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Post by Nepycros on Oct 18, 2018 7:04:28 GMT
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Post by madjack on Oct 18, 2018 7:06:11 GMT
This hits way too close to home.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Oct 18, 2018 7:14:39 GMT
Man, that was also the VERY FIRST THING that came to my mind  |
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Post by jda on Oct 18, 2018 7:21:02 GMT
WELL, that'd be a realistic way of precluding ANY character of more appearing on the comic: "6 years later: Anybody remembers where is Tony? Tony: oh, hi, I was just checking some interesting Networked Learning site. Seems like I have have read 10% or so." |
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Post by speedwell on Oct 18, 2018 7:37:21 GMT
The question of whether Tony is autistic has also, by implication, also been answered.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Post by Nepycros on Oct 18, 2018 7:46:28 GMT
The question of whether Tony is autistic has also, by implication, also been answered. Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's an ornery thing to say considering this is a completely normal thing to do. |
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Post by manabi on Oct 18, 2018 7:56:01 GMT
The question of whether Tony is autistic has also, by implication, also been answered. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm not remotely autistic, and I've done this many times before. It's a combination of curiosity and how insanely easy wikis make it to look up additional information. In a print encyclopedia you might read a word and wonder what it means, but since it requires digging out another volume and finding the right page, the cost is high enough you rarely bother to do so. On a wiki you just click on the linked word to open it, so you're more likely to do so. And then there's linked words on that new page that you're curious about, and on the next one and suddenly it's 3am and you're reading about something entirely unrelated to the initial article and have 50 wiki tabs open in your browser to read later. Anyone sufficiently curious to read a wiki article about a subject is also curious enough to follow a link or two and end up down the rabbit hole of "OH MY GOD I CAN'T ESCAPE THE WIKI, SEND HELP!"
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Post by machiavelli33 on Oct 18, 2018 10:04:39 GMT
Tony has never been more relatable. Forget his palpable fatherly angst, his urge to do right in the face of his continual failures to do so, his painful social shyness and awkwardness, his conflicting senses of duty and family.
This is what makes him truly a soul to connect to.
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I'm reading about carrots on Wikipedia right now, brb.
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Post by faiiry on Oct 18, 2018 10:17:00 GMT
Don’t we all?
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Post by avurai on Oct 18, 2018 10:29:41 GMT
This is the first relatable thing about Tony I’ve ever seen.
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Post by speedwell on Oct 18, 2018 11:03:25 GMT
The question of whether Tony is autistic has also, by implication, also been answered. Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's an ornery thing to say considering this is a completely normal thing to do. I suppose it would be if I wasn't autistic myself and taking his behaviour as a whole into account. |
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Post by faiiry on Oct 18, 2018 12:31:07 GMT
This is the first relatable thing about Tony I’ve ever seen. I was planning to post the same thing earlier, but realized that his intense social anxiety and masking are relatable too. Grudging as I am to admit it. |
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Post by shadow3 on Oct 18, 2018 12:52:58 GMT
Pappy go down da hoooooooooooole....
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 18, 2018 13:15:11 GMT
Nobody show him the SCP Wiki, either. It might give him... ideas... |
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Post by avurai on Oct 18, 2018 13:28:25 GMT
This is the first relatable thing about Tony I’ve ever seen. I was planning to post the same thing earlier, but realized that his intense social anxiety and masking are relatable too. Grudging as I am to admit it. Fair. |
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Post by arkadi on Oct 18, 2018 16:08:10 GMT
Hands up if you've been doing this since before the Internet existed.
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Post by Anthony on Oct 18, 2018 16:13:48 GMT
Funny thing is, I found out about Gunnerkrigg Court from tvtropes back in 2009. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Oct 18, 2018 18:16:29 GMT
I just love how seriously Tony takes this. His way of describing wiki-binging sounds like an academic lecture, or maybe a monograph. He's probably getting ready to publish his paper on "networked learning" on multiple scholarly Court channels.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 19, 2018 6:04:01 GMT
10 hours later: Tony> Looks very informative. Of course, on the subjects which I know it's quite sloppy. But that's to be expected, as it's not exactly the most common... Jones> (stares silently) Tony> Oh. My. Coyote. It had a lot rotted off. All The Tropes, all the way (or not, if you're not resistant to those tabsplosions). |
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Post by Igniz on Oct 19, 2018 6:52:08 GMT
Most true and realistic page to date. Srsly.  Hands up if you've been doing this since before the Internet existed.  In the 80s and 90s I read several encyclopedic dictionaries and thematic encyclopedias this way. |
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Post by arkadi on Oct 19, 2018 9:26:15 GMT
Most true and realistic page to date. Srsly. Hands up if you've been doing this since before the Internet existed. In the 80s and 90s I read several encyclopedic dictionaries and thematic encyclopedias this way. YEEEES |
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 20, 2018 12:11:18 GMT
Hands up if you've been doing this since before the Internet existed. Not exactly before the internet existed, but I've done it with printed books before. For example when I was supposed to research ONE thing for a presentation in school.  |
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Post by QuotePilgrim on Oct 20, 2018 16:19:58 GMT
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Post by zirka on Oct 23, 2018 21:25:44 GMT
I'm pretty sure I first heard of TVtropes by reading that xkcd comic. Went to check it out. It was the only thing I did in my free time for the next few days. |
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Post by gpvos on Oct 29, 2018 8:12:35 GMT
[...] TVtropes [...] It was the only thing I did in my free time for the next few days. We've all been there. In fact, the few people who hadn't heard of it before this thread are probably all in there right now. |
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