Comments on: Welcome To My World http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/ Slice of supernatural life YA comic PG-13 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: tygertyger http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-63556 tygertyger Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:22:31 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-63556 That’s better than “Tubular Bells.”

]]> By: Draygon http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-54780 Draygon Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:44:03 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-54780 I would say you win the internetz, but people have given it away already. I’m HELPING you by not putting you in the fight for custody of the internetz. Your welcome.

]]> By: JustaPhilosopher http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-52136 JustaPhilosopher Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:22:52 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-52136 Ok, Well, I felt the need to read all of the comments before I posted as I may likely have put my foot in my mouth.
First off, I was expecting something more made of stone, like the sunstone, etc., but perhaps the size of a football stadium or so, and was underwhelmed. Then I thought, “well, hey, it’s all metallic and has lots of moving parts, so, well, maybe it’s the stone-football-stadium-sized-thing all condensed…” but then I thought that if these people had such access to super-tech/magic, why not simply us something more electrical, perhaps, circuit based, then something with alot of moving parts. Technically, an electrical circuit IS a bunch of tiny moving parts, but I won’t really go into that. Anyway reading this prolly knows exactly what I mean. Otherwise? e-mail me. I’m happy to talk with people who can impart beneficial knowledge or may think they can get it from me. (This thing makes us put in an e-mail addy, but… can any of us access it?)
But once again, I was underwhelmed. Then, I read about the AM http://io9.com/5441889/advanced-imaging-reveals-a-computer-1500-years-ahead-of-its-time
Congrats Paul. Very well played. It goes with the back story of all the ancient civilizations being connected, and one of them, I am thinking, is also Greece, which corresponds to the text written ON the AM itself. It is along the same TYPE of tech: cogs, moving mechanisms, etc. compared to circuitry or the like. Then, there’s the wonder I had in how we got from the AM, which, in that link provided, is a CALENDAR MACHINE but for only ~20 years, in our Gregorian calendar, to something that runs for so long. So, I guess, going from the AM to that, from ~20 years to however long it run (remember, the 1450 year cycle is due to some of it being thrown off axis/off-tilt due to Jin’s mother and possibly others trying to destroy it, etc. It’s broken, so, 1450 years is PROLLY not what it was designed for originally…) So, I guess it is believable for such a change from something the size of the AM to something looking like that. the knobbies and stuff, plus, what looks like a genuine “crank shaft” or “drive shaft” as we see form what looks like what may be protruding from the “bottom” of it… all those details make sense and are interesting to boot, like potential tuning knobbies and such. I am still unsure how something so… artificial looking in ANY era could be seen as “breathing, alive, etc.” but I guess it’s my lack of imagination rather than a lack of artistic ability to make atmosphere in a 2D static image. One can only do so much, and then it is on the shoulders of the viewer to take it from there. So, I’ll apologize for that slight case of underwhlemed… The previous two cases were OVERWHELMED by the allusion to the AM.
Also, to be honest, I saw those “evil bunny ears” as more of the attempt at making it look like energy radiating form it (many animes have used such weird sharp yet organic shapes) (but I still didn’t see the illusion of breathing, despite looking at some of the details as more than just random pieces of metal or some such material sticking off of it.)
I am also reminded of the idea of “we’ll make another gear out of phase with some of the other gears and then bring them in phase, etc… leading to a perpetual motion device.” I think that plan would have worked beautifully, perhaps, now that I see the calendar machine. But that also ignores any OTHER “defense” mechanisms, and other mechanics not quite visible at the moment. To which, if in the position of Jin, I would most liekly try to experiment with things over and over, figure out perhaps EXACTLY how it works, or, just, ya’know, ASK THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT IT (assuming they were still around when she was free to move on her own nearest the beginning of the cycle), so that I could then PLAY with it/use it/fix it, but I guess that was Brandi’s approach, even if she was not the one repeating the cycle of time. I still think I would have tried it and probably tried to find so many ways to enjoy the numerous cycles of 1450 years. I’d also have seen how else I could affect things, what else I could discover… It’s not said a Golem’s mind has the same limits of the human mind. The library is also one way to impart so much knowledge should one forget something. But, that is also a personal blurb and just a little rant to say “I don’t have the same character as Jin.”

Anyway, I guess I’ve spoken plenty here and have either run out of things to say (but one or two more) and/or I forget what I had planned to say at the beginning of this comment and am now simply ranting as the syrup falls out of my chocolate milk.
I have a bit more respect for your story telling and artistic ability, along with how well you’ve seemed to research and write this LONG story arc. Congrats on a job well done.
and if anyone cares, I use YIM and AIM, but I’ll just put my e-mail here for if anyone wants to contact me, especially Mr. Taylor himself: oxofintieoxo@gmail.com

]]> By: bmonk http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-46888 bmonk Tue, 17 May 2011 22:34:43 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-46888 I was thinking that it’s new and improved and revised–and oddly mobile.

]]> By: bmonk http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-46887 bmonk Tue, 17 May 2011 22:24:17 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-46887 Minnesota repair kit: Duck tape and WD-40. If it moves and shouldn’t, use the Duck tape. If it doesn’t move and should, use WD-40.

]]> By: Kanji http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-34098 Kanji Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:53:26 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-34098 Heh. The cogs on the front panel are from a Girl Genius background image.

]]> By: chrisleech http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-31258 chrisleech Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:43:10 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-31258 is that a laser on the bottom of it?

]]> By: chrisleech http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-31257 chrisleech Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:42:07 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-31257 and don’t forget the duct tape duct tape fixes everything with the principle of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, if it is broke use duct tape”

]]> By: Linux Learner http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-31227 Linux Learner Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:58:04 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-31227 Linux, clearly.

Okay, maybe not. There’s a sidebar at the top of my blog, to which my name is a link, that includes a post where I suggest a number of reasons for staying with Windows.

Well, I had to. I advocate software freedom, so I reckon people are free to chain themselves to XP, Bad Vista, or Se7en, if they truly have good enough reasons to stick with captive software.

]]> By: Bizarro http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-25770 Bizarro Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:47:02 +0000 http://wapsisquare.com/comic/welcome-to-my-world/#comment-25770 more like “Choke-land Traitors”

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