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FlocksOfMice posted:I've said before, nearly two years ago, that 25% of the comic has been post-Loup. That's wild, it really feels like barely anything has happened since Loup came on the scene. The comic really ended with the Mind Cage, huh.
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It does feel like that's when the author gave up emotionally, yeah.
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Feb 29, 2024 00:37
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Remember when this comic was good? me neither
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Remember when this comic was good?  Better times...
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Feb 29, 2024 01:28
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the aimlessness is a new development. the focus on lana and loup was agonizing but at least it was a focus. ever since coyote nommed zimmy everyone's been puttering around between like four different objectives without seeming particularly bothered about any of them
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Feb 29, 2024 01:36
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The comic is breaking down into its component parts. It will all become formless blurs of color and lines by June.
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Feb 29, 2024 03:41
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Tom has to have ran out of buffer at some point lol
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Feb 29, 2024 03:52
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Coyote nommed Zimmy on August 11 Since then, a bald robot died
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rudecyrus posted:Does Tom have any idea where this is all supposed to end up, or is he stalling for time? Can only speculate but there's the occasional page like everyone standing in the star ocean or some of the god kat breaking through pages etc that feel like a step up in design and quality than most of the talking heads stuff we get. Like something he may have had time to think about and want to do "right". It's pretty possible there are parts of the comic that he knows he needs to get to and he has some ideas of how they should be. I think it would be hard to work on a long format story for so many years and not have ideas at all. Not something that has some sort of overarching plot from the start (even if that plot is in shambles now). The part that doesn't seem to have much thought is how he's actually going to get there, or move all the pieces where they need to be or whatever. It feels more like there is some check list of things to check off for the plot to happen and who cares about how it gets there. So we're just getting this disjointed mess as a result. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Feb 29, 2024 05:23
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isasphere posted:
Thank you. I've been wondering for awhile why I was reading this comic and now I remember. What happened?
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Feb 29, 2024 06:30
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Ravenson posted:Thank you. I've been wondering for awhile why I was reading this comic and now I remember. The behavior depicted was bad and immature and needed to be stopped, because that's the moral of the story
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Feb 29, 2024 09:04
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GunnerJ posted:I feel like negative inertia would imply that something moves of its own accord
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Feb 29, 2024 11:01
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He's probably just at a different time in his life from 2005. Living in a different country, married, does he have a kid? But when you're relying on a patreon to live, you don't feel you can stop.
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Feb 29, 2024 11:26
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Much like posting in this well of moaning.
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Feb 29, 2024 11:52
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He really does need to go on hiatus and take a step back from the comic. Just... do literally anything else for a few weeks or a month or two and come back with fresh eyes to the comic. Maybe take some time to actually plot out the end of the comic rather than this borderline stream-of-consciousness storyline.
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Feb 29, 2024 13:11
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"don't worry about her" Now just let me space out for a moment so I can talk about her some more with somebody who isn't in the room
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Splicer posted:I think it would mean if you pushed it the momentum would change by more than the energy you put in. Would this pull the extra energy required from local heat? It's a weird concept.
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We could have cut out the previous two pages and lost NOTHING from the plot, thin as it is. The area they're in now doesn't look like the splash page, the plot summary was just for the stuff that happened 5 pages prior... loving hell, was the comic always this bad and I just didn't notice? Did covid break Tom, like it broke so many others?
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This week's pages feel like hitting a randomizer button
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For no particular reason, I'm wondering what would happen if you trained a LLM on the entire body of Gunnerkrigg Court updates.
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Randalor posted:Did covid break Tom, like it broke so many others? It's probably unkind but it's what I've been seriously considering. In the retrospective video for the chapter where the Annies get combined (also the last retrospective he published), the one before the Mind Cage, Tom comments that the covid lockdowns hit him hard creatively. He apparently had only been living in America for a year before the shutdowns happened, and he could no longer take the walks he used to workshop the comic in his head, and was stuck indoors in a place he hadn't fully acclimated to yet. On top of, you know, the stress of the pandemic itself. He said that Find Yourself in particular suffered a lot because of all that. isasphere fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Control Volume posted:Also some fun facts! Control Volume posted:Oh! more fun facts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uTsqJVAeo lol
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Randalor posted:Tom has the amazing ability to both thing his readers have perfect memory (references to things dating back to the start of the comic without any comment) while also having the memories of gold fish (Tom, we really didn't need a recap for what JUST HAPPENED.) Felt extremely apropos for this page, where we went from an unnecessary recap to a grey region with staircases that looks like Extruded Court Architecture, and the author comment is something like “looks familiar” with no link back.
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Is this familiar? I don't... know???? Why did we have a recap explaining what happened 4 pages before the recap but no explanation for what this place is. What?? Tom unironically are you ok buddy?? This is incoherent lately
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Mar 1, 2024 21:01
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The comic is now just this, forever
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It ain't familiar to me, nor will it be
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cant cook creole bream posted:Would this pull the extra energy required from local heat? It's a weird concept. I did find out that theoretical physicists say if you apply force to something with negative inertial mass it accelerates toward the source of the force something something something time travel. e: so an example of negative inertia would be readers pushing for a Tony redemption arc resulting in Tom devoting an entire chapter to Annie telling Splicer fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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GunnerJ posted:For no particular reason, I'm wondering what would happen if you trained a LLM on the entire body of Gunnerkrigg Court updates. Yudkowsky: *sweats*
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I have no idea what's happening now. It doesn't really matter, I suppose.
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OgreNoah posted:I have no idea what's happening now. It doesn't really matter, I suppose.
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OgreNoah posted:I have no idea what's happening now. It doesn't really matter, I suppose.
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uhhhhhhhhhhh that's some whiplash lol
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Well those are zimmyland seraph bots, that's about all I got.
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Okay this looks pretty cool. I'm incredibly confused though.
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There Bias Two posted:Okay this looks pretty cool. someone got their wish   may not have worked out as well as intended though
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Those barnacles are… butt-esque.
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Yeah I get everything except the barnacles. Is it referring to she gave us an ocean or the creepy boat?
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So like after an entire chapter of faffing about and recapping stuff that happened 2 pages ago suddenly the comic is creepy, powerful, and good again. Terrifying, thank you very much! I hope the ball doesn't get dropped again, this is something that was clearly being built up to for a WHILE and even if the getting-here was sloppy this is great for the moment.
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you fool, you buffoon, you have two days to ruminate on the inevitable consequences of saying "the comic is good again, hope it stays that way"
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:you fool, you buffoon, you have two days to ruminate on the inevitable consequences of saying "the comic is good again, hope it stays that way" Yeah but imagine how much more fun I'll have playing Upset or Disappointed when this all gets written off with no real consequence just like double Annie's did! I'm setting myself up for a fun time later.
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