The final round of Wack'd's Best Dumbing Of Age Character poll is TODAY! Round 5 pits our two finalists, Dina and Sal! Velociraptor versus Pachycephalosaurus! WHO WILL REIGN SUPREME?!?!? Yo
The final round of Wack'd's Best Dumbing Of Age Character poll is TODAY! Round 5 pits our two finalists, Dina and Sal! Velociraptor versus Pachycephalosaurus! WHO WILL REIGN SUPREME?!?!?
205 thoughts on “Yo”
Ana Chronistic
wait, that’s all? I thought she was implicating Blaine somewhere in all that
…
maybe it’s a separate thread
Ana Chronistic
(hindsight thread lololololol)
Dr. T
I mean, she had no idea that her dad was dead when she scheduled those tweets. She did implicate Blaine as Toedad’s accomplice earlier on.
Ana Chronistic
I meant address and all that, wrote too fast oh well
Yumi
Well, she did refer to Amber O’Malley’s dad in there.
JetstreamGW
Yeah I don’t know if she knows Blaine’s name.
Yumi
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/bluff/
She does.
Ccubed
She did. In one of her earlier tweets, she mentioned that “Amber O’Malley’s Dad” was involved in the kidnapping, which I think implicates Blain in all of this.
Tan
Way back in the 2nd tweet.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/thread-2/
King Daniel
And as far as regards an actual address: besides the in-comic reason of Becky assuming she wouldn’t be there long – it could be the same reason that I recall Willis stated for not giving room numbers for our Dumbing of Age characters. Namely, that these are real locations, and Willis doesn’t want untoward attention toward people actually living in those rooms.
Yumi
I’m going to assume that it was included in-universe, just not shown for that reason. Becky does even say that she was including the address.
Meagan
Where?
Yumi
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/bluff/
Meagan
Ty! Hmm, I guess she could have been bluffing. Or, it was the room number thing. Though he could have just made up an address.
Needfuldoer
“Oh yeah BTW this all went down at 374 Woodlawn Drive in Bloomington. 21/20”
(We know the real kidnap house location but I just made this one up. If you want to know where it actually is, you’ll find the info in the comments for the May 31st comic. Rotunda did the sleuthing, look for their comments.)
Alan in DC
Rotunda is amazing. I missed the posting the first time, but then saw this thread and went back to check it all against Google Maps. I was blown away, not only by Rotunda’s accuracy but by the tenacity shown in locating the house.
I live in DC, so walking up and down the same streets I see on the TV news all the time is Shrug City to me. But seeing the kidnap house on the Street Map was just nuts. The only other time I felt as giddy in encountering a cultural landmark was when I came up out of a NYC subway tunnel and mindlessly turned the next corner, only to find myself standing in front of the Ghostbuster firehouse.
BarerMender
Heh. I lived half a block away on North Moore Street when they made that movie. When their truck came barreling out of the firehouse to go to midtown, they were actually driving down Sixth Ave toward the Battery.
Cyrus
Yeah, that was a pretty useless string of tweets, but I guess it’s in keeping with the tone of this arc, where nothing makes any goddamn sense.
Chris
I realized yesterday what’s really going on here. This isn’t a call for help. These are her last words, in case no one ever hears from her again.
BarerMender
I think you’re right.
Needfuldoer
Yuuuuup.
showler
Everyone here complaining that Becky didn’t include an address in her tweets has forgotten that she made these tweets very shortly after Amazi-Girl told her “no cops”, right?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/ninest/
The address would have brought the cops and she had no idea that they wouldn’t still be locked up at the time these tweets went out.
Yumi
As is, these tweets would likely get police involved in someway.
Anyway, it looks like (based on Robin’s Twitter account) there are a couple more tweets with names and the address coming.
HeySo
“very shortly after”
I mean, that was probably like 10 – 15 minutes of tweet-writing and release configuring. I know you mean “before she started tweeting”, but I feel the amount of “sitting typing while friends are in danger” has to be highlighted 😛
Also, not really seeing your point. The entire purpose of reserve-contacting authorities is in having an eventual backup. Kinda kills the point if, y’know, they don’t come to back you up? She vented a lot, emotionally, even covered things from a political/social perspective, but she really didn’t yield much attention to the, y’know, active kidnapping.
So, what’s your take on why it’s better to vent and distract from an emergency, than to publically present concrete details about said emergency and potentially get assistance? I mean, it’s definitely more in line with what the level of utility I expect from twitter comments, sure- but even so.. 😛
Well, putting aside the usual risks of bringing American police into things. At least the ones in this comic only work for the mob, so they’re probably a lot less corrupt than the ones I’m used to~ /notjoking
That said, we’re talking a public forum here, so there’s a good chance of pulling in media, which’d do a lot for helping cover the bases on both sides of the matter. Conversely, not having any clear backup- or even just impending distractions- is always a severe danger when dealing with risky situations involving other humans.
I don’t know about ‘complaining about it’, but it sure feels weird at a glance.
van Ryswyk
Typing?? Or talking stream of conscious Becky style while on the move?
Cause a lot of this sounds to me like she’s talking herself in doing the thing that is scary as fuck.
And no she doesn’t have phone right. But that doesn’t mean that she had to stash it at home.
van Ryswyk
I meant talking into a voice to text
HeySo
“And no she doesn’t have phone right. But that doesn’t mean that she had to stash it at home.”
Good point.
“I meant talking into a voice to text”
Also maybe a good point? I’m not really familiar with newer phone features, so not sure if that’s really to the point where it can work with something like smoothly creating 20 consecutive tweets with minimal effort.
Appreciate you broadening my perspective. 🙂
showler
I’m assuming she tweeted on the move and then ditched the phone. And she’s pretty much leaving testimony, but the last thing she wants is to send the cops to storm the house while she thinks her friends are still in there. She trusts Amazi-girl to get them out. Then the police can get involved.
NelC
What would happen if you dropped a phone into a postbox? Would the USPS check for the address (assuming it was unlocked) and deliver it?
HeySo
If you have a shipping label on it, they’d mail it [though you’re supposed to remove batteries beforehand, as it’s a danger due to heat and impact risks]. USPS also wouldn’t guarantee the phone would arrive safely, so you’d be pretty screwed popping it in without protective packaging.
But no, USPS wouldn’t apply labeling to it. That just isn’t a thing they do, for any circumstance (though, conversely, if you have the right labeling, you can ship off anything they haven’t explicitly prohibited or restricted. Really, some of the things you can ship are amazing, go give Google a search).
As far as opening the phone up, they wouldn’t check address (and is that even a thing people put into their phones nowadays? Heck, I wouldn’t even think to look for that, and I don’t imagine I’m alone in that regard), but maybe you’d get lucky and they’d make a call to try and find the owner of the phone. If not, I guess your next best hope is that the local office has a “lost and found” box, and that the person who picked up the phone bothered to deliver the phone to it.
HeySo
Still not inherently rational, but definitely in line with what I’d expect of Becky given her established character. So I’m not really in line with your initial post, as it applies more broadly [ie, “considering the ideal approach for a rational person”], but I definitely’ll yield it as making prefect sense for Becky.
OtterBoy1
Hi
Sirksome
Cool shot….hope they don’t die….well hope one of them doesn’t die.
Icalasari
Fuck that, I hope they are all excused from the exams!
NinjaNick
I hope only Blaine dies, for all that he had done to Ross (and the youngsters.)
Needfuldoer
I hope neither of them die. Yet.
Let the Gramps Mafia have their way with whatever’s left of Blaine after Amber’s finished with him.
Amber gets another 70-80 DoA years.
aureus
So the comic will run until when, 3000 AD?
anonymousethatscurriesinthedarkness
And cyber-willis will be churning out comics and suffering from robo-butts disease
Crimsonstorm
Tbf I think Jeph Jacques had the robo-butts-disease market pretty well cornered
Needfuldoer
The year is 3006 AD. Centuries of horrific war have split the Earth into two bitterly opposed factions: the Dumbites believe their folklore built around college superheroes is true, the Walkyans believe in a supernatural alien origin. Both see the other as heretics.
One remaining independent rebel group is preparing to send their last healthy member back through time to correct the record, heal the schism, and prevent untold suffering.
Her name… is Ana.
[Music swells, roll movie title sequence]
motorfirebox
Gaaaaahd I cannot wait to see his face when he finally understands that his daughter really did beat beans out of him.
Icalasari
Either he’ll refuse to believe right to the end, or nobody will believe him because he sounds stark raving mad
motorfirebox
Of course he’ll never understand what it means that he got the beans beaten out of him by the Amber alter, rather than the alter whose job is beating the beans out of people.
Twitcher
He’s likely never going to, even with Amber’s face floating right in front of him. If the Walkyverse’s have anything in common, it’s that Amber never gets the closure she deserves, dammit!
Demolition Fan
Anybody who waits for, or depends on, external feedback for closure, will rarely get it. Blaine is the sort who would refuse to give acknowledgement purely out of abusive spite.
Amber/AG needs to find her closure through having turned from Blaines gaslighting and BS. She has to the one to make him not have power over her. He certainly will never give it up.
But for us, that entrance is AMAZING!
Deanatay
I think the word ‘Dad’ has just become another cuss word for Amber, at this point.
“That Dad-fucking, Dad-sniffing, Dad of a Dad!”
Koms
Mother dadding
thejeff
“Dad it! The Dadding Dadder’s Dadded.”
Maybe not as good as “fuck”, but it’s kind of got a ring to it.
HeySo
Daddaddit! I got dadded like a dad today, when dealing with my dad-dadding boss, that daddified son-of-a-dad. -.-
Spectre
I like how the tags just include Amber, even though she’s in Amazi-girl mode.
I don’t know any other webcomic that can make me feel emotions just from a tag.
Zor
Holy crap maybe I SHOULD start paying attention to the tags that’s amazing
Geneseepaws
Or Amber.
Hex Hornet
I think after yesterday’s installment, Amber and A-Girl may just be ‘ONE’ at this point.
King Daniel
IIRC, Cerb has noted in her past analyses that full integration (as in, “re-merging” of the alters) is neither common nor recommended, so I don’t think that’s what happened. Besides, we’ve seen Amber put on the Voice before.
King Daniel
It doesn’t rule out Amber and Amazi-Girl working together in concert, however.
I Write Monsters
Now I’m picturing them as partnered pilots from Pacific Rim.
Deanatay
That’s not a terrible way to think about it.
Undrave
Kinda wish she had her own ‘voice’ color then to show the progress.
King Daniel
In-comic, it’s been noted that the blue speech bubbles are basically the sound of Amber/Amazi-Girl doing their best Christian Bale Batman impression.
Needfuldoer
This. It’s a disguise/cool-factor thing both alters use at will.
I’ve always assumed Amazi-Girl ‘nor,ally’ has Amber’s natural voice (since they share a larynx), but maybe uses different inflection and emphasis.
Shen Hibiki
“This is not recommended” is basically Amber’s motto, so…
King Daniel
Well, from what I recall of what she said (memory could be faulty of course), the chief reason “reintegration” is not recommended is because it seldom ever works and usually instead results in the alters growing further apart – if not outright bringing some new ones into existence…
King Daniel
Hence, cooperation being the better alternative.
vlademir1
No, but they’ve come to terms.
Cholma
Amber’s working with that louse, Roger Smith?! :O
(I made that joke in my head BEFORE I clicked the link and saw you were referencing the same thing)
Yumi
She has her cheek blushes here, which is indicative of Amber mode.
Gonzo
SAME T_T
Needfuldoer
Cheek blushes are there, Amber’s driving.
Becky’s tagged because the tweets are her words, but Robin isn’t even though the Twitter avatar is her picture. That’s consistent for finding characters by their tags, but still a little confusing.
Nono
I guess it’s time for a…
…Throwdown.
Kensou
I’m hoping more for a throwOUT, but Paramount might take issue with that bit of Raiders reenactment. (sorry if the Indiana Jones gag has been thrown around a lot lately, I haven’t checked the comments in a week or more)
porthos9438
I’ve got the popcorn.
Hex Hornet
Ah, the irony of that last post.
Ray Radlein