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  1. Posted

    12 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    the whole CCG phenomena, but especially MtG and Pokemon.

    I'll be honest, I'd forgotten there even was a Pokémon CCG, and that's far from the core aspect of Pokémon. Heck, even the anime's a small deal compared to the video games. Besides, the Pokémon CCG came out in the US in 1998, while Magic came out in 1993. Not exactly in the same year, or even a year apart. Bit much to hold hatred for Pokémon on that count, as CCGs had been around for 5 years at that point.

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  2. Posted

    14 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    You aren't a table top gamer are you?  CCG don't count in this context.

    I am, though? DnD 3.5 and Call of Cthulhu are mostly what I play. Though I have been looking into The Sprawl...just need to find a group to play it with.

    Why does that matter one whit, though? If I like one, I must not like the other? ~raises eyebrow~

  3. Posted

    7 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    This was reproducing a comic Dan inked back when he was in High School.

    Had the female Pikachu even been introduced at that point?  Really, I am asking.  I don't know the Poker man timeline or how it intersects with Dan's personal timeline.

    It definitely had not been introduced by that point. The only way would be if Dan adjusted it intentionally when inking it in this update. I suspect that's not what happened, though, due to the difference being mostly obscure, combined with the other stuff I pointed out earlier.

    3 hours ago, mlooney said:

    /me covers ears lalalal can't hear you.

    Sarah was never the damn yellow mouse.

    I legit can't understand why this is such a big deal for you.

  4. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pizzaboy10 said:

    Probably because Valve's anti cheat detection would think it's something worth banning for. They're pretty finicky like that. (Also you'd have to make the models yourself.)

    Not just the models, but also the skeletons, rigs, and animations, which could result in different silhouettes* and hitboxes depending on how you do it. You could just replace the meshes, I suppose, but that'd result in some weirdness almost certainly.

    *And since this was THE main focus in character design of TF2, and a very large reason why it was as balanced as it was...

  5. Posted

    5 hours ago, hkmaly said:
    9 hours ago, Duke of Pretzels said:

    The best part of this, to me at any rate, is that Sarah is a male pikachu. 

    Good job on Dan, sneaking that in there! 

    Well ... Tedd did said he now knows how to make permanent transformation wand ... and Lord Tedd likely actually tried ...

    Funny as it is, I suspect Dan simply don't know. The difference only appeared in Diamond/Pearl.

    Also, the tail goes off panel. The notch could be off screen, so to speak. (combined with the breasts and generally feminine figure pikachu!Sarah has in that image, I think it's probably mostly safe to assume she's female in that panel, sex-wise at least).

     

  6. Posted

    19 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    And I see it more as like a best friend in junior high was shoved in a freezer. Since then we've finished high school, gone to college, gotten established in a career... and the best friend from junior high just showed up, *still in junior high*, and trying to fit in our life the same way she used to. It's awkward.

    Could you explain a bit more? I'm unsure I understand you... you're saying this explanation is like a best friend time traveling from the past?

    8 hours ago, Scotty said:

    And now I'm wondering why no one has asked Dan to draw an actual Cyndaquil/Quilava Justin, Jiggly-puff Tedd, or Sentret Grace.

    I have, multiple times, for multiple characters, with multiple Pokémon (and multiple different non-Pokémon animals, too). A few times on the Patreon, even. ~shrug~ Dan and the People clearly don't want it, I suppose.

  9. Posted

    On 6/9/2016 at 0:56 AM, ijuin said:

    I'm kind of surprised that they didn't produce a "third version" for the X/Y generation. I was so looking forward to Pokeball Pokemon Z.

    I have a suspicion that it's due to the Nintendo NX and whatever Nintendo, Pokémon Company, and GameFreaks' plans for the franchise on that system are. If the NX turns out to be the handheld+console combo that everyone suspects it of being, then it'll be the replacement for the 3DS as well as the WiiU. If that turns out to be the case, then they'll have to do some serious asset building in order to be able to support a console that will likely rival the current versions of the Xone and the PS4 in terms of power. They don't have models or sprites that would look good at that resolution (Heck, they barely have models that look good on the 3DS as it stands).

    I bet they pivoted out of making Z in favor of Sun and Moon in order to get one last rush of the 3DS's massive audience with the excitement a new Generation brings before the NX shows up to wreck shop and either way they would have to take a long time and money before the next iteration of the franchise post-NX.

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, Maplestrip said:

    Asking that, is Tedd Sarah's childhood friend due to Second Life? God, this is confusing.

    Did you mean Ellen? Neither Sarah nor Tedd had a Second Life. And the characters in the Second Life would be separate characters of their own, I feel [ie: SL Tedd and SL Tony would have their own relationship dynamic, separate from our Tedd and Tony], maybe (maaaybe) with the exception of when interacting with Ellen and Kioli due to their being the ones in all worlds involved and them mapping certain people onto their main world / timeline friends mentally.

  14. Posted

    2 hours ago, Cpt. Obvious said:

    You cherry picked that a bit. The full text read:

    The key parts here is "I usually don't do trigger warnings, but then I'm usually not discussing the most common trigger subjects." and "If I'm posting here though, you are not likely to find a trigger warning unless it's in a thread where some one expressively asked for it."

    There were also the "I do also try to adapt to the local customs" which includes reading the forum rules and observing and learning from other posters and the moderators.

    The way you worded that sentence meant it stood alone (and actually in contrast to the previous statements), and it came after talking about local customs. I assumed this meant you were unaware of the requirements on this forum.

  15. Posted

    Just now, Scotty said:

    So yeah, that should mean that when it said there was $3600 in pledges, then that money had already been collected from all patrons, and once the month ticked over, those that either didn't have enough to do another month or didn't set up recurring pledges got dropped.

    Though this month Patreon is changing how it's done. I think it was set up to where people paid for the previous month, and now they've set it to where people pay for the upcoming month? That, or the charges are now up front? Not certain exactly, but there was a change that will go into effect for June. I can't find the exact info right now, but here's two articles on Patreon about it:

    https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/209777053-When-do-payments-get-processed-

    https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208404313-Why-was-I-charged-immediately-Will-You-Charge-Me-Again-

  16. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Maybe I'm remembering wrong but I could have swore that when I first pledged on patreon, it immediately took money out of my paypal. It's seems like it could be easily abused if someone could pledge halfway through a month, get to see everything that a creator has done that was locked to patrons only, then pull the money out of paypal before the month ticks over .

    AFAIK you're charged when you first sign up, and then monthly (start of month) from there on out.

  17. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Howitzer said:

    The 5th stage looks really odd to me. It took a minute of looking at it before I figured out the problem. She's wearing heels at the end, yet she's still the same height as in the first stage. She should be about half a head taller at the end. It makes her whole body appear squished.

    Yeah, I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what was up with that as well. I guess the morph kept her head and torso length the same while shortening her legs, beefing up her arms, and giving her those crazy hips Dan seems to like so much. Makes the proportions look off for Susan in particular.

    I like the second stage quite a bit, personally.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Scotty said:

    I think the Harry Potter series could probably span several age demographics, but then it was done in a way that people who were teens when the first book came out, kinda grew up alongside Harry as new books were released. At least that's the impression I got.

    You're totally right about growing up alongside it. I was Harry's age when book 1 came out. That said, HP started with a younger target than Teens when the first book came out. Book 1 is outright a children's book, from the premise to the situations and on down to the vocabulary. As the audience grew, Rowling increased the maturity and complexity of the novels. Quite smart, that.

  20. Posted

    15 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    I disagree. I read the first book and found no reason to pick up the second. There was not enough of an ongoing plot to hook me and I was already assured that any interesting character that still survived would die soon.

    Interesting. See, I thought the first book was brilliant. Still do. Thought the series would be equally good...and then I read books 2 and 3 and was very very disappointed.

  25. Posted

    14 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    The typical *author* of YA books is rather older than that. I'd think that if people in their 40s (and up) enjoy writing books with young protagonists, there are a fair number of other people of similar age who enjoy reading them.

    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.