So in 20 years, it’ll be November in their freshman year, but then they’re talking about Season 40 of the Simpsons, how awesome Half-Life 3 is, and shopping at Percival McGillicuddy’s Kilt Emporium.
chris2315
Half-Life 3 in 20 years? Ha, that’s cute.
Ubertenorman
only 20 years? at BEST they’ll have some leaked HL3 concept art.
inqntrol
More like 200 years. “After hundreds of years in development, hopefully it would have been worth the wait.”
Thanks, Cyber-Gabe.
Needfuldoer
Meanwhile, we have released the one millionth hat for Team Fortress 2!
We’re talking about conceivable possibilities here.
Original Anon, GTFO Poser
Hah! 200 years? Keep dreaming. It’s taken 14 billion years to produce ONE good Duke Nukem, usually “good” sequels take even longer to produce than the originals.
Flipz
Nah, it’ll be Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Part 2; Half-Life 3 will still be rumored but not officially announced, despite the whole thing *still* ending on a massive cliffhanger.
5) Dumbing of Age is not set in any particular year. I only say this because every time some pop culture reference shows up, someone is all “OH HEY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE AREN’T WE STILL IN 2010???” Nope, sorry, we ain’t! The comic moves slow, but it operates on comic book time. This webcomic is not gradually going to become a period piece. Just assume the strip is always set in whatever year it is right now.
I wouldnt count on that.
It was given a name a year back (maybe two), but they have been trying to get some sort of ReReBootBoot made for, like 10 years.
Main….Rainmaker dont seem to have much luck actually getting the funds together regardless of how good/bad the concept is.
EvilMidnightLurker
I don’t believe in any ReBoot where the Users are actual human beings and not incomprehensible Lovecraftian gods. Nothing Mainframe’s User ever did made the slightest lick of sense from a human perspective, and that was kind of weirdly awesome.
Scoutinthenight
I’m sorry, this has nothing to do with the current conversation, but I see your avatar and I can’t help it.
You can’t stop an object at rest, baby!
EvilMidnightLurker
Surf’s up, space ponies! I’M MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!!!!
This is currently set in October 2015 or October 2016, depending which way the sliding timeline is supposed to err. Jurassic World came out in July 2015, so even if the timeline is ‘the most recent fall semester’, the movie’d been out for months.
If Billie can turn half-Asian, Jaw’s offspring can become any race they want, SPECTER has advanced gene tech.
Bicycle Bill
I remember Hugo Drax as being a stand-alone villain with no connection to SPECTRE (correct spelling).
Bicycle Bill
And ‘Jaws’ had no connection to SPECTRE either; he was a minion-for-hire, working first for Karl Stromberg in “The Spy Who Loved Me” and then for Drax in “Moonraker”.
Woobie
When Jaws asks SPECTRE for genetics tech, SPECTRE listens.
Becky has more layers than a geological strata, more depth than the Bayanzag find site and she is capable of change right before Dina’s eyes. She is not frozen in time like the fossils, but that only makes Dina love her even more.
Discussion (348) - “Indominus”
Ana Chronistic
stupid OCs!
Cerberus
That Rex is the real Mary Sue.
JessWitt
A real Mary Saurus.
magicallady
m. suerus
ganymedeanoutlaw
Is that a relative of Dina?
Palamdrone
The real Mary Sue was that Mosesaurus
Hijean
MoSuesaurus surely.
Edhead
I believe you mean BCs.
AnvilPro
Walky showing just how smart he is by defeating Dina with his knowledge of a movie that I don’t think should be out by the time this comic started.
Yumi
The comic is set in the present, whenever that present is.
Comic time.
Cthulhu's Intern
So in 20 years, it’ll be November in their freshman year, but then they’re talking about Season 40 of the Simpsons, how awesome Half-Life 3 is, and shopping at Percival McGillicuddy’s Kilt Emporium.
chris2315
Half-Life 3 in 20 years? Ha, that’s cute.
Ubertenorman
only 20 years? at BEST they’ll have some leaked HL3 concept art.
inqntrol
More like 200 years. “After hundreds of years in development, hopefully it would have been worth the wait.”
Thanks, Cyber-Gabe.
Needfuldoer
Meanwhile, we have released the one millionth hat for Team Fortress 2!
“So when will HL3: Episode 2 come out?”
[gaben.exe is not responding.]
das-g
But will it be able to run on GNU Hurd?
Robbzilla
Soo…. right next to a GOOD Duke Nukem sequel?
Cthulhu's Intern
We’re talking about conceivable possibilities here.
Original Anon, GTFO Poser
Hah! 200 years? Keep dreaming. It’s taken 14 billion years to produce ONE good Duke Nukem, usually “good” sequels take even longer to produce than the originals.
Flipz
Nah, it’ll be Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Part 2; Half-Life 3 will still be rumored but not officially announced, despite the whole thing *still* ending on a massive cliffhanger.
Clif
Gaming Nerds. 😉
Plasma Mongoose
It is set in the year 20XX.
SgtWadeyWilson
Sliding timeline.
Wheelpath
It was referenced earlier too, with Sal’s bike and Becky
Yumi
For reference, from the FAQ:
5) Dumbing of Age is not set in any particular year. I only say this because every time some pop culture reference shows up, someone is all “OH HEY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE AREN’T WE STILL IN 2010???” Nope, sorry, we ain’t! The comic moves slow, but it operates on comic book time. This webcomic is not gradually going to become a period piece. Just assume the strip is always set in whatever year it is right now.
Random832
Isn’t he just trading that for “how are they fans of this movie that they were too young to see”?
Good thing at least the cartoons are fictional. Except Transformers.
Ryan
Luckily, Hollywood reboots everything about every decade, so it’s not a problem in practice.
Reltzik
Then why hasn’t Hollywood rebooted Reboot?
AutobotDen
They have. It’s being recorded.
WonderRabbit
Reboot: The Guardian Code
Google it. Cry.
thomas wrobel
I wouldnt count on that.
It was given a name a year back (maybe two), but they have been trying to get some sort of ReReBootBoot made for, like 10 years.
Main….Rainmaker dont seem to have much luck actually getting the funds together regardless of how good/bad the concept is.
EvilMidnightLurker
I don’t believe in any ReBoot where the Users are actual human beings and not incomprehensible Lovecraftian gods. Nothing Mainframe’s User ever did made the slightest lick of sense from a human perspective, and that was kind of weirdly awesome.
Scoutinthenight
I’m sorry, this has nothing to do with the current conversation, but I see your avatar and I can’t help it.
You can’t stop an object at rest, baby!
EvilMidnightLurker
Surf’s up, space ponies! I’M MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!!!!
Kamino Neko
This is currently set in October 2015 or October 2016, depending which way the sliding timeline is supposed to err. Jurassic World came out in July 2015, so even if the timeline is ‘the most recent fall semester’, the movie’d been out for months.
ozzi
Yet suddenly Ruth felt the urge for femurs.
Victor Riley
Dina was out-Dina’d…
magicallady
she’ll recover!
Doctor_Who
Is the characters’ ability to do that with their teeth canonical?
SgtWadeyWilson
It’s certainly comical!
Who Izzy
Well, it IS a comic…so, there’s that.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
They are all descended from Jaws and that redhead in Moonraker.
SpencerBroholmes
Jaws partner in Moonraker had blonde hair, you got confused because she has the same haircut as the Wendys logo.
Plasma Mongoose
If Billie can turn half-Asian, Jaw’s offspring can become any race they want, SPECTER has advanced gene tech.
Bicycle Bill
I remember Hugo Drax as being a stand-alone villain with no connection to SPECTRE (correct spelling).
Bicycle Bill
And ‘Jaws’ had no connection to SPECTRE either; he was a minion-for-hire, working first for Karl Stromberg in “The Spy Who Loved Me” and then for Drax in “Moonraker”.
Woobie
When Jaws asks SPECTRE for genetics tech, SPECTRE listens.
Walky_Talky
They’re probably Saturnyns. Where are Amy and Rory when you need them?
WolfLann
Or they are Futurekind. Where is Martha Jones when you need her.
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/who4.jpg?w=748&h=420&crop=1
Mr. Mendo
Oh Dina, there’s more to life than canon. Someday, you’ll see that.
buckybone
She’s roommates with Amber, pretty sure she already knows that.
Silamy
She already does! She’s got a Becky now.
Cerberus
It’s her most treasured paleontological find!
StClair
and she didn’t even have to reconstruct her from bones!
Bagge
Becky has more layers than a geological strata, more depth than the Bayanzag find site and she is capable of change right before Dina’s eyes. She is not frozen in time like the fossils, but that only makes Dina love her even more.
Dooooooooofuses 🙂
Sunny
That was beautifully said.
Mollyscribbles
I feel like Dina would write Jurassic World fanfic wherein the dinosaurs all had amazing plumage.
Plasma Mongoose
Dino-boobies?
Gigafreak
Chicken breasts are literally delicious
DSL
Their plumage don’t enter into it!
Slartibeast Button, BIA
So they are just pining for fjords?
Roborat
I knew someone would make the python references. Nicely done.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
Yes, but there’s also more to life than shit movies with deformed ceratosaurs for antagonists.
magicallady
jet’s velociraptors! attack dina!
Disloyal Subject
I do wonder how she’d react to wokwok cuddles, especially if they had their tuxedos and/or helms on.
Omniscientearl
Do they come with little hors d’oeuvres?
Gamaran Sepudomyn
Probably pretty positively. Of course, all creatures possess inferior cuteness when compared to Anurognathus, the majestic chibi-headed fluffball.
Bristingr
Poor Dina.
Durandal_1707
Okay, so the real question here is: What does Dina’s shirt say on it?
Durandal_1707
The only things I can think of are “Die Hard” and “Big Bird”, neither of which seems to be something Dina would wear on a shirt.
Doctor_Who
I think it’s “Bird is the word”