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WCDT: 2460-2464 (3-7 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
mustang6172:
I was just reading some old comics and thought, "Whatever happened to Sam?"
Also I wonder how Dave and Meena are doing on the baby making front.
mtmerrick:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 03 Jun 2013, 22:08 ---Damn Talents with Teleportation abilities.
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Loki:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 03 Jun 2013, 22:08 ---Damn Talents with Teleportation abilities.
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Also known as OffscreenTeleportation on TvTropes.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Jun 2013, 17:12 ---...don't see how the "hairy sphere" theorem applies here.
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Yeah, that one, thanks! It was the only thing relevant that I could think of.
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 03 Jun 2013, 22:14 ---Also I wonder how Dave and Meena are doing on the baby making front.
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I admit my first reaction was "who? :?" Then I read the wiki article. I never realized that we got the "Steve eats Cheerios" comic because he really likes Cheerios.
Method of Madness:
Dora's head is at the top of the panel, so you can't see the exclamation mark above it.
J:
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 02 Jun 2013, 03:09 ---There are all sorts of issues with carrying a sword in public.
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Even if sheathed?
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In Australia at least, even with unsharpened edges, sheathed, and in a bag. Australian taijiquan and other martial-arts groups have been trying to get this sorted out for years. Basically, it is down to the judgement of the individual police officers you happen to bump into, so it is best to carry your sword in a bag that conceals its shape.
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 03 Jun 2013, 00:15 ---I find it insulting in the same way I find sport/olympic fencing insulting. One does not take a weapon art and making an amusing game out of it.
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So... Olympic 50m pistol is out? Clay pigeon shooting? Biathlon? The sort of shooting contest depicted in Magnum Force (I don't know what it would properly be called)? Don't you and your shooting-buddies compete for scores, or who can shoot the smallest group, or whatever? How do you train in any martial art, armed or weaponless, without making it essentially a game? You can't actually deliver lethal strokes on the practice mat, so the process becomes a competition for touches or points. On the other hand, for example, many traditional shifu do take a dim view of competition styles which are pretty much wholly divorced from martial training, no matter how skilled the practitioners (and Chai Fong Ying is very very good)..
What on earth is Faye wearing? Is this actually a style in the USA? The colour is good for her, but... It also seems to be "wear white belts to work day", and white belts are naff IMHO, but YMMV of course.
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--- Quote from: Snow Crash, by Niel Stephenson ---Now Hiro knows something about this businessman, namely, that like most Nipponese sword fighters, all he knows is kendo.
Kendo is to real samurai sword fighting what fencing is to real swashbuckling: an attempt to take a highly disorganized, chaotic, violent, and brutal conflict and turn it into a cute game. As in fencing, you're only supposed to attack certain parts of the body -- the parts that are protected by armor. As in fencing, you're not allowed to kick your opponent in the kneecaps or break a chair over his head. And the judging is totally subjective. In kendo, you can get a good solid hit on your opponent and still not get credit for it, because the judges feel you didn't possess the right amount of zanshin.
Hiro doesn't have any zanshin at all. He just wants this over with. The next time the businessman sets up his ear-splitting screech and shuffles toward Hiro, cutting and snapping his blade, Hiro parries the attack, turns around, and cuts both of his legs off just above the knees.
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