Qalyar wrote:Clearly, they are trying to avoid the Despair Event Horizon with their efforts to Screw Destiny.
She could have feigned accepting their fate, but gone solo anyway... ;P
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Qalyar wrote:Clearly, they are trying to avoid the Despair Event Horizon with their efforts to Screw Destiny.
charlie_grumbles wrote:jjjdavidson wrote:So who's to say that the Forty can't in fact build rafts and sail them to safety? If they're nomads, they're used to carrying food supplies with them. We already know they have "steam bottles" (ugh) so hopefully fresh water won't be an issue.
The problem I see here is that they can't land until the water stops rising (or at least rises only slowly). At 10m per day you just can't do it. The shore is receding so fast. So you need a couple of months of supplies. Water is the big issue. Unless steam bottles know how to desalinate the water. Then it might be possible. If the inflow is faster it recedes faster, but you have fewer days until it ends.
BTW, what DID Noah eat during the forty days and forty nights? He had plenty of possibilities, but likely they were ruled out by his instructions.
a_s_h_e_n wrote:new alt-text?!?!?
lgw wrote:charlie_grumbles wrote:jjjdavidson wrote:So who's to say that the Forty can't in fact build rafts and sail them to safety? If they're nomads, they're used to carrying food supplies with them. We already know they have "steam bottles" (ugh) so hopefully fresh water won't be an issue.
The problem I see here is that they can't land until the water stops rising (or at least rises only slowly). At 10m per day you just can't do it. The shore is receding so fast. So you need a couple of months of supplies. Water is the big issue. Unless steam bottles know how to desalinate the water. Then it might be possible. If the inflow is faster it recedes faster, but you have fewer days until it ends.
BTW, what DID Noah eat during the forty days and forty nights? He had plenty of possibilities, but likely they were ruled out by his instructions.
I am so not the expert there, but he was never told to bring exactly two of every animal was he - it was more of a minimum?Noah at least had a reliable water supply - The Megball Forty not so much.
Fictioneer wrote:Was that change just on the current frame? (My browser doesn't differentiate the shades enough for me to tell.)
Fictioneer wrote:Zorin_75 wrote:And what the chirp is this about:Spoiler:
looks far too deliberate for mustard
Spoiler:
Was that change just on the current frame? (My browser doesn't differentiate the shades enough for me to tell.)
edo wrote:POPE! Papal decrees: 1)Continue to cheer on M&C
2) I shall conviene a consistory. those present are cardinals. Should we change the criteria for page pope? perhaps whoever has the most posts on the previous page, with the tiebreaker being whichever has the most overall posts to the thread? Thoughts? I'm open to suggestions. It's a new era.
RUN!
Should we change the criteria for page pope? perhaps whoever has the most posts on the previous page, with the tiebreaker being whichever has the most overall posts to the thread? Thoughts?
edo wrote:2) I shall conviene a consistory. those present are cardinals. Should we change the criteria for page pope? perhaps whoever has the most posts on the previous page, with the tiebreaker being whichever has the most overall posts to the thread? Thoughts? I'm open to suggestions. It's a new era.
edo wrote:... Should we change the criteria for page pope? perhaps whoever has the most posts on the previous page, with the tiebreaker being whichever has the most overall posts to the thread?
pelrigg wrote:__----BlindPost of all blindposts----___
<SNIP>
b But you really should keep Waiting For It.
Zorin_75 wrote:And what the chirp is this about:
pelrigg wrote:b But you really should keep Waiting For It.
maletero wrote:lgw wrote:charlie_grumbles wrote:jjjdavidson wrote:So who's to say that the Forty can't in fact build rafts and sail them to safety? If they're nomads, they're used to carrying food supplies with them. We already know they have "steam bottles" (ugh) so hopefully fresh water won't be an issue.
The problem I see here is that they can't land until the water stops rising (or at least rises only slowly). At 10m per day you just can't do it. The shore is receding so fast. So you need a couple of months of supplies. Water is the big issue. Unless steam bottles know how to desalinate the water. Then it might be possible. If the inflow is faster it recedes faster, but you have fewer days until it ends.
BTW, what DID Noah eat during the forty days and forty nights? He had plenty of possibilities, but likely they were ruled out by his instructions.
I am so not the expert there, but he was never told to bring exactly two of every animal was he - it was more of a minimum?Noah at least had a reliable water supply - The Megball Forty not so much.
As I recall, he was actually instructed to bring more (seven?) of the "clean" animals. So maybe they munched on some of those.
Ximenez wrote:We need to take note of the alt-text(s)m:
M1-M2919: Wait for it.
M2920: ...
M2921: RUN.
m Until mscha starts doing it, that is.
Rule110 wrote:We've apparently reached this stage:
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept.
When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled.
When I became a full-grown man, time RAN.
When older still I daily grew, time FLEW.
Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone.
O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
KeonSkyfire wrote:edo wrote:NOWONGNinja'd ... and then put on top by saying so :roll:Spoiler:
Wait how does that work? I thought I beat you. No offence. :D
b2bomberkrh wrote:According to the Bible, God didn't give man the animals to eat until after the flood. The Ark was supplied with enough plant food matter to feed all the animals as well as all the people. I don't believe the Bible addresses what the carnivores among the animals were eating.
jjjdavidson wrote:(Perhaps they are in fact a lumber camp? The fact that Megan finds trees "neat" doesn't mean she's never seen one at all. Or they could be nomadic scavengers, salvaging the numerous shipwrecks on the Med floor; the planks could even be some sort of artificial material salvaged from the dark past.
Qalyar wrote:nerdsniped wrote:<snip> (If I was feeling mean, I'm sure there's a TVtropes link for this. But that's the last thing we need right now. Also I'd have to open the site myself to find it, and I don't dare...)
Clearly, they are trying to avoid the Despair Event Horizon with their efforts to Screw Destiny. <snip>
charlie_grumbles wrote:BTW, what DID Noah eat during the forty days and forty nights? He had plenty of possibilities, but likely they were ruled out by his instructions.
b2bomberkrh wrote:According to the Bible, God didn't give man the animals to eat until after the flood. The Ark was supplied with enough plant food matter to feed all the animals as well as all the people. I don't believe the Bible addresses what the carnivores among the animals were eating.
Gary Larson wrote:"Well that's it for the unicorns, from now on all the carnivores are confined to C Deck",
Exodies wrote:The best computer game is a compiler.
TimeLurker wrote:alt-text is still "RUN."
Edit to Add: Is Megan carrying her bag while the Cue Man put his on his back?
a_s_h_e_n wrote:Aw, seems we're in for a few frames of running back through the empty fortress
The next frame will be La Petite on a raft with three masts, an eye patch, and 38 others on board. She'll say:Valarya wrote:Oh shit... I can see this happening and it's already so heart breaking.Montov wrote:My pre-coma prediction: A few decapix of Cuegan running until they reach the sea with the baobabs halfway under water.
Then Megan will whisper "no". ;(
I think they are adult, but innocent. Children would not be able to go on a hundred mile hike by themselves on a whim.Eutychus wrote:I'm also wondering how old Megan and Cueball are. As this unfolds I'm unconsciously ascribing a younger and younger age to them.
ucim wrote:The next frame will be La Petite on a raft with three masts, an eye patch, and 38 others on board. She'll say:Valarya wrote:Oh shit... I can see this happening and it's already so heart breaking.Montov wrote:My pre-coma prediction: A few decapix of Cuegan running until they reach the sea with the baobabs halfway under water.
Then Megan will whisper "no". ;(
"Aaaarrrrrrhhh! 'op on, ye maties! We're headin' for Fantasy Island"
Oh, I can't bear to break it to him.pelrigg wrote:__----BlindPost of all blindposts----___
... (No, you don't have to wait up for meb.)
b But you really should keep Waiting For It.
TimeLurker wrote:Awwwww, I was hoping they'd push a pair of Beanies to the ground out of their way.
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