Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup

[Manga Shoggoth]

One window broken. Annie's mother? Or possibly Jeanie?

[WanderingMist]

RE Treatise 10: That's lovely. I especially like Jerrek and Lana,

Tony wearing a dress just doesn't work.

It's a toga, as evidenced by Smitty and Jerrek also wearing them.

[Rodin]

One window broken. Annie's mother? Or possibly Jeanie?

If you mean the cracked window, that's Tony.

Who is the angel in the bottom right?

[tyckspoon]

If you mean the cracked window, that's Tony.

Who is the angel in the bottom right?

That's the image Robot presented when guiding the other robots through character creation for their New People bodies.

[Manga Shoggoth]

If you mean the cracked window, that's Tony.

That would have been my first guess, but the character looks female. Besides, isn't Tony the face of the sun in Annie's frame?

[WanderingMist]

That would have been my first guess, but the character looks female. Besides, isn't Tony the face of the sun in Annie's frame?

No, because that same face is in the moon and it looks nothing like Tony.

[Drogorn]

What symbol is that in Kat's hair? I assumed it was an alchemical symbol, but I wasn't able to figure it out looking at a list of alchemical symbols.

[Shadow of the Sun]

What symbol is that in Kat's hair? I assumed it was an alchemical symbol, but I wasn't able to figure it out looking at a list of alchemical symbols.

It's the symbol of the creator the Court's robots gave her. It's a profile of Diego's nose.

[Murk]

It's a profile of Diego's nose.

I absolutely love this joke, but I feel we should be clear it's a joke.

[Pax1138]

Hmm, any thoughts on the Gummy people in the upper right? Possibly just Court personnel who are going to the new world?

Edit:

I absolutely love this joke, but I feel we should be clear it's a joke.

Oh, glad you said this. Had me going for a second there.

[Vinyadan]

Is that a B^U reference?

[Vinyadan]

OK, this is CAD reference all right. I like how what was substantially an attempt at intimidation was reframed as an imploration by the costumer to the provider.

[Vinyadan]

Little-known fact: Excel used to include a major easter egg, where you would be able to walk around in an environment called "Hall of Tortured Souls".

[Shadow of the Sun]

Little-known fact: Excel used to include a major easter egg, where you would be able to walk around in an environment called "Hall of Tortured Souls".

Excel is also kind of a swiss-army-knife of a program - you can make pretty much anything in Excel, including videogames, DAWs, etc.

[Willie the Duck]

Little-known fact: Excel used to include a major easter egg, where you would be able to walk around in an environment called "Hall of Tortured Souls".

I think in nerd circles, that might qualify as one of those always-known-little-known facts.

Regardless, Excel is great, right up until it autoformats your dataset, killing off your leading zeroes or the like. Or worse, your client wants the output of a SQL database pull in an Excel spreadsheet, and has a format in mind from Excel that can't be replicated and you spend 3 hours looking up ODS output structures with a green employee tasked with producing this report (due yesterday).

[Manga Shoggoth]

Little-known fact: Excel used to include a major easter egg, where you would be able to walk around in an environment called "Hall of Tortured Souls".

I though Excel V5 was the one with the basic flight sim...

Yup - it's a useful tool (been using it since the Win 3.1/3.11 days), but you do have to know what you are doing with it. Irritatingly, it has become harder to get it to do things right the more it has been "upgraded"...

[tyckspoon]

I think in nerd circles, that might qualify as one of those always-known-little-known facts.

Regardless, Excel is great, right up until it autoformats your dataset, killing off your leading zeroes or the like. Or worse, your client wants the output of a SQL database pull in an Excel spreadsheet, and has a format in mind from Excel that can't be replicated and you spend 3 hours looking up ODS output structures with a green employee tasked with producing this report (due yesterday).

Ah yes. "Excel is not a database, please get a proper database application for this usage." "Yeah, well, that costs money and I already have an Office license, so make it work in Excel." -proceed to bill customer for multiple days of labor required to hack the database and Excel into almost-but-not-quite having compatible data handling, costing about three times what it would have to set them up with a database client-

[WanderingMist]

Peak comedy as always.

[eee]

OK, that... hit below the belt.

[Vinyadan]

I though Excel V5 was the one with the basic flight sim...

I tried searching for it, and there are a few different major Easter eggs for the various editions. There's the Hall of Tortured Souls, the flight simulator, and also a car chasing game called "Dev Hunter".

OK, that... hit below the belt.

I wonder if the soundtrack is by the Bee Gees.

[WanderingMist]

Just...the fact that these are funny only because they're so intentionally unfunny is actually hard to pull off.

[eee]

He's taking this well.

[eee]

I'm really liking these two, together.

This isn't going to end well.

[halfeye]

I'm really liking these two, together.

This isn't going to end well.

I dunno, it's probably not going to end the way Coyote wanted it to, but that might not be a bad thing.

[Murk]

Gunnerkrigg is at its best when it's just a story about two girls getting a haircut, or a girl having a boyfriend that's actually a robot wolf dog god.

[Daffy Dutch]

Gunnerkrigg is at its best when it's just a story about two girls getting a haircut, or a girl having a boyfriend that's actually a robot wolf dog god.

Yeah some of the best content is really the low-stakes stuff where we get to watch the characters vibe and watch their personalities bounce off of each other. It is nice that we're finally getting some questions answered and learning some of the mysteries of the court now though.

[WanderingMist]

I'm starting to think I understand what Coyote's plan is and why Loup would want to die when he figured it out.

[eee]

The stakes are suddenly getting much higher.

[WanderingMist]

Why is Kat saying Loup's off the hook?

[eee]

M, V, U? Mercury or Mars, Venus, but what the bleep is U??? Uranus? In the inner Solar System?

Why is Kat saying Loup's off the hook?

If the Court's running away, they're not interested in fighting him anymore?