Questionable Content XVIII: "That's only sort of good news"

[Willie the Duck]

I'm not really convinced it was an error in the first place.

Other than other people think it is and I don't know (or have strong opinions on the subject), my reason hinges on the 'Marigold had to sell that rare anime porn DVD to get money for May's fundraiser despite (us finding out after the fact) having crazy good income at the time was because she locked her account and getting that resolved was harder than selling a DVD and getting the cash from that transaction in-hand' micro-plot feels a lot like an author saving throw.

Wow. Next you're going to tell me that this comic isn't a good instruction manual for running a coffee shop, handling a college library, or living with heightened anxiety.

For the record, at least in my experience, it's not uncommon for people to refer to violations by the agency which governs them even if that's not technically the law under consideration. But considering this is a comic that had a pizza-delivery superheroine and action movie setpieces just happening around the protagonists back in 2006, my expectation is and has always been that "amusing slice of life" tops "realistic and well-researched."

Marigold's change in occupation led directly to May getting a new job and Dale leaving CoD, which cleared space for Claire to step into that role which also directly ties into her ongoing story. Aurelia's streaming has not materially changed anything going on with Claire or Clinton at this point - there's no indication that her streaming job is why she is able to afford her house or offer support to her children or anything else. It's just another element of her character.

My threshold/criteria tends to hew to 'if I saw this show up on a tv sitcom from the 70s-90s, would it grate on me as a failure of basic knowledge?' And also 'if I didn't have issues with this strip for other reasons (whatever they may be), would this be notable?' This doesn't strike me as different than (ex.) the M*A*S*H crew getting hold of a movie that was released domestically less than 3 weeks before the armistice, and I don't think, if QC wasn't in the 'I wish it was still the show I loved 10 years ago' zone, then no Jeph's lack of perfect knowledge regarding being a streamer would not be a notable flaw of any kind.

Okay, it's not a video game but at least they're doing something.

I don't think we were going to see them play a game in-frame. There are so many webcomics out there already about actually playing computer games already. This was going to be about streaming like Coach was about coaching football or the like -- the stuff around the edges of the actual thing.