Quote Originally Posted by DataNinja View Post
Yeah, uh, holy cow. "People would be upset about this violation of their consent, so I'm violating their consent more to make them fine with it" is like the worst possible answer to all of this. It was bad before, but somehow this is even worse than I expected.
Yea, as it was before this page it was presented as just a shenanigans aura that gave people a nudge to do something stupid the same way a low cut shirt or a well placed 6 pack might. Why Dave decided to undercut it just makes no sense whatsoever.

Quote Originally Posted by AvatarVecna View Post
This is part of the issue for me. It's been about a dozen comics about this particular part of things - not since Parfait was summoned, but since she lost control. A month and a half spent on...whatever you wish to call this. And there's a couple options for that. The first is that Dave has spent a month and a half lovingly, carefully, slowly putting Chekhov's Gun on the wall, and all of the people complaining about this as a huge security issue are right...or it's still just a slice-of-life aside, and he really just wanted to have an excuse to smash all his action figure's genitals together, and the only reason it's dragged on this long is cuz he feels he has to explain and explain and explain why no actually it's not that bad you're all just prudes for thinking a lust aura is a problem and this is exactly why Earth in-universe isn't respected in the intergalactic community. It's just like the Month Of Deus' **** where Dave handled the narrative concept of a "sleeping with everybody checklist" even worse than a porn comic by having nothing to say other than "and that's pretty cool isn't it".
At least with the Deus stuff it kind of fits to set up the idea of Deus as someone who has achieved everything and anything and now has to push to fulfill his all consuming greed by seeking wild new experiences that money alone could never buy. Or I'm projecting a more interesting character arc onto him and seeing a better comic where there isn't one. I try to give authors a lot of latitude and trust they will go somewhere with something but GrrlPower just maxed out it's credit line and retroactively I think Dave just is never going to do anything interesting with these setups.