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Straight White Shark posted:Shell's HR department is going to be sending out a very sternly worded email on Monday about employees leaving the windows open. Monster Pulse? More like Monster A-pulse-calypse, amirite folks?  Also  @ those people who though Rjinder was going to be the final boss of the comic. Noooo, fixing this poo poo is going to be.
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Having just caught up on Giant Days, it's interesting about some of the same SGR themes about what behaviour is whimsical fun and what is childish and irresponsible repeated. Ingrid would have fit in pretty well with the SGR gang in 2005 or so, but is now obviously awful, and Esther is pretty repeatedly clobbered by life for being selfish and thoughtless (which she is). I hope John is ok.
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Rand Brittain posted:My insistence that Time Dad is actually future Tim continues to pay off. You were close-ish!
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Yeah, of all the twists you don't see coming but feel you should have... Good to see she's still inventing, at least.
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So... Is Scout Ellen Ripley's mom?
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:
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Well, I can still say I was right to blame Riley.
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Another week, another organ exploding in Oglaf.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Another week, another organ exploding in Oglaf. 
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That puts all those events listed in the computer in a whole different light now.
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Shouldn't those be 'half-sisters'? Unless Riley remarried... Somehow I can see the fruits of a Tim-Shelley union being uniquely worse than the one before. Also it seems like if you wanted to keep your parents together, maybe you should have stopped yourself from interfering in the experiment that blew up your house and led to the breakup in the first place, Scout. Or it's going to be a double-bluff and it's someone pretending to be Scout, pretending to be Timedad. I'm guessing...Desmond Fishman.
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Rand Brittain posted:Well, I can still say I was right to blame Riley. Now the question is whether Future Riley sent Future Scout here or not. Or if Future Scout is working with Present Riley. Yvonmukluk posted:Also it seems like if you wanted to keep your parents together, maybe you should have stopped yourself from interfering in the experiment that blew up your house and led to the breakup in the first place, Scout. I imagine Scout must have internalized Tim telling her it wasn't her fault, so Scout can't help but lack self-awareness and try to blame her situation on anything but herself. Which is a pretty Tim trait, really. Thinking back on "Time Dad's" interactions with Tim, something just clicked with me. Lying to and manipulating Tim...wanting him to cut ties with his current life and the people he knows...doing all of this even if it ruins Tim's life... Isn't Scout doing pretty much what Riley pulled on Tim back in SGR?
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Three half sisters? All with Shelly I hope, or maybe Pa Winters was right and Tim is a polygamist.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Also it seems like if you wanted to keep your parents together, maybe you should have stopped yourself from interfering in the experiment that blew up your house and led to the breakup in the first place, Scout. Well, there's that answered.
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I know any time travel fiction is rife with plot holes, but it seems to me that Scout could just go forward to 2030 and get another fully operational time cane, couldn’t she?
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Roach Warehouse posted:I know any time travel fiction is rife with plot holes, but it seems to me that Scout could just go forward to 2030 and get another fully operational time cane, couldn’t she? quote:It's also possible that she was always as nutty as a granola bar.
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Well, that's a big twist.Roach Warehouse posted:I know any time travel fiction is rife with plot holes, but it seems to me that Scout could just go forward to 2030 and get another fully operational time cane, couldn’t she? Edit: also, hosed with time before her own birth, which seems like an incredibly dumb move. It's not like some distant abstract time thing, either. I'm pretty sure Shelley dying (permanently) would have had knock-on effects on Tim that could have prevented her own birth. Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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So basically, every time one of Tim's invention went wrong and caused a disaster, it was actually Scout sabotaging it in the extremely misplaced hope that it would help?
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Cat Mattress posted:So basically, every time one of Tim's invention went wrong and caused a disaster, it was actually Scout sabotaging it in the extremely misplaced hope that it would help? I guess she takes after her mum.
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Cat Mattress posted:So basically, every time one of Tim's invention went wrong and caused a disaster, it was actually Scout sabotaging it in the extremely misplaced hope that it would help? Tim invented Scout so his inventions-to-disasters ratio remains constant A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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So this is a retcon of all of Shelly's weird deaths? And luck potentially I guess due to time loop reset shenanigans?
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I feel like blaming Tim for Scout is pretty unfair, when A. she's her own person and B. she's pretty much extending the same logic Riley used when sabotaging Tim in the past. This is not coming from Tim's side of the family.
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If you had to have three Shelly-like half-sisters, you'd be a bit stressed out too. Shelly flits through life like a butterfly whose wing flaps cause horrible tornadoes of problems for everyone but her.
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wiegieman posted:If you had to have three Shelly-like half-sisters, you'd be a bit stressed out too. Shelly flits through life like a butterfly whose wing flaps cause horrible tornadoes of problems for everyone but her. That's not unfair but attempting to write them out of reality through a decades-long emotional manipulation of your own father, in order to get him back into a relationship that clearly made everyone miserable, that seems like a little much. Also Riley was pretty much openly training Scout to attempt the time-murder of Shelley Winters earlier in this chapter.
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Cat Mattress posted:So basically, every time one of Tim's invention went wrong and caused a disaster, it was actually Scout sabotaging it in the extremely misplaced hope that it would help? It sounds like she only picked that specific invention to mess with, at least I hope so. And from how she mentioned that the machine she co-developed with Tim to suck Shelley into hell backfired and nearly destroyed reality, it seems like the scientific gently caress-ups still seem to be on Tim's end. Joe Slowboat posted:I feel like blaming Tim for Scout is pretty unfair, when A. she's her own person and B. she's pretty much extending the same logic Riley used when sabotaging Tim in the past. While I feel like some of this is to be blamed on Riley, a lot of it still lies on Tim's end. From Scout's accounts so far, she seems to think that the problem lies either with Tim's inventions or with Shelley herself. She might not be aware that she's got a blind spot for Tim and his terrible decision-making. Tim was the one who decided to leave his family when the experiment blew up. Tim was the one who decided to cheat on his wife with Shelley. Tim was the one who decided to stay with Shelley as her kept man and blamed it all on her when things went south. Scout's biggest enemy here is her dad. wiegieman posted:If you had to have three Shelly-like half-sisters, you'd be a bit stressed out too. Shelly flits through life like a butterfly whose wing flaps cause horrible tornadoes of problems for everyone but her. I know Shelley's a huge troublemaker so it's easy to believe that her kids are the same, but I'm not so sure about taking Scout's word at face value here. This is a person with a huge personal beef against Shelley and has admitted to travelling back in time to kill Shelley several times. I just feel that anything she says about Shelley is immediately suspect.
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amigolupus posted:And from how she mentioned that the machine she co-developed with Tim to suck Shelley into hell backfired and nearly destroyed reality, it seems like the scientific gently caress-ups still seem to be on Tim's end. It sounds like she's talking about the big hell-portal that Mordawwa had to fix in the last Scary Go Round finale but two. quote:Tim was the one who decided to leave his family when the experiment blew up. Tim was the one who decided to cheat on his wife with Shelley. Tim was the one who decided to stay with Shelley as her kept man and blamed it all on her when things went south. Scout's biggest enemy here is her dad. Riley actually threw Tim out—from "our house, our marriage, Wales."
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Rand Brittain posted:It sounds like she's talking about the big hell-portal that Mordawwa had to fix in the last Scary Go Round finale but two. Yep, that's what I was thinking too. I guess Scout wanted it to open a small portal to suck Shelley in, but Tim messed with it so instead it became a huge hell portal that almost destroyed everything. But hey, at least the portal disintegrated Rich Tweedy. That's a net positive.  Rand Brittain posted:Riley actually threw Tim out—from "our house, our marriage, Wales." Okay, fair point. I was just thinking of the post someone made before about the theory that Tim took the blame in that situation so he had an excuse to leave his family without actually confronting Riley about manipulating him and separating him from his previous life. But I feel the other bad decisions I mentioned still fall on Tim.
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I don't think anyone in this whole sequence of events could be accused of being reasonable or responsible. Sorting out all the blame is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but the woman from the future who's been willfully sabotaging things is surely mostly in the wrong here (although it does make you think about what original timeline Tim was like). That barcode on her arm makes me think that there's also some kind of apocalyptic hellfuture involved in this, but it's also possible that this whole thing was just a trick to add another character into the mix without having to wait for Scout to grow up.
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amigolupus posted:Okay, fair point. I was just thinking of the post someone made before about the theory that Tim took the blame in that situation so he had an excuse to leave his family without actually confronting Riley about manipulating him and separating him from his previous life. That's... the exact opposite of what his motives were repeatedly made clear to be. though I guess the comic has now gone and vindicated all the goons who were saying it was all Scout's fault for blowing up the house and Tim is blameless for leaving a small child alone with a house-exploding machine
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Rand Brittain posted:Wait, does this mean that Tim was never actually a mad scientist at all? the guy was introduced trying to pitch his glow-in-the-dark duck
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:the guy was introduced trying to pitch his glow-in-the-dark duck That's more of a poorly marketed scientist. The threshold from 'eccentric, kind of useless' to 'mad' is pretty much the point at which your invention detonates, flees into the night, or learns how to shiv. EDIT: and if we're meant to believe that all the detonations etc. are the result of Scout-from-the-future, then Tim is just a really weird inventor, not a natively dangerous one. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:the guy was introduced trying to pitch his glow-in-the-dark duck I find it necessary to point out that glow-in-the-dark bunny rabbits are a real thing.
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Cat Mattress posted:The Sword Interval was pretty funny today. That dick totally deserved it after what he forced Reg into doing.
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