Paranatural

I did read it.

"The comments posted on pages that weren't out yet were a big factor- they made things messy, fixing them was a mess, and the fix didn't clean up the ones that had already been made- as was the thought of similar tech problems in the future."

See?

Dimitri's distaste for authority.

"Fools! Curse your individual agency!"

Cody is still outanimeing Isaac.

Cody is surprisingly badass.

Why is everyone acting so anime so suddenly? xD

"suddenly"

I mean even more so than usual :P ever since hitball match started, animeness level has been steadily raising

Children playing sports + spirits with colored auras = sports anime.

It's all because of Hitball, and that is amazing

Calling it now, the very next panel will be cody saying "Hasn't he improved? 8D"

The most emotional game of not-dodgeball that has ever been played.

I don't think I've ever mentioned this, or in fact ever posted here. But Cody is literally the best. Along with Max.

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Panel 7 reminds me a lot of how Andrew Hussie draws himself.

edited 31st Jul '15 12:14:52 PM by Medinoc

Sorry Isaac. Cody has fully established himself as The Most Anime.

The biggest factor is that it's coming naturally to him. He ain't even playing it up.

Nerds.

So, I thought of something, just now.

Is anyone else thinking this is kinda like this?

They're both seemingly supernatural entities that are acting through people, and are shown to be able to act directly enough to speak, and are apparently not detectable by the local spectrals' normal spirit vision.

Addendum: Okay, so the thing with Jeff is definitely a spirit (it's leaking spectral energy) though it seems a bit of an oddly executed power, if it is just a "normal" spirit power. Thoughts on whether there might be a connection, perhaps, or did someone else point this out earlier and I just forgot or somesuch?

edited 1st Aug '15 2:02:25 PM by RaichuKFM

Jeff doesn't have the two-tailed speech bubble and his eyes are the opposite of glowing, so my inclination is to suspect that there's no special connection.

You can see his eyes?

Nah, because they are veiled by impenetrable shadow. Glowing things, eyes included, are not in my experienced veiled by impenetrable shadow in much the same fashion that water is not dry and fire is not cold.

So in your view, an object's emission of light is determined by the observer?

That's literally quantum physics right there, and that would be correct.

Also, the reason Jeff doesn't have twin tailed speech bubbles is because Max's spirit has the whole "two" thing going on.

What "two" thing is this?

In my view, if its glowing the panels depicting it should dang well show it glowing. Else we readers cannot trust our own good eyes, and then where shall we be? Mired in a sea of confusion, I say. Yes, the sea is a mire. That's what happens when we can't trust things of shadowed blackness not to glow!

Hey, as long as we're not swamped in a pond of uncertainty, 'sall good. And the two thing is that Scrapdragon (if it is indeed him who's responsible for possessed!Max's twin-tailed speech bubbles) does seem to have something of a duality thing going on, what with the red and blue and magnet polarity and all that.

Actually, I was taking the fact that Jeff's eyes are weird as evidence towards the similarity.

I'm not saying they're the same thing, I'm saying they're similar, and might be related (by mechanics, if not necessarily by circumstance). We'll see, I suppose.

Tangentially, the emission of light isn't determined by the observer, as it happens in the lack of an observer. It's just that without an observer-as-in-thing-recording-results there's nothing to verify how the light is emitted (duh) and without anything interacting with the light it won't have its wave-particle deal collapse, and all that good stuff. The interpretation that consciousness causes collapse has always seemed specious to me, as I see no reason a consciousnessless machine couldn't collapse a wave function and record the results. Except, we can't tell the difference between a system collapsing when interfered with versus a system collapsing when interfered with by a conscious observer and expanding to include each unconscious observer and intrusion in the superpositions of the system and all of it collapsing when observed by someone conscious, because they'd both be identical by the time anyone conscious observes it, directly or indirectly, and without any conscious observation we can't actually know what happens in the experiment. Thus, we can't really determine that anything is dependent on the observer and not simply dependent on interference, whether from an observer or not, and emission of light on a macroscopic scale is not going to be in a superposition of light-or-no-light in most cases, so to say that the emission of light depends on the observer, isn't necessarily true? It might be, but mostly in the same way that a tree that falls in the woods makes a sound dependent on the observer: Without any observation ultimately conducted by a conscious observer, we can't tell. In most cases, the macroscopic physics should dictate that light is emitted whether or not anything interferes with it, such as an observer, because the actual emission (on a sufficiently large scale) shouldn't be in a superposition with a lack of emission?

Addendum: And I'm reminded that things with temperatures radiate electromagnetic radiation (ie. light), and this happens regardless of any quantum anything whatsoever. Quantum superpositions and observers causing collapses thereof can determine certain things about emitted light, but not really in means that would effect the naked human eye's impression (barring some contrived exceptions), in any noticeable fashion, as I understand it.

For the record, I agree with rikalous, except for the fact that this is quite likely magic or stylistic shadow, which can do whatever it wants within the limits of the author, in either case.

edited 2nd Aug '15 9:37:21 PM by RaichuKFM