Topic: WCDT: 2756-2760 (28 July-1 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (Read 47527 times)

Method of Madness · « **on:** 27 Jul 2014, 20:33 »

Steve's doing well, let's hope it works (although it doesn't seem like it will).

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 Jul 2014, 21:25 »

I wonder how differently this part of the comic reads at speed. i.e. Are there any continuity clues to be gleaned?

Loki · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 Jul 2014, 22:55 »

I deal less well with rejection because I was *not* the kid who got anything he wanted - money was always tight.

Nowadays, I think I tend to latch onto people I vaguely find positive and am hurt when they don't fulfill the sometimes impossible expectations I put into them.

Just saying, it can go both ways.

anahata · « **Reply #3 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 00:06 »

Quote from: Loki on 27 Jul 2014, 22:55

Just saying, it can go both ways.

Still, Steve looks like he's got it right about Sven.

And in the last panel, is Sven so childish he still thinks the world really owes him a GI Joe aircraft carrier, or is he going to see the irony of what he's saying, and accept that it's normal not to get everything you want?

snubnose · « **Reply #4 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 00:11 »

Dude, you're an ADULT.

Missing any christmas presents you should have gotten as a child ?

THEN GO BUY THEM NOW !!!

(Duh)

Quote from: Loki on 27 Jul 2014, 22:55

Nowadays, I think I tend to latch onto people I vaguely find positive and am hurt when they don't fulfill the sometimes impossible expectations I put into them.

Thats a character trait ... not a good one, but not one you get from any childhood. We ARE born with some kind of personality.

Kugai · « **Reply #5 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 00:13 »

I still want my own Hummer.

Stoon · « **Reply #6 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 00:14 »

Wait a minute. Steve and Sven are friends? Steve is Martin's friend. Does he know Sven well enough to have a conversation with him?

snubnose · « **Reply #7 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 00:54 »

Quote from: Stoon on 28 Jul 2014, 00:14

[...] Steve is Martin's friend. [...]

Who is Martin ?

Theres only a Marten in the comic.

ZoeB · « **Reply #8 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 00:58 »

There's a GI Joe Aircraft Carrier?

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #9 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 01:03 »

Quote from: snubnose on 28 Jul 2014, 00:54

Theres only a Marten in the comic.

Actually, there is no Marten either, only Zuul.

@Zoe, yeah, there was, and it was BADASS. (Though I never had one, naturally)

Loki · « **Reply #10 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 01:14 »

Quote from: snubnose on 28 Jul 2014, 00:11

Thats a character trait ... not a good one, but not one you get from any childhood. We ARE born with some kind of personality.

For obvious personal reasons, I'd like to see your sources.

Nyithra · « **Reply #11 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 01:18 »

I hope Sven actually learns something from this.

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #12 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 01:20 »

He might learn that you just Can't Always Get What You Want. I reiterate, You Can't Always Get What You Want. But, if you try sometimes, you might find, ~~you get what you need~~ you'll still fail because you're not automatically entitled to everything.

Loki · « **Reply #13 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 01:31 »

Quote

If you trust in yourself...
and believe in your dreams...
and follow your star...
you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

Akima · « **Reply #14 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 02:57 »

Quote from: ZoeB on 28 Jul 2014, 00:58

There's a GI Joe Aircraft Carrier?

There is no more potent symbol of "AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!", so of course there is. According to Wikipedia, it was seven and a half feet long

but what really boggles my mind is that, apparently, a model of a Nimitz class carrier, on which the toy was based, built to the same scale as the ~~little dolls~~ action-figures would be sixty-five feet long! A bit large for even an American basement.

Sven should get over it.

techkid · « **Reply #15 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 05:56 »

Quote from: Loki on 27 Jul 2014, 22:55

I deal less well with rejection because I was *not* the kid who got anything he wanted - money was always tight.

Nowadays, I think I tend to latch onto people I vaguely find positive and am hurt when they don't fulfill the sometimes impossible expectations I put into them.

Just saying, it can go both ways.

I had a similar upbringing, but the results were kind of different. Rejection doesn't phase me much. But unfairness and inequality (from a somewhat selfish and possibly crazy point of view) fuck my shit up to no end.

Still, I would hate Sven as a person.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #16 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 06:41 »

It appears my clue by four didn't work on Sven. Time to upgrade my hardware. *starts driving nails into the board*

hedgie · « **Reply #17 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 07:05 »

Told 'ya

Zebediah · « **Reply #18 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 07:35 »

I knew a kid who got everything he asked for every Christmas. I discovered this around the third grade, when a week or so before Christmas he started listing all the presents he was going to get. I asked him, "How do you know you're getting all that?" And his answer was, "Because I asked for them!" This was so foreign to my experience that I literally couldn't understand what he was saying at first - I was the fifth of six kids and not from a rich family, so I was lucky to get one or two things from my list. And the idea that I didn't get everything I asked for was incomprehensible to this kid. We lived in different worlds.

This may have contributed just a bit to my intolerance for privileged assholes who think they are victims.

Thrillho · « **Reply #19 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 08:32 »

I actually have more annoyance for people who have money and are then resentful that they aren't working class. I have a friend who was having MAJOR middle class guilt just because he'd had some money left him by an uncle or something and felt like he couldn't properly be our friends. He thought we'd think he was an asshole for having money.

Truth is, we thought he was an asshole because of how he was handling having that money.

Nepiophage · « **Reply #20 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 08:59 »

Worse still are those people who have money and then complain that the poor are not poor enough e.g. " . . .
all these blacks/immigrants/travellers/welfare spongers getting government handouts blah blah etc. etc. " I never pay enough attention to them find out what they got for Christmas, though.

LocoJoe · « **Reply #21 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 10:45 »

I've been told no for the majority of my life, and it has caused me to go into things expecting the worst. Job interview? "Not gonna get it." Talking to a woman one on one? "Even if I had the courage to do so, chances are it won't go anywhere." I know this is a horrible way to go about life and is a habit that I think is almost impossible to break, but it does help me appreciate the moments when things actually do go my way.

But it also means that I hate people like Sven, who seem to get things handed to them with little effort. I thought he was progressing when he had the pretend date with Hanners, but these last few strips have shown me that he hasn't changed much at all.

Thrillho · « **Reply #22 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 10:46 »

Old habits die hard.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #23 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 11:09 »

My main thought today: "Man, Sven is an ass". I didn't like him much in this arc anyway, but today cemented it.

LocoJoe · « **Reply #24 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 11:11 »

Quote from: Gareth on 28 Jul 2014, 10:46

Old habits die hard.

Ain't that the fuckin' truth.

Thrillho · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 11:32 »

Sven is the product of a middle class malaise and as such is a bit of an asshole. He has never really had to work hard for anything. This doesn't make him less of an asshole, but it's not completely his own fault really.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #26 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 11:37 »

Well no, anyone's assholeishness can be chalked up at least partly to their parents' or other significant adults' failure to properly socialise them.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #27 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 11:59 »

Sven gained from the pretend date. Maybe he should ask Hannelore for another one.

Aziraphale · « **Reply #28 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 12:17 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 28 Jul 2014, 11:09

My main thought today: "Man, Sven is an ass". I didn't like him much in this arc anyway, but today cemented it.

He actually seemed to be progressing for a bit. It's always a shame when someone's redeeming qualities turn out to just be a phase they were going through.

Kugai · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 12:25 »

One step forward, three steps back.

Carl-E · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 13:14 »

In this case, one step forward, one aircraft carrier back...

Redball · « **Reply #31 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 14:22 »

I have faith in Sven, Jeph and epiphanies.

Carl-E · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 15:42 »

Quote from: Redball on 28 Jul 2014, 14:22

epiphanies.

Immediately thought of this

Then this...

Epiphanies can take a while - that one took 740 comics (and a Hannelore) until it kicked in. (that's over 4 years RT... !)

Zwammy · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 16:31 »

Well, it's been pretty clear that Sven is an asshole right from the start - at least he is finding out now that life ain't always easy, slow as he is on the uptake. Hubris, it's a bitch.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #34 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 18:14 »

Sven is one of those people who has always had it easy in life; perfect grades without trying, the songs he wrote always sold and the royalties meant he could just sit around all day and do nothing, always able to pick up any girl he wanted. Sven has not had to struggle for anything in his life and now he is woefully unprepared for being rejected. The one person who actually rejected him continues to do so and I imagine that for Mr. Bianchi, that just makes Faye even more desirable.

Only now it looks like teddy is about to get thrown out of the pram and cause nothing but problems for everyone else.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #35 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 18:43 »

Okay, so I seriously almost fell out of bed laughing, and have probably awoken my flatmate. Whoa, Emily. Whoa.

Zebediah · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 18:43 »

Okay, so, early comic again, and... What. The. Fuck?

I'm trying to decide if that last panel is Hannelore's imagination, or Marten's imagination, or what really happened. Could be all three, I suppose.

greywolfe · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 18:51 »

Marten is in for a very strange and twilight-zone-esque time...

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #38 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 18:59 »

What.

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LeeC · « **Reply #39 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:00 »

Im still trying to determine if that last panel was in their imaginations or if it happened.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #40 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:00 »

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That's it, I'm out of here.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #41 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:03 »

I'm curious as to how she got them all to stay in the basket (any of you ever try catching a wild mouse live?). Maybe she snapped all their necks first...

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #42 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:04 »

Aaaaand I immediately thought of this:
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Rghfrgl · « **Reply #43 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:21 »

Emily, no.

You don't bring people mice when you like them, you bring them when you think they aren't pulling their weight and you want to teach them to hunt.

judemorrigan · « **Reply #44 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:29 »

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Method of Madness · « **Reply #45 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:32 »

I'm reasonably certain that's Marten's imagination or Marten giving an example of what might happen if Emily had a crush on him.

Aziraphale · « **Reply #46 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:42 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 28 Jul 2014, 19:32

I'm reasonably certain that's Marten's imagination or Marten giving an example of what might happen if Emily had a crush on him.

That's the thing, though... that last panel wouldn't necessarily be out of character for Emily. Guess we'll find out soon...

Nyithra · « **Reply #47 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 19:47 »

I want the last panel to be real...please let it be real...

T · « **Reply #48 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 20:01 »

Now Marten be polite and eat them!

Kugai · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 Jul 2014, 20:10 »

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Poll

What now?

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