Sean Murphy

2081: Middle Latitudes

http://www.explainxkcd.com/2081

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Less than four months ago we had to put our Bentley to sleep. He was over 14 years old and an incredibly bright dog who our neighbors nick-named Houdini because of his uncanny ability to escape closed windows and jump over eight foot fences. He loved people and loved his sister and litter mate Ginger. She was deaf from birth but you would never know it. Bentley and Ginger were absolutely the most beautiful Dalmatians you have ever seen. Well, three months before we had to put Bentley down we had to put Ginger to sleep. My wife Nancy and I miss them terribly but know they are happier where they are today. I never realized how much we loved the two of them. We cried for weeks. Submitted by Tom M.

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Comic for Wednesday December 5th, 2018 - "Lindesfarne's theory" [ view ]

On this day in 1995, Kevin's high school reunion was held online since most students preferred to keep their adult appearances a secret... [ view ]

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oh hey tumblr’s being crazy stupid and getting rid of all smut and also random pictures of whatever that its algorithm thinks is smut, while also keeping, like, white nationalist stuff on there, because what in hell

anyway, related, slipshine is having a special deal right now where you can subscribe for $10 (NSFW link) instead of the usual $25, so jump on that if you want access to my many smutty comics on there for an extremely rare discount

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Benny is a shelter dog from Louisiana! She is a Catahoula Leopard Dog and Lab mix and is the sweetest pup ever! Submitted by Mya K.

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New comic!

The original ending for this was going to be the military coming in with a jet fighter to blow up Patch... but in the end, I didn't want to have the armed forces launch a missile in a major US city. I didn't need that sort of headache that the messages/emails/etc. that would have caused... so we have Glenda cleaning up her own mess instead.

Both climaxes would have included a splash page in this spot.

This one just has more beer.

2080: Cohort and Age Effects

http://www.explainxkcd.com/2080

Sydney obviously already knew that her orbs were high level loot, but now it’s confirmed she has a matched set of God-Tier artifacts. Or maybe they’re… Ragnarok Tier?

But as seen on this page, that can cause some problems for her in the right environments. Let’s be honest, it’s a “my suitcase full of money is so heavy” kind of problem most of the time.

Basically you can’t take advanced tech to a lower tier civilization. There rules are really specific based on each world, it’s probably pretty exhausting going through customs there. The biggest restriction is polluting pre-FTL civs with FTL tech, because the general belief is that a race has to earn that particular milestone… and survive all the particular challenges that civilizations are presented with on the path to deep space travel. The post-FTL civs have their own tech rules and hangups. Some have religious problems with vat grown meat or… holograms. I don’t know. Religion can be weird that way. Other civs have corporations working on the latest game console and they don’t want alien game consoles with quantum optical chips beating them to market and tanking their stock. I mean, imagine if an alien civilization started selling their own cars with an inexhaustible power supply on Earth. The automotive and oil companies would be done, and the world economy would be fuuuuucked.

Actually, forget aliens. If a supervillain wanted to fuck the world economy, all they’d have to do is sell cars that ran on water or something. Doctor Doom made a time machine in Fantastic Four issue… I don’t know. Two? That dude could legit make cars that got 200 miles to the gallon or that ran on banana peels, Mr. Fusion style. He could do that in his sleep and just own the civilized world in under a decade.

Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. $1 and up, but feel free to contribute as much as you like.

I’m finding that I am not entirely in love with Red Dead Redemption Online so far.

I mean, I’ll play it inbetween story sessions. I don’t hate it. I just don’t find myself excited about it. The wonky economy doesn’t really bother me all that much… it’s a beta, and I figure it’s better to start conservatively and slowly tweak upwards, rather than having to scale back after the early-accessers are already riding around on gold-plated horses or whatever.

I guess it adds a weird sense of suspense to the game, where I have to pawn two gold wedding rings in order to afford one can of beans, and selling pelts at the butcher involved a mad dash through murdertown. But so far I haven’t thought to myself “I can’t afford a new stripy shirt and now I’m mad!”

However it does feel like a little bit of the charm is missing from RDR Online. Not that Story mode doesn’t have its own little issues (zero power curve) but the world feels more alive somehow. RDR Online feels like if Westworld’s robots all suddenly turned into gun-crazed homicidal maniacs… except this time they’re also racist and homophobic.

Session-wise, there are a few I enjoy, and a few I loathe (Pick Your Weapon), but overall I’m just feeling a little lukewarm about the whole thing.

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Comic for Monday December 3rd, 2018 - "Power of observation" [ view ]

On this day in 1997, Kevin, Kell, Linde and Coney were all rooting Rudy on as he tries to bring down an elk for the hunting championships... [ view ]

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And with that, we have a pretty little bow on Danny/Sal, the Walkyverse’s original couple.   Also, some narrative subversion as Sal refuses to play along with Danny’s leading question.  That was supposed to be an epiphany moment, Sal!  C’mon!

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