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vyelkin posted:http://trixie.webcomic.ws/comics/388 I wonder how sane the ambassador is by this point in his diaries.
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I like that the woman who keeps getting in the way is called Hopegrinder. It fits the negative theme for people's surnames and is incredibly on the nose about what her role is.
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Jun 14, 2019 12:16
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It's only negative if you're their enemy.
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Jun 14, 2019 12:38
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The Lone Badger posted:I wonder how sane the ambassador is by this point in his diaries. He killed himself often enough to make statistical predictions based on livelihoods. And then he changed something, repeated the process and continued doing that. He probably killed himself hundreds of times just to find that out.
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Jun 14, 2019 12:42
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vyelkin posted:http://trixie.webcomic.ws/comics/388 There's so much piling up right now that I forgot that was even a mystery but damned if it didn't just get solved
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Jun 14, 2019 19:34
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The Lone Badger posted:I wonder how sane the ambassador is by this point in his diaries. The ghost monkey freaked out after only a few deaths.
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Jun 14, 2019 22:59
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Yeah, but the ambassador was prepared for it and made sure to set up a quick and painless death. Maybe even a pleasant one. You know, relaxing music, some scented candles, instantaneous headcrushing device, bottle of wine...
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Jun 14, 2019 23:38
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If someone knew how the scepter worked you could have them touch it and they'd never know.
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Jun 15, 2019 00:34
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Peanut Butler posted:yeah his heart's in the right place for sure We now that, but know we can't know how fast it's going. Edit: I've just realized that the most important thing Thorsby did in that comic was the thing he didn't do - try to work his theories into a narrative comic. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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Jun 15, 2019 05:06
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super sweet best pal posted:If someone knew how the scepter worked you could have them touch it and they'd never know. They would know when they finally died and snapped back to the moment they touched it.
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Jun 15, 2019 05:45
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vyelkin posted:They would know when they finally died and snapped back to the moment they touched it. Sorry, meant to say have them touch a fake.
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Jun 15, 2019 05:56
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Oh man, that's a perfect way to take out a villain. Just let them get ahold of it, wait a little while, and then leak some juicy info that would have been useful earlier and let the problem solve itself.
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Jun 15, 2019 13:15
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Jun 17, 2019 03:06
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lol at "Barbara wins in every universe, oops, she played herself" although I do wonder how it's random candidates, given the ridiculously specific way her scheme backfired, I guess it was mostly random who won the actual vote so she'd have to use different schemes every time
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DACK FAYDEN posted:lol at "Barbara wins in every universe, oops, she played herself" The scheme was suggested by the vice president. Assuming that guy wasn't sent by the ambassador, the chances of her finding an actually competent vice president have got to be insanely low.
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Jun 21, 2019 05:03
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Well done thread posters who predicted this very scenario. Well done Synthbuttrange for posting that image so I can enjoy it once more. It got an audible "Hah!" from me this morning.
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Jun 21, 2019 13:03
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I think thorsby originally had a plan for why the stars vanished in the simulation but realised it doesn't actually make sense so he's just going with "I don't know why, but the simulation is just imperfect"
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pathetic little tramp posted:I think thorsby originally had a plan for why the stars vanished in the simulation but realised it doesn't actually make sense so he's just going with "I don't know why, but the simulation is just imperfect" The world isn't exactly advanced in astrophysics the 5 and a bit light year sphere is a viable explaintion
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Jun 21, 2019 15:01
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Scepter created by species with average lifespan of 3 years. They added a bit of padding, but didn't bother programming for edge-cases like exceptionally-old people.
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Jun 21, 2019 15:17
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I have not understood a single thing that's happened in this strip except that they're in a simulated world within another unrelated character's death simulation after having touched the stick
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Jun 21, 2019 15:21
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So that's why they have to keep our dumb mage guy alive! Some of those fake beings have learned that they're inside a fake universe and try to keep him alive as long as possible, to extend their existence since they all blink out as soon as he keels over!
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Calaveron posted:I have not understood a single thing that's happened in this strip except that they're in a simulated world within another unrelated character's death simulation after having touched the stick They're in Lyndon's death simulation. Libluini posted:So that's why they have to keep our dumb mage guy alive! Some of those fake beings have learned that they're inside a fake universe and try to keep him alive as long as possible, to extend their existence since they all blink out as soon as he keels over! They were also trying to prevent him from learning anything useful to the situation he'd really be. Hence all the lies, and treating him well instead of killing him.
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Jun 21, 2019 17:21
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Also making him super buff will confuse the hell out of real Lyndon. Can't get buff or I'll die 
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Jun 21, 2019 17:39
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Calaveron posted:I have not understood a single thing that's happened in this strip except that they're in a simulated world within another unrelated character's death simulation after having touched the stick Libluini posted:So that's why they have to keep our dumb mage guy alive! Some of those fake beings have learned that they're inside a fake universe and try to keep him alive as long as possible, to extend their existence since they all blink out as soon as he keels over! How the hell are you only just getting this? Have you even been reading the comic?
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Jun 21, 2019 18:58
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Elfface posted:Scepter created by species with average lifespan of 3 years. They added a bit of padding, but didn't bother programming for edge-cases like exceptionally-old people. Maybe it was designed for combat use. If the question is “How will I die tomorrow?” The fact that it stops being accurate a few years out probably doesn’t bother you.
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Rumda posted:How the hell are you only just getting this? I'm mostly talking about using the simulation to predict things
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Jun 21, 2019 19:40
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This comic's been running consistently since October 2015. Let's take a moment to appreciate the time and effort Thorsby's put into this epic tale.
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Jun 21, 2019 20:23
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Rumda posted:How the hell are you only just getting this? I suspected this from the beginning, but seeing my dumb hunch being confirmed is kind of nice.
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Pistol_Pete posted:This comic's been running consistently since October 2015. Let's take a moment to appreciate the time and effort Thorsby's put into this epic tale. Jesus that long? I feel like I was starting Brain Chip not that long ago.
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I've done the math - the simulation has a radius of 1.8 parsecs. (Someone else previously figured out that the simulation simulates a sphere around the world that contains not stars besides the sun, so when the still-traveling starlight runs out, that's it. In our universe, the nearest star besides our Sun is Proxima Centauri, 4.367 light years away, so the comic's setting's nearest non-sun star must be further away.) BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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Jun 23, 2019 11:44
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BiggerJ posted:I've done the math - the simulation has a radius of 1.8 parsecs. Well no stars that appear in the night sky on the hemisphere that both nations are on
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Rumda posted:The world isn't exactly advanced in astrophysics the 5 and a bit light year sphere is a viable explaintion Yeah, most likely he came up with the explanation, then realized that the people of the setting probably wouldn't know that light has a finite speed, so he left it as an Exercise for the Reader (TM).
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Jun 23, 2019 14:04
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The thing that I love about the scepter is how inaccurate it is. It can really only help you avoid an immediate death. There's no indication of time, so you don't know you've flashed years into the future unless you look extremely different.
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Betrayed by my phone. Anyway the scepter is a very cool conceit and I'm interested to see how Lyndon relays all the information back to himself/if gets to.
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Aubrey yells "Tell me not to betray Trixie or Klara will die!" Then stabs Lyndon.
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Elfface posted:Aubrey yells "Tell me not to betray Trixie or Klara will die!" Then stabs Lyndon. Too late for that. It's more like "medicare for all or Klara dies and the entire country is ravaged by war and pestilence, also steal the ambassador's diary as proof"
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Spider president died after the embassy heist right? At work right now so I can’t check.
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Does the scepter even work inside a simulation? When the Ambassador touched it after Lyndon did, did he simulate a universe where he killed Lyndon right after touching it? I also wonder how many simulated universes were created in total when Audrey hit the monkey with it.
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