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Bilirubin posted:20 years later, prison-hardened Annie comes after luxury living Annie in a tale of revenge you won't want to miss Critics rave "It's like Double Jeopardy, except this time the protagonist can't be tried for her crimes because she technically is committing them against herself". Coming this Summer.
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Bilirubin posted:20 years later, prison-hardened Annie comes after luxury living Annie in a tale of revenge you won't want to miss She'll get much experience living with smooth criminals.
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Can someone refresh my memory? I honestly do not remember Kat using the arrow to transfer the contract back to Annie. I thought it was as simple as going "you are the owner now"Regy Rusty posted:The arrow did a lot of damage as described here: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1341 Re-reading this chapter, I forgot the Psychopomps seem to have some kind of deep respect for Jones. At least the one in that chapter does, calling her "Old One".
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May 22, 2019 21:07
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Macaluso posted:Can someone refresh my memory? I honestly do not remember Kat using the arrow to transfer the contract back to Annie. I thought it was as simple as going "you are the owner now" She didn't use it to do the transfer, but she did use it: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1927. quote:Re-reading this chapter, I forgot the Psychopomps seem to have some kind of deep respect for Jones. At least the one in that chapter does, calling her "Old One". Considering she's something like the immortal personification of the Earth, who is literally older than dirt and unclaimable by any psychopomp, it does make sense.
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May 22, 2019 21:25
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honestly that would be neat territory for a side story jones and the psychopomps throughout the ages
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May 22, 2019 21:38
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Dr Subterfuge posted:She didn't use it to do the transfer, but she did use it: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1927. Ah that's right
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May 22, 2019 21:40
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She was just trying to gain data about how the arrow worked and also about what it means to "transfer ownership" but it seems she may not have understood the data she gathered as well as she thought. And also might have broken some serious rules in the process.
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Bruceski posted:Who could've seen Gunnerkrigg Court copying the ending of Monty Python &the Holy Grail? Well, the Court is a silly place.
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May 22, 2019 23:47
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Kat is going to get fed up and order the Arbiter of Whatever and little ghost pal to stuff Arthur in his new body and get out of her workshop like the librarian in the RotD. "b-but... it's my jurisdiction..." "OUT"
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While doing a slight reread of my own, I wonder if this stuff in particular will come up again since the arrow is relevant: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1833 specifically the arrow being built like one of diego's golems, the similarities to court robots by extension and the weird device that we haven't seen since but I bet is probably being used in kat's computer anyway. dadcula also mentions that the arrow really messed up "other departments" in addition to ROTD & I assume separate from the psychopomps, which I assume includes our arbiter & interpreter. So maybe we'll get an idea of just how much damage this arrow did to the various ether connected realms? also fun https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1834
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May 23, 2019 03:33
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The jail is having to listen to this guy read them the spirit penal code for the next ten years. Annie emerges in her mid-20s, or her mid-but-slightly-less-20s.
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May 24, 2019 12:09
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Somehow I keep thinking that it's Kat who's being put to Ghost Jail here; did the comic state definitively that Annie's the one being held liable for the arrow business?
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May 24, 2019 12:20
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It seems like they're holding Annies responsible, as the registered owner of the arrow. I wonder what Kat looks like right now from the point of ghost speaker and big D. Perhaps they'd be less willing to try to push her around if they see her the same way Zimmy does.
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May 24, 2019 12:44
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I think the dialogue is just a little vague. Kat used the arrow and it's clearly in her possession, so holding the Annies responsible wouldn't make any sense.
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May 24, 2019 12:55
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Just gift it to, idk, boxbot. Problem solved.
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May 24, 2019 12:57
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Wait, I though it was clear it was Kat they are putting into etheric jail? She is the one that had the arrow, the one that studied and experimented with it and the one that is performing the whole botched soul transfer procedure that called Saslamel in the first place. Plus the interpreter is addressing a singular person, instead of two Annies. Annies and Renard are just rightfully worried and pissed that their friend is going to jail for science crimes.
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May 24, 2019 12:59
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I wonder why Kat's etheric simplification isn't kicking in here.
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May 24, 2019 13:28
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Kat has always seen etheric manifestations that have a presence in the physical world, cf. all ghosts, psychopomps, the torn sea. The two times she's simplified things have been the ROTD and inside the Arrow. In both cases my interpretation is that the things Annie saw were purely of the ether and thus not part of the normal physical world. Clearly the arbiter is present in the physical world and therefore Kat can see him.
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May 24, 2019 13:38
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I think this is two busybodies with no real authority trying to trick Kat into handing over ownership of the arrow
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Regy Rusty posted:The arrow did a lot of damage as described here: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1341 I remember that because I reread that chunk last time it was posted.  Thing is, "a lot of damage" is pretty vague.I guess Reynard hasn't been playing Ace Attorney with Kat, otherwise he would've shouted OBJECTION!
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Synthbuttrange posted:"Haha there, I solved your two Annie problem!" At least that neatly bypasses the three body problem.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:I think the dialogue is just a little vague. Kat used the arrow and it's clearly in her possession, so holding the Annies responsible wouldn't make any sense. Maybe they operate under the principle of cui bono
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Scaramouche posted:Maybe they operate under the principle of cui bono And that's clearly the lady using the process to turn herself into the robot god  Also I like how quickly the Annies have moved from the collective shock from last page straight into outrage, meanwhile Kat is still processing. Annie has seen this kind of poo poo before and is so done with it.
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Regy Rusty posted:Kat has always seen etheric manifestations that have a presence in the physical world, cf. all ghosts, psychopomps, the torn sea. The two times she's simplified things have been the ROTD and inside the Arrow. In both cases my interpretation is that the things Annie saw were purely of the ether and thus not part of the normal physical world. Clearly the arbiter is present in the physical world and therefore Kat can see him. It could also be simply a matter of power level. Somehow Kat outranks the ROTD's glamour (or perhaps the ROTD isn't actively trying to run it's glamour on her), and the Arrow is probably part of her "domain." Etheric Contract Law seems like something that would be way above pretty much everyone else, so gently caress you you see what WE want.
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Splicer posted:I think this is two busybodies with no real authority trying to trick Kat into handing over ownership of the arrow on the other hand the way kat has been incorporating tons and tons of weird poo poo into her work is pretty much a "You go too far! Your grasp exceed grasp!" conflict to a T.
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A big flaming stink posted:on the other hand the way kat has been incorporating tons and tons of weird poo poo into her work is pretty much a "You go too far! Your grasp exceed grasp!" conflict to a T. I hate that comic.
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A big flaming stink posted:on the other hand the way kat has been incorporating tons and tons of weird poo poo into her work is pretty much a "You go too far! Your grasp exceed grasp!" conflict to a T. I like that comic.
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May 25, 2019 07:45
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Lurdiak posted:I hate that comic. Why do you hate that comic?
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That comic is the only good thing Diaz has ever produced.
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It's a dumb transhumanist making fun of various stories in the sci fi genre that explore that there might be downsides to blindly forging ahead with a new technology with no heed of the social consequences or human cost. Essentially he's mad that he's being kinkshamed by smarter people.
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It's funny tho
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May 25, 2019 13:39
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Lol the caveman pooped on his own head 
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i am neutral to the comics because i think the premise is p good but loathe that guy i dont remember his name atm
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Regy Rusty posted:Lol the caveman pooped on his own head Seriously, what more do you need? I think it's most likely that Kat no-sells just about every glamour. That would match everything else we've seen from her, so if I'm that smiley little ghost-bureaucrat I'd be a little concerned I'm about to get wedgied by a prodromal god of technology. Kat seems like she's not so low key one of the most powerful beings in the story at this point and could be a holy terror if she realized it and applied herself.
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just lol if you read stories with brightly colored illustrations in the yool 2019 especially if you make avs from them
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Lurdiak posted:It's a dumb transhumanist making fun of various stories in the sci fi genre that explore that there might be downsides to blindly forging ahead with a new technology with no heed of the social consequences or human cost. Essentially he's mad that he's being kinkshamed by smarter people.
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Splicer posted:Nah, that comic is about the hamfisted moralistic sci fi where the consequences are nonsense gibberish and the moral is monologued to the reader as "whatever you do, don't". The only thing we learn from those stories is how little the author understands the science they're fictioning about. I'd accept that reading if the comic was made by anyone else on the planet.
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Lurdiak posted:I'd accept that reading if the comic was made by anyone else on the planet. I mean of. Of the author.
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I can't think about that dude without remembering (paraphrasing) "IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT AND SYMBOLIC BUTT."
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