What they should go for is swapping roommates. Amber never gets off the computer to have a conversation, and with Ethnan, Danny, and Walky out of the picture, she has no social life to generate visitors, all of which would suit Sarah just fine. This would free up Dina to room with Becky and Joyce to room with Dorothy.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ed Callahan
Logically, nothing. The problem would be the huge hole in the premise of the strip.
Felian
WOW. Assigning dorm rooms by GOOD MATCHES rather than by randomization? Wild take.
Although i am not advocating for u-hauls so i think it IS better if Dina and Becky do not live together. Plus, Dina needs a lot of alone time, so it’d be detrimental for her to live with bubbly Becky instead of Amber who basically constitutes alone time. So…. actually i think Dina and Amber ARE a good roomie match.
But, Becky, i’m sure Dorothy is happy to vacate the room more often so you can canoodle. After all, Dorothy can go to the laundry room in that time 😛
Oz
I would love to see Amber/Sarah roomate dynamics, but Joyce rooming with Dorothy gives me the shivers. Either they would both go completely feral or they would go full-mom-friend on each other and then so many shenanigans would ensue that they both would end up expelled. Joyce and Dorothy’s relationship is too powerful, it needs to be contained.
Sextuple pissed that she now gotta learn how to commit murder without vein’ caught, so she’s lost even more Dina-canoodling time to training (playing Hitman III for six hours a day)
Thag Simmons
I don’t know if Agent 47’s methods would be particularly effective here.
Sajuuk-Khar
You say that now, but imagine if the next time she tries to set up her Hell House, Mary is tragically crushed by an improperly balanced animatronic Satan bought with “dark money” (asking Robin for a couple grand with big puppy dog eyes)
Thag Simmons
Well he’s not the worst stealth game protagonist you could take influence from, a guy like Snake or Corvo would be way less instructive for this scenario.
Unfortunately a lot of stealth games bias towards trying to take down army guys or rich guys, often both at the same time, rather than some random college student.
Xaeon
Yeah, but college students are way less suspicious. Buy a set of coveralls and you can probably go pretty much anywhere in the dorms without anyone batting an eye. At most you might have to say “I need to do an inspection”.
Dana
If you murder in order to have premarital lesbian sex do the sins add up, or is it a more than the sum of its parts situation?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Make it look like a suicide so you get A’s in all your courses!
(No, that doesn’t actually work.)
(Or so I am told.)
Sajuuk-Khar
Protestantism in general is bad at quantifying sins, you’re on this fuzzy meter of “hell” or “not hell”.
This is why Becky should convert to Catholicism and then spin this as actually fine because it was in defense of the faith, so that clears up the murder, and the premarital sex you can probably do some Hail Marys for.
Jess
There’s a joke here about Hail Marys and Mary being the “new”/”murdered” roommate…can’t quite put my finger on it though.
Sajuuk-Khar
Newly Catholic Becky goes to confession and can’t stop snickering whenever she’s mandated said prayer, the priest is getting suspicious
Jamie
Raining hail on Mary would please me.
Sajuuk-Khar
The ultimate punchline is Newly Catholic Becky going “Sorry, Father, see, I knew Mary Bradford, and—“
“OH! Her! The girl we had to call the police to get her not to leave whole collections of those fucking Chick tracts all over the sanctuary and in the Eucharist and EVERYWHERE!”
“Yeah and I just keep thinkin’ hailing her is pretty much hailing Satan, ain’t?”
“You’re so right, my child. The snickering is a freebie, go forth and sin no more.”
Reltzik
But at least in some corners of Protestantism, being with Dina isn’t actually a sin at all.
I was once goign to get a new random roommate, as was the guy next door who I knew and liked. So we arranged for me to move in to his room, which had better furnishings (lofts). Then he flunked out, leaving me in Becky’s dream housing situation. Sadly, I couldn’t manage the canoodling.
Dorothy: No, no, I’m sacrificing myself for you. Not because I want to stay with my friends and hate the idea of leaving you all to go hang with a bunch of strangers while studying constantly. I love that. Honest.
She’s seen exactly one scene from any Witcher media, and it’s the one that involves doing it on a unicorn, and she’s like “man I am totally the lady-Geralt”.
This almost happened to me. My roommate dropped out over winter holidays and I didn’t receive word that I’d been assigned a new one — but when I got back to my dorm someone else’s stuff was there too. I later found out that she was a newly arrived transfer student, and she’d asked for a last-minute room reassignment because the girl she’d originally been roomed with was messy as fuck. She eventually became my best friend on campus, which just goes to show you, I guess.
I got a room to myself the second year of college by forgetting to apply for one until the last minute, so they didn’t have anyone to put me with. Procrastinating pays off once again! (Also, my RA called the room assignment a “dingle”, which is now one of my favorite words.)
I am located in a fairly southern US-ly area, and ‘yer’ sees pretty common play here. Somethin like “Yer noggin like ow this ole mess ends, kid.” would be considered a perfectly normal way of saying “You’re not going to like how this whole mess ends, kid.”
“Dotty this is a stupid fuckin’ idea born outta hella trauma, an’ I know from trauma! I’m a trauma world champ! Fun fact: two outta the three things I’m claimin’ to be mad about are me doin’ a coping mechanism! I’m deflectin’, Dotty! And you’re making me acknowledge it out loud!”
(also, that little “not to you” hurts extra, because like…Dorothy…you know that’s not how it works.)
For nearly the first time ever from me: Go Becky! Your points are strong and valid, even the one about non-constant canoodling, and you’re making them ver clearly and unusually honestly.
153 thoughts on “Double pissed”
Ana Chronistic
“QUADRUPLE PISSED that Dina an’ me could be spite canoodlin’ RIGHT HELLA NOW in yer recently vacated space but YER STILL HERE”
Ana Chronistic
alt-text: GO FOR IT
Clif
What they should go for is swapping roommates. Amber never gets off the computer to have a conversation, and with Ethnan, Danny, and Walky out of the picture, she has no social life to generate visitors, all of which would suit Sarah just fine. This would free up Dina to room with Becky and Joyce to room with Dorothy.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ed Callahan
Logically, nothing. The problem would be the huge hole in the premise of the strip.
Felian
WOW. Assigning dorm rooms by GOOD MATCHES rather than by randomization? Wild take.
Although i am not advocating for u-hauls so i think it IS better if Dina and Becky do not live together. Plus, Dina needs a lot of alone time, so it’d be detrimental for her to live with bubbly Becky instead of Amber who basically constitutes alone time. So…. actually i think Dina and Amber ARE a good roomie match.
But, Becky, i’m sure Dorothy is happy to vacate the room more often so you can canoodle. After all, Dorothy can go to the laundry room in that time 😛
Oz
I would love to see Amber/Sarah roomate dynamics, but Joyce rooming with Dorothy gives me the shivers. Either they would both go completely feral or they would go full-mom-friend on each other and then so many shenanigans would ensue that they both would end up expelled. Joyce and Dorothy’s relationship is too powerful, it needs to be contained.
zee
Dude that would actually be super content
UrsulaDavina
Qunitople pissed they’ll assign you a new roommate
*unless that roommate is Dina
Doctor_Who
It’s Mary.
Sajuuk-Khar
Sextuple pissed that she now gotta learn how to commit murder without vein’ caught, so she’s lost even more Dina-canoodling time to training (playing Hitman III for six hours a day)
Thag Simmons
I don’t know if Agent 47’s methods would be particularly effective here.
Sajuuk-Khar
You say that now, but imagine if the next time she tries to set up her Hell House, Mary is tragically crushed by an improperly balanced animatronic Satan bought with “dark money” (asking Robin for a couple grand with big puppy dog eyes)
Thag Simmons
Well he’s not the worst stealth game protagonist you could take influence from, a guy like Snake or Corvo would be way less instructive for this scenario.
Unfortunately a lot of stealth games bias towards trying to take down army guys or rich guys, often both at the same time, rather than some random college student.
Xaeon
Yeah, but college students are way less suspicious. Buy a set of coveralls and you can probably go pretty much anywhere in the dorms without anyone batting an eye. At most you might have to say “I need to do an inspection”.
Dana
If you murder in order to have premarital lesbian sex do the sins add up, or is it a more than the sum of its parts situation?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Make it look like a suicide so you get A’s in all your courses!
(No, that doesn’t actually work.)
(Or so I am told.)
Sajuuk-Khar
Protestantism in general is bad at quantifying sins, you’re on this fuzzy meter of “hell” or “not hell”.
This is why Becky should convert to Catholicism and then spin this as actually fine because it was in defense of the faith, so that clears up the murder, and the premarital sex you can probably do some Hail Marys for.
Jess
There’s a joke here about Hail Marys and Mary being the “new”/”murdered” roommate…can’t quite put my finger on it though.
Sajuuk-Khar
Newly Catholic Becky goes to confession and can’t stop snickering whenever she’s mandated said prayer, the priest is getting suspicious
Jamie
Raining hail on Mary would please me.
Sajuuk-Khar
The ultimate punchline is Newly Catholic Becky going “Sorry, Father, see, I knew Mary Bradford, and—“
“OH! Her! The girl we had to call the police to get her not to leave whole collections of those fucking Chick tracts all over the sanctuary and in the Eucharist and EVERYWHERE!”
“Yeah and I just keep thinkin’ hailing her is pretty much hailing Satan, ain’t?”
“You’re so right, my child. The snickering is a freebie, go forth and sin no more.”
Reltzik
But at least in some corners of Protestantism, being with Dina isn’t actually a sin at all.
UrsulaDavina
I just threw up a little.
ValdVin
We haven’t seen much about Mary as a roomie. But now I want to know if Meredith was a stoner before bunking with the floor’s biggest “Christianist”.
Liquid Len
Wait, isn’t Mary’s roommate Roz?
ValdVin
Oops.
That I don’t remember that suggests we haven’t seen much of her as a roomie.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I was once goign to get a new random roommate, as was the guy next door who I knew and liked. So we arranged for me to move in to his room, which had better furnishings (lofts). Then he flunked out, leaving me in Becky’s dream housing situation. Sadly, I couldn’t manage the canoodling.
anon
“Fine i’ll just become president myself” i doubt becky has aspirations/ambitions that high but that would be amusing to see in the short term
Needfuldoer
She has the soft skills for the job, at least.
Oz
pre-trauma dorothy would be motivated by that, current Dorothy would just go further into her self-loathing spiral.
GholaHalleck
A lesbian with an autistic ace-adjacent Asian wife, whose christian fundie father tried to murder her and all her friends?
Easy slam dunk for at least senator, even with her current ties to a Republican.
foducool
lmao she wouldn’t even wait for dorothy’s bed to be cold
Caro
the past five or so strips have given us SO MANY GOOD EXPRESSIONS. im living
Caro
becky panel five is literally a Papas Pizzeria protagonist upon showing up to work /pos /pos /pos /pos /pos
The Wellerman
There’s a neat idea — a Galasso’s Pizza and Subs restaurant sim. 🙂
Amós Batista
I’m glad people figured it out. It’s so perfect.
C.T. Phipps
Dorothy: No, no, I’m sacrificing myself for you. Not because I want to stay with my friends and hate the idea of leaving you all to go hang with a bunch of strangers while studying constantly. I love that. Honest.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Since Becky hasn’t lost her faith, she has already had all the self-sacrificing she needs, way back when.
Stephen Bierce
Are we drifting into New Math here?
shrub
You want to keep a secret Dorothy, don’t tell anyone the secret in the first place.
John Campbell
To be fair, she didn’t. Becky found out by herself.
shrub
Not that secret, the secret as to why shes not going. Its an especially bad idea to tell Becky given her feelings towards Joyce.
Jamie
Yes. Compounding a lie when you get found out always ends well. Definitely.
thejeff
Maybe she hasn’t?
Yotomoe
Dreams are for sleeping. We all gotta wake up some time, kid.
Sirksome
At least Becky knows her priorities.
Sajuuk-Khar
She’s seen exactly one scene from any Witcher media, and it’s the one that involves doing it on a unicorn, and she’s like “man I am totally the lady-Geralt”.
Eldritchy
This just shows what a fake fan she is. If she read the books she’d knew she was Ciri who had a girlfriend.
Suet
Can’t canoodle forever, yanno. Someone’s bound to move in
Is being Amber and Joe step-siblings a worse thing?
Doctor_Who
I actually got super lucky one year – my roommate dropped out to join the Air Force after a month and they never got around to giving me a new one.
Jess
This almost happened to me. My roommate dropped out over winter holidays and I didn’t receive word that I’d been assigned a new one — but when I got back to my dorm someone else’s stuff was there too. I later found out that she was a newly arrived transfer student, and she’d asked for a last-minute room reassignment because the girl she’d originally been roomed with was messy as fuck. She eventually became my best friend on campus, which just goes to show you, I guess.
BarerMender
I was such an intolerable roommate no one wanted to live with me. This worked at college and in the Air Force.
thakoru
I got a room to myself the second year of college by forgetting to apply for one until the last minute, so they didn’t have anyone to put me with. Procrastinating pays off once again! (Also, my RA called the room assignment a “dingle”, which is now one of my favorite words.)
True Survivor
Why does Becky talk with a Southern style accent (though not to Sal extent) but Joyce doesn’t? Did Toe-dad have that accent, too? I don’t recall.
Doctor_Who
I don’t think it’s Southern like Sal’s, I think it’s just a lot less formal and more slang-y.
Robin’s the same way.
True Survivor
Thank you.
Masumi
.. Seems like I need to work on my mess.
*strongly disliking having an office mate*
Jamie
I don’t feel like most Southern accents use “yer” very much. I feel like it’d be “you ain’t” rather than “yer not”. But I’m not an expert or anything.
Azhrei Vep
I am located in a fairly southern US-ly area, and ‘yer’ sees pretty common play here. Somethin like “Yer noggin like ow this ole mess ends, kid.” would be considered a perfectly normal way of saying “You’re not going to like how this whole mess ends, kid.”
thakoru
I’m pretty sure Becky is supposed to have a Midwestern accent. Which makes sense, because they’re in the Midwest.
Alongcameaspider
I’m 100% with Becky here, denying even a second of canoodlin with Dina is unforgivable
Oh and all that other stuff too I guess
Sajuuk-Khar
“Dotty this is a stupid fuckin’ idea born outta hella trauma, an’ I know from trauma! I’m a trauma world champ! Fun fact: two outta the three things I’m claimin’ to be mad about are me doin’ a coping mechanism! I’m deflectin’, Dotty! And you’re making me acknowledge it out loud!”
(also, that little “not to you” hurts extra, because like…Dorothy…you know that’s not how it works.)
StClair
I’m not sure she does, or has admitted it to herself.
RassilonTDavros
Panel 2 Becky spitting straight FACTS
And yeah, I’m really wondering how well Dorothy’s gonna keep this covered up, and whether Becky’s gonna play along with it.
anonymsly
For nearly the first time ever from me: Go Becky! Your points are strong and valid, even the one about non-constant canoodling, and you’re making them ver clearly and unusually honestly.
bagge
HUG HER!
BBCC
Dorothy, they’ll notice when you’re still here next semester.
Doctor_Who
The other characters don’t even know she got accepted, let along that she got accepted and turned it down.
BBCC
Yeah, but they’ll still know she has not gone to Yale and there will be questions on it.
Needfuldoer
That sounds like a problem for Future Dorothy to worry about.
UrsulaDavina
Dotty stop trying to be president of the USA
Move to Canada and become PM were you might actually be able to achieve your goals as long your party has a majority.
UrsulaDavina
An immigrant can become Prime Minister of Canada as long as they are appointed Party Leader and their Party wins and they aren’t in prison
Thag Simmons