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WCDT strips 4376-4380 (Oct 19th to Oct 23rd 2020)
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 20 Oct 2020, 00:51 ---one day you'll have to actually just take the fanfiction plunge you know that right
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Please do, and send me the link so I can read it.
cybersmurf:
That whole situation has a "Elliot still believes to get said no" feeling to me...
Linguistic question: is there an English expression for getting turned down romantically? In German you can use "jemandem den/einen Korb geben", literally meaning "to give someone the/a basket", and I wonder what's out there in similar expressions.
sitnspin:
"Shot down" is one that gets used frequently.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 20 Oct 2020, 10:26 ---That whole situation has a "Elliot still believes to get said no" feeling to me...
Linguistic question: is there an English expression for getting turned down romantically? In German you can use "jemandem den/einen Korb geben", literally meaning "to give someone the/a basket", and I wonder what's out there in similar expressions.
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That's fun - in Polish, we use the same expression ("dać [komuś] kosza"). The basket can also be "received" ("dostać kosza").
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 18 Oct 2020, 22:34 ---
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 18 Oct 2020, 22:26 ---what possibly makes any of us think, based on the comic, that AI don't make input errors? citation needed
also pizza is the stew of open-face sandwiches
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Is it a sandwich or is it a flat pie? And if it qualifies as a sandwich, doesn't a hotdog count the same way? or a wrap? or a pocket?
OK now I'm hungry- darnit!
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As a Brit, and a mod, when I saw the 'is a hot dog a sandwich' query came up, I was already at peak alert, because over the US there is this weird idea about a burger being a sandwich.
--- Quote from: ihaveavoice on 19 Oct 2020, 03:18 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 19 Oct 2020, 00:02 ---I've never been banned from any online forum. Then again when the internet really started, I was already like 30 or some such. Its probably different if you're 13 when you start with the internet.
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I've been young on the internet and never got banned anywhere, but then my preferred way to interact with forum arguments was always as a spectator. You wouldn't believe the mundane, seemingly harmless topics that would cause a thread to spin out into 20-page behemoths of internet rage in the blink of on eye. A forum I frequented as a high schooler had one that exploded over a literal sandwich. That thread is the stuff of legend.
It's been quite some time since I've seen any of this stuff go down, of course. OT, obviously I'm posting on one now, but I feel like the real heyday of forums in general was over years ago, where they were basically THE place to congregate to talk about whatever the thing was. There are so many other places people can share their opinions now, even/especially on niche topics. Again, certain webcomic forums notwithstanding.
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'hoo boy this is making me nostalgic.
I'm only 31 now, but my dad was a programmer so I was pretty computer savvy even though we got the internet later than most, and I trolled a LOT of forums. Actually lost my virginity to a moderator of the Busted forum.
I swear to fuck, I am not making that up.
I've been banned from plenty of TFC and Counter Strike servers, but not for trolling, for losing my temper. Meh.
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 19 Oct 2020, 07:29 ---Which is why I’m grateful that none of the mods here go off on power trips like that. Some people let even the smallest amount of power go to their heads.
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*cocks gun* Hop into the Spruce Moose!
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 19 Oct 2020, 19:43 ---I think it'd be more interesting if Clinton got drunk and started causing a minor scene, or subtle problems for Elliot's bouncer role that Elliot notices and worries about the bar noticing, even thought it's just something subtle that probably only few others would notice or even care about, but Elliot thinks he's in the awkward position of having to handle the situation but in a gentler way than usual because he doesn't want to mess up his chances with Clinton. Or whether he even needs to do anything about it.. Maybe interesting if he slightly overreacts, causing slight difficulties for their relationship, that he imagines are really big problems.
And there's definitely the potential to weave in something with Brun, irregarding whether it's directly related. Recently hasn't been much simultaneous storylines advancement, so I doubt this would happen.. I'd offer some odds for betting, but I'd rather wait for the old bet to resolve first. How many in-story days has it been so far? 2--3? Time really flies when I'm busy with---wait a minute!
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I actually think this would be really, really interesting too.
--- Quote from: ihaveavoice on 20 Oct 2020, 01:02 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Oct 2020, 23:25 ---I'm beginning to think my worst fears about this arc are being realised. Jeph, having failed to come up with a way to make a believable chemistry between Clinton and Elliot, has just arbitrarily declared that they're crushing on each-other (ignoring that their older interactions involved Clinton being afraid that he might get in a fight with Elliot over Brun) and just writing a load of light-weight cute comedy strips and expecting us to take the 'chemistry' thing as read.
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We've already seen Clinton get all hot and bothered imagining touching Elliot's arms and stuff, and we know that Clinton decided to do this because it turns out he is physically attracted to Elliot, and he wants to hang out with him and see how he feels (and he is being very good and brave about it [/Claire]). I certainly got the nervous energy and romantic chemistry Jeph was going for from the confession comics, and I'm clearly not the only one here who's perfectly happy to see where he's planning on taking this. Which is something that nobody knows, especially not from a bit of friendly interaction at the start of the evening.
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Yeah to be honest until I was a lot more up front about my attractions to guys, although still to this day it applies, I would often really struggle to realise a difference between an attraction and an admiration and a desire for friendship and a raging hot crush that I didn't know I had.
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 20 Oct 2020, 10:26 ---That whole situation has a "Elliot still believes to get said no" feeling to me...
Linguistic question: is there an English expression for getting turned down romantically? In German you can use "jemandem den/einen Korb geben", literally meaning "to give someone the/a basket", and I wonder what's out there in similar expressions.
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Honey consider that phrase stolen
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