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Post by Daedalus on Oct 22, 2014 6:59:45 GMT
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Oct 22, 2014 7:04:59 GMT
Annie uses Flamethrower! It's super effective!
(as it should be, against steel types)
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 22, 2014 7:09:38 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower...
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Post by smjjames on Oct 22, 2014 7:13:40 GMT
She should be shouting 'KAMEHAMEHA!' LAUGHING ON LINE That was kind of my first thought. Daedalus: because school maybe? I dunno. |
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Post by Lightice on Oct 22, 2014 7:30:30 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... I haven't been commenting for awhile, partially because I have less time to follow the forums at the moment, but also because there hasn't been much to comment about. These pages just show a logical progression of events with few surprises or twists that I'd feel worth discussing about. We're in that part of the chapter that'll work much better when it's finished and can be read in one sitting, rather than a page at a time. |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 22, 2014 7:35:49 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... I haven't been commenting for awhile, partially because I have less time to follow the forums at the moment, but also because there hasn't been much to comment about. These pages just show a logical progression of events with few surprises or twists that I'd feel worth discussing about. We're in that part of the chapter that'll work much better when it's finished and can be read in one sitting, rather than a page at a time. True, but we usually excel at making the unremarkable a topic of debate (eg Zimmy/Jenny debate) haha |
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Post by keef on Oct 22, 2014 7:38:37 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... As todd said (twice) not very much left to speculate about. Well, Rey. I'm not sure if you know, you're holding a firing pin in between your teeth right now. If you had said safety pin, you would have been spot on.  |
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Post by OrzBrain on Oct 22, 2014 8:03:44 GMT
There may be a slight problem with shutting off the other three devices. It involves the interesting tendency of an unconstrained fluid acted upon by gravity to seek a state of equilibrium, a state which for the ocean is generally characterized by a lack of giant freaking holes in its surface, and the sudden closure of any such which may for some reason exist.
Perhaps they should consider getting Kat to conjure up some surf boards?
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Post by The Anarch on Oct 22, 2014 8:07:09 GMT
Perhaps they should consider getting Kat to conjure up some surf boards? boards. Oh wait, those don't work on water. Unless you've got POWAH. |
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Post by Ophel on Oct 22, 2014 8:38:12 GMT
Perhaps they should consider getting Kat to conjure up some surf boards? boards. Oh wait, those don't work on water. Unless you've got POWAH. Nah, I played Jak and Daxter before. It works a lot better than just swimming. |
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Post by feraldog on Oct 22, 2014 8:48:58 GMT
But will they be fleshy hover boards?
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Post by judgedeadd on Oct 22, 2014 9:19:38 GMT
Personally I must say I'm not enjoying this chapter so far. They're in Zimmingham, the capital of creepiness, the town of terror, the Fun City. There's a crazy robot involved and fleshy horrors. It should be scary. It should be exciting. It's not though. So far the characters have been surprisingly nonchalant about the situation (note Jack and his Wicca girlfriend being all smiles as they find themselves in Zimmy's realm), and there's no real sense of threat or tension or limited time. No faceless Nobodies skulking about, and the faceless robots aren't much of a substitute, even in spidery form. Meanwhile the main villain is being surprisingly friendly and affectionate to the girls. All in all it adds in to a chapter which feels really darn underwhelming. Motorboat jumps and robot army interventions aren't that awesome when there's no feeling they're snatching the victory from jaws of defeat.
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Post by smurfton on Oct 22, 2014 9:37:30 GMT
Tbh, I'd probably be more of a presence if I wasn't reading (at least some of the first page of every thread on) the forum. I'm on thread 1027 at this point so...
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Post by alexsl on Oct 22, 2014 9:42:27 GMT
Antimony is angry, and now she can vent some of her anger. Good thing that her classmates say "yeah", because there is another possible reaction: "oh dear, she can set people on fire with her thoughts? Better avoid her in the future, who knows what might set her off." So far nobody but Eglamore, Jones, Andrew and Parley would have been aware of the extent to which her powers have grown, so her being a more stable Carrie should be somewhat surprising for Janet and William.
judgedeadd,
I must also say that this chapter feels a bit weaker than the previous ones, but for different reasons. A friendly and oblivious villain is actually more interesting than one that chews the scenery, and Zimmingham being different can be justified because it was deliberately set up in a certain way by the robots.
But the pacing of the various threads feels rather odd - the robot fleet got there way too fast while very little time seems to pass for Kat and Paz. What is more, it seems quite implausible that the Court would just let the ship AI go crazy and abduct a whole year of students without somehow being alerted to the situation and trying to intervene...
Then again, the artwork is awesome.
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Post by noone3 on Oct 22, 2014 9:45:59 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... As todd said (twice) not very much left to speculate about. Well, Rey. I'm not sure if you know, you're holding a firing pin in between your teeth right now. If you had said safety pin, you would have been spot on. The utter horror of my terrible blunder has hit me with the force of a thosand crowbars. |
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Post by keef on Oct 22, 2014 9:51:44 GMT
Personally I must say I'm not enjoying this chapter so far.__snip__ All in all it adds in to a chapter which feels really darn underwhelming. Motorboat jumps and robot army interventions aren't that awesome when there's no feeling they're snatching the victory from jaws of defeat. It may be different if you reread the chapter when finished. At three pages a week such a long chapter feels a bit slow. But you have a point; Zimcity feels to "normal", although that can change soon enough. |
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 22, 2014 10:45:28 GMT
The easy part. Hehehe.
Keep it away from the fire
Unless you want it to burn
It burns, wildfire
Give it to me
Wildfire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Give it to me
Set on fire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Take it
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Post by todd on Oct 22, 2014 10:46:40 GMT
Count me as another person who wonders whether destroying the syphons is the best approach to the situation - or if it might make things worse. I'd suggest finding Zimmy (whose absence ever since the ship was pulled into her world is growing more troubling with each page) and reuniting her with Gamma as the first solution, and only go for the syphons if that doesn't work.
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Post by agasa on Oct 22, 2014 11:41:22 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... Always here. Always watching...you all. Mwahahaha. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 22, 2014 11:43:06 GMT
Jenny's expression in the last panel is very ambiguous. Maybe Rey will smell Jenny's scent on the tag he ripped off of Annie, and quietly mention it to Annie after they're safe.
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Post by lunaleaf on Oct 22, 2014 11:45:32 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... Easy answer; midterms. I'd be willing to bet that a large amount of our forum-goers are in the middle of university exam season, bro. I know I am, and it just... it absorbs everything. |
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Post by csj on Oct 22, 2014 11:54:01 GMT
Gee, mr Grumpy McStubblechin
I know you're stuck in an incredibly dangerous bubble of unreality but you've been grumbling ever since you left port. Lighten up, dude,
When were you infested with angerspiders?
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Post by Marnath on Oct 22, 2014 12:01:21 GMT
It's amazing how much more accepting people are of the weird quiet girl now that she's saving their lives, huh? Same thing that happened to Rudolph, you're not a freak anymore once you become a valuable asset.
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Post by sidhekin on Oct 22, 2014 12:06:14 GMT
Eh, she's not really been that "weird quiet girl" since Residential. Then again, she rather proved herself a valuable asset on that occasion, so your point still stands, I guess.
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Post by goldenknots on Oct 22, 2014 12:10:49 GMT
But the pacing of the various threads feels rather odd - the robot fleet got there way too fast while very little time seems to pass for Kat and Paz. What is more, it seems quite implausible that the Court would just let the ship AI go crazy and abduct a whole year of students without somehow being alerted to the situation and trying to intervene... Time and space probably aren't very consistent in their little warped-reality bubble. A saying attributed to Einstein: “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” Just be grateful that it's at least apparently sequential, and, so far as we know, nobody's switched identities. :) |
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Post by Elysium on Oct 22, 2014 13:23:52 GMT
What is more, it seems quite implausible that the Court would just let the ship AI go crazy and abduct a whole year of students without somehow being alerted to the situation and trying to intervene... Why would the court even suspect that the ship would go rogue ? And what are the Court's means of action ? that's right: robots, and the robot secret police has gone rogue as well. |
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Post by freeman on Oct 22, 2014 13:32:31 GMT
It may be different if you reread the chapter when finished. At three pages a week such a long chapter feels a bit slow. Still better than reading The Phantom on a newspaper, three panels a day.
I hope someone would phone captain Walker to pick Phanty and Diana off that darn cavern they have been since November before.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 22, 2014 13:59:17 GMT
What is more, it seems quite implausible that the Court would just let the ship AI go crazy and abduct a whole year of students without somehow being alerted to the situation and trying to intervene... Why would the court even suspect that the ship would go rogue ? And what are the Court's means of action ? that's right: robots, and the robot secret police has gone rogue as well. Q: Who watches the watchers? A: A giant magical plushie wolf, of course. |
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Post by Deepbluediver on Oct 22, 2014 14:11:50 GMT
...okay, seriously, where is everyone these days? Discussion threads keep getting shorter and slower... I don't comment unless I really have something interesting to say; I'm not going to comment just for the sake of throwing my voice out there. And right now we're kinda at a point in the story where things are just sort of continuing. There's no big revelations or moral/philosophical debates to be had in the action sequences, usually. You can't even bring up the "so did Annie just commit murder?" thing because the ship robots are more like autonomous limbs rather than being separately sentient. All that being said, it occurred to me that the "bad guy" in this story, the ship, is basically a Godzilla-sized version of Pinocchio with Kat playing the part of Jiminy Cricket.  Why would the court even suspect that the ship would go rogue ? This is the better argument to me. There's probably a couple of guys sitting in a control booth somewhere, drinking coffee, and one of them occasional asks "So any problems with the ship" and the other guy checks his monitor and replies "nope, the ship is reporting that everything is fine and dandy". It's kind of like- how do you know that the gauges that tell you something is wrong are broken? |
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 22, 2014 14:12:52 GMT
Jenny's expression in the last panel is very ambiguous. Maybe Rey will smell Jenny's scent on the tag he ripped off of Annie, and quietly mention it to Annie after they're safe. That's beyond grasping at straws. |
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