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is it just me or are they keeping our stuff for longer than usual?? i've got my smartphone so i'm okay but i'm still pretty darn sure that a week is way too long to handle a "standard maintenance and repair" operation.

if a CS major knew why it takes so long, an explanation would be schway. :|

also a reminder: if i see you doing weird slag, i'm giving you detention. i don't know why people seem to forget this part, but we are a school for mercenaries-in-training. Seriously stop being zifts and just... i don't know, read comic books or something.

The Sky Pirates of Aselia is currently having a crossover with the Sea Pirates of Aqualin. And it's more than kinda schway. It's worth your time more than any dumb slag with alarm clocks. 8|||

- Damian R.

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[If anyone wants to find him at the computer terminals, Damian's still there longer than usual; he's also been lurking around the Computer Science classrooms to see if he can gain any more information.

Either way, he's a man on a mission, and that mission isn't exactly for noble intentions.]

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You know, I still can't believe they did that.

What is the point of crossing over those two? Both comics have practically identical casts, so half the crossover is basically shoving them together and going oh, tee-hee, look at how similar they are! Best friends!

AND they're not even set in the same universe to begin with! And - take it from someone who actually does hop dimensions - the excuse the writer came up with is a complete asspull. They need to sack him and bring back the guy who did SPoA #56. The whole series has gone downhill since he left, and it's not like he's even been gone that long - it's so bad, I only pick it up for the cover art now.

[I have no idea if this is okay. I'm assuming those are made up for FF8-land comics ._.]

Edited 2012-04-12 01:48 (UTC)

The settings are totally different though! And not all of the cast is alike: the Sky Pirates have a couple of angels, the Sea Pirates have one mermaid and one kid from the lost city underneath the sea... :/

The inner art's still good though! They brought back the girl from the first run, and it makes it look pretty!!

But how's the excuse an "asspull?" I thought it made sense, with the Sea Pirates wanting that jewel that only existed in the Sky Pirate Dimension...

[Completely okay!!]

I don't like that artist much. The proportions are off and change practically every panel - consistency is not that girl's forte. The "pretty" that you're seeing is entirely the colourist's work.

Look, the two angels and the sea people are basically counterparts of each other - they have no real personality to speak of! In each comic, one's loud and quirky, and the other's meek and quiet, and those are their only defining features. They're only there for the sake of proving that one takes place in the sky, and one takes place in the sea!

Okay, I'll give you that the kid looked like he was going to have a personality at first, but it clearly didn't work out.

And yeah, how did they get to the Sky Pirate dimension in the first place, huh? They decided they wanted something, and just got there with some device that had no good reason to exist in their world - their technology is not on that level, they make a point of their smart guy not being that smart, and we had no precedent to show us that dimensional travel was even possible! Even bringing in some magic portal would be more convincing.

It's just typical of that writer - every time he has a problem that needs solving, he takes the easiest solution without even thinking how it works in the setting. I'm sure he's written this story for a different comic entirely, and just shoehorned familiar characters in because he couldn't get it published.

Do share the comics, please? I haven't read that issue.

And it's taking so long because my wife is the one fixing them and I'm determined to keep her distracted. [Lying but whatever, it's believable.]

Screw you. I'm not the one who started it.

[...He is totally going to be keeping an eye out for those comic books. But NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW.]

Considering that they've pressganged an entire major group into handling the influx of computers I do believe it's safe to say that at minimum something sketchy is occurring. It's enough to make one grateful for the habit of using a laptop from one's original universe almost to exclusion. I shudder to think what morally ambiguous activities are occurring to those machines.

On the topic of law-abiding entertainment, however, I'm afraid that I can't quite get behind the endorsement of comic books as a healthy alternative. They're simply not very mentally stimulating; I'd personally recommend an independent fantasy anthology that puts out some very interesting pieces instead.

maybe but I'm still a fan of her stuff :/

Haldia ["that kid from the lost sea city"] is a perfectly good character! I liked what he did in the last issue :| The pirates are just too big to keep focusing on everyone all the time.

The crossover isn't done yet! They'll probably explain just what the slag that device was doing there in the first place - even I know it wasn't supposed to be there - but I want to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Do you really think so?? It doesn't seem like it yet.

Sure! I'll drop it by your room tonight.

Ew Boss, I didn't need to know that. 8(

then who was? He or she can be written up too if you want to spill.

Just send me a PM if you're not comfortable doing it in public.

[SUCCESS! The more fans of these comics the better.]

Just hypothetically, what would you get for breaking into someone's room while they were out? [Because, well, appeals to authority? Not his kind of thing. If he's going to make one, it better be worth it.]

Considering it's Garden, where tech from 2001 is considered "state-of-the-art," I'm not sure they're actually capable of doing that much.

Comic books are perfectly schway! Though if I wanted to look for these fantasy books, they'd be available in the library, right?

- Damian R

depends. If you can prove it, it might be grounds for probation.

If you can't give me solid evidence, then he'd just end up with two weeks' worth of detention.

Guy called Jack S something. Tall and wears a lot of black. I had evidence but I [cough threw it at him cough] lost it.

If you're going to create a comic with an ensemble cast, you need to know how to write an ensemble cast. You have the main core group, and that main core group needs to stand out!

And that kid? He's a cheap plot device, not a character. He's so flat it's painful to read.

Going by that writer's previous work in White Sorcerer, I wouldn't get your hopes up. He did one arc in that comic - ONE ARC! - and it was so bad the comic died. It had such a strong start, too!

You're becoming a tyrant. [Is in the area too for the same reason.]

don't think I've met the guy but I'll keep my eye on him and give him the detention I promised.

No other evidence? No traces of him being in your room?

It's not a lot for me to go on.

[Eyeroll.] Something about this whole situation seems fishy. Don't tell me you don't want to know what's really going on.

only if he booby trapped something else I didn't find yet. But it was definitely him.

how so? not saying that it's not bad, just wondering how you would write them.

He's not that flat... I've seen mountains that were flatter :/

Wait wait wait, he did White Sorcerer too? That was hideous, but not for the reasons that this crossover was. :( They totally messed up how para-magic worked. Did the guys ever spend time in a para-magic classroom? it was total schwarbage.

I'd think that would be even more worrisome - do you really want incapable personnel attempting to conduct some advanced trick with little to no ability to pull it off?

I've yet to find one that can hold my interest for more than a few pages. And that's correct. Thankfully they're included in the new materials brought in, otherwise I'd have been forced to write a strongly worded letter of protest to the staff.

Thanks!

Hey, you're the one who asked matey. :|

Morally ambiguous? What kind of things could you do to a bunch of computers like that?

Also, which fantasy anthology?

- SeeD Marco

Got it. I'll confront him and let him know about his detention.

In the meantime, double-check your room. There might be something more.

I wanted something about the computer services themselves, not about your love life. 8(

If I wanted that, I would've asked Ms. Tattler!

Not really, but technology here as a whole disappoints me, so it's all the same.

Got it. I think they'd probably have their own section too, but I haven't checked that part in a while.

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