Gunnerkrigg Court: would you still "oh, robot" me if i was a worm

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Paracelsus: Apr 6, 2009; bless this post ~kya

SHISHKABOB posted:

Kat is not a Genie. Kat is not a God. Kat is Kat.

If the entity in question can hook up your taste neurons to your colon or turn the sensitivity of your eyes so high that light is painful to see (while giving only a limited ability to close your eyelids, just enough to slightly dull the pain if you put some effort into it), then what they "are" doesn't matter.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:42

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# ? Jun 13, 2024 00:21

Beepity Boop: Nov 21, 2012; yay

So, uh, when did Kat do that? :stare:

# ? Sep 26, 2014 21:43

Paracelsus: Apr 6, 2009; bless this post ~kya

Hremsfeld posted:

So, uh, when did Kat do that?

She hasn't, but that's the sort of fate the ship seems to be tempting. Ask a god for immortality and they grant it, but your body keeps aging until you turn into a cricket, that sort of thing. Especially if the god is angry and/or crazy.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 21:50

maswastaken: Nov 12, 2011

Those sound exactly like the kind of horrible miscarriages that come about from organic-mechanical inbreeding. Which is to say they're the things Kat's inevitably going to do by accident, very indirectly.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 21:54

Blackheart: Mar 22, 2013

Next comic: Kat turns the ship into a giant chicken wing because it's all she knows how to do.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 22:15

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Paracelsus posted:

If the entity in question can hook up your taste neurons to your colon or turn the sensitivity of your eyes so high that light is painful to see (while giving only a limited ability to close your eyelids, just enough to slightly dull the pain if you put some effort into it), then what they "are" doesn't matter.

wtf? Would kat do these things? No! That's the whole goddamn point that I'm trying to get across.

Kat is not some robot computer monster who hates all living things, she's an incredibly compassionate and caring person who has a very strong sense of what's right and wrong in a kind of cute naive way.

Therefore she's probs gonna make the entirety of existence for this boat dude an utter absolute hellscape for all eternity cause um he grabbed her friends and made some crazy demands that kat doesn't even understand she is capable of doing and is just now discovering some crazy things. :geno:

Blackheart posted:

Next comic: Kat turns the ship into a giant chicken wing because it's all she knows how to do.

This is a likely possibility though, I think.

"look man I told you I needed to do more testing"

maswastaken posted:

Those sound exactly like the kind of horrible miscarriages that come about from organic-mechanical inbreeding. Which is to say they're the things Kat's inevitably going to do by accident, very indirectly.

Yeah except: magic.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 23:20

Paracelsus: Apr 6, 2009; bless this post ~kya

SHISHKABOB posted:

wtf? Would kat do these things? No! That's the whole goddamn point that I'm trying to get across.

Kat is not some robot computer monster who hates all living things, she's an incredibly compassionate and caring person who has a very strong sense of what's right and wrong in a kind of cute naive way.

Therefore she's probs gonna make the entirety of existence for this boat dude an utter absolute hellscape for all eternity cause um he grabbed her friends and made some crazy demands that kat doesn't even understand she is capable of doing and is just now discovering some crazy things.

Or she's a scared and upset teenager in Zimmytown (not noted for its stabilizing effects on the human psyche) wielding powers she doesn't understand.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 23:39

Genetic Toaster: Jun 5, 2011

Blackheart posted:

Next comic: Kat turns the ship into a giant chicken wing because it's all she knows how to do.

It was worth it.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 23:46

Beepity Boop: Nov 21, 2012; yay

Genetic Toaster posted:

It was worth it.

Pros: Got shitload of wing meat

Cons: No sauce, half of class drowned.

It was worth it.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 23:54

Genetic Toaster: Jun 5, 2011

Hremsfeld posted:

Cons: No sauce, half of class drowned.

Creator Kat, you will make us... ranch dressing.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 00:56

Bussamove: Feb 25, 2006

Genetic Toaster posted:

Creator Kat, you will make us... ranch dressing.

Only Boxbot would be so terrible as to ask for ranch over bleu cheese. :colbert:

# ? Sep 27, 2014 01:20

fffff: Feb 11, 2014

Bussamove posted:

Only Boxbot would be so terrible as to ask for ranch over barbeque sauce.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 10:04

berenzen: Jan 23, 2012

Bussamove posted:

Only Boxbot would be so terrible as to ask for ranch over inferno.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 15:27

SHISHKABOB: Nov 30, 2012; Fun Shoe

Paracelsus posted:

Or she's a scared and upset teenager in Zimmytown (not noted for its stabilizing effects on the human psyche) wielding powers she doesn't understand.

Have u been reading the same comic as me, it's called "gunnerkrigg court"

# ? Sep 27, 2014 19:07

Paracelsus: Apr 6, 2009; bless this post ~kya

SHISHKABOB posted:

Have u been reading the same comic as me, it's called "gunnerkrigg court"

You mean the comic where monsters can kill you and possess your flesh just by looking you in the eye, children get killed in the Blitz, Annie's mother had to die in order to give birth (with Annie having to guide her mother to the afterlife), and Jones lived for actual aeons in total solitude? There's always been a horror angle to GC, and I don't think a prison of flesh, either intentional or accidental, is out of line with that side of it, even if it's not necessarily as horrific as the examples I gave.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 22:45

Idran: Jan 13, 2005; Grimey Drawer

Paracelsus posted:

You mean the comic where monsters can kill you and possess your flesh just by looking you in the eye, children get killed in the Blitz, Annie's mother had to die in order to give birth (with Annie having to guide her mother to the afterlife), and Jones lived for actual aeons in total solitude? There's always been a horror angle to GC, and I don't think a prison of flesh, either intentional or accidental, is out of line with that side of it, even if it's not necessarily as horrific as the examples I gave.

A prison of flesh accidentally inflicted by one of the sympathetic main characters and making them an irredeemable figure as a result, though, is.

The horror happens to the main characters, not by them.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 02:28

Wittgen: Oct 13, 2012; We have decided to decline your offer of a butt kicking.

You really think accidentally doing something that only was possible because crazy people forced you into a bad situation makes you irredeemable?

# ? Sep 28, 2014 02:36

Space Cadet Omoly: Jan 15, 2014; ~Groovy~

Wittgen posted:

You really think accidentally doing something that only was possible because crazy people forced you into a bad situation makes you irredeemable?

Yeah, I have no idea why people are getting upset at Kat. She has zero control over anything that's happening, the boat is the one who put her in this awful situation and endangered everyone.

Man, gently caress this boat. This boat is an rear end in a top hat.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 03:22

seravid: Apr 21, 2010; Let me tell you of the world I used to know

Paracelsus posted:

You mean the comic where monsters can kill you and possess your flesh just by looking you in the eye, children get killed in the Blitz, Annie's mother had to die in order to give birth (with Annie having to guide her mother to the afterlife), and Jones lived for actual aeons in total solitude? There's always been a horror angle to GC, and I don't think a prison of flesh, either intentional or accidental, is out of line with that side of it, even if it's not necessarily as horrific as the examples I gave.

Man this comic is loving hardcore!!

# ? Sep 28, 2014 05:04

Idran: Jan 13, 2005; Grimey Drawer

Wittgen posted:

You really think accidentally doing something that only was possible because crazy people forced you into a bad situation makes you irredeemable?

Maybe irredeemable was the wrong choice of word - I meant as a character, not as a person. As in how could any character actually come through accidentally forcing a sentient being into literal eternal torment and not be psychologically destroyed by the experience?

That's why I don't think that something like that would happen, because whatever horror leanings Gunnerkrigg has, that would make it impossible for Kat to believably continue on. I like Kat, and I couldn't see Tom writing something like that because it would basically make her unusable in the comic.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 05:46

Opposing Farce: Apr 1, 2010; Ever since our drop-off service, I never read a book.
There's always something else around, plus I owe the library nineteen bucks.

Maybe we should just let the man write the loving comic and stop arguing about things that have not happened.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 07:54

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Opposing Farce posted:

Maybe we should just let the man write the loving comic and stop arguing about things that have not happened.

He's got a three month buffer. If he changes anything major because of any of our speculations I'd be really surprised.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 09:05

Genetic Toaster: Jun 5, 2011

i really hope this arc is followed by CITY FACE 3: THE FACENING

# ? Sep 28, 2014 10:23

Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

RandomPauI posted:

He's got a three month buffer. If he changes anything major because of any of our speculations I'd be really surprised.

Wait who said he was going to change anything?

# ? Sep 28, 2014 15:33

The Red Queen: Jan 20, 2007; You tricked me!

You said dis place was fun, but it ain't!

Genetic Toaster posted:

i really hope this arc is followed by CITY FACE 3: THE FACENING

Or the former land-octopus looking at the carnage and wondering if going into the ocean was really such a great idea.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 15:55

zeekner: Jul 14, 2007

# ? Sep 28, 2014 17:41

Tenebrais: Sep 2, 2011

It rather does feel like when you're in your mid-teens seeing pictures from your childhoood.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 17:44

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

I'm glad Annie started washing her hair, and had that huge boil taken care of.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 18:01

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Uncomfortable Gaze posted:

I like this combination of picture and username

# ? Sep 28, 2014 18:15

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

ANGRY BROWS TIME

# ? Sep 29, 2014 08:01

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Show me your war face.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 08:02

Pseudoscorpion: Jul 26, 2011

AN ANGRY FACE.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 08:06

Tollymain: Jul 9, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Pseudoscorpion posted:

AN ANGRY FACE.

THE ANGRIEST FACE.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 08:09

Genetic Toaster: Jun 5, 2011

Robot Civil War in Zimmyham! :allears:

# ? Sep 29, 2014 08:09

Arthur Crackpot: Sep 4, 2011; Proceed in a str8 line shaped like a perpetually shifting torus knot until you feel a sense of despair transcending all mortal comprehension, then hang a right at the next octopus, she'll be in the first room on the left

Under no circumstances can we allow Smitty and the Robot King to be in the same room. Their eyebrows would collapse into a singularity and consume us all.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 08:12