Axemas Special 2014 – Page 12
And that concludes the Guilded Age Axemas Special for 2014… dipping into 2015, even, it seems. We hope you all had great holidays and a happy new year!
Chapter 36 begins on Monday with new avatars, new wallpapers, a DOUBLE-UPDATE, and some big announcements as well. Some changes are going to be made around here that will make things better for Guilded Age in the long run. Don’t you worry about nothing, now, we’ll still be bringing you the best damn webcomic on the whole Internet and there’s nothing you can do to fucking stop us.
But we can sure get ourselves retconned trying!
Oh wait no, that wasn’t supposed to be a motivational bit.
When is Retcon? Don’t they hold that down at a retirement village in Florida? Are Phil and the gang gonna be there?
Oof. Most of the “big announcements” I’ve read lately have been something like, “I’m ending my webcomic!” I fear Monday.
We are *definitely* not ending Guilded Age anytime soon.
I mean, sure, the story will eventually end, but we’re still a ways off.
Lies!
MMORPG’s don’t end… and then there is Sepia world.
How will you end two worlds at the same time???
Will No One Think of the Children!
Guilded Age, now a proud subsidiary of NCsoft!
Guhh.
Two stars?
That is a thing now?
And I don’t even get what was so special about that comment. o_0;
I hate when I don’t understand things.
GA will never end, eventually the servers will simply shut down.
Wait, are people trying to fucking stop you?
Where should we point our pitchforks?
Pitchforks? Pfft. If it doesn’t involve phrases like “blast radius” and “ground zero”, then it’s like you’re not even trying!
Maxim #37 – There is no ‘overkill.’ There is only ‘open fire’ and ‘I need to reload.’
:D
Well, axemas special was cute, but I’m looking forward to seeing things get back on track with the DEATH of rachel and how everyone handles it, in world and out.
Not to mention the fact that Byron and the other party are in mortal danger with the cultists as we speak.
Those guys are lucky they have each other, cause it´s very rare for guildmembers to befriend in real life.
At least in my experience.
Exceptions may be EVE online and certain WoW guilds, or so I´ve heard.
I’ve never been friends with people in real life from my guilds in wow. Why would I stop being a nerd around other nerds?
The WoW guild I’m in is staging a real life meeting once a year, and we get along really well. By now, I consider several of my guildies as RL friends as well, meeting them outside of WoW and apart from guild gatherings. Common interests (gaming excluded) helped with this, of course. :)
In my experience, I usually *start* guilds with my IRL friends.
We’ve stayed friends with people we met RL at midnight launch events and also after BlizzCon, but for us it’s usually the same.
I often migrate between games with my friends, whether online or IRL. I’ve actually developed what I like to refer to as migration fatigue, I’ve done it so much.
I think somebody out there needs to come up with a way for us to do that without having to sideline the characters we’ve put so much time and effort into, honestly… it’s getting old.
Introducing Grava-MMO (not real)! If the MMO you are migrating from and to are both participating members, then the XP and items you’ve gained in the former will be translated into equivalents in the latter – plus a slight penalty.
I’ve honestly never started a single one of my guilds with people I know from RL. Heck, I start most of them with no seeds from my previous guilds, either. They tend to grow rapidly and work well, however.
How do you even do that?
I’ve never really had much in the way of meatspace friends… but the few I do have don’t play games… or if they do then they don’t play the same games on the same format.
I’ve given up on MMOs completely… mostly because every time I tried to join a guild I ended up kicked out for not being on at the same time as them (americans), or kicked out to make room for their friends, or kicked out for extended inactivity (internet trouble), or kicked out because I had an argument with the guild leader (it happens)… and as such… I had to solo everything.
And I don’t know many MMOs where soloing EVERYTHING is really a viable way of playing… especially for someone who hates being challenged as I do.
Long story short… I fail @ social.
Can I just say… I’d read a webcomic about these four any-day.
maybe that’s the big announcement
I agree. I like all four of them.
You have been! For several years now.
I really don’t think so.
So, sorry if this has already been established, but I’ve been getting the insinuation that Chrissie is transgendered?
Considering I thought she looked like Harry potter as a kid she just might be…
I… haven’t? Maybe I’ve missed it, what are you seeing?
Well, she looked like a boy in the flashback (though it was admittedly ambiguous), and she’s going on about being told “who I should be” and “who I should like”, so, that’s what I saw
i thought that was referring to her parents’ relationship
Yep, and the fact that it was obvious they weren’t happy together, but that it was expected.
Y’know, regardless of subject matter, I just go with the policy that I see what I want to see, and unless canon contradicts it, I’m happy to keep thinking whatever I think.
I always advise others to do the same, and just remember that that’s what they’re doing – after all, to forget this is to become a big ball of rage that nobody wants around, right?
Explicitly confirmed by T, yesterday. (For QUILTBAG readers, it was actually established when she showed up with the tree, since it was confirmed in the comments for that one that it was the GA version of that Chrissie.)
Yeah. The Chrissie of QUILTBAG was struggling with a couple of aspects of her identity, which made her indeed “not much fun to be around.” Seen through the eyes of Lisa, who was definitely not as knowledgeable about such things as she thought, she probably came across as a bit unbalanced.
I definitely believe that characters of any minority can be deeply flawed, and that there should be some flawed ones, even some villains, as well as admirable, upstanding representatives. Some of the series I edit are farces chock full of crazy characters of various orientations and identities. But Chrissie’s limited screen time there could have been read as simply dismissive of my own first trans character.
This struck me as a risk worth taking when I thought QUILTBAG would be around for a while: we would’ve gotten back to her in Years 2 and 3, to see more of her internal life and the process of self-acceptance she went through in college. But it was not to be. I had rushed much of QUILTBAG‘s development and found I couldn’t maintain the passion I needed to do my best work on it, while external demands on my time were sharply rising. The series had to go.
Leaving Chrissie where I did was my sole regret about cutting it off, and I was determined to correct that in some fashion as soon as I could. I don’t remember quite when I headcanoned that she was Bandit’s player, but it was a lot earlier than her first appearance in Guilded Age, Chapter 33. (I… think Phil and I discussed it then and he forgot afterward, but it’s possible I’m the one revising his memories. In any case, I’m glad he didn’t object when I brought it up or brought it up again.)
So I’ve been waiting a long, long time to tell this part of her story, but it had to be this way if I was going to reach the people I wanted to reach with it. Representation is really important, and yet doing a series like QUILTBAG that’s simply about representation doesn’t seem like a good idea to me now, Dykes to Watch Out For notwithstanding (it was introduced in a different time). The spotlight can be just another agent of exclusion. Far better to make Chrissie an inseparable part of a story that involves many, and have this aspect of her identity emerge organically as we roll along.
Fascinating.
Aw hell, now you have to have her tell the Valentine’s day story on the appropriate date…
Awesome EOTW story by the way…
Ya maybe after GA is wrapped up, y’all could do another letter of Quiltbag. I am still trying to get my head wrapped around Faans. Can’t seem to read the whole thing, maybe someday. had the same problem with the Illuminatus trilogy, Foucalt’s Pendulum, and all of Tom Robbins books but I got through them on the third or forth try . Penny and Angie was cool. Lovin you guys.
P. S. the world really DID end in 2012 but the Obama administration covered up the fact aided by a compliant media and the MIB.
They did it at the behest of the Illuminati. After Xenu took over Tom Cruise’s body and was reborn they had quite the upsurge in power.
” … Gone Girl is the worst date movie of all time…”
GRATUITOUS BAD DATE MOVIE THREAD!
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“Crying Game”
“The Other Side of the Mountain” – gaaah!
Holstens. The Soprano’s booth, no less. I have been first-time reading/binging this comic for two days and… People not realizing they are stuck in a video game I was prepared for. Actual restaurants from my actual life? Apparently not. Especially since it’s the “this is the real world” bit, though obviously the real-world references have been either explicit or close enough. Everybody knows about Starbucks and Chevys. How many people really know about Holstens? Creeped me the hell out.
I salute you.