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Ironic Twist posted:So just as a discussion-starter, since it's a Friday: Where did you first discover GC? Oh wow, that's the exact page and place I got to linked to/from as well! Man that was like almost three years ago...
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Man you guys, I started reading Gunnerkrigg sometime around Chapter 3 or 4 when a friend of mine linked me to it not too long after it started. That was like, mid 2005.  Jesus christ.
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Nov 4, 2011 23:40
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Damnit! Stop linking pages! I keep losing track of time!
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Nov 4, 2011 23:52
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I started reading it around the middle of Chapter 2, I think the first page I saw was Sivonadine howling while impaled on the tower on the roof. I'd already been keeping an eye on Tom (  )for a while, since he tended to draw pictures of pretty girls in art threads and came up with this design for SA-tan.So when he came into one of the early comics threads and did his typical "I sort of have a webcomic, you can all read it or not, I guess, that's cool too," I hopped right on board.
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Nov 5, 2011 00:06
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I guess I'm the newbie here as I was introduced to the comic by Kate Beaton when she had a link to the last page of Chapter 31 on her comic: http://www.harkavagrant.com/ Ended up marathoning the whole thing over the following summer.
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Nov 5, 2011 00:28
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Neil Gaiman linked it in his blog: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/06/sunday-tabs-etc.html Neil Gaiman posted:While sick in bed last week, I got to read what's out there so far of Gunnerkrigg Court, a really enjoyable webcomic, of the kind that will undoubtedly be out sooner or later in paper form (actually it looks the author's self-publishing it currently in paper form -- http://www.lulu.com/content/215167). It starts at Crazy to think I've been reading it since '06.
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Nov 5, 2011 01:08
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I believe I started when the old Websnark site linked to it, which I guess was almost six years ago now? Good lord.
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Nov 5, 2011 03:08
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I'm a relative neophyte -- I learned about it when it won Best Comic from the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in '09. I read through it pretty ravenously, but then it joined my List Of Very Good Comics I Stopped Reading But Shouldn't Have And Really Need To Catch Up On At Some Point for a while (man there are way too many of those), but then, well, YOU PEOPLE reminded me how drat awesome it is and I started following it regularly again.
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Nov 5, 2011 03:30
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I discovered this comic when Zorak talked about it in the MSPA thread. I thought " oh why not" and clicked the link. 10 hours later, after shotgunning the entire archives, I sent everyone I thought would be remotely interested to this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=611. I love me some laser cows.
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Nov 5, 2011 04:10
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wyoming posted:Neil Gaiman linked it in his blog: That's where I got it from too.
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Nov 5, 2011 12:54
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One of my friends linked me to this page when it came out, and well, how could I not go back and read the entire thing?
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Nov 5, 2011 13:09
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I read it back when it was on Drunk Duck as the featured comic! I'd just started my own comic over there so it must've been 2004 or so. I left one of the many 'omg amazing comic' comments.
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Nov 5, 2011 13:19
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Started reading at mid-Chapter 34. I consider myself a very lucky person.
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Nov 5, 2011 14:07
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Howard Beale posted:I think you're on the right track here. He can only pick up on the moment she decides to teleport. It's like having a song in your head and turning on the radio only to find your song playing. You didn't make it happen, but it sure as hell feels like you sensed it or something. Premonition and coincidence are too closely related. No, no. His power is exactly the right thing at exactly the right time. When he throws a deck of (shuffled) cards backwards over his head and they land on the floor in such a way that a) they're in a neat stack and b) they're sorted, he doesn't have to think about it. Anyone could do that, if they knew the exact right way to move their arm and their wrist and their fingers and taking into account the air currents in the room and the tiny fluctuations in temperature and submicroscopic variations in gravity and and and... Smitty just does it by instinct. Anyone could plot out a way to throw Annie's blinker-stone towards the river in such a way that it would bonk against that one bird flying over there, and land exactly where it's needed to be. Smitty just hurls the rock in the general direction of the river. When he's in an adventure sim, the random-number generators instantly provide the simplest and quickest resolution. He doesn't have to think about it. When he knows that Parley is going to teleport to him at some point in the next few minutes, he could keep saying "Bam" over and over and over and over again. Or he could just talk about general stuff, and he'll only feel like saying "Bam" when it's the exact right moment. He doesn't have to think about it.
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Nov 5, 2011 14:16
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I first saw GC a while ago when one of the random video game comics was up (I think it was the MGS4 one) and dismissed it as just another gamer comic, which I wasn't really interested in. Then I think I saw it get mentioned on the Your Webcomic Is Bad blog (in the "stop telling me to review GC because it isn't bad" sense) before that got taken down. I gave it a second look then and it took me a really long time to get into it, but I'm pretty hooked now.
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Nov 5, 2011 14:19
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Parahexavoctal posted:No, no. His power is exactly the right thing at exactly the right time. When he throws a deck of (shuffled) cards backwards over his head and they land on the floor in such a way that a) they're in a neat stack and b) they're sorted, he doesn't have to think about it. Anyone could do that, if they knew the exact right way to move their arm and their wrist and their fingers and taking into account the air currents in the room and the tiny fluctuations in temperature and submicroscopic variations in gravity and and and... His power is distorting probability. Jones said it herself. (I don't mean that to be snarky, if it comes off that way. I just think Smitty's powers don't have to be terribly complicated.) Also ... I can't remember when I got into GC. Must have been around chapter 5 or 6, because I distinctly remember the wait between pages in chapter 7. I'm pretty sure it was one of the earlier webcomics megathreads here that pointed me in the right direction. Phil Resch fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Nov 5, 2011 |
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Nov 5, 2011 14:57
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The first few pages. I don't remember how I was linked to it, though.
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Nov 5, 2011 15:17
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Phil Resch posted:His power is distorting probability. Jones said it herself. (I don't mean that to be snarky, if it comes off that way. I just think Smitty's powers don't have to be terribly complicated.) Because Jones is an actuary. 
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Nov 5, 2011 15:32
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I was linked to the first page of chapter 13 and read forward from there, ending up somewhere in chapter 15. Then I went back and read from the beginning. I'm not sure what year that was. Chapter 13 remains in my top 5 favorite stories from GC.
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Nov 5, 2011 15:34
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FactsAreUseless posted:Jones would certainly know all about calculating probability. That's extremely unlikely ...
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Nov 5, 2011 15:37
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Phil Resch posted:His power is distorting probability. Jones said it herself. (I don't mean that to be snarky, if it comes off that way. I just think Smitty's powers don't have to be terribly complicated.) In a sense his power is basically being really, really lucky.
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Nov 5, 2011 15:52
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Opposing Farce posted:In a sense his power is basically being really, really lucky. Could be. I think it's still easier to express in terms of probability, though. You might look back at each time something has been attributed to Smitty's power, and see which of these two makes it sound less forced when expressing the effect: "Smitty was lucky because ... " or "It was extremely unlikely that ... "
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Nov 5, 2011 16:36
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dumb brunette posted:I first saw GC a while ago when one of the random video game comics was up (I think it was the MGS4 one) and dismissed it as just another gamer comic, which I wasn't really interested in. Kind of funny that you would happen to stumble across it on one of the three or so videogame comics and get the completely wrong impression. I wonder if there are any people who started in City Face and got disappointed when all these color panels and weird people showed up. As for me, I can remember reading everything when it was just a couple chapters. I was probably linked through another webcomic since I didn't really do all that much with the forums back then. But I almost never keep up to date reading webcomics for more than a month so it wasn't until recently that I decided to finally read through ~chapter 15+.
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Nov 5, 2011 16:45
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I got into it around here because some comics review blog that I think is defunct now posted an analysis of it as an example of good art.
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Nov 5, 2011 16:58
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I got into the comic because it was brought up in the CAD mock thread a few times. I remember seeing the pages where Annie is learning how to retrieve her blinker stone from Anja and the weatherbot marveling over the painting of Jeanne posted. I liked the art, so I checked it out and read the whole archive throughout a single weekend work shift. I caught up while Carver was doing the dumbest thing she's ever tried to do. Hooked ever since.
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Nov 5, 2011 17:23
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Opposing Farce posted:In a sense his power is basically being really, really lucky. And knowing how to run with it  Got linked to Gunnerkrigg way back in one of the first webcomic threads. Never stopped reading since.
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Nov 5, 2011 17:25
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That MGS4 two parter is one of my favorite non-storyline comics in Gunnerkrigg Court 
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Nov 5, 2011 17:32
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DarklyDreaming posted:I got into it around here because some comics review blog that I think is defunct now posted an analysis of it as an example of good art. Huh. In the page after that, why does Coyote refer to Annie as "abalone"? Is there a meaning I'm not getting, or does he just see her as a Sea Snail?
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Nov 5, 2011 17:33
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Tom used to have a link button for the comic in his signature here, that's where I found it. I started reading near the end of the third chapter... which would have been just over six years ago, wow. I remember when it only updated twice a week!Staggy posted:Huh. In the page after that, why does Coyote refer to Annie as "abalone"? Is there a meaning I'm not getting, or does he just see her as a Sea Snail? Because "Antimony" sounds like "abalone". I don't think there's any deeper meaning there.
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Nov 5, 2011 17:40
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Staggy posted:Huh. In the page after that, why does Coyote refer to Annie as "abalone"? Is there a meaning I'm not getting, or does he just see her as a Sea Snail?  Always assume that Coyote is joking or being deceptive if he is wrong about something.
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Nov 5, 2011 17:53
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I came across the comic several years ago in my TV Tropes browsing days. My memory's poo poo, unfortunately, so I can't recall exactly when I started reading. It's been a while, though.
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Nov 5, 2011 18:08
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I came across the comic several years ago in my TV Tropes browsing days. My memory's poo poo, unfortunately, so I can't recall exactly when I started reading. It's been a while, though. Was it "Mary Sue?"
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Nov 5, 2011 19:43
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FewtureMD posted:I discovered this comic when Zorak talked about it in the MSPA thread. I thought " oh why not" and clicked the link. 10 hours later, after shotgunning the entire archives, I sent everyone I thought would be remotely interested to this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=611. I love me some laser cows. Same here, I was craving more epic narratives ala homestuck, thank goodness for Zorak's questionable use of modding powers in the homestuck thread!
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Nov 5, 2011 19:48
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dumb brunette posted:Then I think I saw it get mentioned on the Your Webcomic Is Bad blog (in the "stop telling me to review GC because it isn't bad" sense) before that got taken down. I remember seeing it linked in the comments section early on as an example of a good comic. The first time I tried reading it I was really tired so I wasn't really getting much enjoyment out of it. I tried again later when it got linked again and went "Oh poo poo this is awesome!"
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Nov 5, 2011 19:51
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Dodgeball posted:Was it "Mary Sue?"
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Nov 6, 2011 01:39
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:If it was TV tropes is even more terrible then I've previously assumed. Agreed.
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Nov 6, 2011 02:22
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TV Tropes doesn't allow people to put examples on that page, specifically so it doesn't become a shitpile of people complaining about their least favorite characters. "Mary Sue" doesn't appear anywhere in Gunnerkrigg's entry or "YMMV" page, either, though. TV Tropes loves Gunnerkrigg Court. Just take a look at their article on it.
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Nov 6, 2011 03:15
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I read Neil Gaiman's recommendation, but when I checked on it I landed on a confusing page -- which I can't remember now -- but acknowledged that it was a complex comic and I would have to archive read all of it and I didn't have the patience at the time. About a year later I read a bunch of good stuff about it on TV Tropes, but still managed to ignore it. It was that year (2007, I think) when I noticed that three times a week without fail someone would post a new page of GC in 4chan's /co/, which I actually liked to follow back then (it was a fine source for good, unknown comics and cartoons) and the discussion was always interesting. It was around the chapter where Annie and Jack get stuck in Zimmy's head that I got hooked and, boy, was I confused but entertained following that arch. Found a bit of time and read the whole thing. Now I own the three volumes and GC is one of the few comics that won't leave my feed reader.
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Nov 6, 2011 12:50
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That's when I started reading it but because the Achewood reference got posted in that thread
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Maldraedior posted:That's when I started reading it but because the Achewood reference got posted in that thread What Achewood reference?
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