Hitmen for Destiny and The Accidental Space Spy

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Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Funnily enough, Thorsby did make an adventure game:

http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Attack_of_the_Yeti_Robot_Zombies

It is kind of bad, but had a unique style.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2012 13:27

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 12:35

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

I find it quite interesting that they [probably] don't have coins. Lack of scarce metals, or no currency, or something more exotic?

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 10:43

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

ZearothK posted:

What do you mean, Cardinal? I don't think money's been touched in this planet.

"Chance Disc Flipper"?

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 12:56

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

I sort of interpreted the knobs as adjusting for the audience's personal preferences.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 21:40

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Well, we know at least one emotion. Perhaps it is involuntary and that's where all the social hijinks come from.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 10:10

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

I'm thinking the vegetables are related to some sort of publicly-acceptable "pornography" and the surrounding plots are just as superfluous as its Earth-analogue.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 19:48

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Did you click "previous"?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2013 02:46

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Perhaps Limbchooser limbs are poisonous to Limbchoosers?

This would make sense if you look at the limb as an independent organism. Preventing themselves from being cannibalized would put them at an evolutionary advantage.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2013 13:51

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

So that's why New Mahlberg is in the middle of Texas...

# ¿ Jul 14, 2014 13:36

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

BiggerJ posted:

It's strangely coincidental four likely sources of nuclear war - ticking time bomb - should spring up around the same time. And it's not the only coincidence in play - there's also the strange setbacks the cult experienced.

It's been pretty foreshadowed, so I guess it's okay to really look at this line of speculation...

So, it is established that there are multiple universes. The transdimensional brain chip allows communications after a divergence point. The divergences are weekly, from Ulf's point of view, but a split time of one week seems to suggest that this is artificially induced rather than riding some factor that goes off every so often. It seems more sane to assume that parallel universes split off on their own, rather than being induced by the chip.

Let's go back to the start of the comic. We are watching from an ur-Ulf's perspective.

Now, imagine that there are a bunch of parallel universes splitting off all the time since forever. There are a nigh infinite number of start possibilities for the comic. But the comic is called "Transdimensional Brain Chip", so it makes sense that we are going to look in on a particular branch that has one in it.

It is necessary for civilization to exist in order for there to be a transdimensional brain chip. Clearly, it is possible for civilization not to exist in a parallel universe branch, as we have seen from the nuclear wars.

Thus the hypothesis: the world gets into nuclear wars nearly all of the time, but Ur-Ulf's universe was, and is necessarily, one of the branches where it didn't.

Welcome to the wonderful world of anthropics.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 11:40

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Against all sense and norms established so far, I still want this arc to end up being an elaborate pastiche of Tron.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2014 01:21

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

The whale thing has actually been seriously discussed before, and is called "Peto's paradox".

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 14:48

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Ulf's going to go full Dr. Manhattan by the end of this.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 14:59

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Am I the only one who noticed that it's laser Budais, and not Buddhas?

# ¿ Feb 25, 2015 02:23

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 12:35

Cardinal Ximenez: Oct 25, 2008; "You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."

Can we have the alternate bonus ending where she's a total utilitarian rather than an average one?

# ¿ May 8, 2015 11:05

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