Comments on: Annotated 24-29

By: Pylgrim

Pylgrim — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:10:04 +0000

Over the course of this re-read Pardo has grown on me quite a bit, after passing almost entirely unnoticed by me the first time around. He’s a good-humored and mostly well-intending chap without tons of pretense or arrogance, something that I have learned to value in a politician in the last few years. It’s really too bad (though not too surprising) that he was done in by the more corrupt heads the moment they could not use him anymore. I wish we had seen him in one last scene leading a quiet but content life.

By: TachyonCode

TachyonCode — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:04:53 +0000

Literally all of the OG MCs fit the bill.

Byron and Syr are the most obvious, then of course Gravedust Deserthammer (who wouldn’t have expected that out of the serious roleplayer he originated from?), Best (for the egotist), (Bandit?), and Frigg perhaps least obviously – with Frigg being the kind of name I’d have expected her old self to have mashed onto a keyboard after being prompted to enter a name for her character when all she came here for was to get some action and smash.

By: TachyonCode

TachyonCode — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 03:58:17 +0000

I seem to recall the cultist Byron and Syr encountered on their date doing the most notable foreshadowing for this moment, or at least the most memorable. So I’ve always assumed that was the first time y’all telegraphed this development…

By: Sahara

Sahara — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 03:14:44 +0000

I always thought it was a made-up last name he gave himself purely for this presentation to the Gastonian leaders – that “the Berserker” wasn’t acceptable as a last name for official business, but that Byron didn’t have a family name. So that made this pun was my favorite one in probably the whole series. He’s standing there straight-faced and can manage to do it despite “Gesundheit” ha.

By: David Simon

David Simon — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:02:24 +0000

As an aside, the game from the commentary image, “Hack n Slash”, is well worth your time if you’re interested in game mechanics and design. The first thing you do in the game is break your sword in half, revealing a USB plug that you can plug into any object to manipulate its local variables. The puzzles and meta-exploration just get deeper from there, until you eventually have nearly unrestricted access to the game’s own source code, represented within the game itself as an enormous fractal library. It’s really quite neat!