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Author Topic: Order of the Stick  (Read 596866 times)

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Re: Order of the Stick
« Reply #3285 on: September 13, 2018, 06:56:56 pm »

Personally I reject all inferior terms in favour of “teeth hurting juice”
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« Reply #3286 on: September 13, 2018, 08:03:33 pm »

Soda is literally synonymous with Seltzer. Seltzer is named after a German place which has naturally sodified water sources.
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« Reply #3287 on: September 14, 2018, 12:23:00 am »

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

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« Reply #3288 on: September 14, 2018, 12:42:57 am »

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.
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« Reply #3289 on: September 14, 2018, 10:02:02 am »

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.
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« Reply #3290 on: September 14, 2018, 12:12:40 pm »

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.
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« Reply #3291 on: September 14, 2018, 12:24:07 pm »

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.
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« Reply #3292 on: September 15, 2018, 03:58:54 am »

Then it all makes sense.
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« Reply #3293 on: September 15, 2018, 06:42:03 am »

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?
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« Reply #3294 on: September 15, 2018, 07:13:31 am »

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
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« Reply #3295 on: September 15, 2018, 12:50:21 pm »

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.

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« Reply #3296 on: September 21, 2018, 09:33:25 am »

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« Reply #3297 on: September 21, 2018, 09:41:40 am »

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« Reply #3298 on: September 21, 2018, 10:09:03 am »

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But where did the Dark One come from. Can they not just ask more gods from there?
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The shield beats the sword.
Urge to drink milk while eating steak wrapped with bacon rising...
Outer planes are not subject to any laws of physics that would prevent them from doing their job.
Better than the heavenly host eating your soul.

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« Reply #3299 on: September 21, 2018, 10:13:19 am »

"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.
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