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Post by Max on Feb 12, 2014 8:04:06 GMT
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Post by spritznar on Feb 12, 2014 8:04:53 GMT
yeah, kat's version of tRotD seems way more user friendly...
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Post by sapientcoffee on Feb 12, 2014 8:05:27 GMT
But....but MAGICAL MYSTICAL MEMORY MACHINE!
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Post by Gotolei on Feb 12, 2014 8:06:50 GMT
They even break out the work gloves for moving an old CRT  I mean um, mystic displayer of recordings..arcane? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Feb 12, 2014 8:07:45 GMT
ROTD is hip with the latest vacuum tube/progressive scan technology that all the kids are using.
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Post by Lightice on Feb 12, 2014 8:08:11 GMT
Isn't Kat a bit too young to remember VHS-tapes, at least to the point of considering them boringly commonplace, by the way? Just a thought I suddenly had, anyway.
And I really wonder what kind of spell she appears to be conjuring from Annie and Mort's perspective...
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Post by yarksie on Feb 12, 2014 8:11:15 GMT
Mort is so amazed
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Post by smjjames on Feb 12, 2014 8:12:37 GMT
I can see how time codes for a VHS tape would seem like a strange language if Annie is not familiar with what they are. Mort though, no idea if he is actually seeing the TV or not and despite VHS being outdated in today's terms, he was definetly born before TVs were invented I guess. I'm sure he has seem novices though, even if they were still silent.
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Post by spritznar on Feb 12, 2014 8:19:21 GMT
Isn't Kat a bit too young to remember VHS-tapes, at least to the point of considering them boringly commonplace, by the way? Just a thought I suddenly had, anyway. And I really wonder what kind of spell she appears to be conjuring from Annie and Mort's perspective... i dunno, maybe kat's family (and the court in general) is too high tech, but i think you're underestimating how many people still have working VCRs. just because they stopped making them doesn't mean all the vhs tapes people already had disappeared. alternatively, maybe i just live in a backwater where everyone's a decade behind on everything |
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Post by philman on Feb 12, 2014 8:20:35 GMT
I can see how time codes for a VHS tape would seem like a strange language if Annie is not familiar with what they are. Mort though, no idea if he is actually seeing the TV or not and despite VHS being outdated in today's terms, he was definetly born before TVs were invented I guess. I'm sure he has seem novices though, even if they were still silent. We don't know when he was born/died, all we've been told is that he is a new ghost. People have speculated he was killed in WW1 due to the quote on the wall next to his room from a famous poem around that time, but the poem took the quote from an old roman saying, so it doesn't necessarily relate him to the war. Kat's familiarity with all this stuff is making me laugh though, exposition next page though hopefully! Not sure about what though... |
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Post by smjjames on Feb 12, 2014 8:26:51 GMT
I notice that the second hand is either a surgical glove or a gardening glove, and from the arm, I guess belongs to a woman.
Also, IMO, a DVD would be a better representation of memory than VHS.
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Post by arf on Feb 12, 2014 8:28:13 GMT
Beat me. "The magical mystery mem'ry machine is waiting to take you away. Waiting to take you away. Roll up..." |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Feb 12, 2014 8:29:47 GMT
Okay I think I get it now. The RotD is visualized using your mind's personal rationality. But it's also a ton of smoke and mirrors covering what are effectively very simple principles at work. So Kat's visualization - since she's a very logical, machine-minded person - cuts straight through all the guff and makes everything very obvious, because on some level it is very obvious. It's not just that she's seeing something different, it's that she's seeing something different in the most effective way possible.
Kind of like how, under certain conditions, being color blind is an advantage.
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Post by fish on Feb 12, 2014 8:32:49 GMT
Now if Annie and Mort are seeing different things than Kat, to the point that a tiny room seems to contain thousands of books, I wonder, do they also see Kat's actions here differently? Like, performing a mystic incantation in front of a magical mirror or water surface that will change to show the memories?
Watching Mort freak out is so funny, I really hope we'll get a glimpse of what the other version of rotd looks like.
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Post by smjjames on Feb 12, 2014 8:38:08 GMT
Now if Annie and Mort are seeing different things than Kat, to the point that a tiny room seems to contain thousands of books, I wonder, do they also see Kat's actions here differently? Like, performing a mystic incantation in front of a magical mirror or water surface that will change to show the moemories? Watching Mort freak out is so funny, I really hope we'll get a glimpse of what the other version of rotd looks like. Maybe the VHS looks like a crystal or something that she plugged into some sort of interface to Mort and she is pushing runes on a remote control shaped something that totally-isn't-a-remote-control |
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Post by noone3 on Feb 12, 2014 8:47:38 GMT
yeah, kat's version of tRotD seems way more user friendly... It might seem so... until someone tries to set the time on VCR's clock. |
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Post by spritznar on Feb 12, 2014 8:49:21 GMT
yeah, kat's version of tRotD seems way more user friendly... I might seem so... until someone tries to set the time on VCR's clock. we'll let annie and mort take care of that part with the mystical whoodoo |
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Post by sidhekin on Feb 12, 2014 8:54:20 GMT
Now if Annie and Mort are seeing different things than Kat, to the point that a tiny room seems to contain thousands of books, I wonder, do they also see Kat's actions here differently? Like, performing a mystic incantation in front of a magical mirror or water surface that will change to show the moemories? Watching Mort freak out is so funny, I really hope we'll get a glimpse of what the other version of rotd looks like. Maybe the VHS looks like a crystal or something that she plugged into some sort of interface to Mort and she is pushing runes on a remote control shaped something that totally-isn't-a-remote-control Clearly she's waving a wand before a crystal ball under which she has put the scroll with the memory record. |
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Post by smjjames on Feb 12, 2014 8:56:56 GMT
Maybe the VHS looks like a crystal or something that she plugged into some sort of interface to Mort and she is pushing runes on a remote control shaped something that totally-isn't-a-remote-control Clearly she's waving a wand before a crystal ball under which she has put the scroll with the memory record. Crystal ball with holographic projector. |
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Post by keef on Feb 12, 2014 9:05:58 GMT
There goes my theory the ROTD is a one-man-show.
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Post by fish on Feb 12, 2014 9:06:04 GMT
Maybe the VHS looks like a crystal or something that she plugged into some sort of interface to Mort and she is pushing runes on a remote control shaped something that totally-isn't-a-remote-control Clearly she's waving a wand before a crystal ball under which she has put the scroll with the memory record. Or she is throwing bones and many-coloured sands from the vault of memory into a fiery pit while reading from the book in a strange language to summon and divine the memories in the flames! |
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Post by Purgatorius on Feb 12, 2014 10:22:45 GMT
I'm getting more and more curious about what Mort and Annie are seeing.
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Post by ed1300 on Feb 12, 2014 10:41:58 GMT
Isn't Kat a bit too young to remember VHS-tapes, at least to the point of considering them boringly commonplace, by the way? Just a thought I suddenly had, anyway. And I really wonder what kind of spell she appears to be conjuring from Annie and Mort's perspective... i dunno, maybe kat's family (and the court in general) is too high tech, but i think you're underestimating how many people still have working VCRs. just because they stopped making them doesn't mean all the vhs tapes people already had disappeared. alternatively, maybe i just live in a backwater where everyone's a decade behind on everything You'll be surprised, the uni I work for still maintains VHS players for most of the lecture theatres, then again there are still OHT's floating around due to some stubborn old professors not wanting to use document cameras. |
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Post by csj on Feb 12, 2014 10:49:39 GMT
Surely it's obvious by now that this is some sort of ability on Kat's part enabling her to perceive magical things in a technological form. Occam's Razor at the very least suggests this is the case.
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Post by Angry Individual on Feb 12, 2014 11:06:54 GMT
Kat is so savvy.
I'm sure after this Mort and Annie will be looking at Kat as a whole new person.
Kat, herself, will be questioning the sanity of ghosts.
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Post by thomassauce on Feb 12, 2014 11:08:30 GMT
Perhaps, and just perhaps,
Kat is more of an afterlife guide than any Mort (who's a ghost) and Annie (who's, uhm, okay I don't know where I got this idea, I just really like Kat the God Theory okay)
Maybe it comes with being an angel to the robots, making that golem come back to life and all
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Post by zimmyzims on Feb 12, 2014 11:27:30 GMT
Isn't Kat a bit too young to remember VHS-tapes, at least to the point of considering them boringly commonplace, by the way? Just a thought I suddenly had, anyway. And I really wonder what kind of spell she appears to be conjuring from Annie and Mort's perspective... Not necessarily. Depends on her parents, whether they have kept their VHS or not. I know many who have, and get all the children's movies practically for free on VHS, so the kids around watch enough of VHS-tapes to consider them boringly commonplace. I think it's plausible that Kat watched a lot of cartoons on VHS as a small kid and remembers them from that. Disclaimer: I'm not from a technically backwards country. By the way, at some point there must be an explanation to all this. Why is it all so boringly cheap to Kat, and why not to others? What do they see (aside from thousands of books)? Why does it matter that they see the ROTD differently? I mean, is this just for laughs? If not, then why? Edit: You'll be surprised, the uni I work for still maintains VHS players for most of the lecture theatres, then again there are still OHT's floating around due to some stubborn old professors not wanting to use document cameras. Yes, I think the ground schools too may be likely to keep some of the VHS-tapes and show them at some occasions in teaching purpose, to the disproportionate bemusement of kids. |
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Post by csj on Feb 12, 2014 12:24:17 GMT
VHS - until the advent of things like home theatre PCs and affordable DVD burners, was THE way of home recording tv shows. Even now, there are people that use VHS for this reason, in addition to its low cost.
Cassettes (both video and audio) were once the biggest bugbear of copyright lobbyists due to how damn easy it is to record stuff on tapes and share them around. It was even used for computer storage once (and is still used in some digital archive systems, amazingly enough).
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Post by ctso74 on Feb 12, 2014 15:04:18 GMT
I think the ground schools too may be likely to keep some of the VHS-tapes and show them at some occasions in teaching purpose, to the disproportionate bemusement of kids. I don't know about in The Court, but a lot libraries still have a large VHS collection free to watch. FYI, if you have a library card, their DVD and VHS collection is free to rent, as well. I laughed out load at Mort. I kind of hope we never know what they're seeing, now. My only question is, will Kat be kind and rewind? The ROTD is watching! |
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Post by aaroncampbell on Feb 12, 2014 15:33:51 GMT
I'm getting more and more curious about what Mort and Annie are seeing. For most of the chapter now, I've been wondering: will Tom let us see what Mort and Annie are seeing as the bonus comic at the end of the chapter? Or will he make a special publication like Annie in the Forest? (If he does make a special publication, I do hope it's in colour this time!) |
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