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Don't forget being on civil speaking terms with an unknown number of grim reapers, forest denizens and a classroom full of knuckleheads and joiks.
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Nov 10, 2012 13:44
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All these gifs are great, and the story.. just.. did not see that coming. Still.. ermm.. still waiting! <---
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So is the chapter going to end on Monday with "I honestly don't know." ? Well I was off by two strips.
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Nov 10, 2012 15:32
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I am so happy to have experienced the last pages of the comic and the thread in real time  You're all great.
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MikeJF posted:Would you call the court robots alive, then? What are we, but machines of carbon and nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen? We use electricity in the form of electrochemical potential we extract from chemical reactions. Just like a robot, only with even greater efficiency. I suppose that, say if you consider a bacterium to be alive, but a mere flame (not a fire elemental) to be not-alive, then it would be somewhat arbitrary. It would require a creature to be more than the tendency to reproduce and equalise energy gradients to be considered alive. It would need DNA and proteins and other junk. Self-replicating chemical patterns. It's a difficult definition. A lever is not alive. A transistor is not alive, and it is a type of lever. A thousand transistors is not alive. Nor is a million. But a billion? A trillion? What if they, together, achieve sentience? Personally, I'd call the robots living creatures. Simply because they are sentient and calling them "alive" would make it easier to give them rights if you petitioned to the UN or something. I'd call Jones alive too, despite her definition of what's alive, because I think she's seen enough horribleness and people rejecting her and should be included in stuff. Unless she associates "alive-ness" with violence and fear and war and other negative things, but I still consider her a person. Edit: Freudian posted:Zimmy sees all humans as symbolic representations of themselves based on poo poo like fire-mask and robotdeathbird and stuff, right? So the reason she finds Jones so creepy is because she sees a plain human. And she has no idea what the gently caress one of those is. Wait, has Zimmy met Coyote yet? We know what Coyote looks like through Annie, when she sees him ethereally, but what would Zimmy see? If Coyote exists as the sum of all the thoughts and feelings that humans have had of him, would she gain a glimpse of every mind that has ever contemplated him? When Zimmy saw Kat in the last story, my thought was that she was seeing more than Kat herself, she was seeing the perception the robots had of her and the belief they had in her - that she is an angel, their angel, and that is what Zimmy was seeing. So if Zimmy met Coyote...youch! That could end badly. IronClaymore fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Nov 10, 2012 |
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Nov 10, 2012 15:54
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IronClaymore posted:What are we, but machines of carbon and nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen? We use electricity in the form of electrochemical potential we extract from chemical reactions. Just like a robot, only with even greater efficiency. It's a semantic issue, to a degree. I'd just as not all living creatures are sentient and sapient and deserving of human rights, I accept the possibility of something that is those things without having to reclassify it to a life-form. It doesn't make their consciousness any less in worth.
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A student posted:Do we know if Jones feels emotions? Well, she seems really nice, and helpful, and even loving on occasion, though she doesn't express these in the normal sort of way. Do her actions show the presence of positive emotions, or merely the absence of negative emotions? I'm inclined to think if she lacked emotions entirely, she'd just sit there observing and watching stuff happen, both bad and good. I'm going to go with Eglamore on this one. I don't think he'd love her, if he didn't think she'd love him back  (Maybe she's just extremely reserved? I like to hope that's it.)
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Nov 10, 2012 16:20
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IronClaymore posted:Well, she seems really nice, and helpful, and even loving on occasion, though she doesn't express these in the normal sort of way. She definitely seems compassionate above all else. To Eglamore, old man Langdon, to the Jones she took her name from. She helped the Cro-Magnon hunt for food. She hasn't appeared to do anything that would outright hurt anyone, ever.
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TenKindsOfCrazy posted:She definitely seems compassionate above all else. To Eglamore, old man Langdon, to the Jones she took her name from. She helped the Cro-Magnon hunt for food. She hasn't appeared to do anything that would outright hurt anyone, ever. Don't forget Dr. Disaster!
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Don't forget Dr. Disaster! Yes! I shouldn't have overlooked the most example of all!
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Dear Avatar Fairy: I am still getting weirded out every time I see one of my posts and I miss my parrotfrog and 
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Man marathoning the whole comic a few months back then reading it regularly has ended up being such a good idea. The evolving art style of this (also scary go round/bad machinery) is really striking when so many years are condensed like that. It must be pretty satisfying to look back at where you've come from and see where you are now.
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Nov 10, 2012 17:28
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Shugojin posted:Dear Avatar Fairy: But you got the best tea avatar! I hope there's new City Face strips soon and we get a wave of avatars based on him. Not for any particular reason, of course.
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Yeah it's pretty much just sudden avatar change disorder, I had the parrotfrog for a few years. I'll get used to this eventually 
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Nov 10, 2012 17:56
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A student posted:Do we know if Jones feels emotions? She spent a whole day wearing a party hat. That just isn't something a heartless automaton would do.
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Nov 10, 2012 20:02
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There was also the scene where she was giving out flowers to everyone. Even though she was trying to force Smitty and Parley together.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah it's pretty much just sudden avatar change disorder, I had the parrotfrog for a few years. I'll get used to this eventually All I want is for the Avatar Fairy to explain to me how I can make the form accept my credit card information so I can finally purchase one of my own! I have a Bear And Kitten one ready and waiting to go. No matter what I do it tells me I'm inputting incorrect info, even when I know it's all right. Is this at all a common problem or am I cursed? P.S. I liked your parrotfrog.
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Nov 10, 2012 22:40
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No but seriously Tom, what is she?
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Macaluso posted:No but seriously Tom, what is she? Some kind of bug.
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Macaluso posted:No but seriously Tom, what is she? A rice-a-roni jabroni.
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Macaluso posted:No but seriously Tom, what is she? Not a robot.
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Macaluso posted:No but seriously Tom, what is she? A serial pedophile on a geological timescale 
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MikeJF posted:Would you call the court robots alive, then? They are born, grow, reproduce, and even evolve.
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Nov 11, 2012 06:57
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Macaluso posted:No but seriously Tom, what is she? A really cool dog.
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MoreLikeTen posted:A serial pedophile on a geological timescale 
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Macaluso posted:No but seriously Tom, what is she? She's one of the best characters in a webcomic called Gunnerkrigg Court, which tells the ongoing saga of a bird called City Face.
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Battle Pigeon posted:I hope there's new City Face strips soon and we get a wave of avatars based on him. Not for any particular reason, of course. I've liked this set of comics so far; it's deliberately written for the books, and so keeping the punchline for the last two strips in the comments is a pretty good way to amuse the current readers while crafting a very good book.
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More canvases for Thought Bubble, from Tom's tumblr:      Also more of that super-cool blue wall.
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Some day I will have one of those City Face canvasses. Someday.
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:More canvases for Thought Bubble, from Tom's tumblr: All coyote, all the time. I LOVE Tom's Coyote depictions. I used to live in Kitimat, British Columbia and Haisla art was everywhere. Coyote's colours and style remind me of that so much.
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TenKindsOfCrazy posted:She definitely seems compassionate above all else. To Eglamore, old man Langdon, to the Jones she took her name from. She helped the Cro-Magnon hunt for food. She hasn't appeared to do anything that would outright hurt anyone, ever. I know a bison who would disagree.
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:More canvases for Thought Bubble, from Tom's tumblr: I like this one a lot. I kind of wish it were a print to be honest. Though now that I think of it, it reminds me of the Sonic & Knuckles logo.
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Parahexavoctal posted:I know a bison who would disagree. By 'anyone' I mean specifically human. If psychopomps come for a bug they come for a big-rear end bison, so maybe she has developed a certain philosophy about animal vs. human life that allows for 'necessary' killing. On that note, though, does Jones eat? She gave that bag of candy to Shadow but we've never seen her eat anything that I can recall and she appeared to have no interest in it herself.
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MoreLikeTen posted:A serial pedophile on a geological timescale Jones was gettin' all up in Earth before there was even grass on the field  Okay that joke made me feel real gross I'm gonna go think about my life now
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I looked it up guys, triple R GEM is Respirate Reproduce Respond to Stimulus Grow Excrete Move but this was a 7th grade biology class over a decade ago so I'm pretty sure that's not the end-all be all definition.
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