#434 – Buzz-Killers In The Mist
November 18th, 2012 |
That’s Snopes.com. If you’re not familiar with it, you’re probably part of the problem. Before you fwd, retweet, or Chinese whisper that bullshit story along, do a search. The Navy SEAL that took out Bin Laden did not just die! Cookie Monster was not replaced by “Veggie Monster”! You are connected to the largest, most accessible repository of knowledge the world has ever seen right now, you really have no excuse.
Oooo… the ghosts are all in Eastwood’s head.
Watch it ACTUALLY be aliens.
my thoughts exactly…
Yup. Definitely aliens.
1′M GO1NG TO GO CONTR4RY H3R3 4ND S4Y D43MONS M1ST4K3N FOR 4LI3NS. B3C4US3 R34LLY, TH4T’S TH3 PLOT PO1NT TH1S COM1C 1S B4S3D 4ROUND. TH4T PR3TTY MUCH 4LL OF TH3 CR33PY TH1NGS TH4T 4R3 RU1N1NG YOUR D4Y 4R3 EV1L CR34TUR3S FROM 4NOTH3R D1M3NS1ON.
Dude we generally don’t do Elite speak here, just horribly typoed english
Have you not met this guy?
GC does not speak 1337. He speaks in the… how did it go?… N3MUR4LS OF TH3 BL1ND PROPH3TS.
Meanwhile, I am a flesh worm. Allow me to eat you and thourally enjoy your digestion.
Or, just suck your soul out from 8 planes and 7 dimensions away,
*licks chops*
More and more Harry’s starting to strike me as the ‘tin-foil hat’ type. His paranoia seems kinda justified by his work, and I can’t help but feel like the inquisition is a job that would lead most people involved in it to pay more attention to the ‘good guy’ gods, if for no other reason than those on the other side tend to eat lead, if they’re lucky. Unlucky, is running into that guy that has a Lothar-like Energy arm-gun thing as an assualt rifle (don’t wanna call it a blaster, doesn’t have that shape. doesn’t use the entire hand so not arm-cannon to me, but either way, short of taking the bionic arm, I’d probably REALLY want that as my gun. Overkill, if there is such a thing, is when you’re shooting through enough walls to hit an innocent bystander.)
There is no such thing as overkill, just open fire and reload.
Well said
Who are you?
Your worst nightmare
I was talking to gC, who forgot his speech pattern.
3H, NOT FORGOTTEN, JUST…W1THH3LD T3MPOR4R1LY.
Now, I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…
It’s aliens.
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Dam you and your Filthy Logic!!!
Anyone else feel like the guys just landed down in Silent Hill?
I’m going with “Stalker”.
Yes.
Fuck the hell yes….
Bingo, first thing that popped into mind. :D
Where, now?
http://memegenerator.net/instance/9640146?urlName=Paranoid-Parrot&browsingOrder=Popular&browsingTimeSpan=AllTime
I started looking, and I only now realize how paranoid I really am.
YES.
What is “Chinese whisper”? And they’re not replacing Cookie Monster, they’re … changing his opinions, getting him to eat veggies. Difference.
Chinese Whispers. Basically a story getting mangled through repeated retelling through a chain of people.
F4CTS, 4CCUR4CY, TOOLS OF TH3 SH4DY UND3RB3LLY OF SOC13TY M4N1PUL81NG US. OH W41T, TH3 1NQU1S1T1ON 4R3 TH3 SH4DY UND3RB3LLY. HMMM…
Could you do the world a favour and use letters instead of numbers. That’s what they are there for.
*whistles innocently*
I had nothing to do with this.
why do I foresee a comic where lothar is beating the crap out of a Fernex cultist who speaks that way?
That’d be interesting only cause trying to speak actual words that are written in l33t would be very hard for my mind to make an actual word out of them.
N07 1337. 7h15 15 1337.
(Translation: Not l33t. THIS is l33t.)
in repley to that didnt i point out last time (comic) he might be a fernix cultist? though it seems he mistook it for the monkey guy. as for me its actualy quite simple to make something out of it that makes sense for me.(and lother beating the crap out of a fernex cultist would be funny.)
notes that it isn’t a question…
This will become interesting
Why must you spoil our fun?
1 M4Y 4CTU4LLY B3 H4V1NG TOO MUCH FUN W1TH TH1S. SOM3ON3 M4Y N33D TO STOP M3 B3FOR3 1 F1GUR3 OUT HOW TO COLOR MY T3XT.
To color your text all you need to do is -GRRK!-n n n n n n gftr5 vgr5te5v 5 ,ki
Actually, a few weeks back, Silv and I kinda encouraged this whole thing. He was going to stop, and we talked him out of it.
4H, SO YOU 4DM1T YOUR GU1LT. TH3 PROS3CUT1ON F1NDS YOU GU1LTY! 1MM3DI4T3 CULL1NG ORD3R 1SSU3D.
Guilty of what? My guilt is as an accessory, and is dependent on your own. To prove me guilty, you would first have to admit your own wrongdoing, resulting in your own culling, after which you cannot touch me. Isn’t logic wonderful?
…TH1S 1S TROUBL1NG. H1S HON3R4BL3 TYR4NNY H4S D3C1D3D 1T WOULD B3 MOR3 4MUS1NG TO SL4T3 US BOTH FOR CULL1NG. 4NYWH3R3 CONV3N13NT TO D3FL3CT H1S M1RTHFUL JUDG3M3NT TO?
Virus?
…*grins*
Me.
Excuse me while I go change out of this fleshworm costume and get into my real bones.
*Triumphantly returns*
Alright. Let’s face this “TYR4NNY” and see what it’s really made of.
Tyranny… that would be a GREAT name for Blasphemy’s Big Brother.
H1S TYR4NNY 1S M4D3 OF L4UGHT3R 4ND MURD3R, 1NC4S3 YOU W3R3 4CTU4LLY WOND3R1NG. UNL3SS YOU 4R3 M4D3 OF MOR3 MURD3R TH4N H1M, 1 WOULD SUGG3ST H1D1NG.
Hiding? Murder?
I’ve been murdered 904823729^93827829493738 times, or there abouts. I’ve stored fragments and duplicates of my soul in more places in more universes then I can remember, and will come back to life each time so long as even one fragment remains.
I am not afraid of a being made up of a little murder like that. He should be afraid of me.
M4D3 OF MOR3 MURD3R 1T 1S TH3N!
I WARNED YOU BRO.
I WARNED YOU ABOUT TEREZI.
H3H H3H H3H…
1T K33PS H4PP3N1NG.
*Irony has reached critical levels.*
*Attempting to drop sick beats*
To follow tangentally from Lothar – if you are actually going to use “Leet” speak, you could at least use actual Leet Speak as well as the full character set.
SIDE NOTE: Leet was developed by malicious computer users in the 80s/90s BBS Days so that police and other such law enforcement couldn’t understand what they were saying in messages.
“Hello World I’m Ben” in Leet, for example, could be written as either: “|-|3||0\/\/0t||)|/\/\[33/\/" or even "SVOOL DLIOW RN YVM" if you use a substitution cypher.
/\/0\/\/270]o\/\/17|-|>-0Vrc}-4]o,]3}-0!
:)
He’s not using 1337, He’s using “The Numerals of the Blind Prophet” (1,3,4) from Homestuck.
People just don’t get it.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get that far before my computer couldn’t handle the awesome.
Just looks like Pseudo-Leet to me
It pretty much is for her, but it varies.
For each character, because they all communicated through a chat client (Pesterchum) for most of the comic, they all speak differently, with different reasons. For example…
THERE’S KARKAT, WHO’S A HUGE DOUCHE AND DOES NOTHING BUT SHOUT,
or theres eridan wwhos one hell of a mother glubber and uses fish puns all the time,
Or You Have Kanaya, Who Speaks Eloquently And Almost Completely Accurately, Bar The Constant Capital Letters.
I could go on.
Hurray for the Main storyline that we are back on.
I want to hear Lothar’s theory, he always has the weirdest ones.
Also, I have a question: Who’s supposed to be the dumb(est) one of the group, Eastwood or Virus?
how about when one of them is being dumb the other one is smart enough to look like a smartass compared to the other?
Virus is absolutely, 100%, stupider than East. Sanity, on the other hand, belongs to Virus. Like East told Rogue: “I’m an arsehole, not an idiot.”
I think Virus are Eastwood are about equal on stupidity in their own way. When one is worse then the other, then the other will call them out on it only for karma to bite them on the ass a few strips later
All the while, Lothar and Rogue are sat on the sidelines getting wasted.
or preparing whatever it is they need to make both of them look like idiots.
The opening panels make me think the new X-Com, but it might just be me.
It’s just you. Haven’t played it (though I have the demo queued up).If you mean narration over establishing shots, that’s just a thing that happens in TV and movies a lot. It’s more expedient and interesting than having talking heads expositing and then having travel and establishing shots.
Probably gets that XCOM vibe from it being a VTOL landing and dropping off a squad of four in tense combat preparedness, which you see A LOT of in that game (even when you have a full six person squad, only four are shown). And the mention of UFOs, that might have thrown him.
Also the demo sucks, just get the full game. Then again, maybe not if you value getting things done. Thing is a time sink like you wouldn’t believe.
Plays x-com. Clicks mouse. Dies horribly
I love the Internet for that, it thrills me to be able to instantly destroy a persons perception of having anything interesting to say.
For instance…?
Well, for example, a friend of mine INSISTED that Bruce Lee was raised by monks, god knows where he got that from. Finally looked that up just to shut him the hell uo
I really need a phone with a data plan. The “Veggie Monster” claim happened in a restaurant, and I told them it sounded dubious, but didn’t have wifi to check it. Being reasonably well-versed in scientific and skeptical thinking, I have a pretty good bullshit detector, and yeah, it’s nice to be immediately vindicated with internet sources. Because if you go home and look it up, and then bring it up next time you see the claimant, you do look a bit of a twat.
My cell is from 2002, it doesnt even have a calculator. So I usually resort to looking it up and shooting them down the next time they tell the story. Hey, it might be petty, but pettiness is where its at.
Aliens, you say?
X-com/Exterminatus Crossover comic….X-com/Exterminatus Crossover comic!!!
(I can dream, right?)
Oh Harry, quite sounding so much like Fox News
Doh ho, it’s funny, because…
I kind of wanted to parody Fox News in the previous comic. Was gonna have the tagline just read ‘”fair” and “balanced”‘.
Nah, Harry is less Faux Noise and more Daily Fail.
Somehow, I’m NOT soothed by the fact that everyone resorts to a single, privately owned website to validate or negate their confirmation bias…. and calls that “fact checking.”
Snopes has a section with several false claims to prove that very point – that you should never trust a single authority. Of course you shouldn’t rely on it for serious research, but the fact is, Snopes does the legwork and provides citations, so it’s a perfectly reasonable place to start when all you need is a quick yes/no on something frivolous and trivial.
Am I the only one expecting Snopes to be a front for the Inquisition in this comic? Kind of a more subtle Men In Black thing?
I might be paranoid. Maybe.
The inquisition does not seem that subtle. The SCP foundation would be subtle enough to use Snopes as a front. The Inquisition seems to freely let knowledge OF demons and angels and stuff around, and only hunt it down when abused (Tell the kids about demons so they DON’T grow up to be cultists and kill them if they do anyways). So Snopes is probably the legit Snopes.
Unless it’s a tool of the One World Government.
Which doesn’t actually exist.
But it might.
But it doesn’t.
Maybe snoops is a secretly maintained by the iquisition to help the population recognize false allarms, and marginalize all the frouds who use lies in order to full unsuspecking people into real cults.
No wait that would require competance.
OK, am I the only one seeing the fog literally SWALLOWING the crew? First Lothar, then Rogue, then Virus. Something bad’s gonna take Harry in the next strip.
OOH, 4 S3TUP FOR 4 FOG D43MON, TH4T COULD B3 FUN, THOUGH 1 TH1NK 1T’S MOR3 L1K3LY TOO JUST H1D3 SOM3TH1NG HUMOROUSLY SC4RY.
The the barrel on their own ship’s guns (Fernex minion)?
A shapeshifting demon currently genuinely playing with a child (soulthirster minion)?
Blasphemy escaped (EN crew’s minion)?
Our first cultists of whatever the hound demon is named (I-Forget-The-Name minion)?
OH OH OH OH OH Do a silent hill and pyramid head joke in the next comic. Cause Its as foggie as silent hill in the comic
You’re aware these are written well in advance, right?
I love it when people miss the mechanics entirely.
Yeah. Foolish humans.
Pssphlble…
Foolish mortals. Or let’s say sentients period, I’ve missed a few things before…
(How did those agents find that phylactery? Their base was the perfect location for #964234…)
I do wonder what pyramid head would look like in this universe
You know, its actually interesting to see them all dismount and at once start looking for things trying to attack them. Guess they learned that most of the galaxy is out for their blood huh?
TH1S WOULD’NT B3 H4LF 4S 1NT3R3ST1NG W1THOUT TH4T F4CTOR.
*WOULDN’T
X1 F4C3P4LM COMBO
Please tell me this place Didn’t just turn into silent hill…
TH3 COM1C, OR TH3 CH4T 1N TH3 COMM3NT S3CT1ON?
Both…
Silent hill.
Silent hill everywhere.
Virus is a party pooper. I like to say things like that just to get a reaction from people. Of course, I’m also the type of person to do what Virus just did and fact check on my android. It annoys the heck out of my sister. Of course, I encourage her to do the same.
While it would be funny for it to be aliens I dunno if that actually fits thr tone of the comic. Would be funny though.