[519] Jargon Jargon Babble Babble Strange Words

Technobabble at its best.

When you set the correct language encoding on your web browser, those panels will display up properly.
But, in order to GET that language encoding option, you have to recompile your own browser from source. nerds.

My reaction to todays comic: "Oh cool a detailed explanation of how everything wo..HEY!"

If this is the way that Annie behaves during her science classes, small wonder that she's copying Kat's answers.

I do suspect that part of the purpose of her tuning out (aside from it being in character, from what we've seen before of her response to technological matters) is to ensure that Tom won't have to go into detail about how a computer program can affect things that are not electronic (with such results as blocking Reynardine's body-snatching or Ysengrin's branches) - something that would definitely (I believe) require magic to explain.

When Anja says that the computer is tucked away in a safe place, she points at her head. So it could be a SEOCMPU (Structured Etherical Operations Center Mental Processing Unit). But I prefer to say brain. Nerds.

She might be in for a surprise considering she's never seen Rey on the Etheric plane before....
But i could be wrong.



Computer hidden in a safe place. My thoughts drift to "Power Station".

I think it's pretty cool that, with just a couple pages, Tom has identified an art style to an action. Now, whenever we see Annie looking somewhat darker with extra-long billowing hair, we know she's using the blinker stone.

I imagine it would be easier for TV because the viewers don't need to put out an effort to hear it. If he made up some nonsense jargon in the comic, a bunch of people would waste a lot of time reading every word that isn't meant to be understood in the first place. On TV, these things can be flown past fairly quickly.

Or the talking could become background noise as Annie goes back into the blinker stone trance.

What I want to know is, is this how magical-talk sounds to Kat?

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And snes, excellent observation about Annie's hair and the art style.

More or less, excep it would be something like "hokus pocus mumbo jumbo thingamagjic dohickey abrakadabra..."

Oh, so it was Donald that created that shield! I always thought it was Reynardine!

Wait, "chatter chatter" jargon computers technical wizardry babble jargon?

"Chatter chatter" implies small talk, like parents telling stories about their kids. Ergo, Anja is referring to something Katerina did (or more likely built) to explain something she made.

Exempli Gratis

Anja: "haha, well it took a little while to perfect, but much like that little "mother's day present" you engineered when you were six-"

Which would have prompted

Annie "What did she engineer when she was six?"

Kat "I'll explain later, anyway you were saying Mum?"

Which would have taken up extra panels.

"Jargon Computers" implies a specific kind of computer, designed to do one of the specific things mentioned by Kat in "jargon jargon."

Example Gratuitous

"But what did you use to jargon (generate shield) -"

"ha ha, it took a while to perfect, but (kat story)
jargon (shield generating) computers"

"Technical Wizardy" implies not only a technology but its use. However "babble" "babble" implies a lot of things that the computer may or may not have to do in order to "jargon" and "jargon", while "strange words" is probably one of those funny things named after foreign-sounding scientists, like "Planck's constant."

E. G.

Kat: "But what did you use to jargon (computer task) jargon (engineering task) babble (sub-steps leading up to "jargon" task) babble (obstacles needed to be overcome to accomplish task) strange words (saying it is impossible to accomplish "1st babble" or overcome "2nd babble")

Anja: "haha, well it took a while to perfect, but chatter chatter (Kat story, we weren't there) jargon computers (computers designed to accomplish jargon) technical wizardry (usually an architecture connecting something so that it passes through something before we see it) babble (list of tiny steps to accomplish) jargon."

The problem now is if Kat is more interested in the computers Software, Hardware, Networking, or Security?

Pity they don't know what they're talking about either. Mind, that's a a topic for a different flamewar.

Beekay, I think you're looking to deep at rationalising the technobabble. It's spurious, pointless and obviously running against Tom's desires. I love it! More please.