oh my fucking god this lovingly crafted two page spread of katana wanking is making me roll my eyes so hard my retinas are going to tear off
where are these hosted, is that some built-in image uploading thing in the vanilla forums? can you hotlink thunderstruck instead of reuploading it so I can adblock it?
oh my fucking god this lovingly crafted two page spread of katana wanking is making me roll my eyes so hard my retinas are going to tear off
where are these hosted, is that some built-in image uploading thing in the vanilla forums? can you hotlink thunderstruck instead of reuploading it so I can adblock it?
Why the fuck did he wait that long to jump out after him? At first I was thinking maybe Hunter wasn't so callous as to go randomly body jumping into people when he died, but no, apparently he's just a fucking idiot. Why do people post this comic again?
why does anyone post any webcomic which has people doing dumb stuff
also i don't expect much time has actually elapsed since jimmy went out the window, it's just that there was an entire comic devoted to maybe the 1-2 seconds of him falling and using the glass to cut the ropes tying his hands together that it feels like a lot of time went by
i'm more impressed that jimmy has the idea that throwing a stick upwards at someone who is also falling has any guarantee of hitting him or slowing their descent in any meaningful way
also
the whole "hunter not being callous to randomly go body jumping" kind of went out the window when he, you know, murdered someone in order to use the demonizer and also didn't inform anyone else in the building there would be a missile fired at them shortly
that's a lot of selfish preservation instinct there
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I recently played (and finished) Victor Vran.
Good production value and a nice take on the Diablo Action RPG formula, but it get a bit repetitive near the end when enemies start to get beefier and beefier and your options in builds get more and more limited.
Simple example - I had a cool crit build which would generate "mana" on crit which I would spend on a spell called Bumerangue, however, my epic rank Bumerangue by itself was a non scalling spell with no synergy with other stuff so it really fell out late game.
The only scaling options were weapon based builds which forced me into a boring, but effective, right click build to kill the last boss.
This aside, it was worth the money I spent on it and is definitely a solid game.
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This thread is reaching dangerous levels of weeaboo.
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I don't know what this is, I think its really, really stupid, but i must have more of it.
It's Buttlord: Crush Saga, sequel to Buttlord GT, an old Dragon Ball Z parody webcomic. Those links might be NSFW, I don't remember. I'd recommend against clicking them at work just to be sure.
The character who just appeared is probably the parody's version of Trunks, given how the DBZ version of this story went. Hell if I know how Huge's kid turned out like that, though.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
First, just for the record, I know that green money in 18th century France is historically inaccurate. I considered using some actual 18th century french money but I’d be surprised if more than like, one person would recognize it (I sure didn’t). This is actually one of the more difficult things about doing these comics. Symbols are usually the quickest way to communicate visually – floating notes for music, flags for nationalities, treasure chests for money, etc. But if you’re trying to draw, say, 16th century Siam? They didn’t have modern musical notation, or a flag you’d recognize, or pirate-chests full of spanish doubloons. But I’ll stop making excuses. I’m sorry I drew green dollars with Voltaire’s 1729 bags o’ money.
Now the story of Voltaire and the Lottery:
I didn’t know until last week that Voltaire was rich. I figured he had enough to afford his bodacious perm but it turns out he was like, robber baron rich. And most of that was due to some very good investments that wouldn’t fly today but were fine before we made laws against insider trading. But he couldn’t have made any of those investments without a small fortune to start, and that’s where his buddy Charles Marie De La Condamine came in. Charles had figured out how to break the lottery. Here’s how:
Short Version:
France accidentally started a lottery where, under certain conditions, the total prize was worth more than the total cost of all the tickets.
Long Version:
France was hurting financially, which meant it had to cut the interest rate on its bonds, which meant french bonds were worse investments, which meant that no one wanted them. The deputy finance minister tried to get people to buy more by making every new bond double as license to buy a lottery ticket, once a month, for 1/1000th of the total price of the bond. With me so far?
So what Charles Marie De La Condamine realized was that a 5000 livre bond would allow you to buy one ticket for five livers, but five 1000 livre bonds would let you buy five tickets for five livres. And if you bought up all the cheapest bonds, then you could buy up all the cheapest lottery tickets, and win a lot more than you spent.
Charles had two problems: he didn’t have enough money to buy all the bonds/tickets, and even if he did, going to a notary and buying a bajillion lottery tickets might get him caught. But his friend Voltaire had a bunch of rich friends AND a way with the notaries, ifyaknowwhatImean.
Once everything was in place, their little cabal of “investors” won, and won, and won. Each individual jackpot was enough for one person to never need to work again – even shared amongst all of them, it was a huge windfall. But now we get to my favorite part of the story, which is also a wonderful example of Voltaire’s character. By which I mean he was kind of an ass.
See, it was customary at the time to write little prayers and good-luck notes on the back of your lottery ticket before handing it in. Like, “Good luck to me!” or “God give me money!” or whatever. At some point Voltaire started writing things like “here’s to Charles Marie De La Condamine’s great idea!” and “Long live the deputy finance minister!” and, I imagine, some other more colorful things. Most of the sources I’ve seen on this seem to be drawing from the same source, so I only know those two. My guess is it’s either preserved tickets somewhere or notes from the court proceedings, but that’s really just a guess.
But oh yes – the court proceedings. So eventually the french government caught on, and since Voltaire had written everyone’s names on his lottery tickets, they were placed under arrest. And then, after the court discovered that they hadn’t broken any laws, they were released and allowed to keep their winnings. That was it for the lottery though.
Both Charles Marie De La Condamine and Voltaire used their newfound fortunes to do some pretty cool stuff. Charles went from scientist to absurdly wealthy scientist, and started doing things like determining the shape of the earth (a slightly smooshed sphere), exploring the Amazon river, advocating for vaccination way before it was cool, and discovering how good quinine is at fighting malaria, which makes him indirectly responsible for the gin and tonic.
Voltaire is more well-known today, but in short: he wrote like a billion essays and letters and plays and whatnot, wrote Candide, advocated very loudly and publicly for things like human rights and separation of church and state and other things that helped inspire some pretty major political shake-ups over the next century (for instance, the American and French Revolutions), made friends with a lot of nobles and famous people, pissed off a lot of nobles and famous people, and generally just had a cool life.
The end.
It’s always interesting to me to find out where major historical figures got their fortunes. Because like, it’s rarely from something we’d consider totally good and just, especially before the industrial revolution. It’s mostly down to inheritance, marriage, and pillaging, with the occasional wealthy trader who’s escaped the notice of the pillagers and the even-less-occasional wealthy artisan. But they’re certainly well-represented among the Great People of History. I guess it’s hard to do Great Things if you’re struggling to eat? I’m not saying wealth makes you great, just that starvation probably doesn’t help.
I think I’m going to take a hiatus from french history for a while, as much as I love reading about it. Maybe I’ll do something from the classical world – I’ve been getting an awful lot of emails asking about Caligula. Yeah, I’ll do something about Caligula – he’s ridiculous, he’s nuts, and he gives me an opportunity to write something about the (in)accuracy of historical historians.
I'm just questioning why Demon guy is so desperate to stay alive when just like two strips ago he almost killed himself and his daughter cuz he's bored with life
I'm just questioning why Demon guy is so desperate to stay alive when just like two strips ago he almost killed himself and his daughter cuz he's bored with life
Good production value and a nice take on the Diablo Action RPG formula, but it get a bit repetitive near the end when enemies start to get beefier and beefier and your options in builds get more and more limited.
Simple example - I had a cool crit build which would generate "mana" on crit which I would spend on a spell called Bumerangue, however, my epic rank Bumerangue by itself was a non scalling spell with no synergy with other stuff so it really fell out late game.
The only scaling options were weapon based builds which forced me into a boring, but effective, right click build to kill the last boss.
This aside, it was worth the money I spent on it and is definitely a solid game.
People talk a lot about video game webcomics where you can't get the joke if you don't play the game
this is, like, the worst offender I can think of
although I doubt the joke would be any good with context
Good production value and a nice take on the Diablo Action RPG formula, but it get a bit repetitive near the end when enemies start to get beefier and beefier and your options in builds get more and more limited.
Simple example - I had a cool crit build which would generate "mana" on crit which I would spend on a spell called Bumerangue, however, my epic rank Bumerangue by itself was a non scalling spell with no synergy with other stuff so it really fell out late game.
The only scaling options were weapon based builds which forced me into a boring, but effective, right click build to kill the last boss.
This aside, it was worth the money I spent on it and is definitely a solid game.
People talk a lot about video game webcomics where you can't get the joke if you don't play the game
this is, like, the worst offender I can think of
although I doubt the joke would be any good with context
It's about an animal's fur poofing out thanks to an explicitly spelled out static shock. That's basically the entirety of the joke, I don't see what extra knowledge you need about Dota to understand it.
I'm just questioning why Demon guy is so desperate to stay alive when just like two strips ago he almost killed himself and his daughter cuz he's bored with life
While normally I'd never try to defend Demon, being put in a situation where your life is actually under threat of being forcibly taken from you often puts people in the mood to stay alive, even if they'd been expressing wishes to the contrary.
I'm just questioning why Demon guy is so desperate to stay alive when just like two strips ago he almost killed himself and his daughter cuz he's bored with life
While normally I'd never try to defend Demon, being put in a situation where your life is actually under threat of being forcibly taken from you often puts people in the mood to stay alive, even if they'd been expressing wishes to the contrary.
Also he's not really desperate to stay alive, just desperate to not put his daughter in a Nikita type situation instead of, you know, dying
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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I could tell that his fur was poofed out, I just assumed that there had to be more to the joke than that, because on it's own that is a phenomenally weak joke, even based on the incredibly low expectations I have for Nerf Now
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I'm just questioning why Demon guy is so desperate to stay alive when just like two strips ago he almost killed himself and his daughter cuz he's bored with life
What makes you think he was going to kill his daughter?
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A fish tank, maybe
why does anyone post any webcomic which has people doing dumb stuff
also i don't expect much time has actually elapsed since jimmy went out the window, it's just that there was an entire comic devoted to maybe the 1-2 seconds of him falling and using the glass to cut the ropes tying his hands together that it feels like a lot of time went by
i'm more impressed that jimmy has the idea that throwing a stick upwards at someone who is also falling has any guarantee of hitting him or slowing their descent in any meaningful way
also
the whole "hunter not being callous to randomly go body jumping" kind of went out the window when he, you know, murdered someone in order to use the demonizer and also didn't inform anyone else in the building there would be a missile fired at them shortly
that's a lot of selfish preservation instinct there
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I don't know what this is, I think its really, really stupid, but i must have more of it.
It's Buttlord: Crush Saga, sequel to Buttlord GT, an old Dragon Ball Z parody webcomic. Those links might be NSFW, I don't remember. I'd recommend against clicking them at work just to be sure.
The character who just appeared is probably the parody's version of Trunks, given how the DBZ version of this story went. Hell if I know how Huge's kid turned out like that, though.
Today's Table Titans is about job-qualification standards in D&D.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
And I haven't even posted in it, yet.
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And Peak Weeaboo creeps ever closer.
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Amen
A Johnny Test Comic.
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Now the story of Voltaire and the Lottery:
I didn’t know until last week that Voltaire was rich. I figured he had enough to afford his bodacious perm but it turns out he was like, robber baron rich. And most of that was due to some very good investments that wouldn’t fly today but were fine before we made laws against insider trading. But he couldn’t have made any of those investments without a small fortune to start, and that’s where his buddy Charles Marie De La Condamine came in. Charles had figured out how to break the lottery. Here’s how:
Short Version:
France accidentally started a lottery where, under certain conditions, the total prize was worth more than the total cost of all the tickets.
Long Version:
France was hurting financially, which meant it had to cut the interest rate on its bonds, which meant french bonds were worse investments, which meant that no one wanted them. The deputy finance minister tried to get people to buy more by making every new bond double as license to buy a lottery ticket, once a month, for 1/1000th of the total price of the bond. With me so far?
So what Charles Marie De La Condamine realized was that a 5000 livre bond would allow you to buy one ticket for five livers, but five 1000 livre bonds would let you buy five tickets for five livres. And if you bought up all the cheapest bonds, then you could buy up all the cheapest lottery tickets, and win a lot more than you spent.
Charles had two problems: he didn’t have enough money to buy all the bonds/tickets, and even if he did, going to a notary and buying a bajillion lottery tickets might get him caught. But his friend Voltaire had a bunch of rich friends AND a way with the notaries, ifyaknowwhatImean.
Once everything was in place, their little cabal of “investors” won, and won, and won. Each individual jackpot was enough for one person to never need to work again – even shared amongst all of them, it was a huge windfall. But now we get to my favorite part of the story, which is also a wonderful example of Voltaire’s character. By which I mean he was kind of an ass.
See, it was customary at the time to write little prayers and good-luck notes on the back of your lottery ticket before handing it in. Like, “Good luck to me!” or “God give me money!” or whatever. At some point Voltaire started writing things like “here’s to Charles Marie De La Condamine’s great idea!” and “Long live the deputy finance minister!” and, I imagine, some other more colorful things. Most of the sources I’ve seen on this seem to be drawing from the same source, so I only know those two. My guess is it’s either preserved tickets somewhere or notes from the court proceedings, but that’s really just a guess.
But oh yes – the court proceedings. So eventually the french government caught on, and since Voltaire had written everyone’s names on his lottery tickets, they were placed under arrest. And then, after the court discovered that they hadn’t broken any laws, they were released and allowed to keep their winnings. That was it for the lottery though.
Both Charles Marie De La Condamine and Voltaire used their newfound fortunes to do some pretty cool stuff. Charles went from scientist to absurdly wealthy scientist, and started doing things like determining the shape of the earth (a slightly smooshed sphere), exploring the Amazon river, advocating for vaccination way before it was cool, and discovering how good quinine is at fighting malaria, which makes him indirectly responsible for the gin and tonic.
Voltaire is more well-known today, but in short: he wrote like a billion essays and letters and plays and whatnot, wrote Candide, advocated very loudly and publicly for things like human rights and separation of church and state and other things that helped inspire some pretty major political shake-ups over the next century (for instance, the American and French Revolutions), made friends with a lot of nobles and famous people, pissed off a lot of nobles and famous people, and generally just had a cool life.
The end.
It’s always interesting to me to find out where major historical figures got their fortunes. Because like, it’s rarely from something we’d consider totally good and just, especially before the industrial revolution. It’s mostly down to inheritance, marriage, and pillaging, with the occasional wealthy trader who’s escaped the notice of the pillagers and the even-less-occasional wealthy artisan. But they’re certainly well-represented among the Great People of History. I guess it’s hard to do Great Things if you’re struggling to eat? I’m not saying wealth makes you great, just that starvation probably doesn’t help.
I think I’m going to take a hiatus from french history for a while, as much as I love reading about it. Maybe I’ll do something from the classical world – I’ve been getting an awful lot of emails asking about Caligula. Yeah, I’ll do something about Caligula – he’s ridiculous, he’s nuts, and he gives me an opportunity to write something about the (in)accuracy of historical historians.
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this is, like, the worst offender I can think of
although I doubt the joke would be any good with context
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While normally I'd never try to defend Demon, being put in a situation where your life is actually under threat of being forcibly taken from you often puts people in the mood to stay alive, even if they'd been expressing wishes to the contrary.
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Also he's not really desperate to stay alive, just desperate to not put his daughter in a Nikita type situation instead of, you know, dying
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
yeah it's time to move on from yelling bird
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What makes you think he was going to kill his daughter?
Wait, what the hell? I didn't get to do any spawning.