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Nah, the internet runs on hex. We're at a whopping 4,369 comics!
Nope! TVTome Adventures. Great series, as was the remake. Its even got a game coming soon!
We can all see where this is going,
On my count four of them have had their elements reversed. That leaves Twi and Rainbow (assuming this isn't an elaborate trick) as the only ones who'll still be able to use the elements.
Unrelated: This comic beat 8-bit Theaters callback record, didn't it? I remember that happening.
Rainbow WAS cursed. Her text box was black and white instead of blue-outline like she normally is. Betcha the elements being hidden away is what will cause her to bail out.
I'm pretty sure that the coloured speech bubbles are only used when it would otherwise be difficult to tell who's speaking.
Really? I saw that in the comments, but I've gone through and compared the not-cursed textboxes with the ones after she reappears and I honestly haven't noticed any difference?
I should really make an actual account--the above comment was intended to reply to ZhonLord, for the record
ZhonLord, you did notice that on this very page, Twilight's speech bubbles are also in black and white?
I think the colors are just for when the character speaking isn't on-panel and/or is difficult to tell from the rest. Pretty sure Rainbow just hasn't been speaking while off-panel yet.
8-Bit Theater doesn't hold the callback record anymore, anyway. In strip count, Homestuck has run away with the title and built a frankly insurmountable lead over anyone else. In real-world time, Order of the Stick sports a 13-year callback. I don't know if those are absolutely the record-holders, but they're the ones called out on the 8-Bit Theater wiki entry for strip 1221.
And what nice victories they are.
And the ultimate victory is still to come.
~So hit me with your shot. Fire away.~
And the ultimate victory is still to come.
~So hit me with your shot. Fire away.~
The party wizard already has such a plan ready- the statis spell she used at the start of the session.
That is, if the GM allows it again.
That is, if the GM allows it again.
Discord, keeping a promise? And playing by the rules?
That WAS unexpected!
That WAS unexpected!
It was unexpected, so of course as a spirit of chaos he had to do it.
Except if he had to do it, it wouldn't be so unexpected, so basically we're left oscillating between two expectations (the chaotic not-following-the-rules thing, the meta-chaotic following-the-rules-because-people-expected-otherwise, and again meta-meta-chaotic not following the rules and so on).
One curious things about chaotic characters is that you can't really expect them to do the chaotic thing; otherwise, it'd be just reverse lawful, not chaotic.
Except if he had to do it, it wouldn't be so unexpected, so basically we're left oscillating between two expectations (the chaotic not-following-the-rules thing, the meta-chaotic following-the-rules-because-people-expected-otherwise, and again meta-meta-chaotic not following the rules and so on).
One curious things about chaotic characters is that you can't really expect them to do the chaotic thing; otherwise, it'd be just reverse lawful, not chaotic.
Of course he's playing by the rules. He's a GM. You're not supposed to fudge the rules (especially not homebrewed rules) unless it's in the best interests of the game. Refusing to keep his promise or altering his own rules would ruin the fun.
That's an interesting statement from Discord here. Does that mean that Discord was trying to get one of them to break their curse? Would Discord have punished them for this? Its an interesting statement, that shows both Discord's brilliance and also his skirting around the line of out of character frustration and drama.
I just noticed a tiny RD pasted into the crater wide angle shot. Nice attention to detail.
I wonder if in this new version of the season 2 premier RD ends up giving everyone a boot camp talking to for going way overboard with their curses than they needed to. Like Rarity's curse was to covet the diamond. She didn't have to go full Gollum and turn into a raging jackass towards everyone.
I wonder if in this new version of the season 2 premier RD ends up giving everyone a boot camp talking to for going way overboard with their curses than they needed to. Like Rarity's curse was to covet the diamond. She didn't have to go full Gollum and turn into a raging jackass towards everyone.
One of my past selves as a man with a plan too. I don't like him much. I mean he's great at parties and who doesn't love spoons, but he was always two steps ahead in chess. It's not fun.
I guess the fact that Rainbow Dask don't seem to have been cursed, prove that Fluttershy was wrong, which in my opinion, mean she was just as much a jerk in her session as Discord was, accusing someone of railroading is a rather grave accusation in roleplaying, so Fluttershy doing it just because Discord made getting away a challenge was a jerk move, of course Discord then getting angry was a jerk move too, but in my opinion Fluttershy was a jerk first in that scene.
So she may have been wrong, but I think its a defensible kind of wrong based on factors that are hinted as likely way too complicated to actually be dealt with in the course of this comic.