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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?

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raoullefere:

--- Quote from: sofiabailote on 05 Dec 2008, 03:22 ---When you watch a Ninja movie (sorry, I just saw one  :roll: ) you don't go "Holly shit, the dude just flew up that building! he's breaking gravity laws!! that must be the FUTURE!!

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Actually, if you're over ten or so, you say, "Haha, no-one can really do that. See, he just hovered in the air for thirty-five seconds and kicked the good guy nine times in the left nostril. Can you see the wire?" Therefore chronological identification is immediately made irrelevant.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Jeans on 04 Dec 2008, 14:21 ---What kind of answer are you looking for?

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There are some great examples earlier in the thread of stories that "explain" how a world could end up like the one Jeph made up for fun.

Evidently the goal here wasn't as clear as intended. It's like one of those creative writing exercises where you're supposed to make up a story to go with a picture. Instead of a picture, there's a fictional universe that was designed to be funny instead of internally consistent. The challenge comes from the difficulty of making up an explanation that's consistent with the fiction, and the fun comes from making it interesting, funny, and ideally wacky in a QC'ish form of wackiness. It's a form of active, creative enjoyment of the strip, analogous to fan fiction except that this game leaves the characters in Jeph's hands.

Sitting back and enjoying the comic passively is fine, but it's not the only way to have fun with Questionable Content.

Clearer?

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