#five rings

Ring 2. Premiered at last year’s SB. Most consistent. Prominently displayed in the joint video. Worn to her shower.

Maybe ring 3. Worn to op/eration smile. Admittedly the one I could be wrong on as possibly it’s the angle.

The ring jacket to make 2 look larger

Ring 4. Exclusively seen in Monte Carlo. Someone had extreme envy of L’s ring. Clearly this is longer.

Ring 5. Premiered one year after the encage at the GGs. The designer himself said it’s the encagement ring. Much bigger and flashier.

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I have a long history of doing things like horseback riding, camping, backpacking, running, and rafting. I have spent a LOT of time outdoors. When i was younger, I did so for months at a time. I moved out of the house and into a tent when I was seventeen. So there’s my resume in terms of judging what’s reasonable in terms of activity levels.

How far CAN you walk in a day? It depends on so many things. How much are you carrying? How used to it are you? How good is the road? What else do you have to do today? How tall is your shortest companion? How often does it rain? How long have you been doing this? Is the world dangerous such that you’ll have to set watches and will need more downtime to get everyone rested enough?

In the tabletop game Five Rings, they estimated that your party could travel ten miles a day. I disagreed with that, given that there was a good road over much of the map, and if you’re traveling with a small company, you can eat more road because there’s less to manage. My very tall friend who had done several years in the military argued in favor of thirty miles a day, fifty if you had to, and I wouldn’t go THAT far. Maybe he can. I sure can’t. Anyway in that circumstance, I argued twenty, if the world was at peace and you didn’t have to hunt for your food. Certainly not more than that if you have to do it all again tomorrow.

I think most Dragon Age travel time estimations err in the other direction. 25 miles a day, walking? Just talking Origins, you have a large group of people of varying fitness levels and you probably have at least one dwarf. You have to carry everything you need to live including canvas tents and that giant cookpot. You have to carry or wear armor and weapons. Every bit of scenery is covered in hills. The world is dangerous so you have to scout around. There’s a good road but you’re wanted so you probably can’t use it. You have to be ready to fight at all times so you can’t exhaust yourself walking TO the fight. The farmers have fled, the land is blighted, some of the animals are, so buying or hunting food will be a constant problem. And its muddy. Given all that? I’d say fifteen on your best day. Eight up the mountains.

Argument: Bodahn is carrying your gear. Fine, but covered wagons keep up a pace of 2 miles an hour and can’t manage all of the terrain.

I think this is longest setup we’ve ever done for a really stupid gag. How stupid? Well, you’ll see.

Additional commentary for Saw This Coming… follows:

Yes, Shadow has her own little hobby that she indulges in on weekends where she constructs various death machines. Thankfully she tends to get distacted with all the Legos and just end up building different kinds of airplanes. But then she just hucks them off of rooftops at people and Instagrams the impacts with audio overlays of the Wilhelm Scream. She needs therapy is what I’m saying.

Additional commentary for Rude (but Sexy) Awakenings follows:

Pretty sure this was supposed to be a Spider-Man reference. Which was about 5 years out of date at this point. Gawd we we’re so lame Why did people like us again?

Additional commentary for Evil Never Looked This Sexy follows:

Fun note about backgrounds. I never knew what the hell I was doing. Half of the work making new comics was actually going through old comics to find backgrounds I wanted to use, because a) I wanted things to look consistent and b) the majority of the Sonic Advance backgrounds I used came from playing ROMs on an emulator and screenshotting what I wanted to use, then cropping the image and tossing the original screenshot in the trash. So in panel three just to get the bit that I needed to fill out the dream bubble I had to play through the ROM again and try to find the part of the stage I capped to cap it again and add it. Ugh...

THATS MY QB

Yep, still wasn’t overly enamored with Scourge at this point. I don’t think I really was until we started putting him in our comics more. Though I pretty much tweaked his personality to “carbon copy of Sonic who just happens to like stealing.” Because our Sonic was already pretty damn evil, I guess. :p