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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Farideh on 21 Feb 2021, 18:27
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A new week, a new WCDT.
No poll. I could think of a couple, but couldn't come up with decent poll options.
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RE. the new comic.
Oh dear, Hanners is channeling her mother again! Makes me wonder if Jeph is gearing up for a storyline where Hannelore confronts her similarities to her mom.
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The BIG difference between Hanners and her Mom is Mon'd hire someone to do the powerpoint presentation.
;)
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Marten has no idea how close he came to death in panel 5, does he.
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Hanners sure does not (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4309) appreciate those comments.
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Again, the best poll I could come up with was with the weather. I hope it's leagues better for everyone everywhere.
If you or anyone you know lives in Texas and are dealing with price gouging, text PJENDN to 50409 to send a prewritten letter to your representatives about price gouging.
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Hanners sure does not (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4309) appreciate those comments.
At least she's chill about the comparison...I actually felt scared for Winslow there!
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Hmm...what could she do to scare the begazes out of a librarian? Maybe de-alphabetize books? renumber the stacks without copying the new locations? Mess with the catalogue so it shows books available that are actually checked out?
On second thought, those are easily done and would make any librarian quake in their boots!
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How about putting a book in the wrong place, and then put it an interlibrary loan for it?
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I think that we've discussed before the way that Hannelore has definitely internalised a significant echo of her mother's problem-solving strategy without really being aware of it. I think it's a case of: "If you've only ever seen your parents using a hammer to fix stuff, you'll assume that every problem needs a hammer to fix". If not in actual methodology, at least in mindset.
Like others, I find myself wondering precisely what Hannelore's presentation would be about. One option that comes to mind: "Why Hiring Claire Augustus Has A Coincidental Timing With a Reduction in Mortgage Foreclosures for Senior Staff." Naturally, Hannelore wouldn't understand why this could be regarded as 'threatening'.
Maybe she can recall Tilly to do a song and dance number with Winslow to make it a little less intimidating?
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stay good, Hanners, stay good!
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Hanners not exhibiting that "w h a t" response to Marten's reply feels very out of character for her. But then, maybe she changed enough during her wanderjahr...
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Hanners not exhibiting that "w h a t" response to Marten's reply feels very out of character for her. But then, maybe she changed enough during her wanderjhar...
Brain too tiredto process possible pronunciation of 'j' in 'wanderjhar'.
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Hanners not exhibiting that "w h a t" response to Marten's reply feels very out of character for her. But then, maybe she changed enough during her wanderjahr...
Brain too tiredto process possible pronunciation of 'j' in 'wanderjhar'.
Fixed spelling.
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Brain too tiredto process possible pronunciation of 'j' in 'wanderjhar'.
In English, it’s more of the “y” sound in words like “your”.
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New comic.
Claire seems to have gone off 'foot pictures'. She was considering it for a while though, I wonder what changed her mind. Probably just talked to Pintsize too much.
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Hmm...what could she do to scare the begazes out of a librarian?
According to xkcd:
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/librarians.png) (https://xkcd.com/280/)
Claire seems to have gone off 'foot pictures'. She was considering it for a while though, I wonder what changed her mind. Probably just talked to Pintsize too much.
She was never really more than lukewarm to the idea, I think.
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I'm not a librarian, but that makes me cringe as well :/
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That sitch would more likely result in me going into attack mode than capitulation.
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Claire seems to have gone off 'foot pictures'. She was considering it for a while though, I wonder what changed her mind. Probably just talked to Pintsize too much.
She was never really more than lukewarm to the idea, I think.
I'm not so sure - the structure of these comics is generally such that if a character denies something, even fervently, in one strip, they are usually at least considering the possibility by the very next strip in which they appear.
That and I don't believe Jeph would have brought back a joke from a 3-comic arc (http://"https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4092") just to abandon it all over again.
My nearest point of comparison for this is when Marigold was griping about her looks compared to the rest of the girls in her guild, then Angus showed her that they were only using clever angles and possibly a bit of airbrushing to make themselves seem prettier than her... so Marigold's very next step was to start taking flattering pictures of herself in the same vein (http://"https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1502").
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RIP Daft Punk.
Love the robot dancing pic...
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Claire seems to be in that weird stage of human behaviour where they go somewhere online where they hate to be just to remind herself just how much she hates it. In the process, she's actually developed quite an understanding of the site's user community. Of course, she can't be as refined in her understanding of them or about the product on offer as Pintsize but I retain my personal hypothesis that he rents out processor space in his head to act as an auto-moderator for posts on sites like that.
That said, Claire raises a broader point about on-line artistic activity. Yes, you can get a huge boost from positive feedback. Then there is the negative feedback and I think that Claire is indicating that, with her self-esteem issues, that's not something that she wants or needs in her life, no matter how bad her financial situation.
So, anyone else think that this is the start of Jeph retelling the story of the birth of Questionable Content through Claire and her feet? It would be sad if he considers his work to be equivalent to low-effort fetish photography!
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Well, one more thing for the pile of stuff I'm content in not knowing the veracity of.
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Hmm...what could she do to scare the begazes out of a librarian? Maybe de-alphabetize books? renumber the stacks without copying the new locations? Mess with the catalogue so it shows books available that are actually checked out?
Let a seriously OCD guy loose in the stacks, where he proceeds to re-order all the books according to height and thickness...
( Speaking from personal experience )
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Brain too tiredto process possible pronunciation of 'j' in 'wanderjhar'.
In English, it’s more of the “y” sound in words like “your”.
Google translate has decent audio examples, as far as I can tell (I have the two sets of phonemes in my head, and ... they're not always on speaking terms, so I can sympathize)
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Love the robot dancing pic...
Yessssss....!
But take a look at Yay and Roko. I think someone has a conquest in mind...
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Comic!
Breathe Hanners, breathe...
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Alternate panel 5: Hanners sneezes forcefully into the cup.
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At the rate Hanners is going, that cup of tea will be heated up in 6 years, 241 days, 17 hours.
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Then Hanners goes full Super Sayan. ;)
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That is not what love and support looks like. I mean, I know that Hanners isn't pouring unending hatred into that cup, but that's what I would have guessed from the expression.
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My level of tiredness can usually be parsed by the extent to which I'm abusing the poor letter 'j' (as well as missing particles and such).
At a particularly bad moment, "jow jas jour daj been, Jean?" (how has your day been, Sean?) is very much a possible thing for me to type.
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That is not what love and support looks like. I mean, I know that Hanners isn't pouring unending hatred into that cup, but that's what I would have guessed from the expression.
I read it as the emotion you feel when you love and support a dear friend and want to make them feel it despite insurmountable physical distance. Frustrated hearts pouring out everywhere.
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I really don't know what Hannelore is doing. I know what she thinks she's doing but I'm not sure what she's really doing. That said, I've got the feeling that a sci-fi scan would show that the tea isn't really tea anymore. Never forget whose daughter Hanners is and the feeling that I've long had that she might not be entirely the result of random genetic mixing.
When I first saw this strip on Patreon, the Warsie that I am, I started trying to think of a suitable Yoda quote! Probably because of the title telling Hannelore not to Force it!
At the rate Hanners is going, that cup of tea will be heated up in 6 years, 241 days, 17 hours.
Oh, I suspect that it will be a lot quicker than that. Also questions may be raised about its precise molecular structure. Can you have ionised tea?
EDIT
Fixed a couple of typos; this is what I get for posting without coffee!
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A coffee shop using tea bags. Is soggy bag tea a normal customer experience in America?
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Here's the thing: Coffee of Doom at least in part is a fast food shop. They have some sit-down customers but I suspect the majority want in, their beverage in hand and then out. Bearing this in mind, bagged teas make sense. FWIW, I'm British and we have bagged teas from take-out shops here too, especially the concessions at train stations and the like.
In any case, I it's been implied before that Hannelore blends and bags her own teas. Maybe it started out as a hobby but it's made her quite the hit with the synthetics in the area.
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Yeaaaaahh...
I've no idea whats meant to be going on in this one.
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"almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"
I look forward with awe and dread to Claire's face when she tastes this.
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Yeaaaaahh...
I've no idea whats meant to be going on in this one.
Hanners is concentrating really hard on trying to imbue the tea with "love and support" through sheer force of will.
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A coffee shop using tea bags. Is soggy bag tea a normal customer experience in America?
I've been to America twice for two-week periods, going both times with co-workers who went more often and I could not find a decent cup of tea anywhere. And the 'hot water onto a bag' style of tea is not exactly a rare art in the UK, even in coffee shops, but nope.
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I was really expecting that cup of tea to burst into flames by the last panel.
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Or spout up like a geyser.
She should just write a nice, encouraging message on the cup. And add a free muffin to the order.
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Hanners is concentrating really hard on trying to imbue the tea with "love and support" through sheer force of will.
And I’m pretty sure that she, of all people knows how to do that properly.
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Then Hanners goes full Super Sayan. ;)
New comic up.
CALLED IT. And I'm not on patreon...
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Now I wanna see Hanners go Ōzaru.
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CALLED IT.
I just assumed that Jeph read this thread, saw your post, and said to himself, "yeah, Super Saiyan is definitely where I want to go next with this."
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New comic up.
CALLED IT. And I'm not on patreon...
Well done!
I kinda want Hanners 'Super Saiyan' pose a print now :D
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My god, the postscript puns just get better and better.
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My god, the postscript puns just get better and better.
Puns do not "get better." They get "less bad."
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“he that would pun, would pick a pocket.”
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Now I wanna see Hanners go Ōzaru.
Sounds terrifying.
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My god, the postscript puns just get better and better.
Puns do not "get better." They get "less bad."
On the contrary, they only get worse. Their bad is their good.
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That punchline in Panel 4 made me legitimately LOL...I swear I heard that as Bubbles making a meek warning while loving the feeling but it's hard to tell with AIs
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You know, it's possible to over-think situations like this but I really like doing so. What the heck did Hannelore do the molecular structure of that tea? More importantly, what did Bubbles 'see' when her olfactory sensor system tried to report its findings? Did Hannelore's camouflage briefly fade in her eyes and she really saw the woman within? Or did she charge the tea so much with whatever active energy she's using that it creates an energy field that impacts on synthetic perceptions?>
I have to say that I'm with Bubbles on this. I really don't want to try to guess at this point what the effect that stuff on Claire. I've got the feeling she's going to get all up-and-at-them to maybe a disturbing degree. Not only is she going to go to that library and demand to speak to the chief administrator to restate her application in person but she's also going to get a job somewhere else as well as post about thirty foot-pics!
Ultra comedic but extremely unlikely outcome: She'll wake up wearing a wedding ring and no memories of the previous day. Faye will later tell her that she nearly kicked the apartment door down and carried Marten to the courthouse.
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Ha, I'd love to see that 😁
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Hanners is "pushing with her eyes", like they say in "Lanfeust de Troy", a french comic. It's an heroic-fantasy comic, and in their world, most people have one single magic power. And to help kids to discover their power, the grown-ups explain "you need to push with your eyes".
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I could use one of those teas ... :-D
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Typically, my imagination is going in all sorts of weird directions:
This skill is something Hannelore learned during her travels, from the monks in an obscure monastery in the Himalayas;
Hannelore puts too much oomph into the tea - upon her first sip, Claire is overwhelmed by Hanners' LOVE AND SUPPORT, falls madly in love with Hannelore and dumps Marten;
Marten inadvertently smells the tea on the way home, blacks out and wakes up two days later in an alley, with no recollection of what happened in between, except that he has a wedding ring and a tattoo on his chest that says "Hank";
Dora sees the effect and, dollar-signs in her eyes, starts selling Hannelore's metaphysically-enhanced teas until the Food and Drug Administration shuts her down;
etc... :roll:
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"you need to push with your eyes".
“Her eyes are so weak, they can barely hold up what she’s reading.” - Dr. Blaine, Movie Movie.
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FWIW, I've long thought that Hannelore is transhuman. Specifically, Beatrice didn't just want a daughter, she wanted a perfect heir and hired Dr John to mix one up for her. Hannelore thus has a wide range of genetic advantages but, unfortunately, they all meshed together in a bad way and is responsible for most of her mental health issues.
However, should she really let go, I suspect that her bones are as tough as Bubbles' endoskeleton and she can probably bench-press an SUV (and then drop it yelling about how dirty the underside of cars' chassis are). Then there is the evident extrasensory abilities that let her 'charge' tea in the right way for synthetics to have a good trip!
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FWIW, I've long thought that Hannelore is transhuman. Specifically, Beatrice didn't just want a daughter, she wanted a perfect heir and hired Dr John to mix one up for her. Hannelore thus has a wide range of genetic advantages but, unfortunately, they all meshed together in a bad way and is responsible for most of her mental health issues.
However, should she really let go, I suspect that her bones are as tough as Bubbles' endoskeleton and she can probably bench-press an SUV (and then drop it yelling about how dirty the underside of cars' chassis are). Then there is the evident extrasensory abilities that let her 'charge' tea in the right way for synthetics to have a good trip!
So she's Cell without all of the mental conditioning.
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FWIW, I've long thought that Hannelore is transhuman. Specifically, Beatrice didn't just want a daughter, she wanted a perfect heir and hired Dr John to mix one up for her. Hannelore thus has a wide range of genetic advantages but, unfortunately, they all meshed together in a bad way and is responsible for most of her mental health issues.
However, should she really let go, I suspect that her bones are as tough as Bubbles' endoskeleton and she can probably bench-press an SUV (and then drop it yelling about how dirty the underside of cars' chassis are). Then there is the evident extrasensory abilities that let her 'charge' tea in the right way for synthetics to have a good trip!
So she's Cell without all of the mental conditioning.
Not without two cyborg siblings to absorb she’s not. :P
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Well, there's that one that has an Australian accent for some reason...
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We do have some hints about Hannelore's origin story.
One is a long-ago comment from Jeph that he knows where her mental health challenges come from and that it's a plot point. That's all he said.
The other is Beatrice's uncertainty about how she got pregnant at all.
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New comic.
Dora is pretty much all of us right now....
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At least she didn’t wear white pants.
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And who's going to clean that up?
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Hanners, maybe save some of that love and support for yourself?
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You've got to give her some time to recharge!
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You've got to give her some time to recharge!
She canna' take much more o' this, cap'n! I canna' change tha' laws o' physics!
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Obviously, Hannelore has used up all her action points or whatever it is that controls how many times she can use her Secret Powers without rest! I recommend that Dora get her an Ether or something to restore them and let her catch her breath for a minute. Roko? I'm pretty sure I've given you this advice before but... just roll with it. You used to patrol the streets, so you must know how weird this town is.
Seriously, though, Hannelore's reaction ro Roko's order suggests to me that she's been doing this with everyone's tea! For how long, I wonder? Also, just how many events since Hannelore returned from her journey of self-discovery were due to the good vibes and positivity with which she'd been imbuing her brews?
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I can see it on the Specials board now:
-- Affirmation Latte
-- Posi-Vibes Moccha
-- Loving Support Tea
And all the regulars are going 'WTF?'
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FWIW, I've long thought that Hannelore is transhuman. Specifically, Beatrice didn't just want a daughter, she wanted a perfect heir and hired Dr John to mix one up for her. Hannelore thus has a wide range of genetic advantages but, unfortunately, they all meshed together in a bad way and is responsible for most of her mental health issues.
However, should she really let go, I suspect that her bones are as tough as Bubbles' endoskeleton and she can probably bench-press an SUV (and then drop it yelling about how dirty the underside of cars' chassis are). Then there is the evident extrasensory abilities that let her 'charge' tea in the right way for synthetics to have a good trip!
Possibly due to pleiotropic effects?
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I cant wait to see the exact effect that Hanners tea has on Martens girlfriend ... :-D
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My god, the postscript puns just get better and better.
Puns do not "get better." They get "less bad."
On the contrary, they only get worse. Their bad is their good.
You're both probably going to hate the poll options for the new WCDT then.