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Post by fish on Mar 2, 2015 15:32:28 GMT
Oh my god, the dorm is the Apartment from Friends! The furniture is in exactly the same places, and there's that crossbeam near the fridge. Wow, what would I even do without this forum?! The apartment in the show had two bedrooms (I think), sooo... Kat and Annie or Kat and Paz! Let's see what future updates reveal.
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Post by Aurelia Verity on Mar 2, 2015 16:02:50 GMT
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Post by GK Sierra on Mar 2, 2015 16:03:44 GMT
Ah... apartment life... fumbling with your keys, fighting mildew, fighting roommates, breaking the thermostat in the dead of winter, that subtle smell of beer and weed that never comes out of the carpet, sex noises from neighboring units, the property manager who is never around... god, I almost miss it.
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Post by Aurelia Verity on Mar 2, 2015 16:24:27 GMT
Sooooo does George Stephanopoulos live around here as well or what?
No, no, wait! Renard gets Ugly Naked Guy's apartment after some shenanigans and looks after the girls from across the street!
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Post by bnpederson on Mar 2, 2015 16:37:15 GMT
It's a big city with the population of a small town. And the streets are kept clean by robot horses with laser eyes. Her feet are probably a lot cleaner than you think. If you've never actually lived in a big city, it's impossible for them to be clean enough. Depends on the city and the size of your callouses. New York? Hell naw, never would I do that. Large parts of Tokyo? Maybe, that city is really clean. Also Annie has super-fire-power feet probably. What's the worry about a cigarette butt when you can just vaporize it by reflex?
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 2, 2015 18:18:54 GMT
Seeing Kat in the last panel makes me feel happy (not in lecherous way). Which makes sense because the last panel is essentially seen through Annie and seeing Kat makes Annie happy. I for one would like to complement Tom for conveying both Annie's perspective and emotion.
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Post by Lightice on Mar 2, 2015 18:55:51 GMT
Ah... apartment life... fumbling with your keys, fighting mildew, fighting roommates, breaking the thermostat in the dead of winter, that subtle smell of beer and weed that never comes out of the carpet, sex noises from neighboring units, the property manager who is never around... god, I almost miss it. Sounds like apartment life has pretty different connotations in different parts of the world. I lived most of my childhood and nearly all of my adulthood in apartments, never facing any of the above problems. Having strict, Nordic construction standards probably helps. I honestly couldn't imagine choosing to live in a house voluntarily. But I really wish I could one day afford one as nice as this dorm.
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Post by freeman on Mar 2, 2015 20:42:47 GMT
It looks like Kat got the penthouse. Sweet pad, Kat. Dorm tradition you see: the resident lesbian couple get unofficial advance for the penthouse. If you ask how: the court just knows.
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Post by KartoffelnMcNugget on Mar 2, 2015 21:00:38 GMT
Ah... apartment life... fumbling with your keys, fighting mildew, fighting roommates, breaking the thermostat in the dead of winter, that subtle smell of beer and weed that never comes out of the carpet, sex noises from neighboring units, the property manager who is never around... god, I almost miss it. It's even more funny when it's strictly prohibited to have animals and you have a mini-zoo in the apartment, the owner's surprise visits suddenly become more challenging.
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Post by sebastian on Mar 2, 2015 23:40:21 GMT
It's a big city with the population of a small town. And the streets are kept clean by robot horses with laser eyes. Her feet are probably a lot cleaner than you think. If you've never actually lived in a big city, it's impossible for them to be clean enough. I love going barefoot, and when I was growing up in the suburbs I'd basically take my shoes off in June and not put them on again until September. But I never wear less than sandals in the city. Maybe Annie doesn't have to worry about things like broken glass, cigarette butts, dog poop, and even less savory substances, but cities just seem to generate dirt at an incredible rate. For example, there is a white table on my porch, 100 feet above street-level, and it develops a coating of some blacking sooty substance every 2 weeks. I go through half a roll of paper towels every time I want to get it clean enough to actually eat off of. So maybe it's not bad-dirt, but it would seriously stretch my sense of plausible belief to imagine that there is NO dirt. But the court don't have cars, (they goes around by trains or horserobot-driven carriages) or polluting factories and it is probably distant from any of them, It is not difficult to imagine that the air there is extra-clean (and so the ground).
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Post by Deepbluediver on Mar 3, 2015 1:32:56 GMT
But the court don't have cars, (they goes around by trains or horserobot-driven carriages) or polluting factories and it is probably distant from any of them, It is not difficult to imagine that the air there is extra-clean (and so the ground). And what do you think powers all those robots or the train? Most cities draw power from a generating source some distance away, but the court doesn't seem like the kind of place to have wires running for miles across the countryside that someone might decide to follow and see where they lead. Also, it's DEFINITELY got this steam-punk/industrial-revolution aesthetic going on, so the idea that it's got either no or 100% clean industry seems odd to me. And even if all that happens, sometimes you just get DUST that accumulates. Whether it's concrete flaking off of building or topsoil blowing in from the forest or bits of organic matter than hang around and decay, there will ALWAYS be dust- humanity cannot escape it (except perhaps in very small, regulated, closed environments, such as one of the cherry-tree domes).
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Post by sapientcoffee on Mar 3, 2015 2:34:58 GMT
Oh my god, the dorm is the Apartment from Friends! The furniture is in exactly the same places, and there's that crossbeam near the fridge. Fantastic catch!
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Post by calpal on Mar 3, 2015 3:32:11 GMT
I'm at least hoping their neighbours turn out to be the Gunnerkrigg equivalent of the cast of Seinfeld. Then it's a real party to be had!
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 3, 2015 4:10:32 GMT
If you've never actually lived in a big city, it's impossible for them to be clean enough. Depends on the city and the size of your callouses. New York? Hell naw, never would I do that. Large parts of Tokyo? Maybe, that city is really clean. Also Annie has super-fire-power feet probably. What's the worry about a cigarette butt when you can just vaporize it by reflex? Singapore. It's abnormally clean in the touristy areas (not so much in other areas), and there used to be a health fad of barefoot jogging.
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Post by warrl on Mar 3, 2015 4:55:43 GMT
Plus you have to consider Kat explicitly stating that spending all her time smooching with Paz is detrimental to her research, so living together seems like trying to avoid getting your hair wet during a rainstorm by diving into the ocean. On the contrary, it would mean she could get her fill of smooching with Paz for the day at home, during her down time, and get accustomed to it, so neither the need nor the thought would distract her so much while she's trying to concentrate on something else. Although it would surprise me to see it happen at this point.
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Post by csj on Mar 3, 2015 5:41:17 GMT
Odd.
I thought Tom was more of a Seinfeld guy personally
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Post by rafk on Mar 3, 2015 8:07:40 GMT
Is it just me or do the stairwell and apartment look like they could have come from the set of The Big Bang Theory? It would explain a lot if Sheldon actually grew up in the Court and chose his current dwelling for its similarity to where he used to live. Well, if you see my last post, you'll notice that it is an apartment from a sitcom, but not that one. Ah, so close. I always thought that the Big Bang apartment set was a deliberate homage to the Friends apartment set anyway. There are huge similarities and both are Warner Bros. I've actually visited the Big Bang Theory soundstage so it was the first to jump to mind.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 3, 2015 10:37:56 GMT
If you've never actually lived in a big city, it's impossible for them to be clean enough. Depends on the city and the size of your callouses. And the part of the city. Also Annie has super-fire-power feet probably. What's the worry about a cigarette butt when you can just vaporize it by reflex? It's like you're trying to summon horrible jokes. "Heh. I'm hotter than that!" "That's not fire. THAT's fire!" Dorm tradition you see: the resident lesbian couple get unofficial advance for the penthouse. If you ask how: the court just knows. Given how subtle they are, by now indeed the whole Court knows.
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Post by philman on Mar 4, 2015 8:37:34 GMT
Odd. I thought Tom was more of a Seinfeld guy personally Seinfeld was never really on TV here in the UK, you had to search it out if you had heard of it from americans. Friends repeats however were on almost every day on Channel 4.
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Post by csj on Mar 4, 2015 11:47:25 GMT
Odd. I thought Tom was more of a Seinfeld guy personally Seinfeld was never really on TV here in the UK, you had to search it out if you had heard of it from americans. Friends repeats however were on almost every day on Channel 4. a truly sad circumstance (though I know a number of people that dislike both)
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 5, 2015 4:27:18 GMT
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Post by warrl on Mar 5, 2015 5:38:56 GMT
I didn't see anything I liked in Friends but I could understand some other people liking it. Seinfeld didn't come up to that high standard. I know some people DO like it, but why? ? Actually, please don't try to answer that; every attempt I've come across made me either laugh at how obviously inaccurate it was, or retch. Fortunately for the producers thereof, I am not the arbiter of other people's taste. (Thank gods! Who would want that responsibility?)
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 5, 2015 12:22:21 GMT
I doth protest! Maybe too much...
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Post by rosencrantz on Mar 5, 2015 15:09:25 GMT
The windows are off, right? They're slanted in the view from indoors, but from the outside we just see normal windows.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 5, 2015 16:54:47 GMT
The windows are off, right? They're slanted in the view from indoors, but from the outside we just see normal windows. I think it's the penthouse, maybe on the backside of the building? Dunno, but it's the same way on Friends.
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Post by Lightice on Mar 5, 2015 17:38:35 GMT
The windows are off, right? They're slanted in the view from indoors, but from the outside we just see normal windows. They're on the opposite side of the building. That kind of retrofitting is very common in attic apartments in old buildings, putting larger windows on the courtyard side while preserving the original architecture on the street side.
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Post by rosencrantz on Mar 5, 2015 19:50:00 GMT
That seems logical. And here I thought their new dorm was some sort of TARDIS.
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Post by warrl on Mar 5, 2015 20:25:40 GMT
That seems logical. And here I thought their new dorm was some sort of TARDIS. You're giving Kat ideas...
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