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Post by philman on May 29, 2020 7:01:37 GMT
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Post by wies on May 29, 2020 7:03:11 GMT
You never really forget your first love, huh.
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Post by madjack on May 29, 2020 7:03:54 GMT
You never really forget your first love, huh. She went from one bird to another. |
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Post by Eversist on May 29, 2020 7:04:19 GMT
I see some possibilities: -Her and Annie are seeing different things -Kat’s messing with her -... they just have different taste.  It has Aly’s eye color and head tuft. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 29, 2020 7:05:31 GMT
[still waiting for what the important discovery is]
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Post by laaaa on May 29, 2020 7:06:05 GMT
I'm a biologist. It IS good looking. (Cute may be a bit of a stretch but I do like it)
It ISN'T good looking AT ALL when spying on children while drawn in a very different art style than everything else.
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Post by ebaaus on May 29, 2020 7:10:18 GMT
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Post by philman on May 29, 2020 7:10:55 GMT
Oh crap, the TicTocs have caused the Annies to turn into Hetties!
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Post by arkadi on May 29, 2020 7:53:40 GMT
Definitely not what I was expecting.
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Post by shadow3 on May 29, 2020 8:03:35 GMT
Annies went into Saitama mode.
"OK."
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Post by theonethatgotaway on May 29, 2020 9:22:55 GMT
Now wait just a second. Kat made those designs because she was inspired by Annie's story and her aviary crush of the time, but just as an "I'll make that same thing, birds are cool!". She did NOT design it (then) to go back in time/through dimensions. So why change now? At what point did she think "well, I'm making this thing now, I might as well break some more space/time laws while I'm at it. UGH, I just can't wrap my head around two Annie's from different timelines/dimensions, but this timeskipping bird is no problem at all!"
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Post by pyradonis on May 29, 2020 11:01:51 GMT
Creepy?Now wait just a second. Kat made those designs because she was inspired by Annie's story and her aviary crush of the time, but just as an "I'll make that same thing, birds are cool!". She did NOT design it (then) to go back in time/through dimensions. So why change now? At what point did she think "well, I'm making this thing now, I might as well break some more space/time laws while I'm at it. UGH, I just can't wrap my head around two Annie's from different timelines/dimensions, but this timeskipping bird is no problem at all!" Calm down, wait until Kat explains the discovery she made. I'm a biologist. It IS good looking. (Cute may be a bit of a stretch but I do like it) It ISN'T good looking AT ALL when spying on children while drawn in a very different art style than everything else. Even when reading the comic for the first time I noticed that the bird in chapter one was drawn differently than the other characters. Much more detailed. And finally we have the explanation. It had the art style of the future. Man, we could have guessed this in chapter one already!
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Post by theonethatgotaway on May 29, 2020 11:12:39 GMT
Creepy?Now wait just a second. Kat made those designs because she was inspired by Annie's story and her aviary crush of the time, but just as an "I'll make that same thing, birds are cool!". She did NOT design it (then) to go back in time/through dimensions. So why change now? At what point did she think "well, I'm making this thing now, I might as well break some more space/time laws while I'm at it. UGH, I just can't wrap my head around two Annie's from different timelines/dimensions, but this timeskipping bird is no problem at all!" Calm down, wait until Kat explains the discovery she made.   But I guess it'll have to wait... |
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Post by arcuna on May 29, 2020 11:29:45 GMT
Sounds to me like she's still in her bird "phase."
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Post by speedwell on May 29, 2020 12:23:26 GMT
Sounds to me like she's still in her bird "phase." That line was so adorably teenage-dorky my ovaries hurt, heh. Is this why Paz is mad? Because Kat still has feelings for her past crush, and it's (irrationally) Annie's fault for bringing it back to Kat's recollection? (Jesus, it's been a while since I was a teenage girl, but that feels like par for the course haha) |
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Post by ctso74 on May 29, 2020 13:27:22 GMT
Narrator: "Have you been scanning the skies for excitement?"
Seductive Whisper: "Wings away..."
Narrator: "Looking for something cute to tickle your fancy?"
Seductive Whisper: "Birds of a feather..."
Narrator: "You can count on Winger to connect you with your aviary dream."
*A Tik-Toc joltingly winks to the camera, in a frighteningly twitchy manner*
Narrator: "Hurry. Time's not the only thing ticking."
I don't mean to kink shame, but things may be getting weird in the timestream.
And now we wait over the weekend, to get an explanation for the temporal tomfoolery. I'm sure, Tom doesn't plan out the timing of these teases. Though, it sure seems like it, sometimes.
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Post by The Anarch on May 29, 2020 14:26:44 GMT
Handsome? I mean, it's no City Face, but it's got its own sorta charm.
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Post by wies on May 29, 2020 14:42:14 GMT
I like that it was Kat's love for both Aly and Annie that inspired her to create the Tic Toc. Love again compels people to do strange things.
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Post by Gemini Jim on May 29, 2020 14:49:41 GMT
So, is the Bootstrap still in play? It's sort of an indirect Bootstrap, if Annie gave her enough of a description to inspire her to make designs for the bird.
I think the discovery is the realization that "gosh golly, I built the thing which saved Annie!"
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Post by basser on May 29, 2020 15:33:00 GMT
I really enjoy Kat's demeanor, she's clearly just realized "oh, dang it, time travel shenanigans are about to happen here aren't they" and it's bumming her out because she just wants things to make some friggin sense for once. But no, they're not gonna make sense. She now knows she's gonna be sending a magic robot bird back in time. Nothing is going to get any easier.
Really reminds me of college tbh - like I started my physics degree thinking I'd learn the fundamental rules of the universe and get some sense of understanding regarding reality, but the more I learned the more insane it got, until we got to senior particle physics sitting there with our Nobel laureate collaborator professor going "in truth the field of physics is nothing more than a centuries-long desperate scramble to uncover some semblance of logic in the lunacy we see around us, but it turns out the lunacy just gets worse the deeper we dig - so far we've found that particles can teleport, causality can be violated, sometimes matter just spontaneously exists out of nowhere, and many other nonsense things, enjoy".
At a certain point you get hit with this deep weariness realizing it's truly never going to make sense, that reality is built upon a bedrock of absurdism and there's nothing to be done about it. You just have to stop hoping to ever understand. Accept that it is what it is, and the best you can do is feebly try to record what's happening in the hope we might find a way to fit more pieces into the grand puzzle, and that fitting those pieces might help somehow. But deep down you know every new step of knowledge is just going to make it all weirder.
Basically I feel like Kat just hit her senior particle physics moment. That bird is her Professor Garcia.
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Post by arcuna on May 29, 2020 15:57:00 GMT
So, is the Bootstrap still in play? It's sort of an indirect Bootstrap, if Annie gave her enough of a description to inspire her to make designs for the bird. I think the discovery is the realization that "gosh golly, I built the thing which saved Annie!" If Kat made the early designs based on Annie's description of the robot birds she saw, then this is still very much Bootstrap territory. |
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Post by Runningflame on May 29, 2020 17:52:20 GMT
I really enjoy Kat's demeanor, she's clearly just realized "oh, dang it, time travel shenanigans are about to happen here aren't they" and it's bumming her out because she just wants things to make some friggin sense for once. But no, they're not gonna make sense. She now knows she's gonna be sending a magic robot bird back in time. Nothing is going to get any easier. Really reminds me of college tbh - like I started my physics degree thinking I'd learn the fundamental rules of the universe and get some sense of understanding regarding reality, but the more I learned the more insane it got, until we got to senior particle physics sitting there with our Nobel laureate collaborator professor going "in truth the field of physics is nothing more than a centuries-long desperate scramble to uncover some semblance of logic in the lunacy we see around us, but it turns out the lunacy just gets worse the deeper we dig - so far we've found that particles can teleport, causality can be violated, sometimes matter just spontaneously exists out of nowhere, and many other nonsense things, enjoy". At a certain point you get hit with this deep weariness realizing it's truly never going to make sense, that reality is built upon a bedrock of absurdism and there's nothing to be done about it. You just have to stop hoping to ever understand. Accept that it is what it is, and the best you can do is feebly try to record what's happening in the hope we might find a way to fit more pieces into the grand puzzle, and that fitting those pieces might help somehow. But deep down you know every new step of knowledge is just going to make it all weirder. Basically I feel like Kat just hit her senior particle physics moment. That bird is her Professor Garcia. I love this. I also wonder if the "lunacy" is just us expecting particle physics to behave according to our intuitions about how things work on the macro level. Expecting a newly discovered thing to behave like other, more familiar things is a good starting guess, but there's no reason why it has to be true. And it occurs to me that teleportation, lack of strict causality, and spontaneously existing matter are all the stuff of fantasy literature--and wouldn't have been a surprise to most people in the Middle Ages, unless I've got my history wrong. We found out that maggots don't generate spontaneously, so we assumed that there's no such thing as spontaneous generation, but why shouldn't there be? What if there is and we were just looking for it in the wrong place? What if it is possible to turn lead into gold (just with great difficulty and far too much expense)? |
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Post by tercio on May 29, 2020 18:25:07 GMT
Hello. Been reading this comic for years and years. Just had to register to quip about how much I love that Kat's crush on Aly all those years ago built up/inspired such a critical plot element in the story.
That's all I've got to add. Have a good weekend.
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Post by saardvark on May 29, 2020 18:35:03 GMT
Hello. Been reading this comic for years and years. Just had to register to quip about how much I love that Kat's crush on Aly all those years ago built up/inspired such a critical plot element in the story. That's all I've got to add. Have a good weekend. welcome to the forum, tercio! Love the cat and goggles... |
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Post by saardvark on May 29, 2020 18:39:49 GMT
I really enjoy Kat's demeanor, she's clearly just realized "oh, dang it, time travel shenanigans are about to happen here aren't they" and it's bumming her out because she just wants things to make some friggin sense for once. But no, they're not gonna make sense. She now knows she's gonna be sending a magic robot bird back in time. Nothing is going to get any easier. Really reminds me of college tbh - like I started my physics degree thinking I'd learn the fundamental rules of the universe and get some sense of understanding regarding reality, but the more I learned the more insane it got, until we got to senior particle physics sitting there with our Nobel laureate collaborator professor going "in truth the field of physics is nothing more than a centuries-long desperate scramble to uncover some semblance of logic in the lunacy we see around us, but it turns out the lunacy just gets worse the deeper we dig - so far we've found that particles can teleport, causality can be violated, sometimes matter just spontaneously exists out of nowhere, and many other nonsense things, enjoy". At a certain point you get hit with this deep weariness realizing it's truly never going to make sense, that reality is built upon a bedrock of absurdism and there's nothing to be done about it. You just have to stop hoping to ever understand. Accept that it is what it is, and the best you can do is feebly try to record what's happening in the hope we might find a way to fit more pieces into the grand puzzle, and that fitting those pieces might help somehow. But deep down you know every new step of knowledge is just going to make it all weirder. Basically I feel like Kat just hit her senior particle physics moment. That bird is her Professor Garcia. I dunno, I kinda like the fact that down deep, Physics seems more like a Monty Python sketch. Its a reminder to stay sharp, stay frosty, do NOT assume that everything will work like the world most familiar to us (macro-scale). The utter silliness of the quantum level world is a reminder not to take our theories, or ourselves, too seriously... the next level down is probably different again, and even weirder! |
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Post by DonDueed on May 29, 2020 20:35:25 GMT
And now we wait over the weekend, to get an explanation for the temporal tomfoolery. I'm sure, Tom doesn't plan out the timing of these teases. Though, it sure seems like it, sometimes. I don't know about Tom, but if I were doing a three-pages-a-week comic I would definitely be thinking in terms of three-page blocks. Whether I left the third page in a cliffhanger would depend on the flow of the story, but I would certainly be aware of it.
It might be interesting to go back through the archive to determine whether the Friday posts were more (or less) likely to be cliffhanger-y than other days. To do it right you'd have to rate each page without knowing its posting day, though. And deciding what counts as a cliffhanger/tease is pretty subjective, especially when you know what happens next. Hmm.
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Post by DonDueed on May 29, 2020 20:43:36 GMT
I really enjoy Kat's demeanor, she's clearly just realized "oh, dang it, time travel shenanigans are about to happen here aren't they" and it's bumming her out because she just wants things to make some friggin sense for once. But no, they're not gonna make sense. She now knows she's gonna be sending a magic robot bird back in time. Nothing is going to get any easier. Actually, now that I think about it... doesn't this explain Kat's bummed out demeanor lately? She now realizes that she has to send this proto-Tic-Tok back in time to save Annie...
...and she hasn't got a clue as to how to do it!
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Post by Polyhymnia on May 29, 2020 20:45:51 GMT
Annies: I don’t understand.
The entire GC forum: that’s only because you haven’t been wildspeccing this moment for years.
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Post by tercio on May 29, 2020 20:58:02 GMT
I really enjoy Kat's demeanor, she's clearly just realized "oh, dang it, time travel shenanigans are about to happen here aren't they" and it's bumming her out because she just wants things to make some friggin sense for once. But no, they're not gonna make sense. She now knows she's gonna be sending a magic robot bird back in time. Nothing is going to get any easier. Actually, now that I think about it... doesn't this explain Kat's bummed out demeanor lately? She now realizes that she has to send this proto-Tic-Tok back in time to save Annie... ...and she hasn't got a clue as to how to do it!
But you know that you'll figure it out, or at least do it, because you are now stuck as you said. You can't have not figured it out or none of this would be happening. Man, what an utterly world shattering position to be in, especially for Kat who has always tried to be so "scientifically minded". |
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Post by apache on May 29, 2020 21:58:52 GMT
When you realize your friend is an actual Mad Scientist.
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It has Aly’s eye color and head tuft.
