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Alright, time for a show of hands. How many of you have: A) Had sex with a complete stranger while inebriated? B) Had sex with a complete stranger who was inebriated? C) Encountered a complete stranger escorting another complete stranger who was inebriated? D) If C, made sure said escorting wasn't where the sober stranger wasn't about to have sex with the inebriated stranger? For the record, I've never knowingly done any of these. It's really easy not to notice, though. I also don't typically go to parties where people get drunk, and didn't in college (and was on a dry campus).
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idonotlikepeas posted:but I'm guessing alcohol would work fine on her, and given that they've now brought it up twice we might be looking at a demonstration of that at some point in the future. Or it could just be some (reasonable) world-building. It's not like superhero-gets-drunk-and-causes-problems is something no one else has done. On the other hand, it occurs to me that something interesting could happen story-wise if someone "accidentally" spikes her drink at a party, and/or tries to date-rape her.
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Jun 21, 2014 06:26
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Weren't the Guardians basically formed to fight against super villains? Somewhere along the way, it's been mentioned that all of the big super villains have been arrested or otherwise taken out--Menace was the last one left, and he "disappeared". It makes sense that absent "the big threat", interest and therefore funding has waned.
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Jul 13, 2014 18:59
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One thing that strikes me after this last page: Brad keeps calling Alison by her real name, but she keeps calling him by his code name, though she started the conversation with his real name. ...must get confusing, having two names to call everyone.
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Aug 1, 2014 13:34
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I wonder if her invisibility applies just to visible light, but also to infrared (that is, heat), as well.
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Sep 4, 2014 01:44
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Frankly, I thought Portal 2 handled it in a clever manner by having the AI be too stupid to realize it was a logical contradiction.
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Oct 28, 2014 18:57
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Guys, we've gone way off-topic. This discussion belongs in a thread about mid-1900s Germany.
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Apr 1, 2015 00:22
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Convenient that she developed the ability to fly right before needing to use it for the narrative.
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Jul 7, 2015 18:08
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I'm trying to understand why one would build a building with a door that literally opens onto a giant concrete cliff, without some sort of warning on the door. Or nearby. Or lights that work.
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Jul 29, 2015 02:16
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This is probably a Prisoner's Dilemma situation the professor is setting up. If everyone puts down a white stone, they all fail or they all have to actually do the work of the class or something like that, so someone (or some percentage of the class) has to put down a black stone and sacrifice in order to have the white stones. Or something like that. Philosophically, it's a reasonable counter to "we're all in this together": who's going to sacrifice to make that happen?
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Apr 13, 2016 15:03
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It is awfully convenient that the professor happens to have his Go stones to do an effective prisoner's dilemma the day they discuss axioms and one of the students happens to say something like "we're all in this together"...
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Apr 16, 2016 02:45
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akulanization posted:Patrick may be a murderer and a villain. But he doesn't pretend he's something he isn't, and while he's willing to talk like he's a puppet master, his actions make clear that he does actually care for the people he works with. Though that could just be a misreading based on the confused and vacillating portrayal we've gotten recently. I really feel like it would be really difficult not to develop a lot of empathy if you were effectively always reading people's minds, along with all of the sadness and anger that comes with the terrible poo poo that happens to people in life. Either that or become a sociopath.
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Apr 24, 2016 01:48
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I really hope the professor runs the experiment again, with Allison being "ready", and someone in the class still puts down a white stone because they don't want to take a chance that someone else won't. Leading, of course, to the Lesson that the only way to get everyone to work together is to be a tyrant.
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Apr 26, 2016 15:27
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I think this comic is at its strongest when it's exploring the tension of someone who is really good at punching things to solve problems trying to figure out how to solve problems you can't solve by punching things. Though, as I'm now going through the process of selling a house and buying a new one, the comment about the long times of work getting glossed over for the prize that come up here and here is something I sympathize with.
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Apr 29, 2016 04:01
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Whenever people link back to when this comic was amazing, it always makes me sad at how much it doesn't live up to itself anymore. 
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Aug 8, 2016 23:48
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Being given pretty much no clue what Allison is talking about really kills the dramatic tension in this scene, I think.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:55
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Unlucky7 posted:Really, though, the question of 'If you can, should you? Should it be EXPECTED from you?' is the most interesting this comic has gotten in a long time. Sadly, though, the discussion here on that topic is being done in a far better manner than the comic is. Also, I think this would have been stronger coming right after Feral, instead of having a huge digression into why vigilante killing is bad (or is it?). Not to mention telling us what the actual power is. It occurs to me. She rips up the check from the guy who she doesn't like right now instead of funding her program that could help lots of people; but she's perfectly cool with using the information provided by that very same guy to get into an argument with someone over how he should help people even if he doesn't like it. That feels very inconsistent to me.
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Sep 21, 2016 04:52
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Hell, even Rat gets showed in a trash can when the comic was fresh and brimming with potential - the signs were always there. Come to think of it, the lack of rat during the ADA segment was a huge miss, I felt. That was a gun sitting on the mantlepiece that could easily have been fired. Going back through the comic to make sure my memory of Rat being a dynamorph made me remember how much potential this had, and how many interesting storylines they've abandoned  Also, Rat says word is Menace is coming back. So uh... what happened to that? Did they switch writers after the first chapter or two?
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Sep 25, 2016 20:13
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Guys, please stop reminding me of when this comic was much better about actually considering some of the real-life implications of teenaged superheroes.
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Oct 9, 2016 01:36
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I think the conspiracy plot line has gotten dropped on the floor and swept away, never to be heard from again.
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Oct 12, 2016 05:26
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I think the Feral arc was probably the best bit of this comic, grappling with the moral issues of super powers. That doesn't mean we need to revisit it :/
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Oct 22, 2016 03:50
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What if Max's fairy dust gave everyone in the world a little bit of Feral's power?
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Oct 24, 2016 05:16
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No "good" deed goes unpunished.
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Nov 1, 2016 13:08
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A lot of people apparently don't remember the 2012 election. Or 2008 election. Or 2004 election. Or 2000 election... Especially 2004 and 2000, if they thought 2008 and 2012 were great.
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Nov 11, 2016 22:49
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The end of the year is always when I do a webcomics purge, and this one hasn't been worth reading for a long while now. I'm out.
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