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I'm interested in seeing if it's a one-way transformation or if it can be reversed. It's all guys killing guys on those paintings and statues, right? We know that the wives hate each-other. If they all become male, this could likely end in a bloodbath.
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Mar 13, 2013 14:19
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Mr. Wednesday posted:I don't remember this Petrevolt/AHC stuff at all. o_O Would someone mind a quick sum-up, or a link to the arc that explains it? Humans = pets -> Humans revolt -> Human planet = Petrevolt -> Humans = pests -> AHC?
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Apr 15, 2013 18:40
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Daktar posted:I'm surprised limbchoosers don't habitually go around with more than just two legs, two arms etc. Some backwards facing eyes at the very least. I assume that the extra limbs are really hard to coordinate and providing nutrition for them would probably exhaust the main body really fast.
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Apr 30, 2013 15:31
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It would be hilarious if the theory turns out to be wrong and no utterly devastating civil war occurs.
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May 29, 2013 13:48
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Maybe we should start posting links to the updates? Something like this: UPDATEAsh Ouch.  That had to hurt.
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Jun 1, 2013 14:56
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Just to make it clear, the previous two posts were talking about anUPDATE A policy Petrevolt agrees with I still hope that the theory will turn out to be wrong.
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Jun 3, 2013 18:58
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I'm late again, butUPDATE Treason Isn't he already committing treason by not telling his boss that Not-Plume is not Plume?
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Jun 5, 2013 20:08
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UPDATE Loyalty Not-Plume is really running out of options now. We're in for something big soon.
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Jun 7, 2013 20:57
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UPDATE Image Search Now we're back to some decent  at least. Operation Save the Babby is underway.Also, should I stop posting the links, or do people prefer them to manually going to the end of the comic?
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Sizone posted:Basically, stop tossing around biotruths. It's a stupid word to begin with, it's misused and where it's applicable is stupid reddit level discussions of why girls, in general, like shiny things. Thorsby's accounts of humor, faith and now this are, albeit cynical, pretty much spot on and humorous jabs at the inherent absurdities of being a sentient creature trapped in a bounded physical form and surrounded by a hostile world. Whooosh.
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Jun 10, 2013 18:01
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I wonder how they manage to reproduce and avoid incest, what with all the necessary isolation that is required for them to avoid insanity? Maybe it's comparable to how we structure a distributed genetic algorithm where you only reproduce within your particular population unit and only exchange genetic information with the neighboring populations through migration? On the other hand, the fact that they don't even realize that they've been kidnapped means that migration would be a relatively rare event. I love just how, well, alien Thorsby's aliens are, without actually being all that different from us. It's an interesting poke at some standard sci-fi cliches. Hempuli posted:Ah, by "I have hard time believing that" I meant that I have hard time believing that Thorsby writes these evolution-related parts seriously. Babies are special to other people, but studies show that their crying is more considered more irritating than most alarm buzzes, and this apparently has some genetic basis (prioritizing human distress etc). The reason is that (most?) primate babies are literally incapable of taking care of themselves without the help of an adult and are rather prone to dying easily. Not reacting immediately to your baby's cries could literally be removing your genes from the genepool. Seeing that cry as something extremely unpleasant encourages a swift reaction and increases your chances of successfully reproducing (that is, having your offspring live long enough to reproduce) That's at least what I've heard.  If there's an evolutionary biologist reading this, please correct me if I'm wrong.edit: ^^^ Thanks for posting the update. Could you just add sirens to make it more noticeable, then I'll remove them from my post. my dad fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 13:13
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Cobweb Heart posted:It seems kind of surprising to me that Thorsby, who's progressive enough that he had an LGBT woman as the protagonist of his last story, would build a world relying on MEN ACT LIKE THIS WOMEN ACT LIKE THIS. I'm thinking the climax will involve the theory of war being disproven and gender-based Or just prove to be working for the Tjargellos and Tjargellos only. By the way, we're all talking about an UPDATE
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Jun 18, 2013 10:40
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Cat Mattress posted:The latest They're so tiny.  edit: That palace is about 200 meters tall, counting the tower.
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Jun 19, 2013 11:39
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Cat Mattress posted:Mmh. How d'you get there? Not-Plume is 14-pixels tall in the last panel. Assuming a height of 180 centimeters, that makes it about 13 cm per pixel. The guard in the same frame is about 350 pixels, so 45.5 meters tall. In the first frame, he is 17-pixel-tall, that makes it about 2m67 per pixel. So the palace has a roof height of 168 pixels = 450 meters; a dome height of 294 pixels = 787 meters, and a tower height of 426 pixels = 1140 meters. I didn't do a pixel count. I used Not-Plume's size from inside the saucer (it fit my mouse pointer), assumed that it was his upper torso and counted it as 1 meter. First mistake, since he seems to be standing and is almost fully visible. Then I roughly counted the number of times my cursor could fit on the big guy and the result was 15-ish. The scale changes with every panel, though, he's significantly larger compared to Not-Plume in the latter panels. Then I measured his size to be close to two cursors at the palace and roughly compared the size of the palace to the size of the guard's closeup. It was ~25 cursores, which divided by 2 and multiplied by 15 is around 200, probably a bit less. This is all incredibly  AND wrong. That said, we really can't accurately measure anything due to Thorsby's err... lack of drawing talent.
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Evilreaver posted:Most importantly, Not-Plume was named Ben in the 15th strip He's too small for Ben.
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Jul 18, 2013 00:02
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weavernaut posted:I'm not very far in at all, but am I right in assuming that the world Maythorn and Lostclock are from is either vaguely or literally Lovecraftian? One of them says "thank Dagon!" at one point. I know he's also a real ancient god, but I've never seen a Dagon reference that wasn't meant to refer to Lovecraft's ideas. The only thing I can safely tell you is: "Keep reading."
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Sep 22, 2013 02:12
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Buzkashi posted:"I can't see what's happening, are we boned?" Well, looks like somebody is.
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Oct 24, 2013 10:43
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:And it looks like Thorsby's back with a new comic, Transdimensional Brain Chip. From what I've seen so far, it's going to be the most confusing, hard-to-keep-track of mess yet! So that's where the iPod ended up! Link Huh, while searching for the webpage, I discovered that Thorsby is a fan of OOTS
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Apr 2, 2014 14:19
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The big question is what will happen when some of the Ulfs inevitably start getting killed.
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Apr 3, 2014 10:24
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vyelkin posted:Maybe this is going to go way into left field and there'll be like an alien invasion or something, and Ulf's brain chip will be the key to saving the world. That would be pretty Thorsbyesque. Which world?
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Jun 10, 2014 22:58
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Sindai posted:Uh-oh, the most stubborn Ulf can potentially convince all the others to do pretty much anything. I can see a bunch of angry Ulfs counterattacking and mindsquashing the anoying one.
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Jun 18, 2014 00:19
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Here come the suits.
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Jul 8, 2014 18:46
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Not really where I expected this to be going.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:48
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I think we're lost in a sea of Ulfs.
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Aug 20, 2014 16:31
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Eh. 1 down (maybe), 12000 more to go.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:24
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Welp, hive mind time.
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Sep 15, 2014 08:46
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And that is why you never go first.
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Oct 13, 2014 16:28
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The Singularity has come, and its name is Ulf.
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Nov 9, 2014 09:01
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Cardinal Ximenez posted: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. In short:  Highly relevant to this whole conversation would be this paper: http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/anthropicshadow.pdf I love the concept of the anthropic shadow.
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Nov 9, 2014 12:06
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The growing number of Ulfs is going to overload the chip sooner or later. Any bets about the number of bits used for universe identification?
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Dec 8, 2014 10:26
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Sizone posted:Wouldn't each split only require the id of the parent + 1 bit? That is, ulfid doesn't need to account for all ulfs, only the branch of ulf responsible for the ulf in question. Depends on a bunch of stuff. It's webcomicmagictech, so it can be whatever Thorsby wants it to be. I was just wondering if sloppy code/hardware making practices are going to influence Ulfnet somehow.
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The themes that can be explored due to the chip's existence are starting to run thin. On the other hand, the themes that can be explored if the chip breaks just keep piling up.
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Cat Mattress posted:I want an ending where they put transdimensional brainchips in everyone on Earth. It's gonna be hard to find enough fish for all those chips. 
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