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Post by j on May 30, 2013 15:14:20 GMT
Hmmm well don't forget that returning the octopus to the ocean might disrupt the fragile ecosystem of the forest unleashing unheard of tidal-waves of destruction.
Barring that maybe the Kat/Paz thing might be a catalyst for something else happening? Maybe the point of Kat/Paz is not the relationship in itself but cause a ripple effect between characters?
I think Kat being possibly gay is going to have serious ramifications else where and that that is going to be the catalyst for something else. Could be me over-thinking it though.
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Post by download on May 30, 2013 15:16:35 GMT
If I discuss things with people on the internet I seem to include a very heavy does of unintended vitriol.
As for the Kat-alyst I think it was Smitty and the letter/Paz, though I also think Kat may be too long term in regards to her and Paz
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Post by Max on May 30, 2013 15:29:52 GMT
Other thing: this being the last page of this chapter, who or what were the catalysts? Annie and the letter? I think is more that the chapter is about catalysts in general. Both the two stories involved a catalyst of some sort (the letter, Smitty's spare marble). |
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Post by hargharg on May 30, 2013 15:35:59 GMT
Other thing: this being the last page of this chapter, who or what were the catalysts? Annie and the letter? I think is more that the chapter is about catalysts in general. Both the two stories involved a catalyst of some sort (the letter, Smitty's spare marble). Yes, that's what I asked, thanks for answering.  |
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Post by warrl on May 30, 2013 15:57:54 GMT
Is this a bad moment to mention that, when I looked at the first panel and for some reason my eyes weren't completely focused on the display at the moment, I actually thought "Yup, that's a giant disembodied penis..." ? Dang it, how do you get an image to appear in the message when you have the URL? Oh well, here's the link |
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Post by hargharg on May 30, 2013 16:09:36 GMT
![]() youputthelinktotheimagehere[ /img] Without the space before /img. |
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Post by The Anarch on May 30, 2013 16:14:18 GMT
Not gonna work exactly right anyway, I think. Looks like some anti-hotlinking is going on.
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Post by TBeholder on May 30, 2013 16:20:37 GMT
The placement doesn't mean anything. The bonus page is always some unrelated change of pace after the chapter is wrapped up. Let me introduce you to the anti-Occamic pleasures of 'Crabtree's Bludgeon': "No set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated." It may need to be rephrased for TV viewers who have problems with understanding concepts of "set" and "coherent". Let me try... "Any possible forms of matter you can pull out of The Dirac Sea. Everything else can be pulled out of... thin air!" (And see that they aren't doing it just to mess with you.) : ) I'm afraid the sets of those who can do this and those who need to do this intersect very little.  Other thing: this being the last page of this chapter, who or what were the catalysts? See the chapter picture. That's a marble, and the chapter's opening picture is a bird's (or chickcharney's?) claw. As to how it can be linked to the rest of the events... Since chickcharney brings luck and got Smitty overdosed, luck may spill a little. Which is the only way to explain why this plot thread ended better for Paz than usual. This happened because of that lost marble. Which in itself wasn't expended or altered in any discernible way, thus qualifies as a catalyst. See? |
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Post by j on May 30, 2013 16:25:41 GMT
I hear ya I personally think that the marble is a little too literal for me.
I think the actions of a human in the forest might be a catalyst for better relations between the court and the school. Maybe something will come of the visit that we can't guess?
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Post by TBeholder on May 31, 2013 10:35:07 GMT
i think the original question meant how did it come to be in the forest on that page. like is it from a family of air dwelling octopi or what? We really don't know the full effects of turning from a human to a forest creature. It may well have been someone, who thought it be wonderful to be a cephalopod (which it SO would be), and they got confused in the transition. Well, of course. Either that, or... - Hey, Bob. You want to be a cephalopod? - 'kay. |
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Post by Serenissima on May 31, 2013 15:39:40 GMT
Not going to get offended, primarily because people being silly is one of the standard things on the Internet; but:
TBeholder, you may wish to refresh your memory of rule #1. Either that, or it might be advisable to calm down and not get quite so worked up about a comic strip that you start insulting people.
Traditionally, we have a very nice environment here (unlike the rest of the Internet), and it's a shame to start losing that.
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Post by TBeholder on May 31, 2013 18:10:36 GMT
Sure, here's a cute cephalopod being happy. But no-o-o, any hint that this may be good other than as an overstretched allusion on what happens to someone else entirely is the best cause for publical whining in the best encyclopedia cosplayers wikipedia editors' style. Oh, well.  |
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Post by hargharg on May 31, 2013 19:38:49 GMT
Telling you he can't stop! : D
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Post by snipertom on May 31, 2013 20:16:58 GMT
as long as it doesn't end up on encyclopaedia dramatica :-|
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Post by legion on May 31, 2013 20:18:51 GMT
I don't usually read TBeholder's posts (but when I do, I drink Ice Tea™), not so much because he's often an ass than because half of his sentences seem to be devoid on any discernable meaning.
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Post by mcbibble on May 31, 2013 20:34:58 GMT
Sure, here's a cute cephalopod being happy. But no-o-o, any hint that this may be good other than as an overstretched allusion on what happens to someone else entirely is the best cause for publical whining in the best encyclopedia cosplayers wikipedia editors' style. Oh, well. The problem isn't your opinion, it really is everything about how you put it. |
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Post by TBeholder on May 31, 2013 20:51:33 GMT
So, can anyone place this guy into taxonomy?
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 1, 2013 1:38:20 GMT
half of his sentences seem to be devoid on any discernable meaning. I have a suspicion that if you took a high enough dose of mescaline, TBeholder's words would not only make sense, they would reveal the future. He's a wizard, I'm telling you. It's for our own sanity that he obfuscates his meaning. If the truth were revealed to us all at once, our heads would probably explode. So, can anyone place this guy into taxonomy? Looks like a Giant Pacific Octopus to me. |
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 1, 2013 14:46:22 GMT
I have a suspicion that if you took a high enough dose of mescaline, TBeholder's words would not only make sense, they would reveal the future. He's a wizard, I'm telling you. It's for our own sanity that he obfuscates his meaning. If the truth were revealed to us all at once, our heads would probably explode. Why not to tap the great Source Of Weirdness directly instead? When you stare into Tom's plots, the plots stare back at you. *shudder* ? The coloration matches, and these are fun in general. Though they tend to look more... scruffy? Then again, who knows how life on fresh air affected the little guy. |
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