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hooray!!! game time is a GO!!!!
Hooray!
Oh Walky. You said she could share your nachitos. Amber can’t very well share them with you if she doesn’t posess them. You should have said that *you* would share them with her. Hell, she might choose to share them with someone else!
I was wondering about panel 1 yesterday
How will this end? Hopefully not playing into relationship tropes or else Amber’s all talk.
Look worst case scenario Walky irreparably ruins his relationships with his ex and current girlfriend.
An acceptable price for video games.
That most definitely is not the worst case scenario.
He already lost the Nachitos. It can’t really get worse from here.
Given that Amber’s only wearing pants in the British sense, I’m guessing at least somewhat adjacent to relationship tropes.
How is she wearing pants in the British sense, looks like she’s in her shirt and knickers.
I was under the impression that Americans say “panties” when Brits say “pants”, Americans say “pants” when Brits say “trousers”, and “knickers” are just any kind of undergarment. Is that not the case?
Pretty sure knickers is panties and pants are underwear for the groin (vice bras, undershirts etc..)
Video games and chips. That’s how it’ll end.
About your gravatar… is it meant to be read as “stop fun”? Or as “one must have fun” with the same level of emphasis as when “one must stop” when confronted with a stop sign?
It’s just an octagon with the word “FUN” on it. Any meaning you get from that is your own fault.
What could possibly go wrong?
–Someone had to lose
It’s the nature of the business…
It’s the Smuggler’s Blues!
Jury’s still out on if Walky’s in boxers or pajama pants, I guess.
In any case, food bribes are good bribes, even if, as someone who works in a Tex-Mex place, this one would not really move me.
I love Tex-Mex, and this would probably still work on me. Depends on how long it has been since I’ve eaten. I live off of Tex-Mex and Taco Bell; Taco Bell is not Tex-Mex btw, and confusing the two is a cardinal sin.
Indeed, Taco Bell is its own thing, like a friend of mine joked it’s like eating a cartoon. If you treat it as what it is, that’s fine.
It’s more just I am around nachos, etc, all the time, so bribing me with McNuggets or something else I do not have often would be more potent.
i think his pajama jeans were blue/a ‘normal/usual’ jeans type color but if it did have pockets it’d explain where the nachitos came from
It is clear that he was carrying the nachitos either up his butt or in hammer space. Which of those two, however, is not yet clear.
I just noticed that you can barely see the top of their bag/box sticking up over Walky’s word ballon in the middle panel of yesterdays comic.
I think he has been boring and merely held it in his hands, where it would be hidden by the edge of the panel (and word ballons)
Amber is like Nancy.
Nothing can go wrong here, just a boy coming to hang in with his ex (in her underwear) instead of his girlfriend. Maybe Amber will leave the lights off and they can play video games in bed together. I don’t think Amber has any fucks to give about Lucy and her supposed ownership of Walky.
Honestly, I’m surprised Lucy doesn’t have a Switch, she seems like a Nintendo type.
Or maybe she does and Walky just doesn’t want to put in the effort to walk to another dorm. Or deal with Jennifer right now.
Or deal with Lucy right now.
That seems most likely.
Ownership? Like I’m all for monogamous relationships as well as platonic ones, but Walky x Lucy is like a week old. She owns nothing and shouldn’t assume she does. I’m more committed to my Amazon Prime subscription.
Ok so Lucy doesn’t “own” Walky but it’d still be a shitty thing for Walky to do if he does end up in bed with Amber (even if sexy times doesn’t happen)
Aye, there’s a vast gulf between “Walky shouldn’t cheat on his girlfriend” and “Walky is owned by his girlfriend”, and conflating the two is kinda creepy all-told.
A week isn’t even enough time to be considered a girlfriend.
Walky introduced her to his parents as his girlfriend. So no matter how long (or more fittingly short)they have been dating she has reason to consider him her boyfriend and to expect him not get physically or romantically intimate with other people.
Walky also introduced Amber to his parents as his girlfriend! With Lucy’s approval!
You have a bizarre conception that somehow being boyfriend and girlfriend doesn’t start until some additional time passes AFTER they’ve declared each other boyfriend and girlfriend? This just sounds like a weak attempt to excuse cheating.
It also completely disregards that Walky already turned down Dorothy with the explicit reason being his dating Lucy. Like, he calls himself her boyfriend, he explicitly considers their relationship to be exclusive, it’s not subtext, it’s text as written.
” a week isn’t enough to be boyfriend/girlfriend” is just as weird a concept as “never have sex befoore the third date”.
“A week isn’t even enough time to be considered a girlfriend”
Tell me you’ve cheated without telling me you’ve cheated
given amber’s attitude/mood idk if she’d rly be willing/in any kinda flirty mood
“instead of” is a silly way to frame it.
Hey I got my Gravatar to change. Thanks for the help. The icon is a little faint, but I am excited I got it to work and now that I know how it works I can always increase the design’s visibility at a later date.
“Lucy and her supposed ownership of Walky”
…that’s a weird way to say “Walky is Lucy’s boyfriend and it’d be a dick move for Walky to cheat on him”.
Is it possible that Lucy stumbles in and is enraged that Walky is in a room with Amber when she’s in her underwear (and maybe he is too) with no misunderstandings? Yes, but feels rather unlikely.
Is it possible that Lucy stumbles in and there’s a Three’s Company gag where she doesn’t understand what’s going on and jumps to conclusions and it causes problems? I mean, there’s a trope name for a reason, and wouldn’t be out of line.
Is it possible that Lucy stumbles in and is just really self-conscious about things and it causes drama in the relationship that leads to its destruction? I mean, it ain’t called “Dumbing of Age” because the characters only make smart decisions.
But either way, throwing down the word “ownership” when Lucy’s displayed little-to-no controlling traits regarding Walky beyond “i really wanna bone him” is a bit much.
Gah, lack of edit button.
When I said “Out of line”, I should’ve said “It wouldn’t be unexpected”. Lucy would be in the wrong if she escalated things in such a manner instead of trusting her boyfriend and talking it out.
I mostly agree but I wouldn’t go so far as to say little to no controlling traits. She has very clear and rigid concepts of what a Proper Relationship is and what she expects of Wally, and even if she has just been smiles and sunshine about it, it doesn’t mean that she hasn’t been setting a lot of rules and standards that Walky has amicably followed because he also feels like Lucy is out of his league and he should be following her lead and performing tricks to meet her at her level.
You gotta pay the nachitos toll.
The tolltilla.
Maybe one of these days I should make a remake of Aliens stole my Doritos…
The nachitoll.
and/or the nachitos troll.
Re: today’s pop-up
If Mike was alive amber could afford to have sex twice.
But as far as we know, she’s not somebody’s mother…
So were those Nachitos on the floor the whole time, or did Walky have hammerspace?
I assume the bag was hidden by the speech bubbles.
…damn, how much do Nachitos cost? Like, I’d expect Walky to do a favor for someone on the promise of Nachitos alone, but I didn’t realize Amber was that into them. Maybe the Head Alien’s been stealing all the bags again to create artificial scarcity…
well, he did wanna hoard 50 mcnuggets to himself so he prolly has a teen/young 20s boy stomach so it might be more about him wanting his own food versus it being a price thing
Couple bucks, a trip to the store and brief social interaction with another person.
The dollar cost of Nachitos is greatly outweighed by the opportunity cost of having to put on real people clothing and going to a store in order to get more Nachitos.
Part of the price tag involves getting your ass into real clothes, leaving your room, and dealing with strangers on a Saturday morning.
If their dorm is anything like mine was, snacks are hard to come by.
lol would be quite the teen drama if it ended up in a makeout. and walky should know amber (or anyone really) well enough to give an offering rather than going splitsies on food
Share his nachitos?!
How badly does he want to play video games?!
Was mainstream media and Congress right?!
Are video games that addicting?!
It’s only been 2 weeks!
hahaha and here I am doing more of the devil’s work, with a rather appropriate amount of devil’s lettuce
did Amber get thinner? I feel she used to be drawn wider
also if she thinks that the pretend girlfriend shennanigans was weird, she shouldn’t have enabled it
Nah? I think that’s just her hair that’s gotten longer.
Or, like most geeks with degrees of compacted trauma, she struggles to establish clear boundaries and say no to peers, and indeed the two people who clearly know she’s dealing with a lot of baggage that came up with the plan maybe shouldn’t have put that pressure on her in the first instance.
She didn’t say she had a problem with one weird favor; it’s the pattern that concerns her.
You shoulda specified proportions Walky.
You said you’d let her share your Nachitos. You didn’t specify who she could share them with. It just happens to not include you.
A lot of bags of candy are now marked as “sharing size”, presumably for those who want to pretend they’re not going to just eat the whole thing.
I think it’s because they’ve got you paying a dollar or more for what used to sell for maybe a quarter not all that long ago. By calling it ‘sharing size’ they’re using Jedi mind tricks on you to make you believe you’re getting more.
That and since nutritional information is per “portion” in some countries pretending that a portion is smaller than people actually eat the stuff, let’s them write smaller numbers next to all the unhealthy ingrediens in it.
Yet more Jedi mind tricks.
(The USA is one of those countries IIRC and they are big enough that they can affect the marketing choices of multinational companies even in other countries that uses weight or volume instead of portions).
Did we ever know walky to be interested in video games before this particular storyline? I know he is into certain cartoons (and comics), but I can’t remember him ever getting involved in other types of pop culture.
Until Booster exposed him to that demonic corruption machine
, he showed no interest that I can recall.
Yeah, this is bizarre and unrealistic.
I feel-like the only way this makes sense is if the Walkertons had a no video games policy. It would make Walky the kid who always had to go to his friends house to play games, so he probably developed a sort of gaming envy he can finally indulge in now that he has access and unsupervised free time.
I was kinda like Walky, though in my case it was less “my parents didn’t allow video games” and more “due to being aware of our lower class life I don’t feel like I’m allowed to ask for expensive video games for Christmas so instead I’ll ask for more clothes and watch my friends play their video games”. Now that I’m an adult with my own money, steam is my best friend.
I could absolutely see Linda having a ‘no video games’ policy. Video games don’t make for a productive future doctor, after all! Damn, boy’s lucky he was allowed to binge so many cartoons.
I think it’d be interesting if it wasn’t, like, an outright ban, but more something Linda put down so much that it didn’t even occur to him. Like… “Look at those parents just letting their son sit around playing that game. They’re really doing him a disservice when he grows up. I’m glad you’re not like that, David.”
Or he got a bunch of the more boring educational video games early on, and built a sort of sense of like, “Video games at my house are boring. Video games at my friend’s house are cool!”
Y’all, I was joking. There’s nothing unrealistic about a teenage dude being eager to play video games when he doesn’t have is own console.
I don’t think its unrealistic that a teenage dude would want to play video games. Just that we hadn’t seen him express an interest in it before, and now he’s claiming that playing games on Saturday morning is some sort of defining trait.
Walky’s external monologue should always be taken as a reflection of facts and not just him being a weirdo.
I just think it’s kind of weird he doesn’t have one already, considering he’s so interested. Until now he was the favorite. I figure his parents would buy him one if he asked, but that apparently never happened. I just applied that train of thought to your comment not realizing it was a joke.
FF7 came out when I was living in a dorm, and one guy had a playstation(?), and multiple people would watch him play. First time a console game really tempted me to get one myself.
That is only two examples, but the first one counts as like five things because of how weird it was.
Six nickels!
Rookie mistake.
Amber doesn’t share food.
She heard you, Wally. She took her share.
The way to a woman’s gaming console is through her stomach.
… look, I don’t know how the anatomy works but clearly it does somehow.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Geeks bearing gifts, however, are perfectly okay.
Go on Walky, do what Amber told you to do and enter. Then see what does and does not fit on the bed.
Dorothy’s going to be really fucked up when when Walky dumps Lucy for Amber
That would just take the cake, yeah.
All the relationship stoics who have complete control of their emotions at all times in the comment section would fail to notice the irony.
It’s a bit unpleasant to see that Nachitos package in Russian flag colors. Not trying to start a political discussion – that’s just my reaction to the image. A quick Google image search didn’t find any real-life packages with those colors, either.
“mix and match doritos nacho cheese”
Aren’t red, white, and blue some of the most common flag colors, though? I can think of at least four countries off the top of my head that use them.
Oh gawd there’s a gazillion of em.
Plus it’s what, January in-comic? That’s almost the 4th of July, in the Midwest.
Yeah, but not in this order. White-blue-red is Russia.
It’s evocative of the Doritos bag designs from the mid-90s.
I would say that this is maybe a you problem.
Those are off-brand nachitos, imported from Russia: Nyetchitos.
All your nachitos are belong to her.
oh this is gonna end bad
Are you putting money on Lucy or Dorothy knocking on the door?
Jesus Christ, y’all are pessimistic sometimes. It’s corn chips and video games, why does that automatically mean he’s gonna cheat on his girlfriend?
Bonk bonk y’all go to horny jail
He’s clearly on track to torpedo SOMEthing today, surely his standing with his parents at least; but I’ll give it only a 25% chance of Lucy torpedoage.
If enjoying one Saturday morning on your own terms is enough to torpedo anything, it probably wasn’t meant to be. Linda will (regrettably) survive Walky doing something when he wasn’t already doing something else, and Lucy isn’t so insecure that Walky spending time with Amber will ruin their relationship. People are doomsayers.
Don’t confuse our wishful thinking with your logic.
They’re not corn chips. They’re Chekhov’s gun.
I don’t think it’s pessimistic to notice clues and framing devices, and try to form conclusions. None of this has to happen the way it is. Walky could’ve just chosen to watch cartoons instead, that’s on brand for him. Ken and Arnold could have better controllers. Walky could ask his sister who we know owns a used Nintendo if he can borrow hers, or Amber even could just be wearing pants. None of those things are what happened though. Even if everything is fine and they just chill and game, and Lucy comes and joins them in her pj’s and they all play Mario Kart I think it’s understandable to notice the story setting things up even if it’s just to play with the reader’s expectations.
Chekov’s underpants.
Come on officer, even if Walky and Amber just want to play video games, she’s his ex and isn’t wearing pants at the moment… After they briefly pretended to be a couple and Walky’s dad encouraged him to follow his heart, even if it led to Amber. Maybe especially if it led to Amber.
No matter what happens, Willis has lain the groundwork for a drama bomb.
“Officer”?
enough hot people
Are you missing a comma, Oxford or otherwise?
No commas.
I forget to finish the phrase: Sometimes I’m tired there’s only hot people here. Everybody on underwears, inviting to their room? No way!
Done venting. Thanks for the patience.
Why is he showing three fingers when he says “two”? Is this a Inglorious Basterds kinda deal?
The thumb doesn’t count unless you’re holding up all five fingers, in a lot of places. Everywhere I’ve been, at least.
In ASL that is explicitly the sign for three.
The only ASL I know is “Don’t care”, “vagina”, “pizza”, and “I love you”, so I didn’t know that.
Amber has all rights to be still salty about the parent meeting thing.
Amber: “I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
Jury’s still on whether Walky is just materializing Raidah’s plan – having friends so you can have something from them (in exchange for something tangible, ofc)
Doofenshmirtz would like to differ on that one, alt. And Walky’s gesture for 2, whoo
Oh no these two have chemistry.
That’s on Tuesday (lecture) and Thursday (lab).
Regardless of whether this goes to the most dramatic or dumbest conclusions, the fact remains that walky woke up knowing today was the day to properly introduce Lucy to his parents, and instead of getting dressed in his nicest clothes and texting Lucy or w/e, he instead has beelines, still in his pyjamas, over to Amber’s dorm, who is also still in her pyjamas, and effectively invited himself in.
No matter if they just play videogames and eat nachitos, or he takes her Nintendo and leaves right away, he’s still most likely going to face some kinda music for this eventually.
Again with this “instead of” thing. Why is it impossible for him to interact with two people in the same day? This isn’t Persona 4, he can hang with Amber in the morning and then get dressed and hang with his parents and hot girlfriend in the afternoon, it’s easy.
Can, sure. Will, once he’s gotten comfy playing video games and possibly bantering with Amber? More doubtful.
I’m inclined toward the “instead of” reading because of what Walky said in response to Amber asking about his family/Lucy obligations. Walky seems to want to avoid all of that, which makes it seem like he is choosing to do this specifically to not be doing something with his parents and/or Lucy. Had he not reacted that way, I’d think both were the plan, but as it stands, it seems like he’s running away from something and choosing to do that here.
There is little to no chemistry between him and Lucy, whom he is avoiding. And there is between him and Amber. I’m pretty sure his own sister has a video game thing, there are reasons he went to Amber instead of someone else, to help him avoid his girlfriend he won’t kiss.
See, there’s that weirdness again. “Girlfriend he won’t kiss”, just because he hasn’t kissed her yet?
Yes. There is a conspicuous lack of kissing. There has been more running away from the suggestion they make out to mourn a metaphorical fortress of solitude than there has been even a peck.
hahaha
If anything, that’s because he doesn’t want to face dealing his parents again, which is definitely relatable.
It’s absolutely relatable to me, but I have the feeling Lucy might feel slighted by it.
Cue: enter Dorothy, to terribly misconstrue the situation and receive another huge blow to her self esteem.
If I had to place bets this is where I’d put my money because Lucy walking in is the obvious dramatic moment and Willis often throws curve balls in these moments. I’m definitely curious to see how this plays out. (And really really glad I didn’t end up with my Walky-like boyfriend.)
Poor Dorothy. I wish she’d gotten Joyce hugs when she needed them. I hope she ends up ok.
Haha, now THIS is the bread-&-butter type of DoA strip that got me hooked ages ago.
No morals, no message, just goofy slice-of-life stuff.
Does that say “All your bears belong to us”? I mean, I’m not unused to looking at Amber’s chest, but I can’t figure out what that means.
“All your base are belong to us”
If that doesn’t mean anything to you, google it for great justice.
I was shocked at people not knowing about All Your Base, until I looked up when it was first posted on Newgrounds (Feb 16, 2001).
Can someone bring me my Aleeve? If I get up, I might miss the intro to Murder She Wrote.
[hands a walking stick] Welcome to the Old People’s Club.
Let’s go with the Walky, Amber and Lucy triangle!!!
I can already see where this is going. Lucy is going to catch him sitting with Amber on her bed and she’s not wearing pants and it’s going to cause ~*D R A M A*~
“Our entire social circle imploded because I didn’t put on pants,” kind of drama?
Nah, that’s a QC story arc from years ago.
I get the feeling that if Walky had just somewhat gestured at his own body, Amber would also have let him in.
I gotta say, it is insane how realistic this whole Walky relationship thing is. It is so like this guy I knew in college who dated me (a Dorothy) then someone not as messed up as Amber but similar in some respects, and then a Lucy who he treated terribly. This was over 2-3 years, not months, but exactly the same patterns. (Even the racism with girlfriend 3!) Without the kidnapping though. The next girlfriend should be two years younger than him and will do his laundry for him even though she lives across campus. If they ever get to junior year.
Ooh I made Twitter! You may also have to toss your “Walky gets scurvy” storyline. (Actually happened— he got thrush from it.)
Wait. Is that “All your Base are belong to us” or “all your arse are belong to us”?