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ChronosCat
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Personally I would be / have been fine with him just acknowledging that it wasn't fair; the part that bothered me was that he didn't seem to realize how unfair it was. That said, I like that magic is so convenient in EGS - and that in general really bad things don't usually happen in EGS outside of backstories. It allows me to just relax and enjoy the ride, whereas in a similar but less "safe" story I'd be worried about what might happen to the characters I've come to like so much.
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This has unfortunate implications for people who change their names to more closely match who they feel themselves to be, or because they have a deep dislike for the name they were given. It says that on some level (at least to Magic) your name will always be what your parents first said it was, and you have no say in the matter. I think Susan would be pretty disturbed by this - and probably Sam as well (assuming his name started as a nickname). Frankly, I'm pretty surprised Dan didn't see this problem right away, and at least address it in the commentary if not the comic. Considering the twitter response (roughly a dozen complaints so far) I'm guessing that's what the next comic is going to be about, regardless of what Dan had originally planned... EDIT: Yep, new comic addressing the issue on Friday, final comic of the Q&A moved to Monday.
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Assuming those humans were living in our universe, that sounds like a predestination paradox...
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Sketchbook Tuesday Apr 9 2019 - Not Exactly Evening Out
ChronosCat posted a topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2019-010 I think the middle panel is my favorite, particularly the colors. -
Imagining what other people are thinking is an integral part of how I function on a day-to-day basis. If I can't make an educated guess what is going on in someone's head, I can't predict how they will act, which tends to make interacting with them quite stressful - sometimes downright scary. Often when I re-watched my favorite movies as a child, I would choose a character and then pay particular attention to their story, trying to keep track of what they knew at any point in the story and trying to figure out what they were thinking and what the motivations for their actions were. (When writing, I do the same thing. The only reason I don't do it with movies anymore is I don't re-watch them very often these days.) Another thing I like to do is take a game or piece of fiction that is part of a larger franchise I'm familiar with, and try to imagine what someone not familiar with the franchise would think of it. (For instance, watching the first episode of classic Dr. Who as a fan, the first view of the TARDIS is a really cool moment. However, someone who knew nothing about the franchise probably would just wonder why there was a Police Box in a junkyard (and in this day and age, what a "Police Public Call Box" even is), and/or why the camera was focusing on it.)
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No idea, but based on the comments on Twitter & Patreon, it's not an uncommon idea. The games mentioned so far are Wild Arms 2, Final Fantasy XIV, and Fallout 76. Also mentioned is the movie Reign of Fire. (Note that I've never played/watched any of these, so all I have to go on is the comments and Wikipedia. Wikipedia mentions dragon apocalypses in FFXIV and Reign of Fire, but nothing about the dragons being nuclear. It says nothing about the supposed nuclear dragons in Wild Arms 2 and Fallout 76.) Oddly enough no one has mentioned my favorite nuclear-fire breathing reptile yet, Godzilla. We know Dan has played Fallout 76, so it's possible he got the idea from there, though in that case I would have expected him to mention it in the commentary.
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I believe it's just transformation that can't be used for healing, and the main reason is for story balance (in particular to prevent the TFG from being over powered). (At least that's how I remember it being explained.) Also, if magic/tf could be used for healing, it would make the Masquerade even more undesirable, and would make me wonder why magic users didn't at least try to pass magical healing off as a form of non-magical healthcare during the period where they had to put up with Magic's desire for secrecy. Healing magic/tf would also mean that once the Masqurade is ended, the world would be even less like our own than it would be just from adding in the types of magic already seen in EGS.
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http://egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-72 Yay for starburst background in panel one! Though honestly, I like Diane's torn outfit more than the background, and more than either I like Sarah and Nanase in panel 3.
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http://egscomics.com/comic/qa8-12 [space for spoilers] ...That's a pretty dramatic way to demonstrate that Sarah isn't entirely straight. I mean, Grace-Mon-verse Sarah and Diane are in a relationship, and Nanase Craft and Assistant Sarah are on the way to one, but main-universe Sarah is still just coming to terms with her attraction to women. Also this kiss feels very out of the blue; I was not expecting the Q&A versions of the characters to be in different relationships than the main-universe versions...
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There have been five canon Robins (plus a number of alternate universe Robins). While there has technically only ever been one Alfred, he did die once, at which point Aunt Harriet temporarily replaced him. He also lost a hand once, and has been in many battles with home invaders.
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http://egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-70 Yay for starburst background with hearts in panel two! Yay for starburst background in panel one, too, I guess. [space for spoilers] So does this mean Nanase Craft 2 will be about the three of them hanging out in Nanase's mansion testing magic artifacts and removing curses? Also, is this ship-teasing just for the fun of it, or does Dan actually plan on having Nanase Craft, Assistant Sarah, and Circe as a trio? (I take it as a given Nanase & Sarah will be together.)
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*sigh* Yay for starburst background in panel four... ...Anyway, even after all the sex-change transformations and revelations about gender identity that have happened in EGS over the years, it still amuses me that Amanda used male pronouns for Dan in this strip, but he used his female avatar. It's also interesting looking at Dan's recounting of that list; several things on it apply to me but never even came up in the discussions with my psychologist where he diagnosed me with Autism / Asperger's. I guess if anyone ever questions the diagnosis I have more evidence now...
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Sketchbook Tuesday Mar 26 - Mall Figure Magic Nonsense
ChronosCat posted a topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2019-009 (Space for spoilers.) ...I wonder if she needs to practice to get the form just right? I mean, they're all the same height, but it looks to me like Grace's breasts are bigger than the other two's. (Then again, as someone said on Patreon, maybe it's just the shirts creating that impression. Or for that matter the fact that Grace is in motion...) -
Undiagnosed, but likely. I'm not sure what you would consider "full-on", but it's not like I can't tell the difference between faces at all, it's just more challenging for me than the average person. (It's apparently genetic, as my sister has the same problem.) As for why it's so common among EGS fans... Well, it's not a complete answer, but the Wikipedia article mentions that people (or at least children) with face blindness tend to prefer cartoons over live action as it's easier to tell the characters apart; presumably this would also lead towards the webcomic-reading population having a higher percentage of face-blind individuals than the general population.
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The sequel at least included the part about her going to England.
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I can't speak for anyone reading in 2003, but I know that I confused Nanase and Ellen a few times when reading the comics prior to that in the archives the first time. I also have mistaken Diane for Sarah a few times since Diane got her hair-cut; even in Wednesday's NP I thought she was Sarah for half a second before correcting myself. I guess one of the primary things I use to differentiate human characters is hair style, and even then I don't always pay all that close attention to what I'm seeing. I also will take note of outfits, but that's only helpful in the context of a single scene or if the characters always wear the same thing. (And of course, if someone has a feature that really stands out from everyone else I'll probably notice that.) ...For me at least, this actually isn't just restricted to simplified art styles like Dan; I often get people I don't know well mixed up if they have similar hair/skin-tone/body-shape, even in real life. (And also in movies; Hollywood casting practices have made some movies very confusing for me.) This too is an issue I deal with; when reading quickly or when writing, the first letter of a name is the most important, and it's easy to get those whose names start with the same letter mixed up. (Though I've never called Rhoda "Rhonda", perhaps because I've never known anyone by either name, or followed a story with an important character named Rhonda.)
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Does it have to be all day? Because I failed that (it's hard to be constantly happy when you have the flu - or chronic depression for that matter). I did take some time to enjoy a beautiful sunset, though.
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Yeah, this sort of thing is the main reason I hate comic-book / comic-strip time. Almost inevitably, time will seem to pass at different rates depending on how you measure it. In EGS you have things like the rapid progress of technology (going from cell phones being uncommon to everyone having smart phones in a year's time) and the Video Store seeming anachronistic to those not lucky enough to live in an area that still has them; this is relatively subtle but still annoying when you notice it. In other cases you can have events which supposedly take place within a few years in comic time but are connected to events that in the real world are decades apart (before they got retcon-crazy, Marvel & DC were prone to this). And then there are comic strips where the characters don't age at all yet time is clearly passing (for instance, Calvin experienced nine or ten distinct Christmases while he remained six-years-old) which has always baffled me. Frankly, I wish more creators would be brave enough to set their stories in specific years rather than trying to tell long-running stories that supposedly are always set at the point in time the readers are reading them. Wait... Do you mean a Library? We have a couple of those in the area too, though their DVD/Blu-Ray collections are fairly small. It never even occurred to me they might be able to get other DVDs on loan, but it stands to reason seeing as they do it for books. I'll have to look into that.
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sketchbook Sketchbook Tuesday, Mar 19, 2019 - Sam and Sarah Sunscreen
ChronosCat replied to hkmaly's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
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I've been assuming Nanase Craft was British, like Lara Croft (though that doesn't necessarily mean this world's Diane is also British). We weren't given any info on the location of the crypt other than that it's in snowy mountains, but seeing as the first Tomb Raider game opens with a tomb in the Andes, my guess is that's where this crypt is as well. Also, despite their designs being pretty similar to canon, I think Nanase Craft and Asissstant Sarah are meant to be in their late 20s; at the very least Sarah is presented as an actual archaeologist, which suggests she's been through college.
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I believe Dan's point was that if Elliot were less shrunk it would be more clear that everything was hidden. Of course it seems pretty clear to me as it is; to make it uncertain what parts of him are visible to the viewer I need to shrink the comic so much I can't make out the text either, so I'm not sure why Dan was concerned about it here.
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Works for me. Yay for snowdrop background!
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Yay for... er, wait, those aren't flowers (or if they are they're very abstract). Just what are they supposed to be? Given Tedd's outfit I want to say snowflakes, though they don't really look like that either. Oh well, close enough. Yay for snowflake background in panel one! (It's nice to have a special background that isn't some variation on a starburst for once.) Anyway, it's for the best to have this question addressed in the comic (though it would have been even better if it was in-story), and explaining that Tedd's pronoun preferences don't apply to everyone was important (both for the ignorant and for those who might think Dan didn't know any better) but the digression on "they/them" really wasn't necessary and made the comic drag a bit; if Dan had another question ready he could answer in three panels or so, I think that would have been a better choice for the second half of the comic. I really wish we could introduce a new set of pronouns to fill role 4 (and possibly take over role 3 when the subject is not a group). (Personally, I prefer ey/em, mainly because as a simple modification of they/them it's easy to remember.) However, no single set of new pronouns had been able to get enough people using them for them to catch on, so I guess we're stuck with re-purposing "they/them".
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Sketchbook Thursday March 7, 2019 (So Very Even)
ChronosCat replied to Stature's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
Given that this is a non-canon scenario, we can't assume these versions of the characters have the same history as the ones we know. (In fact, in one comment on Patreon, Dan implied that Rhoda and Catalina might not even be together in this scenario.) -
The Q&A is mainly filler to give Dan the time to properly plan out the next story; the story will likely be better for it. (I'm anxious for it too, though.)
