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Post by Nepycros on Apr 11, 2016 7:01:33 GMT
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Post by Gotolei on Apr 11, 2016 7:02:35 GMT
Dang, Eglamore's been through some hard times since last time we saw him.
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Post by Nepycros on Apr 11, 2016 7:03:01 GMT
Dang, Eglamore's been through some hard times since last time we saw him. That can't be Eglamore, otherwise Tom would've told us, the way he does in every single chapter where Eglamore is featured. |
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Post by drdave on Apr 11, 2016 7:06:05 GMT
Wow, she's got a Steam controller. Kate is cutting edge
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Post by speedwell on Apr 11, 2016 7:06:05 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)?  |
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Post by Gotolei on Apr 11, 2016 7:10:03 GMT
Wow, she's got a Steam controller. Kate is cutting edge (that's a PS4 controller) Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? ( Metal Gear Solid V) Dang, Eglamore's been through some hard times since last time we saw him. That can't be Eglamore, otherwise Tom would've told us, the way he does in every single chapter where Eglamore is featured. (we're not in a chapter anymore, it ended last week) (and since these sketch pages have always come in twos, this means the Chapter 57 58 title page will still be on a Friday won't it) (never change, Tom) |
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Post by Nepycros on Apr 11, 2016 7:10:52 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain, I do believe. A more recent addition to the Metal Gear franchise. This does raise an interesting point of discussion about webcomics in general. Gunnerkrigg Court has been an ongoing issue for years, and has chronologically followed for a shorter timeframe than its actual run. Attempting to maintain a timeline consistent with real world chronology, for a story that progresses slower than the real world, must be a tremendous issue for long-term story writers such as Tom, and I admire his work all the more for not allowing anachronistic events to blur the otherwise seamless storytelling. |
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Post by avurai on Apr 11, 2016 7:10:56 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Metal Gear Solid 5. The lady is named Quiet. It would appear that Rey is immediately fond. |
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Post by avurai on Apr 11, 2016 7:12:40 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain, I do believe. A more recent addition to the Metal Gear franchise. This does raise an interesting point of discussion about webcomics in general. Gunnerkrigg Court has been an ongoing issue for years, and has chronologically followed for a shorter timeframe than its actual run. Attempting to maintain a timeline consistent with real world chronology, for a story that progresses slower than the real world, must be a tremendous issue for long-term story writers such as Tom, and I admire his work all the more for not allowing anachronistic events to blur the otherwise seamless storytelling. On the one hand, these are always done in a white-out effect so as to not seem entirely canon, which is smart. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that the Court experiences time differently than the world outside it, which would be fascinatingly frightening. |
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Post by arf on Apr 11, 2016 7:13:59 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Google "Metal Gear Solid V" videos (as I just did). You'll soon cop an eyeful of what Rey's talking about! Oh my!!! 'Different guy' indeed! What else did Paz get Kat for her birthday!? |
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Post by arf on Apr 11, 2016 7:26:29 GMT
...A-and, if Annie can keep her cool through this, I think it's time to resume a more sanguine avatar!
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Post by Daedalus on Apr 11, 2016 7:44:02 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Metal Gear Solid 5. The lady is named Quiet. It would appear that Rey is immediately fond. See, I would have thought he'd like Sniper Wolf. But yes, it's MGSV. A beautiful, amazing, dark game, showing how a champion of justice slowly makes increasingly questionable decisions leading to his tragic downfall. I suspect it resonates deeply with Renard. |
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Post by noone3 on Apr 11, 2016 8:11:47 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Metal Gear Solid 5. The lady is named Quiet. It would appear that Rey is immediately fond. Hopefully, girls wont be taking any fashion tips from her... Using certain camouflage though...  |
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Post by Señor Goose on Apr 11, 2016 8:37:32 GMT
Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain, I do believe. A more recent addition to the Metal Gear franchise. This does raise an interesting point of discussion about webcomics in general. Gunnerkrigg Court has been an ongoing issue for years, and has chronologically followed for a shorter timeframe than its actual run. Attempting to maintain a timeline consistent with real world chronology, for a story that progresses slower than the real world, must be a tremendous issue for long-term story writers such as Tom, and I admire his work all the more for not allowing anachronistic events to blur the otherwise seamless storytelling. We can't answer the question of where the Court is more specifically than "Great Britain". Why should we be able to pin down its location in the rest of the space-time continuum? |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Apr 11, 2016 8:46:09 GMT
Using certain camouflage though... You mean clever disguises? |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 11, 2016 11:21:20 GMT
Why am I being obsessive about a bonus page? Because it is the only new page we've got... The bonus page setting appears to be Kat's home (her parent's place). - The couch is very similar to the one in the Princess Mononoke bonus pages (Year 9). - No couch is visible in the MGS4 bonus pages, but the window in the Princess Mononoke bonus pages is the very similar to the one in the MGS4 bonus pages (Year 8). The consistency between the different Years makes it logical that this setting isn't in the student's changing living facilities. - The couch in the Friend's apartment has a much lower back. - The couch in the GTA bonus page (Year 7) was quite different. That red couch is similar to the one in the Donlan's family/living room. If the GTA bonus page was set in the Donlan's family/living room, then maybe the subsequent bonus pages are set in Kat's bedroom. Since Kat doesn't sleep there very often, maybe she converted her bedroom to more of a private entertainment room. |
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Post by Per on Apr 11, 2016 11:48:05 GMT
When I was a kid we had non-interactive games and liked it.
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Post by ctso74 on Apr 11, 2016 13:59:32 GMT
Metal Gear Solid 5. The lady is named Quiet. It would appear that Rey is immediately fond. Hopefully, girls wont be taking any fashion tips from her... Using certain camouflage though... What are you talking about? That's an unsuspicious cardboard box. You must have used the wrong pic. *turns back on box and starts patrolling* |
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Post by Trillium on Apr 11, 2016 16:03:38 GMT
These little slice of life pages are enjoyable. We get to see characters in their down time activities which we may or may not identify with. Nice palate cleanser.
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Post by stef1987 on Apr 11, 2016 20:27:27 GMT
Dang, Eglamore's been through some hard times since last time we saw him. That can't be Eglamore, otherwise Tom would've told us, the way he does in every single chapter where Eglamore is featured. It seems you didn't got the joke. |
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Post by Daedalus on Apr 11, 2016 21:03:29 GMT
That can't be Eglamore, otherwise Tom would've told us, the way he does in every single chapter where Eglamore is featured. It seems you didn't got the joke. It seems you didn't get the joke about not-getting-the-joke... I think? I invoke Poe's Law. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Apr 11, 2016 21:41:01 GMT
So, what's the chronology of Metal Gear games? Does it just go in order and swap main characters, or is the reason for there being a different main character more complicated than that?
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Post by l33tninja on Apr 11, 2016 21:52:03 GMT
It seems you didn't get the joke about not-getting-the-joke... I think? I invoke Pie's Law. Wait, you mean Poe's Law . . . or am I also not getting the joke? |
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Post by Daedalus on Apr 11, 2016 22:47:05 GMT
It seems you didn't get the joke about not-getting-the-joke... I think? I invoke Pie's Law. Wait, you mean Poe's Law . . . or am I also not getting the joke? (I meant Poe's Law - I made a typo, sorry.) |
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Post by warrl on Apr 12, 2016 0:28:04 GMT
Just don't invoke Cole's Law. |
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Post by sheepy on Apr 12, 2016 1:50:36 GMT
Is anyone else unable to get to the gunnerkrigg website right now? the site seems to be down for me.
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Post by matoyak on Apr 12, 2016 2:10:34 GMT
So, what's the chronology of Metal Gear games? Does it just go in order and swap main characters, or is the reason for there being a different main character more complicated than that? It's a bit more complicated than that. General timeline goes roughly like so: MGS3, MGS:PW, MGSV, MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2, MGS4. Naked Snake / Big Boss / Venom Snake is the main player character in 3, PW, and V. Solid Snake is the main player character in MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2, and MGS4. While this seems straightforward except for 3 being the earliest, the actual release order adds some confusion: MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, MGS:PW, MGSV. There are story line complications to all of this that make it more confusing than either of these timelines suggest. It's not really as confusing as people joke about, but it's not a straightforward answer either  EDIT: Meant to provide names for these acronyms: MG = Metal Gear MG2 = Metal Gear 2 MGS = Metal Gear Solid MGS2 = Metal Gear Solid 2 MGS3 = Metal Gear Solid 3 MGS4 = Metal Gear Solid 4 MGS:PW = Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker MGSV = Metal Gear Solid V (ie: "Metal Gear Solid Five") |
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Post by calpal on Apr 12, 2016 2:59:09 GMT
So, what's the chronology of Metal Gear games? Does it just go in order and swap main characters, or is the reason for there being a different main character more complicated than that? It's a bit more complicated than that. General timeline goes roughly like so: MGS3, MGS:PW, MGSV, MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2, MGS4. Naked Snake / Big Boss / Venom Snake is the main player character in 3, PW, and V. Solid Snake is the main player character in MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2, and MGS4. While this seems straightforward except for 3 being the earliest, the actual release order adds some confusion: MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, MGS:PW, MGSV. There are story line complications to all of this that make it more confusing than either of these timelines suggest. It's not really as confusing as people joke about, but it's not a straightforward answer either EDIT: Meant to provide names for these acronyms: MG = Metal Gear MG2 = Metal Gear 2 MGS = Metal Gear Solid MGS2 = Metal Gear Solid 2 MGS3 = Metal Gear Solid 3 MGS4 = Metal Gear Solid 4 MGS:PW = Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker MGSV = Metal Gear Solid V (ie: "Metal Gear Solid Five") I wonder if there's a story / world out there with a more complex timeline than this Which doesn't involve Homestuck... |
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Post by Daedalus on Apr 12, 2016 4:12:47 GMT
I wonder if there's a story / world out there with a more complex timeline than this Which doesn't involve Homestuck...Probably? Though it's certainly one of the more complex ones. Zelda, Chrono Cross, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Dark Souls, and Kingdom Hearts are also all strong contenders for "most complex video game storyline". Would a gamer please clue a non-gamer in on the nuances of this comic (such as what game it is)? So, what's the chronology of Metal Gear games? Does it just go in order and swap main characters, or is the reason for there being a different main character more complicated than that? (Very) long story simplified*: in the 1960s-1970s, an idealistic supersoldier (code)named Naked Snake (aka Big Boss, the man on the left in today's page) tries to improve the lives of mercenaries worldwide by gathering the greatest soldiers in the world into an organization/nation called MSF (Militaires Sans Frontières, kind of like a union for soldiers) so they'll have a decent standard of living. He also attempts to overthrow an organization called The Philosophers (basically the Illuminati) who cause world conflicts to further their inscrutable gains, without caring about the lives of the soldiers they've involved (he's personally determined to destroy the Philosophers because they forced him to execute his own mother figure as a traitor for...reasons). This all happens in Metal Gear Solid 3, where Big Boss is the protagonist.
Skip forward 40 years into the present, and another amazing soldier named Solid Snake (the person Kat was crying about the first time) is sent to assassinate Big Boss (now a violent terrorist) and force the dissolution of his nation of soldiers (also, plot twist: Snake is one of three clones of Big Boss). Against all odds, Solid Snake succeeds, and is lauded as a hero by the Philosopher-controlled US Government. This is Metal Gear 1. He also meets a doppelgänger of Big Boss who's creating a military dictatorship in Zanzibar (using a bioengineered petroleum-making microbe, of all things), and kills him too in Metal Gear 2.
However, the friends and followers of the late Big Boss (including his second clone) stage a coup and steal an experimental nuclear-equipped tank (with legs, bizarrely) called the Metal Gear in order to threaten the US government into complying to their late leader's demands. Solid Snake kills them too (this happens in Metal Gear Solid, probably the most famous of the series), but as their group re-emerges several times in the next 30 years (always to steal another version of the Metal Gear – why is a walking tank a good idea in the first place?) Solid Snake becomes too old to fight them, so it falls to his protégé Raiden (a cyborg ninja equipped with nanotechnology) to kill them, save the President (further plot twist: the President is another clone of Big Boss and also evil), and destroy the Philosophers (now retitled the Patriots) and their AI (which runs America, of course) once and for all (Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4). There's also a bunch of brain-uploading, ghosts, and a guy who is covered in bees.
Metal Gear Solid V, the game in question, came out this year and deals with that 40-year time skip. It chronicles how Big Boss went from an idealistic and charismatic leader - a father to his men - to a guerrilla terrorist who doesn't care about the loss of innocent lives in pursuit of his goals. It's an incredible and tragic game about the fall of a hero, and the forces of evil that finally broke him: the murder of his first love (disturbingly, by a bomb placed in her uterus after she was sexually assaulted), the heroic sacrifice of his second love (the woman on the right, a mute sniper named Quiet), the mutilation of his comrade (the man in the middle, a soldier named Master Miller, who had an arm and a leg brutally cut off), and his own terrible injuries (shrapnel impaled through his head due to the afore-mentioned bomb, putting him in a nine-year coma). It's a masterwork, albeit a depressing masterwork.
*please don't kill me for my over-generalizations...*hides in cardboard box* |
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Post by agasa on Apr 12, 2016 7:48:07 GMT
I can't seem to be able to connect to the main site. Can you please show me today's yesterday's comic uploading it somewhere else?
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