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Greeting
Posted on September 2, 2023 by David M Willis

220 thoughts on “Greeting”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “overdressed” is super easy to fix tho *wink wink*

    1. Steamweed

      _Walky_ being the overdressed one? Not a common thing.

    2. HueSatLight

      when in Rome. that’s in France, right?

      1. DarkoNeko

        …technically ? There’s a halmet with that name 70km N NW of Paris.

        1. DarkoNeko

          Did I once get lost there, proving that all the roads indeed lead to Rôme ? You can’t prove it !

      2. someone

        Rome was in France from February 1798 to September 1799.

        1. Ymbrael

          Underrated Napoleonic Occupation joke, technically I think the annexation into the French Empire from 1808 to the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 would also count.

    3. Amós Batista

      But after you entered the room, and said it loud to everyone there? It’s easier if Walky was on underwear before.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        If he’s the only one wearing pants, that’s a super easy fix *wink wink*

  2. Sirksome

    I wonder how one launders a giant stuffed velociraptor?

    1. Vukodlak

      Dry cleaner?

    2. Angel

      wet wipes and febreeze maybe

      1. Sirksome

        Nah, that’s just gonna mask it. Dry cleaner is the way to go but the size makes that seem like a real hassle to do. I can’t think of anything actually practical though.

        1. Laura

          Maybe an upholstery steam-vacuum cleaner?

        2. NGPZ

          Do you reckon it’d work on a dinosaur that size? This plush I think is something that actually exists IRL?

        3. Laura

          Oh sure. Just a little bit at a time. One of those handheld vacuum/steam wands. Slow going, though!

          If you were to rinse the whole thing, though, you might get the stuffing wet and it could get moldy.

        4. Laura

          A UVC wand would be too dangerous to wield.

        5. Laura

          In more Southern latitudes, you can put large cloth furniture out in the sun (perhaps wrapped in contractors’ plastic for extra heat) and just let the sun destroy any bacteria or bugs or mold. Northern climes like Indiana, though, I don’t know what large enough space could get hot enough.

        6. Mark

          We are still wincing from a 100° day in a week of upper 90s. Few clouds, plenty of UVB. (Humid, though.) IN has a mid-continent climate, which means rather low and high temperatures, by turns.

        7. thejeff

          Indiana being a Northern clime amuses me.

          How hot do you think it needs to get? It probably does so less often, but unless it needs to be well into dangerously hot, there will be chances.

          None of them however since Becky and Dina had sex – since it’s still January. That’s likely to be true in the South as well for January.

        8. Laura

          I didn’t realize Indiana got so warm. I’m talking dangerously hot (say, 110) AND dry. Leave it out all day wrapped in clear or black plastic for extra greenhouse effect, and anything microbial, fungal, or otherwise WILL die.

          I didn’t realize Indiana wasn’t considered a northern climate. Up near the Lake Michigan shore it is, though, right? I’m just thinking of those freezing winters depicted. But, yes, there can be extremes on both ends… I wasn’t taking that into account.

        9. thejeff

          Okay, if you’re really talking 110 and dry, that’s more extreme than I was thinking. Even most of the South doesn’t do that, even if only because it’ll be 110 and humid.

        10. Laura

          Yeah, you’re right. That’s more Southwest weather. Southeast is humid. OK, so, 100 degrees in Indiana, plus wrapped in contractor plastic to trap the heat, and we’re golden!
          ;-D

        11. clif

          Technically, anything Oklahoma or north is part of the frozen wastelands.

    3. NGPZ

      I wonder if Carla’s engineering expertise includes engineering cleaners and fabrics… ?

    4. Thag Simmons

      With great difficulty, I would imagine.

    5. Mollyscribbles

      Steam cleaner?

    6. JA

      Spritz it with vodka. Kills germs and removes smells.

      1. cain

        And evaporates quickly. Good call. Might affect the fabric dye though.

    7. Dante

      Window cleaner. Seriously.

      It cleans from blood to cat pee denaturing the proteins in fluids. I saved an entire beanbag chair my (otherwise healthy and spayed) very neurotic cat was obsessed with; and it barely affects the color.

    8. thejeff

      Basically the same way you’d clean a couch or even a mattress.

  3. Yumi

    Yeah, that velociraptor can’t be the easiest to clean.

  4. Animedingo

    Dinosaur

    Smells like sex

    Pantsless girls

    This is a cool room

    1. Sirksome

      All they need is some weed gummies and this can be a party!

      1. NGPZ

        If only I can teleport mine. I got new edibles to try yesterday — raspberry edibles that are supposed to help with ADHD, a chocolate bar and a pineapple express drink. ?

        1. Masumi

          Those help with adhd?
          :O

        2. cbwroses

          The edibles were designed to help with a chocolate bar and a Pineapple Express drink or is that just an unintended side benefit? ?

      2. Laura

        (Multivitamin gummies will do in a pinch, per Joe)

    2. ANeM

      It’s a cool room until your girlfriend who lives in the same hall shows up and finds you in a room that smells like sex with your pantsless ex.

      I’m not sure if it is better or worse that it’s not the ex-girlfriend that recently tried to get back together with him and instead the ex who recently pretended to be back together with him for comedic purposes.

      1. Laura

        Lucy lives in a different dorm. She’d have to know where to look for him.

        1. Mark

          I would be surprised to learn that Lucy has not found out where Walky’s room is.

        2. thejeff

          But they’re not in Walky’s room. That’s the whole point.

      2. Thag Simmons

        Dina can theoretically vouch for his innocence

        We’ll know if things are going to fall apart if she bails

    3. Dday

      Open the door
      get on the floor
      Everybody smell
      the DI-NA-SAUR

      1. adam Black

        Boom-boom, acka-lacka-lacka, boom

        1. Maddie B

          Goom-Goom, acka-lacka Goomba

          (Because that’s my childhood’s version.)

    4. Gin

      This is the best room! I like that Walky is always chill to be around, like he doesn’t make anyone uncomfortable or have other motives. He just wants snacks and video games

  5. Proto_Eevee

    It makes me so sad that amber has what looks like the fortnite joycons

    1. David M Willis

      we have those colors and i’m pretty sure they’re not fortnight

      i chose them because they’re, y’know, amazi-girl colors

      1. DailyBrad

        Good choice, honestly.

      2. nobodybasically

        Oh, so Dumbing of Age is like the Switch Pokemon games, where the comic automatically matches the artist’s Joy-Con colors :p

        1. David M Willis

          i mean i have more than the one set, but i chose that particular set for Amber

        2. Taffy

          The Pokémon games do something with your Joycon colors? I’ve beaten Shield (beating the Champion counts) and never noticed that.

        3. SDRainbow

          the in game depiction of the switch in the player character’s room matches the physical joycons in your hand

        4. Taffy

          That’s fucked up and creepy.

        5. Proto_Eevee

          Really? I think its kinda cute

        6. Taffy

          That’s the scariest response you could have given.

        7. nobodybasically

          Y-you know it’s just a quirk based on the console knowing what controllers are connected, right? It’s not like Game Freak is peeking in your windows and updating the game based on camera footage.

        8. Taffy

          That’s what they want you to think.

        9. Mark

          That’s what I want me to think!

        10. S.R.

          Not really. It’s just the game knowing what controllers are connected and personalizing something for you.

      3. EpochFlame

        nice touch, coordinating the colors of the joycons

    2. Lionheart261

      A fair point, but consider that she’s got a very well-established color scheme that must subtly appear in as many of her belongings as possible. This is a small price to pay for maintaining her personal brand.

    3. Taffy

      I’ve seen that exact combo sold at Walmart.

    4. Angel

      i know fortnite is huge and all but can tehy rly copyright blue nad yellow as a color combo lol

      1. RassilonTDavros

        Of course they can’t copyright it. That’s what trademarking is for.

      2. StClair

        someone inform Ukraine.

        1. The Oracle

          Between yesterday’s remark about the chip bag looking a little too Russian and this one about the Joycons being Ukrainian, I’m starting to wonder about this comic.

        2. clif

          Dear Ukraine, Your flag violates our trademark. You’ll have to adopt a new one.

        3. Taffy

          I wouldn’t put it past a big-name video game company to pull a stunt like that. Hell, I’m sure if I rewatch some old episodes of The Jimquisition, I’ll find out they’ve covered something that rhymes.

      3. Proto_Eevee

        As far as i was aware they only sell blue & yellow as the fortnite ones. Unless its the blue and neon yellow

        1. The Oracle

          The Fortnite ones have a weird smiley face on the yellow controller. We have no evidence to support these being that.

      4. GLaDOS

        Not beyond the bounds of possibility

  6. Steamweed

    Becky (suddenly materializing): Why, yes. Yes, it does.

  7. Wraithy2773

    Well, its at least good to see that Walky isn’t so slovenly that he’ll go into the women’s wing of the dorm without putting something resembling pants on…

    But yeah, we’re 100% on course for Three’s Company territory, lets see how this actually goes…

  8. NGPZ

    DINA STRIP!!!! Awe shit video games AND hanging out with Amber and Dina and a dinosaur, Walky you so lucky ????☄️?

    *plays “Yoshi Star Galaxy” from Super Mario Galaxy 2 on Amber’s PC*

    1. John Campbell

      She’s already wearing no pants; how much more do you want her to strip?

      1. clif

        I assume that was a rhetorical question.

  9. shadowcell

    Dumbing of Age Book 14: It Smells Kinda Like Sex

    1. Bogeywoman

      Smells like teen dinosex

  10. Just an Armadillo

    I’d make a joke about the plush really being a sexual tyrannosaurus, but then Dina would Hompk at me.

    1. Cholma

      Nah, but Jesse “Blain” Ventura will appear and stuff some chewing tobacco in your mouth. (Just before the Predator’s plasma cannon blasts a hole in his chest)

  11. Cholma

    ? I smell sex and . . . nachitos . . . in here.
    Who’s that lounging in that . . . velociraptor?! ?

  12. Bin

    Where they watched Gabriel Gornel’s 2010 masterpiece: tyrannosaurus sex

  13. NGPZ

    Re: Alt-Text,

    France? Pika pika? I don’t get the joke here…

    1. Wraithy2773

      Pre-internet meme in the form of a song. “There’s a place in France, where the ladies wear no pants…”

      We’re talking like late 1800s, early 1900s type deal.

    2. AbacusWizard

      An old childlore song, to the tune of “The Streets of Cairo,” with lyrics beginning “There’s a place in France where the ladies wear no pants.”

      1. Taffy

        I’ve only ever heard it as “where the naked ladies dance”. Never heard of “The Streets of Cairo”, though.

        1. HueSatLight

          Need to see a “soda vs pop vs coke” map, but for exactly what’s happening in that place in France.

        2. Taffy

          Seems like the ladies get up to a lot of things, typically involving a lack of pants and other clothes.

        3. Dark_T_Zeratul

          I mean, they’re not out in the open or anything. They’re being clothing optional in private.

          Unfortunately, I hear there’s a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all.

        4. clif

          Now see, the version I was taught me in my youth went:
          All the girls in France
          They wear hoochy coochy pants
          With their asses in the air
          They wear no underwear
          And the boys don’t care
          Cause they’d rather see them bare.

          I figure the origin has to be British, because the English will never bypass the opportunity to slander the French.

        5. Taffy

          That’s three separate cases of the women having their lower bodies exposed, with explicit mention of either pants or nudity. How far does this rabbit hole go? Is the rabbit wearing fishnets and a corset?

        6. clif

          How far does the rabbit hole go? Offhand, I’d say France. Though if the rabbit is wearing fishnet and a corset, it should probably have turned left at Albuquerque.

        7. eh, whatever

          It can’t be British. France doesn’t rhyme with pants in most of Britain.

        8. Laura

          See, I always heard it as, “I see London, I see France. I see ____’s underpants,” where _____ was the one the singer was trying to tease. See, it’s equal-opportunity Gallophobia and Anglophobia.

        9. Miri

          Laura, that’s a different one!

          There are lots of primary [elementary] school playground ditties about pants/nudity…

          Also domestic violence. Hopefully correctly spoiler-tagged in case anybody doesn’t get the reference and would rather not/could find it triggering… If your boyfriend gives you an apple, a pear, a kiss on the lips, then throws you down the stairs, the correct course of action is apparently to give him back the apple, pear, kiss on the lips – then throw HIM down the stairs. Two rights and all…

          But in the part of the greater London area where I grew up at least, we used to sing this particular one as “There’s a place in France where the naked ladies dance/there’s a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all… Dance and France rhyme, pants does not rhyme with them.

        10. Miri

          Ah – apparently tags don’t show up here ?

        11. Miri

          ??‍♀️ Even with spaces inside the pointy brackets, [spoiler] neither works as a tag (with pointy brackets instead of square ones), nor appears in the text.

        12. Laura

          Ok, I do know that tune:

          “There’s a place on Mars where the children smoke cigars
          And the boys wear bikinis and the children drink martinis.
          Every birthday cake is enough to fill a snake.
          When the snake is dead they put roses on its head.
          When the roses dry, they put diamonds in its eye.
          When the diamonds crack, they put mustard on its back.
          When the mustard fades, they put it all in the Everglades.”

          …Hmm, I was thinking that might be milder in terms of its depictions of abuse, but then I thought of that poor snake… at least the snake got to eat all the birthday cake and then later die of natural causes after a long and full life, before the children started to bedeck it with roses, mustard, and diamonds and give it an Everglades burial.

          Perhaps, the snake wasn’t dead at all, and the children simply found its shed skin and assumed it had sloughed off its mortal coil as well, before performing these elaborate and bizarre funerary rituals!

          …Anyway, it’s good for keeping time while jumping rope!

        13. NGPZ

          Why do they put mustard on it’s back?

          Is that because it’s an edible snake that tastes like chicken or something? ?

        14. Azhrei Vep

          Silly NGPZ, all snakes are edible, but they’re kind of a pain to cook. You gotta be real careful or they come out tough as fuck.

        15. Laura

          Well, snake does taste like chicken, from what I’ve heard. My mom has tried it. I do not recall ever tasting it myself. It’s wild how adventuresome my mom is!

          But no, NG, the real reason is that “back” rhymes with “crack” and “fades” rhymes with “Everglades,” and, as a kid, I always got the Everglades and the Pine Barrens mixed up, but that one didn’t rhyme. So you just say what comes next in the skip-rope song.

          And Miri, yes, I did hear some Dark AF clapping game songs, sometimes about the darkest of topics. That one was relatively mild.

      2. Gin

        This scans to Take it Off by Ke$ha as well

  14. AbacusWizard

    Dumbing of Age, Book 14: The Only One Here Wearin’ Pants

  15. AbacusWizard

    genuine LOL IRL at the alt text

    1. Jo_cubstar

      …I don’t get it 🙁

      1. NGPZ

        Check answers to my question below, apparently it’s a century-or-more-old earthling meme thing

  16. Icalasari

    Vesexoraptor

    1. Poskie

      V-licks-oraptor?

  17. Moon

    pussy juice dinosaur

    1. NGPZ

      must collect scientific samples… ?

  18. Taffy

    Wow, looks like they’re not gonna violently fist each other to orgasm while they stream it to Lucy and Linda, what a surprise. ? And Walky’s wearing pants, which also is extremely surprising and not at all easily inferred. Also, Amber has explicitly referred to the console as a Switch, which shouldn’t be remarkable but people had a weird hangup about it a while back.

    Everything’s comin’ up normal so far.

    1. HueSatLight

      I am shocked all the drama didn’t play out in one strip.

      1. Taffy

        Sitting in the corner playing a borrowed video game isn’t very good foreplay, and if Lucy came by to visit, I have a feeling she’d simply join in. She trusted Amber enough to leave the two to their own devices for what seems like multiple hours, after all.

        1. HueSatLight

          drama doesn’t need to mean they’d be fucking as Lucy walks in. She has insecurities, they’re going to build up because he won’t talk to her about what he should be, so all she can do is guess.

          “oh, you can’t leave, you have to stay in this room to play” maybe Willis is teasing us, but that’s what setting up a situation looks like.

        2. Taffy

          It’s also what not wanting your expensive Game Boy to get potentially damaged looks like. Walky’s a known dipshit, and anything in his hands has a higher than usual chance of being ruined, or at least smeared with food and not properly cleaned before he returns it. This way, she can keep an eye on her console and not have to wonder what’s happening to it.

          As for Lucy, someone’s gonna have to walk me very carefully through how this is anything for her to suddenly become insecure about, when just yesterday she was fine with Amber telling multiple humans that Walky was her boyfriend. I’ve also seen a lot of fixation on Amber’s lack of pants, and maybe it’s just because nobody I’ve ever lived with or visited has felt the need to put on pants in their own living space just because I was around, but I genuinely don’t understand the hangup. He’s in her domain now, her thighs are law.

        3. The Oracle

          Jesus fucking Christ. Straight people get insecure about little shit like that all the time, stop acting new.

        4. Taffy

          Motherfucker, do I act as if I know what straight people are like? I barely know what normal people are like.

        5. Yotomoe

          Doesn’t seem like a stretch to be a bit insecure about your Boyfriend hanging out in his pantsless ex’s dorm.

        6. Taffy

          I’m just gonna chalk this up as an irreconcilable difference in mindset, honestly. I don’t think like that, so it just doesn’t make sense except as one of those things other people care about.

        7. Azhrei Vep

          See, there’s your problem. You’re expecting insecurities to make sense.

          Insecurities are complete nonsense, which makes them ten times worse.

    2. Yotomoe

      Of course not. Dina’s in the room.

    3. Miri

      … I thought you meant Dina and Becky videoing violent fisting to Linda and Lucy for a second and was really confused as to why on earth they would do, before I realised you meant Amber and Walky.

  19. DailyBrad

    On one hand, he’s got pants on, and Dina is present.

    On another, if Lucy goes to find him and he’s like, hanging out on a dinosaur that smells like sex with one pantsless girl and his sorta ex is also there and also in her undies, I could see assumptions being made.

    Then again, I dunno, Lucy works with Dina’s girlfriend, and thus knows she’s pretttttty taken.

    1. Segnosaur

      I don’t remember anything about Lucy working at galassos. When did that happen?

      1. Taffy

        I swear I’ve seen her in a lineup of employees there at some point. Might have been on Patreon.

        1. Dark_T_Zeratul

          I think you’re thinking of Sidney Yuss, who will absolutely make you rue the day you forgot about her.

        2. Taffy

          If Sidney isn’t on-panel, I’m never thinking about them, guaranteed. Also Lucy looks completely different to Sidney, there’s no way I’d get them confused.

        3. poofdepoof

          She definitely works there, I don’t have patreon but I recall her mentioning her shift from these here main comics

      2. HueSatLight

        for example: https://www.dumbingofage.com/brazenly/

      3. DailyBrad

        Yep, she works at Galasso’s. It came up when they had their first date, and Walky mentions choosing somewhere other than where she works, which she appreciated.

        1. Dark_T_Zeratul

          Huh, so she does! Guess that means Sydney Yuss will take vengeance on me for daring to think anyone could confuse her for anyone else.

    2. Masumi

      Maybe the problem turns out to be that Lucy owns a switch too, but Walky chose to hang out with Amber instead?

      1. DailyBrad

        I feel like that’d be more of an issue, yeah, having that lesson in the relationship of occupying their own spaces and that sometimes we need to decompress away from one another. Hopefully she’ll be able to get that, but this is her first relationship, so it’s not necessarily a given her feelings wouldn’t get hurt.

  20. Sirksome

    I wonder what kind of games Ambs got on her Switch? She finish TotK? She a Mario girl? I mean I guess you’d have to be, cause 1st party games are the main reason for owning a Switch.

    I hope Walky realizes his saves don’t transfer over. He’s gonna have to restart Bayonetta 3. Unless the Booster siblings sprung for Nintendo Online, but did they even let him make a profile? I got lots of questions. Lots of important gaming questions!

    1. Taffy

      We don’t have a single Mario game on my girlfriend’s Switch, but we do have all of the Wild Era Legend of Zelda games, so you might be on to something with that first-party thing. Actually, I don’t think we have any games that aren’t compatible with the Zelda Amiibos.

    2. Segnosaur

      Didn’t amber and Sal play mariocart against each other early in their interactions?

      1. TerribleTransit

        That was a Mario Kart for DS. Unless the sliding timescale has caused the console to transmute into a new form.

        1. Schpoonman

          Sal might not have a Switch, Amber’s almost certainly moved to MK8DX

    3. Aslan

      I reckon she’s got a few JRPGs and mayhaps a Fire Emblem mixed in there, too. For the shipping.

      1. Sirksome

        Yeah, she’s definitely into Fire Emblem. Those games have basically become shipping simulators. I bet she also makes kaizo levels in Mario Maker, but like actually fun ones and not cheap enemy spam ones with hidden dev exits. We’ve established she has Mario Kart. Smash maybe although Amber weirdly doesn’t seem like a Smash player to me or into any fighting games for that matter.

        Pokemon obviously. If she plays Go she probably plays all of them. Can’t think of any titles that really stick out. She has to have played Metroid Dread right. Who doesn’t love Samus? I wanna say Luigi’s Mansion cause those are my favorite, but she might just think Luigi’s a dweeb.

        Splatoon maybe, but only when it’s a splatfest topic she cares about.

        Any ideas on what games Walky likes? I bet he’s an Arms enjoyer! There are dozens of them! Charlie had it on her Switch but only played it once before forgetting about it after it dropped into her library off the homescreen. Now Walky’s upset Amber doesn’t have it.

    4. Azhrei Vep

      I dunno about first party stuff. I hate the Wild games with a passion, not really a Mario fan … but I want to play Bayonetta 3 and Monster Rancher Kaiju, so as soon as I can find a switch for a reasonable price, it’s mine.

      And then I guess I’ll see if there’s anything else worth playing, although I kinda doubt it.

  21. Yotomoe

    Guess you’ll have to take your pants off. You don’t wanna stick out.

    1. Ray Radlein

      Oh, it he takes off his pants he’ll be stickin’ out, alright

      1. a/snow/mous/e

        gottem!

      2. Taffy

        Oh, like his penis.

  22. Moon

    every day i read DOA and solemnly wonder how much dried bodily fluid was on like everything in my college dorms. hm.

    1. Dante

      I’d normally go “truth over solace”, yanno. But not in this.

      Never in this.

    2. HueSatLight

      If it makes you feel any better, fish have sex in the water you drink, and have been doing so for hundreds of millions of years.

      1. clif

        Well, that certainly makes me feel better.

        I just want to know how they got into the distilled water.

        1. HueSatLight

          Because of homeopathy, distilled water has had umpteen gazillion times more fish having sex in it than water where you can see the roe and milt.

  23. reed

    what, dina has a giant stuffed velociraptor and you want her to not have sex on it? fuckin’ straight people smh.

  24. Bryy

    fucking love dina.

    1. NGPZ

      me too bruh ?????☄️??

    2. Bash

      I love that she’s become more self-confident since hooking up with Becky.

  25. Erica

    Since it’s been literally years since the arc, can someone remind me why Walky and Amber/AG stopped hooking up?

    1. Taffy

      He was an ass about Mike “not really being dead” and Amber decked him. Check out the Halloween party, there’s some good stuff.

      1. Erica

        Oh shit that’s right. Man maybe Amber is too good for him

      2. HueSatLight

        I find him an ass a lot of the time, but in the case of the halloween party, going to a party to not think about recently dead roommate is a reasonable expectation. Someone else decided to bring the mood way down.
        Changing the subject or, in my experience, asking someone to change a song works fine in the conversation scope, but when someone else decides impromptu “everyone here must all grieve this other way right now” that’s kind of a no-win situation for him.

        1. HueSatLight

          Failed link was him changing the subject when someone brought up Mike’s funeral in conversation.

      3. thejeff

        Yeah, it’s worth remembering he’s pretty messed up about Mike’s death too and that’s how he was coping with it.
        I’d say third most affected after Ethan and Amber. Of the actual cast, not counting parents, etc.

  26. SDRainbow

    not to be the guy coming in and immediately starting shit

    (absolutely the guy to come in and immediately start shit)

    how colossally self-centered of walky to think he could WALK OUT OF THE ROOM with amber’s switch, lmao. i really should have seen it coming, it’s exactly on brand

    1. King_Salty

      To be fair his original request was specifically to borrow it, which implies taking it with him.

    2. Bash

      Do friends not let other friends borrow their handheld devices?

      1. Erica

        It’s a $250 handheld device!

      2. SDRainbow

        I am possibly showing my bias here, I use my Switch primarily as a console, not as a handheld. But yeah also they’re pretty expensive.

        I think my eyebrows would go up less if we were discussing a PSP or a Steam Deck, maybe, but they’d still go up a little.

        1. Mr D

          Pretty sure a steam deck is more expensive than a switch

        2. Needfuldoer

          But it’s a bargain compared to the handheld PCs that came out after it.

        3. zee

          And so much harder to get. A steam deck is way more valuable than a switch

      3. Aslan

        I mean, I wouldn’t classify Amber and Walky as friends at this point tbh

      4. Reaver

        My friend that I know is responsible and will return it in the same condition? Yes

        My friend who is a bit of a manchild with no sense of care for things, even ones that are not his? No no no no

        1. Bash

          Lol totally fair.

  27. NGPZ

    BTW how many folk here think that Becky and Dina recently just fucked again?

    1. Erica

      That is astute

      1. NGPZ

        I mean, according to one bonus strip, the smell could just be from not being able to wash the dino since last time they did it…

    2. Taffy

      Look at Dina’s hair. They definitely fucked like 20 minutes ago, I can tell.

      1. NGPZ

        are you sure that’s a steady surrogate? there are two instances where messy hair was present and no fucking occurred:

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/chirpchirp/

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/floor-3/

        1. Taffy

          It’s a clue, not the entire thesis. Trust me, they went to Shag City approximately 21 minutes before Walky knocked on that door.

        2. NGPZ

          Any other evidence to support your hypothesis? What about evidence against?

          I mean, I WANT to believe it, but for some reason I am compelled to approach this scientifically…

        3. Taffy

          My evidence is that Dina’s insanely hot and I want it to be true. Any evidence to the contrary can be thrown out.

        4. NGPZ

          “She’s standing right behind me isn’t she?”

          – You 5 seconds later.

        5. Taffy

          …Y’know, I wanna say “I wish”, but Dina’s like 11 years younger than me, and that’s to big of a gap for my tastes.

        6. NGPZ

          Who said it’d be a sexual encounter?

        7. Taffy

          Well, now I’m just confused. What else would an unreasonably attractive cartoon woman be after, coming out of the comic and appearing behind me?

        8. NGPZ

          Giving you a lesson about epistemology, given science IS her special interest.

        9. HueSatLight

          Becky is inside the raptor and they’re having sex right now. The proof is you can’t see Becky, so she must be inside the velociraptor.

        10. NGPZ

          If that were true, Becky would have clearly been tagged.

        11. Laura

          …That’s what they WANT you to think!

          ;-D

        12. Azhrei Vep

          DYW has been known to withhold tags until a character is revealed to be in a scene, then go back and tag them into pages where they were present but unnoticed before. He can do it again.

        13. NGPZ

          sauce?

  28. DashWallkick

    Think about how long ago it was that Walky and Amber couldn’t stop tearing each other’s clothes off and now they’re like “I have bribed you with snacks, may I have a crumb of Nintendo”

    1. Steve C

      The key to Amber’s heart? Nachitos. Walky knows this.

      The key to Walky’s heart? Nintendo. Amber knows this. (Although, to be fair, probably a lot of people do.)

      They may not be tearing each other’s clothes off, but these two still know each other way too well not to be a couple. (Welcome aboard the SS “Walky and anyone but Lucy”)

      1. clif

        Logically, that would include Walky and Mary.

        Also Walky and Sal and Walky and Beef.

        1. Laura

          Walky DOES love burger…

  29. DarkoNeko

    a lingering doubt pushed me to verify, but no, there is no village named Astute , in France or otherwise.

    1. clif

      But did you check for possible translations of Astute into French. Such as Astucieux?

      1. DarkoNeko

        no, but feel free to.

  30. Dday

    but WHY isn’t he hanging out in a room that smells like sex with a pantsless LUCY?!!? HARRUMPH! FIE!

    1. Rotunda

      Amber lives on the same floor of the same dorm as Walky, and is likely to have a game console.

    2. Amós Batista

      Jennifer is there

      1. Dday

        Mannn I think I’ve mentioned this before but when Walky and Dotty wanted to bone down they just chucked Sierra out of the room before she even realized what was happening, and went at it repeatedly while Dina could easily hear them from the half-bath. This aint about modesty or shyness. Walky has repeatedly shown very little real motivation to make any real physical progress with the blatantly eager Lucy. It’s frustrating >:(

  31. Amelie Wikström

    I’m thinking how hard it is to clean a giant plush doll. Probably the only solution is first ensuring it’s free of humidity, then putting it in a giant freezer to kill the germs, then loaning one of those expensive ozone generators they use to de-smell smoking hotel rooms, and then shake it well, maybe with a crane.

    1. Laura

      That might work. Or spray it down with dilute hypochlorous acid, let it degrade to saline in the sun, and then shake = vacuum off the salt crystals..

    2. Dante

      I’d recommended window cleaner further up the comments section but at that size you’d need several bottles. And also, your best bet would be using a paint spray gun lest you kill your tendons.

    3. Needfuldoer

      One of those water extraction machines made for cleaning upholstery would probably work.

      1. HueSatLight

        Yes, I’d give steam cleaning a try. Or gut it, clean, then restuff.

        1. Laura

          I bet Dina and Becky could make that activity into a sex thing.

  32. cbwroses

    Yes there are vacant spots on the dinosaur, Walky.
    That doesn’t mean you can rest your pants wearing butt on it.
    It might mean that, but I feel you should get clarification.

  33. eskimolos

    Okay, I mean thematically this would be heading towards comical misunderstanding, long game this could be setting up to walky and amber reconnecting. I say this because this is exactly how I ended up with a boyfriend at 16-17 years old, we had been school friends and I wrote him off, then he “had” to hang out at my place regularly and play video games because I was close enough to school to walk and his dad’s work hours had changed, 6 months later after a Lot of UST, we were A Thing.

    Clearly not at this first encounter if the latter, Amber and Walky have both made it clear in this strip that neither intend to be overly social.

  34. Steelbright

    Ya know, as oddly suggestive as this situation is, i kind of hope this is just a platonically relaxing moment where some humans hang out in a room playing video games and it’s not about sex or drama at all. Might be kind of refreshing, right? …Right…..? ?

    1. Mark

      How about resolving some old drama? Somehow they come to be talking about the Mike thing, talk out their issues now that they have some distance from the incident. Dina, never looking up from her book, offers a perspective completely different from either of theirs. Friendly reconciliation ensues, and Amber and Walky end up playing a game together. End of scene.

      It’s thereafter always available for some future self-doubt.

  35. morhek

    “Amber, I’m playing Nintendo with a girl without pants near a giant dinosaur that smells like lesbian sex, and I have never been less aroused.”

    “Do you want me to start reading my Ultra Magnus/Rodimus slashfix”

    “I’m leaving.”

  36. Pocky

    that dinosaur has seen some stuff lol

  37. C.T. Phipps

    So the premise is that Walky will play Nintendo with Amber all day then come home smelling of sex?

    And Lucy will draw CONCLUSIONS.

    1. HueSatLight

      I think its the uncertainty that will eat at Lucy, not her jumping to conclusions. Lucy prefers to think she knows what Walky’s thinking and feeling, but she has insecurities, she doesn’t actually know. I don’t think Walky knows entirely.

      Lucy walking in on Walky and Amber fucking would be the least dramatic version of what could happen. Then she’d get to go straight to anger or disinterest or whatever else her feelings would be. As much as it would probably suck, it would be better than Schroedinger’s emotion.
      And Walky would have decisions made for him, and it would be pretty evident to him there was more chemistry between him and Amber than Lucy.

  38. BBCC

    Well, have fun Walky!

  39. milu

    Calling it now.

    (this is for you @Taffy =P)

    1. Taffy

      Hell yeah. We dig a good walk_in tag.

  40. MacareuxMoine

    How is it possible that I’m the only one who is surprised by Dina reading in a room that seemed to be completely darkened during all of Walky’s and Amber’s negotiations? (I guess everyone got distracted by pants, dinosaurs and the smell of sex)

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