Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 03-07 May 2021 (4516-4520)
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 03 May 2021, 22:07 ---There are a lot of normal people, I imagine. Most people are normal; that's what the word suggests, after all.
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There are many, many normal people. Just not in Northampton: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3887
--- Quote ---Of the main cast, though?
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Probably Tai? I'm gonna say Tai.
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Someone with no friends, only exes and f---buddies, who gets stoned off her gourd at work on a regular basis? That sounds Northampton, not normal.
BTW, I used to know how to insert a link such that the visible text was something pithy rather than the HTML. Now I can't figure out how to do that. How is it done again?
Alternatively, is there a way to insert an image from my disk instead of from a URL? I had clipped just the last panel from the comic I cited above, and was going to include that in my reply, but I couldn't find a way to shove an actual image into the image tag, only a URL, and inserting the whole comic seemed a bit much.
Gus_Smedstad:
From the discussion, “a LOT a lot” isn’t enough to retire on. It’s not PewDiePie money. “Put some towards savings” means they’re thinking of it in terms of continuing income, not a lump sum to live on.
Let’s say you suddenly made $100k from a month of streaming. $100k a month means $1.2 million a year, which is enough to live a life of moderate luxury, but $100k by itself isn’t going to set you up for life, and you definitely should save most of it.
In contrast, $10 million is won-the-lottery money. Sensibly invested, that’s enough to live on very comfortably for the rest of your life. The conversation in today’s strip would be completely different.
If we’re talking $100k, Marigold’s reaction is a bit irrational. There are, as starkruzr said, a lot of basic expenses that $100k won’t begin to cover. You don’t start fretting over Sonic The Hedgehog swimming pools until you’ve blown way past enough money to buy a house.
Yet, it’s kind of believable. If you’ve been scraping by, it’s easy to see $100k as infinite money. It’s a lot of money for now even if it isn’t a lot of money for the rest of your life.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 04 May 2021, 06:49 ---BTW, I used to know how to insert a link such that the visible text was something pithy rather than the HTML. Now I can't figure out how to do that. How is it done again?
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You use BBCode. The exact format is [ URL= target url ] text to display [ / url ]. With the spaces removed.
You can’t just insert an image from your disk, since that would mean this board would have to store it. Rather, you upload your image to an image hosting site, like Imgur, and then link to that.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 04 May 2021, 08:15 ---
--- Quote from: flondrix on 04 May 2021, 06:49 ---BTW, I used to know how to insert a link such that the visible text was something pithy rather than the HTML. Now I can't figure out how to do that. How is it done again?
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You use BBCode. The exact format is [ URL= target url ] text to display [ / url ]. With the spaces removed.
You can’t just insert an image from your disk, since that would mean this board would have to store it. Rather, you upload your image to an image hosting site, like Imgur, and then link to that.
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Thank you. Do I put quotes around the target url? Some sites do it that way. And your latter statement explains why, when I look at old threads, they are full of references to images that no longer exist. :-(
I do have a Flickr account, but supposedly the rules of that site are that it is for photos you have taken yourself, not edits of someone else's artwork.
Anyway, when I was binge re-reading, I came across a comic where Pintsize says something prophetic to Faye, referring to Angus: "Leave him for a robot! A GIRL robot!" Bubbles won't appear for another 741 comics. I'm not sure what that comes out to in real world time, but I suspect that Jeph had something in mind.
(And it looks like quotes around the target URL are not necessary.)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 04 May 2021, 06:49 ---BTW, I used to know how to insert a link such that the visible text was something pithy rather than the HTML. Now I can't figure out how to do that. How is it done again?
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[url=<put url here>]<put text here>[/url]
Do not put quotes round the url - in this forum software that breaks things.
--- Quote ---Alternatively, is there a way to insert an image from my disk instead of from a URL?
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Sorry, no. We do not have any disk-space budget to allow uploading of images to the forum.
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