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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: GarandMarine on 28 Sep 2013, 22:00
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Curse my sudden and inevitable betrayal! Muwahahaha. None of you saw this coming did you?
Any way, here's your thread, and your poll.
I just had to do one.
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Back up in your ass with the resurrection.
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Sounds painful.
Fortunately, we have a cream for that!
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If anyone hasn't seen Office Space, my post was referring to what I voted for.
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Ah, okay, I was wondering about that...
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This scene. (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=528_1301224180)
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I get a kick out of when they show that movie these days on Comedy Central, and the entire song gets bleeped out because none of it is considered acceptable on American TV.
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Haha, yeah, that's why I didn't post a Youtube version of it, it's all censored because apparently nobody has an actual copy of the movie, just the Comedy Central version.
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*Burp*
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Faye and Dale should maintain quiet professionalism in their working relationship, what they will do is of course up to Jeph.
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I don't think Faye would acknowledge the existence of an equal enough to warrant quiet professionalism.
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Yay swords!
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Eggs... and bad fish? :psyduck:
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For reference of those who have blocked Twitter or something: Apparently, Jeph had issues connecting to the site.
The comic can be found here: http://t.co/muXSxAyYpj
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I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS.
I JUST WANTED (sugar and cream mixed with) COFFEE.
Marigold wouldn't make a good transhuman cyborg, I think.
Yay, a noodle incident to analyze from Hannelore! I'm going to guess the exhaust of Invisible Plane.
I like Marigolds shirt.
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Oh, I forgot to point out the obvious.
Marigold!
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I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS.
After all, it's the first time I've seen him without his glasses glowing since the first time he delivered a pizza to my place...
His eyes make her turn all jelly-insides. You can tell by her body language.
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Can someone explain the title? Usually they make sense to me...
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Sub vs Dub: The ultimate anime argument/flame war.
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And about as dumb an argument as the Console+PC wars. Both Japanese dubbing (voice acting) with English subtitles and English dubbing have their pluses and minuses for an English speaking viewer, and that's about all that needs to be said.
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I also find there's an age issue; the older mind - I'm not too embarrassed to say - is simply not as fast at some things as a younger one. I prefer dubs (when available) because I can keep up, whereas with subs, although I can keep up with the reading, it can severely impact the attention given to the rest of the screen. In some cases, watching can become really hard work (Bakemonogatari is the extreme example I know, though that one's probably hard work for anyone!).
I've just ordered a film from Australia, because their release has a dub; one US release has it, but is out of print, and I can't find a copy anywhere, and the UK release is subs-only.
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Heh, the WoW player in me wanted to go all Illidan and shout YOU ARE NOT PREPARED after reading today's comic. Thankfully for my roommates I didn't. Also I'm upset that Loki beat me to posting the video. I hate you, Loki. :x
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I love the smell of cooked Allosaurus in the morning.
Also, never kill those blondes. They are too rare. Even less redheads. They are even more rare.
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Also I'm upset that Loki beat me to posting the video. I hate you, Loki. :x
I love you too, ChaoSera.
Would your rage be diminished by the fact that I was able to post it before you because I couldn't sleep?
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I suppose so. I slept like a baby. Probably a huge, 90kg heavy, hairy, snoring baby, but still a baby. And then my alarm clock woke me up and gently reminded me of the fact that I have an oral exam in (now) 2 and a half hours.
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Good luck!
My exams for this semester are all past me... one way or other.
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Thanks!
It would have been the same for me, if I hand't screwed up a grand total of 3 exams this semester. And already screwed up the follow-up exam for one of them, too. :psyduck:
I was looking forward to finishing my Bachelor's next semester, but now I have to take an additional one, just so I can redo one friggin exam.
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My mid-semester exams are spread through out October (and are a rather small percentage of my grade), and my end of semester exams are early to mid December. Those are the ones that scare me.
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Noodle Incident (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident) ahoy! Subs vs. Dubs is obvious*, but I wouldn't have got the WoW reference.
For most cinema in languages I don't know, I prefer subs, but all the anime I own on DVD (Everything from the GITS universe (except Arise which I have not yet seen) and Planetes; I'm not a big fan) are English-dubbed, so... *shrug*
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omg Marigold is SO CUTE in this strip I WAS NOT PREPARED
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all the anime I own on DVD (...) are English-dubbed, so... *shrug*
But they presumably have the Japanese audio and English subs as well? Very few don't (in my collection, one very old DVD which is a straight copy from VHS, and one where the Japanese company enforced dub-only in their licence). Presumably your player selects the English by default.
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Subs vs. Dubs is a never ending battle. I watch a mix of both. There are some anime where the English dub is so atrocious I literally won't watch it except in Japanese. (Sailor Moon and Love Hina for some examples off the top of my head) Others have put as much effort and skill into their English voice cast as their Japanese voice cast and have a fantastic dub to show for it. (GITS, Hellsing Ultimate, Outlaw Star. Dragon Ball/DBZ) and every where else is middle ground. If I'm just vegging I'll probably watch the sub, if I'm painting or doing stuff in addition to watching the DVD or whatever I need a dub so I don't have to look up constantly. This goes for the more traditional foreign film I watch as well.
Re the strip: Ah! Marigold was so cute! and I want to work somewhere with sword fighting training!
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Cowboy Bebop has to be mentioned for quality dubs (to the extent that as far as I know, even people who generally prefer subs will watch CB dubbed).
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Yes CB's dub is excellent.
Wow I just had to look twice to see that this wasn't the anime thread.
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There's an anime thread? I should check that out later.
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It sounds like "not prepared for this" is a cultural reference I'm missing. If so, where is it from?
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There's an anime thread? I should check that out later.
Behold: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,25929.0.html
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There's an anime thread? I should check that out later.
Clearly you don't get around enough!
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It sounds like "not prepared for this" is a cultural reference I'm missing. If so, where is it from?
Look up (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29316.msg1189795.html#msg1189795).
Although what game, I don't know. Not WoW, I don't think?
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It sounds like "not prepared for this" is a cultural reference I'm missing. If so, where is it from?
Look up (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29316.msg1189795.html#msg1189795).
Although what game, I don't know. Not WoW, I don't think?
No, that's WoW. If I'm not entirely mistaken, that was part of the Trailer for Burning Crusade, but I'm not sure. In either case, Illidan yells YOU ARE NOT PREPARED at you, at the end of the speech he gives when you encounter him on the roof of Black Temple. He then proceeded to bash the shit out of your raid.
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I am terrified that this will end with sexy butler dale. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1613)
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Soooo Marigold lost quite a bit of weight? Is that supposed to mean something? With this comic I can't tell if it was an oversight or a deep seeded plot thread to be reveled later as totally planned out.
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So what if she did? It's Jephs decision how he draws his characters. Not yours.
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She looks about the same to me... I think it's just her clothes and the angle
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Magical Love Gentlemen shall become reality as Marigold begins to learn the Suzumiya-ryu of reality warping. Butler Dale, Wine Steward Marten, Brooding Pianist Sven, all shall become a reality.
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I think it's just that he's drawing Marigold a bit differently. She also seems a bit shorter to me in this one than she has in the past.
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She's still pretty consistent with Faye. Neither was ever supposed to be 'fat', just a bit chubby. The art just overdid it for a bit.
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yeah, with an artist like Jeph who likes to evolve his art, the rule of thumb (IMO) should be if they've not appeared in a few weeks/strips/storylines, there's no need to read anything into a character's different appearance. If it's intentional then the other characters will comment on it and it'll be part of the storyline.
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Can someone explain the title? Usually they make sense to me...
Sub vs Dub: The ultimate anime argument/flame war.
Um... what does that have to do with the title "Anime Trap"?
Or were you just referring to Marigold's shirt, instead of replying to the previous post by ysth?
I'm totally bewildered by the title, too.
Soooo Marigold lost quite a bit of weight?
She looks a little skinny in the first panel, but I think it's mostly because he cuts off her upper half at the waist. She looks pretty normal to me in the second panel, where you can see her hips.
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She's never been that heavy, just has a poor self-image. Also she's curvy, and how she looks depends some on the angle as well. And she's always been pretty short - it's just that Dale's really tall when he doesn't slump.
He weight may well yoyo some too, depending on how often she remembers to eat during a raid / how much junk food she mindlessly devours during a raid.
Then again, Bellisario's Maxim (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BellisariosMaxim) applies.
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Jeph has said outright that the art style will vary and that we're wrong if we try to interpret it as plot communication.
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"Wrong" isn't exactly a word I like to throw around so easily when it comes to interpretation.
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In relation to interpretation, possibly - but IICIH quoted Jeph as using the words "plot communication", meaning "the message that Jeph intended to convey through the art".
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Ahh, gotcha.
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Hello, mods? FYI, the comic numbers are off on this thread title.
(on topic) I wonder if I want to know what Hanners is talking about in the first panel.
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The world may never know.
The silliest explanation I can come up with on short notice is that she's referring to Winslow farts.
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The WCDT numbers have been wrong for months, now I look back at them!
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At least the dates are correct! :)
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It is really weird and kind of offputting to me how obsessive some people get about Faye’s (and it’s always Faye) figure. My art naturally varies from strip to strip, if she looks “skinnier” or something it’s just how I happened to draw her that day.
With Faye working out and reducing the booze it would have been plausible that she was being drawn skinnier for a reason, but that wasn't it.
If Momo is cooking for Marigold, Marigold may be in better shape.
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You can never truly be prepared for this.
As for the Sub v Dub debate, I can take either depending on my general mood, though I will admit it's more work to follow in Sub mode. I do have some issues with Dubbing, and sometimes it makes me cringe when I hear/see it in the original Japanese with Subtitles.
Then again, some things just sound ..... better in the original.
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I didn't spend masses of free time studying Japanese to watch stinkin' dubs.
(Though I must admit modern dubs have greatly improved.)
The great thing about subs is I can now understand occasional bits of dialog.
It's a wonderful feeling when the little light bulb goes on. (Yatta! Wakatta!)
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I can't stand subbing, because Japanese is completely different from tonal cues, and I can't make any sense of the dialogue because it's not spoken in a fashion that communicates meaning that matches the subbed words. The only anime I watch subbed is Bible Black, because the dub of that is almost legendarily awful.
In totally unrelated news, was I the only one who thought that Panel 1 was Hannelore opening up to Marigold about "lady issues"? This is probably very wrong-headed of me, but it was all I could think of with that context (and it's now driving me nuts to not be able to come up with a better idea).
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What is Hanners attempting to say in the last panel? I have no idea how to decipher it.
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"I think my face is stuck like this."
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In totally unrelated news, was I the only one who thought that Panel 1 was Hannelore opening up to Marigold about "lady issues"?
I have a...different idea.
(http://i.imgur.com/UvKuvLZ.jpg)
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I didn't spend masses of free time studying Japanese to watch stinkin' dubs.
(Though I must admit modern dubs have greatly improved.)
The great thing about subs is I can now understand occasional bits of dialog.
It's a wonderful feeling when the little light bulb goes on. (Yatta! Wakatta!)
I'll concur with this even with my admitted enjoyment of a good dub. It's fun to be able to pick out tonal cues (like the poster below you mentioned) and words/dialogue. I need to get back on the pony and reteach myself what I forgot after visiting Tokyo this summer. I want to try to go back possibly this spring so I can catch the cherry blossom season while my brother's still stationed there.
Also this comic is win. Over joyed Hanners is over joyed.
Also everyone who picked the Hanners/Emily will do something surreal option may award themselves on e-cookie.
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The WCDT numbers have been wrong for months, now I look back at them!
When did it start? :oops:
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I bet Hanners mother warned her about that too.
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on the subbed vs dubbed, I usually go for subbed, but there are a few where i prefer the dubbed version. FLCL is one where I believe that the dubbed version is better than the subbed version.
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At least Hanners isn't making squee noises (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1663) right now.
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Can any native english speaker or something tell me what Hanners is saying in the last panel ? :?
Because I have no clue ...
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At least Hanners isn't making squee noises (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1663) right now.
Oh no, she is, just in a frequency band humans can't hear.
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"I think my face is stuck like this", as distorted by being spoken through an immobile smiling face. The words in the bubble are not an English sentence taken literally, but are phonetic representations of what she would sound like.
Umbershdood?
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The WCDT numbers have been wrong for months, now I look back at them!
When did it start? :oops:
On reflection, I'm wrong - it must have got out of step when he missed a whole day because of his back two weeks ago, so it's only last week and this. Sorry to imply that it was worse!
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But they presumably have the Japanese audio and English subs as well?
Yes they do. I suppose I should have said that they default to English-dubbed since they're distributed by Madman.
Stuck-face Hanners and the rictus grin of doom!
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Obviously I'm not about to take any 'message' from the way Marigold is drawn, but I don't really like the way she looks in these strips. Especially the hair. I guess I need to wait a few months until Jeph evolves his style again...
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I kinda agree with you there Biscuit. It looks a bit like Mar-bear's got a massive upside-down anime-sweat-droplet made of hair on the side of her head.
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The ugly truth comes out: Hannelore is a shipper. :-D
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The ugly truth comes out: Hannelore is a shipper. :-D
We've known that a while. She would be quite happy if Marigold had a reasonable number of babies. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2139)
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As an aside, Jeph was mentioned in today's XKCD What If (http://what-if.xkcd.com/65/). It seems he's made 900 meters of tweets. And that doesn't even count the QC cast accounts.
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The title says it all!
:D
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Helb Dale!
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"There are always a lot of customers just off-panel, I swear." I find this hilarious.
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Helb, Dale! :)
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"There are always a lot of customers just off-panel, I swear." I find this hilarious.
It's like all those private detectives in novels, films, TV etc. We never get to see the cases where they actually get paid...
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Helb, Dale!
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I don't know who the worried-looking brunette is but she was fun to draw
I'm calling it right now, we'll be introduced to another minor character shortly. Or at least, getting some dialogue out of her.
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Could as well be that it's a character from another comic. Jeph has done that multiple times already.
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Could as well be that it's a character from another comic. Jeph has done that multiple times already.
If that's the case, Jeph would know at least that much about her, if not her name.
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"There are always a lot of customers just off-panel, I swear." I find this hilarious.
It's like all those private detectives in novels, films, TV etc. We never get to see the cases where they actually get paid...
In the Futurama game, it starts off with the Professor selling Planet Express due to running out of money, partly because "you three never actually charged anybody!"
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... Meanwhile, Sarah, Meena and Nat have been sitting in the corner booth at Irony Cafe all this time.
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IIRC Jeph has put several people into the comic, while explaining that he doesn't know the characters.
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I kinda agree with you there Biscuit. It looks a bit like Mar-bear's got a massive upside-down anime-sweat-droplet made of hair on the side of her head.
I think it might be a conscious reference to the way Chiyo-chan in Azumanga Daioh always wears her hair. Still not loving it though.
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Almost certainly, given how highly we know Jeph regards Azumanga Daioh.
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I don't know who the worried-looking brunette is but she was fun to draw
I'm calling it right now, we'll be introduced to another minor character shortly. Or at least, getting some dialogue out of her.
I hope not. We've got too many sideburned brunettes in this comic already. (I think her hairstyle looks an awful lot like Dora's.)
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Sideburned?
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Dora has hair coming down the side of her face like that, which at least one character described as sideburns. They said something like "maybe it's the sideburns", and Dora said "I'm bringing them back," exactly the way Marten said it in an earlier strip. Sorry I don't know the strip number...
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I...really would like to see that, because Dora with sideburns? That does not ring a bell.
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I wonder if we saw some foreshadowing of a future plot in this episode. Dora has been dropping hints about money, even though COD is doing well. I'm wondering if we are going to see Dale bring a different work ethic to COD and possibly increase sales. This could place him in contention with Faye.
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This could place him in contention with Faye.
Why? It'd make her job easier.
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Am I missing something? What's with the Helbing?
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Dora has hair coming down the side of her face like that, which at least one character described as sideburns. They said something like "maybe it's the sideburns", and Dora said "I'm bringing them back," exactly the way Marten said it in an earlier strip. Sorry I don't know the strip number...
I swear I remember this too. So either you're right, or you have the superpower to make people remember comics that never actually happened.
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Am I missing something? What's with the Helbing?
Hanners writing on the blackboard: "Say helb to our new employee, Dale!"
Or (heretically, I know) possibly: "Say hello to our new employee, Dale!"
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Am I missing something? What's with the Helbing?
(http://i1042.photobucket.com/albums/b429/zebgodwin/sayhelb.png)
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Ah! I didn't notice it, but I'd have read it as hello anyway I think - I'm not great at spotting stuff like that.
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Dora has hair coming down the side of her face like that, which at least one character described as sideburns. They said something like "maybe it's the sideburns", and Dora said "I'm bringing them back," exactly the way Marten said it in an earlier strip. Sorry I don't know the strip number...
I swear I remember this too. So either you're right, or you have the superpower to make people remember comics that never actually happened.
Maybe you're thinking of a different comic (http://betweenfailures.com/comics1/1128-sideburs-2-electric-boogaloo)?
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I think "Helb" should become the greeting to all new people in the newbie forum.
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At least the newbies would understand that greeting more than the current ones :psyduck:
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I enjoy "Helb!"
Today's strip actually made me feel really satisfied. The idea customers are always just off panel will make looking at some strips a bit funnier.
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OMG!!
It's the QC gang from another reality!!!
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At least the newbies would understand that greeting more than the current ones :psyduck:
I've been here since '04, and I don't understand a word that's said.
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The switch initiates Kamen Espresso.
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It initiates 'Transformer Mode'
And at the same time, calls Deathbot 3000
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Transformer Mode? Like this (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=745)?
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OH HEY, that's how the "training" went on my last job...
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Tomorrow's comic:
Dale: Marigold, can I ask a HUGE favor of you? Could I maybe stay at your place for a little while? The Coffee of Doom burned down and Dora threatened to find me at my home and kill me. Faye, on the other hand, was strangely understanding (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=22)...
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(http://i.imgur.com/zh5XiJ7s.jpg)
*click click click click click*
Man! That urge would be overwhelming for me. I wonder how much damage an uninitiated user could actually do to that machine.
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Did anybody else think "If he still has the google glasses, this should be no problem." Look up the model number and there's a manual and/or a video guide online. Google is the first response for anybody under 25 or so in OUR universe.
Plus, espresso machines blow boiling milk or something. You don't want to learn that by experimentation.
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Dora has hair coming down the side of her face like that, which at least one character described as sideburns. They said something like "maybe it's the sideburns", and Dora said "I'm bringing them back," exactly the way Marten said it in an earlier strip. Sorry I don't know the strip number...
I swear I remember this too. So either you're right, or you have the superpower to make people remember comics that never actually happened.
Maybe you're thinking of a different comic (http://betweenfailures.com/comics1/1128-sideburs-2-electric-boogaloo)?
Omigod, you're totally right. That is exactly the strip I was thinking of, and one of the other characters in that comic (Thomas, I think) had made the same remark about sideburns in an earlier strip -- that he was bringing them back. I can't believe I mixed up QC and Between Failures. Apologies for the confusion; my bad.
And thank you, K1dmor. for setting me straight.
Edit: Haha, found the first strip containing that line (http://betweenfailures.com/comics1/20-old-muttonchops).
Oh, and my actual superpower is that random streetlights occasionally turn themselves off as I pass by...
Am I missing something? What's with the Helbing?
(http://i1042.photobucket.com/albums/b429/zebgodwin/sayhelb.png)
I just read that as hello when I first saw the comic, too. Once everybody started saying "Helb, Dale" here in the forum, I went back to the comic and looked at the blackboard again, and then I got it.
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Did anyone else immediately think of Rem & Stimpy's History Eraser Button?
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This could place him in contention with Faye.
Why? It'd make her job easier.
If I was working hard, and bringing in money, and the asst. manager was like Faye, I would not be happy.
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"Dale's really working out well, even better than the first batch I trained. I must be getting really good at training!"
This is assuming that once she gets into management, her brain stops functioning normally, as is the case with all management :-P :roll: :-D :psyduck:
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See, when I saw that, I assumed the orange switch was decaf.
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The horror!! THE HORROR!!!!
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Did anyone else immediately think of Rem & Stimpy's History Eraser Button?
Yes!
Narrator: Oh, how long can trusty Cadet Stimpy hold out? How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push the button that could erase his very existence?! WILL his tortured mind give in to its UNCONTROLLABLE desires?! CAN he withstand the temptation to push the button that even NOW beckons him EVER closer?! WILL he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history?!? At the MERE PUSH of a SINGLE BUTTON! The beautiful, SHINY button! The jolly CANDY-LIKE button! WILL he hold out, folks?!? CAN he hold out?!?!?
Stimpy: [Trembles and quivers violently, sweating profusely] NO I CAAAN'T!!!!!!!
(http://i.imgur.com/ReFp7G0.jpg)
Full Space Madness clip: http://youtu.be/PZCiZpph9jo
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So if Faye accidentally does too well on a latte, she'll drink it herself and then make an extra subpar one while the customer is forced to wait. Makes sense.
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This is going to be a confusing work environment for Dale.
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Dale's probably glad that Faye never met May...May doesn't need Faye as an influence.
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Faye did meet May. May mooned her.
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Oh yeah. My bad.
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Well, at least we know the power hasn't gone to her head.
That's Faye alright!! :-D
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"Listen fucko.."
And with that, Faye is confirmed as one of the most unprofessional managers ever.
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But the tone fits right in with CoD
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"Listen fucko.."
And with that, Faye is confirmed as one of the most unprofessional managers ever.
Did you expect anything different?
Anyway, as if an excuse were needed, Faye's been in her new job only a couple of days longer than Dale's been in his.
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There is no such thing as a good latte...
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So if Faye accidentally does too well on a latte, she'll drink it herself and then make an extra subpar one while the customer is forced to wait. Makes sense.
Of course, this also means that Faye has to sample each latte before she hands it to the customer, just to be sure it's not too good.
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There is no such thing as a good latte...
I'm generally not a fan either, but I can't entirely agree.
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I am getting the feeling Faye is going to be in contension with Dale because Dale is going to be manager near future considering their difference in work ethic. Additionally, I think they are building towards Dale standing up for himself, He has a history of not sitting back and just taking abuse, since Faye has been on a power trip.
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Well I dunno about you guys but I felt that Faye has been more ehmmm... bitchy than usual.
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The power's going to her head, is it?
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Were this any other story, I'd say we should anticipate a few more days/weeks of unacceptable behavior followed by the relevatory experience then the redemption/rehabilitation of the character.
The online discussion will constantly veer toward demonization of one character or another, with no thought toward Jeph's admonition that no one in the comic is ever entirely right or entirely wrong, but that is simply noise from the balcony.
Of course, Jeph never does anything standard-issue, so I'll just watch. Popcorn, anyone? (I'm not sharing my Junior Mints).
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This seems like pretty typical Faye to me, just indulging in her favorite pastime of dishing out sass. The "listen, fucko" bit would've been harsh except that she immediately followed it up with the equivalent of a "haha, gotcha!" She's just yanking his chain.
I love Dale as straight man. His earnest-and-bewildered expressions are very comical, and at the same time it's obvious that he's not too bothered and we don't have to cringe for him.
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Yeah, but I'm still waiting for a "DAAAAAAAAAAANG" from him about... something... anything!
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I'm still waiting for the part where they test whether he's able to thwart Sven's attempts at flirting. I mean that is actually a formal part of the training that EVERY non-Dora CoD employee has to go through, right? :roll:
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I'm still waiting for the part where they test whether he's able to thwart Sven's attempts at flirting. I mean that is actually a formal part of the training that EVERY non-Dora CoD employee has to go through, right? :roll:
Perhaps Raven will stand in for Sven. Of course, there's a question of power dynamics here into which the more, uh, sociopolitically oriented forumites might enthusiastically jump, namely: Is it more offensive/oppressive/what have you for a male to flirt with a female than vice versa?
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I like that the slurp sound effect looks like it is written on the board in the first panel.
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WUvmQcmsdWc/TKqbQ1b_3uI/AAAAAAAAB-4/YkeYmI6bzpQ/s400/FamilyGuyFouad.jpg)
OH HO HO! It's funny because Faye is apathetic to customers!
(But really though, three strips in a row with that punchline. We get it Jeph.)
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That's not an invalid criticism, but since you're new I should point out that you should take care not to seem like you're telling Jeph how to write his comic. That's a big no here.
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I don't think that line's been crossed, really. There's a distinct difference between complaining about the ride, and backseat driving.
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Nor do I, but I wanted him to be aware of the line.
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An ounce of prevention ...
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To me it actually also seems that Faye is meaner than usual - at least looking at her later development, not at the earliest comic. So I guess her increased power might be getting to her head a bit. But I also really expect Dale to stand up to that at some point.
Anyway, I like the new CoD arc(s), just like old times!
And yeah, the resisting to flirtation part would be a nice gag. I imagine Dale would ace it, given his past work experience, no matter whether the flirting comes from a girl or a guy.
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Given Dale's job as a pizza delivery (and the way some people apparently tried to tip him), he probably wouldn't have a hard time passing the test.
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Indeed. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2356)
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Oh, I had totally forgotten that comic! But yeah, it shows that Dale has had to defend against much more than just flirting.
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Indeed. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2356)
Looking at that now, I notice he never actually voiced objection, and he did come into the apartment between panels, so there's no evidence he passed and he may in fact have failed. Relief at it not being the case isn't enough.
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relief indicated that, had it been offered, he would have had to refuse.
Or at least think about it...
As it was, he still had no idea what she was offering!
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It seems highly likely that he would have refused, but less likely that he would have refused with COD-worthy sarcasm. He's admitted that he's scared of talking to girls, (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2512) so he might have ended up floundering his way out of that situation.
I wouldn't assume that his taking Hanners's words as suggestive means he's actually been offered sexual favors as a delivery tip. He could just as easily have gotten the idea from pr0n. Heck, you don't even have to have ever seen any pr0n about pizza delivery boys to know that that's a theme. (Tho, being a pizza delivery boy, he probably would have made a point of looking up some of that stuff...)
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I am living proof of the statement that you don't have to have seen the relevant porn for the expectation.
What can I say. My porn is usually either classier or devoid of story. Although one muses whether pornography involving two or more people in love with each other does not, in fact, have a beautiful story to tell.
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Yeah, I've never watched it either--I think I first learned of the theme from this xkcd (http://xkcd.com/778/). Which Dale may have read too--we know from Marigold's shirt that there's xkcd in the QC universe.