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Charisma! An undervalued attribute in RPGs, usually, but one I always like to pump up. The same way I need lockpicking skill to make sure i don't leave a single door unopened, I need a high charisma so I can ferret out every single dialogue option when chatting up a sexy NPC. That video game charm comes at a cost, though, and my fighting skills usually suffer. This generally makes talking my way out of a problem the only available solution and sometimes that can be problematic...

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Overwatch; whether you're waiting around with a hair-trigger to fight off genestealers or engaged in a team-based brawl of unique and disparate characters, it's makes for good fun. I've been digging the game, though I can still only play maybe 4 out of the over 20 characters. Mcree is my main and is basically a cowboy. Hanzo is some sort of samurai-bow-dude and if people are good with him, he can be a giant pain in the butt. Some folks online complain bitterly about how good Hanzo is, so after getting pwned by one for a while, I thought I'd give him a shot. And that brings us to today's comic...

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Morning, y'all! Doom was always one of my favorite computer games; the claustrophobic corridors, the hint of a hellish ecology and of the course the wonderful weapons with which you could endanger it's denizens just really spoke to me. One of the best parts was how it set up an atmosphere of dread and made the player feel constantly vulnerable. No matter where you were, at any moment a hidden door/wall/ceiling could open up and spew out handfuls of hateful hellbeasts desperate to make your acquaintance. If you saw extra health or armor or a new gun just sitting around somewhere, you could be sure as soon as you touched it you'd end up knee-deep in the dead. I always wondered about the demons just waiting around for some poor bastard to walk by, so let's take a closer look...

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Annnnnd back to comics! I'm sorry to say Twisted Tropes is going on hiatus while Tv Tropes (www.tvtropes.org) makes some necessary updates to their comics section. It's been an absolute blast (I love them all, I go through them and chuckle and pat myself on the back sometimes. I know, I'm an egocentric monster.) and hopefully we'll get back to it soon. However, I'm EXTREMELY happy to say I'm going to be doing a new comic for the awesome folks at GameRaven (www.gameraven.com) called, appropriately enough, "Video Games Are Fun!".  I've always wanted to do a video game based comic and I can't tell you how excited I am to be finally drawing one. We're still working on building a page for them, but this first one is sorta timely, so here's a sneak peak. These'll be coming out twice a month and will all deal with video games in one way or another, even if the connection is a bit... tenuous. Check it out, hope ya dig it!