What I want to know from Christopher

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Trajector

2016-02-29 21:20 UTC

#1

Did Jonathan Coulton write any Sentinels-themed songs on the cruise???

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arenson9

2016-03-08 21:49 UTC

#2

Not that were performed publicly.

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arenson9

2016-03-08 21:51 UTC

#3

But I will say that part of my contribution to my team's winning Geek Pub Trivia was answering "Which was the first variant card released for Sentinels of the Multiverse?"

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PeterCHayward

2016-03-09 04:11 UTC

#4

"Completionist Guise"

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Ironic

2016-03-09 05:15 UTC

#5

Well, if Peter says that, it must be so.

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Bunston

2016-03-09 06:02 UTC

#6

I feel like this is a very dangerous line of thinking.

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Trajector

2016-03-09 15:46 UTC

#7

Awwwwwww.

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Ironic

2016-03-09 18:40 UTC

#8

Aw, what's the craziest thing that might come up?

PeterCHayward:

Con, of Con's Bunker, is obviously the lovechild of Bunker and Guise. Bunker because he named his house after his father, of course, and Guise - and here's the part that I'm less sure of - because of Guise's card "Ret Con".

Ret, as we all know, is short for Reticulate, which could either be a reference to a Reticulated Python OR - and this is the thought that makes the most sense to me - Reticulating Splines, the infamous loading screen from the Sims 1, 2, and 3.

There were 3 Sims games, just like the original game came with 3 flesh-and-blood villains. But wait! The original game came with four villains, only one of whom was a robot. A robot like they had in The Jetsons - not exactly the same, but if you look carefully at some of the background Sentinels art I'm sure you'll see it backs up what I'm saying.

Now The Jetsons was set in the future - the same future that Con lives in? I'm not sure, but all evidence points to yes. The four members of the Jetson family - George, Jane, Judy and Elroy - have all the vowels in their names except "i". You'll see why this is significant in a second.

The dog was called "Astro", which I think we can agree explains why Wagner Mars base has a METEOR storm instead of an ASTEROID storm - if it was an Asteroid Storm, people would think that Astro was incapable of causing damage, whereas my theory relies on him turning out to be a Scion for OblivAeon all along (if you could confirm that while we're here that would be great).

So OblivAeon has all the vowels except "U" and the Jetsons have all the vowels except "I", and - and here's the bit where shit really gets real - "Con", "Bunker", and "Guise" have ALL the vowels between them.

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.

So Christopher, my big question, arguably the most important question you're going to be asked in this whole AMA - when Guise/Bunker (my personal fan-name for them is "Buise", but I'm not one of those people who really hate the "Gunker" camp) gave birth to Con, which one of them was pregnant? Guise or Bunker?

See? IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

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Ameena

2016-03-10 18:00 UTC

#9

Well, apart from the fact that "Reticulating Splines" pre-dates The Sims by at least a few years as I associate it with Sim City 2000 (which is older, though I don't recall by how much - I don't know if it came out in 2000 or before then) and the fact that "Con", "Bunker", and "Guise" only contain all the vowels if the letter A is declared no longer a vowel, yep, sure that entire theory makes complete sense, yup, definitely ;).

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ChronoRanger_101

2016-03-11 06:30 UTC

#10

Wow.... My mind either blew up or got lost in the woods.... Not sure which.