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WCDT: 2016-2020 (19-23 Sep 2011)
billydaking:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 21 Sep 2011, 06:28 ---She fell ~10 feet onto a jutted rock, hitting her square in the back, then another ~6 feet afterward. The fact she isn't seriously injured annoys me; I don't like when comics that exist on the plane of reality bend the laws of physics for comedy. The robots and dinensional portals are one thing, but humans, gravity, and rock faces are another.
At the very least the hiking trip should be over, you can't take a kid hiking if they're flinging themselves off cliffs.
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Considering that I had similar fall (fell on back, bounced off, then went forearms first into the ground) when I was about 10 years old and came away with just bruises...yeah, it can happen. My little sister also fell down two flights of concrete steps and survived without anything broken. The thing is this...kids tend to get less seriously injured than adults because they don't think (i.e., prepare themselves mentally for) about is to happen, so they don't tense up, which highly increases the likelihood of broken bones. The same reason why drunk people have a habit of walking away unscathed from car wrecks.
I'm annoyed when people think they understand reality, but it's really just their perception of it.
iduguphergrave:
--- Quote from: Welu ---Jim did decribe Sam as a tomboy-ish, not as mini-female Bear Grylls.
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Hey now, nobody said she drinks her own urine.
...sorry
--- Quote from: cesariojpn ---Can we blame everything on Momo? Technically, she's a robot.....and they can't prosecute a robot.
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? Why couldn't they? If they have constitutional rights, they're basically citizens, aren't they? That would imply that they're subject to the same laws as any human citizen.
pendrake:
For comic #2018...
1. My thoughts on Samantha's thoughts for panel #2...
-1st: Oh no you don't!
-2nd: Oop...
-3rd: Ow!
-4th: Hah!
2. Hopefully Momo will appreciate Samatha's effort to show her a snake :wink: .
3. On grabbing snakes, sure most grown-ups or a knowledgable person would know not to grab a snake (or how to properly grab one). This, however, is an a 13 year old girl with more enthusiasm than wisdom.
4. As for injuries, from a parent's field experience: children, kids (yes, there is a difference), and teenagers are shockingly damage resilient at times. Of course, that in no way mitigates the worries of the parents :psyduck: . Comic-wise, minor injuries ("minor" being a very broad term in comics & animation) make for good punchlines.
5. 2d10 falling damage? What system is Jeph playing...?
brew:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 21 Sep 2011, 07:11 ---
No, Scott Pilgrim quickly labeled itself as a video game crossover in the first volume. If Marten started battling people in video game duels and they exploded into coins, then I would have a problem with it after 2000+ strips of establishing a physics-based world.
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Kagey:
I love this strip because this happened at my kids' elementary school last week -- someone yelled "snake" and a crowd of little girls (average age: 6) dashed toward the speaker. At least there was a knowledgeable mom on hand to identify the snake a harmless garden snake. The girls who didn't get to hold it before we decided the poor snake had had enough were crushed. This is the new breed of girl, people. Running towards snakes.
I love it.
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