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Need another quick break, but isn't this awesome?! I drew D on a pumpkin and my cousin-in-law cut it out for me. It turned out so cool!

EDIT: Fixed the image to fit right.

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The pumpkin of doooom

I can’t see it – the picture is far too large and only a vague black blur with an orange line shows up. I’m pretty sure I’m looking at the edge of a jack-o-lantern tho.

aww, that’s awesome! flame through a pumpkin is a perfect medium for D

The page crops the image. I can only see the left of the pumpkin.
Here’s the full image: http://static.navcomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171106_224420.jpg

That is pretty cool, actually!

Enjoy the break 🙂

You should make a template that we can print. That’s a pretty cool design.

On a side note: I keep getting logged out when I use the “Comments” link below the comic on the home page. To post a comment, I have to go back one page and then go to the latest page.

Wow, that Pumpkin is really pretty! Everything is so fitting, too. 🙂

Have you thought of doing Holiday themed digital sales of your comic characters? Like for October you can do Jack-O-Lantern print-outs, and Christmas can be greeting cards, Easter would probably be hard to do digital only but you could do Egg art print-outs (we could just glue the art onto the eggs so long as it’s shaped to fit). Also you could probably get away with birthday/anniversary/get well cards using some of the more popular quotes. I want a birthday card that says “Everything goes BOOM” with Kat tearing apart the planet on the outside, and (In your dreams) with Kat cuddling woodland animals on the inside like on this page.

I wish I had this, as a template, before halloween. Would have carved one myself.

That is extra awesome. Happy Halloween, everyone.

Just remember that the restless dead don’t actually have anywhere to go, so they’re still around even after you eat all the candy.

That really neat!

That is not only the coolest pumpkin I’ve seen, it may also be the coolest depiction of D to date!

Have a nice break :}

Seconded! 🙂

That one scary yet cool pumpkin. It’s really awesome!

The virus has escaped into the real world! The Pumpkin has been haxxored, just like the MAGNETIC FIELD!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! Awesome!!!

It’s been a joy to watch your art develop over the years of the webcomic.

okay I got into the webcomic after the 2017 salt lake comicon and have read all the strips. but I’ve got this nagging question about d Kat call the virus D because it is a dragon or as a reference to her dad, because he did originally program D before Kleya Smith(we still don’t know her name in the real world) cade some discreet changes to his programing?

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Professor Kat?
I mean, it looks like she’s getting pissed at a class full of dunces, or just Bandit, while in front of a blackboard.

That was the same thing I thought. With all the wavy stuff I also thought it might be a big easel, so maybe Kat the angry art teacher?

Kimi, I presume…

I’ve been thinking (DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER), but the idea of hopping from one simulated reality into a second isn’t all that wacky. I see it as a necessary step forward for real world tech.

Start with driving – we now have cars that can drive themselves – how long before cars can audit your driving ability as you drive, awarding points for good driving (converting learners permits into licenses) and penalties for bad driving (eep, that was a red light… there’a my fine and woot, I’m downgraded to a learners permit again).

Shift this to piloting. Like passenger jets, but add in simulator experience – now things you do in a virtual world affect your rel world license. (woot! RealityRPG – I’m a level 7 passenger jet pilot with level 8 acrobatic piloting and level 12 navigation …) now, don’t just leave it at simulator experience, but games too (and I have level 24 dogfighting skills and 14 strafing skills…) and let these skills carry across equally between the real world and various games. that gets you crossover of ability, which I expect to fold into hopping between games.

Inter-Game hopping probably won’t be a real big thing without at a minimum Synthetic Intelligence (synthetic: the intelligence sounds smart, but it’s actually kinda dumb) – playmates for our kids that can follow them into games and keep things both fun and educational. Take that teddy bear, add a mic, speakers, and wireless networking, and your kids bestest toy friend can play games with them… now that toy friend needs ways to hop between games, ways to intelligently play along with those they care for… and then we’ll have SAAS versions of the toy bears… computer servers dedicated to playing games along-side humans, providing witty conversation and a balancing factor. As the tech progresses it’ll become increasingly more difficult to tell a human from a SI/AI, and the artificial intelligences will be more deeply integrated into the real world. “Alexis, please turn the AC off at midnight and open the bedroom windows, and we only need 2 lunch bags tomorrow.”

As we take to the stars though…that’s where this takes an added dimension. Right now the internet is a fairly closed system – that is, everything is physically close. A server response is slow if it takes a full second, but once we spread out to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, responses are bound most by the speed of light, taking minutes or hours for messages to cross the gap one way. These gaps will also have limited bandwidth. AIs may be ble to cross the gap for a fee to cover the bandwidth – picture approaching a town portal, paying a few coins, and being ported to a different world, loaded onto a distant server and set running. This would be a portal that some players cannot use since they cannot electronically send people between Earth and Mars… you got it, humans become second class citizens, barred from using city portals… and where AIs may even move themselves into androids to interact with the real world directly…

TLDR version:
I think we have some really neat advancements waiting for us in the next 100 years, bound up in the creation of fully automated factories and farms, the blurring of the line between reality and virtual reality by adding in augmented reality, and letting achievements in either apply to the other, and what would happen to the internet when forced to work across interplanetary distances. Combined properly we create our own synthetic multiverse with diverse rules and armies of real world walking talking teddy bears.

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‘Congratulations! You have mugged your third tourist tonight. You have earned the title of “Rogue”. As a Rogue, you are now flagged in the vision of others and you are worth 500 points if detained for the police, or 200 points if merely severely injured by a driver – as always, no points or penalties are awarded if the efforts to detain you result in your death.’

A response like this is why we need a real forum — these ideas will get lost.

I think we’re about half-way there right now. Children’s computerized toys that play games with them are already here. We’re almost at the point of true auto-piloting of planes (I think it’s just takeoff and landing at the moment left — and even the routine stuff can be handled there.)

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