Sean Murphy

Hey folks, I had a health scar last night and ended up at the doctors office for some tests.  Without giving too much gross info, there was blood in my urine and that seemed like something that needed to be checked out.  I’m still waiting to hear back on the second test and the X-ray (looking for possible kidney stones).  Sorry to flake out on you all but my mind is not wanting to cooperate.  I’ll look to be back next week, but I’ll keep you all informed. *hugs for everyone*

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2039: Begging the Question

http://www.explainxkcd.com/2039

Comic for Wednesday August 29th, 2018 - "Flying blind" [ view ]

On this day in 1997, Lindesfarne and Fenton were discussing online how Vin Vulpen became sterile. Fenton suggested that it was Fiona who did it to him... [ view ]

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New comic!

In one of the early 'Ask the Cast' strips, George said people tasted like pennies. It was brought up to me that I'd either screwed up continuity or George's tastes refined. 

I decided to play with it and do this strip.

It also let me go back and redraw that panel since I wasn't going to include the 2012 panel in today's update since it would look insane. My style has changed so much since then and I'm frankly much more comfortable drawing digitally than I was back then. So it was a good excuse to draw human George again.

That’s right!  It’s a boy/girl swap!  I’m-a doin’ one of THOSE storylines!  In fact, entire other webcomics might be based singularly on this premise.  I think I wanted in on it.  For reasons?  Hm.

….and…. it’s not executed as badly as it could have been…

…I don’t think…

…we’ll see…

Feeling better overall but still sore.  Doing my stretching and exercising, but doing my best not to push things too hard.  Thanks for all the positive comments here and over on Facebook. ^_^

Comic for Tuesday August 28th, 2018 - "Unnatural predator" [ view ]

On this day in 1996, Rudy agreed to meet with Lindesfarne's boss to discuss selling the McRoughage domain name he had aquired... [ view ]

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I sincerely hope the last words I ever hear are “No!  You foo–“

The time is NOW

This is the BEST time to pledge to my Patreon page. Why? Because you’ll get a bunch of rewards without waiting all month for them! You’ll get your monthly reward package on next week instead of waiting for a month!

So, here’s the deal. I’ve been posting, on average, more than one post a day for over two years. That’s more than 1,200 posts, including 600+ NSFW comics, illustrations and bonuses. And you have access to that as soon as you pledge.

BUT…

I send my backers links to entire folders full of the NSFW content — broken down by category — as soon as the payments are processed in the first couple days of each month. One folder has all of the Evil Inc After Dark pages, in order. Another folder has all of the NSFW commissions. Another has all of the Courting Disaster comics, and so forth.

It’s a snazzy reading experience, and it’s a great way to view only the material you’re in the mood for.

If you pledge before the end of the month, however, you’re not going to have to wait long at all to get access to these categorized folders of NSFW goodness! I’ll be distributing those as soon as the payments are processed.

And in those few days in between, you can still access all of the exclusive content by using the content tags to filter only the stuff you want to read right now!

There’s a lot to see —more than 600 NSFW comics, cartoons, illustrations and illustrated stories! And I’m adding new content almost every day!

I’ve been playing Monster Hunter games since Freedom 2, so it’s not like I’d entirely forgotten how we used to play Monster Hunter… but I still experienced a bit of system shock when I fired up MH Generations Ultimate yesterday. Maybe playing so much MH World had softened me up a bit, but suddenly all of the changes it had made to the formula were thrown into stark contrast.

I figure we have a lot of new Monster Hunters this year, thanks to World, and they should probably be forewarned, lest they buy MHGU thinking they’re getting more of World’s gentle touch.

Obviously, it’s not entirely fair to compare the two games, as Generations Ultimate came out nearly two years ago, but it’s also impossible not to draw comparisons given that World came out right before this port.

Personally, I’m finding myself a bit torn between the two approaches. On the one hand, I loved MH World. I recognize a lot of ways in which World streamlined things for the better, little things that I didn’t realize how much I appreciated until they were taken away from me in Generations Ultimate: Lack of zoning. Drinking while moving. Always having a whetstone. Not having to pack pickaxes, etc. Part of me sees the way in which these things smoothed out the whole experience, made it more fluid and comfortable.

The other part of me, however, having now played a bit of MHGU, can’t help but feel that they contribute to making MHWorld feel… too easy.

Maybe that sounds a little snobbish, and maybe that’s partly coming from a place of nostalgia because it’s just how I played Monster Hunter for the past decade (“When I was your age, I hiked to school uphill in the snow, both ways…!”), but I do feel like there’s something about the restrictions of the classic formula that really made you have to strategize and hone your hunting skills in a way that being able to run back to the tent and swap gear, re-food, re-up potions, etc doesn’t do.

There’s also a pretty big contrast between the monster count (thirty-something in World to 90+ in MHGU!) and of course, the big one: G-Rank hunts. It feels to me, at least at the moment, that MHGU is overall a better Monster Hunter game. But if you’ve only played World, you should be aware of what you’re getting into: it’s a less pretty, slightly clunkier, slightly grindier, and less forgiving than MHW. That said, if you’ve conquered all World has to offer, then MHGU is definitely going to provide a better challenge, and lots more of it. And regardless of the bells and whistles (or lack thereof), when you get to the meat of it, the monster hunts, it’s just as exhilerating as anything World has to offer.

And speaking of G-Rank… I’m still curious to see if/how MHWorld will handle G-rank; typically it’s been the domain of a title re-release, but I’m not sure if that will sit well with the scores of Monster Hunter newbies who aren’t used to buying multiple issues of the same game. If they patch them in via downloadable content (which seems likely but also seems like something they’d want to charge for), I think that would be a great opportunity to also include the classic restrictions for maximum challenge. No changing gear during the hunt, you bring what you can carry and that’s it, etc. That would provide a nice ramp-up through World’s easier, hand-holding early game into what myself and many others consider Monster Hunter’s true end-game, G-Rank.

I’m on holiday at the moment, so I dug out this old limerick from 2006. See you next week.