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2019-07-04

by shaenon on July 4, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Robert Nowall
    July 4, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Do something important with your pre-cog, Yu. Help her and Nick get together.

    • jothki
      July 4, 2019, 3:59 am | # | Reply

      Maybe that was them getting together.

      • John Doe
        July 4, 2019, 8:32 am | # | Reply

        This makes most sense to me.

    • warpzone32
      July 4, 2019, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      I can’t tell from here. Is the thing with the squeegee romantic or sexy?

      • Mental Mouse
        July 4, 2019, 8:22 am | # | Reply

        Or so silly that they give up on their dignity?

        • Sheik
          July 4, 2019, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

          What do you me OR?
          Anything to do with romance and/or sex sacrifices dignity.

  2. edddddthemadgenius
    July 4, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    im unclear- when did yu go from save point powers to pre-cog? or does he still have save points but hes passing it off as precog?

    • Mccabeca
      July 4, 2019, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      He has save point power but we mostly see things from after he has already tried so he would seem to know the future.

      • Daibhid C
        July 4, 2019, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

        In “Unsinkable” he calls it “quantum visions” (to Nera, who knows about the save points), refers to “limited second sight” in his own narration, and frequently complains he only gets flashes and not the full picture. If he’s passing save points off as pre-cog, he’s doing it to everyone, including himself.

        Occam’s razor isn’t always a reliable tool in the Narboinverse, but I’m going with “it changed to pre-cog”.

        • Ysabet
          July 4, 2019, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

          Also, ‘pre-cognitive ability’ is really just a sort of catch-all phrase, saying what it is and is useful for rather than identifying a source or method.

          Occam’s wrench….. ^_^

    • Katie Cruel
      July 4, 2019, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      The way that it’s usually played in comic makes makes me lean in the direction that the savepoints changed into future visions after he left the Anasigma facility. His visions are just too randomly contextual specific and vague for me to believe he’s lived through all this before (or at least key moments). But it’s definitely kind of ambiguous and not really fully explained. The closest this comic from “Choose” that could really be interpreted either way: http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-1019/

    • VillageWizard
      July 4, 2019, 3:12 am | # | Reply

      There was also the theory that he never had save point powers, he just thought he did because of the way his new precog powers worked. In an instant, he experienced all those different futures as if he had lived through them, but only in his mind. In reality, after seeing his deaths, he just chose the future where he didn’t die.

      • Chameon
        July 4, 2019, 4:44 am | # | Reply

        Honestly, to a point, they’re functionally the same thing. If you fully experience your own death in your precognition with all your senses, it’s functionally identical to having a save point power and always restarting back from square one. The real question is whether or not he could trigger his own savepoint powers by grabbing a pistol and aiming it at his chin. Which, while -incredibly- morbid, would definitely work for savepoints, and maybe not so much for precog.

        • Daibhid C
          July 4, 2019, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

          It works for precog providing you’re only doing it in a precognitive vision, just like any other death.

    • Phredd
      July 4, 2019, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe something along the lines of Coil’s powers in Worm?

      • John Campbell
        July 5, 2019, 3:34 am | # | Reply

        The universe in which you live the longest is the one in which you do not throw grenades at Skitter.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    July 4, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    I do believe we’ve just been exposed to Chekov’s Squeegee. ^_^

    • s854
      July 4, 2019, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think anyone really wants to see the squeegee.

      • greenknight32
        July 4, 2019, 4:28 am | # | Reply

        Speak for yourself – I can’t wait to see the squeegee thing!

        • Robert Nowall
          July 4, 2019, 10:48 am | # | Reply

          There’s just something about the sound it makes…

  4. haluesen10
    July 4, 2019, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    I totally get her reluctance to accept psychic powers, but she was around in the situation where he got spacially whammied and it is sorta based on a science thing, so maybe she should give it more thought?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      July 4, 2019, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      Ginny a touch of Agent Scully’s disease. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

      • 5-tons-of-flax
        July 4, 2019, 6:50 am | # | Reply

        *has

      • haluesen10
        July 5, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

        Ah indeed, unfortunate. I hope it’s not contagious though.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 4, 2019, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

      But, just like Nera, Virginia only remembers the one outcome where they made it out of A-Sig alive. So her skepticism is valid.

      • haluesen10
        July 5, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

        I was about to question that, but then I remembered that in the final run Virginia didn’t go with them to Sergio and beyond. They had only a brief interaction with her in the last run. Okay then, so she doesn’t know really about what he went through.

  5. Bruce A Munro
    July 4, 2019, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    Arbitrary skepticism strikes one in eight. Consult your doctor, shaman, psychic healer or the magical unicorn in your wardrobe.

    • Towering Barbarian
      July 4, 2019, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      Is it related to reality blindness? o_O

    • Robert Nowall
      July 4, 2019, 10:49 am | # | Reply

      I think they’ve all had enough of Baron Mistycorn’s opinions.

      • Bruce A Munro
        July 4, 2019, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

        He’s scientific rather than magical, but with all the aggressively hopeless hitting on women he does, he might be in a closet.

        • gyrre
          July 4, 2019, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

          Or he’s a Kinsey 1.

          They tend to be the most insecure in and sensitive about their sexuality.

          • Candace
            July 5, 2019, 3:52 am | #

            You could have something there. At the very least, the Baron’s usual coarse behavior may be a façade concealing a sensitive, possibly insecure soul.

          • Robert Nowall
            July 5, 2019, 10:10 am | #

            Re: Candace: Traditional sitcom character: deep down underneath a rotten guy, there’s a sensitive nice guy trying to get through. In my experiences with rotten guys, if there’s anything underneath, it’s an even rottener guy.

  6. Shadowmehr
    July 4, 2019, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    When you ask a psychic to tell your future and then they burst out laughing, then you know that you’re in for a wild ride. And not necessarily in a good way.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 4, 2019, 11:51 am | # | Reply

      When you go to a psychic and the first thing they say is “I’m sorry, I wasn’t expecting you,” don’t bother paying them.

      • Sheik
        July 4, 2019, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

        Which is just as bad as their demanding payment in advance.

        • Towering Barbarian
          July 4, 2019, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

          Possibly as creepy is when the first thing they say upon being called, “Hi! Your credit card application just go accepted. As long as you’re paying me anyway, would you like the number?”. ^^

      • Robert Nowall
        July 4, 2019, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

        That was *almost* what happened with Dr. Lee and Madame Delphi.

  7. Jon
    December 23, 2019, 5:12 am | # | Reply

    Did we ever learn what the thing with the squeegee was?

    • awgiedawgie
      December 23, 2019, 5:29 am | # | Reply

      Whether I said yes or no, it would still be a bit of a spoiler.

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