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Post by Starrylight on Mar 28, 2011 17:11:09 GMT
Just woke up, went to check this page, and...WOAH. Okay, now I'm awake. And impressed. Well, that marks the third time in this comic that I've loaded a page and nearly jumped out of my seat. This page didn't even make me scroll down first. I have to ask: what were the first two times?
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Post by basser on Mar 28, 2011 17:27:52 GMT
I'm going to be a tad disappointed if this turns out the way its looking like it's going to. If it does, I'll ban your account. Hope that helps! I guess you're likely just deleting everything in relation to this but uh, damn dude. If the forums bother you that much just quit reading them. You CAN hire volunteer admins you know. Might help take away some of the atmosphere of tension regarding whether or not the Great Tom is just gonna up and ban someone for no freaking reason today. Seriously, I like these forums a lot but I'm considering just going back to lurking. Edit: On another note, I like the crabmonster. It's fab.
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Post by smjjames on Mar 28, 2011 18:50:20 GMT
basser: Even though this forum is pretty small (despite the large fanbase), asking for volunteer mods is certainly an option and there are very few actual moderator actions AFAIK. Not that I'm looking to get such a position....
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 28, 2011 18:56:49 GMT
I thought Tom was joking. Guess I haven't been here for long enough. Anyway, Called it! (I predicted tentacles, but whatever ) I really want to know what's going to happen next.
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Post by paxjax123 on Mar 28, 2011 19:57:09 GMT
I was expecting Linda to pop out.
Back on topic, I think that Annie's gonna show up and be all, "Kat, I didn't do this!" And Kat panics but then Annie says, "We can fight it together!" And battle ensues.
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Post by hargharg on Mar 28, 2011 19:59:25 GMT
I personally think Kat will have a nice little chat with "someone" now. (I mean the crab, or its "master".)
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 20:06:38 GMT
I thought Tom was joking. Guess I haven't been here for long enough. Anyway, Called it! (I predicted tentacles, but whatever ) I really want to know what's going to happen next. He might be... he's not here often enough to get a good feel for it. Well, he's here all the time, but he rarely posts. Its got to be frustrating when the audience doesn't catch something cool or misreads something, etc... "OH my god, isn't <character name here> terrible when they <relatively benign action here>!!!"
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Post by Eversist on Mar 28, 2011 20:15:15 GMT
I dunno about you guys, but the cookies/I called it bit is getting a bit obnoxious.
I mean, kudos to you I guess if you want to brag to everyone that you figured something out because Tom provided ample foreshadowing, or because you've guessed about every possible scenario so you're bound to be at least partially right, but when every other post is a variation of "I called it... well on some level," it's a bit annoying. If it was something totally out of left field and you happened to be correct, then I'd understand, but otherwise...
This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just the forum as a whole I guess. I've never seen a webcomic forum so obsessed with guessing what's going to happen next. There's nothing wrong with the guessing in itself, but the fact that everyone feels the need to point out that they were correct... I dunno. /rant
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 20:18:16 GMT
I dunno about you guys, but the cookies/I called it bit is getting a bit obnoxious. I mean, kudos to you I guess if you want to brag to everyone that you figured something out because Tom provided ample foreshadowing, or because you've guessed about every possible scenario so you're bound to be at least partially right, but when every other post is a variation of "I called it... well on some level," it's a bit annoying. If it was something totally out of left field and you happened to be correct, then I'd understand, but otherwise... This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just the forum as a whole I guess. I've never seen a webcomic forum so obsessed with guessing what's going to happen next. /rant I'm not disagreeing with you but I think we use 'called it' so much because it has become part of our local vocabulary. We pick it up from each other. I know this doesn't make it any less annoying but it's how language develops.
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Post by Eversist on Mar 28, 2011 20:22:25 GMT
It's not the word choice so much as the action.
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Edit: I mean, sometimes it's something so simple as everyone arguing over the setting, like the dorms at the beginning of the chapter. It was quite clear (in my opinion) that the dorms were underwater, due to cues (motes and bubbled glass and the general darkness) that Tom had given us, but as a forum, we have to nit-pick and argue everything to death. And then, inevitably, it turned out that they were indeed underwater. Cookies were had all around! D:
EditEdit: The other thing is, more often than not, it's from the previous day's comic thread. Unless one has a pretty bad memory, most probably remember what was said in the previous comic's thread. Unless one is concerned that no one read the post, so one is just making SURE that everyone saw the prediction, and saw that it was right. And then that's just petty. If you prediction was from, say, a month ago, or it was stated in the crazy theories thread, then I would understand.
Okay, I swear I'm done ranting now.
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 20:30:09 GMT
It's not the word choice so much as the action. I'm probably guilty of it myself but part of the fun of GC is figuring things out. I think I came to the forums in the first place because I couldn't figure something out. Not many other comics even have clues!
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Post by Eversist on Mar 28, 2011 20:32:22 GMT
I know that, and I'm not saying that it's the predictions that are obnoxious. I agree, that is a very enjoyable part of the comic, being able to figure things out that Tom has laid out for us (or not!).
It the desire for self-gratification, and to be put bluntly, the bragging.
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 20:33:06 GMT
I learned on jury duty and it has been confirmed here many many many times... what seems obvious to one person is not obvious to the 11 others!
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Post by Eversist on Mar 28, 2011 20:34:34 GMT
Yes, but you see, I'm not complaining about the guessing and the predictions. I'm hunky-dory with all that. Why wouldn't I be?
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Post by zylonbane on Mar 28, 2011 20:34:57 GMT
I was expecting Linda to pop out. What a nice lady.
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Post by Eversist on Mar 28, 2011 20:46:37 GMT
Ontopicness:
So I think based on this page and Kat's reaction, I would say that Kat was bound to forgive Annie all along... she just needed some time.
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 20:46:52 GMT
Yes, but you see, I'm not complaining about the guessing and the predictions. I'm hunky-dory with all that. Why wouldn't I be? No, I see your point and I agree.
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Post by smjjames on Mar 28, 2011 21:22:49 GMT
Hey, i realized something, what if tom is building up for an april fools comic? it'll be on friday and it's possible he planned ahead. Although i have no idea if he does april fools pages or not.
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 21:30:09 GMT
I don't think he does. It would be impossible to tell once the comic is in book form.
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Post by Pietja on Mar 28, 2011 21:30:58 GMT
Maybe I'm the only one, but I have a feeling that Kat may actually be seriously injured here or maybe even die... It could lead to lot's of drama & darker tones to the story overall. Not to mention, it would be quite a shocker.
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Post by paxjax123 on Mar 28, 2011 21:48:28 GMT
Hey, i realized something, what if tom is building up for an april fools comic? it'll be on friday and it's possible he planned ahead. Although i have no idea if he does april fools pages or not. This was the only page done on April 1st before, I believe, and I guess a sucker punch counts as an April Fool's joke? maybe?
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Post by Tom Siddell on Mar 28, 2011 21:55:26 GMT
If it does, I'll ban your account. Hope that helps! I guess you're likely just deleting everything in relation to this but uh, damn dude. If the forums bother you that much just quit reading them. You CAN hire volunteer admins you know. Might help take away some of the atmosphere of tension regarding whether or not the Great Tom is just gonna up and ban someone for no freaking reason today. Seriously, I like these forums a lot but I'm considering just going back to lurking. Edit: On another note, I like the crabmonster. It's fab. All you have to do to not get banned is follow the first rule of the forum.
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Post by warrl on Mar 28, 2011 21:59:20 GMT
Also, that thing has *at least* twenty seven eyes. That's a lot of eyes. Got it. It's Coyote in disguise. (Probably not.) Maybe I'm the only one, but I have a feeling that Kat may actually be seriously injured here or maybe even die... I would bet heavily against her dying or being injured enough to take her out of this chapter. Her being badly injured at the end of a chapter, then the next chapter taking place without her and perhaps (if her absence would otherwise be strange) with a mention that she's still in hospital, would be more plausible. Or an injury that takes her out for a few pages but then she comes back. But this is definitely a Kat-and-Annie chapter. TWO major characters. Establishing that and then taking Kat completely out of it would strain the story-telling. (Yes, it can be done, and done well... but it rarely IS done well.) Contrast with last chapter, where there was Annie and a series of bit parts. NOBODY in that chapter, except Annie, ever left a scene (or had the scene leave them) and then appeared again within the chapter.
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Post by strangebloke on Mar 28, 2011 22:02:36 GMT
*Crab extends claw to catwalk*
*Kat gasps*
*Paz jumps off*
Hey Kat! guess what I did this summer?
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Post by karlito on Mar 28, 2011 22:15:58 GMT
I guess you're likely just deleting everything in relation to this but uh, damn dude. If the forums bother you that much just quit reading them. You CAN hire volunteer admins you know. Might help take away some of the atmosphere of tension regarding whether or not the Great Tom is just gonna up and ban someone for no freaking reason today. Seriously, I like these forums a lot but I'm considering just going back to lurking. Edit: On another note, I like the crabmonster. It's fab. All you have to do to not get banned is follow the first rule of the forum. Sorry about that; never meant to act jerkish in anyway. Suppose I might have come off looking a bit like one though.
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shuis112
New Member
whatchu talkin bout Willis
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Post by shuis112 on Mar 28, 2011 23:34:37 GMT
I shall call him Squishy Splishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Splishy.
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Post by todd on Mar 28, 2011 23:39:19 GMT
I don't think that Tom would kill off Kat; she's too important a character to the story.
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Post by blahzor on Mar 28, 2011 23:40:52 GMT
OK, so it's 3:00pm and it's quiet in the dorms and I'm working on a thing and it's late and not very well done so my mind is elsewhere. But then i think; "Hey, CG should be updated by now" So i open the page and cast a weary glance and maybe it's just been a long day but that thing scared the daylights out of me! Seriously, there were bricks! Anyways, So I'm guessing/hoping the thing is friendly, either that or getting to class just got REALLY perilous. If it is dangerous, it might prompt Kat to develop powered armor or killer robots or possibly some kind of laser defense network to ensure her own safety, so that'd be awesome. no need, Robot will come save The Angel
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Post by jayne on Mar 28, 2011 23:55:04 GMT
I shall call him Squishy Splishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Splishy. Once again, I need a "Like" button
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polifrog
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Mesmerising ain't it?
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Post by polifrog on Mar 29, 2011 1:18:40 GMT
I'm surprised that no one has suggested that this was the final result of Annie and Mort's "creature creation" that they were working on earlier this chapter. I could be wrong due to some story details that I'm overlooking, but it could be an explanation. *It does have a lot of spikes ;D *
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