are not aware what they are missing. Not speaking about the fact that not everyone who read his comics told him he got it wrong. I didn't, for example.

Excuse me? The Pokémon world has been in danger many times. Mostly in the movies, yes, but Ash and his friends have had to rescue legendary Pokémon from being used for evil many times in the anime as well and by saving them, they've saved the world from destruction each time. My favorite time when that happened was in the DP series when they stopped Team Galactic from creating a new universe which would have wiped the old universe from existence. Are you saying it started to be more interesting after I stopped watching? That "saving legendary pokemons" was not stated to be preventing destruction of world, was it? Sure, the weather was awful with Moltres and Zapdos captured, but I'm not convinced the "earth shall turn to ash" was really about destruction of whole world. ... which reminds me that I'm not sure why was Ash so worried when Pikachu was injured. Generally, the injuries from battles seem less serious than other injuries, even if they are obviously physical (I mean, from normal type attacks). The games are not like the anime. Of course. It wouldn't be interesting if it would be that easy. Still, Ash seems to be doing LOT of mistakes, and he also seems to LOSE most pokemons he get. I'm not sure why they didn't rather make some rule about only using "local" pokemons in every league - oh wait, that would prevent him for using Pikachu all the time. ... so, his Sinnoh pokemons were back, or did he started with just Pikachu again? They also seem to not realize that if they try to keep the series to go forever by making Ash never really change, it will became too boring to watch. No, Ash and his friends (or anyone else in the show) don't seem to age. There's no explanation for it whatsoever, we're just supposed to accept it. They're like the Simpsons - we see time pass, but it doesn't affect anyone. Not physically, at least. ... Simpsons are comedy. Comedy can take more abuse. Tom & Jerry don't need to age ever. In more serious genre, the "resets" are frustrating. If they really want to start from the beginning, they should make new character. It's not like it wouldn't be pokemon without Ash. Yeah. There are lots of Trainer Schools in the show, but since not EVERYONE is a Trainer, it can be assumed that there are also regular schools for people who want to have real jobs. There doesn't seem to be an upper age limit to being a Trainer, however, so many adults can also spend their time walking through forests and mountains catching Pokémon and living off the government money. ... right. Government money? Is it ever stated who is paying all those trainers? I hoped that the older ones need to get some real jobs, even if that would be just something like Gym leader, pokemon researcher or stuff like that. Although, maybe with exploiting pokemons as cheap work force, their economy can afford it.

I see. Well, I'll be happy to give more details about any of my relationships if you're interested My boyfriends are definitely pretty different from one another. I also used to date only one of them, then grew close to the other, That would be enough I didn't wanted to pry. This detail is hardly saying anything more, yet it shows how those are separate relationships quite nicely. It might be interesting - to YOU, not to me - how those two view their relationship with you.

According to the commentary, that's Elliot. Why would Elliot be there? It's Ellen who thinks Tedd is cute ... ... oh. Right. Forgot about that one. Considering the likehood those questions will be settled AT ALL, I wouldn't single out webcomics and it's discussion as something where it couldn't happen. I'll go find the OT14 chart and show how big the web is. The center? Nanase, of course. You should. I forget where it was.

That sounds like a weird way for me to say it. I'm part of a triad, but that triad is made of three relationships, two of which include me. I'm also married, which is another relationship. So, three relationships for me, out of a network that includes 4 different relationships at the moment. Hence "sort of". It's not only that it has name, it's also that you didn't said anything which would differentiate those two relationships which are part of triad.

Because AI either sucks or cheats?

Possibly, but we're talking about parallel universes where a person is faced with choices and each choice is reflected in that universe so in Ellen's second life, her counterpart chose to give in to lust, when Ellen was talking to Elliot about their shared memories of Sarah, Ellen said that "we always cared more about not jeopardizing the friendship by giving into the lustful feelings of a lifelong friend". I meant that if Elliot would "give into the lustful feelings" Sarah wouldn't object. She was waiting for it impatiently. So they wouldn't break up due for that - although they would likely break up anyway, because it wasn't the only thing Sarah waited impatiently for Elliot to do. Whoa forgot about this bit. I must add it to wiki. But it actually matches what I though (maybe I did remember it subconsciously?). I don't think she apologized and promised anything. It's not like she said she wants sex before (seriously, too young). She likely just pretended being friends is enough, despite actually wanting more - and this "more" was not sex. Not yet - in her age she wasn't likely to do anything more than hugging and cuddling. That's why I was talking about romantic feelings and her possibly being possessive. And this "felt it was wrong" ... why? Doesn't make sense for him to feeling more "wrong" about it afterwards. It makes sense that Ellen felt it was wrong - because she was forcing him - but I think it was something different with Archie. Something that Ellen didn't mentioned and maybe even didn't noticed. ... that reminds me of Borg. Can you imagine saying you are in two relationships? Because you sort of described it that way.

... apparently, the point of the game is to always feel like you should be trying some other character than the one you are just playing. Yes, very much so. Agree. Yet it still annoys me to no end. That (especially "disappearing text") is still unresolved since the reincarnation of the forums. Frankenstein's monster was FUNCTIONAL.

You mean that Sarah could've force Elliot into sex? ... because, remember, it was SARAH who complained about still being virgin. The way Ellen described the breakup, she was more interested in a physical relationship, while Archie was only dating for the cuddling ... which doesn't add up for me. They BOTH wanted physical relationship, only Ellen wanted it closer? But if you look before the sex bit, Ellen seem to describe actually loving him. She also can't get pregnant if Tedd is girl. Although I'm not sure if either of them would like to explore this option ... No. It's Tedd's relationship with her (I know, small difference). She would do it to anyone, except she realizes some people would not like it which is reason to not do it: Tedd, due to his relationship with her, wouldn't object. Yes. But it may not be on (this) Earth. There are strong hints that humans (and Earth animals) are not only form of life Uryuom tried to have children with. ... how big part of Earth population is within six relationships from you? So THIS is why despite having the Q&A pre-scripted it's late again?