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I'm struggling to even see what the point of this sequence is if no one is in any danger
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I think bald numan is dead for real:Last Visible Dog posted: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. I will hope with you. 
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Nov 8, 2023 16:54
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Waste of bytes. Seriously, what was the point of the pastt few weeks of comics in tterms of, anything? We have annie as the lead and she does nothing with her screentime.
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Nov 8, 2023 17:08
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Bonster posted:Page quote is "Seems very Chapter 9 page 11." A second Annie has hit the comic
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Nov 8, 2023 17:20
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I genuinely cheered "It's Annie's fault!" reading this page. really playing the hits, like everything being Annie's fault for being too emotional, or too cold, or too clingy, or too independent
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Nov 8, 2023 23:00
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Last Visible Dog posted: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. I want to believe
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Nov 9, 2023 00:03
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kinda makes these characters look generic and disposable when you have a bald guy standing over the body of a bald guy
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Nov 9, 2023 00:27
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rudecyrus posted:kinda makes these characters look generic and disposable when you have a bald guy standing over the body of a bald guy I read it as the bald guy came back, and wasn't actually harmed.
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Nov 9, 2023 00:52
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If he’s dead then. I mean, we don’t know his name? How is bald guy meant to have any impact when he’s been wallpaper for a chapter
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Nov 9, 2023 01:05
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If this is going in the direction that he is the first "new person" soul Annie will escort to the afterlife, then, maybe it's on purpose that he is just the most random unimportant guy ever? Still boring to watch, but it might be Tom trying to make a point or something.
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Nov 9, 2023 01:31
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I think it's more "something weird is going on" since dead guy is right there talking to the rest despite his body lying there
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Nov 9, 2023 02:12
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Page doesn't need Annie's second sentence. Hoping for a shred of explanation on Friday.
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Nov 9, 2023 02:14
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Azran posted:I think it's more "something weird is going on" since dead guy is right there talking to the rest despite his body lying there Could be his soul, or whatever is normally escorted to the afterlife to join the ether.
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Nov 9, 2023 02:59
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tbf the bald guy has been in nearly every group-shot so far, the group we've been following has been pretty consistant
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Nov 9, 2023 03:04
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CodfishCartographer posted:I read it as the bald guy came back, and wasn't actually harmed. oh my god it really might be that that would be hilarious for how poorly conveyed my actions are this would be
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Nov 9, 2023 03:16
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I didn't actually notice the bald guy coming back to gawk at his own dead body... That's actually extremely funny to me.
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Nov 10, 2023 00:38
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Can I say again how weird it is that these events are unfolding with a group of blank canvases rather than any of the comic's actual characters? What ever happened to Smitty? Miss that dude's eyebrows.
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Nov 10, 2023 10:16
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Oh no, not the bald guy. He was so… bald.
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Nov 10, 2023 11:10
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Skippy McPants posted:Can I say again how weird it is that these events are unfolding with a group of blank canvases rather than any of the comic's actual characters? coolusername posted:Oh no, not the bald guy. He was so… bald. Imagine if this was someone we actually gave a poo poo about and we thought they'd actually fuckin died.
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Nov 10, 2023 11:15
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Last Visible Dog posted: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. Looks like you were correct!
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Nov 10, 2023 11:30
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So Annie is this guy's psychopomp but I guess Lana's soul can just go rot or something huh
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Nov 10, 2023 14:41
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Rotten Red Rod posted:So Annie is this guy's psychopomp but I guess Lana's soul can just go rot or something huh I think it's more "being digested" than "rotting"
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Nov 10, 2023 14:49
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Seriously though why isn't someone like Lana the first time so that we can feel some kind of something about it? I don't care about what is happening. I don't care even a little. Maybe I get a light chuckle about how Annie's sudden pointless new confidence is being suddenly undermined by everything being her fault again but even that feels tame. There used to be heart and teeth to this comic and now it can't even properly be needlessly cruel to the protagonist.
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Nov 10, 2023 15:19
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I mean the answer is probably "Lana isn't dead yet" but I guess we'll see
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Nov 10, 2023 15:23
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We never saw a corpse, so yeah probably just not for-realsies dead,
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Nov 10, 2023 15:30
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Why did kat make him so easy to kill. Genuine question, you're building a new kind of person from scratch why include single points of failure?
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Nov 10, 2023 15:42
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Oh no she stabbed me in my tertiary backup heart! And I think she nicked one of my self-sealing lung clusters!
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Nov 10, 2023 15:43
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Splicer posted:Why did kat make him so easy to kill. i mean one of the express design decisions for the neo-humans was to mimic human weaknesses like pain and vulnerability to encourage growth and development of their bodies and minds. fragility isn't a bug, it's a feature
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Nov 10, 2023 15:54
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It honestly just makes the prior scenes where everything was treated as not nearly as dangerous as it should've been even more absurd. The stakes and pacing are all over the place. Hehe yay the forest elves are having a gay old time, good thing Ysengrin will protect them, all is right here! I sure hope none of them ever think about anything bad because even the memory of a ghost lady who isn't here anymore can transport you elsewhere and kill you extremely dead in seconds. Forest people definitely wouldn't have any stories and myths about the Annan Waters or the spirit who has been trapped there hundreds of years. On a less negative note, this is probably what finally triggers Kat's machine god apotheosis, as a robot who fully believes in her godhood (and is the product of it) gets sucked into the ether.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:01
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:i mean one of the express design decisions for the neo-humans was to mimic human weaknesses like pain and vulnerability to encourage growth and development of their bodies and minds. fragility isn't a bug, it's a feature That's so boring. I prefer the robot bodies in O Human Star, because if I'm gonna have a synthetic human body I might as well be able to fly.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:03
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:i mean one of the express design decisions for the neo-humans was to mimic human weaknesses like pain and vulnerability to encourage growth and development of their bodies and minds. fragility isn't a bug, it's a feature  pretty sure the body designer screen didn't gave toggles for coeliac disease or peanut allergies. Or a big checklist of what cancers you'd like to be susceptible to.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:07
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So we've got your nose section, this bit is hair colour, oh and of course here's the dementia slider
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Nov 10, 2023 16:08
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Splicer posted:pretty sure the body designer screen didn't gave toggles for coeliac disease or peanut allergies. Or a big checklist of what cancers you'd like to be susceptible to. Splicer posted:So we've got your nose section, this bit is hair colour, oh and of course here's the dementia slider 
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Nov 10, 2023 16:35
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Splicer posted:You can have pain and vulnerability without being dumb about it This whole chapter is dumb with the tone wildly swinging all over the place for no reason. But the robots wanted to be regular people. So can't really fault them for being mortal? The hilarious thing here though is if this actually was a person (not a nobody) and they are dead now, it's all Annie's fault, again. Good job Annie. Time for some more trauma that will never be acknowledged by anyone else in the comic. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Tiny Myers posted:It honestly just makes the prior scenes where everything was treated as not nearly as dangerous as it should've been even more absurd. The stakes and pacing are all over the place. Hehe yay the forest elves are having a gay old time, good thing Ysengrin will protect them, all is right here! I sure hope none of them ever think about anything bad because even the memory of a ghost lady who isn't here anymore can transport you elsewhere and kill you extremely dead in seconds. Forest people definitely wouldn't have any stories and myths about the Annan Waters or the spirit who has been trapped there hundreds of years. It would have worked better if Annie had been re-enacting memories herself, over-confident the whole chapter because she'd already been to Zimmingham and thought her ether powers could keep her safe. Have her fight the moss ogre herself and Ysengrin look approvingly in the forest. Then after robot shoves her off the cliff have her go "it's okay, this one was scary, but Kat rescued me and no one even died" and then Jeanne doesn't go after her, she goes after random bald one. Then it can be "ha ha, your hubris doomed people around you once again dummy", which is irritating but at least it's something! edit: Consistency! The comic has lacked consistency for dozens of chapters now.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:52
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Skippy McPants posted:Can I say again how weird it is that these events are unfolding with a group of blank canvases rather than any of the comic's actual characters? While I'm glad something is happening, yeah. This feels very low stakes and like it's time to check off the Annie psychopomp box, but without the seriousness of say, taking Mort into the ether
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Nov 10, 2023 17:20
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JuniperCake posted:This whole chapter is dumb with the tone wildly swinging all over the place for no reason. But the robots wanted to be regular people. So can't really fault them for being mortal? I've never understood why every single robot desired the exact same thing. Wouldn't some of them want to remain robots? Or transition to something other than human, like animals or a mythological creature? Or pick the weird character creation options? I mean, clearly they have differing personalities and ideas, or else all of them would have picked the exact same body. I mean, I get that many of them didn't get a choice due to the barrier thing, but you'd think some of them would be like "hey I didn't really want this" aside from the barber in one throwaway gag.
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Nov 10, 2023 18:06
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I've never understood why every single robot desired the exact same thing. Wouldn't some of them want to remain robots? Or transition to something other than human, like animals or a mythological creature? Or pick the weird character creation options? I mean, clearly they have differing personalities and ideas, or else all of them would have picked the exact same body. Didn't almost all of the robots just choose a Random Body/Face option? I feel like that was something the angel robot avatar thing said.
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Nov 10, 2023 18:56
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Arbetor posted:Didn't almost all of the robots just choose a Random Body/Face option? I feel like that was something the angel robot avatar thing said. Yeah that's the in comic reasoning. The robot who was picking their body out said they wanted to go with random because humans don't choose how they are born and they wanted to be the same. And Robot responds by saying that most robots made the same choice (presumably for similiar reasons). Some variation of that anyways. But even then there's a lot of variety in real life bodies, and the robots as a whole definitely were fairly unique and varied prior to this. So it does feel like they've been flattened and made more generic as a whole. They were less interchangeable when they were robots, which is an odd choice storywise.
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Arbetor posted:Didn't almost all of the robots just choose a Random Body/Face option? I feel like that was something the angel robot avatar thing said. Keyword "almost". If there's enough of them differing there you'd think there'd at least be some who, well, don't want to be human.
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