… thanks to a binge-enabling friend, as of two weeks ago I get that reference.
Inahc
I don’t. is it something I should watch? 🙂
King Daniel
’tis a reference to RWBY, a free YouTube animated series originally created by the late Monty Oum; one of the characters introduced in the second season is named Neopolitan, though often called Neo for short.
If you’re interested, I’d recommend watching the four canonical “color-themed” trailers first (RWBY Red Trailer, RWBY White Trailer, RWBY Black Trailer, and RWBY Yellow Trailer – all four of them together add up to something like 15 minutes of screentime) to get something of an introduction to the protagonists, and if it seems interesting, try watching up to episode 8 of the first season to get a feel for the series. The first season’s animation is a little wonky due to early budgetary issues at the time (and the crew suffered a major setback when series creator Monty Oum passed during production of the third season), but it’s still a series I’d recommend. 🙂
Inahc
oh, I watch rwby, I didn’t remember that character though.
“wonky” is a bit of an understatement. 🙂 when I first found it, I thought I was watching a highschool project from someone with a lot of potential. 😉
Reltzik
The trailers reveal less about character personalities or even genre, and more about their fighting styles and weapons. (OMG the weapons. The weapons are like half the fun of RWBY. Well, okay, a third of the fun.) That said, each trailer is fairly canonical. They’re not essential to watch, but they get alluded to throughout the main series and are fun watches. Just don’t expect fights like that every episode.
Volume 2 had some pretty wonky artwork too, especially clipping issues. Artwork, story, directing, blocking, and screenwriting all make major leaps forward each season, with the exception of fight choreography which was strong from the beginning but IMO relatively weak in the first half of Volume 3, but only relatively. Volume 1, Episode 8 does set the bar pretty damn high.
Also, be warned (vague spoilers follow, so avert your eyes from this paragraph if that bugs you), Cerebus Syndrome bites hard during Volume 3, almost to the point where it starts feeling like a different show. Rooster Teeth created the RWBY Chibi series (silly, light-hearted, non-canonical comedy shorts) almost as a sort of therapy for fans following the end of 3, with each season of Chibi interspersed with each volume of the main series after that. It’s a good palette-cleanser after Volume 3, and if you find that 3 drained your will to live you might consider a season of Chibi before giving up on the main series.
I don’t drink pop, either. I do generally get a virgin pina colada, if I’m at such a place for some reason. You don’t actually have to explain how bars work.
BBCC
I’m with you. No pop, no coffee/tea, very very little alcohol (I’m talking sips of wine or beer, like a shot at most).
I drink coffee beverages sometimes, in large part because I find I get more done when I’m working on things at a coffee shop. I’m about equally likely to get hot chocolate if I’m not particularly tired, though.
My preferred drink is water. I always find it strange when people say they don’t like water. I mean, for me it’s more of a convenience thing, but it just seems strange to me that some people have a negative opinion on drinking water.
(If it’s a certain kind of water, I can understand– the water at my university, for instance, had way too much iron in it for my taste. In some places it would remind me of the taste of blood.)
Wright
I hate alcohol, but have found that if I’m in a social situation where I’d be looked at oddly if I didn’t have a drink, ordering a Jack and Coke is at least palatable and doesn’t make me look like a kid drinking his first drink.
Inahc
there’s a lot of different bad tastes that water can have depending on where it’s from. plus, when you’re used to carbonated stuff, water seems incredibly boring in comparison. I sometimes add a dash of lime juice to make it more palatable.
(ps: fruit juice is not pop.)
BBCC
I’m a milk/apple juice/lemonade/water sort of person, so believe me I get it.
Yeah, I understand that, which is why I specifically made note of it in my comment. It’s more people of the “water is boring” variety that I find strange.
(PS: I didn’t say that it was. I was referring to the Coke part and went on to mention ordering a drink that is made with fruit juice.)
Inahc
eh, it’s how tastebuds work. you flood them with overstimulating things on a regular basis, and blander things will produce a “what is this crap!?” reaction. 🙂
@Wright: Mostly I just think it sucks that there are social situations where one’s looked at oddly for not having a drink. I mean, I’ve definitely gotten that, but I just don’t drink and deal with it. Those societal pressures to drink when you don’t really want to (and as part of that, to spend money on something you don’t want) are unpleasant.
Rowen Morland
Water is delicious. Mmmm, life juice.
Wright
@Yumi: Yeah, societal pressures are one thing, and employer pressures are another. I am sometimes in situations in which you take the client out for a meal, or network with potential clients. And while there’s never any expectation that you get a drink, it makes things awkward if you’re suddenly the “teetotaler” in the group. Questions get asked, and ‘Oh, I just never drink’ sounds like you’re silently saying ‘and I’m better than you.’ So I just shut up and get the Jack and Coke.
I really hope that happens tbh, also that he works drunk like Mike did at his other job. He’s honestly nicer and more pleasant to be around when drunk.
Wait. Is he basically a bowtie wearing English version of Mike?
I assume by the phrase ‘they’re shitfaced’ that Regalli meant Jason and the customer would both be equally drunk.
Regalli
It’s really more the whole ‘that’s the only time a power imbalance would come into play as a bartender’ thing. A lapse of judgment is still a pretty big deal when it turns out you were being propositioned for better grades, because once you’ve done that there’s no good way out.
BBCC
Ah, okay, yeah, that would be yet another messed up thing to do.
Given Galasso’s immediate hiring of Becky, I would imagine he’d have no problems hiring Jason if he actually knows how to make the drinks.
Probably even if he doesn’t know how, honestly.
140 thoughts on “Cosmopolitan”
Ana Chronistic
oh
…
Tomorrow’s Comic: http://rebloggy.com/post/gifs-mine-edit-dp-onna-dpedit-mine-dp-chiyuki-death-parade-decim-i-m-having-so/114178126692
K^2
And that’s why I took Latin in school.
butts
okay but, like, seriously, just because a drink’s called “memento mori” doesn’t mean it’ll kill you
see also: irish car bomb, kamikaze, sex on the beach
Deanatay
It just means that they’ll TRY.
MM
And thus Jason’s new career path begins.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Called it.
I mean, I was like the second or third person yesterday to call it, but still… called it.
“yay” **saves tiny flag**
JetstreamGW
Exactly. And this exact reasoning will absolutely work on Galasso.
ahecht
I’m not sure that tending bar can qualify you for an H1-B visa.
ruhrow
The grad school does that for him…the bar will keep him in housing and food and clothes until his school/visa runs out.
Ana Chronistic
well, if it’s a student visa, it’s more like F-1 OPT
King Daniel
This person needs a tag
Wright
Seconded!
JessWitt
Cosima just popped into my head.
Keulen
Cosima Politan?
King Daniel
She has a mute sister named Neo.
Reltzik
… thanks to a binge-enabling friend, as of two weeks ago I get that reference.
Inahc
I don’t. is it something I should watch? 🙂
King Daniel
’tis a reference to RWBY, a free YouTube animated series originally created by the late Monty Oum; one of the characters introduced in the second season is named Neopolitan, though often called Neo for short.
If you’re interested, I’d recommend watching the four canonical “color-themed” trailers first (RWBY Red Trailer, RWBY White Trailer, RWBY Black Trailer, and RWBY Yellow Trailer – all four of them together add up to something like 15 minutes of screentime) to get something of an introduction to the protagonists, and if it seems interesting, try watching up to episode 8 of the first season to get a feel for the series. The first season’s animation is a little wonky due to early budgetary issues at the time (and the crew suffered a major setback when series creator Monty Oum passed during production of the third season), but it’s still a series I’d recommend. 🙂
Inahc
oh, I watch rwby, I didn’t remember that character though.
“wonky” is a bit of an understatement. 🙂 when I first found it, I thought I was watching a highschool project from someone with a lot of potential. 😉
Reltzik
The trailers reveal less about character personalities or even genre, and more about their fighting styles and weapons. (OMG the weapons. The weapons are like half the fun of RWBY. Well, okay, a third of the fun.) That said, each trailer is fairly canonical. They’re not essential to watch, but they get alluded to throughout the main series and are fun watches. Just don’t expect fights like that every episode.
Volume 2 had some pretty wonky artwork too, especially clipping issues. Artwork, story, directing, blocking, and screenwriting all make major leaps forward each season, with the exception of fight choreography which was strong from the beginning but IMO relatively weak in the first half of Volume 3, but only relatively. Volume 1, Episode 8 does set the bar pretty damn high.
Also, be warned (vague spoilers follow, so avert your eyes from this paragraph if that bugs you), Cerebus Syndrome bites hard during Volume 3, almost to the point where it starts feeling like a different show. Rooster Teeth created the RWBY Chibi series (silly, light-hearted, non-canonical comedy shorts) almost as a sort of therapy for fans following the end of 3, with each season of Chibi interspersed with each volume of the main series after that. It’s a good palette-cleanser after Volume 3, and if you find that 3 drained your will to live you might consider a season of Chibi before giving up on the main series.
butts
whose twin makes really good pizza
Khno
No Cosima ever. Wagner ruined the name.
Needfuldoer
First random name that came to mind was Sharisa.
AnvilPro
Scientists say that by the year 2070, 99% of the cast will work at Galasso’s… and they’ll be starting the Spring semester
Doctor_Who
This is all a longterm plan to get everyone working for him. Then Shortpacked 2.0 can start.
Pablo360
And then the comments are full of people complaining that spring semesters aren’t a real thing and that Willis is a strawman.
Regalli
And then Galasso starts selling Transformers and Batman.
Doctor_Who
He already subtly changed the sign outside to read Galasso’s Pizza (and booze).
Needfuldoer
Maybe sooner than that! January 2070 would put us sometime in July at the 1:66.67 pace.
Kensou
Bowties are cool. Even if you’re tending bar.
Cattleprod
Yeah, ‘a man with a bowtie is clearly supposed to be here’ is a pretty good summation of the 11th Doctor’s run.
Reltzik
Threatened, briefly, by a fez.
ruhrow
Oh man, I hope this scene isn’t threatened (no matter how briefly) by a fez…I mean Faz. *gulp*
hof1991
You spill/ splash on them less than a regular tie. Makes sense and fashion sennce.
Yumi
Jason could be looking at Walky in the last panel, but I also see it as a fourth wall break.
He stares into my soul.
Doctor_Who
He’s waiting for you to order.
Yumi
“I don’t drink,” I say.
Still, he stares.
And stares.
“I’ll…have an alcohol, please,” I tell him.
Stellar
“Virgin Screwdriver, thanks.”
“Um. That’s just orange juice.”
“Don’t tell me how to not order liquor!”
Doctor_Who
Protip: Every bar has Coke and a variety of fruit juices available.
Yumi
I don’t drink pop, either. I do generally get a virgin pina colada, if I’m at such a place for some reason. You don’t actually have to explain how bars work.
BBCC
I’m with you. No pop, no coffee/tea, very very little alcohol (I’m talking sips of wine or beer, like a shot at most).
Yumi
I drink coffee beverages sometimes, in large part because I find I get more done when I’m working on things at a coffee shop. I’m about equally likely to get hot chocolate if I’m not particularly tired, though.
Yumi
My preferred drink is water. I always find it strange when people say they don’t like water. I mean, for me it’s more of a convenience thing, but it just seems strange to me that some people have a negative opinion on drinking water.
(If it’s a certain kind of water, I can understand– the water at my university, for instance, had way too much iron in it for my taste. In some places it would remind me of the taste of blood.)
Wright
I hate alcohol, but have found that if I’m in a social situation where I’d be looked at oddly if I didn’t have a drink, ordering a Jack and Coke is at least palatable and doesn’t make me look like a kid drinking his first drink.
Inahc
there’s a lot of different bad tastes that water can have depending on where it’s from. plus, when you’re used to carbonated stuff, water seems incredibly boring in comparison. I sometimes add a dash of lime juice to make it more palatable.
(ps: fruit juice is not pop.)
BBCC
I’m a milk/apple juice/lemonade/water sort of person, so believe me I get it.
Yumi
Yeah, I understand that, which is why I specifically made note of it in my comment. It’s more people of the “water is boring” variety that I find strange.
(PS: I didn’t say that it was. I was referring to the Coke part and went on to mention ordering a drink that is made with fruit juice.)
Inahc
eh, it’s how tastebuds work. you flood them with overstimulating things on a regular basis, and blander things will produce a “what is this crap!?” reaction. 🙂
Yumi
@Wright: Mostly I just think it sucks that there are social situations where one’s looked at oddly for not having a drink. I mean, I’ve definitely gotten that, but I just don’t drink and deal with it. Those societal pressures to drink when you don’t really want to (and as part of that, to spend money on something you don’t want) are unpleasant.
Rowen Morland
Water is delicious. Mmmm, life juice.
Wright
@Yumi: Yeah, societal pressures are one thing, and employer pressures are another. I am sometimes in situations in which you take the client out for a meal, or network with potential clients. And while there’s never any expectation that you get a drink, it makes things awkward if you’re suddenly the “teetotaler” in the group. Questions get asked, and ‘Oh, I just never drink’ sounds like you’re silently saying ‘and I’m better than you.’ So I just shut up and get the Jack and Coke.
Inahc
ack, that sucks :/
MM
“You lot wanted shenanigans. I hope you’re happy.”
Clif
Delerius.
DailyBrad
I want Galasso to give him the job, out of outrage that the actual bartender is truant.
BBCC
Maybe they’re on a bathroom break or another kind of break?
Smiling Cat
I assume he’ll get the job because Galasso is impressed by his audacity in “overthrowing” the prior bartender.
Waffliesinyoface
yeah, that tracks
Marisa Mockery
I really hope that happens tbh, also that he works drunk like Mike did at his other job. He’s honestly nicer and more pleasant to be around when drunk.
Wait. Is he basically a bowtie wearing English version of Mike?
Clif
No. Mike is a force of nature and would only wear a bow tie to screw with your mind. Or your mom, but only for a nickle.
Stellar
So, by the end of Dumbing of Age, everyone will be working in Galsso’s Pizza n Booze…
…as careers post college go these days, that sounds like a group of success stories.
Raen
…I’d kinda figured this was a beer-and-wine place.
Stephen Bierce
*plays “One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer” on the hacked Muzak*
Regalli
… I mean unless he screws a customer while they’re shitfaced, this should work.
John Smith
I feel the need to remind you that Sal literally said “You’ll do,” stripped and THEN they screwed.
He had a lapse of judgement when presented with breasts (a common failing). There has never been any suggestion he’s ever taken advantage of anybody.
BBCC
I assume by the phrase ‘they’re shitfaced’ that Regalli meant Jason and the customer would both be equally drunk.
Regalli
It’s really more the whole ‘that’s the only time a power imbalance would come into play as a bartender’ thing. A lapse of judgment is still a pretty big deal when it turns out you were being propositioned for better grades, because once you’ve done that there’s no good way out.
BBCC
Ah, okay, yeah, that would be yet another messed up thing to do.
Passchendaele
*pulls out oversized bottle of vodka*
*sets down glass*
*spills vodka all over the table*
*passes out*
Ivy
LIfe crisis averted. Jason got a new job.
Laladoria
Given Galasso’s immediate hiring of Becky, I would imagine he’d have no problems hiring Jason if he actually knows how to make the drinks.
Probably even if he doesn’t know how, honestly.
Regalli