July 6, 2013 With math!

[langerhans]

I may have missed some posts, so maybe someone has mentioned this already, but can we even be sure that GoldMax is from reality 38? Didn't Psimax say when he released FMK that he'll let "reality 38 kill them in the tower room again", and then they met GoldMax and NotWalter/Grinnorarcen in the room with the upside down trees and the healing potion river?

At the moment I'm too lazy to archive dive so I could verify this, so excuse me if I'm shooting my mouth off.

EDIT: well, if masterzzan is correct, that would be awesome, too

Psimax said that he couldn't leave FMK bolted to the wall because then Reality 38 would come in and kill them, which would force him to recalculate forty-four variables.

...Precisely why Goldmax would be travelling backwards through the maze escapes me, since it's a race to the end. I guess he wanted to try and loot the bodies of failures for better equipment.

It's a maze. You don't always know which way is forward .

I agree, in fact, we don't even know that 156 WERE going in the right direction, since they cheated, we do know that they would have made it to the tower room anyway but they might have had to retrace their steps if they hadn't climbed through the oblivion made gap

[masterzzan]

about number 38.

it is actully the best numer they can change it to.

first reason pops to mind is in the comic's 1st page (http://www.goblinscomic.org/06262005/)

from the paladin's guid book-paladin rule #38: " when the minions of evil call dibs on your gear,pray or run".

but the other time this number is mantioned is even better : http://www.goblinscomic.org/07032005/
this is when the goblins sees the :"things-about-people-we-don't-know" paper of minmax (aka his character sheet). which says: "He knows 38 ways to kill a guy using only his thumb..."

dear goblin's writer.. i do hope you are not engry at me for ruining this suprise...

Really good catch. I'm going to assume that you're just a sock account of Tarol's, and he's trolling us by giving us a correct theory for once. The only way to prove that you're not him is to take a photo of yourself holding a photo of Tarol's face in front of your face.

na, im not Tarol. im just a guy who takes his online comics seriusly(and likes to laugh). i watched goblins for a while now. only just now juined your forum, i actully would have stayed out of it if some1 else would have made the #38 connection, but just couldn't let that one pass.it was a sweet turn around the writer had going.
if you read DRAGON-MANOG's forum you'l find me there ocasully.i even left my avatar the same.

[Lumenaught]

Maybe Minmax just needs to get Psymax a girlfriend.
Either he would get laid and want to let the multiverse live or give him a headache and render him powerless...

[masterzzan]

a funny thing comes to mind...
say MinMax's 38 ways of thumb killing is rewriten as the one wickness of PsiMax. he will go all like :"yey me, i killed a level gazilion character. im going to get so much xp ill hit godhood any moment".then one of 2 things will happen.ether one of team kin will end this run and he will forget it all(and loose all xp=expirience). or the kin team will collect all the xp since it was their doing that got the Psimax down. after the rewrite of his wickness. the outstanding flaw of PsiMax against number 38 will mean that the chalange reting of the fight was close to nill. and MinMax will get like 1 xp .maybe.

[Wolfie]

The one question running through my mind is this: If they succeed in killing Psimax and then win the maze, won't Psimax just respawn again to try the whole Oblivion thing again? Shouldn't they put him through an oblivion hole, thus ending his chance of coming back, since he'd never have existed?

Or do the current Oblivion holes negate respawning and a restart of the Maze?

[Kamos]

Well the Kin team are already talking about engineering the maze to help themselves. I'm sure they could rig the maze to doom psimax.

[masterzzan]

The one question running through my mind is this: If they succeed in killing Psimax and then win the maze, won't Psimax just respawn again to try the whole Oblivion thing again? Shouldn't they put him through an oblivion hole, thus ending his chance of coming back, since he'd never have existed?

Or do the current Oblivion holes negate respawning and a restart of the Maze?

the problem with 6 difrent threads talking about the vage same thing is you need to read them all

http://www.goblinsforum.com/viewtopic.p ... =25#p52394

read the last bit...

[Jochi]

The one question running through my mind is this: If they succeed in killing Psimax and then win the maze, won't Psimax just respawn again to try the whole Oblivion thing again? Shouldn't they put him through an oblivion hole, thus ending his chance of coming back, since he'd never have existed?

Or do the current Oblivion holes negate respawning and a restart of the Maze?

We don't know if the oblivion holes permanently break resetting or if resetting will fix the oblivion holes. If the latter, we don't know if resetting will restore everything/everyone that went into an oblivion hole (or give Grinnorarcen back to Goldmax), although I think there are fewer logic flaws if everything is returned. This is the reason people have been suggesting the way to end this is to force PsiMax to win and be barred from the Maze. But, we don't know if winning bars you from running the Maze again.

The Kins may be able to derive the answers from the machine. Or they may be able to control the Maze sufficiently to realize their ambitions, AND render PsiMax incapable of ever winning, at least until they elect to exit, if they ever do. Even if the answers aren't the ones they/we would like for them to be.

That's all in Herbert's (THunt's) hands.

[Unlucky-for-Some]

To be honest, if I had such an active fanbase like this, I'd probably create troll accounts all the time to talk trash about the comic, then I'd respond with posts that were polite at first, then grew increasingly angry until everyone was uncomfortable, and I'd lampshade the whole thing by having a third account that would point out that the whole thing was probably fake.

The goal: amuse myself for twenty minutes. This is why I am not a successful person with fans.

Are you suggesting that you yourself may in fact be a secret puppet account of Thunt?

[DuIstalri]

Are you suggesting that you yourself may in fact be a secret puppet account of Thunt?

He isn't the only one - in fact, I think more of us are then aren't. What, are you a real person!?!

[willpell]

Are you suggesting that you yourself may in fact be a secret puppet account of Thunt?

He isn't the only one - in fact, I think more of us are then aren't. What, are you a real person!?!

This would certainly explain why it takes 5 days to get a comic drawn, if Thunt was busy logging into and out of several dozen socks, having to reread all the relevant subscribed threads so that he doesn't actually blow the gag (by quoting a conversation that his current alt wasn't supposed to have read).

To say nothing of how neglected Danielle would feel.

[Krulle]

I'm pretty sure Danielle joins in the fun with several more accounts too.
Just to make up for being neglected so much, she trolls Thunt on his forums.

And now they've started sucking their sons into the same game.

[Liesmith]

I don't know what's up with all these accusations. I am, and always have been, a flesh human. To claim that I am a vastly superior artificial intelligence is, frankly, a bald-faced statement.

[Kamos]

I'm pretty sure Danielle joins in the fun with several more accounts too.
Just to make up for being neglected so much, she trolls Thunt on his forums.

And now they've started sucking their sons into the same game.

I've seen it before. Like for instance, the supposed country of Finland. Really only 17 men while a large number of forum accounts.

[Krulle]

Well, as long as it foils the people buying advertisements..... ;)

Have you ever heard of the Bielefeld Conspiracy?
That whole city is a pure fake!

[bcas77]

3 hr and 45 minutes until the next comic, and it looks like it'll be up on time again if https://twitter.com/Thunt_Goblins/statu ... 4049089537 is anything to go off off. I'm personally really pumped to see some slaying, flaying, and splishk-failing.

[stevedj]

3 hr and 45 minutes until the next comic, and it looks like it'll be up on time again if https://twitter.com/Thunt_Goblins/statu ... 4049089537 is anything to go off off. I'm personally really pumped to see some slaying, flaying, and splishk-failing.

What? NO! I'm looking forward to the Kins with a Wall of Exposition...er, Wall of Text? ...no, Wall of Equations! ...just like my math teacher used to put on the blackboard for class.

Ok, a battle scene would be nice, too.

[bcas77]

Yes! I'd love a ton of exposition, text, equations, and battle scenes all nice and spread out over a comic that is 10 times as long as normal =D I honestly wouldn't know what to do with myself.

[bcas77]

Also, that was one of the hardest times I've ever had trying to make a post not sound sarcastic. I really do mean what I said in that post haha

[Archerd]

Haha, there's so much to love about this page
Saphire saying "He'd chew him up like a Mouse!"

Is there a joke there which I missed?

Kin's favorite food is live mice.

http://www.goblinscomic.org/05242010/

[Unlucky-for-Some]

Are you suggesting that you yourself may in fact be a secret puppet account of Thunt?

He isn't the only one - in fact, I think more of us are then aren't. What, are you a real person!?!

Well, I thought I was real ... but now I'm suddenly not so sure ...