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Faye is friendly to customers!

Sven is serene and sensible!

Marten is mean business!

Angus is eaten by an allosaur!

Purple Monkey Dishwasher is pink!

Sven is pregnant.

[ysth]

trolling us so hard

[KOK]

I thought anthropcs had wireless internet. But of course features may have been left out due to space constraints.

[snubnose]

You're not in love with someone unless they are in that love with you. Otherwise, you're in love by yourself and just wishing the object of your affection reciprocated.

... the hell ?!?

I've never heard of being in love with someone being something limited to reciprocal love.

+1

Love itself isnt selfish ! Love is THE ONE AND ONLY MOTIVE of humans for altruistic acts !

Haven't you ever just had the need to tell someone something like that?

Not to women in a happy relationship, no.

And, as I pointed out earlier, one can point this out in a lot more sensible way.

Arguably, Sven didn't cheat on Faye per se, since iirc they never stated they were in an exclusive relationship. [...]

Err ... please dont restart THAT discussion.

trolling us so hard

Who is getting trolled ? I must have missed the posting thats getting trolled ?

[NilsO]

Well, introducing Steve and his cereal at this time just makes me mad. I do not want cereal strips. I want to know how the Marten/Emily or Sven/Faye/Angus storylines develop. Next week, I believe there will be guest strips (OK, Jeph deserves a vacation). But the waiting will be intolerable.

We are being trolled. The suspense may kill us. Help!

[Mordhaus]

I had that exact same thing happen after dropping LSD. Only my elf was actually Danny Devito.

Wait, Danny deVito, or Tiny Danny deVito? Because the fullsize one shouldn't fit in a cereal box, hey?
Unless you're into those super-jumbo family packs or something….

You are expecting logic from a LSD trip? Full size, btw, and he talked to me from inside of the cereal box. He was dressed as the character he played in Big Fish and he said my favorite cereal was daffodils. I closed that cereal box and got some Frosted Flakes instead.

[Detachable Felix]

Please, this isn't an LSD trip at all. That little C.E.R.E.A.L. is just fucking with Steve.

[T]

Well, introducing Steve and his cereal at this time just makes me mad. I do not want cereal strips. I want to know how the Marten/Emily or Sven/Faye/Angus storylines develop. Next week, I believe there will be guest strips (OK, Jeph deserves a vacation). But the waiting will be intolerable.

We are being trolled. The suspense may kill us. Help!

And after the guest strips he will back to May, and Marten, and Marigold... 

[Detachable Felix]

Prediction: Guest strip week will consist entirely of Dave Willis and Butts. (At least, if his guest week on Girls With Slingshots is to be believed)

[Thrillho]

What an amusingly deliberate 'fuck you' to the audience.

[Shjade]

You're not in love with someone unless they are in that love with you. Otherwise, you're in love by yourself and just wishing the object of your affection reciprocated.

... the hell ?!?

I've never heard of being in love with someone being something limited to reciprocal love.

+1

Love itself isnt selfish ! Love is THE ONE AND ONLY MOTIVE of humans for altruistic acts !

While that last statement may (or may not) be accurate, you can't possibly argue that people only use the word "love" to describe what is actually love as opposed to using it as a descriptor for far less noble and more selfish feelings. When I hear someone claim they love chocolate, I don't consider the statement to contain anything resembling "altruism."

That said, regarding "I'm in love with ___" vs "I love ___," while I have no official ruling on the topic, I always had the impression that any distinction between the two statements, if any were necessary, would likely be one of distance and knowledge, but not necessarily reciprocation.

You can't be "in love with" Taylor Swift if you don't know her. You can love her, maybe - or at least you might love the idea of her, the concept you've created as representation of who you believe her to be in your head, but there's no relationship between the two of you on which you can base some claim of love; there is nothing there with which you can be "in love." You can only direct love at the idea, if indeed that is what you are feeling.

You could, however, be in love with Taylor Swift's music. That's a tangible, concrete thing with which you can interact, even if it isn't a sentient entity that has the capacity to love you back.

*shrug* Like I said, nothing resembling official definitions there, just how the two phrases work in my head.

[T]

My undertanding of the term love is that there is no need for it to be mutual.

There is
A loves B
B loves A

But there is also
A loves B that loves C that loves D that doesn't loves anyone.

But the sentiment that A feels to B is the same in both cases.

That's why there are so many adjectives that we add to the word love. Because love in itself is too broad.

Mutual love, unrequited love, platonic love, inconditional love...

At least this is my undertanding from the point of view of a non native speaker.

[Detachable Felix]

What is love?

[T]

What is love?

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[Mlle Germain]

I find today's strip weird, but funny.
Also gives this thread a little break from the by now pretty repetitive discussion about how insensitive Sven is or isn't being.
Of course, I'm still looking forward to the next proper comic. I think there will be two more on Thursday and Friday before the guest comics start, right?

[Akima]

Consumer Entertainment Robot Experimental Alpha-Level. 

Bother! You beat me to it. C.E.R.E.A.L. must have very long battery life.

[anahata]

When I hear someone claim they love chocolate, I don't consider the statement to contain anything resembling "altruism."

I am totally nicking that for a sig quote. Thank you.

[NilsO]

I think there will be two more on Thursday and Friday before the guest comics start, right?

According to Jeph's Twitter, yes:

beret jeph @jephjacques  ·  Jul 8
Which means next week is guest comics!
 beret jeph @jephjacques  ·  Jul 8
Aw yeah, another comic done. I think that puts me through the end of this week.

Of course, it may just be filler comics (cereals, or (God forbid) more Yelling Bird), but I really hope the Thursday and Friday comics show at least a little progress in the main storylines. I want a Marten/Emily strip on Thursday, and Sven/Faye/Angus (in some combination) on Friday. May/Dale/Marigold can take a longer break. Still, I guess we have to be very patient before any significant progress happens.

[Masterpiece]

*walks away while thread explodes behind him*

[snubnose]

We are being trolled. The suspense may kill us. Help!

Oooh ok I get it now.

Thanks for the explanation !

[Method of Madness]

(note that there's only one "T" there)

Yes?

The second t would change "but" to "BUTTS LOL"

[GarandMarine]

I want a C.E.R.E.A.L. and possibly a bowl of cheerios.

[cesium133]

I thought anthropcs had wireless internet. But of course features may have been left out due to space constraints.

Crunchos has an aluminum foil liner bag, to keep the mind control rays out of the cereal.

[DrBear]

So let's see ... Jeph switched to Steve in the middle of the Claire-Marten cuddling, and switched again in the middle of the Sven-Faye events.


In short, Jeph has become a cereal troller.

[Carl-E]

Poor Steve - reduced from best friend and advisor to a running serial cereal gag. 


I wonder what Happy Meal toys are like in the QC-verse...

[NilsO]

In short, Jeph has become a cereal troller.

groan...
Let us hope Steve never becomes a cereal killer

EDIT: On second thoughts, he already is a cereal killer. He eats cereals every day

[T]

(note that there's only one "T" there)

Yes?

The second t would change "but" to "BUTTS LOL"

There is no second "T"! I'm the one and only "T"!

[FunkyTuba]

It's not exactly on topic, but this discussion is making me think of this gem:
Warning: This spoiler contains a serious 90s pop earworm. You Have Been Warned.

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[DSL]

In short, Jeph has become a cereal troller.

groan...
Let us hope Steve never becomes a cereal killer

EDIT: On second thoughts, he already is a cereal killer. He eats cereals every day

Cereal killers should get Life.
(pun may not work outside North America)

[Mad Cat]

Remember a while back when I opined that the QC-verse was the one fictional universe I'd actually like to live in.

If the QC-verse is a universe where little 8" tall androids can fall out of my cereal box and hold a conversation with me, I'm seriously reevaluating that opinion. It makes the QC-verse start to look a little too much like a prolonged psychotic episode for my tastes.

[cesium133]

It makes the QC-verse start to look a little too much like a prolonged psychotic episode for my tastes.

Hanners feels the same way.

[Welu]

I am both amused and angered.

[FunkyTuba]

He fixed panel 4.

Waiting with anticipation what trollery will ensue for today's (tomorrow's?(Tonight's?)) comic

[bhtooefr]

Oh, for fuck's sake, Sven.

[themacnut]

It makes the QC-verse start to look a little too much like a prolonged psychotic episode for my tastes.

Hanners feels the same way.

Heh, I always thought Gary the arachnoPC was kinda cute. But I can also see how someone with even mild arachnophobia could be totally freaked out at the sight of him.

[Masterpiece]

What the hell, Sven, what even is this.

[Smallest]

At least he didn't seem to plan on suggesting it himself.

[NilsO]

  No, Sven. NO!
Fortunately, Faye seems to handle this quite well. She knows Sven well enough to know his hopeless, selfish ways.

On the other hand, this may start Faye thinking "what if" thoughts. Sven was probably better in bed than Angus (duh, he has a lot more experience). Faye may still think of Sven when she is horny. She is possibly mentally unfaithful to Angus already.

[Kugai]

Dora is going to kill him.

[Barmymoo]

I don't know if she will need to. The crushing desolation when this fails will probably be enough to finish him off.

[Pilchard123]

Sven. Wat r u doin. Sven. STAHP!

Yeah, this isn't going to end well.

[Smallest]

I just noticed, this comic isn't numbered. Maybe it's not real.

[NilsO]

The URL says it is comic #2744.

[hedgie]

Ye gawds, Sven.

Well, at least it seems like getting shot-down will kick him hard in his complacency.  He still pretty much expects to get whatever he wants in life without even trying.  May be good for him.  Or, if the Fangus tension gets too high, this could take a very bad turn for all three.

[Smallest]

Fangus tension

Is that some sort of growth?

[hedgie]

Well, I wouldn't call what I think worst case scenario is would really "help" anyone.  In fact, it may fuck them all up more, at least in the short-medium term.

[jwhouk]

You know of course what's going to happen: She's going to agree to hug him or something, and that's exactly when Angus is going to show up and say, "Hey I forgot to ask where you wanted to goooooOHMIGOD!"

[Method of Madness]

Angus is NOT Dora.

[NilsO]

Flashback to a similar event.

[Method of Madness]

Haha what did I just say?

[Pilchard123]

I believe you said "Angus is NOT Dora".

* Pilchard123 checks

Yup, you did.