And for the first comic of the week....
Yes, I remember cheques. I also remember how odd it was to watch people in the US paying for groceries using cheques. Um, checks.
I just realised I'm being completely daft. Hanners wrote it and told Beeps that she could scan it... just... I ...Pretty much.
Ignore me. :roll:
So.. what about other electronic forms of payment? PayPal et al?
Okay, so my next question... :-D
If you wanted to pay a friend rather than a business for some reason (say, you're buying something off them)... what form of payment would you use, apart from cash?
I am not an expert, so this will require confirmation, but I believe that nothing at all would happen with your taxes unless you are quite wealthy and generous. You can give gifts up to a threshold tax free.
Okay, so my next question... :-D
If you wanted to pay a friend rather than a business for some reason (say, you're buying something off them)... what form of payment would you use, apart from cash?
I am not an expert, so this will require confirmation, but I believe that nothing at all would happen with your taxes unless you are quite wealthy and generous. You can give gifts up to a threshold tax free.
I think that they were referring to the fact that, in the US, significant charitable donation is rewarded with tax credits.
Writing a cheque and then scanning it, though? Is that really a thing people do? :?
And for the first comic of the week....
Yes, I remember cheques. I also remember how odd it was to watch people in the US paying for groceries using cheques. Um, checks.
Hang on sec.
Scanning a cheque that you've just received makes some kind of sense to me, because yes, it saves you carting it off to a bank branch.
It's writing a cheque and then immediately scanning it that I'm finding confusing.
Edit: Do people use PayID (https://payid.org/) in the US?
and after Beeps goes to the bank, she can drop by the Horrible Revelation and get a sarsparilla while a boy with a small wood box shines her shoes.
I am not an expert, so this will require confirmation, but I believe that nothing at all would happen with your taxes unless you are quite wealthy and generous. You can give gifts up to a threshold tax free.
I think that they were referring to the fact that, in the US, significant charitable donation is rewarded with tax credits.
Oh. Right. So... probably... the same answer? Nothing at all unless you are quite wealthy and/or generous? I mean, is that relevant to a high school student donating to a friend, I dunno.
It's simple: it's going from one bank account into a different bank account.
Hmm. I last wrote two cheques in 2017, one each in 2015 & 2014, two each in 2012 & 2011, eight in 2010, three each in 2009 & 2008. I doubt I'll ever finish my present cheque-book.I use mine for rent and student loans. And occassionally for my car loan.
I do and don't want to know why Pintsize has to go all the way to Canada to find a strip club.
All the Canadian strippers are not in Canada.I know what you meant was (where c is a Canadian stripper, and C is "is located in Canada"):
I can't believe Pintsize overlooked the most important benefit of Canadian bills: being made of plastic they won't fall apart if you keep them hidden in the toilet tank.
It's simple: it's going from one bank account into a different bank account.
I do get the whole concept of transferring money from one bank account to another.
It's simple: it's going from one bank account into a different bank account.
I do get the whole concept of transferring money from one bank account to another.
You ignored the rest of my response to snipe at me. Excuse me for answering your question as someone who actually experienced what you were asking about as both a witness to this kind of transaction from a similar small-sized nonprofit organization and as a recipient of a check from a nonprofit organization.
...hey, they're bills so it's not chump change he's giving you! That's gotta be maybe $50 CAD or more there($37 USD)
Obviously Jeph is celebrating 850 strips since this one.(click to show/hide)
Obviously Jeph is celebrating 850 strips since this one.(click to show/hide)
Not to mention 822 strips since this one:(click to show/hide)
It's simple: it's going from one bank account into a different bank account.
I do get the whole concept of transferring money from one bank account to another.
You ignored the rest of my response to snipe at me. Excuse me for answering your question as someone who actually experienced what you were asking about as both a witness to this kind of transaction from a similar small-sized nonprofit organization and as a recipient of a check from a nonprofit organization.
I wasn't trying to snipe - sorry if it came across that way. What I'm trying to say is that I understand the aspect that you're explaining to me. I've used nothing but purely electronic bank transfers in one form or another for many, many years now. It's the concept of conducting the transfer via a scanned piece of paper that is unusual to me. If you've got the tech to scan the cheque in, you've probably got the tech to skip the piece of paper entirely and lose literally nothing except a bit of extra headache.
EditEdit: Also, IIRC, there's a difference between a check and a simple transfer in that in order to transfer, the issuer has to have advance information about the account information of the recipient. In countries where that situation is the norm wrt the most basic needed transfers (salary and/or transfers from government institutiona) checks would satisfy a need that doesn't exist, or isn't as pressing.This is probably what is troubling people about the concept of someone writing themselves a cheque to transfer money between two accounts they hold. :psyduck: What purpose is served by using a slip of paper as an intermediary?
EditEdit: Also, IIRC, there's a difference between a check and a simple transfer in that in order to transfer, the issuer has to have advance information about the account information of the recipient. In countries where that situation is the norm wrt the most basic needed transfers (salary and/or transfers from government institutiona) checks would satisfy a need that doesn't exist, or isn't as pressing.This is probably what is troubling people about the concept of someone writing themselves a cheque to transfer money between two accounts they hold. :psyduck: What purpose is served by using a slip of paper as an intermediary?
The real question is: How is Pintsize still allowed to enter Canada?
What would appeal to my own sense of humour would be if May ended up buying it herself.
I'd say Jeph's underestimating the resale value. I belong to a anime collectors group, and some sealed, out of print anime go for up to $500.
There are copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 on eBay for $1000.While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
Rather than selling it straight up, they should hold an auction for it. Die-hard collectors can be willing to pay through the nose, so if they could get a few people desperate to get their hands on it to bid, that could ratchet the price into the hundreds or thousands.
Rather than selling it straight up, they should hold an auction for it. Die-hard collectors can be willing to pay through the nose, so if they could get a few people desperate to get their hands on it to bid, that could ratchet the price into the hundreds or thousands.As an attendee of several cons, just don't get w/o about 10 to 20ft (~3.33m to ~6.67m) of them.
Not quite sure I understand today's strip. Sometimes Im thick headed....but what does her having a sealed copy of an Anime (even pron one) have to deal with May getting a new body or fundraising. I could see if it was worth thousands of dollars...and she was going to use it for retirement....and then wanted to share the decision with Dale...but still not sure what it all means. :?
Not quite sure I understand today's strip. Sometimes Im thick headed....but what does her having a sealed copy of an Anime (even pron one) have to deal with May getting a new body or fundraising. I could see if it was worth thousands of dollars...and she was going to use it for retirement....and then wanted to share the decision with Dale...but still not sure what it all means. :?
While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
Also serves as an example of a Shaggy Dog story. (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory)
ET being the canonical example of something horrible that is still a collector's item.
What would appeal to my own sense of humour would be if May ended up buying it herself.Maybe they could even add to the fundraiser audio of May comenting the rip to every person that donates and asks for it XD XD
The real question is: How is Pintsize still allowed to enter Canada?
I suppose it’s possible that he isn’t any more, which is why he’s so willing to part with his CAD.
There are copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 on eBay for $1000.While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
ET being the canonical example of something horrible that is still a collector's item.
The way you say "still a collector's item" would, if I didn't know better, lead me to think you believed it is collectible in spite of being famously horrible, rather than because.
BTW its infamy is one of those truthy things that everyone says because every says it, though, right? There are a ton of YouTube videos claiming it's not as bad as people say. Just putting that on record.
Disclaimer: I've never played it myself. I do recall watching a YouTube video of someone who decided to try and play through it. It was pretty amusing, I'll grant you that.
Links to TVTropes should probably come with some sort of warning that you're about to disappear down a rabbit hole and may be following tangential links for hours.
I'd say Jeph's underestimating the resale value. I belong to a anime collectors group, and some sealed, out of print anime go for up to $500. Plus they say the print runs were destroyed? Then who knows how high it'd go.Definitely. (Yes I know the low value is part of the joke.)
Collectors are WEIRD.
They found the legendary Atari dump site in New Mexico. (https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/26/atari-graveyard-found-millions-of-e-t-cartridges-legendary-worst-video-game-ever/)ET being the canonical example of something horrible that is still a collector's item.
The way you say "still a collector's item" would, if I didn't know better, lead me to think you believed it is collectible in spite of being famously horrible, rather than because.
BTW its infamy is one of those truthy things that everyone says because every says it, though, right? There are a ton of YouTube videos claiming it's not as bad as people say. Just putting that on record.
Disclaimer: I've never played it myself. I do recall watching a YouTube video of someone who decided to try and play through it. It was pretty amusing, I'll grant you that.
There are copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 on eBay for $1000.While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
...oddly, it actually is (https://www.ebay.com/p/56242726?iid=363010117378&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=363010117378&targetid=915708758100&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9001918&poi=&campaignid=10454925545&mkgroupid=109413764331&rlsatarget=pla-915708758100&abcId=2145999&merchantid=6296724&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqNKz_pPg6gIVCYizCh3h1w_9EAQYAiABEgIsmPD_BwE)
Ah, now I remember! I watched the documentary about that. Atari: Game Over (https://youtu.be/oRxR9tmoLN8). It was enjoyable.
Ah, now I remember! I watched the documentary about that. Atari: Game Over (https://youtu.be/oRxR9tmoLN8). It was enjoyable.
Ummh - from what I remember of the time (which is just slightly after the videogame-industry crisis proper - got my C64 in '86, by which time the crisis was pretty much history), a lot of it was Jack Tramiel repeatedly being so far ahead of the curve he ended up out-competing himself (and a lot of other folk to boot). Pushed the C64 at Commodore, coined the nifty 'Home Computer' label for rigs that were basically the common ancestor of both the contemporary PC (Commodore C64/128, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and a few others, iirc) and almost pushed consoles of the market for half a decade - and just when his baby started taking off, he acquired Atari and the 2600 he'd just made forever obsolete?
Similar story with the Amiga/Atari ST competition in the latter half of the decade, I think I recall?
I have to admit I'm a bit peeved at accounts that appear to pretend that kids in the 80s and 90s only used consoles for gaming until the Intel-clone PCs entered peoples' living rooms. Far as I recall it, the 80s were very much the decade of the Home Computer.
Consoles may have been cheaper - I don't recall. But home computers like the C64 were insanely popular because parents could reassure themselves that they were getting their kids something educational rather than just a toy. The marketing definitely pushed the educational angle
Edited because new strip went up: I did NOT RECOGNIZE SVEN. I have no idea who that guy is, but I do not recognize him. If anything, when I first saw him, I thought it was Angus coming back to visit from New York.
Am I overthinking it, or is that postscript text one of the most horrifically bad puns of all time? I honestly can't tell if he realized its meaning.
I miss my Commodore 64 so much. That thing taught my big brother to read, I swear.
The way you say "still a collector's item" would, if I didn't know better, lead me to think you believed it is collectible in spite of being famously horrible, rather than because.
And no, I don't think ET's infamy is in any way Truthy. Leaving aside the commercial failure, it was an incredibly rushed project by a single programmer, and videos showing exactly how bad the gameplay was aren't difficult to find. The most you can say about ET's infamy as that many people accept it without doing research on it - but just because it's a popularly held opinion doesn't mean it's wrong, or that there's no basis for the reputation if you do dig.
There are copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 on eBay for $1000.While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
...oddly, it actually is (https://www.ebay.com/p/56242726?iid=363010117378&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=363010117378&targetid=915708758100&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9001918&poi=&campaignid=10454925545&mkgroupid=109413764331&rlsatarget=pla-915708758100&abcId=2145999&merchantid=6296724&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqNKz_pPg6gIVCYizCh3h1w_9EAQYAiABEgIsmPD_BwE)
"plus $306 'additional costs'..." !??!?!??!
Ah, now I remember! I watched the documentary about that. Atari: Game Over (https://youtu.be/oRxR9tmoLN8). It was enjoyable.
Ummh - from what I remember of the time (which is just slightly after the videogame-industry crisis proper - got my C64 in '86, by which time the crisis was pretty much history), a lot of it was Jack Tramiel repeatedly being so far ahead of the curve he ended up out-competing himself (and a lot of other folk to boot). Pushed the C64 at Commodore, coined the nifty 'Home Computer' label for rigs that were basically the common ancestor of both the contemporary PC (Commodore C64/128, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and a few others, iirc) and almost pushed consoles of the market for half a decade - and just when his baby started taking off, he acquired Atari and the 2600 he'd just made forever obsolete?
Similar story with the Amiga/Atari ST competition in the latter half of the decade, I think I recall?
I have to admit I'm a bit peeved at accounts that appear to pretend that kids in the 80s and 90s only used consoles for gaming until the Intel-clone PCs entered peoples' living rooms. Far as I recall it, the 80s were very much the decade of the Home Computer.
I miss my Commodore 64 so much. That thing taught my big brother to read, I swear.
Edited because new strip went up: I did NOT RECOGNIZE SVEN. I have no idea who that guy is, but I do not recognize him. If anything, when I first saw him, I thought it was Angus coming back to visit from New York.
And Farideh is right, May could have no interest in further shenanigans. Though honestly, I doubt that she's done experimenting, and Sven is convenient.
I miss my Commodore 64 so much. That thing taught my big brother to read, I swear.
Edited because new strip went up: I did NOT RECOGNIZE SVEN. I have no idea who that guy is, but I do not recognize him. If anything, when I first saw him, I thought it was Angus coming back to visit from New York.
He's the latest victim of Jeph's obsession with short hair...and the worst part is he doesn't have his glasses on either
Am I overthinking it, or is that postscript text one of the most horrifically bad puns of all time? I honestly can't tell if he realized its meaning.
Fairly sure it was intentional.
One of my fondest memories as a kid was visiting the Powerhouse Museum (https://maas.museum/powerhouse-museum/) where they had at the time a room full of C64s and BASIC programming classes. Those were the days.
I miss my Commodore 64 so much. That thing taught my big brother to read, I swear.
Edited because new strip went up: I did NOT RECOGNIZE SVEN. I have no idea who that guy is, but I do not recognize him. If anything, when I first saw him, I thought it was Angus coming back to visit from New York.
"...donating to something I might benefit directly from." My, so presumptuous!He didn't say that he will benefit directly from it. He said he might. There's nothing presumptuous about considering the possibility that something that occurred multiple times before might occur again. Also, there's nothing unethical about doing something mutually beneficial. Butt, if he's considering whether it's ethical to donate to this cause enhancing a fruitless pleasure, instead of using the money for greater benefits that are farther away, then I'd say it's immoral at least. Well, it depends on just how much pleasure he expects to get. Probably not enough to justify the investment, so donating it, though nice for May, may be unethical against himself. So then he's questioning whether the charitable contribution is for the charity, or for the enhanced potential sex.
So is there an ethical problem with him contributing to a fundraiser that he might derive some benefit from?
It's good that he's considered it, but I'm struggling to think of any.
Everyone (humans, anyway) so far looks like they've been jr high-ified.So he finally begins to heed Emily Partridge's advice (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2421)?
Comic's out.
This can't end well. Remember the last time May was involved in a financial negotiation routed through a European country?
When she tried to steal money to buy a drone, the process involved a Swiss bank (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2502).Comic's out.
This can't end well. Remember the last time May was involved in a financial negotiation routed through a European country?
When was that? It doesn't ring a bell (not surprising, given the amount of comics that Jeph has created so far).
When she tried to steal money to buy a drone, the process involved a Swiss bank (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2502).
And Hanners is sounding like her mum again...
Truthy is probably a bad choice of word, but people who think it was not all that bad do exist. On the other hand, people who say "worst game ever" are generally using that phrase because the rest of the Internet does, not because they have played the game themselves. Which, let's face it, is a thing that happens.
To be honest, I'm probably going to regard "worst game ever" as hyperbolic regardless of what game you are describing.
Isn’t ET qualified to be objectively bad because the thing was so badly written it’s nearly impossible to actually progress, never mind complete? Like there’s a bug that is incredibly easy to trigger that locks it up completely requiring a restart, and no save states?Truthy is probably a bad choice of word, but people who think it was not all that bad do exist. On the other hand, people who say "worst game ever" are generally using that phrase because the rest of the Internet does, not because they have played the game themselves. Which, let's face it, is a thing that happens.
To be honest, I'm probably going to regard "worst game ever" as hyperbolic regardless of what game you are describing.
Oh, definitely. "Worst game ever" is pretty hard to quantify, and I wasn't thinking of E.T. in those terms. I was merely thinking "really memorably bad."
I'm having a bit of trouble with the idea that some people think it's not that bad, from what I've seen. I'm not sure I want to have a conversation with someone who thinks that way, either. I've had enough frustrating discussions about games in the past, like the guy who felt Civilization was a terrible game because living in mud huts and never advancing to agriculture wasn't a viable strategy. Some opinions are just too... alien.
Ha, I'm reminded of Ascendancy (https://www.myabandonware.com/game/ascendancy-2qs). Supposedly it was possible to "win" without ever leaving your home planet and becoming a spacefaring species.I've had enough frustrating discussions about games in the past, like the guy who felt Civilization was a terrible game because living in mud huts and never advancing to agriculture wasn't a viable strategy. Some opinions are just too... alien.As for Civ, I think your friend just wasn’t trying hard enough; someone just beat Civ VI without any cities at all, never mind huts…
And Hanners is sounding like her mum again...
“Release the virus.”
Unfortunately, when she did, it entered our world.
This week is the first time I have come to realise my Seth hatred is My Problem.Who the feth is “Seth?”
He's not even being particularly egregious this time. In fact he is actively trying to work out what doing the right thing consists of.
Still hate him. Is it time for me to forgive?
...Also why was I mad at him? I've only read all these strips once :psyduck:
...Also why was I mad at him? I've only read all these strips once :psyduck:
Who the feth is “Seth?”
...Also why was I mad at him? I've only read all these strips once :psyduck:
It's generally first impressions that do it, so let's check it out.(click to show/hide)
You be the judge.
...Also why was I mad at him? I've only read all these strips once :psyduck:
It's generally first impressions that do it, so let's check it out.(click to show/hide)
Personally, I'm not going to blame an artist for doing work that pays the bills. Especially as an artist myself.
You be the judge.
Personally, I'm not going to blame an artist for doing work that pays the bills. Especially as an artist myself.Yes, its amazing how many people forget that the phrase professional musician includes the word professional.