Quasi-psuedo- official Atop the Fourth Wall thread

^^Linkara's always done foreshadowing well in his reviews. After getting so pissed off when others screw it up, I guess he kinda has to.

edited 5th Oct '10 12:03:25 AM by theladyisatiger

Hey, at 15 minutes in they found the Meat Dimension

edited 5th Oct '10 12:23:04 AM by Indigo_Dingo

God, that whole comic was horrible. But the end...

When I saw a guy running into Silent Hill, armed with enough guns that even Liefeld would find it excessive, I just about punched my monitor. "Groovy" was just the cherry on top.

I can't wait for the rest of the review. I just have this feeling it's going to get worse from here on out.

I disagree actually. At that point it had become such a gigantic travesty on the Silent Hill name that it became hilarious self-parody on the comic's part.

The seemingly pointless of Harvey Finevoice bugged me at first, but the ending made me think otherwise.

PROTIP: Don't try to make anything involving the words "beef jerky" sound threatening.

Blimey, I can't believe how angry he got at the end. That was rather frightening.

At first, I thought he was modifying his voice in preparation for a transformation or something. Like, it'd reach a boiling point and he'd turn into a monster or something like that.

I'm sorry but… a monster offered a dog beef jerky? How is that supposed to be scary? How was that supposed to be anything but funny?

I mean, there's failing at writing horror, and then there's writing comedy that happens to feature monsters. And that definitely falls into a latter category. I'm honestly at a loss to explain how anyone could have thought that scene would work as part of a horror story; assuming the 'beef jerky' doesn't turn out to be something nightmarish.

Like I said, at a point it goes from "travesty" to "enjoyable parody".

Its Silent Hill. Of course its not gonna be scary, its just gonna be weird.

Uhh, no. It's been stated numerous times here and in the Dying Inside review that has absolutely nothing to do with the video game series, regardless of whether it's scary.

edited 5th Oct '10 1:39:21 PM by OldManHoOh

"How can the cat be alive and dead? That doesn't make sense. It's either one or the other!"

So is someone going to point this out to him, or what.

I'm too busy grappling with the fact that Dying Inside got a sequel to care about that. On one hand, the art is seems slightly better than before, as Linkara pointed out. On the other, I think the story-telling (if that were possible) was gotten worse!

edited 7th Oct '10 11:03:53 PM by WeirdRaptor

^ Multiple sequels.

^ ^^All written by the same guy.

Schrodinger's cat confuses me also. Doesn't the cat count as an observer of its own mortality?

^I think other people have already pointed it out in the comments section of TGWTG, but I might as well do it here. The entire point of the Schrödingers cat thought experiment is that is is absurd. It's an argument meant to illustrate what he considered the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. In a quantum mechanical system, you will often have a combination of quantum states. You don't know which sate the system is actually in, that is it is in an indefinite state, untill you measure the system. Different measurements can yield different results, because they determine the state of the system, IE collapse the wave function. So the Copenhagen interpretation and the one generally used these days, is that the system is in an indefinite state, it isn't in one of the particular states untill you measure it.

The thought experiment tries to use that logic on a macroscopic level with a living entity, to show that it can't be true. Reductio ad absurdum. The cat is either dead or alive. That's the point.

edited 8th Oct '10 8:56:20 AM by Mathias

Never, ever heard it like that prior to elsewhere on this topic or the TGWTG topic. Why is it even taught or mentioned in science textbooks then?

I really don't know. Because science teachers at that level of teaching don't explain it properly? They don't understand it properly? Or perhaps they, and the books in question, just want to make quantum mechanics seem really mysterious and wierd? I wouldn't put it past them.

There is a point in being taught about it, because it illustrates the absurdity of the interpretation of quantum mechanics when applied on a macroscopic scale. Of course you can't do that in the first place. That is, if you apply quantum physics on systems big enough to approach classical mechanics, the results approaches the classical result (the probabilty of measuring the classical value approaches 1). So you still only use quantum mechanics at the microscopic level, it just adds up to classical mechanics at the macroscopic level, where you can't use QM.

edited 8th Oct '10 9:11:37 AM by Mathias

In other words, the solution is to get drunk and set fire to things.

^ Multiple sequels.

^ ^^ All written by the same guy.

Weird Raptor has suffered a BSOD and has shut down. Has not bothered to try rebooting.

edited 9th Oct '10 3:17:25 AM by WeirdRaptor

Anyone else wonder where he's going with the hallucinations of Iron Liz and Harvey? Are Mechakara's mind games beginning to pay off, if he's already started them?

edited 10th Oct '10 2:44:24 PM by Wackd

I'm guessing it'll turn out that he's in his own private Silent Hill, for the duration of Halloween. If this means we'll get the line "They look like Bad Comics to you?" I support

You know what'd be unexpected and funny? He runs into Florence.

From Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series?

Well, it wouldn't be unprecedented, they've done cameos for each other before.