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  2. Posted

    7 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Well, the rule of Evolution is "whoever dies with the most kids, wins". Contrary to popular belief, "survival of the fittest" takes a backseat, because it matters not one whit to Evolution if you live for ten thousand years or a week, if you leave no descendants behind when you die.

    I'm pretty sure that the "fittest" part of "survival of the fittest" is actually referring to fitness at reproducing, not the toughest or cleverest or whatever, although popular belief often gets that wrong.

    On 8/11/2016 at 6:09 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Are we sure the girl in panel two isn't actually Tedd?

    If Tedd were saying it, I'm pretty sure her inner desire would have matched her outward statement.

  3. Posted

    8 hours ago, mlooney said:

    So adding magic marks at random is something she rationalize, but making young teens fight a vampire isn't something the French immortals could.

    Thing is, empowering and guiding is what the French immortals did. They up powered Nanase and Susan and gave them information.

    Changing the subject, does not that pose in the fifth panel look like Edward?

  7. Posted

    If someone who looked like Pandora's form in that comic came up to me and asked that question, I'd probably answer something like, "Doctor Strange with a less embarrassing costume." Meanwhile, I'd be thinking something like, "Sqeeeeee! Isn't she just the most adorable thing?" Only Shive knows what the end result would be.

  10. Posted

    22 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Or, questions that don't really merit a thread of their own, questions such as:

    • Don't any of the parents other than Edward Verres have real jobs? Are their jobs simply "sitcom parent"? like the Cleavers, the Nelsons (Rick Nelson's parents), etc.?
    • Is Matt Cohen Italian? Because why else would a Lawful character be delivering Pizza when he's under-age unless it's the family business?

    I'd like to note that Ozzie Nelson's job was band leader. I don't know if it ever got mentioned on the television show, but it did on the radio series that preceded it. (No, I am not old enough to remember this myself. I looked it up a few years ago.)

    As for delivery jobs, the Goonish Shive universe isn't ours. Perhaps the sclerotic grip of government isn't so far advanced there as here. As an example that surprised me, in my parent's generation, country kids used to bring their shotguns to school so that they could go hunting afterward.

    I learned that several years ago reading Jerry Pournelle's website. My mother was still alive at the time, and she had gone to a country school, so I asked her if it was true of her school, too. It was. Can you imagine what would happen if a kid walked in carrying a shotgun today?

    When I was a little kid, seat belt use was rare. No one wore a helmet on a bicycle. Any collection of adults would be encased in a fog of cigarette smoke. Elementary school kids routinely were allowed to spend time home alone without adult supervision. A bow with real arrows was considered a fine toy for an eight-year-old. If a couple kids got in a fist fight at school, they weren't slapped with criminal charges. All of these changes happened over the course of a few years. It's completely possible for the EGS-verse to have somewhat different laws from ours.

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    23 hours ago, Aura Guardian said:

    http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2223

    So, Pandora confirmed as behind the change? Also, Tedd confirmed as a wizard - but how does Disco Wizard know of that type of wizard?

    Perhaps the Emissary is Edward's subconscious mind. Edward must be gaining some inkling of what Tedd really is by now. When he wakes up from his and Grace's shared dreams, he forgets that he is the Emissary. From a meta perspective, the idea is efficient in terms of character development and plot, and Edward is Gandalf-Merlin, which fits the Emissary's outfit.

  16. Posted

    I don't remember if anyone has brought this up, but it looks like whoever empowered Dex and gave him the jar pendant was trying to set up Pandora. This comic and this comic show that Dex's manipulator was willing to kill Noah. We now know that Pandora cares deeply about her family, and that she would never risk Noah given that he is Raven's ward. She believes that her great-Godson's girlfriend is practically family, so Noah must be, too.

    If this idea has already been thoroughly discussed somewhere, I apologize.

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  19. Posted

    I speculated in the old forum that "forced" most likely was something along the lines of offering them a scholarship in exchange for service. DGB just doesn't seem like an evil group, and Edward is a good guy.

  22. Posted

    57 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Let's imagine there are also people on this board who haven't read that particular book, and explain what you're talking about to them....

    Molly a cybernetically augmented character, has implanted mirrored lenses to protect her expensive enhanced eyes.