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If there’s a new ship in your neighborhood
Who you gonna call? Ghost Booster!
If people flirt, and it does look good
Who you gonna call? Ghost Booster!
And I now realize that I used the incorrect pronoun, which would be the cause of the confusion. I wish that we had something different for gender neutral singular because by brain absolutely hates “they” as a singular subject. Sometimes I can’t decide if my brain or thr English language is worse.
In my upcoming animated adaptation of this comment thread, Cassie’s name is pronounced “KOSS-yay”, and Casi’s is pronounced “KAZ-ih”. We’ve already got half of Grey Griffin’s dialogue recorded, but you’ll never guess who she plays.
probably cuz every time it picks randomly from the pool of *all* the avatars, and there’s no rule preventing it from picking the one you already have (odds of it happening are ~1/30)
Ah! Another season of my favorite show! Grav Roulette: The Search for Sal. I always fear each season will be the last but it inevitably renews. I have, like many, opted to draw and input my own unique grav but I do sometimes miss the chase!
Sal was difficult, but not the most difficult this time around. I’ve seen very few Amazigirls so I suspect she’s the hard one this time, though I finally found her. I’ve seen plenty of Beckys, but I can’t seem to get one.
Why walk away from where the trash can isn’t? “I’m throwing away my cup.”, Panel 3. He has to walk to the trash can to get to the trash can. He can’t get there by staying at the table. Walking toward Sarah would only result in collision with Sarah, not the trash can.
Let it be known I did not type the “pp”, my phone is just haunted and the phantom inputs are aggressive. (In fact, while typing this, it’s opened up several extra tabs, nearly every app, and almost signed me up for HBO Max using my autofill.)
Obligatory philosophical musings meant to undermine cultural norms of “polite” and “impolite” as containing any well-defined and relevant meaning, thereby making the distinction pointless.
Gotta say I don’t know how I feel about Tony being a guy who says “buffoonery”. Really changed my perspective on him. I just don’t’t know where I’d stand.
Worse than “tomfoolery”, not as bad as “shenanigans”. And for gays sake be wary of anyone who uses “hijinx” regularly. Once every fort night is acceptable.
Fat fingered a report on your comment when I was going to reply, so my bad.
I think it’s to help denote his father/family being older/old money, that WASPy young but also kind of old soul approach. But he seems mostly really good on stuff so it could be a fun contrast.
I wonder if this will get us more insight into his dad and his dad’s generation, which will then maybe get us more insight into Walky’s mom and so on.
I think Tony takes after his father (the Dean) in many ways. Very no-nonsense; kind of old-fashioned in mannerisms but open-minded and generally humane.
I mean buffoonery might evoke a specific type of behavior /trait in mind b/c saying something like “i don’t have time for idiots” might come off as condescending even if you don’t mean like “average/below average” on paper/test taking wise lol
What’s with this persistent misconception that you can absorb nutrients and chemicals via other people’s clothes and skin? No, Sarah should not put her coffee in Booster’s lap, because then Sarah won’t get the caffeine. Gods, I get that culture is different in the Hive Mines of Zeebu 23, where individual bodily continuity gets fuzzy and harder to define, but you space moon brainmelders make it difficult for us individualites sometimes.
The joke is that you are actually a committee that thinks you’re an individuality because there is a subcommittee whose job is to is to explain yourself to you and that subcommittee really makes stuff up wholesale that kind of makes sense, and then the committee as a whole believes what the subcommittee reports.
Mike’s dickish behavior was born out of general spite and genuine care for others’ ability to handle negative social interaction in addition to Mike’s penchant for schadenfreude. Booster’s dickish behavior is entirely self-serving by all appearances, and being neurodivergent doesn’t excuse being a dick.
In case you were wondering, a ‘buffoon’ refers to Medieval European entertainers who elicited laughs from a crowd by whacking people with inflated sheep’s bladders.
I, too, do not suffer people to whack me with inflated sheep’s bladders.
As a prepilgarlik ultracrepidarian who engages in uglyography and scurryfunge, I heartily concur provided its not swullocking and the fresh air contains no twirlblasts.
Pilgarlik -Bald. Apparently, in the 16th century, they thought bald men’s heads looked like peeled garlic. Prepilgarlik – someone not bald but headed that way.
Ultracrepidarian – One who gives their opinions on things they don’t know anything about. Became a popular term in Britain in the 19th century.
Uglyography – Poor handwriting.
Scurryfunge – The act of hastily cleaning before a guest arrives.
Swullocking – excessively humid weather.
Twirlblast – A tornado, according to people in the 1700s. Why we switched to tornado is beyond understanding. Though the more general term, cyclone, as a synonym for tornado, was popular among country folk when I was a kid. But twirlblast is perfectly descriptive and it is difficult to understand why we gave it up.
Anybody else have words that need to be trotted out and exercised?
For me, the main problem is sitting down in Tony’s chair uninvited. It’s rude. Hilarious from a comic-reading perspective, and I’m interested to see where this goes, but rude.
Not just the wrong temperature. Tony’s bodyheat is 100% no-nonsense. He’ll sit down and notice the heat in the chair is suddenly much higher nonsense. Booster’s bodyheat is at least 25% wise-cracking.
An action being easily undone isn’t what makes it rude or not? If I did this to someone, it would be to annoy them for giggles, it would be someone I care about, I would be being rude, and I would be doing it on purpose
Becky was supposed to purchase a home and vehicle, fund her own tuition, solve the energy crisis, end all war in the Middle East, and bring back the original 1993 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers merchandise line so Kyle could get a legit vintage Megazord with no color fading. With $20.
The best part of that whole kerfluffle was a year or so later in first kidnapping sequence we get Ross’s “Your hair is your womanhood” and we get a glimpse that it wasn’t as unimportant as it might have seemed.
I think people are afraid Booster will do something For The Plot, in a way that will have negative effects for Sarah, who has already been through quite a bit between how things went with Jacob and being attacked by an incel and also the lasting damage from Raidah’s bullshit. Like, Booster has done things that were not wrong but were also not polite or arguably necessary, like the floor meeting analysis or how they treated Amber after she asked them to befriend Ethan. So I think it’s just preemptive dread rather than that they have already done something objectionable.
I love Booster a lot actually, but also they have just inserted themself into someone else’s date between one person they have barely interacted with and another they haven’t at all (to our knowledge), sitting down in someone else’s chair uninvited.
Like sitting at someone else’s table uninvited just in general is pretty rude if you aren’t close enough to that person to have standing invitation to be around them (so in Sarah’s case, Joyce could). But Sarah also trying to have a romantic moment with a new guy really amplifies it. This is a moment that is Not Cool to interfere with, unless they have a really good reason that is not yet obvious.
Also just in general I think a lot of us personally resonate with telling someone to go away and leave us alone because you’re in my space uninvited and I don’t want that right now, and that person not respecting that.
ALL OF THAT SAID. I still love Booster a lot and look forward to them in pretty much any other context than this.
Yeah, for me, its just that they’re doing anything here. This is Sarah and Tony’s moment, they seem to be having a good time together, Booster coming along to wedge themself in there is just rude.
Particularly since Booster has a tendency towards amateur psychology bullshit, inserting themself and commenting on situations that others have not asked for help with.
Sarah seems to have a potential issue that she’s taller than Tony, but if Booster comes up here to comment on it, that would just be an asshole thing to do… and also entirely in keeping with previous scenes involving Booster.
Some might’ve considered it/welcomed sitting down/near but i guess it does come off as pretty rude, esp with someone like Sarah who’s very antisocial /wouldn’t go outta her way to befriend
i mean as long s you’re not trying to annoy him on purpose, i think most pplwould be happy to let live, esp in a place like college where one would say, ‘get their buffoonery out of their system’ before going into the ‘adult world’ or so lol
Can’t wait to see him irritated at walky more but i wonder if he tolerates ‘accidental buffoonery’/natural to one’s personality as opposed to intentional buffoonery like walky
I really want Sarah to not let the “I am taller than him” thing get in the way. Tony seems like a good match. And Booster is there… we will see where they are going with this. I suppose.
I want Sarah to choose a partner based on whatever criteria she deems important. It’s as important to be physically into and comfy with your partner as any other compatibility issue!
That’s just more of physical attraction, she seems to connect with him otherwise unless it’s gonna give us a cut to them in the bedroom and being like “Sorry, not feeling it ” or so
When I was younger I dreamed of dating somebody with this low bullshit attitude. Never happened but oh it would have been nice. Knowing whats expected, not playing “Guess the emotion I”m having now” while I sit and look constipated at you. Hope she does not mess this up.
Yeah, that sounds nice. It’s asking the other to take on quite a bit of risk, though, early in the relationship. “Guess how I’m going to react to your frankness.”
As someone who is plain-speaking and straightforward, it doesn’t tend to work well. Even people who say they want openness and honesty tend to be terrified of it when they actually receive it – and often don’t reciprocate in kind.
She is absolutely going to mess this up. Because Willis.
Basically what I expect to happen is for Sarah, who regards herself as having a no-nonsense attitude and being impatient of nonsense on the part of others, to turn out to be *too nonsense* for Tony, provoking a crisis of self on her part.
Booster’s surname is Sanchez, but people with Hispanic surnames often take one family name from each parent. I live in hope that Booster’s other family name is Rodriguez
The foreseeable problem, of course, is that Sarah is constantly surrounded by and lives with buffoonery, and I’m pretty sure she’d choose her friendships and Joyce over any guy, buffoon or not. She talks a big game, but what’s it gonna be like when that’s actually challenged by someone who legitimately doesn’t suffer buffoonery?
Was just thinking this. I foresee a “Damn you Willis! moment coming. A specific one dealing with this new maybe relationship mind you, not the general one that’s always lurking in the shadows.
Booster, please do not screw this up for Sarah. She deserves at least a few good things, and this potential relationship with her and Tony seems like it could be good for her.
Reusable cups would mean the cafe would need the same scale of dishwashing utilities as a sit-down restaurant, instead of just a small machine to wash their preparation utensils. Customers would break them, walk out the door with them, or throw them away.
Giving everyone disposable cups is wasteful but streamlines their workflow.
It depends on whether they have table service, or if they’re basically a lunch counter with tables. The Panda Express locations I’ve been to give everyone their orders in take-out containers with disposable tableware, even though they have tables. There’s a pizza chain in my region that has disposable everything, but they give you your plates and cutlery on a reusable cafeteria tray.
Cafes are sit down places! I guess we have a select few places where I’m from that are more like take away spots with a counter at the window, but this place looks a little fancier than that, so I was surprised to see the single use cup.
I lived in Italy for a bit and we used to buy coffee to consume while standing (it cost more if you sat down). Still served in regular cups!
It… can get complicated. Re-washing crockery means you need to use water, soap, and possibly hot water. You may also need to use dryers to dry the crockery before they can be sent out to customers again. All of those also involve resource and electricity costs, which when you break it down, depending on your exact location and availability of resources and how the electricity is produced, might actually cost the environment MORE than if you used disposable (and biodegradable) one-use cups that can benefit from things like mass production and economies of scale.
It really won’t. To get that result you have to be super inefficient in washing the cups. Now, in a perverse enough environment it may _cost_ the business more to use durable cups, but that is a whole ’nother argument.
A commercial dishwashing setup is generally very small, takes a few minutes to run, and is going to have a way smaller environmental impact than either producing/transporting the paper in a cup or washing by hand does. They are, however, pretty expensive.
The main practical issue, aside from the fact that these things cost thousands of dollars, is that a lot of cafes are in generic ‘shop’ slots that might not even have water or 240V hookups. I have seen some that are literally just a counter with an espresso machine on it.
should also mention that while the marginal environmental impact of an individual paper cup is very small, a successful store will be handing out hundreds a day, and there are a lot of indirect impacts of the infrastructure to produce and distribute them, not to mention that almost all of them are going to end up either on the ground or in a landfill (or being burned in a recycling plant, because they’re probably not recyclable).
This kind of thing is why I think we’re not really meant to live in such large, dense settlements. I can’t fully articulate the connection, but it’s something that’s been at the back of my mind.
Most places definitely default to disposable cups, if not offering only that. Some part might be that customers may want the option to leave with the rest of their drink after they’ve been sitting with it for a few minutes, but it’s mostly about what the store deems beneficial in big chains. And unfortunately, big chains set a lot of the norms for these things.
Dunno if it’s “American” but yes, it’s done here in the USA. Probably it’s more “cheap” and/or “lazy”. By now it’s ingrained habit in the hospitality community: opening a certain kind of establishment? just make everything to-go and buy big trash bins.
He’s on the football team, I imagine there’s some level of socializing involved? Maybe not his first pick but he probably interacts with more people than Sarah.
The artwork is generally pretty accurate when it comes to local landmarks. Are you telling me there’s really a coffee shop in Bloomington with that wacky-ass wallpaper?
I like how the way the afterlife works there is actually something which can actually make sense even without belief in the supernatural
recounts of people’s lives passed on via oral tradition, that which they have written, marks on the world such as those by Akira Toriyama and countless others, etc.
stores of information in our brains and in recorded media, that which comprises Collective Memory, altogether comprise the “dimension” that is *itself* the afterlife, it is the means by which a person has continued influence on the world and influence on the people in it even long after they have died
thus when one is no longer present in Collective Memory, they cease to have that influence, and thus cease to have a presence in the afterlife
Booster I am usually a fan of your shenanigans but if you end up cock blocking (or clam jamming…whatever the appropriate term is here) poor Sarah I will officially sanction you getting eaten by a grue.
So obviously Booster is hinting to Sara that she is taller then Tony which may mean she might try to sabotage something that is good for you beacuse of insecurities. So she needs to overcome it.
On the other hand Booster needs to learn not to solicit psychological advice when not prompted also shouldn’t beacuse they’re not a psychologist or pyschiatrist yet and honestly needs to take ethics lessons if they haven’t already they need more.
Half of that is not really things they had done. They had analyzed people but they are not like mike that actively try to manipulate people to make them confront stuff. They mostly just talk.
There was a whole arc with Carla and Charlie, Also being friends with Ethan. Also they have with Walky several timmes Booster is quite capable and does actively make people into confronting things, unlike Mike they don’t really minipulate people they are pretty direct and its often unsolicited.
Carla and Charlie wasn’t any kind of manipulation, it was them not introducing someone who wanted to date their sister to her because they didn’t trust her, that is completely understandable.
lol of course booster would show up. it’s one thing to pass by or take a table near these two but weird that they also just basically took his seat lol
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dammit Booster, leave Tony’s seat and stop making me hungry! XD
*plays “Buffoonery” from SpongeBob Music on hacked muzak*
Yes Booster is cryptic.
No they can’t sit there.
Tony does not suffer buffoonery; he also does not suffer chicanery.
The occasional shenanigans are fine, though. ;D
he’s built like a steakhouse but he handles like a bistro
More like a beefstro, am I right kids?
Beefstro is a comic book villain for sure.
I am continually baffled by the lack of a Ghost Rider style supervillain named “The Vicious Cycle”.
You would think someone at Marvel, DC or Image would have pounced on that by now.
Takes notes.
Sounds more like an Incredibles villain… but yeah 100%. Or maybe DyW. The Incellerator’s head hench or the person Incelmo answers to?
Nah, no one remembers Beefstros.
That’s why they turn to villany.
I believe I understood that reference!
Hitchhiker’s Guide, yeah?
The Bistromathics drive?
Booster was there all along. They’ve been taking lessons from Dina.
Booster was behind the door?
Booster has put their own spin on it, and become the door.
I don’t mind marci but lets see if i can get sal
robin is acceptable
I would think so.
indubitably
Charlie gravatar adds nicely to that question.
They are a fast learner.
The snarks are coming from Inside The Tony!
It is Ghost Booster in Sarahs mind – like Ghost Mike in Ambers. Just look at the shading.
If there’s a new ship in your neighborhood
Who you gonna call? Ghost Booster!
If people flirt, and it does look good
Who you gonna call? Ghost Booster!
With Sarah’s luck lately, the next scene is just going to be Tony and Booster making out in front of her.
Hiding among the busy wallpaper.
much like Sam Reich, Booster has been here the whole time.
Booster, Tony is perfectly average height, are you the kind of person that only goes after men of Joe’s height
Maybe! Nothing wrong with that.
The campus average size may have distorted Booster’s view of men. (Willis likes his giants.)
Giant men and short thick women with glasses?
He has a type?
I thought that he fed off of drama and other people’s angst and internal suffering?
I know we’re joking but what you like to draw doesn’t really say anything about any of that. . .
Unless you can draw feet well. Then everyone knows what you’re doing.
I thought that we were talking about Booster?
And I now realize that I used the incorrect pronoun, which would be the cause of the confusion. I wish that we had something different for gender neutral singular because by brain absolutely hates “they” as a singular subject. Sometimes I can’t decide if my brain or thr English language is worse.
It has probably changed over the years considering in the first strip Danny was originally supposed to end up with Mary.
Please tell me there’s another Mary that I didn’t know about.
No, there was some heavy flirtation between Danny and Mary in the ancient scrolls. Both of them were scumfuck killjoys and it didn’t work out.
aw cmon they called him filet mignon!
I guess new gravatar shuffle? Good luck to everyone I guess.
new gravitars? Do they stick to an email?
hell yeah! blowjob cat.
Ooh! What do I get I wonder!? I’ve had Sarah for a while now…
Appropriate juxtaposition!
Everyone changed? Or is it a ”Normal character thing”?
Perfect gravatar is perfect.
You can basically change the capitalization of letters in an email to try and fish for a different one.
I’m currently trying to catch Becky. She’s proving resistant.
Have you considered using a lesbian as bait?
Good thought.
It worked!
But why would they when they already have the best one?
Didn’t know this was a thing.
…testing to see if it works.
Huh, wow, it does.
Also testing. Do I still have the little sister?
Hahaha! Lemme try again.
Oy, it’s roller derby all the way down.
I just keep what fate hands me
There’s an article about Grav Roulette on the Walkypedia.
https://walkypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Grav_Roulette
Bleah I liked who I had. Rolling i guess.
Hm. Let’s see other options
2 gay girls in a row let’s see if we can make it 3
Idk if bj cat counts
Universe really wants me to have Leslie. I was hoping Jocelyne would be in here tbh.
Absofuckinglutely not. One last roll and we’ll see what comes up
Hell yeah last try lucky! I’ll take Carla any day of the week.
So jelly you got Carla, cassie. I’m okay with professor robin tho
BTW if I may ask, are both your names pronounced the same or no?
In my upcoming animated adaptation of this comment thread, Cassie’s name is pronounced “KOSS-yay”, and Casi’s is pronounced “KAZ-ih”. We’ve already got half of Grey Griffin’s dialogue recorded, but you’ll never guess who she plays.
heh, wonder if Willis can fill us in on their orientations ^^
I didn’t realise BJ cat was a real option (I thought a few people had it as a custom one!)
rolling
fine with that, but one more for good measure
i don’t have a gambling problem
Ooh, testing
I guess this is the thread for today’s spin
re: the alt text, booster is absolutely a cryptid, yes.
hmm… i don’t hate lucy, but i don’t love her either.
gravatar roulette GO
oh come on…
squints at site, now you’re just doing this on purpose
…yeah okay, considering I have two panels of Ruth clipped and saved on my desktop because of how much I felt that in my soul, I’m good with this.
Congratulations on achieving your final form.
Final form for now.
Booster may absolutely be a cryptid, but I’m not at all clear where the question is coming from.
Probably from the cultural referent flying over my head.
Probably in the sense of appearing out of nowhere in a paranormal sense?
Wouldn’t that be a spectral?
I totally forgot about Booster; how long has it been since we have seen them?
Strangely though I did not forget about Charlie because she’s with Carla and that delights me.
Roulette time!
How about no?
Forgot to change a letter
Neat, but not Sal.
Hell no
Why didn’t that change anything?
Danny is Sal adjacent, so he’ll work for tonight.
probably cuz every time it picks randomly from the pool of *all* the avatars, and there’s no rule preventing it from picking the one you already have (odds of it happening are ~1/30)
I’ve got a count of 36, not counting the super-rare Arnold one.
1 in 34 by my current calculation. Which is indeed about 1 in 30.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/too
I counted 33 unique ones here, although might be missing one XD
heck, when we get 3 more that’ll legit be enough for a standard roulette wheel hahahaha
Ah, 35. I forgot to count Danny because I have him listed separately for expression.
My list: (loosely alphabetic-ish)
Amazigirl, Asher, Amber, Agatha, Becky
Blowjob Cat, Booster, Brock, Carla, Charlie
Danny, Daisy, Dorothy, Dina, Ethan
Fuckface, Jason, Joyce, Jennifer, Julia Gray
Joe, Jocelyn, Jacob, Liz, Leslie
Lyle, Lucy, Marcie, Malaya, Ruth
Robin, Sarah, Sal, Tony, Walky
Am I missing anyone except for Arnold?
Roz
awe SHIT
now the total number of them actually corresponds with the number of places on a standard roulette wheel! ^-^
Thank you. – 36!
Ah! Another season of my favorite show! Grav Roulette: The Search for Sal. I always fear each season will be the last but it inevitably renews. I have, like many, opted to draw and input my own unique grav but I do sometimes miss the chase!
Sal was difficult, but not the most difficult this time around. I’ve seen very few Amazigirls so I suspect she’s the hard one this time, though I finally found her. I’ve seen plenty of Beckys, but I can’t seem to get one.
And there we are!!!
I’ll do a roll in your honour
Ooh Tony’s in the mix, I’d be okay with him. Or Joe/Asher I guess?
Tony is indeed in the mix.
Last time was basically the party in Joyce’s room where Lucy and Jacob hooked up. So around 5 months ago.
I sometimes forget how long it takes to finish a day, let alone a week.
Or as we like to call 5 months ago around here, day before yesterday.
(Technically they also appeared waking up the morning after.)
So, yesterday in strip time?
Why walk away, that is pretty disrespectful. He can still be romantic even if he likes grumps.
I suspect Tony is not the most romantic guy, like, in general.
He’s only throwing away the coffee cup. He’ll be back.
running back. ba-dum–tish
Why walk away from where the trash can isn’t? “I’m throwing away my cup.”, Panel 3. He has to walk to the trash can to get to the trash can. He can’t get there by staying at the table. Walking toward Sarah would only result in collision with Sarah, not the trash can.
Maybe he was supposed to throw it in from the three point line… oh wait, maybe that’s a different sport.
He’s a football guy, yeah? That’s definitely the one with a three point line. It’s located about 2/3rds of the way down the diamond.pp
Let it be known I did not type the “pp”, my phone is just haunted and the phantom inputs are aggressive. (In fact, while typing this, it’s opened up several extra tabs, nearly every app, and almost signed me up for HBO Max using my autofill.)
Did you remember to get the exorcist app?
Speaking as one himself I don’t know yet if I like or dislike the frequent reminders that Tony is a short king.
He’s around 5’8”? That’s like average. Just that the men as part of the cast have been kinda tall other than Walky.
Kinda funny comment from a Becky gravatar.
It seems like the kind of bullshit he would not suffer.
I think it’s probably getting mentioned so much because it’s going to be part of a plot in a bit here.
Someone’s gonna try sniping him, but they’ll aim for his head and miss because his head is lower than they expected.
Bugs me a bit, but not much. Just seems like commenting on a man’s height is as shallow as commenting on a woman’s breast size.
Ones you could get lost in?
He’s Booster, moment killer.
Obligatory and polite “they” correction for Booster.
They’se Booster, moment killer.
like Hannibal Lecter for moments XD
*they
*they
Obligatory and impolite correction to they/them for Booster to counteract the polite one.
Gratuitous and random lack of any correction to counteract the coherent ones.
Obligatory philosophical musings meant to undermine cultural norms of “polite” and “impolite” as containing any well-defined and relevant meaning, thereby making the distinction pointless.
Evil! Pure and simple. By way of the eighth dimension!
No matter where you go.
Hopefully soon to be Booster, hot coffee wearer.
Hopefully ol’ Boost will fuck right off so SarahTonyn can get back to things.
Now is when Sarah will realize that being a main character in a comic named “Dumbing of Age” means there’s lots of buffoonery in her life.
You never knew it, Sarah, but Booster was always there.
…there.
…there.
…there.
…their.
they’re
Here.
…their’re.
A rival has arrived! But whose rival are they?
Tune in next time for:
Three For Tea
Or
Poly Me Pnother One
-Another-
No, no. I feel Pnother has possibilities.
I’ll have a pnother pnutbutter pnanna sand-witch.
No, the P is fine; it’s silent, ’cause they sit down.
Booster is always with us!
And they ain’t wrong about Tony.
Steak’s taken, Booster!
every nb ive ever met is definitely a cryptid. i think that’s why people keep thinking they don’t exist!
Malaya being a cryptid makes some sort of twisted sense, I guess?
Booster has been a fun addition to the cast.
So far, so has Tony.
Oh yeah, I could get used to this one.
Shaping up to be a good straight man (in the comedic sense). (probably the other sense, too)
Doesn’t like suffering buffoonery.
Takes up with Sarah.
Immediately gets buffooned at by 30+ DoA cast members.
Booster has already been installed to see more.
“Can we get more of Charlie?”
“We have Charlie at home.” –> last panel
Excuse me, I was thinking about steak.
What were you thinking about?
If Booster is a Cryptid, does that mean the Secret Saturdays will soon guest star?
I mean if anything some psych student analyzing some young teens/20 somethings might be more scary than an acutal cyrptid lol
Find it hard to believe Walky didn’t at least point him out to Booster, so that he could make his joke again.
Willis is saving that for the next time Walky wins the pateron poll.
Dina? Acceptable! I too have wanted to engage in sexual relations on top of a giant plush dinosaur.
Haven’t we all?
Gotta say I don’t know how I feel about Tony being a guy who says “buffoonery”. Really changed my perspective on him. I just don’t’t know where I’d stand.
Is it better or worse than tomfoolery?
Worse than “tomfoolery”, not as bad as “shenanigans”. And for gays sake be wary of anyone who uses “hijinx” regularly. Once every fort night is acceptable.
Is hijinx on the same level as hijinks, or will we just chalk that up to regional differences?
I for one would absolutely get a cup of coffee with a guy that says ‘chicanery’.
Lotta people in Louisiana like chicanery root in their coffee.
Piquant .
isn’t that chicory?
Yes, that’s chicory. That was the joke…chicanery/chicory.
Fat fingered a report on your comment when I was going to reply, so my bad.
I think it’s to help denote his father/family being older/old money, that WASPy young but also kind of old soul approach. But he seems mostly really good on stuff so it could be a fun contrast.
I wonder if this will get us more insight into his dad and his dad’s generation, which will then maybe get us more insight into Walky’s mom and so on.
I reported you on purpose, which you’d never have known if I didn’t say so.
Taffy didn’t really report you, he’s just saying that.
I know this for sure because I just made it up.
And now you’re reported for third-degree pronoun ________.
Why??
I think Tony takes after his father (the Dean) in many ways. Very no-nonsense; kind of old-fashioned in mannerisms but open-minded and generally humane.
I mean buffoonery might evoke a specific type of behavior /trait in mind b/c saying something like “i don’t have time for idiots” might come off as condescending even if you don’t mean like “average/below average” on paper/test taking wise lol
fuck off booster
I’m really hoping Sarah decides to get rid of the rest of her coffee, too–in Booster’s lap.
What’s with this persistent misconception that you can absorb nutrients and chemicals via other people’s clothes and skin? No, Sarah should not put her coffee in Booster’s lap, because then Sarah won’t get the caffeine. Gods, I get that culture is different in the Hive Mines of Zeebu 23, where individual bodily continuity gets fuzzy and harder to define, but you space moon brainmelders make it difficult for us individualites sometimes.
The joke is that you are actually a committee that thinks you’re an individuality because there is a subcommittee whose job is to is to explain yourself to you and that subcommittee really makes stuff up wholesale that kind of makes sense, and then the committee as a whole believes what the subcommittee reports.
Did Dina teach Booster teleportation?
solid maybe?
Instant Transmission is a technique which takes quite a while to hone
You forgot the “Ironically, ” at the start of that sentence.
Buck Godot agrees with this statement.
No. Joyce uses teleportation. Dina is undetectable.
Now for some Gravatar roulette.
Nah. Try again.
Maybe, but one more try….
We have a winner!
Congratulations on achieving your final form.
Weirdly, almost every time there’s a gravatar shuffle, my old email ends up as Daisy.
There are worse fates.
Booster is a collective tulpa born from the trauma
Mike’s death wrought on the cast.
That makes a scary amount of sense XD
Still say he’s some kind of Mike Cryptid. The hair and general miasma of dickish-ness lean into some kind of clone or alternate reality.
They’re not enough of a dick for me to see it, but I do get they serve a similar role as catalysts!
Sorry Lucy
Hrrm I’d like one more try for tonight!
I’ll take it
Booster uses they/them pronouns, not he/him.
Mike’s dickish behavior was born out of general spite and genuine care for others’ ability to handle negative social interaction in addition to Mike’s penchant for schadenfreude. Booster’s dickish behavior is entirely self-serving by all appearances, and being neurodivergent doesn’t excuse being a dick.
In case you were wondering, a ‘buffoon’ refers to Medieval European entertainers who elicited laughs from a crowd by whacking people with inflated sheep’s bladders.
I, too, do not suffer people to whack me with inflated sheep’s bladders.
How are you at whacking others?
I have been know to whack off, occasionally.
If you use inflated sheep’s bladders, I commend your dedication to the bit.
Buffoonery.
Buffoonery.
Slappy Squirrel is in the back of my head now saying, “You remind me of a very young Monty Burns.”
It’s nice to see someone taking neglected words out for a walk in the fresh air now and then.
As a prepilgarlik ultracrepidarian who engages in uglyography and scurryfunge, I heartily concur provided its not swullocking and the fresh air contains no twirlblasts.
Pilgarlik -Bald. Apparently, in the 16th century, they thought bald men’s heads looked like peeled garlic. Prepilgarlik – someone not bald but headed that way.
Ultracrepidarian – One who gives their opinions on things they don’t know anything about. Became a popular term in Britain in the 19th century.
Uglyography – Poor handwriting.
Scurryfunge – The act of hastily cleaning before a guest arrives.
Swullocking – excessively humid weather.
Twirlblast – A tornado, according to people in the 1700s. Why we switched to tornado is beyond understanding. Though the more general term, cyclone, as a synonym for tornado, was popular among country folk when I was a kid. But twirlblast is perfectly descriptive and it is difficult to understand why we gave it up.
Anybody else have words that need to be trotted out and exercised?
Re: title text
In all likelihood yes, surprised it took this long to be realized.
Tony: “I don’t suffer buffoonery.”
Booster: “Speak of the devil, and I shall appear!”
Yes, Booster darling, I’m insulting you. Fortunately, I have a little more tolerance for buffoonery than Tony and Sarah do.
I actually really love Booster, and I’m struggling to see what they’re saying in this strip that’s bugging people so much. Genuinely.
For me, the main problem is sitting down in Tony’s chair uninvited. It’s rude. Hilarious from a comic-reading perspective, and I’m interested to see where this goes, but rude.
I’m just suspecting they’re a Sarah subconscious fragment taking the form of Booster to remind her how she feels about shorter guys.
Mike is this universe’s version of the Smile entity confirmed XD
His empty chair he’s not even currently sitting in, which can be un-sat just as easily as it’s been sat.
The residual body heat will be all wrong.
Tony has a native body heat of 150°F (~5°C), so that chair was gonna be warm when he returned anyway.
Not just the wrong temperature. Tony’s bodyheat is 100% no-nonsense. He’ll sit down and notice the heat in the chair is suddenly much higher nonsense. Booster’s bodyheat is at least 25% wise-cracking.
An action being easily undone isn’t what makes it rude or not? If I did this to someone, it would be to annoy them for giggles, it would be someone I care about, I would be being rude, and I would be doing it on purpose
Oh, I guess I just have a higher bar for rudeness. Thank you for explaining your side of it.
No problem! Gave me an excuse to talk about Booster, whom I love despite (because of?) their comedic rudeness
Booster is one of the characters some people get pissy whenever they do anything. Like Becky.
Becky never paid Joyce back for the haircut. Or something like that.
Oh my god people were so weird about the haircut!
Wasn’t Jennifer the one who gave her the $20 for the haircut?
Jennifer gave Becky $20 to go away. Becky used that $20 for the haircut.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/waitup-2/
Yeah, I was confused why Becky would have to pay Joyce back for it.
Maybe not “paying her back” exactly, but there was a lot of talk about her wasting money on a haircut when she was freeloading on Joyce.
Which was stupid and weird.
Yikes I missed this whole debacle. People are so weird.
Becky was supposed to purchase a home and vehicle, fund her own tuition, solve the energy crisis, end all war in the Middle East, and bring back the original 1993 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers merchandise line so Kyle could get a legit vintage Megazord with no color fading. With $20.
In fairness, Joyce was going without food and selling matches and flowers out in the snow in her bare feet so that Becky would have a place to sleep.
The best part of that whole kerfluffle was a year or so later in first kidnapping sequence we get Ross’s “Your hair is your womanhood” and we get a glimpse that it wasn’t as unimportant as it might have seemed.
Hmm, wonder what those two have in common!
Booster is top five for me probably. Idk, i don’t have a line up. But they’re up there for sure.
I think people are afraid Booster will do something For The Plot, in a way that will have negative effects for Sarah, who has already been through quite a bit between how things went with Jacob and being attacked by an incel and also the lasting damage from Raidah’s bullshit. Like, Booster has done things that were not wrong but were also not polite or arguably necessary, like the floor meeting analysis or how they treated Amber after she asked them to befriend Ethan. So I think it’s just preemptive dread rather than that they have already done something objectionable.
Sounds stressful to exist that way, but I appreciate you explaining what might be the issue there.
I love Booster a lot actually, but also they have just inserted themself into someone else’s date between one person they have barely interacted with and another they haven’t at all (to our knowledge), sitting down in someone else’s chair uninvited.
Like sitting at someone else’s table uninvited just in general is pretty rude if you aren’t close enough to that person to have standing invitation to be around them (so in Sarah’s case, Joyce could). But Sarah also trying to have a romantic moment with a new guy really amplifies it. This is a moment that is Not Cool to interfere with, unless they have a really good reason that is not yet obvious.
Also just in general I think a lot of us personally resonate with telling someone to go away and leave us alone because you’re in my space uninvited and I don’t want that right now, and that person not respecting that.
ALL OF THAT SAID. I still love Booster a lot and look forward to them in pretty much any other context than this.
Yeah, for me, its just that they’re doing anything here. This is Sarah and Tony’s moment, they seem to be having a good time together, Booster coming along to wedge themself in there is just rude.
Particularly since Booster has a tendency towards amateur psychology bullshit, inserting themself and commenting on situations that others have not asked for help with.
Sarah seems to have a potential issue that she’s taller than Tony, but if Booster comes up here to comment on it, that would just be an asshole thing to do… and also entirely in keeping with previous scenes involving Booster.
It’s the fact that they’re there at all, in this particular case.
Some might’ve considered it/welcomed sitting down/near but i guess it does come off as pretty rude, esp with someone like Sarah who’s very antisocial /wouldn’t go outta her way to befriend
How is Booster a cryptid? Came out of the wall like *popping sound*?
More like steak bites than a filet mignon
Moth-them.
Sarah’s focused on TUBE steak, methinks..
could really use an actual tube steak rn, ngl
Is that anything like a finger steak?
well Booster is certainly some sorta unidentifiable whatsahoosit, but “cryptid” is a strong word
I mean I’m lookin’ right at ’em they’re right there
Booster isn’t real.
Dude is just a figment of your imagination that pops up when nobody is around.
Brain Ghost Booster.
I like Tony. Tony is chill.
Not chill with buffoonery. Or smiling too much.
Maybe we should start a list.
…and his features travel all over his face. Are his eyes above or beside his nose? You tell me.
Oh no. Tony would hate me irl
i mean as long s you’re not trying to annoy him on purpose, i think most pplwould be happy to let live, esp in a place like college where one would say, ‘get their buffoonery out of their system’ before going into the ‘adult world’ or so lol
Can’t wait to see him irritated at walky more but i wonder if he tolerates ‘accidental buffoonery’/natural to one’s personality as opposed to intentional buffoonery like walky
I really want Sarah to not let the “I am taller than him” thing get in the way. Tony seems like a good match. And Booster is there… we will see where they are going with this. I suppose.
Nope. Sorry Danny.
maybe
I want Sarah to choose a partner based on whatever criteria she deems important. It’s as important to be physically into and comfy with your partner as any other compatibility issue!
That’s just more of physical attraction, she seems to connect with him otherwise unless it’s gonna give us a cut to them in the bedroom and being like “Sorry, not feeling it ” or so
When I was younger I dreamed of dating somebody with this low bullshit attitude. Never happened but oh it would have been nice. Knowing whats expected, not playing “Guess the emotion I”m having now” while I sit and look constipated at you. Hope she does not mess this up.
Yes, Sarah deserves something good.
Now, this gravatar I can live with. Praise be gravatar gods.
Yeah, that sounds nice. It’s asking the other to take on quite a bit of risk, though, early in the relationship. “Guess how I’m going to react to your frankness.”
As someone who is plain-speaking and straightforward, it doesn’t tend to work well. Even people who say they want openness and honesty tend to be terrified of it when they actually receive it – and often don’t reciprocate in kind.
She is absolutely going to mess this up. Because Willis.
Basically what I expect to happen is for Sarah, who regards herself as having a no-nonsense attitude and being impatient of nonsense on the part of others, to turn out to be *too nonsense* for Tony, provoking a crisis of self on her part.
Willis, you turned an object into a character and you’re surprised the result is a cryptid? Really?
Would be funny if the booster stick had their exact personality but we didn’t know because it couldn’t talk.
Not to be confused with Ultra Car in the other universe.
[sound of clues falling into place] Booster is the PBR? Oooookay.
No more wondering if Charlie’s nickname is Orbital Maneuvering System, then.
Booster’s surname is Sanchez, but people with Hispanic surnames often take one family name from each parent. I live in hope that Booster’s other family name is Rodriguez
Hahahaha perfect
…. it occurs to me that insightfulness might not actually be a trait that evolution selects for.
*natural selection is what happens to individual living organisms, evolution is what happens to populations of them over a very, VERY long time
Evolution is descent with heritable modification. That can go faster.
that the environment selects for.
The foreseeable problem, of course, is that Sarah is constantly surrounded by and lives with buffoonery, and I’m pretty sure she’d choose her friendships and Joyce over any guy, buffoon or not. She talks a big game, but what’s it gonna be like when that’s actually challenged by someone who legitimately doesn’t suffer buffoonery?
Was just thinking this. I foresee a “Damn you Willis! moment coming. A specific one dealing with this new maybe relationship mind you, not the general one that’s always lurking in the shadows.
Does Ruth suffer buffoonery? I think Ruth won that round during orientation.
There it is! The top gravatar.
Skunk wallpaper?
Bold choice!
Good thing they are in a coffee shop and not a chocolate factory. I’d hate these scratch and sniff options.
Off: Must be fun to to play with Avatar Roulette (I do my own questionable avatars)
Booster, please do not screw this up for Sarah. She deserves at least a few good things, and this potential relationship with her and Tony seems like it could be good for her.
I feel like smallish steak of a man is going to enter my vocabulary…
Is it an American thing to use single-use cups even when drinking in the café? That seems wasteful.
yes, and it is one of the many ways our capitalist society is rather wasteful
Reusable cups would mean the cafe would need the same scale of dishwashing utilities as a sit-down restaurant, instead of just a small machine to wash their preparation utensils. Customers would break them, walk out the door with them, or throw them away.
Giving everyone disposable cups is wasteful but streamlines their workflow.
Are cafes not considered sit-down restaurants? You get coffee and sometimes food, you sit down and consume them.
Starbucks uses both resuable and plastic cups.
Starbucks can fuck off and go out of business. Every time I go there and ask for coffee, they give me chocolate milk.
Ya gotta go ta Dunkies if ya wanna cuppa cawfee, ked.
Be ye reffing Dunkin Donuts? Good eats they got.
Every time I ask for a Large at Starbucks, they put ‘vente’ in it.
It depends on whether they have table service, or if they’re basically a lunch counter with tables. The Panda Express locations I’ve been to give everyone their orders in take-out containers with disposable tableware, even though they have tables. There’s a pizza chain in my region that has disposable everything, but they give you your plates and cutlery on a reusable cafeteria tray.
Cafes are sit down places! I guess we have a select few places where I’m from that are more like take away spots with a counter at the window, but this place looks a little fancier than that, so I was surprised to see the single use cup.
I lived in Italy for a bit and we used to buy coffee to consume while standing (it cost more if you sat down). Still served in regular cups!
It… can get complicated. Re-washing crockery means you need to use water, soap, and possibly hot water. You may also need to use dryers to dry the crockery before they can be sent out to customers again. All of those also involve resource and electricity costs, which when you break it down, depending on your exact location and availability of resources and how the electricity is produced, might actually cost the environment MORE than if you used disposable (and biodegradable) one-use cups that can benefit from things like mass production and economies of scale.
It really won’t. To get that result you have to be super inefficient in washing the cups. Now, in a perverse enough environment it may _cost_ the business more to use durable cups, but that is a whole ’nother argument.
A commercial dishwashing setup is generally very small, takes a few minutes to run, and is going to have a way smaller environmental impact than either producing/transporting the paper in a cup or washing by hand does. They are, however, pretty expensive.
The main practical issue, aside from the fact that these things cost thousands of dollars, is that a lot of cafes are in generic ‘shop’ slots that might not even have water or 240V hookups. I have seen some that are literally just a counter with an espresso machine on it.
should also mention that while the marginal environmental impact of an individual paper cup is very small, a successful store will be handing out hundreds a day, and there are a lot of indirect impacts of the infrastructure to produce and distribute them, not to mention that almost all of them are going to end up either on the ground or in a landfill (or being burned in a recycling plant, because they’re probably not recyclable).
This kind of thing is why I think we’re not really meant to live in such large, dense settlements. I can’t fully articulate the connection, but it’s something that’s been at the back of my mind.
Our impact is far less living in those large dense settlements than it would be spread out.
Most places definitely default to disposable cups, if not offering only that. Some part might be that customers may want the option to leave with the rest of their drink after they’ve been sitting with it for a few minutes, but it’s mostly about what the store deems beneficial in big chains. And unfortunately, big chains set a lot of the norms for these things.
Dunno if it’s “American” but yes, it’s done here in the USA. Probably it’s more “cheap” and/or “lazy”. By now it’s ingrained habit in the hospitality community: opening a certain kind of establishment? just make everything to-go and buy big trash bins.
Oh wow, forgot about this until now and saw all your replies! Thank you for engaging with it, this was pretty interesting!
Nobody asked, Booster.
Boos5er, butt out
Grav Roulette time!
Joining in…
Wait! Where’s Thing1??
What if Tony is TOO MUCH of a misanthrope for the gradually softening Sarah?
He’s on the football team, I imagine there’s some level of socializing involved? Maybe not his first pick but he probably interacts with more people than Sarah.
Just the pretty ones.
This strip reminds me of something that Tommy Lee Jones once said to Jim Carrey when they were filming Batman Forever together.
TLJ: “I do not like you. I cannot stand you. I cannot sanction your buffoonery.”
Apparently the two actors did not get along on the set.
Which may explain why Tommy Jones appears to be in a different movie, and possibly a slightly better one.
I just searched the comments to see if anybody would make this reference! Is Tony’s full name, perhaps, Tony Lee Jones? LOL!
They just blended in with the wallpaper and snuck into the panel like in Pink Panther.
New gravatar! Kinda sad I am not Carla but I will take a walky
Booster can creep around in the wallpaper. Just like in the poem “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
Booster turned up to poke at Sarah’s height fetish. Are they trying to make her confront it, or just trolling her?
Why would they know about it?
Is it just that Booster guessed Sarah likes guys at least her height? That would be fairly mainstream (unlike a lot if things about her.)
And how tall is Sarah anyway? Joyce is 5’4″, as Is Dorothy, and Walks is 5’7″, but beyond that I’m forgetting.
It’s mostly relative. Sarah is a little taller than Danny. https://www.tumblr.com/dumbingofage/711775268338122752/this-has-probably-been-asked-before-but-what-are?source=share
She’s shorter than Joe. https://www.dumbingofage.com/crashandburn/
Fetish? Having a physical preference in partners is a fetish now? lmao
They’re back!
The artwork is generally pretty accurate when it comes to local landmarks. Are you telling me there’s really a coffee shop in Bloomington with that wacky-ass wallpaper?
It was identified yesterday as a place called Hopscotch… would hardly say that’s “wacky-ass wallpaper,” though.
Ooh, I was hoping it would be analogous to a real place, just as Galasso’s is analogous to Mother Bear’s Pizza!
Oh fuck gravelette
Rolling
Rolling
Kay fours my daily limit
why are we talking about limp bizkit
Because if we don’t, their spirit will fade out of existence. Didn’t you watch Coco?
yeah!
I like how the way the afterlife works there is actually something which can actually make sense even without belief in the supernatural
recounts of people’s lives passed on via oral tradition, that which they have written, marks on the world such as those by Akira Toriyama and countless others, etc.
stores of information in our brains and in recorded media, that which comprises Collective Memory, altogether comprise the “dimension” that is *itself* the afterlife, it is the means by which a person has continued influence on the world and influence on the people in it even long after they have died
thus when one is no longer present in Collective Memory, they cease to have that influence, and thus cease to have a presence in the afterlife
Booster I am usually a fan of your shenanigans but if you end up cock blocking (or clam jamming…whatever the appropriate term is here) poor Sarah I will officially sanction you getting eaten by a grue.
I like the term torpedoing beacuse they’re targeting a ship.
“Seat’s taken, Booster!”
…followed immediately by…
“Steak’s taken, Booster!”
Booster! Come not between the Sarah and her prey! Or she shall slay thee in turn!
They inherited Mike’s gimmick of appearing when they’re least welcome. You love to see it
Booster’s like a reverse Batman. Appearing when you’re not looking, and divulging all the detective conclusions you didn’t ask for.
Juust let her have this, Booster!
You don’t always have to overanalyze shit that makes you happy.
Booster is a shit stirer they saw an opportunity to stir.
Tony’s going to end up looking Taller, now that he’s got a Booster-seat.
Great joke, A+.
GaryRimShot.mp3 XD
So obviously Booster is hinting to Sara that she is taller then Tony which may mean she might try to sabotage something that is good for you beacuse of insecurities. So she needs to overcome it.
On the other hand Booster needs to learn not to solicit psychological advice when not prompted also shouldn’t beacuse they’re not a psychologist or pyschiatrist yet and honestly needs to take ethics lessons if they haven’t already they need more.
You are assuming a whole lot of things there.
Given how Booster has acted in the past it’s not hard to assume that’s what they are doing.
Half of that is not really things they had done. They had analyzed people but they are not like mike that actively try to manipulate people to make them confront stuff. They mostly just talk.
booster is Literally just saying shit 90% of the time
There was a whole arc with Carla and Charlie, Also being friends with Ethan. Also they have with Walky several timmes Booster is quite capable and does actively make people into confronting things, unlike Mike they don’t really minipulate people they are pretty direct and its often unsolicited.
Carla and Charlie wasn’t any kind of manipulation, it was them not introducing someone who wanted to date their sister to her because they didn’t trust her, that is completely understandable.
Tony: I do not tolerate buffoonery!
*gets up to throw away cup*
*seat taken by buffoon*
BOOSTERRRRR !!!!!!!
Oh, yeah, Booster. I forgot about them.
How dare you, Booster, we love and respect short kings in this house! (Especially now that Sarah is no longer only looking for dudes taller than her)
I just wanted to play :3
Oops didn’t work >_<
Ya gotta disable your custom pic first.
rock comes first, what’s it gonna be?
a rock paper scissors and a
1 2 3 !!! ^-^
I GOT DINA!!!!!
YIPPEE!!!!! ^-^
may not keep the avatar for long, but still, so fuckin happy I got her my first roll, stimming so much rn eeeek!!!! <3
Congrats!
oh no
welp
ok one more
…last one
Hell yeah
may as well try to get multiple just for whatevs XD
oooo! a Fuckface! :D
let’s see what else I can get…
a Sarah too? hot damn!
okay, last one, come on no whammies!
perfect ^-^
lol of course booster would show up. it’s one thing to pass by or take a table near these two but weird that they also just basically took his seat lol
It’s a weird timing to be walking away lol
How do I change the image?
Does this work?
I guess not
Ooh?
Okay I guess I’ll be Joyce for a while