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Anyone else immediately get this song stuck in their head at panel 7? http://youtu.be/v2K4wJ8EmZ0?t=39s
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One thing I noticed is that the way Annie and Kat look up, the symbols are visible to them as well.
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Jan 22, 2014 16:18
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Parts Kit posted:Yep, the little crown tends to pop up when fire elemental stuff is going on, so that's got to be what it's about. Specifically the little crown is the alchemical symbol for "native" antimony; LtStorm posted:That crown is most likely this symbol; Panel 6, I've noticed Tom has been using a different style of simplifying faces at a medium distance. He did it with Antimony once last chapter. It's a cute style and makes Kat sort of look like Cecelia from Piled Higher & Deeper.
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Jan 22, 2014 16:57
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So anyone else who played Psychonauts having a Black Velvetopia flashback?
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Jan 22, 2014 17:01
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MikeJF posted:So anyone else who played Psychonauts having a Black Velvetopia flashback? Well now I am. However, I noticed that you can see the sticker peeling off for the window shudder in the 6th panel. Yet the skull came out of that sticker. So there's a bit more going on that puppetry. Also, I keep thinking I've seen that window with a writer in it somewhere before. It seems like such an odd thing that's not very Halloween-y on its own.
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Jan 22, 2014 18:27
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MikeJF posted:So anyone else who played Psychonauts having a Black Velvetopia flashback? The webs are not purple enough. And their color scheme should have changed a bit. More like this really.
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Jan 22, 2014 18:32
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MikeJF posted:So anyone else who played Psychonauts having a Black Velvetopia flashback? Yes 100%. In other news I am fairly certain that this is the chapter where it is explicitly stated that Kat's abilities are somewhat etheric in nature. Not in the same way as Annie's of course but still there.
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Jan 22, 2014 19:07
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I, on the other hand, hope this is the chapter where it is confirmed Kat's "abilities" are 100% natural and not etheric at all, so at least one of us will be disappointed!
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Jan 23, 2014 00:31
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The robots worship Kat like a god, and it is implied in GC that a god imagined by a human has a profound effect on the ether. Meaning in a really strange way, Kat is not only a god and therefore now has a sphere of influence in the ether, but also the robots may be connected to the ether too...?
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Jan 23, 2014 01:01
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HoboNews posted:The robots worship Kat like a god, and it is implied in GC that a god imagined by a human has a profound effect on the ether. Meaning in a really strange way, Kat is not only a god and therefore now has a sphere of influence in the ether, but also the robots may be connected to the ether too...? Or possibly that Kat's living bio-robots from the future may be, as biological creatures, connected to the ether, and their belief may be retroactively elevating her.
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Jan 23, 2014 01:17
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MikeJF posted:Or possibly that Kat's living bio-robots from the future may be, as biological creatures, connected to the ether, and their belief may be retroactively elevating her. Is it because they are technically biological creatures, or because they have a conscience, and were created by humans? OR- 
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Jan 23, 2014 01:27
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It's nothing to do with conscience or mind. It's to do with death and being able to die. Since many people die believing a rational history one exists; and since the observed implies an observer Jones.
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Jan 23, 2014 02:03
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Prison Warden posted:I, on the other hand, hope this is the chapter where it is confirmed Kat's "abilities" are 100% natural and not etheric at all, so at least one of us will be disappointed! I'm not sure what the difference is.
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Jan 23, 2014 02:03
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Yeah for rizzle, the ether is a natural part of the universe and everyone is a part of it. Like people's souls to into the ether when they die so I think it's reasonable to say that they're like the same stuff.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Yeah for rizzle, the ether is a natural part of the universe and everyone is a part of it. Like people's souls to into the ether when they die so I think it's reasonable to say that they're like the same stuff.
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Jan 23, 2014 03:49
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What I'm sayin is that everything is etheric because we're all etheric.
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Jan 23, 2014 04:15
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SHISHKABOB posted:What I'm sayin is that everything is etheric because we're all etheric. Except Jones.
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Jan 23, 2014 04:25
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GabrielAisling posted:Except Jones.
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Jan 23, 2014 04:28
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I more get the impression that the ether is a thing that is also going on, not a thing going on instead of, or the secret root cause of, science as we know it. Eglamore can jump super high because of etheric stuff, but he swordfights with regular muscles that work because of, uh, chemistry and physics and stuff, and is good at it because he's athletic and works out and practices very hard. If Kat can do crazy robot stuff because she's very smart and driven then, to me, it feels like she has more agency than if she's just all hopped up on ether juice.
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JT Jag posted:Speaking of, and I know this is a random question. Rey can possess "anything with eyes". Do you think Jones' lack of etheric presence makes her an exception? I very much doubt a stuffed animal has any etheric presence.
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Jan 23, 2014 04:33
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MikeJF posted:Or possibly that Kat's living bio-robots from the future may be, as biological creatures, connected to the ether, and their belief may be retroactively elevating her. Oh dang, this might be it! She isn't really psychopompy right now, but if her experiments progress and she creates biological robots that can affect the ether, then those future robots may see her as the bringer of life and death for their species. Hence why the skeleton doorkeeper doesn't recognize the symbol, her status as a psychopomp is not yet realized but she's retroactively labeled as such.
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pik_d posted:I very much doubt a stuffed animal has any etheric presence. But Jones might be impenetrable by any kind of energy (or X-rays) so maybe she's just immune to that kind of stuff.
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Yeah, I think it's just a matter of Jones being everything-proof. I think that Kat's robot stuff is her being Just That Smart. It's the weird stuff, like Zimmy's visions and this, that indicate etheric stuff, if not being done by her, is happening around/to her. Fake edit: Let me try to say this in less confusing way. She doesn't have powers or anything (right now...), she's just operating on her non-etheric talents at the moment. She is tied into etheric stuff right now, but not as an active party. It's just happening around/to her.
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GabrielAisling posted:Except Jones. We know that the ether doesn't affect jones or that she doesn't have a presence in it, but also kat can't influence he ether but we know that all humans go into the ether when they die. We can also make the guess or assumption that jones was created by the ether in the same idea as coyote talks about??? So I mean I'm just sayin that the ether is like energy in a physics sense?
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Jan 23, 2014 04:55
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I personally doubt anyone could be that smart naturally. She can read impossible machine code, after all. Plus it's very obvious that she's going to at least some day be more than human. Zimmy doesn't see her like that for nothing. Plus, really, as I've said, I'm starting to doubt the court has a single "normal" student.
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Jan 23, 2014 04:57
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M.c.P posted:With the way skull secretary is being drawn, I think both eyes are squinting and opening, and the pupils are doing some crazy bouncing around. I think you might be seeing what I'm seeing...which is Morte from Planescape Torment:  Took me forever to figure out why it seemed so familiar..
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Jan 23, 2014 08:21
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Kennel already did that.
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reignonyourparade posted:Kennel already did that. drat..I saw that and somehow didn't make the initial connection
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Lurdiak posted:I personally doubt anyone could be that smart naturally. Why?
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Because she is reading partially etheric computer source code compressed into a cube because no human writing can contain the robotic code correctly. It's not that she's 'just' building hover machines and poo poo, she's literally able to read something that isn't readable. She's either etherically-gifted with it, or she's a robot herself (and she's been growing and ya know, we've never gotten a single hint to her being robotic.)
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KittyEmpress posted:She's either etherically-gifted with it, or she's a robot herself (and she's been growing and ya know, we've never gotten a single hint to her being robotic.) Would a robot grow her hair? Kat has gotten several onscreen haircuts and her hair always grow back. She's a normal little girl. Now Annie on the other hand, she never got any on-screen haircut... But we do see she uses makeup to disguise the imperfection in her skin-imitation covering because she definitely is a robot, just like Jones.
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:Took me forever to figure out why it seemed so familiar.. Personally, he reminds me of someone else... 
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Cat Mattress posted:Would a robot grow her hair? Kat has gotten several onscreen haircuts and her hair always grow back. She's a normal little girl. Everyone in Gunnerkrigg Court is a robot. Except Mort. Mort is a ghost of a robot.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Personally, he reminds me of someone else... Oh man you're right, I was totally thinking of the wrong Lucasarts game.
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Cat Mattress posted:Would a robot grow her hair? Kat has gotten several onscreen haircuts and her hair always grow back. She's a normal little girl. Kat could be an etheric robot. That grows. Hair too. With the ether, anything is possible! 
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Jan 23, 2014 18:15
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Warmachine posted:With the ether, anything is possible! It's etheric! I ain't gotta explain poo poo!
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IUG posted:Also, I keep thinking I've seen that window with a writer in it somewhere before. It seems like such an odd thing that's not very Halloween-y on its own. It reminds me of Andrew Hussie's self-insertion interludes. So clearly Tom is back there, and the reason they have to put fake spiders out in the hall is that all the real ones are drawn to him. 
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Jan 23, 2014 18:20
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I swear to god if this turns into Battlestar Galactica.
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Kabanaw posted:I swear to god if this turns into Battlestar Galactica. Well, it's well on its way to acquiring Cylons. All we need is a revelation that Antimony has been dead the whole time, Kat to get really fat for a few chapters, and something something abandon the court and go to London. 
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Portals posted:Oh dang, this might be it! She isn't really psychopompy right now, but if her experiments progress and she creates biological robots that can affect the ether, then those future robots may see her as the bringer of life and death for their species. Hence why the skeleton doorkeeper doesn't recognize the symbol, her status as a psychopomp is not yet realized but she's retroactively labeled as such. The apotheosis of Katerina Donlan took place over the course of several years during the late '00s and early '10s. The skeleton doorman does not remember it, because back then it was only a prophecy. But now, in the future, the past has occurred.
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