The problem with Thor and Durkon's plan.

[The Pilgrim]

TDO isn't bossing the Game. If he were, then he wouldn't be enacting a Plan to wreck the Game. You don't shake the board when you are winning.

[Draconi Redfir]

it might be more akin to every god having seven cards, while the dark one only has two. And he's trying to rearrange the game so that either he also has seven cards, or everyone has five cards.

Problem is he doesn't realize that he has the one card in the deck that all the other gods need in order to win the game, and he's too busy grumbling about his lack of cards to listen to the others.

granted this analogy kind of implies he'd be helping Thor win over Loki or something... Assume it's a timed game, where either someone wins and they all go home, or nobody wins and every player gets eaten alive or somethin, idk :P

[ijuinkun]

As for the Snarl, I think the simplest explanation (though not necessarily correct, because there are plenty of other explanations) is that it was a mindless thing of pure destruction as of when the gods last had a good look at it (something they're hesitant to do again), but that in the countless æons since then, it's changed, and is now capable of creation, or at least of refraining from destruction.

Consider also that each world's lifespan is a little longer than the one before, as the Gods grow more skilled at reinforcing it against the Snarl. Also, the current world has gotten an extra sixty years or so from the Gates holding the fissures together. Perhaps the Snarl has been trying to build this world-within-the-world for a number of cycles now, but only due to the longer survival of the current world has it gotten so close to completion now. The earlier attempts, having been incomplete when the Snarl breaks out, were unraveled along with those cycles' Prime Material Worlds, and so the Gods never noticed them.

[Dion]

Like, what if the snarl represents open source software, so like the world in the snarl is the open source world, and anyone can just use it to make their own world?

So TDO and all the goblins (or orcs, or firbolgs, or whatever) can just go live on the open source world, and Durkon and Roy can continue to live on The Oracle world.

[Draconi Redfir]

Like, what if the snarl represents open source software, so like the world in the snarl is the open source world, and anyone can just use it to make their own world?

So TDO and all the goblins (or orcs, or firbolgs, or whatever) can just go live on the open source world, and Durkon and Roy can continue to live on The Oracle world.

if that's the case, i certainly hope it's not made abundantly clear like that. would kinda break my immersion on the whole situation of the big bad snarl threat TBH.

[Jasdoif]

Like, what if the snarl represents open source software, so like the world in the snarl is the open source world, and anyone can just use it to make their own world?

So TDO and all the goblins (or orcs, or firbolgs, or whatever) can just go live on the open source world, and Durkon and Roy can continue to live on The Oracle world.

So would you say you're looking forward to the sequel?

[Dion]

So would you say you're looking forward to the sequel?

The sequel where Durkon and Elan fight over Windows vs Mac, while all the goblins use Linux?

Yes, that sounds like a lovely comic.

[Peelee]

The sequel where Durkon and Elan fight over Windows vs Mac, while all the goblins use Linux?

Yes, that sounds like a lovely comic.

Mac would lose. Country Mac, however, would win.

[Jasdoif]

The sequel where Durkon and Elan fight over Windows vs Mac, while all the goblins use Linux?

Yes, that sounds like a lovely comic.

I think the goblins undergoing a schism between Linux and Hurd would make a better story, honestly...but I do appreciate the response to my sequel query.

[Riftwolf]

I think the goblins undergoing a schism between Linux and Hurd would make a better story, honestly...but I do appreciate the response to my sequel query.

Is this story really a sequel, or an SQL?

[Jasdoif]

Is this story really a sequel, or an SQL?

If the story could result from a SQL query made against the Oracle world, would that count? Or would that just amount to an unknown value, in the aggregate?

[Manga Shoggoth]

If the story could result from a SQL query made against the Oracle world, would that count? Or would that just amount to an unknown value, in the aggregate?

Are you going to commit to one?

(Please note that any references to CoD are strictly dated...)

(YES!!! DBA Puns!!!!!!!!!)

[The Pilgrim]

I feel like I should select to inner join this debate.

[Jasdoif]

Are you going to commit to one?

No, I think we'd take a dim view of that transaction....It might even involve a trigger o_o So I'm gonna exercise some constraint.

[CriticalFailure]

I think the goblins undergoing a schism between Linux and Hurd would make a better story, honestly...but I do appreciate the response to my sequel query.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as goblins, is in fact, hobgoblins/goblins, or as I've recently taken to calling it, hobgoblins plus goblins.

[Jasdoif]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as goblins, is in fact, hobgoblins/goblins, or as I've recently taken to calling it, hobgoblins plus goblins.

Pretty sure I said "goblins" because I meant "goblins", actually; much like I'd have said "goblinoids" if I meant "goblinoids". Whether it cascades or not, the execution of the partition between goblinoids of the same schema makes the primary key, the dividing philosophies, more apparent at a cursory glance; and harder to misattribute to different collations between cultures, no matter how related they are.