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Duly noted, but I don’t think anyone would mind, Dad. We’re pretty used to your antics and it would be cool given the circumstances.
From The Archives:
The Best of 2014
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2014.
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
I'm not surprised a fighting game has an absurd story. I just can't figure out why they bothered with the story at all.
Fable II
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
Small typo in the first balloon, “Saurman”.
Noticed it too, but thought maybe it was intentional? Players usually have a hard time remembering names like Saruman, which was definitely made up by the DM at the last moment.
It IS in the original, after all
There’s definitely a joke later where Aragorn thinks Saruman was also Sauron. This may or may not be part of it.
Nope, it was intentional. A commentary on how players don’t actually remember the DM’s high-fantasy names, but also part of the standard “So is this Saruman or Sauron we’re talking about now?”
The two similar-named top villains are the one point I can recall in the LotR commentaries when there was an active grumble about the source material; “wouldn’t do it that way today” or some such.
The jokes are what make the webcomic, but I love how Shamus was able to get such great screen grabs. Just a tremendous match between the line and the visual in panel 5.
This one really does hit differently.