|
How well could the radiation shield have worked if the guy who spent the most time on Gargantua-2 ended up with cancer?
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 19:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 4, 2024 00:01 |
|
|
Mantis42 posted:How well could the radiation shield have worked if the guy who spent the most time on Gargantua-2 ended up with cancer? I don't think that was because of G-2. I think that was because he was a botched clone of Jonas that didn't turn out right. JJ was doomed from the moment he was born.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 19:41
|
|
|
Also, I’m not sure they every explicitly said that he had cancer. Only that he was dying. I kinda just saw it as his whole body just giving up and shutting down.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 19:52
|
|
|
Mantis42 posted:How well could the radiation shield have worked if the guy who spent the most time on Gargantua-2 ended up with cancer? His pee-pee Kancer? I didn't read this as JJ but that might make more sense, still.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 19:58
|
|
|
oh it was a ray shield not a radiation shield, it was for protecting against asteroids. well nevermind, my theory that rusty accidentally killed his brother through incompetence was fun for the 5 minutes it lasted
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:00
|
|
|
Mantis42 posted:oh it was a ray shield not a radiation shield, it was for protecting against asteroids. well nevermind, my theory that rusty accidentally killed his brother through incompetence was fun for the 5 minutes it lasted It did give off crazy radiation and gave people extra arms.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:05
|
|
|
Mantis42 posted:oh it was a ray shield not a radiation shield, it was for protecting against asteroids. well nevermind, my theory that rusty accidentally killed his brother through incompetence was fun for the 5 minutes it lasted That'd be very fitting for sure, but my assumption was just that JJ got cancer from being in space for so long while he was building Gargantua 2, long before Rusty ever built the shield.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:06
|
|
|
JJ wasn't dumb. He would've thought about space radiation if he was making a space station
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:07
|
|
|
Mantis42 posted:oh it was a ray shield not a radiation shield, it was for protecting against asteroids. well nevermind, my theory that rusty accidentally killed his brother through incompetence was fun for the 5 minutes it lasted That theory still holds since it mutated every intern working on it
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:08
|
|
|
QuarkJets posted:That theory still holds since it mutated every intern working on it JJ also said Rusty would be crazy to test it on Earth because it makes radiation due to... something... only works in space without emitting the radiation but there could be something very wrong with it sine Rusty clearly didn't know that.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:11
|
|
|
bull3964 posted:Also, I’m not sure they every explicitly said that he had cancer. Only that he was dying. I kinda just saw it as his whole body just giving up and shutting down. He had Anime Wasting Disease. Its a real tragedy when that happens.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 20:15
|
|
|
I had assumed JJ’s illness was part of the deal with The Investors. He got the power, fame and wealth but only for a short time. Everyone else that makes deals with The Investors also winds up dead. R.I.P. King Gorilla
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 21:17
|
|
|
Comrade Quack posted:I had assumed JJ’s illness was part of the deal with The Investors. He got the power, fame and wealth but only for a short time. Everyone else that makes deals with The Investors also winds up dead. I think the Investors are a lot more overt in how the death occurs than that
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 21:29
|
|
|
Hell, they saved Monstroso from his anime wasting disease until he was set to narc
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2022 21:30
|
|
|
QuarkJets posted:He creates roofies that also turn you into a giant insect. Point of order, that was Spanish Fly. He also for sure does roofies but it was the aphrodisiac with the insectoid consequences.
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2022 00:46
|
|
|
Don't cheapen it!
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2022 00:56
|
|
|
Mr. Nice! posted:I don't think that was because of G-2. I think that was because he was a botched clone of Jonas that didn't turn out right. JJ was doomed from the moment he was born. It didn't help that once Rusty came of age he turned his body into a garbage can that JJ was inadvertently living in. Rusty never quite went "full Jonny," but he got close. Also, I know it's been the target of some derision for its comparison to VB, but Harley Quinn comes back tomorrow for S3.
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2022 01:01
|
|
|
Comrade Quack posted:R.I.P. King Gorilla One of my favorite gags is The Monarch at his birthday party just muttering over and over again "I didn't know." God drat is that reveal brutal, and I love it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2022 04:32
|
|
|
limp_cheese posted:One of my favorite gags is The Monarch at his birthday party just muttering over and over again "I didn't know." God drat is that reveal brutal, and I love it. It's also how he was conflicted with going back and taking the present and trying to make excuses before people find out, and even rejecting the chance to run away and try and avoid the awkwardness when Mrs the Monarch effectively gives him the chance - but he doesn't.
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2022 14:34
|
|
|
I mean at some point in our lives we'll accidentally gift somebody something awkward, lets just hope it won't be as bad as that. It's the small awkward human moments that makes us all love these weirdos.
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2022 16:15
|
|
|
Beavis and Butthead doing a shirtclub too
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2022 18:28
|
|
|
Gaius Marius posted:Beavis and Butthead doing a shirtclub too titmouse posted:We're giving away two (2) subscriptions to the Beavis and Butt-Head T-Shirt Club from titmouse. Winners will have the 12 tees shipped to them weekly, plus a bonus tee for 13 total. or just to do. https://www.titmousestuff.com/products/beavis-and-butt-head-shirt-club
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2022 21:42
|
|
|
I don't think I can justify owning more than one B&BH shirt.
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2022 21:55
|
|
|
$300 hachi machi. I do t remember what I spent on the v bros shirts. It’d be nice if we could reorder some at some point. My extra color shirt is super faded.
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2022 22:17
|
|
|
More shows should do t-shirt clubs. Also Doc's new band Pageant Girls is doing a very small tour of Raleigh, Washington DC, and Brooklyn. Music is very shoegaze-y of the mid-90's with a late 80's spirit. https://linktr.ee/PageantGirls
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2022 22:46
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:$300 hachi machi. I do t remember what I spent on the v bros shirts. It’d be nice if we could reorder some at some point. My extra color shirt is super faded. Same. My Spanakpopita shirt is faded and beat to hell but my Shallow Gravy and OSI shirts are still going strong even though I cut off the sleeves and wear them constantly. Would be nice to get a replacement or two. I don't wear the others anymore but I should cut off the sleeves and wear some of them too. I just can't wear them with sleeves because they were not designed with fit and muscular dudes in mind. Shocking, I know.
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2022 23:35
|
|
|
The World Inferno posted:More shows should do t-shirt clubs. BOOOOO I'm in Colorado, but headed to DC the week of Aug 8. Sigh, so close.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2022 00:06
|
|
|
The World Inferno posted:More shows should do t-shirt clubs.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2022 00:12
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:$300 hachi machi. I do t remember what I spent on the v bros shirts. It’d be nice if we could reorder some at some point. My extra color shirt is super faded. I think it was $200? I still have a bunch and wear them frequently.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2022 02:05
|
|
|
Comrade Quack posted:I had assumed JJ’s illness was part of the deal with The Investors. He got the power, fame and wealth but only for a short time. Everyone else that makes deals with The Investors also winds up dead. I'm pretty confident this isn't it. JJ hosted the Investors as moment of weakness in the face of death, but didn't take the deal in the end. His success before that was all his own doing. All That And Gargantua 2 is fairly ambiguous about pretty much everything Investors related, so who knows really.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2022 19:13
|
|
|
After months of being faked out by some fitness company with a similar logo, I finally drove past someone with THE MIGHTY MONARCH symbol on their car. I rolled down the window and gave them the Venture V hand signal.
|
|
#
?
Aug 1, 2022 21:33
|
|
|
JJ's cancer I think is definitely implied to be basically his body only being able to hold out so long as a half-formed twin that's managed to survive through all the insane bullshit Rusty's been through all his life, and that's not even counting the implication that Rusty is a clone too. That said, they do leave a lot of things ambiguous probably on purpose in the special. There's an overall theme with Rusty that he's potentially a better scientist and a better man than his father, but he has absolutely no sense for business, safety, or basic common sense... I'm pretty sure because Jonas sure as gently caress didn't either. Like, the whole mass-market Helper fiasco sounds exactly like something Rusty would do. Jonas was just better at getting basically unlimited money from the government to beat the commies.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 03:44
|
|
|
It’s strongly implied that the Helper uprising was caused by Dr. Z.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 03:53
|
|
|
IUG posted:After months of being faked out by some fitness company with a similar logo, I finally drove past someone with THE MIGHTY MONARCH symbol on their car. I rolled down the window and gave them the Venture V hand signal. Pretty sure I've seen a Ventech or Venture something or other that made me do a double take. Not as much as the military looking building with the X-Com logo.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 05:55
|
|
|
bull3964 posted:It’s strongly implied that the Helper uprising was caused by Dr. Z. It is? I thought it was clearly framed more as a result of Jonas cheaping out on construction (and it seemed to predate most modern safety standards) and resulting in an uproar among the primary market who could actually afford personal robots; that is, suburban white people with way too much free time and pent up anger.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 06:12
|
|
|
I don’t remember tbh but when dr z is recounting the time he found vendata in a dumpster it shows him in charge of an army of helpers.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 06:23
|
|
|
Also like the focus of half the episodes on the compound is finding half-finished projects and experiments Jonas forgot about years ago. Like, he literally threw what would become Vendata in that dumpster when all he had done was gross out his team and try to strangle Rusty. ...iirc it's also mentioned that Venturion was part of a series of projects that all went rogue and became supervillains.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 06:57
|
|
|
Bismack Billabongo posted:I don’t remember tbh but when dr z is recounting the time he found vendata in a dumpster it shows him in charge of an army of helpers. Yeah he's also riding on the big drill vehicle that shows up in a few other episodes 
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 06:57
|
|
|
The Helpers killing wee little babies happened in the 60s, while that Dr. Z is clearly after he went fully bald, since had at least some hair when seduced by the Blue Morpho. So two different incidents.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 07:38
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 4, 2024 00:01 |
|
|
Wouldn't be surprised if literally raiding Jonas' dumpster was basically a shortcut to a pick and mix supervillain scheme.
|
|
#
?
Aug 3, 2022 07:40
|
|