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Thread: Girl Genius: XXXenophile Edition
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2021-11-01, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Am I the only one to interpret it as a Kestle variation of a common idiom meaning we have other matters to attend to, instead of literally?
I just assume it retracted into the roof, causing Snakky to end up prone.
Well they are Jägermonsters.Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2021-11-01, 11:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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And, according to Minsk, they are not people. They are Jaegerkin, which is better.
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2021-11-01, 05:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Given the... idiosyncratic nature of der Kestle's construction, and the Jaegers' own rather blase reaction to danger, I interpreted 'Jaegers on the stove' as, well, exactly that. Because you just know that if even one of the ancestral Heterodynes was of a culinary persuasion, you're going to end up with kitchen equipment built to the scale of SCIENCE!.
Times being what they are, the stars aligning and the End of All Things barely registered as background noise.
At a bit of a loss as to what to do next, and with bills to pay, a certain Elder Thing has taken up bartending.
This is...
The Last Call of Cthulhu
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2021-11-02, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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In a departure from the current comic, I just found out about: "Etaoin shrdlu", which I had not encountered before.
Etaoin shrdlu (/ˈɛtiɔɪn ˈʃɜːrdluː/,[1] /ˈeɪtɑːn ʃrədˈluː/)[2] is a nonsense phrase that had sometimes appeared in print accidentally in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators to fill out and discard lines of type when an error was made. It appeared often enough to become part of newspaper lore – a documentary about the last issue of The New York Times composed using hot metal (July 2, 1978) was titled Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu[3] – and "etaoin shrdlu" is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
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2021-11-02, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow :) And yes, I can see it now: most common letters in the English-language typecasting, in order...
Edit: I totally would not have pronounced Shrdlu either of the ways it's listed in that article. Might be just me as a (terrible) Mandarin speaker, but I'd pronounce the first syllable using the "r" as the vowel (after a wiki walk, apparently it's transcribed [ʂ̺ɻ̩]Last edited by theangelJean; 2021-11-02 at 08:32 AM.
I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2021-11-02, 11:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Does that mean that the Geisterdamen are all ... typecast?
Thank you! Thank you. I'll be here all week...Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-02, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-02, 04:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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As a derivation, I guess it makes more sense than LotR Éothain. Without the h, it almost looks like Irish. I wonder, is there an origin for Bwoosee the spider?
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-11-02, 11:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-03, 01:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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And Snakkerjape was never heard of again.
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2021-11-03, 01:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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New comic
And young Snakkerjape was never seen again.
No, not because the Castle will do anything to him, nothing permanent at least - it seems to like him after all - but because getting those dues will make the Odyssey look like a pleasant Sunday morning walk."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2021-11-03, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think the best way to get the Castle to pay up would be to ask for an audience with Agatha. OUTSIDE THE CASTLE, and possibly outside Mechanicsburg. Maybe 3.1 leagues away?
Then she could direct the castle to pay its back dues.
BTW, was anyone surprised to learn the Castle was a guild member? No?
And I think this may be the last page of this story arc. It smacks of denouement.This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-03, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-03, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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While it does feel like a proper denouement, we are missing the "End" on the page, which both the previous sides had (Ivo Sharktooth - Private Jager and A Mechanicsberg Solstice Story.
There probably isn't much story left, but we probably have at least a splash page to go.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-03, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-03, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wait, with what money is the Castle supposed to pay?
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2021-11-03, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Discount on the power bill? Lights of the eternal burning hatred of all monsters aren't cheap you know!
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2021-11-03, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-03, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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what do you think happens to coins that fall between couch cushions?
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2021-11-03, 11:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius: XXXenophile Edition
This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-03, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-03, 01:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be honest, imagining the Castle as a private person, with money and all, makes it far more terrifying than a very haunted house/anti-air missile platform.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-11-03, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-03, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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The little iron cages certainly wouldn't be enough...
Guess this makes the earlier part of this story about "giving the key to a friend, very highly placed in the guild" gain a new meaning... Der Kastle towers over everything in the town, including the Guild, plus most would defer to it as being "higher" than themselves (if only due to wanting to continue their existance...)
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2021-11-04, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's a double pun - the statue was high, the Castle is higher, plus the Castle probably ranks second to The Heterodyne in the town's hierarchy. The Seneschal knows better than to anger the Castle, I believe.
Now, musings about logical consistency; Jorbelox was evidently a mighty fighter. Dr. Hembelbrogg doesn't look like much of a fighter, although the third arm could be useful. Now that the guild is reconstituted, will someone challenge him for the title, to be settled by combat? Or is there a more peaceful way to choose the head of the guild, and Jorbelox was only coincidentally a formidable foe?
I'm sure that if the Castle wanted the title, the Castle would have the title. No one is going to go up against that foe, either in combat or in political machinations. That may be one reason the Castle's membership is kept secret.This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-04, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-05, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wait, castle and train are brothers? Does that make Queen-bot Prime their sister?
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2021-11-05, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, a "Milk & Cheese: dairy products gone bad" reference! I haven't thought of that comic in many, many years. But it's so appropriate for those two, it's perfect for their Halloween costumes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_%26_Cheese
Last edited by Zazu Yen; 2021-11-05 at 12:56 PM.
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2021-11-05, 02:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-08, 12:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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If you want to see what happens with change being dropped in the couches in der Kestle, I'd suggest going to Youtube and watching Studio C's Couchville sketches. It's probably like that (only more bloodshed).
As for the latest comic, wow, Higgs was telling the truth and not just making up a clever cover story. Who knew?