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Wait. Wait wait wait. Gunnerkrigg Court is a school, right? The school where Annie and Kat and everybody else goes is just called Gunnerkrigg Court. And the vast maybe-abandoned-maybe-not urban cityscape where it's located is ALSO just called Gunnerkrigg Court? Implying that the only purpose any of it is being put toward is as a boarding school, which can't possibly be utilizing all that real estate? This is confusing because I've never really thought it through before.
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don't forget that Gillitie Woods are pretty big too. I mean just look at it http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=676
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Dec 5, 2011 21:36
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STOP LINKING PAGES! I've read two entire chapters today from random links in this thread, I need to get some work done!
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Dec 5, 2011 21:52
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Hard to say. There's implications of the grown ups doing secret Science poo poo. On a couple occasions the girls have gone to some sort of downtown area for shopping and haircuts. There's the rows of warehouses that Kat's lab is in, and the enormous lake where I'm not sure if you can see the other shore. Gunnerkrigg is a school, but it seems to be part of some vast metropolis with other urban junk going on. It's probably undefined for a reason, and there's an implication of a huge (somewhat underpopulated) city around it.
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Dec 5, 2011 22:16
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Fatkraken posted:STOP LINKING PAGES! I've read two entire chapters today from random links in this thread, I need to get some work done! Hahaha, I was just commenting to some friends about this same problem.
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Dec 5, 2011 22:25
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Recently got a friend to read it after linking him a picture of Parley and Robot fencing. He kept linking me stuff, and I ended up re-reading a good majority of the comic.
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loquacius posted:Wait. The thing is neither have the main characters It does sort of call into question how literal Tom is being with the scale of everything, since the protagonist is a near shut-in at a boarding school and yeah in a major sense nothing existed for her outside the confines of her school until the most recent chapters, just the same as the whole world was that hospital before. Kat presumably has a bit more awareness of whatever larger something is going on, but has presumably also never really questioned it because hey, it's home. They're just starting to branch out and take an interest in the world outside the school and whatever weird nonsense they happen trip over, so now is when we start seeing more glimpses into the bigger context.
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Maldraedior posted:don't forget that Gillitie Woods are pretty big too. I mean just look at it http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=676 These two pages also show how big Gillitie Woods is: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=254 http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=258 (I was going to quickly scan through this chapter to find these pages, but ended up reading every page of it, damnit)
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Dec 6, 2011 00:46
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loquacius posted:Wait. I don't think they imply how far "up" the school goes. For all we know, there's university level, which would correspond to higher level research. Bear in mind the size of university campuses and how large their connected scientific institutions can be.
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Dec 6, 2011 02:06
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You people are leaving out Residental, which takes place entirely inside the Court's confines. You know, the presumably large park that is sufficiently far away a train is needed to reach it. Its probably best not to think too hard about how big the Court is.
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1stGear posted:You people are leaving out Residental, which takes place entirely inside the Court's confines. You know, the presumably large park that is sufficiently far away a train is needed to reach it. Yeah, I think it's defined in a loose way for the same reason Tom draws characters in a more basic way when they're a certain distance away: it's for the convenience of the story. It's interesting to think about the world beyond the Court and the Wood, but I wouldn't be surprised if it never comes up in the comic, or at least not until the very end.
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Dec 6, 2011 03:53
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I think Tom's said before that Gunnerkrigg effectively takes place in our world and the populace as a whole isn't aware of places like Gunnerkrigg and etherics and the like. The world outside places like that is pretty much ours.
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What, isn't it obvious? The entire court is Birmingham. And my name is Tom so obviously it's canon  (the city in Zimmy's head is Coventry)
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If you live in a capital-c City how often do you see the borders? You could live your whole life in NYC, London, LA, Paris, Chicago, etc etc without leaving, and certainly if you followed the lives of kids growing up in one the world outside of it just wouldn't ever rate mention if they didn't have family to visit outside.
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Dec 6, 2011 09:28
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mrpwase posted:What, isn't it obvious? The entire court is Birmingham. It is empty, soulless and confusing so it all fits.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:It is empty, soulless and confusing so it all fits. Next years dorms will be the Bull Ring 
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Fatkraken posted:Next years dorms will be the Bull Ring "Each student sleeps in their own individual 300 sq ft retail subdivision. These are fully equipped with a counter, till, shelving, POS, and a Yo! Sushi."
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Dec 6, 2011 13:48
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loquacius posted:Wait. This page was just linked: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=149 You should re-read the dialog, not just look at the picture.
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If this hasn't been said a dozen times already, then we're doing it wrong: The GGC books look amazing. I had a chance to see a friend's copy of it, and boy oh boy am I aching to get all the volumes. Plus it's a fantastic price for a hardback copy. I can't say how impressed I am.
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Cavatica posted:If this hasn't been said a dozen times already, then we're doing it wrong: Just make sure you buy them through the correct venue so Tom sees some of the money.
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Fatkraken posted:Just make sure you buy them through the correct venue so Tom sees some of the money. Specifically, Topatco, right?
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Guess the school doesn't have very strict rules on hair things - we were only allowed to wear only plain hair ties in school colours. Stupid hair things.
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I once got told off for wearing a hat on non-school-uniform-day. Stupid head things. (did Robot always have a bandage on his right arm?) vv 
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Dec 7, 2011 12:43
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mrpwase posted:(did Robot always have a bandage on his right arm?) Yep! He has them on all limbs. Maybe he was never properly plated. It was a temporary body, after all. (Enjoy your inevitable re-read of that chapter, bitches!)
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Dec 7, 2011 12:45
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I re-read the entire archives of GC every morning and I do all of the movements along with the characters so I don't see what y'all are complaining about
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mrpwase posted:(the city in Zimmy's head is Coventry) Wait so jack fell for Zimmy because she sent him to Coventry? Sounds kinda backwards, but I suppose especially with kids it often works that way.
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Ironic Twist posted:I re-read the entire archives of GC every morning and I do all of the movements along with the characters so I don't see what y'all are complaining about Do you open-palm slam the URL into your address bar?
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Waffnuffly posted:Do you open-palm slam the URL into your address bar? Not many people can say they've defended themselves against an age-old swordfighting revenge ghost.
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Ironic Twist posted:Not many people can say they've defended themselves against an age-old swordfighting revenge ghost.
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MikeJF posted:Yep! He has them on all limbs. Maybe he was never properly plated. It was a temporary body, after all.  quote:Open palm slam derail 
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I can't be the only one who's a little freaked out by seeing robot's "innards" am I. Somehow knowing it's all just metal and circuitry does not make it any better.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I can't be the only one who's a little freaked out by seeing robot's "innards" am I. Somehow knowing it's all just metal and circuitry does not make it any better. Aren't we all just metal and circuitry on the inside? Well, you at least.
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Male Man posted:Aren't we all just metal and circuitry on the inside? Well, you at least. All I am inside is just a big dick. 
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I'm just a sap! wait i did the joke wrong
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MikeJF posted:Yep! He has them on all limbs. Maybe he was never properly plated. It was a temporary body, after all.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:It's tape, since he's Parkourbot. Think like the hunter in Left 4 Dead. I've heard traceurs will tape down the ends of their sleeves and legs for some reason or another. But I've never seen it in person and don't know why they would. To decrease wind resistance and so that you don't get hooked on a thing and wipe out really hard. I don't know anything about parkour i just made that up but i bet that's why.
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Probably so they don't get their clothes hooked on a fence when jumping from a ledge onto a 4 story building. Which would result in death.
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Maybe, but like I said, I haven't ever seen anyone do it. The only instances I can think of are Parkourbot and the Hunter.
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You're a tin can, ROBOTS DON'T HAVE FEELINGS But this was not the direction I was expecting.
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Wait, Robot didn't just die did he? I mean, it looks like it could be an introspective realization in the last panels, but at the same time the lighting is worrying me. Either way, good update. Matlock Birthmark fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Dec 9, 2011 |
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