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I tried to make a comic of the above song a few months ago, by the way, but I screwed up in Paint and wound up losing my work. Here's the last surviving panel.
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The Panda: I am the Panda Bear! I am Adorable! I command you to gaze upon my face! You'll never find some bear as Epic as I am, I'm the craziest bear in this state. I'm a prophet, a god, I'm a bear to behold There is none as endearing as I!! With my cute little paws and my razor-sharp claws, Of my majesty none can deny! Because I am the Panda Bear! I am mysterious! In my conquests I leave beauty in my wake. You will not find a bear with such abilities I'm a creature you can never break. Chorus of winged flying panda bears: Panda bear takes good care Panda Bear is so fair Panda Bear has great hair Panda Bear oh so rare Panda Bear will you spare Panda Bear is our prayer Panda Bear!
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Now I'm imagining Scribbler and Edgerunner constantly following Arsenal and bugging him, chanting, "Let's go to Candy Mountain, Arsie. Candy Mountain, yaaay!"
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Don't worry, my sister's getting Candyland for Christmas. I'll be available to help with maps.
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Do you know what this means? It means that since we can't be expected to canonically depict an Epic we haven't seen, we officially have license to do whatever we want to the state of Oregon. ANYTHING!
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"If Deathwish shows up... it is the exact opposite of 'tasteful.'" --The press.
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"It's tasteful and artistic!" --Shiny Sparkle, facing arrest for organizing a "Nude-a-palooza" rally outside Arsenal's office.
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Somehow I'm not convinced that Shiny's interested in very wholesome cosplays.
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Every time Delightful posts here I rush over expecting to finally get confirmation that she is a human being and not a sentient dingo with a computer. Every time Delightful posts here, I find myself still wondering...
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How TwiLyght must feel about us posting all these SoS memes:
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I read this topic title, and immediately thought of Hoid chuckling over the polka-dotted spike from the end of the book, exclaiming "Ha--classic Trell!" You may ignore me now.
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Wax in the Shadows of Self prologue. Art by Chronogate on Deviantart.
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Today I learned that Delightful is probably destined to slay me.
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I just wanted to say that after Before the Flood, I would be more than happy to watch a spin-off series of minisodes about the Doctor looking directly into the camera and explaining theoretical time travel paradoxes. All in all I'm loving Peter Capaldi's Doctor a lot more this season than I did in the last one. The sonic shades tickle me, and I love his antics with the guitar--made all the better by the fact that Capaldi was in real life a member of a punk rock band in his youth. If they keep this up, this could be... ...or maybe not, since it'll be hard to beat Seasons 5 and 2 by my reckoning, But still, it's shaping up pretty well.
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Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor / Season 8 spoilers:
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No--thank you. In other randomness, burger manufacturers in my area have discovered that they can make just as much money selling the ingredients for cheeseburgers in "build your own burger" boxes as they can selling the whole burger. I weep for my society.
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Fortuity falling out of favor wasn't said to be related to his slaughter. Refractionary caused fatal traffic incidents on a whim. Steelheart himself wracked up a kill count of thousands from periodically selecting apartment complexes and reducing them to rubble. And that's not even counting the several thousand Epics said to live in Newcago, compared to less than twenty in CM's part of town. I think it's pretty safe to say that unless the Trifecta plays another "game" every night for a straight month, Newcago's still a much more violent city.
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The Trifecta isn't a big deal where Epic governments are concerned, considering Steelheart had far more ATTD-worthy Epics running loose in his city. Still, you make a good point about the difference between protection and city maintenance, to which I can only say, CorpseMaker at least allows society to function like it did before Calamity. Dollars are still used as money in his city, and he understands that the vanillas under him are more likely to work well for him if he pays them for their services and even tips them. I doubt he could run a megalopolis like Newcago, but were all Portland under his control, it'd probably attract a lot of Oregon residents looking for a halfway survivable place to live.
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* facepalm * I forget that conventional logistics cease to have meaning where Epics are concerned. As for CorpseMaker, I don't think it's been established how much micromanagement he puts into the town, but his protection has definitely allowed businesses like the coffee shop to flourish under his presence. He seems to provide security for those who provide services he thinks are necessary, so if you have a job that he sees as important, you're probably better off under him than you'd be in a completely chaotic part of town. If Elizabeth Trattner didn't have a pretty teenage daughter to think of, for instance, she could probably do well for herself running her bakery and supplying the coffee shop with pastries.
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Nah, the armory was taken within the game time. At the game's start he was based out of a bank, which he'd been ruling from for several years. That implies trade and an economy, then. How does Lucentia generate power? Does she have to harvest fuel for generators, or does she use hydroelectric power like The Dalles?
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Well he's better than Backtrack, then, who would be on the first train out of the city the first time the word "invasion" comes up.
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CorpseMaker was actually the Epic that got me thinking about this. Somehow I forgot to add him to my analysis, though. His part of Portland appears to be the most well-maintained quarter of the city, in some ways even better off than Thoughttown. (There's more indiscriminate murder of vanillas under CorpseMaker and the Trifecta, but Newcago proved that people will flock to a well-supplied city even with those kinds of atrocities rampant.) I got the impression that the restaurants and the cafes were specifically stocked for the Epics and might not be indicative of the people's resources... but then, who am I to argue with the city's chief worldbuilder? Does she supply power or running water to the citizens?
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Here's a random question for y'all. Out of all the Oregon characters in the game thus far, which ones would be the most suited / qualified for running dictatorship as large and successful as Newcago? I mean, anyone with enough power can subjugate the vanillas and become monarch, but as Steelheart proved it takes a lot of prudence and careful management to actually create a city state capable of weathering attacks from other Epics and providing flawlessly through the people. Lucentia is the first person to come to mind for me, scary as that is, but there's not a lot of evidence that she provides for the people of Astoria with the same "care" that Steelheart provides. The average citizen of Newcago has electricity, running water, a halfway decent job, and readily available entertainment; unless I'm forgetting something, Lucentia supplies none of those amenities directly to her subjects, and she only has roughly ten thousand people under her compared to Steelheart's two million. Rainmaker's probably a better candidate, but she relies too heavily on a mental Epic to keep the people serene and complacent while Steelheart could let his city's quality of life speak for itself. Not to mention the fact that life in Newcago was stable enough that many actively protested Steelheart's fall, while Rainmaker hasn't gone one week with her mental Epic gone without a ballerina rebel threatening to engulf the city in turmoil. Vondra is a different kind of dictator, but he still counts as one. The Dalles tend to be a somewhat dismal military town, not unlike Newcago, and with Arsenal's aide he's managed to supply electricity and running water to the whole city. Like Steelheart he relies on surrounding farms to produce food, but it's been seen that he has trouble keeping the agriculture running well enough to feed the entire population equally. It's debatable whether his regime could conquer the logistics challenge of supplying a city as large as Newcago, and he certainly wouldn't be able to fend off even a fraction of the invaders Steelheart has been forced to deal with. Doctor Funtimes would put everyone in fluffy bunny suits and gorge everyone on jelly bean pies. Rioters and tooth decay would be rampant within a week. Anyone have anything they'd like to add?
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I really thought that Wax / Marasi was still going to happen at some point, but after SoS I'm not so sure. Especially after that heartbreaking epilogue.
