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After reading the comic strip megathread it struck me that Gunnerkrigg share a fair bit with the Moomins. They have a similar blend of the munadane and everyday mixed with the fantastic and they both share a snes of good natured Whimsy. Gunnerkrigg is a bit more serious though, more along with the more serious themes Tove Jansson tackled in her Moomin books.
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Jan 4, 2012 23:34
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Leovinus posted:Robot friend. Also, site's up for me.
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Jan 4, 2012 23:37
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Elysiume posted:Where? I can't find it. It's been fixed since that post. It said "time" instead of "times"
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Jan 4, 2012 23:47
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Leovinus posted:It was established when Antimony first met Coyote that the Gunnerkrigg administration (at least, the headmaster) does not give much of a poo poo about the forest. Not a big surprise that Foley doesn't get treated too well, seeing as how it seems to be made up of ex-foresters. Although, if you were fresh out of the forest, would you really feel comfortable going to school in a gleaming faceless miesian edifice of steel and glass? Maybe you might I dunno
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Jan 5, 2012 00:57
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I think you're all reading way too much into a few cracks, given that the rest of Gunnerkrigg is full of them too.
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Jan 5, 2012 01:02
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Yeah, I mean, remember way back in the third comic ever: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=3 The court's just naturally run down. The robots keep everything hanging together, but the place is ancient and huge and no one's interested in surface appearances. And it's not like there's gonna be an Ofsted inspection anytime soon.
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Jan 5, 2012 01:49
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Fangz posted:Yeah, I mean, remember way back in the third comic ever: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=3 Actually I think this explains all the cracks quite nicely: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=31  But really, it's a massive, massive massive massive place that appears to be maintained only enough to function, not look nice. Besides, how would you keep a place that big looking good?
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Jan 5, 2012 02:10
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Niton posted:Robot has a name, though. I assume from the above link you're inferring his actual name is "S13". But note the label on the box here: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=8. (Just noticed this when I started reading forward from Fangz' link.)
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Jan 5, 2012 05:20
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nothings posted:I assume from the above link you're inferring his actual name is "S13". But note the label on the box here: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=8. (Just noticed this when I started reading forward from Fangz' link.) That seems to have been retconned a little, I think, since he's based on S1, which stood for Seraph 1.
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Jan 5, 2012 07:24
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Orbital mechanics, a fine choice.
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Jan 6, 2012 09:58
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Just noticed that all the former forest dwellers have those same grey eyes. Nice little touch there I didn't note before. Example from earlier in the comic.
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Jan 6, 2012 10:13
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Well, that's not what I was expecting for the Foley lessons.
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Jan 6, 2012 10:15
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Zorak posted:Orbital mechanics, a fine choice. 
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Jan 6, 2012 10:17
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Zorak posted:Orbital mechanics, a fine choice. I knew those equations looked familiar. Okay, maybe just the G(M+m) part. Had to have something to do with gravity
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Jan 6, 2012 11:32
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Tarezax posted:I knew those equations looked familiar. The diagrams are kinda a giveaway too.
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Jan 6, 2012 11:56
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I'm still holding out hope that any minute now a bell's going to ring, or Twisted Sister's going to start playing over the loudspeaker, and the real lesson will start.
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Jan 6, 2012 15:07
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Metoron posted:Just noticed that all the former forest dwellers have those same grey eyes. Nice little touch there I didn't note before. Hahaha, I remember when I first saw this page, I thought the girl in the extreme lower right had the biggest  face of all time. And... lacked irises.Regarding today, to me, the most surprising part of all of this is that they're studying in a classroom with interior windows and actually paying attention. I'd always be distracted by people walking by if that was me.
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Jan 6, 2012 15:57
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Wow, what a revelation! Who would have thought that Red is a jerk?
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Jan 6, 2012 16:04
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Fecha posted:Wow, what a revelation! Who would have thought that Red is a jerk? Not sure where you'd getting that. She acknowledges the Annie, then goes back to work. That makes me think that either A) her class is super strict and she'd get in trouble for doing more than glancing over, or B) forest creatures really love orbital math. (Unlikely) Given the the Court doesn't seem to really like the forest, I wonder if this is a "stop being all forest-y wacky" Court policy in place.
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Jan 6, 2012 16:11
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Bobulus posted:Not sure where you'd getting that. Yeah, I'm wondering if the lessons are designed to drain their...forest-y...personalities away and make them act more appropriate for the Court, or if inexplicably learning by rote from boring-rear end lectures is the best way forest-dwellers can learn the Court curriculum and they're all just really focused.
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Jan 6, 2012 16:38
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Well, that answers that question. Let's not assume the worst of the court just because the kids are all concentrating in a physics class.
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Jan 6, 2012 16:44
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I just got done reading the whole thing, and I have to say that this page is my recent favorite. (robox)
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Jan 6, 2012 17:32
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Jan 6, 2012 18:30
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LtStorm posted:Yeah, I'm wondering if the lessons are designed to drain their...forest-y...personalities away and make them act more appropriate for the Court, or if inexplicably learning by rote from boring-rear end lectures is the best way forest-dwellers can learn the Court curriculum and they're all just really focused. Or maybe science is super interesting when you've lived in a magic forest with a living god your whole life!
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Jan 6, 2012 18:59
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There needs to be a "random Gunnerkrigg page" button so that I can waste more time at work.
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Jan 6, 2012 19:42
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Insane Totoro posted:There needs to be a "random Gunnerkrigg page" button so that I can waste more time at work. That would destroy me. With regard to today's page, I think it interesting that the instructor seems to be from the forest too (pointy ears). I wonder how common that is or if it's just a thing with Foley.
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Jan 6, 2012 19:50
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Insane Totoro posted:There needs to be a "random Gunnerkrigg page" button so that I can waste more time at work. But you'd only hit it once, then read forward from there.
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Jan 6, 2012 19:59
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Kismet posted:Or maybe science is super interesting when you've lived in a magic forest with a living god your whole life! Or maybe science is just super interesting! Remember: even Kat and Annie were taking "Double Physics" and such!
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Jan 6, 2012 20:00
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Also if you stop paying attention for even a moment in one of these lectures you will be lost and spend the entire time trying to catch back up because you missed what that crucial eccentricity equation means and then when you figure it out you missed another equation and the process repeats itself and why yes this is a thing that has happened to me why do you ask? It's the most realistic depiction of a science lecture I've seen in entertainment to date.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:04
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If there is a place in the Court that's all run-down and cracked, it's probably the humanities department.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:07
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Shugojin posted:But you'd only hit it once, then read forward from there. No you see, you would hit it once every day at work and never do anything again.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:07
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Zorak posted:Or maybe science is just super interesting! I think "Double 'class x'" is just a schedule thing where you have two class periods in the same subject back-to-back. We've seen that Foley students don't get a summer break, so I think their schooling is just that intense.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:09
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Insane Totoro posted:There needs to be a "random Gunnerkrigg page" button so that I can waste more time at work. Feel free to hate me. Create a bookmark, replace the url with this: code:code:
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Jan 6, 2012 20:09
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I'm reading The Pale King right now and I'm in the middle of a scene that's exactly like this, just endless equations that I don't understand. For a second I crossed wires and thought that Annie was in training to be an accountant. Yes I don't know math for poo poo beyond basic trig.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:10
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Benagain posted:I'm reading The Pale King right now and I'm in the middle of a scene that's exactly like this, just endless equations that I don't understand. For a second I crossed wires and thought that Annie was in training to be an accountant. My accounting courses are exactly like this. Thankfully, the GK archives have helped me through some of the more depression inducing lectures.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:18
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Geekner posted:Feel free to hate me. Whew! Doesn't work in Chrome!
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Jan 6, 2012 20:47
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Insane Totoro posted:Whew! Doesn't work in Chrome! Odd, I wrote it in chrome. Did you create a bookmark and paste it in? Sometimes the "java script:" bit gets cut off when pasting.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:48
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Geekner posted:Odd, I wrote it in chrome. Did you create a bookmark and paste it in? Sometimes the "java script:" bit gets cut off when pasting. Nope. Just plain doesn't work for me
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Jan 6, 2012 21:03
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Do you have java downloaded
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