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So I decided to pick this up last Friday, thinking I'd just check out a few pages, but it turned out I accidentally read the entire archive. Short weekend. I felt this recent chapter was effective, though the last several hundred pages still fresh in my mind, it's probably because I remembered this page when reading Monday's. That's a pretty unsettling echo, there.
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Bad Seafood posted:So I decided to pick this up last Friday, thinking I'd just check out a few pages, but it turned out I accidentally read the entire archive. Oh poo poo. Very interesting parallel. Thanks for sharing that.
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Jun 28, 2011 21:53
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UnoriginalMind posted:Oh poo poo. Very interesting parallel. Thanks for sharing that. I... don't get it. What's the parallel?
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Jun 29, 2011 02:04
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Calaveron posted:I... don't get it. What's the parallel? Coyote says that the Court is mankind's attempt to become God. Here is a robot of the Court proclaiming Kat, a student of the Court, divine, if not straight up their God.
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Jun 29, 2011 02:21
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Interesting parallel, but blunted a bit by how pissed off Kat would be if she were to find out about Robot's cult.
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Jun 29, 2011 03:06
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Boxbot, how did you even get up there? You come down from there right now, young man. ...Robot. Robox, stop leering at him, you're being creepy!  ...Also, can't help but hear Robox's voice as Mr. Popo as played by the Team Four Star guys. I can only assume that after the final panel, Robox went "Byeeee!" and walked off....Man, Boxbot's lookin' pretty beat up. 
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Jun 29, 2011 08:19
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For what my opinion's worth not much I didn't really like the chapter too much while it was going on, but going back and reading through it from the beginning it works out fine.
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Jun 29, 2011 08:44
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Oh Boxbot, you're so utterly awful 
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Jun 29, 2011 08:59
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The saddest update.
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Jun 29, 2011 08:59
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I can't help but feel that if Boxbot was to somehow manage to ride Robox we would have before us a uniquely average robot.
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Jun 29, 2011 09:00
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Laser Cow posted:I can't help but feel that if Boxbot was to somehow manage to ride Robox we would have before us a uniquely average robot.  I cannot believe I remembered this image existed.
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Jun 29, 2011 09:04
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This page makes Robox seem like a sociopath. He's still awesome, though.
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Jun 29, 2011 09:10
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 It's even more disturbing out of context!
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Jun 29, 2011 09:31
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Right, I also just consumed all of Gunnerkrigg over a couple of days, and it's sublimely brilliant, etc. etc. One question - Tom's joking here, right? He doesn't really believe that UK state schools have fruity "10 points from Griffindor" set-ups does he? I mean, a tiny handful of comps* and grammars* do, and most public** schools do, but the average state school sure as hell doesn't. I mean, I went to what is basically the real-life version of Hogwarts (but with aggravated buggery in place of magic), and even I know this poo poo. *Do not expect to know what the gently caress I'm talking about here if you're not British. You're better off not knowing. **Case in point - a "public" school in the UK is what we call the private schools you have to pay through the nose for. Obviously!
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Jun 29, 2011 09:33
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Honestly I'm surprised there's no robot cult centered around Robox.
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Jun 29, 2011 09:35
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hairysammoth posted:Right, I also just consumed all of Gunnerkrigg over a couple of days, and it's sublimely brilliant, etc. etc. Tom IS British, though, so I expect he knows. And it's fairly clear that Gunnerkrigg isn't a state school--hell, at this point we barely have any idea WHAT it is.
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Jun 29, 2011 09:43
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Redeye Flight posted:Tom IS British, though, so I expect he knows. And it's fairly clear that Gunnerkrigg isn't a state school--hell, at this point we barely have any idea WHAT it is. I know, that's what makes it so weird. He actually says: "All schools in the UK are like this as far as I know. I went to a normal ol' comprehensive (high school). It just so happens that Gunnerkrigg Court is a boardng school." It's not what Gunnerkrigg is which confuses me - it's that Tom seems to think that all British schools are like this in real life (despite being British)! Weird derail, it just struck me as very confusing - I was just wondering if you lot knew if it was some kind of weird in-joke or plot thing. Doesn't seem to be, though. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Yeah, exactly - it's common enough that it's something a lot of people come across, but it sure as hell doesn't happen in the average urban state school. hairysammoth fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Jun 29, 2011 09:53
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Both the schools I attended in Scotland had a variation on the system close enough for me to say gently caress it, close enough. I didn't think it was universal though. Yeah yeah big up Strathmore house.
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Jun 29, 2011 10:05
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Yeah, my school (just an ordinary school, not one of those fancy expensive boarding schools or anything) had us divided into four houses named after Scottish castles. There wasn't any points-scoring competition like in Harry Potter though, it was just for organising classes.
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Jun 29, 2011 10:52
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Well I didn't go to every school in the UK, but I did go to three different ones and they all worked the same. And everyone I've talked to had a similar structure in the shools they went to. I'd be interested in knowing which kinds of schools didn't organise their students into different groups. I did find this Wikipedia article and it says: "The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in ex-British colonies. Historically it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school. In the case of a day school, however, the word 'house' refers only to a grouping of pupils, rather than to a particular building. The house system has been common in the state sector for many years." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_system I'm not sure how it could have been seen as a gag or in-joke, but I changed the wording from "all" to "many", and hopefully this is less offensive.
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Jun 29, 2011 11:41
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For what it's worth, my (British) school was also split into houses, named after the surrounding villages. But you wouldn't have known unless you asked, there wasn't any kind of points system. Most students couldn't tell you what house they were in. I think, if your school wasn't a completely new build, you were probably in a house. Even if you didn't know it. e: Our classes were named after our registration teacher, though. So if your teacher was John Smith, you'd be in 7JS (or 8JS, 9JS, etc.) The houses only came into play on sports day, when each house was given a colour and their points were totaled to give an overall winner. Even then, we played under the banner of "yellow", not "Moorside". Noonsaliwah fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Jun 29, 2011 12:05
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Tea-san posted:Well I didn't go to every school in the UK, but I did go to three different ones and they all worked the same. And everyone I've talked to had a similar structure in the shools they went to. I'd be interested in knowing which kinds of schools didn't organise their students into different groups. Yeah, I thought it was pretty universal too, right up to the point I moved to London. If I asked my nephew in his Hackney comp which "house" he was in he'd probably assume I was taking the piss. I think it comes down to the age of the school - if it was founded in the 19th or pre-war 20th C, they've probably still got a house system, state or otherwise. Anything built more recently tends to divide up the students in other ways.
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Jun 29, 2011 12:21
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Tea-san posted:Well I didn't go to every school in the UK, but I did go to three different ones and they all worked the same. And everyone I've talked to had a similar structure in the shools they went to. I'd be interested in knowing which kinds of schools didn't organise their students into different groups. There's a typo on that page, too, in the last instance of 'boarding school' at the end. I only remembered at this moment that we did actually have a house structure at my high school (in Scotland). It didn't affect anything except the occasional sports day and our class designations, as far as I remember, and I always assumed it was just a token effort to make the place look like less of a scumhole.  Warriston house.
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Jun 29, 2011 13:35
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Don't know about Australian public (government) secondary schools, but public primary schools and private schools of any level use a house system too. That said, we don't divvy classes by them. They're mostly just used for things like sport and stuff. I would imagine house systems are a lot more prominent in any boarding school, though. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Jun 29, 2011 13:41
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You monster how could you be so mean to boxbot always keepin' the box robots down e: oh man that Robox/Boxbot combo image is hilarious. I want to see this happen in the comic. Bonus points for a proper Transformers transform-noise onomatopoeia, though I have no idea how you'd do that. Psion fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Jun 29, 2011 18:24
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Psion posted:Bonus points for a proper Transformers transform-noise onomatopoeia, though I have no idea how you'd do that. "Keek koo cha chee craw."
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Jun 29, 2011 20:23
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I'm still laughing at "Yes." hahahaha I'll be doing something completely unrelated and then "Yes." hahahahahahaa
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Jul 1, 2011 20:56
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Is it just me misremembering or do many chapters seem to inevitably start on fridays?
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Is it just me misremembering or do many chapters seem to inevitably start on fridays? About 1/3...
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hairysammoth posted:Yeah, I thought it was pretty universal too, right up to the point I moved to London. If I asked my nephew in his Hackney comp which "house" he was in he'd probably assume I was taking the piss. I went to a comp in Wales I think founded in the late 70's and we had houses which got points for sports days and eisteddfodau, though I think outside of those sort of big events it didn't really matter that much. Similar set up to Tom's as well, 8 forms with 2 forms in each house.
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Jul 2, 2011 10:35
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But I like robots.
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Jul 4, 2011 21:03
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Pester posted:But I like robots. Exactly my thought.
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Jul 4, 2011 23:30
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Pester posted:But I like robots. Well, most of them anyway.
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Jul 4, 2011 23:47
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Bats Everywhere posted:Well, most of them anyway.    Yes.
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Jul 5, 2011 02:21
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Tom just twooted this: http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/winners/2010/category/graphic-novel/ 
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Jul 5, 2011 19:07
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Kismet posted:Tom just twooted this: That's kinda big, isn't it?
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Jul 5, 2011 21:56
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Funkz posted:That's kinda big, isn't it? On one hand, it's an award for Gunnerkrigg, and that's awesome. On the other hand, I personally have never heard of the BOTYA, so... eh. Not to diminish Tom's accomplishment, mind you! It's still awesome news. Gunnerkrigg is really deserving of way more awards and recognition that it gets.
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Jul 5, 2011 23:13
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It shoulda got the gold 
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hairysammoth posted:One question - Tom's joking here, right? He doesn't really believe that UK state schools have fruity "10 points from Griffindor" set-ups does he? I mean, a tiny handful of comps* and grammars* do, and most public** schools do, but the average state school sure as hell doesn't. I mean, I went to what is basically the real-life version of Hogwarts (but with aggravated buggery in place of magic), and even I know this poo poo. Tom has said that the houses in Gunnerkrigg are named after the ones in the school he went to, I believe. DontMockMySmock posted:This page makes Robox seem like a sociopath. He's still awesome, though. He can't help, he has no arms
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Whitenoise Poster posted:It shoulda got the gold Agreed.
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