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[hops]

Personally I reject all inferior terms in favour of “teeth hurting juice”

oof owie my teeth

[scriver]

Soda is literally synonymous with Seltzer. Seltzer is named after a German place which has naturally sodified water sources.

[IndigoFenix]

In some countries, "soda" is synonymous with "seltzer", but in others it can mean any fizzy drinks.  I propose a portmanteau.  Carbodrink.  Fizziquid.  Bubberage.

This episode had a surprising amount of callbacks to the very early days of the comic!  Well, two at least.

[Greiger]

Of course pizza went after milk duds first, the coward, leaving his allies to handle popcorn and liquid candy.  Milk duds may be a powerful theater candy but he's nothing compared to those other two.

[Mathel]

Given how many times the world has been destroyed, the deal with Hel seems pretty short sighted now. Either Loki didn't realize that everyone dying due to the gods unraveling creation would count as dishonorable, or he was hoping that this time the Snarl would break out and devour all the dwarf souls before Hel could collect.

...Unless his real plan was to trick Thor into an unwinnable situation and sow chaos amongst the gods, which I'll admit is pretty in-character.

I do not know about that, but I just realised something. Dwarves do not live forever. I looked it up on D&D wiki and apparently, their natural livespan is between 250 and 450 years (mountain dwarves).

The world is 1184 years old.

Assuming dwarves are fertile until they start being old (188 years), there were at least 7 generations of dwarves, including the current one, probably more. At least 4 of these generations are dead. And that is with dwarves only giving birth just before their 188th year and dying at their 450th year.

If 90% of the dead dwarves died honorably (There would be some that failed to do so, but most would, knowing that if they do not, they will belong to Hel), even Hel cashing in all the current Dwarven souls now may not make her powerful enough to beat all the other gods.

But the longer she waits, the worse it becomes for her. The number of dead keeps increasing, and most of them die honorably.

[ChairmanPoo]

Is nobody else focused on the fact that this page is actually canon now? I don't wanna feel lonely here.

My god, there's continuity in it! The blue striped candy thing trained, grew a 5 o'clock shadow, and took revenge on Pizza for killing his pal Milk Duds.

Only a mouthless eldritch abomination wouldn't know what soda is.

I don't know what you mean! I too am a human individual that requires hydration to sustain their bodily existence.

We should meet some time and talk about our internal skeletons!

[Lord Shonus]

Given how many times the world has been destroyed, the deal with Hel seems pretty short sighted now. Either Loki didn't realize that everyone dying due to the gods unraveling creation would count as dishonorable, or he was hoping that this time the Snarl would break out and devour all the dwarf souls before Hel could collect.

...Unless his real plan was to trick Thor into an unwinnable situation and sow chaos amongst the gods, which I'll admit is pretty in-character.

I do not know about that, but I just realised something. Dwarves do not live forever. I looked it up on D&D wiki and apparently, their natural livespan is between 250 and 450 years (mountain dwarves).

The world is 1184 years old.

Assuming dwarves are fertile until they start being old (188 years), there were at least 7 generations of dwarves, including the current one, probably more. At least 4 of these generations are dead. And that is with dwarves only giving birth just before their 188th year and dying at their 450th year.

If 90% of the dead dwarves died honorably (There would be some that failed to do so, but most would, knowing that if they do not, they will belong to Hel), even Hel cashing in all the current Dwarven souls now may not make her powerful enough to beat all the other gods.

But the longer she waits, the worse it becomes for her. The number of dead keeps increasing, and most of them die honorably.

The Giant has explained that souls provide a lot of power when a god first gets them, then they taper off, eventually to practically nothing as the soul merges into the plane. Each fresh soul is worth a great many old souls.

[Mathel]

Then it all makes sense.

[JoshuaFH]

Given how many times the world has been destroyed, the deal with Hel seems pretty short sighted now. Either Loki didn't realize that everyone dying due to the gods unraveling creation would count as dishonorable, or he was hoping that this time the Snarl would break out and devour all the dwarf souls before Hel could collect.

...Unless his real plan was to trick Thor into an unwinnable situation and sow chaos amongst the gods, which I'll admit is pretty in-character.

I do not know about that, but I just realised something. Dwarves do not live forever. I looked it up on D&D wiki and apparently, their natural livespan is between 250 and 450 years (mountain dwarves).

The world is 1184 years old.

Assuming dwarves are fertile until they start being old (188 years), there were at least 7 generations of dwarves, including the current one, probably more. At least 4 of these generations are dead. And that is with dwarves only giving birth just before their 188th year and dying at their 450th year.

If 90% of the dead dwarves died honorably (There would be some that failed to do so, but most would, knowing that if they do not, they will belong to Hel), even Hel cashing in all the current Dwarven souls now may not make her powerful enough to beat all the other gods.

But the longer she waits, the worse it becomes for her. The number of dead keeps increasing, and most of them die honorably.

What was the first generation of Dwarves? Or any creature really? Did the god's just spawn a bunch of dwarven babies and let them fend for themselves?

[Dorsidwarf]

I think Rich has said that the world was created with fully-formed adults and a functional society or whatever. During the endless familicide arguments or something

[IndigoFenix]

I just realized something.  Given how many times the gods have created and destroyed worlds, how central the Snarl is in their general politics and state of affairs, and how much they all want to be rid of it for good, it's possible that there might be something more to Hel and Thor's deal than just a power play determining who gets to run the next world.  Maybe they have different ideas for how to deal with the Snarl and Hel is actually a well-intentioned extremist who has her own plan for dealing with it (likely less idealistic but more practical), but that will only work if she gets to run things.

Rich likes playing around with overly simplistic notions of good and evil.  I wouldn't be surprised if we get to hear Hel's whole plan, and it turns out to be something that makes sense on some level.

[Rolan7]

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[smjjames]

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Oooh, so THAT's why this world is different, and that's a heck of an unexpected chekovs gun in a sense. Bet the Dark One never thought he'd end up being involved in this way.

Now, how do they contact the Dark One, convince him to cooperate and then also convince Redcloak.....

Also, I wonder how many other gods are aware of Thors idea.

[Mathel]

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Contacting and convincing Redcloak should be pretty easy. He surely does not want the world, along with all the goblins and himself be destroyed. And Durkon could just spend an hour to replenish his spells and then use Sending to contact Redcloak. It works across planes

But where did the Dark One come from. Can they not just ask more gods from there?

[Madman198237]

"There's a new color in the crayon box"

Congratulations, guys, we are all spectators of a world in which even the deities compare themselves to low-quality lumps of colored wax with a flimsy paper wrapper.

Oh, and ochre jelly.