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Who's been curious what Kor's been up to this entire time. He's the strip's first actual "villain" afterall -- isn't it a little weird that he's been completely MIA this entire time? ;P
Cel should be back from PAX soon! It's been an interesting weekend, with some fun announcements from the FFXIV panel there, and tonite some fellow DD members and I played a whole bunch of Overwatch to round out the last night of the Overwatch beta.
For whoever's interested, though -- hopefully, starting tomorrow, I'm going to be trying to stream over on Twitch.tv every day for a few hours, starting around noon or so CST, until prolly around 4-5 CST. If anyone wants to check it out, you can find me on Twitch at http://twitch.tv/ddayasu
When I sat down to do tonite's comic, I thought to myself "It's been a bit since we've seen Pi," so I decided to make a comic with some good ol' Pi and Sarab humor.
It's been a while since I laughed while /making/ the strip, so I hope you guys enjoy today's strip as much as I enjoyed making it!
Oh right! Today's strip is actually referencing two of the original The OTHER Comic strips. Specifically these two:
Cel's outta town for PAX this week, so it's just little ol' me, just on my lonesome. x.x
So this strip, I'd actually made aaaaaaages ago, and never got around to posting it... I actually made it a while before we restarted - just couldn't think of a good place to use it. I was actually /really/ excited that they added Megs in Smash. Was absolutely floored when they added Ryu, too! Honestly, they've added a bunch of 3rd party characters I coulda never dreamed of. Like... If you would have told my 17 year old self that Cloud Strife was gonna be in Smash... I would have been seriously wondering how delusional you really were.
This comic was actually almost late getting posted, because even though I'm using a strip I made a while ago... I had to rebuild it, basically, using the new panel size layout. >.> I've spent the majority of today moving furniture around in my living room, and didn't even realize it'd gotten so late. Either way -- enjoy!
Whoo! #400! That only took... Like 11 years? Something like that.A long-ass time. Either way, ecstatic to finally make it this far, and we couldn't have done this without our Patreon supporters, honestly.
Thanks to them, we were able to get a legitimate copy of Flash(finally!) and get this edited and uploaded! Thanks so much!
I made the majority of this, and Ayasu edited it with vastly more Flash experience than I have. It was my first Flash animation ever (Tallest Building + Za Warudo skit). I have much to learn.
That said, this was initially meant to be a GIF animation, but Ayasu said 'That'd be better as a Flash', and since we didn't have a 400 just yet... well that's the result.
That said, the GIF animations themselves were interesting to make too. The first one ended up being scrapped because... well... look for yourself. The idea I had simply wasn't looking good, so I made a second one that was already much better. Always fun to make these though.
Based off a true story! ...from Saturday night, actually. lol I've been playing Tom Clancy's The Division lately with Flare(my girlfriend) and Lyria(a fellow Dimensional Death member), and so far it's been pretty fun.
Definitely wish that it was a little more interactive with other players in the main game world, though -- the streets are always so barren, and I feel that servers that randomly drop like... maybe 50-100 players in little areas together would be pretty fun.
I know there's the whole Dark Zone stuff, but it'd be nice to see another player without worrying about if they're gonna drop a grenade at your feet. =P
Aya Edit: So, I /may/ have accidentally forgotten to upload the comic to the actual post here. >.> I uploaded it on Patreon for our Patrons(link in the side bar, btw, if you want to help us out!), created the post and then went to bed without actually uploading. -.- I am the best.
I don't play The Division, but isn't clothes/glamour the end game of every game out there?
This was, admittedly, a test to see if I could still cobble together a comic with screenshots. =P Our actors in the comic here, though, are Celedh(the Jin recruiter) and my girlfriend, Flare(the tiny, very pink Lyn). I'm playing a tiny Lyn as well, and since the first person camera is REALLY low to the ground as a Lyn, I had to stand on that boat, and the fence behind Cel to get the shots. >.>
Blade and Soul is still proving to be a pretty fun game so far -- I'm really enjoying the story, and the gameplay. If anyone else wants to join us, we're on the Old Man Cho server!
In other news, Flare and I finally got the Deathwing statue we pre-ordered like back in... February of last year? This thing is MASSIVE. Take a look!
Blade & Soul has been pretty interesting, plays a bit like Diablo III control wise, otherwise pretty graphics and a "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" wired kung fu moves. Flashy and satisfying.
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Poor Cyber. The truth is painful. ><
So, lately, a bunch of us have been playing Blade and Soul on the Old Man Cho server. It's... shockingly fun, though. Weird F2P system, but the gameplay is, for the most part, pretty fun. It's action oriented and pretty fast paced. Been having fun with it!
Is Cyber reacting to the co-author, or to his life being a lie?
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THIS. This is something I'd wanted to do for eeeeeeeever. But never got around to it, mostly because 10 years ago, resolution sizes were typically smaller.
I toyed around with a couple different sizes on this, and this is what I settled on -- I decided putting the smaller first panel in the strip would help show the difference in sizes in the old panels, compared to the new ones. The width isn't much bigger, but the height allows for easier placement of the text boxes -- especially now that I'm actually making the strips using a slightly larger font size.
Remember when I used to talk about games and stuff down here? I think I'mma start doing that again periodically. Not tonite, though -- this blurb's already wordy enough. =P
I honestly hope you all enjoy the new format for the comic, and have been enjoying the new strips. I plan on keeping this going as long as I can, this time -- no end in sight!
Probably my first 'worthwhile' contribution to this comic is the 'it's bigger on the inside' suggestion, which Ayasu made even better.
This is more or less the process that's going on for every strip, we have a rough idea, we find some of the best/worst pun or joke to go with it, and then Ayasu makes it live. But Ayasu already had 2 strips done, and already planned out several more. So my contributions were, to put it politely, unnecessary up to that point. But the more new comics we're making the more my help will show (hopefully).
*comes back gasping for air and holding comic 254*
Now there shall be a long, complicated explanation of how Cyber and Ayasu split into separate characters and along the way, all of the cast will learn an important lesson about acceptance!
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Ta-da! And here I am. This is also the reason I've been using such a weird avatar since last week. :3 I didn't wanna give it away.
So, I debated on whether or not I wanted to use the comic itself to talk about this, or if I wanted to just talk about it in today's newspost. It's likely obvious just by Megs's reaction that the "Ayasu" in the comic is a girl. One of the things that's happened in the last 10 years since the updates stopped was I decided to take action on something that I'd come to terms with aaaaages ago -- I'm transgender, transitioning from Male to Female. And yes, I really do actually have Blue and green hair(pretty much just like my sprite =P).
To those who've known me a long time, this is not a shock, but for those older readers who may be checking the comic out again -- that's the quick and easy explanation. ^^
For note, as I change hair colors, I have every intention of changing my sprite's haircolor as well. =P I figure it'll be more fun that way.
I have known Ayasu for the entire time this 'change' happened, so this was more or less one of the first questions that came to mind when she asked me to help with the comic : What happens to Cyber?
The answer is in the upcoming strips, so you'll see.
By rebound we're also tackling Tunod's case, since he's not an author anymore. He may still offer the occasional strip though, who knows.
I have yet to appear in the comic myself, it's like I'm not even there!
Probably because I'm not, this is all Ayasu's work for now.
So, this is the first new strip I created since... gah, sometime 2012? Something like that. It's good to be back. :3
Speaking of being back -- Cel and I discussed it, and we're going to actually update the comic Monday/Wednesday/Friday, like the old days. I'll update the graphic in the sidebar soon, but make sure to keep checking back for new comics THREE times a week starting next week!!
Forums haven't bee upgraded yet -- still waiting on Overmind to have time to update everything. The comic archiving would need to be rebuilt from scratch. ><
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