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I'm sure some do, but that doesn't mean it's aimed at 40-somethings. I also don't know how well that tracks...I mean, children's books, cardboards, and chapter books are written by 40+ year olds on average, but you wouldn't say they're aimed at adults, and you probably wouldn't say there's much crossover appeal. And of course, there's always exceptions (My Little Pony, for just one example). And for the record, I wasn't saying it's impossible to find adults who enjoy reading YA books, I was responding to someone who said they thought the phrase "Young Adult" meant a specific age range. In common parlance it means what they thought it meant, but in book marketing and audience targeting it means something different and specific.

Man, all the polls for the June set are going the exact opposite way I'd prefer them to, across the board. Both first and second places. (Also, earlier I got an email saying Dan had hit 3600...but someone dropped out and we're at 3599 D: ). As for this pinup...hmm. I was expecting something different. Partly because I didn't realize this was the solo image, rather than the two person image. Thought it'd be Elliot trying on bras while Ashley helped, as iirc the original comment was something about Elliot trying bras on on a date with Ashley. Ah well. Hopefully the rest of this months are more interesting to me.

@TamarTree Good job on that one!

You might want to look at the rules for the forum on this. Here they are. To quote: "Certain topics are highly volatile and/or triggering for some people. Examples would be abuse, self-harm, sexual molestation or predation, serious injuries or illness, among others. It is not forbidden to discuss these but it is requested to add a content warning or note to the posts or threads these might appear in."

That's generally what the term means...the exception being the YA genre. It's aimed at teenagers, but it has a massive crossover appeal to 20-somethings.

Hey @mlooney, welcome back!

To me, an argument looks like this: customer.set(arg1); (But jokes aside, most people I know use "argument" for when a debate has gotten heated, soured, or otherwise caused harm or potential harm).

It'll depend on the work, and the delta of time between the work's creation and current day. Power Puff Girls is going to skew late teen to mid 20s (Unless it's been remade or rereleased in the time). Dr Who during the classic run skewed young. Nowadays it skews 20s-30s. Harry Potter is the same way. Twilight skews to teens. Star Trek skews to adults 30+. Dora the Explorer will skew young. ~shrug~

I suspect a fair amount of it is twofold: 1) People in the fandom know that Dan doesn't really want fanfic out there (he has said he's not a fan of it, but will tolerate it in other places), and most of this fandom nowadays tends to follow his lead on stuff. and 2) There's not a whole bunch to fic about. EGS is one place where nearly anything could happen, and between Patreon Pinups, Sketchbooks, NP, and the Mainline there's a lot of place for all kinds of stuff to go down. Really the only things that aren't ever going to show up are hardcore smut scenes or major universe crossovers.

Turned 25 this past March.

Turns out it's pretty alright.

Is this in reference to her changing? If so, on the personality, do you agree that she changed (Like the Q&A says)? If so, what does the "Never did" after the agree on personality mean? DA/FA?

"Well, it may not be that simple..." - Tedd We don't completely know what it entails, except that it isn't likely as simple as seeing a spell enough times.

Iodine is totally necessary for survival, yes. And I don't have this reaction to other sources of it. I don't fully understand the issue, merely what I was told by the doctors and my parents when we figured out what the issue was. (I was relatively young). It's something about the amount of Iodine all at once. ~shrug~. It's been a long time, and it's still an issue for me so...whatever.

Looks good man (Though be careful, as IIRC Dan has requested that no full pages [as in, all panels] be colored. Or something like that). And I'd recommend grabbing a cheap tablet* if you're wanting to get more into digital art. Mouses can work, but they'll be painful (physically and mentally). *EDIT: By this I mean a drawing tablet like a cheap wacom or a knockoff brand. My first one was a great starter one that I got for 20 bucks on Amazon.

Eh, even just following a single news website would spawn dozens of updates. But I do follow around 140 or so webcomics, though not all of them update but once every few months. The main thing for me is how often the RSS feeds seem to break for websites. Just seem super unreliable, in addition to the hassle of it all.

Yeah, both of these. I give benefit of the doubt on this stuff, especially for allergies. I am allergic to shellfish in an unusual way: my body can't handle the iodine contained in the sea bugs and it rejects it. Violently. (I basically end up vomiting for hours). One of my relatives decided this couldn't possibly be a real allergy (because shellfish allergy results in anaphylactic shock, nothing else, y'see), and that I merely had only ever had shrimp that'd gone bad. So in a meal they didn't inform me that it contained shellfish, thinking they'd prove their point about me not knowing what I was talking about. Hours later I was still vomiting every few minutes.

~shrug~, they both seem equally unlikely to me. This one slightly more so, truth be told. I don't care for either theory, honestly. I just think splitting the discussion into two spots with distinct expectations will help discussions from devolving into what this one did between you and Remnant.

A planet in the Dragon Ball universe.

I don't care one way or another (as in: I have no personal stake here) about the actual arguments at play for this particular speculation. Sure, it's totally possible, but my thoughts on the particular theory have little to do with my suggestion, really. The debate around this kind of a theory is different than the debate on a more plausible theory (I address this further in the second paragraph), and people coming in to the debate understanding what's at stake will mean you don't get derailed in the way that InfiniteRemnant did due to the stretches needed to be made about the core of the theory (ie: that Susan is related to Noriko). This isn't the first time a farther-reaching theory has derailed the thread in this way. In my suggestion, Susan being related to Noriko would go in the more wild speculation thread, while the use of spells that alter default forms being used for hiding a true identity would be more likely to go into the less wild speculation thread. The former has much more to overcome due to not just having to overcome in-world evidence, but also meta-fiction reasons. The latter only needs in-world support. If you have them in threads like I suggest, people would feel more hesitant to go "It seems very unlikely this is the case, and there's really no point in discussing it." because you're already in a space that's talking about unlikely theories (that can still totally be possible theories. Hence why I don't want it to be the same split we had before). The fan theory of Greg and Vladia dating would be an example of going into the more wild thread, as there's no evidence one way or another. The Susan and Diane being a Uryuom egg baby could go into the less wild one. That Raven is one of the parents might go into the wild theory one due to us having been told he can't reproduce, though this theory is a bit more complicated and could be debated for either. ~shrug~. It isn't a perfect solution, but it would help with the derails and "why are we even discussing this" questions.

Yeah, that...plus RSS is a real pain to deal with. Either you have a ton of bookmark folders that have a ton of pages in them, or you have a giant conglomeration of hundreds of webcomics, news sites, and other assorted things in a reader. Plus RSS feeds break all the time, and so they're unreliable enough to be untrustworthy to me, and I'd feel the need to check the site as it was anyways.

I really feel we need a split thread between "likely theories and speculation" and "wild theories and speculation". This clearly falls into the latter camp for a variety of in-story, out-of-story, and meta-story reasons (plus, any time a person has to go to "well, we're told anything is possible!" it likely means there isn't much for the speculation to stand on). There's been several times in this thread where this kind of divide has broken down discussion, and having two distinct spots for each of them would give a better idea about what the discussion should be about. I propose that this thread title be changed to "Wild Theories and Speculation" or maybe "Unusual Theories and Speculation" or something to that effect, and that a separate thread titled "Likely Theories and Speculation" or "Less Wild Theories and Speculation" be created. I don't want this to be the split we had previously, between "Wild Theories" and "Mundane Theories", which just ended up being "Wackadoo ideas!" and "Too boring to discuss ideas!".

Couple of different ways to do it. The more skillful likely use layers with specific properties. The few times I've done it has been purely by hand painting over it and adjusting the colors for shadows based on the differences between the grayscale colors. As for specific tools, that'll depend on what software you're using. I use a combination of Sai, Photoshop CS6, and occasionally Paint.Net.* The most helpful for me are the magic wand tool with anti-aliasing, and then just...painting on a new layer. I don't tend to use layer properties like multiply or what have you as I don't know how.** ~shrug~. I'd love to learn, just haven't had the time. *I've also started looking into Krita and Clip Studio Paint (the later I got on a super sale, and is supposedly actually the same product under a different name as Manga Studio 5?). Krita looks very promising, but I need to watch some tuts in order to understand that program. Editing and selecting brushes is weird, and I can't seem to decouple opacity and brush size from pen pressure on certain brushes? I dunno, haven't spent much time in it, been focused more on programming than art lately, as the former is what I'm actually applying for jobs in EDIT:** To clarify, I know how to use layer properties and blend modes and what they do, I just don't know how to use them in this instance of colorizing greyscale images).

I was thinking just like an asterisk, or a tag [speculation] / [contains speculation]. Like so: One of those two (I lean towards the tag) This would also work. I'd prefer the former over the latter. But the more speculative stuff should stay in the speculation thread. This one should be for things that are essentially confirmed to be ongoing in some way, and that we've seen progress towards in previous storylines. The speculation tags would be there to clarify when we state something that is probably true but not necessarily confirmed (like the two marks left thing, or the Disco Wizard is a real person thing).

the two unaccounted marks are most likely luke's two marked friends. Hmm. Is this actually cemented information? We don't actually know for certain how many marks have been given out. Tedd's mark still hasn't been shown, Sarah's was an additional mark, and even though it seems clear that Catalina's been marked with the paw mark it's not completely certain. Sarah's being an additional mark really throws any predictions out the window, as Tedd's could be an additional one as well. We just don't know. This in mind, I feel we should have something that qualifies certain information and speculative information.