[608]oh, we met once before.

[Yin]

Ah! Good memory, Bob.

Because Tom's art style evolved? =P

[Refugee]

And Bob just made a friend. I think Annie thinks he's covering for her, that he knows more was happening than "just snooping around".

[edzepp]

Tell us about them there trees, Bob.

[Refugee]

And Bob looks different...from when?

[Casey]

Okay everyone these days does know what Occam's Razor is, right? Because I did a paper on it once. Well not really, but I could have.

[Yin]

from the second time we saw him?

[Yin]

When all that is impossible has been removed, what is left, however improbable, is the answer? Can't remember it exactly.

[eightyfour]

...and now we'll learn that they probably shouldn't have eaten those cherries. "Decon" habitat doesn't sound really healthy at all. Can't be all too bad though, since Bob certainly was aware they'be veen eating them, and didn't say or do anythign about it.

[Casey]

Just so EVERYONE is on the same page (that's a pun of sorts), Bob has been seen twice before this chapter: here, and here (last two panels).

Can't ever assume that everyone follows that closely. Or that everyone knows what Occam's Razor is.

[Mezzaphor]

I assume "decon room" stands for decontamination room?

Kat looks very happy in panel 1 there. And I like the blocking in panel five, with the present copying the flashback.

[Liffguard]

Aug 24, 2009 7:08:10 GMT Yin said:

When all that is impossible has been removed, what is left, however improbable, is the answer? Can't remember it exactly.

That in the absence of other evidence, the simplest answer to a problem is usually the correct one.

[Yin]

clearly my quotation memory area is failing. sigh.

[Casey]

Aug 24, 2009 7:08:10 GMT Yin said:

When all that is impossible has been removed, what is left, however improbable, is the answer? Can't remember it exactly.

Ah, not quite... while a good saying, that is actually a quote of Sherlock Holmes.

Occam's Razor states that, all other things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right answer.

Edit: and apparently, the longer answer is the one that takes longer to type!

[Yin]

Aug 24, 2009 7:12:35 GMT Casey said:

Aug 24, 2009 7:08:10 GMT Yin said:

When all that is impossible has been removed, what is left, however improbable, is the answer? Can't remember it exactly.

Ah, not quite... while a good saying, that is actually a quote of Sherlock Holmes.

Occam's Razor states that, all other things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right answer.

Oh! That explains why I associated it with OR. Read a fanfic quoting both and mixed them up.

[Mezzaphor]

Aug 24, 2009 7:08:10 GMT Yin said:

When all that is impossible has been removed, what is left, however improbable, is the answer? Can't remember it exactly.

That's Sherlock Holmes' creed. Occam's Razor possibly dates back to the 14th century, and it basically boils down to: All other factors being equal, a simpler explanation is preferable to a complicated one.

EDIT: Wow, that's the worst I've been post-ninja'd yet. On this forum at least.

[Casey]

There's an echo in here!

[Mezzaphor]

echo in here

echo in here

[Yin]

in here
in here
here...

[pepoluan]

Aug 24, 2009 7:09:20 GMT eightyfour said:

...and now we'll learn that they probably shouldn't have eaten those cherries. "Decon" habitat doesn't sound really healthy at all. Can't be all too bad though, since Bob certainly was aware they'be veen eating them, and didn't say or do anythign about it.

Most likely, those rooms are used to "decontaminate" things coming from Gillitie Woods so they no longer have the pesky "Etheric Energy" giving the things life.

Like Robot's wooden hand here: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=165

There are two interesting symbols here:
- The "Do not enter" symbol (slashed circle)
- The ... uh, symbol like a sun shining on a sloping hill

The latter symbol... what's that supposed to mean?

[Nicer Atom]

^ere...

"Decon room", huh? I think it may be used to "decontaminate" objects from the Woods like Robot's wooden arm. So what happened to the Woods with the TicToc and the cliff won't happen to the Court.

[cnthelogos]

And in this case, what Occam's Razor implies is that the only reason Bob looks different is that his design has changed, or that Tom hadn't decided what he was going to look like in his earlier appearences, and we can spend time speculating about something else. That, or Bob is undergoing rapid aging due to being possessed by Cthulhu, and sometime within the next chapter or two he and Coyote are going to have a super-awesome duel to the death.

Whichever theory you prefer.

[pepoluan]

Aug 24, 2009 7:33:53 GMT Nicer Atom said:

^ere...

"Decon room", huh? I think it may be used to "decontaminate" objects from the Woods like Robot's wooden arm. So what happened to the Woods with the TicToc and the cliff won't happen to the Court.

Aha! I see you haven't shared the juicy tidbits of your person in the Introduction Thread... care to share the morsels?

[Yin]

Wow, pep, you really hit on everyone!

[Nicer Atom]

[/quote]
Most likely, those rooms are used to "decontaminate" things coming from Gillitie Woods so they no longer have the pesky "Etheric Energy" giving the things life.[/quote]

You literally posted that as I wrote the exact same thing.

Aug 24, 2009 7:38:47 GMT Yin said:

Wow, pep, you really hit on everyone!

Yet another thing I wanted to say and that I was beaten to.

Seriously, though, pep. The pink font sort of gives you away.
^{I feel I'm too new in the forums to say that sort of thing}

[bluemotion]

Welcome, Msosb! No one is too new to be snarky to pep.

Kat looks INCREDIBLY pleased to be the object of Egger's attention. That face is kinda creepy, eek.

[agasa]

And after a long absence, I am back.

My theory: Bob looks older because he's been contaminated by the agents he was decontaminating the stuff in the room from. For humans, the contaminating agent is poisonous. Like lead metal, or the like.

Creepy one, eh?

[Yin]

Welcome back, m'lad!

[somnium]

...and now we'll learn that they probably shouldn't have eaten those cherries. "Decon" habitat doesn't sound really healthy at all. Can't be all too bad though, since Bob certainly was aware they'be veen eating them, and didn't say or do anythign about it.

So that's why Annie and Kat were acting so... stoned.

[guyy]

Kat's grin in the first panel is hilariously ridiculous, and vice versa.

And I guess Bob really does look different now, or Annie and Kat would recognize him...maybe he was disguised? Or wearing huge sunglasses? We don't actually know that he looks older, just "different;" we never got a good look at him until recently.

I doubt the "decontamination" place is actually dangerous, since no one seems horrified that they went in there, and Bob didn't really make much of an effort to make them leave when he found them in there. It's probably just that organic things from the forest can hurt technological things from the Court, much like how the reverse happened back in chapter 14.

[Yin]

Not that K&A would recognise him, really- he was in shadow the first time they saw him, and Annie probably wasn't paying attention to the audience at the meeting.