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2017-10-02

Oct03
by Aaron on 2017-10-03 at 6:49 am
Issue: Ps238 Volume 11

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  1. Thom
    2017-10-03, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    Is that teleporting? Is it breakdancing? Is it Irritation of the Childish Evil Underlord?

  2. David Nuttall
    2017-10-03, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    Like any quantum effect, once you become aware of it, the probability waveform collapses, and you get a particle. Ron is now a particle instead of a probability wave.

    • HiEv
      2017-10-10, 7:06 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure if you meant that or were just being tongue-in-cheeck, but that’s a common misconception of how quantum effects work. It’s not really “observation” or “awareness” that causes quantum waveform collapse, it’s interaction with other systems. This interaction is referred to metaphorically as “observation”, but the truth is that conscious minds are totally unnecessary to cause the collapse of a quantum state.

      Sadly, this misunderstanding is used to promote a bunch of quack science and then rip people off, or at least mislead people and promote false ideas, so I prefer to make this clear when I can.

      • David Nuttall
        2017-10-13, 12:26 am | # | Reply

        I was trying to use that misconception to illustrate my idea. Yeah, there is more to it than that over-simplification allows, but still.

  3. Thozmp
    2017-10-03, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    Flea owns his mistakes, or at least the ones he admits are mistakes.

  4. Radecliffe
    2017-10-03, 10:36 am | # | Reply

    The smart kid is about to do something stupid, I can tell.

  5. Messenger
    2017-10-03, 10:38 am | # | Reply

    Man… I can’t wait to see the reveal of what exactly Ron’s powers are. The not knowing is driving me crazy (in a good way).

    • TheGalator
      2017-10-04, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

      I am guessing some kind of gravity affecting power, that would explain the way he runs up walls and jumps around without bending his legs.

      • Zer-author
        2017-10-07, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

        I’m betting it’s power copying, possibly with reinterpretation. After all, I’m willing to bet that Charle’s teleportation flop was Ron’s fault.

        • TheGalator
          2017-10-09, 12:50 am | # | Reply

          If I’m not mistaken, someone suggested at one point that Charles teleportation only messed up because the overall mass of the objects in the matter stream increased.

          • Nobody
            2017-10-17, 8:35 pm | #

            Yet that didn’t bother him when 84 grabbed him at the lake.

        • Georg Felis
          2017-10-17, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

          No. He’s a Foil. The trail of breadcrumbs shows it.
          His parents want him to get superpowers – Foiled.
          Charles wants to dump bug-boy on the North pole – foiled.
          Back when he was being taught how to jump off roofs and got caught up in the stolen folder caper, he foiled the whole theft by triggering *exactly* the right gadget.
          Every time Zodan goes up against him – Foiled.

          It’s an awesome power.

          • Nightmask
            2017-10-18, 12:09 am | #

            You’re confusing Ron with Tyler, Ron had the Flying Brick power set inherited from his Flying Brick Father. Tyler’s the one with insane parents who’ve tried to force super-powers onto him and had to get trained to survive and foiled the theft of the folder. Ron is currently starting to access an entirely different set of powers from his human lineage.

  6. Prairie Son
    2017-10-03, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone else get a tingle when ZODON leads with “I didn’t want to do this…”?

    • Mechwarrior
      2017-10-04, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, my Bad Idea Sense went off.

    • Andorxor
      2017-10-04, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      He is probable going to ask for help or to confess what he did to a adult

  7. Ash0011
    2017-10-03, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    for some reason this reminds me of ultear’s orb from fairy tail, but with probability instead of time

    • Ash0011
      2017-10-03, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      granted probability involves potential realities which are a subset of time, and I seem to remember the orb being explained as potential futures so it might not be that different

  8. Eric
    2017-10-03, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

    Flea understands that you don’t say “what is the worst that could happen?” The universe takes that as a challenge. So he is right to accept responsibility for screwing up Ron’s power (apparently the siphon effect is short lived).

  9. LookielouE1707
    2017-10-03, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

    A super power you lose if you think about it? That’s a pretty serious achilles heel …

    • Lucario
      2017-10-03, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s that he thought “How would I turn it off?” and turned it off.

    • Mechwarrior
      2017-10-04, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      It’s the Centipede’s Dilemma: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CentipedesDilemma

    • Andorxor
      2017-10-04, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      Its more like the power reacted to him wanting to say Shut it off

    • Nightmask
      2017-10-05, 2:19 am | # | Reply

      It’s because he started thinking ‘Wait a minute, how AM I doing this?’ and once he started that thought he stopped reacting on instinct and not knowing how he was doing it he stopped being able to do it. It’s like how once you get used to walking you can stumble and fall because you suddenly started overthinking what you’re used to doing instinctively.

  10. evilkumquat
    2017-10-04, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Wile E. Coyote says, “Never look down when you think you just ran off a cliff.”

    Well, he holds up a sign that says that, at any rate…

  11. Thunderfoot
    2017-10-06, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    Gravity is a law…luckily I never studied law….

    • David Nuttall
      2017-10-13, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Adam Savage: Gravity: Its not just a good idea; it’s the law!

      • David Nuttall
        2017-10-13, 2:24 am | # | Reply

        I just remembered this one from Canada’s Worst Driver:
        Cam Wooley (Ontario Provincial Police sergeant): You might get away with breaking the law of the land for a while, but when you try to break the laws of physics, you pay for it right away.

  12. Revenant
    2017-10-07, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    Honestly, if Ron is ricocheting… that’s the dumbest power that exists.

  13. Bland
    2017-10-08, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Flea is 120% awesome. The extra is all stored in his antenna.

  14. Barnabus
    2017-10-16, 8:20 am | # | Reply

    so does ths strip[ update only every other month or so?

    • Ed Rhodes
      2017-10-16, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      It’s usually about every couple of weeks.

      • Stephen Bierce
        2017-10-16, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

        If you use Twitter, you can watch for Aaron’s posting announcements c/o https://twitter.com/dogooderpress

  15. Ed Rhodes
    2017-10-19, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, great. So, instead of checking the strip every couple of days to see if the “next” field is lit, I have to look for an announcement on Twitter. Which, unlike our illustrious leader 45, I don’t not do every day.

    No thanks.

    • Prairie Son
      2017-10-20, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Well, you’d also get update notices on FFN and USOM.

    • Prairie Son
      2017-10-20, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Also, if you stop by the main page, you can see the tweets on the right side.

      • Mike
        2017-10-21, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

        You can also just bookmark the URL for the most recent panel – http://ps238.nodwick.com/

  16. Storel
    2017-10-19, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

    Every couple of days is way too often. Just check every month or two, and you’ll be fine.

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