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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: BenRG on 16 Aug 2015, 14:09
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Okay, tried to come up with something crazy for a poll this week!
Seriously, what does everyone think we will have this week. I'm guessing that we're going to have the start of a new mini-arc. Jeph has been doing a good job of fitting everything into five or ten strips of late. The only obvious carry on from last week I can see happening is Sven thanking Hannelore for her help in getting Dora to give him another chance.
I'm still hoping that we'll get some post-Intern Claire and Emily stuff in the near future. I'm also hoping that we'll see what Sam thinks of her 'not-but-fun-Mom'.
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Prediction: More Coffee of Doom, or possibly back to the library.
What I really want: More Bubbles.
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Voted the free tickets option
Though I wouldn't mind seeing Dina, Joyce and Becky behind the counter
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Votet the free tickets option
Though I wouldn't mind seeing Dina, Joyce and Becky behind the counter
It's cod so you're getting Sarah and Ruth.
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Though I wouldn't mind seeing Dina, Joyce and Becky behind the counter
It's cod so you're getting Sarah and Ruth.
You've got to admit that they'd fit in with the philosophy of the place!
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Ah yes. All of those heartbreak songs have come home to roost.
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why is the other side of dora's face melting in panel 4
maybe in the next arc all the characters melt like surrealist clock paintings??
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Nice to hear Sven acknowledge that he was a noodleloaf with the Faye thing. Also, welcome to country music, Sven. Maybe you'll start liking more than Gina Riversmith now!
Also good to hear Dora ask, and realize that as ridiculous a move as it was, it wasn't Sven just making up crap to be a dick. Because if she thought he was just being a dick to be a manipulative dick - which, admittedly, does fit his past behavior - then her decision that he's toxic makes more sense to me now.
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Heh. The best of country music always has had a tinge of autobiography about it even if it's not literally so. But much of it (Hank sr. Loretta Lynn, etc) was.
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So I wonder just how depressing the songs he's been currently writing have been?
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Sven manipulative? Oh yes certainly. He knows it, Dora knows it.. Anybody who knows him for a while knows it. But a manipulative dick? I haven't seen it in his actions shown in comic. He doesn't manipulate people to deliberately hurt them. At worst he just didn't consider other people's feelings on the matter. And really, he's shown manipulation skills are... pretty pathetic. The only ones likely to fall for them are the most desperate, or those who see though the BS and still think he's cute/charming anyway and go along with it. And never underestimate the draw of someone even tangentially in the entertainment industry to some people.
The only time we've seen him being a 'manipulative dick' in comic was during the whole 'ex-girlfriend trapping him in a bar bathroom'. And really I think he was more a jerk to Marten than to her. From what I could tell, she was expecting more out of Sven than he was offering. Cheating on someone is not a cool move by any means... But I think she was taking their relationship more seriously than he was... And then decided to stalk and mess with him at the bar. Eventually even she realized it was pointless and waste of time for a little bit of petty vengeance against him. I blame that far more on a lack of communication on both parties parts, rather than a case of Sven being a jerk or a villain. It's just the before Faye, he was supremely self centered. It wasn't until he had Real Feelings for someone that that changed.
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Just shooting in the dark: What if Hannelore loves Sven? Think about it. She chose him as her first date, and it seems like they really did well. She tried to reconcile him and Dora, which was either brave or crazy "both because Hannelore". Are they simply friends, or does she have something deeper then that?
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Just shooting in the dark: What if Hannelore loves Sven? Think about it. She chose him as her first date, and it seems like they really did well. She tried to reconcile him and Dora, which was either brave or crazy "both because Hannelore". Are they simply friends, or does she have something deeper then that?
It's an interesting concept. Considering I doubt that Hannelore's love will only ever be platonic, it could make a fascinating combination of archetypes.
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I wonder what's next! One more Dora/Sven or onto another thing?
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I wonder what's next! One more Dora/Sven or onto another thing?
For some reason, I'm feeling a Dora/Faye moment coming. It's an entirely unsupported feeling, but we've dealt with ONE huge, emotional block in Dora's life just this past week, I just feel we might soon encounter the other. Faye has a job again, and it's still way fucking soon, but Dora's in a good place, Faye's in a more secure space, and they can't just dance around the same group of friends forever and never meet
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I added an extra option in the poll and it's almost winning :psyduck:
Just shooting in the dark: What if Hannelore loves Sven? Think about it. She chose him as her first date, and it seems like they really did well. She tried to reconcile him and Dora, which was either brave or crazy "both because Hannelore". Are they simply friends, or does she have something deeper then that?
It's an interesting concept. Considering I doubt that Hannelore's love will only ever be platonic, it could make a fascinating combination of archetypes.
Careful now, that sounds like shipping. (Besides, it would never work between them :P )
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Coffee place I go to used to do a drink where they would put earl grey in with the milk of a latte...with the right espresso it was amazing
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Heh! Poor Sven! It seems to be right, somehow, that him starting to mature emotionally should be triggered by learning for the first time the uncertainties of love when he has a real emotional stake in it! It sucks, having your heart broken, but at least he knows what it's really like now. It will make him more careful and respectful of those to whom he directs his amorous attentions.
Now, is it me or is there something weird about the art in today's strip? The whole thing feels rough and blurred as if it were saved at a different resolution as a JPG and then resized leading to compression errors.
Just shooting in the dark: What if Hannelore loves Sven? Think about it. She chose him as her first date, and it seems like they really did well. She tried to reconcile him and Dora, which was either brave or crazy "both because Hannelore". Are they simply friends, or does she have something deeper then that?
It's anyone's guess at the moment. I'd say that it is very possible indeed but that doesn't mean that Jeph's going that direction. If he does, it would be a very, very long-term plot project - He would need to show Hannelore's feelings developing over time to the point where she is willing and able to confront her feelings.
Of course, it could all turn out very, very Hannelore: She and Sven having an asexual romance simply because Hannelore can't do too much physical intimacy and Sven has soured on it due to over-exposure.
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Coffee place I go to used to do a drink where they would put earl grey in with the milk of a latte...with the right espresso it was amazing
Earl Grey with steamed milk is amazing. Local coffee chain here has it. They call it a London Fog and in the winter it is my drink of choice. That stuff is so fucking good.
For some reason, I'm feeling a Dora/Faye moment coming.
I wouldn't be that surprised by it but I hope that it doesn't happen this soon. Even with Dora and Faye in slightly better shape than they have been it just seems too early that they would have anything more than an awkward "oh, hey. you're still around. I'm gonna go away now" conversation. It would just strike me as false for anything more substantial to occur... Thinking about it further though I might not mind a strip where one or the other tries to reconcile but gets rebuffed. Still would prefer that there not be any Faye/Dora stuff yet.
Course I'm the type to not let things go easily and I read both Dora and Faye as being the same so I may just be biased. To me, the issue between them is so ridiculously huge that I can't see either of them being able to put it aside enough to want a reconciliation yet.
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Well, we haven't seen Momo or Daligold or May recently, so they may be due to have something following them for a bit. Hanners still pops in enough that I doubt that there will be any stuff focusing on her until some other plots get some love.
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Hallelujah, Sven has realised what a complete idiot he was. I'm quite in charity with him now. There's hope for you yet, Sven.
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Even though that incident still felt...inconsistent with some of Sven's previous character development, the latest strip frames it in a way that certainly makes sense. It seems he spent some time wallowing in self-pity, trying to sort out his shit and deal with lingering feelings for Faye, got a foolish idea in his head, didn't talk some sense to himself, and ended up acting on it. It's probably also a conversation Dora should have had with Sven before cutting all ties with him, but it's good to see it taking place now.
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Now, is it me or is there something weird about the art in today's strip? The whole thing feels rough and blurred as if it were saved at a different resolution as a JPG and then resized leading to compression errors.
The linework is a bit thicker than usual, I noticed. Don't know if it's more of a rush job because of everything Jeph's got on his plate, trying to become an ex-American in favor of Canuckistanianship.
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With Angus gone, and a return of him seeming more and more unlikely, I wonder if Faye will give Sven a second chance? The characters around her gave Faye a second chance after the major hospitalization disaster. And, before he went and screwed it all up with Gina Riversmith, she was actually happy.
I mean, Sven seems to have matured mightily. And Faye would have to take it slow, to rebuild the trust, and Sven would be learning for the first time how to be in a real relationship (paralleling Tai/Dora to an extent).
I'll admit, I can't help hoping for it! I'm a fan of the Faye and Sven coupling. :)
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With Angus gone, and a return of him seeming more and more unlikely, I wonder if Faye will give Sven a second chance? The characters around her gave Faye a second chance after the major hospitalization disaster. And, before he went and screwed it all up with Gina Riversmith, she was actually happy.
I mean, Sven seems to have matured mightily. And Faye would have to take it slow, to rebuild the trust, and Sven would be learning for the first time how to be in a real relationship (paralleling Tai/Dora to an extent).
I'll admit, I can't help hoping for it! I'm a fan of the Faye and Sven coupling. :)
I think it would be more dependent on when Faye feels confident in herself that she's emotionally recovered enough from screwing up one relationship to go for another. I doubt she would expect Sven to wait for her if he found someone who was interested in having an immediate relationship with him.
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It's not even about second chances... Faye still has to deal with her feelings about the break up with Angus, why she felt that made her a horrible person and drove her to drink herself into oblivion and the hospital. She's been dealing with the more immediate aftermath of the hospital trip and losing her job so far. She hasn't even started addressing that she feels like a failure because she couldn't move with Angus. As far as we've seen she hasn't even really much acknowledged that.... Until then I don't think she's in a good place to start dating again. She needs to get right with herself first.
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She hasn't even started addressing that she feels like a failure because she couldn't move with Angus. As far as we've seen she hasn't even really much acknowledged that.... Until then I don't think she's in a good place to start dating again. She needs to get right with herself first.
Actually, I disagree, only because she said during the group therapy meeting that she was a coward because she couldn't take a chance on a good man. So she has acknowledged that. You are quite right, however, that she is FAR, far away from being over the situation, and a leap into a new relationship immediately would most likely be a rebound. And we all know how well THOSE go.
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A rebound with an ex, no less...
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Comic's up!
Allow me to be the first to say it: d'aww
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WHEN IS SHE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAIR????
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Comic's up!
Allow me to be the first to say it: d'aww
Well since Improvnerd missed the chance, let me be second
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WHEN IS SHE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAIR????
My supervisor's haircut is worse. It's shaved everywhere but the top. It's just awful.
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WHEN IS SHE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAIR????
My bet is either that Dora bringing up the hair will mark the end of this interaction, or that Faye's doing better than we think and we find this out when she tears Sven DOWN over the man-bun. Maybe it'll be a full-grown ponytail by then, that could work given it would mean more time has passed
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WHEN IS SHE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAIR????
This brings to mind a scene from Doctor Who...
The Doctor: Now. We all know there's an elephant in the room.
Amy: I have to be this size, I'm having a baby.
The Doctor: No. No. The hormones seem real, but no. Is anyone going to mention Rory's ponytail? ... You hold him down, I'll cut it off?
Rory: This from a man in a bowtie.
The Doctor: Bowties are cool.
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Dora is looking extra cute in today's comic... With her hair like that I'm reminded of Coraline, from the movie.
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Okay, Caroline.
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Hey, I forget, has Tai met Dora's parents yet? If so which comic? If not, can I assume that there will be a sharing of brownie recipes when they do?
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Dora's looking so cute in the last panel!
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I'm pretty sure that Sven is right here. Wasn't there a constitutional amendment at some point that gave elder siblings the unchallengable right and duty to good-naturedly tease their younger siblings about successful relationships? Something like that, anyway.
Jeph did a good job with expressions today. You can tell that Dora is very happy in her relationship with Tai. You can also tell she is more pleased than annoyed at what Sven is doing. Sven, meanwhile is actually shocked to see Dora react so strongly to even a mention of her GF. Obviously, things are going very well!
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Hey, I forget, has Tai met Dora's parents yet? If so which comic? If not, can I assume that there will be a sharing of brownie recipes when they do?
No, but they have discussed it. I can't find the strip, (maybe someone can help) but it went something like this:
Tai: so your parents were cool with you liking girls?
Dora: Yes. The only wierd thing was my dad checking out my girlfriends. He spent a whole evening once staring at my girlfriend's tits.
Tai: I'd better watch out so.
Dora: I don't think you have much to worry about there.
Tai: (Offended)
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I'm sorry if this breaks the 'no shipping' rule but I had to mention this.
Over on the Subreddit, a couple of commentators have wondered if Dora may try to get revenge by manoeuvring the conversation back to Sven's friendship with Hannelore. This may be me but does anyone else think that Jeph may be laying the foundations for a slow-boiling Sven/Hannelore background relationship? Not actively romantic initially but going in that direction?
It might be an interesting way to create a new situation in which to use Coffee of Doom: Sven regularly comes in to talk to Hanners and you consequently have the banter (sometimes light-hearted and sometimes, is the wont between siblings, more serious or even bitter) between him and Dora. Dora, meanwhile, is conflicted between her concern about whether Sven is able to behave responsibly with Hannelore, being the mother-hen with Hanners (make up tips, etc.) and wanting her brother to finally find happiness after a string of shallow and meaningless short-term relationships going back to his high school days.
Now I think of it, it would actually be more a Dora character arc than anything else, depending on how Jeph wrote it!
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Good morning y'all,
The actual storyline is quite sweet. I hope that dora and Sven are really catching up with each other. There is nothing more sad than a fight in the family.
And panel four features one of the cutest Dorafaces ever. :laugh:
But I also noticed subtle changes in the artwork the past few strips. The lines are wider, especially in the hair of the protagonists. It is most obvious on Svens head. Jeph also shows a lot of new facial expressions we´ve never seen before. And he does a good job. I mean, just look at Doras face today or Tais flustering last week. Adorable.
TM
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Coffee place I go to used to do a drink where they would put earl grey in with the milk of a latte...with the right espresso it was amazing
Earl Grey with steamed milk is amazing. Local coffee chain here has it. They call it a London Fog and in the winter it is my drink of choice. That stuff is so fucking good.
A London Fog is an Earl Grey latte with vanilla and a ridiculous amount of sugar, if you ever wish to make it at home.
I love reconciliations and non romantic relationship developments. But now, perhaps Sven will write good country music songs instead of drivel.
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Hey, I forget, has Tai met Dora's parents yet? If so which comic? If not, can I assume that there will be a sharing of brownie recipes when they do?
No, but they have discussed it.
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Found it! http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2259 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2259)
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Personally, I'm glad Faye broke up with Angus. It sounds crappy, but let's face it; how many long distance relationships succeed, and how many of them fail and end with a horrible fight? At least in fiction? Yes, this was an ugly breakup, but at least it wasn't drawn out and painful for all parties for months, like failing chemo. I'm glad they broke up, because it was the lesser of two evils.
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Artwork differences might be because Jeph was at a con and might have been drawing on a portable tablet that didn't have the same sensitivity as his big ol cintiq
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I love reconciliations and non romantic relationship developments. But now, perhaps Sven will write good country music songs instead of drivel.
Which will, of course, be his first commercial flops.
What a roller-coaster emotional ride Sven has ahead of him.
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I was going to ask what Gordon was up to. I will accept this as an answer.
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Gordon just wants to be your friend. Why are you running away?
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I would totally be Gordon's pal. He's like Sakaki (or Bubbles for that matter), completely misunderstood for how they look.
I want to mention yesterday's strip. That look on Dora's face in the last panel is brilliant. Annoyed, embarrassed and happy all at the same time. That is amazing art.
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I'm a major arachnophobe, and I spent years trying to learn as much as I could about fucking spiders to try and convince myself they weren't actually the spawn of hell.
If only those books had talked about spiders' big ole booties
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Why is everyone so afraid of spiders?
<----*had tarantulas for pets*
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Why is everyone so afraid of spiders?
<----*had tarantulas for pets*
Look, if a spider be chilling in its web, not moving, we're cool. It's those fucking LEGS, man, with the skinny, skittering little limbs and the half-dozen shifty fucking eyes.
Not to mention the unholy size of the goddamn banana spiders around here, who always put their fucking webs right where you're cutting the grass, riding the mower until you're suddenly surrounded by Satan's silk and there's a fucking octopod with fangs on your body somewhere, crawling down the back of your neck. Then you hit the side of an 80 year old equipment barn, and you KNOW what caused it.
As you see. Horror stories.
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Try being less than 10 and reading the scenes in LotR with Aragog, then learning some spiders build nests underground with trapdoors, so they can quickly snap up and snatch their prey, in this case, hobbits and similarly-sized folk. I'm cool with spiders in THEORY, but I can't look at them, and I'm literally making myself nervous reliving childhood nightmares by typing this.
Spiders are fucking horrifying. Essential to life as we know it, fucking fascinating, but oh my god can we just not?
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Just for you, Chaos:
https://youtu.be/fYAlB1Kxayc
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Just for you, Chaos:
https://youtu.be/fYAlB1Kxayc
I ain't pressing play. Don't even fuck with me, bro. I had to re-do an hour's worth of paperwork my last year at camp because this fucking child thought it would be funny to shove a spider in my face while I was holding coffee over the papers.
In other news, I think Gordon's candy-like color scheme is working, because I kinda like the dude.
Maybe it's the non-moving bit, I'm cool with unmoving arachnids in general. Like I said, if they chill, I don't fuck with spiders. They built their web, they can STAY there. It's the legs and the skittering that get me, and Gordon seems largely skitter-free
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Okay, I lied and now I have an even greater reason to find SOME way to finally see Red Dwarf because my god, that was great and I want context
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I'm a major arachnophobe, and I spent years trying to learn as much as I could about fucking spiders to try and convince myself they weren't actually the spawn of hell.
If only those books had talked about spiders' big ole booties
If you hate spiders, why did you spend years learning how to fuck them?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Poor Gordon! Imagine the torment of his existence: He's a friendly guy who genuinely wants to be an asset to the community and a pal to all. Unfortunately, his chassis creeps everyone out to the point where even fellow robots don't like being in physical contact with him! Someone, somewhere, is pulling a horrific prank at his expense!
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But he's completely adorable. I want 5 of them.
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Do you imagine Gordon talking in a tachikoma voice?
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For some reason I imagine Gordon sounding a bit like Robin Williams.
I like Gordon. I'm not at all afraid of spiders. Gordon is cool.
Now, hornets, wasps, yellow jackets, and other related spawn of Satan can go back to the hell that they flew out of.
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For some reason I imagine Gordon sounding a bit like Robin Williams.
See, I imagined him as sounding like someone with a deep voice, like, unnervingly so for a small robot. Like, Keith David, I guess?
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I imagine Gordon being able to modulate his voice into whatever he wants, but mostly choosing to.sound like a Speak N Spell just to fuck with people. (Rollin' with the running joke)
EDIT: Or maybe Twiki. Or even Peepo.
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For some reason I imagine Gordon sounding a bit like Robin Williams.
See, I imagined him as sounding like someone with a deep voice, like, unnervingly so for a small robot. Like, Keith David, I guess?
I don't have voices for any of the characters but I think I have one for Gordon now. That is just too perfect.
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play. Don't even fuck with me, bro.
Glad to see you watched it in the end. Even I'm not enough of a bastard to post a video with actual arachnids. Your previous comments in this thread *strongly* reminded me of Lister in that scene.
Do you imagine Gordon talking in a tachikoma voice?
I do now.
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I'm a major arachnophobe, and I spent years trying to learn as much as I could about fucking spiders to try and convince myself they weren't actually the spawn of hell.
If only those books had talked about spiders' big ole booties
If you hate spiders, why did you spend years learning how to fuck them?
We all have urges we can't resist. You have to know which specific pair of legs to look between, of course.
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First off, chaos, that's a wonderful save. I actually laughed out loud at that.
Now back to the topic at hand (Grodon's voice): I always imagined him to have a voice like Claptrap's, or maybe lower pitched.
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Just to be different, I am now imagining Gordon sounds like James Earl Jones. :)
Pintsize... I am your father.
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I've always voiced him as Steven Moffat (Wheatley, from Portal 2) in my head.
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Merchant, not Moffat.
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If you want a deep voice, always go with Sam Elliott. Just imagine Gordon drawling "Don't worry, there ain't no wrong answers" in Sam Elliott's voice. :-D
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There's usually a plaintive nasally eager-to-please whine in my head when listening to Gordon. Somewhere between Peter Sagal (http://www.npr.org/people/2101115/peter-sagal) and Woody Allen
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I wonder if Gordon sounds like Christopher Lee?
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3 foot tall spiders are scary?
I'm... sorry? Are-
OH! Oh. To a CANADIAN, sure. As an Australian, I just call him Skitters and train him to eat rats.
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3 foot tall spiders are scary?
I'm... sorry? Are-
OH! Oh. To a CANADIAN, sure. As an Australian, I just call him Skitters and train him to eat rats.
To anyone not living in the hellscape that is the land down under, three foot spiders are horrifying. Australia is horrifying. Even the fucking koalas are out to get you.
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It's looking like Sven is actually learning how to be a decent person. I'm excited.
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Mmhmm. And Faye seems to be liking her job.
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quintuple my certainty we're on our way to a Faye/Dora peace-making moment. Whether it's for the best is still up for debate, but I'm not arguing against it
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Mmhmm. And Faye seems to be liking her job.
She is naturally abrasive.
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Mmhmm. And Faye seems to be liking her job.
She is naturally abrasive.
Which is a strange thing, considering she's straight up REPAIRING a robot. Not so much with the abrasion, more with the mending, at least today.
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To anyone not living in the hellscape that is the land down under, three foot spiders are horrifying. Australia is horrifying. Even the fucking koalas are out to get you.
And the drop bears!
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Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_grinder#Safety) No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!
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Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_grinder#Safety) No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!
I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets
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Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_grinder#Safety) No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!
I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets
That's an angle grinder that she's holding. Swarf in the eyes is very unpleasant.
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Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_grinder#Safety) No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!
I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets
That's an angle grinder that she's holding. Swarf in the eyes is very unpleasant.
You use words I don't know, so I assume you know what you're talking about.
On the other hand, I'm about as well-sighted as Faye (My vision is 20/1600, where legally blind is 20/400) and I can say personally that at least on gun ranges, they consider glasses as thick as mine to be equal protection to protective goggles.
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Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_grinder#Safety) No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!
I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets
That's an angle grinder that she's holding. Swarf in the eyes is very unpleasant.
You use words I don't know, so I assume you know what you're talking about.
On the other hand, I'm about as well-sighted as Faye (My vision is 20/1600, where legally blind is 20/400) and I can say personally that at least on gun ranges, they consider glasses as thick as mine to be equal protection to protective goggles.
They don't even test me without the glasses anymore, because it always goes "... um, E?"
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Debris from grinding can come at the eye from many angles. It's not quite the same as blowback. Goggles would be the thing.
That said, lots of people with tool skills will flaunt best practice and carry the scars to prove it.
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Yes, no substitute for side shields, even though my optician told me once that my polycarbonate lenses could stop a .22.
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It's pretty clear that this is close to Faye's dream job - cutting open someone so they can go back to inflicting destruction!
Here's my concern: Working for the URFC (Underground Robot Fighting Championship) is ultimately going to turn out to be destructive and negative for her. For all the enjoyment and fulfilment it gives her, it's ultimately reinforcing negative personality qualities, to wit sadism and using others for her own amusement. I wonder if she's eventually going to have to quit because she doesn't like the person that it is making her become.
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Indeed, I thought there was something disturbing in her facial expression tonight.
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I'm wondering if Bubbles is going to be Faye's voice of conscience. Confronting Bubbles' disdain for the URFC and its associated culture of violence is going to force Faye to realise things about the job... and about herself... that normally she keeps completely suppressed.
Faye is excellent at ignoring her own better nature. However, there are people in her life whom she respects and, when they tell her that she's in the wrong, it tends to batter through her stubborn personality and tear off the blinders.
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You use words I don't know, so I assume you know what you're talking about.
Swarf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarf). I would wear gloves, a long-sleeved top, hearing protection, and goggles as a minimum for grinding.
Faye's expression is a bit disturbing. Is she about to grind off that robot's spikes? Or sharpen them?
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Yes.
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I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
I mean, that is one possible interpretation, but another is that she has found a job that is a perfect match for her skills, and she's simply really enjoying doing something that she is good at and that not everybody else could do, not only for the required skills but also because she doesn't apparently have a problem with the context.
And after all, she is doing repairs, not damage, like an army surgeon.
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I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
I mean, that is one possible interpretation, but another is that she has found a job that is a perfect match for her skills, and she's simply really enjoying doing something that she is good at and that not everybody else could do, not only for the required skills but also because she doesn't apparently have a problem with the context.
And after all, she is doing repairs, not damage, like an army surgeon.
Yeah, I think it's that. I really hope it's that.
Also, for all the arachnophobes: This is how I got over mine. Peacock spiders. Tiny (half a centimetre), completely harmless spiders from Australia (yeah, I know), but all you need to know is in the name of a subspecies: Sparklemuffin. No, really! Those are miniature, colourful jumping spiders who dance and wiggle their butts if they want to mate.
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I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
I mean, that is one possible interpretation, but another is that she has found a job that is a perfect match for her skills, and she's simply really enjoying doing something that she is good at and that not everybody else could do, not only for the required skills but also because she doesn't apparently have a problem with the context.
And after all, she is doing repairs, not damage, like an army surgeon.
Yeah, I think it's that. I really hope it's that.
Also, for all the arachnophobes: This is how I got over mine. Peacock spiders. Tiny (half a centimetre), completely harmless spiders from Australia (yeah, I know), but all you need to know is in the name of a subspecies: Sparklemuffin. No, really! Those are miniature, colourful jumping spiders who dance and wiggle their butts if they want to mate.
Got a better video for you.
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On the protective gear thing, Faye has been shown doing metalwork without any amount of protective gear worth noting. I just chalk that up to artistic preferences and not care too much.
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The sparklemuffin spider has me seriously conflicted.
I laughed in (low-level) terror. I did not know that was a thing.
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I don't think Faye has ever been shown welding with an appropriate mask and apron. Having known welders and seen their slag-burned hands and arms, this is consistent with the real world. Her failing to use proper eye wear when doing griding is also consistent with such. It's still a bad idea.
I know way too many people who only learned that proper safety equipment is a good idea after being injured in a manner safety equipment would have prevented. Very few weren't trained in the use of said equipment. In my misspent youth, I made the same stupid choices.
Artistic choice or not, it's still a fairly bad idea to grind without goggles.
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Faye wore a welding mask and apron in 2464 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2464), but also worked with bare arms and legs (which Jeph pointed out was a really bad idea).
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Carol never wore her safety goggles. NOW SHE DOESN'T NEED THEM.
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Safety goggles, people. Use them. I'm partly blind in one eye, not because of an accident but due to a congenital defect - and this has made me very protective of my one good eye, because basically I only get one mistake in that department.
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I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
It's roughly the same expression my doctor had on when explaining what he was going to do about a couple spots on my back. Holding up the electrocautery wand, he said: "You're gonna smell steak cookin'."
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I can't help it, I'm just tickled by the Beer brand beer in today's strip. :laugh:
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It would seem that Faye has found a niche, doing what she loves for illicit money. I still want to see the chassis she's going to build for Pintsize; that is going to be epic.
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Pintsize will finally realize his dream of having wanglimbs.
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Pintsize will finally realize his dream of having wanglimbs.
He's entered into the arena under a new name, DICKSTRUCTOR. Special move: helicopter punch
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One could say that Faye's gotten used to the daily grind.
I do hope she and Dora finally sit down and talk at some stage.
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One could say that Faye's gotten used to the daily grind.
*rattles the pun jar at Kugai*
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One could say that Faye's gotten used to the daily grind.
*rattles the pun jar at Kugai*
*Sticks a Centauri Ducat in the pun jar*
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*Adds a Gul Ducat to the pun jar. Waits for the fireworks.*
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So now we know why she likes making the banana smoothies.
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Y'know, I've been rereading the comic, and recently I got up to when Hannelore is first introduced, way past that now, and does anyone else think she should grow her hair back out? Cause she looked really great like that and I'd love to see that hairstyle in the evolved art.
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Y'know, I've been rereading the comic, and recently I got up to when Hannelore is first introduced, way past that now, and does anyone else think she should grow her hair back out? Cause she looked really great like that and I'd love to see that hairstyle in the evolved art.
I certainly don't, but I have a thing for girls with short hair. My first kiss had about the same haircut as Hanners.
In any case, Hanners, be real. Who doesn't love fruit? This does open the potential for Hanners to feel stalked, a worry she might voice very vaguely, which could lead to a reappearance of the issues between Dora and Sven, WHO IS JUST TRYING TO BE NICE
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Hanners: "Dora, I think Sven's stalking me."
Dora: *ragequits*
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I just don't know if I'm ready for Svennelore
I don't know if I'll ever be ready
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"Send him a fruit basket, everyone loves those." -Dorian Pavus
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Maybe Sven's growing up enough to be a justafriend with a woman. Before Faye jumped him he had been making some progress in that direction with her.
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In any case, Hanners, be real.
Real is not one Hannelore's skills. She has to put a lot of effort into it and relies heavily on her friends to save her when she inevitably fails.
We could all use friends like that.
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Hanners? I'm thinking that it was a lucky guess. Still, it's nice that Sven has grown enough as a man to actually want to thank someone who has done right by him!
I just don't know if I'm ready for Svennelore
Don't feel you have to rush. Something tells me that it will redefine 'slow boil'.
Real is not one Hannelore's skills. She has to put a lot of effort into it and relies heavily on her friends to save her when she inevitably fails.
Precisely; I'm expecting her to have to query others to determine what, if any significance can be found in this. This leads to plenty of opportunity for comedic misunderstanding based on misread signals. Hopefully, she'll ask someone with a relatively stable brain (i.e. Marten) who will tell her that it's just a thank you gift, not some kind of bizarre mating ritual like those of some cuter animals.
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I think I'm gonna go buy some fruit now.
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Safety goggles, people. Use them. I'm partly blind in one eye, not because of an accident but due to a congenital defect - and this has made me very protective of my one good eye, because basically I only get one mistake in that department.
Several years ago now, when I still worked in construction, I was working on a deck, and was using a miter saw to chop some of the boards to length.
Anyway, I stopped to take a short break, pushed my safety goggles up to wipe my face and was getting a drink of gatorade. Someone else, about a dozen feet away, was nailing up some railing. The wood was a bit hard and bouncy. He hit the nail a bit off perfect and it rebounded backwards, flew the four yards through the air, and struck me directly in the eye.
I had to have surgery on it 4 times, was out of work for nearly half a year, and I still can see nothing more than a large blur on that side.
SAFETY GUYS. ITS IMPORTANT.
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I just don't know if I'm ready for Svennelore
Svennelore is one of the worst ideas I have heard in ages.
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I just don't know if I'm ready for Svennelore
Svennelore is one of the worst ideas I have heard in ages.
...Except for the portmanteau which I love.
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May I recommend that we shift the Svennalore discussion to this pre-existing and relevant thread (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,30245.msg1278010.html#msg1278010)?
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Precisely; I'm expecting her to have to query others to determine what, if any significance can be found in this. This leads to plenty of opportunity for comedic misunderstanding based on misread signals. Hopefully, she'll ask someone with a relatively stable brain (i.e. Marten) who will tell her that it's just a thank you gift, not some kind of bizarre mating ritual like those of some cuter animals.
Cuter animals AND EMILY.
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Who doesn't love fruit?
My first reaction too.
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So now we know why she likes making the banana smoothies.
There is something Fraud-ian about that, come to think of it.
(Fixed a bracket -Method)
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I think I'm gonna go buy some fruit now.
This was Jeph's intention. He bought stock in the fruit industry prior to this going up
[maybe]
[probably not, but maybe]
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I just don't know if I'm ready for Svennelore
Svennelore is one of the worst ideas I have heard in ages.
...Except for the portmanteau which I love.
They'll herp and derp at each other, collapse into laughter at those people on the other side of the fourth wall,, and then just to show he won't use the same gag twice, Jeph will have Hannelore succumb to her previous temptation to grab Sven's butt. Confusion will ensue and, in the WCDT, chaos.
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I'm not a huge fan of couple portmanteaus, although I do love portmanteaus in general. That being said, I prefer "Svenners".
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The portmanteau I prefer for a Hannelore-Sven relationship is "Notgonnahappen", though "Whatthehellareyouthinking" comes in a close second.
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I really like how Hannelore is drawn today. I can't quite put my finger on why, though. Is her face a little rounder? Hair a little fuller? Something like that I guess….
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Sven is a Telepath
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Confusion will ensue and, in the WCDT, chaos.
Well duh, I'm here every day! :claireface:
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I just don't know if I'm ready for Svennelore
Svennelore is one of the worst ideas I have heard in ages.
https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,30245.msg1331957.html#msg1331957 (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,30245.msg1331957.html#msg1331957)
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They're just useful shorthand for describing lengthy plots, complex and oft-convoluted character interactions and the like whilst trying to draw comparisons in an analysis of the story.
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They're a reminder of some of the worst days of the forum.
Arguing for a rule change is OK and sometimes people succeed but please do it by PM.
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Part of that is we don't want go back to what I call 'The Great Shipping Wars' from a few years back. It wasn't helpful, and was part of the reason Jeph, at one stage, threatened to shut down the Forum.
Hell, even I got a week lnng ban in that when the then Mods came down on us like a ton of bricks (I wasn't a Mod back then as you can gather)
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How long ago was this? Was I a mod? Was I even here?
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Marten/Dora: the Sundering - it took the lives of many a poster, let me tell you...
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Before the pwhodges era. Appointing him as moderator was specifically to salvage things.
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Ah wow, yeah, I wasn't even here yet then.
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Marten/Dora: the Sundering - it took the lives of many a poster, let me tell you...
Not for nothing was it called the Dorapocalypse.
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The Horror
The Horror