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  1. Posted

    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.

  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, Cpt. Obvious said:

    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.

    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."

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  7. Posted

    8 minutes ago, partner555 said:

    What is the typical age distribution of a typical fandom? Does it broadly reflect society's age demographics?

    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~

  8. Posted

    49 minutes ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    I meant here as in 'this community' not 'this site'. the FF.net and AO3 archives for EGS are more or less dead, and it's presence elsewhere seems nonexistent. Which for an ongoing series with an active enough fanbase to make a patreon account viable seems downright bizarre.

    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.

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    How do you react to other sources of iodine? Isn't iodine necessary for survival and for not becoming cretin?

    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.

  14. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Well, here's one of my attempts:

     

    AngelDevilHDa.png

    The Angel and Devil Diane outfit colours are custom, and I snagged the coat colour in the last panel from Diane's appearance in Squirrel Prophet. I attempted to change the colours of the "D" on the outfits but it didn't work out too well so I left them coloured. Didn't bother with the background either. I tell you though, even with the freehand select tool going point to point (as opposed to holding down the button and dragging along the outlines) was still a pain on my wrist, especially around the faces because I needed to outline around the eyes and mouth to keep from covering them with the skin colour. I think it turned out alright though. I got another that I'll post as soon as I'm able.

    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.

  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

    Maybe that's my first problem.  I don't *read* hundreds of webcomics, news sites and other assorted things...

    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.

  16. Posted

    11 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I'm just wondering on what basis you make that conclusion.  How do *you* know whether a given person is actually prone to genuine psychological harm?  Must you actually *see* them have an externally visible panic attack before you'll believe them?  If so, that seems like a rather harsh requirement; if not, then how do you decide who you believe and who you don't?  Because frankly, I see an awful lot of people whose criteria seems to be either whether they like or dislike the person in question, or whether they themselves are bothered by the thing that the other person is triggered by.  And if you are disbelieving people who have genuine psychological harm, that's probably causing them even more harm.

    Again, how do *you* know whether someone is actually allergic to something or they "just strongly dislike it"?  Do you only count people who have an *immediate*, visible, life-threatening anaphylaxis to have "real" allergies?  Or would someone who is, oh, just for an example, allergic to tobacco smoke but suffers scratchy throat, itchy eyes, and clogged sinuses for a couple of *days* after exposure but doesn't actually collapse in front of you turning blue, count as an "allergy" in your book?

    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.

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  17. Posted

    13 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    You gotta admit though, my current theory is more plausible than the egg theory. Heck another piece of evidence we could use for it is Adrian's illusion on Grace looking a lot like Susan. If he was the one that cast the default form spell on the twins, that could explain how the illusion on Grace looked similar, the hair colour would be a trivial matter that he made the twins blonde as part of keeping them from looking like Noriko, and Grace's illusion had black hair to make the idea of her being Adrian's niece be more convincing.

    To me, it's not a matter of what's tame or wild, it's throwing ideas out there to see what sounds good. It's supposed to be fun and if one of our theories turns out to be close to what Dan had in mind, that's just a bonus, and if a seemingly wild theory turns out to be a lot closer to the truth than some of the tamer theories, then it really wouldn't be such a wild theory after all would it?

    ~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.

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  19. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Yes, I did say that as far as the comic stated, anything could be possible, but I also backed it up by using an example of something the comic has stated is possible, that there are spells that alter default forms, Tedd's mark spell is proof they exist. So why couldn't they be used to hide someone's true identity? Of course, the idea of it explaining how Susan and Diane could be related to Noriko is out there, but can we say with 100% certainty that it's impossible? Probably not unless Dan shows us something that makes it impossible.

    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.

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

    RSS means never having to check for updates...

    26 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    You underestimate the power of obsession.

    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.

  21. Posted

    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!".

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    So, I'm curious, how do people go about recolouring an image? Like taking a greyscale original and giving it colour. It's more than just using the fill tool right?

    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 :P

    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).

  23. Posted · Edited by Matoyak

    10 hours ago, liontari said:

    Thanks, added that.

    Made a small edit to that effect. Granted, her self-discovery is pretty open-ended, but you're right, it's a pretty important story element right now.

    Do you have any suggestions? :) Should more speculative claims be kept to the the speculation thread, or should I create a small sub-category for that at the end? Or just use some kind of label?

    I was thinking just like an asterisk, or a tag [speculation] / [contains speculation]. Like so:

    On 5/20/2016 at 6:55 PM, liontari said:

    Pandora’s plot

    • Her goals Is making magic visible to everyone her main goal? Is she motivated simply by boredom and Raven’s remark?*
    • [contains speculation] The marks The exact identities of two mark-bearers are still unknown. Is she still creating more?

    *contains speculation

    One of those two (I lean towards the tag)

    10 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Hmm, I'd say either a note at the start of the entry ("speculation -- Greg and Vladia's relationship") or a small separate section at the end collecting the more speculative ideas.

    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).

  24. Posted

    5 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:
    5 hours ago, liontari said:
    • The marks Two are still unaccounted for.

    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.

  25. Posted

    I really was hoping the Ghost Busters reboot would be good. An all female cast helming a knockout comedy-action romp would be nearly as good for the industry as a female lead superhero getting a great film. But good lord that trailer was terrrrible. :( It just wasn't funny, to put it simply.