#638: "I assume you're kidding."
 

Why are there no dignified sound effects in 8-bit Theater?

Because it's funnier (and more uncomfortable for the characters) this way.

Agreed
Also, who here thinks that sound effect had NOTHING to do with the class change at all? ^_^;;

Because if you used sound affects like that 8-Bit would lose part of its soul.

i'm reminded of the 'voit' sound effect used when they confronted the wolves, it too, was greeted with equal fervor from black mage.

edit: my sincerest apologies, it was poit, ridiculed by fighter, not blackmage and was quickly followed by 2 equally unmanly tinks. all this can be found here.

They're gonna look different though right?

No sprite change! I called it! Whodda man? That's right. You know the answer.

Brian, I think you need to either fire your sound effects guy or give him a raise. That should solve it.

They're going to have to buy their new clothes, eh? Or maybe they get burned off because Dragon-on-Old-Lady sex involves bursts of fire?

The class change obviously not finished yet, otherwise what's-his-face would have had to make all those sprites for nothing.

*raises hand*
Judging by the increasing amount of risqué writing Brian has been producing, it seems possible.

Finally, they're movin' on up. And BM is going to get himself a piece of that pie! That warm, delicious pie of evil class changing...

At this point, I can only wonder if Kurosen has a Rockin' King Steve comic planned on Saturday. I mean, King Steve has only days left to invent Christmas Eve and the day after he invents that, he has to invent Christmas.

It feels like the sound effect has much more to do with the things getting socially awkward in the immediate future than it does with any sort of class change...in which case we can only hope that the inuendo remains at least lightly veiled, maybe holding to a PG-13 type rating...which almost leads to another question: would dragon count as beastiality?

:gonk: :D I'm torn

Ah yes, the O'Neill Conundrum.

Well, in this case, the dragon is clearly sentient and sapient. So it's only as wrong as boinking an elf or dwarf.

Damn you Brian! Taunting us, as you know that we know that you know that we know that the status change is important, and we expect to be suprised!

It's like you're that mean uncle who holds out something we want, dangles it in front of us, gives it to us, then takes it all back again! Then you subject us to Old Witch/Dragon porn.

You're the worst uncle ever!

The real class change isn't going to involve being covered in dragon jizzum, is it?

Bahamut: So to thee, ye Enlighten Warriors, now... and now.. now, now, now, oh yes, YES AAAHHHHH!

*splooge*

Black Wizard: (dripping with dragon semen) sigh, I fuggin' knew it.

Knight: that's a mighty big sword you gots there, Bahamut!

Matoya would probably claim that Bahumat acts like a beast during the whole "colliding of worlds" thing. If that proved to be true then yes, it would certainly count. With that said, I best go ahead and stab my mind's eye.

I recognize the "Deezle, drazzle, dazzle, de, time for..." from the show MST3K. The episode was called Cavedwellers. Starring Miles O'Keefe, it was a cheesy sword action flick. Joe and bots riff that while a goofy magician works his magic.

Anyone know where they pulled it from? Or if it was something MST3K made up? Either way, Brian's coolness never ends. MST3K references (even unintended ones) are the bomb.

The Wandering God

I'm all for the theory that "spoing" has absolutely NOTHING to do with the class changing.

matter of fact, they're probably going to have to wait for Bahamut to finish digesting that soup. so he doesn't... you know...

Thing is, they're not gonna get a new set of clothes just for their class changes. So... I dunno. They may have new abilities right now or something...

Or they just got boned by a dragon.

I should imagine that the origins of formulae like that have dissolved into time immemorial, but I can recall one specific instance of it being used quite some time ago.

The television programme in question was called Tooty Turtle, and involved the misadventures of the eponymous anthropomorphised creature and an olive-green bipedal wizard of indeterminate species. Every episode involved the deluded Tooty demanding that the wizard (who enjoyed the title "Professor", for some peculiar reason) conjure up for him a fantasy realm in which he could play out his latest obsession. Invariably, Tooty's otherworldly adventures would lead to him becoming rather catastrophically unstuck, and the Professor-wizard would thus pluck him out back to reality to castigate him on the vices of permitting yourself to be distracted by play, fancy, and fun.

The professor's reclamation spell would be effected by the incantation "Twinkle, Winkle, Blinkle, Ho, Time for this boy to come home." or something very similar.


Anyway, Brian, be sure to keep up the good work!

It wouldn't be for the first time. *Sniff*

That's just wrong. So very, very, *VERY* wrong. Let's just pretend you never said that. Let us never speak of it again.

NEVER!

SWK

At least they weren't boned by a bone dragon. :sweatdrop

Is it me or are Matoya's hands stuck in the "Booyah-zing-look at all the great sex I'm having" gesture where you point your index fingers forward and thumbs up?

This is also the show referenced by Neo when he tells Tank "Mr. Wizard, get me out of here".

/threadjack

//class change, dammit

///no, seriously

No, that's her "default" sprite.

And that "SPOING" is most definately the spoing of a dragon godking's Mr. Happy.

I hope bahamut doesn't get a new sprite for this... That would just be disturbing.

The rhyme is "Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome, time for this one to come home." I changed "Drizzle" due our Drizz'l the character.

Now...guys. Rub them brain cells together. Why would Brian have the class change happen today, when he could have it happen on saturday? Y'know, just in time for Christmas Eve?

I could be wrong. But...Maybe I'm not.

"I'll gladly class-change you saturday, for a filler today~."

Edit: C'mo' Brian. Am I warm?

AAAH!
Everytime I listen to "Matoya's Cave" from the Black Mages "The Skie Above" I always thought of Matoya in 8-bit, especially when they go into that Jazz part in the middle, now I can't listen to it without screaming/

Could this mean our Dark Elf friend could be showing up with his "True Guardian" sometime soon?
I mean, we haven't heard from any of the Dork Warriors in a while....

Also I humbly support a "King Steve's Rocken New Years Killing" special....
If the world truley loved me then every comic would be then proceeded by a "King Steve's corner" short...

Alas, it doesn't and I am made to spend christmas alone.....

*Kroze goes to look at Dragon porn*

I don't get it.


Oh, and, that was DEFINITELY not a good sound.

I pray that WM is nowhere near there right now. She'd have a heart attack.

I assume Brian will go into a side plot with King Steve/elf/dwarf war, just to make us wait in impatient agony over the class change.
On the other hand, by doing so he may be saving us from the horror of finding out what that "SPOING" was.

I hope they do change sprites... it's only right.

Too bad I really like BM's sprite better than BW's. Oh yeah... do they change names too? And what about personalities? Will Thief be a Ninja, and not care about profit?

O'neill is PROBABLY Jack O'neill from SG1, just trying to figure out how he's involved here.

Oh, and I LOVED the sound... if only for all the wonderful things about to occur.

edit:

and all the DISTURBING images that aroure sproinging into your guys heads. Thank goodness I'm just abot immune to stomache problems, on top of currently having the flu (therefore immune to the ill-feeling effects of that sound).

April O'Neil people! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

YESH!!

Think folks...

You win the No Prize.

Sentient and sapient, but a sentient being from an entirely different branch of the evolutionary tree. Dwarfs and Elves are still at least the same species, even if there are strong physical differentiations between the races. Or if not the same species, at least closely related, moreso than man and any nearly related real-world species.

Certainly the philosophical case against bestiality is grounded in the notion that animals, being incapable of self-aware thought, are thereby incapable of consenting to such an act. But that's more an issue of the immorality of bestiality, not whether relations between a human and a non-person which posesses equal (or in Bahamut's case, probably greater) intelligence is to be considered bestiality. The question becomes whether Bahamut / Leonardo* can still properly be considered animals, and, whether the wrong of bestiality is more a matter of laying with 'lesser' beasts or simply any act of inter-species copulation.


*I figured if April was going to go for one of them, it would have been him.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/KUP206A.html

First line of the 10th paragraph

Interesting, but not particularly germane to the subject at hand.

Brian is usually true to his word (update dates excluded), like when he said Black Belt was dead. Judging by that, not only will he make the class change, he'll make it in a way that makes everyone who said otherwise crawl into a corner and cry themselves to sleep.

By the way, this quote should explain my opinion about the Bahamut/Matoya relationship:

Didn't you read the comic? They just changed class. Not that they look any different...

They didn't necesarily change classes. Bahamut just said he was going to change their class, and then there was a sound effect. If you think that that means that they changed classes, then you haven't read enough 8-Bit Theater.

Note, they could have changed classes, but I am sticking on the side of caution and syaing that we don't know whether they have or haven't.

There is a class change, but why am I feeling they would eventually change back later?

"movin on up" could instead of referring to a class change could just as easily refer to a dragon when aroused. GROSS!!!

There was no class change at all...oh wait, there, BM, RM and Fighter had an extra pixel added to each, whilst Theif had his dagger lengthened.

^^If you thought any of the above had a rude conitation in it, you are humiliatingly mistaken. Besides, that's not the way I wanted the word pixel to come out.

Great comic Brian.

I think if there class did change they'd still be the same size just look... upgraded.

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/9218/thing7ox.jpg

something like this for example.

Dude, if that extra pixel's where I think it is I'd take that over some stupid ol' ultimate power of magical destruction any fucking day.

Dude, you're forgetting the point hare!

You could get rid of everybody that isn't a big-busted blond with magical destruction, douche!

And uh, I'm not sure such the critical change of class would happen, and my reasons why after this!

Wrong, sir! Wrong! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera..."Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera..."Memo bis punitor delicatum!" It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!

Much like BB, why can't some people just accept some things? The class change WILL happen.

The Wandering God

In the case of class change, they either haven't read the forums enough or they think Brian lies, and they think this because they can't admit that Brian has never lied, but he is just too clever for us to give us important information. Or it makes them feel special.

With the Black Belt thing, it is because of the thinking Brian lies thing explained above. Or it could be because they think they have some kind of "never-thought-of-theory-why-BB-is-still-alive" when the only reason why they think it was never thought of is because the last person who thought of it had their post deleted for the reason that their idea was already thought of. It's an endless cycle. Also it can fall into the special thing.

That's nice and all, but I mean...

'One pixel', relatively speaking, is like half the length of one of their legs.

I'm just saying.

...I'm feeling a sudden, strange, creepy urge to write erotic Old Witch/Dragon God-King fanfiction. If I had a heart, soul, or any decency left, I would commit seppuku just for having that thought.

I really want to see appearance changes and new abilities. So bad it hurts.

If Brian said he's going to do it, he's going to do it. Given there are times he skates on technicalities, I don't think this is going to be one of them. So just take his word for it. Sit back. And wait for the damn comic. I know I will.

I thought of Jack too. The 2 'L's were what made me think of it.

And then people mention April. *sighzorz*

Brian said they'd change class. I don't think he's ever specified that they'd get new sprites.

Go ahead and prove me wrong.

Just to clear things up:

I know many here probably haven't played the original FF game, but when the characters change class, their sprites change, and it's pretty dramatic.