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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 14, 2019 7:17:45 GMT
The thing with a running joke is, the more times it's told the funnier it gets... in theory. |
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Post by madjack on Oct 14, 2019 7:21:26 GMT
The thing with a running joke is, the more times it's told the funnier it gets... in theory. For us and all the other characters maybe, Annies are going to hate it real soon. Also that Kat look in panel 3 feels like its a mix of worry, concern and doubt, which if the latter really is there is scaring me a bit. Note as well she's immediately putting on the happy face before turning around. |
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Post by arkadi on Oct 14, 2019 7:29:36 GMT
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 14, 2019 7:35:24 GMT
Well, I like Annie. I would not mind having four of her in the comic (though they might get harder to keep track of).
But this is really interesting. What will happen with the Renard-phone if Annies run into more temporal distortions?
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Post by philman on Oct 14, 2019 8:00:59 GMT
Well, I like Annie. I would not mind having four of her in the comic (though they might get harder to keep track of). But this is really interesting. What will happen with the Renard-phone if Annies run into more temporal distortions?
That ultra slow robot voice you get sometimes with extreme lag over skype? The word "hello" gets drawn out to 2 hours? |
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Post by migrantworker on Oct 14, 2019 8:53:53 GMT
Also that Kat look in panel 3 feels like its a mix of worry, concern and doubt, which if the latter really is there is scaring me a bit. Kat still is the only person (that we know of) which really took in that Annies should not be here. In her mind, this probably means that there is no 'real' Annie. I can imagine her feeling bittersweet, enjoying a double dose of friendship while it lasts, as a little voice at the back of her head keeps reminding her that it can all end at any moment. |
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Post by madjack on Oct 14, 2019 9:14:06 GMT
Also that Kat look in panel 3 feels like its a mix of worry, concern and doubt, which if the latter really is there is scaring me a bit. Kat still is the only person (that we know of) which really took in that Annies should not be here. In her mind, this probably means that there is no 'real' Annie. I can imagine her feeling bittersweet, enjoying a double dose of friendship while it lasts, as a little voice at the back of her head keeps reminding her that it can all end at any moment. I interpreted that panel as Kat being determined to get to the bottom of that problem while also a bit irrationally irritated that she has to keep helping clean up Annie's messes but.. That also makes a lot of sense. It also makes me wonder if Kat is going to refuse to let at least one of them go somehow and cause a whole heap of trouble as a result. |
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Post by Eily on Oct 14, 2019 9:27:29 GMT
The thing with a running joke is, the more times it's told the funnier it gets... in theory. For us and all the other characters maybe, Annies are going to hate it real soon. I'm not exactly sure why but I find Kat's version of the joke a little ruder than Anthony's. In his case I read it as downplaying his worry (so actually showing some trust). In her case, it sounds like it's genuinly one of the reasons why they are going to monitor what's happening through Renard, so she's actually saying "enough of you already", because of something the Annies have no control over. I wonder if Loup is going to be able to see somehow that the connection between the Annies and Rey has changed. Or maybe he is actually the one who made sure Renard would stay under Annie's control even after jumping out of her toy. Or even worse, he arranged for Renard to be the Annies' familiar because he is using the third Annie (the timeline's original) to listen in on their inner conversations. [Insert smart joke about Tony actually being future Kat after a time travelling accident] |
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Post by heranje on Oct 14, 2019 9:35:01 GMT
Kat still is the only person (that we know of) which really took in that Annies should not be here. In her mind, this probably means that there is no 'real' Annie. I can imagine her feeling bittersweet, enjoying a double dose of friendship while it lasts, as a little voice at the back of her head keeps reminding her that it can all end at any moment. I interpreted that panel as Kat being determined to get to the bottom of that problem while also a bit irrationally irritated that she has to keep helping clean up Annie's messes but.. That also makes a lot of sense. It also makes me wonder if Kat is going to refuse to let at least one of them go somehow and cause a whole heap of trouble as a result. I'd like to suggest a third interpretation of Kat's face in that panel (and on this page), not instead of but in addition to the above-mentioned: "If neither of these Annies should be here, where is my Annie?" Kat's a sci-fi buff, too. The idea of twins from alternate dimensions having replaced the Annie from her dimension may hold a different weight to her than to the others. |
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Post by AluK on Oct 14, 2019 11:28:18 GMT
The thing with a running joke is, the more times it's told the funnier it gets... in theory. Is it exponential growth, though?  Tom should start a line of Kat shirts. I totally want a Drift King shirt. |
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 14, 2019 11:35:30 GMT
Well, I like Annie. I would not mind having four of her in the comic (though they might get harder to keep track of). But this is really interesting. What will happen with the Renard-phone if Annies run into more temporal distortions?
That ultra slow robot voice you get sometimes with extreme lag over skype? The word "hello" gets drawn out to 2 hours? Robot voice? A drawn out "hellooooo"? This entices terrible thoughts...
I interpreted that panel as Kat being determined to get to the bottom of that problem while also a bit irrationally irritated that she has to keep helping clean up Annie's messes but.. That also makes a lot of sense. It also makes me wonder if Kat is going to refuse to let at least one of them go somehow and cause a whole heap of trouble as a result. I'd like to suggest a third interpretation of Kat's face in that panel (and on this page), not instead of but in addition to the above-mentioned: "If neither of these Annies should be here, where is my Annie?" Kat's a sci-fi buff, too. The idea of twins from alternate dimensions having replaced the Annie from her dimension may hold a different weight to her than to the others. Furthermore, she might also think about two timelines where she lost Annie. |
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Post by fia on Oct 14, 2019 12:13:07 GMT
Oh no. Repeated jokes have a tendency to become foreshadowing. This won't be like the My Little Pny Friendship is Magic episode where Pinkie Pie gets multiplied dozens of times, will it?...
Or like Being John Malkovich but with Antimony Carver? Creepy. Fits in with the whole Zimmy's subconscious undercurrent of the comic.
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Post by Per on Oct 14, 2019 12:25:28 GMT
Hello everyone, I've travelled back in time from 14 chapters ahead to say that we certainly don't need 4096 Annies coming back from the Forest
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Post by MarineMonarch on Oct 14, 2019 12:54:29 GMT
Oh yay, Kat's here! Kat's here? That's interesting, we normally don't see her in chapters that focus on the forest, and based on the first couple pages I didn't expect to see her in this chapter at all. Listening in on the Annies talking to Loup through Renard proxy is possibly the closest she's actually gotten to the woods all comic. I wonder if anything'll come of that. I'd be kinda surprised if Loup didn't notice the whole familiar thing after all.
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Post by migrantworker on Oct 14, 2019 13:03:08 GMT
we certainly don't need 4096 Annies coming back from the Forest They could actually be put to good use. I mean, we saw 2 Annies bringing several cubic metres of water to boil within seconds. That gives them a peak power output on the order of high 10s-low 100s of Megawatts per one teenaged Annie. Even if they can only sustain this sort of power in short bursts then, by analogy to a human muscle, a continuous output of maybe 1/10th of the peak power sounds entirely reasonable. So 4096 adult Annies could replace up to 10 nuclear power plants. And as a bonus, Annies are fully renewable!  |
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Post by netherdan on Oct 14, 2019 13:08:29 GMT
The thing with a running joke is, the more times it's told the funnier it gets... in theory. Nah, it peaks the fun axis the second time it's told, the third time you still get some positive fun and from then on you only get negative numbers |
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 14, 2019 13:30:52 GMT
Kat still is the only person (that we know of) which really took in that Annies should not be here. In her mind, this probably means that there is no 'real' Annie. I can imagine her feeling bittersweet, enjoying a double dose of friendship while it lasts, as a little voice at the back of her head keeps reminding her that it can all end at any moment. I interpreted that panel as Kat being determined to get to the bottom of that problem while also a bit irrationally irritated that she has to keep helping clean up Annie's messes but.. That also makes a lot of sense. It also makes me wonder if Kat is going to refuse to let at least one of them go somehow and cause a whole heap of trouble as a result. The problem is determining what Clippy meant by "neither belongs here", and what exactly Loup did. I've been wondering if from Clippy's point of view, the Annie that "belongs here" ceased to exist. Like cutting a pie in half, both are(come from) the same pie, but neither are(entirely) the same pie. There's currently no way of knowing. Without future forthcoming details, the speculative sky's the limit. So, I'm going to assume the original Annie is stuck in a people-less timeline, where the world is filled with mass-produced Boxbots, and she fights to destroy them all. They're not aggressive or anything, but while she's there, she might as well. |
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Post by Jota on Oct 14, 2019 14:29:29 GMT
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Post by heranje on Oct 14, 2019 14:31:23 GMT
I'd like to suggest a third interpretation of Kat's face in that panel (and on this page), not instead of but in addition to the above-mentioned: "If neither of these Annies should be here, where is my Annie?" Kat's a sci-fi buff, too. The idea of twins from alternate dimensions having replaced the Annie from her dimension may hold a different weight to her than to the others. Furthermore, she might also think about two timelines where she lost Annie. Very good point. Compassion for the two Annie-less Kats that exist somewhere out there in the multiverse. Also, Kat has a scientific mind. The Annies seem to have accepted that they're both "real" - but what evidence does Kat have that the only differences between their universes and hers is what happened at the time of the split? Having a different relationship with quantum theory might make her think about all the possible tiny differences between their universes making them possibly not quite the same Annie as "hers." But there's no way for her to test that without making the Annies think she doubts their reality, which violates her "put Annie's emotional needs before my own" prime directive. (Well, that we know of - she may be working on a way) |
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Post by The Anarch on Oct 14, 2019 14:49:20 GMT
Legitimate. Concern.  |
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Post by najmniejszy on Oct 14, 2019 17:29:26 GMT
Tom will give us a plot-twist and actually, there will be 3 Annies, not 4
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Post by Gemini Jim on Oct 14, 2019 18:06:14 GMT
Tom will give us a plot-twist and actually, there will be 3 Annies, not 4 Waiting for one of the Annies to call one of the other Annies "you knucklehead." (Insert coconut "bonk" sound effect.) Or we could get ONE Annie. If the water is unreachable in this universe (because reasons), Loup sends an Annie into a Gunnerkrigg where it is more easy to obtain. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Oct 14, 2019 19:30:12 GMT
I love/hate the idea that Kat and Tony's senses of humor have gotten closer and closer over time, but neither of them realize it. Annie's thinking right now, "man, that would be REALLY FUNNY if only I hadn't heard it from my DAD just now. Awkward..."
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Post by arf on Oct 14, 2019 21:19:04 GMT
Kat is definitely a worried Kat.
Kat undoubtedly worried about the Problem with Annie.
Kat has probably seen the Matrix trilogy.
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Post by Sky Schemer on Oct 14, 2019 22:35:39 GMT
Hello everyone, I've travelled back in time from 14 chapters ahead to say that we certainly don't need 4096 Annies coming back from the Forest It took 69 chapters to go from one Annie to two, but if we get four Annies in this chapter, then that will be an alarming increase in the Annie expansion rate. That is beyond exponential growth, which puts the current Annie equation at around Annies = e 0.011x (where x is the chapter number). Based on that, we should not see 4 Annies until the mid-120's, or 4096 until chapter 756. Edited to add: Getting four Annies today would would mean our equation is Annies = 1 + 6.0*10 -9 * e 0.2747x. We'll shoot through 4096 Annies somewhere in the middle of Chapter 99. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Oct 14, 2019 22:52:17 GMT
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Oct 15, 2019 3:48:29 GMT
Terrible Boxbot thoughts? That ultra slow robot voice you get sometimes with extreme lag over skype? The word "hello" gets drawn out to 2 hours? Robot voice? A drawn out "hellooooo"? This entices terrible thoughts... |
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Post by migrantworker on Oct 15, 2019 7:56:02 GMT
Hello everyone, I've travelled back in time from 14 chapters ahead to say that we certainly don't need 4096 Annies coming back from the Forest It took 69 chapters to go from one Annie to two, but if we get four Annies in this chapter, then that will be an alarming increase in the Annie expansion rate. That is beyond exponential growth, which puts the current Annie equation at around Annies = e 0.011x (where x is the chapter number). Based on that, we should not see 4 Annies until the mid-120's, or 4096 until chapter 756. Edited to add: Getting four Annies today would would mean our equation is Annies = 1 + 6.0*10 -9 * e 0.2747x. We'll shoot through 4096 Annies somewhere in the middle of Chapter 99. How's that for a well-reasoned wildspec! |
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Post by Eily on Oct 15, 2019 9:16:25 GMT
Tom will give us a plot-twist and actually, there will be 3 Annies, not 4 In both cases, far better than getting 3 and a half. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 15, 2019 21:16:35 GMT
Hello everyone, I've travelled back in time from 14 chapters ahead to say that we certainly don't need 4096 Annies coming back from the Forest It took 69 chapters to go from one Annie to two, but if we get four Annies in this chapter, then that will be an alarming increase in the Annie expansion rate. That is beyond exponential growth, which puts the current Annie equation at around Annies = e 0.011x (where x is the chapter number). Based on that, we should not see 4 Annies until the mid-120's, or 4096 until chapter 756. Edited to add: Getting four Annies today would would mean our equation is Annies = 1 + 6.0*10 -9 * e 0.2747x. We'll shoot through 4096 Annies somewhere in the middle of Chapter 99. If a Kat who lost an Antimony is created in the ether every time an Antimony is temporally shifted eventually they will reach some sort of quorum and begin to shift/create ever more Antimonies so the q of Antimonies would indeed expand exponentially. |
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