okay we've already had some metagaming and kazuibashing for superstition but i think in trial three for MILGRAM we need to take it to the next level. I propose a non-exhaustive list of reasons to vote a character guilty or innocent:
how good their song sounds to you personally
intense rivalry with another milgram voter wherein your vote isn't related to the character but to cancelling out every single vote this motherfucker makes like zero pairs
mass vote-fixing to see what the biggest inno or guilty sweep we can get is
projecting the characters onto the friends that make you sad and guilty voting them in the efforts of some maleficent effect on their psyche by proxy
throwing a dart at a board
flipping a coin every day to determine your vote for that day only, repeat again the next day
whatever would piss the character off most
vote them inno if they'd look prettier with the inno green eyes on the post-vote picture and guilty if the red suits them better (aesthetics only babey!)
give the app to an ipad toddler and make them vote. doesn't matter which one
ask an old person in your community whether the character is inno or guilty after giving no context on them. repeat with a different old person every day
correlate your vote with a certain stock and when the stock price goes up, vote inno, and when the stock price goes down, vote guilty
close your eyes and spam clicks
vote inno and guilty on alternate days for an even number of days so none of your votes don't cancel each other out
use the vote like a mood tracker. good days gets an inno and bad days gets a guilty, and the character better pray you're not depressed that month
and finally, swear fealty to some nonsense headcanon a twitter user made up about them and vote with primarily that in mind
was just gonna sketch one or two funny lil creatures from SLARPG as a warmup before starting some work last night, but then they ended up not being sketches anymore and also whoops i filled the canvas with 9 of them (plus Allison and Melody)!
you know me, i cannot resist drawing funny lil creatures...
Yuu: Don't worry, Rollo. I mean, none of the NRC boys got punished, so...
Rollo:... What?
Yuu: Oh, yeah, Riddle over there? Was a tyrant, got pissed when someone went against him, overbloted and tried to kill everyone.
Riddle: Wait–
Yuu: Ruggie helped his Housewarden with a plan that could've potentially harmed a lot of people, only for said Housewarden to get pissed when the plan failed, overblot and try to kill everyone, starting with Ruggie himself.
Ruggie: At least he paid indemnity...
Yuu: Our boy Azul? Tried to enslave people for free labor, got pissed when his plans for destroyed, overbloted, stole everyone's magic and tried to kill everyone.
Azul: Prefect, please refrain–
Yuu: Jamil did a whole show: he brainwashed his Housewarden into being an asshole to get people to kick him out, once that failed, he overbloted and brainwashed his entire dorm to serve him and then tried to kill us when we tried stopping him.
Jamil: Hey, there's no need to bring that up–!
Yuu: Vil, Rook and Epel's Housewarden, got very envious of this person who was considered prettier. After he failed at killing his rival with poison, he overbloted and tried to kill everyone with poison.
Rook: Truly an grandiose spectacle!
Yuu: Idia was the worst, I think, he and his brother overbloted, then tried to free monsters to destroy the world so they could build a new one where they'd fit in.
what people assume i'm thinking while i'm working on rekindled: "GRRR I HATE LO AND RACHEL!!! I HATE HER SO MUCH!!! THIS WILL SHOW HER AND HER FANS! THIS WILL SHOW ALL OF THEM! I HOPE RACHEL SEES THIS AND CRIES!!!"
what i'm actually thinking while i work on rekindled: "man i'm having a great time working on this but i can't wait to be done with this panel that's driving me nuts. i wonder how i can get that cool splatter effect rachel did in S1. bright colors make brain go brrrr. i can't wait to get to the part where hades clowns on himself. oof i'm hungry, i need to figure out what to have for dinner tonight. oh look, an 11 hour retrospective on the simpsons-"
Here's an animatic-to-final of some boards from Dr. Smart Science! To say this one put hair on my chest as an artist is QUITE the understatement. I could not be more proud of our crew and how this one came out. How cool is it that we get to make cartoons as crazy and just plain fun!! I don't take it for granted one bit.
this is the pizza antichrist post i threatened to make. Incoherent ramblings and pseudo-christian imagery under the cut
so pizza, the food, the round delicious thingy, is obviously pretty important to the Pizza Tower lore. Peppino makes it, Gustavo probably does too, almost all enemies are themed after it, etc. There has to be a reason for it, right? (ignore the fact that the reason is most likely a joke please)
so let's focus on two entities in particular: the priest (also the exorcist) and the pizzard
the priest can remove status effects from you, one of which is um DEATH?? dude can straight up resurrect you. Where does he get the power for his miracles? Well, if you look at his hat (and ignore the crosses they sometimes pull out as generic iconography), you can see a red pizza symbol. So what if, right, WHAT IF the main religion of this world is pizza based?
listen. Why else would there be sentient toppins running around. Not only are they deemed to be dangerous/important enough by the inhabitants of the Tower to get put into cages, but they also have an inherent monetary value. That or they all carry $10 on them idk. But i really think they're integral to the divine art of pizza making somehow
Following from this, What if pizza making is less of a trade and more of a holy ritual that allows you to harness the godly powers of this dish? And what if - hear me out - Peppino himself is a rogue pizza priest who's cast away his robes in favour of serving the common folk. Kind of like a renegade paladin
was this just an excuse to draw peppino as a priest? maybe
ok back to pizzards. These buggers are described as practicing "pizzamancy". Don't think we need to wonder too hard where this arcane art draws its powers from. But here's the thing - while priests are generally helpful to the player/Peppino and seem to be working against the Tower and its occupants, pizzards are your enemies. There are two warring sides to this divine power. And if the pizza priests can be assumed to ask the pizza god for miracles and be under the jurisdiction of the pizza pope, why would the same godly entity help pizzards? Well, what if there's also a pizza satan. No not the one with the super hot pizza. Altho wait. Maybe? idk. Let me sleep on it.
POINT IS. whoever they are, the devil is probably off in hell somewhere, but someone else might be on earth in their stead. Someone immensely and seemingly nonsensically powerful. So pizzards serve Pizzahead - he even rents one to Noise as a minion in the comics - and they appear to be coded as this world's equivalents of satanic cultists. Pizzahead has access to vast reality bending powers for no apparent reason but is still firmly rooted in this world. Conclusion? Pizzahead is the pizza antichrist