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Nov 21, 2012 02:45
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Gnome de plume posted:Jones do you poop Oh god, I can see where this is headed. Half a page down and some intrepid young goon will have figured out what her sweat tastes like, I just know it 
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Nov 21, 2012 03:12
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Jones, tell me your best story. 
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Nov 21, 2012 03:15
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Ezzer posted:Oh god, I can see where this is headed. Half a page down and some intrepid young goon will have figured out what her sweat tastes like, I just know it Well clearly since we've never seen her eat Jones does not poop because 
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Nov 21, 2012 03:16
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Nov 21, 2012 03:24
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Ezzer posted:Oh god, I can see where this is headed. Half a page down and some intrepid young goon will have figured out what her sweat tastes like, I just know it 
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Nov 21, 2012 03:31
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Gnome de plume posted:Jones do you poop 
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Nov 21, 2012 03:52
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Ezzer posted:Oh god, I can see where this is headed. Half a page down and some intrepid young goon will have figured out what her sweat tastes like, I just know it SHHH! Don't say that! Don't summon them! I just got here and I don't need this ruined by... THAT! Also, I just archived binged this thing over the past two days. I'm depressed now. IronClaymore posted:Putting all ego and curiosity aside, if Jones appeared beside you right now, with proof of her unchangeable nature and knowledge of all of Earth's history, how would you respond? "You probably get this one a lot but... can you tell me about dinosaurs?"
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Nov 21, 2012 04:45
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Gnome de plume posted:Jones do you poop Uh, obviously. Did you forget?  But wait - that book ends with a simple explanation: all living things eat, therefore everyone poops. Does Jones eat?
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Nov 21, 2012 06:37
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Is she lying or is Tom lying or is no one lying aaaaah
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Nov 21, 2012 09:01
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SynthOrange posted:Is she lying or is Tom lying or is no one lying aaaaah Hint: Emotionless people don't form bonds that last a lifetime. Its pretty clear she's overselling her inhuman nature like crazy
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Nov 21, 2012 09:17
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SynthOrange posted:Is she lying or is Tom lying or is no one lying aaaaah Maybe neither of them are. Jones knows Eglamore cares about her and will until he dies, something she saw happening many times over during her lifetime (or... whatever you call that for something that isn't technically alive). She can't return that feeling, only a semblance of it. The last update struck me as kinda sad for that reason.
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Nov 21, 2012 09:20
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At this point I'm pretty sure that Jones is overstating her emotionlessness and detachment. Whether she realizes that is another matter. And hey, does this mean Jones will presumably become Eglamore in a few decades' time? Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Nov 21, 2012 09:44
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:At this point I'm pretty sure that Jones is overstating her emotionlessness and detachment. Whether she realizes that is another matter. Perhaps she faked it until she made it?
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Nov 21, 2012 09:46
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pik_d posted:Perhaps she faked it until she made it? Maybe, yeah. I just don't think that's likely seeing how complex everyone else's motives have been throughout the strip. Remember why Kat became Annie's friend?
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Nov 21, 2012 09:48
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Man, I didn't think that relationship could get any creepier, and yet here we are.
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Nov 21, 2012 10:12
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pik_d posted:Perhaps she faked it until she made it? Totally what happened, I was about to post this.
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Nov 21, 2012 10:13
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If there's a version of Jones that mimics friendship from a desire to observe humanity and a set of ethics about how to treat humans, and a version of Jones that believes she is doing that but in fact is "genuinely" making friends, and a version of Jones that is genuinely making friends, and knows it, but chooses to claim inability to form emotional attachments for her own reasons, and all three otherwise act the exact same way in all circumstances, is there a difference between them assuming that it is impossible for anyone else to know what they're thinking? Which version of Jones are Annie or Eglamore best off assuming is the real one?
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Nov 21, 2012 11:38
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And hey, does this mean Jones will presumably become Eglamore in a few decades' time? It mean's she'll become Jimmy Jims Jones
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Nov 21, 2012 13:30
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Arthur Crackpot posted:Well clearly since we've never seen her eat Jones does not poop because She straight up said she doesn't eat. Which makes sense. If you need to eat but might get trapped in solidified magma for a couple billion years, you might not live to say you're immortal and unchanging.
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Nov 21, 2012 13:42
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SynthOrange posted:Is she lying or is Tom lying or is no one lying aaaaah I dont know, the way she phrases her last sentence makes me believe that the other person makes the emotional connection, not her. "I will be a friend to him for the rest of his life" So yeah Tom and Jones are telling the truth if this is the case.
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Nov 21, 2012 13:49
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Dammit Who? posted:If there's
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Nov 21, 2012 14:36
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Regardless of her motivations, I think we can all agree that when Jones says "We're BFFs," she loving means it.
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Nov 21, 2012 15:02
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Could go either way. The chapter still isn't over yet, so we might even be getting more hints soon! Looking over her history again, though, I really only have two questions. 1. Why did she help feed the hunters? I feel that the answer to this question would answer many others. 2. Why does she never show any expression? She can open and close her mouth; she's probably physically capable of smiling. She's also likely to be a skilled mimic thanks to millennia of practice. If she's pretending to care about Eglamore, she could pretend to smile the same way. And she has motivation to pretend to care, however inscrutable or alien it might be. Why doesn't she? Is she so invested in being emotionless that she wants an outward sign of it?
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Nov 21, 2012 15:02
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Pester posted:Jones, tell me your best story. She claims neither to have emotions nor creativity. She probably cannot tell a good story.
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Nov 21, 2012 15:05
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Ouch, that page hit me deep. So, Jones will be Jimmy Jims' friend for the rest of his life. The life that's a speck in Jones'. And she's just collecting information, only to go on to the next person after he's died. Repeat ad infinitum. A sad existence.
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Nov 21, 2012 15:25
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idonotlikepeas posted:Could go either way. The chapter still isn't over yet, so we might even be getting more hints soon! Looking over her history again, though, I really only have two questions. 1. I sorta wondered if she was helping, or if the hunters were just driving the herd towards her because they knew what would likely happen. It also might play into her thinking that humans have something to do with what she is since we look like her. 2. No idea really, but maybe the fact that humans have been around for such an insignificant amount of time compared to all that time she spent not talking or mimicking things has to do with it. Or maybe she's tried to mimic emotions before, and ends up overdoing it, and it's just really awkward.
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Nov 21, 2012 15:37
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IronClaymore posted:Putting all ego and curiosity aside, if Jones appeared beside you right now, with proof of her unchangeable nature and knowledge of all of Earth's history, how would you respond? What in the heck is the seed bismuth?
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Nov 21, 2012 15:59
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Bismuth is pretty super cool in itself  It forms these weird rear end geometric crystals which often have an iridescent oxide coating. The largest and most attractive crystals ARE actually grown artificially, in laboratories, you can purchase specimens on ebay several inches long, and they really do look like little cities. It's not actually very widely used in industry, but it's similarity to lead but much lower toxicity means it can find uses replacing lead in plumbing and so forth. It's also in the same chemical group as Antimony Fatkraken fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Nov 21, 2012 16:23
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tsundair posted:Ouch, that page hit me deep. She's probably been doing this for as long as humans have existed. Even if she's overstating her lack of emotions, I imagine that you would eventually come to terms with the brevity of human lives.
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Nov 21, 2012 16:27
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And hey, does this mean Jones will presumably become Eglamore in a few decades' time? She'll be called "Jimmy Jims"
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Nov 21, 2012 17:55
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Here's a question: if Jones has perfect recall, why does she keep a photo album?
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Nov 21, 2012 18:00
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DaveWoo posted:Here's a question: if Jones has perfect recall, why does she keep a photo album? Mimicry of human habits. Also allow her to show these photos, since I don't think the "Jones back in time" pages we saw were holographic projections shown to Annie.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:05
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Cat Mattress posted:Mimicry of human habits. Also allow her to show these photos, since I don't think the "Jones back in time" pages we saw were holographic projections shown to Annie. There weren't cameras back in those days.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:15
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pandaK posted:There weren't cameras back in those days. There were in the first few pages. (The first surviving modern photograph is dated from 1826.) Anyway, what I meant is that she can show photographs instead of describing the scene. Annie didn't get to see the art we did, she had the blah-blah version instead.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:24
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Speaking of, if all the flashback boxes are narration (as one could reasonably assume), does Annie now know that Jones has made a recommendation to the headmaster about the next medium? Does she know who it is?
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Nov 21, 2012 19:32
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Guys, guys. We're forgetting an important question. If nothing about Jones can be cut or harmed, how does she get curls in her hair?
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Nov 21, 2012 19:58
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blastron posted:Guys, guys. We're forgetting an important question. Underwire
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Nov 21, 2012 20:04
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blastron posted:Guys, guys. We're forgetting an important question. Copious amounts of hairspray/sugar water.
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Nov 21, 2012 20:05
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blastron posted:Guys, guys. We're forgetting an important question. Her hair is pliable, she just can't lose or grow it. Look at the previous pages in the chapter - she's got a bunch of different hairstyles.
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