You mean the punchline?
Nobody knows what Parson means by 'food fight' though it's likely something horrible. Jack's line abour having defected swiftly is because he said earlier in the comic that Parson was, as a sane man, horribly outnumbered by the crazy and should defect. So he's just joking about how insane that food fight line sounded.
Pat. St. of Archive Binge
You know, for such a ridiculous setting, it's a very good story. The strategy discussion is exciting and educational, the characters' backstories and philosophical disputes/issues are both deep and meaningful, and it's got quite a few crowning moments of awesome and heartwarming. I love the idea of a tabletop games geek thrown into a crazy world like Erfworld, and at first thinking it all just some silly game and ridiculous, but eventually it dawns on him that it not only are lives at stake, but that he is the one who decides who lives and who ends up as cannon boulder-throwing cloth golem fodder, and he takes responsibility for it and accepts his charge. I mean, the scene where Bogroll dies in the line of duty alone was just amazingly handled. And I love the fact that Bogroll's death isn't just fixed the next turn with a uncroaking or something, so that Lord Hamster has to deal with the consequences of sending his men to die.
Planescape Hijack
Agreed.
We haven't gotten to see much of Parson so far this book, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what the hell he's up to. My guess is that this is where the Chekhov's Gun about how gravity works in Erfworld gets fired, and "food fight" means dropping rations on the enemy while they parley or something.
Interesting contrast between Stanley and Wanda's ideas of fate, though. Stanley buys into the Fate stuff, obviously, but he recognizes
that you have to use what you've been given to achieve that fate. Wanda really doesn't: if it's not her Fate to perish her, she should realize that taking a veil is how that comes about.
Much of the enjoyment of this story is wondering whose idea of Fate, and the nature of the world, is vindicated.
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Pat. St. of Archive Binge
Backstory dump! So there's an heir of Faq out there? The changing of Zhopa's name is a nice idea,but doesn't work.
edited 17th Jul '10 7:11:02 AM by AckSed
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.That's Jillian. Remember that Stanley doesn't have a clue who she really is - if he did, he'd have had her croaked in GK's dungeon rather than letting Wanda play with her.
edited 17th Jul '10 8:57:14 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Pat. St. of Archive Binge
"You are the most emo optimist I've ever met."
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Interesting.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.And now we have Ace Hardware
. The list of cultural references in Erfworld is as long as the comic itself.
Planescape Hijack
IIRC, Charlie hasn't been supporting the royalists (as far as we know), right? In fact, he was doing the opposite—secretly propping up Jillian to oppose them.
Also, looks like boop's gettin real for Parson. I bet he's going to regret this.
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Pat. St. of Archive Binge
Okay, so, I don't like the texts. Like, at all. They interrupt the flow of the comic, for me.
Is it okay for me to skip them? Would I still be able to understand the story fine?
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."I guess... although you'd be missing a lot of context...
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Planescape Hijack
My instinct is always to skip em—I don't think they provide that much context, except for the summer ones, and even those can be skipped (I think). The tl;dr of the latest one is "Sizemore got laid, but was still Eeyore anyway, and then got recalled from the Magic Kingdom by Parson".
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count DorkuI think the text updates have outlived their usefulness. For a while they were a cool way of getting further into the main characters' heads, but now they're just telling scenes that we really should be seeing instead, and breaking up the flow. Though of course they're still filling the purpose of speeding up the updates.
Pat. St. of Archive Binge
Charlie's actually feeling threatened? Wow.
Tramennis is pretty good at this - he made Charlie pause.
And does this mean he can spy on anyone using the eyebook,or on anyone using a thinkagram?
edited 16th Sep '10 4:35:48 AM by AckSed
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

You should be on principle, but I can't think of anything related to them in that comic. Wanda's completely certain that the will of the Titans will protect her even if she completely neglects basic defenses, and Parson is getting around that as best he can. What's to miss?