Stuff I learned about attracting women in College:
1.Be an athlete (one check)
2. Don’t be a comp sci major (canceled out the first check)
3. Take a lot of psychology classes (because there are way, way more female psych majors than male ones)
4. NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BRING UP WEBCOMICS OR YOUR “BLOG” /sigh
Yes, but unless he learned something from his experience – like how to pay attention to what your partner actually wants, instead of trying to fit them into your own perfect life fantasy – his experience won’t be any help to him. Remember, his three-year relationship ended with him being completely blindsided by what his girlfriend actually wanted out of life.
Not trying to contradict or anything, I know he was being nearly clueless with the hints she kept dropping, but being blindsided like that doesn’t mean it’s HIS fault. I dated a wonderful woman and we complimented each other nicely. After 9 months of dating, I proposed. Our engagement went on for more than a year. A year after we’re married, I notice she’s not happy and she doesn’t want to talk about it. Eventually it comes out that she didn’t apply what she wanted in a hubby to me until AFTER we were married. So I was fun to date, fun to be engaged to, but not what she wanted in a hubby. Totally blindsided cause she didn’t communicate or think until after marriage. Good thing we didn’t have kids.
Either Danny and Dorothy never had sex – a score of zero in Danny’s one relationship – or Joe believes that Danny bollixed his relationship with Dorothy so totally that it counts as a total loss. If it’s the latter, I kinda agree, at least based on what we saw.
Joe is also a superhero, notice how his cape has dissapeared from his bed in the background? Obviously he’s walking off panel to change into his alter-ego. Probably some sort of purple Pimp-themed hero.
Gotta love it how the female in anthropological studies is actually the one who initiates flirting and the social game to work towards finding a mate, but the male is expected to practically beat her upside the head and drag her away in classic caveman fashion.
Someone explain to me again why I don’t just use sperm donation centers as a cheap means to raise my clone army of Boba Fetts?
Good point, though quality doesn’t matter so long as I have numbers of clone troopers. I can worry about acquiring an apprentice later.
Jimmy Suzuki
I love how your avatars make it look like Amber and Dina are talking.
Undrave
They won’t grow as fast as clones either.
goatman95111
Doesn’t really matter, as I imagine in 30 years, when the timing is right, they will all be in place. Wait, is this getting too creepy to talk of clone troopers and a surgical strike?
OK, Joe’s putting waaay too much emphasis on this whole thing. Does he even know who goes to his class? Is girls from that class everyone’s only option from the whole campus?
Or maybe computer class girls are some sort of nerdy prom queen equivalent. Which, IMO, sounds bull.
No it’s not that, it’s just computer science chicks, let alone hot computer science chicks, are incredibly rare. Since the stereotypical comp sci geek is the antisocial kid who’s never talked to girls before, he thinks he might have a chance with this girl who’ll understand what he’s talking about when he goes off on a computer nerd rant.
So now you have, say a 60-person class with one girl. That’s at minimum 40 guys who might be competing for her attention.
Now this isn’t the case at most, if not all colleges, but it is more common than you might think.
I have to give Danny the argument on this. He might have been misguided on his idea of a relationship, but at least he was looking for something beyond a notch on his bed post. I honestly cannot wait for the strip where Joe’s misogyny and womanizing causes him to get the shit beat out of him.
I have to point out that Joe does sort of know what he’s talking about. As usual, if you take his viewpoint into account, Joe is right about pretty much every practical point. And Danny really doesn’t know what he’s talking about- he dated Dorothy for three years without realizing that she pretty much despises him and was looking to dump him for something better the first chance she got.
Joe only wants one thing, but he’s totally honest about that fact. No girl is going to be fooled into thinking Joe wants a relationship unless she’s as dumb as Joyce, and only Joyce is that dumb in the entire world. Joe doesn’t have any obligation to want a relationship- he’s entitled to go on doing his thing as long as it makes him happy.
Danny, on the other hand, is completely ignorant about relationship dynamics. He could stand to be more like Joe even if what he wants is a relationship instead of strings-free sex, because Joe’s social skills are useful even in that context. As it stands, Danny is completely incompetent at achieving his only goal.
Joe being honest about how he views, and treats, women, is not a justifacation he can/should stand behind. Looking for something beyond a one night stand still gives Danny the advantage; true, his first “relationship” was not a healthy one, but at least he can learn from it, and grow as a person.
Rbrittain
Why not? There’s nothing wrong with how Joe treats women, if that’s what he wants out of life.
no..it’s totally High School. My first year of classes, I had a few dorm neighbors who simply could not make a correlation between their actions and the consequences.. Subsequently, those kids were either asked to leave based on poor performance, or they dropped out. They just weren’t ready for college.
And one thing not pointed out by the above three: this is still day 3 of college. And there was no (on-camera if any) Frosh Week. Most of the cast is still in high-school mode.So naturally, they’d all be high-school-ish.
1 girl in a million is a slim shot, but might as well give it a shot, Whats the big deal? The worst that could happen is that she says ‘no’. Not the end of the world.
By this time in Roomies! we would have already seen a lot of girls that have been “joe’d”. I haven’t seen Joe get something in this AU yet, so I can assume he is not as suscessful at that as his counterpart is. That makes me think his abductee power was the pheromones thingy. That would mean his gadget-building skill is natural, so he can build Ultracar in this universe too…
But Roomies was partially real-time, while DoA is halfway through day two and it’s mid-January. Extrapolating from that, by the end of his first DoA year he’ll have banged everyone twice.
I don’t know why more people don’t take into account the math involved in odds of success. It’s like, if the publishing company gets 2 million books sent to them a year, and every year they accept five new authors, then guess what buddy. You’re not gonna get published. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re the best, or if you have an “In”, you’re still not one of the five.
Same thing here. If there are hypothetically five hundred men pursuing this woman, and there is only one of her, then move on because your time is wasted here.
Wrong, it means you’re unlikely to get published, you could be one of those five. If you don’t try you don’t know, if we all only did things with high odds of success instead of taking a chance… that’d be a boring world.
Oh right Mike avatar. Speaking of doing things with a high rate of success, your mother.
79 thoughts on “Supply”
Zap
Yeah, I’m with Joe on this one.
Joe
Stuff I learned about attracting women in College:
1.Be an athlete (one check)
2. Don’t be a comp sci major (canceled out the first check)
3. Take a lot of psychology classes (because there are way, way more female psych majors than male ones)
4. NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BRING UP WEBCOMICS OR YOUR “BLOG” /sigh
Amazo
The Leslie av makes your comment… illuminating.
Aisling
Join an anime/manga club and find the cute cosplayers.
David Herbert
True, Danny may be setting his hopes a little high, but as he points out, he does have experience on these matters, he’s not a total noob.
Scott
True, having had a relationship in the past probably puts him ahead of 70% of the other CS majors. Excluding WoW relations, of course.
Dragonman989
Owch dude that’s harsh dont b dissing the wow nerds
Scott
No diss intended 🙂
Seraph
Yes, but unless he learned something from his experience – like how to pay attention to what your partner actually wants, instead of trying to fit them into your own perfect life fantasy – his experience won’t be any help to him. Remember, his three-year relationship ended with him being completely blindsided by what his girlfriend actually wanted out of life.
Justme
Not trying to contradict or anything, I know he was being nearly clueless with the hints she kept dropping, but being blindsided like that doesn’t mean it’s HIS fault. I dated a wonderful woman and we complimented each other nicely. After 9 months of dating, I proposed. Our engagement went on for more than a year. A year after we’re married, I notice she’s not happy and she doesn’t want to talk about it. Eventually it comes out that she didn’t apply what she wanted in a hubby to me until AFTER we were married. So I was fun to date, fun to be engaged to, but not what she wanted in a hubby. Totally blindsided cause she didn’t communicate or think until after marriage. Good thing we didn’t have kids.
Sporkaganza
I think whether or not he’ll have a chance depends entirely upon what the other guys in that class are like.
maggiemarmalade
He has no hope against Shaggy.
Abjuron
“So you’re scoring zero for one, with your penis?”
NF
Wow, that line makes complete sense now.
Björn
What does “scoring zero for one” mean?
Seraph
Either Danny and Dorothy never had sex – a score of zero in Danny’s one relationship – or Joe believes that Danny bollixed his relationship with Dorothy so totally that it counts as a total loss. If it’s the latter, I kinda agree, at least based on what we saw.
Glooble
Scoring, to Joe, means having sex. Since Danny and Dorothy haven’t, he regards that relationship as a failure.
Loki
It could also be zero for one because it ended so poorly.
Jetstream
I’d say it’s more likely a zero because Joe has zero respect for actual relationships.
Kamino Neko
Word of God: Danny and Dorothy had sex.
Brady Kj
It means he played one game and did not win it. It’s sports terms, so I was puzzled at first too.
ProtonCon
Ah but Joe you didn’t take into account those other students don’t have names.
Cratacon
They do so. Shaggy is banging Amber as we speak.
Bill M.
Oh, please. Shaggy’s after Roz.
Undrave
Shaggy needs a speaking part now.
dchorror
But would it lead to disappointment?
EmpressTohru
Wow…my flaw where I read everything wrong for the first couple seconds strikes again.
Saw that as “Oh please. Shaggy’s after Faz” >.>
Osaru Sensei
Oh, he is. You just won’t see it right now. 😀
Cratacon
I think Shaggy could do better than Faz.
Rognik
ANYONE is better than Faz! (No offence to Faz-fans.)
EmpressTohru
There are Faz-fans?
Plasma Mongoose
Not fans per say but you have to admit, he can makes things more interesting from a reader’s POV.
Xartarin
What Joe isn’t taking into account is the fact that Amber is secretly a super hero, which changes everything.
Unless Amber has saved anyone else from computer science, Danny’s clear for “Lois Lane” status.
Undrave
Joe is also a superhero, notice how his cape has dissapeared from his bed in the background? Obviously he’s walking off panel to change into his alter-ego. Probably some sort of purple Pimp-themed hero.
David
Nah. At first they’re standing in front of Danny’s bed, but then Joe walks past Danny and the “camera” moves to in front of Joe’s bed.
Malph
Don’t ruin Joe being a pimp-themed superhero for us.
Damn it, someone draw Joe as a Super Pimp! I would, but I suck at drawing.
dchorror
I would, but I’m still working on a BilliexWalky piece. Things taking forever.
maggiemarmalade
I have a half-finished piece of fan art of Ethan dressed as Elton John, will that do?
goatman95111
Gotta love it how the female in anthropological studies is actually the one who initiates flirting and the social game to work towards finding a mate, but the male is expected to practically beat her upside the head and drag her away in classic caveman fashion.
Someone explain to me again why I don’t just use sperm donation centers as a cheap means to raise my clone army of Boba Fetts?
Undrave
Not enough quality control.
goatman95111
Good point, though quality doesn’t matter so long as I have numbers of clone troopers. I can worry about acquiring an apprentice later.
Jimmy Suzuki
I love how your avatars make it look like Amber and Dina are talking.
Undrave
They won’t grow as fast as clones either.
goatman95111
Doesn’t really matter, as I imagine in 30 years, when the timing is right, they will all be in place. Wait, is this getting too creepy to talk of clone troopers and a surgical strike?
dchorror
Hate to be the one to bring it up again, but it should be pointed out his conversation was don’t talk to me and you look like someone I used to date.
That just might be an “out.”
Loki
They talked about the class after that, on a less “don’t talk to me” level.
Zem
OK, Joe’s putting waaay too much emphasis on this whole thing. Does he even know who goes to his class? Is girls from that class everyone’s only option from the whole campus?
Or maybe computer class girls are some sort of nerdy prom queen equivalent. Which, IMO, sounds bull.
The E-man
No it’s not that, it’s just computer science chicks, let alone hot computer science chicks, are incredibly rare. Since the stereotypical comp sci geek is the antisocial kid who’s never talked to girls before, he thinks he might have a chance with this girl who’ll understand what he’s talking about when he goes off on a computer nerd rant.
So now you have, say a 60-person class with one girl. That’s at minimum 40 guys who might be competing for her attention.
Now this isn’t the case at most, if not all colleges, but it is more common than you might think.
ziggy78eog
I have to give Danny the argument on this. He might have been misguided on his idea of a relationship, but at least he was looking for something beyond a notch on his bed post. I honestly cannot wait for the strip where Joe’s misogyny and womanizing causes him to get the shit beat out of him.
Rbrittain
I have to point out that Joe does sort of know what he’s talking about. As usual, if you take his viewpoint into account, Joe is right about pretty much every practical point. And Danny really doesn’t know what he’s talking about- he dated Dorothy for three years without realizing that she pretty much despises him and was looking to dump him for something better the first chance she got.
Joe only wants one thing, but he’s totally honest about that fact. No girl is going to be fooled into thinking Joe wants a relationship unless she’s as dumb as Joyce, and only Joyce is that dumb in the entire world. Joe doesn’t have any obligation to want a relationship- he’s entitled to go on doing his thing as long as it makes him happy.
Danny, on the other hand, is completely ignorant about relationship dynamics. He could stand to be more like Joe even if what he wants is a relationship instead of strings-free sex, because Joe’s social skills are useful even in that context. As it stands, Danny is completely incompetent at achieving his only goal.
ziggy78eog
Joe being honest about how he views, and treats, women, is not a justifacation he can/should stand behind. Looking for something beyond a one night stand still gives Danny the advantage; true, his first “relationship” was not a healthy one, but at least he can learn from it, and grow as a person.
Rbrittain
Why not? There’s nothing wrong with how Joe treats women, if that’s what he wants out of life.
Gianni
… By Beef
…with his penis.
MuleyBob
Okay, so it’s been nearly two decades since I was in college but I really don’t remember college being so… high school-ish.
Loki
It’s a soap opera. Soap opera characters are always a bit high-school-ish, for maximum drama.
Naz
no..it’s totally High School. My first year of classes, I had a few dorm neighbors who simply could not make a correlation between their actions and the consequences.. Subsequently, those kids were either asked to leave based on poor performance, or they dropped out. They just weren’t ready for college.
Bill M.
Pshaw. If Bowling For Soup has taught me nothing else, it’s that high school never ends.
Rognik
And one thing not pointed out by the above three: this is still day 3 of college. And there was no (on-camera if any) Frosh Week. Most of the cast is still in high-school mode.So naturally, they’d all be high-school-ish.
MeFailWords
1 girl in a million is a slim shot, but might as well give it a shot, Whats the big deal? The worst that could happen is that she says ‘no’. Not the end of the world.
Black Bumblebee
According to the Terry Pratchett law, though, in fiction “one in million chances” tend to work out 9 times out of 10.
Al the Mighty
By this time in Roomies! we would have already seen a lot of girls that have been “joe’d”. I haven’t seen Joe get something in this AU yet, so I can assume he is not as suscessful at that as his counterpart is. That makes me think his abductee power was the pheromones thingy. That would mean his gadget-building skill is natural, so he can build Ultracar in this universe too…
David
Joe didn’t get together with anyone in Roomies! until the end of the first year. (It was Sarah.)
Cratacon
But Roomies was partially real-time, while DoA is halfway through day two and it’s mid-January. Extrapolating from that, by the end of his first DoA year he’ll have banged everyone twice.
Undrave
He totally Joe’d Roz up already. Possibly during gender study class without anyone noticing. SEX NINJAS!
George
Definitely during gender studies. If this Roz is anything like SP’s Roz, she’d enjoy the idea of still being in class.
Undrave
Did you change your avatar to Leslie on purpose for this response because it makes it hilarious :p
gangler
I don’t know why more people don’t take into account the math involved in odds of success. It’s like, if the publishing company gets 2 million books sent to them a year, and every year they accept five new authors, then guess what buddy. You’re not gonna get published. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re the best, or if you have an “In”, you’re still not one of the five.
Same thing here. If there are hypothetically five hundred men pursuing this woman, and there is only one of her, then move on because your time is wasted here.
John Q. Public
But if no one gets in, wouldn’t they publish zero books, instead of five?
Shade
Wrong, it means you’re unlikely to get published, you could be one of those five. If you don’t try you don’t know, if we all only did things with high odds of success instead of taking a chance… that’d be a boring world.
Oh right Mike avatar. Speaking of doing things with a high rate of success, your mother.
gangler