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Doomed Underlings, Exterminate the Light!

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Dermonster said:
... why would a theme denote any feeling of invincibiltiy? It's not like either one is inherently better than the other, that's not how Dex's universes Work. Everything is roughly equivalent.

And how is a glitch theme generic? If anything, it's more unique than Steampunk.
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Do you understand what a glitch is? I really doubt Dex would only do a superficial aesthetic theme with glitch. Steampunk theme doesn't come off as the supreme power to rule the world. Glitch theme does.
 
Marlin said:
Do you understand what a glitch is? I really doubt Dex would only do a superficial aesthetic theme with glitch. Steampunk theme doesn't come off as the supreme power to rule the world. Glitch theme does.
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Well, we are supposed to be a world ending superthreat, so...

Well. We'll see what we can do later. For now, we must wait for the next updoot. It is sure to be glorious!
 
Not the result I hoped for but still an okay one. But can we look like this:
Instead of a TV with giant lips?
Ancient Scholar said:
Does this song fit glitching?

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this song kinda fits the pic I've suggested. It's a Pattern Screamer who are basically glitches that want to exist but can't.
 
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I'm not too keen on the lips either (Again, I was strapped for time) but, we dont have a TV head?
 
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Dermonster said:
I'm not too keen on the lips either (Again, I was strapped for time) but, we dont have a TV head?
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Oh yeah, the song made me confused about the look. But what do you think of the pic as a look? If it is not cool enough I have a shitload of SCP fanart pics which look glitchy and weird.
 
While I am a fan of the SCP foundation myself, I am also trying to be considerate for the ease of drawing and posing our creation in Flash. I'm not sure how well something too... abstract will function.

I still dig the spiky collar and crown, and I'm not sure how well attempting to change the look *after* the votelock will even work.

I'd say just let it lie. Dex will make it look awesome, and we can all bask in hard won artistic glory.
 
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Dermonster said:
While I am a fan of the SCP foundation myself, I am also trying to be considerate for the ease of drawing and posing our creation in Flash. I'm not sure how well something too... abstract will function.

I still dig the spiky collar and crown, and I'm not sure how well attempting to change the look *after* the votelock will even work.

I'd say just let it lie. Dex will make it look awesome, and we can all bask in hard won artistic glory.
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Okay, it's understandable...just hope there are no lips though, that's just dumb. But we'll see how that turns out next updoot.
 
Marlin said:
Do you understand what a glitch is? I really doubt Dex would only do a superficial aesthetic theme with glitch. Steampunk theme doesn't come off as the supreme power to rule the world. Glitch theme does.
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Dunno about Dex, but when I think of a glitch I think of the world not working right, not invincibility and supreme power. I'd describe that more as cheat codes.
 
At best we can no-clip and do delayed effect attacks. Not have supreme power, we're a glitch not a cheat.
 
IronyOwl said:
Dunno about Dex, but when I think of a glitch I think of the world not working right, not invincibility and supreme power. I'd describe that more as cheat codes.
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Ever heard of a reset glitch? Or helpful glitches? Skyrim had a potion glitch where you could amplify yourself to reach the highest level possible in little under a week in rl time. Glitches can serve as doors to unlimited power. Look at "Wreck it Ralph's" Vanellope, an utter horror to play against anyone who had her as a racing avatar.
 
Marlin said:
Ever heard of a reset glitch? Or helpful glitches? Skyrim had a potion glitch where you could amplify yourself to reach the highest level possible in little under a week in rl time. Glitches can serve as doors to unlimited power. Look at "Wreck it Ralph's" Vanellope, an utter horror to play against anyone who had her as a racing avatar.
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Why do you think Dex is gonna give us all the helpful glitches like resets and potions? We're less a video game glitch and more like a glitch in the matrix that makes everything wonky and weird. And Venellope isn't someone of unlimited power, she just teleports sometimes.
 
thePUNisher said:
Why do you think Dex is gonna give us all the helpful glitches like resets and potions? We're less a video game glitch and more like a glitch in the matrix that makes everything wonky and weird. And Venellope isn't someone of unlimited power, she just teleports sometimes.
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Vanellope teleports on command at the end.

And I doubt we are a mere aesthetic glitch, otherwise the whole world should become stuck on a blue screen of death from our mere pressence. Aesthetic bullshit op power.
 
Marlin said:
Vanellope teleports on command at the end.

And I doubt we are a mere aesthetic glitch, otherwise the whole world should become stuck on a blue screen of death from our mere pressence. Aesthetic bullshit op power.
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Here's a thought: Why don't you know, hear me out, wait for Dex to do his thing before calling it OP bullshit?
 
Marlin said:
Ever heard of a reset glitch? Or helpful glitches? Skyrim had a potion glitch where you could amplify yourself to reach the highest level possible in little under a week in rl time. Glitches can serve as doors to unlimited power. Look at "Wreck it Ralph's" Vanellope, an utter horror to play against anyone who had her as a racing avatar.
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Anything can serve as doors to unlimited power if you take it far enough. If we'd picked steampunk, do you think we'd have continent-sized battleships firing railguns powerful enough to shatter the moon?
 
thePUNisher said:
Here's a thought: Why don't you know, hear me out, wait for Dex to do his thing before calling it OP bullshit?
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Because the alternative is the glitch theme is less glitch theme, and more boring octagons flying across the screen and called glitch theme.

Imagine if someone wrote a fantasy horror with all the classic parts, good wizard, dragons, a tree abomination, nature is dying. Then that someone advertised it as steampunk through a character wearing a monocle with water vapour rising out of a top hat. I don't want to gaze at a glitch in only name.
 
IronyOwl said:
Anything can serve as doors to unlimited power if you take it far enough. If we'd picked steampunk, do you think we'd have continent-sized battleships firing railguns powerful enough to shatter the moon?
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The thing is 'eventually', glitches are glitches immediately. Eventually steampunk might have had continent sized steambots firing railguns to use on nations, but that would have hopefully been because of a natural flow of events. Pick up resources, build army. Slow build. A glitch's nature, in my opinion, is a immediate effect to be fixed by overwriting it with loading screens. 'Game Over, you won through glitch', should be likely on a glitch theme within the first hour of activating a glitch theme.
 
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Okay, let me tell you something. Dex is good with glitchy characters, all the enemies in his other quest are glitchy ghost monsters, so stop complaining about balance when we're not even started. At least wait for the third or fourth update for that.
 
Marlin said:
Because the alternative is the glitch theme is less glitch theme, and more boring octagons flying across the screen and called glitch theme.

Imagine if someone wrote a fantasy horror with all the classic parts, good wizard, dragons, a tree abomination, nature is dying. Then that someone advertised it as steampunk through a character wearing a monocle with water vapour rising out of a top hat. I don't want to gaze at a glitch in only name.
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Marlin said:
The thing is 'eventually', glitches are glitches immediately. Eventually steampunk might have had continent sized steambots firing railguns to use on nations, but that would have hopefully been because of a natural flow of events. Pick up resources, build army. Slow build. A glitch's nature, in my opinion, is a immediate effect to be fixed by overwriting it with loading screens. 'Game Over, you won through glitch', should be likely on a glitch theme within the first hour of activating a glitch theme.
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It sounds like you can't or are morally opposed to thinking of glitch-themed abilities or traits weaker or less controlled than invincibility and on-demand deletion. I'm not sure why that would be, but I don't think it's what anyone else meant or thinks of when they hear the word "glitch." I think most people take it to the be computerier equivalent of "mutant"- maybe good, maybe bad, but more strange and disconcerting than ultimate infinite power immediately and without cost.
 

Those are probably going to be combat applications of the glitches, not instant deletion or invincibility which are fucking hacks, not glitches.
 
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