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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)
hakko504:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Feb 2018, 15:19 ---I am a fan of CDs and still buy them, but I have a cd player in the car and I almost never use it. I could count on one hand the number of times I've stuck a CD in there, and I've had the car for about fifteen years.
--- End quote ---
We have two cars, one larger that we use (among other things) for family trips. The CD player in that car is almost unused as the SD card reader is so much more versatile. The only time there's a CD in there if we buy something when we're not near a computer to move it to the SD card. The other, smaller (and older) car, which is almost 100% used for driving to work and back, on the other hand have a CD player that is used quite often - as soon as the radio doesn't have anything useful on, then I switch to the CD.
As for laptops, I'll remove the BluRay player in my laptop as soon as UHDBluRay discs become available for download in full quality. Which may happen sometime soon after hell freezes over. It also means I can't change laptop as new laptops either have DVDplayer (why? Why hasn't BluRay players eradicated DVD players from the face of the earth?) or is insanely expensive.
BenRG:
I think that today's comic in many ways serves as a perfect character summary of both Marigold and Emily.
Marigold is pretty much a walking neurosis. She's constantly convinced that she's second best and that she'll inevitably lose her friends and loved ones the minute a better offer comes along. That's the reason for her reaction to Dale and Emily laughing together; a part of her genuinely expects Dale to leave her eventually and every time she sees Dale being friendly to a woman she wonders is this is the moment when it happens.
Meanwhile, Emily is all joy, enthusiasm and friendship. She sees Marigold and it's as if she hasn't seen her for a long time because having her friends arrive back in her life, even if they've only been absent for a few hours, really is a cause for the most profound and genuine happiness for her. Naturally, she's spontaneously decided to get gifts (and the likely nature of those is enough to make the mind boggle) just because she's a friend and Emily likes doing nice things for friends. That's Emily Azuma - She literally doesn't have a single bad part of her psyche; she's incapable of malice!
Now, looking at panel 5, doesn't it look like Marigold may be pregnant?
Storel:
I notice nobody has yet commented on the part of 3676 that amused me most: Emily saying "Dang it, did I dream up another nonexistant media format?" Hmm, "another"? Is this something you do on a regular basis, Emily? :psyduck:
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 12 Feb 2018, 14:03 ---
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 12 Feb 2018, 13:44 ---That's largely due to smartphones. Why have a radio in the car when someone is going to connect their phone to their car, after all its got Youtube, the owner's own music and of course a radio if needs be.
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So many reasons...
- There are many places in the US where mobile phone coverage isn't good enough to provide good streaming audio.
- OTA radio is not subject to data caps.
- Terrestrial radio pays lower royalties than online "stations", so the former are more viable as business entities.
- I have Sirius XM in the car. But NPR's premium newscasts (ME and ATC) aren't on Sirius XM.
- OTA stations are located in specific places and have social and financial connections to those places. If they havent been taken over by iHeart they may have a local "lean" on their playlist that might let me hear something I wouldn't otherwise. Internet streaming "stations" don't do that.
- Many local stations do have online feeds. But just try finding one when you're in a strange city. There is no consistency or pattern to their URLs and I can't find an app that gives me a "scan up" button for searching for streams of local stations for wherever I happen to be. With the car radio I have a steering wheel button to do that. (And there is an "NPR station finder" app on my phone... it doesn't link me to their feeds, though!)
--- End quote ---
Not to mention that my car radio actually listens on other stations as well, and switches over when there's traffic announcements.
But then, national radio stations in Belgium will be forced out of analog FM by 2023, supposedly to give more room to local stations. How that computes with the recent cut in local stations' permits, the minister of media neglects to say.
But, going by Emily's definition of a long time in today's strip, that's an eternity away.
traroth:
Actually, I'm surprised Marigold was out of the limelight for so long...
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