Comic for Monday, March 12th, 2023
Mar13
on March 13, 2023
at 6:10 am
Comic.
Sorry about missing last week. I don’t think this is the start of a 1 out of 3 week schedule, I think we’ll still be on an every other week schedule. Unfortunately health issues remain largely unsolved. Not an immediate issue, but other thing to add to the pile. Still, with the Kickstarter done I think every other week should still be doable, though I recognize that does make the pace quite slow even, not sure I have a solution for that at the moment.
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“Easy to sense this far away” in panel 4 really should be “Easy to sense from this close”. The implied distance should be as small in the dialogue as in the illustration.
Whatever. It’s dialog. They both translate to “Easy to sense at this distance”. While one could argue that it’s good to translate from the original Centralian to the most clear English possible, Duolingo will ding you if you translate “bis bald” to “bye” or “I’m going now.”
I’ve absolutely heard people talking about wifi signal issues exactly like this. “It should be able to pick it up from this far away.” after they moved to inches from the transmitter to try to get their device to see the wifi router it hadn’t been able to see across the room.
(That answer turned out to be, “your wifi A card will never see my wifi B/G router. Why did you get a wifi A card after calling me and asking for my recommendation since you indicated you were mostly concerned with compatibility with my network, and I specifically told you to get an 802.11g card if you could, or 802.11b if that was somehow all that was available, because my network is utterly not compatible with 802.11a.”)
Always much love for you, Tgape.
Ha! That or when you get a support call at a new business complaining that the wireless isn’t working for them to do ‘X’ when you specifically say that due to the congestion of the wireless spectrum in their area (near off-campus student housing) that wireless is going to be completely unreliable unless they make it all worse by putting an AP in every room to try and out-shout the 50 other Access Points from all the neighbors which are visible from every room in their building. The only other options would be to encase the building in a steel box, which also has the side effect of blocking every cellphone in the entire building necessitating expensive internal/external Cellular boosters to allow those signals to go though.
Steel cage, not box. Faraday cages are cool though. Why wouldn’t someone want to have a Faraday cage around their whole building? Then you get the benefit of being able to proxy all of the cell phone traffic and kind of bollocks that stuff all up in the process.
Ugh, that was an annoying place to work. That said, if I recall correctly, they said they built the building that way, rather than retrofitting it. I would guess the retrofit would be much more expensive, especially if you wanted to get the floor of the cage installed correctly.
Past,
Don’t stress about missing a comic. Your health is more important. Sorry to hear the health issue has not been resolved. Hope that you get well soon.
I feel compelled to say again that the new comic free form format is an improvement over the “old” way. We get much more info from the characters being able to say more than a short sentence or a few.
Panel 3: I suspect “wondering” should be “wandering”.
Panel 7: “a unknown demon” should be “an unknown demon”.
And I’ll add my voice to the Yay! Nathan! choir. Woo!
Panel 2: “… the point is that IT/THAT doesn’t work on you”
Missing the pronoun.
The wording is fine with or without the additional “that.” The single “that” clearly refers to the previous sentence. “That” is the way “that” it appears to me.
Hmmmm …. I appended a “grin” after my post and surrounded it with greater than and less than signs like was done in the old Usenet days. Yeah, I’m that old. The “grin” disappeared. Those signs mess up html so that is another thing for me to remember. Old habits die hard. I recall reading about Mt St Helens 1980 eruption from work using a daisy wheel printer linked to CompuServe at 300 bps (bits per second) or about 30 cps (characters per second). We didn’t have emojis and graphic back then since there were no graphics.
Use asterisks or dashes then. Same effect without HTML problematical characters. < & l t ; > and < & g t ; > without the spaces might work, but who wants to type 4 extra characters on each end when one on each end will do the trick?
I intended to use parenthesis. It’s just that old habits die hard. Muscle memory still makes me use LT and GT to bracket the text emojis.
I’m bored and wondering if imbedded html such as grin will work.
Edit: Nope, the attempt to use embedded LT and GT symbols didn’t work.
If Providence is involved that means we finally get to see those two meet. Yay!
Providence is involved. Providence has provided us a new comic early Monday morning despite Past having surgery recently.
Hmmmm … There is something special about Peter. Kally uses her magic sparkles to scan Peter and does not detect the Bridgepoint data. She correctly concludes that her particular magic does not work on Peter. A few frames later Peter is holding the Bridgepoint data in his hand. Peter is walking in the open with Kally on his right. However, Peter is looking to his left so we should soon see whoever “him” happens to be.
Of course Peter is special. As Kally mentioned, the people back home would probably be flabbergasted that he is capable of more than just magic tricks. Even his Uncle, who may have invented the “Don’t see me” spell, couldn’t tell a projection when right next to it. Plus, the demon wouldn’t have believed the projection if he couldn’t hide himself while making the switch.
The great thing is he plays the magician, so nobody expects him to break out real magic.
The people back home will also be flabbergasted if/when they find out Peter has possessed the Bridgepoint data for some time. I would expect an intense version of Kally’s reaction to Peter’s revelation.
If I remember correctly, Fluffy told Kally that he could not tell that Peter’s projection was an illusion either.
Well, I don’t see why there couldn’t be copies of the data. It is data after all. The best place for s copy of the Bridge Point data would be inside Mium. That could be why Kor’s World has such a bad reaction to Mium’s existence. Mium exists because the Bridge Point data allows the needed communication between the Eidos Cards Peter took from the Kor’s world robots. It is the Application bridge needed to do the communication.
That was my thought also about copies. However, it seems the Bridgepoint data is tied to a device and it is not just a matter of making a copy. Something about that the device makes it detectable although Peter was able to shield it.
I think the device is something similar to an autocaster crossed with an ipod. The Bridgepoint Data is data, so you store it somewhere. But it’s Eidos data, specifically, so it’s magically visible. Unless Peter’s holding it and doesn’t want it to be.
I think it would be more secure if they figured out how the fanciest stick was so fancy and then wrote the Bridgepoint data to Hyle.
Does that mean *gasp* that we will get some Kally Nathan interaction? I think we’ve never seen that yet.
PastUtopia, all the best for your health! I hope you can get it mended soon.
Kally and Nathan have been in exactly two comics together. … at least, if by together you mean Kally being inside a building and Nathan being on its roof, with the two not talking. They’re in the first half dozen pages of chapter 10.
My memory fails me again. Have any comics mentioned anything about Kally and Nathan not getting along?
I don’t think so. I’ve always read into it that they got along as well as any siblings who are busy and don’t often see each other get along.
Certainly Nathan has shown concern for Kally’s well being.