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RandomPauI posted:It also might not be in a regular cellphone network. Also it is my firm belief that she spends a lot of her free time playing snake. This is based on absolutely nothing but I'm still convinced it's true. Wait is this how writing fanfiction starts 
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Also, Kat's work with the robots is more or less a hobby, and after she invented antigravity the Court's probably not going to curtail any of her technical exploration.
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DontMockMySmock posted:Parley and Smitty are significantly older, and Annie is a special case. As for Paz, well, she volunteers, and we don't really know whether or not the adults treat her with respect with regards to the animal lab.
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Splicer posted:Jones' phone might be a satellite phone. It's how awesome fanfiction starts 
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RandomPauI posted:It also might not be in a regular cellphone network. Considering that there have been a few mentions that the people at the Court have essentially left regular society, I wouldn't be surprised if it was pretty much cut off from the rest of the world when it comes to communication. Talorat posted:Am I the only person that thinks its weird that these kids are like 13-14 years old and yet they all have jobs and are treated with respect by the adults and are eligible to be ambassadors to the mystical forest? It feels like they are characterized as being more along the lines of 17-18 year olds. They're at a facility that encourages superscience with students from all over the place. Their students are generally pretty talented. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some kid from the Court one day became a superscientist hero along the lines of Dr Jonas Venture Senior. I mean Kat's halfway there with how she came to Annie's rescue with an antigravity vehicle.
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Also, I don't know if you noticed, but the court in general seems to be suspiciously thin on actual adults.
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Skippy McPants posted:Also, I don't know if you noticed, but the court in general seems to be suspiciously thin on actual adults. Well, to be fair, we are focused on the boarding school section, and all that excess space means that it's probably pretty easy not to run into everyone else. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Dec 3, 2013 |
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Skippy McPants posted:Also, I don't know if you noticed, but the court in general seems to be suspiciously thin on actual adults. I think that's probably because the protagonist is a kid who interacts with mythological creatures on a regular basis. Showing us the story of Doris, The Cafeteria Chef are pretty low on the totem pole compared to those. It makes sense that the human adults we see are ones that are important enough to be worth mentioning. Think about it, when you were a kid how many of the adults around you were actually particularly important in your life?
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Parents, teachers, a few shopkeepers. Since it's a boarding school, there are no parents unless they're also part of school staff like the Donlans; and it doesn't seem like there's any actual shop in the Court. It doesn't seem to have a monetary economy, actually.
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Slime posted:I think that's probably because the protagonist is a kid who interacts with mythological creatures on a regular basis. Showing us the story of Doris, The Cafeteria Chef are pretty low on the totem pole compared to those. It makes sense that the human adults we see are ones that are important enough to be worth mentioning. Think about it, when you were a kid how many of the adults around you were actually particularly important in your life? It could just be the Peanuts thing where the adults are all just nebulous clouds somewhere in the background, but maybe not. The comic has made a number of direct references to how empty the court seems to be.
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Slime posted:They're at a facility that encourages superscience with students from all over the place. Their students are generally pretty talented. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some kid from the Court one day became a superscientist hero along the lines of Dr Jonas Venture Senior. I mean Kat's halfway there with how she came to Annie's rescue with an antigravity vehicle. Pfft, now you've just got me imagining a series starring Kat's lazy, inept, morally suspect daughter. Voiced by James Urbaniak, exactly as he would Rusty Venture.
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Joke's on you guys when Doris the Lunch Lady turns out to be an integral character who also has the latest and greatest smart phone.
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Cat Mattress posted:Since it's a boarding school, there are no parents unless they're also part of school staff like the Donlans; and it doesn't seem like there's any actual shop in the Court. It doesn't seem to have a monetary economy, actually. Given the robots seem willing to do a whole lot of the grunt work, it seems like scarcity doesn't really apply.
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Skippy McPants posted:It could just be the Peanuts thing where the adults are all just nebulous clouds somewhere in the background, but maybe not. The comic has made a number of direct references to how empty the court seems to be. I think the Court seems empty because it's just huge. It wasn't really something the inhabitants built, so it's probably much bigger than is necessary for the amount of people who actually live there. Considering that it grew from the seed bismuth, it may even still be growing. In the future, everyone will be a member of Gunnerkrigg Court.
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Skippy McPants posted:It could just be the Peanuts thing where the adults are all just nebulous clouds somewhere in the background, but maybe not. The comic has made a number of direct references to how empty the court seems to be. Well, yeah it seems empty, it's a sparsely-inhabited wasteland of endlessly growing buildings.
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seravid posted:Received my copy of Annie in the Forest Part 2 today; thanks again, Nettle Soup! I got mine over the weekend too! Nettle Soup is the best, although not very tasty!
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Speaking of teachers, I still wanna know who this guy is. Did he ever show up again?
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If I recall properly, not only did he never appear again, Tom once said that he would expunge him from the comic if he ever were to redo the first chapter.
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Regy Rusty posted:Speaking of teachers, I still wanna know who this guy is. Did he ever show up again? Anoia posted:Joke's on you guys when Doris the Lunch Lady turns out to be an integral character who also has the latest and greatest smart phone.
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idonotlikepeas posted:If I recall properly, not only did he never appear again, Tom once said that he would expunge him from the comic if he ever were to redo the first chapter. I can't blame him, given how terrifying Snape fangirls are. No scowling teacher is safe now.
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DekeThornton posted:Cell phone saturation has been at or over 100% for well over a decade now. I'd say it's safe to assume all students who aren't Annie or former forest creatures would be expected to own at least one cell phone, if they are anything like students outside the Court. I assume the reason we aren't shown the kids using phones is simply because it doesn't fit the narrative. Dumb phones sure, but not smart phones which are capable of texting without using stupid button combinations, which is what really made texting take off.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Dumb phones sure, but not smart phones which are capable of texting without using stupid button combinations, which is what really made texting take off.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Dumb phones sure, but not smart phones which are capable of texting without using stupid button combinations, which is what really made texting take off. Speak for yourselves. I was in grade school in the US when dumb phones were still a thing, and I can attest to seeing plenty of dumb kids garner huge phone bills because they ripped through their 500 text-per-month limit or whatever and kept on going.
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T9 was motherfucking magic and every single person in my year level at school could pretty much text on a dumbphone keyboard as fast as they can on a smartphone.
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razorrozar posted:Also, Kat's work with the robots is more or less a hobby, and after she invented antigravity the Court's probably not going to curtail any of her technical exploration. Protein crystals! <  >
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Razorwired posted:Protein crystals! < I keep expecting this to come back as some kind of corner stone in her work to create more human robots. Protein Crystals!
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Probably worried about losing her only friend who isn't an anthromorphic personification.
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Whatcha thinkin about Annie?
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I have the weirdest feeling this is going to roundabout its way to Annie confessing about the homework theft.
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Skippy McPants posted:Probably worried about losing her only friend who isn't an anthromorphic personification. Yeah. Feelin' left out I would guess
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MikeJF posted:She is sad that Kat didn't tell her, I'm guessing. Which would be silly, considering how long Kat went without even telling herself. "Hey, I was totally lying to myself for way longer than I was hiding anything from you!"
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