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Snap

Posted on August 28, 2021 by David M Willis

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Tags: booster, lucy, walky

Discussion (221) - “Snap”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    08/28/2021, 12:03 am
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    “I’ll put on my fanciest fancy pants!”

    *holds up knock-off Pajama Jeans*

    *…gets a little sad*

    1. Schpoonman

      08/28/2021, 12:18 am
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      Yeah, they probably remind him of Dorothy.

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        08/28/2021, 12:35 am
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        Or at least some of the stains on them do.

        1. I am Nothing

          08/28/2021, 2:12 am

          Ewww.

        2. RowenMorland

          08/28/2021, 7:56 am

          Presidential seal of approval.

  2. Doctor_Who

    08/28/2021, 12:03 am
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    A hoodie with tails, like an old style tuxedo jacket.

    …Somebody crowdfund that.

    1. Sirksome

      08/28/2021, 12:07 am
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      I mean what counts as a hoodie? Just anything with a hood on it because hooded formal wear used to be a thing. Also formal cloaks used to be a thing too. They could be brought back!

      1. Siva

        08/28/2021, 2:10 am
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        What about those hoodies you wear backwards, so a cat can ride in the lowered hood and get petted?

        1. Clif

          08/28/2021, 9:53 am

          We don’t know that the hoodie with the tie printed on doesn’t have tails as well.

        2. Needfuldoer

          08/28/2021, 4:04 pm

          Nah, that’s the formal hoodie. All he really needs is a business hoodie.

    2. Wizard

      08/28/2021, 12:46 am
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      I remember tuxedo t-shirts used to be a thing, so why not a tuxedo hoodie?

    3. anon

      08/28/2021, 12:56 am
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      https://www.walmart.com/ip/Formal-Tuxedo-Drawn-Hoodie-Men-s-GoatDeals-Designs/245188650 Maybe something drawn on like this lol

      Tho, wouldn’t be surprised if Armani or whatever launched a line of ‘formal’ hoodies to charge one 300+ dollars even tho it’s no diff from your regular hoodie

      1. Schpoonman

        08/28/2021, 1:17 am
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        You don’t even need to go as high brand as Armani, the number of random clothing stores online I’ve seen push triple digit prices on hoodies that looked worse in most qualities than your average Wally World hoodie is maddening.

        1. Geneseepaws

          08/28/2021, 9:22 am

          Saw an advert from Sak’s, underwear for …$110.- USD
          That’s right, one hundred ten dollars, USA Dollars. For one briefs.

        2. Clif

          08/28/2021, 9:28 am

          And it probably didn’t have a picture of Monkey Master.

    4. BarerMender

      08/28/2021, 4:51 am
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      A clawhammer hoodie.

  3. Sirksome

    08/28/2021, 12:05 am
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    It bums me out that these children probably don’t even know about the first Pokemon Snap or even what a Nintendo 64 is.

    1. Mr D

      08/28/2021, 12:09 am
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      FUN FACT: Due to the sliding timeline, all of them were born AFTER the year 2000! MUHAHAHAHA

      1. Sirksome

        08/28/2021, 12:17 am
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        Yeesh these kids grew up with Playstation 3’s and Xbox 360’s! It does kind of make me wonder what generations that grew up with superior hardware think of the older game generations. Like Mario 64 probably isn’t even a big deal to Walky. He probably wonders why someone would even drop 60 bucks for the remake of a game that has less polygons than the first game he ever played on his cellphone.

        1. Regalli

          08/28/2021, 12:45 am

          Speaking as a kid who started with the Gamecube but is also a tremendous gaming nerd, depends on the game and the kid. You can’t really get across how revolutionary these graphics were at the time to someone who’s grown up with better – hell, I still struggle to remember just how floored I was going from Pokemon Crystal to development screenshots of Ruby and Sapphire and how worldshaking the difference was to nine-year-old me – but if gameplay holds, it holds. Super Mario 64’s DEFINITELY holds up, but I wouldn’t be shocked if Walky’s baffled why you’d spend $60 on a version that doesn’t even have Yoshi and Wario. (The cast is probably a bit too young for 64 DS when it came out, but it was playable on a current system until the 3DS finally died and was a staple in used DS game cases at Gamestops everywhere.)

          That said, Walky’s also not the member of the cast I’d expect to have my obsessive interest in gaming history and therefore have tracked down increasingly obscure games for a previous system because they’re cult hits with a recognition of how they were revolutionary for the time even if other games subsequently did these features better. (I was WAY too young to play Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem on release, but it is a treasured part of my collection.) That, I expect, would be Danny or Amber.

          Though I could see Joyce getting into a previously-banned secular video game franchise and getting REALLY into, like, Kirby lore so she tracks down the Wii anniversary collection or something. Maybe Sonic the Hedgehog. One of those games with surprisingly in-depth storylines.

        2. Regalli

          08/28/2021, 1:03 am

          The other thing you can’t get across, as I sort of implied with the Blockbuster comment, is the original culture around a game. Like, a new Kingdom Hearts fan by now is coming into the series having heard it’s convoluted and wondering what’s a Xehanort, they missed the mid-2000s fandom culture (thank god, I wish I could erase my embarassing adolescence there) but also the ‘oh this is a cool Disney game with characters from that Playstation series, that’s cool’ and slowly getting suckered into caring about both Final Fantasy characters and the expanding cast of traumatized, tragic children having existential crises. No one playing KHI expected they were someday going to cry about ice cream and cute fluffy Pokemon knockoffs.

          Someone playing New Pokemon Snap, or even the original, isn’t going to get quite how big a deal the original was because it wasn’t just taking pictures of Pokemon, it was seeing them in the games in an environment more like the anime showed (along with Hey You Pikachu, a game I dearly wish was remakable because it was fun in its weirdness), and getting YOUR pictures printed out at Blockbuster – the 3DS games let you actively interact with your Pokemon, and the Switch games let them wander the overworld. The biggest equivalent in making Pokemon feel real and the resulting Pokemania, IMO, wouldn’t be New Snap, but Go at its original release. They can understand that it was a big deal, like I can understand objectively that Super Metroid is important to gaming history, but they won’t have the same emotional connection to the game that someone who played it when it was new will. They might still have an emotional connection – I’ve got a lot of affection for Metroid after reading about its history on Nintendo’s old page for Fusion and eventually playing decent chunks of Zero Mission and Fusion, and therefore LOST MY SHIT when Dread was announced – but it’s different from the affection someone who played the originals when they came out would.

        3. Reltzik

          08/28/2021, 1:53 am

          The first video game console I played regularly on was a 4-switch Atari VCS.

          … that’s a yellow card for making me feel old. ;p

        4. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 3:58 am

          Sega Genesis kid, here. At least until Mom left it at a fuckin’ babysitter’s house for no goddamn reason and then blamed little pre-K Taffy for it. And then we just sorta had another one up til we got the PS1, so at least it was all Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Resident Evil 2 from there.

        5. Miri

          08/28/2021, 4:15 am

          Console, Sega Megadrive (in 91 or 92). First computer I played games on was a QL.

        6. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 4:28 am

          I sometimes forget that “Genesis” is just what us Yanks call it. I’ve occasionally wondered if there’s not a weird religious element to that decision.

        7. Needfuldoer

          08/28/2021, 4:38 am

          I went right from 6-switch Atari VCS to a PlayStation, with a lot of (unregistered) Mac shareware games on top of that.

        8. Max

          08/28/2021, 4:48 am

          We had the original Nintendo Entertainment System. That was, and still is, amazing. Original Game Boy too. Then we moved up to Super Nintendo. Super Street Fighter II is my jam.

        9. Keulen

          08/28/2021, 6:35 am

          Sega Genesis for me as well. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the first game I ever played, and still one of my top favorites to this day.

        10. StClair

          08/28/2021, 2:17 pm

          The Atari 2600/VCS was my second console, by a few years. The first was this. Came with a few bus-jumping modes and every kind of PONG known to man.

        11. Roborat

          08/31/2021, 4:33 pm

          My first was the original PONG, my dad brought it back from the U.S. way before it appeared in Canada. Ruined several T.V. screens. Then came the Intellivision.

        12. Autogatos

          08/28/2021, 6:06 am

          It’s so weird, I remember seeing the first 3D Sonic and Mario games for the Dreamcast (or was it sonic blast for PC?) and N64 and thinking they looked AMAZING at the time.

          And now I’m like “oh these graphics are terrible.” And I’m a professional artist whose been into art since the moment I could hold a pencil so it’s not like my understanding of visual aesthetics is a new thing.

        13. powerpowerpow

          08/28/2021, 7:08 am

          Lemme answer this from the perspective of a kid who grew up on Flash games, his cousin’s PS2, and eventually, a Wii, shortly after the Wii U came out. (I don’t exactly live in a first world country, so from the 80s to the mid-2010s, we were always a little behind on tech and media)

          Certain games I can absolutely see the charm in. StarFox 64 still holds up brilliantly, as does Mario Kart. I have yet to play a Zelda game that I’ve been disappointed with (With the exception of Link’s Awakening HD, but that’s neither here nor there). A lot of the N64 games I went back and played, I was impressed with and had a lot of fun with. With one exception…

          In my opinion, Mario 64 is… Fine. Yeah, I get that it was revolutionary, yeah everyone who played it as a kid considers it a masterpiece, and from a technical perspective, maybe it is. But as someone who grew up playing Galaxy, it just feels… Okay. Like yeah, it’s fun, but it’s also in the mid-to-low end of my list of favorite Mario games. It’s a good game, but it’s way overhyped imo.

      2. King Daniel

        08/28/2021, 12:31 am
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        Ruth’s 21, she was born in 2000

        For the rest of this year, at least

        1. RassilonTDavros

          08/28/2021, 1:01 am

          As of January 1, 2021, this Ruth was born after the original one died, on March 19, 1999.

        2. a/snow/mous/e

          08/28/2021, 1:59 am

          ruthincarnation

    2. silas

      08/28/2021, 12:10 am
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      > what a Nintendo 64 is

      so they’ll never have known the joy of Golden Eye 64. What Horror!

      1. Schpoonman

        08/28/2021, 12:13 am
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        Eh, Goldeneye Source exists, though I suppose part of the fun was flailing against the terrible controls because we didn’t know better as kids.

        1. He Who Abides

          08/28/2021, 12:52 am

          Unless someone picked Oddjob, at which point no fun was had.

          *grumbles about wife insisting on playing Oddjob because “we’re both short and Asian!”*

        2. Schpoonman

          08/28/2021, 1:14 am

          I remember being frustrated at first, and then I played a few rounds with my brothers and realized that a tap or two of the C buttons was enough to put the average character’s aim on Oddjob’s head so he was easy pickings for headshots.

          If you picked him in License to Kill you were still an asshole, though.

        3. khn0

          08/28/2021, 8:03 am

          I have only (moderate) fun with vidja games if I’m watching. If you talk me into playing, then you should be aware that I always take Oddjob, or the crowbar at counterstrike, or drive that car counterclockwise that’s a given. Also I will always win at PVP games where speed surpass technicity (unless I’m spraypainting with bullets or trying to make a specific dance move).
          That may have to do with the fact I’m from the flipper/kickers generation.

      2. Delicious Taffy

        08/28/2021, 4:36 am
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        Only consoles with games on them get remembered. What’s the 64 got, two Zeldas, a Mario or four, an indie game about robot animals, some weird furry-bait space opera, several acclaimed shooters, a Yooka-Laylee clone, half a dozen Pikachu vehicles, and a meme game about monkeys? Let’s face it, the thing was dead in the water, it’d never catch on with a library like that.

      3. Autogatos

        08/28/2021, 6:09 am
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        Playing caves level (as Sean Bean of course) with proximity mines…holing myself up in a booby trapped crevice and laughing gleefully as my little brother blew himself up trying to find me. He eventually made it a rule that the caves level and proximity mines were no longer allowed.

        Also paintball mode, trying to draw and write on the walls with it. Memoriieeeees.

        1. Autogatos

          08/28/2021, 6:12 am

          In retrospect I did the same thing in Mario Kart battle mode. Weird play Towers and I’d just park myself at the top of a tower, on one of the question mark boxes, repeatedly getting and launching the various power ups and turning the roads below into a chaotic danger zone. I’d place banana peels on all the ramps leading up to my tower too.

          My brother and I had very different playstyles in pvp games (he preferred an aggressive approach and I a defensive, strategic, sit and wait approach) and it led to…many sibling conflicts.

        2. Autogatos

          08/28/2021, 6:13 am

          We’d, not weird

    3. Regalli

      08/28/2021, 12:18 am
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      I mean, the internet does exist. I may have questioned if kids these days play Rock Band, but given the weird title of ‘NEW Pokemon Snap’ prompting the natural question of ‘new compared to what?’ I would expect they’re vaguely aware at least of the original. If they had a Wii U (hahahaha but technically possible) or Wii (WAY more plausible) they may even have played the original on Virtual Console.

      But they have no idea of the experience of getting your favorite pictures printed out at a Blockbuster, so even if they played it, they don’t truly Know it.

      1. BBCC

        08/28/2021, 12:54 am
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        Well, a new Rock Band with 2700 songs came out last year so SOMEBODY must still be into it.

        1. Regalli

          08/28/2021, 1:06 am

          Oh, there was? When I checked Wikipedia the most recent release was VR in 2017 (which was way more recent than I expected, there was a STARK dropoff from the oversaturation of the mid-360/Wii/PS3 era to the releases for PS4 and Xbone.)

        2. Regalli

          08/28/2021, 1:07 am

          * Release LISTED, I mean.

        3. BBCC

          08/28/2021, 1:58 am

          My bad, it’s new DLC apparently. And as of 2020 there’s 2700 songs. This is what I get for just skimming an article about a topic I’m not deeply invested in. Mea culpa. XD

    4. Wagstaff

      08/28/2021, 12:20 am
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      Eh, I don’t remember much about the franchise as a kid — never played the games or watched the show or movies.

      The only thing I remember about it is playing with the McDonalds happy meal toys, and pretending Ronald McDonald was beating them around and shoving them in his meat grinder or something. I dunno — I guess I loved their chicken nuggets alot, and I thought that’s what made them taste so good?

      I was a weird kid……

      1. Clif

        08/28/2021, 2:11 am
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        Us weird kids grew up to become weird adults. Who knew?

    5. Skater Girl

      08/28/2021, 12:35 am
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      I’m 36 and barely aware of what a Nintendo is.

    6. BBCC

      08/28/2021, 12:55 am
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      They know. They might not care much but many know about them.

    7. Johan

      08/28/2021, 1:15 am
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      Why do they need to?

      1. Clif

        08/28/2021, 2:17 am
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        There will be a test later.

      2. Spencer

        08/28/2021, 7:32 am
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        It’s a way to find the real Geeks and Gamers in the crowd.

    8. Carla's #2 Fan

      08/28/2021, 8:04 am
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      You’re forgetting about the parents. As long as the parents played, these kids are likely to experience it. I got roped into (and fell in love with) my parents’ music preferences. Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, John Denver, these weren’t for my generation, but I still got to hear them and enjoy them. More to the point, my dad had me playing older game systems like the NES (I’m 24 for reference). I played and got frustrated with Duck Hunt.

    9. Seregiel

      08/28/2021, 8:57 am
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      I’m a 90s kid who had 3 ataris and that’s it. My parents both had one and I got my own. I go to arcades to sate my addiction. Latest and greatest goes away if money, family time or issues with certain graphics weighs in. (I can sidescroll with the best but do not make me first person. It makes me physically ill trying to track).

    10. Clif

      08/28/2021, 9:31 am
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      You know what? Kids nowadays just don’t appreciate the miracle of Pong.

    11. zee

      08/28/2021, 1:00 pm
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      I mean, they know about the N64 because that’d be like not knowing about VHS tapes or rotary phones. Even though they’re not used any more they’re still iconic and constantly referenced by media and older people. Cultural osmosis. Really wish people would stop thinking not growing up with a thing = has 0 knowledge thing ever existed

  4. Thag Simmons

    08/28/2021, 12:06 am
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    Man it’s gonna sting when Mary gets the comic strip job instead of Walky or Joyce

    1. Stanistani

      08/28/2021, 1:03 am
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      The new strip runs: “You’re all going to Hell, and I love it!”

      1. Clif

        08/28/2021, 2:15 am
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        Jennifer can save the situation by letting Walky know that all he has to do is have Lucy submit the comic while wearing an outfit with a chest window.

      2. LiterallyJustSomeGuy

        08/28/2021, 11:38 am
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        Most readers take it as a funny parody comic, especially given the cutesy anime art style

  5. Wagstaff

    08/28/2021, 12:06 am
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    Ooo! Fashion time!!!

    *plays “Puttin’ On The Ritz” by Taco on Voxola PR-76*

    1. Stephen Bierce

      08/28/2021, 12:26 am
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      Now THIS I agree with, provided you’re using the extended play album cut and not the radio single version. 🙂

      1. Wagstaff

        08/28/2021, 12:34 am
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        Thanks. That means a lot coming from you.

        Games can also have a lot of great music, if you just know where to look.

        Speaking of which, can you please point me to some of your favorite Reggae hits? I think you’ve posted one here before. I LOVE that stuff!

  6. RassilonTDavros

    08/28/2021, 12:06 am
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    OH GOD THIS IS IT

    We’re gonna find out who won!

    Daisy’s prolly gonna give it to Joyce, on the sole condition that she write if as a Julia/Doris slow burn.

    1. Thag Simmons

      08/28/2021, 1:15 am
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      I think it’s like halfway there already.

      1. Clif

        08/28/2021, 2:20 am
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        Also Walky’s comic is too sophisticated for a collage paper.

        1. Clif

          08/28/2021, 2:21 am

          I was going to type college paper, but what the heck, that works too.

    2. Matthew E Davis

      08/28/2021, 5:15 am
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      An advertiser will drop out, thus opening up space for two comics — which will both be cancelled with Galasso ups his ad purchase.

    3. Spencer

      08/28/2021, 7:34 am
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      Daisy follows along with the comic in the hopes that eventually Joyce and Dorothy will hook up despite it never being possible.

      You know, like us.

  7. Lexi

    08/28/2021, 12:09 am
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    My favourite part is that Walky is making sexy eyes while he talks about his “formal hoodie” in the last panel.

    “Oh yeah, gonna get all dressed up and looking niiiice for the lady. This hoodie only has two ketchup stains on it. Perfect.”

    1. Thag Simmons

      08/28/2021, 12:13 am
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      The honeymoon phase here is going to end quick

    2. Deanatay

      08/28/2021, 10:24 am
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      “It’s got ketchup stains on it! Two of them!!”

      “Yeah, but they’re symmetrical! It’s a double-breasted ketchup-stain hoodie!”

  8. Regalli

    08/28/2021, 12:10 am
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    One: Remember, this is Daisy we’re dealing with here.
    Two: Oh, Lucy. You aren’t the first to learn this lesson, and you won’t be the last.
    Three: I kinda love the implications that Booster finds Pokemon Snap distractingly not-like-photography, but still enjoys it enough to have it on their Switch. Unless it’s their sister who’s the primary player. Also: Do kids these days still play Rock Band? Genuine question, I know there haven’t been new games in a while because the market got oversaturated but I could see people playing older copies.

    1. Schpoonman

      08/28/2021, 12:17 am
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      I haven’t played any of the games in the extended franchise (hot take: The Guitar Hero games are objectively mechanically superior, round buttons on the track versus RB’s bars is far easier to track and play but besides that are functionally identical and can therefore be lumped under a single umbrella) in a hot minute, but I bet if you had copies of the games and DLC they’d still make a great party game.

      1. Regalli

        08/28/2021, 12:22 am
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        Yeah, it’s finding the copies and the controller that I expect would be the sticking point. I’m not sure most Gamestops still stock used ones, that’s wall space they could fill with Funko Pops.

        And yeah, it’s the same franchise, Harmonix made the first few Guitar Heroes before deciding to expand to Rock Band, that’s all the difference there really is.

        1. Seregiel

          08/28/2021, 9:01 am

          Our house still has rock band via a couple members. Seems like it became one of those teen rights of passage to engage with eachother.

        2. Roborat

          08/31/2021, 4:41 pm

          I wandered into a Game Stop recently, just to see what they had. Most of the store was devoted to non game stuff, mostly Funko Pops. Honestly don’t understand how they have managed to stay in business.

          Also, my kids and I played Guitar Hero on the Wii, I managed to get pretty good, but they still always kicked my ass (I could beat them on Dance Dance however. My daughters friends thought I was the coolest dad). I thought about practicing enough to be able to beat them, then decided if I was going to devote that much time, I might as well learn to play a real guitar, so I did that instead.

    2. Seregiel

      08/28/2021, 8:58 am
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      Point with Daisy: Lucy should really be the one to pitch it or it will automatically go to Joyce due to The Thirsg.

  9. brionl

    08/28/2021, 12:12 am
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    It’s 30 degrees outside. You should probably at least wear pants.

    1. RassilonTDavros

      08/28/2021, 12:51 am
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      Personally I’m still curious how Sierra is handling winter without shoes.

      I mean I’ve gone for barefoot walks on Christmas morning a few times but I don’t live in a place where winter exists

      1. Schpoonman

        08/28/2021, 1:11 am
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        She’s still barefoot, sometimes she steps on rocks and it can cut her feet up, but the cold helps dull the pain and reduce swelling.

        There was a Patreon bonus strip about this a few years back, I think.

        1. NickG

          08/28/2021, 12:19 pm

          Sept 2020, when Sierra was moving in with Agatha.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      08/28/2021, 4:01 am
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      Eh, that comes out to 86°F. If anything, pants are a hindrance to progress.

  10. Kyrik Michalowski

    08/28/2021, 12:13 am
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    While Lucy has good intentions, I don’t see this going well. Oh well, Lucy will learn the consequences of her choosing to date Walky.

    Does anyone see a good ending to this situation?

    1. Sirksome

      08/28/2021, 12:21 am
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      I don’t think it will be that bad. I actually think Lucy should be more forceful if she actually want him to wear something nice. Not that she really has the right to dictate how he dresses, but he’s proven to be a huge pushover on this if his history with Dorothy is anything to go by.

      1. Clif

        08/28/2021, 2:00 am
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        He knew Dorothy was out of his league. It’s a different dynamic.

    2. Thag Simmons

      08/28/2021, 12:23 am
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      The honeymoon phase of this relationship is going to last a day, tops.

    3. John

      08/28/2021, 12:35 am
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      the good ending I see: lucy explains that, if he wants to beat joyce, he should dress to impress, not because she doesn’t believe in his comic, but because otherwise it’s tortoise and the hare, and he doesn’t want to be caught napping while she’s crossing the finish line.

      1. Delicious Taffy

        08/28/2021, 4:47 am
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        I recently heard a different take on that old story, involving two identical hedgehogs rather than a turtle, some severe gaslighting, the hare dying in one way or another and the hedgehogs dancing on his grave. Granted, this version was recounted second-hand during a chaotic Let’s Play, allegedly originating from a Certain Infamous Swiss Artist, so it may have been bullshit.

        1. Clif

          08/28/2021, 10:27 am

          Infamous Swiss Artist. Hm. That pretty much narrows it down to Roman Signer, John Armleder, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone or Christoph Buchel.

        2. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 12:52 pm

          You’re ice cold. Think less “physical media” and more “your ISP may have some questions if you visit his website”.

  11. John

    08/28/2021, 12:27 am
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    Seriously, Lucy, you’ve known Walky long enough that you knew what you were getting into here.

  12. Skater Girl

    08/28/2021, 12:29 am
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    I never thought I would say this, but I’m with Wally on this.

    1. fridge_logic

      08/28/2021, 10:14 am
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      Going to a job interview. I better wear my ‘conference hoodie’ for this one.

  13. Cmasta1992

    08/28/2021, 12:35 am
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    If she said sub-mission like it was a quest she mighta convinced him

  14. TheKelliestKelly

    08/28/2021, 12:55 am
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    I wonder if Walky still has the nice clothes that he bought with Dorothy. And if they’re still nice if he does

    1. Thag Simmons

      08/28/2021, 1:08 am
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      Yes and no respectively

  15. He Who Abides

    08/28/2021, 12:57 am
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    I’d like to disagree with Walky on what he considers “formal”, but considering that I’m married to someone who has unironically used the term “formal overalls” more than once . . .

  16. BBCC

    08/28/2021, 1:12 am
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    Oh dear. This is funny but also could go poorly.

    Full speed ahead. 😀

  17. MrSmith

    08/28/2021, 1:32 am
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    To all those who think Lucy shouldn’t change try to change Walky, that she knew what he was like before they got together I would normally agree with you however in this case because its Walky he really does need someone to mother him because he’s not capable of looking after himself

    The most unbelievable thing about this comic isnt the superhuman aspects of Sal or Amber nor is it Becky walking away from a car flipping multiple times with nary a scratch but that a dirty, smelly creature like Walky keeps scoring women the way he does

    1. Jon

      08/28/2021, 1:55 am
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      Being hot and charming will get you pretty far. And let’s not pretend Walky’s living in squalor or anything: his room is disheveled but never a pigsty, and he’s not really implied to neglect bathing or anything. The worst he does is re-wear clothes with food stains on them because he hates laundry. Which is hardly a cardinal sin in 1st year of college.

      1. MrSmith

        08/28/2021, 2:10 am
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        He’s probably not big on laundry (I don’t imagine that was a skill his mum thought he might need) which means he’s probably wearing the same t shirts and undies for days on end

        Hot is subjective but I think his best asset is that he’s none threatening, he’s got no backbone, he’ll do what you tell him to and he won’t challenge you which is attractive to some people

        Having said that he’s a very good first boyfriend for Lucy though hopefully she’ll move on to someone better down the track

        1. Needfuldoer

          08/28/2021, 4:33 am

          Doing laundry isn’t really that difficult when you have machines at your disposal, it just takes time. (He would just have to babysit the machines he uses because they’re shared, but that’s just playing on the Switch in the laundry room instead of his dorm.)

          That said, Linda probably never showed him, and a lifetime of “lol dumb ol’ dad ruined the laundry again” tropes didn’t help.

        2. MrSmith

          08/28/2021, 4:44 am

          Maybe laundry falls under that weird masculinity thing Walky thought, like with the shoes thing and while I could see how someone might think laundry is “womens work” and therefore something no real man should do (which is funny because when you’re in barracks you do a shit ton of laundry) I still don’t understand (and probably never will) the shoes thing

        3. thejeff

          08/28/2021, 9:20 am

          It’s funny how a common (and real, if exaggerated) college trope about struggles with laundry turns Walky into some kind of horror.

        4. Sirksome

          08/28/2021, 9:38 am

          This is admittedly a tangent but even though Booster has proven to be really nice and generous with their Switch do you really think they’d let Walky take that out of their dorm? Hell no! At least I would never do that, especially if it’s a system my sibling regularly enjoys using. I haven’t said anything negative about Walky in awhile but dude can get fucked on that one. Learn to read a book! Use one of many apps widely available on essentially any modern cellphone. It’s only roughly an hour sitting by a machine, he’s a big boy who can make it through that without constant stimulation.

        5. Needfuldoer

          08/28/2021, 9:45 am

          I honestly forgot that’s Booster’s Switch, not Walky’s.

    2. Eldritchy

      08/28/2021, 2:38 am
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      Yeah… no, Walky doesn’t need someone to mother him. He needs to be left to his own devices so reality can slap him in the face. That’s the only way he will learn.

      1. MrSmith

        08/28/2021, 2:44 am
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        Yeah for most people that would work but this is Walky we’re talking about here, he needs a lot of help

        1. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 2:47 am

          Yeah he’ll need help afterwards but what he needs first is the desire to change and he’ll never get that if other people in his life keep enabling his behaviour. You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped after all.

        2. MrSmith

          08/28/2021, 4:32 am

          I get your point, the worry is that someone like Walky has no strength of will, no built resilience to fall back and might fall so far that he never gets back up whereas people like Joe, Danny, Joyce etc can fall but can bring themselves back

          His circle of friends have certainly been enabling him though and that is part of the problem

        3. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 4:40 am

          Enabling or disregarding? There’s a distinction, and one of them puts more responsibility on people who aren’t him to take care of his personal hygiene.

        4. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 5:10 am

          That’s the exact problem, he has no strength of will and resilience Because he’s always been shielded from the world. Those things are skills built up by the human brain by facing adversity. Normally you want to build them up gradually by exposing a person to amounts of stress and adversity they can manage. Problem with Walky is that he never got that opportunity and now he needs to build it fast or else he’ll slam into adversity that might break him later in life. Like his math problems.

        5. MrSmith

          08/28/2021, 5:55 am

          You make very a good point

        6. BBCC

          08/28/2021, 2:39 pm

          He should be kidnapped by a mobster and threatened by a bunch of assholes, one of whom has a bat!

          ….Wait.

        7. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 5:38 pm

          To be fair that’s the equivalent of wanting to improve your kid’s reflexes by throwing them live grenades.

        8. He Who Abides

          08/28/2021, 11:19 pm

          So, the Hunter Gathers method of swim instruction?

        9. Eldritchy

          08/29/2021, 6:01 am

          Yes!

        10. thejeff

          08/28/2021, 9:22 am

          I get that some people just despise Walky, but I really don’t see where the “no strength of will or resilience” thing comes from.

        11. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 12:55 pm

          If he’d stop getting fooled by Robotnik into stealing the Chaos Emeralds from Jacob, maybe he’d have less of a reputation.

  18. Tan

    08/28/2021, 1:32 am
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    Oh no, Walky’s looking hot again in panel 4

    1. woobie

      08/28/2021, 2:00 am
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      He will learn that bedroom eyes do not work on every womsn.

      1. woobie

        08/28/2021, 2:02 am
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        as I will learn to avoid typographical mistakes

  19. Alice

    08/28/2021, 1:46 am
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    sounds like booster needs to play umurangi generation

    1. Wagstaff

      08/28/2021, 2:31 am
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      What about Fatal Frame? I mean, if he’s into horror games.

      1. He Who Abides

        08/28/2021, 3:08 am
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        They.

        1. Wagstaff

          08/28/2021, 3:12 am

          Ah, this is the underlying pain of being a critical thinker — the agony of knowing that your brain is constantly lying to you.

        2. Wagstaff

          08/28/2021, 3:15 am

          Also, I’m starting to think there’s a reason why they call them Grammar Nazis.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 4:17 am

          Because ‘Muricans love to assign any amount of authority or enforcement of rules to the harshness of Nazi Germany, and internet terminology has heavy roots in deliberately-extreme hyperbole?

        4. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 5:27 am

          In all honesty it should be a Grammar Commie, no one is as butthurt about enforcing arbitrary rules as Communists and their censors.

        5. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 5:32 am

          I dunno, they got some stuff competition with Homeowner’s Associations.

        6. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 5:33 am

          Fucking automangle, “stiff” is a goddamn word, and so is “of”. God this thing is getting aggressive.

        7. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 5:38 am

          Oh if all the reddit stories I listened to are to be believed they could have easily been the third evil side in WW2

        8. Clif

          08/28/2021, 9:38 am

          All the truly horrific stories of Home Owner Associations in World War II got censored out when they rewrote the history books.

        9. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 10:17 am

          A carefully hidden fact is that it wasn’t the Soviet soldiers who defended the Stalingrad. It was the HOA members sent by US as the Land Lease support.

        10. Clif

          08/28/2021, 10:57 am

          And they are still at it today. A heavily censored version of the Battle of River Oaks Boulevard right here in Houston can be found at https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/complete-story-river-oaks-tank/ though the Lend Lease program isn’t mentioned until about the fourth paragraph from the end.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      08/28/2021, 4:08 am
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      Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that one. Nitro Rad has a really good video about it! He’s a big film and photo guy (went to school for it), and has a lot of praise for how accurate the game is.

  20. BenRG

    08/28/2021, 1:50 am
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    As Dorothy learned before her, Lucy has volunteered for a long, uphill push if she wants to move Walky out of his “comfortable slob” mindset!

    1. Eldritchy

      08/28/2021, 2:39 am
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      Better grab a farming tractor, one of the big ones, she’ll need all that horsepower to drag him out.

  21. dinajoyce

    08/28/2021, 1:50 am
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    oh! Finally a video game reference to a game I’ve played that’s not a classic game! My husband got the new pokemon snap like right when it came out and i got oddly obsessed with it. We had beaten the basic game and were looking for how to unlock the special stuff and there weren’t even decent guides on the internet yet and this is not an experience i’ve ever had with a video game ever in my life and I was pretty proud of myself.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      08/28/2021, 4:11 am
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      Oh yeah, I remember the good ol’ days, back when you could still discover stuff in a game yourself without knowing some sweaty loser had constructed a robust, mathematically-precise wiki about the entire thing within five hours of its release. Good times.

      1. Eldritchy

        08/28/2021, 5:29 am
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        I mean, you just have to avoid the stuff about the game. That’s how I played Hollow Knight and had so much fun discovering all the stuff on my own.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 5:41 am

          Sure, you can at least try to avoid it, bit it’s still there, right on the edge of your awareness. Lurking. Looming. Seductive. All it takes is a quick search, and you can know aaaallll the hidden routes, the exact criteria for that weapon you’ve spent the last hour trying to find, what dialogue options are gonna let you bed that bug lady in the thigh-highs and glasses.

        2. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 5:58 am

          Stop! STOP! I can feel the pain so much!

      2. Anon A Mouse

        08/28/2021, 7:56 am
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        I mean, passion is passion. No one is forcing me to look up “Sweaty-Losers Farming Simulator Strats” on Wikia and good on the sweaty losers for caring enough about the game to pick it apart like that. It’s not like these things weren’t being done before the internet, they just have a public space to put their findings now instead.

        1. voidsiren

          08/28/2021, 11:04 am

          Yeah, and updating a Wikia or a fansite is hard fuckin’ work. I briefly tried to make a website for a phone game I was obsessed with, but just trying to get all the data for all the units was a massive amount of work. Combine that with the rate that they kept releasing new units? My heart goes out to anyone who is doing this successfully.

        2. Regalli

          08/28/2021, 11:59 am

          And extremely helpful work. Some of the event triggers in New Snap are so difficult I wouldn’t even expect people to find them by ACCIDENT without being vaguely aware there’s an event trigger for this. (The Night Jungle alternate route that requires you to fall off a log, for example – even KNOWING there’s a specific Pokemon in a specific area that needs to be bonked for it, that particular Pokemon is hard to see.) I found plenty of events myself, but some of the request descriptions don’t make it clear that you’re looking for this thing and then another step, and the alternate routes get increasingly contrived.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 1:16 pm

          I was more poking at the “within five hours” aspect, not the actual work being done. I’m sure all that math farming is really very taxing, but they somehow manage it within an absurdly short time frame.

        4. Anon A Mouse

          08/29/2021, 5:33 am

          It’s due to the level of communication. Now “Sweaty-Loser295” can share data with “Sw35ty-L0ser6” and it can be compiled and put on the wiki by “xxS-L420xx”. The future is full of sweaty losers sharing data at amazing speeds.

  22. Bicycle Bill

    08/28/2021, 2:07 am
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    Least-stained isn’t that bad at all.  I remember being a college freshman and deciding whether I could get one more day out of a sweatshirt or a second day out of pair of tighty-whiteys by means of the smell test.

    1. plasticwrap

      08/28/2021, 5:36 am
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      Smell-test on underwear is risky af.

  23. Queezle

    08/28/2021, 2:49 am
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    Okay I was against the whole Lucy dressing up Walking thing. Because I feel like people should feel comfortable with themselves first.
    And I really have low standards when it comes to what I consider appropriate clothe for a given situation. But, unless it is something like renovating or gardening, the clothe being clean is still part of it.
    So am I on Lucy’s side now? I guess maybe. But I did not really want to be there in this instance.

  24. Madock345

    08/28/2021, 2:55 am
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    I empathize with Walky here

    “Whichever has the least stains” is also how I choose which shirt is ok to wear outside some days.

  25. Rabisch

    08/28/2021, 3:16 am
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    The ultimate battle between Walky and Joyce is coming. Lucy is right. Walky needs to looks professional to have a chance against her!!!

  26. ValdVin

    08/28/2021, 4:13 am
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    Am I the only one who is slightly relieved that the Butt Taco shirt no longer has the stain on it from months ago?

    1. Needfuldoer

      08/28/2021, 4:26 am
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      Tide goes in, stain comes out. You can’t explain it!

      1. Delicious Taffy

        08/28/2021, 4:38 am
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        Ya know who could explain it? Bill Nye, probably. That guy used to know a lot of stuff. I wonder what he’s up to these days, aside from advocating for conversion therapy and appearing in Scooby-Doo! movies?

        1. Wagstaff

          08/28/2021, 5:18 am

          FOR conversion therapy? Don’t you mean against?

        2. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 5:44 am

          Gonna level with ya, I haven’t checked in on ol’ Billiam lately. I just like accusing celebrities of heinous shit because it’s usually close enough to the truth and I’m priming myself not to be disappointed if they really are shitbags. If Mr. Nye has done anything at all related to praying the gay away, I don’t know about it.

        3. Needfuldoer

          08/28/2021, 7:02 am

          Don’t you ever fucking scare us like that again.

        4. Spencer

          08/28/2021, 7:36 am

          Yeah.

          This is unjust cruelty.

        5. Clif

          08/28/2021, 9:45 am

          I wasn’t fooled for a second. I knew he would never sink low enough to appear in a Scooby-Doo movie.

        6. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 1:01 pm

          But he did, just last year.

      2. ValdVin

        08/28/2021, 4:21 pm
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        Also Walky may (just may) no longer have that odor which (in other comics) would result in wafterons.

        1. Needfuldoer

          08/28/2021, 8:51 pm

          But we saw him go get Taco Bell with Lucy earlier…

          David Wafteron.

        2. ValdVin

          08/29/2021, 12:04 am

          Indeed, except that wafteron eminates from every patron there. I was thinking more of the strip where Dorothy gently tells him that he has a certain…odor.

          (And I’d usually link, but they are in over 200 strips together so I can’t dig that up right now.)

        3. Needfuldoer

          08/29/2021, 9:22 am

          This one?

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/funk/

  27. Alan in DC

    08/28/2021, 5:48 am
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    Grampa, what’s a “broken record”?

    1. powerpowerpow

      08/28/2021, 7:37 am
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      Can’t wait for 2050 when most people think it has something to do with Guinness World Records.

      1. Fist_of_Life

        08/28/2021, 9:11 am
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        Me: he’s going at it again, just like a broken record.
        My grandkids: Did world records really get broken that that often?
        Me: No what that means is… you know what, I’ll let your parents explain that. Here, have a chocolate bar.

        1. StClair

          08/28/2021, 2:07 pm

          (the way climate change is going)

          “What’s ‘chok-lit’?”
          “Oh… right. Something Grampa used to have, but… not for years and years, now.”

  28. Autogatos

    08/28/2021, 6:19 am
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    I forget, is Booster double majoring in photography and psychology? Or is photography an enthusiastic hobby? I remember them expressing an interest in it previously but couldn’t remember the context.

    1. Needfuldoer

      08/28/2021, 7:09 am
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      They “like photography” and are majoring in psychology.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/ditchin/

      1. Autogatos

        08/29/2021, 1:55 am
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        Ah, thank you! I thought there was a strip where they talked about their photography interest but couldn’t remember which one.

  29. Keulen

    08/28/2021, 6:43 am
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    I kinda agree with Walky on this one. If he gets this, it’ll be a job drawing comics for a college newspaper, not a big city paper or something.

    Also I’m pretty sure everyone knows that doing stuff in video games isn’t the same as doing stuff in real life, Booster.

    1. Eldritchy

      08/28/2021, 9:07 am
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      You still want to make a good impression, make people feel that you respect them. That’s how you build connections.

  30. Daibhid C

    08/28/2021, 7:38 am
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    Okay, I’ve been defending Booster a lot, but they’re like the “Stop having fun, guys!” guy in xkcd? That’s me out.

  31. Anon A Mouse

    08/28/2021, 7:53 am
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    As if we needed ANOTHER reason to hate Booster, a great big “f*ck ALL the way off” to anyone who equates “Rock Band” with “real guitar”. Is playing a fighting game like actual martial arts? Madden like real football? CoD like real shooting? Then why the goddamn hell would you assume a musical game is different? Is it to feel superior because the game requires a funny guitar controller with colored buttons?

    Booster is way worse than Mike in my opinion. Mike was cartoonishly evil. Booster is realistically a gigantic asshole.

    1. Spencer

      08/28/2021, 9:28 am
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      Booster has proven themself the worst monster of all

      A hipster

      1. Clif

        08/28/2021, 9:48 am
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        And they are doing it before it’s cool again.

    2. Yumi

      08/28/2021, 10:53 am
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      Wow.

      1. Spencer

        08/28/2021, 1:37 pm
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        I know right

        Mike emotionally abuses Amber to toughen her up against her dad, Booster is kinda nitpicky about taking photos.

        theyrethesamepicture.png

    3. Delicious Taffy

      08/28/2021, 1:05 pm
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      I dunno, they seem to have let Wally download it onto their Nintendo and play it. If they really had a problem with the game, they could just ban it from their console. This seems like a bit of fun, to me.

    4. zee

      08/28/2021, 1:18 pm
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      Dude. Chill.

    5. BBCC

      08/28/2021, 2:37 pm
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      Ah, yes, because HOW DARE anyone be annoyingly nitpicky and passionate about something they care about, to the point of being a little salty about games not portraying it realistically –

      Wait, shit, I just described most people. Oops.

      1. Anon A Mouse

        08/29/2021, 5:39 am
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        You DO realize how silly the argument is though, right? I realize I’m being over-dramatic about it, having heard it enough times. It’s not even that they are being salty about it, it’s the condescension. Like, yes, I realize the amount of time, effort, and skill are required to play real guitar. That’s why I play a game. Because I don’t have the time to learn “Freebird” on a real guitar but I can play it great when its 5 buttons and a flick-stick.

        And to any responses about how I consider Booster worse than Mike; Mike was cartoonishly evil. He wasn’t realistic in his maliciousness, even if there were “good intentions” that never seemed to culminate. Booster is realistically a huge asshole. Thus, I feel they are worse in that that their actions can be seen as reasonable for a real person to do and thus should be called out for being a tremendous asshole.

        tl:dr Booster is worse than Mike because real assholes are worse than cartoon villains.

        1. BBCC

          08/31/2021, 11:05 pm

          Yeah, I do, but I hardly think that being silly and overdramatic about stuff like that is being an asshole. They don’t say anything condescending here – I doubt they actually think Walky believes it’s real photography. But Booster cares about photography and so is gonna salt about it whenever it comes up. Big whoop. They’re a geek. It’s what geeks do.

    6. MrSmith

      08/28/2021, 2:56 pm
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      Annoying yes but worse than Mike is a bit of a stretch

  32. Alex

    08/28/2021, 9:47 am
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    Lucy’s face is real cute in the last panel.

    1. Clif

      08/28/2021, 9:51 am
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      Her mind is being opened up to the alternate reality in which Walky vacations. This can be a painful process if not embraced.

  33. voidsiren

    08/28/2021, 11:28 am
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    I can totally dig buying your bf interview clothes. Walky has never been to a job interview in his life (does that stint as a child star even have interviews?) and needs a lot of help understanding the nonsense that is trying to get a job.

    Uhg. Interviews.

  34. Kryss LaBryn

    08/28/2021, 11:55 am
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    As a former Canadian Ranger, I regret to inform you that the Canadian Rangers’ dress uniform does include a formal dress hoodie. And formal dress baseball caps. :/

    Here’s back in 2017.

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      08/28/2021, 11:56 am
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      Here’s a unit being reviewed by Prince Charles back in 2017, I mean! XD

    2. MrSmith

      08/28/2021, 2:55 pm
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      Respect. To my understanding that’s a hard core unit.

    3. Roborat

      08/31/2021, 4:50 pm
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      You were a Ranger? Cool. I was in the Army Reserve and I met a few of them, they were badasses.

  35. thumb

    08/28/2021, 12:05 pm
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    Lucy gets buyer’s regret

  36. Roe

    08/28/2021, 12:44 pm
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    sometimes women think they upgraded from friend to girlfriend when in reality they got changed from friend to mother

    1. thejeff

      08/28/2021, 3:59 pm
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      Any change in role here is purely Lucy’s choice. Walky has not asked to be mothered.

  37. Alex

    08/28/2021, 1:03 pm
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    Damnit Willis stop making everyone hate my favorite character! Booster made snippy remarks about a video game and now he is worse than Mike.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      08/28/2021, 1:13 pm
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      They’re 100% in the right to mock video games. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

      1. Spencer

        08/28/2021, 3:33 pm
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        Gamers Rise Up against this comment

    2. zee

      08/28/2021, 1:19 pm
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      Hell i think they’re worse than Blaine! Sure he committed…just about every felony in the book, but Booster made a snarky remark about a video game and frankly that’s just repugnant

      1. Eldritchy

        08/28/2021, 2:34 pm
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        Well there is being Evil and then there is being Annoying, and of the two being Annoying seems to be greater crime.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          08/28/2021, 4:12 pm

          *cough*Roz*cough*

        2. Spencer

          08/28/2021, 6:36 pm

          This is actually true but not in the way you’re thinking, and I’m going to prove it using Shonen anime.

          Vegeta blows up a planet and Bakugo bullied Deku and at the start of the comic told him to go kill himself. Both of these characters are extremely popular, mind (and the author of HeroAca has expressed regret that he included that scene at the start since he feels it made Bakugo too/i> cruel), but you’re never gonna have someone go “smh I can’t believe Vegeta was a marauding space pirate and blew up that bug planet” because there are no actual marauding space pirates who blow up bug planets in real life, but bullying a kid all his life? Kinda hits close to home!

          Or TLDR: situations analogous to reality will draw stronger reactions from the audience than those that are of greater consequence to the story but don’t have much in the way of realistic anchoring. No one’s ever actually blown up a planet before, it’s inherently an act of fantasy even though it’s just killing a whole bunch of people, something actual human beings have done, but with a bigger number.

        3. Eldritchy

          08/28/2021, 6:48 pm

          Oh yeah the Umbridge vs Voldemort paradox. What I was aiming was more that “Fictional characters exist to entertain us, an evil character can be very entertaining but an annoying character isn’t and so is easier to hate, because they take enjoyment out of the piece of media we are consuming.”

        4. Anon A Mouse

          08/29/2021, 6:19 am

          Is it unreasonable to show stronger reactions to something one would or did actually deal with in real life as opposed to something that is literally beyond reality? Should I hate Frieza for blowing up the world the same way I hate Hitler for killing millions of real people? In the end, people react to characters the way they would react to real people. Like you said, people aren’t going to care about the genocide of a planet because it’s literally out of the scope of reality.

        5. Spencer

          08/28/2021, 6:36 pm

          Fucking. HTML. Tags.

  38. Bagge

    08/28/2021, 1:32 pm
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    and his all yours, Lucy

    1. MrSmith

      08/28/2021, 2:58 pm
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      Be careful what you wish for

  39. Doom Shepherd

    08/28/2021, 3:18 pm
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    I mean I live in a county where we joke that formalwear is jeans with no holes in them.

  40. Huehuetotl

    08/28/2021, 9:20 pm
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    didn’t something like this happen with Dorothy? Does Walky just get a new girlfriend to make them wash his clothes?

  41. Jem

    08/28/2021, 9:57 pm
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    I enjoy how through the years I’ve been reading this, my own standards of cleanliness have improved, whereas Walky is still…

    1. thejeff

      08/28/2021, 10:31 pm
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      Of course, for Walky it’s only been a few months since you started reading this. He hasn’t had as much time to change.

  42. Formedras

    08/29/2021, 2:36 am
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    Hey, Booster: Rock Band 3. Pro Guitar, Pro Keys, Pro Drums.

  43. Needfuldoer

    08/29/2021, 9:25 am
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    Booster would probably like Rocksmith.

    1. Roborat

      08/31/2021, 4:52 pm
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      I have that, is a pretty good way to learn guitar.

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