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Be meritorious that the postman still decided to bring the package, instead of sending back
Maybe he or someone else at the post office recognised Ethan’s address. 😉 I’d guess that it’s very much not the first time a weird addressee is on a package to this address.
That looks more like a FedEx uniform to me, but same principle.
At my last job I got bored and edited my own entry in our company rolodex to read “Matt, Highlord of all Creation!” My boss thought it funny, and started having packages for the company delivered to me instead of him that were all addressed to “Matt Dragon-God : Highlord of all Creation”. Apparently, delivery people give zero fucks because we still received all our packages.
Odd vocabulary flex, there. Be deserving of merit that the postman decided to deliver the package?
I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Could it be, as no native english I can be kicking the dictionary (a spanish expresion for example) without intention.
Well I’m intrigued. This is going be intresting.
What state is NW? I’m either pulling a massive blank, or the state is also fictional.
I couldn’t figure it out either, tbh. Unless the state is new or formed from the combination of other states?
Never Was?
Fictional world, fictional state. You might equally ask yourself where in our world is the city of “Omnitropolis”…
Writers typically make up cities, so what happens in their story isn’t a claimed to be a representation of where some people actually live. But, states don’t get replaced any more than a flag gets changed, because that’s information that people readily identify with. A writer would change that when trying to establish “parallel but clearly different”, typically real-world alternate universes, but not “our world with this gimmick”.
New Wherever-the-hell-that-is
Though I’m sure there’s an official name for whatever state Omnitropolis is in, I have a sneaking suspicion “NW” was chosen simply because “Nowhere” is a pretty awesome name, if one has a gun put to his head and has to quickly come up with a fictional state abbreviation over Thanksgiving break.
That would be Northrhine-Westphalia, which is a state in Germany.
That would be the NRW abbreviation. Sorry, couldn’t resist. Can’t wait to hear yet another justification, from “Z.K”, as to why the meat-bag is still alive. Heh
Nidwalden would fit, which is a state (Kanton) in Switzerland.
No Where, maybe?
It’s New Wyork
Ney Work
@Tim, just a small little detail, completely unnecessary, but would be most welcome; California zip codes start with 900**-961** (except 909** & 929**, which are not used at all, and 938** which is only used by the IRS). The numbers start with 900** in SoCal, and work their way up through the numbers as you head north through the state.
I am not an american but… do you believe people will try to write (or call) someone in Tim’s Omnitropolis?
Not at all, just like to see attention to detail, even in the little things.
In his defense, the CA address is the address the package is sent from, not the address of the fictional store of the comic. The most compelling reason however not to use real addresses in fiction is that there are always people who try to contact addresses they see in fiction, just to see who or what is on the other end. It’s baffling to me too, but people do it. For example, when Squid Game recently used a real phone number accidentally because a prefix was added automatically to complete the number, that person’s number was called thousands of… Read more »
Yep, unless its real but wasn’t in use and they made where it leads. Some of those are quite funny.
The phone exchange 555 exists solely to be used in fiction.
But that’s the thing. The first three numbers of a phone number are don’t follow any set rules, so could be anything, but area codes have recognition. It’s the same problem as inventing a state; people know such a thing doesn’t exist, which stumbles their suspension of disbelief, because the information attempts to tell the audience where something is, when they know it’s false.
Unless it is one that you hold. I still think, the Iron Man 3 IP address starting with a 934 is a massive missed opportunity. They could have easily setup a small webserver with “Tony Stark’s Work Computer” or something and used that IP address in the movie. That would have been really cool.
Or at least use one starting with 192.168, 172.16 or 10. Those are local addresses anyways, so there is no one that you could annoy with them, and, considering that Tony would be using the company VPN or something, that would be totally realistic.
Chance that someone tries to hack that webserver?
98.6%
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hack-127001
you mentioning people contacting addresses also applies to phone numbers. tv show Scrubs one episode the character changed his phone number to CALL-TUR(K). It just happened to be the cellphone number for one of their phones. The rest of the shows run during downtime between filming scenes various cast would answer the number and talk to fans lol.
Either that or use the public number for the IRS or FBI just because funny.
Well…people start calling to the Squig Game cell phone, wich turned to be a real number of someone without any link to the show
Yes they do. Only few do, but once a number is popular …
“but would be most welcome”
Except to any person who actually happens to live at the real address you to want to put into the strip. ?
Except for the fact that the city would still be fictional, as would the rest of the address (since if the city doesn’t exist, neither does the street address).
Is there any evidence that CA is meant to even be California in this fictional world?
Nice catch. With most addresses being fake, I don’t even check for realism, though that zip code puts it somewhere in the Midwest rather than California (more like Minnesota).
Has the phonenumber been removed or something? There is no phonenumber on the package now…?
What does Ethan have to be upset about? The robot is happy, that’s a good sign!
Of course he gets mail, he’s hooked up to the Internet.
Package package package!
I’m more interested in what funds ZK used to pay for whatever is inside the package.
Did the robot manage to find employment online? Mined some crypto? Gathered donations for the future of Automatia? … I could go on.
…Or somehow got a hold of one of their credit cards (he has network access and is a computer, maybe he managed to intercept the data and decrypt it).
Maybe he has his vary own Patreon account.
Kind of disappointed the delivery guy does not look more like Norman Reedus 😉
Why Norman Reedus?
(admittedly, I had to look him up, as the name didn’t ring a bell – looking at the movies he’s in, as far as I can remember, I only saw him in “Boondock Saints” movies)
I was reminded of that courier woman Ethan used to date, I think her name was Emily? If that’s her though, she got really good as disguises. 😉
You looked in the wrong category 😉
He plays the main character in Death Stranding: A delivery man who carries an unborn baby in a bottle on his chest. Yes, the game is seriously weird.
Oh. I didn’t play it, so wouldn’t get it, alas.
Arguably, if Delivery Guy had a creepy unborn baby floating in a tank on his chest, I don’t think the line about “can’t you nerds be normal for once” would have had the same effect.
Hahaha, that would be awesome though 😀
Ethan the Fleshy………..
Its obviously a different postal service but I wonder whatever happened with Emily I don’t remember them ever officially breaking up though I guess it was only a first date.
I think you missed a big arc, they had a huge drawn out blowout over a lot series of dates (to do with a very strong ideological disagreement).
It looks like your right. That rang a bell and went back to look. I forgot about alot of that. Guess I’m spending my afternoon rereading Analog and D-Pad.
The word “fleshy” on a mailing label. First time for everything, I suppose.
The United States must be a lot smaller in this other universe if a CA address has a zip code that starts with a 5. I only noticed as I ran a small shipping department. CA zips all start with a 9. Maybe it’s some clue hidden in the comic? Nah…
Meh. I really haven’t enjoyed the new Ethan and Lucas. I think it was a poor choice to reuse them from the original CAD when you obviously wanted to go such a different route. Also I find the superhero storyline frankly just plain boring compared to your one-shots and other series. Oh well.
OK.
The only person forcing you to partake in it is… you.
Shrug. Meh I am enjoying Star-caster and especially the Console wars. So I stick around for that.
I usually hate that, too, but here I was OK with it. The original timeline was closed etc. pp.. With Spidey they created a new origin movie until they were out of origins.
Package!
Well glad to see Scott didn’t blow him up instantly.
I bought a Dell laptop from their commercial division. (because that’s where they sell giant laptops running Ubuntu)
When filling out the purchaser information, my “business name” was a required field. Since I am not a business, I jokingly put in “Cat House”. I like cats and it has a double meaning.
Now I constantly get junk mail from Dell that is addressed to Mr. Hydroheads Cat House.