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VanSandman posted:Man, the robot chapters are cute as hell but there's always something incredibly unnerving about them. See: Chapter 33, Give and Take. Give and Take irritates me because I'm always like "couldn't you be okay staying alive maybe ten more minutes, answer a couple more questions about the early court? C'mon, old guy"
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MikeJF posted:Give and Take irritates me because I'm always like "couldn't you be okay staying alive maybe ten more minutes, answer a couple more questions about the early court? C'mon, old guy" I bet the Court would feel the same way. I hope for Kat's sake that their knowledge of her ability is a long time coming...
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Jan 7, 2013 18:01
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Two things: 1.) What the hell page is my avatar from? 2.) Avatar Fairy needs to start centering stuff, bad. This is going to drive me nuts.
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Jan 7, 2013 18:26
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Cabbit posted:Two things: One of the saddest pages in GKC. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1019
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Jan 7, 2013 18:28
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Surely the robots see no reason for deception; they probably believe everything they are doing is necessary (maybe it is?  )
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Jan 7, 2013 19:06
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Dang, I was looking forward to some sweet triangulating by Kat too 
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Tupperwarez posted:Edit: Wait a second, so are these rogue S-series robots? Why would they have their own lair separate from robot HQ? Criminal robots have their CPUs locked up and their brains turned into paperclips; they'd probably rather avoid that. And this page indicates there are a lot of robots criminals. Like I said, I think we're finally about to see more of that plot point. MikeJF posted:Give and Take irritates me because I'm always like "couldn't you be okay staying alive maybe ten more minutes, answer a couple more questions about the early court? C'mon, old guy" I still read his last word as "you thought you'd actually get some answers? Please."
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Jan 7, 2013 19:47
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Flitter Reid posted:It's a trap! That's what I reckon. The already have something of a religious movement going, with Kat as their angel / goddess, and Robot as their priest. ("In the meantime, there has been a change in us, a new light, shed by the strange, clothed robot.") I would not be in the least surprised if this turned out to be part of a religious war among robots over the finer points of theology, and that physical possession of the angel is important somehow. E.J.Olmos posted:Surely the robots see no reason for deception; they probably believe everything they are doing is necessary (maybe it is? This is the thing, though. If this is a religious war, it could well be totally legitimate. We've already seen (through Zimmie's eyes) that Kat is an honest-to-goodness machine angel at the ethereal level. Whatever finer points of theology the robots are arguing about could be quite important in the real world.
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Jan 7, 2013 20:18
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TenKindsOfCrazy posted:One of the saddest pages in GKC. Too sad for me. I guess I can thank the avatar fairy for impelling me to get off my rear end and get a Coyote avatar. Edit: At least until baseball season starts up again! Cabbit fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jan 7, 2013 |
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Jan 7, 2013 20:30
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Haha, surely not a trap at all! I wonder if they caught Robot because he can possibly lie while they can't and they consider him as a danger.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:That's what I reckon. The already have something of a religious movement going, with Kat as their angel / goddess, and Robot as their priest. ("In the meantime, there has been a change in us, a new light, shed by the strange, clothed robot.") My guess is that there are some robots that see a conflict with the reverence of Kat vis-a-vis that of Jeanne. All robots seem to have an inbuilt connection of sorts to Jeanne, and the whole "Kat as an angel" buisness might seem like heresy in the eyes of some of them.
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Man, I love the court robots.  It is interesting that we see them through very different lenses. With Robot or Kat we get this creepy silence and seriousness that completely disappears if Annie is in the scene.
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Was the warehouse Reynard was penned up in ever given a number? Also I take it back. There is no robot conspiracy. I don't think the court robots know what conspiring is, especially not against other robots.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This is the thing, though. If this is a religious war, it could well be totally legitimate. We've already seen (through Zimmie's eyes) that Kat is an honest-to-goodness machine angel at the ethereal level. Whatever finer points of theology the robots are arguing about could be quite important in the real world. I read that chapter, given Zimmie's general weirdness, as not being what Kat is but what she could be or is going to be.
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The avatar faerie is pretty thorough! Are... are those jazz hands?
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Haha oh wow avatar fairy! You're the greatest! 
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Bell_ posted:The avatar faerie is pretty thorough! It's an Adventure Time reference, I think. Also did some lurker hit the lottery or something, good Lord
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Bell_ posted:The avatar faerie is pretty thorough! It's the scheming wriggling fingers of the creepy deer from Adventure Time. On top of that your text is still homestuck and makes no sense with the avatar since that is not the drunk rose district.
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I thought so at first too, but then I double-checked and the Avatar Fairy in FACT accounted for this.
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I'm half afraid to change my avatar now, in case it gets changed again-even if I made it a City Face so it was appropriate or something. They must be slowing/stopped now since there are a whole two people above without a GC avatar. I like though how they seem to be matching up new avs with currently existing text.
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Avatar Fairy is seriously impressive. They must be loaded. Or, like, a big team of people. And they're putting some effort into this, matching up avatars with text/usernames/whatever. Still shocked they managed to find a guy that looks like Julian Assange.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:That's what I reckon. The already have something of a religious movement going, with Kat as their angel / goddess, and Robot as their priest. ("In the meantime, there has been a change in us, a new light, shed by the strange, clothed robot.") A machine angel, you say? I couldn't make heads nor tails of that picture, looked like a giant bug to me. I dunno about the religious war stuff. The robots are a pretty goofy bunch; they don't really seem serious enough to have things like wars to me. This is definitely some sort of lure for Kat, but I'm not it's as serious as a trap or some elaborate scheme to control her. On the other hand, the title of the chapter is "Changes", so all bets are off I guess.
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Jan 8, 2013 03:36
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neogeo0823 posted:Which chapter had the laser cows again? I really need to start remembering that one. If you scroll down on http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/ you'll see all the chapters and chapter 24 has a laser cow as the icon.
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The Sin of Onan posted:A machine angel, you say? I couldn't make heads nor tails of that picture, looked like a giant bug to me. Yeah, I didn't so much get "angel" from that as "hideous metal demon with a bird motif". Which would be why she scared Zimmy. Still a beautiful bit of art though. In a terrifying sort of way.
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Jan 8, 2013 04:09
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Obviously Kat is the Shrike. Now she just needs to get a big spiky tree.
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Pyradox posted:Yeah, I didn't so much get "angel" from that as "hideous metal demon with a bird motif". Which would be why she scared Zimmy. Angels are terrifying to look upon "in the lore."
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Pwnstar posted:Angels are terrifying to look upon "in the lore." Yeah, in classical mythology, someone who looked at a cherubim (those tiny fat winged babies you see today) would literally burst into flame from the terrible radiance of their faces. Old-school angels don't gently caress around.
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This clearly asks for more of the robot outfit for both Kat and Annie. How else are they going to sneak into a secret robot hideout? I really want to see "BEEP BOOP I AM A ROBOT" done by Kat, too. Especially since she knows robots in GKC don't do it. Also, holy poo poo. Some late christmas presents from Avatar fairy here. Soon, everyone will have a GKC avatar it seems.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:That's what I reckon. The already have something of a religious movement going, with Kat as their angel / goddess, and Robot as their priest. ("In the meantime, there has been a change in us, a new light, shed by the strange, clothed robot.") Kidnapping a young student - and let's remember that the court has the ability to track their students - would likely lead to some pretty major consequences for robot society from the human society of the Court. The concept of a conflict between the two is... terrifying. quote:This is the thing, though. If this is a religious war, it could well be totally legitimate. We've already seen (through Zimmie's eyes) that Kat is an honest-to-goodness machine angel at the ethereal level. Whatever finer points of theology the robots are arguing about could be quite important in the real world. Zimmy doesn't necessarily see, like, someone's true ethereal self of anything. She sees all kinds of hosed up hallucinations for all kinds of reasons. She may well be glimpsing the image the robots have of her in the future, or something else entirely.
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VanSandman posted:Man, the robot chapters are cute as hell but there's always something incredibly unnerving about them. See: Chapter 33, Give and Take. Counterpoint: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=899 Robox clearly telling Boxbot what's what.
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MikeJF posted:Zimmy doesn't necessarily see, like, someone's true ethereal self of anything. She sees all kinds of hosed up hallucinations for all kinds of reasons. She may well be glimpsing the image the robots have of her in the future, or something else entirely. Given that Zimmy was already seeing some of Kat's thoughts through the pigeon, maybe the machine image is just how Kat thinks about her own body working? Like Kat already breaks down how machines and bird wings work in her mind, so naturally she's thought about how her body would work/look put together as a machine and that's what Zimmy is seeing.
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Musluk posted:This clearly asks for more of the robot outfit for both Kat and Annie. How else are they going to sneak into a secret robot hideout? I really want to see "BEEP BOOP I AM A ROBOT" done by Kat, too. Especially since she knows robots in GKC don't do it. Oh god the page where Kat isn't convincing enough a robot and gets vouched for by Annie will be the best page to have ever been produced
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Give and Take probably ranks among my top GC chapters (anything to do with the robot society really), I love machine/human existential poo poo like that in fiction; another popular example is something like The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix (and really the Matrix mythos in general.) Futurology is a fascinating thing to think about for me and I think GC captures those ideas really well in its own narrative. It also manages to mix in a lot of ethereal high fantasy-esque tropes like magic and fairies and elves and all that good stuff, which I also really like! Basically GC is the best. I'm kind of gushing but if anywhere this is the place to do it! That said I'm really looking forward to this chapter, keep working your magic Tom. 
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Battle Pigeon posted:I'm half afraid to change my avatar now, in case it gets changed again-even if I made it a City Face so it was appropriate or something. They must be slowing/stopped now since there are a whole two people above without a GC avatar. I wouldn't worry, my avatar pre-dates avatar fairy and I've posted plenty.
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Battle Pigeon posted:I'm half afraid to change my avatar now, in case it gets changed again-even if I made it a City Face so it was appropriate or something. They must be slowing/stopped now since there are a whole two people above without a GC avatar. I have theories about Avatar fairy. But I'm pretty sure I'm safe (last 00 stupid newbie I know!). You should probably also be safe with a city face av.
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FriggenJ posted:Counterpoint: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=899 Robox clearly telling Boxbot what's what. Holy cow I hadn't realised how creepy the boxy robots could be until I stared at that for a while... Still doesn't stop me wanting to make ALL THE PLUSHIES though. Man, this thread has me re-reading the archives so often, I hope my boss doesn't catch on 
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Oxxidation posted:Yeah, in classical mythology, someone who looked at a cherubim (those tiny fat winged babies you see today) would literally burst into flame from the terrible radiance of their faces. Old-school angels don't gently caress around.
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Prison Warden posted:Obviously Kat is the Shrike. Now she just needs to get a big spiky tree. Oh goodness, that means Annie's father is going to have to sacrifice her.
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Osmosisch posted:Oh goodness, that means Annie's father is going to have to sacrifice her. Annie didn't kill her mother; Annie is her mother, she just forgot because she travels backward in time.
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