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PA Comic: Wednesday, February 22nd- The Flashpoint
Munkus Beaver
You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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At least in my case the response would be, "I know what I'm getting into."
Why does everyone do this? Harry Potter operates on Time Loop theory; they never saw Buckbeak's death.
Oddly, I was just thinking about this sort of thing earlier this morning. Well, not that oddly, I think about it a lot.
Oh right, time travel comic. I liked it. I like the sensory mod that future Gabe has.
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Also there's no way to travel forward; they'd have to go back 14 years, save Harry's parents, and then stick around in the past forever.
The briefcase in Pulp Fiction is a homage/rip-off of the briefcase in Kiss Me Deadly, a 1955 film noir. The car trunk in Repo Man is a Kiss Me Deadly reference as well.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/kiss-me-deadly,48753/
Raiders may or may not have been referencing Kiss Me Deadly; there's biblical references for the Ark killing those that looked in it, but the visual portrayal in the film may have been inspired by Kiss Me Deadly:
http://www.rationalchristianity.net/touch_ark.html
the fact that he has a cyborg face and nothing else is different is the joke.
It's actually pretty good. I hadn't read a Stephen King book in a while and picked it up. It's got some references to prior books in it, and such, but it stands reasonably well on its own. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Also anybody else think of Bard's Tale III whenever they see chronomancy? Just me? Okay.
The silver pacman future jumpsuit was in the wash.
Does Tycho have a bunch of aliases, or is he taking credit for others' work? In the links he's posted, they all are done by people with different names.
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Why? Let's look at this comic as an example:
The only reason future Gabe can tell present Gabe not to eat at Taco Bell is *because he ate at Taco Bell* and wants to change the result. But, if he succeeded in changing the result, he'd never eat at Taco Bell, and therefor, would not have the desire to Time Travel to tell himself not to eat at Taco Bell.
Only possible way out that I can think of to resolve this paradox is if "present Gabe", right now, resolves to travel back to the past (that is, the present right now) when he gets to the future, to give himself the message again, despite NOT having eaten at Taco Bell.
I can't even recall where most of them come from in the present.
Timescape by Benford has an interesting take on this.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
In general this prevents all paradoxes but causes time travel to be generally useless with the one exception I can think of being Terra Nova (and even that is morally questionable).
Pfft. Current Gabe still wears the same shirt.
it is a time machine that can only go forward. So no paradox! very fun read.
Speaking of over-analyzing time travel, if you want to be amused sometime, look up some of the competing theories Futurama fans have come up with to explain how time travel works in the "Futurama universe" based on that episode...complete with illustrative charts and graphs.
Let's assume you can't: you don't have to worry, because nothing can stop you from getting in that time machine when the time comes.
Now let's assume you can: as soon as you go back in time, you've branched off a separate timeline that doesn't give a shit about whether you go back in time in it.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
I wasn't noticing anywhere to comment on the article that Jerry wrote, I feel incomplete agreement with him on the points he made. I even read all 11 pages of the forum he linked to, some decent points are made back and forth but ultimately I have to agree with Jerry. Being able to patent minute game mechanics would only hinder innovation, and that's not something we should be encouraging.
Also I was going to say how I think the CEO was being kind of a public D-bag, but then he thinks he is sticking up for a friend that was wronged. And I've been a bigger dick on the internet for a hell of alot less.
Everything QT does is a rip off of something. Oh sorry... "homage".
As for time machines, either they don't exist, or everyone in the future is some kind of goddamn dick. I mean seriously, can't ONE person go back in time and say, kill Hitler?? Nobody? DICKS.
Same with anything else that gets the fast food treatment really. Fast food Italian also sounds good in theory but all you have to do is go to a Fazoli's to find out otherwise.
I see it as being the Taco Bell equivalent with Italian food anyway, although you do at least get free breadsticks I guess.
Timeline by Michael Crichton was pretty great too, which I actually recall you or Jerry discussing in a positive light in one of the podcasts. As far as the book is concerned anyway, that game did look terrible.
I feel that explanation is kind of funky.