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Bongo Bill posted:Perhaps her apathy is related to the fact that, due to not eating, she has never experienced her life's true passion: hamburgers. Oh, to never have 'burged! Truly, 'tis a cursed existence.
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Cthulhuchan posted:Oh, to never have 'burged! Truly, 'tis a cursed existence. Things Jones is not: -A robot -Alive -Dracula
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PubicMice posted:Things Jones is not: -A golem
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I need a hand here. I am trying to twootle the comic wherein Coyote talks about how he messed up the stars. I cannot seem to find it. At all. Anyone have a link?
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KSAF Staff Report posted:I need a hand here. I am trying to twootle the comic wherein Coyote talks about how he messed up the stars. I cannot seem to find it. At all. Anyone have a link? This one?
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Thank you. I thought it was later than that.
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PubicMice posted:Things Jones is not: "What is a man? A bipedal relative of the primate family known primarily for its intelligence. But enough talk. The tea is ready."
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What weirds me out the most is that Jones looked like a human before humans had even existed yet. Was this ever explained or hinted at? There's got to be a reason behind it.
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Eggie posted:What weirds me out the most is that Jones looked like a human before humans had even existed yet. Was this ever explained or hinted at? There's got to be a reason behind it. technically speaking, humans look like jones
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Crazy theory: Jones is an unwitting forest sleeper agent. Her memories and personality are fabricated, created wholesale by Coyote. This also accounts for her unbreakable body. Her invulnerability is a great way to avoid evidence contradicting her story. This would also explain Coyote calling her Wandering Eye. She's a mobile observation point for him, involuntary though it may be. I don't actually believe this theory though; feel free to shoot holes in it 
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Tollymain posted:Crazy theory: Jones is an unwitting forest sleeper agent. Her memories and personality are fabricated, created wholesale by Coyote. This also accounts for her unbreakable body. Her invulnerability is a great way to avoid evidence contradicting her story. This would also explain Coyote calling her Wandering Eye. She's a mobile observation point for him, involuntary though it may be. Paranoia about Coyote's abilities, especially since the Ysengrin incident, is certainly understandable. The first problem that comes to mind is that Jones has knowledge of things that Coyote wouldn't- like the appearance of dinosaurs and customs in medieval Europe. Jones is a creature of intellect, and I like to think that she would notice if her memories contradicted what was scientifically verified, she'd be suspicious of it herself. On the other hand, it would be neat for Siddell to make a shout out to Oxxidation's story.
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AntimatterSpork posted:technically speaking, humans look like jones Maybe someone is less than honest about doing some tinkering with the primordial soup
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Ezzer posted:Maybe someone is less than honest about doing some tinkering with the primordial soup Nah, we're just an extreme case of Batesian mimicry. After the millionth or so saber-toothed cat splinters its fangs on Jones, its descendants are going to think really hard about messing with something that looks a lot like her.
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Phy posted:Batesian mimicry. ok I read that as Batman mimicry at first, I think its time to sleep...
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Rumda posted:ok I read that as Batman mimicry at first, I think its time to sleep... Humans evolved to this point so we could produce Batman.
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Phy posted:Nah, we're just an extreme case of Batesian mimicry. After the millionth or so saber-toothed cat splinters its fangs on Jones, its descendants are going to think really hard about messing with something that looks a lot like her. This is the best reasoning for humans to look like Jones that I've seen so far.
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Phy posted:Nah, we're just an extreme case of Batesian mimicry. After the millionth or so saber-toothed cat splinters its fangs on Jones, its descendants are going to think really hard about messing with something that looks a lot like her. Could be something like this, with an etheric bent perhaps. Like, all these other animals through the years have died with a memory of a creature who looks like Jones and it has influenced the ether in such a way that the evolution of Jonesoid creatures became more favoured. The ether subtly influencing chance or whatever.
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Phy posted:Nah, we're just an extreme case of Batesian mimicry. After the millionth or so saber-toothed cat splinters its fangs on Jones, its descendants are going to think really hard about messing with something that looks a lot like her. I really like this idea. I hope it's canon.
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So I just marathoned this whole thing in a couple of hours. I really should be sleeping but holy poo poo did this ever spiral into greatness. I was weirded out by the art at first, but that didn't take long to get better. It's amazing how much it's changed during the series. I kinda feel like I wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't read it all in one sitting. So gradual, yet so strikingly different from when it started. Time to painstakingly wait for every page like normal people. (Also Jones owns bones. (Dinosaur ones, probably.))
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Wikiman posted:(Also Jones owns bones. (Dinosaur ones, probably.)) End of Chapter:  Here's my authentic T-Rex skeleton.And Annie's head just explodes.
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Nov 26, 2012 06:37
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Ah. Jones is a personification of the strong anthropic principle.
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Beautiful last panel, there.
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Wikiman posted:I kinda feel like I wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't read it all in one sitting. So gradual, yet so strikingly different from when it started. No, football-head-Annie is a memory no one forgets. As for the new page, some googling brought up Ecco the Dolphin (it's probably not Ecco) and Delphinus. Not sure what the other things are though.
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And we swing back to the retroactive belief theory.
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Does poetry require emotional connection, or simply finesse as a wordsmith?
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That depends on your (or Tom's) definition of poetry. If a computer can generate a haiku (it can), then there's nothing stopping someone who's observed human language since it was a thing from playing some neat tricks with it. Does being a poet just mean you're someone who can produce objects recognized as poems? Recognized as good poems? I say Jones's secret emotions are the core of her soul of an artist.
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He's joking about how Jones' distant musings sound poetic despite the emotional disconnect.
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scary ghost dog posted:He's joking about how Jones' distant musings sound poetic despite the emotional disconnect. That and two of her lines actually rhyme.
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Yeah the joke is that when someone says two line which rhyme (who put the stars in the sky? Coyote and that's not a lie) it's common to say 'I'm a poet and I didn't know it". This is a twist on that.
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My life will not be complete without a bonus strip of Rap Battles by Jones.
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This entire chapter is all sorts of astonishing, but somehow the weirdest thing yet is today's comment by Tom.
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quote:Who put the stars in the sky? It's a shame. She would make quite the poet. Roger Explosion fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Nov 26, 2012 |
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Jones is a human elemental.
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Phy posted:Nah, we're just an extreme case of Batesian mimicry. After the millionth or so saber-toothed cat splinters its fangs on Jones, its descendants are going to think really hard about messing with something that looks a lot like her.
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So if a powerful being created by humans created the stars, but the stars were there before the being was created as proved by Jones who was there after the stars and before humans, then the being would have sent a direct copy of the stars back in time to take the place of the original stars. Then the original stars would move forward in time, taking the place of Jones, who takes the place of humans, who take the place of the god, who falls off the edge of a cliff.
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Actually, if you abandon your belief that there is only one past, it makes perfect sense. Time is like a thread, frayed on both ends, going through a needle. The past is mutable, as is the future; only the present is fixed. Any number of pasts could have happened as long as they lead to the same present. Only by discovering evidence that a past didn't happen can you make it unhappen. On an odd note, does Jones have a belly button? I can't imagine why she would, other than looking more human.
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Zemyla posted:On an odd note, does Jones have a belly button? I can't imagine why she would, other than looking more human. Biologically speaking Jones has no reason to have a... Jones. Don't think you can apply biological logic to her.
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 My Bones. Jones' Bones. Jones Jones Jones.
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idonotlikepeas posted:I think they're going to talk about the literal stars here. As in, "how can Coyote have put the stars in the sky if humans made him up". We'll see, though. Good lord, I was actually right about something.
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:
Think I might swipe this one for an avatar. Really like that Coyote.
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