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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Gyrre on 29 Dec 2019, 17:11
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Happy friggin' NewYear!
Had the idea of May with a Stygimoloch spinifer altmode as I was drowsing off to sleep and couldn't get to sleep for another 45 minutes because it was way funnier than it should have been.
Yes, I am aware that it's now widely thought that Stygimoloch is a younger specimen of Pachycephelosaurus wyomingensis. Have they figured out whether it's sexual dimorphism or just looking drastically different from the adults yet? My search results for that were all 7 or more years out of date.
EDIT: typo fix
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Bubbles is getting pretty good at the sultry/flirty gaze :P
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So… is this a skit they’re doing or just how they normally are? Is there any way to actually tell?
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So… is this a skit they’re doing or just how they normally are? Is there any way to actually tell?
No, I think that this is generally how Arthur and Melon act. Their connection with observational reality is so weak that the dividing line between 'play' and 'acting out delusions' is non-existent. As for Lemon? Well, maybe she's being serious in being part of this delusion or maybe, as a trained psychotherapist, she's instigated a role-play to see how it works out.
The obvious sequel is how Melon handles her 'resurrection'.
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So… is this a skit they’re doing or just how they normally are? Is there any way to actually tell?
Reads like they're "playing" to me...
If it was *just* melon, I'd be wondering, but all three...?
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Same. I view Melon more like a 7-year-old child, anyway...
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Love the artworks. The couch does not seem practical though.
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Lemon seems careless about her footwear. We've seen her with mismatched socks before, when counseling Roko.
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Happy friggin' NewYear!
Had the idea of May with a Stygimoloch spinifer altmode as I was drowsing off to sleep and couldn't get to sleep for another 45 minutes because it was way funnier than it should have been.
Yes, I am aware that it's now widely thought that Stygimoloch is a younger specimen of Pachycephelosaurus wyomingensis. Have they figured out whether it's sexual dimorphism or just looking drastically different from the adults yet? My search results for that were all 7 or more years out of date.
EDIT: typo fix
I'm pretty sure Stygi is still dubious, but possible. Dracorex on the other hand is almost certainly outta here.
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This works for both Raptorofwar and BenRG's posts:
🎶 Them bones them bones them - dry~y bones! 🎶
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Elderich abominations? I wonder if Spookybot could beat Alice.
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I think I'd rather not be there to find out.
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I'm kind of surprised how badly the Redwall-esque option is doing.
The game Moss even has robots.
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Not having played any Pokémon version since Silver, I have no idea what is going on in this comic.
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Not having played any Pokémon version since Silver, I have no idea what is going on in this comic.
The region is based on Brittain/UK.
Frequently encountered adult NPC, psuedorival/friend who's a bit dim and tags along the entire plot.
Your character also has a rival rival who's a snobby douche.
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Oi! Someone's been taking "cockney" speech lessons from Dick van Dyke! :-D
*Re the poll:
Elves. The cast would all be elves, pixies, sprites, goblins, etc.
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pip pip cheerio :roll: :lol:
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New Comic Up!
Well, it looks like Millifueille has made the full transition to being at least a secondary character. I'm sort of wondering if she's waiting for her friend to pick her up or if she's just enjoying hanging out with Dora and Tai too much to leave? Either way, I suspect that she has a soft spot for Jones, given that she thinks that Faye and Bubbles are a wonderful example of romance!
Given that she is into tha stuff, i wonder if she has she been reading hentai Andromeda fan-fictions? Or is she a fan of Anne McCaffery's The Ship Who Searched?
I notice that Milli didn't mention Faye and Bubbles' strange little intern? Is it an academic mindset that summer interns are automatically beneath notice or does she like children so much that she doesn't want to talk about this experience with one? :wink:
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I notice that Milli didn't mention Faye and Bubbles' strange little intern? Is it an academic mindset that summer interns are automatically beneath notice or does she like children so much that she doesn't want to talk about this experience with one? :wink:
When would she have? She mentioned the place, Tai reacted with familiarity and specifically mentioned the proprietors, she was then asked a specific question about one, expanded it to cover the other, then got sidetracked by the news about Faye and Bubbles’s relationship. If there was a point to insert a line about their spray artist/assistant, it was then but Tai interrupted her and, apparently, romance is IRQ 0 for Millefeuille (very much like some other girls I’ve known).
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the lost McCaffery book, The Ship Who Banged.
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sexy ship's captain or their sexy spaceship
...hot.
I'm just sayin'.
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The SURPRISE at the human/AI romance from Milly seems to indicate it's not that common, yet. Interesting.
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the lost McCaffery book, The Ship Who Banged.
Technically, The Ship who Searched...
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Synthetic bodies close enough to ours to activate that set of instincts are a recent development. Before that, it would only have been a possibility for organics who can see past how others are embodied to who they are.
There's probably been a kinky/curious element all along but Milly may be delighted by seeing a relationship of love and commitment.
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It occurs to me that Marigold and Millie could have some interesting conversations. Though their interests in erotica are rather specialized.
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It's good Millie has the legs to carry that butt.
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Synthetic bodies close enough to ours to activate that set of instincts are a recent development.
I'm sure Millie has Jones in mind. But if she's going to land him, she'll have to figure out how to hook him mentally: true academics are seldom driven strictly by their hormones. The fact that he stuck around to keep her out of serious trouble while in drunk mode suggests he's at least a little concerned for her and does not just view her as only a fleshlight.
I expect he'll show up shortly in any case, which could drive Millie back to embarrassingly mute again. This could become a fine meet-cute.
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I have the feeling Jones is interested, but just not sure how to broach the subject.
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Butts Disease will never be cured.
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Sorry for the double post, but if the cast were all talking animals (like Mouseguard, Redwall, Moss, etc), it'd be hilarious if Martin were a stoat instead of a pine marten. Granted, I can see Hanners being a stoat instead.
Would Bubbles be a robo-badger (probably T. taxa or M. meles)?
Which brings up the additional question of what continent's species the rest of the AInimals would be based on?
EDIT: Guess it's not a double post after all. Additional thoughts added.
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the lost McCaffery book, The Ship Who Banged.
Technically, The Ship who Searched...
I like my title better. :-P
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Butts Disease will never be cured.
I feel somehow that Butts Disease ought to be terminal, but clearly it is not.
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Is it wrong that I know exactly what Dora's talking about?
No? OK I guess I'm not a weirdo for enjoying playing erotic games involving weird stuff like robots and sentient ships doing some "interesting" things with their humans...
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Ouch. The one thing that Marten couldn't afford to forget and he's forgotten it! I'm sure someone will remind him but I suspect that the reminder will be a bit on the late side and lead to Marten Reed's Wedding Preparation Race and this, in turn will lead to some... unique... time-saving measures. Oddly enough, I think that Dora may enjoy the unconventional nature of it all. Unfortunatley, the same may not be said of Taizilla!
For some reason, I can see lots of people at the Church wearing colourful sashes with "Tai's #1 Pick" for various roles!
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Can't say I know how Marten feels, or Faye for that matter. I seem to be one of those lucky few who doesn't get hangovers. At worst, I get a little groggy for a couple of days, but that could be just as much from the "staying up all night" part of staying up all night drinking, as well as from the "getting older" part of getting older.
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Butts Disease will never be cured.
I feel somehow that Butts Disease ought to be terminal, but clearly it is not.
We all get it in the end...
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Butts Disease will never be cured.
Seeing how I'm admiring Millie's pose, this is all too true.
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Am I extrapolating correctly? Does that bong have "Fuck TERF's" written on it?
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I read it as "FUCK DERE," and took it to be a play on "tsundere" and "yandere" and "heydere" and "youoverdere" and all those other anime character development conventions.
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Am I extrapolating correctly? Does that bong have "Fuck TERF's" written on it?
Yes
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I read it as "FUCK DERE," and took it to be a play on "tsundere" and "yandere" and "heydere" and "youoverdere" and all those other anime character development conventions.
Why would a bong in the colours of the trans flag have "FUCK DERE" on it? It has nothing to do with anything.
Plus, I'm pretty sure the first letter of the second word is "T", and there's clearly a fifth letter in it. "FUCK TERFS" it is.
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Jeph confirmed it's a pro-trans message.
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Strip! Cosette for President!
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Hi, Cosette!
Bad Steve!
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Considering how EASY online sales are, I'm not surprised really.
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'Best Sidewalk' responds that it is sadly unable to attend, but appoints the walk in front of the wedding venue to be it's proxy.
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Steve's alive for now.
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I'm just surprised it wasn't Cosette who drunk-bought a boat.
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Drunk buying a boat: I hope it's at least one that is a commercially viable fishing vessel instead of a pleasure craft he'll never use...hey, it could happen!
As for hangovers: it's probably the only good thing that I can think of that my aversion to drugs and irrational response to drinking gives me.
*before I get jumped on for being personally against partaking: son of two drunks, brother of an addict w/ abusive history, nephew and uncle of multiple wasted potheads...
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Sounds perfectly rational to me.
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The strip has an interesting name, doesn't it: "Lonely Island"! I'm thinking that's where Jeph is suggesting that Steve go to hide from Cosette because something tells me that he couldn't afford the boat that he has just drunk-bought! Of course, I might be pessimistic here. Maybe he can afford it and the two of them are going on a mad Uncharted-style adventure for the next five or six years of their lives?
On the subject of the rest of the strip, I think that this is where Martin finds out for the second time that he's Tai's best man and has a wedding to help organise. Fortunately, he will find this out through Claire and something tells me that she brings a more organised mindset to the whole matter of... well, organising something!
So, what does everyone think of Millifeuille? Will she remain just a semi-background 'pal' or will her arc gradually become a foreground thing the way May and Roko's has?
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Steve decides to try out the boat before getting rid of it - while out on the water, Steve crosses paths with Tortura again, in the middle of one of her missions - lots of action, gunfire and explosions - boat goes up in a titanic fireball - Steve and Tortura miraculously survive, washed up on the shore - another fond farewell and Steve hitchhikes home...
Cosette: "Well? Did you dispose of the boat?"
Steve: "Yyyeah, in a manner of speaking..."
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Or, five years later, a dumbfounded Marten is looking at the homepage of Popular Archeology Online. The headline pic is Steve (carrying an assault rifle), and Cossette (toting two automatic pistols and with a brown-haired baby in a sling), posing with several open treasure chests with gold and jewels spilling out onto the dock pier. The Boat is moored behind them with Tortura standing at the helm position. The headline reads: "Blackbeard's Treasure Found! - SC Adventures Inc. Do It Again!"
"It's nice to see Steve and Cosette have found their calling in life!" Claire remarks as she walks past him.
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I'm hoping to see much more Millefueille...
I thought maybe Lonely Island was the name of the boat.
As a child of two long lines of alcoholics, I am in agreement on the teetotaling front. I am alkways the designated driver/walker
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Lonely Island was a comedy group on Saturday Night Live that also did comedy songs. Most relevant at this time:
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AH! I remember the skits, didn't know that the group had a name...
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he couldn't afford the boat that he has just drunk-bought!
Affording to *buy* boats is not hard. Go and look at the lower end of your local classifieds and you'll be amazed at how cheap they are: just right for a drunk buy. The cost of ownership on the other hand, renting a place to store/park it, annual maintenance, can be truly horrendous, and is much the same for your 500 dollar drunk buy as it is for the brand new $50,000 deluxe-o-craft. Which is why there are drunk buys available for $500.
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he couldn't afford the boat that he has just drunk-bought!
Affording to *buy* boats is not hard. Go and look at the lower end of your local classifieds and you'll be amazed at how cheap they are: just right for a drunk buy. The cost of ownership on the other hand, renting a place to store/park it, annual maintenance, can be truly horrendous, and is much the same for your 500 dollar drunk buy as it is for the brand new $50,000 deluxe-o-craft. Which is why there are drunk buys available for $500.
From Cossette's reaction, 'affordable' wasn't part of this transaction. Neither were 'reasonable hire purchase terms'.
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As a child of two long lines of alcoholics, I am in agreement on the teetotaling front.
Can't say I have many in my family, but enough, enough. One of the few things I learned by precept and have stuck with. And I'm not sorry.
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Steve's alive for now.
What do you mean "for now"? Don't you recognise a dead man walking when you see one?
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Steve's alive for now.
What do you mean "for now"? Don't you recognise a dead man walking when you see one?
Well, no, he’s sitting.
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he couldn't afford the boat that he has just drunk-bought!
Affording to *buy* boats is not hard. Go and look at the lower end of your local classifieds and you'll be amazed at how cheap they are: just right for a drunk buy. The cost of ownership on the other hand, renting a place to store/park it, annual maintenance, can be truly horrendous, and is much the same for your 500 dollar drunk buy as it is for the brand new $50,000 deluxe-o-craft. Which is why there are drunk buys available for $500.
There is also the stereotypical significant-other's reaction to the purchase of a boat: "You're going to be spending more time with (your drunk buddies on) that thing than you will with me!" I've seen boats (more often cars, but also the occasional airplane) wreck plenty of relationships.
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When I first read this strip, I had some real problems with believing in drunk-buying a boat. I'm OK with jet-propelled Roombas, but somehow that's a dividing line for me. I've always thought of boats as super expensive, and the process of buying one roughly on par with buying a car.
Then I remembered you can buy cars on eBay now, which means drunk buying a car is definitely possible. So I looked it up, and sure enough, eBay sells boats. More, a lot of them are fairly inexpensive. Though I expect that when you're buying a 25' Chris Craft for $500 - a boat I gather runs $100k new - you can expect about the same results as buying a Porsche for $500. You're lucky if it runs and it can stay afloat.
(EDIT: I expect $500 Porsches don't stay afloat).
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(EDIT: I expect $500 Porsches don't stay afloat).
I think it still tracks, since you can still end up underwater (financially) with the car if it's a total lemon.
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I'm hoping to see much more Millefueille...
I thought maybe Lonely Island was the name of the boat.
As a child of two long lines of alcoholics, I am in agreement on the teetotaling front. I am alkways the designated driver/walker
Also thought Lonely Island to be the name of the boat. If itçs just an SNL reference, then I'd lime to suggest 'Regret and Moderation'.
Also from two families that struggle with alcohol. My parents weren't alcoholics, but multiple uncles and cousins have known the struggle.
Thankfully, I don't like being drunk and I'm very picky about my alcohol, so I don't drink much.
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From Cossette's reaction, 'affordable' wasn't part of this transaction. Neither were 'reasonable hire purchase terms'.
There are two senses of "affordable," that you have the money to spend, or that there won't be long-term consequences for spending it. The price of a low-end boat is just enough to walk the line, especially for a low-grade civil servant.
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Cosette’s eyes are brown this time.
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OK hear me out:
I'm hoping that they scrap Marten as "best mate" and have him walk her down the aisle with Claire going as "best mate" to keep it traditional yet untraditional. Dora will likely have Sven walking her down the aisle, and if their friendship endured then she'll have Faye as her "best mate" as well.
So why not give Claire some spotlight as she's more into it than Marten and he's been like a father-figure to her earning the right
But if their actual fathers are involved in some way, then toss that out the window...
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Dora's father still existed last we heard, but I can't remember any mention at all of Tai's family.
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The "best mate" and the father are two different roles. Marten's job is to get drunk and give a speech, and if they're not too put off by the overtones of coverture, both brides' fathers - parents, even - might give them away. (I don't know, does Tai get along with her parents? To be in a private grad school, I'd imagine she does.)
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During Dora & Tai's first date (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2258) Tai said her parents "have always been super supportive" (regarding her sexuality). The wording suggests they're still living, but I don't recall any other info.
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Sooo...
Is anyone else bothered by how apparently Claire has full access to Marten's phone, yet he fought with Dora (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1796) over her snooping through his computer?
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Sooo...
Is anyone else bothered by how apparently Claire has full access to Marten's phone, yet he fought with Dora (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1796) over her snooping through his computer?
Different circumstances-- if Marten says, "read this, I can't" it's entirely different than her surfing through his browsing history just because
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I guess he trusts her not to go snooping through his stuff without his blessing? No, I'm not bothered by that, oddly enough.
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Sooo...
Is anyone else bothered by how apparently Claire has full access to Marten's phone, yet he fought with Dora (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1796) over her snooping through his computer?
Main difference being that Dora went ahead and snooped on her own initiative despite Marten clearly not wanting her to. Though Claire has demonstrated similar ... initiative ... in breaching boundaries, we've also seen a greater level of trust between Marten and Claire than we saw between Marten and Dora (who seems to have done some growing-up of her own since the breakup.)
Still bugs me, though -- I got it drilled into my head years ago that answering someone else's cellphone was seen as kind of squicky; they're "personal property" in the way that the phone growing out of the wall wasn't, quite. (I'm thinking of the time when a co-worker went home for the night, leaving her cellphone on her desk, and then her mother called. I was one desk over and answered ("Hello, this is (DSL), answering Maribeth's phone!") and I could almost feel the Mom's hackles go up on the other end of the connection. Letting Maribeth know her phone was at work since she had no landline (a pioneering move in those days) was its own comedy of errors.
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Sooo...
Is anyone else bothered by how apparently Claire has full access to Marten's phone, yet he fought with Dora (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1796) over her snooping through his computer?
You're not the only one.
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I guess he trusts her not to go snooping through his stuff without his blessing? No, I'm not bothered by that, oddly enough.
Plus, phone vs laptop. I have different sign ins for both, so stuff I'd like more privacy for can be accommodated.
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Also, Marten’s right there and (presumably) gave his permission. The real problem with Dora was that she went and looked even after Marten asked her not to.
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Is this a "Do you like Claire?" litmus test we're looking at right now?
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I think its more of a "Do people let others use their phone like that?" situation.
I certainly don't and even more of a reason why I use a phone with a fingerprint lock.
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I've texted people from my wife's phone, with her explicit invitation. We know the passcodes for each other's phones.
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I think its more of a "Do people let others use their phone like that?" situation.
I certainly don't and even more of a reason why I use a phone with a fingerprint lock.
Well, yes, others do.
My partner has access to my phone for such occasions, at least when she manages to remember the PIN - it's useful from time to time, such as when I'm driving and need her to answer a call. And from the look of it, Marten does as well.
You've apparently concluded that Marten doesn't on the basis that he was angry at Dora for looking through his porn collection against his explicit wishes.
Call me crazy, but that's a leap. And I daresay it's a leap you've made because you're predisposed against her.
Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.
And there's another.
Edit: I forgot to mention that, yes, I have access to her phone as well. Not that I generally have cause to use it. I think she's asked me to answer her phone maybe once or twice.
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You're the one who is making a leap, Tova because in no way have I mentioned Marten or Dora. So don't put words in my mouth!
I just don't let people use my phone because I do my banking on there, I pay bills, pay for groceries, book for travel and probably a half dozen things in my day to day life. Think about how much you use your phone now and how easy it can be for someone to get at that information. I do it because its my job to fucking pay attention to that.
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I can't use the banking on my phone without a separate login; same for my password safe. Merely having access to my phone wouldn't give anyone access to those. I answer my wife's phone if she's not able to, just as I answer the landline - which is also usually calling her.
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You're the one who is making a leap, Tova because in no way have I mentioned Marten or Dora. So don't put words in my mouth!
Apologies. You quoted Loki and agreed, so I assumed that meant you shared the view that you quoted. Apparently incorrectly.
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My wife knows my phone's password, and I know my wife's phone PIN (haven't gotten her to switch to a passphrase). I honestly don't care what she looks at on the phone, if she were to look. Usually it goes the other way, though, where she hands me the phone to do something technical like pairing it with her bike GPS (which was incidentally not straightforward like you'd expect).
I do have sensitive stuff on the phone, like banking apps and a password manager, but both are password locked. Even so I wouldn't hand off my phone to a stranger, just on principle.
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Is this a "Do you like Claire?" litmus test we're looking at right now?
Nah, I like Claire, mostly. If anything, I am arguing that Marten did wrong here.
First of, I don't care about the online banking stuff for the reasons mentioned. I am on about messages in particular.
I find letting people look through your messages/have access to your phone an icky thing for two reasons in this situation:
a) It is unclear to me if Marten allowed Claire to access his phone or if he just doesn't have a pass code set and she is using it willy-nilly (in that regard, my original reply could have been better worded). If that is so, that's really not kosher of Claire, and negligent of Marten.
b) If he agreed to it without reading the message, I consider that betraying the trust of whoever sent it. It is somewhat different if he read it first and then went "ugh, my head, you go reply to that", although there is still no reason why Claire would have to use his phone for that - I assume they all have each other's phone numbers by now.
If I was in the sender's shoes and received such a text from someone else than the intended recipient, the least it would trigger would be a discussion along the lines of "does your partner read all the messages I send to you?" Making people wonder that is really not kind, although it can be forgiven (particularly if Marten is not thinking straight due to hangover).
Needless to say, I don't even give my partners access to my phone, and I feel icky when I have to use my girlfriend's phone, because sometimes notifications and partial messages pop up while I am using it, and I would really rather not read those.
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Okay. That is not what I was expecting. The "yet he fought with Dora over her snooping through his computer" thing seems to have been a total red herring, so I'll just forget about it.
In these kinds of scenarios, I am always guided by the reactions of the characters.
Dora didn't even blink. They are all close enough friends that I would conclude that each of them was comfortable with it, and was confident the others would be.
TLDR If none of them is bothered, neither am I.
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It's always worth thinking about consent issues, though.
Marten may have said yes but we didn't see that happen. On the other hand, doesn't everyone have a passcode these days? So for Claire to use the phone Marten likely authorized her.
It's less personal than a porn collection, but still personal, to be on a screen that shows somebody's text history.
Ah yes, just what we do best here, overanalysis!
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It's true that we didn't see Marten consent.
If we see Marten remotely bothered about it in a future comic, then I'll eat my words. And my hat.