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Post by sidhekin on Sept 30, 2014 19:39:49 GMT
I only just noticed that on this page www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=220 and the subsequent one, there are three interesting things. First, since Robot says '-oor mommy', he was interrupted in the middle of his internal monologue, meaning that he's been probably constantly thinking about this from the moment that his CPU was under the control of the evil shadow. Second, we still don't know what that blue part marked with the Court symbol is. Thirdly, in the next page, Robot thinks he might be in heaven. Assuming he's being serious (which I would assume, due to how robots are) it means there is indeed a set of robot religious beliefs before Robot's Angel Cult came along. I don't know about constantly. While the CPU was unplugged, I imagine he must have been asleep, unaware, dead ... But when he had power again, he did not go through a boot sequence. He just continued the monologue he was making when unplugged.  As for robot religious beliefs, we have been told that S13 had "long since predicted the coming of an angel". I interpreted that "long since" to refer to why he first was held and hidden away; if it wasn't, the "up to his old tricks"/"spreading of disinformation and rumour"-combo would seem pretty nonsensical, or at least a non sequitur. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 1, 2014 0:01:19 GMT
Thirdly, in the next page, Robot thinks he might be in heaven. Assuming he's being serious (which I would assume, due to how robots are) it means there is indeed a set of robot religious beliefs before Robot's Angel Cult came along. I believed those robot religious beliefs were the disinformation and rumor mentioned by the Seraphs on page www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1143 . And maybe it was the criminal behavior mentioned by AdminBot on page www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=212 . I initially assumed AdminBot was talking about S13 going into the forest and being involved in a student getting pushed of the bridge. Once we learned more about Robot's past from the Seraphs, I then thought AdminBot could have meant criminal behavior prior to going into the forest. EDIT: Ninja'ed by sidhekin !!!! Not really, I just missed that there was another page with an earlier response. Still think AdminBot may have been referring to S13's religious beliefs. |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 1, 2014 2:59:54 GMT
Also, do you guys think Robot's speech is bold on the lowest panel here? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=226Plus, the theme of Annie 'borrowing' Kat's work is started here: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=229You'll probably see me in this thread a lot as I work through translation pages... EDIT: also, can anyone explain to me why Annie dislikes Eggers so much in the beginning? |
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Post by The Anarch on Oct 1, 2014 6:45:43 GMT
Second, we still don't know what that blue part marked with the Court symbol is. I may just not be seeing what you're talking about, but it looks like there's a symbol on Robot's chip (the green part) itself while the blue part is completely unadorned except for what may be some scuff marks from his previous destruction. |
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Post by philman on Oct 1, 2014 7:00:22 GMT
Thirdly, in the next page, Robot thinks he might be in heaven. Assuming he's being serious (which I would assume, due to how robots are) it means there is indeed a set of robot religious beliefs before Robot's Angel Cult came along. Of course there's a Silicon heaven, where would all the calculators go? |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 1, 2014 7:01:56 GMT
Second, we still don't know what that blue part marked with the Court symbol is. I may just not be seeing what you're talking about, but it looks like there's a symbol on Robot's chip (the green part) itself while the blue part is completely unadorned except for what may be some scuff marks from his previous destruction. There's a thing that Kat points to and says "I don't know what this bit is". We never discovered what it was (to my knowledge), or if it was common to all Court robots. |
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Post by The Anarch on Oct 1, 2014 7:04:02 GMT
I may just not be seeing what you're talking about, but it looks like there's a symbol on Robot's chip (the green part) itself while the blue part is completely unadorned except for what may be some scuff marks from his previous destruction. There's a thing that Kat points to and says "I don't know what this bit is". We never discovered what it was (to my knowledge), or if it was common to all Court robots. Yeah, I know, I'm saying that it's not the blue part that has a symbol on it. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Oct 1, 2014 7:04:34 GMT
Second, we still don't know what that blue part marked with the Court symbol is. I may just not be seeing what you're talking about, but it looks like there's a symbol on Robot's chip (the green part) itself while the blue part is completely unadorned except for what may be some scuff marks from his previous destruction. There's a thing that Kat points to and says "I don't know what this bit is". We never discovered what it was (to my knowledge), or if it was common to all Court robots.   |
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Post by keef on Oct 1, 2014 22:24:32 GMT
Thirdly, in the next page, Robot thinks he might be in heaven. Assuming he's being serious (which I would assume, due to how robots are) it means there is indeed a set of robot religious beliefs before Robot's Angel Cult came along. Of course there's a Silicon heaven, where would all the calculators go? Good, now I have to watch Red Dwarf again.  The chip looks like an intel 8086, and as far as I know they weren't exactly powerful enough to make robots like the S series function, nor did they contain a form of long term memory, nor were they or their sockets available in the 18th century. So it's magic. And to strain our suspension of disbelief just a little bit more, this one has a Prophesy Coprocessor. I really don't mind. Maybe more important: was it already made by Diego? |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 3, 2014 1:06:53 GMT
Of course there's a Silicon heaven, where would all the calculators go? Good, now I have to watch Red Dwarf again. The chip looks like an intel 8086, and as far as I know they weren't exactly powerful enough to make robots like the S series function, nor did they contain a form of long term memory, nor were they or their sockets available in the 18th century. So it's magic. And to strain our suspension of disbelief just a little bit more, this one has a Prophesy Coprocessor. I really don't mind. Maybe more important: was it already made by Diego? Based on the original Court Robots we've seen, I assumed S13's chip was a more recent design (from the 1980's). But if the chip was originally built by Diego, then it would explain why there was a matching processor socket in S1 and why S13's chip was able to "revive" S1. |
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Post by keef on Oct 5, 2014 21:52:58 GMT
The chip looks like an intel 8086, and as far as I know they weren't exactly powerful enough to make robots like the S series function, nor did they contain a form of long term memory, nor were they or their sockets available in the 18th century. So it's magic. And to strain our suspension of disbelief just a little bit more, this one has a Prophesy Coprocessor. I really don't mind. Maybe more important: was it already made by Diego? Based on the original Court Robots we've seen, I assumed S13's chip was a more recent design (from the 1980's). But if the chip was originally built by Diego, then it would explain why there was a matching processor socket in S1 and why S13's chip was able to "revive" S1. Next chapter Tom is going to talk about in his retrospective will be "Mainly Involves Robots". Maybe he'll give us some info about the CPU. |
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Post by fwip on Oct 6, 2014 20:01:29 GMT
gunnerkrigg.com/?p=613 I wonder if Janet is related to this Steadman person? Also, Janet is the one who hit the tree and is the first one to be taken by the trees. I wonder if that's some small form of revenge, and I wonder if there's more history between Janet's bloodline and Marcia's.
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 8, 2014 14:01:31 GMT
This one is so obvious that I suspect at least one person will think "Seriously? Is there something wrong with your eyesight, or why else would you miss that?" but: In #1283, Reynardine is wagging his tail in the last panel. |
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Post by warrl on Oct 8, 2014 16:43:41 GMT
This one is so obvious that I suspect at least one person will think "Seriously? Is there something wrong with your eyesight, or why else would you miss that?" but: In #1283, Reynardine is wagging his tail in the last panel. Well, if you'll look closely, the name of this thread is NOT "cool things nobody noticed except on reread". |
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 8, 2014 22:51:49 GMT
This one is so obvious that I suspect at least one person will think "Seriously? Is there something wrong with your eyesight, or why else would you miss that?" but: In #1283, Reynardine is wagging his tail in the last panel. Well, if you'll look closely, the name of this thread is NOT "cool things nobody noticed except on reread". I know. Had that been the case I wouldn't have made that post. It was just so obvious that I felt I had to acknowledge it. |
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Post by jombra on Oct 10, 2014 23:59:14 GMT
We see Renard's room on this page (Kat's old room) and he has the picture he drew from this page hanging on the wall. Also, I just took note of what his room looks like instead of just glossing over it, haha. Lots of books. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 11, 2014 0:04:17 GMT
Based on the original Court Robots we've seen, I assumed S13's chip was a more recent design (from the 1980's). But if the chip was originally built by Diego, then it would explain why there was a matching processor socket in S1 and why S13's chip was able to "revive" S1. Next chapter Tom is going to talk about in his retrospective will be "Mainly Involves Robots". Maybe he'll give us some info about the CPU. Chapter 12 retrospective is up, but no blue chip explanations (on a platter) for us! We're going have to think for ourselves. |
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Post by The Anarch on Oct 11, 2014 4:48:09 GMT
Chapter 12 retrospective is up, but no blue chip explanations (on a platter) for us! We're going have to think for ourselves. Too bad it's not a deep blue chip. We could probably do something with that. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Oct 11, 2014 7:06:37 GMT
Plumb the depths of chess. (Badumtish)
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Post by shamus on Oct 13, 2014 2:44:01 GMT
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Post by fwip on Oct 13, 2014 3:50:40 GMT
Welcome to the forums! I believe that has been pointed out, and disputed if I recall correctly, good eye though! |
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Oct 15, 2014 6:42:27 GMT
I'm sure this has been noticed before, but in chapter 14, fangs of summertime, Anja appears to have some sixth sense to tell her the Forest symbol is in the sky, before taking the girls up to see it: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=260. I think that while reading it in the past I always assumed she was seeing it through a window, but the Donlans don't seem to have one in that room. |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 15, 2014 7:03:03 GMT
I'm sure this has been noticed before, but in chapter 14, fangs of summertime, Anja appears to have some sixth sense to tell her the Forest symbol is in the sky, before taking the girls up to see it: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=260. I think that while reading it in the past I always assumed she was seeing it through a window, but the Donlans don't seem to have one in that room. I assume she's seeing it in the ether, and that the walls are no obstacle to etheric vision. She obviously wouldn't need a blinker stone to do magic in general. |
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Post by Chancellor on Oct 15, 2014 7:07:34 GMT
I only just noticed that on this page www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=220 and the subsequent one, there are three interesting things. First, since Robot says '-oor mommy', he was interrupted in the middle of his internal monologue, meaning that he's been probably constantly thinking about this from the moment that his CPU was under the control of the evil shadow. Second, we still don't know what that blue part marked with the Court symbol is. Thirdly, in the next page, Robot thinks he might be in heaven. Assuming he's being serious (which I would assume, due to how robots are) it means there is indeed a set of robot religious beliefs before Robot's Angel Cult came along. I don't know about constantly. While the CPU was unplugged, I imagine he must have been asleep, unaware, dead ... But when he had power again, he did not go through a boot sequence. He just continued the monologue he was making when unplugged. As for robot religious beliefs, we have been told that S13 had "long since predicted the coming of an angel". I interpreted that "long since" to refer to why he first was held and hidden away; if it wasn't, the "up to his old tricks"/"spreading of disinformation and rumour"-combo would seem pretty nonsensical, or at least a non sequitur. I actually interpreted it as Robot having never STOPPED ranting, trapped as a robot brain in a jar. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Oct 15, 2014 13:02:05 GMT
Welcome to the forums! I believe that has been pointed out, and disputed if I recall correctly, good eye though! And I, for one, argue that there is far too little similar between Jenny and the "guy" leaning against wall to conclude that they would be the same character. They share basically two characteristics: long black hair, and slender shape - ergo: Jenny is Zimmy, oh, wait... no, she's Kat's mom, oh wait again... And so on. Unsurprisingly, world has a plenty of slender bodied females (is the "guy" even a girl?) with long black hair. Until there is some prove about them being the same, which there now is none, I hold that they are two different characters. I'm sure this has been noticed before, but in chapter 14, fangs of summertime, Anja appears to have some sixth sense to tell her the Forest symbol is in the sky, before taking the girls up to see it: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=260. I think that while reading it in the past I always assumed she was seeing it through a window, but the Donlans don't seem to have one in that room. I suppose you mean they have no window on the wall that Anja is looking at when noticing the signal, because they do have a one in that room,you can see it in the panel 2 of the page you refer to. Daedalus's explanation seems to me to be what Tom intended to tell by making her look at an empty wall and saying "oh, well that's odd" without anybody else seeing anything there. |
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Oct 15, 2014 13:44:56 GMT
I'm sure this has been noticed before, but in chapter 14, fangs of summertime, Anja appears to have some sixth sense to tell her the Forest symbol is in the sky, before taking the girls up to see it: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=260. I think that while reading it in the past I always assumed she was seeing it through a window, but the Donlans don't seem to have one in that room. I suppose you mean they have no window on the wall that Anja is looking at when noticing the signal, because they do have a one in that room,you can see it in the panel 2 of the page you refer to. Daedalus's explanation seems to me to be what Tom intended to tell by making her look at an empty wall and saying "oh, well that's odd" without anybody else seeing anything there. Right ^^' I totally noticed that window. And yes, I bet she's just looking into the ether, I just thought it was interesting. I wonder whether she's always looking into the ether, or just glances into it periodically. I don't think she's ever asked about Annie's cut, has she? |
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Post by fanofts on Oct 15, 2014 14:33:48 GMT
I don't know about constantly. While the CPU was unplugged, I imagine he must have been asleep, unaware, dead ... But when he had power again, he did not go through a boot sequence. He just continued the monologue he was making when unplugged. ... I actually interpreted it as Robot having never STOPPED ranting, trapped as a robot brain in a jar. There existed embedded computer systems which used magnetic-core memory for all of their data and program memory and some of their registers (program counter indexes for example) and required no boot up sequence: after a power interruption the processor would resume from the last operation code word that the program counter was indexing. Military and space systems used them. Such a system would explain the Robot continuing its "thought" processes from where it left off. |
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Post by keef on Oct 15, 2014 22:30:29 GMT
Well a good reason to make an account, welcome! I think this was mentioned, but till now I didn't buy it. And now I noticed her wristband on both the first page you mentioned and the page Jenny was introduced. Of course this is prove she is Coyote's agent, his bind is under that band. |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Oct 16, 2014 21:12:15 GMT
(New to the forum)
On page 846, last panel, Reynardine's eyes are swirly hhaha
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Post by philman on Oct 17, 2014 8:02:56 GMT
Upon looking at the "All the Robots!" wallpaper Tom provides for those paid subscribers, All the robots have green eyes, indicating they are friendly, except for the robot laser cows, which always have red ones. In other robots red eyes indicate they are in danger: attack mode.
Is this because we have always seen them when they are around their natural enemy: grass? And does this imply that the picture of all the robots is being taken in a garden or habitat somewhere? Or is it just because anything to do with lasers is always red in cartoon world...
Or possibly I am thinking too much while procrastinating and staring at my wallpaper
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