There have been more unorthodox building pairings than usual recently, considering Shu’s Nail Salon & Marine Biology Center was just 8 comics ago. A new trend, perhaps? (also, what makes dust more “premium” than other dust?)
Haha I was like “Huh, odd South Park reference” then I read the rest of the sign. Good show.
I would play chess a lot more if it was Battleship. Like even just 60% or so.
It’s too bad you can’t hear the voice I’m doing with my mouth for furly bottomtooth there. It’s pretty good.
Whee: Yeah, I double-dipped too soon. But “Kitty Wok” was the first Chinese restaurant pun I came up with, and I had to show the joke. Regarding the dust, you’ll have to wait and see.
Cold: The problem with chess is that, in the rare situation I get to play someone, they’re way better than me. I’ve even studied openings from books and shit, but without practice, you’re french frying when you should pizza. (Best episode.)
Re the mouseover text, I love the idea of gamepieces that have their own recursively tinier and tinier boardgames going on like Jonathan Swift’s fleas.
The king doth push around the squares
his thimble smaller by a hair.
So, ludologists observe warships,
cast smaller dice with minute pips;
Promote yet smaller pawns and knight ’em,
and so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus each piece on the board, in turn,
is moved by forces undiscerned.
The “pirate-themed particle collider” from the 2016 epilogue remains my favourite of the bizarre crossover buildings in MT.
I think he lived well before those games were invented, but on the other hand, now that you mention it, it seems pretty plausible that people played games involving warships, dice or thimbles in his time, so I’m going to go with yes, it’s a Swift Original™.
NAR: I’m more familiar with poems about guys named Ozymandias, but yours was a lovely piece that acknowledges the rare occasions when promotion to knight is a winning move.
Ohhh yeah I know that poem. Yeah you butchered it, in the sense that, like when you butcher a cow, the new product is more desirable than the original.
There have been more unorthodox building pairings than usual recently, considering Shu’s Nail Salon & Marine Biology Center was just 8 comics ago. A new trend, perhaps? (also, what makes dust more “premium” than other dust?)
Haha I was like “Huh, odd South Park reference” then I read the rest of the sign. Good show.
I would play chess a lot more if it was Battleship. Like even just 60% or so.
It’s too bad you can’t hear the voice I’m doing with my mouth for furly bottomtooth there. It’s pretty good.
Whee: Yeah, I double-dipped too soon. But “Kitty Wok” was the first Chinese restaurant pun I came up with, and I had to show the joke. Regarding the dust, you’ll have to wait and see.
Cold: The problem with chess is that, in the rare situation I get to play someone, they’re way better than me. I’ve even studied openings from books and shit, but without practice, you’re french frying when you should pizza. (Best episode.)
Re the mouseover text, I love the idea of gamepieces that have their own recursively tinier and tinier boardgames going on like Jonathan Swift’s fleas.
The king doth push around the squares
his thimble smaller by a hair.
So, ludologists observe warships,
cast smaller dice with minute pips;
Promote yet smaller pawns and knight ’em,
and so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus each piece on the board, in turn,
is moved by forces undiscerned.
The “pirate-themed particle collider” from the 2016 epilogue remains my favourite of the bizarre crossover buildings in MT.
Gamepieces? In a webcomic? I’m going to sue you!
Did you make that up, or is that an actual Swift. I.. do not know when he lived, if they had monopoly and battleship back then.
I think he lived well before those games were invented, but on the other hand, now that you mention it, it seems pretty plausible that people played games involving warships, dice or thimbles in his time, so I’m going to go with yes, it’s a Swift Original™.
(Alright, I just butchered the little poem from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_infinitum.)
Of course, you do realize that by rewriting that poem, you’re doing exactly what the poem predicts future poets will do.
NAR: I’m more familiar with poems about guys named Ozymandias, but yours was a lovely piece that acknowledges the rare occasions when promotion to knight is a winning move.
I too like the pirate-themed particle collider.
Circle: Careful; you’ll just set yourself up to get sued by Terror Island. http://www.terrorisland.net/
Ohhh yeah I know that poem. Yeah you butchered it, in the sense that, like when you butcher a cow, the new product is more desirable than the original.
I wonder if people in this town like to pronounce the acronym of that place for short. Like: “Where you wanna eat dinner?” “I’unno, maybe kw’kram?”
Hang on, wait, the author’s notes went back to being a suggested pairing. What does this mean?