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Post by edzepp on Aug 22, 2008 7:01:49 GMT
Science!It helps you sneak around after hours.
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Post by mudmaniac on Aug 22, 2008 8:13:19 GMT
Bah. the simpler eyes have all their controls inaccessible except from inside the eye itself. meaning kat woulda havta build a spider-bot body for Robot to climb up there to do the work.
Or short the signal wires at some point along the piping. Now what would Macgyver do?
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Post by gaia on Aug 22, 2008 8:24:06 GMT
It's almost like they encourage students to break out.
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Post by Count Casimir on Aug 22, 2008 8:28:16 GMT
I already said that! Maaan, I get no credit 'round here.
Nice to have my theory corroborated though.
Will there be TicTocs about this night? We haven't seen them for a while.
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Post by todd on Aug 22, 2008 10:40:32 GMT
If the faculty *are* encouraging the students to break out, I hope that they have plans to ensure that the students' activities won't endanger the Court (especially in light of all the potential trouble that Annie's sneaking about has already caused).
Of course, the evidence we got from Jones in Chapter Seventeen suggests that the Headmaster (and presumably the rest of the teachers) underestimates the inhabitants of Gillitie Wood, regarding them as merely a group of talking animals. Maybe they're a little too complacent about being able to handle any troubles with the forest.
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Post by ren on Aug 22, 2008 12:12:28 GMT
I'm convinced that to be proficient at anything science-y, you don't actually have to know things, you just have to know words that sound good in the situation. Technobabble for the win.
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Post by etcetera on Aug 22, 2008 12:34:56 GMT
So now the detector looks for microwaves instead of infrared? Must be a pretty neat little gadget to have access to such a wide spectrum. On the other hand, if the software is waiting for a signal that is out of range for the detector then it's a pretty foolproof hack. Disable without disarm. Way to go, Kat!
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Post by jargon on Aug 22, 2008 13:19:17 GMT
I very much like the idea that these things are part of the Courts testing programme, though security around the court does seem quite lacking anyway. Perhaps the whole Court is a test.
Antimony is looking quite cool in panel six, without trying I'd wager.
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Post by cenit on Aug 22, 2008 13:43:39 GMT
...why in Freud's name would they set the control pannel on the kids side???
If this is a test, then they could have added a little bit more difficulty, methinks.
Also, in the first pannel we can see that symbol of the union bewteen science and the etheric... right? The little "o" with horns... (sorry everyone, my english just quitted on me this moment)
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Post by jargon on Aug 22, 2008 14:00:12 GMT
...why in Freud's name would they set the control pannel on the kids side??? If this is a test, then they could have added a little bit more difficulty, methinks. Surely it depends on what you are testing. The sensors themselves may just be a small electronics test within a larger sneaking test.
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Post by etcetera on Aug 22, 2008 14:51:07 GMT
Science!It helps you sneak around after hours. That and some geekness. We once snuck into the chemistry building of our university trying to find some mad science labs. We hacked our way in through the ventilation system just by using an endoscope in ways it it was not meant to be used. The good old days ... ;D
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Post by agasa on Aug 22, 2008 20:16:17 GMT
so, today i wake up and see the strip, and i think "wow that's a lame security system, can it be that Tom is slacking off and the awesomeness level is somewhat decreasing?" then i read Tom's comment. And a new point of view opens to me! because, if the Author thinks the system is lame too, it means it is also lame from an in-comic perspective, meaning the staff of gunnerkrigg BUILT it to be lame, meaning probably it is merely a test for the techie-students from the staff! MEANING, TWO MORE LEVELS OF AWESOME for CONCEALED SUBPLOT!
so tonight i log in the forums, and i am glad i'm not the only one to think all this.
P.S. Anyone else gets cool "Easy Money Scene" Terminator 2 vibes from this strips? if this, then add one more level of awesome for hidden movie cameo.
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Post by yhbc on Aug 22, 2008 20:17:58 GMT
Gang, it may be, you know, just a lame security system.
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Post by penguinfactory on Aug 22, 2008 20:39:56 GMT
I think people are perhaps over-reacting to this comic just a tad. I can't wait to see where they're going
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Post by agasa on Aug 22, 2008 20:51:28 GMT
I think people are perhaps over-reacting to this comic just a tad. I can't wait to see where they're going It's normal to over react. we are fans. we're allowed to do that, as long as we do not do harm to us or others in the process also, i can't wait too. Ach, be damned, damn weekend
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Post by Count Casimir on Aug 22, 2008 21:41:27 GMT
I just thought; if it's NOT a test, perhaps the lame security system is a decoy? A distraction from the real system? Remember what happened when Annie set ONE FOOT off of school grounds? That security system was pretty dang subtle (before it went off, anyway). And though it's reasonable to suspect that may be the only place where said system was installed, the fact that the Court can make detectors that sensitive should be cause for concern to late-night sneakers.
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Post by Per on Aug 22, 2008 22:44:54 GMT
Perhaps best not to wonder why the bridge alarm didn't fling up a net across the bridge or something to prevent all the messy mess that followed, if that's why it was there in the first place.
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Post by etcetera on Aug 23, 2008 0:07:28 GMT
I just thought; if it's NOT a test, perhaps the lame security system is a decoy? A distraction from the real system? Remember what happened when Annie set ONE FOOT off of school grounds? That security system was pretty dang subtle (before it went off, anyway). And though it's reasonable to suspect that may be the only place where said system was installed, the fact that the Court can make detectors that sensitive should be cause for concern to late-night sneakers. Good lord, you're right!!
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Post by Chrome on Aug 23, 2008 5:17:23 GMT
The only real thing I'd think the faculty would worry about would be students getting off the grounds, and/or sneaking towards the wood. Other than that, the Court seems pretty open in terms of letting students travel about within its premises.
Notice Annie's sneaking to Reynardine's prison didn't seem to trip anything. Also note that there aren't really any alarms between the Donlans' place and Kat's new work garage?
So why worry about alarms between the dorms and anywhere else within the Court?
So yes, the decoy theory works perfectly. Let students deal with the tests or whatever else is concealed in them here, while the real alarm system simply protects them from Gillite.
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Post by hajo on Aug 23, 2008 6:22:13 GMT
So now the detector looks for microwaves instead of infrared? So maybe now the next robot that comes along will set off the alarm ?
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Post by Count Casimir on Aug 23, 2008 22:41:00 GMT
Or the next time somebody wants delicious popcorn treats.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 24, 2008 4:11:20 GMT
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Post by todd on Aug 24, 2008 10:30:39 GMT
I'm certain I'm not the only one who's concerned about the mixed message that Eglamore was sending in that scene. (Particularly since, after what we've seen of Gillitie Wood on the Court's doorstep, I can readily believe the part about "For your safety".)
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Post by Tenjen on Aug 24, 2008 12:10:22 GMT
He knew her mother Surma quite closely. He was just being realistic and realizing that Annie is going to break rules in the future too, being Surma's daughter. And he probably was up to a lot himself in his own school days.
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Post by todd on Aug 24, 2008 22:13:54 GMT
Still, when the consequences of rule-breaking could mean a war between the Court and the Wood, and Eglamore knows it, you'd expect him to take it more seriously. (Maybe it's the faculty underestimating the forest-folk again.)
Of course, the evidence points to the diplomatic rift stemming more from Ysengrin wanting a war and manipulating the situation to bring about one. (I've mentioned this before, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turned out that he had Shadow2 planted in the Court during a previous embassy, to lure whoever found him across the bridge.)
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Post by etcetera on Aug 24, 2008 22:31:54 GMT
No matter how dangerous the situation might be, there will always be someone willing to break the rules. No matter how tight the security system might be, there will always be someone able to bypass it. Otherwise it would be pretty boring.
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Post by todd on Aug 25, 2008 2:12:54 GMT
For that matter, Annie doesn't seem disturbed about this expedition, even after having seen all the trouble that her past excursions caused in Chapter Fourteen. But it would bring the webcomic to a premature end if she told Kat, "No more adventures, no more exploring, no more sneaking around the school. We're done with meddling."
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Post by Tenjen on Aug 25, 2008 7:17:32 GMT
Shadow2 was a child at the time, unlikely to be capable of luring. Though just a need to get across and back with ones family. But only way to do that would have been to find a kind hearted person. I doubt Ysengrin thought anyone of value [or reynardine] would do that for an infantile glass eyed child.
Most generally, the children wont be crossing the bridge. They dont wanna get killed. Its not that eglamore isnt taking it all seriously. He just knows Annie aint gonna stop, if theres any inkling of who he's judged her to be and if she's even a 10th of her mother That and he did say he was gonna keep an eye out for her [check the rooftops in the next few comics!]
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Post by todd on Aug 25, 2008 10:50:13 GMT
Shadow2 was a child at the time, unlikely to be capable of luring. Though just a need to get across and back with ones family. But only way to do that would have been to find a kind hearted person. I doubt Ysengrin thought anyone of value [or reynardine] would do that for an infantile glass eyed child. Maybe not, but I still feel suspicious about his presence. If he couldn't get out of the Court on his own, he couldn't have entered it on his own. Which means that somebody must have smuggled him in, for some mysterious purpose (unless it's a plothole).
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Post by Tenjen on Aug 25, 2008 20:22:38 GMT
Yep ive considered that point. But having gone through the comics, i see nothing pointing out how it happened yet. Unlikely its a plothole. We'll just have to wait and see.
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