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Tai as an MGS guard

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[azurite]

Okay, name the car Tai is driving.

I'd say American given the craftsmanship and use of materials. 2000's Chevy Cavalier.

Did you want the answer or did you want to keep guessing? I saw him tracing it and he said what it was too. (and yes, they are CDs in the door pocket)

Sounds like sluthy knows it isn't a Cav! 

The interior does look rather Cav-ish, though the doors aren't right. I have no real proof for this besides what appears to be brackets on top, but I also think the car in the strip is a wagon or a hatchback, and there hasn't been a Cavalier station wagon since the mid-nineties. If the car is that old, that would explain the difference in the doors, but what I can see of the exterior looks too... roundy. If it's a Chevy, I think it's another model.

Something about it reminds me of my Dad's car... how about a mid-aughts Ford Taurus wagon? Again, I have nothing to offer in way of proof, and my vote is for "you can tell me now."

[pwhodges]

pretty much assaulted her

I don't especially want to restart the PC roundabout here, but "assaulted"?  Has horseplay ceased to exist?

[TheEvilDog]

pretty much assaulted her

I don't especially want to restart the PC roundabout here, but "assaulted"?  Has horseplay ceased to exist?

We live in an era where the world is wrapped up in cotton wool and common sense has been thrown out the window. So yes, yes, horseplay no longer exists. (The same goes for tomfoolery, shenanigans and other appropriate terms).

[Method of Madness]

I AM a lesbian, and that IS where I keep CD's in my car.

I figured that's where everyone keeps their CDs in their car (but hopefully, unlike Tai, in cases)

[Odin]

pretty much assaulted her

I don't especially want to restart the PC roundabout here, but "assaulted"?  Has horseplay ceased to exist?

I'm going by the "If Tai had been a dude, what would it have been called?" standard there.

[LeeC]

but Tai isnt a dude.

[Shredigar]

I AM a lesbian, and that IS where I keep CD's in my car.

I figured that's where everyone keeps their CDs in their car (but hopefully, unlike Tai, in cases)

Guess my joke was lost then.

[Method of Madness]

Nah, it's all good.  I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.

Also, welcome to the forum, Shreddy!

[Mr. Doctor]

awwww man, thinking about scratched cds makes me sad.

[TheEvilDog]

Nah, it's all good.  I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.

Unless they are in a CD wallet.

[iduguphergrave]

We live in an era where the world is wrapped up in cotton wool and common sense has been thrown out the window. So yes, yes, horseplay no longer exists. (The same goes for tomfoolery, shenanigans and other appropriate terms).

What about skylarkings?

And yes, I'm a little surprised Faye felt comfortable getting a ride from a lady who just sexually harassed her (assault is too strong a word, but if I were Faye i'da been pretty pissed), but maybe her desire to not walk back to NoHo overrode her rage (and this way she doesn't have to inconvenience Dora for a ride). A 20 minute drive is a pretty damn long walk. Of course, she probably wishes she'd braved it now that she's with the anti-Hoke.

[Skewbrow]

awwww man, thinking about scratched cds makes me sad.

Depends. Due to the use of error correcting codes a CD player can recover from many a scratch. Not too many of them though.

[Method of Madness]

Nah, it's all good.  I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.

Unless they are in a CD wallet.

Which they aren't, as far as I can tell.  It's just a clump of discs.

[TheEvilDog]

Nah, it's all good.  I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.

Unless they are in a CD wallet.

Which they aren't, as far as I can tell.  It's just a clump of discs.

Or it could be a clear pack, you never know.

[tomart]

What's an MGS guard?

Also Tai's car looks insanely clean to me, but I tend to use my backseat like a extra storage shed. xD

Me too!   Glad I'm not the only one.  


And welcome, Shred!     

[TheEvilDog]

What's an MGS guard?

The guards/enemy soldiers in Metal Gear Solid would have a large exclamation point appear above their head if they ever spotted the main character. (Often accompanied by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIBvsml_us )

[Odin]

What's an MGS guard?

The guys in white suits in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrPuCnNbv8

[themacnut]

It's been said in the comic that Amherst is 20 minutes away from where CoD is and where most of the cast lives. But is that 20 minutes walking or driving? Was that ever made clear?

If it's driving time, then it must be mentioned that a 20 minute drive can be anywhere between approximately 10 and 25 miles, depending on traffic, the route (highways, how many traffic lights/stop signs etc.) and how fast the car is going. Even the low end of that is rather far for most people to walk, and I'm guessing Faye wasn't willing to walk home and Tai was the only one willing to drive her. So Faye's choices were: (a)walk several miles back home, possibly over a bridge that may not allow pedestrian traffic (b)call for a taxi, which may cost more than she has on her (c)ride with Tai.

[John_Knee]

Why Jeph has Faye even riding somewhere with Tai to begin with is beyond me. I mean, how did Faye get to where they were to start with and why would she leave Sven and Dora to ride in a car with Tai?

It just doesn't make any sense at all unless Faye is literally that damn lazy and intent on bailing on Sven/Dora.

Maybe Faye requesting a lift home was a convenient excuse to get Tai to leave. I'm sure Tai wished to leave anyway, but giving Faye a lift would at lease help save Tai a bit of face in the alkwardness of last week's actions.

[Kugai]

Hmmmmm

Things do not bode well for Tais driving if her Mobile goes off.



It remains to be seen just how things will play out with Tai and Dora.  It could work, then again it could be a train wreck of biblical proportions.

[The Duke]

We live in an era where the world is wrapped up in cotton wool and common sense has been thrown out the window. So yes, yes, horseplay no longer exists. (The same goes for tomfoolery, shenanigans and other appropriate terms).

What about skylarkings?

Roughousing and malarky as well.

[Kugai]

I AM a lesbian, and that IS where I keep CD's in my car.

I figured that's where everyone keeps their CDs in their car (but hopefully, unlike Tai, in cases)

Guess my joke was lost then.

Went over their head by the sound of it.




Nice Avvie BTW.


Finally remembered where I'd stored this one on my Compie - Been wanting to get it back up for a while as I'm using it at most of the other Forums I'm on.

[Tova]

It it seems that weird to you, then maybe an examination of assumptions might be in order?

[Method of Madness]

Who are you responding to?

[Tova]

Who are you responding to?

It was initially a response to Odin, but as at least one other person seemed to think it was weird that Faye would accept a lift from Tai, it turned more into a general observation. I was just thinking that, given she did get into the car with Tai, then maybe she didn't feel she had just been assaulted at all.

I probably shouldn't have been quite so oblique, sorry.

[Method of Madness]

It's all good.  Just as a general rule, if you're not responding to the post immediately above you, quote what you're responding to.

[Tergon]

There's also this strange assumption that Faye and Tai don't get along.  This confuses me.  I mean, okay, Tai made her feel awkward in this comic, but ask yourself.  Would Faye tolerate drunk Tai in her lap, for even a fraction of a second, if Faye honestly did not like Tai?  Come on, this is Faye we're talking about.  She'd reduce Tai to kibble.

Of course, Tai remains safely unkibbled until the boobsplosion on Friday, at which point Tai makes Faye feel uncomfortable for a second canonical time.  Followed in the very next strip by Faye clearly being given a lift by Tai somewhere, presumably either to CoD or back home.  Y'know what that says to me?  These two ladies are not mortal enemies.  It'd suggest that Tai's skyclad shenanigans were not the actions of an evil lust-crazed lesbian attacking a poor straight girl, but more along the lines of Tai being goofy and teasing a friend who's more straight-laced than her.

As for giving Faye a lift?  That's... probably the most screamingly obvious thing in the world.  Tai was leaving, and noticed that car-less Faye would have to walk home from Dora's place, or catch a bus.  Because Tai is not a horrible person, she promptly offered Faye a lift.  And, because Faye is not an idiot and doesn't hate Tai, she accepted.

Where's the confusion?

[Is it cold in here?]

We're not necessarily used to the Pugnacious Peach reacting to infringements on her personal boundaries with such equipoise. It's a good thing and a positive example of personal growth for her, but it's not what we're used to.

Compare her long-ago reaction when someone _accidentally_ saw her in a bra.

[akronnick]

I'm pretty sure Coinstar doesn't accept loose nuts.

[Tova]

It probably doesn't accept Australian coins either (this is where I confess that I had to google "coinstar").

[CompSarge]

Awwwwwwww, sad Mar-bear is sad!

[Tergon]

Marigold is actually a pretty good sketch artist!  Much better than me, anyway.    And despite the sadface in the final comic, her look of utter astonishment made me snigger.
"Th-that's not what I wanted to draw!  What's happening?"

[iduguphergrave]

Oh...wow. Ok we have another character in need of some counseling. Seriously, this is like Butters-level repression and self-loathing.

[Tergon]

WHO DID THAT

[akronnick]

Snicker.

Otherwise this forums one and only profanity filter kicks in.

[Tova]

In Soviet Russia, profanity filter trolls you?

Weird ... umm where was I? Ah yeah, comic. It can be freaky when your subconscious suddenly decides to stop being subtle. I just wonder whether this will trigger any action.

[akronnick]

It's replacing the racial epithet commonly referred to as "the 'n' word" but it also catches the alternate pelling off snicker.

[Tergon]

Seriously, what the hell just happened?  The joke has sailed ten miles over my head and I am so confused right now.

[Tova]

It's replacing the racial epithet commonly referred to as "the 'n' word" but it also catches the alternate pelling off snicker.

Ah, yeah I see what happened now. I had mis-parsed "shi" in the post, not realising that the inserted string actually started with "hi ..."

Remind me not to talk about the main ingredient of wine around here.

Tergon, the profanity filter decided that it had found an offensive word as a substring of the word you typed. Just remove the initial 's' and you'll see it.

[lunakitten]

Seriously, what the hell just happened?  The joke has sailed ten miles over my head and I am so confused right now.

Your use of the synonym for giggle, or snicker caught the profanity filter, and activated a script.    This does occasionaly happen.

edit:
And just so my post isn't totally useless- Poor Marigold. I know what it's like to have such crippling low self sesteem, but you can work past it, with a whole lot of compassion for yourself. It helped me to start treating myself like I would any friend in need.

[CEOIII]

Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?

[Sorflakne]

I know it's mean to laugh at Mari's expense, but it couldn't be helped 

[Tergon]

...then this is just spectacular.  See, the point of the post that the filter hijacked was me chucking at Marigold's shock at something she wrote taking on a life of its own, and then going in a totally unexpected direction.  And in the middle of me saying exactly that?  BAM.  Hit by an anti-troll landmine that I had no idea existed.

  You gotta admit that was pretty spectacular.

[Kugai]

Damn girl!!

Talk about projecting yourself on your characters!!!

[akronnick]

Let's think about this...

Marigold, as a character, could be seen as Jeph's representation of his own internal self doubt and self loathing.

Marigold writes a comic with a representation of herself that turns out to harbor feelings of self doubt and self loathing...


OMG!!!! IT'S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN1!!111!!!

[Is it cold in here?]

Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?

I think it's "What?! What did my characters just do?"

[Kugai]

Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?

I think it's "What?! What did my characters just do?"

I bet Jeph gets that expression sometimes too.

[Skewbrow]

@akronnick: No, its one turtle swimming in space, supporting a number of elephants, supporting a world in turn, and ...  never mind

Such a sad Marigold. Hannelore to the rescue!!! Or may be Mari-chan will go play WoW, and gets beaten by you-know-whom.

[Tova]

Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?

I would guess: "No WAIT, that's not funny, it's just PAINFUL."

[WaffleIron]

Sad comic is sad