Dang it! Of course the rats are reality blind! They’re in the sewer, where whatever Anasigma has been dispensing ends up after it passes thru the Humans above.
o_0 Hadn’t thought about that. But what are the parameters? Artie The Intelligent Gerbil still registers for them, as does the fact that they themselves are intelligent rats. So are they blind to anything that doesn’t register as “normal” to them, and Artie reads as a rat to them?
Argue already knew of them, so he’s probably had dealings with them before, and as such, will read as ‘normal’ to them. The reality blindness wouldn’t affect memories, just current perceptions. Which makes Artie’s next task of revealing the truth about Valiant’s date all the more problematic.
Ask anybody, you won’t find a more loyal supporter of this comic’s current administration than me. Not in this comment section, not anywhere. It’s going to be tough going, because they have a lot of detractors, people who are very disappointed in their performance and say very critical things — I won’t repeat them, but very critical. But nobody believes in Shaenon and Jeff more than me. I like loyalty. And if somebody like this David Huber here starts creating fanon — and it would have been nice if he asked my permission first, just a courtesy thing, but that’s up to him I guess — if he starts creating fanon that contradicts precedent established by others including yours truly, and we’re not there yet but I’m paying attention, that’s all I’m going to say about that, I’m paying attention — then I trust that Shaenon and Jeff will return my loyalty, because otherwise, we might have a problem.
I do believe you’re insane. Not that any of the rest of us is far from it, but you have gone right over the edge. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, mind you. I’m just making a point.
I do apologise if I have inadvertently offended. I find your characters of Steve and Kyle (and even Eddie) resonate with me and intended only to offer support and encouragement of your efforts to bring them to life.
I look forward to hearing more about their adventures from you. And who knows? If Joanie Loves Chachi deserved a spin-off…
Had our intrepid AR adventurers read the entire manual rather than skimming, they might have found page 119 in Section 8 Paragraph 4 regarding “Avoiding Capture: It is imperative that Anasigma technology not fall into the wrong hands. Should discovery occur and capture be inevitable, engage the drone’s self-destruct mode by clicking your heels together three times while saying the code phrase ‘There’s no place like home’. This will overload your supercapacitor in an explosive discharge, destroying the drone while emitting an EMP disrupting all non-hardened electronics within a maximum radius of 400 meters. CAUTION! Electrostatic area effect will be lethal to any life forms within a 30 meter radius.”
My 11th grade English Lit teacher did that with whether you talked about the characters in A Clockwork Orange wearing baseball pants with jockstraps or black leggings with codpieces.
Just how ungodly is the pack of intelligent rat creatures. True, you don’t see a lot of churchgoing among the characters in the strip, though Artie is a Unitarian minister, and Unity once said something about going through the roof at the Vatican and something else about double excommunication…
It’s like saying “The Emperor has no clothes!” But, then, neither does Artie.
Dang it! Of course the rats are reality blind! They’re in the sewer, where whatever Anasigma has been dispensing ends up after it passes thru the Humans above.
o_0 Hadn’t thought about that. But what are the parameters? Artie The Intelligent Gerbil still registers for them, as does the fact that they themselves are intelligent rats. So are they blind to anything that doesn’t register as “normal” to them, and Artie reads as a rat to them?
Argue already knew of them, so he’s probably had dealings with them before, and as such, will read as ‘normal’ to them. The reality blindness wouldn’t affect memories, just current perceptions. Which makes Artie’s next task of revealing the truth about Valiant’s date all the more problematic.
This guess gets marks for plausibility, whether the incumbent authors go that way or not.
Ask anybody, you won’t find a more loyal supporter of this comic’s current administration than me. Not in this comment section, not anywhere. It’s going to be tough going, because they have a lot of detractors, people who are very disappointed in their performance and say very critical things — I won’t repeat them, but very critical. But nobody believes in Shaenon and Jeff more than me. I like loyalty. And if somebody like this David Huber here starts creating fanon — and it would have been nice if he asked my permission first, just a courtesy thing, but that’s up to him I guess — if he starts creating fanon that contradicts precedent established by others including yours truly, and we’re not there yet but I’m paying attention, that’s all I’m going to say about that, I’m paying attention — then I trust that Shaenon and Jeff will return my loyalty, because otherwise, we might have a problem.
I do believe you’re insane. Not that any of the rest of us is far from it, but you have gone right over the edge. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, mind you. I’m just making a point.
My Dear Mr. Wernstrom,
I do apologise if I have inadvertently offended. I find your characters of Steve and Kyle (and even Eddie) resonate with me and intended only to offer support and encouragement of your efforts to bring them to life.
I look forward to hearing more about their adventures from you. And who knows? If Joanie Loves Chachi deserved a spin-off…
Best Regards,
Dave Huber
Completely agree with this one – clearly they just have a very different starting point for “normal”.
Had our intrepid AR adventurers read the entire manual rather than skimming, they might have found page 119 in Section 8 Paragraph 4 regarding “Avoiding Capture: It is imperative that Anasigma technology not fall into the wrong hands. Should discovery occur and capture be inevitable, engage the drone’s self-destruct mode by clicking your heels together three times while saying the code phrase ‘There’s no place like home’. This will overload your supercapacitor in an explosive discharge, destroying the drone while emitting an EMP disrupting all non-hardened electronics within a maximum radius of 400 meters. CAUTION! Electrostatic area effect will be lethal to any life forms within a 30 meter radius.”
Guns. How quaint.
Given their intelligence, they may have indeed read that, but didn’t understand a word of it.
Or they misunderstood and thought they needed a pair of ruby slippers. Which is silly, because everyone knows they need silver ones.
That’s how teachers could tell if kids actually read the book or just watched the movie.
My 11th grade English Lit teacher did that with whether you talked about the characters in A Clockwork Orange wearing baseball pants with jockstraps or black leggings with codpieces.
Just how ungodly is the pack of intelligent rat creatures. True, you don’t see a lot of churchgoing among the characters in the strip, though Artie is a Unitarian minister, and Unity once said something about going through the roof at the Vatican and something else about double excommunication…
When Skin Horse attends church, it usually ends with collateral damage.
“Stupid, stupid rat-creatures!”