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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: giant_bug on 18 Mar 2009, 21:45
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Since the strip started (about 8/1/2003 if I remember), only about 71 total days have elapsed in the internal story timeline.
Since it's really been about 2056 days in our frame of reference, that means the time dilation factor of QC is about 29 to 1.
That would imply that the strip itself is travelling at least 99.94% of the speed of light.
Just thought everyone should know.
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Faye did say in #718 that everything was blueshifted.
If you want to give this the full nerdy treatment, we don't know how many days are in some of those undefined intervals, so the timing is uncertain. Jeph has said "more than six months and less than ten years". People who are my masters at obsessing with detail have tried to extrapolate the passage of time by measuring hair growth.
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In QC-verse, QC-Earth has a highly eccentric orbit. It reached periapsis around "The Talk" and apoapsis during the time the season and Dora's hair changed.
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time dilation obsession is so 1990's
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In QC-verse, QC-Earth has a highly eccentric orbit. It reached periapsis around "The Talk" and apoapsis during the time the season and Dora's hair changed.
But then the seasons would be much more extreme! Unless the city is under a dome, as we once supposed.
time dilation obsession is so 1990's
It's coming round again because of the Stable Time Loop (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StableTimeLoop), or something like that.
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If you want to give this the full nerdy treatment, we don't know how many days are in some of those undefined intervals, so the timing is uncertain. Jeph has said "more than six months and less than ten years". People who are my masters at obsessing with detail have tried to extrapolate the passage of time by measuring hair growth.
Yeah, I just went through the series noting changes of clothing and characters greeting each other with 'Good morning!'. I know, it' s pathetic.
It's interesting, though, that Jeph is pretty good with continuity. If Marten is wearing a blue t-shirt in the morning, it's on him all day. You'll even see a tiny patch of blue under his jacket when
he's outdoors. It's also notable that the characters change clothes every day. Most cartoon characters keep the same clothing forever.
I think I'll go count the hairs on my head now.
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In QC-verse, QC-Earth has a highly eccentric orbit. It reached periapsis around "The Talk" and apoapsis during the time the season and Dora's hair changed.
But then the seasons would be much more extreme! Unless the city is under a dome, as we once supposed.
The involvement of the US Government in robot technology suggests that politicians have been much friendlier to science in QC-verse than they have in our own. As a result, they've developed a "smart" greenhouse gas that retains heat in colder temperatures and radiates it back into space in warmer temperatures.
Also, QC-Venus exhibits prograde motion.
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It's interesting, though, that Jeph is pretty good with continuity. If Marten is wearing a blue t-shirt in the morning, it's on him all day. You'll even see a tiny patch of blue under his jacket when
he's outdoors. It's also notable that the characters change clothes every day. Most cartoon characters keep the same clothing forever.
This is actually one of my favorite things about the strip, the fact that the characters don't go through drastic wardrobe changes every 6 months/whenever Jeph feels like he wants to change them. They also start to have recurring shirts, so its not like he is just drawing them different each time. They get new shirts, and they also wear old ones, its something that makes this pretty unique for a weekly strip that has been running as long as it has.
Then again, you look at something like Penny-Arcade and you can't really see the main characters in anything but their token clothes. Of course their strip doesn't have as much continuity as QC, they do a lot more one off comics.
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I agree wholeheatedly with everything everyone has ever said, but mostly with what Pants just said
QC would just look bizzare if they didn't change clothes; even though it takes like a week for a day to go by then they jump forward several months. It adds that extra sense of realism n(and depth to the characters; not an awful lot but it kind of brings the Marten from the old strips "back" of he wears his Teh shirt, even though he - art-style wise - looks completely different)
... I shall return to this when the point I've been trying to make for about half an hour now forms into sentences in my head
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Then again, you look at something like Penny-Arcade and you can't really see the main characters in anything but their token clothes. Of course their strip doesn't have as much continuity as QC, they do a lot more one off comics.
PA doesn't actually have plot continuity
it does have character continuity, in that the characters stay the same throughout the strip, but nothing that happens in one strip also happens in another unless explicitly said so
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it is like comparing a TV drama like House (QC) to something like South Park(PA). sure time progresses but their really isnt a plot to it. QC has progression and character development.
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But often times, things tha have happened in past episodes/strips are called back into play in later ones.
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it is like comparing a TV drama like House (QC) to something like South Park(PA). sure time progresses but their really isnt a plot to it. QC has progression and character development.
The character development is possibly my favorite aspect of QC.
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Since the strip started (about 8/1/2003 if I remember), only about 71 total days have elapsed in the internal story timeline.
Surely it must be more than that... we had winter and summer, like, ... two times each?
Stop messing around with my br- duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrh... *grumble* ... food! Me want food!
@ChampionOfKhorne / UTAlan:
I prefer Nurgle, and ... what character development? Lately - it seems to me - it has come to an almost complete stop... Oo
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@ChampionOfKhorne / UTAlan:
I prefer Nurgle, and ... what character development? Lately - it seems to me - it has come to an almost complete stop... Oo
Maybe for Marten and Dora, but not for Faye. She is growing/changing a lot lately, given everything that's going on with Sven.
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She has yet to draw a real conclusion and make her second encounter with Sven.
I will postpone my acknowledgement until I see some real change in behaviour, not just relationship-ish philosophy ;)
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Dammit, out of topic.
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OMG, wtf! Timetravel!
(Woyzeck was written in 1830-something!!)
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I believe that the recent switch that showed Dora's hair much longer and Faye bitching about the cold indicates that the storyline has been in place for about a year, because it was chilly when Faye and Marten met, then it was summer, now it's winter again.
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They don't look very chilly here (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=13).
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Steve wearing a jacket in 63 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=63).
Faye taking off an overshirt in 82 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=82).
Faye boob-clutching because it is chilly out (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=89).
Case, rested.
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I propose that was spring, back in the beginning. Explains both warm enough for short sleeves and the boob groping because of the cold.
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Possibly, but I think it's too vague to call; where do cool evenings (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=563) and freezing hands (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=772) fit in?
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Possibly, but I think it's too vague to call; where do cool evenings (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=563) and freezing hands (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=772) fit in?
Isn't the North always cold and dark?
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Isn't the North always cold and dark?
In the summer? No. not even close.
Of course, the QC world isn't exactly the same as our world, so QC Massachusetts might be a lot cooler temperature-wise than the real Massachusetts.
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Isn't the North always cold and dark?
In the summer? No. not even close.
Compared to the south (read: heaven on earth*) yes it is. The north is full of godless devils who live in the cold dark dark coldness.
Seriously, that's how they think down here.
* Seriously, that's how they think down here.
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The Man maintains that Illinois is part of the arctic circle.
Granted it wasn't quite as cold in winter when we lived in Arkansas, but you put a three of inches of snow on the ground and everyone is snowed in.