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  1. Posted

    21 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    When viewed from a certain angle one might even call Lincoln authoritarian. The South certainly would, given his tyrannical and absolutist insistence on limiting the enslavement of Black people. Woe unto America when a ruthless tyrant dare impinge on the right of free men to take slaves.

    I consider Lincoln a hero, and am very glad that he freed America's slaves. And anyone who claims the Civil War was about "States' Rights" is lying (or badly misinformed); the only right the Confederacy was fighting for was the "right" to keep slaves.

    All that said, my understanding is that "Preserving the Union" was a higher priority for Lincoln than freeing slaves, and that it was his primary motivation for waging war against the Confederacy. So even with Lincoln there's room to question his motives and decisions (but then, there's no rule that heroes have to be perfect).

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  2. Posted

    On 8/9/2023 at 5:31 PM, Don Edwards said:

    Aside from sex, Elliot and Ellen really look like identical twins. Which is weird. Yeah it could happen naturally... each child would have to inherit the *same* chromosome from each of the mother's 23 pairs, and from 22 of the father's (the other one being the sex chromosome pair, where they obviously have to *not* inherit the same one). So it would happen once per 2^45 (approximately 32 trillion) sets of twins.

    People don't have to be genetically identical to appear extremely similar; sometimes nearly-identical people aren't even all that closely related. And with Elliot and Ellen being different heights and having different frames, they don't really appear identical even if they have a lot of similar traits.

  3. Posted

    On 8/9/2023 at 11:53 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Is this the first time Tedd has referred to herself as "she" & "girl" in the comic?

    I'm not sure whether it is or not, but if it is, I'm sure it's only because opportunities to refer to oneself by pronouns other than "I" or "we" are rare (unless one is in the habit of talking about oneself in third person).

  4. Posted

    On 7/21/2023 at 1:52 PM, mlooney said:

    I was a little wish/washy about my dislike for Bishop.  I mean I didn't like her, but I didn't see her as a major antagonist.  She is now.  Given that Tedd is going to be working, more or less, for DGB and she seems to be inline for local control this might not be a good thing. 

    I saw her as a potential major antagonist as soon as we heard that she was in line for a position of power. And I wonder if Dan is laying the groundwork for an eventual confrontation between Tedd and friends VS Bishop's Magical-FBI, or if she will be metaphorically de-fanged before she becomes such a problem. However, another possibility occurs to me as well: her taking up Arthur's position might just be another way to set things up so the main cast can't rely on help from DGB when things go wrong.

  5. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    The ears say 'cat girls' and that is probably the intent, but the tails are not cat tails, too bushy. In form, they are more like a fox's, but the color is wrong. Maybe a wolf's? The ears could be dog ears, those vary a lot.

    I believe there are cat breeds with tails that bushy, but they're rare. The tails aren't bushy enough to be fox tails, though.

    As for the breast sizes, they're a bit large for my tastes (well, a lot large for my tastes; I prefer small breasts) but not so large as to be a turn-off (at least not in a drawing). (This may partially be due to desensitization; Tedd and Ashley's breasts here are positively modest compared to the breasts of some of the women in the comics I read back in the 90s...)

  6. Posted · Edited by ChronosCat
    Looked up how Dr. Germahn got Tedd's notes.

    It doesn't surprise me Tedd is happy his work has helped others. It does surprise me this was his first reaction, particularly since it's not yet clear how much of Tedd's work Edward shared. A lot of the forms Tedd created tied in with his own tastes and interests (possibly even fetishes); I would expect the possibility that other people were seeing which forms he chose to create without his permission would be embarrassing or even mortifying.

    There's also the fact that Tedd has the clone-form data for all his close friends, and that data was supposed to remain private.

    I was going to say that hopefully Edward was careful about what data he shared, but that would imply at least Edward looked through Tedd's data without permission. Really, the only scenario I can see that doesn't involve a breach of Tedd's privacy would be if Tedd shared the data for the clone forms for Will and Gill with them, and Edward got a copy of that. (I was concerned that Dr. Germahn having copies of some of Tedd's notes and code was a sign that Edward had passed on more than the clone forms for Will and Gill, but looking through parts of Balance again I see that Tedd passed those notes on to Arthur with the knowledge it would be further passed on.)

    ...On the other hand, it occurs to me that living with a father who was the head of a secret government agency of the sort that acts like that agency should be the only ones allowed to keep secrets, it's possible Tedd may have a rather unusual sense of the concept of "privacy".

  7. Posted

    On 7/5/2023 at 2:18 PM, Darth Fluffy said:

    I often wonder if there is intelligent life on Earth. Odds are, 'no'.

    Of course there is. We're called "cats".

    I hear dolphins, elephants, corvids, octopi, and wolves are pretty smart too. (Domestic dogs as well, I suppose.)

    (Of course there are also Chipanzees, Bonobos, and Gorrillas, but as the primary differences between them and humans are more fur and less ambition, I'm not sure they count for the purposes of this discussion.)

  8. Posted

    Re: the commentary:

    I suppose given how (relatively) seriously EGS takes itself these days, this retcon (or "continuity addition" if you prefer) was required. If EGS had maintained the level of comedic absurdity it often had in the early days, though, this detail wouldn't have been necessary.

    I'm a bit disappointed; I enjoyed the idea of hardly anyone realizing there were aliens among us despite them looking quite different from humans. (On a similar vein, I enjoyed how in the early comics Nanase regularly using magic in public and even Justin occasionally doing obvious illusions without any apparent risk to the masquerade, something Dan downplayed as much as possible for many years.)

  9. Posted

    https://www.egscomics.com/comic/layers-021

    I wasn't sure if I should include the characters in the fantasy sequence in the tags...

    I guess I can see Dan's argument that this strip is answering a legitimate question people would have about the story. But on the other hand I think answering that question wasn't entirely necessary, and it does slow down the pacing. On the other other hand, slow pacing has been the norm for EGS for most of it's run, so it would actually seem strange at this point if the stories started only including essential moments.

  10. Posted

    Pink Floyd is among my favorite bands (though not quite enough of a favorite for me to have rushed out and bought all their albums as soon as I realized how much I like them, like I've done with a few other bands). I have CD and digital versions of all of the albums I've got so far, but I only ever bought them once - the ones I got as CDs I copied to my computer, and the ones I bought digitally I burned to CD (this is actually what I do with most music I collect).

    So I finished listening to Meddle. The final song, "Echoes", was also really good. The songs in between were fun, but in my opinion weren't quite up to the same level as the first and last songs.

  12. Posted

    So I decided to finish up the bonus dungeons in Final Fantasy PSP with my Ninja/Master team after all. I had to move on to the fourth bonus dungeon to build up enough strength for the end-dungeon bosses of the third bonus dungeon (who are probably the toughest bosses in the game). After that, the final bonus dungeon was pretty easy (save for a few frustrating puzzles that I wound up using a guide for because I didn't have the patience to figure them out myself), if a bit time consuming.

  13. Posted

    https://www.egscomics.com/comic/layers-020

    So it looks like Lavender is referring multiple things.

    You know, this storyline is a bit stressful for me right now. I wonder just how badly the secret-revealing will go? (I'm also a bit worried about what those Uryuoms from the other world are going to do.)

    It's odd, because I know that reading the archives, having drama and bad things happening will make the comic more interesting and meaningful (it has with past epic stories like Painted Black and Sister II)... but the comic has been so mellow for so long I've gotten used to it being a relaxing read, and whenever it isn't it bothers me.

  14. Posted

    My first thought was that Mr. Verres and/or William & Gillian had been sharing Tedd's TFG modifications with other Uryuoms without Tedd's knowledge. If that's that case, and Mr. Verres is still trying to keep it a secret, that's fodder for some major drama, and probably a bit of a schism between Mr. Verres and Tedd when Tedd finds out.

    However, it occurs to me that there's another possibility: Lavender could be referring to how Magic's "not-a-change" (which Tedd helped with) allowed Uryuoms to use magic.

    (It's also possible she's talking about both the Magic not-a-change and Tedd's TFG work.)

  15. Posted

    So, there was a Nintendo Direct earlier this week. I didn't watch it, but apparently highlights include:

    •  A remake of Super Mario RPG.
    • "Super Mario Wonder": a 2D platformer where you can play as the Mario Bros, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Yoshis of several different colors, and Toad.
    • A not-yet-titled Princess Peach game.

  19. Posted

    56 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    I tend to agree with Sarah, what Tedd is wearing isn't gender neutral.  The hair. maybe, but their clothes and accessories are fem.

    If it's feminine, it's only in subtle ways. I could see someone with a more muscular build and a more masculine haircut wearing something very similar (perhaps without the wrist cuffs and with a simple chain necklace) and looking masculine.

    I think part of the problem is our culture is so obsessed with binary gender that the range of what we acknowledge as neutral is very small (and the range that everyone agrees is neutral is even smaller, probably nonexistent).

  22. Posted

    Yay for bubbly background!

    As for the foreground... Considering the way a certain part of Susan's anatomy is resting on top of Catalina's, I guess in Susan's daydream she and Catalina must have shrunk while next to each other (as opposed to the way things often change in dreams, going from one thing to another instantly, sometimes with the new status quo treated as having always been the case).

    3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Considering Susan's normal attitude regarding physical contact, would this effectively be an erotic dream?

    With as close as the two are (and the way their torsos are touching) I'd say it was erotic (or at least headed in that direction) even without taking into account Susan's feelings about physical contact.

  23. Posted

    So I've beaten the GameCube and Wii versions of Metroid Prime multiple times before (including on Hard difficulty) so this isn't a huge accomplishment for me, but I just beat Metroid Prime Remastered with 100% on Casual difficulty. I only died once (and that time was deliberate); while I was looking for a relaxing play-through, I wasn't expecting it to be quite that easy!

    I have to say it's by far the prettiest version of Metroid Prime yet, though it was annoying how dark some parts were (it was sometimes hard to make out my surroundings when it really shouldn't have been). Also, I like that there are multiple control schemes, but I was disappointed by the motion controls - they aren't nearly as good as the Wii version's controls.

    I definitely recommend it for any Metroid fans (or potential Metroid fans) who don't have access to the earlier versions, but I don't think it's going to replace the Wii version for me...

  25. Posted

    On 6/7/2023 at 2:01 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    I like Elliot's speech, but I think it is portrayed as overly well received by the crowd of randos - unless their US is nothing like the US I live in.

    Maybe Elliot is accidentally using a magical charisma boost, similar to how Diane can?