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WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
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--- Quote from: NilsO on 11 Aug 2014, 20:48 ---I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
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Considering how Angus reacted the last time he came in on Faye drunk... Paddle steamer, meet Niagara Falls?
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Which raises the question: from what direction does the steamer approach the falls?
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Close enough and it doesn't matter.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 11 Aug 2014, 19:00 ---This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.
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Compared to thirty years ago, WE live in a bizarre sci-fi universe. We all walk around with Star Trek communicators in our pockets that are also cameras and video recorders that can also store and play back our entire music collections and can give us maps and directions and can make dinner reservations for us and nobody thinks twice about this. Also unthinkable thirty years ago: the Soviet Union no longer exists, the US has a black president, and gay couples can get married in many places. The QC universe is, by comparison, only slightly weirder than ours.
Oh, by the way, the planet Mars is populated entirely by robots. You're welcome.
jwhouk:
I'm a bit concerned, as the boss hasn't posted to twitter since this afternoon. This (around 11 PM ET) is usually the time he's already posted the new comic.
celticgeek:
I was worried about that, too. but the comic is up.
And he posted on twitter.
Near Lurker:
Mason jars?
Boy, have they gone native.
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