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Well ain't that a bitch. I deserve to eat crow. I figured that the train was sent off course, but no scrapdragon just only ended holding the train up for Max.
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There was a whole thing in the comics about how time flows weirdly when you're talking with the thing inhabiting you or your tool. Shoulda seen it coming. What should really be surprising is that Boss Leader can also make time drag on with other people. On a different note, on top of liking this webcomic, I really like knowing where all these avatars are from too.
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Aug 8, 2014 06:57
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A Sandwiched Nerd is an exquisite descriptor.
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Aug 8, 2014 07:09
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AnonSpore posted:A Sandwiched Nerd is an exquisite descriptor. Also a pretty good username.
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Aug 8, 2014 08:22
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RareAcumen posted:There was a whole thing in the comics about how time flows weirdly when you're talking with the thing inhabiting you or your tool. Shoulda seen it coming. Not really. Dream time being weird is a pretty common thing. It's why you can dream you did an 8-hour shift at work in the fifteen minutes before you have to get up and go to work.
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Aug 8, 2014 16:21
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 Actually, time in a dream passes at the same rate as in real life. It's amazing what you can do with research nowadays.
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Aug 8, 2014 17:15
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If you mean the time you actually spend dreaming, then yes. But perception is a different matter all together when it comes to time.
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I'm not sure I understand why this time discussion has come up. Boss Leader flat out stated last page that she had complete control over perceived duration of the dream. Max could have been unconscious for all of five seconds, but BL could make that feel like 50 lifetimes.
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Aug 8, 2014 17:43
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:If you mean the time you actually spend dreaming, then yes. But perception is a different matter all together when it comes to time. Perceived time in a dream passes at the same rate as in real life. neuroscience is going crazy places man
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Aug 8, 2014 18:02
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Fried Chicken posted:Perceived time in a dream passes at the same rate as in real life. Man, perceived time in real life doesn't pass at the same rate as in real life.
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Aug 8, 2014 18:04
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Mystic Mongol posted:Man, perceived time in real life doesn't pass at the same rate as in real life. That is rather the point of including the qualifier "perceived", yes 
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Aug 8, 2014 18:07
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Fried Chicken posted:Perceived time in a dream passes at the same rate as in real life. Pretty sure perception doesn't work like that.
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Aug 8, 2014 18:23
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Mystic Mongol posted:Man, perceived time in real life doesn't pass at the same rate as in real life. Did you know, 1 second on Earth is faster than 1 second on the Sun? I don't mean how you'd perceive it either, time itself is slower on the Sun than it is on Earth.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:Pretty sure perception doesn't work like that. Temporal perception is a function of neuro anatomy. Temporal illusions are a function of psychology. I think you are conflating the two
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Did you know, 1 second on Earth is faster than 1 second on the Sun? I don't mean how you'd perceive it either, time itself is slower on the Sun than it is on Earth. If I remember this right from when I what learned it, on a very minor level this applies to almost anything! So time between where I am now (sea level) and where I grew up (in the Rocky Mountains) is actually very slightly different. This goes all the way to differences in height between people, though the difference boils down to a decimal point followed by a bunch of zeroes. Fried Chicken posted:Temporal perception is a function of neuro anatomy. Temporal illusions are a function of psychology. I think you are conflating the two Well, I tend to study the latter more so that's very possible. Would you mind explaining the difference? Edit: I had to look it up, but to explain the way I'm thinking of it, the objective passage of time would be a result of sensation. Regardless of what we think is happening, our bodies are going to have a general idea of what's actually going on and that is passed to the brain in raw form. Perception is then what we actually make of that raw data. That is, though, absolutely the psychological view of things and my neuroscience is rusty. RyuujinBlueZ fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Edit: ^^^^^^ that's probably a better way to explain it. Mystic Mongol posted:Man, perceived time in real life doesn't pass at the same rate as in real life. If that were the case you'd drop dead when your brain stopped sending the signals to your heart because it was perceiving the time between beats as longer than it was. Time perception is a sub cortical process. Y'all are thinking of time illusions which is where the conscious mind distorts the passing of time Edit 2: yeah, the difference in time on the sun or in orbit is there, if minuscule. It's part of relativity Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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I've never heard it called a time illusion before, but the brain tends to gently caress with the conscious mind a lot. It could know down to an impossible level what time it is, but if it gets distracted and you ask how much time has passed it'll just make poo poo up to get you to go away. That's obviously not exactly how it works, but I find (at least for psychology) it can help to think of the unconscious mind as some rear end in a top hat troll who can and will randomly lie to you because they think it's funny. Now we know that troll is named Boss Leader. Boom, full circle.
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Point is, if you count to ten in a dream it takes the same time as counting to ten in real life.
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Are you saying Inception lied to me?
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I wonder if BL knew that Max would be trapped by his magnet powers when he woke up? After all this is a situation where he would not want them.
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Fried Chicken posted:Edit: ^^^^^^ that's probably a better way to explain it. Today I have learned that neuroscientists are terrible at naming things.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Today I have learned that neuroscientists are terrible at naming things. The brain's an rear end in a top hat, especially when it comes to naming things relating to itself.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Today I have learned that neuroscientists are terrible at naming things. Psychophysics 
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Tunicate posted:Psychophysics
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Man, now I'm picturing a superpower where the user just calmly discusses the current state of an object and how it needs to change, until it violently explodes into someone's face.
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Perception is a conscious mental event. You're taking about sensation of time, not perception of time.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:Man, now I'm picturing a superpower where the user just calmly discusses the current state of an object and how it needs to change, until it violently explodes into someone's face. I think someone does that in Words of Radiance.
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Tunicate posted:I think someone does that in Words of Radiance. Well, now I'm going to have to read books again.
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Tunicate posted:I think someone does that in Words of Radiance. It's not just an object, it's an entire ship.
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New page! Alt text: the basic-est bluff in isabel's literal book about human vs. dog combat ...So that spirit now has a red spectral color... And Isabel conveniently just lost her spirit... Player 2 start?
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Cursed Words translation: I WIN
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Isabel good at the fightin'. Gonna fight that dog but good. Assume she'll throw it off the train.
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Prison Warden posted:It's not just an object, it's an entire ship. Huh, normally I'm pretty safe reading book spoilers because there are so many series that I'll never get around to, but this is the first time I've accidentally spoiled something on a series that I've just started. Probably should have known the name of the next book beforehand. Paranatural: is the dogcat now some kind of hippothing?
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Zenzirouj posted:Huh, normally I'm pretty safe reading book spoilers because there are so many series that I'll never get around to, but this is the first time I've accidentally spoiled something on a series that I've just started. Probably should have known the name of the next book beforehand. An earlier panel (way earlier, before Max's dream) showed that their entire body is actually one big head under that fur (what we initially saw as their eyes are actually nostrils). Looks kind of dragon-ish.
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Dolash posted:Isabel good at the fightin'. Gonna fight that dog but good. Nope it's suplex time.
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Blackheart posted:Nope it's suplex time. Nah man, Isabel's a real fighter. It's SPD time.
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Friday Update! Alt text: Infinite Death Loop is the name of my trance/screamcore hybrid experimental band
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Hellz yeah, a suplex. Oh hey you can see Issac in the last panel.
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The coolness of that suplex was immediately neutered by the name she gave it.
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AnonSpore posted:The coolness of that suplex was immediately neutered by the name she gave it. If by neutered you mean magnified tenfold then yeah 
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