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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: ysth on 26 Jul 2009, 19:16
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So tired. So glad I don't have to do a comic tonight.
Hahahha and just as I tweeted that I find out my guest strip has been held up. Don't worry guys I'll think of something :)
Sweet Tits and Yelling Bird, please?
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So have to say this was a pretty good guest strip week. I got to discover Girls with Slingshots and just spent the last 3days or so cracking out on the whole archive. I wonder if anyone knows whether Jeph does guest strip work on other peoples webcomics or does he just have them on his.
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Actually on his wikipedia page (conveniently linked to here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeph_Jacques)) there is a list (with links) to a lot (if not all). It also includes his comic for The Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards award presentation for Outstanding Art.
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He did one on Johnny Wander a while ago.
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Last phrase was the best.
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Jeph keeps apologizing for the YB filler strips, but I think far more people look forward to them than are disappointed. 8-)
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RE: Yelling Bird's last line:
I KNEW IT!!! *dramatically points accusatory finger*
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Yes, finally, we have Gay (Marten's ex-boss), Lesbian (Marten's current boss), Bisexual (Dora), and Transgender (Marigold).
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You sure she's trans? I mean, with all the Japanese cartoon references that seem to orbit around her, she could easily turn out to be a hermaphrodite. Whose real job is as a life model for Kami Tora...
(do not, for the love of whatever you deem holy, do NOT google Kami Tora with safe search off)
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Well, seeing as I'm atheist, I thought "How bad could it be?" and did an image search. I decided that it wasn't really worth going past the first page of results. :|
Typically awesome Yelling Bird comic. I like them, they're a nice break.
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"How bad could it be?"
I have some other key phrases for you to learn:
"Seemed like a good idea at the time officer."
"Well, it can't possibly get any worse?"
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I use the second one frequently :-D
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"How bad could it be?"
I have some other key phrases for you to learn:
"Seemed like a good idea at the time officer."
"Well, it can't possibly get any worse?"
Never forget "Let's split up," or "I'll be right back."
Playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun gives you a better chance of surviving.
Anyway, I must admit, I love Yelling Bird.
Even if that last line won't leave my mind, despite my best attempts at drinking it away.
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Oh Yelling Bird.
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"Dont worry, I'm sure they're friendly!"
Ahhh, Yelling Bird... Angry little bastard aint he? :-D
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o.o
She... she does?
sits and waits for the strip now...
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I got to discover Girls with Slingshots and just spent the last 3days or so cracking out on the whole archive
me too! i am amazed i missed out on a perfectly hilarious webcomic for so long, but im glad i finally found it.
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I just registered to point out that Yelling Bird's phrase "Marigold has a cock" does not preclude the possibility that said cock is some sort of trophy.
Pickled in a jar.
On her nightstand. :evil:
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It could be just a rooster.
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Cock-a-doodle doo motherfuckers.
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o_0
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Yes, finally, we have Gay (Marten's ex-boss), Lesbian (Marten's current boss), Bisexual (Dora), and Transgender (Marigold).
All we need now is Hannelore to not hyperventilate if there is a titillating kiss.
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You sure she's trans? I mean, with all the Japanese cartoon references that seem to orbit around her, she could easily turn out to be a hermaphrodite. Whose real job is as a life model for Kami Tora...
(do not, for the love of whatever you deem holy, do NOT google Kami Tora with safe search off)
Not being PC-police, just educating: There can't actually be a hermaphrodite. They are fictional. People don't get born with both genitalia. They can be born with a slight combination and/or ambiguous genitalia. They are called intersexed individuals.
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Damn, Pintsize.
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I hope Marigold changes her T-shirt someday.
Men, remember when caressing your significant other always to say "Woob, woob".
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She's lucky. Pintsize could've started playing with her cock.
*runs*
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Well whaddaya know, that's my first instinct upon waking as well.
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Marigold wasn't expecting Pintsize to do that.
This means that his personality isn't something so common that an expert would expect it, although Meena and Ellen did both talk about problematic AnthroPCs, so some degree of screwiness is typical.
Which in turns means that since his personality isn't the Windows default that it had to come from somewhere. Has he been deranged by all the porn he's downloaded for Marten, or has Marten been using him as a Mr. Hyde, an outlet for everything he's repressed in himself?
Or maybe Marigold is one of those anti-Microsoft bigots and hasn't had firsthand experience with Windows AnthroPCs.
(Yes, this is overanalysis, but hopefully it's the fun kind).
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I've decided that Marigold's face is my favorite of all the QC characters.
Well whaddaya know, that's my first instinct upon waking as well.
You and my husband have that in common. Actually, that's pretty much his first instinct at almost all times. :roll:
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And we're back.
Looks like Pintsize is going to need a new chassis, I wonder whats more destructive than a built in "laser?"
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Opposable thumbs.
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:laugh:
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People don't get born with both genitalia. They can be born with a slight combination and/or ambiguous genitalia. They are called intersexed individuals.
Before PC, they were known as hermaphrodites.
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Really, intersexed is the term to use for humans with ambiguous genitalia. Hermaphrodites are creatures with both (or more?) functioning sets of genitalia, or which change between the two. Human hermaphrodites just don't exist. I hope science rectifies this soon.
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i really didn't know that. thank you guys for educating me.
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I've decided that Marigold's face is my favorite of all the QC characters.
Well whaddaya know, that's my first instinct upon waking as well.
You and my husband have that in common. Actually, that's pretty much his first instinct at almost all times. :roll:
And as a fellow husband - so long as we focus that instinct on you the beloved spouse it's all good, right?
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Well to be fair, she did get to BOOP Pintsize, it's only fair that he'd get a WOOB in return. He just did a few too many.
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You sure she's trans? I mean, with all the Japanese cartoon references that seem to orbit around her, she could easily turn out to be a hermaphrodite. Whose real job is as a life model for Kami Tora...
(do not, for the love of whatever you deem holy, do NOT google Kami Tora with safe search off)
Not being PC-police, just educating: There can't actually be a hermaphrodite. They are fictional. People don't get born with both genitalia. They can be born with a slight combination and/or ambiguous genitalia. They are called intersexed individuals.
Guess what? Questionable Content is fictional.
Or do I have to find the Hermatopia poster again?
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Hahaha, Marigold is adorable when blushing. Pintsize is even more fucked up before now (in the physical sense) so I'm wondering whats going to happen to him now.
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I hope that everyone here is trolling and not serious. Nobody really believes anything yelling bird says... do they? I mean, he's hilarious and definitely the best character by far but... really? Really guys?
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Wow. We generally only hear after-the-fact accounts of Pintsize's debauchery, but actual physical molestation is certainly a new sight from him.
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Actually Pintsize has nearly been here before: 269 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=269)
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Yeah, but in instances like that, you get the impression Pintsize is all talk.
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"Well, it can't possibly get any worse?"
Oh contrare. It can, in fact, get much worse. :angel:
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Really, intersexed is the term to use for humans with ambiguous genitalia. Hermaphrodites are creatures with both (or more?) functioning sets of genitalia, or which change between the two. Human hermaphrodites just don't exist. I hope science rectifies this soon.
Your Betan background is showing.
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Yeah, but in instances like that, you get the impression Pintsize is all talk.
But now we know he isn't just talk!
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Did anyone doubt that Pintsize lacked any sort of inhibitions?
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Really, intersexed is the term to use for humans with ambiguous genitalia.
As opposed to intrasexed, where they're all buried inside?
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If you're male, thats called an inny. If you're female, that's called being female.
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Pintsize bad-touched Faye in #152.
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I'm not that surprised Pintsize did that. I am surprised it was Marigold. I really thought he would have broken into Coffee of Domb and bad-touched the staff (and patrons) like a kid in a candy store.
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He knows he can recover from being smashed. I doubt he could snap back from being stuffed into an active espresso machine, though.
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That's true.
Though that would be a useful chasis, a coffee/expresso maker, for late night lawls.
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Pintsize is pimp.
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Yeah, I'd totally do Pintsize.
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At this rate, Marten's gonna have to see about getting a Tritanium Chassis.
I wonder if Faye has Agent Turing's number.
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Coffee of Domb
That's definitely in the top 25 most ridiculous spelling errors I've ever seen.
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It's an established part of Pintsize's characterization that his initialization sequence involves boob-honking. It's a good thing he didn't try out the feature he had in #396.
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Carry the zero? That can't be right, can it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_%28arithmetic%29
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well, if the carry ended up being ten, then it could be considered carrying the zero while the one gets carried to the next column. or transcribing a number from one column to another and lost the zero on the way.
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Why is Dora doing payroll and other financial calculations by hand?
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well, if the carry ended up being ten, then it could be considered carrying the zero while the one gets carried to the next column. or transcribing a number from one column to another and lost the zero on the way.
Yeah, but if so, you still wouldn't carry the zero. You'd carry the 10. And if you are doing a column of numbers big enough that you would be carrying a 10 (minimum 12 rows deep, and on the average 23 rows deep) then you should be using a calculator, just to avoid silly mistakes. (Or as mentioned above, a computer.
For Dora to be doing all her finances with pencil and paper is at least 50 years behind the times...possibly more considering all the robots and space stations.
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Maybe she does her accounting in binary?
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Would you trust a computer doing your finances after you have meet Pintsize? :)
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And if you are doing a column of numbers big enough that you would be carrying a 10 (minimum 12 rows deep, and on the average 23 rows deep)
Closer to 22.
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Hey, computer used to be a job title.
Anyway, I'm almost wondering if this is a possible storyline into hiring Hanners to be their accountant?
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It would be completely feasible for Hannelore to become their numbers cruncher, and it's a perfectly realistic thing that could happen in the story -
But what purpose would it have to advance the plot? ;)
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It would be completely feasible for Hannelore to become their numbers cruncher, and it's a perfectly realistic thing that could happen in the story -
But what purpose would it have to advance the plot? ;)
Questionable content has a Plot?
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It would advance the plot of hanners increasingly integrating herself into the real world...
Of course I probably just jinxed it...
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It would also advance Hanners' plot to kill Dora and take over her life...
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That too... Of course her plan would come crashing down the moment Marten wanted to be >cough< 'intimate' so i doubt its actually gonna happen.
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Don't you see? The OCD is all part of the act! Along with making sure Marten's couch smells like her and not Dora, joining his band and talking to him about sex at every opportunity...
She clearly came up with her "OCD" as an excuse for following Marten around just after she cornered him in the pub.
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Or the carry the zero could just have been an error caused by Jeph being sleep deprived from Comiccon and that it could have been any number? the strip was still funny.
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You can stop discussing carrying the zero now - Jeph's changed it.
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Has anybody mentioned Faye's expression in panel 3? No? OK, then I will. I LOL'd.
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I panicked when Dora talked about laying someone off.
Thank you Hannelore for noticing the mistake.
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Maybe if she hadn't budgeted so much on Faye's baby-killing-sculpture she ... oh never mind.
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I just found myself wondering... Who is Dora going to try to blame for her being so distracted that she didn't notice all the mistakes she was making? Is it a person, or just a hormonal thing... oh the posibilities...
Aaaaaand, DISCUS!
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Has anybody mentioned Faye's expression in panel 3? No? OK, then I will. I LOL'd.
As did I.
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Has anybody mentioned Faye's expression in panel 3? No? OK, then I will. I LOL'd.
As did I.
Hah, me too!
It was a funny strip whether Dora forgot to carry a zero or misplaced a decimal point. I sort of panicked when I read panel 2 as well, so I'm glad Hanners cleared that up. Also, Hannelore Coffee of Doom's accountant would be awesomee, especially since it would be something she'd really love to do... I think anyway.
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Nice reference to the Argentine economic collapse a few years back. :)
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my first thought before i finished the strip was 'fire penelope'.
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No, fire Raven; Pene-lope at least shows up from time to time... :P
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No, fire Raven; Pene-lope at least shows up from time to time... :P
Ohhhh, burn. True, though. There are a lot of characters running around. This happens in any serialized publication, be it webcomic, print comic, TV series or what have you. If you keep the exact same characters the whole series through, it gets boring. Main characters come and go, though there are usually a couple of key figures who never phase out.
Man, phasing was such an awesome mechanic in MtG. So many arguments.
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Aaaaaand, DISCUS!
ok! *flings discus*
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I'm surprised no one got the reference. 'Carry the Zero' is a wonderful Built to Spill track. The close everyt show with it, as it stretches into a 6 to 20 minute jam.
Of course, it could have been an accidental reference, but I'd rather give JJ the B' of the D'.
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Aaaaaand, DISCUS!
ok! *flings discus*
Haha, nice.
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So, if "carry the zero" no longer appears in the comic... I wonder how many people are gonna think that "Payday, payday" is a Built to Spill song?
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On a more serious note, I'd just like to thank Jeph for panel 4; a picture of Hannelore not freaking out or being consumed by Generic WorryTM and instead simply being relaxed and nice to a friend. It's good to see.
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AH-HA!!! Faye doesnt say that its her "favorite day of the week". She say that it is her favorite of all the 'week days' - as in her favorite of any given Monday -> Friday. Some may draw a 'once a week' implication despite this, but i personaly dont see it.
PS: The legaly protected minimum hourly wage in Australia is $14.31 (i think) per hour. The only way you can earn a smaller amount is if you are on a contract the specifies that part (or all) of your pay is comission based (the minimus rate there-by being determined by you).
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What's the exchange rate between MerrkinBucks and OzzieBucks?
Also, early comic, yay.
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From Google: 14.31 Australian dollars = 11.628306 U.S. dollars
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What's the exchange rate between MerrkinBucks and OzzieBucks?
Also, early comic, yay.
Right Now? Not sure of the EXACT rate right now, but its around the $1au = $0.80us
EDIT: On the new comic - methinks pintsize is going to get a new body and that Marten is gonna have alot of disposable income all of a sudden...
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That thing she's using to remove the dents....is that what I think it is?
Be at peace, Saint Mays. You shall never be forgotten.
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On the new comic - methinks pintsize is going to get a new body and that Marten is gonna have alot of disposable income all of a sudden...
I'm not so sure - JJ's passed up more than one chance to give us Pintsize 3.0. I wouldn't be shocked if either (a) the chassis doesn't get sold or (b) it gets sold... only to be replaced by a visually-identical model.
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I could imagine it going either way to be honest. On the one hand the idea is that it might work that he has at least the potential for an artwork update/upgrade if he so desires it for pintsize. In some cases we don't see updates because they are believed to be needed so much as the creator wants to make the change. It is possible that JJ might just want to alter pintsize due to some personal desire to do so or because he feels the time is right for it. That being said I kind of like the idea of them going through a little montage of bodies, and one off camera one making everyone who sees it scream and shudder in fear.
That or one with a feature of a remote control off button, might appeal to them to keep pintsize from causing too much havoc. Small comedy of errors with it, and possibly the roomba getting control of it. But meh, that's probably too cliche.
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Now we know what happened to Argentina!
I was wondering - would any of you been as honest as Faye??
Pintsize with a new body - would that be a good thing or should Momo-Tan be worried?
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I'm totally up for Pintsize getting a new chassis. All the other characters get cool make overs, so should the robits!
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PS: The legaly protected minimum hourly wage in Australia is $14.31 (i think) per hour. The only way you can earn a smaller amount is if you are on a contract the specifies that part (or all) of your pay is comission based (the minimus rate there-by being determined by you).
Or, if you're 18 years old :. considered a "junior" :. a victim of pay-scaling which is completely legal but still sucks balls.
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I'm totally up for Pintsize getting a new chassis. All the other characters get cool make overs, so should the robits!
Long as he doesn't get the model Pintsize suggested. Talk about Plug n Play.
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I'm totally up for Pintsize getting a new chassis. All the other characters get cool make overs, so should the robits!
Long as he doesn't get the model Pintsize suggested. Talk about Plug n Play.
Aw man, I'd be down.
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More than that, what would Marten do with all the spare cash he would suddenly have... Another Guitar, but one that had been owned by someone famous or something? A gift for Dora? Hmmm...
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More than that, what would Marten do with all the spare cash he would suddenly have
Invest in shares of CoD after Hanners makes them a public company?
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Wow, today's comic made me think of this movie review for A.I.: http://www.brunching.com/ai.html
all the girls will want their own Jude Law sex toy for Christmas.
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Dora would have to change her mind about expanding before CoD could go public. She declined Beatrice Chatham's offer to finance a franchise, after all.
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Dora would have to change her mind about expanding before CoD could go public. She declined Beatrice Chatham's offer to finance a franchise, after all.
That might have had more to do with who was making the offer rather than a question of becoming a franchise being distasteful.
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Awwwww no, pint size so fundamental, the definition of the anthropoid-PC concept.
His basic, round and child like features are the best vehicle for the antics he pulls off!
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I was wondering - would any of you been as honest as Faye??
Considering that cashing the check would mean I'd be out of a job, sure.
$64K could go quite a long way, but not so far as to make it worth my while to put my employer (and friend) out of business.
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Hey, Marigold has a Twitter too now.
@marigoldfarmer WOOB WOOB WOOB
@pintsize0101 KILL YOU
I laughed.
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Haha, I am so pathetically looking forward to Marigold "thoroughly groomed". :laugh:
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PNG is better quality than JPEG, though.
If you must... save just that panel as JPEG, and then put it back in the PNG. Voila, JPEG artifacts in a PNG.
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MariGOLD FARMER? Hurhur.
Momo-sama can be very persuasive.
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Jumping straight from -tan to -sama? Momo must have really scared the hell out of Marigold ;)
I'm such a fan of Momo's new superpower that I've immortalized in in my avatar. I'm assuming that if Pintsize ever tries to do naughty robot things to Momo, she'll just generate an electric field and murder him? Sweet.
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Que random post that has absolutely nothing to do with the prevailing conversation because I've had too much sugar and too little sleep and that makes JD something something...
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Back on topic
I wonder if this is Momo-Sama's basic role for Marigold. Making her go out in the world.
I wonder if she was given to Marigold for this role.
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Typo in the 5th panel it says "I don't know hot to Talk to people!" when it should be "I don't know how to Talk to people!".
Just thought i should point that out.
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The likelihood that Marigold will ACTUALLY have a good time = very, very low.
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So the bar is called "The Revelation"... I wonder if that's the QC-verse equivalent of real-life Northampton bar "The Dirty Truth".
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I guess there are a lot of people like me in the world, because Marigold's reaction is approximately the same as my reaction would be. "But I have stuff going on and I don't know how to talk to people oh you're forcing me into it okay fine" which is usually followed by, depending on what kind of social gathering it is, an 80% chance of me actually having a good time. So since I seem to be a more common type of person than I thought I would assume the case would be similar with Marigold.
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So the bar is called "The Revelation"... I wonder if that's the QC-verse equivalent of real-life Northampton bar "The Dirty Truth".
Most likely so, since the full name of the bar is, IIRC, "The Awful Revelation" or something like that.
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In #1100, "The Horrible Revelation".
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I'm a little suprised at the thouroughly unnecessary shove Momo gave Pintsize - he'd better watch out or he might get an EMP blast. Seems he's put himself so far on her bad side that she can't even be polite!
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Missing speech arrow for Marigold in Panel 5. :angel:
Good comic, can't wait for Marigold to actually see a social situation.
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In #1100, "The Horrible Revelation".
Ah, yeah, thanks, couldn't retrieve it.
Oh, by the way, Momo just gained several levels in awesome. First her Social Interpretation Protocol (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1440), and now this...
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Momo-Sama is some degrees more awesome than a Bene Gesserit Witch. "The VOICE" combined with optical threatening effects... ^^.
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Momo just became my favourite character.
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Her name is Momo? But Xenosaga *sucks*! They escape by Kos-Mos pulling some new unexplained super-beam out of her butt like ten times!
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I'm interested to what a 'thoroughly groomed' Marigold will look like. Maybe she'll get pig tails.
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Momo-Sama is some degrees more awesome than a Bene Gesserit Witch. "The VOICE" combined with optical threatening effects...
Electro-Motive Force lightning added to kawaii-fu? Momo-sama for Empress Of Earth following the robot apocalypse! Pintsize for court jester.
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PNG is better quality than JPEG, though.
If you must... save just that panel as JPEG, and then put it back in the PNG. Voila, JPEG artifacts in a PNG.
Or else just save it as a 24-bit PNG. PNG supports several colorspaces, including 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, and 24-bit.
24-bit will always be larger, since it's got way more colors to deal with, but there are some programs, like PNGCrush and PNGOut that can try to compress it as much as is reasonably possible.
Today's comic was originally 165,272 bytes. PNGOut got it down to 156,292. Not a lot, but when multiplied by the number of viewers downloading the comic, it can result in a fair amount of saved bandwidth.
I'd guess that doing a full comic in 24-bit would result in something over 450kB though.
Woob woob woob.
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More importantly, what is Momo's definition of thoroughly groomed? The last time an AnthroPC took on grooming humans, er... who can find that comic of Winslow and Hannelore for me?
Momo-Sama is some degrees more awesome than a Bene Gesserit Witch. "The VOICE" combined with optical threatening effects...
Electro-Motive Force lightning added to kawaii-fu? Momo-sama for Empress Of Earth following the robot apocalypse! Pintsize for court jester.
Pintsize for court jester? Are you kidding? He is the perfect candidate for the job of repressing, tormenting and demoralising the remaining human population. Winslow for court jester, I say!
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I still cant figure out what the point of Pintsizes attack was.
Its not like the guy would have a sense of touch, now would he ?
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The best part of the strip was when the lighting dimmed as Marigold basked in fear. Probably the best touch in a panel I've ever seen in QC.
What's the probability that Marigold will end up looking "attractive" to any of the QC characters once she gets... "groomed"? :lol:
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Steve is still... mostly unattached. So is Tai, for that matter.
And Hannelore, but let's not go there guys. Really.
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More importantly, what is Momo's definition of thoroughly groomed? The last time an AnthroPC took on grooming humans, er... who can find that comic of Winslow and Hannelore for me?
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=944
That was probably more caused by his social naivete than grooming skills.
I fixed the typo:
(http://i29.tinypic.com/2a6jvxu.png)
Full strip with the fix:
http://i25.tinypic.com/1vt6o.png
Now stop whining about it. :roll:
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OK, my Japanese doesn't extend any further than 'Hajimemashite', 'Konnichiwa' and 'kanpai', so a little help please...
I assume Momo is her name, yes?, with -tan the equivalent of the English 'Miss'. And the context of panel 6 suggests that -sama would be a sort of deferential "Yes, MA'AM"?
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(paraphrasing from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_honorifics ) Tan is a baby-talk version of Chan, to make it even more diminutive/cutesy. It's used for pets, mascots, animals, and children (like the -ito suffix in Spanish).
Sama is used toward customers or people who are much higher rank, to signify respect or formality (much more so than San, which is more equivalent to Mr./Mrs./Miss).
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Momo doesn't take any shit does she? I think I love her. I'm interested to see how Marigold looks after a "grooming" and her interactions at a bar.
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What's the probability that Marigold will end up looking "attractive" to any of the QC characters once she gets... "groomed"? :lol:
I'm going to say very, very high.
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Her name is Momo? But Xenosaga *sucks*! They escape by Kos-Mos pulling some new unexplained super-beam out of her butt like ten times!
Okay, 1) Xenosaga is the best series ever, and those powers are explained like, to times in three games. And 2) Momo is pretty much a Generic name, it's not Xenosaga Specific. Hell, Avatar has a Momo.
Registered just to say that, but I might stick around, took me three days to go through this entire comic after all.
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I still cant figure out what the point of Pintsizes attack was.
Its not like the guy would have a sense of touch, now would he ?
In 269, he claimed to have touch sensors. He might have been lying, in which case he probably does it just to be rude.
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Or, maybe he just wanted to hear the 'woob woob woob' noise :lol:
Good comic today. Both the look on Marigold's face and Momo's electric sparks were awesome :-)
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What's the probability that Marigold will end up looking "attractive" to any of the QC characters once she gets... "groomed"? :lol:
I'm going to say very, very high.
Not that I dislike high-school-movie tropes, but doesn't that seem a touch cliché for Jeph?
Also, I think I resent the implication that she's not attractive already and/or that she needs "help" to be pretty.
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Momo-San fucking RAWKS! :lol:
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What's the probability that Marigold will end up looking "attractive" to any of the QC characters once she gets... "groomed"? :lol:
I'm going to say very, very high.
Not that I dislike high-school-movie tropes, but doesn't that seem a touch cliché for Jeph?
Also, I think I resent the implication that she's not attractive already and/or that she needs "help" to be pretty.
Unclean people are unattractive, so yes she needs to have a shower and put on some clothes that aren't soaked in nerdsweat, and clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others. It doesn't make her inherently ugly or anything, but even the prettiest girl is unappealing if her hair is greasy and she looks like she hasn't washed in days. (This also very much applies to guys, as much as many of us seem to forget it.)
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Has it been confirmed that Marigold plays WoW? I think it would be awesome if she played Everquest. Then she and Sven could have a "friendly" debate about whose game is better. (Though if Jeph doesn't know anything about EQ I guess this isn't really likely.)
Re: Momo as a name. Fruits Basket has a Momo!
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Haha, I am so pathetically looking forward to Marigold "thoroughly groomed". :laugh:
i actually am, as well. she will probably just have less sticky-uppy parts in her hair, though. and maybe wear a DIFFERENT SHIRT OMG!
@lildaani is momo the little blonde boy or am i just stupid? i haven't read fb or watched the anime in a long time.
i like how she usually calls her momo-tan or momo-san but when momo was being threatening and domineering she called her momo-sama.
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heh I noticed that as well. It seems momo-chan can intimidate her when pushed. I liked the samurai reference though.
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clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others.
Although I agree with hygiene being an issue, I strongly disagree with the above claim.
What people enjoy doing with their time is up to them, as long as it doesn't harm others. Yes, it seems likely that she will turn out to enjoy socialising, and be much happier for it, and in that case she will have been "helped". Yes, in this particular case she states that she doesn't know "how to talk to people" as a reason, which is a good indicator that it's a matter of inhibition rather than pure preference.
But: your statement suggests that wanting to sit on a computer all night rather than socialise is wrong, and someone who felt that way would need help.
I think that's kind of narrow-minded... I'm sure you disagree, but let me elaborate.
When it comes down to it, it's a simple issue of preference and although as a culture we're pushed to believe that being social is somehow 'right', it doesn't make it true. I know people who honestly prefer to stay at home and mess around on their computers than go out. I initially took the busy-body role and thought they needed help themselves, that they were just silly and hadn't tried having good ol' social fun. I dragged said friends out places, and you know what?
2 house parties, a concert (a band they all loved), a picnic, 3 bars and a sunny day at the beach later... They didn't enjoy themselves. Didn't matter where. They just genuinely did not have a good time - they genuinely preferred spending time online.
Someone not wanting to go out doesn't make them a child that we have to go and teach a lesson. Too many jump into crud like this assuming that they somehow know more about the person in question than that person knows themselves. The fact of the matter is that we all enjoy different things, and I know I ended up feeling like a dick for trying to force what I enjoy on other adults.
Anyway, I don't mean to be rude or anything, just to present a case against a common assumption. I registered just to post this, because it's something I personally have learned that many people seem to not consider. :-)
Sorry to go a little off-topic. Again, it does appear that Marigold would personally benefit from some socialisation, but the reasons in the quoted claim seemed to be unspecific to Marigold.
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I liked the samurai reference though.
samurai reference?
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@nichidani: Close. He's Momiji, Momo is his sister.
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clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others.
Although I agree with hygiene being an issue, I strongly disagree with the above claim.
What people enjoy doing with their time is up to them, as long as it doesn't harm others. Yes, it seems likely that she will turn out to enjoy socialising, and be much happier for it, and in that case she will have been "helped". Yes, in this particular case she states that she doesn't know "how to talk to people" as a reason, which is a good indicator that it's a matter of inhibition rather than pure preference.
But: your statement suggests that wanting to sit on a computer all night rather than socialise is wrong, and someone who felt that way would need help.
I think that's kind of narrow-minded... I'm sure you disagree, but let me elaborate.
When it comes down to it, it's a simple issue of preference and although as a culture we're pushed to believe that being social is somehow 'right', it doesn't make it true. I know people who honestly prefer to stay at home and mess around on their computers than go out. I initially took the busy-body role and thought they needed help themselves, that they were just silly and hadn't tried having good ol' social fun. I dragged said friends out places, and you know what?
2 house parties, a concert (a band they all loved), a picnic, 3 bars and a sunny day at the beach later... They didn't enjoy themselves. Didn't matter where. They just genuinely did not have a good time - they genuinely preferred spending time online.
Someone not wanting to go out doesn't make them a child that we have to go and teach a lesson. Too many jump into crud like this assuming that they somehow know more about the person in question than that person knows themselves. The fact of the matter is that we all enjoy different things, and I know I ended up feeling like a dick for trying to force what I enjoy on other adults.
Anyway, I don't mean to be rude or anything, just to present a case against a common assumption. I registered just to post this, because it's something I personally have learned that many people seem to not consider. :-)
Sorry to go a little off-topic. Again, it does appear that Marigold would personally benefit from some socialisation, but the reasons in the quoted claim seemed to be unspecific to Marigold.
Being as I'm registered on a forum devoted to a webcomic, I assumed it'd be fairly apparent that I enjoy some hermitry myself. Hell, it's Friday night and I've spent it all sitting in my house playing video games. I wasn't criticising Marigold for staying in, merely stating that she definitely needed aid in preparing for a social event, which she seems to avoid out of anxiety rather than a true lack of desire.
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sama was used during the samurai period in Japan to address high ranking samurai aka Tokogawa-sama was used to address lord tokogawa by those under his command.
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@Lyrical: Domo arigato!
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Jeph, you know that you can save a PNG as 24-bits to make it look exactly like the jpeg, right? (actually even better, since you'd have the lighting effect perfect _and_ no weird box artifacts in the rest of the image)
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@nichidani: Close. He's Momiji, Momo is his sister.
ah now i remember, she was so cute!!! >w<
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sama was used during the samurai period in Japan to address high ranking samurai aka Tokogawa-sama was used to address lord tokogawa by those under his command.
Pretty sure it's just an honorific, and really's got nothing to do with samurai (but they would have been using it then)
like how San means basically Mister, Sama is more like Sir.
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Makes sense. I only saw those titles when I was reading Shogun some years ago haven't seen them used in a more conventional setting prior to now.
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I just registered to point out that Yelling Bird's phrase "Marigold has a cock" does not preclude the possibility that said cock is some sort of trophy.
Pickled in a jar.
On her nightstand. :evil:
On the other hand, there is this strip (and we all know how Jeph likes to foreshadow future plot developments)
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1300
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You know what, these QC robots are actually useful.
Jeph, you know that you can save a PNG as 24-bits to make it look exactly like the jpeg, right? (actually even better, since you'd have the lighting effect perfect _and_ no weird box artifacts in the rest of the image)
Yes but will be much larger in size.
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clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others.
Although I agree with hygiene being an issue, I strongly disagree with the above claim.
What people enjoy doing with their time is up to them, as long as it doesn't harm others. Yes, it seems likely that she will turn out to enjoy socialising, and be much happier for it, and in that case she will have been "helped". Yes, in this particular case she states that she doesn't know "how to talk to people" as a reason, which is a good indicator that it's a matter of inhibition rather than pure preference.
But: your statement suggests that wanting to sit on a computer all night rather than socialise is wrong, and someone who felt that way would need help.
I think that's kind of narrow-minded... I'm sure you disagree, but let me elaborate.
When it comes down to it, it's a simple issue of preference and although as a culture we're pushed to believe that being social is somehow 'right', it doesn't make it true. I know people who honestly prefer to stay at home and mess around on their computers than go out. I initially took the busy-body role and thought they needed help themselves, that they were just silly and hadn't tried having good ol' social fun. I dragged said friends out places, and you know what?
2 house parties, a concert (a band they all loved), a picnic, 3 bars and a sunny day at the beach later... They didn't enjoy themselves. Didn't matter where. They just genuinely did not have a good time - they genuinely preferred spending time online.
Someone not wanting to go out doesn't make them a child that we have to go and teach a lesson. Too many jump into crud like this assuming that they somehow know more about the person in question than that person knows themselves. The fact of the matter is that we all enjoy different things, and I know I ended up feeling like a dick for trying to force what I enjoy on other adults.
Anyway, I don't mean to be rude or anything, just to present a case against a common assumption. I registered just to post this, because it's something I personally have learned that many people seem to not consider. :-)
Sorry to go a little off-topic. Again, it does appear that Marigold would personally benefit from some socialisation, but the reasons in the quoted claim seemed to be unspecific to Marigold.
You know, instead of making that long ass redundant post about nothing, you could have just concisely said "do what you want with your life and not give a shit what others think". I think it gets across the same message.
clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others.
That said I don't spend my Friday nights out, I spend them playing video games or in front of my computer and I'm doing pretty well for myself. I have a nice set of good friends, an incredibly hot and wonderful girlfriend, and a stable living situation. I'm actually pretty good at socializing and I get along with just about everyone I meet.
So no, I don't think there's something wrong with me because my hobbies are different than yours.
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I DON'T KNOW HOT TO TALK TO PEOPLE
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Hey you two. Shut the fuck up.
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You know what, these QC robots are actually useful.
Jeph, you know that you can save a PNG as 24-bits to make it look exactly like the jpeg, right? (actually even better, since you'd have the lighting effect perfect _and_ no weird box artifacts in the rest of the image)
Yes but will be much larger in size.
I did some quick back of the envelop calculations, and at the current file size of ~200k, with the 300k or so readers Jeph has, that's 60G per comic of bandwidth, or 1.2T per month JUST for the comic image. I'm sure there's some headroom in the server account, but more than doubling the size of the image file to make it "pure" possibly has some real consequences.
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Marigold said she didn't know how to talk to people. Unless that was just a phony excuse, Momo-tan (*) should have given her a quick lesson instead of moving into Ominous Mode. One of those "Ask open-ended questions about hobbies, travel, family, music and so on" explanations.
(*) One of the typos I caught before posting this was "Mom-tan".
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clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others.
That said I don't spend my Friday nights out, I spend them playing video games or in front of my computer and I'm doing pretty well for myself. I have a nice set of good friends, an incredibly hot and wonderful girlfriend, and a stable living situation. I'm actually pretty good at socializing and I get along with just about everyone I meet.
So no, I don't think there's something wrong with me because my hobbies are different than yours.
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I DON'T KNOW HOT TO TALK TO PEOPLE
Didn't I already answer this? I'm fairly sure I already answered this.
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sama was used during the samurai period in Japan to address high ranking samurai aka Tokogawa-sama was used to address lord tokogawa by those under his command.
That's because he was in a respected position, not specifically because he was a samurai.:) There are some martial-arts-specific titles, though, as well as sensei (teacher), listed in the Wiki page I mentioned in my earlier post.
Darke, there's nothing wrong with geeking out as a hobby, but it's pretty clear that Marigold *wants* to socialise, but doesn't feel confident in talking to new people yet. http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1429 She did fine hanging out with Hanners and Angus, and the QC group seems to be pretty good at drawing people out of their shells. As far as the "grooming" goes, I doubt Momo-tan is going to try to turn her into a high fashion model or do anything extreme. She's just reassuring Marten that Marigold won't show up stinky, to avoid another awkward zone like when Hanners returned the anime.
BTW, one of my friends broke up with her boyfriend over something similar - she came home feeling frisky, stripped off her clothes, and sat in his lap while he was playing Rainbow Six. He said, "Hi honey, can you shift over a bit? Your tits are blocking the monitor."
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clearly she needs "help" with that because she'd rather sit on her computer all night than put forth any effort to socialise and enjoy the company of others.
That said I don't spend my Friday nights out, I spend them playing video games or in front of my computer and I'm doing pretty well for myself. I have a nice set of good friends, an incredibly hot and wonderful girlfriend, and a stable living situation. I'm actually pretty good at socializing and I get along with just about everyone I meet.
So no, I don't think there's something wrong with me because my hobbies are different than yours.
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I DON'T KNOW HOT TO TALK TO PEOPLE
Didn't I already answer this? I'm fairly sure I already answered this.
Yeah, you did. I seemed to have missed it.
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I DON'T KNOW HOT TO TALK TO PEOPLE
"Perhaps,'' said Darcy, "I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction, but I am ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers.''
"Shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?'' said Elizabeth, still addressing Colonel Fitzwilliam. "Shall we ask him why a man of sense and education, and who has lived in the world, is ill qualified to recommend himself to strangers?''
"I can answer your question,'' said Fitzwilliam, "without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble.''
"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,'' said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.''
"My fingers,'' said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault -- because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.''
Darcy smiled, and said, "You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you, can think any thing wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers.''
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BTW, one of my friends broke up with her boyfriend over something similar - she came home feeling frisky, stripped off her clothes, and sat in his lap while he was playing Rainbow Six. He said, "Hi honey, can you shift over a bit? Your tits are blocking the monitor."
that's effing priceless. i would probably have done the same thing (the breaking up part, not the rainbow six > sex part.)
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I realize I'm a little slow off the mark on this one, but I'm having a little math trouble. I'm assuming that Dora's mathematical error was caused by her moving the decimal point one column over on Faye's paycheck. Fair enough, but in my understanding, jobs like Barrista in the US pay weekly, rather than monthly. If you move the decimal point in Faye's wage packet over one column then it means she made $5,600 in a week. Even if we assume a monthly pay period then it still seems too much. Is $560 a week for a Barrista reasonable?
Generally if you're out on a decimal point then it's only a factor of ten because any more shows up too strongly.
Or is Dora paying her hush-money to stop Marten finding out she's sleeping with his mother?
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Or is Dora paying her hush-money to stop Marten finding out she's sleeping with his mother?
...my mind just meltered ed ed ed ed ed ed ed ed... >beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep<
REQUEST: This unit requires activation of hard-reset funtion.
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BTW, one of my friends broke up with her boyfriend over something similar - she came home feeling frisky, stripped off her clothes, and sat in his lap while he was playing Rainbow Six. He said, "Hi honey, can you shift over a bit? Your tits are blocking the monitor."
that's effing priceless. i would probably have done the same thing (the breaking up part, not the rainbow six > sex part.)
A friend of mine is going through a similar situation. She has feelings for one of my other friends, and he shares that sentiment, but he's too blinded by his immaturity and his obsession with video games to care. Honestly, when did that stop being a hobby and start becoming a lifestyle? It perplexes me.
Oh, and he plays different variations of the AVGN theme full blast on his cell in public. I swear, there's no helping the guy.
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I resent the idea that a guy should be dumped just because he didn't instantly jump on his girlfriend the moment she decided she wanted some. Dude's trying to relax, give him a break.
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I resent the idea that a guy should be dumped just because he didn't instantly jump on his girlfriend the moment she decided she wanted some. Dude's trying to relax, give him a break.
Agreed, although it may have been an ongoing thing or maybe the straw that broke the camel's back sort of thang.
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I did some quick back of the envelop calculations, and at the current file size of ~200k, with the 300k or so readers Jeph has, that's 60G per comic of bandwidth, or 1.2T per month JUST for the comic image. I'm sure there's some headroom in the server account, but more than doubling the size of the image file to make it "pure" possibly has some real consequences.
What makes you think it would double it? Just saving the existing comic itself as 24 bits only is a 1.5x increase - and that's ignoring the fact that a lot of areas that are complex dither patterns would be solid colors.
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I don't know all the details, just she told me about the Rainbow Six thing, and 3 or 4 days later, they broke up. So, I assumed the two were connected. Most likely it was a "straw that broke the camel's back" thing. I *do* think that most women don't expect to be rejected sexually. While a lot of them would be fine with "I'm too tired/sick/in a bad mood/etc." they'd feel that "I'd rather play computer games" is kind of lame. When I told my ex-boyfriend the story, shortly after we started dating, he said, "If I ever do that to you, just go ahead and shoot me. I'd already be dead and just not have realised it yet!" Of course, he was just kidding, but he didn't do anything like that in the 3 years we were together.
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EDIT: Wrong blasted topic.