NP Comic for Thursday, December 22, 2022

[Darth Fluffy 302]

NP Comic for Thursday, December 22, 2022

I like that Rich was reasonable in this comic and made an actual useful suggestion. Perhaps he learned something while he figured that out and framed it with words. Larry was certainly not expecting that; great cringe opening based on 'he knows his friend'.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Sometimes I suspect Dan is not the author of anything, but is simply transcribing an alternate reality he won't let anyone else see first hand.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

27 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Sometimes I suspect Dan is not the author of anything, but is simply transcribing an alternate reality he won't let anyone else see first hand.

That's sort of true for any decent fiction author, no?

[AFNB 39]

For some reason, I feel like the irony and possible level of self-awareness is going to go completely over Rich's head.

[mlooney 3,417]

Note that Rich is still assuming that the mayor is going to think that Larry the Bard is still flirting with him.  At least that's what I take the "he'll get his own idea" means.  

[Don Edwards 548]

5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Sometimes I suspect Dan is not the author of anything, but is simply transcribing an alternate reality he won't let anyone else see first hand.

There are times when I suspect the same thing of my own fiction.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

35 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

There are times when I suspect the same thing of my own fiction.

We all live in a fictional world in our head that is to varying degrees somewhat off of the reality around us. That reality is represented to us as tokens in our senses that are abstract representations of the reality. Why is red 'red' in your mind? Why is sugar 'sweet'? These abstractions are useful for structuring our world view, but for the most part, they are mere representations. Why does a countertop feel solid? It is mostly empty space with interacting charges.

How much more so with human interactions? Or maybe less so, at least we know those are guesswork.

[ChronosCat 155]

21 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

There are times when I suspect the same thing of my own fiction.

I have access to a multiverse; while this gives me a lot of options it does mean I sometimes when working on a story I have to decide between multiple similar (or not-so-similar) realities.

[Don Edwards 548]

3 hours ago, ChronosCat said:

I have access to a multiverse

Which reminds me:

While posting one of my works on a certain site, I had the option of attaching "tags" - keywords for their search engine - to it. One of the suggested tags was "multiverses".

Plural.

I still haven't figured out why anyone would need to tag something with a plural of THAT word.

[mlooney 3,417]

19 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

Which reminds me:

While posting one of my works on a certain site, I had the option of attaching "tags" - keywords for their search engine - to it. One of the suggested tags was "multiverses".

Plural.

I still haven't figured out why anyone would need to tag something with a plural of THAT word.

Well I can see needing a plural if you are dealing with multiverses that don't cross.  MCU and DCU for example.