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2019-10-18, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-18, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Melon lives in the apartment above Roko's.
She occasionally drops in to sit on Roko's couch.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2019-10-18, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-10-19, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Or we take the dream at face value. New Roko's body's message makes no sense because Roko still doesn't understand it.
If you find yourself watching Power Rangers and wonder how some characters got their powers and zords back for an anniversary episode, just assume they were restored off screen. They have 20+ seasons of team geniuses to call on.
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2019-10-20, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Annnndddd… that was odd and without an obvious point.
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2019-10-21, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-21, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-10-21, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
1) I didn't actually say I had a problem with anything, now did I? I said it was odd and without an obvious point, which I still think it is. 2) In isolation, perhaps as a filler strip, this would be kinda funny -- although in that context, I'd expect Melon, Lemon, Spooky, and (why not) Crushbot to be in on the action, perhaps with cheerleader pompoms and a bubble machine (lower case b there, don't go overboard).
In series, however, we have four days of dreamscape which we'll need another strip at least to explain how it affects any of the ongoing body dysmorphia plot. I'm... not upset like some people tend to get with this strip... but rather just nonplussed. It hasn't been particularly good and leaned too hard into the lolrandom zone that dream sequences do.
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2019-10-21, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
For me, I think the last few strips have been quite sensitively handled - Jeph could have stuck with the tease of Squid-bot jumping in and fixing everything, or that Roko just had a nice dream and woke up "cured", but he didn't and that's commendable.
What we DID have, however, was a whole week of mental trauma, presented as body dysmorphia-instigated anxiety topped off with the punchline as borish as "hurr hurr lesbians are sexy". I mean, putting aside the use of "gay people as a joke" which isn't particularly sensitive, it kind of undermines the seriousness of the strips prior, y'know?Last edited by Wraith; 2019-10-21 at 02:40 PM.
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2019-10-21, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
I took the punchline as dreams are weird.
And I assume that this answers the great question. No. Robots do not dream of electric sheep.If you find yourself watching Power Rangers and wonder how some characters got their powers and zords back for an anniversary episode, just assume they were restored off screen. They have 20+ seasons of team geniuses to call on.
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2019-10-21, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Yeah, I've seen other entertainment where making out with yourself in a dream or other circumstance is the punchline, not necessarily the fact that it's gay.
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2019-10-22, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
"Right before the good part..."
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2019-10-22, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Now I feel kinda bad for melon.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-10-22, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
I swear, Jeph sometimes chooses his titles and alt-text to deliberately taunt the people who want him to keep his politics out of the comic.
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2019-10-23, 01:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
It seems that "Greg L." is literally a bot account.
In the QC universe, undoubtedly a (ro)bot account, but that would explain the arbitrary and uncaring way in which May's body problems haven't been addressed.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2019-10-23, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Can anybody read Beep's shirt? Top word is "ROBOT", but I can't read the bottom word.
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2019-10-23, 10:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
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2019-10-23, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2019-10-23, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
If you find yourself watching Power Rangers and wonder how some characters got their powers and zords back for an anniversary episode, just assume they were restored off screen. They have 20+ seasons of team geniuses to call on.
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2019-10-23, 07:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
I never really understood these arguments. Sure, an author can write about anything. But people like having a comic they like, and dislike when this comic, which they love for its wider, usual themes, suddenly comes up with a message that they don't share, or that they simply see as ill-placed (not sticking to the format). Paying or not has no influence on this process.
And the paying thing also doesn't mean much in this era. Private TV channels have been free of cost for the viewer for who knows how long, but their programs are still subjected to scrutiny and criticism.
This is a general argument, and isn't really about QC.
Concerning the incriminated title, I really like what the Onion has been doing lately.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-10-29, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
maybe they should offer smartass
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2019-10-30, 05:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
They really need a talk with Sam about personal responsibility. If anything would have happened to her in there, it would likely ahve been Faye and Bubbles on the hook for it.
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2019-10-30, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
I'm stuck between my admiration of Sam as a bit of a budding badass, and worrying for her safety.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2019-10-30, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
I'm wondering why that window is able to be opened in the first place.
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2019-10-30, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
The Worldbuilding Forum -- where realities are born.
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2019-10-30, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-30, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
And if you have a mechanics' workshop, a place where you're going to be soldering things, mixing chemicals, running engines, and doing a lot of other fume-generating activities, you want good ventilation.
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2019-10-30, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-30, 01:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Its going to be kinda hard to enforce limits here on sam, she seems to have spent a lot of her time kinda free range iirc even her school doesnt care if she shows up so long as she is doing something she can learn from or whatever.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-10-30, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
Faye and Bubbles are just lucky that Sam was the first person to notice the window, rather than some opportunistic burglar who tossed all their equipment in a van and drove off before they even knew he was there.
Stern talk with smart-ass teenager is one thing; going out of business and being thousands in debt because insurance doesn't cover you if you leave a door unlocked/window open is another entirely.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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