I actually meant to link to that comic with different text followed by mentioning that the next comic after that one is also great. I didn’t intend to reference The Wellerman’s comic, which does not precede this one.
Here here! Infantilization is especially insidious like this ?.
Decidedly Orthogonal
She was – I thought – less angry at innocent (she was unperturbed by peoples reactions about if she was not supposed to swear “Joyce hasn’t said shit or fuck”) as specifically the infantilization and not being regarded as an adult when she made out with Becky. It seems in her book innocent is ok, but immature is not.
Needfuldoer
I think this is just a case of Dina being less online than Amber. It’s not innocence or immaturity, she’s just out of the loop.
Does anyone else think that Dina never really “arrives” in a comic? Like, her every appearance I just imagine the “camera” panning over to reveal that’s she’s there and has been for an indeterminate amount of time.
She teleports the most out of any character. She usually uses doors to hide it but she may be slowly becoming aware of the 4th wall.
Segnosaur
I thought it was Joyce that teleported, while Dina had the power of invisibility.
Robbie
Joyce teleports to Dorothy and Dina teleports to behind any door. There are limitations and strengths to both
Decidedly Orthogonal
I’m not sure about Joyce, but Dina I think shifts her 3d z-axis position, which allows her to both maintain scientific validity, appear to teleport, *and* be ‘invisible’ to those trapped in the base 2d plane of the comic while still able to observe it herself.
Needfuldoer
She can just noclip to her destination.
Roborat
I thought that was just a MegaTokyo thing, is it spreading to other comics?
True Survivor
Wait we can talk about this? That is not even the weirdest thing about Dina: she seems to be able to survive purely on a diet of sugar cereals and soda (and that one time chicken nuggets), can stand without moving for hours or days at a time, and is easily able to subdue prey many times her size. Its like Willis secretly never gave up the SiFy genre at all. Honestly, its kind of weird that Joyce became an atheist, when half her friends don’t even obey the laws of biology or physics.
Dina moves through the quantum mechanic system of uncertainty. She exists in a superposition of being in multiple locations at the same time. Only under certain conditions of observation is her location determined.
I mean given the position of the door in the frame I think this appearance, at least, is absolutely a camera pan. How long has she been there? Who knows?
Given which of them spends more time shipping everyone she meets, I’d imagine AG would be sending Amber to horny jail. I also cannot read it without hearing PotasticP’s “you’re going to jail,” audio.
Carla is saying that her plans-within-plans are beyond the understanding of Joyce’s mere normal brain. Joyce is saying ‘nuh-uh!’
As for who needs to be sent to horny jail, given that Amber was the one that said it to Dina, probably either Dina does, or some third party Amber was talking about (perhaps the chat of her livestream). But probably Dina. She was probably talking about some interaction with Becky with an overly sexual implication.
Whatever the case, we must keep in mind that Amber’s might once again be hella loopy from lack of sleep.
Clif
If Dina was talking about her feelings about Becky and herself, it’s possible that Amber was using it as an imperative. It seems more likely to me that Amber was discussing someone else or even herself. Presumably we’ll get context next strip.
Yeah, but my understanding of the galaxy brain meme is that a “galaxy brain” take is one that superficially appears to be a smarter extrapolation from the normal brain one by a mind that can see all the angles but, when you stop to think about it, is actually very stupid.
Like, I spend a lot of time on Lefty Twitter, and I often see them QRTing some of the “five-dimensional chess” rightwingers with the comment “This is some Galaxy Brain shit.” This is not meant as a compliment on their insight.
What concerns me about conversing with memes is that they often fade from popular culture (and memory) so fast that in a few years people are going to look back at there texts (or this comic) and have no idea what’s going on.
I love how the Tamarian way of communicating is basically meme references. Still not sure how their language would work when doing stuff like making spaceships or other highly technical tasks though.
Khyrin
I’m not sure about that, but secondary material explains that “In fields such as engineering and programming, a musical language was used to convey precise equations, numbers and instructions; thus explaining how Tamarians could effectively operate starships.”
thejeff
It’s one of those cool concepts that’s useful for thematic points and the plot of the week, but doesn’t really hold together as worldbuilding if you take it seriously. So if you do try, you wind up having to patch it with ideas like that.
Which is fine. It doesn’t matter if it wouldn’t really work. It made a good episode and can make people think about how we communicate, even if it doesn’t really make any sense.
Yay for a strip with both Dina and Carla in it. Now for a strip with them interacting…
(They have technically interacted in a past strip, but it was pretty minimal.)
Liz and Sarah were going to annoy each other for at least two hours even if Carla refused. I mean the very point of this road trip is so that Sarah doesn’t have to see Liz again until the next major holiday (also so Liz doesn’t screw up her college career but that’s a secondary consideration)
157 thoughts on “Phenomenal”
Schpoonman
Nothing could have prepared me for Dina’s final line.
True Survivor
I am also deeply perturbed. For a protector of the innocent, Amber seems deeply committed to destroying Dina’s.
The Wellerman
Uhhh…..
justin8448
The comic after it is great too.
justin8448
I actually meant to link to that comic with different text followed by mentioning that the next comic after that one is also great. I didn’t intend to reference The Wellerman’s comic, which does not precede this one.
Ah, well. Close enough.
The Wellerman
Seriously, this is one of my favorite strips, I really admire Dina and how she stood up for herself like that!!! ??
True Survivor
Good point. I meant in more in the sense that known should have to know what ‘horny jail’ is.
maarvarq
I remember Dina getting really annoyed at people thinking that she was innocent.
The Wellerman
Here here! Infantilization is especially insidious like this ?.
Decidedly Orthogonal
She was – I thought – less angry at innocent (she was unperturbed by peoples reactions about if she was not supposed to swear “Joyce hasn’t said shit or fuck”) as specifically the infantilization and not being regarded as an adult when she made out with Becky. It seems in her book innocent is ok, but immature is not.
Needfuldoer
I think this is just a case of Dina being less online than Amber. It’s not innocence or immaturity, she’s just out of the loop.
Doctor_Who
Does anyone else think that Dina never really “arrives” in a comic? Like, her every appearance I just imagine the “camera” panning over to reveal that’s she’s there and has been for an indeterminate amount of time.
Schpoonman
She teleports the most out of any character. She usually uses doors to hide it but she may be slowly becoming aware of the 4th wall.
Segnosaur
I thought it was Joyce that teleported, while Dina had the power of invisibility.
Robbie
Joyce teleports to Dorothy and Dina teleports to behind any door. There are limitations and strengths to both
Decidedly Orthogonal
I’m not sure about Joyce, but Dina I think shifts her 3d z-axis position, which allows her to both maintain scientific validity, appear to teleport, *and* be ‘invisible’ to those trapped in the base 2d plane of the comic while still able to observe it herself.
Needfuldoer
She can just noclip to her destination.
Roborat
I thought that was just a MegaTokyo thing, is it spreading to other comics?
True Survivor
Wait we can talk about this? That is not even the weirdest thing about Dina: she seems to be able to survive purely on a diet of sugar cereals and soda (and that one time chicken nuggets), can stand without moving for hours or days at a time, and is easily able to subdue prey many times her size. Its like Willis secretly never gave up the SiFy genre at all. Honestly, its kind of weird that Joyce became an atheist, when half her friends don’t even obey the laws of biology or physics.
Steamweed
Dina moves through the quantum mechanic system of uncertainty. She exists in a superposition of being in multiple locations at the same time. Only under certain conditions of observation is her location determined.
Alyssa
I mean given the position of the door in the frame I think this appearance, at least, is absolutely a camera pan. How long has she been there? Who knows?
The Wellerman
OK, even after looking up what both of those mean, I am even more confused now ?
Are Joyce or Carla using the sincere or sarcastic undertone of “galaxy brain”? Also who’s in this “horny jail”?
This guessing game stinks!
Doctor_Who
Horny Jail is the part of Amber’s brain where she imprisons Amazi-Girl when it’s not roller derby time.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Given which of them spends more time shipping everyone she meets, I’d imagine AG would be sending Amber to horny jail. I also cannot read it without hearing PotasticP’s “you’re going to jail,” audio.
Tan
Carla is saying that her plans-within-plans are beyond the understanding of Joyce’s mere normal brain. Joyce is saying ‘nuh-uh!’
As for who needs to be sent to horny jail, given that Amber was the one that said it to Dina, probably either Dina does, or some third party Amber was talking about (perhaps the chat of her livestream). But probably Dina. She was probably talking about some interaction with Becky with an overly sexual implication.
fudo81
Couldn’t Amber be talking about herself? Seems more likely to me.
Tan
Possible but unlikely. The usual construction is “Go to horny jail” as an imperative toward someone else.
The Wellerman
Whatever the case, we must keep in mind that Amber’s might once again be hella loopy from lack of sleep.
Clif
If Dina was talking about her feelings about Becky and herself, it’s possible that Amber was using it as an imperative. It seems more likely to me that Amber was discussing someone else or even herself. Presumably we’ll get context next strip.
Daibhid C
Yeah, but my understanding of the galaxy brain meme is that a “galaxy brain” take is one that superficially appears to be a smarter extrapolation from the normal brain one by a mind that can see all the angles but, when you stop to think about it, is actually very stupid.
Like, I spend a lot of time on Lefty Twitter, and I often see them QRTing some of the “five-dimensional chess” rightwingers with the comment “This is some Galaxy Brain shit.” This is not meant as a compliment on their insight.
True Survivor
What concerns me about conversing with memes is that they often fade from popular culture (and memory) so fast that in a few years people are going to look back at there texts (or this comic) and have no idea what’s going on.
Thag Simmons
Do you prefer the West Side Story approach of making up your own memes/slang?
crow
This sure will be a tough problem after the apocalypse, when the internet shuts down but print editions of Dumbing of Age still exist.
Dean
The print editions will mostly be used for food and clothing.
Decidedly Orthogonal
You mean like as a fashion guide and food cookbook?
BadRoad
“We don’t know what ‘pepper’ and ‘macaroni’ *are*, but we know you don’t mix them.”
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
In the case of this comic, I think the context makes it clear what is going on even if people aren’t conversant with these memes.
I often find myself late to the party about memes, though, since the internet circles in which I travel aren’t the ones generating the memes.
drs
All your Darmok belong to us.
True Survivor
And Jalad at Tanagra.
anonymsly
Kayshon, when he became a puppet.
Khyrin
Steve Rogers, when Nick Fury mentioned Flying Monkeys.
Shadowsnail
You’ve got it backwards – in a few years, we’ll all be speaking like Tamarians.
Pikachu, his face aghast!
Keulen
I love how the Tamarian way of communicating is basically meme references. Still not sure how their language would work when doing stuff like making spaceships or other highly technical tasks though.
Khyrin
I’m not sure about that, but secondary material explains that “In fields such as engineering and programming, a musical language was used to convey precise equations, numbers and instructions; thus explaining how Tamarians could effectively operate starships.”
thejeff
It’s one of those cool concepts that’s useful for thematic points and the plot of the week, but doesn’t really hold together as worldbuilding if you take it seriously. So if you do try, you wind up having to patch it with ideas like that.
Which is fine. It doesn’t matter if it wouldn’t really work. It made a good episode and can make people think about how we communicate, even if it doesn’t really make any sense.
Michelle J. Caboose
shockedpikachu.jpg
Sorry… I spend too much time on Imgur…
Zatar
I think that the ones in this comic have been aroundf long enoufgh to at least be remebered.
Ana Chronistic
BONK
Ana Chronistic
seriously wordpress?! how the fuck hard was it to post one word >:|
The Wellerman
maybe spell it backwards?
Decidedly Orthogonal
‘Tis a poor craftsman that blames their tools Ana. Fix your chrononometricalized magigewgiwhatzit. It should be better maintained.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
*gasp!* Ana’s power is waning! Someone has found the mythical lag button to unseat their awesome time powers!
Ana Chronistic
yeah it’s called the HTML tag <b> around a single word
The Wellerman
Wouldn’t that be the “strong” tag? ?
King Daniel
The tag also works here, I’ve literally never ever used a “” tag.
Jamie
Today I get to tell someone about < and >, I guess.
Decidedly Orthogonal
</b> too, apparently.
Doctor_Who
HOMPKE!
Thag Simmons
Amber does deserve to be in horny jail for a little bit
Andy
I was gonna ask if it’s really Amber that’s in horny jail, but then I remembered the last story arc we saw her in and it really definitely is.
DarkoNeko
You probably don’t want to know
RassilonTDavros
Two questions come to mind: a) whom has Amber sentenced to horny jail, and b) why is it Becky?
Thag Simmons
I suspect Amber has sent herself to horny jail for her horny crimes in the previous chapter
Nathan
Frankly, most of this cast deserves to be in horny jail for one reason or another.
Thag Simmons
True, but Amber has a lot of recent horny offenses and is the most likely suspect here
Clif
Frankly, most of this comment section deserves to be in horny jail for one reason or another.
Fixed that for you.
Yumi
Yay for a strip with both Dina and Carla in it. Now for a strip with them interacting…
(They have technically interacted in a past strip, but it was pretty minimal.)
StClair
nuh uh! it is you, YOU who are pwned!
Casi
You have no chance to survive make your time
Keulen
All your base are belong to us
CrazyJ
Liz and Sarah were going to annoy each other for at least two hours even if Carla refused. I mean the very point of this road trip is so that Sarah doesn’t have to see Liz again until the next major holiday (also so Liz doesn’t screw up her college career but that’s a secondary consideration)
Yotomoe