Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4261-4265 Mon 11th to Fri 15th May 2020
dutchrvl:
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--- Quote from: Thrillho on 14 May 2020, 09:44 ---Also the characters are only graduating now so Marten is what, 23 now at most? I don't think everybody has grown up to own their nerd nerdhood by then. Some never do.
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It's my understanding that Claire was a graduate student, so she and Marten are probably closer to 25
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I'm not sure if we ever got an age for Marten, but Claire was 24 when she was interning at the library, so I'm assuming that it is now at least a year later and she is at least 25.
According to a timeline created at some point, which I believe to be reasonably accurate, Marten was born in 1981 and about 2 years had passed in the first 3000 comics or so, which put comic 3078 around October 2005 (which would put Marten at 24 at that point). Assuming the passing of time has been more or less at the same pace plus a time jump around comic 3100 (I'm too lazy to actually work on the time line myself), I would put it another 1-2 years further in the future or so, so Marten is probably 25-26 at the moment. Just guessing here though.
Edit: I found that timeline here
But looking at it again, some of it is off. For example. it has put Marten moving to Northampton in summer 2003 and meeting Faye in November 2003, but that can't be correct, because in comic 2332 Pintsize mentions he was Marten's only friend in Northampton for 2 years before he met Steve.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter. I kinda want to make a QC timeline myself, but at the same time I know I don't have the time to actually do it.....
Zebediah:
Is that April’s timeline? The problem, as I recall, is that she was trying to reverse-engineer some consistency into a timeline that Jeph had never bothered to make consistent.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 14 May 2020, 08:47 ---In my personal experience, many people seem to use the term 'outgrew' even when they simply mean their interests changed over time, so for me the term doesn't have the negative connotation.
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Often they do mean it in a highly negative way, particularly if we're talking about subjects generally perceived as childish.
If you read the strip, it's explicitly stated that D&D is only for smelly virgins.
In the story from my personal history, there was no question what he meant. IIRC he said he didn't play games anymore because he "grew up."
Mr_Rose:
It’s funny tragic that most often when people say they grew up it actually means they’re as immature as ever but they’ve changed the things they tell themselves and each other they like to fit a mould called “adult” that is sold in the form of lifestyle magazines and self-help books. :psyduck:
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: Welu on 14 May 2020, 05:02 ---An observation I've made is it seems Americans will use grades instead of saying "when I was 13" and I always have to look up the related age. Not something I've seen people in my neck of the woods (Ireland/UK) do, we would say the age. I'd have to think for a second to remember which school year applied.
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I think if you just add 6 you get the rough answer
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