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Post by SilverbackRon on Mar 20, 2014 0:41:47 GMT
On an unrelated note, I have a slight problem; I am unable to leave comments on the comics themselves. Does anyone know how to solve this little issue? I think you can. Tom just has to approve them. Earlier there were zero comments, now there are 197. It takes our good Master of the Fine Arts time to sift through them and approve them all and (presumably) reject a few that are just spam/trash/flamebait/trollbait. Perhaps your comment has now appeared in the mix. Nothing new seems to have changed. |
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Post by SilverbackRon on Mar 20, 2014 0:58:51 GMT
That does explain a bit, but that is rather large amount of damage from a 50 kilo bomb even with the fascade wall collapsing. Yup. But, you know that WH40k corollary about weapons not scaled for the intended target? "One lasgun doesn't do diddley. But a platoon of lasguns, that's a whole lot of diddley." So, a whole bay of these... Which is also half of the reason why most of those bombs were of visibly ultra-cheapskate production (except fuz... fus... detonator assembly), of course. Yep, that is my thinking exactly. Bomber raids (Axis or Allied) seldom drop just one bomb. A whole mess of them came down in the area, we just saw the one that landed closest to them. Several more may have hit the building & surrounding structures and the shock waves brought down the facade of the building into the street. Mort's death was more due to crushing than blast damage I would imagine. We only see the helmet, his body is buried under the debris. (sorry, doublepost. I still can't figure out how to quote more than one person per post...) |
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Post by Covalent on Mar 20, 2014 1:37:57 GMT
At least his spirit is still alive. I would also probably want to be alive like that after death... I can't really grasp the idea of non-existence.
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Post by legion on Mar 20, 2014 5:33:20 GMT
Technically; mort is French... Technichally Mort is latin, not french, and the word Mort is found in english words associated with death (mortuary, mortician) Latin is "mors" (genitive "mortis"), which yields French "mort" (from the accusative "mortem"), which means both "death" and "dead". But we've established Mort is actually short for Mortimer, which ultimately means "dead pond", apparently. |
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 20, 2014 5:42:18 GMT
But we've established Mort is actually short for Mortimer, which ultimately means "dead pond", apparently. And as I'm sure we all know, the only water in the forest is the river. |
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Post by Freedomfiend on Mar 20, 2014 5:44:00 GMT
On an unrelated note, I have a slight problem; I am unable to leave comments on the comics themselves. Does anyone know how to solve this little issue? I think you can. Tom just has to approve them. Earlier there were zero comments, now there are 197. It takes our good Master of the Fine Arts time to sift through them and approve them all and (presumably) reject a few that are just spam/trash/flamebait/trollbait. Perhaps your comment has now appeared in the mix. Nothing new seems to have changed. Nope. Still hasn't worked. I've been trying for the past couple of months, but nothing seems to work. Yup. But, you know that WH40k corollary about weapons not scaled for the intended target? "One lasgun doesn't do diddley. But a platoon of lasguns, that's a whole lot of diddley." So, a whole bay of these... Which is also half of the reason why most of those bombs were of visibly ultra-cheapskate production (except fuz... fus... detonator assembly), of course. Yep, that is my thinking exactly. Bomber raids (Axis or Allied) seldom drop just one bomb. A whole mess of them came down in the area, we just saw the one that landed closest to them. Several more may have hit the building & surrounding structures and the shock waves brought down the facade of the building into the street. Mort's death was more due to crushing than blast damage I would imagine. We only see the helmet, his body is buried under the debris. (sorry, doublepost. I still can't figure out how to quote more than one person per post...) Before you hit reply, click on the gear next to the reply button, and choose the option "select post." Do this with everyone you want to reply to, then press "reply" on any one of them. They will all appear in your post. |
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Post by chaosvii on Mar 20, 2014 7:04:46 GMT
(sorry, doublepost. I still can't figure out how to quote more than one person per post...) Before you hit reply, click on the gear next to the reply button, and choose the option "select post." Do this with everyone you want to reply to, then press "reply" on any one of them. They will all appear in your post. Oh cool, I had just been copy-pasting the BBCode from multiple tabs this whole time. |
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 20, 2014 11:35:05 GMT
Before you hit reply, click on the gear next to the reply button ...assuming you aren't hit by another bug that leaves only "Quote" and "Liek" buttons. Before you hit reply, click on the gear next to the reply button, and choose the option "select post." Do this with everyone you want to reply to, then press "reply" on any one of them. They will all appear in your post. Oh cool, I had just been copy-pasting the BBCode from multiple tabs this whole time. Why do you need multiple tabs for that, when you have clipboard? "Quote", trim, select, copy, hit "back", "Quote", paste, trim, select, copy... etc. Even faster in Linux (X server binds a separate buffer to the middle button). |
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Post by arf on Mar 20, 2014 13:58:03 GMT
An interesting bit of trivia. Our spectral friend appears to be a being called ' Ankou'. |
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Post by nero on Mar 20, 2014 14:23:42 GMT
Poor Mort, he's going to be freaked out on Friday. But perhaps this is what inspires him to scare people as a ghost and make them appreciate life more.
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 20, 2014 14:28:59 GMT
Every time I see the title of this thread:
"Miss, were you hurt? When you fell from heaven, were you hurt?"
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 20, 2014 14:47:38 GMT
Every time I see the title of this thread: "Miss, were you hurt? When you fell from heaven, were you hurt?" Jim/Jones: still a better love story than Twilight. |
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Post by eyemyself on Mar 20, 2014 15:28:07 GMT
But we've established Mort is actually short for Mortimer, which ultimately means "dead pond", apparently. And as I'm sure we all know, the only water in the forest is the river. Would that be "River Expired" then? Or perhaps "River Perished"? Before you hit reply, click on the gear next to the reply button, and choose the option "select post." Do this with everyone you want to reply to, then press "reply" on any one of them. They will all appear in your post. Oh cool, I had just been copy-pasting the BBCode from multiple tabs this whole time. Me too! This is a revelation! My life is now complete. |
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 20, 2014 16:35:19 GMT
And as I'm sure we all know, the only water in the forest is the river. Would that be "River Expired" then? Or perhaps "River Perished"? Styx. |
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Post by eyemyself on Mar 20, 2014 16:51:43 GMT
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Post by Señor Goose on Mar 20, 2014 19:06:29 GMT
Would that be "River Expired" then? Or perhaps "River Perished"? Styx. Nuu please |
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 20, 2014 20:05:30 GMT
Nuu to River Song, with which I can understand, empathize, and agree? Or nuu to Styx, with which I most certainly can not? |
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Post by Intelligence on Mar 21, 2014 1:55:14 GMT
At least his spirit is still alive. I would also probably want to be alive like that after death... I can't really grasp the idea of non-existence. Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place?  |
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Post by Per on Mar 21, 2014 2:04:48 GMT
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Post by chaosvii on Mar 21, 2014 2:54:08 GMT
Oh cool, I had just been copy-pasting the BBCode from multiple tabs this whole time. Why do you need multiple tabs for that, when you have clipboard? is too strong a term for Found a method that worked, and lacked the ambition to innovate further. |
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Post by descoladavirus on Mar 21, 2014 5:43:41 GMT
Jones can hear Mort and Ankou just fine. They can't hear her. (In Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse, the first book of the Incarnations of Immortality series, ghosts can't see or hear the living unless they have a date with Death. So they are saddened simply by having a conversation with an attractive highly-intelligent young woman. If I remember correctly, on that occasion she and Death go to dinner and a movie. ) Thing is though, would a psychopomp consider Jones to be living? If she can't die, was never truly "born" the psychopomps may see her as something they can bend the rules in regards to, since she bends them by existing. I think this will come down to whether the Psychopomp wants Jones to see him. At least his spirit is still alive. I would also probably want to be alive like that after death... I can't really grasp the idea of non-existence. Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place? Does it have to have one? |
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Post by Lightice on Mar 21, 2014 9:13:53 GMT
Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place? That question does not compute. What is the point of existence, but itself and why it being finite would negate this? Life is finite, experiences are finite, but that doesn't mean that they cease to have an effect in greater causality. Why would something gain more meaning by the simple virtue of being infinite, anyway. Paraphrasing Lord Dunsany: "Were the ten million years before thy birth so intolerable to thee, why would the next ten million after thy death be any different?" |
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Post by warrl on Mar 21, 2014 16:36:45 GMT
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Post by Dvandaemon on Mar 21, 2014 16:50:54 GMT
At least his spirit is still alive. I would also probably want to be alive like that after death... I can't really grasp the idea of non-existence. Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place? If you can't say no then the yes is meaningless. |
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Post by chaosvii on Mar 21, 2014 18:02:05 GMT
At least his spirit is still alive. I would also probably want to be alive like that after death... I can't really grasp the idea of non-existence. Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place? I've often considered this to be an odd way of thinking. A period of non-existence does not negate the effects caused during existence. This goes for inanimate tools as well as living creatures. I do not ponder the pointlessness of the many plants & animals that no longer exist yet currently serve to power my many conveniences, my biochemical pathways, aided my ancestors to survive or farm or whatever. I do not do this because their lives and their deaths and that time long after all did something, all had an impact on me such that I cannot deny that their current non-existence indicates a pointlessness to their temporary existence. My evaluation of them changes nothing about what they achieved and what utility still exists long after the matter ceases to avoid the chemical equilibrium of death. We all thrive on the corpses of creatures long gone, we all stand on the collective shoulders of men and women long dead, we are all ham-stringed by the crimes of our fore-bearers and we have yet to iron out all the political problems caused by callous people whose inequity lives on in their misinformed children and laws seeking to re-calibrate the scales that were so very unbalanced for decades. What you do during your existence will contribute to the whole of humanity, for good or for ill. If you happen to have an afterlife too, bonus I suppose. |
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Post by Lightice on Mar 21, 2014 18:03:08 GMT
I'm starting to get really pissed at my smartphone and its inability to deal with the English language... |
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Post by warrl on Mar 21, 2014 19:02:09 GMT
I'm starting to get really pissed at my smartphone and its inability to deal with the English language... Judging from my second link, it apparently doesn't reliably handle German all that well either. Although I can't actually read the page. (Was I correct in discerning a German flavor to its errors?) And we already knew about its problems with English - see the first link. |
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Post by Intelligence on Mar 21, 2014 20:03:58 GMT
Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place? I've often considered this to be an odd way of thinking. A period of non-existence does not negate the effects caused during existence. This goes for inanimate tools as well as living creatures. I do not ponder the pointlessness of the many plants & animals that no longer exist yet currently serve to power my many conveniences, my biochemical pathways, aided my ancestors to survive or farm or whatever. I do not do this because their lives and their deaths and that time long after all did something, all had an impact on me such that I cannot deny that their current non-existence indicates a pointlessness to their temporary existence. My evaluation of them changes nothing about what they achieved and what utility still exists long after the matter ceases to avoid the chemical equilibrium of death. We all thrive on the corpses of creatures long gone, we all stand on the collective shoulders of men and women long dead, we are all ham-stringed by the crimes of our fore-bearers and we have yet to iron out all the political problems caused by callous people whose inequity lives on in their misinformed children and laws seeking to re-calibrate the scales that were so very unbalanced for decades. What you do during your existence will contribute to the whole of humanity, for good or for ill. If you happen to have an afterlife too, bonus I suppose. I mean it's pointless for the individual. |
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Post by keef on Mar 21, 2014 20:28:07 GMT
I mean it's pointless for the individual.  That's it, enjoy. |
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 21, 2014 20:38:26 GMT
Indeed. I mean, if dying means non-existence, then what was the POINT of existing in the first place? If you can't find a point, then make your own. |
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