Topic: WCDT 2-6 May 2011 (1916-1920) (Read 76698 times)

tomart · « **Reply #200 on:** 05 May 2011, 00:35 »

Plus, that's one of the best avatars in the world.

Grantzilla · « **Reply #201 on:** 05 May 2011, 00:38 »

haha thanks!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #202 on:** 05 May 2011, 00:43 »

Means a lot coming from this guy (not sarcasm, that's my favorite movie).

Method of Madness · « **Reply #203 on:** 05 May 2011, 01:38 »

Hey, people watching the stream, I obviously don't want details, but does it look like he's almost done?

(Not rushing him, just wanna know if I should stay up until it's up or go to bed)

CEOIII · « **Reply #204 on:** 05 May 2011, 01:55 »

Nah, go to bed.

akronnick · « **Reply #205 on:** 05 May 2011, 01:57 »

Or Portland, whichever...

CEOIII · « **Reply #206 on:** 05 May 2011, 01:58 »

Portland can't be that cool. All those woods, raining 80% of the time.....

Method of Madness · « **Reply #207 on:** 05 May 2011, 02:04 »

The one thing I know about Oregon is people from Oregon don't know how to pronounce Oregon.

Dr. ROFLPWN · « **Reply #208 on:** 05 May 2011, 02:31 »

No, no they do not and nor can they be educated to.

Sadly, Portland is not grinding up the hipsters for chum; instead it is letting them roam free, like grazing goddamn cattle, becoming fat on Voodoo Donuts (fucking shut up forever about that place, Portlanders, no one cares) and babbling like a runnng stream about their fucking band/clown college plans/independent film, whilst they abuse the state's lack of sales tax and go get stoned at OMSI. The place has become some sort of dark hipster Mecca, which means that up here in Seattle we get to be Medina and host the further pilgrimage of these assholes. Yes, we know Pike Place Market was not as cool as you expected; yes, we know Belltown is "so expensive" (but that doesn't stop you going out to get crunk every night, now does it); no, we don't want to hear what you think of Starbucks . We have enough of our own unbearable white people. Go away. Go away forever or the natives are going to cull you, and don't think we don't know who you are!

CEOIII · « **Reply #209 on:** 05 May 2011, 02:32 »

DAMN. Don't sugarcoat it, tell us how you really feel.

Dr. ROFLPWN · « **Reply #210 on:** 05 May 2011, 02:40 »

I am sorry, I just get of a goddamn temper about this because as a Seattle-dweller I can attest to the fact that the hipster rate in the Northwest keeps growing like a metastasizing brain tumor, and now I know where the fuckers are coming from! BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS WITH YE, HIPSTER FILTH.

themacnut · « **Reply #211 on:** 05 May 2011, 02:47 »

I wouldn't mind the woods, but the near-constant rain would depress me after awhile. Don't know how Northwest natives could stand it, I like seeing the sun every so often. Even if it's just through a window.

Odin · « **Reply #212 on:** 05 May 2011, 02:58 »

Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 05 May 2011, 02:40

I am sorry, I just get of a goddamn temper about this because as a Seattle-dweller I can attest to the fact that the hipster rate in the Northwest keeps growing like a metastasizing brain tumor, and now I know where the fuckers are coming from! BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS WITH YE, HIPSTER FILTH.

Make some use out of them and feed them into the wood pulpers at any of the million paper mills up there.

zadcap · « **Reply #213 on:** 05 May 2011, 03:06 »

Hey, it only rains for about 8 months(straight...). We have a couple months where it doesn't rain at all...

Anyway, if you want to see an almost true comedy about what's drawing people, go look up Portlandia. It's... sadly close to being true.

snubnose · « **Reply #214 on:** 05 May 2011, 03:11 »

I cant help but feel todays comic ... is kinda weak.

John_Knee · « **Reply #215 on:** 05 May 2011, 03:19 »

I think one of the problems in characterising Steve is the fact we've only seen him in a limited capacity - either as a drinking buddy or having relationship hassles. We've never seen him in a normal day to day situation and his interaction with Martin. If he popped into the CoD a lot more often and get involved in non-emotionally charged situations, we might be able to judge Steve's personailty better. As it is, we've only seen him in situations where there are plenty of opportunities for the wrong thing to be said.

Tova · « **Reply #216 on:** 05 May 2011, 03:40 »

Quote from: snubnose on 05 May 2011, 03:11

I cant help but feel todays comic ... is kinda weak.

I felt the same, though I figured maybe it's funnier if you live there.

Can't hit it out of the park every day, I guess.

Carl-E · « **Reply #217 on:** 05 May 2011, 04:04 »

I think it's a fine comic, the problem is that it pales when placed after the previous one. We expect there to be more serious ralationship talk with a punchline or two, not an extended stand-up bit about "them dang hipsters, amirite?"!

ONG, Jeph's a GOM...

DSL · « **Reply #218 on:** 05 May 2011, 04:45 »

I can't help feel the Portland hipster comic is a reaction by Jeph to all the "shit's gonna get real NOW" predictions made every time he sets up a little bit of drama. I hope I'm wrong, and that the stories of how he ignores these forums are true.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #219 on:** 05 May 2011, 04:52 »

To think that for a moment I thought that the unshaven guy is a fisherman on his way to/from Portland, Maine. Makes more sense in New England?Yes, I know that Portland, Oregon is bigger. I just played a lot of Railroad Tycoon, when I was eh ... less old.

mike837go · « **Reply #220 on:** 05 May 2011, 05:02 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 04:04

ONG, Jeph's a GOM...

At 30 and running a sucsessful business, he's too young and stinkin' happy to be a GOM!

Maybe it's a guest strip. And the other artist has the exact same style?

And I thought someone was messing with Jeph's meds. It's a cute joke 'n all. But is it really Questionable Content?

Dr. ROFLPWN · « **Reply #221 on:** 05 May 2011, 05:19 »

Quote from: Odin on 05 May 2011, 02:58

Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 05 May 2011, 02:40
I am sorry, I just get of a goddamn temper about this because as a Seattle-dweller I can attest to the fact that the hipster rate in the Northwest keeps growing like a metastasizing brain tumor, and now I know where the fuckers are coming from! BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS WITH YE, HIPSTER FILTH.

Make some use out of them and feed them into the wood pulpers at any of the million paper mills up there.

This is actually a great idea! We can lure them with the idea that they're helping make "extra-organic" construction paper to be sold at independent art stores! Worst-case scenario they end up in Tacoma, and no one gives a shit about Tacoma.

Quote from: mike837go on 05 May 2011, 05:02

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 04:04
ONG, Jeph's a GOM...

At 30 and running a sucsessful business, he's too young and stinkin' happy to be a GOM!

Maybe it's a guest strip. And the other artist has the exact same style?

And I thought someone was messing with Jeph's meds. It's a cute joke 'n all. But is it ~~really Questionable Content?~~ my QC fanfiction?

I guess not!

pwhodges · « **Reply #222 on:** 05 May 2011, 05:37 »

Quote from: DSL on 05 May 2011, 04:45

I hope that the stories of how he ignores these forums are true.

If you check Jeph's forum account, you will see that he hasn't logged in to the forums since December. I don't imagine that he would just lurk without reacting to anything, though I suppose he could.

pwhodges · « **Reply #223 on:** 05 May 2011, 05:39 »

Quote from: mike837go on 05 May 2011, 05:02

But is it really Questionable Content?

One of the strengths of Questionable Content, that helps keep it alive and interesting, is precisely that the focus changes between the main storyline and other disconnected jokes of different kinds.

akronnick · « **Reply #224 on:** 05 May 2011, 05:42 »

From Jeph's twitter yesterday, he had an unscheduled visit to the doctor yesterday, so we'll cut him some slack if the comic goes in a different direction from the previous one.

Carl-E · « **Reply #225 on:** 05 May 2011, 06:03 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 05 May 2011, 05:37

Quote from: DSL on 05 May 2011, 04:45
I hope that the stories of how he ignores these forums are true.

If you check Jeph's forum account, you will see that he hasn't logged in to the forums since December. I don't imagine that he would just lurk without reacting to anything, though I suppose he could.

Perhaps he has spies...?

"They're expecting X today, sir."

"Excellent. Let's do Y instead, then."

Black Sword · « **Reply #226 on:** 05 May 2011, 06:21 »

I rather liked this strip. Steve says a comment that can be interpreted wrong, but between bros, it's easy enough to just toss it aside and ignore it.

More Secret Bakery nao, plz?

Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 05 May 2011, 02:31

No, no they do not and nor can they be educated to.

Sadly, Portland is not grinding up the hipsters for chum; instead it is letting them roam free, like grazing goddamn cattle, becoming fat on Voodoo Donuts (fucking shut up forever about that place, Portlanders, no one cares) and babbling like a runnng stream about their fucking band/clown college plans/independent film, whilst they abuse the state's lack of sales tax and go get stoned at OMSI. The place has become some sort of dark hipster Mecca, which means that up here in Seattle we get to be Medina and host the further pilgrimage of these assholes. Yes, we know Pike Place Market was not as cool as you expected; yes, we know Belltown is "so expensive" (but that doesn't stop you going out to get crunk every night, now does it); no, we don't want to hear what you think of Starbucks . We have enough of our own unbearable white people. Go away. Go away forever or the natives are going to cull you, and don't think we don't know who you are!

Those of us on the Northeast Corridor wish to thank you for your valuable contribution to keeping our hipster populations low. Without you, we'd be forced to initiate exterminatus. As the hipster population tends to grow until it consumes all available resources, we do, however, recommend ou cull the herds as necessary so that only the least annoying, least pretentious hipsters can breed.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #227 on:** 05 May 2011, 06:23 »

Oregon?

Go to Maine, poseur.

Carl-E · « **Reply #228 on:** 05 May 2011, 06:42 »

Quote from: Black Sword on 05 May 2011, 06:21

...least annoying, least pretentious hipsters...

oxy-morons?

pwhodges · « **Reply #229 on:** 05 May 2011, 07:03 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 06:03

Perhaps he has spies...?

Damn. Busted...

ChicagoTed · « **Reply #230 on:** 05 May 2011, 09:12 »

I hate to say that not only is this Portland-itis a real thing, but I know someone who is currently in between stages two and three (she has moved to Portland, but has not yet cut her ties to the East).

It is nice to see the comic deal with hipsters again though, always makes me smile.

Black Sword · « **Reply #231 on:** 05 May 2011, 09:22 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 06:42

Quote from: Black Sword on 05 May 2011, 06:21
...least annoying, least pretentious hipsters...

oxy-morons?

Matter of degree.

ysth · « **Reply #232 on:** 05 May 2011, 09:24 »

I deduce that Jeph will not be making OSCON anytime soon.

Shadic · « **Reply #233 on:** 05 May 2011, 09:24 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 May 2011, 02:04

The one thing I know about Oregon is people from Oregon don't know how to pronounce Oregon.

You are so wrong.

And you hipster folk power our public transportation... We certainly don't feed you to the fish.

Xader · « **Reply #234 on:** 05 May 2011, 09:44 »

Yuk, the salmon would taste like hipster!

Please, pledge to end Portland-itis. We've taken in as many as we can, but the smell is starting to permeate the air...

Boomslang · « **Reply #235 on:** 05 May 2011, 09:53 »

As someone who was born in Oregon and lives there currently, we pronounce Oregon correctly by definition, 'cause it's our prerogative to decide which pronunciation is the right one.

And, since we're nice enough not to criticize anyone else's pronunciation of their own state (Although, seriously, Missouri?), I'd really appreciate it if you return the favor.
Especially since you're wrong.

DSL · « **Reply #236 on:** 05 May 2011, 10:13 »

Hey everyone. Wish Jeph a Happy National Cartoonists Day. To answer Steve, this is a thing that is real.

Carl-E · « **Reply #237 on:** 05 May 2011, 10:36 »

OK, now I gotta know. Never having met an Oregonian(?) in person, how the hell do youse guys pronounciate it?

People look at me weird 'cause I have an odd "or" pronunciation for this part of the world, it's an open "a" sound when it's in the first syllable. For example, ahranges come from Flahrida, and the space above my eyebrows is my fahrhead. When it's not the first syllable, or when it's the only syllable, I do the stadard "ore" sound (so "for" is pronounced like "four").

So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?

rje · « **Reply #238 on:** 05 May 2011, 10:58 »

But but...I wanted to go to Portland before it was a thing! Since I was eighteen! That was...thirteen years ago. But that doesn't make me a hipster, right? ....Right? *crickets*

Actually, I just wanted to go because I read that a bunch of comic creators lived there so it was supposedly this comic industry mecca and that sounded like the most awesome thing. It just sounded really artsy, laid back and kind of geeky. But it doesn't sound that way anymore

I'm too poor for it now, just like Seattle.

(...jesus christ that was thirteen years ago. I just made myself sad. ._. )

mike837go · « **Reply #239 on:** 05 May 2011, 11:00 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 10:36

OK, [how] youse guys pronounciate it?
So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?

So, spoiling for a fight, are we?

Elysiana · « **Reply #240 on:** 05 May 2011, 11:12 »

Someone I knew when I was pretty young had a bumper sticker that said "ORY-GUN" and she explained that that's how people from Oregon pronounce it. I never did find out if that was true.

After living the first 20 years of my life in Illinois, there isn't much that grates on me more than hearing someone say "ell-ih-noy" or, even worse, "ill-ih-noiz". I do remember there was some local TV personality who combined the two into "ell-ih-noiz" and it made me want to punch him.

Shadic · « **Reply #241 on:** 05 May 2011, 11:48 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 10:36

OK, now I gotta know. Never having met an Oregonian(?) in person, how the hell do youse guys pronounciate it?

Here's a good example.

SirDudley · « **Reply #242 on:** 05 May 2011, 11:52 »

Hmm....I often wonder with these one-shot characters, are they based on people Jeph knows?

That said, I've only been to Portland, Oregon once in my life. Was kinda "meh" to me, in all honesty.

Cybit · « **Reply #243 on:** 05 May 2011, 12:12 »

LOL, live in Seattle myself (Bellevue, to be exact), and I'm in the throes of Portland-itis, I fear. Admittedly, its because one of my closest friends from growing up lives out there, and as far as I can tell, it's Seattle minus the traffic, and I despise traffic. :-p For what it is worth, I have had fantastic times in Portland the 6 or so times I've gone down there, and it's actually one of the places I would move. I grew up in the Midwest, so for Midwesterners, I always see Seattle as Chicago, and Portland as St Louis.

Of course, if it really is hipster heaven, I should flee as fast as I can, as I don't think I get along with them very well. >_< Or just stick to the 'burbs.

Boomslang · « **Reply #244 on:** 05 May 2011, 13:30 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 10:36

OK, now I gotta know. Never having met an Oregonian(?) in person, how the hell do youse guys pronounciate it?

So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?

Everyone I've ever known who grew up here says it as 'or a gun.' As in, you could kill a deer with a bow, or a gun. Except with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Pronouncing it as the church instrument is acceptable if you're drunk or from the east coast. Emphasizing the last syllable, using the long 'o' sound for the beginning, or anything that you don't normally do with other words is just not cool.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #245 on:** 05 May 2011, 13:55 »

Powell's Bookstore is awesome. Check it out if you're in Portland. It's so big they have maps of it at the entrance. I fantasize about building a penthouse apartment on their roof.

Shadic · « **Reply #246 on:** 05 May 2011, 13:59 »

Powell's is indeed awesome.

And Cybit - Portland just feels like Seattle but less of a giant city. It's like a weird child of Olympia (my hometown) and Seattle... With some pretty nice public transportation.

Haven't noticed any huge hipster populations, I'm on a college campus and I think the amount of them is relatively normal for progressive liberal areas.

calmcalamity · « **Reply #247 on:** 05 May 2011, 14:12 »

Boomslang is pretty much on par, though i always thought of it as more of ore (as in metal ore) and gun, or or-uh-gun, and on the issue of Ahr-e-gon or Or-e-gon i don't really think it's that big a deal.
Also, no hipsters are not the only thing that Portland attracts, we happen to be the center of the indie comics industry with the native born Dark Horse Comics, Periscope Studio,and Stumptown comics fest, etc.
On top of that there is a plethora of other nerdy things to love about this city, see the Portland Geek Council of Commerce and Culture (http://www.pgc3.org/) and next weekend Wonder Northwest (like Wondercon, but better)

On a final note here are the list of Portland, OR nicknames that you can use without a native glaring at you or face palming: City of Roses or Rose City, Bridgetown, Stumptown, and everybody's favorite, PDX
here is what you shouldn't use, EVER: P-Town, Rip City, Razorblade City
Little Beirut is somewhat outdated and obscure, but the more hardcore leftists in the city i think still enjoy that moniker

The Duke · « **Reply #248 on:** 05 May 2011, 14:21 »

This is where I learned its pronunciation.

Kugai · « **Reply #249 on:** 05 May 2011, 14:55 »

[DarthVaderVoice] Come to Portland. We have Cookies [/DarthVaderVoice'

On another front, could this be foreshadowing?

Or am I reading more into this than there really is.

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