Mythology of Pop Culture = the correlation between Greek Myth and Star Wars, etc. A lot of the same story telling methods and devices are used in both, and there's some interesting parallels between various myths and modern films, etc.

Hey there, I'm Kako! I've been reading LFG on and off since the start of the year or so, but I've only really gotten into it within the past month. I'm an art student in Sonoma County, CA. While I love LFG's story, I have to say I mostly stay for Richard. I'm practically infatuated with him, and take great joy in dancing around my house listening to Slaughter your World. XD

Another obsessed Richard-lover?
Holy scrapmetals.......

Well, I wouldn't say obsessed. But he's definitely my favorite character. It's not like I write creepy self-insertion fanfics or something. XD

No.....its like ILR, RFTW, IWR, and RR. and now you. seriously. they don't do self-insertion(ILR might.....Might....) but i bet they dance on slaughter the world too.

Well, it's a good song for dancing to. I'm a little afraid to ask, but every acronym you mentioned has at least one r in it... do all of those names have richard in them? o.o

Not-ironically, yes they do.

Welcome to the forums. You and your creepy avatar that will haunt my headache-ridden dreams.

Either that is an honor or I am very sorry, I'm not sure which.

Hello new people! Kako, that avatar is awesome. I don't really know why, but it is.

New people, just jump in. If you hang about waiting for us to make sense, you'll never get anything done.


You probably share some dreamspace with some of the ideas I've left lying about out here. Of course, I never figure into nightmares. Too incorrigible.

Nightmares are meant to be experienced. They're part of a specific learning process...one which usually ends in tears. But then, how better to remember a lesson?

Well, that's a nice, cheery thought.

Dark, WTF is that avatar? I keep thinking I recognize that character from somewhere.

I can think of some ways, but I'd need two stoats, a sack full of grain and a cheese grater.

I can get you the cheese grater, but I'm fresh out of grain and stoats. Can you improvise? Because now I'm quite curious!

You shouldn't. I'd really recommend staying staying away from Verby's demonstrations and experiments. They can get kinda... well... >.> <.<

Actually, peek in as much as you want. It's the only way you'll learn.

But whatever you do avoid the gingerbread house.

I would have thought the concerns were about the nature of the education.


Yes, good move. The ole reverse psychology. Ban them from the creepy castle (it's a castle now) up on the hill so they will go there!

Nature of education? I just thought it was one of those "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" things. If he gets traumatized and a whole bunch of mental scarring I can't describe from watching your experiments, I don't think he'd do it again. Lesson learned.

When did you get the gingerbread renovations? I assume you've made those candy cane flying buttresses I've been talking about?

I don't know if I should respond. I'm cautious about my ability to refer to buttresses.

...the nice thing about that is all the things the mind conjures. Of course, by nice I mean abject screaming terror.

Somehow, I get the feeling that Verby is LFG's unofficial mascot, which everyone encounters at one point or another, is profoundly disturbed, and yet intrigued.

Le Masque des Ronces.
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I live in Paris, France, a large yet boring city filled with arrogant pseudo-intellectuals and pigeons, the latter being the nicer, although I dislike birds.
I happen to study french litterature. It's an activity which consists mainly in reading abstruse books written by obscure novellists, and speaking about psychology in big fake german accents.
I have to admit I'm not much a fantasy gamer, but enjoy reading fantasy novels and that's what got me into reading LFG.
And I have no idea of how I'm gonna end this soliloquy.

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FOR PONY !

bonjour, est bienvenue! tu parle francais bien?

Etant donné que c'est ma langue maternelle, oui, on peut dire que je parle bien français. (:

"My-mother-tongue-is-french" is actually my only excuse for the outrageous number of mistakes I make when I try to speak english.

And what better way to accomplish this than to hover in the welcoming committee?


Tell me you impersonate Freud.

That would be delightful.


It begs the question of what your mother's tongue is doing in your mouth, though.

I had forseen that using "mother tongue" instead of "first language" would incite incite in young minds the idea of some horrible play-on-word.
Nice pun, anyway.

With me around, you don't need to worry. I can make some sort of dirty joke about nigh anything.

And I wouldn't say my mind is young. You don't get this depth of desecration in something young.

you like his puns? lucky you. They're the only way he talks.


only general discussions mascot.

Indeed, I didn't expect someone whose pen name evokes the fact of vomiting when used in french slang to have a such propensity for sarcasm, but I appreciate black humour more than anyone else.

verbose is slang for vomiting in french? cooool

Well, not exactly, but the crudest synonyms for 'vomir' look too much like 'Verbose' for it to be a coincidence.
This has to be a cruel joke of destiny!

That's not true.

I do a lot of innuendo work.


I'm never sarcastic!

I'm ironic.

Sarcasm is only a more aggressive form of irony, in my opinion. There's no conceptual difference.

Of course there is. Sarcasm comes from an Ancient Greek word meaning "to bite", which is why "biting sarcasm" is a common phrasing.

It is sarcasm when the words you use are an attempt to "bite" or hurt the listener.

Irony, name taken from the deceptive character Eiron, is merely the use of words to express something other than their literal intention.

Honestly, I do not see how what you have just said contradicts my statement: when you are sarcastic, you merely use ironic devices in order to hurt the interlocutor. There is no conceptual difference.

There is indeed, for you can be either without the other.

If I call you an "objectionable person whom I hate with great intensity" I might be speaking sarcastically. If I was, I'd be bad at it but still. Sarcastic. Attempting to hurt you. Nowhere in that sentence was irony used.

To further support my case, if I were to say, "Being thrown through a window is a shattering experience." There is irony in the form of a pun. No attempt to hurt you was made (although it could have been, if I thought a bad pun would hurt) and so I have applied irony without sarcasm.

The clause "there is no conceptual difference" merely means that it works basically the same way: sarcasm is nothing but a type of verbal irony intended to insult or wound. If you don't "state the opposite of the intended meaning" (as Webster puts it), then you are not sarcastic.

The word "conceptual" is not just here in order to show how odiously pompous I can be. If I had wanted to assert that there were no difference between the two, I would not have used this verbose word just for the fun of it. Oh my, I have made an unintentional pun.

Sarcasm can mean what Webster has said. When it does, Sarcasm is irony. Irony is not sarcasm.

You use irony to be sarcastic. Irony is greater, older, more dignified and more irreverant.

Irony is the body and sarcasm is the amputated limb.

Irony is not always sarcasm, that's true. Yet, a violent remark that is not ironic is not a sarcasm.

This is the most fascinating thread ever.

No, really. Continue!

It depends on how strict your definitions are.

The definition of sarcasm has been changed in recent decades due to people mistaking it for irony. Sarcasm is supposed to mean any attempt to hurt with words.

And besides, most often now when people say, "Don't be sarcastic" they refer to a particular tone of voice rather than a style of speech.

My name is Gabe, and I've been playing WoW for about three years now. I found LFG while cruising WoWhead, and have loved it ever since. I suppose I'm more of a casual gamer because I've never really gotten a character past fifty; I keep trying out new ones. But right now I'm going to focus on Scathus (Daggerspine) and try and get him to 70. I'll also be rooting for LFG to become the next big comic, since it is so awesome.

Hail and well met, Ninja. Casual gamers, UNITE!!!1

Procratinators UNITE... tomorrow
Bad spellers UNTIE!

heh... Someone at the summercamp I went to had a shirt that said that.(procrastinators)

Hello.
My name is...erm...okay, so I'm not into telling my real name over the internet, big deal.
I found this site via a topic on another site called Gaia. I'm in a guild that focoouses on webcomics there, and this was one of the recomended webcomics and well... I can't really say 'no' to webcomics. ^^;;;
My hobbies include plotting to take over the co....erm, I mean, planning stuff, playing video games, reading webcomics and acting stupid with my friends.
When I see them.
I'm not a big TV watcher, and...well... That's it.

*poke poke* Is this thing on?
Okay.

I'm known mainly as Meitantei Kudo KID on the internet world
I found this webcomic via googling after interacting with a character (Richard) on a LJ RP
I'm an anime freak, I love RPG video games (Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy being favorites), comics/cartoons, books, and other things
I'm an art student so I might post fanart when I feel industrious.

I'm also insane. But then, aren't we all?

welcome to da foroooms!! and i'm insane too!

Err......yeah. Everything here is insane. EVERYTHING

welcome all...

And i dont think Ghis or Kayhynn or Jaezelle are insane......

Welcome indeed...

and I beg to differ