#429 – Technical Difficulties
October 2nd, 2012 |
I am/EN is on Twitter, @ExterminatusNow.
Friend of the comic, Pixellated, wants UK readers to check his Reddit posting. Some travel plans fell through, and he has some non-refundable hotel rooms he can’t use. Bit of a long shot, but if anyone needs accommodation in Stoke, 19th & 20th October, please get in touch with Pix (aka CoffeePoweredRobot, aka Jon). Really sucks, because he was trying hard to organise a get-together for some of our forum members, and for his efforts, he was left with no event and £200 down the pan. Why not take the (discounted) rooms off his hands and get yourself along to Alton Towers for their Halloween events?
Damned harlot kettles and their philandering.
Ha thats funny cause your picture is Fernex
The amount of awesome detail in this comic is too damn high!
lol wow… how do you break a kettle?
This might explain his poor driving skills.
I know the link says non-storyline but that would make a great mini story. Soooo toaster hows it going? You had any contact with your brother in the Big Empty?
You’re in luck, it’s actually a two-parter.
and there was much rejoicing. yay….
Ah, the Evil Overlord list…gotta love it :D
In this case, it’s Nr. 46 of http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Thank you for the good laugh :)
On the first panel, I thought they were doing a parody of Asian iPhone manufacturing plants. Instead it’s about a place that makes white sleek machines with the intent of conquering the world.
…then again….
Good riddance, tea sucks anyway! Though I might just be saying that ’cause I’m American.
Okay, I’m sensing my Ami ways about to show here, but does that kettle have a power chord?
Most kettles are electric nowadays. What are you, like 60?
I’m going to guess American instead of from the 60′s. I’ve been speaking to a bunch of Americans and it really surprises me the amount of them that have never heard of an electric kettle before.
I know, right? We use a metal kettle that sits on the hob, the missus has had it for years, but I thought that was just her, perhaps trying to economise plug sockets in the old, tiny apartment. But for some reason it came up in a Skype convo with some US forumers, and the stove-top was the norm for them too.
Perhaps the UK’s tea culture drove innovation in the water boiling device industry. Whereas North America focused on coffee machines instead.
I’m American, and I’ve used an electric kettle.My aunt’s, actually. I still make my tea in an old-style kettle, though. I don’t hate coffee, but I don’t see what the big deal is. Tea does a lot more for me. I may be American, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think they’re idiots.
I second that there are idiots among us…. but i have never heard of an electric kettle i had to put a bowl of water in the microwave and carefully pour it into a mug
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You’ve got to be kidding me.
What did you do before microwaves?!
It’s funny though – I mean electric kettles are so cheap here, you can literally pick one up for $8 at a cheap shop, and they are so handy but yet the Americans of all people so up to date with things don’t have them widespread. haha, I just don’t get it.
I don’t get it either. ‘Course, most Americans don’t care about tea, and only ever drink it cold from cans and bottles. Ech.
Heh, you both have the same picture, so its like one person replying to their own comments.
This comic is the first time I’ve ever heard about an electric kettle though. It’s kinda weird, the 13 colonies founded a freakin’ revolution because the taxes on tea were a little high, and now that a whole country that resulted from that war just doesn’t give a shit anymore. Hence, that’s probably why electric kettles aren’t that popular here.
My brother drinks Arizona tea because it comes in a huge can for only 2$ (1.5 euros, England’s on the euro right?). I don’t drink that shit, I only drink healthy, all natural Mountain Dew. Emperor bless America.
AND ANOTHER THING!
Cream and sugar? …. really? cream? It’s just plain milk right? Or unless I’m mistaken and they have some kind of ‘coffee only milk’ called cream.
It’s just that time I was in NYC – it was really hot and I saw all these people walk around with what looked exactly like what we call here in Australia and iced coffee. So I went to starbucks and asked for an iced coffee – I got filter coffee with ice. It was terrible. And I still don’t know what you guy call what we call iced coffees.
DHGM- it’s three, actually. And Shruikan- cream is thicker than milk- how thick depends on the maker. And wait- you’re from Australia? That’s wicked. and the iced coffee was probably a latte or frappe or mochacino or cappucino or a what-the-hell-cino. These have varying amounts of whipped cream, chocolate, cocoa, and even caramel. They’re tasty, but the flavor tends to be STRONG. (And again, they don’t do as much for me as regular tea.)
@Polymer – Yea I’m an Aussy.
And I do know what cream is, but I’m asking do people actually put cream in their coffee?
That’s weird. Cream is used for cooking, or desserts or topping or something like that … not for coffee :P
I tried it once and it tasted weird.
“And wait- you’re from Australia? That’s wicked.”
Yeah, this is pretty cool, all these thoughts from all over the world. Somebody plug in the melting pot! …You’ve never heard of an electric cultural melting pot either?
On iced coffee: Over the summer, I took to making my own, after buying a rather tasty (if overly sweetened) iced latte at Tim Horton’s. First attempt turned out pretty harsh, when I brewed it hot in a French press/plunger pot and let it cool. Turns out hot-brewed coffee has too much bitterness and acid to be very palatable when cold. You gots to cold-brew it, which involves making a concentrate by the pitcherful, left at room temperature overnight. Turns out so smooth and flavourful, iced or heated, by the shot or in milk, that I brew it that way all the time now. A pitcher in the fridge is convenient in the mornings too, just pour and go, or nuke it for a minute or two as the mornings get colder. #ColdBrewEvangelism
Not many Aussies around here I guess haha. (I’m not even a native Aussy either, originally from South Africa)
Yea I’ve been reading from DownUnder since the very first Morth arc I’m pretty sure. Can’t remember how I found the place, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to recommend it to anyone yet because even after all these years I still don’t know how the hell to say the name of this comic.
Exterminatus – just … too many syllables to sounds right. :P
“Exterminatus – just … too many syllables to sounds right. :P” You’ve gone and done something dangerous there- you’ve got me thinking.I am only now realizing how many words I know, read, write, and type that I have NEVER SAID IN MY LIFE. Proper nouns and titles, mostly but still… Am I the only one who does this? Example…example… ooh! Piers Anthony’s Xanth series. I’ve read that word thousands of times. I’ve written it hundreds. I’ve typed it dozens. BUT I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN IT ALOUD.
Oh and on tea: last year at summer camp, this guy named Keats (AWESOME name by the way) brought a French Press and Belgian Coffee (One country that I’d prefer to get coffee from than tea. If you don’t get it, Google is your friend) Our entire cabin did not sleep for a month. (Apparently, the Girl’s cabin didn’t appreciate our… Creativity.)
Wait, what were we talking about?
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Oh yeah, we’ve had over a dozen posts about Coffee and tea. uh-oh…song time…
I love COFFee and tea,
I love the JAVA and the JAVA loves ME,
COFFEE and TEA, and the JAVA and ME,
A CUP, a cup, A CUP, a cup, A CUP.
Did I really just do that? I must be off my meds.
I don’t need need no booze or drugs, I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug
Pronunciation: First three syllables of exterminate. But end in AH-tus. Short A, stressed.
Me like. And knowing the pronunciation of “Exterminatus” made it cooler but less funny. And I so approve. I saw an image the other day that I can’t get out of my head when I see Virus’ eyes.(Especially on the cast page.)
http://www.halolz.com/2008/09/28/sonics-eye-infection/
so many response comments cause of a single comment of not knowing about electrical kettle’s…. dam they take shit serious here.
on another note are the inquisitors that are currently fighting the fernex bunny guy supposed to represent the opisite(sorry for mis spel english isnt my primary language) of the main cast? unlike them the guys that get stuff done without a huge amount of freaking luck as simmons casualy explained during morths first arc.
also dam now you got me thinking of a moment where kirby suddenly pops out of virus his eyes and everyone starts looking at their drinks with the thought: wtf are we drinking?
also in terms of tea if basically been raised since i was a child with it.
I don’t know about opposite, but they are definitely more serious. I think the main point was to highlight our heroes’ day-to-day incompetence.
Yeah, that’d be the reason I asked. American, don’t drink tea, or coffee for that matter (neither one really tastes good to me, although for tea its because I found it kind of bland and had nothing on hand with which to flavor it), and don’t ever use a stovetop kettle, much less an electric one.
I’ll take hot cocoa, thank you very much.
@Polymer: Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you’re native to South Africa, then French should be your native language, right? Would “Exterminatus” just sound odd in a french accent?
@ThunderGodSlice: Hot cocoa when the mountain dew runs dry man.
NOT POLYMER! I MEANT SHURIKEN!! I APOLOGIZE!!
Too funny.and Shuriken said she was South African by BIRTH, but LIVED in Australia.Quite the difference.
Haha, yes, born in S.A, moved to Australia when I was 12.
Native language is Afrikaans – a Dutch dialect if you will. French is much higher up Africa, not down South. Nigeria, around there. But to answer the question – yes I’m pretty sure it would lol.
Also Polymer – I’m a male lol, to spite my display pic. :)
What? I have a different picture now? This is confusing. Maybe its cause I made the other posts on my computer, and these on my phone…
Well I.. I kinda… Whoops. I wanted to blame it on a typo, but I honestly think the complete sentences were what threw me off. And yes, any site with this type of avatar system switches the avatar for each NAME-EMAIL-COMPUTER combination.I’ve exploited this before.
As far as the power chord, It’s kinda hard to tell without sound.
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/002/144/fry.jpg
I have no idea what you mean.
I see what you did with the power chord joke. :b
Nope. Still don’t get it.
I spy my with my little eye a familiar rabbit character design =3 I missed that guy
It’s not the same guy. Says the chap who wrote this one.
Scientist guy with the daemonhosts? He died in exterminatus. What are you trying to say, all rabbits look the same to you? That’s racist.
I remember that he blew up =P never stopped comic characters from coming back before.
It’s not racist if you’re talking about an entire species – that’s speciest, if anything. It’s ESPECIALLY not racist if you talk about someone’s character design.
Frankly, I thought of that rabbit too. Forgot he got exterminatus dropped on his head though.
Nice to have another potential character to draw as a Fennex ‘chosen’…An idea of fanarts I might do someday is basically a series of EN characters ‘augmented’ with the powers and attributes of the various daemon lords/gods.
So far, I’m only missing a host for SoulStealer…
It’s not racists if the rabbit is white.
:p
Make him the stories equivalent of a middle class American and we’re golden!
If middle class Americans had Factories, Armies, Eyepatches, and…oh yeah, BIONICS, I would pretty much have it made.
How do you know we don’t?
*evil chuckle*
STOP SELLING MY SECRETS TO THE BRITS!
Did I do that out loud?
Death from above. DEATH FROM ABOVE!
lol XD
Damien and East have very similar designs. Are they related? Because I cannot imagine a more awesome arc than them being in the same team.
Not related. They perhaps have a backstory connection, but I dunno how much Stuart wants to give away at this time.
I’m keeping quiet.
DUN DUN DU- eh, no.
Exterminatus Now:Starring Eric Stoltz as The MAX
Oh you just had to remind me that was a thing didn’t you. Never understood that show or its fans.
It started with the remake of “Battlestar Galactica,” a television series with no true beginning and a horribly stupid end…
And then, some marketing genius decided to make “Caprica” which borrowed elements form “Lawnmower Man,” “DUNE,” and “Serial Experiments Lain.”
It was a truly magnificent work of speculative fiction, and I didn’t feel punished for knowing how physical, social, and economic reality functions.
At least not as often as I do when I watch the works of J.J. Abrams.
“Revolution” is basically the television remake of “The Postman” only worse because guns, militaries, social hierarchies, and countries all existed before electricity was “invented”… or rather exploited, developed, harnessed, discovered or whatever makes sense in our reality.
I’m surprised the cast isn’t wearing burlap sacks and doe leather clothing for the lack of actual technology available to them.
Why bother with wheels? in that reality, everyone should be running around with pointy sticks while wearing bear skins and loin cloths in another 15 years considering how quickly society has devolved.
Apparently, CRT monitors and data entry computers can function under the right conditions, but not steam or combustion engines. Heaven forbid the industrial technology developed between the 17th and 19th century work without electricity in Abrams “Revolution.”
I fail to see how the different parts of that story of yours connect =/
I suspect Loth was discussing “Sam and Max” not “Caprica.” I talked about the reasons why I liked “Caprica” as opposed to “Sam and Max,” becasue it was stated that he never understood the interest in one show or the other. As an example, I explained that I liked “Caprica” as a work of speculative fiction because it didn’t make me feel like i was loosing IQ points for watching it.
Then, I started complaining about J.J. Abrams tv shows consistently punishing me for knowing how reality works before ranting off reasons why Abrams “Revolution” is stupid and quite possibly the worst thing he’s been affiliated with if he didn’t have a hand in its creation.
I don’t often wonder into tangents of thought unless I feel something really must be stated and I usually edit before posting to obsessive degrees for that very reason. For instance a statement like…
“Fringe,” being one of his ((Abrams)) better productions started off with an interesting premise for a speculative fiction but has since started degenerating into a steaming pile of dog poop. Meanwhile, “Revolution” while great for a thirteen year old who has no concept of history, much less how society and governments function, will accept just about anything cool anything at face value.
Furthermore any terrorist organization that MARKS ITS MEMBERS WITH A PERMANENT SCAR is ridiculously incompetent. That sort of thing makes sense within a paramilitary organization to identify special operatives, but realistically it’s just plain stupid. I mean, what if you’re captured?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwSimBj_PVo
Is it just me, or is the phrase “Everchosen” kinda familiar? Considering how much this group loves it’s boomerang jokes…Could it be possible that, if all four of the dark gods obtained “Chosen”, such as Morth, than some spooky chosen could come about? I know they’re gonna keep mum on the subject, but I still like to speculate.
That said, I think Fernex would be the hardest to please into choosing a Chosen One, considering his mechanical nature. Considering the Soulthirster’s nature, I imagine the mother of all orgies (no pun intended), would be enough, and not much more would appeal, seeing as how Xe has most likely seen it all. As for the Hound? Just cause another big world war, most likely. Just a theory, as it so often is, but hey.
Didn’t Fernex HAVE a chosen one? The guy who had him right before Lothar got… Used??
You mean the one who got shot the $!^& up before Fernex possessed Lothar’s Bionics?
I think so. My memory kinda left with the rest of my mind. Last I heard, they were on their honeymoon in Paris.
No, the frog guy was just a typical Fernexite Technomancer, I figure. I’d imagine that being an “Everchosen” would involve a physical marking of some kind, IE: The marking Morth recieved from the Patterner. It may be more difficult with Fernexites in that regard, but perhaps more advanced bionics, beyond what technology can currently achieve (and considering Fernexite daemons, that’s a lot), would be a pretty good indicator.
You’re still going on about that? Jeez. Some people. I tried to find that arc, but every time I jump to near where I think it is, I find the wrong place and start archive-binging again. Who wants crabcakes? Not me, thank you.
….Crabcakes?
It was perhaps at the start of Book End. The dinosaur guy who got decapitated. United in the favour of the gods to go and fuck shit up. Of course, Dr. Kanzaki may just be insane. Or he may be expecting to become Everchosen after stomping across the world at the head of an army of daemonically-possessed mechs.
Otherwise, you may find the term familiar because I swiped it from Games Workshop, where the term means the same thing in Warhammer Fantasy, albeit for the Gods of Chaos. United in their favour to go and fuck shit up.
Isn’t that 40K, where it’s Abbadon’s title or something? Or is that something different?
I think Abbadon the Despoiler is Warmaster of Chaos.
Hmm. I know this has probably been asked before, but are these characters versions of the overly serious characters that were the initial inspiration for Exterminatus Now?
I know Eastwood, Rogue, Lothar and Morth were in Grim. So was Damien and Xandius. They’re all different now to what they were. I’m not certain how much more I can really say.
Cool. That’s actually more than I was asking for, as I was only expecting a yes or no response. Thank you.
Is it just me or does Fernix give the EN group WAY more trouble than the other gods?
I think it’s more OFTEN, but not as bad in MOST cases.
Definatly what Polymer said if we’re willing to count possessed toaster incidents.
If not…
We have:
1, Busting up the Soulthirsters in the intro arc.
2, Blastphemy ‘s copied and killed War demon victim sometime after the Soulthirster.
3, Demon facility (IDK what those demons where, but War seems like a safe bet.)
4, Morth, Patterner cult leader.
5. Fennex Daemon in Lothar’s Parts (with a cultist who got killed off.)
6. Demon bonanza in Wildfire arc.
7, Morth, Patterner Demon Prince.
I do think that’s all of them. There was a Zombie attack, but that didn’t seem to really be linked to any of the Daemon Four…
You also left out a few other bits. Namely, the possessed calculator and the possessed X-box. But it’s okay. They were one-shots.
Now excuse me, I need to let loose a few Patternari farts…
Speaking of evil toaster, i think i’ve found is long lost cousin : http://hobbit-queen.tumblr.com/post/35620761634/its-like-something-out-of-scp-foundation
Argh! Sorry for the terrible english guys.
From the moment the phrase “my pretties” was spoken, Kanzaki became Australian too me.
Poor virus. Whether it be uppity AIs or possessed toasters he he still gets sattled with blame.
By the way. Who are these other guys anyway? Do they just serve to point out the ineptitude of our heroes?
is gray here related to eastwood?