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Faye finds a new job

Hannelore has to play the role of Abyssina when Arthur comes into CoD

Emily and Claire talk boyfriends at work (aka 'filler')

Dora gets some unwelcome news (aka 'something unexpected')

Pintsize's singing dildo is a success! Can a companion Anthro PC legally own a business?

Someone is getting a new dad and it isn't necessarily Marten (aka 'something new')!

[BenRG]

Okay, I admit that I might be running a bit dry in terms of ideas here. Any decent ideas will be gratefully accepted. I really haven't got a clue where Jeph may choose to go next week because, as far as I can tell, most, if not all, the likely plot threads for him to follow are tied off. The only ones left are basically minor, so I'm thinking that he may start something completely new.

(Just to flesh out option (4) - What if Dora's family respond to her cutting Sven out of her life by disowning her? It isn't inconceivable and it could lead into an interesting exploration of Dora's past and her relationship with her immediate family.)

FWIW, I'd really like for the garden party in Jeph's cast picture from last year to happen for real. Something about the thought of Momo having to be Sam's straight... er... 'bot and teen-sitter tickles my funny bone.

[Nepiophage]

Re the option "Hannelore has to play the role of Abyssina when Arthur comes into CoD"  I've never been in a substance abuse encounter/self-help group, but wouldn't it be a very definite no-no for the organizer (or any other member)  to approach one of the members outside the group, and in front of her workmates to boot? (though I realize Hanners is not strictly speaking a member, the same should apply).

[Is it cold in here?]

He could come in by accident, thinking it was just another coffee shop.

[Omega Entity]

He could come in by accident, thinking it was just another coffee shop.

This. As far I know, he'd have no way of knowing where any of the members work (part of the anonymity - hell, who knows who else was using an assumed name in the meeting besides Hanners and Faye?) unless he'd seen them before. Or he's some kind of stalky creeper type, which, since there's been no indication at all that we've seen him before, isn't a likely scenario.

Unless Jeph's going to pull a 'Too Many Cooks' scenario - where you don't even realize the psycho killer's appeared a dozen times previous to the part where he starts hacking people up.

[Rghfrgl]

Emily and Claire talk boyfriends at work (aka 'filler')

I don't know about filler, could be, but depends how it's done. Maybe we could get more development out of Emily from this. She did slap a fool, but most of it was her smiling and being pretty while Clinton acted like a idiot.

[amykathleen]

Re the option "Hannelore has to play the role of Abyssina when Arthur comes into CoD"  I've never been in a substance abuse encounter/self-help group, but wouldn't it be a very definite no-no for the organizer (or any other member)  to approach one of the members outside the group, and in front of her workmates to boot? (though I realize Hanners is not strictly speaking a member, the same should apply).

I went through a Partial Hospitalization Program for depression last year so I will tell you what the rules of my program were.  If two patients meet outside of the program, we must pretend we have never met before.  We are not to talk to one another unless and until we are introduced by a third party.  If a patient and a counselor meet outside of the program, the patient may approach the counselor, but the counselor may not approach the patient.  These rules still apply to me even though I am no longer a patient at that program.  So if I were employed and Scary Counselor Margaret came into my place of work, she could not be like "hello Amy, have you been sufficiently mindful today?" but I would be like "oh crap it's Scary Counselor Margaret TIME TO ESCAPE."  Assuming Faye's group follows similar rules, then Arthur couldn't be like "hello Abyssinia, nice to see you" but Hannelore probably would be like "HELLO ARTHUR MY NAME IS STILL ABYSSINIA oh no oh no".

[bhtooefr]

Related to the comic's influence, from Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/589886453041074176

The writer of Dragon Age Inquisition came by and told me Claire was the inspiration for the trans character in that game :O

[jheartney]

Arthur immediately knew fake names when he heard them. I doubt it's the first time it happened. He could let Hanners know she didn't have to keep up the charade: "Sometimes when people come in they don't want to share their real names. It's not a problem."

I'm thinking Faye's up for some story attention. She has no income stream, and will probably need to move out of her comfort zone to find employment. Could she start up a web business with Pintsize, maybe with content generated by Marten's mom? (ew). Or maybe something legit?

Or if not Faye, we could get hijinks with a chance meeting between MartenMom and ClaireMom. Imagine if MartenMom had something to do with ClaireMom's divorce.

[jwhouk]

Or if not Faye, we could get hijinks with a chance meeting between MartenMom and ClaireMom. Imagine if MartenMom had something to do with ClaireMom's divorce.

I think that'd be over the top for Jeph.

[Stoon]

Unless Jeph's going to pull a 'Too Many Cooks' scenario - where you don't even realize the psycho killer's appeared a dozen times previous to the part where he starts hacking people up.

Ahem.  She.

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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2293

[bhtooefr]

Or another she:

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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171


http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1340


http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1478

[valkygrrl]

Comic. The bird that yells.

[Gladstone]

Jeph in Canada, his buffer exhausted.

[hedgie]

Apparently, Yelling Bird's supply of obscenities is exhausted as well.

[Omega Entity]

Unless Jeph's going to pull a 'Too Many Cooks' scenario - where you don't even realize the psycho killer's appeared a dozen times previous to the part where he starts hacking people up.

Ahem.  She.

(click to show/hide)

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2293

Or another she:

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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171


http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1340


http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1478

ICWATUDIDTHAR.

Both of you 

[Armades]

Maybe it's just me, or has the comic seemed to be getting less... graphic, lately? Pintsize seems to have chilled way out, Faye has mellowed (even though her drama quotient has gone a bit up) and even Yelling Bird is fairly tame. I might just be making a mountain out of a molehill though.

First post, please be gentle senpais.

[valkygrrl]

First post, please be gentle senpais.

One of us! One of us!

[Stoon]

Wait, what?!  Saskatoon fistbumps?  Why didn't anyone tell me this?

[SubaruStephen]

First post, please be gentle senpais.

Fetch the Initiation Paddle!

[Kugai]

I always thought Saskatchewan was made up.

[Rghfrgl]

I always thought Saskatchewan was made up.

It's real. People have found it's footprints and everything.

[BenRG]

Somebody really, really ought to warn Yelling Bird about the dangers of getting 'facts' from those particular parts of the Internet!

[Is it cold in here?]

Welcome, new person!

[Thrillho]

'The national bird of Canada is the apology' - I'm dying.

Side note, one of the only things I ever found funny from That 70s Show:
Fes: I wish I could somewhere where there was no racial prejudice at all.
Kelso: Well that's Canada. Up there they're too busy playing hockey and putting maple syrup on hams to be prejudiced about anything.

[Zebediah]

Somebody really, really ought to warn Yelling Bird about the dangers of getting 'facts' from those particular parts of the Internet!

Yelling Bird is those parts of the Internet.

[BenRG]

With nothing happening today, I thought I'd just mention some stuff that I'd like to see in future arcs in the strip:

• Dora and Tai's first anniversary date;
• Claire's graduation bash;
• Faye produces an artistic masterpiece; she becomes the toast of the East Coast and this brings Angus (film crew attached) to do a satirical piece on her life and work; this quickly becomes a serious conflict of interest for him;
• The Reed Family summer vacation (including Maurice, of course but also Claire, Jim and Sam because they're practically family anyway) in Florida (maybe the same hotel where GWS found a body; same 'special' beach too!);
• Faye catches Hannelore smoking on the building's roof; it turns out that nicotine helps her handle her anxieties (she's a one- or two-a-day; more on bad days); she and Faye bond over mutual substance dependency issues.

Discuss!

Maybe it's just me, or has the comic seemed to be getting less... graphic, lately? Pintsize seems to have chilled way out, Faye has mellowed (even though her drama quotient has gone a bit up) and even Yelling Bird is fairly tame. I might just be making a mountain out of a molehill though.

Actually, I've got the feeling that this Yelling Bird strip is an unusual one. Normally, YB is something Jeph throws together in a few minutes on a bad day. Because of that, the monologue is usually an (obscene) stream-of-consciousness that doesn't really mean much to anyone except Jeph.

In this case, Jeph was saying on Twitter that he thought there'd be a YB because of the Calgary convention as early as two weekends back. I think that he planned this strip and scripted it well in advance, something that he normally doesn't do. That's why the jokes are... well... funnier and generally less obscene.

[Tova]

Thanks for signing up for Canada Facts! You will now receive fun daily facts about CANADA! >o<

[Zebediah]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions.

[BenRG]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions.

This is actually true of all so-called 'facts'. As codified in the Sosume Internet Debate Uncertainty Principle, there are no objectively-perceptible facts, only opinions and shades of perception which must be equally respected lest you turn a low-information poster with self-image issues into a defensive flamer.

The Susume Principle was named for the nearly-identical posts made by thousands of internet debaters the commonality of which indicates that this is a physical part of creation: "That's my opinion and that's how I feel! You don't like it? So sue me!"

[Lubricus]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions apologies.

Isn't that more accurate? 

[Method of Madness]

Soary

[Zebediah]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions apologies.

Isn't that more accurate? 

It's certainly true that Canadians apologize for having stongly-held opinions, so in this case there may not be a difference.

[cesium133]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions apologies.

Isn't that more accurate? 

Even more accurate. 

[valkygrrl]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions.

This is actually true of all so-called 'facts'. As codified in the Sosume Internet Debate Uncertainty Principle, there are no objectively-perceptible facts, only opinions and shades of perception which must be equally respected lest you turn a low-information poster with self-image issues into a defensive flamer.

Reasons why valkygrrl hates post-modernism vol. 1.

First rule of valkygrrl club: Reality is real.

[chaospersonified]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions.

This is actually true of all so-called 'facts'. As codified in the Sosume Internet Debate Uncertainty Principle, there are no objectively-perceptible facts, only opinions and shades of perception which must be equally respected lest you turn a low-information poster with self-image issues into a defensive flamer.

Reasons why valkygrrl hates post-modernism vol. 1.

First rule of valkygrrl club: Reality is real.

AH! But is reality just what we perceive? Our human perceptions are fallible, so does that mean reality is different for every person? If so, what is real?

[Neko_Ali]

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

[valkygrrl]

Fact #1: There are no facts about Canada, only strongly-held opinions.

This is actually true of all so-called 'facts'. As codified in the Sosume Internet Debate Uncertainty Principle, there are no objectively-perceptible facts, only opinions and shades of perception which must be equally respected lest you turn a low-information poster with self-image issues into a defensive flamer.

Reasons why valkygrrl hates post-modernism vol. 1.

First rule of valkygrrl club: Reality is real.

AH! But is reality just what we perceive? Our human perceptions are fallible, so does that mean reality is different for every person? If so, what is real?

The answer to hard solipsism is it is impossible to know if I'm a brain in a jar so there's nothing lost in assuming reality is real.

If you mean perceptions can be flawed such as with some kinds of mental illness, there are ways to find out if your perceptions are wrong. Other people and the use of technology. If I think it is dark and no one else does, if a light meter says it is not then then problem is in my perception not with reality.  We check, we test, we measure, we prove. Unless you think all my inputs are screwed either on a hardware or firmware level at which point there's no point in worrying. If I only see lions, only feel lions, only hear and smell lions and nothing can get through and I can't even tell myself that there cannot be lions well, I'm well and truly screwed. Reality would still be real though and I'd really be locked in a rubber room.

[Zebediah]

While it's fun to think about reality only existing as a fuzzy haze of occasionally-intersecting individual perceptual universes, you can't actually live your life that way. Though some people do seem to try.

[chaospersonified]

I was thinking more in line with the way memory works, or rather degrades. What we remember is equal to what we know, but if our memories are inaccurate, do we know what is?

I'm in favor of data, but things being subjectively valuable, it can't capture everything.

[chaospersonified]

While it's fun to think about reality only existing as a fuzzy haze of occasionally-intersecting individual perceptual universes, you can't actually live your life that way. Though some people do seem to try.

Well, I mean, it's not when referring to the actual world. That's where science comes in to explain physics, chemistry, etcetera.

Individual dynamics, though, conscious minds... Yeah, I think you probably could.

Two people see the same thing, but due to their different biochemistry and past histories, they read different meanings into it. Two years later, assuming it was a shocking enough thing that they still think about it, they'll recall different details, mis-remember different things. If you asked them each to describe the scene, they'd paint two different pictures, but the thing is, neither of those pictures would be accurate.

[valkygrrl]

That's a different question. Reality is real. Memory and the mind are also real as they are stored as part of your brain's internal workings. I don't see anyone claiming memory is necessarily accurate.

Here's another way to look at it. I place a rock on a table. Then all of humanity and any other minds that happen in the universe disappear even what passed for a mind in rodents, and for fun plants will disappear too, nothing living and no sentient AIs.

The rock will still be on the table because the rest of the universe is still there even with nothing to perceive it, even with the concepts of rock and table gone those things would still exist. Because reality is real.

That which is, is
That which is not, is not

or to paraphrase Matt Dillahunty. ..

A is always equal to A. A is never equal to not A.

And no one asked about the second rule of valkygrrl club. *sniffle*

[chaospersonified]

My point is that memory is the only way we can experience anything that's not this exact moment in time. The facts of reality are solid; they don't change, but what is considered to be reality does, in fact. We know now not to give a pregnant woman thalidomide to help with morning sickness, but there was a time in the past when it was considered a good idea. It wasn't, but to them, it was.

Subjective "reality," is a good way to put it, the quotation marks indicating it's not the same as reality.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, I'd just like to suggest that the reality in the mind is different, not on a fundamental level, but in the nuances, from fact-based reality.

[Thrillho]

See what you did, Jeph? One day of YB and the whole fucking forum's disappeared through a philosophical portal into what-the-fuck-is-going-on.

[osaka]

And no one asked about the second rule of valkygrrl club. *sniffle*

Is it that nobody talks about the valkygrrl club?

[Knight of Cydonia]

Maybe it's just me, or has the comic seemed to be getting less... graphic, lately? Pintsize seems to have chilled way out, Faye has mellowed (even though her drama quotient has gone a bit up) and even Yelling Bird is fairly tame. I might just be making a mountain out of a molehill though.

First post, please be gentle senpais.

Less Funny More Feels seems to be the order of the day recent. Can't say I enjoy it.

[Method of Madness]

the whole fucking forum's disappeared through a philosophical portal into what-the-fuck-is-going-on.

This is new?

[Zebediah]

And no one asked about the second rule of valkygrrl club. *sniffle*

I thought the second rule of the valkygrrl club was "Don't ask about the second rule of the valkygrrl club."

[jheartney]

My point is that memory is the only way we can experience anything that's not this exact moment in time. The facts of reality are solid; they don't change, but what is considered to be reality does, in fact. We know now not to give a pregnant woman thalidomide to help with morning sickness, but there was a time in the past when it was considered a good idea. It wasn't, but to them, it was.

Subjective "reality," is a good way to put it, the quotation marks indicating it's not the same as reality.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, I'd just like to suggest that the reality in the mind is different, not on a fundamental level, but in the nuances, from fact-based reality.

For a more detailed take on the same idea, you could try James Burke's old series "The Day The Universe Changed," which is on YouTube if you're interested. The premise of the series is that our view of reality is necessarily bounded by our model of what reality is. Learn something important that shifts your model of reality, and your whole universe changes with it. The series shows this happening over and over again through history. Burke himself is smart and funny, and the series is well worth your time (even if the YouTube version is slightly blurry).

[Nepiophage]

To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.
 -- Chuang Tzu

[Is it cold in here?]

And no one asked about the second rule of valkygrrl club. *sniffle*

I thought the second rule of the valkygrrl club was "Don't ask about the second rule of the valkygrrl club."

If so, we're violating it now.