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Amber’s face like 45 demanding refunds for the money spent campaigning against Biden
(Asher IS hot tho)
What an odd thing to say
Trump actually did that, but his face is not recorded (and Stephen Miller also made this complaint, on camera, but was almost screaming and looked accordingly).
If you have a youtube link, I’d watch that.
we have to place these strips within historical context for the sake of future backreaders
Like did it occur before or after the mass memory mindwipe of the Martian invasion.
(After, in case it was unclear from context, O Hypothetical Future Reader)
*plays “Life is Like a Boat” by Rie fu on hacked muzak*
“Nobody kno-ows who I really am…”
Kinda sad Amber values her rage as an identity. She needs to find some new niches. Maybe she can be the girl who knows how to juggle and do close up magic.
Also Danny has achieved so much by wearing a hat and picking up a tiny instrument. Hat-Amber could be dating a hot biker one day.
i would’ve thought, therapy aside that her being on the roller derby team would’ve been a good outlet for the rage
and lol i’m surprised he wouldn’t have known about the speedrun records unless ethan only cared about transformers versus any kinda gaming
It would’ve been nice! But Amber still sees _her_ anger as to be leashed – and thus Amazigirl got the Roller Derby outlet.
I feel like if Ethan did care about gaming he largely doesn’t anymore, and even if he did he might have been distracted by other things
Unrelated to this comic, but it occurred to me earlier today: I wonder if regarding parties, would Sal & Amber’s favorite song (and possibly Dina’s) be Alessia Cara’s “Here”?
Ooh, that’s a Good one! I could see Sal in that song. For sure.
For Dina, though, I’m thinking “Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter” by R.E.M. Maybe for Amber, too.
“Surfin’ Bird” by the Trashmen, too, of course. “Bird is the word!”
Of course, Becky and Dina right now are grooving to Katy Perry’s “I kissed a girl (and I liked it)”
Of course Ethan’s theme song is “It’s much too late for goodbyes,” by Julian Lennon.
While Joyce is all over “I want to be evil!” by Eartha Kitt
Ooh, fun game!
Anyone else? What theme songs do you see in the characters assembled here tonight?
One of them gotta be “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven ^^
Oh, yes, those lyrics just scream “Amber” right now!
I feel like there are songs about doing lesbian things that don’t spend 50% of the song saying “still straight tho”.
Like I have limited musical reference pools so the best replacement I can think of is like Tegan and Sara’s “Closer”, but there’s a lot of actual lesbian music out there to pick from
Ooh, yes, that’s a lovely one. “I won’t treat you like you’re typical.” Perfect choice!
Hmm lesbian songs…
Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine”?
Pat Humphries “You Taught Me to Face the Music”?
Ani DiFranco, “Both Hands”?
Hmmm…. nothing seems quite perfect.
Other ideas?
I really should check out Ani DiFranco’s music, she was great as Persephone
Oh, yeah. That was an inspired choice of casting, for sure! So glad to see her career flourishing.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
“Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk…” Yes! Perfect.
Maybe for Slamber/Amazigirl next time they go to roller derby practice.
And I definitely feel that vibe with Becky and Dina: “Is it fast enough that we can fly away?”
So what exactly was she excepting? She was going to get drunk and then things we’re going to end up like what happened in the finale of Cobra Kai season 5
Amber still doesn’t think highly of herself. I think she expects the worst of herself in any scenario and if that were to happen Amazi-girl would step in. That leads to an interesting question. If they were to switch right now would Amazi-girl be drunk?
Alcohol affects the body, which they share, so I assume yes.
…Yes, obviously she would. DID isn’t magic.
Sorry. I don’t know anything about DID and would rather ask the question than assume something. Amber has done things like perform amazing feats of physicality and athleticism while going multiple days without sleep assumedly just from switching. Also different personalities react differently to alcohol so maybe AG holds her drink better. I don’t think it’s magic, I just thought it was worth asking.
I have a history of anger management issues (I haven’t had trouble with this in a long time). I do NOT get drunk. Period. I have been drunk precisely once and I panicked because I was worried I might lose my temper, because I have seen a lot of people in my life have massive anger issues when drunk. I truly doubt I would be an angry drunk, but I don’t ever want to take that chance.
So is Amber pissed about the Asher thing, or about the ‘well you have… video games?’ comment?
Yes
(I have to clarify: Amber wasn’t against him pursuing Asher. She went to warn him because it’s what a decent friend does, but in her heart of hearts she was very in favor.)
Amber wants all the hot guys to kiss. So she can watch. And write smut.
definitely the video games.
The video game thing has become a sore subject ever since a certain record got broken.
Is she STILL going on about that? Sheesh, talk about a broken record!
(thankyouthankyoui’llbehereallnightpleasetipyourwaitstaff)
Pooh wait she’s still sore about losing the Mario Kart world record to Sal…well I guess that literally was a big thing to her she had going.
Wasn’t it also earlier that day? lol. its still a very fresh wound.
Yeah time goes slowly indeed in the Dumbiverse
It was a few hours ago at most, yeah she’s still allowed to be sore/upset about something she cares about being taken from her yeah.
It happened like a few hours ago at most, and she hasn’t had time away from people to process. I can’t blame her for still being upset about that.
Mostly the video games thing. Sounds like Asher doesn’t know about Sal’s record-breaking yet.
Asher doesn’t know, so he hasn’t told Ethan who also doesn’t know.
(Whew, salvaged that one. I swear I know which character is which.)
Video games. The Asher thing is meant to change the subject
little surprised the alt-text isn’t “ah, there’s the rage” xD
Did server time shift again or is COVID causing me hallucinations?
I’m sorry to hear about the COVID! Rest well and thoroughly!
Thanks for the support, and tell me about it
My head and body feel like they’re full of lead and hella clammy, and while i thankfully got Paxlovid in time, it makes my mouth feel like a metal paper shredder :/
I am sorry to hear you are not feeling well. I don’t know if the clock shifted, but if so it is by less than 7ish minutes (it was posting at 3 after the hour for me a while ago and it was up for me before 10 after the hour).
How hot is sin exactly? If we go by the bible, it is presumably hot enough to ignite sulfur – which may not be that hot as sulfur is pretty flammable. However, it never says which molecular form of sulfur or under what pressure it is burning.
Also, if the lake of fire is burning forever and ever it would presumably run out of sulfur to sublimate at some point, unless instead it is just molten sulfur? Octasulfur is a liquid between 115.21 and 444.6 degrees Celsius, so maybe sin is between those temperatures? However, those at one atmosphere of pressure and the lake of fire may in fact be far below sea level even underground or at the bottom of an oceanic trench. Maybe it is up high in volcanic caldera?
So many questions – which presumably form the basis of demonic pop science quizzes, hell’s true torture.
Relatively cool, perhaps. I wish I had a reference to offer, to someone’s calculations (based on hints about heavenly insolation from Isaiah(?) and the boiling point of sulfur) that heaven must be hotter than hell.
He’s not even that hot. Informed Attractiveness is in action.
Ethan, the actual Replacement Mike
Maybe. Mike was intentionally mean. Ethan is just depressed.
Ok, WAY depressed.
I’m surprised how quietly Becky and Dina are doing it while several conversations are happening.
That dinosaur plushie must muffle noises pretty well.
Lesbian sex doesn’t produce noise, by nature of biology. You see, lesbians are born with multiple pockets of a sound-absorbing foam-like tissue, which expands during arousal. They could be going at it like they’re animated on ones and you’d never know.
Oh please, you want me to believe Dina would not emit some kind of dino mating call? Preposterous!
Dina isn’t at this party.
She is? It’s happening in her room? Or am I just dense and you are making a “People don’t notice Dina’s presence” joke?
M’aiq knows much, tells some.
Dobra, film zaczyna się gdy Franek Dolas (znany również jako Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz) pilnuje granicy Polsko-Niemieckiej. Strzela do jakiegoś podejrzanego typa i Nagle rozpętuje się Piekło i Druga Wojna Światowa! Biedak jest przekonany że rozpętał wojnę i przez trzy filmy błąka się po Europie i Afryce i różnych frontach wojny.
wth, it that Polish?
Yeah
we need more cognates for Polish words in English, I say, recognizing “film” from cda.pl
Haha now I’m getting an urge to watch Franek’s adventures again
I read this entire thing in a British nature documentary narrator voice. No regrets ^^
They crawled inside it like a Tauntaun.
“And I thought they smelled like sex on the outside!” XD
Only thing she’s got is being terminally online.
Relatable.
Amber getting drunk and making bad decisions means…being emotionally unguarded for once? I can’t tell if AG/Ambs subconsciously knows this was possible but I’m happy to see it.
“What did I say?”
“Change of subject, please.”
“Oh dang. Are you sucking at video games now?”
“CHANGE OF SUBJECT PLEASE.”
There’s more to games that playing a single level of a single mario game over and over and over and over and over and over and over, Amber.
To be fair when you are in a real mental dump repeating a single section can be… grounding. It gives you some kind of goal and direction when you have no emotional energy for anything else.
How about a game of Global Thermonuclear War?
Yeah, worse case scenario if you bored still, you can always be like me and start making your own! :p
Poor clueless drunk Ethan, innocently reminding Amber of the Sal Mario Kart thing
Oh look Dorothy and Joyce on the lesbian dream horse header! Thank you!
Damn it can’t post image
First time I’m seeing alchool working reversely as I usually expected
he hasn’t seen the leaderboard has he