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Post by wies on Sept 21, 2020 7:07:47 GMT
Due to how their wings stand, the Tic Tocs in the second panel look like angels to me. |
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Post by arf on Sept 21, 2020 7:18:49 GMT
Tom's comment refers to his first attempt at publishing, which was Chapters 1-7. It was later combined with chapters 8-14 into Vol 1 of the Archaia editions.*
Tom chose not to end this volume here...
* Which is why we are awaiting the ninth thesis page at the end of volume 8.
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Post by Eily on Sept 21, 2020 7:30:18 GMT
Tom's comment refers to his first attempt at publishing, which was Chapters 1-7. It was later combined with chapters 8-14 into Vol 1 of the Archaia editions.* Tom chose not to end this volume here... * Which is why we are awaiting the ninth thesis page at the end of volume 8. So despite what Tom is saying, after 15 years and 2360 pages we just reached the middle of the first book. |
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Post by arf on Sept 21, 2020 7:34:12 GMT
Tom's comment refers to his first attempt at publishing, which was Chapters 1-7. It was later combined with chapters 8-14 into Vol 1 of the Archaia editions.* Tom chose not to end this volume here... * Which is why we are awaiting the ninth thesis page at the end of volume 8. So despite what Tom is saing, after 15 years and 2360 pages we just reached the middle of the first book. We hope he does not choose to leave us here! |
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Post by stclair on Sept 21, 2020 7:43:23 GMT
The funny thing is, having recently reviewed these very strips, only two actually latch onto her (one on each arm).
So why are the others there (aside from "they always were")? Flying escort, or cover, distractions? From what?
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Post by madjack on Sept 21, 2020 7:44:59 GMT
The funny thing is, having recently reviewed these very strips, only two actually latch onto her (one on each arm). So why are the others there (aside from "they always were")? Flying escort, or cover, distractions? From what? Best guess, redundancy just in case something doesn't go as expected. |
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Post by arf on Sept 21, 2020 8:27:40 GMT
... Like rage ghosts making like magpies in nesting season?
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Post by Sauzels on Sept 21, 2020 8:32:12 GMT
Finally, the HD Remix version we've all been waiting for.
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Post by philman on Sept 21, 2020 8:52:34 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"Ok so my prediction was half right, I had disregarded "This is where the first book ends (excluding the final bonus page)" as too nonsensical a comment to repeat now, but I guess I had forgotten how much of a troll Tom likes to be! |
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Post by Fishy on Sept 21, 2020 9:25:27 GMT
I bet Kat is one of those types to run one-man raids with alternate accounts.
Had to go back and reread to confirm this, but we never actually see the tic toc get broken. They drop Annie in the river and fly off, and then when she crawls out she finds one already broken down there. I suppose we'll get to see how that happened. I also wonder, since these many tic tocs are actually all the same one, does that one breaking then mean that the others cease to be?
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Post by jda on Sept 21, 2020 9:40:02 GMT
The funny thing is, having recently reviewed these very strips, only two actually latch onto her (one on each arm). So why are the others there (aside from "they always were")? Flying escort, or cover, distractions? From what? Well, I'd not be surprised to learn slashing the Tic Tocs was the reason Jeanne didn't kill Anni mid-fall |
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Post by heranje on Sept 21, 2020 11:37:41 GMT
Looking ahead in the original chapter, I'm curious to get the explanation that's probably coming up of why the Tic Tocs drop Annie in the water (and on the side closest to the forest). Is it a "this is what happened so this is what you need to do" time-loop thing - or maybe Jeanne kills one of the Tic Tocs, breaking the loop? When she gets dropped, we only see the bottom of their claws, and then we don't see them again until she finds the broken Tic Toc on the shore.
Or maybe Kat just isn't confident about her ability to put Annie gently down on the shore, and thinks it's safer to give her a soft landing in the water.
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Post by gunnerscrag on Sept 21, 2020 16:08:54 GMT
So thats what happened, Kat made them 3D and thats why there's more
Eggers better put on the glasses to see them
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Post by DonDueed on Sept 21, 2020 17:40:21 GMT
The funny thing is, having recently reviewed these very strips, only two actually latch onto her (one on each arm). So why are the others there (aside from "they always were")? Flying escort, or cover, distractions? From what? Possibly it's due to the difficulty of controlling multiple Tocs at once. Maybe those were the only two that she could get to Annie in time. |
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 21, 2020 23:37:23 GMT
*Ride of the Valkyries begins to play*
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Post by Sky Schemer on Sept 21, 2020 23:55:01 GMT
The funny thing is, having recently reviewed these very strips, only two actually latch onto her (one on each arm). So why are the others there (aside from "they always were")? Flying escort, or cover, distractions? From what? . The short answer is "two is not enough" because Annie falls faster than she is carried down, so unless Kat wants to watch Annie go *splat* several times, she needs to loop the bird multiple times to ensure she has two that are around for the whole duration of Annie's descent. |
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Post by saardvark on Sept 22, 2020 1:56:32 GMT
Panel 2 shows the original Toc, plus 5 looped-in Tocs all apparently appearing (nearly?) all at once. I wondered why the looped-in Tocs looked kind of reddish, but then when you look closer - there is.a little red-yellow-blue phased offset around each of them, like they had been deconstructed into their primary colors, slightly offset - which is perhaps a visual consequence of them phasing in to the present moment(?)
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Post by blahzor on Sept 22, 2020 6:45:04 GMT
They zoom past Annie and lift Jeane out of the water
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Post by blahzor on Sept 22, 2020 7:08:23 GMT
What if this is just Tom's excuse to redo the first 15 chapters or do except things change due to Kat having future knowledge
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Post by netherdan on Sept 22, 2020 17:02:21 GMT
The funny thing is, having recently reviewed these very strips, only two actually latch onto her (one on each arm). So why are the others there (aside from "they always were")? Flying escort, or cover, distractions? From what? They're there for the swap maneuvers. My hypothesis (which I think is also Sky Schemer 's hypothesis) is that Kat is not "duplicating" (i.e. shifting) the birds but displacing them from the near future, each one probably separated by a second or so (in the future, since it seems in the present they pop up in the same instant despite what was implied originally by the Tic-Toc noises increasing in number for each panel). So she sent something similar to the instructions below: (spoilers because I nerded out)
var annie = getAnnie();
var ticToc = new TicToc();
var beeeee = timestamp();
var secondsForImpact = getSecondsForImpact();
var tocsCarryingAnnie = [];
var tocsFollowingAnnie = [];
while(secondsForImpact > 5) {
if (tocsCarryingAnnie.size() < 2) {
tocsCarryingAnnie.push(carryAnnie(ticToc));
} else {
tocsFollowingAnnie.push(followAnnie(ticToc));
}
secondsForImpact = getSecondsForImpact();
}
while(secondsForImpact > 0) {
if (tocsCarryingAnnie.size() > 1) {
var tocToLoop = tocsCarryingAnnie.pop();
loopBack(tocToLoop, beeeee);
}
if (tocsFollowingAnnie.size() > 0) {
var tocToSwap = tocsFollowingAnnie.pop();
tocsCarryingAnnie.push(carryAnnie(tocToSwap));
}
wait(1);
secondsForImpact = getSecondsForImpact();
}
Basically, carry her up to the last 5 seconds then loop back and repeat up to the 4, 3, 2 and the last second or wait to swap positions when a previous instance loops back. Of course, instead of this jenky pseudocode she wrote it in DiegoScript™, but you get the idea |
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Post by blahzor on Sept 22, 2020 23:25:16 GMT
Looking ahead in the original chapter, I'm curious to get the explanation that's probably coming up of why the Tic Tocs drop Annie in the water (and on the side closest to the forest). Is it a "this is what happened so this is what you need to do" time-loop thing - or maybe Jeanne kills one of the Tic Tocs, breaking the loop? When she gets dropped, we only see the bottom of their claws, and then we don't see them again until she finds the broken Tic Toc on the shore. Or maybe Kat just isn't confident about her ability to put Annie gently down on the shore, and thinks it's safer to give her a soft landing in the water. Jeanne killing one of them wouldn't have the tic toc be on the forest side so Y's could get it later (when he goes down there to send more red shirt demons to cross) |
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Post by netherdan on Sept 23, 2020 0:13:03 GMT
Looking ahead in the original chapter, I'm curious to get the explanation that's probably coming up of why the Tic Tocs drop Annie in the water (and on the side closest to the forest). Is it a "this is what happened so this is what you need to do" time-loop thing - or maybe Jeanne kills one of the Tic Tocs, breaking the loop? When she gets dropped, we only see the bottom of their claws, and then we don't see them again until she finds the broken Tic Toc on the shore. Or maybe Kat just isn't confident about her ability to put Annie gently down on the shore, and thinks it's safer to give her a soft landing in the water. Jeanne killing one of them wouldn't have the tic toc be on the forest side so Y's could get it later (when he goes down there to send more red shirt demons to cross) If I'm right there will be only one Tic-Toc carrying Annie at the last second. The sudden drop in lift would yank the bird off her arm and into the shore's rock wall with enough force to break its neck. Jeanne's damage type isn't blunt, she's slash/ pierce. |
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Post by jda on Sept 23, 2020 2:01:58 GMT
Well, I just came from watching TENET's time shenanigans, and all I can say is I hope GKC doesn't go this way.
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