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Do Britons actually write "hullo"? What sort of survey is that anyway? Does he run around at night in the forest asking animals how they feel? That does seem kind of dangerous either way.
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"Actually now that you mention it, Daniel, there is something I need..." 
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Jun 24, 2013 08:15
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Renard how could you!
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Jun 24, 2013 08:21
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"Hullo, Renard! Why are your eyes all glowin' and such? It's a little peculiar if you ask m-Oh, bollocks."
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Jun 24, 2013 08:28
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When will people learn that when Coyote's teeth lines go from straight to jagged, you need to stop listening to him?
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Jun 24, 2013 08:33
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When will people learn that when Coyote's lips move, you need to stop listening to him?
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Jun 24, 2013 08:35
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Lottery of Babylon posted:When will people learn that when Coyote's lips move, you need to stop listening to him? Pretty much, everyone always goes "Oh Coyote is not so bad, no worse than the court at least" and the only reason that is true is because Coyote is too all over the place to be able to do things on the same scale. Yet.
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Jun 24, 2013 08:45
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Lottery of Babylon posted:When will people learn that when Coyote's lips move, you need to stop listening to him? Will them learn Coyote, stop?
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Jun 24, 2013 08:45
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Proving once again that Coyote's a dick.
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Jun 24, 2013 09:13
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Air is lava! posted:Do Britons actually write "hullo"? Hullo is a slightly more archaic version of hello and yeah, primarily British. These days you'll mostly see hello used. That said, I think hullo kinda fits with the general feel of the comic. I grew up reading all the old British children's books - Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons - and they used hullo and for me, anyway, it's evoking the feeling of those stories.
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Jun 24, 2013 09:38
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Air is lava! posted:Do Britons actually write "hullo"? Apparently, unless Slidell's been lying about his nationality this whole time.
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Jun 24, 2013 09:50
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Air is lava! posted:Do Britons actually write "hullo"? We have conclusive evidence today at least one of them does.  Keep in mind that this is the previous generation, when Antimony's mom was a teenager. The dialect is older.
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Jun 24, 2013 10:22
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MikeJF posted:Hullo is a slightly more archaic version of hello and yeah, primarily British. These days you'll mostly see hello used. That said, I think hullo kinda fits with the general feel of the comic. I grew up reading all the old British children's books - Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons - and they used hullo and for me, anyway, it's evoking the feeling of those stories.
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Jun 24, 2013 10:33
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You really have to be careful about interpreting what Coyote says, huh? "You cannot be sure that will happen" is not the same as "I'm sure that won't happen." 
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Jun 24, 2013 10:53
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Splicer posted:I think she had a perfectly normal range of human emotions, and then spent 4.54 billion years with no-one to talk to, and is now a bit nuts.
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Jun 24, 2013 11:08
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Well now, it's almost as if Coyote wanted the court to take Renard in the first place.
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Jun 24, 2013 11:37
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Hodgepodge posted:She's been around as long as humanity (longer actually). It isn't surprising that she had a solid grasp on how people interact. She needs to, just to fake emotions and so forth. Like this? 
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Jun 24, 2013 11:55
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Splicer posted:Indistinguishable to everyone but Jones. Jones knows she is faking it, ergo they are fake. A P-Zombie does not know they are faking it because there is no "they" to "know". I would lean towards "Jones can fake having emotions /much/ more convincingly than she currently does." However, being an immortal, ageless, indestructible being, who is apparently better than humans in every possible way generally gets you classified as "god" or "monster," If instead, you appear to be a flawed creation of an ancient society lost in the mists of time, you're not as dangerous to the human ego and people are less likely to make annoying and inconvenient attempts to worship or destroy you.
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Jun 24, 2013 12:20
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Teron D Amun posted:Like this? When that started I was expecting Jones Fun Time. Can she have fun?
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Jun 24, 2013 12:35
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maltesh posted:I would lean towards "Jones can fake having emotions /much/ more convincingly than she currently does." I dunno, if she could fake better she'd probably be able to smile in a way that didn't give people nightmares.
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Jun 24, 2013 12:49
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loving Coyote, man. loving Coyote. The way it works is that he says something that's technically true but provides no real information, then lets people interpret it in the way that makes the world the way they want it to be. Renard wants to steal this guy's body, he just has to convince himself it's okay. Coyote is only nudging him a little. Like all con men, he's expecting the mark to do most of the work of fooling themselves.
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Jun 24, 2013 12:59
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Honestly I don't have much sympathy for Renard, that wasn't even a sneaky way of phrasing Coyote practically straight up said "hey, it might not happen this time, you don't know!"
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Jun 24, 2013 13:36
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Coyote could just as well have said "blah blah blah blah Surma blah blah blah blah blah."
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Jun 24, 2013 14:18
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So many folks were in love with Surma. I guess there's something irresistibly sexy about one of the rawest forms of destructive power.
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Jun 24, 2013 14:20
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^^Do not underestimate mankind's desire to gently caress pretty much everything and anything.MooCowlian posted:When that started I was expecting Jones Fun Time. Can she have fun? The result is essentially the same. So, yes, but at what cost?
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Jun 24, 2013 14:30
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RabidWeasel posted:Honestly I don't have much sympathy for Renard, that wasn't even a sneaky way of phrasing Coyote practically straight up said "hey, it might not happen this time, you don't know!" Well, Renard had only tried it with animals, never with a human! </Coyote's advocate>
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Jun 24, 2013 14:31
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The Red Queen posted:So many folks were in love with Surma. I guess there's something irresistibly sexy about one of the rawest forms of destructive power. As part of her nature, Surma was very hot. It had to be said
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Jun 24, 2013 14:40
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Renard looks so adorable as a fox in this one. He looks like he's some kind of cute little kid.
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Jun 24, 2013 14:53
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Air is lava! posted:Do Britons actually write "hullo"? A short discussion on "hello" and "hullo": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXSw07zrio suburban virgin fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Jun 24, 2013 14:56
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I love how this page is all one panel. Much style! Hoo-ah!
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Jun 24, 2013 14:58
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Oh Coyote, you prankster  Remember that not only is he convincing Renard to kill a dude here, he pretty much HAD to know Surma didn't actually love him (he is the god of trickery, he KNOWS a ruse when he sees one -I think he even admitted this?-) so he's doubly a dick. A godly level 100 super dick if you will. I love how he goes from silly to sinister so swiftly, without even breaking character. Coyote, you bastard. However. We all know Renard isn't blameless here. He knows Coyote, he pretty much ignored common sense because he was blided by love. Still, poor Renard. Tom this wasn't a fun stop, at all 
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I also wonder what Coyote means by "will you let her get away". What happened between the time when Surma is all flyin' up in the air and Renard professes his love to her? Also... how the hell did Renard go from this guy (who I assume is Daniel R. Schiff), to Sivo, the Rogat Orjak buddy of Jimmy Jims'? According to this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=55 Renard had been in Sivo's body for "more than 5 years". Annie is like 11 years old, right? So that means this would have happened when she was like 6 or something, right? I wonder if Renard taking over Sivo's body had anything to do with Surma dying. Somehow I don't think it's likely, because on this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=45 Renard doesn't seem to be aware that Surma is dead. Ugh so many questions, I love this webcomic. Maybe we will find out what Renard does in this guy's body on Wednesday.
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Suaimhneas posted:You really have to be careful about interpreting what Coyote says, huh? "You cannot be sure that will happen" is not the same as "I'm sure that won't happen." Jones was correct in that Coyote not being a liar is what's so dangerous about the things he says. Coyote seems to thrive on technicalities. SHISHKABOB posted:I also wonder what Coyote means by "will you let her get away". What happened between the time when Surma is all flyin' up in the air and Renard professes his love to her? Coyote also told Annie when she ran away to the forest that he already knew about the Court's plan to trick Renard, so if he did indeed know this would happen, then he instigated it, but to what end?
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Jun 24, 2013 15:44
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Jun 24, 2013 15:45
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Rasamune posted:
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Jun 24, 2013 15:48
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I guess Jones doesn't count lies by omission, because "you cannot be sure that will happen" is 100% true minus the fact he didn't add "but I am 100% sure it will!"
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SHISHKABOB posted:Also... how the hell did Renard go from this guy (who I assume is Daniel R. Schiff), to Sivo, the Rogat Orjak buddy of Jimmy Jims'? According to this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=55 Renard had been in Sivo's body for "more than 5 years". Annie is like 11 years old, right? So that means this would have happened when she was like 6 or something, right? Bear in mind that we don't know how long Renard was in this Schiff fellow...it could have been two days or ten years. And do we know for sure that he went straight from Schiff to Svo?
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Penguissimo posted:Bear in mind that we don't know how long Renard was in this Schiff fellow...it could have been two days or ten years. And do we know for sure that he went straight from Schiff to Svo? Yeah that's what I'm hoping we're going to learn relatively soon. Or maybe Hetty will be all "OMG RENARD CMON STOP DAYDREAMING GAWRSH" and will ruin it forever.
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DontMockMySmock posted:When will people learn that when Coyote's teeth lines go from straight to jagged, you need to stop listening to him? When will people learn not to listen to trickster gods. They're always the biggest assholes.
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Well, let's see. Each protector of the court seems to be paired up with one of the Rogat Orjak, for reasons we don't yet know. They operate as a team to protect the court. (We see this when Thorn is fighting the dogwood monsters and it's implied that it was true of Young as well.) So if Renard has taken over this boy's body, and he's discovered, the Eglamore/Sivo team is what's going to be dispatched to handle him. At this point, they probably don't know exactly how his power works. Either immediately during the fight or after a period of imprisonment, Renard swaps bodies to Sivo out of desperation and a desire to escape, at which point Mr. Schiff here keels over dead. They manage to dump Possessed Sivo in a hole somewhere, possibly after knocking him out, and then Anja and Donald figure out how to block his powers with the computer. Anja tattoos Eglamore and Donald so they can keep Renard imprisoned, and then they start trying to figure out a way to extract Renard from Sivo without killing him.
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