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Oh hey, my patreon backer cameo arrived in the comic. Gotta admit, he made me look a bit to handsome. Edit: Meh, that lame joke is a bad way to start a page.
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Jesus John you scared me! Why were you wandering out in the cold, come sit by the fire.
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Nov 24, 2021 13:54
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Dare I hope this a Dr. Disaster story?
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Nov 24, 2021 18:50
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see this is why you don't let the robots control the sliders during character creation
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Nov 24, 2021 20:55
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Maldraedior posted:see this is why you don't let the robots control the sliders during character creation
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Nov 24, 2021 21:11
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Oh good, Robots became human and have a God complex. UH OH
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Nov 26, 2021 13:58
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Sick Adibas tracksuits btw
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Nov 26, 2021 13:59
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Robot engineered the scheme that caused the Seraphs to fall from grace, didn't he? I wonder if he's counseling them, and managing what resentment those robots may have.
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Nov 26, 2021 14:44
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Haha, I didn't even notice that when the guy goes "AH!" in the previous comic, the tail on his word bubble is definitely angular, like all androids.
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Nov 26, 2021 15:28
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maltesh posted:Robot engineered the scheme that caused the Seraphs to fall from grace, didn't he? He did indeed. I doubt he'd be too pleased to have the new people lording it over them.
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Nov 26, 2021 15:40
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It's cool that the most interesting part of the plot has been quietly simmering offscreen and barely mentioned while we got to see [gestures] all of this,
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Nov 26, 2021 16:25
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maltesh posted:Robot engineered the scheme that caused the Seraphs to fall from grace, didn't he? Legit forgot what this was.
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Nov 26, 2021 17:04
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GunnerJ posted:Legit forgot what this was. Reread this chapter if you want the full refresher: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1382 Otherwise, just the last two pages reveal's Robot's role: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1450
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Nov 26, 2021 17:23
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God that was a good chapter, and the first I got to see as it was being posted. How many years was it now? 7?
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Nov 26, 2021 20:32
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Rereading that, I'm shocked at the breakneck pace and how much agency and competency everyone has. Like, an entire boat gets hijacked by a robot overmind, holds everyone hostage and takes out Annie's powers, but they pull together and use their individual powers to create a victory that feels a little fantastical but ultimately earned. It's nice. It felt like showing how competent and confident Annie had become, and how much she could rely on her friends, before kind of... I don't know, knocking her down a peg with the Tony chapter. Also, wow, how long the "Kat is some kind of robot angel and is aware of that" thing has been a plot point without really ever being addressed. At the end of Jeanne's chapter, Annie was like "Kat what the gently caress" and Kat said "we'll talk about it later" and then just sort of... never addressed that major thing I guess? I mean, yeah they've been busy, but also they've had bare minimum 6 months to address it (considering that's how much time passed since Annie went into the forest). Maybe it was handled offscreen just like the important scene where Annie apparently demanded to be able to wear her makeup again. (I also don't really get why Zimmy was affected by the rain? I thought the whole thing with the ether experiment was that it didn't affect her like normal rain did.) Not to be completely negative or anything. I do love the designs of these two new characters and it would be cool if they stuck around.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:50
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Tiny Myers posted:Rereading that, I'm shocked at the breakneck pace and how much agency and competency everyone has. Like, an entire boat gets hijacked by a robot overmind, holds everyone hostage and takes out Annie's powers, but they pull together and use their individual powers to create a victory that feels a little fantastical but ultimately earned. It's nice. It felt like showing how competent and confident Annie had become, and how much she could rely on her friends, before kind of... I don't know, knocking her down a peg with the Tony chapter. The rain causes her to undergo a backlash because it does not relieve her pressure like normal rain does. Why it was so extreme can be handwaved with "robots doing hosed poo poo"
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A big flaming stink posted:The rain causes her to undergo a backlash because it does not relieve her pressure like normal rain does. They say "the ether thingies broke so rain is gonna fall, make sure Zimmy's outside". Why is the artificial ether rain fine here but it wasn't back in the Power Station chapter?    
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Nov 27, 2021 07:20
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The etheral siphons were holding the rain back and draining it of what Zimmy needed to make it work right. When they were taken out, then the siphons stopped siphonning the rain and it was normal again = works for Zimmy.
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Nov 27, 2021 08:09
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Tiny Myers posted:Rereading that, I'm shocked at the breakneck pace and how much agency and competency everyone has. Like, an entire boat gets hijacked by a robot overmind, holds everyone hostage and takes out Annie's powers, but they pull together and use their individual powers to create a victory that feels a little fantastical but ultimately earned. It's nice. It felt like showing how competent and confident Annie had become, and how much she could rely on her friends, before kind of... I don't know, knocking her down a peg with the Tony chapter. Until I was reminded of the thousand eyes stuff I assumed it was because Tom did an abrupt about turn on some personal stuff in his own life so his heart just wasn't in the bad dad story anymore. Which I mean, it's been 16 years, since he started a comic about a girl's relationship with her dead mom and absentee father, things change. But like... a) there's a few subtle details that are probably different between the fictional situation he created and whatever is going on in real life, and b) what was up with the end of the tictocs arc seriously that was some bullshit. I'll have a large plain fries, I brought my own salt.
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Nov 27, 2021 13:54
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The issue with Zimmy and rain had nothing to do with whether the rain was real or not. It had to do with whether the water contained ether. In Power Station, the station had removed the ether from the water it evaporated, then returned the water as rain. With no ether, it didn't serve to alleviate Zimmy's stress and so she experienced an explosion of her other world. Then, in Spring Heeled, the station again removes ambient ether as part of Jack's plan to draw out Zimmy. This time however, Jones has the ether returned with the water, soothing Zimmy and returning things to normal. It's this exact latter phenomenon that happens in Torn Sea as well.
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Nov 27, 2021 13:57
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Splicer posted:Snip. Your first paragraph is basically my thoughts that I was too lazy to write before, including Chap 77 feeling like the turning point. Looking forward to seeing what the robots have been up to though. Wonder if they're digging up the shells of their old bodies. If not, then what? Something seems to be glowing, but maybe it's a tunnel entrance.
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Regy Rusty posted:The issue with Zimmy and rain had nothing to do with whether the rain was real or not. It had to do with whether the water contained ether. In Power Station, the station had removed the ether from the water it evaporated, then returned the water as rain. With no ether, it didn't serve to alleviate Zimmy's stress and so she experienced an explosion of her other world. Then, in Spring Heeled, the station again removes ambient ether as part of Jack's plan to draw out Zimmy. This time however, Jones has the ether returned with the water, soothing Zimmy and returning things to normal. It's this exact latter phenomenon that happens in Torn Sea as well. Still feels a little weird to me that with all the characters popping in and out post Loup bullshit and all the poo poo going on, I don't think we've seen Jack or Jenny once since Torn Sea either. I know the main Annie and Jack story threads mostly resolved with faraway morning but they were also like the main example of students outside Annie's immediate friends group/the other medium candidates who were shown to be particularly competent. I don't think we've seen any students really outside of Annie, Kat, Parley, Smitty, Zimmy, Gamma since like, Paz's argument with Annie? Considering that first and foremost Gunnerkrigg is a boarding school that covers several years and is largely students with special traits not having other students around makes the setting feel a lot smaller even with the forest folk and humanized robots around.
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Nov 29, 2021 10:03
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gently caress off Seraph! Your old and unwanted! Noone ever liked you! t t
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catapede posted:Your first paragraph is basically my thoughts that I was too lazy to write before, including Chap 77 feeling like the turning point. I kind of assumed that they're digging up the robots that were being used to power the shield, so they can turn them into "humans" or whatever they are now. Zerilan posted:Still feels a little weird to me that with all the characters popping in and out post Loup bullshit and all the poo poo going on, I don't think we've seen Jack or Jenny once since Torn Sea either. I know the main Annie and Jack story threads mostly resolved with faraway morning but they were also like the main example of students outside Annie's immediate friends group/the other medium candidates who were shown to be particularly competent. We do get the forest folk and the human bots, but nobody that we've known previously and hardly anyone that we come to know. The only new character really has been that forest girl who's bangin Jim jams, and I think we've only seen her once since it was established her and Eglamore were dating (when she talked about Tony, lmao)
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CodfishCartographer posted:I kind of assumed that they're digging up the robots that were being used to power the shield, so they can turn them into "humans" or whatever they are now. Yep. For some reason I thought Kat got all the chips already, but I was wrong.
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catapede posted:Yep. For some reason I thought Kat got all the chips already, but I was wrong. They were only able to get the robots that the court override and took the chips out of, and they said at the end of last chapter the robots were very upset about all the lost ones buried. I've only just realised that with Juliette covering for them, the presumed loss of all the robots underground means they may be able to transfer all of them to new bodies without the court eventually going 'hey where did all the robots go'. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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MikeJF posted:I've only just realised that with Juliette covering for them, the presumed loss of all the robots underground means they may be able to transfer all of them to new bodies without the court eventually going 'hey where did all the robots go'. And with all the forest people/creatures now in the Court as refugees, the new population of Not-Humans can kinda be shrugged off.
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I would once have been excited to see what kind of human(ish) bodies Boxbot and King Robot end up in… though I’m not sure the comic wants to maintain that tone anymore. If they do show up I’ll be delighted!
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feetnotes posted:I would once have been excited to see what kind of human(ish) bodies Boxbot and King Robot end up in… though I’m not sure the comic wants to maintain that tone anymore. If they do show up I’ll be delighted! Boxbot will absolutely pick this. 
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It is simultaneously a bit odd and also kind of expected that the robots would be so... limited in their choices so far, I guess. I'd have expected them to pick designs that were either far more similar to each other or significantly more divergent, while they seem to be hewing pretty close to standard human variation.
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It's implied that a majority chose "random" and Kat kept their appearance within the bounds of human-like.
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Also if they ever want to be able to leave the court they need to be able to pass for human. That's why Arthur did the whole thing in the first place. Although speaking of which, these guys are more realistic-to-human than Arthur and don't have his visible seams, I hope Kat gave him an upgrade and he didn't get stuck with a dodgy Mk 1 model after all that. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Dec 1, 2021 |
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MikeJF posted:Also if they ever want to be able to leave the court they need to be able to pass for human. That's why Arthur did the whole thing in the first place. Are you calling Arthur a beta male?
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maswastaken posted:It's implied that a majority chose "random" and Kat kept their appearance within the bounds of human-like. With a dash of anime cause Kat is, afterall, a huge dork. Scholtz posted:Are you calling Arthur a beta male? Technically Alpha unless you count Robot's bio bits.
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MikeJF posted:Also if they ever want to be able to leave the court they need to be able to pass for human. That's why Arthur did the whole thing in the first place. He designed his appearance with her, right? I'm assuming he just upgraded from robot to sexy robot since that's Juliet's kink 
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Wonder if they all got an individual consult on their schlong/titty/etc appearance like Arthur did.
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They just roll 3d6 and keep the two highest.
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GunnerJ posted:Wonder if they all got an individual consult on their schlong/titty/etc appearance like Arthur did. I assume that's in the character creator. Does make you wonder if the bio-robots are capable of having children. That's when the whole idea of creating a new form of life will really take off.
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And once again we are reminded of how messed up all of this is because they still refer to Kat as "the angel".
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