I’ve known Godwin for about a decade. Relatively nice guy, for a lawyer.
Reltzik
If you think that’s bad, I’m pretty much mainlining oxygen, using an over-glorified bellows to pump it into my veins 24/7. At this point if I quit the withdrawal symptoms could kill me in a matter of minutes. And yes, I know a lot of people minimize it because it’s so dang common, but we’re talking about one of the most notoriously corrosive gasses there is, responsible for rot and decay than can ever be tallied.
Fist_of_Life
One of my teachers once told me that fire needs oxygen to burn. He put an equation on the board and everything. and that is going into my body!? YIKES.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
This is why newborns cry, from rage at being forced into oxygen addiction.
Evil is probably a safe bet if you don’t know. Joyce’s parents could probably twist Sesame Street into being sin. I think they actually might have. Sesame Street has been rather progressive from the start.
I think this is a good place to mention that there was a officially sanctioned Doomclone based on Noah’s Ark. You were feeding the animals instead of killing demons.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Was there a BFS (Big Feeding Spoon) that let you feed every animal in sight at once?
I remember a friend who had religious parents, but they didn’t know much about media itself. So as long as he explained any magic in the games as actually not being magic he was allowed to play them.
As a child of the 80’s/90’s, my tastes are unfortunately pretty locked into the “waif” archetype by this point, but I think that it’s awesome that there’s a growing trend towards various female body shapes being considered “attractive” than the old “you gotta be thin to be hot” adage that was omnipresent when I was growing up. 🙂
I am tipsy & checking webcomics so I decided to actually go back to figure out if we’ve ever actually SEEN a full-body panel of Liz’s body shape? I think we have seen exactly one frame of 2/3rds of her body, haha. I guess that’s enough…
Joe, you didn’t have to keep going. Sarah, you don’t have to take back your thanks. I swear, these two could be friends if they weren’t so determined to avoid being nice to each other. (Alternatively, Joe is already one of Sarah’s closest friends.)
New Danny!? Not hardly. Sarah always has been and is nice. She doesn’t portray herself as nice, as a defense mechanism, but in the end she just does nice things, even if they’re brutally hard for her to do.
On topic, Joe’s flustered dive away from having exposed his feels in panel one is hillarious. That look like “ZOMG What did I just SAY?! Abort, abort, abort, distract by being pervy but not gross, uh… ” is Joyce and Liz is pleasingly shaped.”
Amias
I personally make a distinction between “nice” and “kind.” Many people in my evangelical hometown are extremely nice – they’re polite, they talk to you, they send you brownies – but they’re not kind. They wouldn’t do more to help you out of a bind than send a sympathy casserole, and they’ll probably talk about your problems to half the town before they try to find a solution.
Sarah, on the other hand, will absolutely take matters into her own hands to help you solve your problems. She won’t be polite at all while she does it, though, and she’ll make the hard choices for you if you can’t make a choice under pressure. And she knows the meaning of privacy better than most.
Decidedly Orthogonal
That’s actually really cool. Don’t get me wrong, I loves me a surprise casserole, but I absolutely take your point. Thanks for sharing.
I think this is the appropriate place to remind people that some vitamins are toxic in high doses.
egg egg
I remember that episode of House!
Roborat
Every episode of House: “It’s not lupus.” Except the one time it was.
Decidedly Orthogonal
While true, most vitamin gummies have ridiculously low levels of supplemental vitamins in them. And there seems to be an inverse relationship between gummy quality and amount of vitamins. Good vitamins are kinda crap visually as gummies, but say take 1 or 2 a day. Gummy supplements that are good gummies, tend to be crap vitamin sources, saying take 4 per day. source: am parent, have tried lots. As for flavour, they (gummies, not ‘chewables’) actually all seem pretty alright. The more opaque ones taste closer to a ‘fruit snack’ and the clearer ones taste like traditional gummies.
RacingTurtle
Oh, absolutely. May he interest you in a weed? Perhaps some boozes?
I saw a version of HD Mario that was multi-player and would zoom in and out based on how close the players were to each other. It would kind of follow the center of mass of the players so they were supposed to move together like a flock or something, but I’ve forgot which one it was, and haven’t been able to figure it out. Anyone have any idea which Mario I’m talking about?
Or one of those old ‘Hypercolor’ shirts with the ink that faded with an increase in temperature. In fact, those are so outdated that they’re about due to come back into style again.
Really? Cause I find it to be almost a textbook definition of it, especially since she mentioned him hallucinating. It’s just a more tame and humorous version than what is commonly associated with the term. Less..mean spirited I guess. Although I’m not really sure what counts since the use of the term and practice of it is rather liberally used.
BBCC
If Sarah’s not trying to genuinely make him doubt his own memories and perception of reality, she’s not gaslighting him.
Discussion (144) - “Pleasingly”
Ana Chronistic
dang, how many d’ya EAT, Joe??
also, one Big Sisters by taunting the shit out of Li’l Sibs, thought ya knew that
A Red Balloon
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarijuanaIsLSD
Reltzik
That, or just spending as much time away from the pest as possible.
Shade
One a day everyday, its clearly a real problem that he can’t go a day without one.
temporaryobsessor
I’m that way with water.
I am Nothing
You are clearly suffering from an unhealthy water addiction.
Needfuldoer
Yeah, don’t you realize everyone who’s ever died has come into contact with that stuff? And it’s everywhere?!
Slartibeast Button, BIA
They use it in NUCLEAR REACTORS, for God’s sake!
Keulen
It’s a major component in acid rain too
thejeff
One study showed that all murderers had used water.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Not just murderers! Freaking Nazi’s used water! And that jerk Godwin is even known to drink a glass on occasion.
Stanistani
I’ve known Godwin for about a decade. Relatively nice guy, for a lawyer.
Reltzik
If you think that’s bad, I’m pretty much mainlining oxygen, using an over-glorified bellows to pump it into my veins 24/7. At this point if I quit the withdrawal symptoms could kill me in a matter of minutes. And yes, I know a lot of people minimize it because it’s so dang common, but we’re talking about one of the most notoriously corrosive gasses there is, responsible for rot and decay than can ever be tallied.
Fist_of_Life
One of my teachers once told me that fire needs oxygen to burn. He put an equation on the board and everything. and that is going into my body!? YIKES.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
This is why newborns cry, from rage at being forced into oxygen addiction.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Good golly man be careful! Oxygen is responsible for one of the biggest extinctions in earths history.
Doctor_Who
Huh, I forget, does Joyce do video games? Was she allowed Mario as a kid, or was it evil somehow?
Sirksome
Evil is probably a safe bet if you don’t know. Joyce’s parents could probably twist Sesame Street into being sin. I think they actually might have. Sesame Street has been rather progressive from the start.
Reltzik
Well we all know what Bert and Ernie are promoting.
Clif
Child abuse.
No, I couldn’t make something that stupid up.
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/bryan-fischer-the-new-yorker-is-promoting-child-abuse-with-bert-and-ernie-cover-9986178e2b43/
Needfuldoer
Never mind what what happens to Brad when he won’t eat his peas.
Thag Simmons
She might have been allowed to play some approved christian games, but I get the vibe that most secular media was off limits
Khyrin
I think this is a good place to mention that there was a officially sanctioned Doomclone based on Noah’s Ark. You were feeding the animals instead of killing demons.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Was there a BFS (Big Feeding Spoon) that let you feed every animal in sight at once?
Stanistani
Remember ChexQuest? A Doom reskin based on nutrition and mucus. They gave it away in cereal boxes.
Steam has a new version.
Shade
I remember a friend who had religious parents, but they didn’t know much about media itself. So as long as he explained any magic in the games as actually not being magic he was allowed to play them.
Sirksome
Yelling and growling is actually a very solid base. It’s pretty much how my older brother communicated to me for a decade.
brionl
Grunting is good too.
Yotomoe
“If you’ve done everything right, nobody will know you’ve done anything at all.”
woobie
I think the quote is inexact, but I get you.
Reltzik
I don’t know the quote origin, but that phrase is either hype talk for some type of covert operation or the destruction of someone’s soul.
Yotomoe
It’s a line by god in Futurama.
I am Nothing
Or an AI that believes its god, anyway.
Yotomoe
I mean I wouldn’t say it out loud but…Yeah I concur. Extremely pleasingly shaped. (Though my favorite shape is that HAIR BABY. I love the poof.)
Zaxares
As a child of the 80’s/90’s, my tastes are unfortunately pretty locked into the “waif” archetype by this point, but I think that it’s awesome that there’s a growing trend towards various female body shapes being considered “attractive” than the old “you gotta be thin to be hot” adage that was omnipresent when I was growing up. 🙂
Opus the Poet
Not just when you were growing up as witnessed by this icon of my youth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy
Steelbright
I am tipsy & checking webcomics so I decided to actually go back to figure out if we’ve ever actually SEEN a full-body panel of Liz’s body shape? I think we have seen exactly one frame of 2/3rds of her body, haha. I guess that’s enough…
StClair
It’s too bad Joe isn’t that sort of friend. I think he’d be pretty good at it.
Needfuldoer
He kind of is, but pretends he isn’t.
StClair
( thatsthejoke.jpg, except it’s not funny 😐 )
Aphid
Pretty sure yelling and growling is approved big sister technique.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
Joe, you didn’t have to keep going. Sarah, you don’t have to take back your thanks. I swear, these two could be friends if they weren’t so determined to avoid being nice to each other. (Alternatively, Joe is already one of Sarah’s closest friends.)
Josh Spicer
Your first two sentences are pretty good because they’re both valid for the same reason.
That last sentence (parenthetical withstanding, but I’ll get to that) is amazing because it’s so true.
Your parenthetical is astounding because there’s a point to be mad there.
Rabid Rabbit
I’d say panel 4 supports the parenthetical.
Stephen Bierce
*cues up some REO Speedwagon*
RassilonTDavros
I mean if we’re calling the ship JoJo then we might as well
Stephen Bierce
Deep Cuts Are Appropriate
CC
Placement tells us Sarah is gonna go be a Nice Guy
powerpowerpow
Yes! Was waiting to see if anyone else saw this. Sarah is the new Danny.
Decidedly Orthogonal
New Danny!? Not hardly. Sarah always has been and is nice. She doesn’t portray herself as nice, as a defense mechanism, but in the end she just does nice things, even if they’re brutally hard for her to do.
On topic, Joe’s flustered dive away from having exposed his feels in panel one is hillarious. That look like “ZOMG What did I just SAY?! Abort, abort, abort, distract by being pervy but not gross, uh… ” is Joyce and Liz is pleasingly shaped.”
Amias
I personally make a distinction between “nice” and “kind.” Many people in my evangelical hometown are extremely nice – they’re polite, they talk to you, they send you brownies – but they’re not kind. They wouldn’t do more to help you out of a bind than send a sympathy casserole, and they’ll probably talk about your problems to half the town before they try to find a solution.
Sarah, on the other hand, will absolutely take matters into her own hands to help you solve your problems. She won’t be polite at all while she does it, though, and she’ll make the hard choices for you if you can’t make a choice under pressure. And she knows the meaning of privacy better than most.
Decidedly Orthogonal
That’s actually really cool. Don’t get me wrong, I loves me a surprise casserole, but I absolutely take your point. Thanks for sharing.
RassilonTDavros
…are there any Mario games that have 3-player but not 4-player?
Oh right I forgot non-optional Toadette Super Crown was a thing
RacingTurtle
Joe’s not planning to play; he’s the host. Gotta keep their sodas and vitamans topped up.
thejeff
You mean “drinks and edibles”, right?
Opus the Poet
I think this is the appropriate place to remind people that some vitamins are toxic in high doses.
egg egg
I remember that episode of House!
Roborat
Every episode of House: “It’s not lupus.” Except the one time it was.
Decidedly Orthogonal
While true, most vitamin gummies have ridiculously low levels of supplemental vitamins in them. And there seems to be an inverse relationship between gummy quality and amount of vitamins. Good vitamins are kinda crap visually as gummies, but say take 1 or 2 a day. Gummy supplements that are good gummies, tend to be crap vitamin sources, saying take 4 per day. source: am parent, have tried lots. As for flavour, they (gummies, not ‘chewables’) actually all seem pretty alright. The more opaque ones taste closer to a ‘fruit snack’ and the clearer ones taste like traditional gummies.
RacingTurtle
Oh, absolutely. May he interest you in a weed? Perhaps some boozes?
Decidedly Orthogonal
I saw a version of HD Mario that was multi-player and would zoom in and out based on how close the players were to each other. It would kind of follow the center of mass of the players so they were supposed to move together like a flock or something, but I’ve forgot which one it was, and haven’t been able to figure it out. Anyone have any idea which Mario I’m talking about?
BBCC
Awww, Big Sis is Big Sis-ing!
Diane
And for a moment in time, Sarah was the Nice Guy.
Sirksome
Do kind of like how the Nice Guy disappeared in the last panel when Sarah game back to gaslight Joe.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
It must be a smart matter t-shirt that erases the message when it is invalid.
Clif
It never said Nice Guy. That was a hallucination.
Bicycle Bill
Or one of those old ‘Hypercolor’ shirts with the ink that faded with an increase in temperature. In fact, those are so outdated that they’re about due to come back into style again.
DrunkenNordmann
I’m not sure that actually counts as gaslighting.
Sirksome
Really? Cause I find it to be almost a textbook definition of it, especially since she mentioned him hallucinating. It’s just a more tame and humorous version than what is commonly associated with the term. Less..mean spirited I guess. Although I’m not really sure what counts since the use of the term and practice of it is rather liberally used.
BBCC
If Sarah’s not trying to genuinely make him doubt his own memories and perception of reality, she’s not gaslighting him.