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jsoh posted:nobody but allison knows that patrick was menace I figure that plot will ensue, somehow, eventually.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 00:14 |
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# ? May 22, 2024 04:37 |
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He's really not doing a very good job of hiding it, to be honest. EDIT: he probably immediately promotes everyone who suspects him of being menace. "Alright no he CAN'T be menace, he would've realized I suspected him and gotten rid of me, not promoted me."
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 02:26 |
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Considering he can't turn his telepathy off he might be using the dreams as a dampner so he can get some rest.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 07:59 |
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Or maybe that's the way he has a good time, hire some people to take some drugs and pass out he pours himself a drink and get's entertained by their dreams.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 06:19 |
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Any excuse for a slumber party, I say.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 06:54 |
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Sleepovers yaaaay
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 07:15 |
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New Strip! Well, that's that. I have to wonder about Patrick's ability to not only read a mind, but comprehend what he sees there, to gain a person's deep understanding and analysis of a subject matter. Being able to correlate these minds would imply that.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 13:34 |
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well, that's sure a thing he's aiming to try there.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 13:43 |
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He read Alison's mind to use the exact same words Paladin said. Patrick may not be a supervillain anymore, but he's still kind of a dick.
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# ? Mar 21, 2015 03:17 |
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I didn't catch that until you mentioned it, Patrick kind of breaks the fourth wall huh. His character knows everything the readers do and can make references to stuff he wasn't part of.
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# ? Mar 21, 2015 03:27 |
I wonder what kind of damages and penalties the RIAA of academia would pursue for the illegal copying of 5 top-tier scientific careers.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 09:24 |
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Does he have the ability to retain all of the disciplines he's learned, then? I wonder if he can nab Paladin's skills? I assume he can't steal her biodynamic inventiveness but he'd still be able to become her peer at existing technology.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 09:44 |
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 10:30 |
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I totally would, if I could
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 14:29 |
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Anyone have a torrent for Hedy Lamarr?
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 17:46 |
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To be honest I was hoping we would be done with these info dumps and move on with the infinitely more interesting plot...
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 18:15 |
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I think the Feral arc was where the comic peaked.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:56 |
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I had a thought while Alison was still hanging around Paladin. With all the exposition and philosophical lecturing, I wondered if the slasher subplot would be resolved without Alison, to make some point about how Mega Girl isn't going to solve all the world's problems.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:19 |
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It's not like he's stealing or anything, they're on his payroll. Probably they didn't take that bit in their contract about their intellectual property seriously.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 22:00 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:It's not like he's stealing or anything, they're on his payroll. Proving once again that lawyers are the true villains of SFP.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 22:29 |
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So Patrick's basically not human and is completely terrifying.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 22:40 |
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By his own admission and yes.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 23:14 |
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A lot like Allison in that respect. He's just come to the conclusion faster.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 23:25 |
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As the Patrick hivemind grows ever more complex he becomes a true Menace, traveling back in time to nip the world-saving powers in the bud.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 23:29 |
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reignonyourparade posted:By his own admission and yes. At least he's self aware and honest enough to realize that his experience is wholly alien to that of any other human being.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 00:34 |
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That'd be too easy I suppose or maybe Patrick doesn't really disagree with what she's doing.
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:54 |
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I liked today's comic. She should have said she'd go back to when everyone first got powers and shoot him in the head.
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 16:18 |
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"What am I thinking now, Patrick."
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 16:42 |
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Killing Hitler means at least marginally improving the course of history (unless you're Stephen Fry) while still leaving you with a recognizable world. Okay, maybe Hitlerless world leads to the KPD winning in 1933 and then something something Stalin takes over Europe, but the general shape of things will still be intact. Whereas if you go back to the Library of Alexandria, you're changing things so early on that the world made out of that is absolutely alien and you have no idea if saving that repository of knowledge actually helped mankind or just enabled the Quth Empire to take over the world in 833 AD, or if the continuation of old Hellenistic intellectualism just prevents the Renaissance from occurring at all, and then there's also no scientific revolution and people still just fight with pikes or whatever. What I'm saying is, kill Hitler. Always kill Hitler.
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 21:54 |
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Someone should write a novel where someone goes back in time to kill Hitler, only to find out that ever assassination attempt ever on Hitler was just another time traveler who failed. The plot twist? The character calls himself von Stauffenberg
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:04 |
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I don't know that Patrick agrees with what she's doing, but I think his point here is that Alison gave this kind of poo poo up so she could try to save the world. Hunting down Moonshadow in the classic superhero/supervillain way is basically backsliding into old habits that aren't necessarily effective. (Solve the problem by killing the bad guy, solve the problem that has victims whose faces you can see.)
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:11 |
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ArchangeI posted:Someone should write a novel where someone goes back in time to kill Hitler, only to find out that ever assassination attempt ever on Hitler was just another time traveler who failed. There's actually a plot a bit like this going on in Fred Van Lente's Ivar, Timewalker series from Valiant right now. The title character goes back to WWII to prove a point about time travel to his sidekick and at one point, the sidekick finds an entire roomful of people who are time-traveling assassins.
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:18 |
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Of course killing Hitler's the obvious response. It's like the bungee-jumping of the the time-travel bucket list. You've got to try it at least once.
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:29 |
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Guys, we've gone way off-topic. This discussion belongs in a thread about mid-1900s Germany.
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# ? Apr 1, 2015 00:22 |
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ArchangeI posted:Someone should write a novel where someone goes back in time to kill Hitler, only to find out that ever assassination attempt ever on Hitler was just another time traveler who failed. Wanderer posted:There's actually a plot a bit like this going on in Fred Van Lente's Ivar, Timewalker series from Valiant right now. The title character goes back to WWII to prove a point about time travel to his sidekick and at one point, the sidekick finds an entire roomful of people who are time-traveling assassins. This is also, basically, the plot of a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic and a one-off issue of Deadpool.
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# ? Apr 1, 2015 00:30 |
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Dancing trilobites will be the end of us all.
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# ? Apr 1, 2015 01:26 |
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The Modern Leper posted:This is also, basically, the plot of a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic One of my favorite ones, incidentally.
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# ? Apr 1, 2015 03:51 |
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Ofaloaf posted:Killing Hitler means at least marginally improving the course of history (unless you're Stephen Fry) while still leaving you with a recognizable world. Okay, maybe Hitlerless world leads to the KPD winning in 1933 and then something something Stalin takes over Europe, but the general shape of things will still be intact. Whereas if you go back to the Library of Alexandria, you're changing things so early on that the world made out of that is absolutely alien and you have no idea if saving that repository of knowledge actually helped mankind or just enabled the Quth Empire to take over the world in 833 AD, or if the continuation of old Hellenistic intellectualism just prevents the Renaissance from occurring at all, and then there's also no scientific revolution and people still just fight with pikes or whatever. I just realized the idea of fundamentally changing the world to the point of it being completely alien to our eyes but possibly better overall actually fits with what we know about Patrick's actions and the guiding ideas behind them pretty well actually.
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# ? Apr 1, 2015 06:54 |
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DarklyDreaming posted:I just realized the idea of fundamentally changing the world to the point of it being completely alien to our eyes but possibly better overall actually fits with what we know about Patrick's actions and the guiding ideas behind them pretty well actually. I tried to follow his line of reasoning to put a single face to Western exploitation of other continents for the express purpose of chattel slavery, and my offhand answer was "kill Christopher Columbus", so I guess he's got a point.
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# ? Apr 1, 2015 08:55 |
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I mean if I were to get a time machine and determined to change the timeline to better humanity I'd admit I don't know anywhere near enough and employ a large team of historians.
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