Zucchini
Apr21
on April 21, 2020
at 12:00 am
Suggested wine pairing: New York sour.
Why did I use the drawing from panel one twice? Why, to save time, of course.
UPDATE
I’ve been wrapped up working on “later” comics for the last unknown number of days, so probably no new episode this week. Hit that ??? button for a random blast from the past for sure, though.
CLOCKWORK HANDS SHALL NOT DEMARK
WORLD STATES WE HAVE DISEMBARKED
For a second, because of the strangeness of both stick figures and the idea of a body being wider than its shoulders, I thought Mr. Ham had like, his arms folded behind his back. But then I see things weirdly because I have iceburgers.
Bern: Is your chant in support of ending time in countries people have left? I guess it makes sense; every country has had people leave.
Cold: Looking at it now, I see what you mean. Meanwhile, I’m surprised I never saw the Asperger’s pun.
@isto
the past is a series of states the universe has been in. looks like it’s programming jargon.
we know how long ago something happened by looking at how far a process we know the duration of has progressed since then (e.g. number of times a tree has experienced the four seasons, number of times the amount of carbon 14 in something has halved, number of times a society agreed the year was done.)
the mildest way to abolish the institution of time is to ban the comparison between the states of each of these processes when two events happened (e.g. comparing the date of a historical event with the current date). that way, you only know whether something happened, and the order of events that cause each other.
CLOCKWORK HANDS SHALL NOT DEMARK – stop denoting by the state of any process
WORLD STATES WE HAVE DISEMBARKED – the state the universe was in when that process was in that state.
this is of course distinct from abolishing movement from one world state to another, which is the last thing that will happen.
Similarly to ColdFusion, I thought that Mr. Ham had a tiny smiling mouth until realizing in the next panel that it was in fact his nose. I somehow feel like that would’ve been way funnier.
Bern: I get it now. Of course, that approach leaves future states alone, and the vast majority of time is in the future, so it’s not going to really motivate the movement too well. That’s incrementalism for ya.
Robert: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Robert: In fourth grade I got into an argument with my best friend about whether Dilbert’s nose was actually a smiling mouth. It was the first time I truly understood that sometimes people can’t see the nose in front of their face.
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Time is a titular component of my favorite webcomic,without that who knows if or when it could update. Then we would just have Mountain, unless those flat-earthers are right and the planet really is smooth all the way around.
I’m envisioning kind of Garfield Minus Garfield-style spinoff series called Mountain, and it’s just Mountain Time episodes with half of each panel removed. I think it would actually fit nicely with the more dada episodes of early Mountain Time.
I had to deviate from the description a little, but…
https://imgur.com/o1DLTVV
@No auidble release
You should submit that to iToons! They’d take it for sure.
Mountain Minus Time, Eternal and External.
Every comic is just the same one panel, unchanging.
A bit like Spatula Drama.
That’s amazing.
Nobody—
[floating screenplay]