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Post by jda on Sept 18, 2020 7:03:04 GMT
Cookies to those that anticipated the BEEEEEE was to beeeeeacon the moment |
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Post by basser on Sept 18, 2020 7:06:11 GMT
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Post by madjack on Sept 18, 2020 7:08:02 GMT
Panel 3: The Madness Place.
Edit: also, not a loop, but a copy/pase desync. Interesting.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Sept 18, 2020 7:14:55 GMT
Thirding the request for posting the comic link. It makes future timetravellers (hello Kat!) their work much easier.  Surprised seeing Kat's confidence. Past chapter and this one have kept her constantly off her feet, so I wonder what brought about this change. I mean, once you solve the basic problem of "TIME TRAVEL IS IMPOSSIBLE" and re-calibrate your mind to "time travel is basically a video game on this controller", it becomes quite easy, you see! Kinda called the mentality switch to "easy peasy lemon squeezy" of last page. Not that many others hadn't done the same before, though :-). Also, jda, your link goes to the previous page (2358), not the current (2359) |
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Post by basser on Sept 18, 2020 7:22:55 GMT
Kat also knows that she's going to succeed because she already did. Makes things easier. She is sweating a bit though which would seem to imply at least some of the confidence is bravado.
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Post by philman on Sept 18, 2020 7:38:46 GMT
Huh, only just realised Tom is using the same comments under the last 2 pages as he did the first time we saw the events here and here. I assume he'll continue as the events proceed? Next up being "oh dear" or "here come the Tic Tocs" |
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Post by gpvos on Sept 18, 2020 7:56:52 GMT
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Post by wies on Sept 18, 2020 8:02:17 GMT
Feeling excited for next page. It is happening.
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Post by jda on Sept 18, 2020 8:03:08 GMT
Also, jda , your link goes to the previous page (2358), not the current (2359) Thanks, fixed |
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Post by quirkykelly on Sept 18, 2020 8:05:42 GMT
I recently went back and read the parts when the Tic-tocs rescued her, and I tried counting how many there were. It was confusing at the time because each panel showed a different number of birds, so I couldn't figure out how many there were total. There's 3, 5, and then 2 in the 3 panels they appear in. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=124Then 2 and 2 in these panels. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=125And then finally just the 1 dead Tic-toc  www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=126It makes sense now! The Tic-tocs were moving in time so rapidly, so it was just Annie's perception that there were many and it makes sense that her perception could be off and it could appear as if there were any number of Tic-tocs. Which is brilliant, because it makes me think that Tom has this origin story of the Tic-toc planned since the beginning! I'm also hoping that in this chapter we learn what killed the Tic-toc - was it the rapid time travel that the bird couldn't handle? I also hope we soon learn how the Tic-toc can grow in the forest, though something tells me that Kat isn't the one who holds the answer to that. |
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Post by Eily on Sept 18, 2020 8:17:28 GMT
So, did Kat implement the timelock signal in the Tic-Toc knowing that she would end up making it time travel at some point "which is impossible by the way", or did she just take the time to learn the manual by heart? I guess the latter wouldn't be that surprising; it's not like you're on a tight schedule when you're going to send an object to the appropriate time anyway
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Post by blahzor on Sept 18, 2020 9:24:41 GMT
She sweating after giving a no sweat face last page
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Post by blahzor on Sept 18, 2020 9:26:21 GMT
So, did Kat implement the timelock signal in the Tic-Toc knowing that she would end up making it time travel at some point "which is impossible by the way", or did she just take the time to learn the manual by heart? I guess the latter wouldn't be that surprising; it's not like you're on a tight schedule when you're going to send an object to the appropriate time anyway No she's just using a function of the newly modified remote but used a beeeee as a timestamp.there's no need to explain the functions of the thing she would just naturally know it's controls |
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Post by blahzor on Sept 18, 2020 9:40:59 GMT
I recently went back and read the parts when the Tic-tocs rescued her, and I tried counting how many there were. It was confusing at the time because each panel showed a different number of birds, so I couldn't figure out how many there were total. There's 3, 5, and then 2 in the 3 panels they appear in. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=124Then 2 and 2 in these panels. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=125And then finally just the 1 dead Tic-toc www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=126It makes sense now! The Tic-tocs were moving in time so rapidly, so it was just Annie's perception that there were many and it makes sense that her perception could be off and it could appear as if there were any number of Tic-tocs. Which is brilliant, because it makes me think that Tom has this origin story of the Tic-toc planned since the beginning! I'm also hoping that in this chapter we learn what killed the Tic-toc - was it the rapid time travel that the bird couldn't handle? I also hope we soon learn how the Tic-toc can grow in the forest, though something tells me that Kat isn't the one who holds the answer to that. If you go back and listen to his commentary on the YouTube channel the TicToc chapter is the one he says it's where the overall story finally solidified to him. So yes he's planned this in chapter 7 |
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Post by Polyhymnia on Sept 18, 2020 9:56:58 GMT
So if all the Annie saving happens in one trip to the Norns, what are the other projects they recognize her from?
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Post by Eily on Sept 18, 2020 10:03:15 GMT
So, did Kat implement the timelock signal in the Tic-Toc knowing that she would end up making it time travel at some point "which is impossible by the way", or did she just take the time to learn the manual by heart? I guess the latter wouldn't be that surprising; it's not like you're on a tight schedule when you're going to send an object to the appropriate time anyway No she's just using a function of the newly modified remote but used a beeeee as a timestamp.there's no need to explain the functions of the thing she would just naturally know it's controls Yes but she's very confiden that she can do that, and how to do it. She's not searching through the options. Still this would mean that she did think about making the Tic Toc able to beeeeeeee before she knew how she would be able to lock into that signal. |
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Post by philman on Sept 18, 2020 10:25:50 GMT
So if all the Annie saving happens in one trip to the Norns, what are the other projects they recognize her from? After the first time, time travel becomes an addiction. And if all the saving does happen now then I guess Gunnerkrigg time travel is of the sort that you can't change the past, what has happened always happens even if time travel was involved. there must be something else though, we must be about to see something we haven't seen before, or something that changes a big piece of information or something. Probably involving Ysengrin. |
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 18, 2020 12:01:39 GMT
So if all the Annie saving happens in one trip to the Norns, what are the other projects they recognize her from? After the first time, time travel becomes an addiction. And if all the saving does happen now then I guess Gunnerkrigg time travel is of the sort that you can't change the past, what has happened always happens even if time travel was involved. there must be something else though, we must be about to see something we haven't seen before, or something that changes a big piece of information or something. Probably involving Ysengrin. ...This is definitely one of my favourite quotes from the whole comic.
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Post by saardvark on Sept 18, 2020 12:23:39 GMT
Panel 3: The Madness Place. Edit: also, not a loop, but a copy/pase desync. Interesting. if its not a loop, but a desynch, there is still only one bird doing the lifting. Which is apparently not enough to fly Annie very far, but enough to arrest her fall and save her life. But then, why desynch at all? Why not just stick with the one Toc? |
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Post by yhbc on Sept 18, 2020 12:52:52 GMT
So, no loup(s) were needed.
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Post by Sky Schemer on Sept 18, 2020 13:59:04 GMT
Panel 3: The Madness Place. Edit: also, not a loop, but a copy/pase desync. Interesting. Pretty sure it's going to be a loop. She's going to send the bird back to the time T-1, then T-2, then T-3 so that she has "several" birds at the event but time-delayed from the previous bird by about a second. And then she's going to control all of them at once. Presumably, there's a limit to how many she can manage this way, hence why we have five or six Tic Tocs and not, say, dozens. And, presumably, this is hard to do, which is why it ends with the Tic Toc crashing. Either that or Jean nails it because skeet shooting is fun! |
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 18, 2020 13:59:15 GMT
I wonder if we'll see a bit of the Annie/Red conversation? Or the video may cut out, once the Tic-Toc crashes and is autopsied by Annie, and turn back on once it's "rooted".
Hopefully, we'll get some explanation for the Tic-Toc's postmortem activity, Coyote influenced or not.
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Post by gpvos on Sept 18, 2020 14:07:01 GMT
Looking at the old comic, only two Tic-Tocs are really needed to carry Annie. I'm not sure why the others are there at all really.
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Post by fia on Sept 18, 2020 14:18:20 GMT
Does anyone else notice "Robot's" text bubble is purple? Purple. I don't think I had paid attention to that before but I can't be the only one to have noted this. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Sept 18, 2020 14:52:48 GMT
Looking at the old comic, only two Tic-Tocs are really needed to carry Annie. I'm not sure why the others are there at all really. Safety margin. |
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Post by netherdan on Sept 18, 2020 15:05:11 GMT
Kat is just Coyoteing it out right now, isn't she? Her explanation barely answers anything at all. In fact, it raises more questions than before
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Post by blahzor on Sept 18, 2020 15:52:48 GMT
So if all the Annie saving happens in one trip to the Norns, what are the other projects they recognize her from? After the first time, time travel becomes an addiction. And if all the saving does happen now then I guess Gunnerkrigg time travel is of the sort that you can't change the past, what has happened always happens even if time travel was involved. there must be something else though, we must be about to see something we haven't seen before, or something that changes a big piece of information or something. Probably involving Ysengrin. she time travels to eat the ice cream she just ate again |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Sept 18, 2020 15:54:16 GMT
So if all the Annie saving happens in one trip to the Norns, what are the other projects they recognize her from? "Hi! I'm Kat Donlan! You may remember me from such time travel projects as Time to Dye and Two Days Past Midnight." |
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Post by saardvark on Sept 18, 2020 15:56:41 GMT
Does anyone else notice "Robot's" text bubble is purple? Purple. I don't think I had paid attention to that before but I can't be the only one to have noted this. the rounded purple is superimposed on the normal green polygon of robot-speak. Maybe the voice of the evil shadow speaking through robot? |
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Post by arkadi on Sept 18, 2020 16:47:49 GMT
IT IS HAPPENING
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