A place to discuss the world of Wapsi Square
https://forum.wapsisquare.com/
bmonk wrote:Just want to ask:
5) Is a Schrodinger's Blade necessarily a Chekhov's Gun?
bmonk wrote:no its not that... If you look at the situation 'just before' it happened...Mark N wrote: (you missed a bracket.). . . Now we still have several more points to figure out.
1) Who made the 'Schrodinger's Blade' that is both in and not in M's head?
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/hold-on-to-your-ass/
you may see she seems to be in a 'different state'... I'm guessing,
a doorway has to have two sides.. The knife went in the 'demon side' so it does not exist on the 'human' side??
I think it was bud that said "anyone dead by the time the hammer stops ringing, becomes part of the machine and separates from the rest of existence"
and then a demon comes out, and says they will cease to exist when the calendar resets.. I guess keeping the door open, so they can take over... that is why the knife is needed, closing the door, and fixing the calendar.. ???????
Just want to ask:2) Does she have an ancestor that explains her being the 'Jaguar Girl'? dunno..
3) Is she truly immortal and what does the aforementioned "S Blade" have to do with that state?
AFAICS she is NOT immortal.. same as, you would not be immortal(BUT very nearly! ) if you had a 'impregnable shield', that covered your whole body...
4) are Dietzel and Oscar what they seem? you will have to explain that...
5) Is a Schrodinger's Blade necessarily a Chekhov's Gun? well, tvtropes says that is a plot device... you will have to ask pablo!!!
well... there are people who think that quantum physics may explain ghosts and things....Mark N wrote:Not at all my friend. It is just a proof that quantum physics is part and parcel of all things even the supernatural.
When i need to type them, i use Character Map.Leak wrote:Yeah, but... it actually takes hitting two keys to produce an accented character on a German keyboard - is that any different on Dutch ones?Jay-Em wrote:*shrugs* It's the way I write. Thinking and writing in one go.
"Elk vogeltje zingt zoals hij gebekt is."
(Yeah, we've got extra keys for three umlauted characters - äber selbst dänn ersetze ich döch nicht einfäch ä, ö ünd ü dürch Ümläute... *hust hust*)
Well, that one was.bmonk wrote:5) Is a Schrodinger's Blade necessarily a Chekhov's Gun?
Sure, but... but... SLOOOOOOOW!!1!elfFairportfan wrote:When i need to type them, i use Character Map.Leak wrote:(Yeah, we've got extra keys for three umlauted characters - äber selbst dänn ersetze ich döch nicht einfäch ä, ö ünd ü dürch Ümläute... *hust hust*)
Maintain a text editor window. As you need each character the first time, use character map and paste it to the editor as well as your active document. While it might not be as quick as using multiple keystrokes, it will be quicker than using CM directly.Leak wrote:Sure, but... but... SLOOOOOOOW!!1!elfFairportfan wrote:When i need to type them, i use Character Map.Leak wrote:(Yeah, we've got extra keys for three umlauted characters - äber selbst dänn ersetze ich döch nicht einfäch ä, ö ünd ü dürch Ümläute... *hust hust*)
That sounds interesting...and far easier than having to remember the key-codes to bring up accented letters like I've done in the past. Where does one get one of these fancy new-fangled text editor windows?Fairportfan wrote:Maintain a text editor window. As you need each character the first time, use character map and paste it to the editor as well as your active document. While it might not be as quick as using multiple keystrokes, it will be quicker than using CM directly.
And it's a piece of junk.Aleister Crow wrote:Windows has one built in- Notepad.
I figured that was a given, since it's part of Windows.Fairportfan wrote:And it's a piece of junk.Aleister Crow wrote:Windows has one built in- Notepad.
In all fairness to Microsoft, their only huge problem is that for many years their market share was over the service limit (the point at which things that help your customers stop helping your business). I'm amazed that they managed to do so many things right under that huge disincentive. There are a ton of things in Windows that are good and worthwhile...when supplemented by a few additional programs from the public domain or from companies not over the limit.Aleister Crow wrote:I figured that was a given, since it's part of Windows.Fairportfan wrote:And it's a piece of junk.Aleister Crow wrote:Windows has one built in- Notepad.
If i ever get 'round to starting programming again - which will involve re-learning the languages i once knew and learning others - i might well swing to that.lake_wrangler wrote:I use Notepad++.
Not only is it a decent text editor, but it also "knows" various programming languages, so that it can help with stuff like closing parentheses and so on...
The thing is Notepad was never meant to be much of a text editor. It was for taking notes (as the name suggests). Not editing documents. It's really unfair to compare it to word processing or programming editing programs. It does fine for what it was meant to be and is fine for me in that regard. I want something simple and straightforward for taking and saving notes. All those extra bells and whistles aren't needed for that. They just get in the way for most people.Fairportfan wrote:And it's a piece of junk.Aleister Crow wrote:Windows has one built in- Notepad.
I prefer EditPad Lite, which is free, and what i use for all of my entry and editing ... if i want it fancier, i grab Serif PagePlus X6 (Desktop Publishing).
I took Programming in the late 70's - I learned FORTRAN, WATFOR, and WATFIV. And punched unending stacks of Hollerith Cards.....lake_wrangler wrote:I was pretty good with COBOL, C, C++, SQL, and VB, back in computer college (93-97). When I graduated, I had to find work right away (had a family to feed, after all), so I took the first job I could which was some customer service job that had nothing to do with what I had studied... After a year of that, I felt I was wasting away, so I quit and looked for a job in the computer field. Unfortunately, as I did not have a computer at home at the time to keep up with the skills, and I had no "real world" experience, I could not land a programming job. I ended up doing tech support for a few years, until I was laid off my last tech support job... I looked again for another whole year, but since I was more of a generalist, with no certification of any kind, even that was hard to find... I ended up driving a delivery truck (6-wheeler, class D in Ontario, class 3 in Québec) and eventually applied and got into City Transit bus driving...
Fortunately for me, a friend I had in that last tech job had gone on to start his own company, and he needed my help at first with some SQL related stuff... He later started giving me contract work for MS Access databases, with much VBA behind the scenes. That way, I still get to use some of the techniques and knowledge I learned in computer college, even though I am not doing it full-time. For now, I am happy with that. I still vaguely remember C++, and would probably pick it up decently quickly, if I actually had the time, but it is not a priority right now.
