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Author Topic: WCDT: 2618-2622 (Jan 13 - 17 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread  (Read 48032 times)

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I like them. If you lose, you get drunk, so nobody REALLY loses.

Except the people who don't drink and aren't excited about hanging out with drunk people.
Free show for them.
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Free show for them.

It's like in 300- someone must survive to tell their story...or rather someone must stay sober to witness the antics and piece together events
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Free show for them.

It's like in 300- someone must survive to tell their story...or rather someone must stay sober to witness the antics and piece together events

Sometimes it's just fun to watch, said the guy standing off to one side with ginger ale in his beer cup.

I suspect those people are in the kitchen having a deep conversation about life and eating all the snacks.

Like, have you ever looked at nails in a tree stump? Like, REALLY looked? And then tried to hit them?
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Lokks to me like Bob simply ruined the game. What's the point?  :?
I think the point was one spectacular dramatic moment.  Probably more entertainment packed into that one second than would have been in playing the game out slowly.  (And they can always stick the nails back in, so nothing's really lost.)

Drinking games never made sense to me.  Is the purpose to consume your beverage or regulate how others consume?
The logic of drinking games is very counterintuitive.

Drinks are always consumed as a penalty by the loser; the goal, as expressed in the rules of the game, is always to get the other players to drink.  Since people who play drinking games like drinking and getting drunk, why are the games set up so this supposedly desirable, fun activity is "forced" on people as a "punishment"?

Could this have originated in some sort of guilt or desire to deny responsibility?  So that instead of saying you drank half a bottle of vodka because you chose to, you can say you had to do it because your friends kept hitting your nails?
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Perhapsh .. perhaps it ties into my point above: However much fun you might say it is to be drunk yourself, it's still more fun to see others drunker than you.
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It's like in 300- someone must survive to tell their story...or rather someone must stay sober to witness the antics and piece together events

Sometimes it's just fun to watch, said the guy standing off to one side with ginger ale in his beer cup.

Yep. There are times you know something hilariously stupid will occur that is worth the wait. And if you are a good group of friends, someone else will be that person off to the side next time allowing you to enjoy the festivities and create your own hilariously stupid moment
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Perhaps the rules in most drinking games are like that to ensure that everybody is about as drunk as each other. While it's fun to be drunk at a party, it isn't much fun to be the Obviously Most Drunk present. Conversely, being sober when everyone else is drunk is either fun or very unfun - depending on the personality of the individual.
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Speaking of 300, Re: Bob's 'Request'



COME AND GET THEM!!!

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How does it go? When you can't tell who's most drunk, it's you.
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I am pretty certain that I would immediately become the Obviously Most Drunk person in the room after just one round of any drinking game.
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Y'know, this strip sure reinforces my thought that safety glasses would be very desirable in this game.  Flying nails...  yeek.
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True enough.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye…  Then it's just hilarious.
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Is Delilah unaware that Marten is the friend who dated Dora before Tai.
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Is Delilah unaware that Marten is the friend who dated Dora before Tai.

Seems to be, yes.
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I actually think Marten is amused at Tal's nervousness here.  Love it.
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Well yeah, why wouldn't he be?
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True enough.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye…  Then it's just hilarious.

I actually had three surgeries and a near complete loss of sight in my right eye due to a flying nail. I made jokes about it though while in the hospital, but that might just be my sense of humor.
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Heh, this comic makes me laugh pretty hard. I like it when Marten has a chance to indulge in a little bit of good-hearted mischief.
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True enough.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye…  Then it's just hilarious.

I actually had three surgeries and a near complete loss of sight in my right eye due to a flying nail. I made jokes about it though while in the hospital, but that might just be my sense of humor.
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I wonder if plotting downfalls makes Marten all tingly too.
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The point of drinking games is to have a semi-structured activity involving alcohol that induces people who may not know each other to interact and establish social connection as the inhibition reducing effects of alcohol (and marijuana) multiply the effect.

Geesh, I think more than a few of you really _really_ need to go to a party, get a good buzz on, relax and if possible get laid so you quit acting so tight assed.
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So, delilah has dreads, armpit hair, hairy legs and goes braless.

*yum*

Seriously, I would love to meet someone like that.
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Geesh, I think more than a few of you really _really_ need to go to a party, get a good buzz on, relax and if possible get laid so you quit acting so tight assed.

Some people genuinely do not enjoy the activities you have described.  (Heck, even the "getting laid" part is often very problematic.)
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Geesh, I think more than a few of you really _really_ need to go to a party, get a good buzz on, relax and if possible get laid so you quit acting so tight assed.
Meh.  Hanners will get laid before I do, and for about the same reason.
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True enough.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye…  Then it's just hilarious.

I actually had three surgeries and a near complete loss of sight in my right eye due to a flying nail. I made jokes about it though while in the hospital, but that might just be my sense of humor.
Sometimes laughing about something like that is the best way to cope.  I've made similar when I've been in the hospital, albeit under less gory circumstances.
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if possible get laid so you quit acting so tight assed.

Only certain specific kinds of sexual activity make an ass less tight :-)
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did nobody else see the other comic that was posted?

with tai saying dora couldn't come because of work and then talking trash about doras ex with tai trying to be a good middle ground and marten not helping at all

I do not know if you were the only one to see it.
either it was up by mistake, and its tomorrow comic, i'm psychic, or i'm crazy, but i would swear that i saw it yesterday afternoon.
k found the comic lol, only a couple days late
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I'm surprised nobody has commented on Delilah's lack of bra yet. Much attention seems to have been given to her hair, but not that.
Possibly because it is pretty common and unremarkable in QC? Or we're not hung up about women's underwear choices. Whatever.
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Oh Marten, you will never move on in life if you hang around with your ex's partner. Seriously, it's all going to end in tears, heartache and misery.
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I wonder if Delilah will ever find out that Marten is actually Dora's ex, and if so, when, and how she will react.

He already impressed her with his balloon animals idea, but she could end up finding his attitude reguarding Dora and Tai quite endearing.

@greywolfe, he's hanging out with a friend who volunteered to be his wing-girl (whatever that means). I don't see how it's a problem.
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The point of drinking games is to have a semi-structured activity involving alcohol that induces people who may not know each other to interact and establish social connection as the inhibition reducing effects of alcohol (and marijuana) multiply the effect.
OR you could just, you know, like, TALK to people you dont know yet.

But thats probably crazy talk from a sober person.
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@greywolfe, he's hanging out with a friend who volunteered to be his wing-girl (whatever that means). I don't see how it's a problem.

Because it's not a good idea. TBH, despite Tai asking him about it first, she broke the code by hooking up with his ex. Not cool.
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Marten has never expressed anything but total okay-ness with Tai dating Dora.  Since he's an honest fella, I'm taking him at his word.  Overall, Marten and Tai's friendship strikes me as healthy, with support, affection, and good advice flowing both ways.
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Since Marten now genuinely seems to be ok with Dora and Tai dating and it seems that the only thing he wants to do regarding this is be friends with both of them in peace, I wish people would stop saying "But it must bother him. I bet he's just acting or has some secret plan." If I was him, it would really get on my nerves.
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Heck, the notion that there is some code which universally applies no matter what gets on my nerves.
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Marten has never expressed anything but total okay-ness with Tai dating Dora.  Since he's an honest fella, I'm taking him at his word.  Overall, Marten and Tai's friendship strikes me as healthy, with support, affection, and good advice flowing both ways.
Never?  How about "it honestly made me a little uncomfortable, y'know?"

But sure, he's been saying he's okay with in every few strips starting right there.  And yeah, I'm taking him at his word.
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Marten has never expressed anything but total okay-ness with Tai dating Dora.  Since he's an honest fella, I'm taking him at his word.  Overall, Marten and Tai's friendship strikes me as healthy, with support, affection, and good advice flowing both ways.
Never?  How about "it honestly made me a little uncomfortable, y'know?"

But sure, he's been saying he's okay with in every few strips starting right there.  And yeah, I'm taking him at his word.

Marten also said that it "bothers me. A little" when he talked to Steve in an earlier strip in that ark. But yeah, once he and Dora had their conversation and became friends again, he has not expressed any negative feelings towards the matter.
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Slightly related to this week's comics, does anyone else wonder if the hippie chick mentioned here was Delilah? It would be a nice little throwback and an intimate history might explain some of Delilah's tone from today. Sounds to me like Delilah wants it to end between Tai and Dora, although maybe she is just teasing a little harder than is appropriate.
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Looks to me like this is your first post, so welcome!  :-D

The "hippie chick" being Delilah would make for a great callback, I agree! I'm not sure I see how anything she said hints at her wanting Tai to be available though. I think she's genuinely wondering about Dora's ex's motives, no different than when Gabby was pestering Marten about it.
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The point of drinking games is to have a semi-structured activity involving alcohol that induces people who may not know each other to interact and establish social connection as the inhibition reducing effects of alcohol (and marijuana) multiply the effect.

Geesh, I think more than a few of you really _really_ need to go to a party, get a good buzz on, relax and if possible get laid so you quit acting so tight assed.
Nobody was arguing about the point of drinking games. Just the reasoning behind the rules calling the "if X, drink" a punishment.

I also have a little rule, though I think it's more of a shortcut in reasoning. It goes like this: whoever tells someone to relax also needs to relax a bit. This also applies to me citing that rule, but that's just me being slightly pedantic.


But yeah, comic. Good to see Marten's having fun, though I don't think Tai expected it to be at her expense.  :-D
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Slightly related to this week's comics, does anyone else wonder if the hippie chick mentioned here was Delilah?
I considered it, but I decided against it because that would mean Marten and Delilah would have met, if not been formally introduced to one another. I don't get that vibe from monday's comic.
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I think she's genuinely wondering about Dora's ex's motives, no different than when Gabby was pestering Marten about it.

I agree, sounds to me more like Delilah may have had some issues in a relationship like that, so is skeptical of any ex's motive. Since she doesn't know Marten well (and I'm sure she'll be surprised to know Tai brought said ex to the party as a friend) she has no basis on which to judge yet.
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Marten's plan is slowly coming to fruition  :-D   ;)
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GWF :o  It's weird to see you north of the Great Divide.
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This is the second time that QC has avoided the standard drinking game thing and good for Jeph. 
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2319

I don't really like drinking games because I used to have a hard enough time regulating my alcohol intake without some arbitrary cues.  Also, they kinda call attention to who's drinking and how much with a hint of an assumption that more is better. 
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