I picked one. But I like a combo of 1 & 3-happily married rock stars.
FWIW, this is more-or-less how I have always imagined what Bubbles POV looks like!
FWIW, this is more-or-less how I have always imagined what Bubbles POV looks like! Meanwhile, I think that Faye should get on the 'phone to the Chinese ambassador to apologise for the volleyball that's about to burst out of the ground somewhere in his country!I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in China. The antipodes of most of country are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/antipode/). If the girls are on holiday on Hawaii, it will be the ambassador for Botswana (http://www.lovebigisland.com/quick-and-remarkable-facts-about-hawaii/antipodes/) to whom Faye would have to apologise.
FWIW, this is more-or-less how I have always imagined what Bubbles POV looks like! Meanwhile, I think that Faye should get on the 'phone to the Chinese ambassador to apologise for the volleyball that's about to burst out of the ground somewhere in his country!I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in China. The antipodes of most of country are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/antipode/). If the girls are on holiday on Hawaii, it will be the ambassador for Botswana (http://www.lovebigisland.com/quick-and-remarkable-facts-about-hawaii/antipodes/) to whom Faye would have to apologise.
Just saying that the Patreon post on Saturday is not today's strip -- It's the start of a new arc so I hope it gets posted after the guest week!Jeph commented that it will be. We're a week ahead! (maniacal laugh)
Also, discussing the guest comic without violating the shipping rule seems...difficult.
It's not like the idea of something going through the entire planet and emerging unscathed on another side of it is realistic in itself. What with the hot, semi-liquid mantle and even hotter planet core...
The reason not much is happening with Marten is he's satisfied with work, and is in a blissful relationship, which are utterly boring things to tell stories about. If you want Marten stories, he either has to start having trouble with Claire, or trouble with life.
Seriously, though, the reason we've had so much Bubbles/Faye and Clinton/Brun/Renee is these are characters with issues and edges. The latter group seems especially ripe for eventful days ahead; Renee is a walking ball of suspicion, Brun is the enigmatic fulcrum, and Clinton is executing a character arc where he moves from overbearing to something else.
It's not like the idea of something going through the entire planet and emerging unscathed on another side of it is realistic in itself. What with the hot, semi-liquid mantle and even hotter planet core...
I think it was Gregory Benford who used this situation in an SF story once. Super-powerful aliens had used a "cosmic string" to cut a hole through the center of a planet and the protagonist either fell or was pushed in. I forget how it ended, but he spent some time yo-yoing back and forth through the center.
I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in China. The antipodes of most of country are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/antipode/). If the girls are on holiday on Hawaii, it will be the ambassador for Botswana (http://www.lovebigisland.com/quick-and-remarkable-facts-about-hawaii/antipodes/) to whom Faye would have to apologise.
Antipodes (http://www.antipodesmap.com/). My head sticks out of the ocean about 1000 km South East from New Zealand.
It's not like the idea of something going through the entire planet and emerging unscathed on another side of it is realistic in itself. What with the hot, semi-liquid mantle and even hotter planet core...
I think it was Gregory Benford who used this situation in an SF story once. Super-powerful aliens had used a "cosmic string" to cut a hole through the center of a planet and the protagonist either fell or was pushed in. I forget how it ended, but he spent some time yo-yoing back and forth through the center.
If you're into it, Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem talks about super tiny tiny quantum computers doing that, primarily as a precursor to an alien invasion.
It's honestly a genre changer and I really recommend it.
New Comic!
Okay, now it seems to make sense: Punchbot is actually an overgrown Pop-Up Pirate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_Pirate)!
I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in ChinaWhy would said hole would be geometrically straight precisely through the centre? Assuming its just "somewhere vaguely the other side" then China is by size alone one of the more likely land destinations.
I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in ChinaWhy would said hole would be geometrically straight precisely through the centre? Assuming its just "somewhere vaguely the other side" then China is by size alone one of the more likely land destinations.
The Discworld books address this phenomenon. The Agataen Empire (their China equivalent) is situated on the Counterweight Continent, radially on the opposite side of the disc from most of the other locations in the stories.
Method, why are you replying to posts by editing them? And what is a "quote tag?"
[/quote]Both of those posts had that in the wrong place so the quotes were messed up and you couldn't tell who said what. I fixed it. The reason I mentioned that I fixed it is because it showed that I edited it, and I didn't want anyone to think that I edited actual content. All I did was delete an extra [ /quote].
Method, why are you replying to posts by editing them? And what is a "quote tag?"Code: [Select][/quote]Both of those posts had that in the wrong place so the quotes were messed up and you couldn't tell who said what. I fixed it. The reason I mentioned that I fixed it is because it showed that I edited it, and I didn't want anyone to think that I edited actual content. All I did was delete an extra [ /quote].
....I...I googled duck penis. D:
The Discworld books address this phenomenon. The Agataen Empire (their China equivalent) is situated on the Counterweight Continent, radially on the opposite side of the disc from most of the other locations in the stories.
Okay, those of you who couldn't resist googling duck penises -- what's the big deal? No pictures, please.
Okay, those of you who couldn't resist googling duck penises -- what's the big deal? No pictures, please.
Answer in spoilers so those who don't want to know don't have to.(click to show/hide)
The gender restriction is what makes it sexual love. Without it, it could be the kind of love you feel for a pet.
The gender restricton is what makes it sexual love. Without it, it could be the kind of love you feel for a pet.
I know. My point still stands.The gender restricton is what makes it sexual love. Without it, it could be the kind of love you feel for a pet.
You might want to check that. Because sexual love happens regardless of gender.
The gender restriction is what makes it sexual love. Without it, it could be the kind of love you feel for a pet.
Considering who I regularly have sex with, I'm going to have to call BS on this one.
Most of them are not cases where Ninendo or Niantic are at all responsible. Playing a game does not excuse the player for not being safe or breaking the law. That's on the player. Even in cases where people are not breaking the law but are being disruptive, that's still on the player.That is doubtless the company's spin. However to my mind ethically that position is at best grossly irresponsible, and morally highly dubious. Obviously you disagree.
Then again, this is a game about BREEDING monsters.
So maybe the people who wrote it think it doesn't count unless it produces offspring.
Pokemon Go is a mess. Bulgarian kids have been chasing them in minefields, a couple of people walked off cliffs while looking at their phones instead of where their feet were going, people after Pokestops have done breaking & entering, they've interrupted funerals, there've been car crashes where people were trying to get to monsters that had appeared nearby, the Holocaust Museum has had its lectures & ceremonies interrupted, some cathedral in Boston has continually had problems with people breaking in, a couple of trespassing kids got shot, somebody fired a rifle at a car in Florida where they thought the people inside were drug dealers looking for a stash of dope, (but he was a lousy shot, thank goodness; he only got one of the tires).
This game seems like about fifty lawsuits waiting to happen.
Most of them are not cases where Ninendo or Niantic are at all responsible. Playing a game does not excuse the player for not being safe or breaking the law. That's on the player. Even in cases where people are not breaking the law but are being disruptive, that's still on the player.That is doubtless the company's spin. However to my mind ethically that position is at best grossly irresponsible, and morally highly dubious. Obviously you disagree.
Then you get stupid Lawsuits like the McDonalds Coffee one.
Then you get stupid Lawsuits like the McDonalds Coffee one. I think it's gonna take someone buying the farm in a spectacular way and taking several others with him or her before anything really serious is done.
Somedays I just wanna smack Pintsize
With a 60lb Sledgehammer.
Second degree burns, man. Burned through the skin and into the tissue beneath. People like to point and make fun, but once you've seen the photos of the damage that coffee did, you're not going to say anything about that lawsuit being frivolous, especially considering she didn't ask for nearly as much money as she got.
Who is the Jeph Jacques guy? Jeez! Talk about getting a random someone to do a guest strip! :wink:
Seriously, someone needs to sit Marigold down and deprogram her of this idea that membership of a guild or clan in a game does not affect who you are in real life! She's going to ruin the best things in her life if she doesn't learn this.
Normally, I'd suggest Momo for the job but, based on today's strip, she's sort of given up trying.
Second degree burns, man. Burned through the skin and into the tissue beneath. People like to point and make fun, but once you've seen the photos of the damage that coffee did, you're not going to say anything about that lawsuit being frivolous, especially considering she didn't ask for nearly as much money as she got.
Boo fuckin' hoo. I've had second degree burns over a good 10% of my body, at least three times, just from working all day outdoors without sunscreen. It was high altitude and mean ol' mister sun can get vicious if you don't have a good thick bit of atmosphere over you. And yeah, it sucks. My skin over that area was effectively all blisters, I got dehydrated a lot, everything that touched it hurt for the next three weeks, my muscles under it hurt like crazy all the time, and once it started healing it was itchy and I didn't dare scratch it. It left a little scarring, and even the part that healed "right" has a whole bunch of freckles it didn't have before.
I didn't sue anybody. I just stayed indoors for a week and cursed my poor judgment. Which, now that I think about it, is about the same thing my dad did when he got hit by lightning. Anyway, my dad quit fixing fences when a storm was coming in, and I quit going up into the mountains without a tube of sunscreen. Call it a learning experience and leave it at that.
Well that seems unnecessarily heteronormative. It seems like the people who make this thing could at least follow normal population demographics and make about 7% gay and another 7% or so bi.I hope you'll forgive my ignorance. But, isn't it ~8 or 9% that's bisexual? (Blame people who don't cite sources on tumblr.)
Then again, this is a game about BREEDING monsters.At the risk of sounding like a crotchety old man, I'm pretty sure that the lawsuits with injured players as plaintiffs will likely be thrown out on the grounds of "you should have been paying attention to your surroundings."
So maybe the people who wrote it think it doesn't count unless it produces offspring.
Pokemon Go is a mess. Bulgarian kids have been chasing them in minefields, a couple of people walked off cliffs while looking at their phones instead of where their feet were going, people after Pokestops have done breaking & entering, they've interrupted funerals, there've been car crashes where people were trying to get to monsters that had appeared nearby, the Holocaust Museum has had its lectures & ceremonies interrupted, some cathedral in Boston has continually had problems with people breaking in, a couple of trespassing kids got shot, somebody fired a rifle at a car in Florida where they thought the people inside were drug dealers looking for a stash of dope, (but he was a lousy shot, thank goodness; he only got one of the tires).
This game seems like about fifty lawsuits waiting to happen.
Seriously people, think about what you're doing a little harder.I really *do* wish that people would do that. I *do* think that it'll get better when the game has been out longer and that the player base is a bit more clueful.
* And stay out of cemetaries. (At least after 4pm. Most lock their gates around 5pm.)I'm not sure about other cities, since I haven't been to (most) of their cemeteries after dark, but I have been seeing Pokemon and Ingress players in the local one after about 2200 (hell, I went to grab some portal keys at about 22:30 last night). The main gate is locked, but it *does* have a big sign on it to use the other ingress (couldn't resist) during off hours. I don't know if Pokemon has changed things, but I have been told by others that the local police told them that even though it was technically against a city ordinance to be driving around through there to do it anyway since they liked the extra eyes.
Second degree burns, man. Burned through the skin and into the tissue beneath. People like to point and make fun, but once you've seen the photos of the damage that coffee did, you're not going to say anything about that lawsuit being frivolous, especially considering she didn't ask for nearly as much money as she got.
Boo fuckin' hoo. I've had second degree burns over a good 10% of my body, at least three times, just from working all day outdoors without sunscreen. It was high altitude and mean ol' mister sun can get vicious if you don't have a good thick bit of atmosphere over you. And yeah, it sucks. My skin over that area was effectively all blisters, I got dehydrated a lot, everything that touched it hurt for the next three weeks, my muscles under it hurt like crazy all the time, and once it started healing it was itchy and I didn't dare scratch it. It left a little scarring, and even the part that healed "right" has a whole bunch of freckles it didn't have before.
I didn't sue anybody. I just stayed indoors for a week and cursed my poor judgment. Which, now that I think about it, is about the same thing my dad did when he got hit by lightning. Anyway, my dad quit fixing fences when a storm was coming in, and I quit going up into the mountains without a tube of sunscreen. Call it a learning experience and leave it at that.
:psyduck:
...and comparing the wilful act of a conscious (albeit corporate) agent, an agent which had been officially warned about its behavior, to a force of nature is disingenuous at best.
There are a whole population of people who experience second-degree burns several times during our lives and aren't particularly impressed.
The reaction around Boulder to "Second degree burns" was "what, she got some blisters and now she never has to work again for the rest of her life? That happens to dozens of people I know every year. It's even happened to me a few times. It's not a life-changing experience or even particularly traumatic, how the hell did anybody decide it was worth that?"
And yea, it mostly happens "for the sake of somebody's bottom line." You go up to work, you realize after an hour or two that you forgot sunscreen, you know you'll be fired if you don't fix the damn fences anyway, and you finish the job before you go back. Business as usual, sucks to be you. If you don't want to deal with that kind of thing, don't ever start doing farm and ranch work. I've also gotten stomped by bulls and cut up by barbed wire for the sake of somebody's bottom line. If you don't want to consider second degree burns for the sake of somebody's bottom line to be entirely normal, then lucky for you you weren't born there.
I don't think it's particularly reasonable for anybody to get a million bucks (literally, a living wage for life just off of interest payments!) for anything that leaves them able-bodied and not permanently disfigured. Hell, the guy who lived down the road from me got his arm torn off by a baler and he had to go on disability worth substantially less than what that twit got for her lap full of hot coffee.
And no matter how rare that Pokemon may be, do NOT go into the parking lot of a correctional institution to try to capture one.
And no matter how rare that Pokemon may be, do NOT go into the parking lot of a correctional institution to try to capture one.
Oh dear. I have a horrible feeling you're not speaking hypothetically here.
And no matter how rare that Pokemon may be, do NOT go into the parking lot of a correctional institution to try to capture one.
Oh dear. I have a horrible feeling you're not speaking hypothetically here.
There is a website that polls the game servers to find where Pokemon are spawning, one whose URL I don't have handy here. I put in the main entrance to our school. Yep, three Pokemon, all spawning in the parking lot.
IIRC, he works at a school in a juvenile correctional institution.And no matter how rare that Pokemon may be, do NOT go into the parking lot of a correctional institution to try to capture one.
Oh dear. I have a horrible feeling you're not speaking hypothetically here.
There is a website that polls the game servers to find where Pokemon are spawning, one whose URL I don't have handy here. I put in the main entrance to our school. Yep, three Pokemon, all spawning in the parking lot.
But a school is not a correctional institution. I understand "correctional institution" to mean a prison, jail, or at least a juvenile detention facility. I'm not quite sure why you shouldn't go into a prison parking lot to catch Pokemon -- the people parking there should be prison guards, not actual prisoners, yes? Most prisoners don't commute to work.
Putting Pokemon in a school parking lot seems like a poor idea mainly because teenagers are notoriously poor drivers, especially when distracted.
Its a form of population control. Teens and their phones are zombies anywaysMakes them prime candidates for employment in the Bureaucracy that is government services.
IIRC, he works at a school in a juvenile correctional institution.
May I gently suggest that introducing a topic in a discussion forum is highly likely to provoke discussion on said topic. So perhaps it would be a bad idea to introduce topics that you are unwilling to discuss.Maybe not that simple. For many of us there will be topics which we can only discuss in a limited way due to ethical limitations, especially perhaps work related ones. If those with ethical restrictions don't contribute to those subjects at all, isn't there a risk that the only people who will discuss them are those least qualified to do so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I