vyelkin posted:

Transdimensional Brain Chip

Body count: 4
+Ulf (killed by a nuclear bomb in Chicago)

Carthag Tuek posted:

no nose guy putting on a nose

uvar posted:

Alternatively you could consider the potential number of Ulfs if all of them had survived and split (powers of two), which gives week 13's 4534 out of 8192 a rather grim 55% still-connected rate, but that feels unfair because if an Ulf is shot, or blown up, or his chip damaged, he's not going to continue splitting.

readingatwork posted:

I like that it's holding back on what's happening in a literal sense and is instead choosing to run on dream logic. It makes for a unique experience imo.

Boba Pearl posted:

Marie and the Adventurer's League - 16.03 - Knitting Circle

uvar posted:

I hadn't noticed until fairly recently when I went to save one but the Whomp comics have some decent puns in their titles/filenames.

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It's time for some boring math! As one of them points out here, your body count is a little low. I'll spoil this partly because it hasn't been made explicit (I don't think it ever is) but mostly because it's pedantry. There's no plot points hidden here.

We know that each Ulf splits in two at noon each Monday, and Thorsby is kind enough to indicate when that happens in the comic and exactly how many Ulfs there are. Week 12 started with 2588 Ulfs, but week 13 started with 4534, which means week 12 ended with 2267. We're missing 321, or about 12%. More than one in ten Ulfs didn't make it through the week. I'm too lazy to upload a graph but the Ulf Survival Rate has been declining since week 5 and even sped up slightly since ours became filthy rich in week nine/ten, though compared to the instant doubling at the start of each week it's been easily drowned out and Ulf is presumably too bad at math to have noticed before now.

Alternatively you could consider the potential number of Ulfs if all of them had survived and split (powers of two), which gives week 13's 4534 out of 8192 a rather grim 55% still-connected rate, but that feels unfair because if an Ulf is shot, or blown up, or his chip damaged, he's not going to continue splitting (and we can keep Lostclock happy and rule out duplicating ghost Ulfs). I could be making a mistake at this point even with Excel helping me but I think if you only count Ulfs that actually existed, we're up to 566 disconnected in total, which matches the "over five hundred" figure mentioned here in strip 53. Or about 20% lost as a percentage, but I don't know if that's a meaningful calculation what with all the multiverse stuff.

vyelkin posted:

Boba Pearl posted:

I get that one though, when I started my comic I wanted it to be gritty wacky hijinks comedy like It's Always Sunny but in a fantasy setting, and then I realized that I had given everyone extremely traumatizing traits as a way to get them on the adventure, now I have to decide how to get these people act believably. Technically Spider GF has known my main character for a total of 18 hours (or maybe a few days depending because I kept the passage of time vague.) So I have to temper "I want to do fun couple things with the spider girlfriend" with "How do I have someone completely isolate themselves from any friends or relatives for someone who seems like a good top, and not have it seem extremely creepy because of the power dynamic."

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

vyelkin posted:

vyelkin posted:

For a few reasons, I'm only including in the body count deaths that we either see on screen or have described to us in a more detailed way than "we lost contact with more people" or (in one of today's comics) "people have died in riots."

Transdimensional Brain Chip

55. TV-show


56. Bag


57. Started


Body count: 5
+Ulf (killed by a nuclear bomb in an unspecified location)

Carthag Tuek posted:

drat

CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:

Just over one third of the way through hitmen for destiny we were all the way through the boat hilarity. I guess hfd is a much longer comic than brainchip but man so far compared to hfd I just feel like nothing significant has happened. I've been waiting for the thorsby shoe to drop but so far it's been slow and boring.

Boba Pearl posted:

Marie and the Adventurer's League - 16.04 - Falling


By the way, this comic makes the 120th page, and the 1 year anniversary is going to be in 2 weeks, This means I've been doing on average a page every 2.9 days, for 1 year.

Thanks for a year of this bullshit.

Carthag Tuek posted:

drat

uvar posted:

It's time for some boring math! As one of them points out here, your body count is a little low. I'll spoil this partly because it hasn't been made explicit (I don't think it ever is) but mostly because it's pedantry. There's no plot points hidden here.

take_it_slow posted:

CumDed

take_it_slow posted:

Total Dead Ulfs as of the end of each week (and weekly survival rate), based on that methodology:

code:

Week	CumDed	SurvivalRate
1	0	1.000
2	0	1.000
3	0	1.000
4	1	.938
5	2	.967
6	4	.966
7	9	.955
8	18	.958
9	39	.949
10	95	.928
11	245	.896
12	566	.876

take_it_slow posted:

CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:

We already knew nukes were going off, this scene is just showing instead of telling it's not new or interesting

ultrafilter posted:

bump_fn posted:

https://twitter.com/JucikaDaily/status/1514619488796356610

Dieting Hippo posted:

K6BD is back!

tired gay and dead posted:

I think having a guy ask his transdimensional counterpart who's brain he is wired into to hold onto his girlfriend for comfort as he is vaporized by a nuclear weapon is a pretty good and effective way to illustrate the stakes of a story beyond "we lost contact with some guys, turns out it's nukes". It's not strictly an escalation in the plot but it works really well emotionally in the context of the comic.