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I just burned through the entire archives last night and this morning. WHY DID I HAVE TO CATCH UP!?  Just a question, how many years have passed since the beginning of the strip and now? I have trouble keeping track of the characters' ages.
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Isn't each chapter a year? I may be wrong though. edit: Just looked at how many chapters there is. There's no way 33 years have passed. 
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Jun 19, 2011 00:30
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It's been about two years. Two summer breaks so far.
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Jun 19, 2011 00:37
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Yeah, I believe they're just starting their 9th year of school.
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Jun 20, 2011 08:20
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Kat Donlan, Reanimator.
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Jun 20, 2011 08:20
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Is the robot referring to the heart cube thing?
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Jun 20, 2011 08:21
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The modern robots have a cube thingy, the older ones literally had a stone heart covered in symbols.
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Jun 20, 2011 08:22
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Assisted suicide? 
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Jun 20, 2011 14:40
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Jun 20, 2011 15:43
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Was that a Bicentennial man reference? I hope to hell that the old robot's up for a Q&A session before he dies.
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Jun 22, 2011 09:18
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"So if all you want is to be dead, why did we wake you up in the first place?"
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Jun 22, 2011 11:46
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Ironically, all the other robots yearn to live and walk free again. Kat just happened to pick the one terminally depressed, suicidal, sociopathic robot to wake up first.
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Jun 22, 2011 18:56
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Nipponophile posted:Ironically, all the other robots yearn to live and walk free again. Kat just happened to pick the one terminally depressed, suicidal, sociopathic robot to wake up first. He probably killed all the other old robots to make food for the new robots...SOYLENT GREEN IS ROBOTS!
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Jun 22, 2011 19:02
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r0ff13c0p73r posted:He probably killed all the other old robots to make food for the new robots...SOYLENT GREEN IS ROBOTS! It's packed full of essential vitamins and minerals! Well, minerals, anyway! Ok so it's mostly a chromium-molybdenum alloy. But kids don't get nearly enough molybdenum these days!
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Jun 23, 2011 05:59
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Phy posted:It's packed full of essential vitamins and minerals! I'm 60% chromium!
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Jun 23, 2011 06:49
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For a panel I thought Annie was about to give Kat a big wet kiss.
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Jun 23, 2011 23:55
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God, Annie, weren't you paying attention when Jones told you that? 
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Jun 24, 2011 12:01
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What the heck is this?! This is so twisted!!
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Jun 24, 2011 13:32
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So the court is alive then and constantly growing.
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Jun 24, 2011 16:45
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I'm not really sure why Annie wants to know about the start of the Court, so much.
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Jun 24, 2011 17:02
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Fangz posted:I'm not really sure why Annie wants to know about the start of the Court, so much. Because it's tied into what happened to the ghost lady that cut her face. It is a MYSTERY!
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Jun 24, 2011 17:39
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Because it's tied into what happened to the ghost lady that cut her face. It is a MYSTERY! A mystery that's already been answered twice. Seed bismuth.
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Jun 24, 2011 17:46
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Because it's tied into what happened to the ghost lady that cut her face. It is a MYSTERY! Not really. The dividing of the court from the forest occurred a while after all that. She could have just asked about Jeanne directly.
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Jun 24, 2011 18:06
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Fangz posted:I'm not really sure why Annie wants to know about the start of the Court, so much. Wasn't that her homework from Jones?
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Jun 24, 2011 18:09
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Fangz posted:Not really. The dividing of the court from the forest occurred a while after all that. She could have just asked about Jeanne directly. Jeanne hasn't exactly been in the mood for answering questions for the past few centuries.
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Jun 24, 2011 19:11
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Nipponophile posted:Ironically, all the other robots yearn to live and walk free again. Kat just happened to pick the one terminally depressed, suicidal, sociopathic robot to wake up first. I don't know why, but he never replied...
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Jun 25, 2011 07:23
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I love GC and normally I think Tom is a top-notch writer, but I kind of hate this latest strip. It reminds me a lot of some of the worst aspects of Lost and similar shows, namely one character completely failing to answer a direct question. One character poses a reasonable question that the audience also desperately wants an answer to, but the other character (who knows the answer) responds with an evasive non-answer and then the scene moves on as if the matter were settled. Writers: please don't do this. If you don't plan on answering a question, don't ask it in the first place. If you absolutely must ask a question, say you want to get the audience to think about it, have one character pose it idly or rhetorically or have the responding character genuinely not know the answer.
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Jun 26, 2011 22:12
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McGravin posted:I love GC and normally I think Tom is a top-notch writer, but I kind of hate this latest strip. It reminds me a lot of some of the worst aspects of Lost and similar shows, namely one character completely failing to answer a direct question. One character poses a reasonable question that the audience also desperately wants an answer to, but the other character (who knows the answer) responds with an evasive non-answer and then the scene moves on as if the matter were settled. Except by asking it reraises the question to set up for a "Let's solve this riddle" story.
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Jun 26, 2011 22:38
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Micgael posted:Except by asking it reraises the question to set up for a "Let's solve this riddle" story. The question has been raised several times before and answered with evasive non-answers every time. None of those were immediate set-ups for such a story. As I said, if you want to call the issue forward in your audience's mind, simply have one character pose the question idly or rhetorically, or else ask someone who genuinely does not know. To ask someone who knows and not get an answer to the question is very frustrating, at least to me.
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Jun 26, 2011 22:53
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McGravin posted:The question has been raised several times before and answered with evasive non-answers every time. None of those were immediate set-ups for such a story. I agree. I find it hard to believe that the robot could not answer a few questions before dying again. I mean, his place was Diego's tribute, but that doesn't mean he's on the clock or anything. It's not the worst storytelling, but it certainly is flimsy.
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Jun 26, 2011 23:03
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When the robot says "It grew from the seed bismuth," he is not being dodgy. That is literally the only answer he knows. When Jones says it, yes, she is being snarky, "hows that for an answer you little fire elemental  +  " To the robots, it makes complete sense, it is just that they have no other way of describing the origin of the Court other than "seed bismuth, duh."It would be different if an actual human adult was asked, or hell, if they could somehow ask a human who was around at that time. In that case, them saying "seed bismuth" it would be a dick move. But Robots are different. life_source fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jun 27, 2011 |
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Jun 27, 2011 00:09
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I'm certain if Annie expanded her line of questioning, the robot would have plenty more useful information. "What was the Court like in its earliest days?" just for starters would yield untold clues toward answering the questions we really want answered. But, nope, time to go back to being dead. Right now. No more questions.
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Jun 27, 2011 01:09
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Yeah, that was a little jarring. Hopefully it'll turn into something, like he didn't want to answer the question, or something. We still love you, Tom.
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Jun 27, 2011 02:10
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It could also be that the robot dude doesn't realize it as a mystery. Like if someone pointed at your dog and said "whats that" you would say a dog because its obviously a dog. The robot was around in a different time when maybe that answer would have been a blatantly obvious one to a stupid question, or maybe "seed bismuth" would have been all that was necessary as an answer for a person from his time.
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Jun 27, 2011 02:51
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Pester posted:Wasn't that her homework from Jones? You know how Carver is about homework.
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Jun 27, 2011 02:55
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Phy posted:You know how Carver is about homework. Heck, she just tried to get the answers from Kat's hard work!
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Jun 27, 2011 03:11
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God damnit, Robot, what the gently caress are you doin' now < >
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Jun 27, 2011 08:20
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Fuego Fish posted:God damnit, Robot, what the gently caress are you doin' now <
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Jun 27, 2011 08:22
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Robot needs to cool down on the evangelizing, he's making Shadow 2 sad.
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Jun 27, 2011 08:34
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He's just sad because robot's stepping on him.
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