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Post by quinkgirl on Nov 7, 2013 2:07:33 GMT
actually the foam is part of GK's anti-molestation defense system ...what foam? |
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Post by melkior on Nov 7, 2013 2:14:27 GMT
I imagine that during the interval between the "Flick" and the coughing and choking, you could hear the dulcet tones of "Yackity Sax" playing. ;-)
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 7, 2013 2:15:30 GMT
Catch your true love in zero-point energy trap and never let her go!  LAUGHING ON LINE  ...there is that cheesy quote that you're always hearing that completely contradicts that, though. Better to have loved than lost? I don't think that's contradictory. It would obviously be preferable to hang on to your significant other(s), but if they have to go out of your life, so be it. Oh, GK Sierra, I didn't see you there... Don't let the sudden rush of money, women and prestige change you.  |
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Post by Señor Goose on Nov 7, 2013 2:45:02 GMT
Oh, GK Sierra, I didn't see you there... Don't let the sudden rush of money, women and prestige change you. I meant to imply that my 260 posts pales to your nearly 2k posts. Like I'm celebrating and suddenly I remember you. |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 7, 2013 2:53:15 GMT
Don't let the sudden rush of money, women and prestige change you. I meant to imply that my 260 posts pales to your nearly 2k posts. Like I'm celebrating and suddenly I remember you. ..And then all parties involved notice Tom's post count  (whatever the max for an unsigned three-byte number is, 16-million-something) Though I'm guessing that's just set to -1 anyway. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 7, 2013 2:55:17 GMT
I meant to imply that my 260 posts pales to your nearly 2k posts. Like I'm celebrating and suddenly I remember you. ..And then all parties involved notice Tom's post count (whatever the max for an unsigned three-byte number is, 16-million-something) Though I'm guessing that's just set to -1 anyway. Once you get that many posts I think you can begin to warp space and time itself. |
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Post by takesailorhunt on Nov 7, 2013 3:19:49 GMT
Next page: dry heave-y makeouts. Surely. Ewwww, Gross! This was part of Kat's plan. A love test, so to speak. "If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. If you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be." ~ Wayne's World |
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Post by Señor Goose on Nov 7, 2013 3:31:39 GMT
There in no way Tom has over sixteen million posts. How? Does that even- How-
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Post by Señor Goose on Nov 7, 2013 3:34:28 GMT
It has to be some kind of bot. His account's 2480 days old, and there's 16,777,000 posts. That means that he's made 6,765 posts per day for the last 6.75 years.
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 7, 2013 3:43:31 GMT
There in no way Tom has over sixteen million posts. How? Does that even- How- I think that as administrator, he can set his post number to whatever he wants, within the range of numbers Proboards feels like handling. |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 7, 2013 3:53:07 GMT
There in no way Tom has over sixteen million posts. How? Does that even- How- I think that as administrator, he can set his post number to whatever he wants, within the range of numbers Proboards feels like handling. This. I'm guessing if the number is set to -1 or something like that, so it'll wrap to the data-equivalent number (low-level things work like this anyway, for an unsigned one-byte number 0 is stored the same way as 256 because 255+1=0 when working with such limits). I think the usual limit for forums is three bytes, 2^24, 16777216. Or it's just set to the max, that works too |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 7, 2013 4:05:02 GMT
I think that as administrator, he can set his post number to whatever he wants, within the range of numbers Proboards feels like handling. This. I'm guessing if the number is set to -1 or something like that, so it'll wrap to the data-equivalent number (low-level things work like this anyway, for an unsigned one-byte number 0 is stored the same way as 256 because 255+1=0 when working with such limits). I think the usual limit for forums is three bytes, 2^24, 16777216. Or it's just set to the max, that works too True, that would work as well. I had assumed the number of posts would be signed, but why would that make any sense? (facepalm) |
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Post by quinkgirl on Nov 7, 2013 4:23:39 GMT
There in no way Tom has over sixteen million posts. How? Does that even- How- I think that as administrator, he can set his post number to whatever he wants, within the range of numbers Proboards feels like handling. 6 million?! I haven't even seen many of his posts! Only the rules of play! |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 7, 2013 5:18:26 GMT
I think that as administrator, he can set his post number to whatever he wants, within the range of numbers Proboards feels like handling. 6 million?! I haven't even seen many of his posts! Only the rules of play! He hasn't posted anything in months, since before I registered or even started lurking. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Nov 7, 2013 7:08:09 GMT
You know, I wonder if the reason they needed Annie was because of the danger of fire. Can Annie control any fire? Or just fire of her own making? Annie can only control her own fire, as it is made with the help of her blinker stone. This has been discussed here before and that discussion at least did not end up agreeing on what you now state with a way too much self-assurance. It certainly does not seem like she needs the blinker stone to create fire, as it has not been visibly involved in her recent manoeuvres, and I recall this has been also verbally suggested at few points (i.e. that she only needed the help of blinker stone in the beginning, when she was just learning about her aetheric abilities), but can't search for the pages now. And why would she need it, really, as she is a half fire elemental. It is also not at all clear that she could not control fires other than what she creates, and at minimum your reasoning to why she would not be is faltering in absence of evidence on her strict reliance to the blinker stone. In addition, Ys' comment seems to treat it rather as an ability to control fire in general rather than just a one related to her own creation. But that is up to interpretation. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 7, 2013 8:30:50 GMT
It was mentioned that Surma and other ethericly inclined individuals eventually grew out of using their blinker stones.
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Post by Toloc on Nov 7, 2013 8:59:14 GMT
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Post by kralex on Nov 7, 2013 9:19:38 GMT
The Axe effect?
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Post by zimmyzims on Nov 7, 2013 12:56:20 GMT
ummm..... fragrance or firing? |
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Post by crater on Nov 7, 2013 13:20:08 GMT
actually the foam is part of GK's anti-molestation defense system ...what foam? I mean in the fifth panel, whatever that blue stuff is surrounding the black haired dude and that science chick carrying a huge burnt hotdog |
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Post by exdevlin on Nov 7, 2013 14:45:17 GMT
The title of this thread made me continue the song in my head: "... We can make it if we tryyyyy, just the two of us!"
I think if this page had a soundtrack, it'd be slow Barry White+sax in the background, and then that record scratching sound right after *click*.
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Post by quinkgirl on Nov 7, 2013 15:40:39 GMT
I mean in the fifth panel, whatever that blue stuff is surrounding the black haired dude and that science chick carrying a huge burnt hotdog I see ...that must be kind of a bother to accidentally set off. |
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Post by thedoctor on Nov 7, 2013 15:49:37 GMT
I mean in the fifth panel, whatever that blue stuff is surrounding the black haired dude and that science chick carrying a huge burnt hotdog Ahh, that's what it is; a giant hotdog! Also, foam generally doesn't...float... |
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Post by quinkgirl on Nov 7, 2013 15:54:46 GMT
I mean in the fifth panel, whatever that blue stuff is surrounding the black haired dude and that science chick carrying a huge burnt hotdog Ahh, that's what it is; a giant hotdog! Also, foam generally doesn't...float... Well foam can be light, so maybe it's in midair and descending? |
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 7, 2013 16:44:56 GMT
Annie can only control her own fire, as it is made with the help of her blinker stone. This has been discussed here before and that discussion at least did not end up agreeing on what you now state with a way too much self-assurance. It certainly does not seem like she needs the blinker stone to create fire, as it has not been visibly involved in her recent manoeuvres, and I recall this has been also verbally suggested at few points (i.e. that she only needed the help of blinker stone in the beginning, when she was just learning about her aetheric abilities), but can't search for the pages now. And why would she need it, really, as she is a half fire elemental. It is also not at all clear that she could not control fires other than what she creates, and at minimum your reasoning to why she would not be is faltering in absence of evidence on her strict reliance to the blinker stone. In addition, Ys' comment seems to treat it rather as an ability to control fire in general rather than just a one related to her own creation. But that is up to interpretation. True Ysengrin's statement about another elemental being a problem does open the door to the possibility that annie could control "foreign" fires, however, we have only so far seen Annie create fire and control the fire she has created. usually she has used the blinker stone. however she has once created fire without the stone. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=807because she is still unskilled without the stone, and because she made that fire with her anger and sadness, it raged out of control very quickly for elemental fire. so until I see otherwise in the comic I am standing by my statement Annie is untrained and for now is only able to control her own fire. Though perhaps we'll see her grow into a wonderful fire-bender. |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 7, 2013 17:10:38 GMT
I hope she's putting in effort to grow out of the blinker stone. Going by the quick training wheels analogy, and looking at bikes in real life, she could probably be a lot more powerful and effective without it. Also the forum when we see if/who she eventually gives it to~ |
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 7, 2013 17:39:23 GMT
I hope she's putting in effort to grow out of the blinker stone. Going by the quick training wheels analogy, and looking at bikes in real life, she could probably be a lot more powerful and effective without it. Also the forum when we see if/who she eventually gives it to~ Anja still has her blinker stone. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=509Annie will be keeping hers. A foci is completely different than a training wheel. While a Training wheel is a stabilizing out-rig it gets in the way of a trained person using the bike because it limits tilt. but a trained rider uses tilt to turn more efficiently. A foci is different. a foci helps a user focus their Aura or spirit to better channel magic, Arcane, or auric abilities. Without the large amount of concentration that would be required without the foci. It's more like a pair of glasses that improves your vision the longer you wear them. yes your eyes would evolve to the point where you no longer need to wear the glasses. but you would still always have the option of wearing the glasses to reduce eye strain. This might be why we never see Anja's eyes. Perhaps Anja has trained to the point were she out of habit is permanently using her third eye to see the world around her, instead of using her two natural eyes. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Nov 7, 2013 18:08:10 GMT
This has been discussed here before and that discussion at least did not end up agreeing on what you now state with a way too much self-assurance. It certainly does not seem like she needs the blinker stone to create fire, as it has not been visibly involved in her recent manoeuvres, and I recall this has been also verbally suggested at few points (i.e. that she only needed the help of blinker stone in the beginning, when she was just learning about her aetheric abilities), but can't search for the pages now. And why would she need it, really, as she is a half fire elemental. It is also not at all clear that she could not control fires other than what she creates, and at minimum your reasoning to why she would not be is faltering in absence of evidence on her strict reliance to the blinker stone. In addition, Ys' comment seems to treat it rather as an ability to control fire in general rather than just a one related to her own creation. But that is up to interpretation. True Ysengrin's statement about another elemental being a problem does open the door to the possibility that annie could control "foreign" fires, however, we have only so far seen Annie create fire and control the fire she has created. usually she has used the blinker stone. however she has once created fire without the stone. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=807because she is still unskilled without the stone, and because she made that fire with her anger and sadness, it raged out of control very quickly for elemental fire. so until I see otherwise in the comic I am standing by my statement Annie is untrained and for now is only able to control her own fire. Though perhaps we'll see her grow into a wonderful fire-bender. The page you link was ages ago. She was unskilled without the stone back then. After that, you might have noticed that she has grown a lot and become helluvalot more skilled. There is no way you can say that was the only time she created fire without the blinker stone, as there is exactly no evidence at all on her using blinker stone, for example, in the last chapter. The point here is that you are backing a positive statement, namely 1. she can only control fire she has created and 2. she can only create fire with blinker stone, merely on lack of absolutely decisive evidence for the opposite. But that kind of statement cannot be held on those premises. You are asserting as certain a positive statement that lacks basically any proof whatsoever. Best you could say is that "in lack of decisive evidence her ability to control "foreign" fires remains to be seen". Meanwhile, it has already been proven that 1. she can create fires without the blinker stone and 2. she is expected to be able to do that at some point, and has been expected for some while. The " barely need it anymore" was over 300 pages ago. Indeed, the blinker stone has since then virtually disappeared from the comic, despite her doing things she earlier did with the blinker, such as moving aetherically ("booping" the robots, for example). The evidence for her not needing it anymore easily overwhelms the evidence to the opposite. As long as you have no other evidence than supposing, against the evidence, that she only handles fire by the blinker stone, there is nothing to say she couldn't control a "foreign" fire. After all, as was pointed out before in this thread, she already did that as a very little kid in "Ghost story". So, we should finally put it more like "it seems entirely possible that she could control fires not created by her, but to decide whether she actually can, asks for further evidence". And again, in lack of decisive evidence, we cannot say anything affirmatively about this. In which case, your unhesitating assertions about her lack of ability are uninformative at best. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Nov 7, 2013 18:09:36 GMT
I hope she's putting in effort to grow out of the blinker stone. Going by the quick training wheels analogy, and looking at bikes in real life, she could probably be a lot more powerful and effective without it. Also the forum when we see if/who she eventually gives it to~ Anja still has her blinker stone. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=509Annie will be keeping hers. Anja also is just a strangely gifted human being, not a half fire elemental. |
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Post by warrl on Nov 7, 2013 18:49:00 GMT
Anja also is just a strangely gifted human being, not a half fire elemental. Also, blinker stones are usually given to a romantic interest (or, I suspect, an offspring or protege) who can actually use them. Based on what we've seen, I kind of doubt that either Donald or Katrina Donlan could use one; so whom would Anja give hers to? Antimony does not yet have such a romantic interest. (The thing with Jack looked, to me, more like curiosity and a possibly-willing experimental partner than like romance.) |
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