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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)
Thrillho:
For what it's worth, I think the comic is funny as it is, I don't think we need to have explicitly see the incident to find it funny.
I mean, I don't find May funny anyway. But May is an asshole all the time, had I not known there was a separate Patreon comic (and by the way, Patreon exists so that if you pay him you get perks, that's the way this whole thing works) I would still have found it funny and assumed it referred to something offscreen. Sitcoms have done this forever.
TinPenguin:
Y'all do know Jeph linked the Patreon strip in the comic description, right?
Eternal_Newbie:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 01 Sep 2016, 01:18 ---Y'all do know Jeph linked the Patreon strip in the comic description, right?
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The problem with that is that it doesn't answer the burning question that I had. Did May's "encouragement" involve dressing up as a cheeerleader?
Eastrim:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 31 Aug 2016, 20:51 ---
--- Quote from: freeman on 31 Aug 2016, 20:07 ---Also, this is totally cool. Premium paid content is to what we are generally going as a society, so why not web comics too?
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Paid premium content is fine. Making it so that the free content is worse unless you also have the paid content is not so fine.
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Agreed. I'm totally cool with him expanding the universe with side comics for paid subscribers. I'm not at all cool with him implying that comprehension of a main series comic is dependent on being a paid subscriber. That crosses a line.
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Aug 2016, 21:03 ---If you didn't find it funny, then knowing something about what caused it won't make it funnier.
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I disagree. There have been many times where, once an inside joke was explained to me, I cracked up at imagining the situation that they were cracking up at having been through, despite being utterly perplexed when parrots came up in the conversation.
--- Quote from: brasca on 31 Aug 2016, 21:56 ---So is Patreon like Slipshine? David Willis introduced me to that and I have not been disappointed. :wink:
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Not at all. Slipshine is a subscription to an aggregate of content providers, like a newspaper or most other porn sites- for the specific returns of access to the back catalog and to the episodic updates for the duration of your subscription. Patreon is specifically patronizing a single artist or artwork (a band, say) with highly variable returns, often based on tiers. Sometimes you get nothing that anyone else can't get except warm fuzzies, sometimes personalized art just for you, sometimes content completely removed from the reason you know them, like a music blog.
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 01 Sep 2016, 01:18 ---Y'all do know Jeph linked the Patreon strip in the comic description, right?
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That link was not there initially. Presumably he added it after enough people said Not Cool Jeph.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Tova on 01 Sep 2016, 00:09 ---It's my turn to be thick. I didn't know that Dale had moved in, I thought he was just sleeping over there on a regular basis but still had his own place.
Feel free to correct me with a comic reference, those of you with archive-fu.
Edit: Confession time. The thought I just had: "Oh NOODLE INCIDENT HA AH HA HA HA AHA HAHAHAH that is funny, I am so so slow. Ohhhh my head hurts."
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I don't know what all the fuss was about. Even after following the link the whole retelling of the incident works just fine without it.
I would note that Marigold went over to Dale's place for a bootycall and because he was so embarrassed about whatever dirty thing he whispered into her ear he was willing to walk out of his own apartment which is part of the joke.
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