tbf i JUST learned about Skibidi Toilets’ existence from students at my school’s GameMaker club for which I’m a TA,
I’m literally the personification of pokemon brain rot and i be like, “bruh what IS this?” like someone had an acid trip while working in Source Engine XD
MacareuxMoine
Correction: Danny IS datING Sal – he has dated Amazigirl in the past.
Obvious Billie* conclusion: AG revealed her identity to him and broke up with him to restart their relationship as Sal.
*I know she is Jennifer now, but this just feels like good old Billie surfacing.
Devin
I still don’t think there’s very much difference across the name change, it was just a paint job.
lol at this point does jen ‘need’ to interview/write an article about “Amazi-sal”? feels like it’d be easier to hire someone off craigslist to make out with/seduce her while she takes over teh newspaper or so lol XD;
Tho imagine if jen finds out like, 3 months from now who amazigirl is through joyce’s ‘comic’ lol
Proof that a mask will change your body type and size. Amber is a short-short stack, while Sal is a single small, er, not-stacked. Or, Sal is fem Bruce Lee, and Amber is Lean Beef Patty. Now I’m hungry, and I just ate.
I think its entirely likely that Jennifer still thinks that Sal is Amazigirl despite the two having entirely different heights, weights, builds, skin tones, hair colors, etc…
…but I dunno, that Willis is being so coy with the proper nouns here makes me wonder if maybe Jennifer’s realized the truth.
It’s just set up so that Dorothy can think she’s talking about Amber while she’s actually talking about Sal. The ambiguity is intentional, but for different reasons.
Jennifer is at her most entertaining when she’s barking up the wrong tree, so the idea that she’s suddenly deduced who AG is cannot lead to anything good. Ironically, Amber’s refusal to do Danny stuff might have saved her secret here.
“Hundreds of stories before I showed up/
And they’d tell them to me and pull photos up/
And they’re all connected, like a pair of handcuffs/
But no one seemed affected that every one had fucked/“
Everyone knows that the bit of time that ‘Amazi-girl’ was fighting with Sal was just a way to hide her true identity! It was a mirror, and swamp gas that made it seem like two people were beating up criminals! Open your eyes, sheeple!
It’s honestly striking how relationships that feel like they last a long time because for us they happen over years last only a few weeks at best in the comic.
Longest standing one is Becky and Dina, right? Can’t think of any others which survived the Halloween timeskip
Nah, Danny and Sal started in post time-skip. Remember that it started getting flirtatious when Danny bought Sal that bike since he noticed she didn’t have her motorcycle this semester. She then gave him a giftcard in exchange for the bike, because she didn’t like being given things, and he used the money to buy her flowers. They shortly became official after that.
The irony is, Jennifer knows Sal and Danny are dating, but probably is unaware about Amber (with or without Amazi-Girl) and Danny, which is extra funny because she is the biggest reason Danny didn’t have sex with Jennifer when it was an option, though he did also express other misgivings.
So here’s the thing, I know Dorothy’s desperate to avoid having a “Mcbeth” era by getting into politics and I understand that…to bad that now makes her the best person to try to handle political affairs.
Those who aren’t fit for seats of leadership and all the power that comes with it chase after it relentlessly and those who are don’t want anything to do with it. Yet again this new development in character for Dorothy has become compelling.
I actually think that very few people are competent at the job of politician/leader, whether they’d like it or not. A good leader needs to be organized, diligent, adept at navigating all manner of social situations, good at delegating and holding people accountable, and needs to be extremely strong-willed and motivated. I don’t know about you, but none of these qualities describe me.
The tricky part is that what people want in a political leader (being principled, decisive, honest and devoted to their beliefs) aren’t necessarily what is actually needed for a politician (being pragmatic, responsible, considerate of the opposition, able to compromise on some aspects to ensure that things get done).
You see this with a lot of very prominent, idealistic politicians: They just don’t know how to get shit done when not everyone is aligned behind them, or refuse to give even a little on their ideals if it’d actually mean getting anything done.
It turns out that politics are actually a really complicated and difficult subject. Every so often the stars align and you can actually get your perfect solutions passed, but the rest of the time, you need a lot of grease to get the wheels of government to turn your way.
I mean, being completely uncompromising and hostile to opposition seems to be working pretty well for the people who want make everything worse.
Charles Phipps
Yes, but they’re also appealing to an audience who want to destroy the government.
Needfuldoer
An audience who wants to make things worse for “everyone else”, but forgets that we’re all “everyone else” to “everyone else”.
thejeff
It’s good at getting you elected and it’s good at blocking other factions from accomplishing anything, but it’s not actually good at getting things done when you’re in power.
Jeremiah
It is when you surrounded yourself with yes man and easily bridgeable assholes.
thejeff
Even then.
yak
Qualities of someone who is good at gaining power, not good at governing.
We as readers need to start a petition that motivates Willis to introduce new love interests into the cast. Any suggestions on established characters that could do with some love and spotlight? Sarah needs someone to smooch on. If Walky and Dorothy split again the only girls he has left are his sisters! No one wants Walky x Sarah! We need ideas!
112 thoughts on “Poker face”
NGPZ
In high school???
Who she talkin about? :o
Straximus
Danny.
Thag Simmons
Dorothy would be talking about Danny
True Survivor
Dorothy dated Danny in high school.
NGPZ
of COURSE Jennifer still thinks AG is Sal XD
clif
Danny has dated Sal. Checks out.
NGPZ
I swear even Skibidi Toilet is less airheaded than Jennifer at this point XD
Furie
You go to your room and you don’t come out until you’ve had a good long think about what you just said and why it’s hurtful to people with kids.
Decidedly Orthogonal
The kids don’t enter into it. It’s just a generally hurtful thing to say. Or write.
Juanoku
This sentence makes no fucking sense
NGPZ
tbf i JUST learned about Skibidi Toilets’ existence from students at my school’s GameMaker club for which I’m a TA,
I’m literally the personification of pokemon brain rot and i be like, “bruh what IS this?” like someone had an acid trip while working in Source Engine XD
MacareuxMoine
Correction: Danny IS datING Sal – he has dated Amazigirl in the past.
Obvious Billie* conclusion: AG revealed her identity to him and broke up with him to restart their relationship as Sal.
*I know she is Jennifer now, but this just feels like good old Billie surfacing.
Devin
I still don’t think there’s very much difference across the name change, it was just a paint job.
NGPZ
“Like, okay, her signs say FedEx Office, but ah know she still a dang Kinko’s”
anon
lol at this point does jen ‘need’ to interview/write an article about “Amazi-sal”? feels like it’d be easier to hire someone off craigslist to make out with/seduce her while she takes over teh newspaper or so lol XD;
Tho imagine if jen finds out like, 3 months from now who amazigirl is through joyce’s ‘comic’ lol
Charles Phipps
Ah, she still believes it’s Sal.
Thag Simmons
I actually half-expect her to have decided it’s Lucy for some reason
Devin
Which…still actually works with Jennifer’s statements, if not Dorothy’s.
Archieve
Would be nice to see change it up a bit but that would also mean admitting she was wrong at first so not hopeful
HueSatLight
Hm, AG and Lucy have never been seen together. There’s 32 strips with both AG and amber, but 0 with Lucy.
jeffepp
Proof that a mask will change your body type and size. Amber is a short-short stack, while Sal is a single small, er, not-stacked. Or, Sal is fem Bruce Lee, and Amber is Lean Beef Patty. Now I’m hungry, and I just ate.
Freezer
Sal is CM Punk, Amber is Samoa Joe (minus the tats on both).
Proxiehunter
Sal is nowhere near that big of a prick.
Wraithy2773
Probably.
I think its entirely likely that Jennifer still thinks that Sal is Amazigirl despite the two having entirely different heights, weights, builds, skin tones, hair colors, etc…
…but I dunno, that Willis is being so coy with the proper nouns here makes me wonder if maybe Jennifer’s realized the truth.
thejeff
It’s just set up so that Dorothy can think she’s talking about Amber while she’s actually talking about Sal. The ambiguity is intentional, but for different reasons.
Effie
Sorry to burst some bubbles, but Billie knows already: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/04-is-a-song-forever/whatnow/
thejeff
She’s been told, but that doesn’t mean she knows. She’s rejecting it in that strip
shadowcell
Dumbing of Age Book 15: you have been served
Thag Simmons
So does she still think it’s Sal or is she barking up a different wrong tree?
Wraithy2773
85% chance: Jennifer still thinks that Sal is Amazigirl.
14% chance: Jennifer has realized that Amber is Amazigirl.
1% chance: Jennifer somehow has decided that Lucy is Amazigirl.
…….I only add that last one in because it’d fit with Jennifer’s hint, and it’d be fucking hilarious :D.
Laserbeaks Fury
It’s kinda open ended. Danny specifically dated Amazi-Girl, so no matter who Jennifer suspects, that statement will always check out.
If anything, use of the past tense means she’s ruled out Sal since they are currently dating.
HueSatLight
Jennifer right but wrong universe.
DashWallkick
Jennifer is at her most entertaining when she’s barking up the wrong tree, so the idea that she’s suddenly deduced who AG is cannot lead to anything good. Ironically, Amber’s refusal to do Danny stuff might have saved her secret here.
Amós Batista
Today, I believe both are barking up the wrong tree.
True Survivor
Smoochy chart ouroboros? Sounds like one egotistical snake.
True Survivor
Get it? Because it is kissing its own butt? Come on somebody work with me here.
darkoneko
Dorothy you are so bad at this
Thag Simmons
Eh, Jen’s worse
Coatl
Exact
Archieve
atleast Dorothy kind of acknowledges her problem now. Jennifer is still set straight on the path of most incompetent journalist nepo employee.
DashWallkick
Ding ding ding.
Sirksome
It’s sad that doesn’t clear up anything. This friend group needs to stop fucking within itself so much. Find other mates before this gets incestous!
StClair
Too late.
MK15
“Hundreds of stories before I showed up/
And they’d tell them to me and pull photos up/
And they’re all connected, like a pair of handcuffs/
But no one seemed affected that every one had fucked/“
Nono
Note that Jennifer used “dated”, not “is dating”. So… maybe not Sal actually, since she’s currently dating Danny.
That narrows it down to Amber or Lucy (???).
Or… Dorothy herself????
Jeremiah
It would be real funny if it still Sal but she think she must had dumped Danny by now.
Wraithy2773
I think it’d be fucking hilarious if Jennifer started grilling Lucy :D.
Yumi
You know, were it Sal, I’m not sure how Dorothy once dating Danny would mean she knows that.
clif
Danny never dated Amber; he dated Amazigirl. So …
GholaHalleck
Wait. So who did Dotty think Jenn means?
Is Dotty playing into Jenn’s game, and saying AG is Sal, who is dating Danny?
But still fumbled it? I am confused.
GholaHalleck
Wait, I forgot Danny also banged AG. My mistake, carry on.
nicoleandmaggie
Me too! (Completely forgot!) Here I was wondering why Dorothy was acting like AG was SAL.
Charles Phipps
Are we sure that it’s not Sal?
I mean, Amber says she’s not Amazi-Girl and they have different tags.
It could well be Sal using her super-speed to be in two places at once!
Doopyboop
Everyone knows that the bit of time that ‘Amazi-girl’ was fighting with Sal was just a way to hide her true identity! It was a mirror, and swamp gas that made it seem like two people were beating up criminals! Open your eyes, sheeple!
IntangibleMatter
It’s honestly striking how relationships that feel like they last a long time because for us they happen over years last only a few weeks at best in the comic.
Longest standing one is Becky and Dina, right? Can’t think of any others which survived the Halloween timeskip
Techhead
Danny and Sal started before the time-skip, though it’s been pretty slow burn for a college relationship even in in-universe time.
k
Nah, Danny and Sal started in post time-skip. Remember that it started getting flirtatious when Danny bought Sal that bike since he noticed she didn’t have her motorcycle this semester. She then gave him a giftcard in exchange for the bike, because she didn’t like being given things, and he used the money to buy her flowers. They shortly became official after that.
Opus the Poet
He was tutoring her in math first semester, and things developed very slowly in our timeline, but just a few weeks in theirs
DailyBrad
The irony is, Jennifer knows Sal and Danny are dating, but probably is unaware about Amber (with or without Amazi-Girl) and Danny, which is extra funny because she is the biggest reason Danny didn’t have sex with Jennifer when it was an option, though he did also express other misgivings.
Newlland(Henryvolt)
So here’s the thing, I know Dorothy’s desperate to avoid having a “Mcbeth” era by getting into politics and I understand that…to bad that now makes her the best person to try to handle political affairs.
Those who aren’t fit for seats of leadership and all the power that comes with it chase after it relentlessly and those who are don’t want anything to do with it. Yet again this new development in character for Dorothy has become compelling.
yak
I actually think that very few people are competent at the job of politician/leader, whether they’d like it or not. A good leader needs to be organized, diligent, adept at navigating all manner of social situations, good at delegating and holding people accountable, and needs to be extremely strong-willed and motivated. I don’t know about you, but none of these qualities describe me.
Wraithy2773
The tricky part is that what people want in a political leader (being principled, decisive, honest and devoted to their beliefs) aren’t necessarily what is actually needed for a politician (being pragmatic, responsible, considerate of the opposition, able to compromise on some aspects to ensure that things get done).
You see this with a lot of very prominent, idealistic politicians: They just don’t know how to get shit done when not everyone is aligned behind them, or refuse to give even a little on their ideals if it’d actually mean getting anything done.
It turns out that politics are actually a really complicated and difficult subject. Every so often the stars align and you can actually get your perfect solutions passed, but the rest of the time, you need a lot of grease to get the wheels of government to turn your way.
Jeremiah
I mean, being completely uncompromising and hostile to opposition seems to be working pretty well for the people who want make everything worse.
Charles Phipps
Yes, but they’re also appealing to an audience who want to destroy the government.
Needfuldoer
An audience who wants to make things worse for “everyone else”, but forgets that we’re all “everyone else” to “everyone else”.
thejeff
It’s good at getting you elected and it’s good at blocking other factions from accomplishing anything, but it’s not actually good at getting things done when you’re in power.
Jeremiah
It is when you surrounded yourself with yes man and easily bridgeable assholes.
thejeff
Even then.
yak
Qualities of someone who is good at gaining power, not good at governing.
Sirksome
We as readers need to start a petition that motivates Willis to introduce new love interests into the cast. Any suggestions on established characters that could do with some love and spotlight? Sarah needs someone to smooch on. If Walky and Dorothy split again the only girls he has left are his sisters! No one wants Walky x Sarah! We need ideas!
yak