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ChairMaster posted:There's a pretty good chance she was just saying that because she wanted him to stick around for her scam. It could be true but it could also be bullshit. It's bullshit in three out of four universes.
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Really love the premise and the start of the new comic. I just hope that Thorsby dosen't get bored of it like towards the end of TASS. I also imagine Thorsby as the creator of a modern, animated Twilight Zone.
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Zinkraptor posted:I'm not sure it the problem with it in rear end was that the premise was wearing thin, but rather that the circumstances for it just weren't that interesting or engaging. Orrrr because it's a gimmick he's used up entirely. Seriously, I might bail on this one if it goes into that same spiral, no matter how interesting the premise happens to be. If I want that level of awkward, I'll go back to watching Seinfeld.
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RickoniX posted:I liked it in LSW and HFD but it really wore thin in rear end I just remembered it was in TASS also and agree it wasn't as funny. But I'll chalk that up to not really caring about the characters and Thorsby just not putting effort in anymore because he pretty clearly ran out of steam. That last planet dragged on way too long.
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So... looks like the Ulfs can force themselves connected to each other. How many strips do you give it before there's blood involved?
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Apr 7, 2014 22:57
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I wonder how they could possibly punish each other. This one shows that the Ulfs see each other to be different people rather than instances from the same ego.
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My only concern is that he'll keep the cast contained to ulf since there's 4 of him already. Hitmen worked best when it was a bunch of weirdos playing off a bunch of other weirdos.
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A big flaming stink posted:My only concern is that he'll keep the cast contained to ulf since there's 4 of him already. Hitmen worked best when it was a bunch of weirdos playing off a bunch of other weirdos. Keep in mind that A: Ulf can block out redundant alternates (i.e. ones too similar to others) and B: the Ulfs will diverge further and further as per chaos theory. Perhaps, in time, the Ulfs will become very different to each others.
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Near the start, when it split into 4 Ulfs, the Veras give them the option to be AA, AB, BA, BB. How did they decide this? From the perspective of the second pair of Veras, they had A and B. They must have used some sort of off-screen criteria to determine which pair is AX and which pair is BX.
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dipwood posted:Near the start, when it split into 4 Ulfs, the Veras give them the option to be AA, AB, BA, BB. How did they decide this? From the perspective of the second pair of Veras, they had A and B. They must have used some sort of off-screen criteria to determine which pair is AX and which pair is BX. Not so. Both AXes remember being A, because up to the second split their pasts are identical and they WERE both A, and their respective Vera remember that too. Thus, the former A's could only choose between being AA and AB. Same with the BXes. Whenever the Ulfs double in number, each Ulf splits in two and gets a new letter, A or B, on the end of his Ulf-code.
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BiggerJ posted:Not so. Both AXes remember being A, because up to the second split their pasts are identical and they WERE both A, and their respective Vera remember that too. Thus, the former A's could only choose between being AA and AB. Same with the BXes. Oh, o.k.. So the next instantiation is going to be AAA, AAB, ABA, ABB, BAA, BAB, BBA, BBB? Kinda arbitrary that extant realities only diverge on weekly intervals though. Oh well, BRAINCHIP.
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Sizone posted:Oh, o.k.. So the next instantiation is going to be AAA, AAB, ABA, ABB, BAA, BAB, BBA, BBB? Realities diverge a lot more often. It's all explained in the first comic. Every week the chip connects to one new universe, out of the near-infinite numbers there are.
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BiggerJ posted:Not so. Both AXes remember being A, because up to the second split their pasts are identical and they WERE both A, and their respective Vera remember that too. Thus, the former A's could only choose between being AA and AB. Same with the BXes. You're agreeing with me in the first part. However, it still doesn't explain how the first pair decided they were A, and the second pair, who from their perspective is the first pair, decided they were B.
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dipwood posted:You're agreeing with me in the first part. One Ulf knows himself as B. B split into two, and one of them decided to be BA, and one BB. Equally, The Ulf formerly known as A split in two, and they decided between being AA and AB.
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dipwood posted:You're agreeing with me in the first part. Because one Ulf shouted that he wants to be A and the other Ulf was like i guess im B then
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Oh I just realized my confusion. The splitting point is from the A and B... I thought something else.
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This is amusing, but I'm really starting to wonder if Hitmen for Destiny was his zenith.
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We don't even really know where this is going yet. It's way too early to call it, in my opinion. vvvv I could definitely see that. GorfZaplen fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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An Old Boot posted:This is amusing, but I'm really starting to wonder if Hitmen for Destiny was his zenith. I'm thinking it was definitely his magnum opus, his Story, with this and Space Spy being more creative/fun explorations.
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Have to agree with Gorf that we haven't really seen where this one is going. Hitmen took at least until Dr. Lostclock to really hit stride. And hey, seems like the Ulfs (Ulves?) are going to be their own enemies.
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 New strip! Oh god I just laughed out loud.Also, I can't be the only one who, when Ulf-on-the-right tuned in, imagined his side of the panel creeping in, slowly the first time and sloooowly the second time. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Apr 14, 2014 14:29
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Ulf is creating a whole new definition for self-loathing.
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New strip. Oh Ulf. Ulf, Ulf, Ulf.
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I think that the one thing that's really selling Transdimensional Brain Chip for me is that Ulf is a complete and utter moron. I can't wait to see parallel universe Aisha.
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Prediction: Since BBA and AAB diverged at the start of Week 1, two weeks earlier, AAB's Aisha will be different from BBA's and his attempt to date her will fail amusingly.
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Apr 19, 2014 02:34
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It's interesting the way Ulf is learning, though.
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Apr 20, 2014 09:19
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The way the Ulfs screwed themselves out of getting laid reminded me of the explanation of Nash Equilibrium in A Beautiful Mind.
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She probably thinks he's a mind-reader for the Chem-Trails. I am expecting amusing results from having that brain-chip treated like that.
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ZearothK posted:She probably thinks he's a mind-reader for the Chem-Trails. Or that he read her diary or something. Alternately, maybe a Roomba murdered her parents within the week since the divergence or something.
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new page! The secret is out.
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vyelkin posted:Or that he read her diary or something. drat, right on the money. I wonder if Ulf will realize that he can make super money off this as a psychic. I'm still waiting for the inevitable point when Ulf will want to get rid of the brain chip. It has to be something pretty traumatic. I'm surprised that they're able to coordinate with each other so as not to overload every Ulf with 8x memories at once.
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In all possible worlds, Aisha has a robot maid sex fantasy. Huh, just got the Ulf-division thing. Yeah, the ulferal picture of this strip isn't going to hit until, like, 10 years have passed between An... and Bn... and they live in radically different realities. Sizone fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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dipwood posted:I'm surprised that they're able to coordinate with each other so as not to overload every Ulf with 8x memories at once. I think the accessing of memories is done in the same way that senses are accessed. It's whole-brain contact - memories, all senses, the whole shebang - so the tune-out mechanism probably works on memories as well as senses.
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This is surprisingly tender!
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:This is surprisingly tender! Yeah, until whats-her-name also gets a brain implant and discovers he was lying about every single Ulf dating her.
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It's pretty fun to see Ulf become more and more manipulative as time goes on. He's becoming less of a lovable goof and more of a dick.
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vyelkin posted:Yeah, until whats-her-name also gets a brain implant and discovers he was lying about every single Ulf dating her. Her own implant would cover alternate timelines starting from the moment she got the implant, so she'd be with Ulf in every one of those (at least at the start).
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Prediction: At the start of Week 4, neither of the ABBs will want to be ABBA.
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Car Trunk Hell Gate sounds like my kinda movie.
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The most recent comic got me thinking: if something happens that completely fucks up an Ulf's situation or life, there's still a bunch of Ulfs remaining, and they'll be able to learn from it. Maybe we'll see some Ulfs manipulate another Ulf into doing something risky to see what happens.
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