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Penny Arcade - Comic - Holyhedron
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Holyhedron
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I often, often, daily, possibly multiple times a day browse various tabletop gaming supply bazaars and look at novelty dice. I just take in all the flavors and aromas on offer. I haven't actually bought any yet, but man, I spend way too much time thinking about buying. This euphoric sensation pulses from my neck down my spine with the thought of rolling a handful of super rad dice across the table. My friends don't understand. Didn't, I should say. I may have killed them and stolen their dice.
As the omnipotent creator of all things he really should know better.
Yep, dice made from mammoth ivory is an actual thing. I don't know what my reaction even is to that.
Not really a fan of that last panel. Oh, well. I'll get over it.
He's talking about only one of them.
So he's wrong about the form of "dice", not the conjugation of the verb. It should be "My die is."
*Burns in Hell for all eternity*
if anything needs to be changed, it should be "my dice were hewn", past tense.
"my cross" is up for grabs; some use the saying "my cross to bear" in reference to the Roman having people carry the cross they would be crucified on and thus imparting ownership, but technically all of the crosses were property of the roman empire, the same way you would not say "I'm being beheaded with my guillotine" unless you actually owned the guillotine before it was used to behead you.
aaaaaaanyways, love the comic, now I'm going to go google mammoth tusk dice.
After dragging the fucking thing through town and hanging from it for hours, I think I'd be inclined to consider it "my" cross.
Final panel isn't doing it for me either, they took a sledge hammer to the comedy when the funnier joke (to me) was the second panel.
This comic is instant classic and I re-looked at it to see if the watch was there before I commented.
*Except for like... a ton of dogs.
Nah, it's fine. He's using a past participle as an adjective, which is a thing that happens all the time. For example, "Our salad is made from the freshest ingredients" is just as correct as "Our salad was made from the freshest ingredients". It doesn't really matter. Or more simply "tossed salad" both WAS tossed and still IS tossed. Potatoes WERE baked. Now they ARE baked potatoes. Hewn dice WERE hewn. Now they ARE hewn dice.
It probably is a count noun typo. Dice = plural/are; die = singular/is.
But I don't really blame them, because "die/dice" is sort of like "who/whom": yeah, it's grammatically correct, but in actual spoken conversation, almost nobody notices or gives a shit.
*edit*
Some cursory internet research reveals that the plural is "dice" but that the singular can be either "die" -or- "dice". So the comic is therefore not actually wrong in any sense.
Not only that, it's 21 on every side
That's just how he rolls.
And it looks to be an 8-sided die.
His other dice are similarly rigged.
A lot of it is really expensive, but those fancy woods look so good.
I like Tychos preoccupied expression. "Which dog head do I want to use?"