Comic for Monday, August 13th, 2018
Ah… okay, this page got away from me a bit, so ran a little over budget on time…
Anyway… Thursday will probably* be a half page again, though I can’t make any promises that I’ll be smart about it. I think this only the second time we’ve seen Mium’s “thought bubbles”; in general we’ve moved to seeing less and less thought bubbles in general, partially because I was simply atrocious at sticking to my Point-of-View characters.
There is actually a reason that both Arkady and Kardus are both not wearing armor here – as we saw with Tyler and the Consul’s Family Mage adviser, wearing armor for a mage is fairly common in the modern world, but Arkady wasn’t really on duty when the attack started, so he was just in his uniform. The soldiers were more armored because soldiers tend to be more paranoid near the front line and rarely fully take off their armor while in enemy territory. Warmages actually do have armor, but both Rovak and Kardus are quite deliberately not “in uniform”.
As some of you may seen, the Wiki is currently locked if you don’t have an account, and you cannot currently make an account. There was an overwelming amount of spam this weekend so I had to shut it down. You can still edit if you arelady made an account, and if you want an account, just email me or leave a comment here and I will set one up for you. I will hopefully unlock in a few days when the spammers have gone and fucked off. I cannot believe it is worth even a bot (or penny-an-hour-human-bot) to put spam advertising links on my wiki. The return on investment for that shit should be zero. At least when the site was hacked, I reckon that was more personally motivated, this just appears to be literally advertising spam. Probably trying to build link-backs to manipulated SEO or some shit – this is why we can’t have nice things 🙁
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I didn’t notice it until I was typing up the transcript, but in Arkady’s second page of dialog, at the end of his speech, “a awhile ago” should probably be “a while ago”.
Page’ll be up tomorrow probably. It’s a double page again for some reason. I am supposed to be doing half pages till I catch back up and get a buffer and all, but for some reason I’m not. Don’t ask me, these things aren’t up to me.
hey don’t worry, it’s ok. I still love the pages either way.
Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that Mium appears to think in COBOL?
It is rather intriguing. On balance, it’s probably better than thinking in APL or SNOBOL.
Well, no – if it were really cobol, he would start on column 8 🙂
Mium used Loophole Abuse on….himself?
Effect: ??? (???)
For some reason him “emotionally manipulating Ila” into helping Arkady being described as “resource request” amuses me. I’d probably be giggling at that except for the other details and implications making me giggle.
Time for the “creative interpretation” flag to be tripped again then? 🙂
Ila, the mobile HVW, is unleashed. Kardus will be so distressed.
Especially if she takes a dislike to that walking tank. 🙂
Plus of course this would seem to be the same mage that bought ILA food and played airball with her; she may take it /personally/ that some other mage would attack her source of food and games…
For all that Arkady is a Family Mage and therefore eminent, I think the word you want there is imminent.
Eminent: prominent, leading, as in an eminent scientist.
Imminent: pending, about to happen, as in an imminent disaster.
Fixed, thanks. I guess I knew those were two different words, but didn’t really occur to me when writing it.
Oof. I had to read the comments to know the Mium-part was there, then hunt for it. It being off on the right like that somehow made me miss it entirely several times.
That said, I love how “Emotional Manipulation” is rejected, but “Appeal to Emotional Nature” is accepted. Mium is learning to determine fine-grained distinctions. And there IS a difference: Emotional manipulation is insincere and not always attached to truths, while appealing to an emotional nature means pointing out things that are in service to the emotions of the person being appealed to.
It’s the difference between lying (or not caring if it’s true or not) about the result of a course of action, and pointing out a truth about a course of action.
My favorite line of Mium’s choice comparison is “>consider bribery?” ^^
Is like THREE comics! A normal double comic, plus a third comic of Mium Think!
“I’m going to ask her and get her to agree because she is overly emotional”
Translated to “MIUM”:
“Submitting resource request. Approved method: appeal to emotional nature.”
Not that most people wouldn’t go through similar steps, they just wouldn’t admit it to themselves or anyone else that their thinking was so “direct”.
Minor grammar note: in the last panel “Alternative method suggested -> Appeal to emotion manipulation” it should *probably* be “emotional manipulation”. The former would mean controlling the emotions, the latter would mean using the emotions to control the person. Mium doesn’t think like we do so it’s not obviously wrong to say “emotion manipulation” but it sounds really weird.
idk if it was intended or not, but I’m pretty tired so I will assume probably not to avoid having to think about it 😉 fixed, thanks! 🙂