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What would you do in the QC universe?
Is it cold in here?:
If you became a new character in QC, or if you moved to a city where there's a crowd who acts exactly like the QC people, what would you do?
Norton Quintessential:
Probably curl up and wait for death's embrace.
With impressing (in the "force-into-servitude" definition) baristas, vigilantes who don't bother fact-checking, laser-happy robots, and women in glasses who can apparently beat people up with impunity, I figure it's only a matter of time anyway.
JReynolds:
I think what we would do would be based on how our time ran. To explain: the most recently completed QC day ran from comics 1150-1166. So one QC day took more than three real time weeks.
If there was no time adjustment, we'd be sitting around, watching the characters move v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. Their utterances would probably be inaudible basso rumblings.
Consider what would happen if there were a time adjustment, though. We'd go into the QC-verse for (say) a week. Assuming we survive the
--- Quote from: Norton Quintessential on 28 Jun 2008, 01:01 ---...baristas, vigilantes who don't bother fact-checking, laser-happy robots, and women in glasses who can apparently beat people up with impunity...
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we'd be gone for roughly six weeks. You'd be a missing person stat; your friends and loved ones would have been notified of your mysterious disappearance, and Jeph would be undergoing interrogation for having shanghaied someone into his cartoon.
This actually happened once before. Sara wasn't eaten by an allosaurus, you know. She visited QC-land for 60 strips or so. When she got back to the real world, she found that six months had passed.
GenericName:
--- Quote from: JReynolds on 28 Jun 2008, 06:59 ---I think too much
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Additionally, I would probably get a haircut.
Is it cold in here?:
I think jreynolds will end up as the winner of this thread.
I'd go out for coffee, but if I tried to make friends with any of the regulars they'd probably jump to the conclusion that I was hitting on them, and we all know where that leads.
Maybe I could just be content making a comfortable living selling Amway cleaners to Hannelore.
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