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[Bauglir]

We do know that some meteors still have to go back through, because they still get the ruins. They're just not initiated by the Reckoning. Best guess right now is that it goes back through a portal after they reach the session (which is where they're headed; reaching the universe would require navigating to the Troll session, because that's where the genesis frog containing all of the kids' universes is located). Presumably it lands sometime after the Condesce conquers the world and humanity has gone extinct, so that there are no records of it for Dirk and Roxy (they don't seem to travel much), and Earth is yanked to its new star (as stated by Hussie) sometime between everybody Entering and the Miles destroying the universe*. I wouldn't be surprised if the Condesce, under English's instructions, were responsible for setting up all the jujus and stuff that the Cherubs had to put up with, or even creating the Cherubs themselves.

*Does this mean that the Earth escaped the Miles?

[Max White]

Ok so I am literally reading the most recent update right now...
The actual fuck Hussie? Are you trying to break the human condition?

[Darvi]

Are you trying to break the human condition?

If he actually does, I support the notion.

[MadocComadrin]

The funny thing about how Caliborn draws a circle is that he's exactly correct in that no matter how small he makes segments meeting at right angles, it will always be a fake circle that will simply fool people. It's the Pi=4 fallacy!

[Bauglir]

The funny thing about how Caliborn draws a circle is that he's exactly correct in that no matter how small he makes segments meeting at right angles, it will always be a fake circle that will simply fool people. It's the Pi=4 fallacy!

Huh. He just invented Calculus. That's actually kind of impressive.

The best part is that he did it wrong.

Yo.

[Duke 2.0]

 So, the gates to Earth are the Skaia defense portals. They automatically activate when a threat is recognized and are primarily there to deal with the Veil falling apart. Should not matter if the reckoning happens, any meteor heading towards Skaia is gonna get portal'd. Like a laboratory meteor careening in from outside the Furthest Ring that the kids jump off of before it reached Skaia.

[Aqizzar]

Time sure flies when you're being smooth and well dressed.

Last we saw Droog, he was tearing Derse half apart with red junk.  Cut to five months later, where he's apparently been doing nothing but smoking and looking at porn the whole time, while the queen exercises the main benefit of being immortal.

I for one find all this more interesting than probably anybody.

[penguinofhonor]

That's the life, man.

[SomeStupidGuy]

I find it interesting solely because, Droog is the best character. Seriously.

[Bauglir]

I find it interesting solely because, Droog is the best character. Seriously.

I have to agree, for the moment. Dude is just excellent. Although in fairness, my opinion tends to select whoever's in the spotlight at a given moment, provided they're actually being entertaining.

[Jim Groovester]

How does a man so violent that his various incarnations have destroyed entire universes and who kills to ease boredom have the patience to perform any amount of paperwork, and evidently be really, really good at it?

The characterization of Jack Noir &co. seems inconsistent at times.

Also, why is DD wearing his Midnight Crew getup, and where did he get it?

[Putnam]

He doesn't have the patience for it, he's just really good at it.

[Soadreqm]

The funny thing about how Caliborn draws a circle is that he's exactly correct in that no matter how small he makes segments meeting at right angles, it will always be a fake circle that will simply fool people. It's the Pi=4 fallacy!

He's still getting a shape with area approaching that of the circle he's trying to draw. Also circumference, in Manhattan distance. >:]

Anyway, everyone knows that π=3=e.

[Bauglir]

Also, why is DD wearing his Midnight Crew getup, and where did he get it?

Probably because it's classy, and he probably got it from a Dersite tailor.

[Jim Groovester]

The funny thing about how Caliborn draws a circle is that he's exactly correct in that no matter how small he makes segments meeting at right angles, it will always be a fake circle that will simply fool people. It's the Pi=4 fallacy!

He's only exactly correct in the finite case. In the infinite case, he'll have a circle, because the limit shape of the sequence of shapes he's constructing will be a circle.

The point of the Pi=4 fallacy is not that the limit shape will somehow not be a circle, it's that the limit of a sequence of shapes, functions, etc. need not share the properties of the members of the sequence.

For a simple demonstration of this phenomenon, consider the sequence of functions defined by:

f_n(x) = { 1/n       0 <= x <= n
             0           otherwise

Where n is a natural number and examine the integral on all of R. Each function in the sequence has an area of 1, but the limit function is identically f(x) = 0 whose area is obviously 0.

Can everybody stop talking about this now?