mind depend on the room, i can see the practicality of it but i assume from like the front door it wouldn’t be as soundproof compared to the walls in case of emerggencies lol
Legitimate question:
Is that a prosthetic, tattoos, or hair?
Jamie
I was gonna say tattoos, but I took another look and… now I’m gonna say hair.
Meagan
I initially thought it looked like he had done some serious self harm in the past and had scars. I thought that was some pretty dark background setting stuff though. But people who self-harm and have scars do eventually want to be able to wear clothes that don’t cover it up, if they work through the hiding it part. It just seemed like the kind of thing Willis wouldn’t throw on a side character though.
BorkBorkBork
For it to be pretty serious self-harm, that then assumes that Sayid is going so far out there to completely draw attention to it and show it off, as sleeveless hoodies are *extremely* difficult to find and not typical clothing worn in the winter.
It also assumes that Sal is *so* completely insensitive that she assigns a name and identity to him that is very clearly related to self-harm and mental illness, rather than something more generic.
… I’m pretty positive that these are just tattoos.
Needfuldoer
Any hoodie can be a sleeveless hoodie, once.
Kamino Neko
Pretty sure it’s a tattoo of muscles.
merbrat
I thought it was a tattoo of wood grain!
Roborat
It has been so long that he appeared in a strip that I forgot about the tattoos, I thought he was wearing a knitted sweater or something similar.
justin8448
There’s a previous comic where Sal indicated that she was rather enamored with Sayid’s tattooed arms.
Rabid Rabbit
Slipshine suggests definitely not a prosthetic. (And also definitely not hair.)
How loud does it have to be if it leaks out the door? I have to assume that’s the only place that isn’t soundproofed and can be heard from the front desk.
If we’re going with ‘people who totally exist in DoA-verse in person’, then Lester (the cop who Blaine totally stole the gun from) is the current record at 2 strips.
Username Taken
Wow, two appearances and he killed Blaine in one of them? Lester might be a crooked cop, but he’s very efficient in cleaning up this comic strip.
Does Sal remember those arms? She’s expressed appreciation in the past.
. I’m finding them unsettling just this strip though, cos I can’t quite parse them. As conclusively cloth or skin. (I know they’re tats)
it’s hard to tell with the striped sleeve(?) but i suppose irl it might be more noticeable with buff arms (or at least i would notice b/c my arms are like the skinniest part of me b/c i have no upper body muscle haha)
I thought they were either clothes or his arm hair just grew weird like that until I checked the previous strips with Sayid and remembered he has tattoos on his arms.
Probably soundproofed walls, but the wooden door leaks the sound into the hallway a bit.
Dara
Yeah this. Room to room is pretty good, they don’t bother with the hallway so you get a lot of hallway bleed. It’s good… enough? Barely? Unless someone is particularly loud in a small room in which case you might as well be in the same room and it’s horrible. (Yes, this is an “ask me how I know” experience.)
Ah, now I have the picture. Very interesting how the school wouldn’t also soundproof the door….
Dara
I have a lot of issues with building code in this country, sound control (or the lack thereof) is definitely one of them.
Taffy
Why is every building so fucking noisy?? We have central air in my current apartment, and when the unit kicks on it may as well be a fucking TMC truck from how loud the damn thing is.
Thag Simmons
Acoustics Engineering is always the first thing to get cut when putting a building up, nobody cares enough to get it right
Leorale
I wonder if it’s like a regular fan, where it gets noisier if you don’t clean it, only it’d be a really big fan that nobody cleans?
I once lived in a dormitory that had the opposite problem in a very weird way—thanks to a very poorly designed ventilation system, loud music from one dorm room could be heard *in the dorm room across the hall* through the overhead air ducts even though the dorm rooms were pretty well soundproofed from the hallway itself.
Soundproofing is easy when the rooms are purpose-built. They’ll have double walls between them instead of a single stud wall. That will help keep noise from transferring through the wood. All the walls would get filled with mineral wool insulation and finished with two layers of drywall glued together with that green soundproofing adhesive. I can’t imagine much would get through that.
The insides of the rooms would be acoustically treated too, with bass traps and wall coverings so you don’t get that hollow, metallic, “empty room” echo.
The door and HVAC system are going to be your weak points. You need a heavy, solid door with a good seal and no window for best results. Even then, you’re separating two spaces by a single solid piece, which is what the rest of the design avoids.
At Oberlin College, this was a feature, not a bug. It was fun and creative-feeling to walk through the hallways and hear the world-class Conservatory students practicing all their various pieces.
I don’t think any of them were playing WAP on ukulele, but nothing is perfect.
… When have we last seen Sal use her phone? Does she still have it? This is the second instance of “why don’t you just use your phone” in recent times (the first being climbing into Danny’s window rather than texting him)…
In a distance future where Sal and Danny got married
“Mom what first attracted you to dad?”
“His skill with a ukulele“
“is that a sex thing”
“No it’s a musical instrument”
“I know that but I don’t get the euphemism.”
“It’s not, it was his musical talents”
“Dad how did you get mom to notice you?”
“My skills at ukulele”
“Fine don’t tell me.”
It’s hard to imagine any of the characters staying together that long, but they would make a cute family together. I would read a family sit-com style comic about them with their kids.
105 thoughts on “Arms”
Ana Chronistic
I thought Bryan said he was thankful those rooms were soundproofed when he and Sayid…
…
hmm ?
anon
mind depend on the room, i can see the practicality of it but i assume from like the front door it wouldn’t be as soundproof compared to the walls in case of emerggencies lol
BBCC
Sayid apparently speaks from experience. Painful, painful experience.
Thag Simmons
yeah that’s a mistake you only make once
Yet_One_More_Idiot
That’s what SHE sayid!
ThunderNight
when they played the uke?
Amós Batista
Sayid working there must be a kind of… penality?..
anon
oh wow been a while since we’ve seen sayid lol
CrazyJ
It’s not the first strip with Sayid in it called “arms” either.
anon
i would love to be that consistent i feel like i could like have a good walk one day but laze around the rest of the week haha
Thag Simmons
He has very nice arms
Mr. Random
Legitimate question:
Is that a prosthetic, tattoos, or hair?
Jamie
I was gonna say tattoos, but I took another look and… now I’m gonna say hair.
Meagan
I initially thought it looked like he had done some serious self harm in the past and had scars. I thought that was some pretty dark background setting stuff though. But people who self-harm and have scars do eventually want to be able to wear clothes that don’t cover it up, if they work through the hiding it part. It just seemed like the kind of thing Willis wouldn’t throw on a side character though.
BorkBorkBork
For it to be pretty serious self-harm, that then assumes that Sayid is going so far out there to completely draw attention to it and show it off, as sleeveless hoodies are *extremely* difficult to find and not typical clothing worn in the winter.
It also assumes that Sal is *so* completely insensitive that she assigns a name and identity to him that is very clearly related to self-harm and mental illness, rather than something more generic.
… I’m pretty positive that these are just tattoos.
Needfuldoer
Any hoodie can be a sleeveless hoodie, once.
Kamino Neko
Pretty sure it’s a tattoo of muscles.
merbrat
I thought it was a tattoo of wood grain!
Roborat
It has been so long that he appeared in a strip that I forgot about the tattoos, I thought he was wearing a knitted sweater or something similar.
justin8448
There’s a previous comic where Sal indicated that she was rather enamored with Sayid’s tattooed arms.
Rabid Rabbit
Slipshine suggests definitely not a prosthetic. (And also definitely not hair.)
Kamino Neko
It’s apparently the feature Sal has decided to recognize him by.
To be fair, so would I, though I’m not sure if it’s for the same reason. And he takes it in stride, so I guess she’s not the only one.
Yeet
dude’s wearing a tank top I’m sure he knows what he’s working with
Johan
Oh no is Sal gonna be all self conscious. 🙁
Rognik
How loud does it have to be if it leaks out the door? I have to assume that’s the only place that isn’t soundproofed and can be heard from the front desk.
BBCC
Hi Sayid!
Good to know that everyone in the hall was subjected to what I’m sure was a delightful WAP cover.
Stephen Bierce
“Empty Arms Hotel?”–Hee Haw
Van Jealous
I hear that “The Culhanes” are still living there (if you want to reach them just call BR-549)!
Sirksome
Sayid makes a very rare appearance. I wonder who the rarest named character is?
Nono
Bonnie clocks in at 3 strips. Not sure if anyone’s lower.
anon
“totally harmless guy” but he’s not really a chara lol
Thag Simmons
Bloodrose has two, but she’s not tagged.
RassilonTDavros
Bart (a.k.a. Bart O’Ryan, the Walter-Peck-type jerkass-has-a-point lawyer from the final years of It’s Walky!) currently has exactly one tagged strip.
Nono
If we’re going with ‘people who totally exist in DoA-verse in person’, then Lester (the cop who Blaine totally stole the gun from) is the current record at 2 strips.
Username Taken
Wow, two appearances and he killed Blaine in one of them? Lester might be a crooked cop, but he’s very efficient in cleaning up this comic strip.
Amós Batista
I had a graph that shows all named DoA characters, but it’s offline now. Shit.
Nono
So Sayid works at both Galasso’s and the… wherever this is?
Is he a student?
BBCC
Yes.
Sirksome
Campus jobs probably don’t pay much. Wonder if he’s working his way through school or funding his bad arm tattoos?
Needfuldoer
Could be both.
Mr. Random
So… wait.
How does that work?
If any room can be heard from the hall and vice versa…
Or is it a surveilance camera situation?
Suet
The room booked itself after hearing the first few notes.
*plays Hanson’s “Where’s The Love” behind the painting*
Carms
Does Sal remember those arms? She’s expressed appreciation in the past.
. I’m finding them unsettling just this strip though, cos I can’t quite parse them. As conclusively cloth or skin. (I know they’re tats)
anon
it’s hard to tell with the striped sleeve(?) but i suppose irl it might be more noticeable with buff arms (or at least i would notice b/c my arms are like the skinniest part of me b/c i have no upper body muscle haha)
Airyu
I think is because of this com
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/arms/
Airyu
I am dumb I misunderstood what you were asking >_<
I always thought it was a prostetic, but as shown just now I might be dumb lmao
Keulen
I thought they were either clothes or his arm hair just grew weird like that until I checked the previous strips with Sayid and remembered he has tattoos on his arms.
schmess
sayid my absolute beloved
(both him and sal look so good in panel one)
Yotomoe
That’s pretty shitty soundproofing then.
anon
that’d make everyone’s tuition even higher even if ppl don’t use those rooms lol XD
The Wellerman
I’m still having a hard time imagining how that kinda situation is actually physically possible. ?
Leorale
Probably soundproofed walls, but the wooden door leaks the sound into the hallway a bit.
Dara
Yeah this. Room to room is pretty good, they don’t bother with the hallway so you get a lot of hallway bleed. It’s good… enough? Barely? Unless someone is particularly loud in a small room in which case you might as well be in the same room and it’s horrible. (Yes, this is an “ask me how I know” experience.)
The Wellerman
Ah, now I have the picture. Very interesting how the school wouldn’t also soundproof the door….
Dara
I have a lot of issues with building code in this country, sound control (or the lack thereof) is definitely one of them.
Taffy
Why is every building so fucking noisy?? We have central air in my current apartment, and when the unit kicks on it may as well be a fucking TMC truck from how loud the damn thing is.
Thag Simmons
Acoustics Engineering is always the first thing to get cut when putting a building up, nobody cares enough to get it right
Leorale
I wonder if it’s like a regular fan, where it gets noisier if you don’t clean it, only it’d be a really big fan that nobody cleans?
AbacusWizard
I once lived in a dormitory that had the opposite problem in a very weird way—thanks to a very poorly designed ventilation system, loud music from one dorm room could be heard *in the dorm room across the hall* through the overhead air ducts even though the dorm rooms were pretty well soundproofed from the hallway itself.
Needfuldoer
Soundproofing is easy when the rooms are purpose-built. They’ll have double walls between them instead of a single stud wall. That will help keep noise from transferring through the wood. All the walls would get filled with mineral wool insulation and finished with two layers of drywall glued together with that green soundproofing adhesive. I can’t imagine much would get through that.
The insides of the rooms would be acoustically treated too, with bass traps and wall coverings so you don’t get that hollow, metallic, “empty room” echo.
The door and HVAC system are going to be your weak points. You need a heavy, solid door with a good seal and no window for best results. Even then, you’re separating two spaces by a single solid piece, which is what the rest of the design avoids.
Dara
Accurate though. Direct room-connected-to-room sound dampening wasn’t bad but you had some severe hallway bleed. Well, at my school, anyway.
Leorale
At Oberlin College, this was a feature, not a bug. It was fun and creative-feeling to walk through the hallways and hear the world-class Conservatory students practicing all their various pieces.
I don’t think any of them were playing WAP on ukulele, but nothing is perfect.
RassilonTDavros
Yep, this is true of pretty much any music building I’ve ever been in.
Pocky
Yeah; this is why you test the soundproofing before you do. . . things
Masumi
… When have we last seen Sal use her phone? Does she still have it? This is the second instance of “why don’t you just use your phone” in recent times (the first being climbing into Danny’s window rather than texting him)…
Needfuldoer
Doing everything in person leaves no paper trail to be used against her at a later date.
Throwatron
…am *I* Sal? I don’t know if I can handle this responsibility.
AbacusWizard
“Oh, uh, if it ain’t soundproofed Ah guess Ah don’t need the room fer a while longer.”
Vukodlak
In a distance future where Sal and Danny got married
“Mom what first attracted you to dad?”
“His skill with a ukulele“
“is that a sex thing”
“No it’s a musical instrument”
“I know that but I don’t get the euphemism.”
“It’s not, it was his musical talents”
“Dad how did you get mom to notice you?”
“My skills at ukulele”
“Fine don’t tell me.”
Meagan
It’s hard to imagine any of the characters staying together that long, but they would make a cute family together. I would read a family sit-com style comic about them with their kids.
Thag Simmons
Becky/Dina maybe. I’ve learned to stop betting against the Lizbians
jeffepp
“Hey, Arms.”
“Yeah, Gloves.”