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Gunnerkrigg Court: Suddenly I am wearing a party hat
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Oct 22, 2010 08:42
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Jones owns.
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Oct 22, 2010 09:51
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Jones is clearly trying to arrange the relationship between Smitty and Parley for her own nefarious purposes.
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Oct 22, 2010 15:38
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I'm clearly overthinking it, but why would Parley need Smitty's assistance if she can already teleport with "unerring accuracy"?
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Oct 22, 2010 15:59
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So, according to Jones, Smitty's power isn't to "create order". It's to "distort probability". In other words, it seems his power is to bring about an extremely unlikely outcome, (i.e. a deck of cards thrown in the air landing in a perfect ordered stack, a bird getting in the way of his throw, etc, etc.) This could mean that the fact that everything is ordered around him isn't due to his powers, but because he IS a very boring person. I could be wrong though.
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Oct 22, 2010 16:00
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There is what he does and how he does it. He creates order by distorting probability to make unlikely occurrences happen. A deck of cards could do that. In theory. The stone could hit a bird and fall in the right place. Remember that nobody told him what to do with the blinker stone too. Just "throw it that way". He made the proper outcome happen with no idea what that outcome was. So there is obviously some overarching theme to what his power does irregardless of his personality.
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Oct 22, 2010 16:12
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Brannock posted:I'm clearly overthinking it, but why would Parley need Smitty's assistance if she can already teleport with "unerring accuracy"? Might help prevent them from getting caught. Hell, if you were going to play a prank on someone, there are probably a dozen reasons why having someone along who could distort probability would probably be the best possible thing.
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Oct 22, 2010 16:33
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Brannock posted:I'm clearly overthinking it, but why would Parley need Smitty's assistance if she can already teleport with "unerring accuracy"? She can't. She just realized now she can "bamf" her way around clean when she's close to Smith, or at least holding him.
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Oct 22, 2010 16:36
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Brannock posted:I'm clearly overthinking it, but why would Parley need Smitty's assistance if she can already teleport with "unerring accuracy"?
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Oct 22, 2010 16:37
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Brannock posted:I'm clearly overthinking it, but why would Parley need Smitty's assistance if she can already teleport with "unerring accuracy"? To add to what everyone else said her power is also fueled by emotions, and Smitty is a big help with that.
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Oct 22, 2010 20:03
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Speculating about how Smitty's powers work is the new speculating how Reynardine's powers work.
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Oct 22, 2010 21:58
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Rincewind posted:Speculating about how Smitty's powers work is the new speculating how Reynardine's powers work. Smitty's a robot.
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Oct 23, 2010 00:15
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Every single one of them is a robot re-enacting the four years that led up to the mutual destruction of the Woods and the Court. The entire landscape is one giant animatronic memorial and the girl with the white hair in between chapters is the tour guide.
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Oct 23, 2010 00:44
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What if they're all characters in a huge performance, and the whole thing is just an artistic representation of events in some predetermined story. The court/woods divide and all of the character interactions are symbolic of elements in some larger external reality, and the girl with the white hair mediates between the two worlds on behalf of an unseen creator. 
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Oct 23, 2010 01:24
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Gunnerkirgg Court is a documentary and the events take place in real time.
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Oct 23, 2010 01:26
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Rei_ posted:Every single one of them is a robot re-enacting the four years that led up to the mutual destruction of the Woods and the Court. The entire landscape is one giant animatronic memorial and the girl with the white hair in between chapters is the tour guide. "They died, and we built a Theme Park."
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Oct 23, 2010 01:27
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The 19th Person posted:So, according to Jones, Smitty's power isn't to "create order". It's to "distort probability". In other words, it seems his power is to bring about an extremely unlikely outcome, (i.e. a deck of cards thrown in the air landing in a perfect ordered stack, a bird getting in the way of his throw, etc, etc.) This could mean that the fact that everything is ordered around him isn't due to his powers, but because he IS a very boring person. I could be wrong though. The creation of order, unaided, is excruciatingly improbable. Maybe he's got Luck Virus.
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Oct 23, 2010 01:33
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Rei_ posted:Every single one of them is a robot re-enacting the four years that led up to the mutual destruction of the Woods and the Court. The entire landscape is one giant animatronic memorial and the girl with the white hair in between chapters is the tour guide.
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Oct 23, 2010 02:48
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fishmech posted:Gunnerkirgg Court is a documentary and the events take place in real time. Now I have an image of everyone in GC being in slow-motion the entire time.
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Oct 23, 2010 02:53
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Mike McC posted:Does that make Annie a tomato? Zimmy likes to stand in the rain without an umbrella. That's what it means to live free.
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Oct 23, 2010 03:04
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Zero_Tactility posted:Zimmy likes to stand in the rain without an umbrella. That's what it means to live free. Gunnerkrigg Court is Paradigm City 
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Oct 23, 2010 04:54
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Well Manicured Man posted:Gunnerkrigg Court is Paradigm City Where the grass is green and the god is Smitty?
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Oct 23, 2010 05:02
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Phy posted:Where the grass is green and the god is Smitty? 
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Oct 23, 2010 05:39
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GC makes me watch Dark City over and over.
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Oct 23, 2010 05:46
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Ka0 posted:GC makes me watch Dark City over and over. So the headmaster is a Stranger, and Smitty can tune? ... I can see that.
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Oct 23, 2010 05:51
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It makes the Court and the Tic Tocs all fit, perfectly.
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Oct 23, 2010 05:59
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The 19th Person posted:So, according to Jones, Smitty's power isn't to "create order". It's to "distort probability". Jones also referred to teleportation as 'distorting space'. Perhaps she just likes the word 'distort' and makes excuses to use it in conversation.
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Oct 23, 2010 10:54
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fishmech posted:Gunnerkirgg Court is a documentary and the events take place in real time. There can be only ONE! "You're Probated, fucker!"
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Oct 25, 2010 17:37
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Not much to go on in this latest page, but someone in the comic's comments section pointed out that we've seen the symbol before. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=531
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Oct 25, 2010 19:55
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Also Coyote called her Fire Head Girl. Maybe he wasn't talking about her red hair, but her stylin' fire spike hat.
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Oct 25, 2010 20:56
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Dammit Who? posted:Jones also referred to teleportation as 'distorting space'. Perhaps she just likes the word 'distort' and makes excuses to use it in conversation. Jones deemed it psychologically prudent to have one quirk, and felt that occasionally using the word distortion too much would be harmlessly enjoyable.
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Oct 25, 2010 21:16
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I wonder how long it's going to be before the Big Jones Reveal. Apparently Smitty and Parley already know what she is, according to the "Word of Tom", and we've been seeing a lot more of them, (And they're going to be seeing a lot more of each other, ahurrrr  ) so perhaps they'll let something slip soon.
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Oct 25, 2010 21:18
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Elftor posted:Also Coyote called her Fire Head Girl. Maybe he wasn't talking about her red hair, but her stylin' fire spike hat. Re-reading through the Coyote chapters for the billionth time. Something I never really noticed before for some reason that I think is pretty funny: Coyote can't seem to get her name right. The two off the top of my head I can think of is "Abolone" and "Acrimony Barber".
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Oct 25, 2010 21:23
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It's probably a conflict between Coyote's mind and his nose.
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Oct 25, 2010 22:07
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Fecha posted:Not much to go on in this latest page, but someone in the comic's comments section pointed out that we've seen the symbol before. This chapter also has the  'est ending.
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Oct 25, 2010 23:50
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Macaluso posted:Re-reading through the Coyote chapters for the billionth time. Something I never really noticed before for some reason that I think is pretty funny: Coyote can't seem to get her name right. The two off the top of my head I can think of is "Abolone" and "Acrimony Barber". I'm pretty sure Abalone is an affectionate informal pronoun in some Native American language. Its shown up in more than one of my folk tale books.
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Oct 27, 2010 06:23
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Comic's up, gents. Looks like we're getting backstory on Surma and Renard! Surma was a hippie, pass it on.
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Oct 27, 2010 08:22
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I guess we're seeing Renard dreaming...
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Oct 27, 2010 08:27
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I'm just saying, who practices levitation in a dress? That is simply against all good sense. Clearly levitation is a pants activity.
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Oct 27, 2010 08:30
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Tarezax posted:I guess we're seeing Renard dreaming... Might just be backstory/a flashback. Also, is that perhaps Coyote based on the last panel? He is partial to shape-shifting and trickery. Madrox fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Oct 27, 2010 |
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