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WCDT Strips 3231 - 3235 (30th May to 3rd June 2016)

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Zebediah:

--- Quote from: Thrillho on 02 Jun 2016, 05:09 ---QC is, for those of us who fall into one or more of these minority groups, a port in a storm, a place where we can get a 'slice of life' comic where that life may actually have some semblance of accuracy to ourselves.

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God yes. I am really seeing a lot of myself in Brun, today in particular.

Milayna:

--- Quote from: Case on 01 Jun 2016, 21:02 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 01 Jun 2016, 20:05 ---Today's strip is still not proof Brun is on the autism spectrum but it does fit that idea.

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True - Though I have to admit that I am curious as to how much water the 'I have a routine'-thingy holds in reality, should the resident experts wish to share.

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Weighing in: I personally don't have a routine. I do have certain habits, for instance showering after I come home from work, but that's simply because I don't want to get into bed sticky and sweaty. And sometime I skip it if I'm too tired or didn't work that much. I go straight to my computer to check social media after work too, but I don't have much to do except be on the computer. I pay my credit card bill, in full, between the 10th and 15th of every month...but doesn't everybody, more or less?

I have a hard time sleeping, and I work at 4 am - 9 am, while most things function during the day so that also makes falling into any routine hard. Additionally I find that the world is just too chaotic to count on being able to follow a routine - somebody may suddenly demand my service; something may break; I may remember something I've forgotten; I might get pulled over, told one of the MILLION FRICKIN' CAR THINGS is bad, like registration out of date (seriously how the fuck does anybody remember to do things that occur once every year or two) and now I've got to pay tribute to the state, etc. I ceaselessly create plans to deal with apocalyptic scenarios like getting kicked out of the house, engine exploding, everybody I know screaming they hate me and fleeing, etc, but I leave myself as open as I can to adapt the more mundane bullshit flinging through the air like a 4th grade food fight every day.


--- Quote from: Thrillho ---Whether Brun is written as being on the spectrum or not, the recent arrival of a number of people who either are on the spectrum or have some expertise in the area shows something which I had kind of forgotten about relating to QC.

QC, the comic, is to me largely about normalisation for those on the fringes of society. Put-upon minorities who deal with shit on a daily basis. QC lets these people be themselves in a wider social circle, not as saintly, role model characters but as actual people with thoughts, feelings, grey areas, pros, cons, admirable qualities and faults.

QC is, for those of us who fall into one or more of these minority groups, a port in a storm, a place where we can get a 'slice of life' comic where that life may actually have some semblance of accuracy to ourselves.
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QFT

Thrillho:
The routine thing is absolutely accurate to a large number on the spectrum.

gprimr1:
I'll be very interested in seeing how it plays out if Braun is on the spectrum or not. (I'm still working on her ethnicity, I thought she was Israeli for a second.)

Jeph's characters in QC have a tendency to have things "work out" for them. When you apply this to people on the spectrum, it could be seen as offensive and or unrealistic.

There are a lot of people in the world who are on the spectrum and try their damndest to make friends, find a job, find love, and fail...and fail again...and again. Sure, we hear about some people on the spectrum doing amazing things, but go over to Wrongplanet.net and see how many people over there contemplate suicide daily.

I know it's at odds with good story telling, but I do hope if Braun is autistic, that her character will explore these issues, and not simply receive a deux ex machina and fall in love with Clinton.

Milayna:
Come to think of it though, while I don't commit to hardly anything in the Real World, in the MUCH MORE ORDERED worlds of video games I make routines obsessively.

Fo instance, Pokemon. I NEVER move on t the next Route until every pokemon on my team is capable of surviving without healing items as I walk through every patch of grass on the Route. If one evolves to its final stage, I either decide to keep it in the team as part of the Final Team, or box it and take out the next unevolved pokemon. This accomplishes several things: 1. I get to meet and capture every pokemon on the route (I capture exactly 1 of each); 2. It ensures I can handle the next area; 3. I can evaluate the strengths of my pokemon; 4. it ensures that all of them eventually get used and evolved; and 5. and most importantly, it informs me of when to do things (How else will I know when to swap out a pokemon, or level it, etc?)

I do things like this with literally every video game I play. In Disgaea I always send out my characters in order of lowest level to highest, equip them in order of highest to lowest; in Flash games I wait until checkpoints to check character upgrades or shops - and if it's something that doesn't have checkpoints and I'm supposed to manage that continuously, I'll stress out until I figure out some otehr limiter, like "every x minutes" or "every xth battle". In Dragon Age every time I enter a new area from the world map I replace the character who's been on the team the longest with the character who's been off the team the longest. And so on. point being, I always set up some system in which conditions being met means that something has to happen, and I only break this when either it's critical (I'm going to get a GO if I don't send Etna to kill things dead) or it needs to be reordered to cover new mechanics or adequately anticipate progression of old mechanics.

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