Apparently the deal with Megatokyo now is that Fred was diagnosed with a serious heart condition.
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Wasn't his wife also seriously ill a while back?
I think his wife has Cancer still.
Basically, they have all the excuse they need to not put material out. But part of it is also that Fred is a fucking perfectionist and won't put stuff out just to put stuff out.
I've read 5 of them, and all have since fallen off my reading list, not because I didn't like them, but because of the update schedule. I'm willing to put up with something like OotS; Goblins is an edge case.
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figmentPez
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I think that's a fair reaction. I don't even read all those myself, and some I only follow because they're in my RSS reader. I didn't follow them regularly when I had to manually check for updates.
We already knew he'd be doing two in a row because of GenCon.
I think he did 3 or 4 in a row at one point though.
I think he did 3 or 4 in a row at one point though.
GasBandit
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I'm not grousing much now because he said in the news before the previous one that the next 2 were going to be altsplanations, which is why I pitched such a fit then.
I think I said something to the effect of "if he had time to prep 2 altsplanations in advance, he had time to do 1 comic instead."
I think I said something to the effect of "if he had time to prep 2 altsplanations in advance, he had time to do 1 comic instead."
figmentPez
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New Comic is up
Oh no... That countdown timer isn't going to resurrect the Psion even more powerful than before, is it?
I'm intrigued by what new abilities Forgath and Minmax have acquired, though.
I'm intrigued by what new abilities Forgath and Minmax have acquired, though.
It'll probably come into play about 2yrs later in the strip knowing Thunt.
GasBandit
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which equals, at this rate, approximately a week and a half of in-universe time passage.
On the off chance it is part of a countdown to cause the entire dungeon to be destroyed (thus, reset), I would think she would be against that, yeah. If it is moving faster each time they use it, it probably speeds up the countdown, and they still don't know what will happen if that countdown reaches its apex.
That's the blue one, the one with a face tattoo. We didn't get an altsplanation about Ruby.
That is correct. The page was later taken down, not sure why.
figmentPez
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Goblins is up for some awards, and needs votes. The details are in the linked blog post. One voting doesn't require any registration, but the other requires being Canadian, and having a paid membership in a group.
figmentPez
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Damn, Ruby is a cold-hearted bitch.
Dave
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Can you blame her? She's really trying to help Kin, but she's damaged because of her captivity. And who is to say how any of us would be?
figmentPez
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Yeah, I can blame her. Seeing our Kin do something Ruby finds repulsive and dangerous has got to be shocking, but her attack on Kin is a low blow. I've seen many people who have been hurt by a variety of things, and generally their response is to try to help someone who they think is in the danger that they used to be in. I can understand Ruby being all sorts of nasty to Minmax, since he's the perceived attacker, but not this specific type of nasty to Kin. Ruby is being an arrogant bitch, and while that is a type of defensive mechanism, it's not the only one, and it's not a healthy one. A lot of hurt people go the other direction, especially if they suffer self-esteem issues, and try to help others before they're even stable themselves. Unless Ruby views our Kin as a threat, and I can't fathom why she would, then her lashing out is just being nasty.[DOUBLEPOST=1378415034,1378414698][/DOUBLEPOST]I'll add, since Thunt seems to be setting up Ruby as another side of Kin, and not really a wholly separate other, but representative of Kin's inner struggle, it's believable that this is Kin's self-hatred, as many people who have been through trauma tend to blame themselves at some point, and self-hatred is one of the core issues of depression. However, being understandable doesn't make it acceptable. I have sympathy for anyone who says such awful things to themselves, because I say the same awfulness, but at the same time I do not accept that such behavior is okay. I know it's not helpful to label things as good or bad in cases like this, but it's certainly not helpful for Ruby to say that, and it's not an effective way to show caring. Any depressed person should reject such thoughts as untrue and unhelpful, and that's my reaction to Ruby. Right now she's acting like the part of every hurt and depressed person that needs to be rejected and combated.
