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Holy shit, Annie did something interesting!
... But what's the answer to the riddle, though, Tom?
"A foot"
The answer is PUNT
A pokemon creature.
Personally I thought she'd stomp it but this was close enough. Why else use a critter that small?
I told you the "answer" would be disappointing no matter what it would be
The beaver thing being completely absent from this page is pretty bizarre
bruh this is the best thing Annie's done in ages
>The beaver thing being completely absent from this page is pretty bizarre
yeah, I thought she kicked a rock at first
Should have put it in the first three panels instead of Rey, yeah.
Not if it would have been a legitimate answer!
And now you look like a drooling moron for being wrong
>entire page of setup with a riddle, giving readers the time to solve it on their own
>character mentioned she knows the answer, giving off the impression we will find it out next chapter
>JUST JOKING, FRICK YOU FOR TRYING TO FIGURE THE RIDDLE OUT
If you're satisfied by the conclusion, then you have some issues bro you need to figure out
go drool somewhere else
Bro "I've got no time for your dumbass games so frick your shit" is one of the most classic hero tropes. Her goal wasn't to solve the riddle but to solve the -situation-. An idiot would try to solve the situation by doing what they're told and hoping everyone else plays along, a hero just solves the situation. Whether that's by outwitting the opponent or by brute force is irrelevant, the point is you don't play the antagonist's game if you can help it. This is unironically the best thing Annie has done in a long while. It's not going to last but at least enjoy the moment while it's still relevant.
a clever answer would have been more satisfying.
the difference between cutting the gordian knot is and punting a rodent is that cutting the knot actually solves the problem whereas punting the rodent solves nothing.
>the difference between cutting the gordian knot is and punting a rodent is that cutting the knot actually solves the problem whereas punting the rodent solves nothing.
I'm sorry, I'm afraid you're genuinely too dumb for this stupid fricking comic.
No this is way more satifying than some dumb riddle would have been.
Am I the only person who didn't find Alexander cutting the knot all that impressive?
I can't imagine he was the first person that occurred to
The point of Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot is that people got so caught up on the riddle that nobody thought about thinking outside of the box until he did, thus giving him something to work with as the title of a Philosopher King, which was considered the best form of rulership in Ancient Greece. It's widely believed to have never even happened, and to have been invented specifically to give Alexander some kind of claim to that title. It still might have happened though.
No. cutting a rope is a pretty dang obvious solution.
Alexander might have been a great strategist, but that story is stupid as heck.
It's not meant to be an impressive feat in its own right, it's meant to showcase the value of thinking outside of the box. Everyone was so preoccupied trying to solve the problem within the implied rules of the game that they became blind to the extremely simple nature of the actual physical situation. It's "I need to think hard about carefully untying this knot" vs "there is a knot and I want there to not be a knot." In the latter case, untying it is but one option of many, and it took an outsider willing to break the "rules" to demonstrate it.
Annie is doing the same thing here. Everyone else (including the readers) is preoccupied with the riddle itself and thus playing by the implied rules, while Annie realizes solving the riddle isn't the actual challenge they're facing.
stop making tom's evasion of a riddle seem like he was being clever
Stop being a drooling autist.
No youre just covering for his ass
>Thread slows down
>Suddenly multiple posts saying it was bad after the thread was already agreeing this page was fun
I miss Kornheiserposting. Why did everything get replaced by shitty frogs and wojaks?
Twitterhomosexuals and phoneposters that can't use anything but the most basic image editing software and often just use template websites to make memes.
The page was fun, sure
But the answer was still unsatisfying, as in we never got one
>evasion
That is, of course, assuming he put the riddle in there with the intent that it had an answer in the first place. This entire webcomic is the literary equivalent of "never let them guess your next move" and somehow you're still surprised by this shit.
And its main character, the one who punted the prairie dog is so unpredictable that she literally breaks reality.
So now Tom is a riddle evader?! My god that Is worse than a tax evader!
But he answered it if you're not a fricking brainlet. Look at the last panels.
haha imagine Greek-Annie hearing about beating the knott and doing something else to win haha
>Greek Annie hears about having to undo the knot
>Gets fricked by a wild wolf
>Turns out it was Zeus
Many such cases, sad!
Imaa?
You summoned?
Uuhh something something Greek Annie and Zeus' would knott...
I have a service set up for gunnerkrigg-related requests, yknow.
Okay, and what is it.
You mean to tell me that Annie is some kind of, oh Ford forbid... hero?!
She's the hero of this story. Whatever that implies.
I am unbothered by this event because it is ENTIRELY CONSISTENT WITH THE REST OF GUNNERKRIGG. Gunnerkrigg almost NEVER solves any tense situation with anything remotely resembling a traditionally-satisfying story beat.
Why the frick are you HERE, do you just get more enjoyment b***hing about something you don't like instead of talking to people about something you do?
>Why the frick are you HERE, do you just get more enjoyment b***hing about something you don't like instead of talking to people about something you do?
wheredoyouthinkweare.jpg
This was, shocker, a joke. That whole bit was the setup for the joke. And this page was the delivery. A joke involves surprise and subversion of expectation. Crazy, I know.
Imagine being so obsessively mad about a comic that you can't even enjoy an autistic redhead punting a small animal into space. Thank God I'm not you.
Wait, was this an intentional reference?
Definitely.
Excellent form, Annie, you wonderful dummy.
She could outkick the best of the best in the NFL!
It's nice to see tony couldn't traumatize all the personality out of her
A protagonist that shows competency and exercises agency? In MY Gunnerkrigg? This really is a topsy-turvy fantasyland we fell into.
It must be fantasy, because I could swear you were praising Annie just now. We entered some kind of berenstein mirror universe.
Right from the start, Annie has always had a very pragmatic view of fantasy bullshit. Not like Kat where she just mentally registers it as being contrived mundane bullshit, but in a very matter of fact "this is a thing apparently, so how do I deal with it" way. Her finding the most straight-forward "answer" to Coyote's bullshit riddle is very in-character for her. It's just that she's spent too much time riding shotgun in her own story, reacting to stuff that's happening instead of moving the stopry forward herself. Not to mention some of the stuff she did do happening off-screen. This makes her seem less active and competent than she's supposed to be.
I kinda miss that old visual style
She's gotten too fricking wienery though. She survived slapping Coyote on the rump in their first encounter so she thinks she can do whatever she wants. How was she to know that gopher wouldn't transform end bite her whole leg off? Or just kill another one of her frie- acquainta- people she's seen around from time to time.
>How was she to know that gopher wouldn't transform end bite her whole leg off?
She knows she's completely safe from Coyote.
>Or just kill another one of her frie- acquainta- people she's seen around from time to time.
I think you answered your question there. Annie doesn't care about anyone but herself and maybe a close circle of friends, if they get lucky.
Wow, what a shitty pointless comment with no stakes.
???
Okay?
stop asking chat gpt to be smarter than you
*shitty pointless comic
It's not your gunnerkrigg though
So the answer was Annie. She bent her legs to straighten that weasel out because she has nothing to prove. Now where’s the other Annie?
ANNIE I TOLD YOU TO STOP MURDERING THINGS
The answer was probably some obscure asinine thing, or a thing invented on the spot that never existed before.
It's coyote it's like 50% about his dick, 50% about some unknown rare forest creature, and 50% about your mom
So the answer is an erect hemi-penis
A Ditto with Imposter that switches into a Suicune in the morning, a Haxorus at noon, and a Boldore at night.
Annie you aren't going to do acrobatics with that long skirt please remove it at once
Everyone definitely saw her naked with how far up she lifted her leg for that kick
And they saw she's going commando.
Massive red bush so they didn't see any lips.
they are robots they didnt' even know what clothing is for a few weeks ago
They knew what they were and with a rebel yell they said no no no
Haha yeah
https://files.catbox.moe/ovlukc.png
Aw shit here we go
I like it.
Good Lad!
>Gunnerkrigg final battle is actually a football tournament between the court, the forest and the robots
Field goal is good.
ANNE STRONK
Hey anons I stopped keeping up shortly after the Coyote's fusion dance with Ysengrin into an autistic manchild
Is it worth catching up again, it seemed like shit was getting too weird.
>Is it worth catching up again
I personally think so, but many have been complaining.
A truly interesting mix of answers.
That certainly makes me curious if anything.
It's been so very long though, I'll have to start from page 1.
Ah the old threads were so fun.
when did the threads stop being fun?
NTA but for me it was when that one guy became extremely autistically obsessed with Jones being in space not being 100% scientifically accurate and raged about it for like 2 solid months.
I don't known anon, I just got back here.
I was just reminiscing.
The lesbian apocalypse was the funniest drama point of the threads though
People really were crazy excited to see Kat and Paz hook up. It was pretty mad.
The last time I remember really enjoying the threads was when Parley fought ghost Jeane
When the guy who makes the whiny first posts in every thread started doing it. I really hate how well that works to just ruin the tone of a thread.
speaking of which, whatever happened to those old Gunnershit fail guys?
>The original
Was outed as a fan of the comic years ago when he bought two copies, one to write "Gunnershit Fail" in and another to keep pristine. Still blows my mind that "Still better than Gunnershit Fail" used to be a meme across all of Cinemaphile.
>The newer guy(s?)
Probably just got bored of doing it
As the 'No' voter I feel compelled to qualify my answer
There have been some interesting plot beats but there's also been a lot of chaff. Many chapters were spent on a thread Tom later admittedly to not fully thinking through that was resolved by a meme-worthy deus ex machina. Many more were spent on Loup exploring the Court and whilst this is still currently unfolding I'm not expecting the juice to have been worth the squeeze.
The answer to some of the most significant mysteries presented in the comic thus far were explained to Annie and Kat over drinks in a cafe.
The sense of tension that comes with well written mystery and conflict is basically at an all time low, and on the art front things are looking a little fast and loose.
On the plus side Annie punted a rodent into orbit and we got endless mileage from all the incest memes
>The answer to some of the most significant mysteries presented in the comic thus far were explained to Annie and Kat over drinks in a cafe.
they were?
The stuff after that had both some really fun moments and some of the lowest points in the comic. Things are finally picking back up again though so I'd say it's worth checking out.
No, the plot is only just starting to inch forward again. Maybe in a year they'll be something worth reading
I'm gonna start going schizo there's no way so many new/stopped reading early interested parties keep showing up to GKC threads this has to be vague baiting at this point to make an easy door for the thread shitters to say no they murdered Annies and buried Zimmy and Tom is figuratively Hitler for his drops in quality.
Sorry to accidentally add onto a fire anon.
Christ is the point of Coyote's fusion with Ysengrin considered early now?
I can maintain sanity enough to humor this as real. It's more a notable point of turn for the comic (good and bad, or both all depending on who you ask) making it of course an entirely plausible time to drop off. The actual earliness isn't important though there's just a strangely common occurrence of someone entering a GKC thread these days as if to specifically ask "is this worth reading/worth continuing?" And given some anons have taken to shitting on the comic if someone so much as breathes wrong you can imagine anyone asking for a rating could be trouble
Well even if there's a raid or dedicated hater autists around, my post was meant genuinely .
I hope now that enough time's passed and I won't be waiting for updates on things, the arc that I posted about right above yours will be less confusing and easier to get through.
Sadly I'd call such things a symptom of this site in general. Cinemaphile's become overall much more cynical and nitpicky over the ages, especially with /misc/ ever spreading it's talons across boards.
To be honest I'm not sure if it's multiple people complaining in these threads or just one guy sometimes. There were a few legitimately low points between when you dropped it and now that were definitely more than just one guy complaining, but even ITT you can see there's some guy desperately trying to argue that this page isn't fun.
Gunnerkrigg threads are honestly pretty civil. People have serious complaints with the direction of the comic but it's mostly pretty chill outside of some obvious shitposting. Some people here are just extremely defensive about literally any criticism.
No but it happened a while ago. There was actually a pretty significant arc that happened immediately afterwards too that ate up most of the discussion around here, to the point that the fusion basically became a secondary talking point.
I remember specifically now, the point of Time becoming confusing and non linear, and Loup being confirmed a separate being from the Ysengrin is when I casually lost interest.
It felt as if things were just becoming too outlandish and confusing, and Loup kind of annoyed me especially due to him causing the Time bullshit and increasingly confusing fractured Annies
the riddle answer is "water"
if you're deep underwater scuba diving and you go straight up too fast, you get the bends.
water is 0% alcohol, or "zero proof", or "nothing" to "prove".
water is H2O, if you find one O you'll find two H.
there's no way Coyote knows about atoms
he/Loup appears to think humans believe such nonsense
I should color it but I have a meeting to get to.
I bet the others are as useful as anal hair so go get-tem champ.
i like it when zimmy is in the comic
I was expecting this to be a Zimmy chapter so it's pretty disappointing that it isn't. At least Zimmy chapters are interesting page to page.
Only one anon got it right.
People already agree you were wrong, no need to samegay over it now.
for now one Annie will end every chapter by a big fat kick in the nuts. Coyote. the nuts. Court chairman? right in the balls. Jones? Familly israeliteels no more. Even Kat, Even Dad, Even Annie 2.0.
I'm not gonna lie, this page actually surprised me and made me laugh.
IS THAT THE GUNBUSTER POSE?!
what pose
This pose. Have you guys not seen Gunbuster? Granted its not the same pose but still.
Anyway she is portrayed in a very badass way in this page.
I dont see anything badass here.
more like nutbuster
Art of Annie kicking various characters in the crotch when?
>Tom writes himself into a corner again
What an utterly incompetent hack.
>finally find Zimmy
>instant head butt
>not instant crotch kick
2/10
id like to place my head up to zimmy's butt
Gunnerkrigg fighting game when?
Secret unlockable character: Boxbot.
And that's 3 points for The Court
Annie would play for the Browns.
Yes!
I'm moronic, so to access the uncensored pictures, every month the price is diferent?
First time using pixiv.
Nevermind, I got it.
The tiers have a certain frequency of fancards.
$40 fancards are every month, $20 every other month, $10 every three months, $5 every 6, $2.50 once a year.
This month there's votes open for 10, 20 and 40. 20 gets to vote in both 10 and 20 and 40 gets to vote in all of them.
I designed it this way to not take too much time away from the game development and because it's a very fair system. If you don't want to spend more than $10, once, you can still get a drawing just the same as a $40 supporter.
There's a disturbing lack of Zimmy here.
I hope she's dead.
Eh, would be fun if this wasn't the general approach to every mystery the comic has presented.
AH. The answer was perspective! Nice. That makes sense.
R I D D L E H A T E R S blown the FRICK out.
>The answer was perspective!
Can you explain how?
Perspective (sight) bends how things appear
Perspective (thesis) does not need to be proven to be held.
Perspective (sight/thesis) are by nature numerous. If something is a perspective it means it's not a truth or perfect model ergo you will always find another perspective if you have one currently.
Finally
>travel less literally
The riddle is to tell them to get more meta about shit in ZIMYOTE world
What does perspective (thesis) mean? I've never heard of that.
So perspective refers to a number of things. One is sight/observation: the way an image is formed - a literal point of view affected by distances or lenses. The other is thesis/observation: as in your position on a certain topic - a point of view conceptually.
hmmm....
If that's all, I'd argue a perspective DOES need to be proven, then. Especially if you word it like the riddle: 'Has nothing to prove'. You wouldn't hold a belief unless you thought it was true.
>perspective does need to be proven
No it doesn't. If it's a perspective that means it hasn't been proven and more likely than not, that you don't have the means to prove it. We don't have a 'perspective' on things falling at a constant acceleration in relation to wind resistance we have an observation and a rule. People may have differing perspectives on what causes such phenomena but not on the phenomena itself because it's self evident and substantiated.
>We don't have a 'perspective' on things falling at a constant acceleration in relation to wind resistance we have an observation and a rule
Sure, but I feel like that only shows that at best the concept of proof is unrelated to perspective. You yourself said
>Perspective (thesis) does not need to be proven to be held.
if proof doesn't factor into the concept of a perspective at all, then it neither needs to nor doesn't need to be proven. Otherwise, if you stretch the answer to 'has nothing to prove' to 'everything that isn't proved' you'd just describe everything. You could say a rock has nothing to prove.
If everything is an answer, that makes it a bad answer to the riddle.
You've also ignored the 'as it straightens' part entirely, which means this answer is just as wrong as many others we had last thread.
Bump
have a nice day.
Annie should kick Zimmy in the crotch when she finds her.
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