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Lookouts, Automata, Jim Darkmagic, what?

bluefoxicybluefoxicy Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Social Entropy++
What???

I don't see a thread on this. Why?

Anyway, I have only one thing to say. Lookouts and Jim Darkmagic look silly, like you can make some sort of satire out of them, something decent but for the most part just a big running joke. Automata, on the other hand, I actually took and ran with the moment I saw it; my mind quickly began to diagram a skeletal universe, into the future and past, and build around the premise given. It seems to me that you could in fact write a very deep, serious, and complex storyline spanning volumes across what little was drawn out just in the teaser presented to us.

Anyone else have any interesting thoughts on these three things?

People call me Wood Man, 'cause I always got wood.
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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Newspost, silly-billy.

    edit: Misread the intent of your post!


    I think the new comic thread is pretty much the thread for this discussion, but I personally prefer automota as well.

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  • Punsie McKalePunsie McKale Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    literally the first thread on the page has jim darkmagic in the title

    was that not like, a tip-off as to where you might find some hot info

    also the main goddamn page one penny-arcade.com

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  • DsmartDsmart Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Automata doesn't really impress me. The presentation could make it, certainly, but the concept itself isn't exactly terribly original.

    I guess its the best concept they put out, but I think Jim Darkmagic could be fun

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=92790

    that's all you needed to post

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited June 2009
    I liked Lookouts and Automata equally.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Anyone that thinks a noir comic about robots in trenchcoats wouldn't win poll on the internet is an idiot.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited June 2009
    A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »
    Anyone that thinks a noir comic about robots in trenchcoats wouldn't win poll on the internet is an idiot.

    Yep.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »
    Anyone that thinks a noir comic about robots in trenchcoats wouldn't win poll on the internet is an idiot.

    I agree!

    What the hell is this fantasy bullshit?! Grow. Up.

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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    See, I figured there were more than enough LOTR/D and D nerds to push Lookouts through.

    Very happy to see robots winning.

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