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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Not all the time, but you could get the creature or bandit's attention and kite them around while the NPCs shoot at them, it's more time consuming than just shooting them yourself cus most of the time NPCs can't hit the broad side of a barn or they have the weakest weapons available.

    That said, companions tend to be better at it than the full on NPCs.

  2. Posted

    3 hours ago, partner555 said:

    How many hours into the game would this be? Either way, I see the no kill challenge receiving its first challenge.

    Less than an hour (potentially as short as 5 mins, as Remnant said). And I'm assuming it's more meant to be symbolic than literal as is (ie: the goofy lizard things are just a stand in for any enemy type, really). The first time I played New Vegas bandits attacked the very starting town as soon as I was finished with the intro scripting. Was about 10 minutes, as getting through the tut took me a bit due to adjusting controls and such.

  4. Posted

    4 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Trust me, they had lots of rules regarding grammar or their language just wouldn't work. The problem is that formal grammatical rules are an attempt to describe how a given language works, not actual rules for how it works -- and too many people put the cart in front of the horse and think that they are the latter.

    Since language is constantly and extensively mutable, it follows that grammar must be as well. The trouble arises when people treat grammatical rules as ironclad, which they really aren't. The best metaphor I can think of is to compare grammar to a map of a language. But the 'landscape' the map depicts is one subject to constant change and prominent features keep appearing, vanishing or shifting about. And if there is conflict between map and reality, grammaticians who insist that it is reality that is wrong will all too often find themselves walking off metaphorical cliffs.

    It's interesting to apply this type of thinking / analysis / linguistics thought to programming languages. They have to be very rigidly defined...but still often grow and mutate over time...while still having to be absolutely rigid in their definitions and grammar. And the breaks tend to come from just outright creating a new language (if not outright whole cloth, then close to it).

    EDIT: And I feel there's an interesting comparison to make between the two styles of language and how each type evolves and how they're created. Additionally, I feel there's an interesting conversation to be had between linguists on both sides.

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  7. Posted

    Honestly the most truly evil thing I can think of in the comic that we've seen is Damien. The only things that come close are the abominations / vampires...so I guess I'm in the Sirleck camp. (Though truthfully that tweet looks like a joke to me. "So EEEVIIIILLLL ~pinky~ One MILLION dollars! Ahahaha ~pinky~")

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, Drachefly said:

    The only Charlotte/Diane ship I have is a friendship. I just don't see it, feel it, or hear it otherwise.

    Yeah, I only see the friendship. But were they to go beyond that, they would be a cute couple, I could see. I merely very much doubt it'd ever happen.

  9. Posted

    13 hours ago, Aura Guardian said:

    It's still a misuse of the word "begs," while the fallacy's name, curiously, is not a misuse. Mistranslation, sure. Misuse, Charlotte was right the first time. (I wish there'd been a bit more to this comic, plot-wise, than basically that)

    Basically summed up my thoughts on this page nicely.

  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    I don't think ANY Scifi movie can out-do SW.EP.1

    Child actors, convoluted gambling based plans, a supposedly  teenage head of state who alternates between looking like a 25 year old and a tacky-dress manequin with a painted on face, bad CGI comic relief characters prone to un-funny attempts at slapstick humor, technobable used to hand-wave something that everyone already accepted and didn't need hand-waving, ugh... that's a lot to top.

    Battlefield Earth?

  11. Posted

    On 3/27/2016 at 3:03 AM, Cpt. Obvious said:

    Edit: Feel free to ignore this post. I made a mistake and HarJIT pointed it out in a post below. Apart from ctuttering it up with this comment I'm leaving the post as is, for "hysterical reasons". Besides I put some work into those links...

    Haha, I  was like "but...that's not what I was saying? :( "

  12. Posted

    10 hours ago, Sweveham said:

    I suppose Grace more or less has to make friends with her assailant, or at least leave him unharmed, if she wants to go through the game non-violently. From what I read, the plot basically is about finding him. So she can't take the more sensible non-violent option of staying the hell away from him, for then there wouldn't be a game.

    Only if you're focused on the main storyline. You could spend hundreds of hours in New Vegas and only touch a few main story quests, while still doing tons of other quests and stories. Granted, that'd be pretty tough (more so than the main line) doing it all non-aggressive, but...

  13. Posted

    It's also possible that Dan was using it to speak in the third person for humor reasons, and not saying anything about his pronouns at all. I dunno which is more likely, but it's possible. ~shrug~

  16. Posted

    15 minutes ago, partner555 said:

    It's a video game, some suspension of disbelief is needed, and surviving an otherwise deadly injury if it happened in real life would not break it. Though some handwaving might be necessary.

    Yeah...but there are better ways to work with your audience than having you be shot in the head within nearly arms distance and surviving though, while still trying to play it off as a big deal. I feel you don't get to play both sides of that one. ~shrug~

  17. Posted

    33 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    We actually seem to agree on lot of things. I don't see anything I would disagree with in what you are saying, except obviously the "ludicrous" part. It's just that I consider teaching children harder than teaching adults, while you seem to think it's equally hard.

    The difference is that you seem to think that someone who isn't talented at teaching kids is (somehow, for reasons I don't comprehend) a worse teacher than someone who can. (ie: "less competent"), when they're completely different tasks with completely different and incompatible types of difficulty. I find that insulting to all involved.

  18. Posted

    3 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    And the second sentence is because I consider teaching children harder than teaching adults (or near-adults like in college). Greg was able to do that. Any teacher who isn't or who is not having the courage to is IMHO less competent teacher.

    ...we'll have to agree to disagree, as I can't think of a more ludicrous statement to make on the subject. Teaching kids is a different kind of skill than teaching young adults. You can't handle it the same way, and you shouldn't try to force someone who's good at one to attempt to do the other without proper training and preparation time.

  19. Posted

    18 hours ago, Stature said:

    [Chubby... Show me those curves, girl! Work it, work it!]

    ...huh? I see nobody on this page who could qualify as "chubby".

    12 hours ago, The Old Hack said:
    15 hours ago, Sweveham said:

    It seems like being reborn hasn't made Helena and Demetrius any less prone to enlisting innocent others in their fight against evil. Despite the good intentions, they are not very nice people, are they?

    We still do not know everything about them. But they are certainly not looking good right now. Except possibly to those who would otherwise have been victims of the vampires. What truly makes what they do problematic is that they seem to have alternatives -- other mages, the DGB, the French version of the DGB -- and for some reason they are not making use of them.

    Yeah, I'm thinking we're going to be hearing from the Griffons about this half of the world's unfortunate flip of the coin (pun intended, sorry JML) on what they got as opposed to Ancients.

    10 hours ago, Scotty said:
    16 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Do we know how much Nanase knows about what happened in the cave with Susan and Jerry?  Like, how one of her close friends nearly went nuts, saved only by a Serenity spell?  Or how strongly Jerry condemned the Immortals who recruited them?

    I'm pretty sure she does, she knows that she awakened that day, and she knew the general description of Jerry from when Diane described the guy that stopped her from drinking the punch, and she'd have to know about his pledge to aid Susan and her friends because Diane being Susan's sister would fall under that pledge.

    I agree. I'm pretty sure we saw the aftermath of that talk when Susan first showed Nase off to Nanase, and made a non-snarky joke.

    10 hours ago, Scotty said:

    I still want to believe that their behaviour has to do with their improper deaths though, at least in the case of Nanase and Susan. In the current situation though, maybe they're trying to cover so many bases with not only keeping an eye on Elliot, but trying to deal with vampires. This night could have been constant jumping back and forth between Elliot and Andrea.

    That wouldn't explain them having lead Andrea on the whole time she was here, though. Seems they were doing to Andrea what He-Who-Glows-In-The-Dark was doing to Tara.

    9 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Remember they still don't remember much. They may not be AWARE of any other immortals except the guy who totally revealed himself in the Mall. It is completely plausible they THINK they are alone in the fight now.

    I very much doubt this is the case.

    9 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I completely believe they may not be able to help her find the way home. I find harder to believe they missed another griffin in city. Although ... only reason they found Andrea might've been because she asked Elliot and they were observing him at the time.

    I also doubt this. I think that Immortals are totally able to find something that a griffin mage created. I'd go so far as to speculate that they might have been intentionally obscuring it from Andrea, though that might be a bit unfair (not out of line from what we've seen of them though). Additionally, I very much doubt they'd have a hard time finding two griffins in a world without any, especially as Charlotte's Angels crew could pull it off.

    8 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Is it simply inevitable that someone who lives for centuries or millennia would eventually see mere humans as pets or toys?

    No, it's very much not. @Haylo and @Hunendora's responses, sure. (though there's still no excuse for them if Haylo's is correct: Just because a person is old doesn't mean their memories of the horrors of times past should allow them to perpetuate said horrors).

    55 minutes ago, Scotty said:
    1 hour ago, weirdee said:

    wasn't the first time she transformed was when she swapped places with the fairy doll

    i think using that power forces transference as part of the package

    No she didn't swap places with the doll, the dolls were destroyed, she transformed on the roof of the school and flew over to where Abraham had Ellen.

    Ninja'd by Scotty.

  20. Posted

    21 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I'm not. Or at least Edward doesn't think so highly about those teachers, as he didn't mentioned them AT ALL. Sure, it's possible that those teachers don't like to teach children, but that only shows they are not as competent.

    Just because he didn't mention them doesn't mean they aren't competent. And I can't figure out what you mean by that second sentence at ALL. Some people just don't handle children / kids / teens very well. Or their teaching style doesn't work well for them (Try running a high school or Jr High class with the laxness and/or style of a college class and see how well it works for ya). Or they deal in dangerous subjects that you have trouble teaching to minors / people in high school or younger for legal reasons. That bolded part is really mind-boggling to me.

    11 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Assuming that Edward told Mama Kitsune who not-Tengu was, then we can assume that she is now aware that there are magic-users who are actively hunting her daughter.

    I'm not completely certain that's an assumption we can make.

    5 hours ago, Lady Pentrose said:

    I find myself wondering whether the martial arts lessons were originally the idea of Nanase or her mom, if the latter it was undoubtedly to ensure her daughter had at least some knowledge of how to defend herself in the (very probable) event it become necessary.

    Could have been both, too. When I started Tang Su Do it was because of a joint desire from my dad and I to get into martial arts.

    5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    A crazy title and a few flashy moves might be perceived as an equivalent to putting marshmallows in cereal, a way to get kids to swallow something that is good for them.

    I don't know of any cereal with marshmallows in it that is even slightly healthy, much less children's cereals. (But I still agree with your point).

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Anyone else wonder if Edward, Noriko and Mama Kitsune were to Raven as the main eight are to Edward?

    It seems a safe assumption.

  25. Posted

    6 minutes ago, comicalArchitect said:

    I have been wondering what the Main 8 are going to do with their lives after graduating. Perhaps some of them will go into the DGB and fight monsters full-time. Nanase and the Dunkels seem the most likely to do something like that. Susan and Grace both seem like they'd want to go to college, Tedd has his research to continue, Sarah isn't a fighter and wouldn't want to reveal her abilities anyhow, and Justin has never seemed to care that much about magic.

    I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Dan's said that he planned for the main arc of EGS to be post high school, back when initially developing the comic. My bet is that we're heading towards a Justice League, Avengers, or Incredibles style superhero team when they hit their college years.

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