Has booster said it about Amber? I thought I remembered a conversation where Amber pointed out they HADN’T said anything similar, only for Lucy, and Amber snarked at them for it?
Specifically, Booster didn’t say anybody was BETTER than Walky, just that they could DO better. AKA, the relationship wasn’t healthy and they could find a better one, which was 100% accurate with Lucy.
Besides Amber but ye, and even then you can acknowledge/criticize an unhealthy relationship and still care that both parties come out of the other end okay.
To be fair, I literally just got home after a 3-hour accounting exam. The first thing I did on leaving the exam hall (which was actually in a Holiday Inn hotel xD) was duck into Micky D’s for a bite before heading for the Tube.
(I’m still in lurk mode but a 3-hour exam deserves a “congratulations”.)
That sounds like something you must have worked extremely hard for. You have every right and reason to be very proud of yourself. In fact, I think you should feel proud of you for doing that.
Okay, I see they say “50” on them. Maybe McNuggets are smaller than they were the last time I bought them (which was probably around the time DoA debuted).
If I’m reading the boxes right those are 50 piece boxes. Which makes 250 nuggets. Assuming he’s not making multiple trips, which might be a Super Sized assumption.
The Walkerton men are refined connoisseurs. They do not need sauce. They will not use sauce. They will consume the McNugget in its unadulterated form, as the gods intended.
(hoenstly last box of mcd nuggets i ate (25yearsago at least) was with one honey and one mustard cause they didnt sell it as a prmixed diiing sauce then, but up here in mosquitoa we make the honey dill sauce seen (possibly not currenty due to drumpfs terriffs) at most grocers accross canada and the northern states)
i havent even eaten mcds fries in 20+ years, the coffee is the only thing they have that didnt give me bottom rot
This is why you make friends with someone who works at Popeye’s, so they can hook you up with Blackened Ranch and Mardi Gras sauce (and/or Cajun Sprinkle if you’re feeling bold).
So I’m going to take the opportunity of a new strip to say some things that have been on my mind regarding this comment section.
The discourse surrounding this storyline has gotten absolutely nasty on many fronts, from what we might colloquially refer to as the “paladin” and “sicko” camps both, inasmuch as those terms have any actual utility. There have absolutely been outbursts of misogyny and homophobia from critics of this storyline, with some people unsatisfied by a perceived lack of narrative consequence taking that desire to an uncomfortable extreme. At the same time, there is a tendency by some in the opposite camp to absolutely jump down the throat of anyone who expresses even minor criticism of this storyline or the creative decisions made therein.
On a personal level, I remain genuinely hurt and upset at some comments made toward me on yesterday’s strip, thankfully now deleted, which impugned my character and, implicitly, my support of gay women, because of my criticisms towards Joyce and Dorothy as a couple and how they’ve approached their relationship. These comments were deeply upsetting to me because I am a transgender lesbian and it felt like that aspect of who I am, which is absolutely fundamental to me and how I live my life, was being casually erased in the name of shipping discourse. That is not acceptable.
I’ve mentioned this in recent comments, but many people in this comments section need to develop the skill of encountering a comment they disagree with but have nothing substantive to say in response, and simply moving on. I freely admit to failing in this myself on occasion, but I do make an effort to be discerning and engage only in good faith. I think if we can all make an effort to take this approach, this comment section would be a much more pleasant and productive space.
Just extend people a little grace and focus less on pithy one-liners, put-downs, and dunks. Everyone here is a real person.
Now, with that said, I have a date tomorrow (today?) at a ramen bar with a very cute girl, so do please wish me luck.
i am! its an ability i developed spontaneously. i lost a high-stakes dare, and my assignment was to read Atlas Shrugged. I can make pearls with my brain!
The comment section has definitely gotten really nasty and toxic lately, though I feel it’s way worse towards people who don’t like the Joyce/Dorothy ship and/or have any criticism of the current storyline. I try to avoid replying to several people who I feel are consistently toxic and refuse to argue in good faith.
If that’s your perception then I can’t change that but I’ve definitely gotten very annoyed with people on both “sides” lately at a rate I would say is equivalent.
Also I feel like there’s very little misogyny and homophobia from the “paladins” group, though some people in the “sickos” love to accuse anyone who dislikes the current storyline of those things.
There were multiple comments with genuine awful vitriol that were removed, i’ve seen this happen on at least three days. I can’t blame you for not having happened to see it, but it was very distinctly happening.
There is a lot of homophobia and misogyn in the paladin group its wrong to imply all are but I have seen it and it makes paladins look bad to deny its a problem.
Good luck on your date!
It’s frustrating for me at times to see commenters’ who overall stance I agree with, but who are so mean to people in going about expressing it. “Mostly right, but a real ass about it” is much less enjoyable than “strong disagree, but having fun.”
Tangentially, @Laura: I don’t know if you still lurk here, but I miss seeing you post, and I’m sad things got so bad that one day. Hope you’re taking care of yourself. <3
(*”Thank you for saying so,” Laura says, in a tiny voice, before jumping back into the invisibility hole like Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog.*)
(…still lurking sometimes but doing worse now, so I don’t post…)
Yumi, I was actually just thinking of you today, before I visited DOA. Just was remembering how very kind you’ve always been, and hoping that all was well with you. Synchronicity!
Interacting with people is scary and there are no spoons. So I lurk.
Just by way of explanation, this last time was actually the third time (to my recollection) that I’ve accidentally found myself at the bottom of a pile-on for dumb stuff that I’ve said, likely cluelessly but without intent to offend. It particularly hurt to be called a “white colonial”, this last time, although I understand that people have every right to be angry, and, like Dorothy said, sometimes folks have to just “take it on the chin”.
This comic strip was actually the only place I interacted with anyone online, outside of work (which is just email). I don’t have any other forum on the internet. That’s why I tended to get a little obsessive with the posting.
And I figure — if for whatever reason I’m not moderating (or cannot moderate) my comments so that they don’t unintentionally provoke such anguish and righteous outrage among my peers — then I’ve really got no business writing stuff online at all.
I dunno… I’d blame my age, or my neurological shape, or my mental health disabilities and trauma, or meds or whatever… but the point is, I just keep making people very upset. Without meaning to. And that’s not really what I’m here for.
Believe it or not, I actually do try to be a peacemaker, most of the time.
I’m not trying to point any fingers. I think I may have just missed the boat when it comes to online discourse. It’s too rough and tumble for me to adapt to. …So it’s best just to focus on work and on the few people I can talk with directly, voice to voice if not face to face.
Folks here know how parano I get about privacy, anyway. So being offline is likely for the best.
Thank you for reaching out, and for understanding, Yumi and Li.
Very well said. Get an extra egg in your ramen. If you’re already getting an extra egg, get another. If you’re allergic to eggs, I have no contingency for this circumstance.
but yeah I grew up liberal Jewish and never really kept kosher much at all, if only because my being frequently underweight meant calories were calories no matter how i got em
that also meant no fasting, but incidentally I managed to keep kosher on holidays like Passover, if only because matzo and Egyptian charoset is exceptionally tasty XD :9
I think both sides have played the phobia cards sadly. It’s gone full Voltron in the comments over this storyline, and you should never go full Voltron.
I was present for the comment thread which prompted your exit. You entered a religious debate in a frankly thoughtless, hurtful manner throwing around shit about the inferiority of “Abrahamic religions”. You were then, rightly, challenged by many people, especially practicing Jews, who perceived (and forced you to admit) that you were speaking from a place of profound ignorance, and did not have the expertise you positioned yourself as having.
It is a blatantly false equivalence to position this as in the same boat as a trans lesbian being invalidated for having different shipping and ethics-of-relationships viewpoints. I do not agree with many of Dot’s views (besides that Joyce tops and J/J/D poly is good) but I absolutely don’t think she deserves to be invalidated.
Your situation is not the same. You posted a bad take and were rightly subject to pushback from people whose beliefs you insulted.
I also suffer from depression, and I’m really sorry to hear that that discussion triggered symptoms, but this just isn’t appropriate.
I’ll be honest I don’t think this is appropriate for YOU to do as well. I’m not really sure who benefits from you drudging up old actions to shame a person who’s already admitted to struggling with depression. They had a bad take, got criticized for it and stopped posting. Why did you feel the need to immediately shame them again the second they popped back up. This is the kind of behavior people bring up when they say we’re mean.
I brought it up because they literally came in here, into someone else’s personal thread, mentioning about how they “had to stop posting because of the vitriol here”, and how they were personally attacked, which just isn’t true. If they hadn’t brought that up, I wouldn’t say anything.
I am not saying anything else, anywhere else here, because this is not a fandom space I enjoy like, at all. My hackles are always up, my mean streak comes out, and another true thing from this comment thread, from Big Z I believe, is that if we see something we disagree with but isn’t harmful or dishonest, we should just scroll the fuck on. And so yeah, I’m not gonna say anything else about people whose opinions don’t jive with mine.
But I don’t want to tolerate lies and reputation-laundering. Like, it’s a weird thing to do. I guess that makes me even meaner than I thought, but fuck it.
Addendum: I also struggle with depression. It is not an excuse. For all that I’ve been a shithead here, I own it—yes, I am a mean cuss who assumes a lot of bad faith on here. I wouldn’t dream of coming here to complain that I was treated badly because like, I snarked at that one guy and got yelled at for it, probably pretty correctly, and moreover I snarked about weird fandom behaviors, not anyone’s religion or culture.
Thanks for the credit, although strictly speaking my point was that we should practice moving on if we don’t have anything substantive to say in response to a comment we disagree with. Debate and discussion are good and healthy, and if I feel I have a point I can make in response to a take I disagree with, I’ll do so happy. But if all I can think of is “I disagree,” or something snide or mean, it’s better just to move on.
Heh, I’m actually chuffed that Dot’s advice was misattributed to me briefly — my advice is the “remember that teams are bullshit and we’re all individual people” thing. =)
Aside to @Sajuuk-Khar specifically — if you’re more into the gameplay than the lore, Dust Fleet is basically Homeworld’s combat engine strapped to a basic galactic scale RTS, and is probably worth the $8 it currently is on Steam.
Second of all, honestly, I continue to think that a disturbing amount of the vitriol is being driven by the increasingly-absurd false dichotomy of paladins/sickos and the small but vocal contingent who absolutely insists on treating every interaction here by 1) decide what “team” a commenter is on 2) assume that commenter personally approves every comment posted by someone on the same “team” 3) attack them appropriately for that.
You may be right, but I tend to think it was more of a recognition of what was already happening in people’s reactions.
I kind of think a diversity of opinion and interpretation is a good thing. It gives us something to talk about, and sometimes to think about. I get annoyed however when people come on and make the same exact point again and again and again over multiple days.
Don’t mind the vitriol-spewers, if you can. Know that many of us are cheering you on and disgusted by this behavior, imperfect allies as we are, even when disagreeing about stuff. Disqualifying your identity because you don’t support anything to do with anyone whose identity overlaps with yours is plain wrong and anyone with half a brain cells knows that.
Except of course even among the less-agressive posters, many will at times latch on to anything to attack someone if they disliked something that was said by that person, and we’ll never know exactly when it’s on purpose, a consequence of scanning and misreading, or good faith.
Anyway, you already know all that, so I’ll shut up now and wish you excellent ramen and date
I’m really sorry about people being assholes to you specifically yesterday. The personal attack I saw was beyond the pale. Folks could definitely use a reminder or five that however you feel about the comic, you are talking to other human beings about it, and those other human beings are real. Your treatment of them says a lot more about your character than anything you might be self-righteously arguing about in fiction.
Ugh I don’t like, rereading this, how it sounds like I’m only sorry crappy things were said to Dot.
That’s not what I meant. Crappy things haven’t only been said to her. They’ve been said a lot, and regardless of which “””side””” is saying it, it’s been shitty. We all need to do better, full-stop.
congrats!!! getting their # is always a good sign!!!!!
again if i’ve ever typed something here taken as anthing but civil discourse and good faith debate/an outright joke, unreservidly i apologize, i do my best to live my life to leave the world better than i found it, and do not want to ever cause harm. i honestly 99% of the time it is a typo/grammtical mistake on my part and i know i suck at written communication.
most recent text he sent. He smartly didn’t put his phone in his pocket before he picked up his nuggets. If he had, we’d think his tinkledinker was 5G.
Dorothy may be far more fulfilled and happy with Joyce than in a rebound with Walky and all power to her for that, but there is no way she can match Walky’s tongue game at her current power level. We all make sacrifices for love.
When push comes to shove, Booster has a good deal of empathy. I believe Booster is the type of person in which they give you the exact amount of sass and bite you can handle. After that, here comes the empathy.
I believe that Booster thinks of themself that way, but I’d love to see the narrative take some time to point out that people who think that way generally overestimate their ability to determine exactly where the line is. Y’know, some time in 2038 when all our current themes and plot threads have been tied up.
Honestly, everything about Booster tells me they’ve got good reason for being kind of guarded with people, and one of the ways their specific guard manifests is glibness.
It’s either a sign of them feeling closer to Walky that they’re asking so directly and without a lot of that glibness, or a sign of them feeling extra worried.
I was the same way, I could eat that and then follow up with a large pizza like an hour later.
Now I think I could put away a 20 piece in one go if I prep? (By which I mean not eat most of the day before) I had one chipotle burrito over twelve hours ago and have not yet eaten anything since.
Have you had any variety of breaded chicken? If so, imagine that exactly but about 5cm long and 1cm thick. You can make your own at home, if you have chicken and any sort of coating, like flour or cornmeal. Simply cut the chicken, bread the chicken, and fry the chicken.
For the McDonald’s variety, remove all taste except for the memory of greasy bread and dusty cotton, give it the texture of drywall that wants to jump off a bridge, and then imagine you’re chemically compelled to keep eating it.
Just an addendum: the McD’s variety is ground chicken, which has a different texture from breaded chicken without grinding it down.
I was thinking recently about making chicken nuggets and realized I rather have chicken tenders for the texture LOL
The other variety does hit that spot of one bite homogenous goodness. Chicken nuggets in general I mean. Not the MickeyD’s variety. Though I once used to eat them by tearing off the crust and then eating it, but I was a kid to be fair.
BarerMender, the whole point of chicken McNuggets, other than their addictiveness, is that they form an ideal base for the exploration of different sauces and their mixtures. I love honey mustard, but really you should go for variety so that your taste buds never become acclimated. And for the best results you should go outside of the McDonalds pallet of sauces. Currently I favor raspberry chipotle sauce from Fischer and Wieser, but even things like horsy sauce from Arby’s is a valuable addition to the arsenal of flavors with which to assault your mouth.
i would avoid them all together, as they are rediculously processed (i was a mcnuggets kid, i am not big on burgers so if i wanted the toy/anythig at mcd other than fries nuggets is where i went). if you get the chance try chicken tenders/poppers from mary browns chicken, (they litterally rip hunk of breast meat and batter them) sooo fucking good, also honey dill sauce is the fucking best dipping sauce (good with fish, carrots, potato chips, fries) with honey mustard a very close second
Glad multiple people are checking in on Wally, even if he doesn’t know or won’t admit he needs it yet. It’s been a relatively short on-off relationship so I’m optimistic he can recover quickly. Probably about as quickly as his digestive system after this XD (estimate: one week)
One week since you looked at me
Blew off all your classes, and kissed me
Three days since you macced on me
Still got rug burns on both my knees
Four hours since Joyce stole you from me
Then came back and cackled so evilly
One minute since you texted me
But it’ll be one more week ‘till I’ve digested these McNuggets
I could have done that when I was 20. And I wouldn’t have even minded the taste – my mom, bless her soul, never could cook well, so I grew up eating all kinds of things that had very little flavor. (My wife spoiled me for all that – her mom, a Black woman from Georgia, taught her how it’s done.)
Also before any comments that are like “I can’t believe Walky has no reaction to this”, the man has experienced two break ups in the same week. He’s absolutely got a reaction to this. He is also Walky and he’s going to laugh and crack jokes about it until he gets to a crash out point. The last time he was feeling really down, for example about his dead roommate, he made a very ill-timed joke that sorta led to Amber breaking up their situationship. Trust, the guy’s got emotions. He’s just gonna, you know, hide them under a mountain of nuggets.
Nope but—-first time for everything? (Here’s hoping).
The rabid shipper in me wants to believe Billifer finds a bit of whatever she found attractive in Asher, in Walky. (Since it outright horrified her seeing there was a good chunk of Walky in Asher buried deep.)
yeah, but “THE BE A MAN” crowd do not accept that as valid (saw some fucking hilious be a man memes yesterday love the classic :don’t let someone esle ruin your day, be a real man do it yourself!)
Yeah, Embe13’s right, the ‘be a man’ crowd really wants Joe and Walky to… I guess personally confront Joyce and Dorothy and tell them what hussies they are. Anything less is no reaction and no consequences for Dorothy and Joyce and thus terrible.
Especially funny because Joe has literally called Joyce out on it, even effectively calling her a hussy; of course, he meant it in a sex-positive way, as he wants to be part of that polycule.
Also I wanted to thank you for your replies to me the other day. Both of them. You’re good people, and I’m really sorry I — shall we say stepped on your metaphorical toes? While trying to remind folks about other people’s metaphorical toes.
You’re too kind, Li! No worries, you’ve proven yourself to be a very caring and thoughtful person in this comment section, so I know any toe stepping was completely unintentional. In return, I wanted to be sure I expressed that my own toe stepping was in no way meant to express harm to others. It’s good to be reminded of others perspectives that I haven’t ever considered, and I thank you for that.
Then he took an extra large cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of Dorothy. I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the soda fountain from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s mancave above our garage.”
Hard to believe I was going through my first divorce in 2010 when the first Walky 50 McNuggets strip ran. Now my children and I intently say “Fifty McNuggets” at each other.
I posted this yesterday but site was sorta down so I’ll repost it again! DOA Body type practice
Just my quick rundown of how I think the doa cast’s body types differ, using Joyce as the baseline.
It feels a bit weird that they’re all the same height except Sarah. (Well, and Dina, but it also looks like she’s the one you’ve drawn without underwear and there’s something a bit disturbing about the fact. Or else I am drunk and dirty-minded.)
a) Those aren’t underwear, I don’t think. They’re just the sketches of body shapes that happens before you draw the body over them.
2) What’s disturbing about drawing Dina with no underwear? She’s a grown-ass cartoon, it’s fine.
iii) I don’t know their canonical heights, but I do wonder if this just happens to be true. In which case definitely odd. More variation required by Willis.
Everything Nymph said, what a weird thing to comment on.
Also I imagine since the focus was on different curviness levels and using Joyce as a baseline, the first few sketches didn’t actually check for heights? Dina and Sarah are also very noticeably different heights from Joyce, who IS exactly Dorothy’s height. I think Amber is also in that same general ballpark.
But even if the first few girls aren’t all the same exact height, again, I imagine the focus wasn’t on that at first.
1. I didn’t want to check every character’s respective height. I know every single character isn’t “exactly” the same height as Joyce but they are roughly.
2. Yeah those are construction lines. I just erased them on Dina cuz I futzed with her height the most so I ended Up erasing all those guide lines.
I actually don’t know who is or isn’t taller than the baseline of Joyce off the top of my head. I feel like most other girls are eye level with her. But yeah like Li said I was focused more on body “types” than heights necessarily.
Maybe it’s just bc I also draw, but yeah that was clear to me. When you start studies with a specific aim, it just makes more sense to keep other things to a similar size?
Ruth, off the top of my head, is also tall, and so is Alice. Jennifer is closer to Joyce’s height but a wee bit taller than her I think?
Yeah. I made the rule to keep this to girls I think are the “main cast” right now which is why Ruth kinda fell off. She hasn’t gotten a lotta focus in a while.
On the one hand I feel like Walky is in fact having a hard time with this, or rather, he will have a hard time after we end the mcnuggets phase.
On the other hand I feel like he’s resilient, and has people looking out for him, so I think he’s going to be okay(or whatever fucked up version of “okay” the dumbingverse has.)
I’m actually not sure if he is resilent. He more just, refuses to vent in healthy ways and doesn’t believe in acknowleding his true feelings and we’ve seen what that does to him.
When he was bombing math he started to compartmentalize hard before he went into a self-destructive spiral until he was basically airlifted out of it. When Mike died, he let his emotions fester until he blew up during the halloween party.
He has people looking out for him which is good but I’m leaning a lot more towards him eventually blowing up again or even this leading to another depressive spiral given this is now the 4th~ish time he’s been broken up with in 5 months, not to mention this is his first ever love cheating on him and the news being broken to him in a pretty rough way.
People can only look out for you as far as you let them see what’s happening. Walky buries everything so deep I’m not sure his loved ones even realize how bad it is. Booster has probably sussed it out the best but he’s generally seen as too unserious to be shaken (even by commenters, who’ve apparently been reading with their eyes closed). Hopefully Billie recognizes it when she goes to see him
interesting to see your view, i mean he could be “faking it til he makes it” regarding having the resiliency to handle this.
now for me, i have at times seen in walky a lot of the traits myself and my closest friends have, and this may actually be all he needs to be able to move on from this. some could say it is just repressing it, but for me he looks like he will be good, i mean if things repeat or if we have some more negative life events it could lead him to testing that resiliency to the breaking point (as unfortunately 3 years ago happened to me, and i am still working to rebuild my resiliency) but in htis moment, his life remain stable/calm for a week or so i think his resiliency will be real
If you’re driving from Houston to Dallas, you have your open sauce packs just in front of the gear shift, your packet of 50 McNuggets to your right and your thermos of coffee in the drink holder where the lid can be screwed and unscrewed with one hand. Every time you pass a mile marker you take another byte of a McNugget freshly dipped in one of the sauces. Occasionally you break it up with a swig of coffee instead. Looking for the mile markers mixed with defensive driving to deal with the variety of driving styles exhibited by your companions on the road keeps you alert the whole way, and augmented by a barbeque sandwich from a Buckys you stop at to use the restroom, you arrive safely in Dallas with the edge comfortably off your appitite so that you aren’t ravenous when you hit the resturaunt.
canda has mary browns chicken and thier stuff blows mcds nugget out of the water. (i stopped eating at mcd’s in highschool as anything thatwasnt a drink gave me bottom rot)
i know this is an established walky thing so im not mad about the comic here
just reminding my fellow doaheads that that mcdonalds is still on the bds list
Yes, but they’re the standard of mid, consistently so. That quality is what makes them appealing to some.
Go into almost any McDonalds and what they serve you will almost always be the same as what you’ve had before.
Yeah, but now they think they’re fine dining, based on their prices. Fuck ’em. Every McDonald’s could explode into fire at the same time and nothing of value would be lost. Hell, it’s not like they even pay people enough to cover rent. Fuck ’em.
They also have the best french fries in the world, and, while other fast food operations have better chicken in their nuggets/tenders, McD’s has by far the best batter for those nuggets
Moved to Ireland a few months ago and the McDonald’s here are like, a whole thing. When they moved in they were only allowed if they signed a contract to sell exclusively Irish local meat and dairy. The quality difference is crazy, it actually tastes like real food. Hadn’t even considered eating at a mcd for years in America because the quality and price are both awful.
Went to a McDonalds in Japan and also liked it better in a few regards. One of the things I REALLY miss about Japanese fast food was treats in small packages: a standard meal comes with smaller amounts of fries and much smaller amounts of soda.
We were actually in an airport on our way out for the McDonalds specifically — only there for ten days and trying to try all the smaller local places and Japan-specific chains near us, like Mos Burger, was already a full-time job haha!
Due to the fact that it was an airport restaurant, it had a limited menu, and because I was about to get on a plane for like 12 hours, I kept it simple and I THINK just got a teriyaki burger. Which was fine, not terribly exciting, but that’s what I was going for! I have fonder memories of the macarons I got from the airport Starbucks… I am looking at their Japanese homepage and mourning that I didn’t get to try the mixed berry yogurt shake that’s being advertised right now…
I had so many amazing drinks there 😢 So many lightly sweet matcha drinks and canned coffee drinks. This really good mango-orange soda… even at 600 ml, markedly less sugar than a typical American soda, haha.
I had melon fanta at McDonald’s and melon icee at a karaoke place and both were some of the tastiest drinks I’ve ever had
Why don’t we do melon flavor here?
McDonald’s fries are like. Fine when eaten right away? It’s a specific variety of fry (thin and crispy), and that’s some people’s favorite.
But I don’t know of any other kind of fry that stops being edible food SO FAST. As soon as they stop being hot, they become salty cardboard. So a hot McDonalds fry is pretty good, but the McDonalds French fry dining experience is not my favorite by any means, even if we restrict it to cheap fast food.
Wendy’s and Burger King fries both have better staying power. Carls Jr has waffle fries for just a bit more money, or jalapeño poppers which I love. Popeyes probably also has a decent fry, though I wouldn’t know because I always just get their mashed potato or mac and cheese side.
I had a friend in college who, when we went to McDonald’s (which we did fairly often, because it was genuinely way better than what the cafeteria served), would order unsalted fries, and then salt them himself, because that meant that they had to fry a fresh batch, so they’d be hot.
Popeye’s has seasoned fries which are pretty good.
Rally’s has seasoned fries as well (to clarify for anyone who doesn’t understand, when I say seasoned, I mean by more than just salt).
Arby’s has curly fries which I especially love (curly fries, not Arby’s, though I have no problem with them).
There’s a local place that sells waffle fries cooked with curly fry seasoning ❤️
Ok so this feels like the biggest gaslight on earth. Mcdonalds has the most AVERAGE French fries in the business. I’ve been to bars with better fries. Wendy’s has better fries. Checkers has better fries. Shit I would rather have steak and shake fries than McDonald’s fries. What the hell are people talking about when they say this?
Might be nostalgia influencing them to some degree.
I know, for me, that McDonald’s fries were the standard fast food fries just like kfc was the standard fast food fried chicken (they were the closest places). It was a long time before I had tasted other fast food places’ food, so those were what everything else was compared to.
Now, decades later, neither is my favorite, but I do appreciate both, especially if they’re hot and fresh.
That’s the thing. Mcdonalds was nostalgic for me too. But I remember going to Wendy’s for the first time (they had the Kirby right back at ya toys) and having their fries i was like “these are way better than McDonald’s. Like I just completely fell outta of love with McD’s then and there.
no, no fries made by mashing potatoes and then reforming as sticks cna be given the title of best (also who the fuck ads sugar to their fries)
get yourself some newyork fries for a chain fries that have some quality, or go to 5 guys, but the best fries will ALWAYS be from your neighbourhood greasy spoon/diner that is run by a family that emmigrated/immigrated to your region (in winterpeg they are consistently either greek or turkish run)
This strip kinda made me want McNuggets. Thing is, I’ve been a vegetarian for almost thirteen years bow, and imagine going back for *McNuggets.* It’d be ridiculous– unfortunately, that’s kinda a selling point for me. But! The various reasons not to eat McDonald’s help.
So. Label in seedling pot in my greenhouse (Sthrn Hemiphere) reads Lesbian Cum. Someone has a sense of humour. And possibly a different usefor the cucumber.
for their own good
for his good
because he’s being an asshole
a newly realized sense of self-respect
a new outlook on life after realizing the closeted feelings you’ve long felt for a close friend who you only ever saw as that until they were nearly ripped away from you which leads to you bottling up all your feelings until they finally violently explode in the worst way possible during the worst time leading to you accidentally or honestly pretty purposfully cheating on your boyfriend twice
The argument was never really that “Walky is fine with it”, but that his initial shrug reaction minimized the consequences from the cheating.
Yeah, he’ll drown his sorrows in nuggets for a bit and he’ll be depressed for awhile, but that’s basically a mirror of their first breakup and there’s little evidence, especially visible to Dorothy that it’s tied to the cheating rather than the breakup.
At least, that’s from the relationship paladin side – those who wanted a reaction. There has been a “it’s only been a 3 day thing. Walky won’t care” take from some sickos.
Come on, you’ve been reading the same comments I have. There have absolutely been people saying “he reacted with a glib joke, that means he’s fine.” I went back and checked just to make sure I wasn’t Mandela-ing myself and you even responded to one of them on the 28th. Hell you described him as “just shrugging it off” on the 2nd.
Important to note that Walky responds to everything with glib jokes. The jokes and goofiness are, in large part, a defense mechanism he uses to cover up his actual feelings and provide plausible deniability for his thoughts.
Walky’s always hard to read as a result, for us as well as the characters, but I think he’s in a weird place here. He seems more emotionally fragile than he was the first time around, but also simultaneously less invested in the relationship. I don’t think he expected it to last this time, and I don’t think he was particularly surprised that it was Joyce who took Dorothy away. But that doesn’t mean that getting dumped isn’t a kick in the ego. (Hell, he didn’t react well to Lucy dumping him, and he clearly didn’t even want to be in that relationship.)
That’s part of the problem. He’s reacting to getting dumped. In much the same way he did the first time, when he thought it was the right thing to do and had even been thinking of doing it himself.
He’s not reacting to the cheating side of it at all.
You don’t think it might all be bundled together and this is his reaction to all of it? I don’t think after he eats 250 chicken McNuggets he needs to then say, “now for the 10 large fries, which are specifically for the cheating, since the McNuggets are only for breakups.”
He’s reacting to it the same way he did the first time because, as I just said, that’s how Walky reacts to everything. I’m not going to get into the whys and wherefores again because my last comment is right there if you’re actually interested.
I remain tremendously impressed with the way that all of these characters text back and forth like my 60+ year old self, in complete, punctuated, sentences.
I’m in my 30s but most of my friends did this in high school and college, even when you had to type like 444 7777 2 9 2 222 2 8, and some of my college age acquaintances do too. Probably has to do with most of our communication being online or text, so needing to actually have things be clearer than in the early phone and chatroom days
Actually, there are several things that could make this very entertaining and also very interesting. Like, Walky has kind of been shown already, that he’s innately on to Raidah’s bullshit. He, specifically, might end up being a boyfriend to her who actually causes her the most grief, especially if he honestly thinks that he can get away with it because he believes that she’s only with him for his family connections.
Before Amber can make a move on him, he has to help nurse her back to health. The timing could be better. Otherwise, she’s going to miss her ideal window.
I think that if I had just been broken up with twice in one week and then had to focus on not dropping a worryingly expensive amount of actual garbage I was planning to eat, I’d probably just have a nervous breakdown on the sidewalk. It would be a better experience for my body.
Hope he likes filthy tables and the smell of cleaning supplies that were left out because the manager asked someone to clean up and then got mad at them for starting to clean up.
They definitely have a bag that can fit at least a couple of those boxes, they use them for big orders and DoorDash®. I’m sure he’s only carrying them for the visual gag, but it’s fun to bully McDonald’s, so I’m deciding it’s canon that they didn’t even bother looking at their bags before handing him his garbage.
I’m a little amused with how much Walky’s path of self-destructive path of eating away his feels has mainly just been met with people envying when they still had the metabolism to get away with eating so many chicken nuggies.
It’s not the Most Popular type of disordered eating among young men — I’m pretty sure that’s excessive gym time combined with over restriction! — but it is.
Walky is not the character I would have pegged for our lesson in how patriarchy and toxic masculinity harm guys too, but I’m here for it. Walky’s avoidant tendencies and inability to express his feelings need to come to a head.
Also it occurred to me that this Walky doesn’t have alien DNA, so that metabolism ain’t gonna last forever.
Personally, I wouldn’t mind if Walky wound up gaining a bit of weight, but learning to love and value himself more?
You kidding? Walky is like the poster boy for internalized toxic masculinity in this comic. He might be worse than Joe now considering Joe has developed as a character. Walky thinks it’s strange to own more than one pair of shoes, he doesn’t shower regularly or wash his clothes often, he fully crashed out when Booster said his hair looked slightly feminine. Dude was devastated about himself when Lucy moved on to Jacob. The difference is it’s mostly not outward misogyny unless he’s telling Joyce and Dorothy to lez out already. He just points it all towards himself. It’s why I think he needs time alone. Guy actually needs a development arc. He’s been pretty neglected lately.
I will say it’s pretty clever he mostly eats chicken nuggets. That’s not the worst food to be making the primary foundation of your diet. A diet of mostly lean chicken can also explain partially why he doesn’t gain weight.
Well I’ll rephrase. Walky has always had these traits, not just in this universe. They went largely unexamined in the Walkyverse, probably because they’re also Willis traits and the other shoe hadn’t dropped in real life. Willis has definitely adjusted their portrayal for the Dumbiverse in that they’re the same traits, but looked at with the benefit of hindsight and occasionally going “Yeah, none of this is good or sustainable.”
Still, given the timescale, I was never sure we were ever gonna really do this, since it was fifteen dang real-life years without Walky having a real wake-up call.
But I do hope we do this. I’m pretty excited by the prospect.
Probably no one will see this, but I just looked up McNugget nutrition. A bit over half the calories come from fat. In 40 nuggets there are 92 grams protein, 102 grams carbs, and 98 grams fat. This is not “mostly lean”.
Maybe I dont hang with a lotta typical dudes but this seems like the MOST common way it manifests. Mostly cuz I dont know that many guys who regularly go to the gym.
I might be confusing “most common” with “most flying under the radar”? I know the gym thing is a big problem, but part of WHY it’s a big problem is it doesn’t tend to get recognized as disordered eating.
Like how restricting yourself to 1200 calories per day doesn’t get recognized as disordered eating even though that is less food than a child needs, because dieting is “good” starvation.
Finally, a character whose reaction to all of this is fully in-character and doesn’t require reading back over a bunch of historical strips in a new context to maybe make it make sense.
@Li: to continue our conversation from yesterday, I once got a job offer because the interview (startup culture) turned to hobbies, and it came out that not only did I play the same MMO as the company founder, but I had recently PvPed the hell out of him.
Heh, I really only play WoW and GW2. WoW is pretty much my only remaining subscription right now and I’m paying it annually, because I have a bunch of friends in-game and it would be a lot worse I think to lose that than to pay less than $200 once a year. 🫠
But like, good on him for taking being murdered in PVP so well!
Yeah, there’s definitely both good and bad things about startups. Free energy drinks and an air hockey table can be fun! Make sure they have a healthy attitude about work life balance and offer healthcare, though.
Y’all, I think he has to be voice to texting, not using his tongue. The way he’s holding the phone, he wouldn’t be able to get his tongue out to even use it to type anyway.
on the other hand, walky having such ridiculous lingual dexterity is a very funny misunderstanding that leads to amusing implications.
Being real, I don’t think he did either: I think he paused to respond and we are seeing him with his phone in his mouth after sending the text. Because having your phone in your mouth when you tried to use speech to text would be almost as troublesome for speech to text as it would be for typing.
Anyone else having trouble getting the website to load? I couldn’t even see the update till the following morning which is now after all the conversation has died down.
Yes! Resembles a Denial-of-Service attack with thousands of attempted logins per minute. Since it dies out by morning it’s probably the millions of fans of DoA waking at midnight to get their fix. 🙂
We can simply assume that the single major divergence from our world in the Dumbiverse is that a sovereign and independent State of Palestine exists, meaning there is no need for BDS.
Are we boycotting McDonald’s? If so, can I claim participation when I already haven’t been eating there? I don’t have a principled reason, I just hate the “food” and how expensive it’s gotten, but I’m open to having one.
Shoutout to Booster, because Walky could use more friends and they’ve been a much more positive addition to Walky’s life in and roommate situation than Mike.
This moment does give me a slightly better impression of Booster being a capable friend to Walky. Walky really needs one. It’s kind of just Jennifer right now.
No seriously, I was doing a bit on Sirksome’s “Don’t trust ____” shtick.
Booster may have only vestigial social filters, but they’re usually pretty astute and it says something that Booster was the first one to actually talk to Walky frankly instead of dancing around things (like Dorothy) or just rubbing his face in it (like Joyce). Even Jennifer is like “Oh god, I gotta talk to that nerdlinger, don’t I?”
That’s Billie’s love language. She’ll go to the wall for the people she cares about, but if she’s not calling them huge dorks or pissy red dandelions or something the whole time, check to make sure she hasn’t been replaced by a pod person.
Honestly, that much protein with little to no fiber would lead me to believe it would have the opposite effect of a laxative.
Granted, these are McDonald’s nuggets, so the amount of actual protein in them is questionable.
Fuck it, im bringing the thread back, boosters fucking rad and any naysayers can suck my non existent nuts. I need someone I like who’s fun on camera again. Come glaze this blorbo with me, I love them with all my fucking heart and they’ve never done anything wrong in their life, ever.
Good vibes only, I will bite if you come here trying to be an asshole
Buddy the tea would’ve been immaculate. I’m just imagining living on a different floor or in a different building and meeting up to hear all the Reed drama
It’s nice to see Booster being a good roomie to Walky. But, there’s no way even Walky is going to be able to eat all those McNuggets before they get cold, and the thought of cold McNuggets makes me cringe.
A YouTube short from Josh Johnson, talking about dehumanization.
Don’t let yourself dehumanize anyone. Even online. Even over “silly” splits like paladin versus sicko. Resisting dehumanization is a muscle we all need to keep flexing. For all our sakes!
gentlethems i would like to point out that in our early 20s, this is the number of mcnuggets that myself and two friends ordered purely for the sake of ordering and eating an arbitrarily large number of mcnuggets. and we were all bigger than Joe.
if there’s one thing that really makes me think it isn’t gonna all work out into a perfect polycule, it’s that walky and joe are both being told pretty plainly that they’re less important.
joe seems to be okay with this, and that’s like, a little fucked up but it could work out
but walky, dorothy let joyce break up with him for her? joyce did it with a childish jeer, and dorothy went along with it and got out of there…
even if everybody’s willing to be poly when it’s suggested, joyce and dorothy were willing to choose each other over them, and that’s just an uncomfortable thing for everyone to be aware of.
Walky was on the rebound and Dorothy was spiraling, their second run at a relationship was dead on arrival. So, I take their whole situation way less seriously than Joe and Joyce.
As some peeps have pointed out, McDonalds is still on the bds list so here’s how to make chicken nuggets at home;
Ingredients:
– Chicken Breast
– Chicken Skin
– Salt
– Sugar
– MSG
– Cornstarch
– Flour
– Celery Powder
– White Pepper
– Baking Soda
– Baking Powder
– Eggs (2)
Step 1) Weigh out roughly 0,700kg Chicken Breast (Cubed) and 110grams Rough Chopped Chicken Skin to a bowl.
Step 2) Process through food processor until a fine puree
Step 3) Add;
– 2 teaspoons (14 grams) salt
– 1 teaspoon (7 grams) of sugar
– 1 teaspoon (1 gram) MSG
Step 4) Mix until homogeneous then put in freezer for 10 minutes to firm
Step 5) Grab 3 large bowls or containers for your breading mix and then add the following;
First Bowl:
– 1.25 cup (45 grams) cornstarch
– 1 cup (240ml) water
Mix until smooth
Second Bowl:
– 3 cup (450 grams) flour
– 1 tablespoon salt
– 0.5 teaspoon MSG
– 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
– 1 teaspoon celery powder
Mix until combined
Third Bowl:
– 0.5 cup (75 grams) cornstarch
– 0.75 cup (103 grams) flour
– 1.25 teaspoon (4 grams) baking powder
– 0.25 teaspoon (1 gram) baking soda
Mix until thoroughly combined after which you’ll add the final two ingredients;
– 1 cup (240ml) chilled water
– 2 whisked eggs
Mix until smooth
Prepare your frying oil of choice (sunflower or peanut is recommended). Add it to a heavy bottom pot and fill it for about 2/3rds the way but no more than that. Use a wooden spoon or chopsticks to verify the tempurature if you don’t have a thermometer, if you see bubbles coming up along the edge of your wooden tool the oil is ready, if it’s smoking your oil is too hot and you’ll need to flower the flame/temp of whatever cooking station you are using.
Shape ground chicken into your preferred nugget form, coat in first and second bowl, then once added to the final quickly lift from third bowl into the oil, then let fry from 5/7 minutes until golden brown and optionally you an use chopsticks to flip them around for a more even browning. Then finally lift them from the oil and let them cool on a rack.
Cook in batches to prevent the nuggets from clumping together and enjoy.
Additionally if your nugget experience isn’t complete without McDonalds very own Sweet & Sour here’s that too;
– ¼ cup apricot preserve
– ¼ cup peach preserve
– 2 tablespoons corn syrup
– 5 teaspoons white vinegar
– ½ teaspoon of soysauce
– ½ teaspoon mustard
– ¼ teaspoon salt
– ⅛ teaspoon granulated garlic
– ½ teaspoon of cornstarch
Add to a saucepan with 2 tablespoons of water, simmer for 5 minutes.
Optionally, Add additional Soy Sauce if the color isn’t right
entering the local McDonalds wearing my sick as fuck custom T-shirt that says “I STEAL THE RECIPES FROM EVERY FOOD ESTABLISHMENT I ENTER WITHOUT REMORSE”and smiling politely while the underpaid staffer walks my order towards me as the manager reads my shirt with a growing sense of panic.
Okay, I know this is basically sacriliege but I’m 100% going to try this with TVP/fake-chicken broth instead of chicken and liquid egg replacer and see if we can get a vegan version.
Ok so so far we found banners for… Joyce, booster, joe, lucy, amber, walky, dorothy, ethan, amazigirl (yes. a separate one), dina, becky, billie, sarah, sal, ruth, danny, carla, alice, asma
and no banner for.. Jocelyne (new and old name alike), mary, raidah, mike, jacob, leslie, charlie, daisy
FIVE boxes, In this economy? i do like their breakfast sandwiches but in these days i’d expect like the price of one mcnuggets(?) box would be worth 5 like a decade ago
yeah wouldn’t be surprised if he never spent money on clothes or anything else (cept maybe dexter/monkey merch?) to where everything is on food or just used to being treated by Raidah the last few times theyate together so he saved up versus splitting the bill
take me to church
I’ll saucedip all my nugs with a side of your fries
I’ll somehow stay thin so you can throw in some pies
offer me my Dotless death, ow my bod
but I somehow died lithe
yeah like, Walky’s an innately hard read cuz he basically play like this stoic comedian who use humor to cope with a lotta fucked shit he and other cast members had to put up with in the past 6 months
basically like a low-key version of Jax from Amazing Digital Circus
Poor Walky. I ain’t mad at Dorothy about it and neither is he, but he’s had a hell of a time. His relationship with Lucy went down brutally, and Dorothys got kind of a history of yankin’ his chain without meaning to.
I for one hope he does a lil better. And maybe winds up in a really entertainingly terrible idea rebound. Lets say…. oh…. him and amber are probably buried….. lets say Ethan And Asher. Maximum drama.
I’m still of the opinion that Walky should get angry with Dorothy at some point. She acknowledges all the time what a bad partner she was to him for purposes of self-flagellation, but he never does the same.
Maybe, but not being angry is better. Because I don’t think he needs to get angry when Dorothy probably already knows that she fucked up, him getting angry then will just make himself feel worse.
haven’t read this comic in several years but i just got caught up on it. a lot of fun stuff happened while i was gone 🙂 also anyone else think joe’s been kinda eggy with it lately…?
and that kind of thing? i feel like a lot of joe’s “look how manly i am, i’m a one dimensional sex robot” thing and his subsequent “im worried that im gross and evil and can’t avoid corrupting anything i touch” thing are easily explainable as various ways of processing gender feelings.
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To be fair hasn’t Booster said to all of Walky’s girlfriends they were better than him. That’s clear motive to break up/hj
I’m not sure they’ve said that to Dorothy actually.
Which might be a burn? I’m not sure.
Has booster said it about Amber? I thought I remembered a conversation where Amber pointed out they HADN’T said anything similar, only for Lucy, and Amber snarked at them for it?
Actually, I’m pretty sure he thought Amber and Walky were the perfect couple. Called them “diametrically opposed garbage”, IIRC.
Specifically, Booster didn’t say anybody was BETTER than Walky, just that they could DO better. AKA, the relationship wasn’t healthy and they could find a better one, which was 100% accurate with Lucy.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/04-for-me-it-was-tuesday/undertaking/
“Let me state for the record that you are also too good for him”
And, as promised, she fixed that.
Besides Amber but ye, and even then you can acknowledge/criticize an unhealthy relationship and still care that both parties come out of the other end okay.
When no one was looking, David Walkerton took one hundred McNuggets. He took 100 McNuggets. That’s as many as five twenty pieces.
And that’s terrible (for his cholesterol).
That’s a lot more than 100 McNuggets.
Oh shit, those are 50 pieces, aren’t they. I mistook them for the boxes 20 pieces used to come in back in the day.
This might actually be more than Walky can handle…in one sitting, he’s going to need a bathroom break at some point.
I think what terrifies me more is the knowledge that you guys can BUY 50 Nugget boxes. Here in Australia, they stop at 20.
Don’t get me wrong, I will still order 3 boxes for 60 nuggies. I’m terrified because 50 per box is just too much power for one human to abuse.
250 nuggets…I could do that! xD
To be fair, I literally just got home after a 3-hour accounting exam. The first thing I did on leaving the exam hall (which was actually in a Holiday Inn hotel xD) was duck into Micky D’s for a bite before heading for the Tube.
Congratulations on finishing your exam!
(I’m still in lurk mode but a 3-hour exam deserves a “congratulations”.)
That sounds like something you must have worked extremely hard for. You have every right and reason to be very proud of yourself. In fact, I think you should feel proud of you for doing that.
Congratulations. 🙂
I thought the 50 piece comes in a bucket? Those boxes look a little small to be more than 20 pieces.
Okay, I see they say “50” on them. Maybe McNuggets are smaller than they were the last time I bought them (which was probably around the time DoA debuted).
cube root principle means that a 50 piece box only needs to be like 30% larger than a 20 piece box.
I think if anyone else tried to sell fried chicken in a bucket, the Colonel would rise from his grave and beat the crap out of them.
There’s a chicken & pizza place here in New Brunswick that better start preparing for Zombie Colonel.
If I’m reading the boxes right those are 50 piece boxes. Which makes 250 nuggets. Assuming he’s not making multiple trips, which might be a Super Sized assumption.
Willis, I beg of you, please draw Walky in this meme format.
Put him in the ridiculous Lex Luthor costume. He deserves to have this!
The boxes say 50.
Those are 250 McNuggets.
Whoa. I’ve never known they offered boxes of 50. I’ve only ever seen 20.
(or is this just an in-comic thing?)
They sold a 50-pc for $10 around the time this comic debuted as a promotion. I guess it’s just a regular menu item in the Dumbiverse.
So they are in the good timeline. Bet you can still get a bucket of fries there, too.
Or the special is back. They tend to recycle the more popular ones.
I remember it did come back once or twice
By a few years from now no-one will be able to prove it wasn’t available in Bloomington when this strip ran.
But what about the hot mustard and sweet and sour?
The Walkerton men are refined connoisseurs. They do not need sauce. They will not use sauce. They will consume the McNugget in its unadulterated form, as the gods intended.
If that’s what the gods intended, why would they have created Honey Mustard?
nah man honey dill!
(hoenstly last box of mcd nuggets i ate (25yearsago at least) was with one honey and one mustard cause they didnt sell it as a prmixed diiing sauce then, but up here in mosquitoa we make the honey dill sauce seen (possibly not currenty due to drumpfs terriffs) at most grocers accross canada and the northern states)
i havent even eaten mcds fries in 20+ years, the coffee is the only thing they have that didnt give me bottom rot
This is why you make friends with someone who works at Popeye’s, so they can hook you up with Blackened Ranch and Mardi Gras sauce (and/or Cajun Sprinkle if you’re feeling bold).
I do like the chili sauce that McD’s has for their tenders, usually get that alongside the other two
Bonne viande, courte sauce.
Szechuan all the way!
honey mustard is a MUST with fried chicken IMO :9
That’s over 10,000 calories, 1,500 milligrams of cholesterol, and 20,000 milligrams of sodium worth of McNuggets.
Somebody’s either stocking up to go into hiding for a week, or putting his comically overpowered metabolism to the ultimate test.
So I’m going to take the opportunity of a new strip to say some things that have been on my mind regarding this comment section.
The discourse surrounding this storyline has gotten absolutely nasty on many fronts, from what we might colloquially refer to as the “paladin” and “sicko” camps both, inasmuch as those terms have any actual utility. There have absolutely been outbursts of misogyny and homophobia from critics of this storyline, with some people unsatisfied by a perceived lack of narrative consequence taking that desire to an uncomfortable extreme. At the same time, there is a tendency by some in the opposite camp to absolutely jump down the throat of anyone who expresses even minor criticism of this storyline or the creative decisions made therein.
On a personal level, I remain genuinely hurt and upset at some comments made toward me on yesterday’s strip, thankfully now deleted, which impugned my character and, implicitly, my support of gay women, because of my criticisms towards Joyce and Dorothy as a couple and how they’ve approached their relationship. These comments were deeply upsetting to me because I am a transgender lesbian and it felt like that aspect of who I am, which is absolutely fundamental to me and how I live my life, was being casually erased in the name of shipping discourse. That is not acceptable.
I’ve mentioned this in recent comments, but many people in this comments section need to develop the skill of encountering a comment they disagree with but have nothing substantive to say in response, and simply moving on. I freely admit to failing in this myself on occasion, but I do make an effort to be discerning and engage only in good faith. I think if we can all make an effort to take this approach, this comment section would be a much more pleasant and productive space.
Just extend people a little grace and focus less on pithy one-liners, put-downs, and dunks. Everyone here is a real person.
Now, with that said, I have a date tomorrow (today?) at a ramen bar with a very cute girl, so do please wish me luck.
Ciao.
Good luck and enjoy!
before reading the rest, good luck with your date
Do you read from the bottom-up? Have I been doing this wrong all along??
Yes, though the proper approach to reading the contents is to go through and see what Taffy said, and then go back and read all the lesser stuff.
Well, on the first pass you should also check out any Yoto post with links.
He happened to see the bottom first. Are you capable of seeing text in English for any non-trivial amount of time without reading it?
i am! its an ability i developed spontaneously. i lost a high-stakes dare, and my assignment was to read Atlas Shrugged. I can make pearls with my brain!
Sorry, I’m so tired that I caught myself going straight to final argument, because no, I don’t wanna read it all.
tired because my job
Happens to the best of us!
Well said.
Good luck on your date.
The comment section has definitely gotten really nasty and toxic lately, though I feel it’s way worse towards people who don’t like the Joyce/Dorothy ship and/or have any criticism of the current storyline. I try to avoid replying to several people who I feel are consistently toxic and refuse to argue in good faith.
If that’s your perception then I can’t change that but I’ve definitely gotten very annoyed with people on both “sides” lately at a rate I would say is equivalent.
Also I feel like there’s very little misogyny and homophobia from the “paladins” group, though some people in the “sickos” love to accuse anyone who dislikes the current storyline of those things.
To be fair, I think the worse of the misogyny and homophobia has been in comments that wind up deleted.
There were multiple comments with genuine awful vitriol that were removed, i’ve seen this happen on at least three days. I can’t blame you for not having happened to see it, but it was very distinctly happening.
This thread is probably not the place to litigate which “side” is “worse.” I feel like that’s very plainly opposed to the point I’m trying to make.
Are you at all familiar with human beings?
Also, best wishes for a very enjoyable date!
There is a lot of homophobia and misogyn in the paladin group its wrong to imply all are but I have seen it and it makes paladins look bad to deny its a problem.
Being self rightous and using this post as an excuse to push your team as the “right” one is very paladin.
aaaawwweeee!!! ^-^
good luck on your date and have lotta fun! <3
Good luck on your date!
It’s frustrating for me at times to see commenters’ who overall stance I agree with, but who are so mean to people in going about expressing it. “Mostly right, but a real ass about it” is much less enjoyable than “strong disagree, but having fun.”
Ahh the good old “You’re not wrong, walter, you’re just an asshole!”.
I have had to use that quote like, 3 times this week.
Tangentially, @Laura: I don’t know if you still lurk here, but I miss seeing you post, and I’m sad things got so bad that one day. Hope you’re taking care of yourself. <3
(*”Thank you for saying so,” Laura says, in a tiny voice, before jumping back into the invisibility hole like Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog.*)
(…still lurking sometimes but doing worse now, so I don’t post…)
Internet support. I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you, Li. I appreciate that. I hope so too.
Yumi, I was actually just thinking of you today, before I visited DOA. Just was remembering how very kind you’ve always been, and hoping that all was well with you. Synchronicity!
Interacting with people is scary and there are no spoons. So I lurk.
Hi again,
(*Laura says in an even tinier “eep!”*)
Just by way of explanation, this last time was actually the third time (to my recollection) that I’ve accidentally found myself at the bottom of a pile-on for dumb stuff that I’ve said, likely cluelessly but without intent to offend. It particularly hurt to be called a “white colonial”, this last time, although I understand that people have every right to be angry, and, like Dorothy said, sometimes folks have to just “take it on the chin”.
This comic strip was actually the only place I interacted with anyone online, outside of work (which is just email). I don’t have any other forum on the internet. That’s why I tended to get a little obsessive with the posting.
And I figure — if for whatever reason I’m not moderating (or cannot moderate) my comments so that they don’t unintentionally provoke such anguish and righteous outrage among my peers — then I’ve really got no business writing stuff online at all.
I dunno… I’d blame my age, or my neurological shape, or my mental health disabilities and trauma, or meds or whatever… but the point is, I just keep making people very upset. Without meaning to. And that’s not really what I’m here for.
Believe it or not, I actually do try to be a peacemaker, most of the time.
I’m not trying to point any fingers. I think I may have just missed the boat when it comes to online discourse. It’s too rough and tumble for me to adapt to. …So it’s best just to focus on work and on the few people I can talk with directly, voice to voice if not face to face.
Folks here know how parano I get about privacy, anyway. So being offline is likely for the best.
Thank you for reaching out, and for understanding, Yumi and Li.
All the best wishes,
Laura
Very well said. Get an extra egg in your ramen. If you’re already getting an extra egg, get another. If you’re allergic to eggs, I have no contingency for this circumstance.
yeah!!!
get a lotta narutomaki and chashu pork too!!! :9
I’m Jewish so no pork for me I fear!
woo Jewish DoA readers! there’s . . . probably like 5 of us
hahahhaa I’m Egyptian Jewish myself and love pork XD
pleased to meet ya ^^
tbf i don’t keep perfect kosher myself. I’m too American, I just can’t resist a cheeseburger.
hahahha right?
bacon or not, load it up with mustard and onion and my sabbath is perfect :9
but yeah I grew up liberal Jewish and never really kept kosher much at all, if only because my being frequently underweight meant calories were calories no matter how i got em
that also meant no fasting, but incidentally I managed to keep kosher on holidays like Passover, if only because matzo and Egyptian charoset is exceptionally tasty XD :9
Matzah pizza is my indulgence of choice during Pesach. Just something about tomato sauce on matzah…
have a good date!
I think both sides have played the phobia cards sadly. It’s gone full Voltron in the comments over this storyline, and you should never go full Voltron.
(briefly unlurking to offer support to Dot)
I’m personally in a somewhat fragile place, and I had to stop commenting because of the vitriol here.
A lot of people seem to lash out and get nasty at the drop of a hat. There seems to be a ”righteous”, vindictive streak in people.
I’m by nature very honest, and several times nasty, personal comments threatened to drop me right back into clinical depression.
I hope you have a nice date. Try not to let this place get to you.
(and now, back to lurking)
Adeptus, this is not, I think, appropriate to do.
I was present for the comment thread which prompted your exit. You entered a religious debate in a frankly thoughtless, hurtful manner throwing around shit about the inferiority of “Abrahamic religions”. You were then, rightly, challenged by many people, especially practicing Jews, who perceived (and forced you to admit) that you were speaking from a place of profound ignorance, and did not have the expertise you positioned yourself as having.
It is a blatantly false equivalence to position this as in the same boat as a trans lesbian being invalidated for having different shipping and ethics-of-relationships viewpoints. I do not agree with many of Dot’s views (besides that Joyce tops and J/J/D poly is good) but I absolutely don’t think she deserves to be invalidated.
Your situation is not the same. You posted a bad take and were rightly subject to pushback from people whose beliefs you insulted.
I also suffer from depression, and I’m really sorry to hear that that discussion triggered symptoms, but this just isn’t appropriate.
I’ll be honest I don’t think this is appropriate for YOU to do as well. I’m not really sure who benefits from you drudging up old actions to shame a person who’s already admitted to struggling with depression. They had a bad take, got criticized for it and stopped posting. Why did you feel the need to immediately shame them again the second they popped back up. This is the kind of behavior people bring up when they say we’re mean.
I brought it up because they literally came in here, into someone else’s personal thread, mentioning about how they “had to stop posting because of the vitriol here”, and how they were personally attacked, which just isn’t true. If they hadn’t brought that up, I wouldn’t say anything.
I am not saying anything else, anywhere else here, because this is not a fandom space I enjoy like, at all. My hackles are always up, my mean streak comes out, and another true thing from this comment thread, from Big Z I believe, is that if we see something we disagree with but isn’t harmful or dishonest, we should just scroll the fuck on. And so yeah, I’m not gonna say anything else about people whose opinions don’t jive with mine.
But I don’t want to tolerate lies and reputation-laundering. Like, it’s a weird thing to do. I guess that makes me even meaner than I thought, but fuck it.
Addendum: I also struggle with depression. It is not an excuse. For all that I’ve been a shithead here, I own it—yes, I am a mean cuss who assumes a lot of bad faith on here. I wouldn’t dream of coming here to complain that I was treated badly because like, I snarked at that one guy and got yelled at for it, probably pretty correctly, and moreover I snarked about weird fandom behaviors, not anyone’s religion or culture.
Correction: Dot literally said the thing about scrolling. Sorry, Dot. Credit back to you.
Thanks for the credit, although strictly speaking my point was that we should practice moving on if we don’t have anything substantive to say in response to a comment we disagree with. Debate and discussion are good and healthy, and if I feel I have a point I can make in response to a take I disagree with, I’ll do so happy. But if all I can think of is “I disagree,” or something snide or mean, it’s better just to move on.
Heh, I’m actually chuffed that Dot’s advice was misattributed to me briefly — my advice is the “remember that teams are bullshit and we’re all individual people” thing. =)
Aside to @Sajuuk-Khar specifically — if you’re more into the gameplay than the lore, Dust Fleet is basically Homeworld’s combat engine strapped to a basic galactic scale RTS, and is probably worth the $8 it currently is on Steam.
Oooh. I love the Homeworld lore, but another Homeworld-style RTS for $8? Yes please.
Thank you for reminding me of how toxic you are Sajuuk.
I’d curse you want’s the point. Keep your playground, bully. Fuck this.
wait that’s what happened???
“Abrahamic Religions”???
Christian Atheists never cease to keep painting over very different religions with this tired old brushstrokes huh? (9-9)
Good luck, may she sweep you off your feet—or you sweep her off her’s.
I hope there’s sweeping either way. Complimentary, not actual sweeping.
Anyway good luck.
Good luck with your date, first of all!
Second of all, honestly, I continue to think that a disturbing amount of the vitriol is being driven by the increasingly-absurd false dichotomy of paladins/sickos and the small but vocal contingent who absolutely insists on treating every interaction here by 1) decide what “team” a commenter is on 2) assume that commenter personally approves every comment posted by someone on the same “team” 3) attack them appropriately for that.
I continue to assert that ‘sickos/paladins’ was one of the worst things to ever happen to this comment space
It was a good, fun original comment! Then it became a Thing, and it got super annoying.
Oh, yeah, i.don’t blame the originator
If anything it was willis setting as a poll that was the gasoline and the match
You may be right, but I tend to think it was more of a recognition of what was already happening in people’s reactions.
I kind of think a diversity of opinion and interpretation is a good thing. It gives us something to talk about, and sometimes to think about. I get annoyed however when people come on and make the same exact point again and again and again over multiple days.
That does seem to be the pattern, unfortunately. People need to stop taking the “sides” so seriously in general.
Enjoy your date!
Don’t mind the vitriol-spewers, if you can. Know that many of us are cheering you on and disgusted by this behavior, imperfect allies as we are, even when disagreeing about stuff. Disqualifying your identity because you don’t support anything to do with anyone whose identity overlaps with yours is plain wrong and anyone with half a brain cells knows that.
Except of course even among the less-agressive posters, many will at times latch on to anything to attack someone if they disliked something that was said by that person, and we’ll never know exactly when it’s on purpose, a consequence of scanning and misreading, or good faith.
Anyway, you already know all that, so I’ll shut up now and wish you excellent ramen and date
Good luck with your date! Eating delicious ramen with another girl sounds so awesome…
Good luck with your date!
I’m really sorry about people being assholes to you specifically yesterday. The personal attack I saw was beyond the pale. Folks could definitely use a reminder or five that however you feel about the comic, you are talking to other human beings about it, and those other human beings are real. Your treatment of them says a lot more about your character than anything you might be self-righteously arguing about in fiction.
Ugh I don’t like, rereading this, how it sounds like I’m only sorry crappy things were said to Dot.
That’s not what I meant. Crappy things haven’t only been said to her. They’ve been said a lot, and regardless of which “””side””” is saying it, it’s been shitty. We all need to do better, full-stop.
Thank you, I appreciate your presence in these comments a lot!
Sorry to report the date got postponed to next Sunday but I did get her number out of the situation so it’s not all bad.
congrats!!! getting their # is always a good sign!!!!!
again if i’ve ever typed something here taken as anthing but civil discourse and good faith debate/an outright joke, unreservidly i apologize, i do my best to live my life to leave the world better than i found it, and do not want to ever cause harm. i honestly 99% of the time it is a typo/grammtical mistake on my part and i know i suck at written communication.
Numbers are good ❤️ good luck on the FUTURE date, then!
And also, thanks. Right back atcha.
Is Walky texting with his mouth?
He’s got his Speech-to-Text specifically trained on what his voice sounds like when his mouth is full, for precisely this situation.
That … sounds extremely practical.
he’s got an exceptionally skilled tongue to go with his super saiyan level metabolism XD
…Dorothy was a lucky girl, then.
And here is the answer to the question about women being satisfied in bed.
most recent text he sent. He smartly didn’t put his phone in his pocket before he picked up his nuggets. If he had, we’d think his tinkledinker was 5G.
i genuinely spewed, glap my mouth was empty well done. have an internet!
I really like this textbox style that makes it looks like they’re speaking their texts, this is cute.
Given that Walky can apparently type with his lips, I am re-evaluating his value as a boyfriend substantially.
Dorothy certainly spoke highly of his prowess.
(but can he hammer a six-inch spike through a board with his penis?)
He can hammer a six-inch penis through Dorothy with his penis. Does that count?
A classic line that must be preserved through the centuries.
If anyone in the cast can, it’d be this this real genius.
he can text on a touchscreen with his lips and Dorothy wants to leave him?
Dorothy may be far more fulfilled and happy with Joyce than in a rebound with Walky and all power to her for that, but there is no way she can match Walky’s tongue game at her current power level. We all make sacrifices for love.
What Joyce will lack in technique she will likely make up for with eagerness and energy—
She’s got gumption, but she does need to develop that technique if she wants to get anywhere.
Oh thats 250 McNuggets my boy is depressed as shit
“I GOT 250 MCNUGGETS BUT A BONGO AIN’T ONE” —David Walkerton, 20XX
I snorted milk out my nose and I wasn’t even drinking any, gg wp <3
Yeeeep. 🙁
Fascinating. This is honestly more Walky introspection than I’d expected! I’m curious to see if we explore his reaction to all of this further.
We might be getting actually messy up in here and I am excited for it!
I think he was doubting the relationship from the go this time. So it’s not a shock. It sucks, but it wasn’t really about him.
He should take this as his becoming more an actual person instead of a project too.
I long for the day we get another halloween crashout from Walky.
In which Booster is capable of expressing concern?
Like they have done before but people pretend they don’t for some reason
When push comes to shove, Booster has a good deal of empathy. I believe Booster is the type of person in which they give you the exact amount of sass and bite you can handle. After that, here comes the empathy.
I believe that Booster thinks of themself that way, but I’d love to see the narrative take some time to point out that people who think that way generally overestimate their ability to determine exactly where the line is. Y’know, some time in 2038 when all our current themes and plot threads have been tied up.
Honestly, everything about Booster tells me they’ve got good reason for being kind of guarded with people, and one of the ways their specific guard manifests is glibness.
It’s either a sign of them feeling closer to Walky that they’re asking so directly and without a lot of that glibness, or a sign of them feeling extra worried.
Walky is doing the two things he does best: pretending he doesn’t care, and eating catastrophic amounts of nuggets
catastrophic or “living the dream”?
I remember when I had a metabolism like that. I mourn its loss, somewhere around age 24/25
Catastrophic to the chicken population
Man, even at my most hummingbird-like I don’t think I could have handled a 50 piece, let alone 5 of them.
If my research is correct, a McNugget weighs in at 16.5 grams. 250 0f them is 4.125 kg, or just over 9 lbs.
A standard housing brick is 4.5 lbs. Walky’s about to eat two bricks worth of chicken and grease. His toilet may not survive the onslaught.
I was the same way, I could eat that and then follow up with a large pizza like an hour later.
Now I think I could put away a 20 piece in one go if I prep? (By which I mean not eat most of the day before) I had one chipotle burrito over twelve hours ago and have not yet eaten anything since.
kept your supply of Chipotleway stocked up
I wish I could eat that amount of chicken nuggets. These days the most I can eat in one sitting is about 20.
I’ve never had a chicken nugget. Are they tasty?
until they aren’t.
Grease and glutamate say “yes!”.
Have you had any variety of breaded chicken? If so, imagine that exactly but about 5cm long and 1cm thick. You can make your own at home, if you have chicken and any sort of coating, like flour or cornmeal. Simply cut the chicken, bread the chicken, and fry the chicken.
For the McDonald’s variety, remove all taste except for the memory of greasy bread and dusty cotton, give it the texture of drywall that wants to jump off a bridge, and then imagine you’re chemically compelled to keep eating it.
Just an addendum: the McD’s variety is ground chicken, which has a different texture from breaded chicken without grinding it down.
I was thinking recently about making chicken nuggets and realized I rather have chicken tenders for the texture LOL
The other variety does hit that spot of one bite homogenous goodness. Chicken nuggets in general I mean. Not the MickeyD’s variety. Though I once used to eat them by tearing off the crust and then eating it, but I was a kid to be fair.
and they were so much better when they weren’t just white meat.
BarerMender, the whole point of chicken McNuggets, other than their addictiveness, is that they form an ideal base for the exploration of different sauces and their mixtures. I love honey mustard, but really you should go for variety so that your taste buds never become acclimated. And for the best results you should go outside of the McDonalds pallet of sauces. Currently I favor raspberry chipotle sauce from Fischer and Wieser, but even things like horsy sauce from Arby’s is a valuable addition to the arsenal of flavors with which to assault your mouth.
i would avoid them all together, as they are rediculously processed (i was a mcnuggets kid, i am not big on burgers so if i wanted the toy/anythig at mcd other than fries nuggets is where i went). if you get the chance try chicken tenders/poppers from mary browns chicken, (they litterally rip hunk of breast meat and batter them) sooo fucking good, also honey dill sauce is the fucking best dipping sauce (good with fish, carrots, potato chips, fries) with honey mustard a very close second
Booster, stop reading people minds, unless you get paid for it /s
yeah that tracks honestly. not gonna call this a HEALTHY coping mechanism but there are certainly worse ones
Depends on which sauce he uses really.
dammit now I want McNuggets XD
Please don’t. My back hurts from frying so many mcnuggets this week
sorry to hear that :/
mine actually hurts right now as a result of a public-transit filled day trip to Silicon Valley, you have my sympathy
From the first panel I thought this was building up to a Church’s Chicken joke.
It’s Walky!
There’s no way that wasn’t autocorrected!?
Glad multiple people are checking in on Wally, even if he doesn’t know or won’t admit he needs it yet. It’s been a relatively short on-off relationship so I’m optimistic he can recover quickly. Probably about as quickly as his digestive system after this XD (estimate: one week)
IT’S BEEN –
One week since you looked at me
Blew off all your classes, and kissed me
Three days since you macced on me
Still got rug burns on both my knees
Four hours since Joyce stole you from me
Then came back and cackled so evilly
One minute since you texted me
But it’ll be one more week ‘till I’ve digested these McNuggets
*Applause*
ONE WEEK SINCE YOU LOOKED AT ME
It’s your room, too, Booster, I’d have expected “you’re not in our room” instead.
I’m happy they’re checking in on Walky
Eh, it’s not like he won’t be hit on by ten or so different folks over the day. And, some of them won’t mistake him for Sal.
At first I read by ten o’clock and that checks
To all the people claiming there have been no consequences:
Pretty sure eating yourself to death with McNuggets counts as a consequence.
This is dumping a box of mcnuggets into an ocean of mcnuggets at this point. No harm can be done.
250.
Even Walky’s cast iron gut has its limits.
I could have done that when I was 20. And I wouldn’t have even minded the taste – my mom, bless her soul, never could cook well, so I grew up eating all kinds of things that had very little flavor. (My wife spoiled me for all that – her mom, a Black woman from Georgia, taught her how it’s done.)
If he’s texting with his tongue that might answer a question I saw the other day about how he manages to keep his girlfriends satisfied in bed.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/02-turning-saints-into-the-sea/murderous/
OK… now this feels better. More true to Walky, I feel.
Also before any comments that are like “I can’t believe Walky has no reaction to this”, the man has experienced two break ups in the same week. He’s absolutely got a reaction to this. He is also Walky and he’s going to laugh and crack jokes about it until he gets to a crash out point. The last time he was feeling really down, for example about his dead roommate, he made a very ill-timed joke that sorta led to Amber breaking up their situationship. Trust, the guy’s got emotions. He’s just gonna, you know, hide them under a mountain of nuggets.
Billie’s gonna tell him to cut the shit and tell her how he really feels and the floodgates are gonna open, trust
Oh I oughta get some popcorn ready for that!
Please please please.
That’s something I just want for Walky himself.
Popcorn? Why not chicken nuggets? Be one with the Walky!
A ten count with bbq sauce is calling my name…
Has Walky actually opened up to billifer at all? I can’t recall a single convo where he was actually sincere and vulnerable in her presence.
Nope but—-first time for everything? (Here’s hoping).
The rabid shipper in me wants to believe Billifer finds a bit of whatever she found attractive in Asher, in Walky. (Since it outright horrified her seeing there was a good chunk of Walky in Asher buried deep.)
He confided in her when he was unsure about pursuing Amber.
I also recall Jennifer being the one to tell Walky he was allowed to be mad at Dorothy post-break up last time. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/stanning/
The speech might take this time.
Eating 250 McNuggets is very much the opposite of “no reaction.”
True, but I feel that some people would insist that if Walky isn’t either sobbing his eyes out or punching walls then he is having “no reaction”.
I mean he’s blatantly calling it a coping mechanism in this here scene right ‘ere.
yeah, but “THE BE A MAN” crowd do not accept that as valid (saw some fucking hilious be a man memes yesterday love the classic :don’t let someone esle ruin your day, be a real man do it yourself!)
Yeah, Embe13’s right, the ‘be a man’ crowd really wants Joe and Walky to… I guess personally confront Joyce and Dorothy and tell them what hussies they are. Anything less is no reaction and no consequences for Dorothy and Joyce and thus terrible.
Especially funny because Joe has literally called Joyce out on it, even effectively calling her a hussy; of course, he meant it in a sex-positive way, as he wants to be part of that polycule.
BE A MAN
We must be swift as a coursing river
BE A MAN
With all the force of a great typhoon
BE A MAN
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon
Also I wanted to thank you for your replies to me the other day. Both of them. You’re good people, and I’m really sorry I — shall we say stepped on your metaphorical toes? While trying to remind folks about other people’s metaphorical toes.
Internet gesture of support.
You’re too kind, Li! No worries, you’ve proven yourself to be a very caring and thoughtful person in this comment section, so I know any toe stepping was completely unintentional. In return, I wanted to be sure I expressed that my own toe stepping was in no way meant to express harm to others. It’s good to be reminded of others perspectives that I haven’t ever considered, and I thank you for that.
Internet gesture of support!
❤️ 🫂 Totally understood!! And further appreciated.
Then he took an extra large cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of Dorothy. I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the soda fountain from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s mancave above our garage.”
Sigh. I remember having a metabolism.
Let the boy have his nuggets and sunday doing whatever helps him cope. He deserves this much.
Joyce gets: Dorothy
Walky gets in exchange: 250 Nuggies
Ahhh Walky. It’ll all work out some day. Hopefully before his doctor steps in.
Hard to believe I was going through my first divorce in 2010 when the first Walky 50 McNuggets strip ran. Now my children and I intently say “Fifty McNuggets” at each other.
I posted this yesterday but site was sorta down so I’ll repost it again!
DOA Body type practice
Just my quick rundown of how I think the doa cast’s body types differ, using Joyce as the baseline.
Nice work.
It feels a bit weird that they’re all the same height except Sarah. (Well, and Dina, but it also looks like she’s the one you’ve drawn without underwear and there’s something a bit disturbing about the fact. Or else I am drunk and dirty-minded.)
Dina doesn’t believe in underwear.
Nor should she.
Name me one dinosaur that wore underwear.
a) Those aren’t underwear, I don’t think. They’re just the sketches of body shapes that happens before you draw the body over them.
2) What’s disturbing about drawing Dina with no underwear? She’s a grown-ass cartoon, it’s fine.
iii) I don’t know their canonical heights, but I do wonder if this just happens to be true. In which case definitely odd. More variation required by Willis.
I concur Nymph, Dina’s just short, “disturbing” is a way of putting it that really rubs me the wrong way :(
also yeah I think Willis once posted the methods on how he draws characters at different relative heights, but kinda forgot where
Everything Nymph said, what a weird thing to comment on.
Also I imagine since the focus was on different curviness levels and using Joyce as a baseline, the first few sketches didn’t actually check for heights? Dina and Sarah are also very noticeably different heights from Joyce, who IS exactly Dorothy’s height. I think Amber is also in that same general ballpark.
But even if the first few girls aren’t all the same exact height, again, I imagine the focus wasn’t on that at first.
You know Dina’s been in porn right?
wait, when was this?
1. I didn’t want to check every character’s respective height. I know every single character isn’t “exactly” the same height as Joyce but they are roughly.
2. Yeah those are construction lines. I just erased them on Dina cuz I futzed with her height the most so I ended Up erasing all those guide lines.
I actually don’t know who is or isn’t taller than the baseline of Joyce off the top of my head. I feel like most other girls are eye level with her. But yeah like Li said I was focused more on body “types” than heights necessarily.
Maybe it’s just bc I also draw, but yeah that was clear to me. When you start studies with a specific aim, it just makes more sense to keep other things to a similar size?
Ruth, off the top of my head, is also tall, and so is Alice. Jennifer is closer to Joyce’s height but a wee bit taller than her I think?
Oh also Rachel! Rachel is tall. Sierra is at least taller than Joyce.
Yeah. I made the rule to keep this to girls I think are the “main cast” right now which is why Ruth kinda fell off. She hasn’t gotten a lotta focus in a while.
No worries, no worries. I was just trying to think. I do think our current “main” girls are mostly shorter.
https://www.tumblr.com/dumbingofage/711775268338122752/this-has-probably-been-asked-before-but-what-are
Willis has been asked, and they didn’t provide a super concrete height list, but you’re very much on the same page I think.
…Do you have any art accounts I can follow?
yotomoe on blusky (I post sometimes)
yotomoe1 on twitter (I basically have hopped ship but I post once in a blue moon)
This is some good stuff. Love how muscular your Amber is.
These are cute ❤️
Is it just me? I tried to click the link but all I get is an error icon.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/845441789972578306/1413024359030853782/DOA_body_types2.png?ex=68bbbe7b&is=68ba6cfb&hm=11ea74f80be37c49d606d4d806e77aa21a5e78baa5dbbdb881c53c446e75838c
I dunno what happened.
reminder that discord media links are only valid for up to 24 hours now :/
“Babe, wake up: Yotomoe dropped some fanart again”
On the one hand I feel like Walky is in fact having a hard time with this, or rather, he will have a hard time after we end the mcnuggets phase.
On the other hand I feel like he’s resilient, and has people looking out for him, so I think he’s going to be okay(or whatever fucked up version of “okay” the dumbingverse has.)
I’m actually not sure if he is resilent. He more just, refuses to vent in healthy ways and doesn’t believe in acknowleding his true feelings and we’ve seen what that does to him.
When he was bombing math he started to compartmentalize hard before he went into a self-destructive spiral until he was basically airlifted out of it. When Mike died, he let his emotions fester until he blew up during the halloween party.
He has people looking out for him which is good but I’m leaning a lot more towards him eventually blowing up again or even this leading to another depressive spiral given this is now the 4th~ish time he’s been broken up with in 5 months, not to mention this is his first ever love cheating on him and the news being broken to him in a pretty rough way.
People can only look out for you as far as you let them see what’s happening. Walky buries everything so deep I’m not sure his loved ones even realize how bad it is. Booster has probably sussed it out the best but he’s generally seen as too unserious to be shaken (even by commenters, who’ve apparently been reading with their eyes closed). Hopefully Billie recognizes it when she goes to see him
interesting to see your view, i mean he could be “faking it til he makes it” regarding having the resiliency to handle this.
now for me, i have at times seen in walky a lot of the traits myself and my closest friends have, and this may actually be all he needs to be able to move on from this. some could say it is just repressing it, but for me he looks like he will be good, i mean if things repeat or if we have some more negative life events it could lead him to testing that resiliency to the breaking point (as unfortunately 3 years ago happened to me, and i am still working to rebuild my resiliency) but in htis moment, his life remain stable/calm for a week or so i think his resiliency will be real
That metabolism is gonna ricochet HARD in his 20s, isn’t it?
Even when he was superhuman in ‘Joyce & Walky’ he developed a gut.
I’m wondering if it will bottom out in this storyline.
Downshift without clutching.
McDonalds in Canada doesn’t offer packages of 50 McNuggets.
One of the very few ways in which Canada is less civilized.
If you’re driving from Houston to Dallas, you have your open sauce packs just in front of the gear shift, your packet of 50 McNuggets to your right and your thermos of coffee in the drink holder where the lid can be screwed and unscrewed with one hand. Every time you pass a mile marker you take another byte of a McNugget freshly dipped in one of the sauces. Occasionally you break it up with a swig of coffee instead. Looking for the mile markers mixed with defensive driving to deal with the variety of driving styles exhibited by your companions on the road keeps you alert the whole way, and augmented by a barbeque sandwich from a Buckys you stop at to use the restroom, you arrive safely in Dallas with the edge comfortably off your appitite so that you aren’t ravenous when you hit the resturaunt.
canda has mary browns chicken and thier stuff blows mcds nugget out of the water. (i stopped eating at mcd’s in highschool as anything thatwasnt a drink gave me bottom rot)
i know this is an established walky thing so im not mad about the comic here
just reminding my fellow doaheads that that mcdonalds is still on the bds list
yaay booster my buddy booster
😛 I’m at no risk of eating at mcdonalds. I’ve always found them pretty darn MID.
Yes, but they’re the standard of mid, consistently so. That quality is what makes them appealing to some.
Go into almost any McDonalds and what they serve you will almost always be the same as what you’ve had before.
Yeah, but now they think they’re fine dining, based on their prices. Fuck ’em. Every McDonald’s could explode into fire at the same time and nothing of value would be lost. Hell, it’s not like they even pay people enough to cover rent. Fuck ’em.
They also have the best french fries in the world, and, while other fast food operations have better chicken in their nuggets/tenders, McD’s has by far the best batter for those nuggets
Moved to Ireland a few months ago and the McDonald’s here are like, a whole thing. When they moved in they were only allowed if they signed a contract to sell exclusively Irish local meat and dairy. The quality difference is crazy, it actually tastes like real food. Hadn’t even considered eating at a mcd for years in America because the quality and price are both awful.
Went to a McDonalds in Japan and also liked it better in a few regards. One of the things I REALLY miss about Japanese fast food was treats in small packages: a standard meal comes with smaller amounts of fries and much smaller amounts of soda.
Me too. Did you try the soy burger? A bit savory for my tastes but it was still pretty darn good.
We were actually in an airport on our way out for the McDonalds specifically — only there for ten days and trying to try all the smaller local places and Japan-specific chains near us, like Mos Burger, was already a full-time job haha!
Due to the fact that it was an airport restaurant, it had a limited menu, and because I was about to get on a plane for like 12 hours, I kept it simple and I THINK just got a teriyaki burger. Which was fine, not terribly exciting, but that’s what I was going for! I have fonder memories of the macarons I got from the airport Starbucks… I am looking at their Japanese homepage and mourning that I didn’t get to try the mixed berry yogurt shake that’s being advertised right now…
I had so many amazing drinks there 😢 So many lightly sweet matcha drinks and canned coffee drinks. This really good mango-orange soda… even at 600 ml, markedly less sugar than a typical American soda, haha.
I had melon fanta at McDonald’s and melon icee at a karaoke place and both were some of the tastiest drinks I’ve ever had
Why don’t we do melon flavor here?
RIGHT?
Melon is a criminally underexplored flavor in America.
Strongly disagree about the fries. Strongly.
Never had a McD’s nugget so I can’t speak to that.
McDonald’s fries are like. Fine when eaten right away? It’s a specific variety of fry (thin and crispy), and that’s some people’s favorite.
But I don’t know of any other kind of fry that stops being edible food SO FAST. As soon as they stop being hot, they become salty cardboard. So a hot McDonalds fry is pretty good, but the McDonalds French fry dining experience is not my favorite by any means, even if we restrict it to cheap fast food.
Wendy’s and Burger King fries both have better staying power. Carls Jr has waffle fries for just a bit more money, or jalapeño poppers which I love. Popeyes probably also has a decent fry, though I wouldn’t know because I always just get their mashed potato or mac and cheese side.
I had a friend in college who, when we went to McDonald’s (which we did fairly often, because it was genuinely way better than what the cafeteria served), would order unsalted fries, and then salt them himself, because that meant that they had to fry a fresh batch, so they’d be hot.
I had a friend who did that too!! I was too shy ffff but it’s a good life hack for McDonald’s specifically.
Popeye’s has seasoned fries which are pretty good.
Rally’s has seasoned fries as well (to clarify for anyone who doesn’t understand, when I say seasoned, I mean by more than just salt).
Arby’s has curly fries which I especially love (curly fries, not Arby’s, though I have no problem with them).
There’s a local place that sells waffle fries cooked with curly fry seasoning ❤️
oh man, curly fry seasoning on waffle fries……!
Ok so this feels like the biggest gaslight on earth. Mcdonalds has the most AVERAGE French fries in the business. I’ve been to bars with better fries. Wendy’s has better fries. Checkers has better fries. Shit I would rather have steak and shake fries than McDonald’s fries. What the hell are people talking about when they say this?
Might be nostalgia influencing them to some degree.
I know, for me, that McDonald’s fries were the standard fast food fries just like kfc was the standard fast food fried chicken (they were the closest places). It was a long time before I had tasted other fast food places’ food, so those were what everything else was compared to.
Now, decades later, neither is my favorite, but I do appreciate both, especially if they’re hot and fresh.
That’s the thing. Mcdonalds was nostalgic for me too. But I remember going to Wendy’s for the first time (they had the Kirby right back at ya toys) and having their fries i was like “these are way better than McDonald’s. Like I just completely fell outta of love with McD’s then and there.
no, no fries made by mashing potatoes and then reforming as sticks cna be given the title of best (also who the fuck ads sugar to their fries)
get yourself some newyork fries for a chain fries that have some quality, or go to 5 guys, but the best fries will ALWAYS be from your neighbourhood greasy spoon/diner that is run by a family that emmigrated/immigrated to your region (in winterpeg they are consistently either greek or turkish run)
This strip kinda made me want McNuggets. Thing is, I’ve been a vegetarian for almost thirteen years bow, and imagine going back for *McNuggets.* It’d be ridiculous– unfortunately, that’s kinda a selling point for me. But! The various reasons not to eat McDonald’s help.
Look at this McRich person, can afford Mcdonalds! I just buy frozen nuggets at the local supermarket and make them at home.
$3.48 for a bag with like a hundred in it, that’s the road to a full stomach.
My country anticipated this and killed the local McDonald’s franchises 20 years ago, incredibly based (we just like Burger King more)
for reals tho
as much as I partake in the BDS by avoiding purchase of Intel products and Burger King (they give free food to the IDF),
at this rate we gonna have to start to talk seriously about a full-blown socialist revolution
signed, your friendly neighborhood Jewish Anarchist
Nice to see Booster checking in with Walky. A bit of honest friendship. And my gosh Walky sure gets a lot of girlfriends even if he can’t keep them.
Well, at least one of you is, Walky 😀
So. Label in seedling pot in my greenhouse (Sthrn Hemiphere) reads Lesbian Cum. Someone has a sense of humour. And possibly a different usefor the cucumber.
If Walky can text with his tongue, why would any girl ever break up with him?
like…
for their own good
for his good
because he’s being an asshole
a newly realized sense of self-respect
a new outlook on life after realizing the closeted feelings you’ve long felt for a close friend who you only ever saw as that until they were nearly ripped away from you which leads to you bottling up all your feelings until they finally violently explode in the worst way possible during the worst time leading to you accidentally or honestly pretty purposfully cheating on your boyfriend twice
you know, pretty average stuff /s
Oh hey look, he wasn’t fine with it! Who would’ve thought?
(honestly a lot of people for some reason…)
The argument was never really that “Walky is fine with it”, but that his initial shrug reaction minimized the consequences from the cheating.
Yeah, he’ll drown his sorrows in nuggets for a bit and he’ll be depressed for awhile, but that’s basically a mirror of their first breakup and there’s little evidence, especially visible to Dorothy that it’s tied to the cheating rather than the breakup.
At least, that’s from the relationship paladin side – those who wanted a reaction. There has been a “it’s only been a 3 day thing. Walky won’t care” take from some sickos.
So, basicly, he’s experiencing the normal reaction one would expect someone to have in his situation. Why is that bad again?
Come on, you’ve been reading the same comments I have. There have absolutely been people saying “he reacted with a glib joke, that means he’s fine.” I went back and checked just to make sure I wasn’t Mandela-ing myself and you even responded to one of them on the 28th. Hell you described him as “just shrugging it off” on the 2nd.
Important to note that Walky responds to everything with glib jokes. The jokes and goofiness are, in large part, a defense mechanism he uses to cover up his actual feelings and provide plausible deniability for his thoughts.
Walky’s always hard to read as a result, for us as well as the characters, but I think he’s in a weird place here. He seems more emotionally fragile than he was the first time around, but also simultaneously less invested in the relationship. I don’t think he expected it to last this time, and I don’t think he was particularly surprised that it was Joyce who took Dorothy away. But that doesn’t mean that getting dumped isn’t a kick in the ego. (Hell, he didn’t react well to Lucy dumping him, and he clearly didn’t even want to be in that relationship.)
That’s part of the problem. He’s reacting to getting dumped. In much the same way he did the first time, when he thought it was the right thing to do and had even been thinking of doing it himself.
He’s not reacting to the cheating side of it at all.
You don’t think it might all be bundled together and this is his reaction to all of it? I don’t think after he eats 250 chicken McNuggets he needs to then say, “now for the 10 large fries, which are specifically for the cheating, since the McNuggets are only for breakups.”
He’s reacting to it the same way he did the first time because, as I just said, that’s how Walky reacts to everything. I’m not going to get into the whys and wherefores again because my last comment is right there if you’re actually interested.
Fifty per. How big could those WcDonald’s boxes even be…
Catastrophic? Oguri Cap’s got nothing on a mere 250-piece.
Out of curiousity had to recheck Oguri’s KFC order
Her to go order is;
5 buckets
Her inhouse order is;
30~ chicken breasts
1 bucket
3 orders of fries
4 biscuits and gravy
Her delivery order is;
969 bucket meals
10 family buckets
10 orders of fries
10 biscuits and gravy
She is a true monster among horses
This the type of greed they talk about in the bible
this also sounds like marlon brandos order
Gravatar of almost the entire last panel please! Including the 250 McNuggets.
I remain tremendously impressed with the way that all of these characters text back and forth like my 60+ year old self, in complete, punctuated, sentences.
I’m in my 30s but most of my friends did this in high school and college, even when you had to type like 444 7777 2 9 2 222 2 8, and some of my college age acquaintances do too. Probably has to do with most of our communication being online or text, so needing to actually have things be clearer than in the early phone and chatroom days
two-hundred-fifty. mcnuggets.
(that boy is not okay.)
ITS BEEN 4 DAYS??
Moved on from Lucy in two days, usurped by a powerful rival two days later. The guy can’t catch a break, but he’s catching break-ups like it’s 2005.
Two breakups in less than a week is brutal.
Maybe Amber will make a move on him now that she’s succeeded and he’ll somehow wind up with 3 breakups in a week’s time span?
I’m personally in the camp that never wants Walky/Amber to be a thing again.
I am enchanted by the possibilities of Walky/Raidah however…
It’s a horrible idea and I very badly want it to happen
Actually, there are several things that could make this very entertaining and also very interesting. Like, Walky has kind of been shown already, that he’s innately on to Raidah’s bullshit. He, specifically, might end up being a boyfriend to her who actually causes her the most grief, especially if he honestly thinks that he can get away with it because he believes that she’s only with him for his family connections.
If only Ethan was still in his manwhore phase. This is the kind of thing that brings the bisexual experimentation out in a dude XD
I think Walky’s open to starting a rival polycule.
Man, I’m going to need more dimensions for this here ship diagram…
Before Amber can make a move on him, he has to help nurse her back to health. The timing could be better. Otherwise, she’s going to miss her ideal window.
They’re followed in rapid succession by new pickups, so…
walky has a weapons-grade buttsplosion on the way…
Why do I have a feeling that Booster is disappointed they can’t practice therapy on Walky XD
I’m super into the Walky-Booster friendship. I feel like they are two of the smartest characters and their dialogue together shows this
Welcome back
Cheap fucks didn’t even give him a bag.
Balancing them is part of keeping your mind off it.
I think that if I had just been broken up with twice in one week and then had to focus on not dropping a worryingly expensive amount of actual garbage I was planning to eat, I’d probably just have a nervous breakdown on the sidewalk. It would be a better experience for my body.
Garbage is best served at room temperature off the sidewalk after you’ve dropped it due to an anxiety-ridden meltdown.
Okay but then he could say the breakdown was over the mcnuggies and not because he has feelings
Maybe he is planning to eat them on-site?
Hope he likes filthy tables and the smell of cleaning supplies that were left out because the manager asked someone to clean up and then got mad at them for starting to clean up.
For 250 McNuggets? I don’t think they have a bag that size.
They definitely have a bag that can fit at least a couple of those boxes, they use them for big orders and DoorDash®. I’m sure he’s only carrying them for the visual gag, but it’s fun to bully McDonald’s, so I’m deciding it’s canon that they didn’t even bother looking at their bags before handing him his garbage.
…I think I have terminal shipping brain…
If you’re shipping Walky x Booster right now, then yes. Yes, you do.
Good. Don’t fight it. Let the ship coalesce in your mind.
glad I’m not the only one. All aboard the S.S. …..Wooster?
I’m a little amused with how much Walky’s path of self-destructive path of eating away his feels has mainly just been met with people envying when they still had the metabolism to get away with eating so many chicken nuggies.
Like y’all okay chat?
As we say on Tumblr, you can see the change in the average user’s age XD
We are feeling our various ages.
I’m actually mostly nostalgic for my old roommate, who used to routinely eat like this.
Interspersed with the occasional double filet-o-fish as a colon cleanse.
No, and while I recognize this is self harm I’m still jealous. Never underestimate the power of IRL body image issues and dysmorphia 💪
I don’t envy or miss overeating cuz eating less means I pay less money and have more left overs. There’s like no down side.
So like, I realize it gets played up for yuks to some degree, but Walky’s coping mechanism is disordered eating.
It’s classic binge eating yeah
Yes, absolutely.
Yep.
It’s not the Most Popular type of disordered eating among young men — I’m pretty sure that’s excessive gym time combined with over restriction! — but it is.
Walky is not the character I would have pegged for our lesson in how patriarchy and toxic masculinity harm guys too, but I’m here for it. Walky’s avoidant tendencies and inability to express his feelings need to come to a head.
Also it occurred to me that this Walky doesn’t have alien DNA, so that metabolism ain’t gonna last forever.
Personally, I wouldn’t mind if Walky wound up gaining a bit of weight, but learning to love and value himself more?
Wally’s toxic masculinity hasn’t been played up much but it’s always been there. See the shoe incident.
Would be nice, re: the last bit especially.
I do think that expecting his metabolism to crash in-comic is probably hoping for too much, he’s 18-19. But.
You kidding? Walky is like the poster boy for internalized toxic masculinity in this comic. He might be worse than Joe now considering Joe has developed as a character. Walky thinks it’s strange to own more than one pair of shoes, he doesn’t shower regularly or wash his clothes often, he fully crashed out when Booster said his hair looked slightly feminine. Dude was devastated about himself when Lucy moved on to Jacob. The difference is it’s mostly not outward misogyny unless he’s telling Joyce and Dorothy to lez out already. He just points it all towards himself. It’s why I think he needs time alone. Guy actually needs a development arc. He’s been pretty neglected lately.
I will say it’s pretty clever he mostly eats chicken nuggets. That’s not the worst food to be making the primary foundation of your diet. A diet of mostly lean chicken can also explain partially why he doesn’t gain weight.
Time alone ROMANTICALLY. He emphatically does not need more isolation generally though.
Well I’ll rephrase. Walky has always had these traits, not just in this universe. They went largely unexamined in the Walkyverse, probably because they’re also Willis traits and the other shoe hadn’t dropped in real life. Willis has definitely adjusted their portrayal for the Dumbiverse in that they’re the same traits, but looked at with the benefit of hindsight and occasionally going “Yeah, none of this is good or sustainable.”
Still, given the timescale, I was never sure we were ever gonna really do this, since it was fifteen dang real-life years without Walky having a real wake-up call.
But I do hope we do this. I’m pretty excited by the prospect.
“A diet of mostly lean chicken”
Probably no one will see this, but I just looked up McNugget nutrition. A bit over half the calories come from fat. In 40 nuggets there are 92 grams protein, 102 grams carbs, and 98 grams fat. This is not “mostly lean”.
Maybe I dont hang with a lotta typical dudes but this seems like the MOST common way it manifests. Mostly cuz I dont know that many guys who regularly go to the gym.
I might be confusing “most common” with “most flying under the radar”? I know the gym thing is a big problem, but part of WHY it’s a big problem is it doesn’t tend to get recognized as disordered eating.
Like how restricting yourself to 1200 calories per day doesn’t get recognized as disordered eating even though that is less food than a child needs, because dieting is “good” starvation.
Oh, I’m willing to bet that this comes up in the comic. This is going to be one of those things where it’s funny until it suddenly isn’t.
Booster at the least seems to understand that this isn’t just A Bit.
Dorothy walks with hands filled with newspapers and googles!
Walky walks with hands filled with McNuggets and texts!
There is something here… but I can’t put my finger on it. 😛
Finally, a character whose reaction to all of this is fully in-character and doesn’t require reading back over a bunch of historical strips in a new context to maybe make it make sense.
@Li: to continue our conversation from yesterday, I once got a job offer because the interview (startup culture) turned to hobbies, and it came out that not only did I play the same MMO as the company founder, but I had recently PvPed the hell out of him.
omg
Heh, I really only play WoW and GW2. WoW is pretty much my only remaining subscription right now and I’m paying it annually, because I have a bunch of friends in-game and it would be a lot worse I think to lose that than to pay less than $200 once a year. 🫠
But like, good on him for taking being murdered in PVP so well!
It was literally written in my job duties to “advise $FOUNDER on better builds and tactics in $GAME”.
Love/hate small startups for stuff like that. Company folded after a year, but 1) it was 2007-2008 and 2) we had a pretty good time.
Haha, amazing.
Yeah, there’s definitely both good and bad things about startups. Free energy drinks and an air hockey table can be fun! Make sure they have a healthy attitude about work life balance and offer healthcare, though.
Yay the website is still up 🙂 looking forward to walky crashing hard enough to figure out what walky wants to do in life.
The website crashed so Walky didn’t have to </3
The website really has been troublesome to access in the last few days ._.
Silksong’s launch broke all kinds of sites!
Yeah something’s gone fucky. Hope whatever it is isn’t too expensive to fix
Y’all, I think he has to be voice to texting, not using his tongue. The way he’s holding the phone, he wouldn’t be able to get his tongue out to even use it to type anyway.
on the other hand, walky having such ridiculous lingual dexterity is a very funny misunderstanding that leads to amusing implications.
Carry on
Being real, I don’t think he did either: I think he paused to respond and we are seeing him with his phone in his mouth after sending the text. Because having your phone in your mouth when you tried to use speech to text would be almost as troublesome for speech to text as it would be for typing.
Way funnier to just conclude he has amazing lingual dexterity.
Oh for sure. MUCH funnier!
It would certainly explain a lot.
Anyone else having trouble getting the website to load? I couldn’t even see the update till the following morning which is now after all the conversation has died down.
It’s been in and out since last night.
Given what’s been going on at Hiveworks, I’ve sure got worries.
Yes! Resembles a Denial-of-Service attack with thousands of attempted logins per minute. Since it dies out by morning it’s probably the millions of fans of DoA waking at midnight to get their fix. 🙂
Walky…. the boycott
(to clarify- I’m joking, I know it’s a webcomic not the real world, plus Walky would likely be ignorant of a boycott unless someone told him)
We can simply assume that the single major divergence from our world in the Dumbiverse is that a sovereign and independent State of Palestine exists, meaning there is no need for BDS.
Are we boycotting McDonald’s? If so, can I claim participation when I already haven’t been eating there? I don’t have a principled reason, I just hate the “food” and how expensive it’s gotten, but I’m open to having one.
Shoutout to Booster, because Walky could use more friends and they’ve been a much more positive addition to Walky’s life in and roommate situation than Mike.
This moment does give me a slightly better impression of Booster being a capable friend to Walky. Walky really needs one. It’s kind of just Jennifer right now.
*Raises hand*
Trust… Booster?
Yeah, I’m checking for goatees in case this is Mirror-Universe Booster. Or should that be Retsoob?
No seriously, I was doing a bit on Sirksome’s “Don’t trust ____” shtick.
Booster may have only vestigial social filters, but they’re usually pretty astute and it says something that Booster was the first one to actually talk to Walky frankly instead of dancing around things (like Dorothy) or just rubbing his face in it (like Joyce). Even Jennifer is like “Oh god, I gotta talk to that nerdlinger, don’t I?”
So yeah.
Trust Booster.
That’s Billie’s love language. She’ll go to the wall for the people she cares about, but if she’s not calling them huge dorks or pissy red dandelions or something the whole time, check to make sure she hasn’t been replaced by a pod person.
Tsundere’s gotta tsun.
See, part of me worries this could potentially send Walky to the ER with a heart attack.
I mean likely not, it takes much longer for that kind of buildup.
But he is quickly approaching an age where binge eating is not consequenceless.
He’s about to eat 250 nuggets in one sitting, that can’t be good for his body.
Yeah, but that’s like “here’s a laxative” territory, not “Go to the hospital now.”
Honestly, that much protein with little to no fiber would lead me to believe it would have the opposite effect of a laxative.
Granted, these are McDonald’s nuggets, so the amount of actual protein in them is questionable.
No, the laxative comes after. To get the nuggets out.
I think that’s like 100, a 20-piece is available in some places. I have never heard tell of a 50-piece mcnuggets.
If you look carefully at the boxes in the last panel, the top box says “50” on it.
i came back to the comments section to admit exactly this mistake, and oh boy am i aghast. he actually cannot finish that, can he?
Fuck it, im bringing the thread back, boosters fucking rad and any naysayers can suck my non existent nuts. I need someone I like who’s fun on camera again. Come glaze this blorbo with me, I love them with all my fucking heart and they’ve never done anything wrong in their life, ever.
Good vibes only, I will bite if you come here trying to be an asshole
Can I bite anyway?
hell yeah, Booster is rad and if I had gone to college with this lot I would absolutely have been besties with them
(ok also Dina but I imagine that would be more of a “paleo major field buddies” situation)
Buddy the tea would’ve been immaculate. I’m just imagining living on a different floor or in a different building and meeting up to hear all the Reed drama
need to form some kind of randomly-assorted fanclub for them. some kind of booster pack.
It’s nice to see Booster being a good roomie to Walky. But, there’s no way even Walky is going to be able to eat all those McNuggets before they get cold, and the thought of cold McNuggets makes me cringe.
College kids practically live for cold greasy food.
Flashbacks to piles of old Papa John’s boxes in my dorm room in spring of 2015… it was a dark time.
https://youtube.com/shorts/sAmcuorx-o4?si=IZw1bRlstMUB_4Gu
A YouTube short from Josh Johnson, talking about dehumanization.
Don’t let yourself dehumanize anyone. Even online. Even over “silly” splits like paladin versus sicko. Resisting dehumanization is a muscle we all need to keep flexing. For all our sakes!
January’s been a rough month for Walky.
So remember when Walky flat-out turned Dorothy down the first time she tried to backslide after the breakup?
I hope he remembers that when Amber shows up.
Chuck E. Cheesus died so you could redeem fabulous* prizes, and was reborn as a straight-up fursuit.
gentlethems i would like to point out that in our early 20s, this is the number of mcnuggets that myself and two friends ordered purely for the sake of ordering and eating an arbitrarily large number of mcnuggets. and we were all bigger than Joe.
i take it back this is actually 250% the nugs
People are flipping out and angry at this storyline but forget they’re literally all still teenage dirtbags. Walky’s comment cements this.
I’m just glad I never tried to do any weird feats of gastronomy with McNuggets of all things.
… we do not talk about the unholy things I did to myself on $0.35 crunchy taco day at Taco Bell.
Taco Bell is a horrible temptress, especially at 1 am off two edibles.
I was too straight-edge for that, but 9pm after a powerlifting session at the gym? You will certainly not regret eating two dozen crunchy tacos.
Two dozen is crazy work, even at my most hyperactive metabolism and most active I could only ever manage 15.
Yo Baja Midnight is also actually good
I mean, these days I quite enjoy eating a normal amount of Taco Bell.
if there’s one thing that really makes me think it isn’t gonna all work out into a perfect polycule, it’s that walky and joe are both being told pretty plainly that they’re less important.
joe seems to be okay with this, and that’s like, a little fucked up but it could work out
but walky, dorothy let joyce break up with him for her? joyce did it with a childish jeer, and dorothy went along with it and got out of there…
even if everybody’s willing to be poly when it’s suggested, joyce and dorothy were willing to choose each other over them, and that’s just an uncomfortable thing for everyone to be aware of.
Walky was on the rebound and Dorothy was spiraling, their second run at a relationship was dead on arrival. So, I take their whole situation way less seriously than Joe and Joyce.
I really wasn’t aware that Walky and Dotto were back paired for only four days. Sooo much has gone on in-universe since then.
As some peeps have pointed out, McDonalds is still on the bds list so here’s how to make chicken nuggets at home;
Ingredients:
– Chicken Breast
– Chicken Skin
– Salt
– Sugar
– MSG
– Cornstarch
– Flour
– Celery Powder
– White Pepper
– Baking Soda
– Baking Powder
– Eggs (2)
Step 1) Weigh out roughly 0,700kg Chicken Breast (Cubed) and 110grams Rough Chopped Chicken Skin to a bowl.
Step 2) Process through food processor until a fine puree
Step 3) Add;
– 2 teaspoons (14 grams) salt
– 1 teaspoon (7 grams) of sugar
– 1 teaspoon (1 gram) MSG
Step 4) Mix until homogeneous then put in freezer for 10 minutes to firm
Step 5) Grab 3 large bowls or containers for your breading mix and then add the following;
First Bowl:
– 1.25 cup (45 grams) cornstarch
– 1 cup (240ml) water
Mix until smooth
Second Bowl:
– 3 cup (450 grams) flour
– 1 tablespoon salt
– 0.5 teaspoon MSG
– 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
– 1 teaspoon celery powder
Mix until combined
Third Bowl:
– 0.5 cup (75 grams) cornstarch
– 0.75 cup (103 grams) flour
– 1.25 teaspoon (4 grams) baking powder
– 0.25 teaspoon (1 gram) baking soda
Mix until thoroughly combined after which you’ll add the final two ingredients;
– 1 cup (240ml) chilled water
– 2 whisked eggs
Mix until smooth
Prepare your frying oil of choice (sunflower or peanut is recommended). Add it to a heavy bottom pot and fill it for about 2/3rds the way but no more than that. Use a wooden spoon or chopsticks to verify the tempurature if you don’t have a thermometer, if you see bubbles coming up along the edge of your wooden tool the oil is ready, if it’s smoking your oil is too hot and you’ll need to flower the flame/temp of whatever cooking station you are using.
Shape ground chicken into your preferred nugget form, coat in first and second bowl, then once added to the final quickly lift from third bowl into the oil, then let fry from 5/7 minutes until golden brown and optionally you an use chopsticks to flip them around for a more even browning. Then finally lift them from the oil and let them cool on a rack.
Cook in batches to prevent the nuggets from clumping together and enjoy.
Additionally if your nugget experience isn’t complete without McDonalds very own Sweet & Sour here’s that too;
– ¼ cup apricot preserve
– ¼ cup peach preserve
– 2 tablespoons corn syrup
– 5 teaspoons white vinegar
– ½ teaspoon of soysauce
– ½ teaspoon mustard
– ¼ teaspoon salt
– ⅛ teaspoon granulated garlic
– ½ teaspoon of cornstarch
Add to a saucepan with 2 tablespoons of water, simmer for 5 minutes.
Optionally, Add additional Soy Sauce if the color isn’t right
Dude…
entering the local McDonalds wearing my sick as fuck custom T-shirt that says “I STEAL THE RECIPES FROM EVERY FOOD ESTABLISHMENT I ENTER WITHOUT REMORSE”and smiling politely while the underpaid staffer walks my order towards me as the manager reads my shirt with a growing sense of panic.
Okay, I know this is basically sacriliege but I’m 100% going to try this with TVP/fake-chicken broth instead of chicken and liquid egg replacer and see if we can get a vegan version.
I should probably load up on vegan recipes at some point, either way lemme know how it goes
Good luck!
I’m a vegetarian, but I very much appreciate the Sweet & Sour recipe to go with my veggie nuggets. Sometimes you just want it to taste like nostalgia.
Ok so so far we found banners for… Joyce, booster, joe, lucy, amber, walky, dorothy, ethan, amazigirl (yes. a separate one), dina, becky, billie, sarah, sal, ruth, danny, carla, alice, asma
and no banner for.. Jocelyne (new and old name alike), mary, raidah, mike, jacob, leslie, charlie, daisy
(I’ll admit to have searched most throught direct image URL to avoid overloading the poor site again)
Oh yeah if anyone is curious where I’m at in my “toenail being partially ripped off” journey, https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/02-to-remind-you-of-my-love/takeaways/ it came off yesterday
eyy only 5 years left to go, that’s like.. 3ish days of reading gluck~~
FIVE boxes, In this economy? i do like their breakfast sandwiches but in these days i’d expect like the price of one mcnuggets(?) box would be worth 5 like a decade ago
The original promotion this is based on was 50 for ten bucks! In 2010 money!
still that’s 50 bucks on college credit
Walky may have worn out some of his parents’ patience, but you bet your sweet bippy his meal card is loaded up.
yeah wouldn’t be surprised if he never spent money on clothes or anything else (cept maybe dexter/monkey merch?) to where everything is on food or just used to being treated by Raidah the last few times theyate together so he saved up versus splitting the bill
How is he typing with his tongue
Damn Dorothy really missed out
I came here to make this joke but I knew in my heart it had already been made.
take me to church
I’ll saucedip all my nugs with a side of your fries
I’ll somehow stay thin so you can throw in some pies
offer me my Dotless death, ow my bod
but I somehow died lithe
I respect Walky so much for this. I’m not even kidding.
BTW in light of the comic’s 15th anniversary coming soon,
I gathered up all the site’s character banners (19 in total) and turned them into a little collage (^-^)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m5wq3k7yix652vlovaf27lq4/post/3ly4usypgqs2i
OH CRAP I MISSED TWO XD
here’s the updated version
https://bsky.app/profile/ngpz.bsky.social/post/3ly4wibbw2k2z
Super cool!
Well. Walky is either fine or VERY MUCH NOT FINE and this strip does not really do very much to move the needle.
yeah like, Walky’s an innately hard read cuz he basically play like this stoic comedian who use humor to cope with a lotta fucked shit he and other cast members had to put up with in the past 6 months
basically like a low-key version of Jax from Amazing Digital Circus
Poor Walky. I ain’t mad at Dorothy about it and neither is he, but he’s had a hell of a time. His relationship with Lucy went down brutally, and Dorothys got kind of a history of yankin’ his chain without meaning to.
I for one hope he does a lil better. And maybe winds up in a really entertainingly terrible idea rebound. Lets say…. oh…. him and amber are probably buried….. lets say Ethan And Asher. Maximum drama.
I’m still of the opinion that Walky should get angry with Dorothy at some point. She acknowledges all the time what a bad partner she was to him for purposes of self-flagellation, but he never does the same.
Maybe, but not being angry is better. Because I don’t think he needs to get angry when Dorothy probably already knows that she fucked up, him getting angry then will just make himself feel worse.
haven’t read this comic in several years but i just got caught up on it. a lot of fun stuff happened while i was gone 🙂 also anyone else think joe’s been kinda eggy with it lately…?
like for example, worried about being “some gross dude” https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/established-2/
and that kind of thing? i feel like a lot of joe’s “look how manly i am, i’m a one dimensional sex robot” thing and his subsequent “im worried that im gross and evil and can’t avoid corrupting anything i touch” thing are easily explainable as various ways of processing gender feelings.
Joe is not the egg in that dorm room.
Like yes you can interpret him through that lens but I don’t think it’s really implied by the text. He has other stuff going on.
Dorothy’s got it really bad for Joyce if she’s passing on a mouth that can text that dexterously.
I’m rereading the comic at the moment and I’ve decided the ship I want to see is trans walky + joe