2017-10-02
Posted on 2017-10-03 by Aaron

38 thoughts on “2017-10-02”

  1. Thom

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

  2. David Nuttall

    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.

    1. HiEv

      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.

      1. David Nuttall

        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

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

  4. Radecliffe

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

  5. Messenger

    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).

    1. TheGalator

      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.

      1. Zer-author

        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.

        1. TheGalator

          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.

        2. Nobody

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

        3. Georg Felis

          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.

        4. Nightmask

          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

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

    1. Mechwarrior

      Yeah, my Bad Idea Sense went off.

    2. Andorxor

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

  7. Ash0011

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

    1. Ash0011

      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

    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

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

    1. Lucario

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

    2. Mechwarrior

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

    3. Andorxor

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

    4. Nightmask

      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

    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

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

    1. David Nuttall

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

      1. David Nuttall

        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

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

  13. Bland

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

  14. Barnabus

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

    1. Ed Rhodes

      It’s usually about every couple of weeks.

      1. Stephen Bierce

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

  15. Ed Rhodes

    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.

    1. Prairie Son

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

    2. Prairie Son

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

      1. Mike

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

  16. Storel

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

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