Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2036 - 2040, Oct 17th - 21st 2011
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Tova on 20 Oct 2011, 13:46 ---Surely this thread is far from the biggest overreaction seen around here... more like on par for any plot-related comic.
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Well, it seemed a bit worse until I turned the marquees off.
gprimr1:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Oct 2011, 14:17 ---You know, it's funny - I think that the train station in Amherst is about a third of a mile away from where we figured Dora had her new apartment.
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It's very close to the town. You can walk to Umass from it, as I did twice in the rain :/.
Although, on a uber-technical note, there is only 1 track at the Amherst station. I thought for a minute Jeff was dreaming ahead to when they rebuild the Boston and Maine and bring the train back through Northampton. They were supposed to start this year, but apparently they didn't have the crews, the line requires considerable, considerable work, if anyone has been caught by a train, the speed limit is only 10mph.
westrim:
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 20 Oct 2011, 15:56 ---Although, on a uber-technical note, there is only 1 track at the Amherst station. I thought for a minute Jeff was dreaming ahead to when they rebuild the Boston and Maine and bring the train back through Northampton. They were supposed to start this year, but apparently they didn't have the crews, the line requires considerable, considerable work, if anyone has been caught by a train, the speed limit is only 10mph.
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Maybe mass transit didn't degrade in development as badly in QCverse as it did in ours.
rje:
--- Quote from: DSL on 20 Oct 2011, 10:35 ---A.) any combination of those will explain, unless it's something else.
B.) There are cities and there are cities. I live in something that is legally a city, occasionally visit three nearby agglomerations that are more realistically cities, and spent one long weekend in the lower part of Manhattan. I enjoyed myself but was glad to leave and return to my legally-a-city; saw no bongo-playing rats in The City, but damn that place is best experienced in small doses by a farm boy like me.
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The only time I ever visited NYC I think the thing that struck me the most was how much it really felt like you were in a maze... It was like...there was street below, sky overhead but the only thing on all sides were buildings. Like just buildings, no matter where you were, all the roads led to buildings. I was someone used to a horizon line being visible at least some direction - I was feeling really claustrophobic by the end of the day, heh.
(But it was still an awesome trip if only because everyone was so nice. Like really friendly and helpful - being the public-transportation virgin I was, a bus driver even caught up to and stopped next to a bus I had to transfer to so I wouldn't miss it. Although it may have helped that my drawl was turned up to 11 at that time lol, I was quite obviously a lost little tourist.)
Awww @ the comic
That was really kind of awesome
I don't blame Angus though, if there's any time to say that, it's before a trip. And I like how Jeph had Faye stutter, really shows she was caught off guard and blurted it. Genuine, but still a surprise.
Kugai:
My prediction for Friday
Knight Sabres
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