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"Why not make a real action movie with fighting and explosions? Your art seems violent" "FINE I'LL TRY IT" Becomes billionaire movie tycoon, copycats struggle to flood media to get a piece of the action, society collapses, federation hunts them down again and threatens to wipe out humanity
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Feb 6, 2013 18:47
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I'm starting to wonder if this is another planet similar to The Most loving Awesome Planet Ever, in that the males of the species go to extreme lengths to keep their wives in check. If gender change really is brought on by success, then it would make sense for Drill Hinge to employ such tactics as say, rigged comedy analysis machines and bunk movies with fake box office statistics.
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Feb 6, 2013 19:28
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I'm thinking the vegetables are related to some sort of publicly-acceptable "pornography" and the surrounding plots are just as superfluous as its Earth-analogue.
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Feb 6, 2013 19:48
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After finally registering having been a long time lurker, I just wanted to say thanks to you goons for getting me onto Hitmen for Destiny. It's one of the best things I've ever read. While so far not as brilliant, rear end is shaping up pretty nicely too. Also sorry if I stole someone's username, I didn't think to check to see if lostclock without the capital was taken until after I registered.
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Feb 7, 2013 13:08
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"A story of two ugly old people falling in love seems less important because the audience would not want to have sex with these characters." "A horror movie about old people getting killed would be less scary." 
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Feb 8, 2013 12:27
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He's right, Bubba Ho-Tep was not a very scary movie.
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Feb 8, 2013 13:23
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Sizone posted:Drill's well aware that not-Plume and Dunkirk know gently caress-all his society, as indicated by him calling them out on not knowing the slaving law. Pretty sure he knows what he's doing, it won't be his own ignorance that defeats him, it'll be Thorsby being the author. There's limits to people's imaginations. Aliens not knowing about laws is easy to imagine. But aliens not knowing about things so basic that one doesn't even consciously realize they exist is decidedly harder. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Feb 9, 2013 |
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Feb 9, 2013 01:00
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I love these little evolutionary treatises. This seems kinda relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2853
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Feb 9, 2013 08:00
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I'm not really sure how I never saw it before, probably because now he's talking about humans and not aliens, but it suddenly hit me all at once that whenever he goes on these tangents it basically turns into  : The Comic.Not that it's a bad thing, mind you.
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Feb 11, 2013 15:49
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I get the feeling that this stuff is meant to be how social evolution works in-universe. It's just there to explain how all these crazy civilizations developed. If it's not, Oyvind Thorsby may be the most cynical person who ever lived.
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Feb 11, 2013 16:06
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The last panel looks like a subtle jab at Chuck Norris jokes.
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Feb 11, 2013 16:39
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Feb 11, 2013 19:58
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I really want him to make an Improbable Fist comic now. Mostly for the name.
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Feb 12, 2013 02:28
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I can't for the life of me get the second half of the latest comic to load. Could someone post it here?
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Feb 12, 2013 02:35
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Did you click "previous"?
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Feb 12, 2013 02:46
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Yeah, I tried everything, and the best I can get is like a little white box where the image should be.
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Feb 12, 2013 05:06
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I can't for the life of me get the second half of the latest comic to load. Could someone post it here? 
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Feb 12, 2013 07:34
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Hm, it's the same little white box in every browser I try. Odd.
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Feb 12, 2013 07:42
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Hm, it's the same little white box in every browser I try. Odd. You might need to clear your cache. To clear your cacha for one page, use Ctrl+F5.
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Feb 12, 2013 08:25
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RandomFerret posted:I get the feeling that this stuff is meant to be how social evolution works in-universe. It's just there to explain how all these crazy civilizations developed. I think this might be how evolutionary biologists view the world.
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Feb 12, 2013 10:31
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ChairMaster posted:I think this might be how evolutionary biologists view the world. Sociobiologists actually try to apply this kind of reasoning to human social behavior, although they are generally less thoughtful and far less entertaining than Thorsby.
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Feb 12, 2013 13:49
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BLAAAARK! BLAAAARK! BLAAAARK! BLAAAARK! Well, that's one way to make movies difficult to understand.
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Feb 14, 2013 18:37
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Improbable Fist, nooo 
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Feb 14, 2013 23:18
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Great plan Not-Plume.
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Feb 22, 2013 14:31
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My current bet on what's going to happen is that our two intrepid heroes make all three wives incredibly mad at each other and at them, and then it turns out that that's exactly what the husband wanted them to do in the first place, so he's really happy with them.
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Feb 22, 2013 15:30
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This is like a miniseries version of Lies Sisters and Wives and I'm loving it. There's no way Ben can out-shout four of these aliens as they try and figure out what the hell everyone else is talking about.
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Feb 27, 2013 13:17
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I get the feeling that Thorsby loves writing these conversations where both parties are arguing from an entirely different context. Which is good, because I love reading them.
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Feb 27, 2013 14:00
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The eye color changes never stop being funny. I also can't wait to find out how these aliens evolved cylindrical mouths.
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Feb 27, 2013 15:05
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Buzkashi posted:This is like a miniseries version of Lies Sisters and Wives and I'm loving it. There's no way Ben can out-shout four of these aliens as they try and figure out what the hell everyone else is talking about. What I'm wondering is why the seem angry when told the other person is apologizing.
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Mar 1, 2013 04:16
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Actually, from the context it looks like red eyes indicate either surprise or confusion. You shouldn't assume that red means angry just because it's associated with anger in humans. That kind of thing can get you into trouble.
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Mar 1, 2013 04:40
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Oh poo poo, somebody put a fake label over the species indicator on the machine to make her fail.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:10
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I love this comic for so many reasons, but I particularly love the way it keeps me wanting for for, and how each page implies so much, and how these implications are almost always covered in a surprising way.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:18
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And to think she could have saved herself all that grief if only she had been using augmented power!
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Mar 1, 2013 10:17
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Prediction: Her jokes will still be terrible.
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Mar 1, 2013 10:35
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The way this page's revelation was handled was loving genius. 'Show, don't tell' in action.
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Mar 2, 2013 01:39
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BiggerJ posted:The way this page's revelation was handle was loving genius. 'Show, don't tell' in action. Hah, I didn't even notice that until I went back and checked. I thought it was just a review of what we'd seen before!
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Mar 2, 2013 05:13
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I love this comic and I keep checking up on it every once in awhile, but whenever he tries to explain human species mechanics and other such things it sounds super autistic and biotruths. Oh well.
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Mar 2, 2013 06:01
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cubivore posted:I love this comic and I keep checking up on it every once in awhile, but whenever he tries to explain human species mechanics and other such things it sounds super autistic and biotruths. Oh well. I always read it as tongue-in-cheek and/or in-universe explanation rather than a serious attempt to draw conclusions about real life. I mean, this is a funny webcomic, not some crazy essay or anything. It's more like fictional biology heavily inspired by actual biology (though not necessarily accurate to reality).
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Mar 2, 2013 17:29
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The evpsych stuff is probably meant to highlight the absurdities of human behavior when seen from a "neutral" viewpoint, like the angle on the other aliens in the comic. At least that's how I choose to interpret it. It's funnier when he does it with aliens though.
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Mar 2, 2013 19:15
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Not-Plume is now almost certainly in deep datima feces. That sticker was undoubtedly put there by the husband, who underestimated the alien-ness of the aliens.
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