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2011-06-16, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
This is a thread for posting all the little details in OoTs comics that you never saw on your first (or second, or third) read through.
It doesn't matter if someone else has spotted it and mentioned it in this thread, just as long as you haven't, here is the place to post all those cool little things!
The old thread. (thanks Gift Jeraff!)Last edited by MoonCat; 2011-06-17 at 11:31 AM.
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2011-06-16, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
I saw this comic many times and always thought in the last panel that they are going uphill. I recently realised that they aren't. They are going along flat ground but the whole panel is tilted.
See the background with a line of mountains in the distance. In all the other panels it runs roughly horizontally. But in the last panel alone it gets higher from left to right, at the same angle as the ground. If they were going uphill, the mountains would still go horizontally.
Compare to the first panel here, where they ARE going uphill, and the sand dunes in the background are roughly horizontal..
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2011-06-16, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-16, 08:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
I just noticed that in comic #13 that Roy's sword goes "snicker snack!" while beheading Xykon, which would be what the vorpal sword does in "Through the Looking Glass" (2nd book to Alice in Wonderland and also referenced in the Tim Burton adaptation).
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2011-06-16, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-16, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
She's going uphill and those aren't mountains. They're just different colours of the cave wall. Look at #524.
EDIT: Also, I suggest linking the original thread in the OP, in case anyone wants to read what other people never noticed.Last edited by Gift Jeraff; 2011-06-16 at 09:07 PM.
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2011-06-16, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I only recently noticed the Definitely NOT a Bandit Camp sign.
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2011-06-16, 09:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
I think she's not going uphill. Look at the stance of the NPC woman - if they were going uphill, she'd fall over.
The reason for the tilting is because it's expressing Haley's viewpoint. She's towing a heavy load, made even heavier by Belkar's gratuitous selfishness, and she's feeling put-upon."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2011-06-16, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-16, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-16, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I like this reference to Al Roker: 576
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2011-06-17, 01:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yay new thread
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2011-06-17, 03:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
That is just the art. Look here again. They are all tilted.
The cave is definitely going uphill.
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2011-06-17, 07:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
Okay, it makes sense that they are colours on the cave wall, I'll grant you that point. Even so, there's no reason why the colours would run uphill. They would still run horizontally in the background even when the ground slopes.
In #524 there are people on 2 levels of the cave, there's probably a slope to get from the lower to the higher. The bands of colour in the cave would still run horizontally behind the slope, right?.
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2011-06-17, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II
How about "I never noticed there was a first thread"
And, to comment on the cave wall colour argument, it would make sense for the colours to run uphill if they were the result of tunneling rather than a natural formationLast edited by Lvl45DM!; 2011-06-17 at 11:29 AM.
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2011-06-17, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
Likely due to English not being my first language, I just realized that the final panel of this strip included a double-entendre with the word "hexes". Now I understand why the green hag is calling them good sport about this.
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2011-06-17, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
Not sure I understand the double-entendre. I guess someone could think it is a pun for "hooray for sexes," but the strip itself doesn't indicate that we should see a pun there, and the long hex discussion between Roy and V doesn't fit that sort of a pun (unlike the running "Hinjo's Junk" strip). It is more likely that the joke is just about hexes, and nothing more.
Unless "hex" means something else that I'm not aware of..."And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand." - St. Augustine
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2011-06-17, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
Ooh, that is a good one.
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2011-06-17, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand." - St. Augustine
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2011-06-17, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
Just noticed this on a read-through from where DStP ended:
#680 Panel 6 links up with #725 Panel 4
I thought it was quite cool how it matches up.
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2011-06-17, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-17, 06:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
Here, Roy is rolling up a character using the harshest version of the rules, where you can't even rearrange your rolls after making them.
Yet he still manages to get an Illusionist, one of the toughest classes to qualify for in 1e. If I recall correctly, you needed something like 13 INT and 17 DEX, and no other stats below 6.
Now I've realised - he's in Heaven, or at least the waiting room of Heaven - of course he'll get whatever stats he wants, regardless of how many dice he rolls..."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2011-06-17, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread
Cool find
I guess I did notice this before, but until the recent strip I never realized that Nale could kiss Sabine without losing levels, see here
Also her tail wraps around his leg...i thinkI Am A:Neutral Good Human Bard/Sorcerer (2nd/1st Level)
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2011-06-17, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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