[PA Comic] Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 - Dat Shroud

Sterica

LockedOnTarget

Well now I kinda want to play this game.

Ethan Smith

Now the real question is what's the difference between recollecting and reminiscing?

Demobot

Ethan Smith wrote: »

Now the real question is what's the difference between recollecting and reminiscing?

Recollections are emotionally neutral, reminisces tend to be emotionally positive.

Tarranon

Ethan Smith wrote: »

Now the real question is what's the difference between recollecting and reminiscing?

I just want to know why G&T have to court controversy with every comic they put out these days. They're obviously trying to provoke a fight over whether reminiscing is superior to recollecting (it isn't).

Henroid

Demobot wrote: »

Ethan Smith wrote: »

Now the real question is what's the difference between recollecting and reminiscing?

Recollections are emotionally neutral, reminisces tend to be emotionally positive.

Wow, that explanation actually feels pretty accurate.

Hahnsoo1

Pff. The recollect button is obviously a button for picking up things that you looted, but then subsequently had to drop because of the byzantine inventory system. It's like a double auto-loot button after the battle. It is a Japanese dev, after all.

Falx

Oh great another political comic.

WUA

So I play Ultima Online, which yes, still exists going into 2013. In it, my character owns a talisman which provides exactly 36% protection against lich lords. Not against ordinary liches, not against the more powerful ancient liches, and certainly not against anything so dissimilar as skeletal mages. No, it only protects against evil undead wizards who are liches and who occupy a very specific segment of the lich hierarchy, having attained the status of lord without yet being ancient.

It also makes me better at glassblowing by exactly 23%.

Granular statistics? Bah! That +2 ring only has one significant digit, and I'll bet it doesn't even care about the age or social standing of the minotaurs it protects against. I bet it just protects against, like, every minotaur in the entire world. That's like something for a baby.

Grislo

Yes, I'd be quite happy with a ring that protects against all minotaurs. I'd feel safer in most labyrinths, really.

MalReynolds

I 'accidentally' bought this 'game' while 'drunk' on Christmas eve, and by 'drunk' I mean 'literally the last thing I remember besides one or two virtual dice rolls was pulling out my credit card and trying to play it'.

It's very dense.

I have not gone back to it. I'm afraid it will remind me of my hangover.

Delzhand

Grislo wrote: »

Yes, I'd be quite happy with a ring that protects against all minotaurs. I'd feel safer in most labyrinths, really.

I wonder if it works against minotaurs that aren't hostile. Like "hey, I need to borrow $20 until Friday, no? how about now" *puts on ring*

Tofystedeth

How about clumsy minotaurs who accidentally hit you with a ladder while turning? Or maybe one fell off a roof onto your head. Would it somehow swerve in mid-air?

These are important questions.

MalReynolds

I believe it creates a buffer, much like magnets with the same polarization, that would soften the blow.

Grislo

Regardless, I think it's clear that there is a need for this item and that this is the silliest comic ever.

Why, it even shows us how out of touch Mike and Jerry are, at this stage. No longer living in fear of Minotaur-related accidents like the rest of us.

PanzerV2

Oh wow, how many times has the word "granular" been used on this site in the past 6 months?