If I were these two, I’d just be glad that they and the motorcycle are apparently all still in one piece despite hitting the ground at a 45° angle yesterday.
The idea that most of the characters are psychologically torturing each other for all eternity in an artificial hell kind of checks out considering they’ll never graduate.
Doctor_Who
I mean, that basically described my college experience.
Except for the never graduating. It only felt like never.
But this is just an overly complex dream and you’ll wake up tomorrow back in class.
ego
i am 48 damn years old. when i have a nightmare, it is always me at 20ish, walking through campus looking for the right building to find the right room to talk to the right person about what i actually need to do in order to graduate. and i cant remember the name of the person *or* the building, and i’m infinitely too embarrassed to ask anyone i know for advice.
and, you know, that exact thing happened, more than once, so i get to think of it sometimes when i’m awake.
“I want everything to be fixed, I just have no idea how to fix it.” Ah Sal, you read my mind. If only wanting to fix things was enough to actually fix them.
Thx f’r the link! I find lit’riture moving, poetry consuming, great graphic art to be bling!. They all grab me by the soul. Fine.
But music, ahhh,… That grabs my spine, and rattles existence in my brain, like a demon playing craps, and never crapping out. King Crimson, Eric C., Los Orishas, Burt Jansch, A’Segovia, Some-Bach, some of the stuff from the Andes, contra-punctual drumming, Maddie Pryor, BTO, BOC, Stevie-Ray, …
Its like submitting to mind control, and I’m just their puppet. Its scary on bad days, … “Oh, and by the way, which one’s pink?” “Sid, Sid was.”
..Well, shit, Sal’s super relatable. And I’m happy to know I’ve been thinking in terms of stuff she wants accurately! I’ve had long conversations written out in my head like this (albeit with Sal and Marcie, not Sal and Danny).
And Danny, you deserve all the encouragement in the world, you absolute fucking button.
Sal told Danny to shut up. Danny kept talking. It actually helped her that Danny kept talking, it made her feel better in some way.
The final panel is her saying she would like it not to have helped her, perhaps because it annoys her that he made a correct decision when she told him not to do so.
She wishes (facetiously) that Danny would have taken her advice, and shut up. It was bad advice, because he helped by not being Marcie. She wishes she gave good advice and his silence would have made things better. Instead, Danny ignored her advice, and made things better by talking.
Is that snow in the background or just really white sand? Do we finally see the sign of the slow, unbeatable passage of time. The Dumbiverse’s eventual progression to winter??
Based on the timeline on Walkypedia, it’s currently October 14.
Marsh Maryrose
One of the two years I lived in St. Paul, MN, the first snow was on Columbus Day (October 8 or 9). But as I recall, it was an unusually cold winter, and anyway St. Paul’s latitude is well north of Bloomington’s.
Halloween happens *after* Thanksgiving in all *righteous* nations.
drs
No, just the nations whose summers are too short.
Some1
America: After
Canada: Before
Australia: After
Liberia: After
Netherlands: After
Saint Lucia: Before
Philippines: After, then before, now not really celebrated at all.
Germany: Before (also not technically Thanksgiving but close enough)
DaveM
(Raises hand politely.)
TL:DR – While you’re technically correct for australia, not really.
We don’t really have “thanksgiving” in Australia. You could substitute Australia Day, but the date of that is subject to some dispute (to put it mildly). We also don’t really celebrate Halloween, despite recent marketing attempts and American cultural osmosis (probably because for us Spring is becoming summer and we’ve got enough scary things lurking around without having to invoke the supernatural).
I’d put us in the “not applicable” category for now. Check back in a decade.
CJ
Erntedankfest and Thanksgiving are two quite different beasts, the former may have a fixed Sunday in the church year but not much feast around it nowadays and the latter creeped in in the last 15-20 years and was no thing at all in Germany before.
CJ
The latter above means Halloween please ignore the grammar.
Khno
There were carved radish, though. An Samain. So basically, Halloween.
It was turnips, not radishes. And Samhain was a Gaelic festival, not a Germanic one.
CJ
Just like Valentine’s Day is now marketed worldwide, Halloween is, too. It crept in with Woolworths marketing customs for Halloween and took Trick or Treat is something kids learned from US movies.
It has become a cultural reality in Germany by know. On the day the Lutheran dominated states of Germany have a holiday for remembering Luther putting up his thesis against the corruption of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic dominated states have a holiday, All Hallows’, the day after, but as far as I know even there, the hubbub about Halloween is a recent developement.
Claire
Yes, the natural progression of holidays.
Thanksgiving, Halloween then a nice break with no big holidays to eat turkey in one month before Christmas(too much turkey in 2 months!) THEN christmas
Lake Monroe? They’ve crossed over into the XKCD verse?
Oh my, this will end with a massive battle between Mike & Black Hat Guy resulting in the destruction of both realities, I can feel it. 🙂
Zach
Black Hat Guy knows why he is the way he is and fully accepts it, Mike has no amo there. He could effectively be a bit of a bummer whenever BHG basks in ego?
Black Hat Guy, I think, would win. But these are reasoning monsters with no standing quarrel… It will be up to Berret Guy to save us/confound us into suicide. Also, he wins because he’s the only one with his subduction license.
DaveM
You’re probably right, though I think that claiming that BHG has “no standing quarrel” with anyone/thing is a tenuous statement at best. 🙂
Beret Guy’s easy enough to deal with most times. A bag of scones (or pastries) will suffice, at least as a distraction. Though you are correct that the subduction licence would be a formidable challenge (mainly because it might destroy the bakery before the scones are done). 🙂
mrnoidea
Wow, the background of the comic illustration looks a lot bigger than the real-life equivalent. Maybe it’s a matter of perspective.
Needfuldoer
So they’re somewhere near the Fairfax Beach pin on Google Maps?
148 thoughts on “List”
Ana Chronistic
“it’s laik, why do ah gotta CHANGE to change, that’s stupid”
pablo360
It’s like Einstein said; the definition of genius is ding the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results.
pablo360
Ding. Ding is clearly what I meant to say. I obviously proofread that before I posted it.
Knuf Wons
I mean that’s basically just a Skinner box.
Marsh Maryrose
Cue The Doubleclicks:
“I’d rather just leave
Than grow, change, or learn”
Ed Rhodes
S: They tell me science has brought so many things, but I’d rather be happy than right.
A: And are you?
S: No. That’s where it all falls down, you see?
Durandal_1707
If I were these two, I’d just be glad that they and the motorcycle are apparently all still in one piece despite hitting the ground at a 45° angle yesterday.
Kris
They’ll be fine. I’m pretty sure AG got hit by a car once and walked away.
FLUFFYWOLF
I’ve survived worse and come out with the ability to use everything below the neck. Yes, everything.
They’re probably fine.
Bathymetheus
You imply you still have no use for the stuff above the neck.
(jk)
Doctor_Who
They aren’t. I recognize that lake from The Good Place.
Kris
The idea that most of the characters are psychologically torturing each other for all eternity in an artificial hell kind of checks out considering they’ll never graduate.
Doctor_Who
I mean, that basically described my college experience.
Except for the never graduating. It only felt like never.
Clif
But this is just an overly complex dream and you’ll wake up tomorrow back in class.
ego
i am 48 damn years old. when i have a nightmare, it is always me at 20ish, walking through campus looking for the right building to find the right room to talk to the right person about what i actually need to do in order to graduate. and i cant remember the name of the person *or* the building, and i’m infinitely too embarrassed to ask anyone i know for advice.
and, you know, that exact thing happened, more than once, so i get to think of it sometimes when i’m awake.
JasonAW3
Oh, that’s not good…
Kris
If you start feeding a wild Danny encouragement he’ll never leave!
Doctor_Who
There should be a new “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” book called “If You Give a Danny Some Encouragement”
Bagge
I suppose that’s why almost no one else in the comic ever tries it.
Kyrik Michalowski
“I want everything to be fixed, I just have no idea how to fix it.” Ah Sal, you read my mind. If only wanting to fix things was enough to actually fix them.
Stephen Bierce
I told you not to wander around in the dark
I told you about the swans that they live in the park…
Geneseepaws
Then i told you ’bout a kid, now he’s married to Mable.
Stephen Bierce
*George Harrison/Eric Clapton unison riffing*
Geneseepaws
Thx f’r the link! I find lit’riture moving, poetry consuming, great graphic art to be bling!. They all grab me by the soul. Fine.
But music, ahhh,… That grabs my spine, and rattles existence in my brain, like a demon playing craps, and never crapping out. King Crimson, Eric C., Los Orishas, Burt Jansch, A’Segovia, Some-Bach, some of the stuff from the Andes, contra-punctual drumming, Maddie Pryor, BTO, BOC, Stevie-Ray, …
Its like submitting to mind control, and I’m just their puppet. Its scary on bad days, … “Oh, and by the way, which one’s pink?” “Sid, Sid was.”
BBCC
Ahhh, back to the lake!
..Well, shit, Sal’s super relatable. And I’m happy to know I’ve been thinking in terms of stuff she wants accurately! I’ve had long conversations written out in my head like this (albeit with Sal and Marcie, not Sal and Danny).
And Danny, you deserve all the encouragement in the world, you absolute fucking button.
Lux
Agreed on both counts. I think this is now one of my top 5 pages of this comic.
JetstreamGW
… “I want you talking to me despite me telling you to shut up to not have helped a little tiny bit.”
Okay, I’ve read that sentence about a thousand times and maybe I’m a dumbass but I have no idea what Sal’s trying to express.
Viktoria
I told you to shut up. You’re talking to me anyway. That helped. The fact that you ignoring my order was a good thing annoys me.
APersonAmI
Sal told Danny to shut up. Danny kept talking. It actually helped her that Danny kept talking, it made her feel better in some way.
The final panel is her saying she would like it not to have helped her, perhaps because it annoys her that he made a correct decision when she told him not to do so.
Larkle
Try breaking it up like this: I want you [talking to me despite me telling you to shut up] to not have helped a little tiny bit.
-> I want the thing not to have helped a little bit. Thing being you talking despite me telling you to shut up.
It took me a second read through to get it.
Fred Garber
She wishes (facetiously) that Danny would have taken her advice, and shut up. It was bad advice, because he helped by not being Marcie. She wishes she gave good advice and his silence would have made things better. Instead, Danny ignored her advice, and made things better by talking.
She is trying to be witty. YMMV
Jon Rich
Oh, man, thank all of you for explaining, that was driving me nuts.
JetstreamGW
Right!?
John
Sal’s penultimate speech bubble is basically my life these days.
Claire
Is that snow in the background or just really white sand? Do we finally see the sign of the slow, unbeatable passage of time. The Dumbiverse’s eventual progression to winter??
Some1
I don’t think we’ve even hit Halloween yet, and we certainly haven’t hit Thanksgiving. It’s still pretty early for there to be snow.
Catullus
Based on the timeline on Walkypedia, it’s currently October 14.
Marsh Maryrose
One of the two years I lived in St. Paul, MN, the first snow was on Columbus Day (October 8 or 9). But as I recall, it was an unusually cold winter, and anyway St. Paul’s latitude is well north of Bloomington’s.
(And no, I don’t call it Columbus Day anymore.)
foamy
Halloween happens *after* Thanksgiving in all *righteous* nations.
drs
No, just the nations whose summers are too short.
Some1
America: After
Canada: Before
Australia: After
Liberia: After
Netherlands: After
Saint Lucia: Before
Philippines: After, then before, now not really celebrated at all.
Germany: Before (also not technically Thanksgiving but close enough)
DaveM
(Raises hand politely.)
TL:DR – While you’re technically correct for australia, not really.
We don’t really have “thanksgiving” in Australia. You could substitute Australia Day, but the date of that is subject to some dispute (to put it mildly). We also don’t really celebrate Halloween, despite recent marketing attempts and American cultural osmosis (probably because for us Spring is becoming summer and we’ve got enough scary things lurking around without having to invoke the supernatural).
I’d put us in the “not applicable” category for now. Check back in a decade.
CJ
Erntedankfest and Thanksgiving are two quite different beasts, the former may have a fixed Sunday in the church year but not much feast around it nowadays and the latter creeped in in the last 15-20 years and was no thing at all in Germany before.
CJ
The latter above means Halloween please ignore the grammar.
Khno
There were carved radish, though. An Samain. So basically, Halloween.
CJ
Where?
Kamino Neko
It was turnips, not radishes. And Samhain was a Gaelic festival, not a Germanic one.
CJ
Just like Valentine’s Day is now marketed worldwide, Halloween is, too. It crept in with Woolworths marketing customs for Halloween and took Trick or Treat is something kids learned from US movies.
It has become a cultural reality in Germany by know. On the day the Lutheran dominated states of Germany have a holiday for remembering Luther putting up his thesis against the corruption of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic dominated states have a holiday, All Hallows’, the day after, but as far as I know even there, the hubbub about Halloween is a recent developement.
Claire
Yes, the natural progression of holidays.
Thanksgiving, Halloween then a nice break with no big holidays to eat turkey in one month before Christmas(too much turkey in 2 months!) THEN christmas
dethtolldotmid
Could always be gravel or something.
mschmidt62
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one confused and wondering.
mschmidt62
Aha! It’s whitish rocks. A little bigger than gravel:
http://lakeconnected.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lake-Monroe-Rotate.jpg
DaveM
Lake Monroe? They’ve crossed over into the XKCD verse?
Oh my, this will end with a massive battle between Mike & Black Hat Guy resulting in the destruction of both realities, I can feel it. 🙂
Zach
Black Hat Guy knows why he is the way he is and fully accepts it, Mike has no amo there. He could effectively be a bit of a bummer whenever BHG basks in ego?
Black Hat Guy, I think, would win. But these are reasoning monsters with no standing quarrel… It will be up to Berret Guy to save us/confound us into suicide. Also, he wins because he’s the only one with his subduction license.
DaveM
You’re probably right, though I think that claiming that BHG has “no standing quarrel” with anyone/thing is a tenuous statement at best. 🙂
Beret Guy’s easy enough to deal with most times. A bag of scones (or pastries) will suffice, at least as a distraction. Though you are correct that the subduction licence would be a formidable challenge (mainly because it might destroy the bakery before the scones are done). 🙂
mrnoidea
Wow, the background of the comic illustration looks a lot bigger than the real-life equivalent. Maybe it’s a matter of perspective.
Needfuldoer
So they’re somewhere near the Fairfax Beach pin on Google Maps?
Sammy
That is Fairfax beach actually
Claire
Thanks!
Keulen
I thought it was snow at first as well.
timemonkey
You’ve still got Danny, Sal. We’ve all still got Danny.
Jamie
What’s the ship name for Sal and Danny? Surely there is one.
TheKelliestKelly
I vote either for wonder cycle or motor bread
mrnoidea
I second “motor bread”!
McBogue
Thirded, but only if you write it as Motörbread.
ValdVin
Motorbrot?
(My kbd doesn’t umlaut.)
Kamino Neko
Beat me to it.
CJ
Like this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7-sbiGlzw
Nono
DS (Danny-Sal).
Marsh Maryrose
Mario Kart
ZerglingOne
S.S. Danally
Danny and Sally. Bonus it sounds like a mountain in Alaska.
Khno