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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from mlooney in Things You Only Noticed On Reread   
    I hope never. I'm tired of Dan's rants about Star Wars.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to ijuin in Story Friday July 8, 2016   
    Why not? Professor Dumbledore had a little-known brother who was a barkeeper, so why not Professor Raven?
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to CritterKeeper in Story Friday July 8, 2016   
    Funny, I was thinking this life of hers is an example of the flaws in the whole reset system.  Pandora starts this life wasting it with stupid childish pranks, and by the time she's matured enough to realize she wants more out of life, that she wants to make the world a better place in some way, it's three-quarters over!  When she resets, she'll lose all that wisdom of experience, and most likely go back to stupid childish pranks.  And the worst part is, she's now old and wise enough to *realize* this, and to see it happening over and over again, never actually growing as a person because all her growth is discarded.
    Even Jerry seems like he wouldn't have bothered helping Diane if Old Jerry hadn't made an official vow that he was still bound by.  We think of Jerry as the kindly, helpful Immortal he was in the cave, but now he's the jerk who wanted to encourage inappropriate sexist remarks.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to mlooney in Story Friday July 8, 2016   
    Hmm.  For the next round of pinups, we should do a write in vote of Pandora and Blaike, post, ah, creation, of Adrian.
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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from Kazzellin in Story: Monday July 4, 2016   
    Everyone saw this coming, but that doesn't make it any less exciting. So we'll get to see both Susan and Diane and Magus and Sirleck in this chapter? Nice.
    Uh, why do you assume Elliot wouldn't change back long before Magus could make him touch the DD? Surely Ellen would zap Elliot back as soon as Magus stopped amplifying her emotions and then she would have no idea why she zapped him in the first place. Also, I have a feeling that it wouldn't matter if Elliot were transformed while touching the Diamond under Magus's control. I bet the Diamond would think that separating the mind controlling Elliot's body from him is more important than creating another sister for him. And even if I'm wrong, then surely Magus is smart enough to force Elliot to stay in his default form while touching the Diamond.
    Well, we have no real proof that Voltaire is being manipulated by Pandora. He is clearly working against her, and even though Pandora probably could find a way to somehow make him work to her advantage, we don't even know if she's aware of Voltaire yet.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to The Old Hack in NP Wednesday July 6, 2016   
    Because the world is a cruel place and now I want Germahn Labs to play a major part in an upcoming storyline.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to hkmaly in Pinup: Sunday, July 3, 2016 (Sarah & Grace cuddle)   
    Maybe YOU don't. Would never stop professional. Remember that Jack Frost is shipped with Elsa of Arendelle. Not only they never met, they likely exist in completely different universes. Although there IS overlap in interest, in a sense ...
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to Danny Beans in Pinup: Sunday, July 3, 2016 (Sarah & Grace cuddle)   
    Why not?  She could've changed the sheets.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to hkmaly in Pinup: Saturday, July 2, 2016 (f elliot x f tedd)   
    Is this another dream where Tedd advises Elliot about his live life?
    Funny how we ended with two cases of "characters being more sexy than (supposedly) told to" this month.
    The relief from not having four breasts more than compensates the annoyance of not being cat girl.
    Actually, I think Rhoda interrupted them little too early for that ...
    ... well, two boys kissing girls can't be gay, right?
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to ijuin in Story Wednesday July 6, 2016   
    I'm thinking that this is the point where she decided to produce a child to be her legacy?
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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from HarJIT in Pinup: Saturday, July 2, 2016 (f elliot x f tedd)   
    Is it weird that the first thing that popped into my head after seeing this was Tedd and Elliot telling their shocked friends "It's not gay if we're both girls!"
    Also, it seems I'm not late to comment on these pinups this time. Yay.
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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from HarJIT in Pinup: Saturday, July 2, 2016 (f elliot x f tedd)   
    Is it weird that the first thing that popped into my head after seeing this was Tedd and Elliot telling their shocked friends "It's not gay if we're both girls!"
    Also, it seems I'm not late to comment on these pinups this time. Yay.
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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from HarJIT in Pinup: Saturday, July 2, 2016 (f elliot x f tedd)   
    Is it weird that the first thing that popped into my head after seeing this was Tedd and Elliot telling their shocked friends "It's not gay if we're both girls!"
    Also, it seems I'm not late to comment on these pinups this time. Yay.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to The Old Hack in Story Friday July 1, 2016   
    Easily. He is the one person no-one suspects of anything at all. He is barely seen yet constantly felt. His is the invisible hand that moves everything in the Gooniverse. HE IS MAGIC.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to InfiniteRemnant in Story: Wednesday, Jun 29, 2016   
    could also be intimidation factor? pointing a wand at someone clearly says "i'm a spellcaster, i will zap you." where as just holding your hand out could mean ANYTHING.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to Vorlonagent in Story: Monday June 27, 2016   
    My own headcanon is that Greg's experience (girl leaving him, binge-watching animae for 3 days before It All Hit Him) adds up to a Minor Angst-induced Awakeneing and ASMA was the result.
    I'm still not quite sure how to classify the ASMA moves Elliot, Nanase and Justin were all able to learn and do without being awakened.  I'm tempted to sweep them under a rug labelled "cantrips" (defined as non-Mark spells that that unawakened can learn and use). 
    Tedd's watches would be cantrips embedded in a physical device.  "Cannedtrips" if you will...
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in NP: Wednesday, June 22, 2016   
    Yes, we all know that matadors wave the red cape to excite the audience, not the bull.
    Banderilleros and picadores  give the bull all the incentive it needs to gore humans.
    And a power beyond my control demands I write the following...
    Q.  How do you keep Grace from charging?
    A.  Take away her credit card.
    I now run and hide
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to The Old Hack in Story: Friday, June 17, 2016   
    A few comments about characters and power level.
    Relative power level of characters is mainly relevant in a heavily action-oriented comic. This is not what EGS is. EGS is a sort of supernatural slice of life where characters, their development and the social challenges they face are of far greater importance than any action scene. In both 'Sister' stories, the villain (Goo, Abraham) was backdrop to the character development. In Painted Black, Damien's near invincibility was mainly important because of the effect it and his sociopathy had on the other characters. More recently, the power levels of the characters proved completely irrelevant when Ashley settled the conflict by use of a well-aimed football and a few well chosen words.
    EGS is an intelligent comic. It is not Liefeld-esque action where power level acts as a substitute for plot and characterisation. Again and again we see how thinking wins out over raw power. There is no danger of power levels ever shoving a character aside as long as it is inspiration and cleverness that ends up saving the day. And even Lord of the Rings, with Gandalf chosen as example of someone 'overpowered', ended up having the day saved not by power but by two acts of mercy and the simple dedication of hobbits, the true everymen of Middle-Earth.
    Comics and stories that let power level dominate them are of a completely different breed. I am not saying that they are necessarily bad, mind you. They can be, but this is most often due to lazy writing or the author falling too much in love with their Mary Sues/Marty Stus. In order for power levels to truly get out of control, the individuals in question must not only have vast power but also unusual reach in time and space as well as at least semi-omniscient knowledge. A Superman is not a problem as long as he can be distracted or mistaken. But if you give him the ability to go anywhere in no time as well as full and constant knowledge of what is happening, he becomes impossible to compensate for in any way that makes sense.
    A good example of this was the Forgotten Realms as marketed by TSR. They had a bunch of NPCs called the Seven Sisters as well as Elminster himself. All of them were, individually or together, near or completely invincible. They could all teleport and several of them had impossibly powerful divination spells. TSR's stated purpose was to make a world where 'good always won' so as to not worry parents about what sort of game their children were playing. What they created was a world where no action taken had any meaning whatsoever because even if the world were coming to an end, Superelminster and his Super Friends would always swoop in to save the day. By removing evil's ability to pose a threat, the Gods of Evil themselves held all the menace of Team Rocket or possibly of Ellen back when she thought she was evil. And at the end of the day, any actions the player characters might take would at best be viewed with indulgent amusement by the TSR-driven Mary Sues of the Realms because the PCs had saved them like thirty seconds of light work by saving the world.
    But this is not EGS, and arguing about 'overpowered' characters makes about as much sense in Dan's stories as it does to discuss character development in a Liefeld comic.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to mlooney in NP, Monday June 20, 2016   
    Does make you sound like John de Lancie?  Can you warp reality with it?  Does it make you friends with Fluttershy?
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to Vorlonagent in Story: Friday, June 17, 2016   
    ...which is exactly how Shade Tail likes it. 
    Honestly, I don't think Gen. Shade-Tail is a mage.  The few comics he has at all been in (assuming you count word balloons from off-panel), he comes across as a brute.  Dan could turn him around and put him in a blender and pour out a mage, but I'm thinking he (shade-Tail) will come across as the full, scary potential of what you get with a Lespuko-Uryouom hybrid.  Grace embraced her inner monster and made it fuzzy and cute.  I'm thinking Shade Tail embraced his inner monster too...and became and even bigger one.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to Vorlonagent in Story: Friday, June 17, 2016   
    ...because this wouldn't have any bearing on how, say, Noah got magic or anything..  
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to partner555 in Story Friday, June 10, 2016   
    1. Ash has been dumbed down, to worse than he was when he started on his journey all the way back in Kanto.
    2. His loss at the league was to an even bigger idiot than he was during BW.
    3. The Mewtwo in the Genesect movie NOT being the Mewtwo we already knew, but a different Mewtwo completely.
    4. Poor writing in general. In fact, poor writing pretty much sums up BW.
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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Friday, June 10, 2016   
    Excuse me? The Pokémon world has been in danger many times. Mostly in the movies, yes, but Ash and his friends have had to rescue legendary Pokémon from being used for evil many times in the anime as well and by saving them, they've saved the world from destruction each time. My favorite time when that happened was in the DP series when they stopped Team Galactic from creating a new universe which would have wiped the old universe from existence.
    I think it's pretty obvious that humans are a LOT tougher than they look in Pokémon. Team Rocket and Ash are the best examples of that. They've been through so much abuse over the years that I think they would make many superheroes look like wimps. They obviously feel pain, but they recover ridiculously fast and they never gain any lasting injuries from electricity, fire, freezing, explosions, crash landings, poison, physical and mental attacks or anything else. In short, humans are just as indestructible as Pokémon, they just can't attack the way Pokémon do.
    The games are not like the anime. In the anime, training Pokémon takes a lot more time and patience, not to mention more improvising. I know fully well that Ash is pretty dumb, but he is a great Trainer. He was still a rookie in the first season, so of course he made lots of rookie mistakes and I am not a fan of how he won most of his Indigo League Badges, but those days are long gone. Ash got progressively better in Johto and Hoenn, and he was brilliant in Sinnoh. He really should have won the Sinnoh League, but because the writers always have to find some excuse to make him lose, they pulled a legendary user out of their asses so Ash wouldn't win - and Ash still beat two of that guy's legendary Pokémon that nobody else had beaten before.
    Then, for some reason, they made Ash suck again in Unova without any explanation at all. I HATED the BW series. It was complete garbage. I could barely watch through it all.
    Luckily, Ash is back to his Sinnoh greatness in the current XY series. The Kalos League starts next week and I'm eagerly looking forward to it. Ash has some good, fully evolved Pokémon and his Greninja has unique power that will certainly work to their advantage. However, I fear that Team Flare will interrupt the Kalos League before it's finished, because the episode after the next one will have two of Ash's rivals battle for a place in the semi-finals. That seems oddly rushed to me, so I believe this League will get interrupted and they will try again after they've saved Kalos from Team Flare. I really want Ash to win this time because he really deserves it, but I should probably prepare myself for another bitter disappointment. Too bad the writers of Pokémon don't seem to get that Ash could still stay as the main character in the next series even if he wins the Kalos League. Winning a League Tournament doesn't make him a Pokémon Master, it only gives him the right to challenge the Elite Four. Ash is pretty good, but I doubt he's match for the Elite Four yet, so the writers could easily make Ash go to Alola after losing to the Elite Four.
    Sorry for the rant. Touchy subject.
    No, Ash and his friends (or anyone else in the show) don't seem to age. There's no explanation for it whatsoever, we're just supposed to accept it. They're like the Simpsons - we see time pass, but it doesn't affect anyone. Not physically, at least.
    Yeah. There are lots of Trainer Schools in the show, but since not EVERYONE is a Trainer, it can be assumed that there are also regular schools for people who want to have real jobs. There doesn't seem to be an upper age limit to being a Trainer, however, so many adults can also spend their time walking through forests and mountains catching Pokémon and living off the government money.
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    SeriousJupiter got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Friday, June 10, 2016   
    Excuse me? The Pokémon world has been in danger many times. Mostly in the movies, yes, but Ash and his friends have had to rescue legendary Pokémon from being used for evil many times in the anime as well and by saving them, they've saved the world from destruction each time. My favorite time when that happened was in the DP series when they stopped Team Galactic from creating a new universe which would have wiped the old universe from existence.
    I think it's pretty obvious that humans are a LOT tougher than they look in Pokémon. Team Rocket and Ash are the best examples of that. They've been through so much abuse over the years that I think they would make many superheroes look like wimps. They obviously feel pain, but they recover ridiculously fast and they never gain any lasting injuries from electricity, fire, freezing, explosions, crash landings, poison, physical and mental attacks or anything else. In short, humans are just as indestructible as Pokémon, they just can't attack the way Pokémon do.
    The games are not like the anime. In the anime, training Pokémon takes a lot more time and patience, not to mention more improvising. I know fully well that Ash is pretty dumb, but he is a great Trainer. He was still a rookie in the first season, so of course he made lots of rookie mistakes and I am not a fan of how he won most of his Indigo League Badges, but those days are long gone. Ash got progressively better in Johto and Hoenn, and he was brilliant in Sinnoh. He really should have won the Sinnoh League, but because the writers always have to find some excuse to make him lose, they pulled a legendary user out of their asses so Ash wouldn't win - and Ash still beat two of that guy's legendary Pokémon that nobody else had beaten before.
    Then, for some reason, they made Ash suck again in Unova without any explanation at all. I HATED the BW series. It was complete garbage. I could barely watch through it all.
    Luckily, Ash is back to his Sinnoh greatness in the current XY series. The Kalos League starts next week and I'm eagerly looking forward to it. Ash has some good, fully evolved Pokémon and his Greninja has unique power that will certainly work to their advantage. However, I fear that Team Flare will interrupt the Kalos League before it's finished, because the episode after the next one will have two of Ash's rivals battle for a place in the semi-finals. That seems oddly rushed to me, so I believe this League will get interrupted and they will try again after they've saved Kalos from Team Flare. I really want Ash to win this time because he really deserves it, but I should probably prepare myself for another bitter disappointment. Too bad the writers of Pokémon don't seem to get that Ash could still stay as the main character in the next series even if he wins the Kalos League. Winning a League Tournament doesn't make him a Pokémon Master, it only gives him the right to challenge the Elite Four. Ash is pretty good, but I doubt he's match for the Elite Four yet, so the writers could easily make Ash go to Alola after losing to the Elite Four.
    Sorry for the rant. Touchy subject.
    No, Ash and his friends (or anyone else in the show) don't seem to age. There's no explanation for it whatsoever, we're just supposed to accept it. They're like the Simpsons - we see time pass, but it doesn't affect anyone. Not physically, at least.
    Yeah. There are lots of Trainer Schools in the show, but since not EVERYONE is a Trainer, it can be assumed that there are also regular schools for people who want to have real jobs. There doesn't seem to be an upper age limit to being a Trainer, however, so many adults can also spend their time walking through forests and mountains catching Pokémon and living off the government money.
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    SeriousJupiter reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story Tuesday, June 14, 2016   
     
    In as much as it is possible for people to truly comprehend the suffering of others with a dissimilar background, we do appreciate and understand the trouble of living in Oklahoma.
    Having said that, we have very selfish reasons for keeping the Sooner State where it is.
    Oklahoma is a vital keystone that holds Texas in place.  Were it to be removed, Texas would immediately expand to fill the vacuum.  Swelling far faster than Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, or Kansas could spread into the void.  That small burst of expansionist momentum could quickly lead to a Texas Bang (similar to a Big Bang, but since everything in Texas is "Big", including that word in the description would be redundant).
    All the safe red states between the Rockies and the Smokies would become Texas counties, and those of us who don't know anything about cattle or oil would be forced to wear Stetson knock-offs in a vain attempt to fit in with ya'll.