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Rotten Red Rod posted:Oh no, not that guy! Edit: Terrible snipe.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 17:29 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 10:37 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:lol @ tragically killing off the most generic looking of these generic characters Eh shocking thing happens, next page shows oh wait it was a ruse, everything's fine. There is a good chance this is just nothing. Or maybe that robot was secretly a shadow man (like shadow not the court people) or whatever. Maybe all the robots are nobodies like that one time with the fake Kat. Who really cares.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 17:34 |
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It was Paz
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 18:09 |
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This is actually a kind of cool page but the first panel is ruining it for me. I swear to god my brain keeps interpreting that as the classic B^U face
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 18:18 |
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"We have to get out of here!" as if they've had any control over that up to this point. It'd be cool if Annie was jumping from place to place using the "Sunlight passing through the leaves" thing from earlier, finding ways to travel around by exploiting the world's strange relationship with perspective, but I guess that was just a one-off and she's just going to, like, keep walking around.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 18:38 |
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We can't travel here by walking, we need to use associative memories to shift the environment around us and then we move with it! Anyway let's start walking some more.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 19:05 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:lol @ tragically killing off the most generic looking of these generic characters Hey, that guy was holding a case full of robot brains. If he didn't drop it when he did, "Jeanne" would have destroyed them.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 01:04 |
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I just realized that Lana was eaten by Coyote and no psychopomp showed up (so, not a real death, or there is no psychopomp assigned to that jurisdiction because it's brand new, or the numans have no souls). Annie would have noticed, right?
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 01:10 |
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isasphere posted:I just realized that Lana was eaten by Coyote and no psychopomp showed up (so, not a real death, or there is no psychopomp assigned to that jurisdiction because it's brand new, or the numans have no souls). Annie would have noticed, right? does Tom remember this
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JuniperCake posted:Eh shocking thing happens, next page shows oh wait it was a ruse, everything's fine. There is a good chance this is just nothing. Or maybe that robot was secretly a shadow man (like shadow not the court people) or whatever. Maybe all the robots are nobodies like that one time with the fake Kat. Who really cares. even if that robot man is visibly ripped to pieces next page it is still just nothing
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 03:39 |
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I wish I could remember who said it originally, but I once heard a really great piece of advice vis a vis the subject of media references - maybe it was Yahtzee who said it? Something along the lines of, by putting, say, a reference to Portal in your indie video game, you're not just saying "haha remember that fun thing we all enjoyed?". You're directly reminding the person who is consuming your work of a far better piece of media and reminding them of the feelings they had playing it, then sharply contrasting your own, almost certainly deeply inferior, work to that. Basically inviting them to say "drat yeah that was great, so much better than this in every way, so why am I wasting my time here". I keep thinking about that as we go down this sort of trip down memory lane. I'm not like "wow yeah, think of all the great times we had", I'm thinking "drat yeah remember when Gunnerkrigg used to be good? Why does it suck so loving bad now by comparison?". Like you're making the current state of the comic look exponentially worse by invoking its best moments in such a way, lmao.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 05:10 |
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IDK who else might have come up with advice like that but Mystery Science Theater gave us "Never show a good movie in the middle of your crappy movie." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVo0dyjnWYo&t=622s
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 05:20 |
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Tiny Myers posted:I wish I could remember who said it originally, but I once heard a really great piece of advice vis a vis the subject of media references - maybe it was Yahtzee who said it? Something along the lines of, by putting, say, a reference to Portal in your indie video game, you're not just saying "haha remember that fun thing we all enjoyed?". You're directly reminding the person who is consuming your work of a far better piece of media and reminding them of the feelings they had playing it, then sharply contrasting your own, almost certainly deeply inferior, work to that. Basically inviting them to say "drat yeah that was great, so much better than this in every way, so why am I wasting my time here". This makes sense but itoh I don't think I've ever had that reaction to this practice (i.e. never compared the game making a Portal reference to Portal). I'm not even having that reaction now in GC... though someone posting old pages in this thread will make me think about how much better it used to be.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 11:38 |
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I'm just here impatiently tapping my foot, waiting for when we'll see the other characters and why we're hanging with side characters
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 22:40 |
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So I cold-turkey stopped reading around the time Loup first showed up. Not out of any sense of dread or anything, or because I was bored, but because I just had other stuff going on and I just didn't have time for webcomics anymore. So, five years or so passed, and I hadn't even really thought of Gunnerkrigg. Until yesterday, when I saw a picture of Boxbot and throught to myself "I remember really enjoying Gunnerkrigg back in the day. I should check it out and see how it ended." So I picked up from where I left off yesterday and found out uh It hasn't ended. And it's, uh. Well. Huh. Well. I'm back in the thread, I guess.
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# ? Nov 5, 2023 13:04 |
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artichoke posted:All these memories and summaries feels like we're wrapping things up, readers. Not sure how to feel about that yet. Never seen someone's life flash before their eyes so slowly. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Nov 5, 2023 |
# ? Nov 5, 2023 15:35 |
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Desumaytah posted:So I cold-turkey stopped reading around the time Loup first showed up. Not out of any sense of dread or anything, or because I was bored, but because I just had other stuff going on and I just didn't have time for webcomics anymore. So, five years or so passed, and I hadn't even really thought of Gunnerkrigg. Until yesterday, when I saw a picture of Boxbot and throught to myself "I remember really enjoying Gunnerkrigg back in the day. I should check it out and see how it ended." Gunnerkrigg Court: It hasn't ended. And it's, uh. Well.
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# ? Nov 5, 2023 17:06 |
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if this sequence is unwinding the story's greatest hits then i wonder if tony will finally get another appearance
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# ? Nov 5, 2023 17:47 |
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I hope it artistically mirrors Ysengrin's pages and he's this quiet, gentle protector gazing at her from behind his mind cage.
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# ? Nov 5, 2023 18:20 |
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I'm confused that Annie would see someone being attacked and...cover her eyes while curling up into a ball??
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 13:00 |
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That was my first thought, but I assume that she is specifically trying to use the whole memory/impression hopping to summon Kat, since the first time she encountered Jeanne, she curled up into a ball, and then Kat appeared on the anti-grav cycle. Archive link: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=141 The post is different (although with the early art getting refreshed, maybe it won't be?), but the situations are so similar that it would follow the theme of the chapter.
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 14:02 |
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Arbetor posted:That was my first thought, but I assume that she is specifically trying to use the whole memory/impression hopping to summon Kat, since the first time she encountered Jeanne, she curled up into a ball, and then Kat appeared on the anti-grav cycle. That would actually be kind of cool if the next page had Machine God Kat coming to the rescue. This update honestly proved how superfluous the dialog was the last couple of days.
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 14:59 |
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Am I the only one who finds it pretty funny that Jeanne stabbed the guy, is pissed that he didn't drop dead, so just loving knees him in the stomach? Yes I know that's not what actually happened, she stabbed him then moved to one side as his body fell, but admit it, it looks like she's kneeing him in the bottom left panel.
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 15:06 |
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Is it just me or does Jeanne kinda look like Zimmy? Oh God what if everyone is Zimmy
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 15:29 |
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CodfishCartographer posted:Is it just me or does Jeanne kinda look like Zimmy? Hello Zimmy Signed, Zimmy
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 17:53 |
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This is Hell and we are all Zimmy. I'm just imagining that Being John Malkovich scene but being full of Zimmys.
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 18:03 |
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no you fools it's That Guy (eglamore)
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 18:04 |
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Going to be real mad if kat gave the new people one heart each etc. Redundancies you daft idiot.
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# ? Nov 6, 2023 19:05 |
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BRING BACK TONY. I haven't felt alive since Tony left.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 07:14 |
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Riot Bus posted:BRING BACK TONY. This but unironically
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 09:01 |
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Huh, I was curious and checked the comments on that comic. So I'm not the only one who thinks that Jeanne is kneeing the guy in the gut. Good to know I'm not insane (or at least not insane about that).
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 12:58 |
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Note Block posted:This but unironically Bold of you to think I was being ironic. Also yeah I also thought she was kneeing him in the gut.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 06:16 |
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I knew there weren’t going to be real consequences but this is next level nothing mattering.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 10:03 |
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Annie is the only one looking up. There's still a chance he's dead and clueless, and Annie's gonna need to whip out her psychopomp duties. Yes, I WILL still tell myself this, despite the comic failing to live up to so many "maybe there's still a deeper reason behind this" moments. Last Visible Dog fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Nov 8, 2023 |
# ? Nov 8, 2023 10:09 |
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Welp, that's what I get for assuming something interesting and proactive was going to happen. Just the main character cowering in terror, which magically fixes the problem she caused. Can't even tell if that is the same guy that got ghost-stabbed or a different generic robot guy because they all look the same, canonically. It could just be another randomly generated pasty bald guy. Who knows! A new one materializing out of the formless crowd of extras makes just as much sense as anything else.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 13:46 |
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It's all Annie's fault again. Page quote is "Seems very Chapter 9 page 11." I looked at that and don't understand what this means.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 14:04 |
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Bonster posted:It's all Annie's fault again. She teleported them outside Eglamore's office door: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=159 And because I don't learn lessons, I will now speculate as to why: She felt safe with Eglamore, and therefore popped here because it was a safe spot in a scary situation. Now, to me, the freaky colosseum basement you went to once to get a detention slip is not the first place I think of as a secure refuge, but what do I know, I'm not in a meta-conceptual god-forged dreamscape.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 14:22 |
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Bonster posted:It's all Annie's fault again. It's the same hallway. https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=159
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 14:26 |
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I hate this bald robot guy. gently caress you, bald robot guy!
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 14:40 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 10:37 |
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Arbetor posted:She teleported them outside Eglamore's office door: Watch a gigantic, overly-hunky dream Eglamore show up.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 15:19 |