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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: jwhouk on 06 Jan 2013, 05:43
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Sorry, a bit distracted, will think of a poll when I get a chance.
Oh, by the way - HOCKEY IS BACK!!!!
Yes I'm distracted. I'm also GIDDIER than Tai after she got done kissing Dora!
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It seems we have a guest strip coming up sometime soon: see here (https://twitter.com/bigbigtruck) and here (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/287802767198806016).
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jw - it's a game, get over it. If you need your fix, I'm sure there's a couple of kids willing to play on the street...
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Yeah, but he likes the game and it's back, no shame in being happy about that.
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I had HS hockey available to me. It ain't the same.
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Yeah, not as much force behind the hits with little highschoolers...
Wait...
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A friend of mine put it best: "My hockey parents got back together today! We're a hockey family again!" :)
On that note - I am seriously stumped for a poll question. Any ideas out there?
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We have not seen Pintsize since he started spitting out the Fibonacci sequence... is he still all ... :psyduck: ?
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Yeah, not as much force behind the hits with little highschoolers...
Wait...
Did anyone else read this and think of the South Park episode where the Colorado Avalanche play against the South Park Pee-Wee team? :roll:
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Yeah, not as much force behind the hits with little highschoolers...
Wait...
Did anyone else read this and think of the South Park episode where the Colorado Avalanche play against the South Park Pee-Wee team? :roll:
actually the colorado avalanche was going to play the redwings but let the southpark pee wee league play the red wings instead. followed by a mighty ducks like ending for the red wings. it was awesome. (excluding the dead cancer kid of course)
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Yeah, not as much force behind the hits with little highschoolers...
Wait...
Did anyone else read this and think of the South Park episode where the Colorado Avalanche play against the South Park Pee-Wee team? :roll:
actually the colorado avalanche was going to play the redwings but let the southpark pee wee league play the red wings instead. followed by a mighty ducks like ending for the red wings. it was awesome. (excluding the dead cancer kid of course)
I thought it was the other way around, but maybe it just means I should watch it again.
edit - just looked it up on Wikipedia, and you are right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%27s_Cup). I guess I need to rewatch it tonight.
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We have not seen Pintsize since he started spitting out the Fibonacci sequence... is he still all ... :psyduck: ?
Pintsize is eternal.
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So are the Fibonacci numbers.
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Shall we send for Professor Langdon?
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Yes, but not Tom Hanks and that...thing on his head.
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What ?!?!? :-o
... you have to tip the pizza service ?!?! :-o
Not in my own country, as far as I know.
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Beep boop!
I do computer. Things. I do, too.
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Beep. I study computer things. I haven't yet learnt about the boop.
First time I've watched the streaming. It was interesting to watch. But some of the random stuff people talk about in the chat...
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I gotta go to study beep boop thingies in like... two hours. Don't wanna.
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In Soviet Russia, computers beep boop you.
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I just realized I used the word "Russia" in my 666th post.
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Definitely changing my CV entry to Beep Boop Intern
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Now that Dale has asked it, I have to wonder: What does Marigold do for a living?
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Runs her dad's website. I can't find the comic though but someone will probably do it. :P
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Beep boop!
I do computer. Things. I do, too.
I'm so glad you spotted this, the first thing I thought of when I read Jeff's note was 'Ooooh, pwhodges beep boops!'
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I beep boop, and have for some years. Not as many as PWH though...
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Not as many beeps, or boops?
(http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3000000/Betty-Boop-betty-boop-3017634-279-352.gif)
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I only tip the pizza delivery guy if the pizza arrives on time, still warm, with all the correct toppings, and I don't have to go out of my way to fetch it from the other side of the building because they can't understand "please can you drive down the road to the third car park on the right?". So, never.
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I only tip by rounding up to the nearest pound and letting them keep the change, so they're only getting around a pound or usually a bit less. That's what my parents did. Although a lot have the change ready assuming you'll pay with a note and in that case it usually happens so fast they're gone before I'm done saying, "Thanks."
I regularly Beep! but not for computer reasons. (see under my avatar and my intro thread. (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,27492.msg1059558.html#msg1059558))
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Not as many beeps, or boops?
Years, Carl, years... :wink:
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Found it (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2330).
Either Jeph made a mistake in colouring Hannelore's skin that time, or Hannelore deliberately reapplied the spray-on tan to herself.
Maybe it's an OCD thing; it wears off in patches and she keeps reapplying it because she can't bear patchiness?
Is it weird that I sort of like that explanation? :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:
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Not as many beeps, or boops?
Years, Carl, years... :wink:
Years? Never heard of them. Are we using the Gregorian calendar or the Sumerian boop?
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Found it (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2330).
Maybe it's an OCD thing; it wears off in patches and she keeps reapplying it because she can't bear patchiness?
I like that explanation SO HARD...
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Yeah, me too, actually.
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I vote that for canon.
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Yelling Bird is known for its saxophone playing in beepboop bands.
Recommended listening: Yellaby of Birdland.
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Speaking of beeping and booping and foul-mouthed little dick ... cissels, it seems Yelling Bird exists across time and space. (http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=511)
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Apparently beep boop includes physics as well (http://jephjacques.com/post/39922051859/kim-and-marigold-are-beep-boop-pals), so I guess I beep boop also.
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She might be a professional gamer. I mean, those games online that you have to pay an entry fee to play, but you keep the pot (minus website fees) if you win. I had a friend a few years back who would do that...that's literally all she did all day. Her apartment looked like Marigold's, before the Hannelorian Revolution, and she grossed about $8,000 per month. Invested most of it in stocks.
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Um, what year is it now? 2013, wasn't it?
Then, indeed, I have been beep booping professionally for 15 years.
Well timed, Jeph Jaques. Well timed. 8-)
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Definitely read that as "invested most of it in socks".
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http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Marigold_Farmer#Employment
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I wish I knew more about beep boop things. :(
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I have been informed by my more electronic gaming savvy friends that you can get paid to play WoW in some places.
I wish I knew how to do computer things. It is a miracle I can do this.
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People who are paid to do so are called Gold Farmers.
Hence the pun in Marigold Farmer's name.
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Definitely read that as "invested most of it in socks".
People who are paid to do so are called Gold Farmers.
Hence the pun in Marigold Farmer's name.
This has been a very enlightening day.
She might be a professional gamer. I mean, those games online that you have to pay an entry fee to play, but you keep the pot (minus website fees) if you win. I had a friend a few years back who would do that...that's literally all she did all day. Her apartment looked like Marigold's, before the Hannelorian Revolution, and she grossed about $8,000 per month. Invested most of it in stocks.
Out of curiosity: Do you recall what specific game she played?
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What?
KAEAWC is evolving!
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Congratulations! Your KAEAWC
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Hordie?
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Hordie?
We have seen previously that Marigold's antipathy to Dale is because he plays Alliance and she plays Horde in WoW. Dale is winding her up.
KAEAWC is evolving!
I've had a look around your online stuff, but just can't work out what KAEAWC might mean or stand for... Nor why it might be relevant at this point!
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Man, excellent strip! Beep. Boop. If that isn't sig-worthy I don't know what is.
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Voted Other. for values of Other == "Dale"
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Hordie?
If you don't understand this then you need to read the Wikipedia article on World of Warcraft—which Dale and Marigold are deeply engaged in.
By the way ... did anyone notice the gaze Dale and Hanners are exchanging in #2357 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2357)'s last panel? Priceless!
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I am so using Marigold's line the next time someone asks me what I do. "I computer!"
I do computer. Computer stuff. And things. On computers. That's what I do, man. Beep effin' boop.
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By the way ... did anyone notice the gaze Dale and Hanners are exchanging in #2357 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2357)'s last panel? Priceless!
I figured he was looking at Marigold.
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By the way ... did anyone notice the gaze Dale and Hanners are exchanging in #2357 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2357)'s last panel? Priceless!
I figured he was looking at Marigold.
He was looking at Marigold in the second-to-last panel.
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OMGOMGOMG
I basically don't bother with shipping but this one has me excited :D
I really hoped they were gonna have Dale turn up delivering pizza to the lake house but I guess there was already a lot going on there
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By the way ... did anyone notice the gaze Dale and Hanners are exchanging in #2357 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2357)'s last panel? Priceless!
I figured he was looking at Marigold.
He was looking at Marigold in the second-to-last panel.
Last panel, Dale and Hanners are looking at each other, but the unspoken conversation is about Marigold. Beep boop.
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Last panel, Dale and Hanners are looking at each other, but the unspoken conversation is about Marigold.
Sure. Did anyone imply otherwise?
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Me.
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I used to beep boop bort, and was Horde for many years. This comic definitely amused me.
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I used to beep boop like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.
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I make a living doing the beep boop...I wish I could zzzrop fweee, but I'd need a degree for that.
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I used to beep boop like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.
(http://i.qkme.me/35ojim.jpg)
Hordie?
Quick explanation: the opposing WoW player factions are Horde and Alliance. Marigold plays on the former, Dale the latter. 'Hordie' is Dale's shorthand for referring to someone playing on the Horde faction. It's a big deal for WoW players on pvp (player versus player) servers.
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I used to make arrow in the knee jokes, then I got my beard stuck in the pencil sharpener.
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Oh Marigold..
Epiphanies are not one of her best skills...
He's a jerk, you're a jerk, we're jerking... wait, what?
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I prefer Betty Boop. :-D
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Betty Boop's a jerk.
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Oh Marigold..
Epiphanies is not one of her best skills...
He's a jerk, you're a jerk, we're jerking... wait, what?
The thing is that every time Marigold and Dale have met since that first encounter, Dale has gone out of his way to antagonise Marigold (even going so far as to change servers so that he can stalk her) and sustain their mutual antipathy. So, relatively speaking, Marigold is right.
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Welcome, new person!
It's not all one-sided. Marigirl refusing to tip him a while back was a bit out of the norm.
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For the Alliance (and draenei)
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For the Alliance (and draenei)
spaaaaaaace goooooaaaat!
(and regarding Marigold's protests in the last panel:)
Bele: It is obvious to the most simpleminded that Lokai is of an inferior breed.
Spock: The obvious visual evidence, Commissioner, is that he is of the same breed as yourself.
Bele: Are you blind, Commander Spock? Well, look at me. Look at me!
Kirk: You are black on one side and white on the other.
Bele: I am black on the right side!
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I don't know why but today's comic makes Tanners look really cute for some reason.
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yeah, this is exactly the sort of arbitrary tribalism that really bugs the hell out of me.
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Excuse me? °O
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yeah, sorry; that was a generic 'yeah', not meant to agree with or otherwise relate to anything you or anyone else said.
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Glad to hear. I was afraid I might've stepped on a toe or something. Oo
But care to elaborate on "arbitrary tribalism"? Is that related to what Marigold is saying? Because I have a hard time following...
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Yeah, Horde vs. Alliance is probably what J is talking about.
The thing is that tribalism can be a LOT of fun, and can be very satisfying. However I find that there are many pitfalls it contains, many traps that are easy to fall into. It's almost hard to believe sometimes the amount of stress and uh..we'll say 'silliness'...that I saw that simple division in a game could cause when people got a little too caught up in it.
You see it in a lot of things though: hobbyists vs. other hobbyists, political adherents, sports team fans, etc. etc. I don't really have any answer other than trying really hard to remember that other people are just people too, probably pretty similar to you.
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... and sustain their mutual antipathy.
I wouldn't say the antipathy is mutual. To the contrary, I feel Dale has a lot of respect for Marigold's gamer skills. I wouldn't say he's having a crush for her (not yet :wink: ) but he does appreciate her being a tough opponent. Of course he's aware of her antipathy towards him and of her awkwardness, and he's making the occasional fun of it—but he avoids actually hurting or offending her. I guess we're in for some interesting development between these two.
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No I will not discuss MMO development in this forum. I got enough of that over on mmorpg.com!
Beep boop!
Hm... I've always felt dividing the playerbase in two should not be the standart development decision it is today. MMOs are meant to be played together with friends and nice strangers. Creating the "I like this 'race', but it doesn't belong to the same faction my friends are in" dilemma is a bad thing in my book and has killed many an MMO for me.
Best example would be TSW. Three factions, at war with each other, can group up for instances but can't be in the same guild? What?
Along with the tribalism and enmities that emerge from the perceived conflict of interests (of which there is none, actually)
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Oh man, if we were discussing MMO design choices and the like I'd probably mention that the usual two-faction split that we see a lot of is because incorporating it is a quick and easy shortcut to building drama, tension, and goals for players to participate in that is often successful because it taps in to much of humanity's inherent desire for tribalism.
But we're totally not discussing that so I won't. :angel:
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I wish to be doing beep boop once I have my degree in beep boop.
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Yeah, Horde vs. Alliance is probably what J is talking about.
The thing is that tribalism can be a LOT of fun, and can be very satisfying. However I find that there are many pitfalls it contains, many traps that are easy to fall into. It's almost hard to believe sometimes the amount of stress and uh..we'll say 'silliness'...that I saw that simple division in a game could cause when people got a little too caught up in it.
You see it in a lot of things though: hobbyists vs. other hobbyists, political adherents, sports team fans, etc. etc. I don't really have any answer other than trying really hard to remember that other people are just people too, probably pretty similar to you.
Have you heard of the Robber's cave experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber%27s_Cave_Experiment#Robbers_cave_study)?
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Nice. Seems to hold up so far as I've observed. Not that that's a scientific way to do things. Using my anecdotal observations to make decisions, I mean.
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Not that I play Warcraft, but this seems awfully similar to the "Dwarf-Elf" antipathy that seems to pervade much of fantasy. (It's all the fault of the skinny, pointy eared b*stards though).
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Well the Dwarf Elf antipathy easily boils down to a clash between two cultures and life styles, not to mention one side easily taking insult and the other easily giving it plus arrows in the back.
Dwarves - Earth Dwellers, hard workers, hard party'ers, stoic Fighters, Strong Family bonds and traditions and history and lastly trusting of those who earn it.
Elves - Surface/forest/sky Dwellers (always above everyone else), flighty, haughty, ancient, strong sense of honor and tradition, sense of history, racist with a rabid superiority complex.
So all in all very similar but with differences in the right/wrong places to have them at each others throats within moments.
Yeah Elves are cool but as a people they are a bunch of jerks.
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I foresee Hanners educating MarBear about proper social etiquette beyond the realm of WoW...and after the epiphany hits Marigold, she'll actually find some sort of attraction to Dale...to be drawn out, slowly, with intensifying infatuation...only to finally discover that Dale is, in fact, dating Pizza Girl.
Poor Marigold.
Yeah Elves are cool but as a people they are a bunch of jerks.
God damn elves, hording all those chocolate-covered cookies to themselves, trying to fiddle with the baked goods economy...I'll have the FTC on your little tree-dwelling asses, you bastards!
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I don't see elves as jerks. I see them as old. Very old. Having seen enough and lived long enough to give them perspective on a scale none of the other races are capable of. Add in that they have been burned often by the younger races and witnessed their folly repeatedly through the ages with all the damage it has wrought and it is not surprising they are dismissive and reclusive when it comes to younger races. Having been alive since before the creation of the Sun and before the other races even existed would tend to give one a sense of superiority, and rightfully so. The problem when dealing with elves is a matter of perspective and scale.
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That doesn't make the Doctor be all superior dismissive.
Often.
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Marigold's reaction to Dale reminds me of an old[1] documentary. The documentary, Five Steps to Tyranny, looked at history and experiments by psychologists to show how easy it was to create a repressive dictatorship. One experiment involves football (aka soccer). Here's a link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-VyagA8FU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-VyagA8FU) part of that documentary. Watch from about 7mins 50secs (and you will need to move on to the next part to see it to its conclusion).
[1] From 2001
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I see them as old. Very old. Having seen enough and lived long enough to give them perspective on a scale none of the other races are capable of.
*Nerd mode initiated*
According to the Silmarillion (and as such, this really only applies to Tolkien's multiverse, but is worth hearing anyway), the Dwarves were the first peoples of Middle-Earth, created by Aulë, child of Ilúvatar. They were created as a result of Aulë's enthusiasm to build, and at Ilúvatar's command, they were put into a slumber until after the Elves were created and awakened. Aulë gave them his own strength, hardiness, and tough nature, because he knew they'd have to endure much harshness in the world.
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I see them as old. Very old. Having seen enough and lived long enough to give them perspective on a scale none of the other races are capable of.
*Nerd mode initiated*
According to the Silmarillion (and as such, this really only applies to Tolkien's multiverse, but is worth hearing anyway), the Dwarves were the first peoples of Middle-Earth, created by Aulë, child of Ilúvatar. They were created as a result of Aulë's enthusiasm to build, and at Ilúvatar's command, they were put into a slumber until after the Elves were created and awakened. Aulë gave them his own strength, hardiness, and tough nature, because he knew they'd have to endure much harshness in the world.
Fair enough. I had forgotten about the Dwarves coming first then being put to sleep. I haven't read The Silmarrillion since I was 12 or so. I obviously need to reread it. My point still stands, though, since no Dwarves are still alive from that period. Elves, on the other hand, are still alive from the First Age. Age and perspective are still overwhelming factors when attempting to understand elvish personality and interaction with other races and the world as a whole.
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I prefer Betty Boop. :-D
I prefer Betty Page. :-o
I refuse to refer to what I do as either beep or boop. I also do not horde or alliance. But I do write Elbereth in the dust.
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No, no. When the Dwarves were created (and put to sleep), the Elves had already been long asleep by Cuiviénen. 8-)
(And though no one now knows where Men first awoke, it is generally considered that they too had been sleeping the "sleep of Ilúvatar" since the creation of Eä, and woke on the first rising of the Sun. By that time, incidently, the Dwarves had long since awoken, but Men were still named the "Atani", that is, the "Second People".)
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God damn elves, hording all those chocolate-covered cookies to themselves, trying to fiddle with the baked goods economy...I'll have the FTC on your little tree-dwelling asses, you bastards!
God damn those elves,
sweeping all the the shelves,
Hording all those cookies fo' themselves,
And then surfing.
On chocolate-cookie waves.
(SURFING BROWNIES, YEAH!)
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He's a jerk, you're a jerk, we're jerking... wait, what?
No, I don't agree here. Gonna quote Ohf since he said it best:
... and sustain their mutual antipathy.
I wouldn't say the antipathy is mutual. To the contrary, I feel Dale has a lot of respect for Marigold's gamer skills. I wouldn't say he's having a crush for her (not yet :wink: ) but he does appreciate her being a tough opponent. Of course he's aware of her antipathy towards him and of her awkwardness, and he's making the occasional fun of it—but he avoids actually hurting or offending her. I guess we're in for some interesting development between these two.
Basically... To me: The only one kind of a jerk is Marigold. She'll learn with time I guess. I trust Hanners on this one.
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I am reminded of the "nice dork glasses, poindexter" comment she made a couple hundred strips back. (after Padma punched Faye's glasses in half)
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He's a jerk, you're a jerk, we're jerking... wait, what?
No, I don't agree here. Gonna quote Ohf since he said it best:
... and sustain their mutual antipathy.
I wouldn't say the antipathy is mutual. To the contrary, I feel Dale has a lot of respect for Marigold's gamer skills. I wouldn't say he's having a crush for her (not yet :wink: ) but he does appreciate her being a tough opponent. Of course he's aware of her antipathy towards him and of her awkwardness, and he's making the occasional fun of it—but he avoids actually hurting or offending her. I guess we're in for some interesting development between these two.
Basically... To me: The only one kind of a jerk is Marigold. She'll learn with time I guess. I trust Hanners on this one.
Oh indeed, Mari was rather jerkish when she denied him a tip for being alliance scum. Even if he is alliance scum.
It's what happened after, when he jumped straight to cyber-stalking (and a little of the regular kind too) that's the real issue I think, but you're right; thats not being a jerk per se: it's deep into asshole creeper territory.
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He's a jerk, you're a jerk, we're jerking... wait, what?
No, I don't agree here. Gonna quote Ohf since he said it best:
... and sustain their mutual antipathy.
I wouldn't say the antipathy is mutual. To the contrary, I feel Dale has a lot of respect for Marigold's gamer skills. I wouldn't say he's having a crush for her (not yet :wink: ) but he does appreciate her being a tough opponent. Of course he's aware of her antipathy towards him and of her awkwardness, and he's making the occasional fun of it—but he avoids actually hurting or offending her. I guess we're in for some interesting development between these two.
Basically... To me: The only one kind of a jerk is Marigold. She'll learn with time I guess. I trust Hanners on this one.
I guess we have a difference of interpretation here. I have a hard time looking a comic like http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1895 and not concluding that Dale is deliberately trying to antagonize Marigold. Then there's the fact that he changed servers so that he could stalk her. If I was in Marigold's shoes, and a guy I barely knew did that I'd feel kind of creeped out.
Anyhow, I'm not saying that Marigold hasn't been a jerk. I'm just saying that *to her* (and to me) Dale has been a bigger jerk.
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Marigold and Dale will forever torment one another and call each other jerks...until they don't. Because there's a fine line between hate and lust. But I'm not one to 'ship and I kind of doubt that Jeph would actually put them together anyway.
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I don't mean to be white-knighting for Dale here (the Alliance scum!), but I've gotta be honest, I sort of see what you're saying about the stalking angle but...then again I don't.
Maybe I'm misremembering the circumstances, but first
Real Life meetings: They seemed mostly happenstance. He took the time to do some trash-talking, which is a little jerky, but I'm hard-pressed to see any stalking here, barring further evidence.
Online: He did mention that he had friends on her server when she told him what it was, didn't he? And yeah he did move servers with challenging her as a goal, from my time in MMOs that doesn't...maybe I'm simply inured to it, but that doesn't seem to carry as much of a stalking/creepy stigma to me as I think it is to others. People changed servers all the time for new challenges, seek out new social scenes (or escape old ones). Mind I don't think a lot of people I knew did it for the chance to take a shot at a particular player, though I do remember people changing factions partially so they could have a go at some of their former allies they weren't fond of.
However I spent years in those things, and then went on to play EVE here and there, so maybe I'm just a bad person. D;
Oh also Jeph will keep acting like Dale and Marigold will get together, then at the last second Dale will start going with Claire. But it'll be fine because after a short sulk at getting figuratively kicked in the face again, Marigold will find herself in a love/lust triangle with Sven and Amir, which will be a little stressful but still pretty cool once she eventually conquers the challenge.
Dora will attempt to kick Sven's ass, but will be lovingly hugged out of her HULK SMASH by Tai. D'awws all around, and Pintsize discovers the true meaning of Boxing Day.
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Not seeing that much of a stalker/creeper on him either. Specially because he already played on the same servers as her. Meh, different opinions and stuff.
I have a hard time looking a comic like http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1895 and not concluding that Dale is deliberately trying to antagonize Marigold.
He's doing it just for the lulz because Mari takes it way too seriously sometimes. Granted, he could have been a tad less close but still... It's more like teasing.
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I wonder what the character with a social protocol database would say.
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Truth. I know I wasn't issued one. >_<
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However I spent years in those things, and then went on to play EVE here and there, so maybe I'm just a bad person. D;
You are indeed a terrible person and deserve podding repeatedly. If only I hadn't specc'd my main for mining and industry... :P
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If it's mutually accepted teasing, that's one thing. I've had a few people with whom I could interact like that and, for both of us, it make a crappy workday less crappy, as long as we each knew how far to go before checking down.
But, once someone makes it clear to you that it's not welcome or that a line has been/is in danger of being crossed, you back off. If you don't, it's harrassing ... or at least being an ass.
One can argue whether Marigold's made her feelings on the matter clear, at least to Dale (and maybe to herself), but that's for future comics (and, who the hell am I kidding, this forum and others).
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However I spent years in those things, and then went on to play EVE here and there, so maybe I'm just a bad person. D;
You are indeed a terrible person and deserve podding repeatedly. If only I hadn't specc'd my main for mining and industry... :P
I'm speccing for frigates! Because I am just awful at EVE and apparently hate making money.
Well *was* speccing for frigates. Not playing this second.
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All these warcraft jokes are going over my head...I feel like Angus.
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Actually I think there's very few Warcraft jokes going around, though I'll allow I might not be noticing them due to over-familiarity. Got something particular you want explained INTO THE GROUND! :mrgreen:
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To pod is to character-kill in EVE rather than to just destroy a ship (to pop, IIRC - I haven't played for a few months now :(). It comes from the destruction of the life-support/neural control capsule that all players are in. It's something of an evil thing to do because when the pod is destroyed the target player has to buy a new clone body or risk losing some of their trained skills. They also lose all of their (very expensive and in certain cases very rare) training/skill boosters.
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The caption thread made me think: Have we *ever* seen Dale's eyes?
I thought we had once, but that's probably because I think he looks kind of like Amir (maybe I'm comic-racist?).
Putting down an Internet-Dollar wager that Dale was born blind, but received tech implants some years ago. Playing video games was part of his training to master his brain's newly-formed and growing ability to interpret sight-signals. Part of his reasons why he does so many different low-pressure jobs that keep him seeing all sorts of different people and locales because he's on a quest to see EVERYTHING.
Also I'm probably wrong but I had fun making it up.
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You're wrong. The first two or three comics were normal, then he went all Gendo.
As for stalking, I think this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771) comes pretty damn close.
It may have been a happenstance meeting, but he seemed to be waiting for her.
Edit: First Appearance (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1640)
Second (No tips for alliance scum!) (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1668)
Third, and the Gendo shine begins... (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1693)
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You're wrong. The first two or three comics were normal, then he went all Gendo.
I've compared his look to Gendo for a while, especially in battling her PvP...but it just occurred to me how much more appropriate his "Shut up Shinji" shirt is. HAH!
As for stalking, I think this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771) comes pretty damn close.
It may have been a happenstance meeting, but he seemed to be waiting for her.
I still say he's got a thing for her. If fact, I'll even wager a cookie.
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I guess we have a difference of interpretation here. I have a hard time looking a comic like http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1895 and not concluding that Dale is deliberately trying to antagonize Marigold. Then there's the fact that he changed servers so that he could stalk her. If I was in Marigold's shoes, and a guy I barely knew did that I'd feel kind of creeped out.
Last-couple-of-days Dale seems to have chilled considerably since lurking-on-dark-street-corners (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771) Dale, or running-a-would-be-ganking-squad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1693) Dale. Disclaimer: I have not played WoW, so I don't know how ganging up on on people in PvP is viewed there. I tend to follow the Way of the Open Palm (http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/Way_of_the_Open_Palm) in games... :angel: So I'm with Hanners on this one.
Edit: Fixed incorrect link for the ganking squad. Thank you Pilchard for pointing out my mistake.
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Are those supposed to link to the same strip?
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I found it kind've pleasing that Hannelore put Marigold in her place. Marigold has been kind've stupid over this for some time. What I'm wondering, is when Marigold is going to get counseling. She clearly needs it...
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You only get counseling when you know you need it. Right now, that's pretty well beyond Marigold's comprehension.
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Akima: Generally speaking my experience was it is seen as natural as the sun rising, at least on the kind of server it is implied (possibly outright stated) that the two characters play on. I can explain more if you want, but 'got ganked? too bad, get some friends or leave if you don't like it' might be a fairly accurate blurb.
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People are allowed to not like someone, even for silly reasons, without it meaning they need counseling.
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True, but I think Blacksinow's mentioning it what with all the problems in social, self-esteem, and self-maintenance issues Marigold has been proven to have.
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True, but I think Blacksinow's mentioning it what with all the problems in social, self-esteem, and self-maintenance issues Marigold has been proven to have.
Yes. If virtual reality gets in the way of REAL reality, and prevents you from having even a civil conversation with someone, then it's a problem. And if her goal is to eventually socialize with other people, in public, then she's going to need to do something drastic about it.
The comic thus far has used counseling as a helpful tool, and I can tell from first-hand experience that it is. Perhaps it will also shed light on some other as-yet-unknown aspects of MarBear's past.
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Possibly. Also possible is just that her father, so far implied to be pretty weird himself, managed to raise a weird girl.
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DAMMIT!!
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True, but I think Blacksinow's mentioning it what with all the problems in social, self-esteem, and self-maintenance issues Marigold has been proven to have.
Yes. If virtual reality gets in the way of REAL reality, and prevents you from having even a civil conversation with someone, then it's a problem. And if her goal is to eventually socialize with other people, in public, then she's going to need to do something drastic about it.
The comic thus far has used counseling as a helpful tool, and I can tell from first-hand experience that it is. Perhaps it will also shed light on some other as-yet-unknown aspects of MarBear's past.
Marigold almost reminds me of a friend I know. Her obsession with video games is hindering her from having a social life. And when you start to associate someone being a jerk because they like a specific faction of a game, then you clearly need counseling. Marigold kind've reminds me of all those stories I've read about, where someone was refused a job because they were the opposite world of warcraft faction that the interviewer played as. This kind've behavior is simply damaging to Marigold. Look at the lakehouse comics, when she was so into final fantasy, that she couldn't even realize that time had passed by. And believe me, when you have your head shoved into a handheld game, then actually talking to people normally when the situation requires it, you DO need counselling.
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Am I just not that observant or does Marigold look thinner in this comic? Seems like her time with Martin and co is doing her good :) Not that I cared before.
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True, but I think Blacksinow's mentioning it what with all the problems in social, self-esteem, and self-maintenance issues Marigold has been proven to have.
Sure, if the idea of counseling had been raised in relation to her needing to get out more and take care of herself and stuff, that wouldn't have bothered me, but this:
I found it kind've pleasing that Hannelore put Marigold in her place. Marigold has been kind've stupid over this for some time. What I'm wondering, is when Marigold is going to get counseling. She clearly needs it...
... is all about punishing her as stupid and needing counseling for not wanting to be friends with some guy she barely knows who goes out of his way to bother her (whether he means it as a joke or not). Screw that. You don't have to be BFFs with every person you meet. Also:
This kind've behavior is simply damaging to Marigold. Look at the lakehouse comics, when she was so into final fantasy, that she couldn't even realize that time had passed by. And believe me, when you have your head shoved into a handheld game, then actually talking to people normally when the situation requires it, you DO need counselling.
That's just not true. She spent the whole of the lakehouse comics meeting new people, engaging in conversation, trying new things, playing non-video games with the group, and challenging herself (wearing a bikini even though she was embarrassed). It was only after the party was over that she got absorbed into the game. She's not the same character as when she was first introduced, she's grown a lot.
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Valid points!
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Am I just not that observant or does Marigold look thinner in this comic? Seems like her time with Martin and co is doing her good :) Not that I cared before.
For me Marigold is the character whose perceived size jumps around the most depending on angles, clothing etc:
Compare her now (final panel):
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2358
To her first appearance (any panel):
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1413
To her in the white dress at the party:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1687
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1689
To just before Christmas (which wasn't all that long ago, QC time):
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2342
Having read for a while I just kind of write it off to that just being the way she's portrayed. Probably nothing to read into it.
Jeph also could be playing around with her perceived size to show her mood. Seems an anime-ish thing to do with someone who's so into anime and also so insecure about herself.
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That's just not true. She spent the whole of the lakehouse comics meeting new people, engaging in conversation, trying new things, playing non-video games with the group, and challenging herself (wearing a bikini even though she was embarrassed). It was only after the party was over that she got absorbed into the game. She's not the same character as when she was first introduced, she's grown a lot.
She was the last werewolf! You cannot argue with the last werewolf! :emotrex:
I think she's just developing further as a character. It's a good thing. ;D
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I like the idea that Marigold is losing weight because Momo is cooking healthier meals for her, but there's no canon to suggest that Momo followed through on that offer.
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True, but I think Blacksinow's mentioning it what with all the problems in social, self-esteem, and self-maintenance issues Marigold has been proven to have.
Sure, if the idea of counseling had been raised in relation to her needing to get out more and take care of herself and stuff, that wouldn't have bothered me, but this:
I found it kind've pleasing that Hannelore put Marigold in her place. Marigold has been kind've stupid over this for some time. What I'm wondering, is when Marigold is going to get counseling. She clearly needs it...
... is all about punishing her as stupid and needing counseling for not wanting to be friends with some guy she barely knows who goes out of his way to bother her (whether he means it as a joke or not). Screw that. You don't have to be BFFs with every person you meet. Also:
This kind've behavior is simply damaging to Marigold. Look at the lakehouse comics, when she was so into final fantasy, that she couldn't even realize that time had passed by. And believe me, when you have your head shoved into a handheld game, then actually talking to people normally when the situation requires it, you DO need counselling.
That's just not true. She spent the whole of the lakehouse comics meeting new people, engaging in conversation, trying new things, playing non-video games with the group, and challenging herself (wearing a bikini even though she was embarrassed). It was only after the party was over that she got absorbed into the game. She's not the same character as when she was first introduced, she's grown a lot.
If memory serves, she initiated this whole thing with Dale, by being openly arrogent against him for playing as an alliance character. Meeting people is all well and good, but my point still stands. She still possesses behavior akin to someone so wrapped up into video games, that they would rather play their Nintendo 3DS, then carry on a conversation. She changes because they are (more or less) taking matters into their own hands and dragging her "kicking and screaming" away from the computer and into a crowd to interact. Though there is no rejection, it seems to me that they are more or less insistant, because it is for her own good. Like I said, I know someone like Marigold. Hannelore setting her straight, it is essential for her growth. Because she is beginning to learn that because someone plays on the horde or alliance, that it doesn't make them a bad person. She is having to learn these sorts of things the hard way, and that means that Hanelore will continue to remind her of things like this.
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Welp, Jeph was wrong on Twitter. I lol'd hard.
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*cue over-analytic moment* Marigold's switched characters!
Also I feel really dumb now, Pilchard. I feel like I missed a prime opportunity to accuse you of being Amarrian.
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Now I will admit, Dale seriously had that coming. That is what happens when you go around stalking someone like that.
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If memory serves, she initiated this whole thing with Dale, by being openly arrogent against him for playing as an alliance character. Meeting people is all well and good, but my point still stands. She still possesses behavior akin to someone so wrapped up into video games, that they would rather play their Nintendo 3DS, then carry on a conversation.
yes, she started the whole rivalry with Dale, on a point that is trivial, but not any more trivial than many other rivalries: Apple vs Bigsoft, book vs film, et cetera.
She does not like to interact with other people. So what? You may not like interacting with people, as long as it does not prevent you from functioning in the society. She is like Penelope, except Penelope is engrossed in books and not video games.
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ASDF!
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Pwnt.
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... is all about punishing her as stupid and needing counseling for not wanting to be friends with some guy she barely knows who goes out of his way to bother her (whether he means it as a joke or not). Screw that. You don't have to be BFFs with every person you meet. Also:
This kind've behavior is simply damaging to Marigold. Look at the lakehouse comics, when she was so into final fantasy, that she couldn't even realize that time had passed by. And believe me, when you have your head shoved into a handheld game, then actually talking to people normally when the situation requires it, you DO need counselling.
That's just not true. She spent the whole of the lakehouse comics meeting new people, engaging in conversation, trying new things, playing non-video games with the group, and challenging herself (wearing a bikini even though she was embarrassed). It was only after the party was over that she got absorbed into the game. She's not the same character as when she was first introduced, she's grown a lot.
If memory serves, she initiated this whole thing with Dale, by being openly arrogent against him for playing as an alliance character. Meeting people is all well and good, but my point still stands. She still possesses behavior akin to someone so wrapped up into video games, that they would rather play their Nintendo 3DS, then carry on a conversation. She changes because they are (more or less) taking matters into their own hands and dragging her "kicking and screaming" away from the computer and into a crowd to interact. Though there is no rejection, it seems to me that they are more or less insistant, because it is for her own good. Like I said, I know someone like Marigold. Hannelore setting her straight, it is essential for her growth. Because she is beginning to learn that because someone plays on the horde or alliance, that it doesn't make them a bad person. She is having to learn these sorts of things the hard way, and that means that Hanelore will continue to remind her of things like this.
The thing is, although Marigold took a dislike to Dale for reasons that would seem trivial to most people, it's Dale who has been going out of his way to confirm and sustain that dislike. All of their subsequent encounters have either been happenstance or because Dale actively sought Marigold out. If he hadn't chosen to be deliberately antagonistic, who's to say that Marigold wouldn't have gotten over her prejudices?
I also tend to agree that Marigold has a fair number of friends now, so it's not a big deal if she doesn't like Dale. I also don't think it's a particularly big deal that she can barely be civil to him when that's the reaction he's trying to provoke.
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Dale's poster of Haruhi Suzumiya gets him points from me.
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*cue over-analytic moment* Marigold's switched characters!
Aww, it's super-adorable that she changed her character's name to the nickname her new friends gave her!
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This one makes me giggle so much. Well dong Jeph, well dong. ;D
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"I took some liberties with WoW for the sake of the comic, if this bothers you then just imagine that WoW is somewhat different in the QC universe."
Actually, speaking as a longtime WoW player... that's surprisingly accurate.
Well, visually accurate, anyway. Not gameplay accurate - no damn way a Warrior could oneshot a Rogue. :wink:
This one makes me giggle so much. Well dong Jeph, well dong. ;D
Well dong? Sorry, no ERP here, this ain't Goldshire.
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Teabagging? Marigold, you're better than that!
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Teabagging? Marigold, you're better than that!
Hahahah.......Well dong indeed.
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Teabagging? Marigold, you're better than that!
So, we can see from this example, that she likely plays either Call of Duty or Halo. Considering this is Marigold, that actually makes complete sense. She doesn't have a prepubescent voice, so she isn't a squeaker... Most mysterious.
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I confess to being utterly lost in this discussion.
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On Dale stalking Marigold... He's never shown up to her house, or called, and none of their interactions have included threats of violence or sexual implications.
I might go so far as to say he's one of the only characters who understands Marigold's passion for gaming. That's why he engages her in their rivalry.
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Okay, he didn't change servers, exactly... For those of you who are irritable about it. He started a new character on a server he normally doesn't play on. It is not even remotely a big deal to have a character on a different server than your usual one; in fact, it is normal, because you can have 50 characters spread across however many servers you like, and each server only allows for 11 characters at a time (a very recent upgrade from the former limit of 10). This doesn't make it right that he's stalking her in-game, but it doesn't mean that he's done some grand gesture to do so. He's probably playing on his other toons (another word to refer to your characters, for those of you who haven't heard the term) now that his rogue is (probably) max level (I say that he's probably at max because he most likely wouldn't be going after Mar-Bear if he weren't).
Teabagging? Marigold, you're better than that!
So, we can see from this example, that she likely plays either Call of Duty or Halo. Considering this is Marigold, that actually makes complete sense. She doesn't have a prepubescent voice, so she isn't a squeaker... Most mysterious.
Actually, this has become a moderately common practice in WoW, regardless of other gaming habits.
And Akima, I don't think she's better than that... when it comes to Dale. It's probably not common practice for her, but for him, she's willing to stoop. :P Doesn't make it right, but it's probably the reason.
As for Dale and Marigold and the conversation regarding jerks: They're both being poo-heads, plain and simple. They both seem to have varying levels of attraction to each other but have no idea how to express it in any other way. In any case, Dale antagonizes her. She reacts viciously. They're both at fault in every situation they've been in together.
As for today's comic: Dale totally had it coming. :P And I love that she's named/renamed(?) her character to MarBear. <33 I also look forward to seeing how Dale will regroup and try again. I hope even more to see them run into each other IRL before their characters meet again.
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He has turned up at her house, but not because it was her house. The first time they met was when he delivered a pizza, hence "No tips for alliance scum!".
Hee. WHUD bagbagbagbagbagbagbagbag
de_la_Nae: My main (and only character) is Gallente, because Gallente-controlled space has borders with Ammar, Caldari and Minmatar. In the unlikely event that I angered one of the other races, I'd be able to travel to any other space without having to cross areas where I was persona non grata to the racial navy.
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Well, looks like this is turning into another video game comic, so I'm out. It's been fun, all.
Just kidding.
Unless Jeph really goes that way.
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I confess to being utterly lost in this discussion.
'sok, as long as you get the gist of the comic; pwning and teabagging... :laugh:
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I confess to being utterly lost in this discussion.
Me too, but looking up the more conspicuously mysterious words on Google is giving me links to the urban dictionary and I'm learning fast. Definitely read-only thread for me though, I wouldn't try to actually say anything.
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Dang, we need to create a QC-Corp in EVE...
Currently away from EVE (building a character in Skyrim for use in the soon-to-be-released Dragonborn expansion), but with a full skill queue. Amarr Cruiser at 5 is the goal, along with Recon (currently at 3). Aiming for a Curse.
All in all, I think Jeph put WoW in a nutshell: overkill and Schadenfreude.
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This must be done:
(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk40/AndalusMan/Misc/babydontdang_zps57cdc645.png)
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I like. I like a lot!
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For some reason, I'm reminded of the combination warpizza of vorpal devastation.
It was the late 70's. I guess you had to be there.
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Well, he may have taken some liberties with WoW, but panel five was quite accurate.
This must be done: <img>
Perfect!
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Am I the only one a little disappointed that the hit wasn't so hard it turned his eyes back to normal? :D
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No
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For some reason, I'm reminded of the combination warpizza of vorpal devastation.
It was the late 70's. I guess you had to be there.
YESSSSS do want.
de_la_Nae: My main (and only character) is Gallente,
Well...I guess it's okay. Space French isn't the worst thing you can be.
Minmatar 4eva yo!
This must be done: <img>
Perfect!
^
They both seem to have varying levels of attraction to each other but have no idea how to express it in any other way. In any case, Dale antagonizes her. She reacts viciously.
And now you're picturing that special episode of QC Babies where the normally laid back Dale just won't stop pulling little Marigold's hair! Can the QC Babies solve this dire mystery by nap time?!
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Marigold: queen of daaaaaang
Can she rock a bikini better than the original owner? check
Can she onehit a level 70 rogue? check
Has she had zero-g makeouts? check
daaaaaang
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang
/ / /
Dale has gone out of his way to seek out and antagonize Marigold. As others have pointed out, his entire approach has been basically an immature type of flirting: the equivalent of yanking ponytails and then expecting the girl to like him. Maybe that was appropriate at twelve but not so much as adults. And, of course, Marigold has now had a fling with the Orbital Scientist, so it's not like she is desperate to jump at any random dude that shows interest.
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Has Marigold ever asked Dale to stop following her in-game, or to stop teasing her, or indeed done anything at all to indicate that she doesn't want him to "stalk" her? I don't think I see it as stalking, I see it as two people making fun of each other, and isn't that how Faye and Angus got together in the first place? If Marigold says "stop it, I don't like you and please leave me alone" and Dale continues, then I'd see it as an issue. At the moment, I don't see a problem.
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I've forwarded today's comic to a friend who works at Blizzard, and she was highly amused.
As to my opinion, it's a funny comic, but Dale and Marigold are both being butts and I do hope to see some progression in their interactions soon.
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Yeah, I see less trouble with Dale's "stalking" than Angus'.
... or Hanner's.
... or Faye's.
... or even Steve's, I think.
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Err, I fail to see even the slightest, faintest hint of stalking anywhere.
Dale doesnt search for Marigold actively.
All he does is play the game the way its expected to be played.
You ARE supposed to attack the other party in WoW. If you're Alliance, you battle Horde, if you're Horde, you battle Alliance.
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Err, I fail to see even the slightest, faintest hint of stalking anywhere.
Dale doesnt search for Marigold actively.
All he does is play the game the way its expected to be played.
You ARE supposed to attack the other party in WoW. If you're Alliance, you battle Horde, if you're Horde, you battle Alliance.
Actally, I think he did once say he's targeted her character(s) specifically in battlegrounds and such.
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Dale doesnt search for Marigold actively.
He might be...but he might be getting delayed between stalks, by her repeating killing his character (I dunno, I have no idea how respawn works in Warcraft). But it seems to be a friendly comraderie thing with him, at least as far as I can tell. That's how I'd act if it were me...
but Dale and Marigold are both being butts and I do hope to see some progression in their interactions soon.
I dunno...I think Dale is going about it the right way. If that were me and one of my friends, we'd be stalking each other and beating the fuck out of each other in-game, as often as we could, and probably laughing our asses off at it. Marigold's just taking the Horde/Alliance thing way too seriously. It's not friggen Hatfield/McCoy, jeez...
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Actally, I think he did once say he's targeted her character(s) specifically in battlegrounds and such.
Of course he does, but thats still just playing the game.
If you dont like PvP in WoW, you can play on PvE servers.
Playing PvP servers means you know and want the possibility to be attacked by the other faction.
And of course its getting personal. Thats practically always the case.
I repeat: as long as Dale doesnt stalk Marigold in reallife, there is no stalking.
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I've never seen teabagging in world of warcraft, but with the way certain things are, like moon-guard, and goldshire, it wouldn't suprise me.
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I wonder what would happen if Momo was playing for Marigold again and Dale went to attack her.
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[Hi. New to forums, long time fan, lurked a while. This weeks strip forced me from shadows. HUGE Marigold fan; relate maybe too well. I have asperger syndrome; social interaction isn't natural to me and I have to work at it. I also obsessively play World of Warcraft (WoW). I've been known to compare real life (RL) to WoW and sometimes can't turn off the geek.]
In my personal experience with WoW friendly antagonizing is a tactic to get someone to change factions. It makes sense Marigold has more than one character because she plays so much and occasionally a single character can run out of things to do. (BTW I saw today's comic as a Tauren Paladin - which could easily stun and violate a rogue. Very pleased with it. :-D )
I'd love to see Marigold's obsession spill over and cause genuine interest (Hanners or Momo). Then see the newb experience WoW as a member of the Horde and find some level of dissatisfaction ~ leading to "experimentation" with the Alliance. Ultimately a tolerance develops.
My first "characters" were all Tauren. My heart is "For the Horde." However my personal interest in all things werewolf caused me to defect to the Alliance side with the release of Worgen. Recently there have been some developments within the lore of the game (lore is a big selling-point for me) painting a picture of racial unrest within the Horde. A new unbiased player to the game today, when presented with some lore, would only side Horde if they had an insatiable bloodlust. I don't see Hanners enjoying the Horde races. Even Momo would lean Alliance if not for Marigolds influence.
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Maybe, but I don't see Jeph going into it much more. While I'm definitely amused considering who'd play what, that doesn't seem his style.
...Dora would go Forsaken and Faye an orc by the way. JUST SAYIN'.
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Well, looks like this is turning into another video game comic, so I'm out. It's been fun, all. Just kidding. Unless Jeph really goes that way.
Good one! :D
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One day, Marigold will receive a daaaaaaang that she is receptive to. One day.
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Yeah, I see less trouble with Dale's "stalking" than Angus'.
... or Hanner's.
... or Faye's.
... or even Steve's, I think.
I understand what you're referring to with all the characters in your list except for The Pugnacious Peach. When do you see her as having stalked someone?
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Second (No tips for alliance scum!) (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1668)
This only shows that she started it. I doubt he knew anything about her until she brought WoW into the real world.
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That one is the case for her needing counseling: that was inability to participate in normal human interaction.
Spott_fan: welcome, new person!
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While I have been known to indulge in over-analysis with the best of them, I do think that was either a one-shot joke or before Marigold properly developed as a character.
EDIT: By which I mean before Jeph had worked out how he was going to write her.
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Maybe, but I don't see Jeph going into it much more. While I'm definitely amused considering who'd play what, that doesn't seem his style.
...Dora would go Forsaken and Faye an orc by the way. JUST SAYIN'.
What Jeph doesn't bother with or knows doesn't help tell the story he wants to tell, can't really stop us from having some fun with the topic. [and run it into the ground]
Martin - Human Paladin
Pint Size - Goblin Rogue
Faye - Dwarf Warrior - she had a tendency to hit things like Pintsize so .... [ see pintsize]
Dora - Forsaken Sorcerer
Hanners - Blood Elf Paladin [ keep an eye on MarBear] else Human Sorceress
Winslow - Gnome Cleric [engineer]
Sven -
Momo - Dranae Cleric
Angus -
Tai - Blood Elf Hunter
Raven - Troll Druid
Clinton - Gnome Wizard
Emily - Dranae Paladin ..... with a pack full of transformation items [totally random .. would definitely be carrying the party grenades ]
Yelling Bird - Goblin Merchant "I've got what you want!" **** **** **** [its the voice I hear it shouting in]
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Draenei*
Clerics in WoW are called Priests.
WoW combines the Sorcerer and Wizard classes into one class called the Mage. So under your list, Clinton would be a Gnome Mage. Dora, on the other hand, I feel would be more likely to be a Warlock, which is more like a Summoner class.
I feel Faye would lean more towards the Monk class. Pandaren Monk maybe?
I would see Hanners more as a Priest than a Mage or Warlock.
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I repeat: as long as Dale doesnt stalk Marigold in reallife, there is no stalking.
Some lawyers would disagree.
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I don't think Dale is engaging in it, but cyber-stalking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_stalking) is a real thing.
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I repeat: as long as Dale doesnt stalk Marigold in reallife, there is no stalking.
Some lawyers would disagree.
And anyway, there's a case to be made that he's stalking her in QCRealLife. It's just that his attempts end with him falling into or over a trashcan. Probably "innocent" enough that it's up to Marigold to say, though.
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there's a case to be made that he's stalking her in QCRealLife. It's just that his attempts end with him falling into or over a trashcan. Probably "innocent" enough that it's up to Marigold to say, though.
Perhaps his stalking is similar to Hanners stalking Marten...a curiosity...
My thoughts are that Dale has a crush...but since he's a gamer, and is crushing on a gamer, those "normal" courting methods won't cut it. He's got to defeat her in battle if he'll ever have her love (that's probably what he's thinking, at least).
Thus, with the Angus-stare (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290), the Faye-kini (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2291) overload (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2307), and Dale's utter defeat (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2359), Marigold is hereby crowned: "Queen of the Danged."
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To everyone saying Dale is stalking her, I don't see it that way. it's more of a "your arch-enemy who keeps popping up out of nowhere to harass you" type thing. She doesn't seem him as a legitimate threat, just an "enemy" from WoW. I hope this is getting towards those two possibly going out because Lord knows Marigold needs a man. (Space Guy be darned!)
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I don't even see it as him going out of the way to run into her, I think it's just him making the most of it when they do happen to cross paths. (In real life, I mean, he probably does seek her out in WoW).
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Err, I fail to see even the slightest, faintest hint of stalking anywhere.
Dale doesnt search for Marigold actively.
All he does is play the game the way its expected to be played.
You ARE supposed to attack the other party in WoW. If you're Alliance, you battle Horde, if you're Horde, you battle Alliance.
I do remember the one time that he popped up, following her when she was walking home from 7-11 where he seemed to be either trying to intimidate her or creep her out. This could be something kind of cute, but unlike the thing with Angus there isn't exactly an admitted attraction, it seems more like Calvin and Susie much older.
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Space Guy be darned!
Space guy lives in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
And yes, she needs a guy...I won't go so far as to say I ship them because it's not supposed to be spoken of on the forum,
but I wouldn't mind seeing this work.
it seems more like Calvin and Susie much older.
Wow, that takes me back...yeah...that actually works! Hah!
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(BTW I saw today's comic as a Tauren Paladin - which could easily stun and violate a rogue. Very pleased with it. :-D )
Yeah, at first I was like "wait, she actually reverse-ganked a rogue?" and then "oh, right, tauren pally." :-)
Welcome!
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I've never seen teabagging in world of warcraft, but with the way certain things are, like moon-guard, and goldshire, it wouldn't suprise me.
See, here I thought she was just doing a little victory dance, mirroring real life. I'm sad I was not right...
Disclaimer, I don't play, well, anything.
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Panel 3 Eighties hair (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EightiesHair) looks terrific on Claire! Please don't cut her hair off Jeph, pwetty please.
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Regards to the dale Marigold thing, I've always thought of their relationship as more of a friendly rivalry. Frienimies if you will. It might not seem that way due to Marigold's natural shyness at times, but I think if it was ever really making her uncomfortable, she'd say so or show some sign. Dale seems like a chill guy, and everyone else at the coffee shop (he's a fav customer after all) seems to have no issues with him, so I doubt were meant to think anything he is doing is not above board.
In regards to Marigolds hostility to him...I know from experience, it can be oddly gratifying to just wallow in how you're supposed to despise the opposing faction in wow.
Also, Alliance are scum, this is known.
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A friend tried to get me to play World of Warcraft once. I played it for about half an hour before getting bored. If I remember correctly, the point where I gave up was at a challenge where I was supposed to collect a certain number of pumpkins from a field.
Has she had zero-g makeouts? check
Does it really count as zero-g makeouts if she throws up in the middle of it?
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Oh no, Emily turned Claire into Boober Fraggle! :psyduck:
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Early strip. Have you seen the alternate version (http://jephjacques.com/image/40141719774)? Jeph put it on Tumblr and I was wondering if I'd missed a day.
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Well, it was quite an early strip. I was surprised...
Pfft goddamn head-rodents. Nobody tell Hannelore.
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I wonder if it actually is possible to get hands stuck in long hair...
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Three comics missed
1) But behaving like that to him makes you even more of a jerk Marigold.
2) You were warned Dale.
3) I wonder if there is such a thing as an EAIHT - Emergency AI Hair Technician, and would he/she arrive in an Ambulance?
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I wonder if it actually is possible to get hands stuck in long hair...
YES. YES IT IS.
It's quite a pain, for the one with the hands, and obviously the one with the hair...even more so if your hands get stuck in your own hair.
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Claire actually looks kind of adorable with her hair over her face like that.
Now if only people would learn not to let Emily anywhere near hair... she's building up a reputation. First Momo, then herself, then sort of Marten, now Claire. :P
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Damn gingers are taking our hands!
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Oh no, Emily turned Claire into Boober Fraggle! :psyduck:
Hooray, fraggle rock nostalgia. Also, now wondering if there are any Jim Henson chasid anthroPCs in the QC verse
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I don't know whom this is more hairible for, but both are pretty freaked out.
Fluffiness is not a term I'd associate with red hair, though. Redheads have the fewest hair follicles of any hair color, by about 40,000 (blonds have the most), and it's the quantity and fineness of hair that makes it fluffy.
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This is why gingers are evil! Cannibalistic Coiffures!
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Ahh, I forgot about the Space Guy! I hope he returns in some form. :-D
Today's comic: I am simultaneously both Emily and Claire in the third panel.
And now you're picturing that special episode of QC Babies where the normally laid back Dale just won't stop pulling little Marigold's hair! Can the QC Babies solve this dire mystery by nap time?!
YESSSS
I've never seen teabagging in world of warcraft, but with the way certain things are, like moon-guard, and goldshire, it wouldn't suprise me.
I once had a tank get us all killed and then proceed to do that. So it's not even just people from opposite factions. :/
[Hi. New to forums, long time fan, lurked a while. This weeks strip forced me from shadows. HUGE Marigold fan; relate maybe too well. I have asperger syndrome; social interaction isn't natural to me and I have to work at it. I also obsessively play World of Warcraft (WoW). I've been known to compare real life (RL) to WoW and sometimes can't turn off the geek.]
Welcome.... Horde scum. :-D (Nah, I'm just kidding. I don't really care about faction lines, and I have several Horde toons myself. :P) Seriously, welcome to the forums! We are mostly friendly! :)
Oh no, Emily turned Claire into Boober Fraggle! :psyduck:
Hooray, fraggle rock nostalgia. Also, now wondering if there are any Jim Henson chasid anthroPCs in the QC verse
I would get a Kermit AnthroPC right this second if it were available. I would also gladly take an AnthroPC of the Goblin King. :angel:
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Yeah, I see less trouble with Dale's "stalking" than Angus'.
... or Hanner's.
... or Faye's.
... or even Steve's, I think.
I understand what you're referring to with all the characters in your list except for The Pugnacious Peach. When do you see her as having stalked someone?
I was thinking of her fixation on Sven, peaking when she had his lawyer pegged as a prostitute. But perhaps being in a "relationship" (of sorts) precludes "stalking"? Eh, I dunno.
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Please don't cut her hair off Jeph, pwetty please.
..s-Seconded! Oh gods, now it's starting to seem like Marten will have to save her with scissors! ;_;
But perhaps being in a "relationship" (of sorts) precludes "stalking"? Eh, I dunno.
Well.. I suppose there's a reason a characterization of being "obsessively clingy and disrespecting of privacy" exists, but that it'd be socially strange to accuse someone of in-relationship stalking unless they're literally following you around like a predator. :psyduck:
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Wasn't the relationship over by that point?
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Marigirl resumed makeouts with Francis after getting over the spacesickness incident.
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Please don't cut her hair off Jeph, pwetty please.
..s-Seconded! Oh gods, now it's starting to seem like Marten will have to save her with scissors! ;_;
[ ... ]
It's been established that Jeph hates hair.
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Ahh, I forgot about the Space Guy! I hope he returns in some form. :-D
He will return..in pogs form. :mrgreen:
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[Thanks for the warm welcome!]
Am I the only one who thought of Of Mice and Men with today's comic? "... Soft bunny ..."
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See, here I thought she was just doing a little victory dance, mirroring real life. I'm sad I was not right...
I'm with you there, I thought the same at first glance, then I realised what she was actually doing...
Now if only people would learn not to let Emily anywhere near hair... she's building up a reputation. First Momo, then herself, then sort of Marten, now Claire. :P
Wait, what'd she do to Marten?
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See, here I thought she was just doing a little victory dance, mirroring real life. I'm sad I was not right...
I'm with you there, I thought the same at first glance, then I realised what she was actually doing...
Now if only people would learn not to let Emily anywhere near hair... she's building up a reputation. First Momo, then herself, then sort of Marten, now Claire. :P
Wait, what'd she do to Marten?
2320 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2320)
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Ah, I had forgotten that.
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My hair is like that... Her's is longer though.
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Redheads have the fewest hair follicles of any hair color, by about 40,000 (blonds have the most), and it's the quantity and fineness of hair that makes it fluffy.
I doubt that is true. East Asians have much thicker individual hair fibres and follicles than Europeans, for example, but fewer follicles per square centimetre, so it is likely that Emily has fewer hairs on her head than Claire.
I don't think Jeph hates hair. Dale has more hair than Dora, Faye and Hanners put together...
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Perhaps it's just easier to draw short hair?
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For some reason, I'm reminded of the combination warpizza of vorpal devastation.
It was the late 70's. I guess you had to be there.
YESSSSS do want.
I believe it's in Alarums & Excursions #50 (The Australian coup d'APA issue) or thereabouts.
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Wig. I'm guessing wig. Very real, as it probably has some AI-like process that makes it feel "fluffy", but it's probably a wig.
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Redheads have the fewest hair follicles of any hair color, by about 40,000 (blonds have the most), and it's the quantity and fineness of hair that makes it fluffy.
There's also the curliness factor. Many gingers shave hair that's as curly as your average 'fro (the red headed fro is well known), and it's very easy to get tangled in.
Edit: an excellent example!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70eqyqA8t1rtxbkyo1_500.jpg)
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Redfro!
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Wig. I'm guessing wig. Very real, as it probably has some AI-like process that makes it feel "fluffy", but it's probably a wig.
...I'm going to regret asking this, but... why?
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Because SCIENCE!
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Emily! Stop teasing Claire.
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Because SCIENCE!
Actually, I'm wondering if it's because plot.
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I'm assuming this:
- Despite Claire vehemently denying it, she is probably very physiologically similar to Clinton.
- I suspect that part of her reason for going trans* was because too many people noticed she looked a LOT like her not-a-twin little brother.
- As part of the procedure that gave Clinton his new hand, Claire may have already started inquiring about trans surgery and the like.
- AI may be significantly advanced in the QCverse that synthetic hair feels just like the real thing - and, in fact, the same docs that gave Clinton his hand may have developed Claire's hair. (In fact, trans surgery may be incredibly advanced in the QCverse to the point where she may have looked MORE identical to Clinton when she was a he.)
- Claire's hair may actually be based upon her "real" hair, but held on by special nanoprobes or whatever - which is what Emily got her hands stuck on.
- We all might be over-analyzing the joke, and Emily forgot to wash her hands after eating her lunch of peanut butter and bananas.
* - Don't crucify me for using the term wrong if I did! I'm just trying to make a point!
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I suspect that part of her reason for going trans* was because too many people noticed she looked a LOT like her not-a-twin little brother.
:psyduck:
Yep, regrettin'.
* - Don't crucify me for using the term wrong if I did! I'm just trying to make a point!
That is so not the problem.
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(http://25.media.tumblr.com/ebf5854733811c07ca154fdcb1a2592c/tumblr_mgfz5yArM11qzlnwmo1_500.gif)
It'd be hard to watch that and not react like Emily. Although I'm not sure why Tai thinks its obvious that her skin tone (which is what...slightly less white than Marten?) doesn't go with redhead.
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Huh I just realized she actually asked *permission* before doing something for once. Cool!
Calling it now: Emily has some sort of condition that causes her to experience hallucinations. She and Hannelore eventually collide and...I don't know, annihilate? That doesn't quite seem right now that I think about it.
I suspect that part of her reason for going trans* was because too many people noticed she looked a LOT like her not-a-twin little brother.
So quick confession time: I thought Claire was kind of nifty even before I found out we were in vaguely similar boats gender-wise, because I have a younger brother who is definitely *not* my twin (we were born almost a year apart, though our birthdays are only a couple days apart), but whom traditionally resembles me greatly.
Obviously I can't speak for everyone on this, but ever since I got past, like, 14, I didn't really mind that, though it I do find it nifty that I'm slowly more visually unique.
We're still totally Hivemind though.
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I'm laughing at all of you who think Claire is wearing a wig. With proper shampoo/conditioner regimen, any hair can be soft and fluffy. I think everyone's overthinking this. :P
She and Hannelore eventually collide and...I don't know, annihilate? That doesn't quite seem right now that I think about it.
That will be a very interesting Singularity...
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Can the next poll be "What's your favourite variant of Tai's hair?"
I'm personally torn between the big green hedge, the flannel and the ... choc chip cookie? :P
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Flannel is nice, but I think the rams horn suit her more.
If you know what I mean. 8)
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I have only one thing to say about Panel 3B
OVER 9000??!!!!
Thank you, I'm here till next Happy Grunthos Day
:-D
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i like the leopard print hair best.
i gotta find me a lady with leopard print hair.
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Which of Emily's coworkers will be the next to be treated like a toy?
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Flannel is nice, but I think the rams horn suit her more.
If you know what I mean. 8)
...*ponders*........!
HA! I think I see what you did there.
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Ok, what is Emily taking, and where can I get some?
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As a person married to a redhead, I relish being able to play with her hair :3
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Ok, what is Emily taking, and where can I get some?
Well, Tai once saw dragons after dropping acid, so...
Plus, we have the fabulous trips of Walter Bishop to corroborate those effects.
We can conclude LSD, with maybe some variations.
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Which of Emily's coworkers will be the next to be treated like a toy?
Marten. Called it.
She already found his hair to be funny. It's IE time. Impending Emily time.
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Which of Emily's coworkers will be the next to be treated like a toy?
Marten. Called it.
She already found his hair to be funny. It's IE time. Impending Emily time.
I agree. Marten's pretty much everyone's toy.
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I liked the moose antlers, but as an anime fan, I must profess a love of Super Saiyan Tai-geta.
Ok, what is Emily taking, and where can I get some?
She probably got into Tai's "supply" closet...
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Why is there NEVER anyone else in the library?
Also, broccoli hair ftw.
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To be honest, I'm a bit annoyed with these GIFs really. They are huge and slow to read, i.e. you have to wait to actually "get" what this is about.
I'm assuming this:
- I suspect that part of her reason for going trans* was because too many people noticed she looked a LOT like her not-a-twin little brother.
Err ... not really .. it might be a welcome side effect, but certainly NOT a *reason*.
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Slow to read? Meh, I guess it depends on the toater.
I'm assuming this:
- I suspect that part of her reason for going trans* was because too many people noticed she looked a LOT like her not-a-twin little brother.
Uhmmm... what? :psyduck:
About Tai's hair: I bet it's just "regular brown" in reality or even black.
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Why is there NEVER anyone else in the library?
I guess its a clone of the Sunnydale library[1].
[1] If you dont get it - thats a reference to the Buffy the vampire slayer tv show. Never ANYONE but the Scoobies was in the school library [2]
[2] Except for the one time when they lampshaded it that there usually never was anyone but the Scoobies in the school library [3].
[3] Yes, I read too much tvtropes.org ...
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They are huge and slow to read,
About double the size of the regular PNG files; not so way out of line for an occasional gag, I'd say. Jeph pays for the bytes downloaded by his readers, so he's conscious that it's in his own interest not to go over the top.
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..s-Seconded! Oh gods, now it's starting to seem like Marten will have to save her with scissors! ;_;
/situation averted
- I suspect that part of her reason for going trans* was because too many people noticed she looked a LOT like her not-a-twin little brother.
Completely absurd and nonsensical.
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This is my favourite one for ages. I mean, it's just fantastic. Go hair!
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Oh, the days when 70K was extravagant for a web page.
I can't wait for Jeph to transition to 24 bit color. I did 2 years ago and haven't looked back.
:) Of course, I have, like 30 readers lol sigh
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Red hair certainly is possible with Tai's skin. In college I knew a girl with chocolate-brown skin and flaming orange-red hair. It was quite striking, actually.
Yes, it was her natural hair color. I, uh, checked. :wink:
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Red hair certainly is possible with Tai's skin.
Human genetics is quite a bit more variable than simple groupings like putting those together, yeah. It's just more common. Example of something rarer:
(http://www.earthtimes.org/newsimage/solomons-blonds-fun_5512.jpg)
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Thank you Jeph for the "hair gif". I'm still chuckling. And that's a good thing
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I'm laughing at all of you who think Claire is wearing a wig. With proper shampoo/conditioner regimen, any hair can be soft and fluffy. I think everyone's overthinking this. :P
I was thinking that Claire was wearing a wig for plot reasons - as in, Emily would pull to get her hands un-stuck, and the wig would come off. And then we'd get to see just how tactless Emily could be. But, Jeph didn't go that route, it seems.
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Red hair certainly is possible with Tai's skin.
Human genetics is quite a bit more variable than simple groupings like putting those together, yeah. It's just more common. Example of something rarer:
(http://www.earthtimes.org/newsimage/solomons-blonds-fun_5512.jpg)
oh my god so cute :psyduck:
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Why is there NEVER anyone else in the library?
I guess its a clone of the Sunnydale library[1].
[1] If you dont get it - thats a reference to the Buffy the vampire slayer tv show. Never ANYONE but the Scoobies was in the school library [2]
[2] Except for the one time when they lampshaded it that there usually never was anyone but the Scoobies in the school library [3].
[3] Yes, I read too much tvtropes.org ...
Maybe all the sensible people stayed away from the library because it was, you know, right on top of the Hellmouth.
Like how in the last season, nobody actually knew what kind of apocalypse was about to happen, but they all left town anyway.
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Just to comment on the hair thing, I "like" the antlers.
So who else would moose their hair?
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Why is there NEVER anyone else in the library?
I guess its a clone of the Sunnydale library[1].
[1] If you dont get it - thats a reference to the Buffy the vampire slayer tv show. Never ANYONE but the Scoobies was in the school library [2]
[2] Except for the one time when they lampshaded it that there usually never was anyone but the Scoobies in the school library [3].
[3] Yes, I read too much tvtropes.org ...
Maybe all the sensible people stayed away from the library because it was, you know, right on top of the Hellmouth.
Like how in the last season, nobody actually knew what kind of apocalypse was about to happen, but they all left town anyway.
But nobody knew that the centre of the Hellmouth was right below the library until later on, and the library was definitely empty during the first season.
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Just want to say something about jwhouk's assertion about changing gender so as not to be "twins"...
a) I don't need to tell you that that's not a reason to "go trans", and
2) it probably increased the likelihood of being mistaken for twins. If they're different genders, they're fraternal twins - but if they're the same gender and only look a bit alike, with noticeable differences, well they can't be identical, now can they?
Me and my 15 month younger brother were mistaken for twins for years, until there were noticeable differences (mainly size - he got taller, I got rounder).
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...There's a reason I state this. Namely, my cousin.
Who was a twin.
And she is now a he.
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...There's a reason I state this. Namely, my cousin.
Who was a twin.
And she is now a he.
I'd wager if you told him "You're just trans because you don't want to look like your sister!" he'd take pretty serious offense to that. Just accidentally being genetically close to a transperson doesn't automatically grant you great insight. That also doesn't show any causation at all.
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Pretty sure, when looking at Claire, that the likelihood is she just felt trans was Right. It can easily be guessed that it is simply FATE for her to be adorable.
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Just to comment on the hair thing, I "like" the antlers.
So who else would moose their hair?
I give you the highest possible compliment one punster can give another:
GROOOAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN ...
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Wig. I'm guessing wig. Very real, as it probably has some AI-like process that makes it feel "fluffy", but it's probably a wig.
I disagree.
a) Wig would likely have come off with Emily's pulling of it (unless it was VERY well held on)
b) Claire says she'd been growing it for four years, likely around the time she started transitioning. Four years worth of hair growing would make it pretty long.
c) A former flatmate of mine who is also ginger has a similar level of bushiness in the hair department so it is entirely possible that Claire is the same.
Just to comment on the hair thing, I "like" the antlers.
So who else would moose their hair?
You, sir, just won the internet with that pun.
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There have been other people in the library: the ravers, the Bros, people checking out books (and trying to unsuccessfully while Marten and Tai were sharing an erotic image) and flirting with Marten.
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I was about to say "but those people were only there for plot purposes" but I guess that is kind of the point. It's like we never see the characters going to the bathroom except when it's part of a joke or the plot. If Jeph drew every detail of every minute of every scene, each QC day would take about a century.
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So who else would moose their hair?
I wish I'd said that. By the time I'd thought of it, you'd already posted. My hair-joke took too long to gell...
These gif-jokes must take Jeph a lot of extra time, but the last two have made me giggle.
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Well, try not to feel too cut up about it. It's not worth getting into a lather about.
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Rinse. Repeat.
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Pilchard's avatar and my own make a curious pair...
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At WAYF's request: Your favorite kind of Tai Hair?
Redhead, straight up. 1 (8.3%)
...wouldn't that be "lesbian up"? 1 (8.3%)
Leopard spots! 0 (0%)
PLAID! 3 (25%)
Rams horns! 0 (0%)
Big pink bunny ears! 1 (8.3%)
Moose antlers! 1 (8.3%)
Big Green Afro Wig! 0 (0%)
Dragonball Z - IT'S OVER 9000!!!!! 0 (0%)
Fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy 5 (41.7%)
Total Members Voted: 12
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Pilchard's avatar and my own make a curious pair...
You guys make my head spin.
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I am disappointed that Emily didn't include Princess Leia bagel-hair as one of the visualizations...
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You get the feeling that mom or dad did a little too much LDS at Berkley back in the 70's?
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You get the feeling that mom or dad did a little too much LDS at Berkley back in the 70's?
Didn't know there were that many Mormons at Berkeley.
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You get the feeling that mom or dad did a little too much LDS at Berkley back in the 70's?
Didn't know there were that many Mormons at Berkeley.
And aren't they supposed to have rules about that sort of behaviour?
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(facepalm)
No one gets the STIV:TVH joke?
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I DID!
Double dumbass on all of you.
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(facepalm)
No one gets the STIV:TVH joke?
I don't even get "STIV:TVH".
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I don't even get "STIV:TVH".
My brain is telling me it's "Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home" from reading IV as a number and googling what the Star Trek films were called (because I had no hope of guessing those letters). Dunno the reference, though. :-P
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I googled that for you. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHxFNFWlZc)
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Kirk used the quote to explain Spock's erratic (for the 20th Century) behavior. The wrong acronym for acid was used to make it seem that Kirk wasn't exactly all there, either.
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I don't even get "STIV:TVH".
My brain is telling me it's "Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home"
I realized right away that it was Star Trek 4, but I didn't know the subtitle so my brain filled in with "The Vulcan Hard-on". And I don't even read that much slash fiction.
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"that much"...
Keep telling yourself that, OK?
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Sorry Sassafras, but...
MUST... READ... ALL THE SLASHFIC!
I'd really worry then.
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Kirk used the quote to explain Spock's erratic (for the 20th Century) behavior. The wrong acronym for acid was used to make it seem that Kirk wasn't exactly all there, either.
I love that movie, and that's too minutia-y even for me. X_X Go find me some whales.
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I've never seen it, but...nuclear wessels.
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BWAAAAAHAHAHA...Chekov gets me every time.
...Kidney dialysis. "What is this, the dark ages? Here take this pill."
That's right, kids...don't take pills from strangers, unless they're from the future...because that's totally legit.
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"that much"...
Keep telling yourself that, OK?
What I meant is that I prefer straight-up fanart to fanfic. :-D
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Thanks for the poll, jwhouk.
Eventually I had to go with Plaid. It's just the best. ;D
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unless they're from the future
McCoy is totally 20th century cranky...no easy way to tell!
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unless they're from the future
McCoy is totally 20th century cranky...no easy way to tell!
Now there's a fanfic in the making; McCoy is secretly a time-displaced 20th C doctor who was in a hospital that got hit by something weird and experimental during the run up to the eugenics wars and now he has to adapt to the future with all those aliens and funky hyposprays, without giving himself away.
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That makes a scary amount of sense.
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Explains why he's always so pissy and depressed about everything.
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Would now be a good time for a colorful metaphor?
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Damnit DSL I'm a doctor, not a clever writer with a deep grasp of metaphors!
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I'm sorry, the joke's dead, Jim.
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I am picking up a number of distress signals.
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Crap, I need to change out of this red shirt.
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I don't even get "STIV:TVH".
My brain is telling me it's "Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home" from reading IV as a number and googling what the Star Trek films were called (because I had no hope of guessing those letters). Dunno the reference, though. :-P
Thanks! My guess was "Star Trek IV: The Vomit Heaves" but I restrained myself (until now. I'm not much of a Star Trek fan, except for Deep Space 9.)
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Deep Space 9 is the only Star Trek series I've seen in its entirety (I've seen First Contact and a couple tOS episodes, but that's it otherwise).
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I don't get into the whole "Star Trek rules" vs. "Star Trek sucks"
galaxy-wide conflagration kerfluffle except to find it hilariously entertaining (especially when Trekkies and Warsies go at it) but for my money, "ST: Save the Whales" was the best of the movies, simply because it was what various elements of the fandom have been saying Trek was -- drama, adventure, social consciousness, humor all in one, even if a little hammer-handed at times. Also,"Hello! Computer!" and Sulu flying a helicopter and <takeivoice>Oh My!</takeivoice>
Star Trek 90210, featuring the Abramsprise, was also entertaining for different reasons.
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Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are some of the only shows my father and I could watch together when I was growing up, so they hold a special place in my heart. Plus, it didn't hurt that TNG had that guy from Reading Rainbow on it.
Man, the episode where he talked about books and "dinerspeak" and then accidentally ordered a spaghetti sandwich, that was a great episode.
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At WAYF's request: Your favorite kind of Tai Hair?
Redhead, straight up. 2 (6.7%)
...wouldn't that be "lesbian up"? 1 (3.3%)
Leopard spots! 0 (0%)
PLAID! 7 (23.3%)
Rams horns! 2 (6.7%)
Big pink bunny ears! 1 (3.3%)
Moose antlers! 2 (6.7%)
Big Green Afro Wig! 0 (0%)
Dragonball Z - IT'S OVER 9000!!!!! 3 (10%)
Fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy 12 (40%)
Total Members Voted: 30
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Sorry Sassafras, but...
MUST... READ... ALL THE SLASHFIC!
I'd really worry then.
Try this :-D (http://www.bearblue.com/library/fanfiction/stvoyagerfanfiction/b7/modification.html)
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Does Tai hair require hair ties?
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... Man, the episode where he talked about books and "dinerspeak" and then accidentally ordered a spaghetti sandwich, that was a great episode.
... and THAT reminded me of THIS. (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/dr_hermes/14666255/851543/851543_original.jpg)
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...reminded me of THIS. (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/dr_hermes/14666255/851543/851543_original.jpg)
That's awesome, and exactly the sort of dinerspeak I meant. You're awesome.
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I used to watch reading rainbow with my girls. Then when they were a little older we watched some old episodes of TNG, and they saw LeVar there as well.
Yes, I'm old enough to be your father. And I remember that episode of reading rainbow, too!
Now go rent a copy of Roots. You're in for a surprise...
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Welp, so much for the surprise...
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Not if he doesn't figure it out. ;)
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... Man, the episode where he talked about books and "dinerspeak" and then accidentally ordered a spaghetti sandwich, that was a great episode.
... and THAT reminded me of THIS. (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/dr_hermes/14666255/851543/851543_original.jpg)
... and THAT reminded me of THIS. (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100524)
8-)
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Maybe Claire gets her hair from her mom http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1983
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Only Leonard McCoy could make a late-20th surgical procedure sound like an attempt to let the evil spirits out.
(And I love him for it.)
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He took the "cloak it in medical latin and it sounds worse" ball and ran with it, though. "My god, man! Do you want an acute case on your hands? This woman has immediate postprandial, upper-abdominal distention!"
Scotty and Bones: The Star Trek comedy team.
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An acute case of a full stomach after eating?
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McCoy: "Cramps."
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Maybe Claire gets her hair from her mom http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1983
That is a terrifying and amusing thought.
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Finvara, do you realize your name means "fine wares" in Swedish?
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I'm pretty sure the creepy hairdresser isn't old enough to be the mother of someone in their twenties. She only looks late twenties herself, to me.
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Disagree. 40's, to me.
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I'm gonna side with Barmy on this one.
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I'm thinking in between, 30's. Her rounder face, especially in the first panel makes her look older than Marten, even with his bags to me. Other than Jim and Henry (http://www.questionablecontent.net/1515), I think Jeph has struggled with ageing characters and their designs ageing relies on the grey hair.
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It would be so fun, though, if Marten were to bump into Claire's parents and she was one of them.
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It's not just from how she looks. She seems more like a university student sort of person - all idealistic about her artistic goals, optimistic, a trifle deluded...
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It's not just from how she looks. She seems more like a university student sort of person - all idealistic about her artistic goals, optimistic, a trifle deluded...
I actually get the opposite from that very thing; new artists are typically trying to please, to find a patron who will sell their work. They don't get the confidence to do the really crazy stuff until they're established, at least on the local scene of not the national, and can afford to have something relatively big fail hard.
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Darn, I missed the Trek talk.
Does anyone remember where we parked?