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WCDT 8-13 December 2014 (Strips 2850-2854)
Kugai:
I think the NRO is like MIB
But without Neuralisers.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 11 Dec 2014, 13:58 ---But without Neuralisers.
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HANNERS: "I'm not allowed to talk about it. But we're working on that technology."
Kairi:
As a note to those saying Clinton's surprise is... surprising: I was the witness to a conversation last month between two people who met at an overnight writing event and discovered while there that they literally sit in the same row on the same side of the room in a college class. And had never noticed each other. So, you can see people and not have it register strongly--in this case, Clinton remembers Emily from class but not from elsewhere. Who knows! (I am of the assume-the-comic-creator-is-always-right-and-try-to-justify-things-for-them camp, if that helps. Just how my brain works.)
Case:
--- Quote from: Rghfrgl on 11 Dec 2014, 10:28 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 11 Dec 2014, 08:40 ---The "computational Demonology"-concept is definately a reference to the Laundry series
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It could be, but not definitely. Wikipedias saying those started in 2004 and the concepts been done way before that. Shin Megami Tensei series did it in the early 90s(And I wouldn't be surprised if they stole the idea from something even earlier). Or he saw that one episode of buffy where a demon got in a computer. Or something else. Or he just came up with it himself. :psyduck:
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I didn't know about Shin Megami Tensei - is it any good?
My money would still be on the Laundry series though, since there are indications that Jeph likes Charlie Stross' work (Stross was one of the guests at MartenDad's wedding, e.g.). He seems to be well-versed in all the contemporary SF-bigwigs and builds in references to Herbert (Dune - e.g. the Iiiiiiiiiiih-Cha! ), William Gibson (The name of the store that sold Momo's upgraded chassis is 'Idoru' - the same as the last book in Gibson's Bridge trilogy) - I'm still waiting for a Doctrow reference ...
Stross is a master at repurposing ideas & making them his own, though - He does Cyberpunk, near-future SF, Space opera, you name it - I wouldn't be surprise if he got the idea for the Laundry from Shin Megami Tensei.
Is it cold in here?:
I can fail to recognize someone if I see them in a new context.
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