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This research gives me the heebie-jeebies. "Okay, first thing I would like you to do, Robot, is stand still while I cut away half of your chest."
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It may just be a new hairstyle not a haircut. Troubling if true.
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Nov 16, 2015 12:59
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How will the seraph bots respond to this. I'm talking about the hair obviously. They liked her old style.
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Nov 16, 2015 14:09
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I am not sure their hairstyle algorithms will be sensitive enough to tell if her new hairstyle is in universe or just the slight change in Tom's artstyle. Most concerning
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Nov 16, 2015 14:23
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Bah to all this haircut/hairstyle discussion. You're all missing the important detail here: PAZ IN A LAAAB COOOOAT soooo cuuuute dies
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Nov 16, 2015 15:58
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EmmyOk posted:It may just be a new hairstyle not a haircut. Troubling if true. No sir, I don't like it.
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Nov 16, 2015 17:21
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Science girlfriends best girlfriends.
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Nov 16, 2015 17:29
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Gunnerkrigg Court, the best comic about women's hairstyles.
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Nov 16, 2015 17:40
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Potato Salad posted:This research gives me the heebie-jeebies. "Okay, first thing I would like you to do, Robot, is stand still while I cut away half of your chest." Meh, it's just a hardware change, the underlying software was still intact. It's not like Robot was deactivated or anything while Kat was bisecting him.
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Nov 16, 2015 18:10
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I too am overjoyed by Paz's new haircut... but am I the only one who gets chills whenever Robot is on-screen after his last few appearances? He's... not right in the robohead... 
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Nov 16, 2015 18:57
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life_source posted:but am I the only one who gets chills whenever Robot is on-screen after his last few appearances? Ｉｔ ｗａｓ ｗｏｒｔｈ ｉｔ．
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Potato Salad posted:This research gives me the heebie-jeebies. "Okay, first thing I would like you to do, Robot, is stand still while I cut away half of your chest." I don't think robots think of "themselves" as "the robot bits". Like that's why growing a biological body is significant in the first place. A robot's self exists inside those little chippy things, the rest is paperclips.
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Nov 16, 2015 19:56
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SHISHKABOB posted:I don't think robots think of "themselves" as "the robot bits". Like that's why growing a biological body is significant in the first place. A robot's self exists inside those little chippy things, the rest is paperclips. Yeah Robot's been through like 4 bodies and a bunch of repairs and I think his only concern has been how sweet his parkour is.
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Nov 16, 2015 22:47
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One of the themes that periodically recurs in Gunnerkrigg could be summarized as "your parents aren't as dumb as you think they are". Robot's attitude may be an instance of that. He was disassembled and paperclipped for a reason; we're inclined the think it was a terrible reason because of how nice he is, but we're gradually starting to understand why it was done. (Even if we might still disagree.)
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Nov 17, 2015 00:38
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Blackheart posted:No sir, I don't like it. I think we can agree the guy who asked Tom about Tony being right hosed right up by wasting his question on that instead of this. Seriously dude, you made a dogs dinner of the whole thing.
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Nov 17, 2015 00:42
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idonotlikepeas posted:One of the themes that periodically recurs in Gunnerkrigg could be summarized as "your parents aren't as dumb as you think they are"
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Nov 17, 2015 00:45
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It's both. Your parents are more human than you think they are. (Even the ones that aren't human)
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Nov 17, 2015 01:15
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Isn't the human response not to destroy the nice robot, though
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So, binary nerve impulses.
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One thing that makes Robot's culty stuff so especially creepy is the fact that Kat seems to be entirely unaware of it, or at least unaware of its tone and magnitude. That means he's able to keep a lid on it when he's around her and Annie, like we see here. So does he know that it's inappropriate? Is his behavior purposefully deceptive? If so, which parts?
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Nov 18, 2015 09:14
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Considering how he manipulated the Seraphs and the boat in order to motivate Kat, and considers it "worth it", I'd say that yeah, Robot knows exactly how innapropriate his actions would be perceived. It's probably just that he doesn't care about that if it's to get what he thinks his people deserves.
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Nov 18, 2015 09:48
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Nov 18, 2015 10:09
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Robot is very concious of the fact that Kat might freak if she figures out the truth. He's also very religious about robot evolution and is able to use his status as guinea pig to convince other robots he's a prophet. That's why he tries to nudge her towards the work while not actively telling her why it's important. To Kat it's just a science project where she's making more efficient robots because it's cool. To robot she's bestowing the soul upon robot kind. It's probable this evolution has been going on long before Kat came into the picture though. There was a bonus page once about how humans should reject robolove so they've been picking up human traits for a while.
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Demiurge4 posted:Robot is very concious of the fact that Kat might freak if she figures out the truth. He's also very religious about robot evolution and is able to use his status as guinea pig to convince other robots he's a prophet. That's why he tries to nudge her towards the work while not actively telling her why it's important. To Kat it's just a science project where she's making more efficient robots because it's cool. To robot she's bestowing the soul upon robot kind. According to this page Robot has "long since predicted the coming of an angel". A few pages before suggests that spreading this rumor was why he was in pieces in a box back in chapter 1. I don't think Robot has been manipulating Kat at all--the two points of inspiration were seeing the broken bird wing and Annie putting the idea in her head, neither of which Robot had anything to do with. She's just doing all this stuff which lines up with a prophecy he's been preaching since some unknown time before the comic even began. Which raises the question, where did the prophecy come from? Considering that the Court is "mankind's endeavor to become god", it's very possible that someone from the Court planted this legend among the robots in order to facilitate the apotheosis of one of their own. Interestingly, unless Jones has told anyone else in the Court about "Coyote's great secret", she's the only one who we know could be aware that could work. But it doesn't exactly seem like something she'd do.
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You don't consider the whaleship incident manipulation?
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Well remember the way cosmology works in the comic. Mythic beings can predate their own creation because of etheric tomfoolery. It could be that this angel has always existed in same way.
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Lurdiak posted:You don't consider the whaleship incident manipulation? I'd say it's partly robot manipulating events, partly cosmic predestination. The angel would not exist without robot's interference, but because of robot's interference the angel does exist and has always existed.
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I was reading some old chapters, and I came across this in that weird subplot where Kat has a crush on a bird guy: "My parents took some kind of test. And when they passed they were given new bodies." So they became birds, and on the next page he says they're off to live in the forest. "That sounds familiar," says Tom. Has there been any other mention of humans becoming forest creatures, or is this just a vestige from an eight-year-old part of the story? It's been a while since I read the whole shebang.
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you were warned posted:I was reading some old chapters, and I came across this in that weird subplot where Kat has a crush on a bird guy: Red and whats-her-face with the blue hair had to pass a test to come to the Court as well. Specifically, they had to give up their fairy-bodies, which at that time meant they had to die.
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Hremsfeld posted:Red and whats-her-face with the blue hair had to pass a test to come to the Court as well. Specifically, they had to give up their fairy-bodies, which at that time meant they had to die. Yeah, and they had that whole class full of humans who were originally fairies or animals. (I wonder if animals ever have to pass some kind of test? Bunnyboy seemed to just, uh, be put into a totem.) I can't remember it ever going the other way, though--humans becoming animals and going to the forest.
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you were warned posted:Yeah, and they had that whole class full of humans who were originally fairies or animals. (I wonder if animals ever have to pass some kind of test? Bunnyboy seemed to just, uh, be put into a totem.) I can't remember it ever going the other way, though--humans becoming animals and going to the forest. No, but that's what Tom's referring to (and also Annie's reaction), to the fairies. She heard about the test to get new bodies from the fairies, and now she's heard about it again, but in the other direction. That's all.
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you were warned posted:I was reading some old chapters, and I came across this in that weird subplot where Kat has a crush on a bird guy: I know it's been mentioned again since then, but I think Alistair and his family are still the only example we've seen of someone giving up their humanity to live in the woods. Lurdiak posted:You don't consider the whaleship incident manipulation? I'll be honest, I stopped reading for a while about halfway through that chapter. It flows a little better now that I can read it in one sitting, but it's still kind of weird tonally.
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:So many graves...
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Carrasco posted:I know it's been mentioned again since then, but I think Alistair and his family are still the only example we've seen of someone giving up their humanity to live in the woods. The only specific example, but Coyote talks about the general practice.
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Ali was cool, bring him back
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Luneshot posted:Ali was cool, bring him back He's just always missing seeing Kat by like a second.
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Nov 19, 2015 14:25
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Panel 4 is good. It illustrates the pressures of running a robot cult well.
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Tenebrais posted:The only specific example, but Coyote talks about the general practice. Oh, cool, thanks! I'd wondered how the relationship between the Court and the forest would factor in. Makes sense that Ysengrin would be the one who limited it to only humans who gave up their bodies first (and hate the fact that some forest creatures leave). Luneshot posted:Ali was cool, bring him back I love the last panel of that chapter: "And she never saw him again." Very tidily wrapping up that storyline!
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