[Webcomic] PVP Discussion

Dave

Dave

Staff member
Man, fired for inappropriate behavior? That's rough. But if they can fire the cleaning crew for having sex at the office, what about Brent, Jade, Francis, and Marcy?
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

That was a terrible ending joke. This is like those later Simpsons episodes where a good chunk of the show is funny but the ending joke is underwhelming.
 
Zappit

Zappit

Staff member
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how you end a story that could have made for a funny background element. Toss in a completely predictable joke done hundreds of times, and you have created literary cyanide.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
Gusto said:
Also you can't be a tenth of something. Breeding doesn't work that way.
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I'm debating weather to reply with:

"That's the joke."

or

"51 of his 512 great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were Scandinavian and he rounded up."
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I actually sat down with a pencil and paper and tried to work out whether you could be exactly one tenth Scandinavian. My conclusion was that it's impossible without rounding.

I'm sure a mathematician could give a more detailed answer.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Unless he edited his post later, I don't see a problem with Ranger's statement that he's ten tenth Scandinavian. Just like being nine ninth Canadian or being seventeen seventeenth European. Perfectly possible, even in fairly simple scenarios :p
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Bubble181 said:
Unless he edited his post later, I don't see a problem with Ranger's statement that he's ten tenth Scandinavian. Just like being nine ninth Canadian or being seventeen seventeenth European. Perfectly possible, even in fairly simple scenarios :p
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It was actually a reference to what Brent said, I believe.
 
evilmike

evilmike

bhamv3 said:
I actually sat down with a pencil and paper and tried to work out whether you could be exactly one tenth Scandinavian. My conclusion was that it's impossible without rounding.

I'm sure a mathematician could give a more detailed answer.
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I'm not a mathematician, but I think I've got this one.

Normal human lineages result in fractions based on the power of two (i.e. 1/2, 1/32, 7/8). One tenth represented in binary has an infinite number of digits to the right of the radix point, (e.g. 1/10=0.00011001100110011... in base 2). That means that in order to get the exact fraction, you need an infinite number of ancestors going back an infinite number of generations.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

evilmike said:
I'm not a mathematician, but I think I've got this one.

Normal human lineages result in fractions based on the power of two (i.e. 1/2, 1/32, 7/8). One tenth represented in binary has an infinite number of digits to the right of the radix point, (e.g. 1/10=0.00011001100110011... in base 2). That means that in order to get the exact fraction, you need an infinite number of ancestors going back an infinite number of generations.
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So Brent, being 1/10 Scandinavian, is definite proof of evolution - as long as we're willing to extend a descriptor like "Scandinavian" to virii and amoeba?
 
D

Dubyamn

If you have one great grand parent 1/16, one great great grand parent 1/64 and one great great great great grandparent 1/128 being Scandinavian you would be 1/10.15 Scandinavian which would probably be rounded to 1/10th. At least if my math is right.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
Or it could be simpler and still round as well... One great grandparent quarter scan, other nothing, makes a grandparent 1/16th, pair that with another 0% scan makes you have a parent who is 6.25% scandinavian, pair that with another 1/16th scandinavian and you've got 9 and change... which brent could easily (and sloppily) round up to one-tenth.
 
Zappit

Zappit

Staff member
bhamv3 said:
I actually sat down with a pencil and paper and tried to work out whether you could be exactly one tenth Scandinavian. My conclusion was that it's impossible without rounding.

I'm sure a mathematician could give a more detailed answer.
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Really, it all just depends on where the transplant organs come from.

Oh, look at the one today. Moar sil-oo-ets!
 
Necronic

Necronic

Staff member
I don't know why I read this comic anymore. His concept of a "punchline" has gotten so bad that I'm wondering if he has a brain tumor and doesn't know. Either that or he's just gotten intellectually lazy and doesn't critique his own work anymore.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

It feels like the same problem some comics like Menage a 3 have, where it's a continuous story done in only 3-4 panels per shot. Sometimes there's a punchline that works, sometimes it feels like you're only reading half a strip.
 
Gusto

Gusto

CynicismKills said:
It feels like the same problem some comics like Menage a 3 have, where it's a continuous story done in only 3-4 panels per shot. Sometimes there's a punchline that works, sometimes it feels like you're only reading half a strip.
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But unlike MA3, PVP doesn't make me hate everything.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I want to punch Zii in the face every time she uses sex to get away with the impossible. It's just... I mean come on!?

Though I giggle every time I see the artist pimp the fact they are doing an Archie book.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

I agree with CK, this time it made sense. He was reading the Santa letter and would have just been starting at the paper for a normal panel. It's almost as if Steve remembered that he actually has some talent and used it.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Staff member
Ugh, I just can't get over with how Scratch looks like in the first panel. He looks like Charlie Brown with a cancer and a skin condition.
 
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