|
I bet it's because of 4chan. Everyone is always blaming SA for 4chan.
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 14:33
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 16:36 |
|
|
Isn't there some crazy true fact where because Jeri Ryan got hired to do Star Trek Voyager, her then husband (who was a politician in Illinois) had some skeletons come to light, which lead to Obama getting elected president? I know there's more steps, but that's the gist of it. I could see some way of connecting dots where Lowtax used registration funds to buy mail order cookies, which was a shell company owned by Trump, which indirectly contributed to his campaign in fly over states.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 14:54
|
|
|
I wish I understood pacing better, telling a story 4 - 8 panels at a time is excruciatingly long, but it's really only been 5 pages of fighting, which is I guess how long it takes one piece to clear out minor characters. I wish I could do 18 pages a week, like the shonen jump people do, or like 9 even, or 7. Then again I guess I did just do two pages in a day. Boba Pearl has a new favorite as of 15:01 on May 18, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 14:59
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:Specifically Something Awful or just the Internet? https://twitter.com/daleberan/status/1156232731061305345?s=21&t=y4mCJEHJ1IRs-Fbvh4jPOw It sounds like most of the real blame falls on 4chan etc.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 15:03
|
|
|
In fact that blurb implies the book as a whole is about 4chan. I think Something Awful just made for a better name to put in the title?
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 15:07
|
|
|
I assume it's like a film called "It came from space!" probably isn't much about space.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 15:16
|
|
|
CzarChasm posted:Isn't there some crazy true fact where because Jeri Ryan got hired to do Star Trek Voyager, her then husband (who was a politician in Illinois) had some skeletons come to light, which lead to Obama getting elected president? I know there's more steps, but that's the gist of it. Wikipedia posted:His 2004 campaign for the Senate, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to perform sexual acts in public, led to Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign.[2]
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 15:36
|
|
|
Prairie Bus posted:Sincerely, thanks for posting these. I stopped following the comic when it first ended, and it’s been great to see these later additions. I looked up the authors, and Dale Beran’s still doing comics (sometimes). He also wrote a book blaming Something Awful for Trump’s ascendancy. lol didn't know that it was that guy
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 15:47
|
|
|
lol i didn't know it was him either. he artist David Hellman appears to have created a gaming studio and may also be drawing new stuff for the forthcoming Braid Anniversary Edition (which I didn't know was in the works either) https://twitter.com/davidhellman?lang=en https://twitter.com/furnimatgames/status/1513501871666651138
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 16:31
|
|
|
vyelkin posted:Transdimensional Brain Chip I haven't been sure of how I felt about TBC since the angels showed up. That plan had an entertaining reveal, but it seems like the comic shifted a lot in focus from then on in a way that I haven't enjoyed as much. Brain Chip Aisha seems like a promising plot thread though.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 16:38
|
|
|
DACK FAYDEN posted:yes, Jack Ryan was running against Obama
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 16:49
|
|
|
Splicer posted:I lost track of the conversation and did a hell of a double take That does sound like a Tom Clancy premise.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 16:50
|
|
|
Come And See posted:Rice Boy hasn't been posted in a while. I appreciated flavor.flv sharing it. Sorry, I got fired for unspecified "misuse of company property," so I haven't had a laptop to post from in a while Luckily, it was a natural stopping point right at the end of book I, so let's just jump right back in with Rice Boy Book II              
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 16:59
|
|
|
vyelkin posted:
Maybe this is revealed in the next comic but Angel: You may leave now. Vera: Let's leave now. Angel: *murders Vera* is confusing me.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:06
|
|
|
I assume the angel killed her since she's now a Christian and will go to Heaven, to avoid the risk of the Buddha bots converting her.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:08
|
|
|
Crowetron posted:I assume the angel killed her since she's now a Christian and will go to Heaven, to avoid the risk of the Buddha bots converting her. Intuitively obvious, and I feel the dodge is "I no longer believe in Jesus"
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:11
|
|
|
So now that there a millions of aisha, how does that interact with the ulfmind? Option a) ulf's brainchip only tracks one specific timeline, only one aisha is in a universe with the ulfmind and the millions of others experienced an abrupt disconnect (but actually this is happening to a near infinite number of chipped ulfs and we are only able to see the ones still connected) Option b) aisha's chip also causes the new ulf to be networked as well, so the ulfmind is growing at the same rate and ulf can see that there are suddenly more ulfs Either way seems like aisha is very visible and in trouble, unless ulf is too preoccupied fighting the angels
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:22
|
|
|
New Adventures of the Duck Avenger        I mean, I'm not sure a frontal assault is the strategy I'd pick when taking on an invading army as a single dude, but hey, I'm sure it'll work out. Probably? Cooked Auto posted:So I thought the comment in the last frame felt a bit too obvious, turns out that's a reference to one of Scrooge's adventures, Last Sled to Dawson by Don Rosa. Oh hey cool! I assumed it was a reference to Scrooge McDuck, but didn't pick up that it referred to a specific story.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:26
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:So now that there a millions of aisha, how does that interact with the ulfmind? My assumption is that, since in Aisha's world there already are billions of Ulfs, each split of hers will double the Ulfs again
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:34
|
|
|
Don't the Ulfs and Aishas exist anyway, and the chip's only letting them share minds?
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:35
|
|
|
Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman 027  Posing Notes: The soldier walking by and waving amiably in the background of panel 2 is "That guy Chad", and Frohman was supposed to be pointing to him. But Frohman's arm just looked all weird when I had it stretched out like that, so I nixed it. Notice I've already forgotten to put barrels in the background of these comics. That didn't take long. 028  Title Reference: The second chapter of HL2 is called "A Red Letter Day". My title foreshadows that one of Frohman's letters to Dr. Breen will actually be read, but I wound up abandoning the comic in which that happens because it sucked. So, there you have it. More fascinating insight into the process. I really just wanted to use the giant videoscreen and Combine Advisor for something. You only really glimpse him for a few seconds when you're playing the game, once near the start and once near the end, as Dr. Breen talks to him. Again, he's on a video screen, which means he's hidden somewhere on the map in a little chamber in front of a camera in order to show up onscreen. Took me a while, but I found him. He moves around a little and makes some cool noises. 029 
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:36
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:Option b) aisha's chip also causes the new ulf to be networked as well, so the ulfmind is growing at the same rate and ulf can see that there are suddenly more ulfs Son of Thunderbeast posted:My assumption is that, since in Aisha's world there already are billions of Ulfs, each split of hers will double the Ulfs again That was my assumption as will, since (as far as I know) any new split still just duplicates the existing world at that moment, so I think it would continue working the same way as it has.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:40
|
|
|
CzarChasm posted:I could see some way of connecting dots where Lowtax used registration funds to buy mail order cookies, which was a shell company owned by Trump, which indirectly contributed to his campaign in fly over states. it's just that SA spawned 4chan which spawned /pol/ which spawned QAnon and churned out infinity pro-trump memes during the election
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:41
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:So now that there a millions of aisha, how does that interact with the ulfmind? There's also c) each split of Aisha's creates one new unique timeline for each Ulf in which that Ulf is connected to an Ulf in a timeline with a new Aisha and is connected to all other Ulfs connected to the same Aisha, but no others. Essentially, every Aisha split is dealing with an entire unique Ulfmind cloud split off at the same time, with all the universes that entails. Since the brain chips only connect to new timelines, there would currently be no way for any given Ulf to cross-connect to an Ulf dealing with a different Aisha (although if a large number of Ulfs set their minds to studying transdimensional mechanics they could probably figure it out.)
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:42
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:So now that there a millions of aisha, how does that interact with the ulfmind? Let's look at week 3. Ulf is in a network of 8 Ulfs. Each moment the universes of those 8 Ulfs and their connections to each other are themselves multiplying exponentially, creating an exponentially increasing number of 8-Ulf networks. At the start of week 4 each Ulf maintains a connection during the split, so instead of there being twice as many Ulf networks after that particular set of splits they instead maintain the same number of networks and it is the size of each Ulf network that doubles. Then immediately afterward the networks start multiplying in number again. With Aisha instead of it being once a week it's whenever she presses a button. So currently you have a huge network of connected Aishas, each of them in a universe containing a single node of a separate but functionally identical Ulf network. And there are also a literally uncountable number of Aisha networks all not talking to each other because she didn't press a button for those divergences. This, incidentally, is also why the chip killed those other guys but not Ulf: The comic is one fork of one of the tiny fraction of universes where, for some reason, it worked. The multiverse is littered with dead Ulfs with failed chips and Ulfs who never got chips because it worked on one of the other people first. Splicer has a new favorite as of 18:04 on May 18, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 17:59
|
|
|
Apocalypse Johto Part 3: Silver Bullet Chapter 28: High Heels          
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:04
|
|
|
Dang it this Gordon Frohman is one efficient assistant and I'm sure he's headed to great things.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:10
|
|
|
Splicer posted:Timeline stuff That's interesting, I've either misunderstood or forgotten how the mechanic works depending on how exactly it was described early on. Tying Ulf's chip into a weekly event definitely helped put me in the mindset that it was part of an active timeline split mechanic.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:20
|
|
|
 I had forgotten as well. This is from the first strip. Splitting is constant, communication links were weekly.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:30
|
|
|
rydiafan posted:
his comics are so convoluted that I forget he often includes an early explanation for the insane poo poo that ends up happening. none of this is a criticism. e: also ty
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:32
|
|
|
I think it's less that anything they are doing is causing the split, but Ulf's chip maintained a connection at predetermined intervals as timelines diverged anyway. Timelines are always diverging every second, but Ulf's device let him share experience with one of those divergences once per week. Aisha is able to establish those connections with timeline duplicates at the press of a button, but those timeline duplicates functionally would have always existed, they just wouldn't have been connected to the hivemind. edit: beaten with evidence.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:33
|
|
|
Ah okay that makes more sense
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:35
|
|
|
i reckon the button doesn't do anything, and it's the decision to press it that causes a split
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:37
|
|
|
Splicer posted:The chip isn't causing timeline splits, it maintains a connection between naturally splitting timelines as they diverge. Divergence is happening constantly without chips maintaining connections. The entire universe is multiplying every moment, they're just not talking to each other.. The chips only are connecting specific timelines. So when we have 2 ulfs we have communication between A' and B'. Those are two timelines out of an infinite number, so at any moment an infinite number of ulf As split off, and can no longer talk to B, since only A' is connected to B'. In a week the orphaned ulfs would start off a new network, presumably. In almost every universe ulf A suddenly realizes he can't talk to ulf B, but since we were anthropically following A', none of that ever came up until now.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 18:45
|
|
|
Crisis on Infinite Ulfs
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 19:00
|
|
|
The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Derail Valley > PYF Comic: Crisis on Infinite Ulfs
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 19:02
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:The chips only are connecting specific timelines. I assume B is splitting off as well and A' remains connected to B' but all other split As remain connected to some respective split Bs, except in the event of the death of one of the A/B pair in the split or some other anomaly. How a split B gets assigned to one unique split A is part of the brain chip magic, don't question it. Nice Van My Man has a new favorite as of 19:16 on May 18, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 19:14
|
|
|
Nice Van My Man posted:I assume B is splitting off as well and A' remains connected to B' but all other split As remain connected to some respective split Bs, except in the event of the death of one of the A/B pair in the split or some other anomaly. How a split B gets assigned to one unique split A is part of the brain chip magic, don't question it. God drat it, I hate when people try to explain git to me
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 20:09
|
|
|
It's really quite simple. Ulf A has Aisha A in his perception of the world. Aisha A splits into Aisha A1 and A2. Both of those have an Ulf in them Ulf A1 and Ulf A2. Both are exact replicas of the previous Ulf and both have access to a Ulfnet A1 and A2. But those are also just exact replicas and have no connection to Ulfnet A. If there are a billion Ulfs coupled together, each Aisha has to defeat a billion Ulfs packed onto one body. But each of those are complete separate instances. Also, if Ulf A1 splits into Ulf A1alpha and A1beta at the end of the week, both have a corresponding Aisha with a multiverse copies, each having a seperate instance of Ulf and his network. So yeah, it's pretty much how git works if you.don't bother to merge branches.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 20:31
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 16:36 |
|
|
Belzebubs   
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2022 21:10
|
|
