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This has to be the lowest point of Thorsby comics right now. There's nothing to unravel, he's just making poo poo up as he goes along. Usually there's some logic to the developments, but now it's just doing things because. He's doing a lot of Tell instead of Show.
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If it weren't for relying so heavily on the narration boxes, this would actually be pretty compelling. She gains all the power in the world, then loses it right when she needs it most.
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Apr 17, 2015 03:07
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Yes, I was OK with the narration before as Aisha's "training montage" to speed through the same stuff we saw with Ulf. . . but this is getting a bit excessive. Like assuming we will need this robot fight scene in the first place, did we really need narration to say that it was running to a pit deep enough to kill her?
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Apr 17, 2015 22:49
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Grogquock posted:Yes, I was OK with the narration before as Aisha's "training montage" to speed through the same stuff we saw with Ulf. . . but this is getting a bit excessive. Like assuming we will need this robot fight scene in the first place, did we really need narration to say that it was running to a pit deep enough to kill her? I'm pretty sure there were similar pits in his other comics and we never needed a label to be sure that "Oh hey that ominous pit will probably kill our hero if they get thrown in it".
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Apr 17, 2015 22:51
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I think this might be where I stop checking the comic for a few months.
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Apr 19, 2015 17:08
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Well she just cured Olf, you sure?
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Apr 20, 2015 06:47
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Yeah, I suspect the comic is winding down to an end, given how it looks like both their chips have been disabled.
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Apr 20, 2015 09:50
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That was pretty anticlimactic. Between this and Accidental Space Spy's ending I'm beginning to suspect that Thorsby just got lucky with Hitmen's (really awesome) finale.
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Apr 20, 2015 12:04
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I think you guys are underestimating Thorsby. He's not even at Comic 200 yet, whereas Hitmen had almost 600 and TASS had over 500. For all we know he's going to spend 300 more comics with Ulf and Aisha, chips disabled, having to navigate the hosed up world they've created and try and figure out how to return it to some form of normality.
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Apr 20, 2015 12:42
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I kind of wish the comic had stayed with the silly, bizarre sitcom bits before the stakes were raised to apocalyptic levels.
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Apr 20, 2015 13:39
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Narration over (maybe). I'm happy to see where this goes.
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Apr 20, 2015 20:58
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Why's everyone so down on the ending to Accidental Space Spy? The Minister of Interplanetary Affairs getting ate in #502 is a really good riff on lose ends tied up by fiat and an excellent closing site gag.
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Apr 21, 2015 11:30
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Sizone posted:Why's everyone so down on the ending to Accidental Space Spy? The Minister of Interplanetary Affairs getting ate in #502 is a really good riff on lose ends tied up by fiat and an excellent closing site gag. The ending of the adventures on the final planet were OK but it felt just like one of many planets and not all that special. Maybe it was because the "reason for war" and saving a race we were just introduced too was not super compelling. It felt like there needed to be one last chapter to put things in order: they resolved stuff using the secret knowledge they'd been seeking, but only for a bunch of random aliens they've just met. The ending of the whole story was really the final 3 pages which consist of basically 2 conversations and a good bye. Compared with the brilliance of the Hitmen "epilogues", it felt weak as heck.
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Apr 21, 2015 21:45
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Looks like whoever guessed things were just getting started was right. We're skipping forward a decade to life in a world ruled by benevolent supergeniuses.
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Apr 22, 2015 23:54
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Looks like Ulf and Aisha have gotten around the problem of multiple selves - they have a ton of bodies each, linked within a single universe. And they all have the same personality - a true hivemind. They have learned that hell is other yous.
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Apr 24, 2015 13:48
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New comic Linking your happiness to the general population's seems like it could lead to a pretty bad downward spiral as soon as things start to go south.
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Apr 27, 2015 06:55
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I think Thorsby's rule when writing Brain Chip is to start from the initial premise, think about what things - good and bad - are most likely to happen, and then make them happen. Continue until all the biggest issues and problems that arise either get fixed forever or reach a point where even Thorsby cannot think of a solution. The whole comic is one big, rambling thought experiment.
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Apr 29, 2015 09:36
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Every time someone asks me a question in IT, I become a fringurfringur.
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Apr 30, 2015 02:21
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Didn't see that coming. I like it.
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May 5, 2015 00:46
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186 I love the two panels of awkward silence.
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May 6, 2015 01:09
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It's not silence, they're just being polite and letting the narrator have his turn to speak.
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May 6, 2015 05:45
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She's basically Utilitarian God.
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May 6, 2015 21:50
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That is honestly the best possible ending
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May 8, 2015 03:13
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Ahaha that's great, Aisha feels .00000012 percent happier! The End!
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May 8, 2015 03:45
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I wish I'd learn to check the comic first when this thread has new posts, since it updates in the evening for me. I am now 0.00008% less happy. On the bright side, everyone lived happily ever after on average. 
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May 8, 2015 04:36
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(except in the untold millions of Earths that got ruined, but those ones don't count anymore)
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May 8, 2015 05:28
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Haha, well that sure is an ending. Still seems like there are a few places he could take the plot from here, but I guess it's short but sweet. Wonder when the next comic will start.
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May 8, 2015 08:34
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Can we have the alternate bonus ending where she's a total utilitarian rather than an average one?
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May 8, 2015 11:05
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I want an ending where they put transdimensional brainchips in everyone on Earth.
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May 8, 2015 12:22
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Cat Mattress posted:I want an ending where they put transdimensional brainchips in everyone on Earth. It's gonna be hard to find enough fish for all those chips. 
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May 8, 2015 14:02
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Cat Mattress posted:I want an ending where they put transdimensional brainchips in everyone on Earth. That would've been less repulsive than mind control chips.
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May 8, 2015 14:15
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Well, that was an...ending? Probably my least favorite work by Thorsby. The starting bits were great, but as it moved forward I didn't get that great classic Thorsby feeling. I feel the relative shortness of this work indicates that Thorsby ran out of ideas at some point and is interested in getting to his next work. I wonder what it will be!
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May 8, 2015 19:08
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jon joe posted:I feel the relative shortness of this work indicates that Thorsby ran out of ideas at some point and is interested in getting to his next work. Just like TASS, which felt likewise rushed at the end. Hitmen For Destiny remains his magnum opus, and Lies, Sisters & Wives is probably his best short work.
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May 8, 2015 20:20
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Sudden but still much better than than the ending of TASS, so I'm satisfied. At least it had something that felt like a real denouement over a the last several pages. Even the mechanical flavor of the +.00000012% happiness ending is pretty appropriate after what we've seen.
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At least Thorsby had a decent ending this time, if abrupt. I can't wait to see what he does next.
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