Suggested wine pairing: Junmai-shu sake.
I tried the whole “give a million monkeys a million typewriters” thing for something to put here, but they all just kept typing “The unexamined life isn’t worth living, and the examined life is even worse.”
So that’s my writers’ room.
Oh christ what happened to Winona? Currently this is the most intriguing part of the Hurly Burly to me. It feels like the sort of thing that would happen at the end of a funny video game to indicate that it’s gonna be a horror game now until the ending. Like the Giygas fight of Mountain Time.
As for what exactly is happening there, my serious guess is she can see all the weird alternate dimensions of the Crypt, and my silly guess is she’s noticing microwaves, as in light waves with wavelengths shorter than radio waves but longer than infrared.
I just want to point out that not only does AgoHam have a perfectly normal, fully functioning microwave, but Winona assumed that he did without even walking into his house. With this amount of pestering, she probably could’ve just asked to use it (or just about anyone else’s who has a house) to reheat some food or whatever.
I’ve gotta say that’s a pretty demanding chess book, asking four-day-olds to employ such developmentally-advanced videocognitive skills as “look at”. Anyone who’s that far ahead of the curve corporeally will have a real leg up in becoming a Grandmaster. (On a side note, does chess hold the record in having the most arrogant-sounding title for getting really good at a game? You never hear anyone say “yeah, she’s reached the rank of Most Exalted Czar in Mouse Trap”.)
That’s how Pasteur did it. … Pretty sure.
I’m thinking now she can see the micro-waves themselves, and they are everywhere.
Circle: My friend, we’ve only begun to Hurly Burl. All I can tell you is that she’s seeing some nasty shit.
Xin: You don’t just go around using strange rodents’ microwaves at your convenience, dude. Even if you yourself are a strange rodent.
NAR: I can only think of checkers, in which you can have multiple kings. You can’t even do that in “god games” like Civilization or whatever.
Cold: That kinda checks out, in that I can’t depict colors below the spectrum below the *red* part of visible light. Damn.
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
It’s now the five-year anniversary of the start of Chim’s reality breaking open. Happy new year!
Five? You mean seven?
Gosh, 2016…
Either I suddenly forgot how to math or this is further proof that 2016 is not, in fact, a real year.
Well, Chim’s last real appearance was in 2018, in a story that stemmed from the 2016 story, but happened after it.
I don’t think his reality broke open, though. He just had a major depressive episode, which is to be expected when his character summary is basically “major depressive, alcoholic genius.”
Also “insufferable prick.”
Man, did Dan Harmon rip me off?