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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court: Confusion, confusion everywhere!
« Reply #1905 on: October 31, 2012, 10:52:34 am »

It doesn't say she pre-dates human, it could be the last ice age.

Oh, good point.  I'm getting my ages mixed up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene#Humans_during_the_Pleistocene

So I guess this is as far as she can go back without pre-dating humans.
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« Reply #1906 on: October 31, 2012, 10:59:20 am »

Yeah, if she goes back longer than there's been humans still looking like one, I'm going to be a bit disappointed. I mean, retroactive godhood is cool and all, but she's no Vivec.
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« Reply #1907 on: October 31, 2012, 11:12:08 am »

Yeah, if she goes back longer than there's been humans still looking like one, I'm going to be a bit disappointed. I mean, retroactive godhood is cool and all, but she's no Vivec.

Well hopefully she can't be killed by getting shitfaced on Sujamma and wildly swinging a weapon like he can (could?), but maybe this retroactive godhood thing isn't all that applicable since she keeps a low profile about it.
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« Reply #1908 on: October 31, 2012, 11:43:31 am »

Alternate theory -- She's a construct of the Court who got caught up in a time-travel prank gone horribly wrong, and like Marvin the Android has had to wait a really, really, REALLY long time to get caught back up to where she was. That look is her "I am not amused" face.
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« Reply #1909 on: October 31, 2012, 11:49:41 am »

That would be kind of awesome.
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« Reply #1910 on: October 31, 2012, 11:56:26 am »

Alternate theory -- She's a construct of the Court who got caught up in a time-travel prank gone horribly wrong, and like Marvin the Android has had to wait a really, really, REALLY long time to get caught back up to where she was. That look is her "I am not amused" face.

Luckily she doesn't seem the kind to tell us if she's been feeling depressed... not that we'd care anyway  :P
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« Reply #1911 on: October 31, 2012, 12:16:51 pm »

That would be kind of awesome.
It wouldn't even be that hard to set up with the current trend either. All he has to do is replace the very last "traveling backwards" page with one titled "many years in the future" or something similar.
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« Reply #1912 on: October 31, 2012, 01:45:50 pm »

We know he reads, or at one point read, Homestuck. "Years in the future... But not many"
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court: Confusion, confusion everywhere!
« Reply #1913 on: October 31, 2012, 11:03:46 pm »

Jones is obvisouly a goddamn alien. Fucking british alien robots.
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« Reply #1914 on: November 01, 2012, 03:15:19 am »

Damn you time-traveling british alien robot dinosaur golem earth-elemental dieties an' your rock'n'roll music!
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« Reply #1915 on: November 01, 2012, 05:04:40 pm »

IDE/THEORY: Tom intends to explain jack shit. We're just going to follow Jones backwards in time and then the chapter ends without ever telling anything about who or what she is and where she comes from. And then we get a similar timeline for City Face.
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« Reply #1916 on: November 01, 2012, 05:08:02 pm »

I expect a big WTF moment right at the end of the chapter.
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« Reply #1917 on: November 01, 2012, 05:56:52 pm »

Jones is a doctor actually, and Tom is with BBC working on a spinoff secretly and testing how long they can go like this before having to reveal themselves :O

Or something, this chapter is just a tad too annoying in the way it is raising twice as much questions as it is answering, and I bet that he's chuckling like a madman as we squirm with curiosity, the desire to know slowly eating away our sanity.




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« Reply #1918 on: November 02, 2012, 07:17:31 am »

Okay, definitely older than humans. By several orders of magnitude.
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« Reply #1919 on: November 02, 2012, 07:32:02 am »

Yes. Very old. Very old indeed.
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