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Flipside Discussion / Re: Flipside Live Action Series
« on: April 11, 2020, 08:13:33 am »
Still working on this?

If you want good fighting special effects, I recommend watching some Wuxia genre shows or films.  Get ahold of a movie called A Man Called Hero, or a show called Condor Hero.  These sorts of things have good ideas for fight scenes, especially with how fast Bern is in battle.

I'd also say use some of these special effects could be covered cheaply mixing drawn animation with live action.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: April 11, 2020, 07:58:16 am »
Yeah I didn't get the Sweet Polly Purebred reference (if it's Underdog it's probably purebred not purebread, though we might not have seen it in print) since the last time I watched Underdog was 32 years ago.

I am entertained with her interview with a dead person.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: April 01, 2020, 04:34:11 pm »
"Every turn a surprise, and every moment forever..."

And here are other Disney songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRxJqEuQPA

I'll have more such songs, so I guess this is to be continued.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: March 18, 2020, 06:46:49 pm »
Yeah, I'm not sure how well this will work.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: February 22, 2020, 08:36:47 pm »
Hmmm... I see your point.  Her answer was... not what I was expecting... but it is consistent with her behavior, but I think also... Maytag is an experience junky. 

Consistent with her stated views that her body she thinks of as a tool for experience... she truly treats her body like an amusement park taxi... every new experience is something she cherishes!  As long as 'the taxi', her body is not damaged permanently to prevent her from gaining more experiences she is ever curious.  So even things most might think of as undesirable to experience, entering the Dark cell, surviving a gang rape, being seared alive in a volcanic eruption, or slow drifting to sleep due to hypothermia in a snow storm she swallows whole... as long as she can survive it to experience more things.

A philosophy of 'What destroys, traumatizes, drives to heights of mind numbing ecstasy or utterly exhausts the body does not really touch the spirit other than to collect the memory of the experience'!

But Maytag, needs to be mindful that philosophy is a potential path to madness.  There are some experiences that WILL and DO touch one's core spirit and can affect even risk one's sanity!

I think that's the proviso we need to keep in mind, and probably bottom line as to why she's not hooked on drugs. 

Likewise, she's probably not keen on dumping herself into a volcano either, but grabbing some lava and tossing it one her hand (after she knew about that arm regeneration thing), would probably be just peachy.  May would probably be okay with a winter walk before sunrise, so long as she had somewhere to go afterwards.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: February 19, 2020, 11:21:29 pm »
I'm not convinced that Bern doesn't know about her true self.  I mean, you need to have a certain amount of intimacy to have regular sexual intimacy.  And it's likely that these two have had more than a few off-panel experiences together.

I also think that Killer Chef (I forget her name, but the psycho girl who works for Tin Man in exchange fore creating horrible monsters) is wrong about Maytag.

Emotionally cold people seem similar to people with antisocial (read: psycho) personalities, but they aren't necessarily the same.  In fact, I'm told that depressed people also often have blunted emotions.  Maytag is cheerful enough, but we're not really sure what the "true core" is actually.  Just that she's a bit bland emotionally, and also very driven and determined, but unlike an actual psycho, most of her drive appears to be to belong.  To fit in, to have people like her and entertained by her.    In fact, judging from her motivation to get through the Dark Cell even if her memory is gone, her eyes are gouged out, and she's in terrible pain, I would venture a guess that her desire to entertain is an authentic desire.   

Maybe she's a sad and lonely person at heart, who hides behind a mask of deadpan (from herself), and hides behind another mask of split personality (from others).  In fact, we've seen her actually crying a few times, and more even than her deadpan, it seemed real.  When people decide they don't rust her anymore is when she gets must upset, and she seems happiest not cracking jokes but being very honest

Update: I don't feel that's 100% true, just as all outlooks have some levels of hypocrisy.  She doesn't for instance starve herself or eat to obesity, or use most drugs aside from alcohol that I can see.  Well, I imagine the potions probably antidote most drugs to the point that they're not fun anymore.  But still, it seems her lack of boundaries doesn't extend to any sort of self-abuse.  Probably because since she accepts most pain, trying to hurt herself would be vaguely like tickling yourself.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: February 05, 2020, 06:41:01 pm »
She doesn't need to lie.

Maytag's choices would be exactly the same as Bern's. For completely different reasons.

Bern chose A or B, because unlike Polly, she doesn't enjoy hurting people. She's principled and a pacifist. 
Maytag is likely to choose A and B, because while she could technically do C easier than Bern, she likes big orgies, and she doesn't care about pain.  In fact, she made a similar choice already.  Actually cut her fingers off at one point to save Bern, and cut out her eyes to bet past the Dark Cell.

Also, let's try to move the forums to here...  https://discord.gg/CqDASP

Since this forum has been crashing lately.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: are the forums dead?
« on: January 27, 2020, 05:09:08 am »
I literally haven't been able to login for about two weeks.

The forums are literally nort only dead but broken.

My advice Brion? Talk to the guy from Gaia webcomic, or Tom from Gunnerkrigg Court, and see about having an internal post system after each comment (not Disqus though, Disqus started erasing my comments because they're a big company and political comments in a political forum seem to spill into webcomic posts getting erased, until basically none of my comments worked).

I will add that Discord link though.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: January 10, 2020, 04:53:16 am »
I can be calm about all things... except the fact that when my parents die, I'll probably be making well below minimum wage and still not have a significant other.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: December 30, 2019, 11:32:21 am »
Considering the last intermission was spent doing just that, this is a bit too meta.

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Flipside Discussion / Is water that isn't wet...?
« on: December 03, 2019, 10:57:00 pm »
Mainly because I'm curious how ppl feel about this.

I'm pretty firmly in the dry water is creepy camp, but I almost head into outright ranting about how unnatural it is.

Also, you can't really clean your hair or clothes with something like that! (Oh but right, they probably have self-cleaning clothes, I think Brion said, so they probably just think of water being wet as a nuisance)

Huh! This is actually a good example of the author thinking through consequences of what they've created. I should do more of that, myself.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: December 03, 2019, 10:50:29 pm »
I'm not sure that IS a good idea, so after this post I'm gonna make a poll on exactly that topic.

I've talked about the book that I've been making, I think. One of the major factors in how magic works is that there are runes and Original Intent. Runes are effectively reactions at an atomic levwl (or something, despite me explaining it in depth, it always felt like there was something I needed to refine).  Basically Original Intent is matter as designed and no amount of runes can change that, but they can simulate energy or matter reactions.  For instance, Original Intent means that metal rusts and water is wet and fire burn people. This means much of matter (besides fire and water, and the latter is usually lacking in a great deal of water's traits like being able to drink it) cannot be created. It also makes it difficult to impossible to dramatically shapeshift, though things like height or sex can change, the face largely stays the same. Nor can a person make metal that doesn't rust through magic (alchemy is a diff story) or alter water so it isn't wet (though, as I mentioned before they can summon water that lacks most traits), but they can dry up water or rust metal.

It occurs to me that in order to do this, the water is either illusory (read: not much fun to swim in), or greatly distorted from its natural chemistry (possibly closer to gelatin than water). Starting to agree with with the knights Bern wanted to join. That water creeps me out.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 28, 2019, 10:27:45 am »
No, she said the opposite of group nudity.

This means it's a Lake of Prudishness.  ;D

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 16, 2019, 05:10:17 am »
Plus it has the whole cutesy "she lives on in me :-* " thing taken to a horror level.

Well, I also think some of her is powering the sword.

What a strange world Qtalda lives in if she believes smashing a statue is "treating a gravestone honorably." I think we're seeing a good example  of exactly why Suspi is so angry and emotionally damaged.


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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 15, 2019, 04:33:55 am »
I was thinking the same thing, but was thinking Suspiria is alot more human and alot more small town girl than all that. I think Suspiria is resting in Regina's mind. It kinda makes sense:
1. Regina suddenly gains a level
2. And like Suspiria starts calling herself by a new name (it's possible that this happened sometime  between the statue incident and her losing her orb and exiting the Pit)
3. And immediately Regina hooks up with Crest. This feels kinda like Seifer in FF8 getting whispered in the ear when Rinoa gets possessed, only more benign cuz she's like "I'm sharing a body with your former gf" Regina is herself since Suspiria knows about "making" people do stuff, so this is more an "asking" to live in her body (she seems calm meaning either she completely doesn't know which is problematic later if she suddenly finds out, or she agreed to it because it gets her a nice bf).  :-*

That Regina changed her name means she probably does know she isn't the same person anymore.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 10, 2019, 10:26:30 pm »
I actually think Melter is right (which in effect means her parents are alive). But I think Qtalda wasn't induced to lying either. While  she didn't exactly murder them, she probably wrecked her relationship with her parents.

We have seen this sort of thing happen in Book 0.  Magic has great power, but seems to have that potential for horror. Like inducing madness or paranoia. Or heightening power to the point where reality is out of control. I'm strongly reminded of Dark City, which I suspect Brion has seen (or should see, because it's kinda his style) where the aliens have a reality warping ability called tuning.  The higher the level, the more their personality gets distorted.

Suspiria's parents probably got a sales pitch but she didn't actually actually want to stat there (and felt kidnapped).  Then when she went back, she was a different person, but her parents seemed to be different people instead. Sorta like not being sure whether the sun orbits the Earth or vice versa, or an animal confusing its own face for a rival animal and charging it. Perception can become skewed.

What one of the intermissions tells us in that her real name is Inverness, and she used to be rather quiet and like a waitress or something. If we flash forward, there's this flashy persona and a girl with wild hair who calls herself a genius.  We see a little of the old Inverness when Crest is hanging out with her, but I feel like this persona was built as a defense mechanism for dealing with bullying. And her parents probably didn't have the same feelings towards her as  before because of this.

What we do know is that in a manner of speaking, Qtalda isn't lying. And Melter seems like a thug but not a liar.  Qtalda does have a manipulative personality, and probably gave her no choice about backing out once she joined. 

But is conversion to stone actually death, or just extreme dormancy?

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 08, 2019, 07:35:06 am »
Here's how I see it.

I had originally thought of her as a schemer to take ownership of the Conclave, something like gaslighting Suspiria until she did it for her.

After all of this, she would be like "Suspiria did it, look, look!" I also suspected Bell (as I say, always the quiet ones) did alot of mind-control stuff and was way stronger than the Conclave originally believed.

And yet, a person who realizes that they aren't legitimate, means... they would have committed an act in full view that it would gain them nothing and cost them disgrace.  Qtalda could simply have allowed everyone to believe she is dead (she's invisible after all), and the others Crest was talking to would be like "Ummmm she does have parents, it's possible everyone was brainwashed." The blame would still entirely be on Suspiria, but Qtalda could be a secret joint leader and Bell would ostensibly be the official admin of the Conclave. Nobody would even know she's still there (literally), and this is all it would take for her to get away with her plans.  Instead, she refuses power, and openly admits that she is still alive.

That's not "part of a longer plan" that's sabotaging any plans you might have.

This is not to say she is not, as Suspiria puts it an "evil bitch."  But as things go, neither the Thin Man (more of a Cloudcuckoolander scientist type) nor Suspiria (too powerful and unstable for her own good) nor even Qtalda are what you'd call stock villains.

Omae wa mou shindeiru

Update: Yes, she'd rule exactly like this, if she were trying to takie over. Publicly assign someone else and pull their strings. Exactly like... uh oh.  :o

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 07, 2019, 04:54:28 am »
Okay, I finally believe Qtalda wasn't the mastermind.  A person who knows what a situation looks like would withdraw like this, while a manipulative type would tell ppl that it's all Suspiria's faylt then try to take power.

Also, invisible Qtalda is kinda cute.

I'm thinking the reason she's invisible btw is (stop me Brion if this turns out to be a spoiler) because in the course of testing her Death and Decay spell, she destroyed her own physical body and is basically a solid spirit.

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Flipside Discussion / Chapter 54: Discussion
« on: November 04, 2019, 05:45:35 am »
I guess it's okay if I start? No discussion page yet.

So we have the title page Strength Is Kindness, and an ominous looking scene with Bell looking down at stuff. 

Besides looking inordinately like a librarian, and making me think she's some super-powerful behind-the-scenes puppertmaster (always the quiet ones), I get a few impressions from Bell.

I mean, we've barely heard her talk  but I immediately associate her with the anime Maho Tsukai Tai! where the entire first act had aliens versus witches (until they turned it into giant cherry blossom tree).  I dunno how much that has to do with anything, but the big pmibous bell-shaped building sorta look the same.

The other thing is, I was reading Japanese borrowed words and "bell" apparently sounds so much like "bear" that they had to artificially make a new sound even though Japanese doesn't have a strong R sound.  If she suddenly turns out to be like an angry bear, my suspicions will be confirmed.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 36: Discussion
« on: October 21, 2019, 03:30:54 am »
Believe it or not, my introduction into the horror genre  began as a church-based sleepover with a bunch of kids, watching Stephen King films. Specifically,  we watched Children of the Corn and the entirety of It in one sitting.

I also saw my first adult (i.e. non-cartoon) movie walking in midway in like a prison movie. I probably blocked some details.

And reportedly, I used to be in a "Fun Factory" sort of preschool thing where the woman there told all the boys that they were scum because feminism. I am somehow not more traumatized. My dad figured this out and pulled me from it.

Oh wait, that's because  at about 6 and about 9, on two separate occasions, my bro thinks it would be fun (or something) to dress me up as a girl. I have a theory about why mant people are trans (myself included) and I'm pretty firm in the camp that no it's not something genetic. Alot of stuff was done to me as a child, and most of it I came to terms with. I'm okay with being kinda genderfuild. Not as much with having issues relating to people, and feeling isolated by stuff. 

And the anime Monster really disurbs me because it has a group of children given a bunch of creepy books (The Monster With No Name) and movies to perform psych experiments on them. Along with the whole deal wirh Johan and stuff. I'm not sure how much anime you watch though.

Anyway, the It miniseries was good. I had no desire to see a CGI remake though.

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Update: from Terror Vision, it looks kinda like the Pit monster (creepy clawed thingy), a Maytag template, and the teenager looks kinda like Moby. Medusa is kinda like Suspiria. And the boyfriend looks kinda like Kindred.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 36: Discussion
« on: October 19, 2019, 09:17:28 pm »
Ah I see, so the characters don't always follow their creator's interests.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 36: Discussion
« on: October 18, 2019, 10:44:53 pm »
I'm pretty sure it's intentional, honestly.  The writers are brilliant. They managed to parody both Jason and Freddy (in one of them, two kids actually dressed up as them only to be killed off by better versions of their weapons, Freddy had a machete while Angela had a chainsaw, and she had some real claws as opposed to fake for the other kid) as well as keep coming up with clever way (often poetic justice) to kill off most of them. And the fifth movie, Sleepaway Camp IV, from what I saw was just poorly pieced together footage from the first three films to kinda tie together a plot in flashbacks, making a sort of bad indie vibe.

Blair Witch, on the other hand, I fully agree with that one rating. Pseudo-amateur photography does not a good film make.

 I saw two horror genre films that were pretty good.  One was called Frozen (not to be confused with the Disney musical, this had three ski buddies try to game the system, and wound up stuck on a slope when it turned out the place closed for a full week, it had alot of creepy slow dread that not many horrors have and alot of character development) and the other Feng Shui (2004, it was a a Filipino made one, but the ending twist was great; it basically involved a woman buying a cursed Ba Gua mirror that brought good and bad fortune in huge amounts).  The second may be hard to find, though I think Netflix had it.  Nvm, Prime Video you can rent for like $3.

Oh yeah, and ZomBeavers (surprisingly scary, since they pop out of nowhere and they didn't find ANY way to kill them, but it also had a silly premise that those bitten slowly turn into beavers) and Konchu Daisenso (aka Genocide, aka War of the Insects 1968, gets points both for being a disturbing movie about bugs and for the fact that it involves a nuke blowing everyone up; it seems hard to find though, I only saw it on TCM).

(To parody the Dos Equis guy)
I rarely watch horror movies, but when I do, I like them interesting.

But yeah, I do not like over-the-top violence and gore, I like the sort of hopeless dread that you get from Lovecraft films, where the real monster is something really beyond the killer/monster (what was so interesting about the Sleepaway Camp series, the pervasive sense of something seriously wrong with the campers far more than Angela). I also like the idea of building this sense of complete terror slowly over the entire movie until at last you are completely shaken.  The sense I like to get is when you play Final Fantasy and turn critters into stone for hours straight only to have a vivid nightmare of your family getting petrified watching television (actually had one of those).  The slow creeping intense horror is far more terrifying that a monster or evil man.  Needless to say, I was far more affected by the Dark Cell than by Bloody Mary.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 36: Discussion
« on: October 18, 2019, 04:37:54 am »
Yeah it was kinda a less scary film, and more a psychological film about the kids themselves (which I suspect was the point, having also watched Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3 (and I think there was a fourth one where Angela was in disguise for 9/10 of the movie)).  However, less in terms of Of visceral blood and guts and undeath stuff, and nore in terms of creative deaths, this one gets an extra point for me (the chili murder, especially).

There were five actually, the fifth is called Sleepaway Camp IV. I saw Return to Sleepaway Camp (which I guess is so called because it's kinda after Angela ostensibly stops killing and they focus, mostly, on another kid).

I do agree with the assessment that this is more a movie to watch with friends.  I happen to know the Happy Camper song, cuz it sticks in your head.

 "Ohhhhhh~ I'm a Happy Camper, I love the summer sun, I love the trees of forests, I'm always having fun, oh I'm a Happy Camper, I love the clear blue skies, and with the grace of God I'll camp until I die."

Well sorta. I had to verify some of the lyrics.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 36: Discussion
« on: October 16, 2019, 06:53:52 am »
Ooh do Sleepaway Camp.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 53: Discussion
« on: October 12, 2019, 01:04:32 pm »
I just got a friend block me from Discord saying "You made your decision." Ummm no, actually they gave me an ultimatum of depending on what I say, they may leave for separate lives and never talk again. What'd was the terrible thing I said that made them close the thread? I told them flatly that I didn't care how bad she thought she was, that my life also sucked, and I wasn't about to give up on her. I actually made the opposite decision, and they made the decision because I wasn't like "Ohhh poor you, yes your life sucks" to close it.

 The point of all of this, is that I look at Polly and see this really damaged woman who can't seem to get that people actually want them in their lives and it doesn't matter what their damage is or how messed up they are. Who wind up holding a pillow for comfort because they think it's too late. If she added me back on, I'm pretty sure I'd take her, neuroses and all. But ppl like Polly keep telling themselves lies about their worthiness.

It's kinda like she was trapped in the Dark Cell, and couldn't see out the other end, and even my words became part of the problem. "I don't care how bad you think your problems are, I accept you anyway" becomes "I don't care about your problems, so go away."

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 53: Discussion
« on: October 09, 2019, 11:50:12 pm »
As does what Polly is doing with her pillow.

It took about two looks to figure out that she suddenly can't get comfy without someone to hold. This wasn't a problem before, as she was used to this. But now she's using her pillow as a surrogate.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 53: Discussion
« on: October 02, 2019, 11:14:44 pm »
Well, the original topic was housing. Then that topic led to a topic I didn't actually care for, so I answered that, and want to move on. ADD is a real bitch cuz I tend to get segues into random topics and have ppl in forums accuse me of "sidetracking" the thread topic. Nah it's just the ADD pointing me over to another random thing again. 

Though yeah, I could talk about housing more. Especially Polly's sweet pad that is totally not gonna eventually creep her out.  I kinda would like to paint a room black. Mine is BRICK RED. It's okay at night but during the day I tend not to want to be in the room.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 53: Discussion
« on: September 30, 2019, 08:27:30 pm »

I think maybe that's a real estate agent's euphemism for "There's a lot of immigrants in Germany (and Sweden) now, so you won't likely find any real estate deals, but the prices are great at OUR end because demand far exceeds supply! Yay for us!"
Eyup, the immigrant/refugee problem is definitely related to this problem, too. But what can I say? Rich white international industry bosses require new african slaves and anyone who is against exploiting them is a racist. And yes, we do still have actual racists in Europe, too, and they're the ones who get all the attention from the media. Because the media is partially controlled by politicians and they love their rich white international industry bosses. Europe is in turmoil right now. Not as much as America or, you know, actual war zones, but still turmoil.


It literally ate my entire post when the login timed out, so I'll make it short. The reality of the situation is that the EU is much much worse. In America, the left pushed too hard and too fast (anyone who says things are about Russia is lying to themselves), resulting in backlash. As a result, the US rejected both the climate restrictions that resulted in heavy regulation and high gas costs in EU, and much of the borderless society bullcrap that has made many of these countries effectively basketcase.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/how-the-left-created-donald-trump-214472

The result is that because of disconnect where the two parties can't accept consensus reality on how this election happened, they are basically fighting. But most of this happens in cities, with the occasional false flag event to try to push gun-control (hint: most such events happened in gun-free zones where the gutless cowards could get away with this) happening in random locations.

Anyway, that's kinda all I wanna say about that so...

I like how relaxed May has become. I think the ordeal she went through changed her alot. And hopefully, the rest of the group will get to meet Eye, without you know, descending into despair and madness.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 53: Discussion
« on: September 28, 2019, 04:36:34 am »
If I had to say, I think he likes Regina because of Suspiria. Maytag is Crest's third relationship in the story, after all.

Which is to say, before Suspiria found out she was a monster, she was fairly normal (see Chapter 29 for an example with her short-haired and in a sweater) She was some super-caster but she kinda acted more like the small town girl than anything else.

Then she got all intense about revenge.

But Regina acts like the Suspiria that Crest knew, the one before the Seed of Potential chapter who gets all cute about a sweater. I feel like Suspiria is still kinda active despite being stoned, and is kinda playing out their relationship vicariously through other ppl (she tried it through Moby but around that time, it was more about jumping Crest's bones). Now it's kinda "I just want to be close to you" vibe and  that could explain some of Regina's unlocked power (although I think the unlock is permanent, I think she did have help). Suspiria doesn't feel worthy of Crest anymore (we see some of this self-loathing right after Chapter 29 when ppl are talking about the "real Suspiria"), so she's using Regina as a surrogate of herself. Looking at it this way, it's kinda cute.

Huh. Chapter 29 also shows Regina first using the name Mistral.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 53: Discussion
« on: September 22, 2019, 09:57:27 pm »
I dunno that it's the last we've seen of her tho. 

The Other Woman is the title. Polly was kinda no biggie, when all was said and done.

So now, think about this. If Suspiria ever wakes up, we have an angry ex that Regina will literally have to get stronger than if she wants her man (or at least get her to stop seeing him).

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