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  1. On 9/18/2017 at 6:59 AM, Scotty said:

    This confirms that Ellen will be close enough to Elliot for Magus to get her to zap him. While Ellen's plan is to stay in another part of the house, there's still a good chance her and Elliot would cross paths, getting snacks, using the bathroom, or maybe the four of them do end up in the same room, maybe Nanase just can't take Ashley not asking questions about magic and just starts telling her everything anyway and spends the next few hours showing off her spells and stuff.

     

    I mean... Ellen and Elliot live together. In the same room even. Their physical proximity isn't what's preventing Magus from pulling that off, I don't think.


  2. 19 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    As I mentioned awhile ago, the next time we see Pandora is when she appears in Susan's bedroom where Jerry is puzzling over the relationship (or lack of it) between Susan and Diane. This kind of implies that whatever Heka said to Pandora suggested that Susan was suddenly important to her, even though Pandora had never been shown with or mentioned Susan in the ten-plus years since her introduction in Hidden Genesis. 

     

    Wait, are you saying these folks are Pandora? I may have missed something, but I was unaware we'd been told who that was. Assumed it was the two "French" immortals showing up.


  3. On 5/18/2017 at 10:43 AM, Illjwamh said:

    2014...

    Good lord, that card tournament dragged on forever. I'd forgotten just how arduous it was.

     

    I recently reread it myself, and boy are you right on that one. I remember feeling antsy at the time, but I'd forgotten just how much... 

    On 6/6/2017 at 10:03 AM, Illjwamh said:

    Sarah was actually behind Ellen for a very long time, and even slipped behind Nanase for a bit once. It's only recently - as in, the last couple of years - that she's retaken her #4 spot. 2014 was a banner year for her, what with the Card Tournament arc and all, but Ellen came back strong in '15 and they've been going back and forth ever since.

    ...when one considers things like Question Mark, which was an NP story line later added to the main archive and thus included in the count, things can get hairy pretty quickly.

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    I bet the latter helped Sarah out a fair bit as well. I'd imagine Playing With Dolls would bump Nanase, Tedd, and Susan up a tad too.

    Also: Hello everyone! Dunno how active I'll be, but I'm sort of back. Kind of. :) (Multiple new jobs. Worked at a startup that failed. Going through Texas Workforce Commission for unpaid wages as we speak. Fun times. At a new, stable gig now though so that's good).

    Glad to see you back up and running on this, @Illjwamh, it was one of my favorite things.


  4. My memory of when I started reading EGS isn't the best, but it was sometime prior to or during Painted Black I believe (As I at least do remember waiting to see what would happen during the Damien fight). I was somewhere in the range of 12-13 years old, closer to the former. There's a reason I don't remember the specifics of where the comic was at the time...


  5. I landed my first programming job and started on the 6th. :D It's at a relatively small startup that deals with enterprise software, virtual reality simulations, and augmented reality safetywear. Currently I'm working on small, bite sized tasks on the web frontend, but due to the nature of the company I'm likely to broaden out into numerous other things beyond the web dev stuff. It's a contract-to-hire position, so I'll be doing taxes as a contractor for the first time in my life, and getting paid once a month as opposed to twice a month, so...that's going to be fun to figure out, especially as I've gone through three different jobs at three different tax brackets this year. (Was a petrochemical laboratory technician from July 25th through October 5th).


  6. 21 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

    I never felt pushed by you to prove myself to you or anybody else. 

    That was how I experienced the Ghostbusters trailer.  I was handed characters I found unsympathetic in a bland reboot* and demanded that I go enthusiastically to the theaters.  I think that this aggressive quality contributed to the blowback against the film.

    I cannot imagine who could have looked at the trailers for that film and actually thought "This is gonna be awesome!  I can't wait for this to hit the theaters!"  It was as if feminism hasn't "arrived" until a reboot* film built to repel men starring 4 relatively unknown pushy-broad comedians matches the success of the same film starring two original (male) Saturday Night Live cast members, and one of the (male) brains behind the success of SCTV.  It's hard not to think the only reason the project was greenlit was because the (male) movie execs were afraid to cancel it.

    *Reboot...a mark of quality!  Filmmaker(s) seem to feel compelled to "reinterpret" the IP being rebooted "for the current audience", which often destroys the advantage of working with a previously proven concept.  I'm sure we all have our own favorite failures (and successes) to mention.  A determined few go further deciding to keep only the necessary set-dressings and make some kind of gimmick film.  These failures include Dark Shadows, Lone Ranger, and now Ghostbusters.  (Edit: How could I have forgotten Land of the Lost?)

    That's interesting...the only Ghostbusters trailer that I saw had only one trait: It was aggressively unfunny. It no more demanded going to a theater than did any other trailer, enthusiastic or not. I thinks me you read a fair bit of your personal feelings into it.

    Glad I went anyways, though, as I thought the movie was a fun one. Not the best thing ever, but it wasn't bad at all. A case where the trailer did significant harm to the movie unnecessarily.


  7. 2 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    Nine months for the Pixar crew is still several dozen person-years, so an endeavor of that scale is still going to need a crew size comparable to a regular studio.

    And since fans are going to have jobs themselves, in addition to families and lives outside of the work, they won't be able to put in overtime hours the way Pixar was able to. 9 months of people working overtime as a part of their daily job are going to be able to produce a generally higher quality of work and definitely a much larger body of work than even an equivalently sized group of fans that can only get between a few hours to a few dozen hours of work done per week due to other obligations.

    Additionally it's not really all that fair a comparison as PIxar was able to recover around 70% of the stuff they lost due to one of the Leads at the studio having been working from home. She had taken a computer home with her that hadn't been connected to the main server, so when the erroneous backup command had hit, it was spared the wiping. The story of how they drove from her house to the Pixar offices at like 15 miles an hour was quite harrowing.


  8. 57 minutes ago, InfiniteRemnant said:
    On 8/15/2016 at 2:52 AM, Matoyak said:
    On 8/15/2016 at 8:09 PM, Tom Sewell said:

    One could, but who would read it? There's little point in writing fanfic without involving characters from the source. Write an original story instead.

    Which is not to say you shouldn't build a story around OCs, but they should have involvement with the returning cast.

    Hmm. I feel that's unnecessarily limiting the potential of fanfic writing in general, honestly. While I don't really read fanfiction, there's no reason it has to always include the main characters. One could use the universe created by someone else for it. (Heck, that's where a lot of the Cthulhu Mythos comes from, and the entire Star Wars expanded universe could be argued to be sanctioned fanfic writing).

    No one's saying it has to, it's just that if you go to Fic archive sites, the fics that don't use the existing cast tend to be at the bottom of the list going by views, comments, favorites, etc. Fans seek out fan-work that stars their favorite character, or fleshes out their favorite extra, more often than not. having an OC 'steal' that spotlight typicaly ends badly.

    Uh, that's exactly what Tom Sewell said, though.

    On 8/15/2016 at 8:09 PM, Tom Sewell said:

    One could, but who would read it? There's little point in writing fanfic without involving characters from the source. Write an original story instead.

    Which is not to say you shouldn't build a story around OCs, but they should have involvement with the returning cast.

    All I was saying is that those two bolded statements are a bit limiting. I don't care how popular something is, we shouldn't limit things to purely what's popular. To say it again, that would be "unnecessarily limiting".


  9. 1 hour ago, Myranuse said:

    I've read the current three pages of this thread and now my head hurts...

    Imma share this thread whenever someone asks why programming is so hard; there is a reason why the medium of programming is called a programming language.

    Now that I think about it, what is everyone's opinion on using 'Imma' instead of  'I am going to'? Or slang in general?

    I use slang for comedic or emphasis purposes nine times out of ten, especially when typing on the internet. I do enjoy doing so, but when needing to be more serious or understood I drop the slang.


  10. 7 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Two sides of the coin ... just my 2¢.

    Or faces of a die? :P

    6 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    By now I am convinced that the whole Diane/Susan being twins setup is a huge Dan troll that he has spent more than a decade setting up because he wanted to annoy fans who like to grow epileptic trees. I move that we create a new trope based on this: Troll of God.

    If that turns out to be the case, I'll actually be very, truly, for realsies, quite annoyed, to put it mildly.


  11. 6 hours ago, hkmaly said:
    2 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    No, not Tengu didn't. Nanase made no attacks at all. Ellen zapped him, but to no effect, and humans don't seem to have any forbidden magic anyway. That is, they can use anything they can get. But since Adrian follows the same restrictions as full Immortals, any I believe Immortal could lawfully attack not-Tengu once he started using magic to attack. And not-Tengu has to be a big reason why Magic Itself wants to change the rules--no more average jerks becoming not-Tengus for a century or a millenium.

    Not-Tengu attacked first by spiking the punch, is what I'd say.


  12. 14 hours ago, ijuin said:

    The huge jump in Grace's genre savvyness happened over the nearly-six-month time skip, so we can assume that she was gradually learning throughout it, which makes it much less jarring.

    We also saw many times where she was being taught about this stuff (Playing video games with Tedd, working at the comic shop, watching Star Wars, going to school, etc etc). It's not that big a jump, really, when taken into account who her friends are and where she works, even if you remove the 6 month time skip (though that certainly helps).


  13. 4 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Yeah, I think we all figured Pandora never really intended on talking to Grace in her dreams, just get Disco Wizard's attention.

    Pretty sure Disco Wizard was talking to the Will of Magic, not Pandora. We already knew Pandora was not trying to talk to Grace, she said as much. I'd be willing to bet that what Dan's giving cookies about is guessing that the Will of Magic sent Disco Wizard to Grace in order to get ahold of Pandora, not to actually talk to Grace.

    4 hours ago, partner555 said:

    Is what Disco Wizard saying in reference to Pandora, or The Will of Magic?

    Will of Magic, I'd be willing to bet.


  14. 8 hours ago, Arcanimus said:

    To be completely honest, I find Pandora to be no more unstable than the people I deal with every day at work. She's eccentric, sure, but I've always found sanity to be relative.

    Yeah, I haven't actually seen much that qualifies her for the level of insanity that people here on the forums seem to ascribe to her. Chaotic: yes, a tad too easily provoked to wanting blood for harm done to her family: yes (but also, I know people in real life that would react much more strongly, and have said they'd do absolutely nasty things in vengeance for someone hurting their family in any way)...but really, I just don't actually see the madness she supposedly has? Even if she has a bit of a God-Complex, that's not really insanity for an immortal with powers on par with demigods.

    Sorry, that's been bothering me a while now and you gave me the opportunity to agree with you on it and expand a bit..


  15. 16 hours ago, Scotty said:

    A "copy Cheerleadra" plan has been mentioned on the forums before, but it wouldn't do anything to draw attention away since even though it would make people look at Ellen instead of Elliot, the main 8 as a whole would still likely have to deal with the fallout.

    A better plan would be to get someone they know, but aren't always seen hanging around with them, to play the part of Cheerleadra. Greg might be a good candidate for it, we know he's cosplayed as Chun-Li, so he might not be opposed to getting zapped with a Cheerleadra form. The real trick would be making sure he acts the part well enough.

    Have Ellen copy Cheerleadra, Elliot TF'd as Ellen, and like... Tedd or someone into Elliot. Don't draw attention to it, but have all three out and about in separate locations just doing everyday stuff and "accidentally" run into each other partway through where cameras can see it.


  16. 7 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Say, does this mean Ashley has been crushing on Liz?

    Nah, she could want to transform her that way just because she'd find it hot (finding someone hot/attractive/cute is not the same as crushing on them). Or just to see what it'd look like on her. Or because there's an inside joke between the two of them about something like that. Or because the gods of curling demanded it.


  17. 22 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Latest crackpot theorizing: Edward is the Disco Wizard

    Supporting Evidence:

    Pandora entered Grace's bedroom before entering her dreams. This suggests that the spell for entering dreams has a short range. It doesn't mean Pandora had to be at short range, but we do know that some spells (i.e., Ellen's copy spell) have limited ranges. 

    Grace is in Edward's house.

    Edward is probably also asleep.  when he is using his spell. Being asleep and dreaming himself would be a better explanation than "Use this spell which you don't know what does."

    Disco Wizard says "Now that I can understand" after Pandora tells him she's trying to expose magic to make a better world for her son. That is spot-on Edward.

    Okay. I wonder how soon The Shive will shoot this one down?

    My fun, off the wall theory about Disco Wizard is that it's Greg.