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Shaenon: Now I’m looking at the title of this storyline and wishing it’d been a Pokemon crossover.
Channing: We could give the Devils a cutesy sounding name and have them only be able to vocalize that word. That sort of thing is admittedly right up my alley.
That said, I am shying away from Pokemon right now because all this Pokemon Go going on around me is making me feel like the world is full of invisible monsters existing on a plane of existence that I cannot see, which in turn makes me feel like I’m living in H.P. Lovecraft’s “From Beyond.” The one good thing about Pokemon Go is that it allows me to cultivate a healthy Ingress hipster disdain for everyone playing Pokemon Go around me. I’m all like, oh, hey, kids, congratulations on capturing that Pokemon Gym, OR SHOULD I SAY “EXOTIC MATTER PORTAL” YOU SNOT-NOSED LITTLE JOHNNY-COME-LATELIES.
Team Valor? Team Instinct? Team Mystic? Feh. I fight for the Enlightenment, beyatches.
Yeah! Go Frogs!
Mostly, Pokémon Go is making me feel hipster superiority to those that don’t remember the original Telefonica mons game, Telefang.
WTF autocorrect. What the heck is Telefonica even. That’s supposed to be telephone.
Not to mention that Pokemon Go swiped Ingress’s entire database, but with shorter range for interaction — so now national monuments and such are dealing with players wandering around and getting in the way. (Among others, Arlington National Cemetery is not happy.)
GammarayCanon: Telefonica looks like Spanish — check your language settings.
Nope, my settings are definitely English.
The Spanish word for ‘telephone’ is ‘telefono’; I haven’t heard any variations by then I’m not a native speaker.
My autocorrect also tried to put in Telefonica just now.
Well, Niantic re-used the database, or at least part of it for when they built PoGo. The Interaction range is exactly the same, by the way.
I think the general unhappiness has more to do with the huge amount of people playing PoGo over Ingress.
Telefonica is the major Spanish telephone and broadband provider in Espana and South America, with other European operations.
I know all the chapter titles refer to children’s stories, but I don’t think I know the origin of “Can’t Catch Me.” Our friend the Google says there’s a children’s book of that title from 2006, but that seems a bit recent. Is there a different source?
Run, run as fast as you can! / You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Man!
“You Can’t Catch Me,” song by Chuck Berry.
Re: invisible monsters. I see these things out of the corner of my eye, people and things, but when I look full on nobody and nothing’s there. I used to wonder about haunting…then I learned that one’s mind sees an incomplete picture and “fills in the blanks.”
So it’s not a haunting, not ghosts or invisible monsters, just my mind filling in the blanks. [Sigh.]
If it’s any consolation, that’s what they want you to think.
When I was out Pokemon-Go-ing last night, I did see someone wearing a shirt with a green Ingress logo on it, only with a stylized Mewtwo head where the centre triangle was.
The shirt also proclaimed he was Team Enlightened. I was impressed.
Did you change panel 2 of the probation strip? I swear I can’t remember the deflection about Red Knight doing poorly.
http://skin-horse.com/comic/be-made/ has it.
I know. I don’t recall that dialog back when the strip first posted. Memory is tricky.
Fearless Leader has been known to correct spelling errors, etc. but not to really revise stuff. Unsurprising. On Narbonic, she used to run one cartoon a year which revealed what the next year would bring- so cryptically it could not be a spoiler. Nothing here is likely to be “winged”, so nothing is likely to be changed.
I remember it. It was there when the strip first appeared.
. . . unless my memory has been edited.
“Yog Sothoth! Yog Sothoth!” A wild YOG SOTHOTH has appeared! It uses MEPHITIC BLAST. It’s super effective!
I added a WAY late comment on the 6-11-16 comic today, but was just reading back today and realized I had this question:
Why did Nick say they had yet to find the Devil when RK already found the cryptids they were looking for here on 5-11-16?
great, now both Lee and the ASig lady look like Mel to me.
@Channing: Count your blessings! At least nobody throws PokeBalls at _you_ whenever you leave your home! I have to keep telling people I AM NOT A MEOWTH, nya!
And then there’s what happened to poor Sparks… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQVgACwfsM