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Caliborn's interlude was him as normal, before he hulked out and became LE. The current strife is long after that interlude fight, and probably on a different timeline. My current guess is John's retcon powers retcon that alternate timeline and prevent LE (or at least his current form), but I'm not sure how that would shake out with doomy dooms and all that stuff.

Or Calliope shuts off the green sun, depowering lots of people. It's been said before that the Sun powers the sessions, but we haven't really seen anything outside LE's modified sessions, so that could be a defense mechanism to keep people from tampering with LE's power supply in the important sessions he needed to exist. I also suspect LE tampered with the game itself to rig it in his favor (as his null session was designed specifically to his strengths and allowed him to win), not counting the sabotage and Doc Scratch stuff.

EDIT: There was also a few panels that explained Dave had to have Caledfwlch in its current from (made with a cueball) to even harm LE. The ghost army may just be wasting their time, or The Weapon might need to be used with Caledfwlch somehow. Getting to the fight might be a problem, though. Davepeta is really strong and even they needed a long flight to get bearings.

I'm not usually one for feels, but let's talk about Dad Crocker for a minute.

Guy's been in prison for months (not being tortured, but still), knowing full well he could easily escape, but that HIC would kill him if he tried. He's watched while his daughter was duped into basically a drug bender. This version also watched his daughter get brainwashed by his jailer, and kill her best friend (this Jane killed the native Roxy), while he was still helpless.

Finally he sees Jane show up with her friends, ready to take on HIC, who is partially empowered by a living god. During the fight, Cans interrupts and threatens the kids' safety, including Jane's. So Dad punches through a brick wall with his bare hands to watch their backs. (Bonus moment of awesome, Dad is so strong that when Cans punches him... nothing happens.) While he's busy, Jane gets badly wounded but he can't interfere.

When the fight's over, he sees the kids flying off together, with his daughter. He doesn't interrupt their victory to say goodbye, just stands aside because the little girl he raised doesn't need him anymore. He's so Dadly, by the way, that he accepts being stranded on Derse to let Jane celebrate.

And then he turns around to see "Jane" offering him her hand. One version of her never forgot him.

Bonus: For Nana, this is the first time she's seen her "son" in three years or longer, since Dad Egbert was brutally murdered by Bec Noir.

The style is because guest artists. The catch-up on the Vriska timeline we're in was also the same because the same person/people contributed to it.

I'm cautiously optimistic that this is an actual victory for now. We're really close to the end and I don't think all this would lead to the characters actually losing everything. Plus there's the soultrap still to come into play somehow.

Unless I've somehow missed it every time, Dirk never got revived by Life powers - depending on which direction in time Dave traveled, there may be shenanigans available. I got nothing for Jane, though.

The more I think about it, I don't think Jane's dead. HIC was holding Roxy up the same way and it was just a choke hold, and as people have mentioned Jane would be an heir and useful later on. There are a few times where she has people on the ropes and could easily just skewer them, but does not. She's not as angry as the one in Game Over.

If it comes to that, though, there's still the Ring of Life, and Calliope hasn't had the one-off Jane rez yet. Transfer ring, rez, rez, move on.

I don't think there's time for much more than that, unless Act 7 really surprises me in amount of content.

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Well. That was confusing. Not sure who's all dead. Waiting on PM to throw that ring in the volcano. I mean, c'mon, its right there. Not sure what's up with the Green Sun/God Tier Callioppe though.

So, looking over the old road map linked a page or two ago, it does look like the stuff made it in, in one form or another.

Did anyone ever come up with concrete stuff that was 100% said "yeah bro this is gonna be there" and never was? I skimmed a few of the old IRC logs and haven't found an outright failure to deliver yet, aside from stuff like "you can paint  your guns".

Note the employee practices are still shit, but I'm just asking about the game right now. The IRC chats are copy/pasted into this forum's old thread, and reddit has that roadmap archive. What, specifically, is AWOL here?

I've mentioned this a few times in the years since, but one of my early posts in the old thread was along the lines of "if they make something kinda like Terraria in space, I'll be satisfied." I enjoyed Terraria for the building moreso than the min-max combat, so I'll probably at least partially enjoy 1.0.

It was obvious from the start given the mysterious falling out Tiy had with Redigit that there was something shady going on with him, and that Tiy couldn't handle working with a team that well. It's a question of managing your expectations and leaving them at a sane level, which for a brand new team with dubious pedigree should be pretty damn low. I do feel bad for the competent people that got roped into the company's PR debacles and had to leave quietly over the years, though.

At this point I also just don't have the fucks to give over $15 I knew was a gamble when I spent them 4 years ago. Life lesson, I guess - people lie sometimes and can be incompetent. They've still handled this much better than Towns ever did, by a country mile.