Comic for Monday, October 10th, 2020

Oct05

by PastUtopia on October 5, 2020 at 4:45 am

In the spirit of October and the coming Halloween let me know if you have any costume ideas for the characters this year. Don’t know how many I’ll draw, but should be at least a few.

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willis

October 12, 2020, 2:42 am | # | Reply

you got the dates mixed up. the mini calendar says Oct. 5th, the title says Monday October 10th. p.s., October 10th was on Saturday.
- Tgape
  
  October 12, 2020, 5:50 am | # | Reply
  
  Converting from Malsa time is tricky. I don’t think it’s not as bad as some places I’ve been, mind you. Or maybe Past is just good enough at it that I don’t have a proper concept for how bad it is.
- dan
  
  October 12, 2020, 6:24 am | # | Reply
  
  Devs count up in milliseconds from Jan 1, 1970. So he’s only slightly off. He’s probably using Javascript which is notoriously bad at mathing things
  - Tgape
    
    October 12, 2020, 3:22 pm | # | Reply
    
    So, um, to put some historical perspective on this, I feel like pointing you to the archives, and specifically
    
    Monday, October 10, 2017
    Monday, October 1, 2018 (Yeah, I know, it’s listed incorrectly in the archive title, don’t worry, the link has the right date.)
    Thursday, October 10th (the real 10th), 2018
Jindra34

October 7, 2020, 1:01 am | # | Reply

I wonder how much of Sophie’s mental issues are caused by needing to keep running calculations for all things like Atter she has up?
- Dave Howe
  
  October 7, 2020, 6:13 pm | # | Reply
  
  I assume that once a construct like Atter or Fluffy is stable, it only needs calculations if you want to make changes to it and/or manipulate it. Given that Atter currently is in need of a GREAT deal of repair, it may be fair enough to assume a lot of Sophie’s attention IS on that right now….
SneakyBex

October 6, 2020, 12:00 am | # | Reply

Halloween ideas: The main cast as the new borderlands characters.
Naomi as the brawler, obviously
Peter as the Operative
Either Ila or kalli as the gunner (Ila seems to fit the character better, but kalli actually summons a giant monster to help her fight, maybe Muim can be Ila’s Iron bear?
Perhaps Mium as the Beast-Master (although, After might be a better fit)
Maybe Ila as Tiny Tina?
Anyway, just ideas
-Sneaky Bex
- Glider
  
  October 6, 2020, 12:56 am | # | Reply
  
  All I know is that if it is a Halloween theme, Fluffy better make an appearance. If there’s a monster based holiday theme and the dragon doesn’t make the cut, I’ll be convinced of voter fraud. 😉
  
  I fully endorse an image with a firearm. Ila or Kally is fine. Both is even better.
  - SneakyBex
    
    October 6, 2020, 7:02 am | # | Reply
    
    What about Fluffy as Bumblebee and Kalli as Charlie (from the recent-ish Transformers film)
    - Glider
      
      October 7, 2020, 4:45 am | # | Reply
      
      I could get behind that idea.
      
      I even found a still with Charlie pointing a revolver…
      - SneakyBex
        
        October 8, 2020, 12:15 am | # | Reply
        
        Really? Nice! alternatively, there are those massive stun-guns she uses to jumpstart bumblebee, I think one of those would look pretty snaz. in the picture! (if your car has a flat battery, most mechanics would advise against tazing it ’til it runs, battery chargers are more reliable and probably safer way to make it start… Unless you car is actually a metal alien in disguise, in that case it seems fine.)
        
        Glider
        
        October 8, 2020, 2:45 am | # | Reply
        
        Sometimes links don’t make it through, but try this?
        https://images.app.goo.gl/Yt3ngWifLEyJ82uP6
        
        I had a recent model Outback that I had to charge to get to start. Frequently. It was not an electric nor a hybrid. It never gave me reason to suspect it was a Transformer. I would have liked to taze most of the dealership staff. Apparently that was illegal at the time, but I think now I could maybe get away with it if I called it protesting.
Anthony

October 5, 2020, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

Panel 2: “when those actions about loosing demons to wreck havoc” is a bit unparsable, not sure what was meant there. I would probably have replaced ‘about’ with ‘were’ or ‘included’. Also, the idiom is “wreak havoc”, not “wreck havoc”, though they’re pronounced the same way (wreak is “cause to occur”, wreck is “destroy”)
- Dave Howe
  
  October 6, 2020, 2:07 pm | # | Reply
  
  indeed; I would go with go with “actions about” -> “actions involve”, and agree with the wreck/wreak thing….
Deathbeams

October 5, 2020, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

Kor’s world showed up. Made a deal with the devil for safety. Anxious to learn more about House of Summers’ views on Kor’s World. I think we’re pretty clear on their view of Sophie, Biana, and demons.
- Glider
  
  October 7, 2020, 3:05 am | # | Reply
  
  I’m intrigued.
  
  Burned angel $%!t is rather famous as a curse here. Doesn’t this place Kor’s World in an interesting light? Somewhere out there is a group of atheists saying it’s even worse than we thought!
  
  I don’t think House of Summers views KW in a positive light. I’m curious who they dislike more. I’m guessing KW, as Atter is a problem to be dealt with sooner or later, but KW seems like an all hands on deck thing.
  - Dave Howe
    
    October 7, 2020, 6:15 pm | # | Reply
    
    I assume Fluffy would like to make KW operatives into Dragon $%!t – but struggle to believe Kally actually designed in a digestive tract and so forth.
Paul

October 5, 2020, 8:53 am | # | Reply

Wow. She’s a real charmer, isn’t she?
- EnderDDT
  
  October 5, 2020, 1:53 pm | # | Reply
  
  Once again, proof that “with powerful mages come powerful mental dysfunctions”. Seriously, Tyler is the most normal S class we’ve got and not only is he on the lower end compared to some of the others but he’s both an obsessive personality with a bezerk button but also is an idealistic patriot with a fanclub. Is it any surprise that an immortal higher-end mage does things, including starting a war by loosing a demon and trying to take over a country after the attempted murder of several members of her own organization, because they are “interesting”?
  
  That said, she is probably right about the powers that be letting her out. She may be a nightmare when she gets bored (which may be why the IDS sent her out to the middle of no-where) but she is a powerful and fully expendable asset when they have somewhere to point her. “Crazy powerful” tends to be like that; good during wartime but a danger to your own side otherwise.
GaijinMonogatari

October 5, 2020, 6:18 am | # | Reply

Panel 2: needless –> needlessly

Otherwise I’m not sure what all’s a typo when the lady’s typical idiom is… decidedly not normal. I’m very curious now to see what exactly she IS, because it’s not human…
- PastUtopia
  
  October 5, 2020, 7:00 am | # | Reply
  
  Regarding Sophie’s speaking, I noted on the patreon post about her speaking pattern which might be helpful to share here too:
  
  I should note that Sophie’s dialogue is going to have some grammar issues, and most of them are sort of intentional. I vary how much her rather strange speaking pattern is reflected, and that’s also somewhat intentional, though part of it is I just sometimes update how much I render annoying speaking patterns in text, as I think they tend to be a little annoying to read. Her odd pattern of speaking is somewhat more important to this conversation though, as I wanted to give more of an insight into Ricci’s view of the conversation.
  - Tgape
    
    October 6, 2020, 5:26 am | # | Reply
    
    It feels to me like she’s both incredibly condescending and not really all that keen on wasting her precious mental abilities on grammar or coherence.
    - Glider
      
      October 7, 2020, 3:08 am | # | Reply
      
      If she’s that old… Societies come and go. Civilizations rise and fall. Languages that DON’T control the fabric of reality are ephemeral.
      
      If you can make the short lived beasties understand you, why bother going all in to learn their monkey talk ….
  - Segev
    
    October 7, 2020, 2:12 pm | # | Reply
    
    It almost felt like she was one of Mium’s lesser siblings, given her speech pattern. A machine intelligence with poor language-parsing/construction skills, and a Mium-like paperclip-maximizer focus on something slightly off-kilter from her creators’ actual wishes.
    - Glider
      
      October 8, 2020, 2:17 am | # | Reply
      
      We’ve discussed the possibility that general purpose AIs and demons/materialized constructs might not be all that different. More of a substrate/ underlying technology different than ideologically.
      
      If that’s true, she might be a closely related to Mium as Ila.
  - Old Dan
    
    October 9, 2020, 7:35 pm | # | Reply
    
    Corrections for the other character panel 2, 2nd bubble:
    
    “HQ will decide what [to] do about Kors World. Your actions could needless[ly] provoke them. Particularly when those actions [“concern” or “are about” or “are”] loosing demons to wreck havoc.”
    
    As Colnel Rici has no reason for bad grammar.
    
    Sophie makes a great argument in the last panel. Both, for here and there, when not in use, we should keep our weapons locked-up.
    
    From now on, we can call Sophie, “Custard”. Curtesy of Ogden Nash.