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All by His Widdle Wonesome

in Test by DaveKellett

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Now taking bets on whether Fernando just peels out and does doughnuts with the ship until they return.

Also: A first (brief) mention of how their FTL communication system works! We've had word of the vidpacks system, before...but this is the first time we've heard tell that the whole thing is ring-dependent. (Correct me if I'm wrong, there: I don't *think* it's been mentioned, before.)

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Re: All by His Widdle Wonesome (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 06:17 AM (#61426)

Now taking bets on whether Fernando just peels out and does doughnuts with the ship until they return.

I'm leaning more toward a Tom Cruise/Risky Business kind of thing :)


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Re: All by His Widdle Wonesome (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 08:11 AM (#61427)

I took "fire up the ring and call home" to mean, "fire up the ring [and head closer to the core systems/widely traveled areas] and call home". I didn't realize it meant the two systems (communications/ring travel) were intertwined or interdependent until you explicitly said so.

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Re: All by His Widdle Wonesome (Score: 0)
posted Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 12:59 PM (#61432)

I hate to be "that guy." But there is a typo in the third pane. You say "That it's" but I think you meant "That's it". Hope it is fixable.


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Re: All by His Widdle Wonesome (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 03:21 PM (#61433)

Wow...that typo TOTALLY slipped by me, and I re-read the strip a good dozen times before bringing it live.

I know there have been numerous studies on it, but it never ceases to amaze me how your mind can fill in the blanks for you, even auto-correcting errors, when you read.


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