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Post by dramastix on May 15, 2019 7:01:07 GMT
There's our chapter icon. Oh my what a cutie. Edit: Kudos to Tom for using the correct word ("interpreter," not "translator"). My translator friends always gets her knickers in a twist about this.
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Post by madjack on May 15, 2019 7:04:17 GMT
Vindicated!
It feels appropriate that the giant talking wall-god gets spoken for, somehow.
Edit: This moment would be amazing in an animated series, with a booming, multilayered voice speaking an unknown language down upon them.
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Post by wlerin on May 15, 2019 7:05:07 GMT
Huh. She does see it.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on May 15, 2019 7:07:03 GMT
I wonder if this is how it ALWAYS happens when a soul gets transferred. Also, I wonder whether Kat is REALLY seeing the same thing, or just, an impressive, but still different display. Maybe she's seeing Matrix-style code scroll by all over the wall? And the little cutie resembles a bald guy with sick facial hair going "You see code, I see blondes, redheads, brunettes,..."
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Post by philman on May 15, 2019 7:28:00 GMT
Welcome to godhood. Please follow your designated cherubim for an orientation tour and remember to leave your mortality by the door.
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Post by Gemini Jim on May 15, 2019 8:00:51 GMT
Mort looks different.
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Post by Gemini Jim on May 15, 2019 8:01:31 GMT
OK, so probably not, but I miss the guy. |
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Post by Futurismo on May 15, 2019 8:13:11 GMT
So, I'm thinking that this is like the reverse of what happened in "See Ya!" Whereas before we say Annie performing the job of a Psychopomp to escort a soul back into the ether, now we're seeing Kat bringing a soul from the ether into a mortal body.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 15, 2019 10:19:27 GMT
Do you trusting the first, one, and only, interpreter who just so happens to be there?
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Post by Zox Tomana on May 15, 2019 11:00:27 GMT
I get reminded of the Robot Coding language by Diego when it comes to what the wall is saying. I wonder if Wall is related to the origin of the Golem Robots, or if the rise of this new kind created Wall. |
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Post by hnau on May 15, 2019 11:02:44 GMT
"Good day to you, young etheric eye witnessinterpreter model." |
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Post by netherdan on May 15, 2019 12:11:32 GMT
Oh, hi Arthur's soul! I get reminded of the Robot Coding language by Diego when it comes to what the wall is saying. I wonder if Wall is related to the origin of the Golem Robots, or if the rise of this new kind created Wall. I found it weird that Kat wasn't understanding it. Maybe on Friday page we'll see her answering the wall thing in the same "language" to everyone's surprise. When looking at everyone's horrified faces Kat will just ask: "what?" Then on Monday's page we get to see that she has turned into Angel Kat while speaking and everyone is just what the helling it |
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Post by pyradonis on May 15, 2019 12:20:44 GMT
I wonder if this is how it ALWAYS happens when a soul gets transferred. Also, I wonder whether Kat is REALLY seeing the same thing, or just, an impressive, but still different display. Maybe she's seeing Matrix-style code scroll by all over the wall? And the little cutie resembles a bald guy with sick facial hair going "You see code, I see blondes, redheads, brunettes,..." No, she sees the little guy as Clippy.  |
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Post by phantaskippy on May 15, 2019 12:41:30 GMT
Some good points in here, it does kind of look like Diego's schematics.
If Kat can see it then it isn't an illusion using the ether. She saw through every one of those. She also saw the Psychopomp, because that wasn't illusion created with ether, it was legit.
This could be something left in the court by diego, a kind of "welcome to the club person who has breached the gap, here's some advice" kind of thing, or it could be something that is attracted to the idea of having a physical body and is there to try and get Kat to help.
Or it could be Loup. I really hope it isn't Loup, and I doubt it is, so far he hasn't been this creative.
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Post by Timberwere on May 15, 2019 12:48:33 GMT
Edit: Kudos to Tom for using the correct word ("interpreter," not "translator"). My translator friends always gets her knickers in a twist about this. Indeed. I am a conference interpreter by profession myself, and I hate it if people ask whether what I do is "that simultaneous translation thing". No, dang it, simultaneous translation would be translating to different texts on two different sheets of paper at the same time, one with a pen in my right and one in my left hand. It's simultaneous interpreting.  But I digress.
Anyway, I love the sense of perspective on this page. The huge whatever-it-is contrasted by the tiny ... ghostlet? I can even hear his/her/its tiny voice compared to the loud booming voice the god-or-demon-or-whatever has in my mind.
Edit: Welcome to godhood. Please follow your designated cherubim for an orientation tour and remember to leave your mortality by the door.
[nitpick mode]
It's "cherub". "Cherubim" would be the plural. [/nitpick mode]
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Post by Nnelg on May 15, 2019 13:16:26 GMT
Okay, so then this guy is the Etheric Clippy, then?
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Post by saardvark on May 15, 2019 13:16:40 GMT
I wonder if this is how it ALWAYS happens when a soul gets transferred. Also, I wonder whether Kat is REALLY seeing the same thing, or just, an impressive, but still different display. Maybe she's seeing Matrix-style code scroll by all over the wall? And the little cutie resembles a bald guy with sick facial hair going "You see code, I see blondes, redheads, brunettes,..." ... or it always happens when a soul is created. Or as Futurismo suggested, when a soul is withdrawn/resurrected out of the ether back into a physical plane being. At any rate, the wall-thing emerging is likely due to the etheric tremor that Kat's procedure caused. Makes sense that it could be a "prerecorded golem message" from Diego congratulating/advising the inventor, as phantaskippy suggests, since it comes out of the same wall that holds the Jeanne shrine, also left behind by Diego. Or it could be the Pomps or some other high order etheric god/entity being a bit annoyed that someone is making unauthorized soul withdrawals from the ether bank.... |
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Post by DonDueed on May 15, 2019 14:08:07 GMT
If it's a message from Diego, why the arcane god-language? He spoke English in every flashback we've seen. If we go by his name's ethnicity it might have been Spanish, but that doesn't look like any Latinesque alphabet to me... 
Jelly Jellybean: I don't see that they have much choice but to trust Clippy, unless someone else in the room speaks fluent Etheric.
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Post by ctso74 on May 15, 2019 14:15:50 GMT
"Psychopomp" etymologically means "soul conductor", so I'm guessing GC psychopomps may also bring souls in.
Now, I'm wondering about an antonym to psychopomp.
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Post by DonDueed on May 15, 2019 14:16:11 GMT
Hmm... it is popping up right beside Arthur's pod. Condensed from the smoke/steam that poofed out of it, perhaps? |
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Post by saardvark on May 15, 2019 14:28:07 GMT
If it's a message from Diego, why the arcane god-language? He spoke English in every flashback we've seen. If we go by his name's ethnicity it might have been Spanish, but that doesn't look like any Latinesque alphabet to me...
Jelly Jellybean: I don't see that they have much choice but to trust Clippy, unless someone else in the room speaks fluent Etheric.
It could make still make sense if the language spoken was that of Diego's special "golem/robot programming code". Since to get to the point of soul transference/creation, the inventor/creator would have had to crack this code, they might understand it directly. But just in case, there is the cute and helpful minion provided to interpret... (I agree, though, that its probably more likely that it is a Pomp/ether-God...) |
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Post by tustin2121 on May 15, 2019 15:27:46 GMT
No, she sees the little guy as Clippy. Okay, so then this guy is the Etheric Clippy, then? Ok, good, I'm not the only one who saw that little guy and said "Oh, no, it's Clippy come to 'help'..." |
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Post by MarineMonarch on May 15, 2019 16:40:44 GMT
I wonder, if Spooky Wallboi's speech and the Robot code are meant to be similar, if Diego actually obtained the code from this guy? Maybe that's who taught him, in some way, how to code the semi-sentience of the robots, or work in the language of a creator.
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Post by TBeholder on May 15, 2019 21:57:00 GMT
I wonder if this is how it ALWAYS happens when a soul gets transferred. Also, I wonder whether Kat is REALLY seeing the same thing, or just, an impressive, but still different display. Maybe she's seeing Matrix-style code scroll by all over the wall? And the little cutie resembles a bald guy with sick facial hair going "You see code, I see blondes, redheads, brunettes,..." It would be amusing if they finished negotiations and only then found out. Then again, it's probably going to be weirder than that. =) this guy is the Etheric Clippy, then? Well... It could be a chickcharney. |
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Post by fia on May 15, 2019 22:44:01 GMT
Honestly after a quick glance the language looks like a sort of cuneiform to me. This makes sense because it has to (a) be something Antimony doesn't understand and (b) be very old. Diego's golem language on the other hand looks like Fregean logic. They have similar squiggliness but it makes sense to me that the robot's language is basically logic-ese, while this stone wall guy is speaking something so old that it 'sounds' like cuneiform. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 15, 2019 23:43:20 GMT
Honestly after a quick glance the language looks like a sort of cuneiform to me. This makes sense because it has to (a) be something Antimony doesn't understand and (b) be very old. Diego's golem language on the other hand looks like Fregean logic. They have similar squiggliness but it makes sense to me that the robot's language is basically logic-ese, while this stone wall guy is speaking something so old that it 'sounds' like cuneiform. Maybe the difference between both is meant to be like the difference between normal written language and a programming language? I.e. Diego created a programming language based on this being's language? |
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Post by hp on May 15, 2019 23:47:30 GMT
Dunno about the language, but visually that wall dude doesn't look like it's related to Diego's creations.
Judging from his timing, and from the fact he looks like a BF door, I'm guessing he's some kind of ether/soul gatekeeper, something of an "anti-psychopomp".
"I'm here to guide a new soul into that life you just created"
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Post by keef on May 15, 2019 23:48:32 GMT
"Psychopomp" etymologically means "soul conductor", so I'm guessing GC psychopomps may also bring souls in. Now, I'm wondering about an antonym to psychopomp. Soulcatcher?
I doubt the possibility of psychopomps delivering souls to the "unborn/freshly baked"; that's a god's job usually. |
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Post by cunningjames on May 16, 2019 1:53:38 GMT
So what is a soul, anyway? Arthur already has a personality, memories, goals, etc, and can even feel romantic love. So is a soul just an abstract kind of ... spark or something?
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Post by csj on May 16, 2019 3:48:19 GMT
Edit: Kudos to Tom for using the correct word ("interpreter," not "translator"). My translator friends always gets her knickers in a twist about this. Indeed. I am a conference interpreter by profession myself, and I hate it if people ask whether what I do is "that simultaneous translation thing". No, dang it, simultaneous translation would be translating to different texts on two different sheets of paper at the same time, one with a pen in my right and one in my left hand. It's simultaneous interpreting. But I digress.
Anyway, I love the sense of perspective on this page. The huge whatever-it-is contrasted by the tiny ... ghostlet? I can even hear his/her/its tiny voice compared to the loud booming voice the god-or-demon-or-whatever has in my mind. but does the etheric interpreter prefer metaphrase or paraphrase? |
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But I digress.
