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Post by arf on Oct 14, 2017 3:19:57 GMT
"Theirs was a sluggish relationship."
I'll leave now.
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yinglung
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Post by yinglung on Oct 14, 2017 6:40:51 GMT
It occurs to me that the slugs mating might not be such a joke occurrence. We know the court is investigating etheric phenomena, and we also know that somehow, what psychopomps do helps keep the world turning. It is not that far of a stretch to say that the beginning and ending of life are key parts of the principles involving ether. If the court is trying to detect fluctuations in the ether, especially small ones away from the roiling mass of ether of the Gillitie Wood, slug mating could be a small, yet significant event they are looking for in order to calibrate their sensors.
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Post by keef on Oct 14, 2017 8:41:34 GMT
I know Tom said this was actually how it happened and not just how Anja is narrating it I can't find where he said that, or do you mean the comment under the title page "What we do here is go back." Not that I thought it was Anja's narration. |
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Post by puntino on Oct 14, 2017 12:00:07 GMT
In case anyone hasn't seen it: a video of what Surma and Anthony just witnessed: youtu.be/wG9qpZ89qzc(Watch it, it's extremely good) Slug mating is entirely too **there** to be appropriate viewing with a man who isn't one's boyfriend. Poor Jimmy-Jims. Wow, that's incredible. The artificial slimy sounds were annoying as all hell, but the beauty of the process more than made up for it. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 14, 2017 18:46:30 GMT
By The Way: I am figuring that the chapter will end with a forest spirit entering or exiting the designated spot the day after the kids go home to file their report on mating slugs. Yeah, Tony is really jumping to conclusions here: the first sign of "something happening" in the area of study, and he says, "I bet that's it!" (But for some reason the branch falling didn't excite him as much.) I wonder how close we are to the end of the two-week time frame. Which, come to think of it, seems really odd: the Court gives Tony a super-accurate set of coordinates, but a time frame of "a couple of weeks." I guess it's possible that they could accurately know the position but not the time of some event (uncertainty principle something something). I'm not accusing them (yet) of sending Tony on a total wild goose slug chase--"Hey, let's give him a 'top secret' assignment to stare at a tree in Brazil for two weeks! [troll face]" But in short-- jda mentioned Methods of Rationality--"I notice that I am confused."  (shrug) It would make sense if the Court has detected a regularly reoccurring etheric spike from that spot but it could also be a witness report and/or photo and some general research on time-frames for similar events. That they sent kids instead of field operatives is evidence that there's nothing dangerous that they know of (aside from the normal flora and fauna). But going to another country to stare at a tree for hours per day for a number of days is actually a good training mission. Dealing with boredom while paying attention is not easy. If they split before the time window lapses or assume that the slugs are the only observable phenomenon and just quit altogether it's not great fieldwork but the Court might figure that not much has been lost. |
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Post by fia on Oct 15, 2017 16:51:13 GMT
I know Tom said this was actually how it happened and not just how Anja is narrating it I can't find where he said that, or do you mean the comment under the title page "What we do here is go back." Not that I thought it was Anja's narration. I don't have the link, but someone once asked Tom about flashbacks in general, whether they were depicted-as-narrated or depicted-as-actually-happened, and he said it was the latter. That is to say, there is no narrative bias in the flashbacks. |
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Post by fish on Oct 15, 2017 19:46:45 GMT
I can't find where he said that, or do you mean the comment under the title page "What we do here is go back." Not that I thought it was Anja's narration. I don't have the link, but someone once asked Tom about flashbacks in general, whether they were depicted-as-narrated or depicted-as-actually-happened, and he said it was the latter. That is to say, there is no narrative bias in the flashbacks. maybe it was in one of the live streams? those questions are not really documented, unless the stream gets uploaded on youtube. But even without an answer from Tom I thought it was pretty obvious that we are seeing what happened, not what gets told. In the Stone chapter for exaple Jones is not describing random scenes from her past including expositional dialogues and stuff. She's probably just explaining to Annie that she has lived since before humans evolved and takes on different names from time to time. Same scenario here, Anja is probably telling a shorter story. |
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Post by darklao on Oct 16, 2017 4:33:35 GMT
When this all turns out to be a creepy Court Bene Gesserit-style matchmaking/breeding plot, I'm going to come back here and say I was totally right this whole time, and point to this as proof. This whole trip is super skeevy.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 16, 2017 6:46:52 GMT
Look closer on the previous page. The slugs are there. I just looked. Can't stop hearing noises from Flashback: Quest For Identity now. Just realized something. The whole plot to Gunnerkrigg Court isn't so much "what if Harry Potter was a girl" as it is "what if Harry Potter was a girl AND her dad was actually Snape." And also, Mahtrix and Warphammer are original steel donuts. This is actually how my girlfriend fell for me, only we used frogs. Tony's close but it's still an amateur mistake. "Warning: phrases on the screen may be more or less ambiguous than they appear." :] By The Way: I am figuring that the chapter will end with a forest spirit entering or exiting the designated spot the day after the kids go home to file their report on mating slugs. It's set up as a distraction? Hmm. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 16, 2017 7:09:35 GMT
By The Way: I am figuring that the chapter will end with a forest spirit entering or exiting the designated spot the day after the kids go home to file their report on mating slugs. It's set up as a distraction? Hmm. I was thinking it was more of a happenstance but some forest spirits are tricky. |
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Post by keef on Oct 20, 2017 21:16:52 GMT
My, my, Im through my 2nd reading on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (a must read for everyone on science, or HP, or fiction), that basically is "What if HP was a Scientist AND his parents were not awful" Thanks. I haven't quite finished, but absolutely a great read. |
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