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Hyperfocused

by David M Willis on September 19, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: carla, charlie, fuckface

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  1. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    September 19, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Lizard Power, MAKE UP!!!! ^^

    • Nicepainter
      Nicepainter
      September 19, 2024 at 7:11 am | #

      [Insert Sailor Moon Transformation Here]

      Also kinda cool to see a Sailor Moon reference here

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 19, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    I thought lizards just gave a plus to charisma.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      September 19, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Maybe it’s a +10 to your lowest stat

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        September 19, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        Does that mean if we put it on Mary’s head, she’ll develop empathy?

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          September 19, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

          Fuckface doesn’t deserve that.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          September 19, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

          Empathy isn’t actually a stat so no. That’s more of an alignment. Mary’s lowest stat is probably wisdom or maybe charisma as well, but charisma isn’t always just people liking you. Charlie’s lowest stat is probably perception which is why she’s getting the situational awareness buff if Fuckface in fact buffs your lowest stat and not just whatever is convenient and funny.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            September 19, 2024 at 1:15 am | #

            That depends on your RPG. Empathy is a stat in ForeSight.

            • Azhrei Vep
              Azhrei Vep
              September 19, 2024 at 6:40 am | #

              Was gonna say, there’s a handful out there where it most assuredly is a stat. Not familiar with that one, but it’s all over White Wolf’s various games.

            • CombustibleLemons
              CombustibleLemons
              September 20, 2024 at 8:09 pm | #

              Empathy’s also a stat in Disco Elysium!

          • Bryy
            Bryy
            September 19, 2024 at 6:11 am | #

            It’s not a stat *yet*.

            *Whips out game dev notebook*

            • Michael Steamweed
              Michael Steamweed
              September 19, 2024 at 7:37 am | #

              So when’s DoA: the RPG coming out? Is it out yet? This a Backerkit or Kickstarter thing yet? (*looks at watch; looks back at you)

              • Decidedly Orthogonal
                Decidedly Orthogonal
                September 19, 2024 at 9:06 am | #

                Pretty sure we’ve been watching a session playing it from the start.

                • NGPZ
                  NGPZ
                  September 19, 2024 at 3:00 pm | #

                  currently I am working on a game not set at all in the DoA universe but is something Dina would love ^^

                  I must get stronger at game dev if I want any DoA game to happen. Training resumes now.

                • Michael Steamweed
                  Michael Steamweed
                  September 21, 2024 at 6:38 am | #

                  Playtesting is an important part of the process! 😀

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            September 19, 2024 at 6:59 am | #

            Buffing whatever’s the most convenient and/or funny would be more entertaining!

      • Tan
        Tan
        September 19, 2024 at 9:01 am | #

        Are you suggesting that charisma (or perhaps “persuasion”) is Joyce’s LOWEST stat?

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          September 19, 2024 at 11:10 am | #

          She’s just so powerful

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      September 19, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      Most lizards, yes. Fuckface is no normal lizard.

    • Wereg
      Wereg
      September 19, 2024 at 3:23 am | #

      According to Pathfinder, they actually give you +2 to armour class and +2 to perception.

      • spriteless aunty
        spriteless aunty
        September 20, 2024 at 5:05 pm | #

        woah woah woah she’s not committing to a familiar here!

  3. Proxiehunter
    Proxiehunter
    September 19, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Maybe she needs a weighted blanket for her head.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      September 19, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      or one of Dina’s hats! ^^

    • Mollyscribbles
      Mollyscribbles
      September 19, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Maybe a heavy hat?

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        September 19, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

        She’d have to avoid sharp cattle grates.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          September 19, 2024 at 1:15 am | #

          Hah!

      • SarahTerra
        SarahTerra
        September 19, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

        Pachycephalosaurus hat!

      • bubba0077
        bubba0077
        September 19, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

        Or her own emotional support iguana.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        September 19, 2024 at 2:14 am | #

        There is such a thing as a weighted hat. They put pressure around the rim of your head. I was going to try one, but I couldn’t find one big enough for my great melon head.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          September 19, 2024 at 10:26 am | #

          Make your own, with a section of a purple bowling ball and some kind of scarf or other cloth wrap. Like Piccolo.

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      September 19, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

      Weighted Plushie! I have one that often helps me fall asleep.

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        September 19, 2024 at 6:35 am | #

        Do you use it on your head or just hold it?

  4. Davus
    Davus
    September 19, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Honestly, this might be a huge realization.
    Maybe Charlie just needed something to ground her??
    IDK.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      September 19, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

      So her problem is the rubber soled shoes?

    • Regret
      Regret
      September 19, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      Yeah, I glibly and only half-seriously said that Charlie needed medication, but this kinda proves my point. Except that Charlie needs an Iguana instead of meds, but meh, same diff.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        September 19, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

        If your local pharmacy doesn’t carry iguanas for prescription, then what good is that pharmacy?

      • Theluxland
        Theluxland
        September 19, 2024 at 8:24 am | #

        It’s literally that.
        I had ADHD and actually medicated myself without knowing by taking coffee, without knowing. My doctor said to me ”With this, you won’t have to take coffee anymore” and he was right.
        Now coffee is just a guilty pleasure once or twice a month, not an obligation.

        • Uly
          Uly
          September 19, 2024 at 2:28 pm | #

          That’s very common.

          My mother, passionate coffee drinker, used to take coffee to fall asleep. She didn’t argue with me that much when I told her that’s practically diagnostic.

    • Lux
      Lux
      September 19, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

      Wouldn’t surprise me if Davus is right. The effort of balancing the iguana on their head might functionally work like stimming

    • Bittersweet
      Bittersweet
      September 19, 2024 at 7:59 am | #

      I feel like I’ve said before that Charlie seems like she might need a service animal of some sort!

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 19, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    My Little Iguana: Friendship is Magic!

  6. Dana
    Dana
    September 19, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Good to see that Charlie is on board with Carla’s being ace.

    • staszu13
      staszu13
      September 19, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Yes. Liked Carla in panel three: “Maybe I need to explain this better”

  7. EtchJetty
    EtchJetty
    September 19, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    omg the power of fuckface. charlie has reentered the timestream

  8. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    September 19, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    the POWER of FUCKFACE comPELS YOU

    PUHHHH-RAISE FUCKFACE

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      September 19, 2024 at 7:41 am | #

      I never wanted in on the Hypnotoad bandwagon, but I’m here for the Fuckface bandwagon.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      September 19, 2024 at 7:52 am | #

      “It’s not that compelling,” said no one, ever.

  9. staszu13
    staszu13
    September 19, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Do I detect a slight smile of pride on the iguana?

    • Dara
      Dara
      September 19, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

      You’re not the only one xD

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 19, 2024 at 7:16 am | #

      Fuckface has a perpetual smirk when you see him from most angles. It’s part of his charm!

  10. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    September 19, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Fuckface has so many magical powers that I’m beginning to think I should start keeping a list.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      September 19, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

      We have yet to discern whether or not the powers are his or are merely drawing out his head-hosts’ own innate abilities.

      • Strain of Thought
        Strain of Thought
        September 19, 2024 at 1:16 am | #

        Wait, wait, wait. Is… is Fuckface a mini-con???

        DAVID WILLIS HAS THIS ALL BEEN A HOT SHOT JOKE

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          September 19, 2024 at 2:35 pm | #

          What is this thing you earthlings call a “mini-con”?

          I know alien parasites are also sometimes capable of drawing out their hosts’ innate abilities, hence my suggestion.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      September 19, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      It is one of those modular powers things where there is a different effect on each person.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 19, 2024 at 7:17 am | #

      Before we know it, he’ll be water-skiing over sharks and fixing things by hitting them.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        September 19, 2024 at 7:42 am | #

        I understood that reference!

      • Arbi
        Arbi
        September 19, 2024 at 10:18 am | #

        I give this reference one thumb up.

  11. VolticEXE
    VolticEXE
    September 19, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Relationships like Carla described can definitely work out (See ex.: Me & my soon-to-be Husband after 10 years), but its good they recognized that for their case, it wouldn’t. It can take a lot of work & meeting in the middle.

  12. Bobcat
    Bobcat
    September 19, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Iguanadderall

  13. Yumi
    Yumi
    September 19, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    I wonder how Malaya and Marcie are doing post timeskip. We saw them getting cuddly before the jump, and they’ve been shown hanging out since, but more recent appearances haven’t been clear on relationship status.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      September 19, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      I think not too long ago post-timeskip there was a bonus comic of them?

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        September 19, 2024 at 9:25 am | #

        bonus strip for July 2021 (book 11 I think). They’re making out.

        • BorkBorkBork
          BorkBorkBork
          September 19, 2024 at 10:10 am | #

          That’s great to know. For the rest of us – it just kind of ended on a final will-they-won’t-they and we didn’t *really* get something confirming whether they have a relationship or not.

          … actually, considering what Carla says here about Malaya’s attitude, I still wonder what their relationship is. We still haven’t seen much of Marcie post-timeskip.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            September 19, 2024 at 2:07 pm | #

            first panel in Willis’ comment block: https://www.dumbingofage.com/intrusive/
            Also a first panel of Marcie+Malaya back in their October: https://www.dumbingofage.com/smol/

            Book 11 is post timeskip. They’re not just making out, btw, they’re fucking. Another book 11 bonus strip.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      September 19, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      I’d be interested in that too. I wonder if Malaya’s experimentation with gender expression has created a hurdle for them as a couple. It was brought up once by Malaya and Marcie shrugged it off, but we never got much after that. We don’t really see Marcie much in general anymore.

      • NickG
        NickG
        September 19, 2024 at 3:15 pm | #

        There’s a Patreon bonus comic in which Marcie clearly finds Malaya adopting a more ‘masculine’ look a massive turn on.

  14. Nono
    Nono
    September 19, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    Charlie is a time traveler!

  15. Taffy
    Taffy
    September 19, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

    Oh, was the fourth panel censored? It looked different earlier.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 19, 2024 at 11:27 pm | #

      You slipped worlds again.

  16. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    September 19, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

    This reminds me of a lecture given by my 9th grade math teacher (who also taught psych) where he used a metre stick, and wobbled it slowly, while explaining that by taking up “multiple channels” he can take more attention of people who have ADHD, making them focus better.

    It helped me a lot, but because I didn’t have ADHD I brushed it off as an anomaly.

    I was diagnosed with ADHD three years later.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      September 19, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

      I saw something recently — on YouTube, maybe — in which a teacher said that he always kept a lavalamp on his desk in his classrooms for the help of students who might benefit from something to stare at other than him. No questions, no diagnoses, no labels. Just a lavalamp on the table.

      • Esolo
        Esolo
        September 19, 2024 at 11:35 am | #

        It’s hard because while I can absolutely see how that would be super helpful for some students, I personally would find it to be a distraction that would make it harder for me to pay attention, and I can’t imagine I’m the only person who would have that issue.

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      September 19, 2024 at 6:06 am | #

      I’m not formally ADHD and I don’t believe I ever will be, but I used to fidget or try to fall asleep in corporate trainings and meetings even when I was interested in what was happening. As soon as I started bringing my knitting to class/meeting (with permission), no more problem.

      • cory
        cory
        September 19, 2024 at 6:53 am | #

        Yeah, sometimes I think ADHD testing is just way over-complicated. Just see whose notebooks are full of short hand notes about the subject squidged in between detailed doodle dioramas of fantasy battle fields and zombie hands and spider schoolgirls who solved crimes (they weren’t anime, they were spiders with berets and hockey sticks. There’s a lot of lore, we can’t get into it now).

        Yep! Diagnosis delivered!

        (I am being facetious…I mean, even I was sometimes just bored and maladaptive daydreaming didn’t work in the slammy teachers classes…but I think it is a pretty good tell.)

    • Kimi
      Kimi
      September 19, 2024 at 6:48 am | #

      I have never really had any trouble with classes (maybe because I can fidget through taking notes), but I have found that I cannot pay attention while doing exercises with weights or machines. Talking a walk or a hike is fine (things to see or look at), but just trying to keep track of reps while doing muscle exercises is too boring for my mind. I get so easily distracted, thinking about other things and not paying attention to what I am doing, which isn’t safe. If there is someone there to talk to me, or something else like an interesting thing on tv or music, I find that I can do the routine better. Otherwise, doing any mundane repetitive task (like sorting colored sticks) would be easier, since I can think about other things while doing it. Having something to fidget with also helps me in conversations, especially if the person is very slow in telling the story or getting to the point of the matter (aka sys that they have a funny story but it requires 5 minutes of backstory first). It isn’t that I don’t want to pay attention, but just having something helps me to focus. It is odd in the situations that it emerges in and the ones that it doesn’t.

      • Mark
        Mark
        September 19, 2024 at 7:38 am | #

        Yup, formal exercise is booooring. Perhaps because it’s too simple. I’d much rather do some hard work that takes some planning and study while doing it.

  17. tomorand
    tomorand
    September 19, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

    not a lot of talk about Carla’s possible past(?) crush(?) on malaya… does seem like something that’ll be addressed soon, and not an angle i’ve thought of!

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      September 19, 2024 at 6:50 am | #

      Did they date before? I want to see it.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        September 19, 2024 at 7:44 am | #

        Appropriate gravatar is appropriate!

  18. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    September 19, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

    Thinking caps are out, focus iguanas are in.

    • Jesse
      Jesse
      September 19, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

      I’ll take twelve!

  19. dalniente
    dalniente
    September 19, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

    The power of the focal split, baybeee

  20. Jesse
    Jesse
    September 19, 2024 at 1:44 am | #

    Ohh, she really isn’t stupid, she’s just ADHD as fuuuck.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      September 19, 2024 at 1:55 am | #

      Was that in question?

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      September 19, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

      I’m actually not sure where you got “stupid” from in the first place.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        September 19, 2024 at 7:21 am | #

        It’s what an unfortunate number of people who don’t know what ADHD is mistake its signs for. :\

        • Mark
          Mark
          September 19, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

          I though it was just that there’s so much interesting stuff in the world to think about.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      September 19, 2024 at 7:45 am | #

      Booster and Charlie have similar perceptive skills. Charlie is a tad more attention-superposition. Booster is a tad more focused.

    • Jesse
      Jesse
      September 19, 2024 at 9:56 am | #

      In my defense, I’m a lapsed reader and knew almost nothing about this character.

      • Queen Anthai
        Queen Anthai
        September 19, 2024 at 1:37 pm | #

        So the very first thing you went with was “stupid”? Wow.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          September 19, 2024 at 6:10 pm | #

          Oh, a new character is on-panel? Must be a knuckle-scraping Cro-Magnon with a taste for crayons.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        September 19, 2024 at 10:46 pm | #

        This was not a good defense. As a heads up for next time.

  21. Professional asexual
    Professional asexual
    September 19, 2024 at 2:30 am | #

    GET CHAR A WEIGHTED BEANIE STAT

    • Professional asexual
      Professional asexual
      September 19, 2024 at 2:30 am | #

      Hehehehe perfect gravatar

    • Holly
      Holly
      September 19, 2024 at 10:32 am | #

      I was thinking a bowler hat with a weighted headband

  22. Lory
    Lory
    September 19, 2024 at 3:00 am | #

    Now I wish I had a brain focus iguana too. Linear events?! I have witnessed people act in this strange way, like there was only one thing on their mind, or maybe two. Alien. First I thought they were some kind of master monks, then I thought they were really dim. Then I forgot about them because something came up

  23. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    September 19, 2024 at 3:23 am | #

    … I’ve tried concocting something like 5 different “lizard-brain” puns and they all ended up feeling like they might be taken as insulting towards neurodivergent folk, so I’m just going to call it quits for the night.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 19, 2024 at 3:28 am | #

      But before I go I will say that this is playing out a lot better than a chicken on your head. … and I’m pretty sure at least one geek here will get that reference.

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        September 19, 2024 at 4:59 am | #

        They’ll never pick it up

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        September 19, 2024 at 10:22 am | #

        Is this a reference to that Munchkin card game? I haven’t played it, but the Google result looked familiar.

      • Lawzlo
        Lawzlo
        September 19, 2024 at 1:31 pm | #

        I have no idea what you are referencing, but I will counter with a different reference: “Randy was only afraid of two things: chickens, and that funny hat the Pope wears, but only because he thought there was a chicken under it.”

  24. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    September 19, 2024 at 4:47 am | #

    It’s like the thinking helmet for Detritus.

    • Adept
      Adept
      September 19, 2024 at 5:34 am | #

      Clearly

  25. Maddie B
    Maddie B
    September 19, 2024 at 5:39 am | #

    My Little Dumbing: Fuckface is Magic

  26. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    September 19, 2024 at 6:21 am | #

    it IS kinda weird

  27. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    September 19, 2024 at 6:49 am | #

    Dumbing of Age’s storyline new title: “Iguana dares you to change”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 19, 2024 at 7:23 am | #

      “I Guana” by The All-American Rejects.

  28. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    September 19, 2024 at 7:34 am | #

    Fuckface is the best weighted blanket of all time.

    • BorkBorkBork
      BorkBorkBork
      September 19, 2024 at 10:34 am | #

      Look at that expression in the last panel. He’s downright bashful.

  29. goggleman64
    goggleman64
    September 19, 2024 at 8:33 am | #

    “Events are occuring linearly” is the most relateable Charlie’s been for me ~

  30. thumb
    thumb
    September 19, 2024 at 8:48 am | #

    Carla is tragically attracted to people ignoring her.

  31. Mustachio
    Mustachio
    September 19, 2024 at 9:24 am | #

    Don’t pee down my back and tell me it’s raining.

    • Meeks
      Meeks
      September 19, 2024 at 6:05 pm | #

      What?

  32. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    September 19, 2024 at 10:13 am | #

    As foretold in the Animal Alphabet. I want an iguana.
    https://youtu.be/0nspuSDshHs?feature=shared

  33. Yeet
    Yeet
    September 19, 2024 at 11:37 am | #

    I wonder if that can count as a service animal

  34. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    September 19, 2024 at 2:10 pm | #

    I hope Charlie’s “I’ve had relationships like that” means the compatible thing and not the incompatible thing for these two.

  35. anon
    anon
    September 19, 2024 at 4:21 pm | #

    lol i’m curious what kinda exes charlie has , but hurray for Fuckface Focus buff 8D;

  36. Dday
    Dday
    September 20, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Man, wish it was that simple… never had great experiences with meds, gimme a Rx for head iguana.

  37. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    September 20, 2024 at 2:22 am | #

    And it def wouldn’t work in an alternate universe where I am a car

  38. Throwatron
    Throwatron
    September 21, 2024 at 3:00 am | #

    i actually dont remember when it was established that carla was ace but thats cool

    • Throwatron
      Throwatron
      September 21, 2024 at 3:01 am | #

      sorry i just wanna clarify i meant that enthusiastically, by lazily skipping all formatting i realized it could read otherwise

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