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Color Printer posted:The flashing phrases remind me of They Live, though it took someone pointing them out for me to realize they were there in the first place.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about, the latest comic looks perfectly normal. I have a strange urge that just hit me to break up with my girlfriend, bake a big cake, eat the whole thing in one sitting because of my relationship depression and then fall into a food coma, though. And the weird thing is I don't even have a girlfriend.
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Seoinin posted:And on top of everything else, there's still a Guy Fieri. At this rate, we're going to find out that John Cusack somehow does not exist. ..Oh man I just realized that if Rose still has her book, and John has the code for the potted plant, they could use Dad's hat and reverse alchemise the Matriorb.
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YggiDee posted:..Oh man I just realized that if Rose still has her book, and John has the code for the potted plant, they could use Dad's hat and reverse alchemise the Matriorb. All those things are in their houses on their planets, which Jade took with her.
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Just noticed the Condesce's ship is in the Mars ad. Welp.
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Whatever's going I can only hope for someone in the Dave/Bro contingent to be the Rowdy Roddy Piper in this scenario. They've already got the shades.
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I'm seeing some speculation about how it is kind of odd that the trolls performed the ectobiological stuff in their post-scratch universe, and the kids did it in their pre-scratch universe. Here's the thing though: at what point was it stated that what we are currently looking at is the universe created by scratching the kid's session? It is certainly implied to be, but there's also no small amount of coyly playing with the reader's expectations here. For all we know the narrative has actually jumped back a step in the cycle rather than forward, and there really isn't a reason why jumping through the fourth wall forces Jade and John to pop into the *next* universe. Almost by definition, the fourth wall pretty much lets Jade go wherever the hell she wants to. In other words, the possibility exists that this is actually the original Earth and the kids are actually from the glitched universe that will be created when Jane scratches her SBURB session (with the trolls "creating" the kid's universe only due to circumstantial simultaneity with the original trolls creating the original humans). Who knows what madness was spawned as a consequence of John scratching Beat Mesa, but we don't really know for certain yet that Jane and Jake's world is it. Why would going backwards be important to resolving the story? If Jade can somehow prevent the corrupted birth of her own universe (perhaps by repairing the ectobiological glitch that binds the two universes together?), it probably follows that Lord English is defeated by virtue of never getting to already be here in the first place. This theory would also mean that the kid's universe having cancer isn't *really* Karkat's fault, since it was kind of fated to be messed up anyway.  If I've forgotten some glaringly obvious bit of story that would capsize this theory, please feel free to sink it. I've sort of gotten used to forgetting pertinent information anyway. 
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Thundarr posted:I'm seeing some speculation about how it is kind of odd that the trolls performed the ectobiological stuff in their post-scratch universe, and the kids did it in their pre-scratch universe. Here's the thing though: at what point was it stated that what we are currently looking at is the universe created by scratching the kid's session? It is certainly implied to be, but there's also no small amount of coyly playing with the reader's expectations here. For all we know the narrative has actually jumped back a step in the cycle rather than forward, and there really isn't a reason why jumping through the fourth wall forces Jade and John to pop into the *next* universe. Almost by definition, the fourth wall pretty much lets Jade go wherever the hell she wants to. So then there would be yet another universe that is the real post-scratch universe? Christ, if this theory is true at some point Hussie has to sit down and think "Maybe I've got a few too many universes floating around here."
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Chic Trombone posted:Well gently caress, looks like Hussie isn't even going to try and be subtle about the connection between Jake and Lord English. quote:GG: So if I have this straight, the big thing hogging up your plate today is not this marvelous new game which I have invited you to play with me, but finishing a robotic rabbit to give to my dead poppop? And he wasn't really being subtle before.
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Chic Trombone posted:Well gently caress, looks like Hussie isn't even going to try and be subtle about the connection between Jake and Lord English. "GG: So if I have this straight, the big thing hogging up your plate today is not this marvelous new game which I have invited you to play with me, but finishing a robotic rabbit to give to my dead poppop?" Um..
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Favourite thing about this set of updates is that Jane and Jake still talk in olde timey fifties era phrases and poo poo. Like cockamamie and egads and suchlike. Perfect. I am going to, in my brain, extrapolate thus: that slang has progressed differently in post-scratch: Old people in this universe use out of date terms like "bitchin" and "awesome" and "that be tight dawg", whereas phrases like "horsefeathers" and "by jove" are the newest most hipest of shits.
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Prison Warden posted:Favourite thing about this set of updates is that Jane and Jake still talk in olde timey fifties era phrases and poo poo. Like cockamamie and egads and suchlike. Perfect.
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GT: Bingo. *double pistols and a wink* I'm waiting for Bro Strider and Mom Lalonde's introduction first before I declare my favorite kid, but Jake is making this awfully difficult!
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Nov 14, 2011 03:04
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What does Jake need %NAME% Strider for to finish the bunny project?
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Okay I'm just confused. I still have the feel that John, the main John we know is still alive along with Jade and have yet to intervene in this session. I think that this session DOES have a John and Jade as the grandfather to Jane and grandmother to Jake, but are the John and Jade of THIS session. We're just seeing the events take place before the ship's arrival. Or not. I am so confused. 
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Nov 14, 2011 03:09
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Oh, no. Poppop...  Sassacre has claimed another victim.
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JT Jag posted:how do you explain scratch!mom talking in textspeak, then? She uses it because she wants to imitate her beloved mother, Rose. Rose just thinks her daughter is being passive aggressive. Or maybe she's just being ironic! Edit: goddamn there's an incredible hulk comic under Jake's desk.
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YggiDee posted:What does Jake need %NAME% Strider for to finish the bunny project?
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Waffleopolis posted:Okay I'm just confused. Yes. That John and Jade are completely different from the dead John and Jade in this session, just as Jane and Jake here aren't going to end up as a Sprite and a stuffed corpse in space, respectively.
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JT Jag posted:how do you explain scratch!mom talking in textspeak, then? She's just a very mature and old-fashioned girl. She likes to use out-dated phrases, just as Rose once did when she was her age.
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Walliard posted:Yes. That John and Jade are completely different from the dead John and Jade in this session, just as Jane and Jake here aren't going to end up as a Sprite and a stuffed corpse in space, respectively. I really hope you're right. 
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Jake's computer. I want it.  Of course, I could say the same of most of the other ___-tops in the comic.
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Waffleopolis posted:I really hope you're right. It's not a matter of hoping. That is absolutely, positively, beyond the shadow of a doubt what has happened. If it wasn't, there would be no point to the comic continuing, because it would mean that the cycle restarted hassle-free and Lord English had won.
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What, there were people who thought that post-scratch John wasn't going to be already dead when Act 6 started? Nanna was dead when pre-scratch John started playing. 
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Loving this act so far. I'm terribly curious when the old cast will come barging in, but in the meantime these guys and their increasingly horrific world are very interesting to watch! Hoping for plenty more  .Waffleopolis posted:I really hope you're right. It is... not terribly likely that our John and Jade would have grown old and died offscreen between acts, apparently achieving nothing. So I think we can be pretty sure that this reset timeline includes reset versions of the kids playing the guardian roles. One thing that still isn't clear is how Jake ended up working with Jade across timelines in the first place. Who initiated that?
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Prison Warden posted:Favourite thing about this set of updates is that Jane and Jake still talk in olde timey fifties era phrases and poo poo. Like cockamamie and egads and suchlike. Perfect. Well, it would seem grammar has been subtly altered (Jane's correction is actually wrong, Jake's initial statement is correct), so this actually doesn't seem too out there!
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:One thing that still isn't clear is how Jake ended up working with Jade across timelines in the first place. Who initiated that? Obviously not Jake; he thinks he's simply sending it back in time. I'm gonna go on a limb and guess Aradia, because fulfilling that kind of horrendously-complex causal loop seems like her sort of deal. Android Blues posted:Well, it would seem grammar has been subtly altered (Jane's correction is actually wrong, Jake's initial statement is correct), so this actually doesn't seem too out there! No, Jane's got it right. Rule of thumb is to drop one of the pronouns and see if it makes sense. "A joint gift from her" vs "A joint gift from she".
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:Loving this act so far. I'm terribly curious when the old cast will come barging in, but in the meantime these guys and their increasingly horrific world are very interesting to watch! Hoping for plenty more Either he's a Prospit (or I guess Derse would theoretically also work) dreamer and is doing the same thing Jade did with her package, or the sinister hand of English stirs the pot. My guess!
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Android Blues posted:Well, it would seem grammar has been subtly altered (Jane's correction is actually wrong, Jake's initial statement is correct), so this actually doesn't seem too out there! No, Jane is correct in this case: "A joint gift from me" as opposed to "A joint gift from I."
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YggiDee posted:No, Jane is correct in this case: "A joint gift from me" as opposed to "A joint gift from I." Oh, yeah, doy. Disregard!
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:Loving this act so far. I'm terribly curious when the old cast will come barging in, but in the meantime these guys and their increasingly horrific world are very interesting to watch! Hoping for plenty more Thank you for articulating this, as I am now pretty invested in figuring out what their world is like. And oh my god, can I just say how much I'd love to captchalog my car? I'd never have to clean snow off that motherfucker again, or look for a parking spot. But mostly the snow.
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Slime posted:goddamn there's an incredible hulk comic under Jake's desk. Just you watch, Jake is gonna have a statuete of a pimp somewhere. He'll have a poolcue sitting propped against a wall, a sarcophagus, a Final Fight game and a Red Skull figurine. It is gonna happen.
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I am getting the most incredible Equius vibes from Jake's speech. We need more pesterlogs from this gentleman. 
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QueerPope posted:She's just a very mature and old-fashioned girl. She likes to use out-dated phrases, just as Rose once did when she was her age. I also love how no fan theory is too absurd to be ruled out as infeasible in this thing
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Prison Warden posted:Favourite thing about this set of updates is that Jane and Jake still talk in olde timey fifties era phrases and poo poo. Like cockamamie and egads and suchlike. Perfect. Old timey fifties speak needs to come back into vogue. poo poo be classy as gently caress. Also those hats everyone wore from the industrial revolution. >_>' Also seconding Jake for best kid so far. It will break my heart when go goes crazy and kills everybody.
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