Topic: WCT: June 8-12, 2009 (Read 41116 times)

celticgeek · « **on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:14 »

Windows AnthroPCs should never believe Linux AnthroPCs, and vice-versa. Both types are mean, sneaky, underhanded little fellows.

That said, a sentience matrix sounds interesting, and worth a shot.

Sceptre · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:16 »

I'm going to start calling our little perverted roibot friend Pinrsize from now on Wink

Also, I was tweet-replying @dresdencodak when I clicked on the QC comic link. Get out of my head, Jeph!

ysth · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:22 »

"rout"?

KrisMerrells · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:22 »

Isn't that what David Carradine was trying to do?

Sceptre · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:27 »

Quote from: KrisMerrells on 07 Jun 2009, 21:22

Isn't that what David Carradine was trying to do?

I call it pulling a Stephen Milligan, after the MP who famously accidentally killed himself by dressing up as a chick, vibrator in his ass, Newcastle United shirt, orange in his mouth, noose around the neck.

Police removed the Newcastle jersey to save his family the embarrassment.

_{Stuff about the Newcastle shirt or vibrator may not be true. Offer void in Nebraska.}

KrisMerrells · « **Reply #5 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:28 »

lol... I totally have a Newcastle shirt.

Sceptre · « **Reply #6 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:31 »

Quote from: KrisMerrells on 07 Jun 2009, 21:28

lol... I totally have a Newcastle shirt.

You poor soul.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #7 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 21:32 »

I didn't think of PT-410X as having any kind of sense of humor, even a mean one.

frullic · « **Reply #8 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 22:50 »

what do you expect from linux? if you want something done nicely and well ask a mac

Random832 · « **Reply #9 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:04 »

there's nothing i hate more than missing a reference

So... Who's 3ve?

ysth · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:10 »

The one that's not KimikoRoss.

guyy · « **Reply #11 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:11 »

Wait...sublimation? Huh?

...Ok, so there's this, too, but that doesn't make much sense either.

ysth · « **Reply #12 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:19 »

Quote from: guyy on 07 Jun 2009, 23:11

Wait...sublimation? Huh?

...Ok, so there's this, too, but that doesn't make much sense either.

I assume it's the chemistry one. Pintsize would definitely need thiotimoline for that, though.

Mad Cat · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:20 »

3ve = Apple Geeks reference http://www.applegeeks.com/
KimikoRoss = Dredsen Codak reference http://dresdencodak.com/

To sublimate is merely to pass from solid phase to gaseous phase without observing the chemical custom of attaining a liquid phase. At least, that's the usual meaning I take for it. Basicly, any transcendence from one form (mere anthroPC) to another (godPC) would satisfy the meaning.

And for those less geeky than ysth and I, thiotimoline = fictional Asimovian chemical compound with time travel properties. Coat an object in TTL, which dissolves in water, and then prepare to dunk the TTL coated object in water, but then don't, and the the TTL will undergo a temporal shift to travel forward into a time where you would dunk it in water, taking the object with it.

It put the waste management industry out of business.

root@PT410X:~# slapt-get --install sense_of_humor

Kugai · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:33 »

Well, it's nice to know that Pintsize can still be gullible sometimes.

I wonder what terrible and protracted revenge he will have in mind now

guyy · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 23:43 »

Quote from: Mad Cat on 07 Jun 2009, 23:20

To sublimate is merely to pass from solid phase to gaseous phase without observing the chemical custom of attaining a liquid phase. At least, that's the usual meaning I take for it. Basicly, any transcendence from one form (mere anthroPC) to another (godPC) would satisfy the meaning.

Yeah, but being an ultra-literalist, it sounds to me like Pintsize wants to become God by vaporizing himself.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 00:43 »

Putting his power supply into a feedback loop might have accomplished just that if it had worked.

pwhodges · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 00:49 »

I supposed that Pintsize meant some kind of psychological sublimation.

Marken · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 00:59 »

Quote from: frullic on 07 Jun 2009, 22:50

what do you expect from linux? if you want something done nicely and well ask a mac

Sorry! can't stand it any more!
Your new generation macs are UNIX based operating systems (as is linux), using intel chips. Mac IS a PC, just a very fancy one. In reality one can achieve the same result in ease of use and visual aesthetics, buying a lightweight netbook and installing a user friendly linux distribution, i.e. Ubuntu. Same result, but a lot, a LOT cheaper.

Now that said.
(Once again, i apologize)

Considering linux being built from the start with multi-user functionality in mind, does that make linux based anthro-pc's a bit... schicophrenic?

pwhodges · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 01:05 »

There's still quite a difference between BSD Unix (as used in Darwin, the kernel of the Mac) and Linux. I use BSD (specifically OpenBSD) for firewalls, because it is the best.

Marken · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 01:22 »

Well... yeah, if you go into specifics.
I just wanted to pop the illusions of grandeur, and to explain that they are not from another planet, but more of a next of kin, actually. That's all.

plethora · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 03:13 »

Quote from: Marken on 08 Jun 2009, 00:59

Quote from: frullic on 07 Jun 2009, 22:50
what do you expect from linux? if you want something done nicely and well ask a mac

Sorry! can't stand it any more!
Your new generation macs are UNIX based operating systems (as is linux), using intel chips. Mac IS a PC, just a very fancy one. In reality one can achieve the same result in ease of use and visual aesthetics, buying a lightweight netbook and installing a user friendly linux distribution, i.e. Ubuntu. Same result, but a lot, a LOT cheaper.

Now that said.
(Once again, i apologize)

Considering linux being built from the start with multi-user functionality in mind, does that make linux based anthro-pc's a bit... schicophrenic?

Would you like your internet gift-wrapped, sir?

Jace · « **Reply #22 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 03:36 »

Quote from: guyy on 07 Jun 2009, 23:43

Yeah, but being an ultralisk, it sounds to me like Pintsize wants to become God by vaporizing himself.

This is how I read it.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #23 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 04:08 »

Sounds like the robot version of "Seemed like a good idea at the time."

ekafrikay · « **Reply #24 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 11:11 »

Quote from: Marken on 08 Jun 2009, 00:59

Mac IS a PC, just a very fancy one.

True, if you take PC in its most literal meaning of "Personal Computer". In the media and popular culture, however, PC usually is used to refer to a computer which runs Windows. So by that definition, an Apple computer is not a PC unless you make it run Windows, which until a few years ago wasn't possible without a large amount of hacking.

And even though OSX is based on Unix, saying that its comparable to any flavor of Linux isn't really fair, as the user friendliness (especially to non-techy people) and stability of OSX is unmatched by Linux or any other operating system I've tried (although Windows 7 comes close).

The Joker · « **Reply #25 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 13:08 »

*bursts in the door*

NERRRRD!!!!

pwhodges · « **Reply #26 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 13:27 »

The Personal Computer (in full, the IBM Personal Computer) predated the first version of Windows by several years, and was even offered with a version of Unix for a while.

Kugai · « **Reply #27 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 13:29 »

Quote from: The Joker on 08 Jun 2009, 13:08

*bursts in the door*

NERRRRD!!!!

Yes, and they run the world now

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

bhtooefr · « **Reply #28 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 13:38 »

And then you have the weird people that make their IBM-compatible PCs into Macs.

(There, does "IBM-compatible PC" work for all of you?)

Rabdsquirlz · « **Reply #29 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 16:15 »

Wait, while Kimiko does indeed have a high percentage of cyborg parts now, she's still technically human. What's she doing in a robot chat room?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #30 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 17:31 »

Maybe the robots invited her out of respect. Or she's just crashing the party.

Kugai · « **Reply #31 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 18:28 »

I wonder if they talk to Motoko Kusanagi as well

thaX · « **Reply #32 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 20:07 »

Quote from: ekafrikay on 08 Jun 2009, 11:11

Quote from: Marken on 08 Jun 2009, 00:59
Mac IS a PC, just a very fancy one.

True, if you take PC in its most literal meaning of "Personal Computer". In the media and popular culture, however, PC usually is used to refer to a computer which runs Windows. So by that definition, an Apple computer is not a PC unless you make it run Windows, which until a few years ago wasn't possible without a large amount of hacking.

And even though OSX is based on Unix, saying that its comparable to any flavor of Linux isn't really fair, as the user friendliness (especially to non-techy people) and stability of OSX is unmatched by Linux or any other operating system I've tried (although Windows 7 comes close).

I envision a day where "Windows games" is no longer a usable term, but instead is regulated to the "Computer Game" instead. It would have to involve the courts forcing Microsoft to share its Direct X and prietary programming with other OS's so that any "Computer Game" can run on any "Computer." This would be unlike the situation now, where most games are on an inferior OS simply because it is the one with the most users.

bicostp · « **Reply #33 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 23:30 »

And I envision a day where the stereotypical Linux users stop pushing their OS on everybody who uses Windows/OSX/BSD/BeOS and bashing Windows/OSX/BSD/BeOS through snide remarks like "inferior os" at every opportunity.

Linux works for you? That's fine, go ahead and use it. Windows works for us. Live and let live. Stop trying to 'convert' everyone who doesn't run the OS of your choosing; all that does is drive people away.

Jimor · « **Reply #34 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 00:11 »

Is Hanners completely hiding behind Marten in panels 1 and 4 just to pop out in panel 3? The way it's drawn that makes more sense than her coming from off panel, heh.

Nightson · « **Reply #35 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 02:51 »

Ugh, I have some sort of allergic reaction to Angus. He just drags down strips for me.

LTK · « **Reply #36 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 03:02 »

Quote from: Jimor on 09 Jun 2009, 00:11

Is Hanners completely hiding behind Marten in panels 1 and 4 just to pop out in panel 3? The way it's drawn that makes more sense than her coming from off panel, heh.

Yeah, it looks like it. I think it adds to the humour.

Was I the only one to wonder "Where the heck are they?" before realising it's the coffee shop from an inverted perspective?

Delirium · « **Reply #37 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 03:31 »

Ugh, doesn't Angus have any friends of his own? of course not, if this is how he tries to make them.

frozen_flame · « **Reply #38 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 04:10 »

Woah, Angus-hate?

I like him, and it's good to see more of him, other than his attempts to break down Faye's resistance.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #39 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 04:11 »

Yes, because offering to buy a drink for someone who does you a favour is just wrong, and is an obvious sign that he has no friends.

On a different note what sort of points do we get for brownies with fudge and walnuts?

Near Lurker · « **Reply #40 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 05:09 »

How many points does marijuana earn?

BryanP · « **Reply #41 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 05:16 »

Angus gets my support for the brownie points comeback alone.

tut21 · « **Reply #42 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 05:23 »

What a bitch Faye can be. At the moment she doesn't even deserve Angus.

IlGreven · « **Reply #43 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 05:37 »

I was gonna comment on how we get to see the other side of the coffee shop for once...

...guys. Just a comic. Relax.

akronnick · « **Reply #44 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 06:16 »

Would seeing CoD from the reverse 'camera' angle qualify as breaking the fourth wall?

Darke · « **Reply #45 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 06:32 »

No...?

The question mark is there because I'm not sure if you were trying for a joke or something.

Shale · « **Reply #46 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 06:44 »

Wait, wait wait. Angus lives in Faye and Marten's building and they never noticed? And he never mentioned it?

That's....very improbable.

sitnspin · « **Reply #47 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 07:04 »

I freely admit that brownies do earn brownie points with me. Especially pot brownies.

Additionally, I agree with Tai via twitter about grilled cheese and pussy.

Random832 · « **Reply #48 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 07:11 »

Quote from: akronnick on 09 Jun 2009, 06:16

Would seeing CoD from the reverse 'camera' angle qualify as breaking the fourth wall?

No - it breaks what could be seen a standard composition rule (any indoor setting always being filmed from the same basic set of angles), but that is at most tangentially related to fourth wall concerns (i.e. you don't point the camera at the studio audience)

sitnspin · « **Reply #49 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 07:12 »

Marijuana earns the second most points right behind vicodin.

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