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  1. 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.

  2. 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.)

  3. 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.

  7. 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).

  10. 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.

  11. 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...

  13. 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?

  14. Posted

    As far as I know there hasn't been any communication from whoever is currently "running" the site on the hardware/software side of things in years. Unless I missed it, we never got an explanation for that time the site was offline for close to a year back in 2020-2021, let alone any of the occasional smaller outages since, so I don't know why this one (which I also missed) would be any different.

  15. Posted

    On 5/20/2023 at 3:11 AM, ijuin said:

    “Sick” as slang definitely dates from the period when Dan was a teenager.

    Perhaps due to being about the same age as Dan (I think he's a couple years younger than me), I didn't even notice the non-current slang.

    Of course, considering that EGS is set in an ambiguous "present day" time period in an alternate universe, and the entire school-experience of the main cast is more reminiscent of the  90s than the 00s (let alone the 2020s), I think it would actually feel more out-of-place if everyone was using up-to-date slang.

  16. Posted

    5 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you! You're not waiting to stream it?

    Keep in mind that in the world of EGS, streaming (not counting Youtube-like websites) hasn't been around very long (the first story to mention it was set in December of the previous in-story year, and in it Sarah and Grace are clearly just learning about how streaming services work) and there hasn't been a pandemic to help make it near-ubiquitous.

  17. Posted

    And I just beat FF with the above mentioned team. I wound up only doing two of the bonus dungeons before giving the final boss another try; a few more experience levels and the more powerful healing items you get in those dungeons made a huge difference. I'm not sure if I'm going to bother doing the rest of the bonus dungeons; they really aren't nearly as good as the original parts of the game.

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  18. Posted

    So since I got it this winter, I've been trying to play through the main story-mode of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition. However, I might have to give up on it, as I'm not enjoying it all that much. It's clearly a well made game (the music in particular is great), but I find the way it gives you multiple time-sensitive missions you have to juggle extremely stressful.

    More recently, I've been playing Final Fantasy 1 (PSP version) with the team of two Thieves/Ninja and two Monks/Masters (I named them Leon, Raph, Don, and Mikey). It's an interesting challenge; I had to go into each dungeon with far more healing items than I'm used to since none of those classes has healing magic, and near the end of the game I'm running into the problem that none of the healing items you can buy are strong enough to keep up with the damage output of the end-game bosses. I had initially planned to skip the bonus dungeons so the main game would be more challenging, but after getting trashed by the final boss several times in a row I decided to tackle the bonus dungeons after all, rather than wandering around the final dungeon level grinding.

    In gaming news, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out. I'm excited to play it, but my money is tight and I'm in the middle of a bunch of games already, so I think I'm going to wait a couple months to get it.

  19. Posted

    Personally I think the combo of that skirt with that top is worse than what the tie does or doesn't do for the ensemble (though it's possible her footwear and any socks/stockings/etc. might tie things together).

    1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    I also have an impression that ties are perhaps more popular within the less beans community. (Vladia's take on her own sexuality remains unstated, unless it's come up on Discord.)

    If this was a joke I apologize in advance for asking for an explanation, but I'm honestly confused. "Less beans"?

  20. Posted

    It seems odd to me that Tensaided would suddenly be so calm and deadpan when he was all exited in the previous strip (and hadn't even guessed right what the Woman in Black's deal was). I mean I could see him playing along with her own deadpan delivery, but there should have been a moment of adjustment, and I would have expected a few thought balloons showing how exited and/or worried he was.

    I doubt this is what Dan intended (since this is the end of this story, there's no good reason for it, and Dan didn't talk about it in the commentary), but I have a hard time not interpreting this comic as the woman using some sort of calming or mind-control magic on Tensaided.

  22. Posted

    I'm glad Ellen made the change, and the reasons I'm glad are also my speculation for why she might have:

    The damsel in distress trope has been so overused over the years that I often find it boring and/or annoying. Furthermore, since it's usually a guy doing the rescuing, it also has a tendency to come off as a bit misogynist (though having female heroes does somewhat mitigate this). Honestly when it comes to new stories/games, these days the only time I don't mind a damsel-in-distress-plot is if it's an extremely lighthearted story where it being cliche is part of the point, or if there's an interesting new twist on the trope and it's extremely well written.

  23. Posted

    Personally, I think good puns are where multiple meanings of the same word or two words that sound the same are used, and bad puns are where a word needs to be mangled or replaced by a similar-sounding word to make it work.

    Of course I'm in the (seemingly unusual, if people's reactions are any indication) position of being fairly neutral when it comes to puns; I rarely find them funny, but except for the worst of what I consider "bad puns", they rarely bother me either.

  24. Posted

    So, I notice this question makes Susan blush and stammer a bit. Given her reaction to the "ditzy" effect in Goonmanji 2 and similar magic in other non-canon stuff, I suspect she actually enjoys the effect of having multiple fairies out, and has done it on purpose since discovering it (presumably in the safety of her own bedroom or a similar controlled situation).

  25. Posted

    I was surprised to learn in the comments the reason that Zeus didn't spell out the rules (according to the characters' speculations) was left out of this comic. I actually assumed reading the comic that the rules being secret was why: if he isn't supposed to say there are new rules, surely saying what they were would be even worse.

    In fact, maybe revealing the new rules are against the new rules. "The first new Immortal rule is: don't talk about the new Immortal rules."

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    The Egyptian demigod who told Pandora about Tedd might know enough about the Mopercrew to send a message from a misidentified source.

    "Mopercrew" is an interesting term. It reminds me of a Pokemon name.