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Drained

by David M Willis on March 17, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Joementum
└ Tags: amber, joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 17, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    lately my reward is one of

    + nap
    + spider solitaire
    + Yukon solitaire
    + weird version of FreeCell where the suits have to match instead
    + I guess also Canfield solitaire I just found, shit

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 17, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

      I’ve been rewarding myself with AI art of my dnd characters.

      • MIB4u
        MIB4u
        March 17, 2023 at 9:22 am | #

        ooooooh, show us!!

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      March 17, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      I didn’t realize there were so many versions of solitaire
      * accidental flag, sorry

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 17, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        There’s over 100 versions of solitaire.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          March 17, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

          Strange that there’s more than one, semantically speaking.

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            March 17, 2023 at 3:24 am | #

            Only if you consider the name as refering to the game structure, rather than who you play with. Though one could argue that there is only one game that is playing with yourself, and the details are merely different facets of that one game.

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              March 17, 2023 at 7:05 am | #

              If you make that argument, then Joyce is also talking about playing solitaire.

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                March 17, 2023 at 3:58 pm | #

                And we have another euphemism for masturbation.

        • OBBWG
          OBBWG
          March 17, 2023 at 10:00 am | #

          If you like solitaire: Pretty Good Solitaire

      • huesatlight
        huesatlight
        March 17, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

        I believe that was a main topic of discussion yesterday.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 17, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

      I was today’s years old when I finally paid attention to Ana’s name beyond the “Ana” part.
      It’s not even an issue of not getting it, I’ve just apparently been glossing over it for years.
      Now I’m wondering what other puns (is that the right term?) I’ve been missing in commenters’ names.

      • Dana
        Dana
        March 17, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

        Ana has one or two other punny names.

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          March 17, 2023 at 12:59 am | #

          Jen Aside is the first one, I believe. Blanking on any others.

          • Leadsynth
            Leadsynth
            March 17, 2023 at 4:13 pm | #

            Wait, what’s “Jen Aside” a pun on?

            • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
              LiterallyJustSomeGuy
              March 17, 2023 at 4:42 pm | #

              A word that is pronounced the same but spelled with a G, O, and C rather than a J, A, and S.

          • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
            LiterallyJustSomeGuy
            March 17, 2023 at 4:41 pm | #

            It was another Aside, right? Sue Aside?

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          March 18, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

          “one or two” NOBODY KNOWS ME AT ALL *cries*

    • Stanistani
      Stanistani
      March 17, 2023 at 3:08 am | #

      try this, it’s 22 years old and difficult – no deck – https://www.gamedesign.jp/games/solitaire/

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        March 18, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

        yeah, that’s a variant on Yukon solitaire

    • Paradox
      Paradox
      March 17, 2023 at 8:52 am | #

      You should check out Churchill Solitaire

    • Leadsynth
      Leadsynth
      March 17, 2023 at 4:11 pm | #

      And by “Solitaire,” I mean the ol’ target self-checkout

  2. Kyoulkoa
    Kyoulkoa
    March 17, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Nooo dont do it Amber

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 17, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Ooooh. Has sliding timescale made Amber now young enough she’s a tiktok teen instead of a twitter one?

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 17, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Sliding timescale has brought Amber inline with Twitter post Musk and she has felt the urge to branch out.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      March 17, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      I wonder if Twitter has also imploded into Nazis and Billionaire-Yes-Men in the dumbiverse. I’ve certainly found it far less entertaining lately, if it even works when I want to look at it.

  4. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    March 17, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    “little a doomscrolling”?

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      March 17, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      That is actually the proper formulation of the salami meme!

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        March 17, 2023 at 5:48 am | #

        Neat.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 17, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    TokTok is the Amazi-Girl of apps. It also tracks everyone’s phones.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      March 17, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      Lol which is exactly what FaceBook and Instagram have always done. I’ve seen some reporting that Zuckerberg is funding this whole TikTok panic to get his monopoly back. Meta definitely got caught paying money to a political operative to plant fake stories about TikTok in local TV news and newspapers last year.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 17, 2023 at 2:34 am | #

        At least Zuckbook doesn’t have that annoyingly nasal text-to-speech voice at the beginning of every post.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          March 17, 2023 at 3:26 am | #

          You mean that’s his *real* voice in interviews?

          He’d be better off using TikTok narration.

  6. Axel
    Axel
    March 17, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    honestly that’s more than I manage a lot of days. a lot better than nothin’

  7. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 17, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    https://imgur.com/a/UAtiyAa

    One free art to whover gets this reference.

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      March 17, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      That one episode of American Dad where Stan is on jury duty trying to get Roger convicted.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 17, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

        I only remember that episode for their impromptu duet.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 17, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

        Holy shit it didn’t even take 2 minutes. Ok you get one free art.

        • newlland(Henryvolt)
          newlland(Henryvolt)
          March 17, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

          VICTORY! Don’t worry I know where to find you when I made up my mind. It will take about a day or an hour who knows.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 17, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      I do not Captain America that reference, but I do like her look.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 17, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

      Did a search for the text on the Internet, found the source, and immediately decided I didn’t even wanna pretend to get the reference. Which is a shame because the “one free art” bit woulda been neat.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      March 17, 2023 at 3:28 am | #

      Brilliant as always. It’s his chair right? That she wants to sit on?

      • TerribleTransit
        TerribleTransit
        March 17, 2023 at 5:37 am | #

        No, it’s his butt. It’d make a comfy seat. Just two people platonically mashing their butts together for sitting purposes.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      March 17, 2023 at 7:57 am | #

      I don’t get the reference. You need to publish four more arts to help me.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 17, 2023 at 8:48 am | #

      Hehe, I love your Joyce pics. Also enjoy the Clarice you did for GWS the other day.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 17, 2023 at 1:05 pm | #

        Haha thanks. I definitely wanna draw more of the GWS cast later. Or at least just my faves.

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          March 17, 2023 at 8:35 pm | #

          Excellent to hear!

    • Ragnarok101
      Ragnarok101
      March 17, 2023 at 9:01 am | #

      Hey, Yoto, what happened to your artdump link?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 17, 2023 at 1:27 pm | #

        Ah when my browser restarts I gotta plug in all my info again. I just forgot to save my imgur link and can’t link it right now.

        Also I haven’t updated it in a while.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        March 17, 2023 at 2:00 pm | #

        🙂 Your wish has been granted:

        https://imgur.io/a/8Q50mBQ

        Have fun!!!

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 17, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    “You may call it doomscrolling, but I consider it intelligence gathering.”

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 17, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

      I feel like calling Tiktok “intelligence” is a bit much.

      • Dana
        Dana
        March 17, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

        Propaganda conduit?

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        March 17, 2023 at 1:36 pm | #

        TikTok (and Facebook) are useful in that they continue to prove that artificial intelligence is no match for natural human stupidity.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          March 17, 2023 at 4:06 pm | #

          Please take this imaginary upvote!

  9. Just an Armadillo
    Just an Armadillo
    March 17, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    I think Joe is still processing.

    • Holly
      Holly
      March 17, 2023 at 2:07 am | #

      Yeah, that’s a loading screen face if ever I saw one.

  10. nobodybasically
    nobodybasically
    March 17, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

    God I feel old. I started reading this comic in college before even the earlier app that became TikTok existed and now the college students are all addicted to it.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 17, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      So did Amber technically she should probably be near 30 right now. She’d be one of those liberal doomers arguing with her slightly racist, right wing uncle on twitter about how Trump is actually responsible for the current banking crisis and not woke-ism. She probably has an old MySpace account she forgot her password for that she posted old proto-slashfic of the first Iron Man movie.

      • StClair
        StClair
        March 17, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

        possibly even a livejournal.

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        March 17, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

        (Furiously begins glancing through Blaine-related Shortpacked! storylines to see if Amber has an uncle mentioned anywhere in some obscure bit of continuity minutia)

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          March 17, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

          Couldn’t find one in any obvious spots but Stacy mentions an “Aunt Molly” who evidently informed her of Blaine’s death in Blaine’s death in this strip, so there’s that.

          Gotta love how Blaine is the only character who both dies and stays dead in both continuities. Multiple universes have all come to the same conclusion that he’s a waste of oxygen

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            March 17, 2023 at 1:08 am | #

            Lol! Shortpacked Amber was apparently on Facebook! How old does that make her now, like 50?

      • Sporky
        Sporky
        March 17, 2023 at 1:20 am | #

        “Proto-slashfic”, that’s funny. Slashfic had already been around for like 40 years in the 2000s

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          March 17, 2023 at 1:57 am | #

          I kind of meant “proto” for Amber not really the genre itself, but I can see a young teen Amber believing she’s a pioneer in the literary smut world before realizing she’s just walking in the footsteps of her smut writing forebears.

      • huesatlight
        huesatlight
        March 17, 2023 at 1:29 am | #

        “proto-slashfic” every generation thinks they invented sex. Before the world wide web there was alt.sex.stories on usenet. Before that people used to read their erotica on paper.

        • huesatlight
          huesatlight
          March 17, 2023 at 1:43 am | #

          Like Zeus isn’t real. Someone had to come up with the Zeus/Ganymede story.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 17, 2023 at 9:07 am | #

          alt.sex.stories didn’t really have much slashfic. An awful lot of really creepy stuff though, iirc.

          Slashfic isn’t just erotica, but specifically smutty (or in some cases just romantic) fan-fiction. The term seems to have originated in Trek fandom back in the 70s. Spread in fan zines long before the internet.

          While I’m sure people wrote such stories before, at least in their heads, it needed some kind of organized fan community to spread beyond that.

          • huesatlight
            huesatlight
            March 17, 2023 at 1:28 pm | #

            I promise that having the term “slash” was not required for people to feel horniness in any particular way. People were sharing all kinds of erotica in whatever technology they could (usenet, zines, printing press, written, oral tradition), including both the stuff you disapprove of and the stuff you approve of, long before the 1970s, they didn’t just keep all of it in their heads.
            The Greeks performed it in theater, “organized fan community” isn’t something new.

            The more things change, the more they stay the same.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              March 17, 2023 at 11:11 pm | #

              It seems you’re conflating slashfic with any erotica?

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        March 17, 2023 at 11:41 am | #

        I’d like to hope at least some more of my fellow Millennials in their 30s have realized that liberal isn’t the farthest left you can go politically.

    • ischemgeek
      ischemgeek
      March 17, 2023 at 7:40 am | #

      If it helps, in a lot of ways TikTok is just an evolution of Vine except with bonus spyware.

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 17, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

    Joe is taking this in stride, and so is Joyce in a fashion.

    You did good, Amber.

  12. drs
    drs
    March 17, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    So are either Amber _or_ Ethan attending classes?

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      March 17, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

      You think Amber would take a class before noon?

      • Otl1973
        Otl1973
        March 17, 2023 at 12:48 am | #

        Admittedly it was almost 50 years ago, but when I majored in computer science, none of the classes were before noon.

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          March 17, 2023 at 5:27 am | #

          Reminded of why Dave Lister dropped out of art college.

          “I thought it’d be a skive, but they had classes like first thing in the middle of the afternoon!”

          • Jason
            Jason
            March 17, 2023 at 7:15 am | #

            “I’m talking half past twelve every day! Who’s together by then?! You can still taste the toothpaste!”

            (Thinking about it, I’m impressed at the implication they made that Lister brushed his teeth regularly, given his general depiction…)

        • Mark
          Mark
          March 17, 2023 at 7:04 am | #

          Yeah, the early morning slots are all reserved for calculus.

          • huesatlight
            huesatlight
            March 17, 2023 at 1:31 pm | #

            Filling the humanities requirements at the break of 10am.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 17, 2023 at 8:49 am | #

      I am pretty sure Amber attends classes, at least, generally. I know she’s had her MMORPG moments in the past, but even that was probably in her free time more often than not.

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 17, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh come on, Amber. 😛 The funny ones all end up on YouTube anyway!

  14. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    March 17, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    Running late on the daily reddit post, but hey I have just a little bit more than 24 hours on the Rivals poll:https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/11ob9xb/greatest_nemesis_type_rivalry_in_doa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      March 17, 2023 at 1:15 am | #

      This comes a bit late but it was worth it, it’s ironic that tiktok was name dropped here since I use one of there viral sounds for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/11thvxg/my_proudest_work_yet_as_far_as_the_dumbing_of_age/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

  15. Icalasari
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    March 17, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    Amber chose a great pair for socializing that day

  16. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    March 17, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

    Be careful with tiktok stuff Amber, sure at first it seems fun scrolling with the movie analysis and throw back parodies about animated series & video games with the exception of every 3rd or 4th being a someone ranting on about political history and/or news.

    But before you know it you end up spending 4 hours scrolling though it when you just wanted to spend 40 minutes at the most.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 17, 2023 at 2:23 am | #

      Don’t forget the latest “The [something] Challenge” that’s irritating at best to a dangerous low-level felony at worst.

      Seriously, the only good social media “challenge” was the Ice Bucket Challenge.

      • milu
        milu
        March 17, 2023 at 5:01 am | #

        There’s also a bunch of music and dance challenges? I’m not on it but i’ll hear about it from youtubers like Adam Neely and they honestly make it seem like a pretty cool platform

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 17, 2023 at 5:18 am | #

          I categorize those under “irritating”. At least they’re generally harmless.

  17. anon
    anon
    March 17, 2023 at 12:47 am | #

    LOL that sounds like it’d be a ‘challenge’ to some ppl as long as they’re respectful about it.

    Watch as they bump into someone that spills a drink on joe and then they have to undress

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 17, 2023 at 1:44 pm | #

      I used to lick my finger, tap the girl on her shirtsleeve, then tell her, “Sorry. Maybe you’d better get out of those wet clothes before you catch cold.”
       
      It never worked.

      • anon
        anon
        March 18, 2023 at 4:49 am | #

        reminds me of that 30 rock scene where tracy spills watero n hazel lol

  18. Clif
    Clif
    March 17, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

    Meh, if it wasn’t tiktok it would be something else. In the dark ages before the Interwebs I would spend hours reading books instead of whatever I should have been doing instead.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 17, 2023 at 1:17 am | #

      Reading manga is premium *_*

  19. bagge
    bagge
    March 17, 2023 at 1:01 am | #

    Go, Amber!

    • milu
      milu
      March 17, 2023 at 5:02 am | #

      You done good.

  20. bleepbloop
    bleepbloop
    March 17, 2023 at 1:26 am | #

    Looks like Dorothy’s plan has worked…for now!

    • Jason
      Jason
      March 17, 2023 at 7:16 am | #

      Joyce seems to think so… but that does not make it so. We shall see!

  21. PirateTawnee
    PirateTawnee
    March 17, 2023 at 1:29 am | #

    Oh Amber, I hate to see her go, but I love to watch her leave.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 17, 2023 at 1:49 pm | #

      That was actually a line from a country song by Trace Adkins from almost 20 years ago.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        March 17, 2023 at 4:17 pm | #

        I have been hearing that line for over 40 years, coming on 50. Yes I’m old. I’ve been getting senior discounts since the mid-90s.

  22. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    March 17, 2023 at 2:19 am | #

    Amber no! Doomscrolling is never a treat!

    • StClair
      StClair
      March 17, 2023 at 2:36 am | #

      My cortisol addiction says otherwise!

  23. Hazel
    Hazel
    March 17, 2023 at 3:48 am | #

    I think Amber’s hair is a little longer in the back. It looks nice.

  24. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 17, 2023 at 4:19 am | #

    I thought it’d be “ooh that line is good, time to put it in my fics”

  25. David
    David
    March 17, 2023 at 7:08 am | #

    This is not how masturbation works.

  26. AlaninDC
    AlaninDC
    March 17, 2023 at 7:09 am | #

    Amber has always been my favorite character in the strip. I wish she could bury her ghosts and get on with a happy and productive life.

  27. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    March 17, 2023 at 7:19 am | #

    Somehow Joyce, I don’t believe you. I just hope Joe doesn’t either. You may not be ready for a relationship, totally fine, but I’ve seen how you act with Joe. That was romantic long before it was horny.

  28. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 17, 2023 at 8:24 am | #

    What? Isn’t Amber going to meet Booster to find out how their “Ethan” project is going?

  29. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    March 17, 2023 at 8:32 am | #

    Joyce is certainly getting in workouts pushing friends and family around.

    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/chattin/

  30. John
    John
    March 17, 2023 at 9:09 am | #

    Jesus Christ, Amber, go to therapy already!

  31. Sibre
    Sibre
    March 17, 2023 at 11:44 am | #

    Twist: that’s Booster talking in the last panel.

    • David
      David
      March 17, 2023 at 4:22 pm | #

      That would make superb sense, and all that DW would need to do after the fact to make this canon is to add Booster to the character tags. You got my vote.

  32. vulcanodon
    vulcanodon
    March 17, 2023 at 12:44 pm | #

    Non-Platonic feelings (sound of capacitor charging after discharge…)

    • David
      David
      March 17, 2023 at 4:19 pm | #

      Cannot decide whether the capacitor charge is going to end in Joyce flashing Joe, or otherwise shocking him. Keep him on the fence.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        March 17, 2023 at 4:21 pm | #

        I see what you did there. You should feel shame in your shorts. /s

  33. KiaStirling
    KiaStirling
    March 17, 2023 at 2:19 pm | #

    Dumbing of Age Book (I forget which number we’re on): I Have Drained My Body of Everything Except Platonic Feelings

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      March 17, 2023 at 4:23 pm | #

      It’s up there in the URL, we’re in Book 13 Chapter Joementum.

  34. HoopsieDaisy
    HoopsieDaisy
    March 17, 2023 at 3:54 pm | #

    You got out of bed and ate some real food. Reward yourself with a little bit of crack.

  35. milu
    milu
    March 17, 2023 at 7:48 pm | #

    More Marsaya cuties =3

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 17, 2023 at 11:50 pm | #

      😍 Awesome!

    • bemisawa
      bemisawa
      March 18, 2023 at 2:28 am | #

      Very nice!

  36. Felian
    Felian
    March 17, 2023 at 9:17 pm | #

    Nothing says “i’m not sexually interested in you“ quite like “i totally masturbated before meeting you“….

  37. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    March 17, 2023 at 10:35 pm | #

    Deniiiaaaaaaaaal

  38. shoopdawhoop
    shoopdawhoop
    March 18, 2023 at 5:16 pm | #

    You even used an excessive amount of innuendo. Treat yourself.

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