She could fly her to Ball State pretty easily, tbh
Needfuldoer
Sarah was about to throw her most of the way there.
Deanatay
Sarah-pult.
DudeMyDadOwnsaDealership
I know I would. Not everyone is happy to indulge a ‘free spirit.’
Pity that probably isn’t the sole reasons for Liz’s actions since she arrived.
Sarah may have to suffer through playing the good big sister here, to add insult on to injury….
I mean, does Sarah actually think that Liz has someone in a car outside who’s been sitting there overnight? “Gonna give her fifteen more minutes, then I’m gonna seriously start debating the merits of deciding whether or not to leave.”
I could’ve sworn that a bus was specifically mentioned early on but I’m not going back to check.
Jamie
Yeah, the bus was mentioned. So was “a ride”.
She might have been being disingenuous.
Psychie
Fun fact, there is not a shuttle bus between IU and Ball State. One would need to purchase tickets to a greyhound or similar bus service, and it would be annoyingly expensive. Also, IIRC the bus station here in Bloomington doesn’t take card, you have to pay in cash (or possibly the card reader was just down that day, I dunno). Granted, she could pay electronically if she purchased the tickets online, but who knows if they’d think of that.
Just curious — the “killing spiders” phrase must refer to the game she’s playing (on what looks like a laptop), but what game would that be to fit the original 2010 drawing date?
Delicious Taffy
It could be just about any video game that lets you kill things. Very few of them lack spiders of some description. No really, name me a few games with enemies, in which there are no spiders for the player to slaughter in droves.
King Daniel
Civilization. That’s six games with enemies, lacking spiders ?
Delicious Taffy
That series has got British people in it, right? That’s close enough. /s
But in all seriousness, well-played.
Keulen
I remember playing at least one modded scenario of a Civilization game that had giant spiders as an enemy you could fight.
Delicious Taffy
If mods counted, Skyrim would be hailed as the ultimate motorcycle simulator and dating sim.
misanthropope
if that’s one single mod i think i need you to point me at it pretty please
GlyphGryph
The civ series has mindworms, wasps, and floating colonies of primitive organisms but you know, I think you’re right. I can’t remember any spiders.
Delicious Taffy
They’re psychic spiders that make you forget they existed, like those one guys from that one show.
The Silence from Dr. Who? Say is that what inspired your alien avatar from way back?
Delicious Taffy
The Taffalien is actually a result of somebody in an old Discord server asking for an art prompt to get them started. I said “Draw me screaming at a burger” and they asked if I had a ‘sona or a photo, so I said “Well, I use an alien head as my avatar everywhere and I usually wear a pink hoodie”, so they drew that image. I colored it in and added shading, and then a couple days later somebody else was like “Yo Taffy, I drew your ‘sona real cool” and made the more detailed version that’s doing a peace sign.
thejeff
Weren’t those in the not-officially-Civ Alpha Centauri? Or did they get pulled back into the main series at some point?
Not my game, but I hang out on the same forums that this developer does.
Seems like a good fit, though a decade late perhaps.
Deanatay
Fallout, actually, has never had spiders. Not sure why – they have giant mutated rats, dogs, lizards, frogs, cockroaches, crickets, scorpions, but no spiders. Seems a gross oversight, to me.
geneseepaws
Emphasis on the gross.
Delicious Taffy
Wait, holy shit you’re right. Of all the nasty critters in those games, there’s no spiders. Unless you count the giant spider enemies in a minigame specific to Fallout 76.
Thag Simmons
Tyranny, Dishonored, any shooter aiming for realism, most strategy games, Halo and probably some others.
I was going to include Destiny, but they have spider-people with spider tanks.
Delicious Taffy
I’m gonna be a bongo and count “every single other player” as a spider, when it comes to any FPS with multiplayer.
Thag Simmons
That’s mean to the spiders
James
Halo definitely had spiders, they were just also tanks that shot giant ass plasma guns.
Roborat
Every flight sim ever made?
Rainhat
Spider Solitaire?
Needfuldoer
Or it’s a stock phrase she used to brush people off while gaming, in hopes that nobody would check if she was actually killing spiders.
InhabitantOfCarcosa
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup – she’s clearing the Spiders’ Nest lair branch. This makes the ‘one minute’ request extra ironic, because dcss is turn-based and she could leave the game as-is indefinitely.
Allandrel
World of Warcraft. Its third expansion was released near the end of 2010. And there are always, always spiders to kill.
StClair
I always figured it was definitely WoW.
So many spiders.
not someone else
Minecraft would work.
Ed Rhodes
I thought “I brought the crowbar” might be a reference to the game, in which case; Half Life” or Half Life 2,” both of which use crowbars. But I saw I was wrong.
Sarah does not know much about what has happened over the past day or 2. She may be assuming Liz had gone to Ball state, but then returned back to visit for some reason.
(by the way Willis, please let me know if you want me to stop doing this. I certainty DON’T wan’t to be annoying about it, but at the same time I want a lot of your readers to experience what is perhaps the very first game based on one of your comics!)
Doesn’t appear to run on modern hardware, sadly. Anyone know an emulator for games of that era?
Needfuldoer
If it’s a 16-bit executable, it won’t run on 64-bit Windows. (They dropped that backward compatibility layer.) It might run on Windows 3.1 inside DOSbox.
If it’s 32-bit, it probably needs to run on either Windows 9x or XP. For that you’d need a full virtual machine or actual legacy hardware.
I mean, if nothing else it’s certainly not the very first—Willis himself made a couple of Walkyverse games back in the ‘90s, some of the contents of which later went on to inform certain plot points and set dressings for It’s Walky! itself. 😛
The explanation is that you don’t need to attend classes at Ball State or for that matter even need a ride to said state of Ball if you never actually enrolled. Also despite Google and college football telling me that Ball State and to a greater extent Muncie do indeed exist that location may also just be a figment of Liz’s imagination.
Wasn’t a Muncie a 4-speed GM transmission of the late 50s-early 60s?
Liquid Len
yep, mostly used in muscle cars. I assume Muncie was where GM had the factory. I had a Cosworth Vega several years ago that had a Saginaw transmission in it, from a different GM plant.
Yeah that’s the theory I’m leaning towards, but things are still up the air!
Sirksome
Honestly I was being purposefully hyperbolic. If I was to really theorize a guess the drop out theory holds the most water. She does talk like she’s been to Ball State and had a group of “friends” that condescend to her enough she’d try hooking up with Joe just to validate herself. My guess is she dropped out after the first semester and is to scared to go back home. And if I were to guess further I think she’ll be sticking around maybe even transfering to IU just because it’s become more interesting with her being here and she’s planted seeds of intrigue with multiple characters.
233 thoughts on “Get back”
Ana Chronistic
“NO PROBLEM”
*grabs Sydney*
brionl
I thought you were talking about Sydney Scoville Jr., for a moment and wondered what she was doing here.
http://grrlpowercomic.com/
Ray Radlein
She could fly her to Ball State pretty easily, tbh
Needfuldoer
Sarah was about to throw her most of the way there.
Deanatay
Sarah-pult.
DudeMyDadOwnsaDealership
I know I would. Not everyone is happy to indulge a ‘free spirit.’
Pity that probably isn’t the sole reasons for Liz’s actions since she arrived.
Sarah may have to suffer through playing the good big sister here, to add insult on to injury….
Kaidah
Is it Monday and/or Thursday already?
Doctor_Who
I mean, does Sarah actually think that Liz has someone in a car outside who’s been sitting there overnight? “Gonna give her fifteen more minutes, then I’m gonna seriously start debating the merits of deciding whether or not to leave.”
Thag Simmons
she may be assuming Liz took the bus or something
Nathan
I could’ve sworn that a bus was specifically mentioned early on but I’m not going back to check.
Jamie
Yeah, the bus was mentioned. So was “a ride”.
She might have been being disingenuous.
Psychie
Fun fact, there is not a shuttle bus between IU and Ball State. One would need to purchase tickets to a greyhound or similar bus service, and it would be annoyingly expensive. Also, IIRC the bus station here in Bloomington doesn’t take card, you have to pay in cash (or possibly the card reader was just down that day, I dunno). Granted, she could pay electronically if she purchased the tickets online, but who knows if they’d think of that.
Lingo
“I brought the crowbar.”
Bicycle Bill
Just curious — the “killing spiders” phrase must refer to the game she’s playing (on what looks like a laptop), but what game would that be to fit the original 2010 drawing date?
Delicious Taffy
It could be just about any video game that lets you kill things. Very few of them lack spiders of some description. No really, name me a few games with enemies, in which there are no spiders for the player to slaughter in droves.
King Daniel
Civilization. That’s six games with enemies, lacking spiders ?
Delicious Taffy
That series has got British people in it, right? That’s close enough. /s
But in all seriousness, well-played.
Keulen
I remember playing at least one modded scenario of a Civilization game that had giant spiders as an enemy you could fight.
Delicious Taffy
If mods counted, Skyrim would be hailed as the ultimate motorcycle simulator and dating sim.
misanthropope
if that’s one single mod i think i need you to point me at it pretty please
GlyphGryph
The civ series has mindworms, wasps, and floating colonies of primitive organisms but you know, I think you’re right. I can’t remember any spiders.
Delicious Taffy
They’re psychic spiders that make you forget they existed, like those one guys from that one show.
The Wellerman
The Silence from Dr. Who? Say is that what inspired your alien avatar from way back?
Delicious Taffy
The Taffalien is actually a result of somebody in an old Discord server asking for an art prompt to get them started. I said “Draw me screaming at a burger” and they asked if I had a ‘sona or a photo, so I said “Well, I use an alien head as my avatar everywhere and I usually wear a pink hoodie”, so they drew that image. I colored it in and added shading, and then a couple days later somebody else was like “Yo Taffy, I drew your ‘sona real cool” and made the more detailed version that’s doing a peace sign.
thejeff
Weren’t those in the not-officially-Civ Alpha Centauri? Or did they get pulled back into the main series at some point?
khn0
to me it’s that:
https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/rerun
(well this one as well, duh
https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/forsaken )
Felix
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1851390/Spiders_Everywhere/
Not my game, but I hang out on the same forums that this developer does.
Seems like a good fit, though a decade late perhaps.
Deanatay
Fallout, actually, has never had spiders. Not sure why – they have giant mutated rats, dogs, lizards, frogs, cockroaches, crickets, scorpions, but no spiders. Seems a gross oversight, to me.
geneseepaws
Emphasis on the gross.
Delicious Taffy
Wait, holy shit you’re right. Of all the nasty critters in those games, there’s no spiders. Unless you count the giant spider enemies in a minigame specific to Fallout 76.
Thag Simmons
Tyranny, Dishonored, any shooter aiming for realism, most strategy games, Halo and probably some others.
I was going to include Destiny, but they have spider-people with spider tanks.
Delicious Taffy
I’m gonna be a bongo and count “every single other player” as a spider, when it comes to any FPS with multiplayer.
Thag Simmons
That’s mean to the spiders
James
Halo definitely had spiders, they were just also tanks that shot giant ass plasma guns.
Roborat
Every flight sim ever made?
Rainhat
Spider Solitaire?
Needfuldoer
Or it’s a stock phrase she used to brush people off while gaming, in hopes that nobody would check if she was actually killing spiders.
InhabitantOfCarcosa
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup – she’s clearing the Spiders’ Nest lair branch. This makes the ‘one minute’ request extra ironic, because dcss is turn-based and she could leave the game as-is indefinitely.
Allandrel
World of Warcraft. Its third expansion was released near the end of 2010. And there are always, always spiders to kill.
StClair
I always figured it was definitely WoW.
So many spiders.
not someone else
Minecraft would work.
Ed Rhodes
I thought “I brought the crowbar” might be a reference to the game, in which case; Half Life” or Half Life 2,” both of which use crowbars. But I saw I was wrong.
Segnosaur
Sarah does not know much about what has happened over the past day or 2. She may be assuming Liz had gone to Ball state, but then returned back to visit for some reason.
Bicycle Bill
“Well, I’ll give her another twenty minutes. But that’s it!”
Opus the Poet
I understood that reference dot gif.
The Wellerman
Dealing with relatives sure is something, isn’t it Sarah? But sometimes ya gotta learn to chill, right?
Forget life — play Joyce’s Nightmare!
It’s a mobile game where you Joyce kills toys and eats herself out in her dreams!
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/830313
The Wellerman
(by the way Willis, please let me know if you want me to stop doing this. I certainty DON’T wan’t to be annoying about it, but at the same time I want a lot of your readers to experience what is perhaps the very first game based on one of your comics!)
Jeff K!
First fan game I’m aware of, but Willis did a few computer games themself back in the early It’s Walky days!
The Wellerman
Hey you’re right!!!!
It’s Walky! fans, how about a blast from the past?!?!
http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f3856.html
RassilonTDavros
Doesn’t appear to run on modern hardware, sadly. Anyone know an emulator for games of that era?
Needfuldoer
If it’s a 16-bit executable, it won’t run on 64-bit Windows. (They dropped that backward compatibility layer.) It might run on Windows 3.1 inside DOSbox.
If it’s 32-bit, it probably needs to run on either Windows 9x or XP. For that you’d need a full virtual machine or actual legacy hardware.
King Daniel
I mean, if nothing else it’s certainly not the very first—Willis himself made a couple of Walkyverse games back in the ‘90s, some of the contents of which later went on to inform certain plot points and set dressings for It’s Walky! itself. 😛
The Wellerman
Oooo! Did he make any games for DOA?
King Daniel
Not that I’m aware of, no.
Stifyn Baker
I know you said it works on mobile devices, but it doesn’t work on my Samsung phone – I can only see the top left corner of the playing area.
The Wellerman
Try another browser, maybe?
Seregiel
I have an s10e and it worked on mine.
Purblebirb
How do we get to that second part?
The Wellerman
Hey bruh, if ya want a DOA hentai game, why didn’t you just ask? ?
Delicious Taffy
If you’re serious about that, I have some ideas. For unrelated reasons, my name seems to be suspiciously red.
Amós Batista
Wellerman, tell me: Have you read or played cosmic horror, like Lovecraft?
Delicious Taffy
That Lovecraft had some weird fuckin’ ideas about a whole lot of things, but he sure could write a neat monster.
The Wellerman
? I fucking love Invader Zim and Species II, if those count. Also Parasyte the Maxim!
Also I played Terraria and this horror game called Monstrum.
Really anything that involves scary alien parasite things totally puts me in my element! ? ? ? ?
Thag Simmons
Alright, guessing this is explaining time.
Sirksome
The explanation is that you don’t need to attend classes at Ball State or for that matter even need a ride to said state of Ball if you never actually enrolled. Also despite Google and college football telling me that Ball State and to a greater extent Muncie do indeed exist that location may also just be a figment of Liz’s imagination.
Doctor_Who
Muncie does kinda sound like the name of some magical imaginary friend in a 90s cartoon.
mrnoidea
Munchy Muncie.
Needfuldoer
Of course Muncie is a real place, that’s where Lasagna Cat lives!
Opus the Poet
Wasn’t a Muncie a 4-speed GM transmission of the late 50s-early 60s?
Liquid Len
yep, mostly used in muscle cars. I assume Muncie was where GM had the factory. I had a Cosworth Vega several years ago that had a Saginaw transmission in it, from a different GM plant.
NickG
The Muncie Rock Crusher.
Thag Simmons
Yeah that’s the theory I’m leaning towards, but things are still up the air!
Sirksome
Honestly I was being purposefully hyperbolic. If I was to really theorize a guess the drop out theory holds the most water. She does talk like she’s been to Ball State and had a group of “friends” that condescend to her enough she’d try hooking up with Joe just to validate herself. My guess is she dropped out after the first semester and is to scared to go back home. And if I were to guess further I think she’ll be sticking around maybe even transfering to IU just because it’s become more interesting with her being here and she’s planted seeds of intrigue with multiple characters.