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Uhh. Hmm. Don't take the brown source code, Kat.
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# ? May 25, 2011 13:22 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 17:48 |
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Kat is slaving away with code for days. Meanwhile Annie is non-nonchalantly playing with fire again.
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# ? May 25, 2011 17:08 |
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Calaveron posted:In hindsight, Kat's skepticism on magic and mysticism really is kind of silly. Her mom's a wizard, her best friend's guardian is a forest god, and her best friend is half magic monster and can fly and stuff. This comes up in comics a lot. See also dc comics, where you have someone who is literally an angel from god who can tell you all about heaven and one of the smartest men in the world Is an atheist. For kat, though, didn't she express her belief that magic is just science we haven't explained? That seems (relatively) reasonable.
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# ? May 25, 2011 20:31 |
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Revolver Bunker posted:Kat is slaving away with code for days. Meanwhile Annie is non-nonchalantly playing with fire again.
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# ? May 25, 2011 20:36 |
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Boxman posted:This comes up in comics a lot. See also dc comics, where you have someone who is literally an angel from god who can tell you all about heaven and one of the smartest men in the world It also works in reverse: Annie has the magical point of view and the first comment she makes is pointing out that maybe there's magic involved with Kat's science.
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# ? May 25, 2011 20:42 |
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Also, Kat has personally met - and is on a first name basis with - a minotaur. You'd think at some point she'd go 'Hunh, another creature of legend is actually real. Go figure.' or to subvert that and have her go "Oh, well, what about Unicorns?" and everybody laughs and says there's no such thing as unicorns, get serious.
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# ? May 25, 2011 22:06 |
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Detetsu posted:Also, Kat has personally met - and is on a first name basis with - a minotaur. You'd think at some point she'd go 'Hunh, another creature of legend is actually real. Go figure.' or to subvert that and have her go "Oh, well, what about Unicorns?" and everybody laughs and says there's no such thing as unicorns, get serious. edit: Although in retrospect I guess this could be considered religion and therefore out of the reach of humans? Elysiume fucked around with this message at 09:50 on May 26, 2011 |
# ? May 26, 2011 09:32 |
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Detetsu posted:Also, Kat has personally met - and is on a first name basis with - a minotaur. You'd think at some point she'd go 'Hunh, another creature of legend is actually real. Go figure.' or to subvert that and have her go "Oh, well, what about Unicorns?" and everybody laughs and says there's no such thing as unicorns, get serious. It's not like Baz has any super powers that science can't explain. Creatures talk and have sentience, this is normal to Kat. It's the whole peanut butter in my chocolate approach that crosses her up. Golems, her parents' bastardization of magic/science, etc.
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# ? May 26, 2011 09:48 |
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Boxman nailed it. Kat doesn't deny that all these crazy things happen at the Court -- she just thinks there has to be an explanation for it all, and an explanation for those explanations. Proofs all the way down. And then she finds robots that move without any wires or motors, and her mom has a computer that runs on magic runes, and her best friend can psycho-teleport a rock that burns without heat. And everyone's answer is, "It's
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# ? May 26, 2011 11:46 |
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I thinkl this picture posted earlier in the thread has bearing on the magic vs science in Gunnerkrigg Court.Cyphoderus posted:On the one hand it looks like there's a gap between nature and technology. But then you consider the fact that the "nature" of Central Park is 100% artificially constructed and landscaped. Perhaps it is the same way with the Court and the Forest.
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# ? May 26, 2011 16:47 |
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fishmech posted:I thinkl this picture posted earlier in the thread has bearing on the magic vs science in Gunnerkrigg Court. Also consider that cities grow very organically, even if they're "constructed".
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# ? May 26, 2011 18:03 |
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The latest update is what happens when you look into a TIME CUBE. Obviously she's been EDUCATED STUPID
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# ? May 27, 2011 09:03 |
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Suddenly, Kat is the star of Summer Wars. And a
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# ? May 30, 2011 15:35 |
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So can someone remind me where the current robots come from then if Kat has to rediscover all this stuff? I thought that they were just made by the folks at the court, but apparently not?
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 12:08 |
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The robots these days mostly make themselves, I think. Am I the only one who thinks the Cube is related to the Seed Bismuth?
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 12:53 |
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SynthOrange posted:So can someone remind me where the current robots come from then if Kat has to rediscover all this stuff? I thought that they were just made by the folks at the court, but apparently not? I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned that the robots build themselves. And seem to govern themselves as well (All the way back to Annie pretending to be a robot to get Robot's chip) And that Robot's original body was a simplified, or less elegant version of one of Diego's originals.
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 15:02 |
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Parkourbot was originally some kind of slim willie who got himself thrashed by Ysengrin I think. Kat just took his memory chip and installed it in a newer body frame. Kat's mad-expression is simply incredible.
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 16:47 |
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Is it just me or is Robot getting creepier with his hoodie and constant staring at Kat.
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 16:58 |
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Robot is definitely getting creepier. Try harder, Shadow2! edit: Micgael fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jun 1, 2011 |
# ? Jun 1, 2011 17:28 |
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He's turning into Diego.
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 17:34 |
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wyoming posted:He's turning into Diego. That's actually a possibility. Hmmmm..... I mean, maybe he picked up something from S1...
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# ? Jun 1, 2011 17:38 |
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You know, all the robots actually being sophisticated golems explains a lot about how Annie was originally able to put Robot together from spare parts. Lot harder to gently caress up when parts don't actually have to, you know, be mechanically suitable.
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# ? Jun 3, 2011 06:43 |
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Bobulus posted:You know, all the robots actually being sophisticated golems explains a lot about how Annie was originally able to put Robot together from spare parts. Lot harder to gently caress up when parts don't actually have to, you know, be mechanically suitable. Robot's a modern mechanised robot. Only Diego's creations were golems. None of them work anymore. Well, up until today. The latest comics seem to imply the basis of the AI of the newer ones is that they've basically scanned in the intructions off the golems and virtually interpret it.
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# ? Jun 3, 2011 08:17 |
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Ah, crap, I read that bit wrong. We do know what the "extra part" is, now, though! http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=222
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# ? Jun 3, 2011 08:37 |
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Angel, watch me activate my super power: Lightspeed Weeping.
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# ? Jun 3, 2011 10:36 |
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Arent the current generation robots afraid of that old one? Also time for Kat to get a cool new robot hand I guess.
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# ? Jun 3, 2011 15:35 |
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First thing out of it's speaker box will be "Are you John Conner? Come with me if you want to live."
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# ? Jun 3, 2011 16:42 |
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Hmm, I wonder if this is a third actor in the "She died and we did nothing" play...
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 12:10 |
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I see somebody's been playing some Street Fighter while Annie was hanging out in the forest.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 12:15 |
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Parkourbot has really been practising those tiger-knees.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 13:36 |
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Get out of here with your magic, Annie, this is a robot chapter.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 13:44 |
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Sometimes I like to think the comic is just a medium to enable Tom's update comments. We all know what the real star of the story is.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 13:57 |
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:We all know what the real star of the story is. Yes. Yes we do.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 14:29 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Yes. That is terrible.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 14:57 |
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inthesto posted:I see somebody's been playing some Street Fighter while Annie was hanging out in the forest. Ka0 posted:Parkourbot has really been practising those tiger-knees. Now I can't look at panel three and not see Annie about to throw out a hadouken.
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 18:30 |
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Annies going for a kamehameha she's been hitting the animes hard since Kat showed her Princess Mononoke
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 18:34 |
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Fighting Trousers posted:That is terrible. Maybe we can put a rug on it?
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# ? Jun 6, 2011 18:51 |
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I was wikipedia hopping and came across this tidbit, which reminded me of this comic. Sorry if this has been posted before:quote:According to Lévi-Strauss, "mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution".[20] In other words, myths consist of: We have the tic-toc god on the court side, which is pretty raven-like.
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# ? Jun 7, 2011 00:16 |
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I wonder if he ever got tired of people thinking he was the blue jeans guy
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# ? Jun 7, 2011 01:05 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 17:48 |
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I just noticed that Kat's current outfit and haircut make her a dead ringer for Jordan from Real Genius.
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# ? Jun 8, 2011 06:04 |