Remember to replace the {} with greater than/less than symbols.
Cholma
I think they meant how did you link to the COMMENT, instead of just the comic. I know it’s URL/#comment-xxxxx, but even I don’t know how you get the comment number to refer to.
Disloyal Subject
Ana is pretty dedicated to the whole comments thing. Perhaps she keeps a record of the url that results after each posted comment?
Rorror
Between the date and the reply link there is a #, but only for top level comments. This links to the comment. For other comments you can do right click -> inspect element or something similar in modern browsers. There you can read it off as well.
When you hover over a “reply” link it gives the full url for replying to that comment in the status bar at the bottom of the browser. For instance, Rorror’s comment just about me here has comment number 979223. 🙂
If you mean how to jump to a specific comment I explain my kludgey method for it here.
One of these days I need to add something about what to do when there is no reply link because it is too many levels deep. I think you could use view source to get the number, but haven’t tried it.
Disloyal Subject
Ah. That’ll do it.
TheGrammarLegionary
The Internet salutes you, Captain.
Captain Button
Is that what that gesture is?
Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
Well, this *is* the internet, how many gestures do you really expect us to use?
SDGlyph
I was about to say the same, but without the copy-URL’ing – I just hover the Reply link and read the number from the status bar. View-source works just as well if you know what you’re looking for.
It’s also possible with GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey. Heck, I can even make a little bookmark that would make them display.
(Heck, I’m kinda thinking about making a GreaseMonkey script just to make it easier to see which comment is the parent of the current comment. It can be hard to follow sometimes. It’s why I use names when replying now.)
One of her flaws is that she has way too much faith in people. Assuming, for instance, that Joyce wouldn’t date a gay man to try and fix him or here that Walky wouldn’t at least show her when he’s hurting.
Sadly, that naivety is also a dangerous quality for a person wanting to enter into politics.
Apathy is the way to go, headphones and AC-DC block out the terrible things of the world.
butts
Oh, man, now I’m just imagining what a goth Dorothy (Dorgothy?) would be like.
TheNinthShader
Im describing myself you wombat.
Rabid Rabbit
Please, please, please let this be the development in the next chapter. They finally snap her out of it by reminding her that if photos of her as a goth surface she’ll never get elected president.
Basically. As long as he’s not failing out of college, one class isn’t going to ruin his life, or anyone else’s. It probably won’t even lower Dorothy’s opinion of him by too much – She’ll probably just smile understandingly and say something like “welp that’s what the rest of the world has to do, want some help learning”
Basically. “See, Walky, this is what I meant about studying and how we are sometimes unamused. There is actually a rationale for how I approach schoolwork.”
Meanwhile, Walky is hoping Dorothy doesn’t remember him declaring himself a living god because he could skip class.
The problem is that this is freshman year. If he’s running into trouble now, if he doesn’t fix the problem, it won’t just be one class that he fails. And the further he digs himself into the not studying habit the harder it is to fix.
Source: Dropped out of college due to mostly this.
Actually, that can happen when smart guys who’ve never had to try very hard have difficulties for the first time. He has no idea how to actually learn, and he’s too proud and/or lazy to admit he needs help.
Jason
This, a thousand times this. That moment when everything stopped naturally being absorbed, and I realized I had no idea how to force information into the gray matter, was kind of awful. Twenty years later I still don’t know how to study, and am mostly propped up by the fact that anything I need to know is accessible via the supercomputer in my pocket.
Kryss LaBryn
Yep. My attitude when it first happened to me was, “I’ve failed. No, there’s no point in asking for help; don’t you understand that I’ve failed?! I can’t come back from this because it’s already in the past. This is not a slump I can pull out of; I have failed.
“Trying at this point is irrelevant.”
It’s a terrible mindset to be in because even if someone does try and sit down with you, even if they tell you, “No, you can totally do this, let’s just break it down and see where you’re missing a key piece of information,” until you manage to change your outlook you aren’t going to be able to hear what they’re saying because they obviously aren’t hearing you. “Look, I don’t understand this. What part of that is hard to get?!”
I’m working on my ham radio license which has an electronics component that I last saw in junior high, decades ago, and since then they’ve changed some of the symbols in the equations (Volts are equal to the amps times the resistance still; but now instead of writing Ohm’s Law as “V=A x R” they write it as “E = I x R” so until I fully memorize that E means volts (for “electromotive force”, the bastards; the I is for “current intensity” which is measured in amps), I am having a hell of a time figuring out which equation to use to figure out, say, the volts in a circuit, even if I can tell right away that it’s the volts I’m looking for.
So I’m struggling a bit because I barely get the difference between volts and amps anyways (I can tell you that volts are potential energy; and I can give you similes; but I don’t really know; I haven’t internalized that information yet). My instinct is to give up because I just don’t understand it; but I am forcing myself to look things up online and to just say “E=V” over and over until I get it. And it’s gradually sinking in. But twenty, thirty years ago, I would have just cried and given up, because I didn’t understand.
His grades aren’t all that important to the grand scheme of things, but to Walky it’s a blow to the ego. I can see how this might translate into a future situation:
Future Dorothy and Walky, Dorothy comes home from work
“How was your day at work, dear?”
Walky freezes up … ‘do I tell her I just got fired…?’
I’m sure it exists. There is not a character in fiction who has not been ponified at some point.
Disloyal Subject
FiMfiction is a busy site. They have Fallout: Equestria, Timelords and Terror, more Star Wars and Warhammer 40K crossovers than one could shake the overengineered stick of their choice at, and pretty much everything else too. I guarantee there are at least three Discworld crossovers on there, and that’s not counting any that’re riddled with bad spelling and/or grammar.
Dana
I hate it when things I write are riddled with grammar. 😉
268 thoughts on “Throwdown”
Ana Chronistic
“WHAT HAPPY GOOFY BOY WHO IS THIS FUCKER I’LL BEAT HIM UP”
“…it’s YOU, Walky.”
“oh”
“fell for it again, did you”
Tabitha Desanto
Well he is not happy goofy that is uncomplicated at the moment now is he.
Dana
How do you know that, are you a witch? Er, I mean a wongo. Er, Walky started it.
butts
“I was TOUCHING your FACE, Walky.”
“…nope still could’ve been anyone”
“I. Was TOUCHING. Your FAAAAAAAAAAACE.”
vonniesaur
Your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
TheNinthShader
For a nickel?
Plasma Mongoose
With your penis?
TheNinthShader
With mikes penis. In all your moms, for a nickel.
Willoughby Chase
I hear your mom takes wooden nickels.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
She takes them in the FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
thejeff
Stop the Faces!
TheGrammarLegionary
@ thejeff: You are fantastic.
TheNinthShader
Quite curious here, how did you link it directly to that comment?
Plasma Mongoose
{a href=”URL Link”}Words you want to use{/a}
Remember to replace the {} with greater than/less than symbols.
Cholma
I think they meant how did you link to the COMMENT, instead of just the comic. I know it’s URL/#comment-xxxxx, but even I don’t know how you get the comment number to refer to.
Disloyal Subject
Ana is pretty dedicated to the whole comments thing. Perhaps she keeps a record of the url that results after each posted comment?
Rorror
Between the date and the reply link there is a #, but only for top level comments. This links to the comment. For other comments you can do right click -> inspect element or something similar in modern browsers. There you can read it off as well.
Anon
For every comment, mousing over the “Reply” link and reading the resulting url preview will give you the specific comment’s reference number. For instance, mousing over the reply button to your comment results in:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/throwdown/?replytocom=979223#respond, where 979223 is your comment number.
You’d then access that at a later date by inserting that number into (comicurl)/#comment-(number), without the parenthesis. In this case, it would be:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/throwdown/#comment-979223
Yet_One_More_Idiot
When you hover over a “reply” link it gives the full url for replying to that comment in the status bar at the bottom of the browser. For instance, Rorror’s comment just about me here has comment number 979223. 🙂
Captain Button
If you mean how to jump to a specific comment I explain my kludgey method for it here.
One of these days I need to add something about what to do when there is no reply link because it is too many levels deep. I think you could use view source to get the number, but haven’t tried it.
Disloyal Subject
Ah. That’ll do it.
TheGrammarLegionary
The Internet salutes you, Captain.
Captain Button
Is that what that gesture is?
Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
Well, this *is* the internet, how many gestures do you really expect us to use?
SDGlyph
I was about to say the same, but without the copy-URL’ing – I just hover the Reply link and read the number from the status bar. View-source works just as well if you know what you’re looking for.
Kamino Neko
What Jen did was easier, though. She wanted to link to the top level, so all she had to do was click the # next to the timestamp.
trlkly
@Captain Button @Kamino Neko
The # sign is actually there on every comment. It’s just hidden for some reason on all but the top comment.
If you use Stylish, you can just add the following to a UserScript for this page, and every comment will have a permalink:
.comment-permalink {display: initial !important;
}
It’s also possible with GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey. Heck, I can even make a little bookmark that would make them display.
(Heck, I’m kinda thinking about making a GreaseMonkey script just to make it easier to see which comment is the parent of the current comment. It can be hard to follow sometimes. It’s why I use names when replying now.)
Captain Button
Thanks @trlkly
butts
Damn, she really hasn’t figured it out yet?
Cerberus
One of her flaws is that she has way too much faith in people. Assuming, for instance, that Joyce wouldn’t date a gay man to try and fix him or here that Walky wouldn’t at least show her when he’s hurting.
Sadly, that naivety is also a dangerous quality for a person wanting to enter into politics.
TheNinthShader
Apathy is the way to go, headphones and AC-DC block out the terrible things of the world.
butts
Oh, man, now I’m just imagining what a goth Dorothy (Dorgothy?) would be like.
TheNinthShader
Im describing myself you wombat.
Rabid Rabbit
Please, please, please let this be the development in the next chapter. They finally snap her out of it by reminding her that if photos of her as a goth surface she’ll never get elected president.
Tom T.
I think she assumes that Walky is an open book, and she just doesn’t think about the possibility that he might be hiding something.
Mr. Random
… You’re basically broadcasting things’ll go to hell in a few days at this point.
Mollyscribbles
why do I get the feeling that by the time Joyce and Becky return the dorm will be on fire and that’ll be the least concerning thing going on.
Scott John Harrison
So you are Predicting this basically:
http://greendalecommunity.tumblr.com/post/27128128560/pho-carrot-im-gonna-go-as-fast-as-i-can-so-i
Mr. Random
Well… In place of Troy, imagine the door connecting to another room, with the same scene going on.
CriticalQuit
Walky’s facade has been broken.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Dat thousand yard stare….
Lia47
jesus walky calm down nobody cares about your grades
Bahlal
Basically. As long as he’s not failing out of college, one class isn’t going to ruin his life, or anyone else’s. It probably won’t even lower Dorothy’s opinion of him by too much – She’ll probably just smile understandingly and say something like “welp that’s what the rest of the world has to do, want some help learning”
Rabid Rabbit
Basically. “See, Walky, this is what I meant about studying and how we are sometimes unamused. There is actually a rationale for how I approach schoolwork.”
Meanwhile, Walky is hoping Dorothy doesn’t remember him declaring himself a living god because he could skip class.
MrZombieScordo
The problem is that this is freshman year. If he’s running into trouble now, if he doesn’t fix the problem, it won’t just be one class that he fails. And the further he digs himself into the not studying habit the harder it is to fix.
Source: Dropped out of college due to mostly this.
miados
not even him it seems since he isn’t working to improve them like his sis did.
butts
Actually, that can happen when smart guys who’ve never had to try very hard have difficulties for the first time. He has no idea how to actually learn, and he’s too proud and/or lazy to admit he needs help.
Jason
This, a thousand times this. That moment when everything stopped naturally being absorbed, and I realized I had no idea how to force information into the gray matter, was kind of awful. Twenty years later I still don’t know how to study, and am mostly propped up by the fact that anything I need to know is accessible via the supercomputer in my pocket.
Kryss LaBryn
Yep. My attitude when it first happened to me was, “I’ve failed. No, there’s no point in asking for help; don’t you understand that I’ve failed?! I can’t come back from this because it’s already in the past. This is not a slump I can pull out of; I have failed.
“Trying at this point is irrelevant.”
It’s a terrible mindset to be in because even if someone does try and sit down with you, even if they tell you, “No, you can totally do this, let’s just break it down and see where you’re missing a key piece of information,” until you manage to change your outlook you aren’t going to be able to hear what they’re saying because they obviously aren’t hearing you. “Look, I don’t understand this. What part of that is hard to get?!”
I’m working on my ham radio license which has an electronics component that I last saw in junior high, decades ago, and since then they’ve changed some of the symbols in the equations (Volts are equal to the amps times the resistance still; but now instead of writing Ohm’s Law as “V=A x R” they write it as “E = I x R” so until I fully memorize that E means volts (for “electromotive force”, the bastards; the I is for “current intensity” which is measured in amps), I am having a hell of a time figuring out which equation to use to figure out, say, the volts in a circuit, even if I can tell right away that it’s the volts I’m looking for.
So I’m struggling a bit because I barely get the difference between volts and amps anyways (I can tell you that volts are potential energy; and I can give you similes; but I don’t really know; I haven’t internalized that information yet). My instinct is to give up because I just don’t understand it; but I am forcing myself to look things up online and to just say “E=V” over and over until I get it. And it’s gradually sinking in. But twenty, thirty years ago, I would have just cried and given up, because I didn’t understand.
Tacos
He does care enough that he did try to study. Then gave up like 5 minutes later since he doesn’t know how.
TheNinthShader
Yeah, fuck you walky.
Just Me
His grades aren’t all that important to the grand scheme of things, but to Walky it’s a blow to the ego. I can see how this might translate into a future situation:
Future Dorothy and Walky, Dorothy comes home from work
“How was your day at work, dear?”
Walky freezes up … ‘do I tell her I just got fired…?’
Captain Button
Will the smiling Joyce we’ve all come to love come back with a pony, too?
Tacos
As long as it ain’t a Death Pony.
Captain Button
Now I am picturing a Discworld-MLP:FIM crossover.
Doctor_Who
I’m sure it exists. There is not a character in fiction who has not been ponified at some point.
Disloyal Subject
FiMfiction is a busy site. They have Fallout: Equestria, Timelords and Terror, more Star Wars and Warhammer 40K crossovers than one could shake the overengineered stick of their choice at, and pretty much everything else too. I guarantee there are at least three Discworld crossovers on there, and that’s not counting any that’re riddled with bad spelling and/or grammar.
Dana
I hate it when things I write are riddled with grammar. 😉
Tacos
Oh I was referring to the Death Pony from this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIY41LrvMFQ
Vinny
A pony, maybe. A rainbow unicorn… not so likely.
Disloyal Subject
How about a pink, fluffy unicorn?
Plasma Mongoose
Joyce becomes a Pegsister?
Deanatay
I don’t think Joyce would be into pegging.
Leorale
Well if she discovers that she is, she’s already googled it.
Tabitha Desanto
Wonder if Walky will tell her or will she find out from Joyce.
miados
yeah it always feels nice to have your friends smiling. or so i am told
Stephen R. Bierce
*throws a Tom Hanks DVD box set at Walky*
Deanatay
“Mrs. Bean! Stephen threw a DVD box set at me!”
“That probably means he likes you.”
Lone Wolf
A lot of us really miss that Joyce, Dorothy. I was glad when she showed up for a brief moment in panel 5 on Saturday.
Mr. Mendo
Man, Walky’s so screwed…
Mr k
Hopefully literally/