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Re: Order of the Stick
« Reply #2400 on: September 10, 2017, 07:28:40 am »

And even if the future isn't predetermined then the gods might not be all-knowing and all-aware (in fact from what we've seen from the oots gods are all less-than-all-aware by a farthing), in which case it is a lot nicer to warn people than to not warn them.

Considering the gods wound up surprised by Hel's ploy, I kind of doubt that the gods of the setting are omniscient. This being the case, they probably have a limited capacity to see into the future to hand out these prophecies.

I'd say that prophesies might be a very Odin thing in their pantheon, rather than a regular godly thing. He is associated with all-seeing and all that stuff after all.
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« Reply #2401 on: September 12, 2017, 02:16:23 pm »

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« Reply #2402 on: September 12, 2017, 02:25:36 pm »

And the dialogue intensifies...
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« Reply #2403 on: September 12, 2017, 02:31:13 pm »

I admit I tuned out all the metaphysical predestination talk, but I really like the point this update makes.  I didn't really need a justification for an OotS deity to be a dick, or for prophecy to make sense.  But it's kinda nice to get one anyway.
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« Reply #2404 on: September 16, 2017, 02:25:22 pm »

Huh.
I think that that last comic rekindled my faith in humanity.
Also religion, but I'm pretty faithful to that already.
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« Reply #2405 on: September 16, 2017, 03:51:51 pm »

You need to find a way to save faith after that, Imic.

Also, to what event does Belkor refer when he says "he didn't blame me"?
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« Reply #2406 on: September 16, 2017, 03:58:07 pm »

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« Reply #2407 on: September 16, 2017, 04:18:18 pm »

Thanks.

That's actually quite an emotive scene.
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« Reply #2408 on: September 16, 2017, 04:19:31 pm »

Thanks.

That's actually quite an emotive scene.
It makes a lot of sense, too.
I wonder how long the giant in the playground has been planning this for.
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« Reply #2409 on: September 16, 2017, 04:21:30 pm »

Well, he's was planning to vamp Durkon since strip #2.
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« Reply #2410 on: September 16, 2017, 05:45:13 pm »

I looked back at #2, and it looked very odd that Haley would pick Belkar over Elan.
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« Reply #2411 on: September 16, 2017, 07:27:00 pm »

I looked back at #2, and it looked very odd that Haley would pick Belkar over Elan.

It was basically a joke in reference to Elans incompetence. It just looks odd now because of his character growth since then.
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« Reply #2412 on: September 16, 2017, 09:23:07 pm »

Literally the next day(still in the same dungeon), she's already falling for him. After he pranced about in the nude. Apparently that 18 Charisma really *is* worth something under the hood.
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« Reply #2413 on: September 16, 2017, 10:34:24 pm »

Thanks.

That's actually quite an emotive scene.
It makes a lot of sense, too.
I wonder how long the giant in the playground has been planning this for.
Belkar becoming more than the irrational slapstick psychopath was revealed in Azure City.  This is good, but it's really just a callback to a previous plot-point, thanks to somewhat-more-mature-but-still-evil Belkar.
It's good to see and makes perfect sense.
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« Reply #2414 on: September 18, 2017, 11:42:22 am »

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