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Post by the bandit on Jun 28, 2010 16:08:29 GMT
Well the important thing is that no one of consequence was hurt. How dare you insult GuardBot's memory in such a way!
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 28, 2010 16:17:30 GMT
wow. I think that's the most angry I've ever seen Gamma. somehow, I find that to be awesome. = also, I read something about accumulative sleep debt before. there's no real conclusive scientific consensus on this, but it seems that there's no easy way to gain back lost sleep time. all Jack can do is get a good, healthy eight hours rest, and when his body forces him to wake up, he'll still be tired/jetlagged for a while. so, Zimmy is ultimately correct, but getting back to "normal" won't be fun. Yeah, I can actually see how Jack got that crazy, sleep deprived people are actually pretty damn irritable, bordering on insane and you are right, accumulative sleep loss is pretty well accepted by the scientific community. If it weren't for the whole "flying" thing I would say that the spider is just a hanger-on and the lack of sleep is making Jack into Crazy Jack. Speaking of sleep loss, what about all us crazy hooligans? How many hours of productive work have been delayed while GC fans stayed up till 12:01 every few days to catch the update? Tom is just diabolical like that.
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Post by squidlet on Jun 28, 2010 17:11:47 GMT
Speaking of sleep loss, what about all us crazy hooligans? How many hours of productive work have been delayed while GC fans stayed up till 12:01 every few days to catch the update? Tom is just diabolical like that. What really? Must be cause of the time zone difference cause it doesn't update where I am until 3am-ish. This was a sweet page.
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Post by polifrog on Jun 28, 2010 17:41:47 GMT
You know, in the past few chapters with both Zimmy and Gamma, you can see lines connecting them both. But, if you look at the first time they are shown, they are not there. When did they appear? 0.o
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 28, 2010 18:17:38 GMT
You know, in the past few chapters with both Zimmy and Gamma, you can see lines connecting them both. But, if you look at the first time they are shown, they are not there. When did they appear? 0.o You're right, they don't seem to be in "Two Strange Girls". At a glance, it looks like they first appear in "Power Station".
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Post by Dvandaemon on Jun 28, 2010 19:24:14 GMT
You better apologize Zimmy. Oh, what am I saying, you'll always be my favorite character
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Post by qmarx on Jun 28, 2010 20:35:54 GMT
Oh no! Antimony's grown an ear on her jacket!
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Post by whosit on Jun 28, 2010 20:36:43 GMT
Well the important thing is that no one of consequence was hurt. How dare you insult GuardBot's memory in such a way! Don't worry; Guardbot's gone to a better place. He's probably so busy playing bocce ball with the other robots in Heaven that he isn't even paying attention to what goes on, back in the Court. Also, the ethereal spider was "splat"-ed. I'd say that qualifies as a "hurt."
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Post by todd on Jun 28, 2010 22:13:34 GMT
Zimmy probably had better hopes of destroying the etheric spider since it was part of her "mythos" (that is, it came from the nightmare city that she's connected to), rather than part of the "mythos" that Annie's connected to (such as that of the Guides or of Gillitie).
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Post by warrl on Jun 28, 2010 23:30:54 GMT
Oh no! Antimony's grown an ear on her jacket! Actually, it's a preliminary attempt at an eye. One on her shoulder and one on her elbow. She's spent too much time around Coyote. ;D
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 28, 2010 23:46:42 GMT
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Post by todd on Jun 29, 2010 1:59:33 GMT
True, but the spider was more closely linked to Zimmy than to Annie.
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Post by fuzzyone on Jun 29, 2010 3:29:29 GMT
I like how both Annie and Zimmy have a little strand of hair hanging down over their faces in an almost identical manner. It's interesting seeing a kind of similarity drawn between the two girls...
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Post by aaroncampbell on Jun 29, 2010 17:01:20 GMT
Two things: 1.) I love this picture, Tobu Ishi! 2.) Can somebody please explain thisXparticularXmeme for me? I'm feeling aerodynamic, because it's going right-over-my-head . Thanks! Hey, thank you! Check Tom's comment under this comic, and click the . I laughed my head off at that aside, and couldn't help adopting it. Nothing like a wry nickname to remind one that shipping isn't, really, especially serious business. ♥ I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but I couldn't remember what had kicked it all off. Oh, and if anyone else is as lost as I was, this wiki article might be useful. To quote: Shipping, derived from the word "relationship", is a general term for fans' emotional and/or intellectual involvement with the ongoing development of romance in a work of fiction. Though technically applicable to any such involvement, it refers chiefly to various related social dynamics observable on the Internet, and is seldom used outside of that context.
Shipping can involve virtually any kind of relationship — from the well-known and established, to the ambiguous or those undergoing development, and even to the highly improbable and the blatantly impossible. People involved in shipping (or shippers) assert that the relationship does exist, will exist, or simply that they would like it to exist. At the risk of presenting myself as an old fart, I wasn't familiar with the term "shipping" or the nameXname convention. I got the general idea from context, but when it was extended to random words like shutXup I thought maybe I had misunderstood.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Jun 29, 2010 17:01:57 GMT
Well the important thing is that no one of consequence was hurt. How dare you insult GuardBot's memory in such a way! Man, now I'm sad.
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Post by warrl on Jun 29, 2010 19:32:15 GMT
Shipping can involve virtually any kind of relationship — from the well-known and established, to the ambiguous or those undergoing development, and even to the highly improbable and the blatantly impossible. People involved in shipping (or shippers) assert that the relationship does exist, will exist, or simply that they would like it to exist. Not even that. Sometimes it's just "it's amusing to imagine it existing". As evidence I submit a crack pairings thread. (Apparently some people on the Order of the Stick's own discussion board chose to disregard repeated warnings about sexually explicit content, so several story threads including the original crack pairings thread were removed. Sad. That thread actually had suggested rules for rolling dice to determine the pairings.)
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jun 29, 2010 21:34:30 GMT
Shipping can be loads of fun as long as people remember to follow the MST3K theme song's mantra and "really just relax".
It's only when people get all anal about it (because somebody has paired up a beloved character with a hated character or something similar) that problems really arise. And really, that's just a case of somebody failing to remember above mentioned mantra.
EDIT: That, and the whole "sexually explicit" issue. It's perfectly possible to write a romantic fanfic where the deed happens offstage, or even doesn't happen at all.
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Post by whosit on Jun 29, 2010 23:07:54 GMT
Oh, for the days when 'shipping' meant the transport of goods over considerable distances. Of course, most of those days involved a marked lack of internet and, therefore web-comics, as well, so they weren't all good.
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 30, 2010 2:23:33 GMT
Not your fault, Annie. You had no way of knowing if you could safely remove the spider. And for that matter, until you'd learned more about handling your etheric self, you probably couldn't have done anything about it anyway. Annie has a habit of waiting until the problem comes to her and properly introduces itself. As to her options, could at least ask some experts like Mrs. Donlan who obviously knows a lot about such stuff. all Jack can do is get a good, healthy eight hours rest, and when his body forces him to wake up, he'll still be tired/jetlagged for a while. so, Zimmy is ultimately correct, but getting back to "normal" won't be fun. I'd say time and half at least, and then fail to count the fact that he awoke at all as good news, for the rest of the day or so. I mean, not counting the spiders. Also: regardless of Gunner-reality, that picture is quite lovely, Tobu. Who knows, maybe Jack acquired fear of sleeping when no one watches. Or he could become obsessed with the idea of helping Zimmy with her problem after tasting it (hopefully not in "one smuggled out and squashed spider at a time" way) and get some elective course from Anja. Oh, for the days when 'shipping' meant the transport of goods over considerable distances. And roleplaying was supposed to be about characters living in their world.
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Post by whosit on Jun 30, 2010 4:15:07 GMT
Jack... could become obsessed with the idea of helping Zimmy with her problem after tasting it (hopefully not in "one smuggled out and squashed spider at a time" way) and get some elective course from Anja. Now there'd be a fun development. I like the idea of Jack being proactive, even though Zimmy's almost sure to try and avoid him, especially if he wants to help.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jun 30, 2010 10:18:48 GMT
Oh, for the days when 'shipping' meant the transport of goods over considerable distances. Of course, most of those days involved a marked lack of internet and, therefore web-comics, as well, so they weren't all good. that reminds me of "cargo shipping", which is taking any unhealthy attraction or obsession with an inanimate object, and turning that into a romantic relationship ;D The TVTropes page on this is both hilarious and disturbing.
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Post by King Mir on Jun 30, 2010 10:54:10 GMT
Don't worry; Guardbot's gone to a better place. He's probably so busy playing bocce ball with the other robots in Heaven that he isn't even paying attention to what goes on, back in the Court. Also, the ethereal spider was "splat"-ed. I'd say that qualifies as a "hurt." No, Gaurdbot's not in any robo-heaven. But he doesn't care: he's dead. Which is to the good because no imagining of heaven has ever made it seem worthwhile to most people. How much fun can you have playing bocce ball ball for eternity? He's saved from that fate.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jun 30, 2010 11:04:35 GMT
Which is to the good because no imagining of heaven has ever made it seem worthwhile to most people. How much fun can you have playing bocce ball ball for eternity? He's saved from that fate. nah, it's the threat of an actual, factual Robot Hell that usually does the trick.
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Post by whosit on Jun 30, 2010 19:19:52 GMT
No, Gaurdbot's not in any robo-heaven. But he doesn't care: he's dead. Which is to the good because no imagining of heaven has ever made it seem worthwhile to most people. How much fun can you have playing bocce ball ball for eternity? He's saved from that fate. We'll have to agree to disagree, I guess. Who says bocce ball is an eternal sentence? That's just the sort of thing I can imagine the robots doing, when they first get to Heaven. Besides, if your pastimes included trying to figure out the appropriate way to whistle, bocce ball would probably feel almost exotic.
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Post by King Mir on Jun 30, 2010 19:53:50 GMT
The point is that there may be nothing that wouldn't be that wouldn't get old after an eternity, even something as fun as bocce ball. Better to die properly.
But I suppose this isn't the thread to get into a discussion on the appeal of different options for death.
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Post by whosit on Jun 30, 2010 20:01:49 GMT
The point is that there may be nothing that wouldn't be that wouldn't get old after an eternity, even something as fun as bocce ball. Better to die properly. But I suppose this isn't the thread to get into a discussion on the appeal of different options for death. I actually think the underlying purpose of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey gives a good example of what may be the only thing that wouldn't get old. The advancement and happiness of others is something I can see becoming an eternally engaging activity.
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