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  1. Sad news

    I just heard that Akira Toriyama died last Friday, at the age of 68. For those who don't know, he was a manga writer/artist who created several popular series -- most notably Dragonball (which I was a big fan of back in the early 00s). He was also character designer for a number of video games including the Dragon Quest (AKA Dragon Warrior) series, and my favorite game, Chrono Trigger.
  2. https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-038 I wasn't sure whether to include a tag for Steve, as he's a new character and we already have a few other "Steve"s in the comic. (I guess Dan likes the name.) My prediction for who we'll see in the next comic: Sarah. While I'm sure she doesn't come to every tournament, it would be a bit disappointing not to have her in this tournament when Hope went through all the effort to meet up with her again.
  3. NP for Tuesday, Mar 5, 2024

    https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-069 I wonder if the comic will ever advance far enough for us to see the future Tedd mentions in this strip? It certainly could lead to some fun stories!
  4. https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-068 Everybody should have cat ears. Well, except bunnies; the long ears are a distinctive part of their look and are cute (but cat ears are still cooler).
  5. NP for Saturday, Mar 2, 2024

    They hear you just fine, it's just that most cats can't be bothered to learn non-feline languages.
  6. Comic for Monday, Mar 4, 2024

    The funny thing about Jay thinking Grace's extremely cheerful personality is an act is that it actually is some of the time - just not usually.
  7. Comic for Monday, Feb 26

    https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-034 I think Grace is the sort who thinks of anybody she knows and who isn't mean to her a friend. Meanwhile, Hope knows things about a stranger, which must be a disorientating feeling.
  8. https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-066 I believe I will enjoy the consequences of this conversation. Also, it's not a background, but yay for power-up effect that is probably just artistic license in panel two!
  9. https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-064 Hopefully the pony doesn't eat all the pizza and candy.
  10. Comic Wednesday February 21, 2024

    I believe Adrian only took Noah under his wing fairly recently (from an in-world perspective) and adopted him more recently still. Furthermore, I don't think Pandora visited her son very often, so she probably never got the chance to get to know Noah. Pandora also had a tendency to get fixated on a single goal / idea / etc. and ignore everything else. So chances are she rarely even remembered Noah existed, and when she did thought of him more as "some kid staying with Adrian" rather than as family (not out of prejudice but because she wasn't paying enough attention to know better).
  11. https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-063 Yes, Ashley. Yes it does.
  12. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Nah; like Jet Jaguar and Zone Fighter, I'm only gigantic when I need to be.
  13. https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-031 I usually wouldn't bother, but I feel like I ought to say something about the comic rather than just posting the link to it, so: Yay for starburst background in panel two!
  14. Comic for Friday, February 16

    https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-030 Space for low-key spoilers: Tedd and Grace are looking quite cute today. As I said on Tumblr: I love how Tedd and Grace's new-ish hair styles are both androgynous (in fact I might even call Tedd's feminine-leaning and Grace's borderline-masculine, though they both look great with their current bodies regardless). Combined with their similar outfits and matching pendants, the two look like quite the matched set!
  15. I just noticed that no one has created any NP threads this week. Rather than making several threads I figured I'd just do one for the week. Tuesday, Feb 13: https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-060 Thursday, Feb 15: https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-061 Saturday, Feb 17: https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-062 Space for kinda-sorta spoilers: I like Ashley's form in Tuesday's strip. It's funny both she and Kevin are acting like she was being naughty, when random TFs are par for the course in Tedd's basement. Someone pointed out elsewhere that it's kind of funny Ashely's worried in Thursday's strip that she'll get TF spells instead of the healing spells she wants, when Pandora decided not to give her a mark because all she could give her was healing magic. As for Saturday, all I have to say is: Chibi!
  16. Comic Wednesday February 07, 2024

    It was released when I was a kid; I saw it shortly after it came out on video. I really enjoyed it, though I did like Star Wars better (if only because as a kid I always preferred things I thought were serious over comedies). I think I actually like it less now that I get all the adult jokes in it.
  17. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Green parrot...? As in "arr, shiver me timbers"? I wouldn't knowingly pay for such a thing except as a last resort, and if it's going to be digital I'd need to be somewhere with good internet access anyway, so I'd want to see about the possibility of using my sister's internet and her friend's Netflix account first.
  18. Things That Are Just Annoying

    First of all, sorry to hear about your troubles, mlooney; you have my sympathy. Now on to a much less serious annoying thing: I'm a fairly big Godzilla fan, and I like to have physical media for my entertainment when possible. As a result I have collected DVDs and/or Blu-Rays of every Godzilla movie to have an official English-subtitled release - which is to say, every Godzilla movie except the anime "Monster Planet" trilogy released in 2017 & 2018. That trilogy was released on DVD & Blu-Ray in Japan shortly after their initial releases, but of course those discs don't have English subtitles. As far as I can tell, even years later the only way to see the English translation legally is by streaming them on Netflix. As I've mentioned before, my internet is too limited for doing much if any streaming, and so long as that's the case there's no way I'm paying for a streaming service. This means that if I want to see the Monster Planet trilogy and understand what's being said, I'll need to visit my sister and ask to use her internet and the Neflix account she's sharing with a friend... or wait and hope that one of these years they'll finally do US Blu-Ray release. (Well technically I could also try learning Japanese, but I don't really want to learn another language just to watch anime & monster movies.)
  19. Comic for Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024

    My understanding is that how long a CD (or DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.) will last depends on the manufacturing techniques used. Some CDs made in the late 80s still play fine, while some more recently produced are no longer usable (though it's not simply a matter of "they don't make 'em like they used to"; new CDs can be high quality too). Unfortunately usually there's no way for the consumer to know what sort of disc it is they're dealing with. Personally, I like the concept of streaming, but don't do it much (and don't bother with any paid services) because my internet is limited. Even if that weren't an issue, I would still want to have physical copies of any music I like enough to want to listen to again (and any videos I want to watch again, and games I want to play again), or at least have the media in question downloaded to a machine I own (preferably with backups), as I don't trust streaming services (or anything else online) to always have the things in question available - or even to always exist. I do listen to the radio at times too, if I don't know what I want to listen to (or when I'm in my car, since it's CD player broke and I haven't gotten around to having it replaced). However, while the "random" (for lack of a better term) selection on a radio station can lead to me discovering new music I like, it also can result in my being subjected to songs I don't like (until I change the station or turn it off), and generally speaking I prefer being in more control over what I'm listening to.
  20. Comic for Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024

    In addition to "fast forward" still being a term, as far as I know so is "rewind" despite nothing being wound on a DVD/Blu-Ray player or streaming video. On a related note, multiple programs I use still have their "save" icon look like a floppy disk; I wonder how many people use such programs but have no idea why the save symbol looks like that. Incidentally, I'm guessing that incident with your kids not knowing about records was a while ago? Because records have actually been making a comeback in recent years (I've even heard that these days they sell better than CDs, though considering how most people seem to prefer streaming these days, that may not be saying much).
  21. NP Comic for Tuesday, Jan 9, 2024

    So long as he's willing and able to change into a wide variety of feminine forms (plus a masculine cat-boy), I think Elliot will continue to hold Ashley's interest.
  22. Comic for Friday, Jan 5, 2024

    And Susan. And Grace. And also the guy in panel six of this comic...
  23. Comic for Wednesday, Jan 3, 2024

    Remember, travel back in time is not possible in EGS (except traveling to another world whose "present" is an earlier year than your own). Whenever I use a $100 bill at a store, the cashier runs a marker over it. While still obvious enough if you're paying attention, I'd say it's a bit more discrete (and probably convenient) than holding the bill up to a light like Justin did.
  24. Comic for Wednesday, Dec 27, 2023

    Same thing for big name releases on the Switch (and many not-so-big name releases).
  25. Who in the cast has met an immortal?

    While I like the idea of Many Worlds, I don't think that particular idea holds up. It assumes that either no matter the situation a person finds themselves in there is a chance they won't die, and/or that any situation where death is inevitable is avoidable. Now that might be true for the majority of things that can kill a person (though on the other hand there are so many things that can kill a person that it would be extremely unlikely to find oneself surviving far beyond one's life expectancy), but there are various deadly situations that a human simply can't survive, and various health issues that can't be avoided and modern medicine doesn't have an answer to. Also, while there may be some worlds out there with people already centuries or more old, and medical technology is advancing rapidly enough these days that it's not unreasonable to think some people living today could live to see life expediencies start rising faster than people can die of "old age", without the ability to travel back in time or between worlds everybody must die eventually --- after all, the universe itself will eventually end (or at least wind up uninhabitable).