The Picture Thread Vol. 12

[Fearless Agent Orange Find all posts View Profile Close Fearless]

Also, can I just say how much I love the name-drops of past creators in the comic?

[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

Yo.

Id rather it were Lana personally.....




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[Hypo Lil' Leaguer Find all posts View Profile Close Hypo]

By the by Yale considers that strip to be the end of Season One of JL8 and for the foreseeable future the strip will be updating once a week with more stand-alone strips since he's going to be focusing on some professional opportunities.

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[Jeff Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Jeff]

When Lois is out in the yard getting the paper, she has a coffee mug in her hand. In West's naive mind , there's milk in there. I'm kind of hoping it's coffee. I think making Lois a more grown-up character, compared to everyone else would make the big city girl vs. small town lump dichotomy work in the JL8 universe. She's drinking her coffee and keeping up on world events, while the "kids" are busy beating up pinatas at a b-day party.

Thank you!

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[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

That's awesome.

[Robinson Guardian Of The Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Robinson]

They actually did a race of the 2 somewhere here in San Diego iirc.

Machinima did it or something.

[Agent Purple The Illustrated Man Find all posts View Profile Close Agent Purple]

Cory and I have been battling our way through Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, ostensibly to mine it for strip material. It's actually a pretty difficult topic for satire. I mean, yeah, its systems are obscure at best and weirdly counter-intuitive at worst, it doesn't have a plot as much as a series of glaring fantasy cliches arranged in a vaguely arc-like pattern and the interface, though improved from the decade-and-a-bit-old original, is still the very definition of clunky. But the game just doesn't bear mockery. It's too huge, too grand in scope, and perhaps too precious to an awkward, English teenager who needed an escape from the pressures of growing up. It wasn't technically the best game of what many think is the golden age of Western RPGs. Daggerfall was bigger, Planescape told a better story (one that still stands as the best narrative in gaming), Fallout was funnier, Arcanum boasted a more interesting setting, Diablo was more fun and Icewind Dale had better multiplayer. The game's own sequel was vastly more ambitious, improving on its predecessor in pretty much every aspect. Still, Baldur's Gate was an important game, and poking fun at it almost seems petty.

TLR; no comic today, have some art and a wall of text instead.

On a positive note, the rise of kickstarter and the long-overdue acceptance of non-photo realistic 3D graphics means we might just see a resurgence in RPGs that sacrifice impressive presentation for actual depth. I'm not talking about Bethesda's efforts, which are more or less sub-par action games which try to compensate for their lack of substance with sheer size; A pool that's 8 miles wide and 3 inches deep is a shitty pool. Instead, I'm hoping to see games which take which take the spirit and mechanics of games like Baldur's Gate and its ilk and run with them. Character-driven WRPGs are long overdue their Legend of Grimrock. Shadowrun Returns looks promising, but I admit I'm somewhat disappointed by the lack of multiplayer. It's difficult to set up tabletop games of Shadowrun when my friends are an ocean or two away.

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[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

Yo.

That's awesome.

They actually did a race of the 2 somewhere here in San Diego iirc.

Machinima did it or something.

+ YouTube Video

SMH

"Machinima did it or sumthin' "........silly Robinson.




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i was right wasnt i.

[Kuhan Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Kuhan]

When Lois is out in the yard getting the paper, she has a coffee mug in her hand. In West's naive mind , there's milk in there. I'm kind of hoping it's coffee. I think making Lois a more grown-up character, compared to everyone else would make the big city girl vs. small town lump dichotomy work in the JL8 universe. She's drinking her coffee and keeping up on world events, while the "kids" are busy beating up pinatas at a b-day party.

I also thought it was milk.

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nice @$$