I’ve seen commenters mention it changing, but sometimes it’s just, what, data overflow, or variable name “reused”? It’s some kind of programming term that I understand, yet can’t impart presently.
Oh dear, another comic I have to file under TooReal.doc. Lately I’ve started stuttering sometimes when I talk, and it ends up with words getting choked out like this.
Sarah: Sooo… how are y-?
Walky: I’m completely stressed because I have problems at maths and don’t want to admit it!
Sarah:….
Walky: Wait, what did I just say?
Indeed. That’s why there’s all that caution tape around it.
Pushing out of your comfort zone with the intent of expanding it can be even worse. Just ducking outside of it for a moment out of necessity seems easier to me.
well you need to make it bigger if you want to be able to have others in it sometimes. I know its hard for me to push the limits to allow others in. Well face to face others. online others don’t take up much room.
I know the feeling. It’s all to easy to retreat back into yourself when a new source of stress pops up
RacingTurtle
Ugh. It me.
Disloyal Subject
Seems like it helps when the stakes anchoring the caution tape are getting pounded in by other stressors, deep enough that they won’t come up easily… of course, that often means the zone shifting directions while maintaining size as intense focus on one side leaves another free to be eroded, and if just unwinding the caution tape from the stakes enters the metaphor, then it turns into a clusterfuck as the field is littered with stakes and tattered caution tape clings to a few in the wake of a migrating border.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
[Posts sign “Warning: Metaphor Storm Ahead”]
Gneseepaws
Honestly, it’s caution tape. I just step over it. Really! The reason it’s there is that the workers have left, and they don’t want you to Fall into a hole or trip on sommit. If I have my eyes open, nothin’ bad’s gonna happen. The caution tape is just there so I don’t do something stupid. Again. It’s not really an obstacle, just an alert, …just plastic tape warning of pitfalls.
Gneseepaws
I know they are just people. They’re not dangerous, or scary, they aren’t going to point at me, and laugh. They’re not bullies, well, they’re probably not bullies. Most of them will be nice, and not laugh at me, a few might be bullies. They all look bigger’ me. A few might not laugh at me, even if most are bull…. I’m just going to stay on this side of the tape for now.
Just noticing the insane number of people who wear glasses in this strip. In the name of vanity (and the old saying about how guys don’t make passes etc.), doesn’t anyone wear contact lenses?
Well, from the political rally scene where she spots Ryan from across a crowded room we know her far vision is pretty good, maybe she just needs them to read?
Younger people (teens through early twenties I guess?) seem to all need glasses for some reason, I’m really curious what caused this since a lot of older people I know are perplexed by this. I remember in one of my classes in 10th grade a student refused to wear his new glasses because he was embarrassed for some reason so the teacher asked the class who wears contacts or glasses and almost every hand shot up lol.
Discussion (108) - “Strain”
Ana Chronistic
“uh… come…
here…
often…?”
Spencer
“Are those moon pants because when you fell from heaven?”
Pablo360
“BECAUSE YOU LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN!”
Aeron
Did… It… Hurt… When… You… Fell- AAH! Forget I said anything! EJECT! EJECT!
BrokenEye, True False Prophet
Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? Because you’re literally Satan.
AnvilPro
Jacob should become a life coach if this lawyering thing doesn’t go through
miados
I could see that.
Derek
Jacob be appreciative, she almost pulled a muscle
Doctor_Who
It takes more muscles to smile than to frown. Sarah frowns so much, her mouth muscles can bend steel.
Orion Fury
So her middle name is Bending?
Disloyal Subject
Fewer muscles, you mean? Or does she just overtrain frowning until she eclipses the mouth strength of even frequent smilers?
Mr. Mendo
“I like…cloth…”
A5PECT
“Did that dude just tell you she likes cloth?”
Sev
“She likes ‘cloth’?
. . .
That’s a good bandname.”
Bluewind
Her eyeball is trying to run away from the awkwardness! XD
Slartibeast Button, BIA
She caught wayward eyes from Becky!
Stephen R. Bierce
*looks for a latter Rolling Stones record to play*
Slartibeast Button, BIA
The tension between them is so intense it is distorting spacetime!
Wheelpath
This is just what my hall was discussing last night
Some1
How are you? said the sarahpillar.
Fart Captor
C’mon, Jacob, she’s tryin’.
Dandi_Andi
The fact that she’s trying suggests that she does, in fact, want to. She isn’t very good at it, but she wants to try anyway.
miados
its hard to change.
an object in motion tends to stay in motion. an object at rest tends to stay at rest.
I know its not quite the same but its also kinda why you dont want to go to bed but in the morning dont want to get out of bed.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Unified Field Theory by Tim Joseph.
Ash_Ketchup
So you make the mouseover text in advance too? So you ever update the mouseover text later on before the comic posts?
Orion Fury
I’ve seen commenters mention it changing, but sometimes it’s just, what, data overflow, or variable name “reused”? It’s some kind of programming term that I understand, yet can’t impart presently.
trlkly
I’m pretty sure the entire page is rendered out and ready to go. It just isn’t published.
Also “mouseover text.” I knew I forgot a name for that. people don’t really use “hover” anymore.
The Chosen One
I still call it alt-text, myself. Not sure why.
Kernanator
Relax, Jacob, she’ll only strain herself if she does it repetitively.
Orion Fury
NOT ENOUGH REPS
Disloyal Subject
It’s been a while, but yeah, a few sets at low resistance, high reps is standard for a beginner feeling out their limits, right?
Spencer
Oh dear, another comic I have to file under TooReal.doc. Lately I’ve started stuttering sometimes when I talk, and it ends up with words getting choked out like this.
Leorale
Change is difficult. 🙂
Reltzik
Shoulda practiced small talk on Walky when you had a chance.
inqntrol
Sarah: Sooo… how are y-?
Walky: I’m completely stressed because I have problems at maths and don’t want to admit it!
Sarah:….
Walky: Wait, what did I just say?
Reltzik
Nonono! Small talk! SMALL talk!
Something like:
“How are you?”
“Well, my mommy and daddy either loved each other very much or at least had momentary lust, so here I am.”
…. wait, that’s not right either.
Leorale
This strikes me as really kind of Jacob, to note that she’s very terse, and to let her off the hook. He’s good people.
Spencer
Jacob’s a good dude. He’s not holding Sarah’s pessimism about his investment in their friendship, and just letting them be friends again.
trlkly
He’s even better than that. This is his girlfriend’s enemy who she said punched her. The fact that he didn’t assume he got the whole story is amazing.
darkoneko
I swear that guy must have a lifelong experience with timid/cranky siblings.
Larkle
Now, now, Jacob. It’s good for her to test her stamina like this.
miados
getting out of your comfort zone, even if you want to, isn’t comfortable
Fart Captor
Indeed. That’s why there’s all that caution tape around it.
Pushing out of your comfort zone with the intent of expanding it can be even worse. Just ducking outside of it for a moment out of necessity seems easier to me.
miados
well you need to make it bigger if you want to be able to have others in it sometimes. I know its hard for me to push the limits to allow others in. Well face to face others. online others don’t take up much room.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Data compression for the win!
miados
so…… pokeball?
Fart Captor
Yeah, I do it (though I should do more of it), but it’s much harder work to make it stick
miados
I think my comfort zone has shrunk in the last couple years honestly.
Fart Captor
I know the feeling. It’s all to easy to retreat back into yourself when a new source of stress pops up
RacingTurtle
Ugh. It me.
Disloyal Subject
Seems like it helps when the stakes anchoring the caution tape are getting pounded in by other stressors, deep enough that they won’t come up easily… of course, that often means the zone shifting directions while maintaining size as intense focus on one side leaves another free to be eroded, and if just unwinding the caution tape from the stakes enters the metaphor, then it turns into a clusterfuck as the field is littered with stakes and tattered caution tape clings to a few in the wake of a migrating border.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
[Posts sign “Warning: Metaphor Storm Ahead”]
Gneseepaws
Honestly, it’s caution tape. I just step over it. Really! The reason it’s there is that the workers have left, and they don’t want you to Fall into a hole or trip on sommit. If I have my eyes open, nothin’ bad’s gonna happen. The caution tape is just there so I don’t do something stupid. Again. It’s not really an obstacle, just an alert, …just plastic tape warning of pitfalls.
Gneseepaws
I know they are just people. They’re not dangerous, or scary, they aren’t going to point at me, and laugh. They’re not bullies, well, they’re probably not bullies. Most of them will be nice, and not laugh at me, a few might be bullies. They all look bigger’ me. A few might not laugh at me, even if most are bull…. I’m just going to stay on this side of the tape for now.
darkoneko
it’s bigger on the inside.
Disloyal Subject
Some people’s comfort zones are akin to Switzerland.
Others’ are more like the Mongol Empire.
Lipke the Articulate
Their comfort zone is the exception!
Bicycle Bill
Just noticing the insane number of people who wear glasses in this strip. In the name of vanity (and the old saying about how guys don’t make passes etc.), doesn’t anyone wear contact lenses?
JessWitt
They probably all have astigmatism.
I’m all in for the eyeglass-wearing people, breaks spectacled stereotypes and what not.
Marisa Mockery
Nah they make contacts for astigmatism now, have for a few years. I use them ^^ I hate glasses.
JessWitt
Do they now? What brand do you use? Maybe I’ll buy them.
Kernanator
I wear glasses because holy shit I am not putting something directly onto my eyeballs.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Let me guess, you also have some irrational bias against letting someone cut into them with lasers too?
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JessWitt
Same reason as my dad. But it’s a healthy fear to have.
Fart Captor
Maybe they do. There’s a bunch of characters whose morning / evening routines we’ve never seen who might have contacts.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Now I am wondering about Amber vs Amazi-Girl and vision issues, but am too lazy to do the archive troll.
Spencer
Per Amber, they’re really just reading glasses.
Opus the Poet
Well, from the political rally scene where she spots Ryan from across a crowded room we know her far vision is pretty good, maybe she just needs them to read?
Riku
Younger people (teens through early twenties I guess?) seem to all need glasses for some reason, I’m really curious what caused this since a lot of older people I know are perplexed by this. I remember in one of my classes in 10th grade a student refused to wear his new glasses because he was embarrassed for some reason so the teacher asked the class who wears contacts or glasses and almost every hand shot up lol.
maxyai