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DraQ said:Digger. Don't let the wombat protagonist put you off - not that it would in your case, this is more for the benefit of anyone else reading who clicks this and thinks "yet another furry webcomic", which it's not.
Well, personally, I've spent several years on a (now defunct) furry forum.
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While some preconceptions about 'typical furry' and resulting prejudices are well earned, 'typical furry' is but a statistical construct and being a furry is a lousy measure of suck.
Yeah, I was aware of that by reputation, hence my saying "not that it would in your case". Don't get me wrong - as I said about the asari stuff, it's not my thing, but I couldn't care less about what other people do to get off (unless it's, you know, serial killing or something); the only reasons I emphasized that Digger's not "yet another furry webcomic" are (a) there are a whole lot of really bad furry webcomics out there. In fact, the term "webcomic" itself had a stigma attached to it for a long time because people immediately associated them with poorly-drawn self-insert catpeople fucking each other. Whereas Digger has an anthropomorphic wombat as the protagonist, but the similarities pretty much end there. And (b) I remember there being a lot of knee-jerk anti-furry sentiment on these boards when I first started reading them (mosty directed at Jasede, IIRC), although I may have been mistaking Codex-style "gentle ribbing" with genuine hateful rants.
Extremely cool thing about the 36 Lessons of Vivec is that they are a palimpset of meanings - a single fragment of text has several different meanings depending on which layer you focus on, it's a distorted historical account, metaphysics, instruction manual of sorts addressed to future Nerevarine and even, at times, a collection of easter eggs poking fun at engine deficiencies of previous games in the series.
Yeah. It really is a shame that the guy responsible for them (I'm blanking on his name) has dropped off the grid, TES had some of the best world-building and attention to detail in the industry before Oblivion.
Nael said:This is... really cool. I've been reading it all morning. Thanks for the link.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it.
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Now, so as not to draw this thread too far off track, here are a few more Bioforum posts.
Hey witcher!
Guess who NEVER EVER Releashed a game for a console?
Three guess and the first two don't count.
1) You say that like it's a bad thing.
2) "Releashed a game for a console": your words contain a wisdom beyond your intent.
How the hell is [Dragon Age's setting] Generic?
Last I heard, all witcher do is make things "GRIM DARK GRIM DARK GRIMY DARK DARK DARK"
and another btw , the engine of the first Witcher TOTALLY SUCKS , they need to produce a collectors edition to make a decent game.
Intentional irony, or just plain idiocy? You decide.
David Gaider said:If they don't get to slap you, you don't get to slap them. You're not their mother.
Updated my dgaider.txt.
Gotta love the attention to detail, like how the ellipsis contains hearts instead of periods. If only it had found a way to slip in a mention of Nutella, then some Codexer heads would be exploding right about now.