Mostly my gripe is about the predictability and overuse of idiot-ball level stupidity in these things. There is plenty of potential for conflict without Akane always thinking that Ranma is trying to peek on her when he's been kicked through a wall that happens to be her bedroom or the girl's locker room.
It's the tsundere who keeps the plot going by having the affection she refuses to act on in a reasonable way, and so on. These characters are trapped into defined patterns of behaviour that repeat themselves like the Takahashi tango between Ranma and Akane. Neither of the characters is spending sufficient time or effort to figure out what the other is thinking, really wants, and so on: Permanent idiot-ball level misunderstanding that only goes away when the author decides it will instead of because of character development. That is what bugs me, that everybody is a bunch of self-centered idiots who always leap to the wrong conclusion even when it's totally unreasonable, and that don't understand each other at all like everybody is autistic or something.

The prescription is simple; characters who actually observe, think and change their minds when they learn new things instead of follow a predefined script worked out to make sure Ranma gets a hammer in the face because it's cheaper to keep re-using those animation frames.

It's possible I didn't give Guardian Quest enough of a chance the first time it came around but characters leaping to the wrong conclusions and refusing to give them up seemed to very definitely be something that happened. A lot.

>>361504
Yeah, I just went through the archive and I have to say, I like Overlord a lot better. Let's hope the characters actually react this time around. I suppose that's what this alternate timeline is for.

>>361503
Well, maybe I like having predictable characters in the way you described. Nothings wrong with that. I still found it fun and interesting.

And even so, I personally don't see anything unreasonable in GQ2. I feel everything that has happened so far are things that the characters would do, rather than just forced to do it by Larro.

>>361636
So far yes, the characters in GQ2 are acting relatively sane aside from Artemis harassing Saisai right after he agreed to leave her alone.

>>361649
Yea, but remember how cripplingly bad at social stuff we made him. Waaaayyy back at the beginning? He's trying too hard to be friendly.

>>361650
So you're saying he's indistinguishable from autistic in how clueless he is, and it's our fault?
Excuse me, I need to find a soundproof room to swear in.

>>361656
That is not what autism is.

>>361656
I know several people from my school who are just as bad. They are otherwise intelligent and normal people, but they just don't seem to know when to shut up.

You guys make it seem like he went to her and just started blabbing away about his family or how his day was. He saw Saisai was upset and went to see if he could make it better.
No, it probably wasn't the best move socially but he honestly just wanted to make her feel better. That's why he was asking how she felt about the situation.

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stream doodles

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BLEH

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:<

>>361715
>>361716
>>361717
oh my~

>>/quest/405374
>Shana is sick
I don't think this is a cold or some such. I think she is abusing dark mana.
I have an idea on how to get her to stop. We just have to tell the story (sans mask) of how we lose our mother to dark mana pollution. That she wasn't even using it herself but the toxicity of it in the land got her. That we don't like people who use dark mana irresponsibly, and that she should only use it if it is the only way to save a life.

>>361716
Skittles!

>>361731
It'd probably be more effective if we went along the lines of 'we don't want to lose someone else we care about to Dark Mana' as I suggested back when people wanted her to fight Butler, since that'll play more on her emotions.

>>361742
we tried that, it doesn't work...
"Dark mana users killed my mother" is gonna make her afraid we would hate her if she uses it.

>>361745
I don't recall ever trying it, and we didn't tell her the story of our creator.

>>361731
I like this idea, but I have a better idea than removing the mask. We have a watch that can show us the past. We can show her >>359797 when we're telling her about Emilia.

Okay guys, remember what I said about the sword's eyeball thing being a hedonism or pleasure golem instead of chaos? I think it actually might be right. Because I looked up and say that the chapter's title is actually hedonism and that and went "whoa HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING GOD I DIDN'T SEE THAT TITLE. We are a Hedonism Golem!"

It would also explain why the Overlord isn't partaking in sex or isn't interested in it. The hedonistic golem half that was a part of him is gone, not connected anymore. HIS SWORD IS HIS PENIS

>>361946
>HIS SWORD IS HIS PENIS
Frued would be proud!

I had a crazy theory.

What if Abel's mother is The Tinker?

>>361950
That is rather obvious.
He is our brother, the order golem

>>361969
Abel said his mother is in the Land, she's not Emilia (or is and this one is a replacement).
I meant The Tinker, as in the one we had locked away.
You know, the one that wants to kill us as much as he does.

eeeeh I doubt it
I'd actually figure it's someone we haven't heard of at all. At most a rival of Emilia.

>>361987
>Mother is land
He is being a melodramatic shit.
Also, our mother invented all kinds of previously impossible golems, where did they go? they had to go somewhere.

  Oh, look: It's Abel as a touhou

DANZAI

GuysGuysGuys GUYS!

1.We have the boss screecher make a ton of babies.
2.We kill them and alchemize them for demon wings.
3.ALL OUR TROOPS AND US CAN FLY!!!

>>362168
I don't want to break the system THAT fast.

Well it would probably take a while for the Boss screecher to make enough, but we won't have to worry about anybody falling off the castle and dying like what almost happened to Emily. Also tricky terrain won't be a problem anymore, like with the archer or the false overlord.

>>362193
Terrain is part of what makes encounters more than dps battles. I'd still rather avoid trying to get wings for everyone.

>>362198
Why not?

>>362214

Because then Larro will find new ways to punish us all.

Better the devil you know.

Okay, how about just an extra pair to use for special situations like the throwy gloves? or like to keep our squishies safe?
Or just a pair for Overlord to make us look Badass?

>>362198
Larro doesn't even use terrain in most battles. (grr.) Wings are mainly just a way to keep a unit from getting hit, because of this.

>>364357
I don't feel the need to argue it too much. If you want it, you can suggest it at the next opportunity, and I will counter suggest it, and whichever has more support will happen (maybe). That's how quests work after all.

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Styx in a SWIM SUIT 9000!

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okay here she is in an actual swim suit. NOT CANON

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more swimsuits

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Saisai got wet

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OVERLORD VS ABEL

>>52421
That is a very metagaming perspective and assumes that larro WOULD punish us if we get better and go easy on us if we remain weak intentionally.

Hey larro, is this what you are gonna do? Or should we strive for max powers?

>>55000
there is a difference between trying to beat the system and trying to be stronger.

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>>55000
well like >>55001 said there is a difference between the two. I have no problem with finding easy ways to level up or experimenting with alchemy but doing something like having everyone gain flight would make the battles less fun for both the suggesters and myself. To keep things more interesting I'd almost be forced to make the fights either significantly more challenging or suddenly have it so that more flying enemies appear.

Here's an unrelated doodle of Emily getting her hair fixed by Lilith

>>55000

It's more a matter of, as Larro said, anything that makes things less interesting is something that should be avoided.

Something like universal flight is a game-breaker given the relative rarity of ranged attacks and flight.

Also, that first swimsuit is amazing.

>>54988
The secret might be is that the entire suit is full of water, and technically she's skinny dipping in her own private portable suit-pool.

Because I don't see that as helping her float or move around in water enough to enjoy it, or a pool big enough besides a lake or ocean to take it.

When I first stumbled across How to Be An Overlord, I was listening to Queen.

Since thread one It's been planted in my head that the Overlord sounds like Freddie Mercury.

It is far more hilarious than it has any right being. Also incredibly disturbing in some cases.

>>55013

While I applaud your taste in music, I cannot even begin to fathom how Freddie would sound as an..Lawful Evil at best, Overlord.

It just seems far too silly.

>>55014
>too silly
blasphemy!

>>55013

The Overlord is nowhere near as charismatic as Freddie.

Then again that's true for most Gods as well.