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WCDT: 2421-2425 (8-12 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
I've long accepted I'm going to "get" fewer and fewer jokes and references as time goes on. Such was the case with the Emily Partridge guest strip. That's all right; it's on me to keep up, not on the world to slow down for me. I did find, however, that not "getting" all of Partridge's references didn't diminish my appreciation of the point of the strip; it might have even enhanced it -- if I understood the point correctly, that she's satirizing strips that are created to appeal to market trends with super-topical references.
If not, well, leave me to my illusion.
Carl-E:
I'm with DSL on this one, but Akima too - it felt a bit like I'd gotten the shaft rather than a lift from the days comic, but I appreciated what was going on even without understanding it.
Rather like the early comics where, as a person twice the age of the original "target" demographic, I'd never heard of a single f**king band Jeph ever mentioned.
And "Swaggy"'s the perfect name for a current generational mascot - as is four loco product placement for preteens...
DSL:
Consider, though, that the shaft might have *been* the point. Now I'm thinking about some of those 1990s animateds that depended heavily on super-topical references ("Goodfeathers" in particular) and are now painfully dated.
Although, given the propensity of people on the internet, YouTube in particular, to dredge up old memes and themes because retro is cool, y'know, does anything really die (even when it should)? I remember seeing "They Live" in theaters but thought I was the only one who remembered it.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Apr 2013, 11:05 ---I like the early comics where, as a person twice the age of the original "target" demographic, I'd never heard of a single f**king band Jeph ever mentioned.
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I liked 'em too, and I started reading them at 19 and still had no idea who the bands were (were they even all real bands?)
Loki:
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--- Quote from: Loki on 08 Apr 2013, 23:12 ---The other guest comic seems to be gone. Confusing.
I think I only got the Swag, Yolo and #hashtag references yesterday.
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I didn't get any of them. (Well, YOLO is one of the shirts Jeph is selling.)
Maybe that is because we didn't have TV commercials when I grew up.
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#hashtags are tags on Twitter that you include in your post to kind of put it in the same category as other posts. They are prefaced by a # symbol (called a "hash"), thus the name. People use them for indicating that a post relates to a certain topic, such as a current event like a storm (#Kathrina), also for ongoing issues (#LGBTRights), for moods (#happy, #sad, #depression), for celebrities (#SeanConnery), and, more recently (and relevantly to this comic), to express what they are, if relevant to the post ("Being forced to study again #ChildOfAsianParents")* and how they feel about something ("Romney forced to end career #wellServedJustice").
Swag: I am not really sure what that means, as it started somewhat at the end of my high school time, but it means as much as "luck/fortune", but also positive events stemming from positive characteristics such as confidence or "smoothness". ("John gets all the girls. That's because of his swag."). Somewhat similar to what "coolness" used to mean some fifteen years ago.
YOLO: "You only live once". Also originated as a hashtag on Twitter, I believe. It expresses the notion that life is fleeting and should be enjoyed to its fullest by, say, finding the courage to talk to "that one girl" or going paragliding while drunk and naked. Jeph is obviously poking fun of it with the shirt he sells. I think most of it's notoriety comes from people making fun of it, but it's hard to tell on the Internet.
*with due apologies to our Asian forum members.
--- Quote from: Kixie on 08 Apr 2013, 23:24 ---If you it "previous" from today's comic, it skips that one. If you hit "next" on Fridays comic, it shows it.
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Well I'll be damned. Thanks.
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