But why would anyone even be running a server on the internet without using NTP to automatically set its clock, and keep it within a second or two of the real time at all times? It’s not a hard thing to set up, and it’s built into almost every OS of the past… 15 or so years so you generally don’t even have to.
there are ways to sync computer, esp. server computer time with publicly available super-correct atomic clocks over the internet. An NTP client or NTP service (daemon, in unix parlance) is usually installed and running the whole time (or often enough). Once a ntp daemon is running it doesn’t matter whether the physical realtime clock battery is wonky or if the host computer is trying to give wrong time to your virtual computer. But the ntp daemon needs to be running, and sometimes it craps out as well.
Virtual machines are pretty terrible at time keeping. Usually the easiest way to counteract this is to run some kind of time synchronisation service inside the VM. On most modern Linux systems this will be handled automatically by systemd-timedated.
I suspect the server this site is running on is considerably older than when this became standard.
A gas leak in the dorms *would* explain that entire page in the Slipshine where Dorothy begs Joyce to pin her down by her weak little bee wings, and insists that they need to repopulate the hive…
this is rly sad iirc the gas leak basically ruined this person’s life
Wait what happened?
Tweet’s deleted, here’s Wayback Machine.
Re: the gas leak. It’s been really weird and uncomfortable that it went viral because it kind of ruined my life. I was abysmally depressed, I couldn’t focus or stay awake, I lost good friends and the best job I ever had and $ is running out. I don’t know what to do and I’m scared
Ruth if you touch a folicle of that perfect haircut you won’t have to worry about your suicidal ideation anymore because I will take care of it for you
other than hair gel or some pins i think cutting her bangs would just look awkward versus a full shave , tho i tend to not keep my bangs too long/never grew long enough to part (tho i have a habit of adjusting myu glasses and sometimes a stray hair gets plucked in the leg/side even if it’s not esp long lol)
I think she’s just checking whether she would look good with less bands, and whether she wants to cut her bangs too. I sincerely hope she doesn’t because Ruth’s haircut is cute, and suits her well. Although it might get a reaction out of Billie/Jennifer which would be entertaining.
i feel like while it’s a visual for the readers, it wouldn’t be as effective without ruth looking in a mirror versus “maybe it’s better if i move someof my bangs outta my eyes/vision”
other than growing it out purposefully to side part i think trimming them too short would look like those ‘baby bangs’ thatp pl associate with terfs or just be too much forehead/’fivehead’, which might look fine for some ppl but i imagine a lot of ppl have bangs to hide that area , maybe the full ‘slick back and ponytail’ look might look cool on a tomboy/sporty person but i think my hairs would still stick outta place without hair gel and pins versus it being long enough for a tight ponytail
Are we about to see Becky in her room being miserable after avoiding Ruth’s questioning, or do we think Becky is actually doing better?
I really doubt it’s the latter, but that would be a pleasant surprise. Especially if it leads to Becky and Dina talking and/or Becky apologizing to Dina.
Kinda surprised that someone with a Becky avatar and a user name of “Fart Captor” responded to the phrase “gas leak” with that reference instead of something else.
See, Effie down below knows what I’m talking about!
i mean, FC should get points for actually making the post about characters in today’s comic; mine was framed around dorothy because i have a poison in my mind
Fair enough, but what if they are really good drugs that have never been tested on Canadians? She could be a ticking time bomb for a niceness explosion!
i mean even if that’s true she prolly wouldn’t take it out on becky. shame she wasn’t there when thatincelator guy was in the cafeteria that’s one person ok to vent ur anger on
I thought she used to rule with fear and violence because she wanted to get fired and changed her mind when it turned out Clint would never let that happen and she saw she just made people miserable. I mean not that Ruth doesn’t love violence but clearly she has no deep seated need to take advantage of people who lack the power to stop her or anything that would make her lash out impulsively.
heh the original vow Samson took also included not touching dead bodies and not consuming wine or grape products, which of course he did not commit to lol
hard to say whether or not it’s breaking one of the rules or all of them which resulted in losing his strength
I feel a little passive aggression from Becky here. I guess she hasn’t learned anything from all this yet. A few hours and a haircut is not enough cope.
I’m super, thanks for asking
All things considered, I couldn’t be better, I must say
I’m feeling super, no, nothing bugs me
Everything is super when you’re—
Don’t you think I look cute in this hat?
I mean, “because she’s a cartoon character” is a bit of a thought-terminating cliche, but I nevertheless think that it’s probably the most relevant answer here.
I’m honestly more curious how Becky saw anything out of her right eye with her previous haircut, at least Ruth you could argue maybe she just sees the ends of her hair but Becky had a whole curtain of hair in her face.
Personally I actually always walked around when I was younger with my hair covering my entire face as best I could because of dysphoria. Depending on hair thickness you can see reasonably well out of it honestly.
I mean realistically speaking her bangs only cover the top half of her vision. Mine do too, roughly so, quite a lot I’d say. Plus red hair is light and hair isn’t a solid curtain
Being the child of a beautician bangs grow out, Ruth couldn’t cut the bangs away. Pedantic, but I’m in the middle of growing my hair out in a style similar to what Becky had and could trim it up and get shorter bangs. I have to balance my ADHD child and their wild urge to get bangs every few months (but bangs have been adorable)
Also I am here for the “I need to change my hair because I need reinvention.” Deaths, break ups, etc are the time for hair changes. It’s A Thing in cultures, too, like on milestone birthdays or big life events.
Yeah but barrettes are a thing, as a parent of a child who used to want to go no-fringe while having a fringe. Can achieve some of the no-fringe effect without having to wait months!
It occurs to me that Ruth’s bangs, as drawn, are basically Mike’s hair rotated 90 degrees. Their boundaries are only implied, at least in the lineart itself, by the ends of the downward lines; the colors do the rest of the work. They’re a bit of a relic of how Willis designed characters 25-30 years ago, and I kinda love them for that.
…Now I’m wondering what a post-timeskip Mike redesign might have looked like, in another world…
Post timeskip Mike makes my heart hurt 😔 imagining surviving the attack and how much better Ethan would be doing… and if the surgery would mean a haircut? Buzzcut? Someone write the fanfic, stat!
I’m not happy he died, I just never once felt like he should have been in the comic in the first place. He was one character that just did not belong and it felt very obvious from the jump. Every storyline and character arc he was involved in was a little bit off from the rest of the strip, and while he was important in inciting a lot of drama and conflict, he felt more like a walking plot device than a realized character.
Wait English-speaker moved to Canada here, gen question: are bangs and fringes the same thing? I thought a fringe was a thing that went all the way and bangs were the frame-y bits at the side and now ai am reevaluating so many things I’ve read…
In the US, I’ve always heard the fringe referred to as the whole shebang (basically any non-beard/mustache hair that rests in front of your ears) and bangs are a specific way of cutting that hair so that it falls on the forehead to some degree rather than the sides of the face.
Where I live in the US the fringe refers to the whole region of hair that would naturally fall in front of your ears (anterior I guess) unless brushed back. That includes bangs, loose strands or locks of hair, or just any hair in that region. Bangs are a specific way of cutting that hair, generally so it rests on the forehead in some form or fashion rather than being brushed to either side of the face or parted purely in the middle.
If the hair goes below your cheekbones and doesn’t differ in length from the surrounding hair, it’s part of the fringe. If it’s shorter than the rest of your hair, it’s generally considered bangs. If it’s longer than the rest of your hair, it’s also a fringe generally unless you do that half-face concealed style in which it becomes bangs again.
Becky really is an all-time triple threat when it comes to masking. She’s got a poker face, charisma, AND whimsy. It’s gonna be a while before anybody figures out why she’s in her unlit room alone at this hour.
God she looks like that scene in Ralph Wrecks It where he’s up in that coyote lightning type of attitude and yells about an erection for like no reason and gets kicked out of House of the Dead or whatever
Oh now that worries me. She wasn’t really trying to hide any of her feelings before, when talking to Dina and later Asma, but with Ruth she’s tucked it all away under a pleasantly bland expression. Specifically hiding her mental state from the RA feels concerning. I hope Ruth sees through it, or that *someone* does.
I don’t feel like Becky has the same haircut as Dorothy the more I look at it. That is just what hair looks like when you grow out your undercut and even in out. If her hair on both sides was longer, and she cut it like this, then yeah if I could see it. But the only other cuts she could really do would be another side shave, which she seemed tired of or else wouldn’t have let it grown out, or a super short cut / pixie cut. Like, there’s not a whole lot of options wrt evening out hair that’s longer on one side
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Wow server clock drift is getting ridiculous.
No kidding. Hiveworks needs to get off their ass and fix this. It’s been going on for years.
We can put a man on the moon, we have literal supercomputers in our pockets, yet
I know right? I was sitting here hitting refresh for an extra 5 minutes before the comic was posted.
Willis, is there anything you can do about the clock drift, or do we just have to live with it?
I checked initially at around 12:17 and it was still yesterday’s comic, I dont think its ever been this bad before
I’m on Central time, so the comic normally updates at “11”pm for me, or more accurately 11:15ish.
I know the clock’s been reset a few times in the past, but I don’t know how fiddly that is.
Depends on the cause. Might be an old battery. OR constant high cpu load. First is easy; second not as such.
But why would anyone even be running a server on the internet without using NTP to automatically set its clock, and keep it within a second or two of the real time at all times? It’s not a hard thing to set up, and it’s built into almost every OS of the past… 15 or so years so you generally don’t even have to.
Its a devious plot by Big Comic to destabilize Hiveworks and seize control of their artists.
there are ways to sync computer, esp. server computer time with publicly available super-correct atomic clocks over the internet. An NTP client or NTP service (daemon, in unix parlance) is usually installed and running the whole time (or often enough). Once a ntp daemon is running it doesn’t matter whether the physical realtime clock battery is wonky or if the host computer is trying to give wrong time to your virtual computer. But the ntp daemon needs to be running, and sometimes it craps out as well.
Virtual machines are pretty terrible at time keeping. Usually the easiest way to counteract this is to run some kind of time synchronisation service inside the VM. On most modern Linux systems this will be handled automatically by systemd-timedated.
I suspect the server this site is running on is considerably older than when this became standard.
Everything should be getting NTP from the NIST.
N to the I to the S to the Teeeeeee!
It was standard to sync the time with NTP over a quarter century ago. ntpd was around long before the abomination that is systemd.
A gas leak in the dorms *would* explain that entire page in the Slipshine where Dorothy begs Joyce to pin her down by her weak little bee wings, and insists that they need to repopulate the hive…
This is a deep cut and I respect you for it
Can you explain the reference for me? I am out of the loop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/yuyv4e/gas_leak_rule/
Always love when Poison Jr was allowed out to play.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that. Thank you for the information.
An all-time classic.
Ouuuch.
This was all 3 years ago.
if there’s one thing i can be relied on for, its making unhinged posts about Dorothy Keener
Seconded.
👏👏👏👏👏
Don’t you do it, Ruth! DON’T YOU DARE. Your hair is perfect as is!
Ruth if you touch a folicle of that perfect haircut you won’t have to worry about your suicidal ideation anymore because I will take care of it for you
“I will imagine you killing yourself so fucking hard dude!”
Yessss
other than hair gel or some pins i think cutting her bangs would just look awkward versus a full shave , tho i tend to not keep my bangs too long/never grew long enough to part (tho i have a habit of adjusting myu glasses and sometimes a stray hair gets plucked in the leg/side even if it’s not esp long lol)
Becky is very good at avoiding dealing with her problems much in the same way that Amber is good at avoiding situations she doesn’t want to deal with.
*Becky pulls a Homer-bush-fade
Becky came from an environment where a Stepford smile is a survival tactic.
Correct!
Don’t trust bangs.
I choose to believe that Bangs is Guns younger sister.
Becky hitting me with the Big Gay Al line is funny and worrying.
Right?!
I found that Very concerning =(
sorry to say i readyour comment in BGAs voice
Damn, now I’ve got that song from the South Park movie stuck in my head.
Ahhhh! Forehead!!
it’s gonna take so much more before this place turns into Greendale
what’s Ruth doing in the last three panels? checking how she’d look like with similar bangs?
I think she’s just checking whether she would look good with less bands, and whether she wants to cut her bangs too. I sincerely hope she doesn’t because Ruth’s haircut is cute, and suits her well. Although it might get a reaction out of Billie/Jennifer which would be entertaining.
Also, as the alt-text points out …
i feel like while it’s a visual for the readers, it wouldn’t be as effective without ruth looking in a mirror versus “maybe it’s better if i move someof my bangs outta my eyes/vision”
other than growing it out purposefully to side part i think trimming them too short would look like those ‘baby bangs’ thatp pl associate with terfs or just be too much forehead/’fivehead’, which might look fine for some ppl but i imagine a lot of ppl have bangs to hide that area , maybe the full ‘slick back and ponytail’ look might look cool on a tomboy/sporty person but i think my hairs would still stick outta place without hair gel and pins versus it being long enough for a tight ponytail
Something something “if I stare at this long enough it’ll become a strip about Ruth and Billie”
Interesting hypothesis which is testable. Please publish your results here.
“long enough” is not a well-defined hypothesis. 24 hours? 96 hours? 800 hours?
Keep testing.
lol going from Not At All A Plot-Relevant Haircut to Not At All A Visual Indicator That Becky Is In A Dark Place Mentally Right Now, I see.
That darkened doorway is ominous as hell.
Becky I simply don’t believe you, sorry girl. And if Ruth knew the whole situation I doubt she would either
wow, Ruth has like no forehead
i mean obviously she has a forehead but
stick with the bangs, Ruth!
girl got a threehead damn
Onepointfivehead, tops.
Are we about to see Becky in her room being miserable after avoiding Ruth’s questioning, or do we think Becky is actually doing better?
I really doubt it’s the latter, but that would be a pleasant surprise. Especially if it leads to Becky and Dina talking and/or Becky apologizing to Dina.
Gonna place my bets on doing badly, but from an unexpected angle.
I’m just assuming that Becky is setting up to kill Dorothy and take her place.
No spoilers from the Patreon, but I’m betting that tomorrow’s comic is going to be…. yeah.
Whether or not we see becky next strip, I don’t think she’s doing better
It’s been like 4 hours.
It’s the next day.
I’m not saying it’s been long, but everyone has presumably slept, and is starting a new day.
“Do you have a gas leak in there?”
“Maybe, I do kinda want to be held down by my weak little bee wings and used to repopulate the hive right now”
Can’t believe someone beat you to making this reference.
I am positively furious with rage about it
Kinda surprised that someone with a Becky avatar and a user name of “Fart Captor” responded to the phrase “gas leak” with that reference instead of something else.
See, Effie down below knows what I’m talking about!
I contain multitudes! And not just of farts 😤
What percentage is farts? Inquiring minds …
Gas Leak Captor
(yes it’s the same link)
i mean, FC should get points for actually making the post about characters in today’s comic; mine was framed around dorothy because i have a poison in my mind
I fully believe that Ruth’s current calmness is a mask for the fact that she’s every bit as violent and bullying on medication.
We’re just waiting for it to happen.
Rachel, is that you?
If she’s masking the violence and bullying, that means definitionally that she is not in fact every bit as violent and bullying as she used to be.
Also, what prompted this?
She’s just been so….calm…lately, it’s unnerving.
Have you considered that might be because, she developed. As a character.
Or that she’s on good drugs.
I mean, the premise above is that I have considered and rejected this before sharing my rejection.
Fair enough, but what if they are really good drugs that have never been tested on Canadians? She could be a ticking time bomb for a niceness explosion!
What part of this interaction would even prompt Ruth to react violently in the first place for her to need to mask it?
There must be femurs collected!
I mean, she had to talk to (at least!) two freshmen today. And do her job. frankly that should be two femurs, right there! she deserves it
As a treat.
… What? That’s quite random. And incorrect.
Dude.
i mean even if that’s true she prolly wouldn’t take it out on becky. shame she wasn’t there when thatincelator guy was in the cafeteria that’s one person ok to vent ur anger on
I thought she used to rule with fear and violence because she wanted to get fired and changed her mind when it turned out Clint would never let that happen and she saw she just made people miserable. I mean not that Ruth doesn’t love violence but clearly she has no deep seated need to take advantage of people who lack the power to stop her or anything that would make her lash out impulsively.
What if Ruth is like Samson and lost her “power” if she cut that bangs?
heh the original vow Samson took also included not touching dead bodies and not consuming wine or grape products, which of course he did not commit to lol
hard to say whether or not it’s breaking one of the rules or all of them which resulted in losing his strength
Wait, I thought they deleted the chapter where he was making out with dead bodies.
Don’t do it, Ruth. You’ll look too much like your brother.
Walky’s room had a gas leak
I feel a little passive aggression from Becky here. I guess she hasn’t learned anything from all this yet. A few hours and a haircut is not enough cope.
Do we have a full body of Ruth’s look? I feel like her outfit is pretty cool today. Black overalls and the plaid shirt. Not bad.
I’m super, thanks for asking
All things considered, I couldn’t be better, I must say
I’m feeling super, no, nothing bugs me
Everything is super when you’re—
Don’t you think I look cute in this hat?
I really hope that reference was Deliberate on Becky’s part. Her having seen the South Park movie would be hilarious.
I would love to know Becky has seen the South Park movie, but I feel like that that’s something she would have to have done after Toedad died.
That’s right, Ruth. No.
I’m genuinely curious how Ruth sees much of anything when her hair appears to cover most of her eyes.
I mean, “because she’s a cartoon character” is a bit of a thought-terminating cliche, but I nevertheless think that it’s probably the most relevant answer here.
I’m honestly more curious how Becky saw anything out of her right eye with her previous haircut, at least Ruth you could argue maybe she just sees the ends of her hair but Becky had a whole curtain of hair in her face.
Personally I actually always walked around when I was younger with my hair covering my entire face as best I could because of dysphoria. Depending on hair thickness you can see reasonably well out of it honestly.
i mean even irl ’emo bangs’ were popular for a time
I mean realistically speaking her bangs only cover the top half of her vision. Mine do too, roughly so, quite a lot I’d say. Plus red hair is light and hair isn’t a solid curtain
Being the child of a beautician bangs grow out, Ruth couldn’t cut the bangs away. Pedantic, but I’m in the middle of growing my hair out in a style similar to what Becky had and could trim it up and get shorter bangs. I have to balance my ADHD child and their wild urge to get bangs every few months (but bangs have been adorable)
Also I am here for the “I need to change my hair because I need reinvention.” Deaths, break ups, etc are the time for hair changes. It’s A Thing in cultures, too, like on milestone birthdays or big life events.
Yeah but barrettes are a thing, as a parent of a child who used to want to go no-fringe while having a fringe. Can achieve some of the no-fringe effect without having to wait months!
It occurs to me that Ruth’s bangs, as drawn, are basically Mike’s hair rotated 90 degrees. Their boundaries are only implied, at least in the lineart itself, by the ends of the downward lines; the colors do the rest of the work. They’re a bit of a relic of how Willis designed characters 25-30 years ago, and I kinda love them for that.
…Now I’m wondering what a post-timeskip Mike redesign might have looked like, in another world…
Am I the only one still glad Mike is dead? I know it hurt his friends, but I feel like everyone is better off with him gone.
I would have to be glad Mike was dead in the first place to still be glad that Mike is dead.
And what is your mom going to do with all those nickels now?
Post timeskip Mike makes my heart hurt 😔 imagining surviving the attack and how much better Ethan would be doing… and if the surgery would mean a haircut? Buzzcut? Someone write the fanfic, stat!
I’m not happy he died, I just never once felt like he should have been in the comic in the first place. He was one character that just did not belong and it felt very obvious from the jump. Every storyline and character arc he was involved in was a little bit off from the rest of the strip, and while he was important in inciting a lot of drama and conflict, he felt more like a walking plot device than a realized character.
Bangs is such a nonsense word, where do you Americans think them up?
In civil English it’s called a fringe. All your puns are meaningless to me.
We got it form Germany actually
That… actually explains a lot.
You sure? In Germany, we call it a pony.
Which also makes for silly jokes or puns…
“A cowboy goes to the hairdresser. Leaves their shop, his pony is gone. *shocked face* “
No, the bangs are what’s on the other side of the head: Stirnfransen.
Wait English-speaker moved to Canada here, gen question: are bangs and fringes the same thing? I thought a fringe was a thing that went all the way and bangs were the frame-y bits at the side and now ai am reevaluating so many things I’ve read…
Bangs can be either in American English
We get more Bangs for our buck.
In the US, I’ve always heard the fringe referred to as the whole shebang (basically any non-beard/mustache hair that rests in front of your ears) and bangs are a specific way of cutting that hair so that it falls on the forehead to some degree rather than the sides of the face.
it is a little awkward sounding when ‘bang’ is also a slang for sex but i think if you look up fringe the first result would be that tv show XD;
Where I live in the US the fringe refers to the whole region of hair that would naturally fall in front of your ears (anterior I guess) unless brushed back. That includes bangs, loose strands or locks of hair, or just any hair in that region. Bangs are a specific way of cutting that hair, generally so it rests on the forehead in some form or fashion rather than being brushed to either side of the face or parted purely in the middle.
If the hair goes below your cheekbones and doesn’t differ in length from the surrounding hair, it’s part of the fringe. If it’s shorter than the rest of your hair, it’s generally considered bangs. If it’s longer than the rest of your hair, it’s also a fringe generally unless you do that half-face concealed style in which it becomes bangs again.
Becky really is an all-time triple threat when it comes to masking. She’s got a poker face, charisma, AND whimsy. It’s gonna be a while before anybody figures out why she’s in her unlit room alone at this hour.
Don’t let her stay in that room by herself Ruth!!!!!
i’m sure dorothy will come around eventually but idk if ruth would have the time to keep an eye on her all day
Is Ruth checking if she has a fever and is thus hallucinating or is she trying out no fringe?
Wow Ruth is very pretty when you can actually see her face and her hair doesn’t look like a Spartan helmet
Personally I love the Zooey Deschanal fringe? It suits Ruth, she’s pretty as-is imo.
-retreat behind the door with a fake smile- uuurgh
Those bangs are def the source of Ruth’s power to take out femurs. 😛
Don’t listen to her Ruth!!
God she looks like that scene in Ralph Wrecks It where he’s up in that coyote lightning type of attitude and yells about an erection for like no reason and gets kicked out of House of the Dead or whatever
What the fuck does this mean? I went to bed at 2.
Oh now that worries me. She wasn’t really trying to hide any of her feelings before, when talking to Dina and later Asma, but with Ruth she’s tucked it all away under a pleasantly bland expression. Specifically hiding her mental state from the RA feels concerning. I hope Ruth sees through it, or that *someone* does.
Someone said its passive aggressive but I don’t know. Think she’s just rolling deception checks with disadvantage right now.
Those bangs are where Ruth stores her integrity, making them integral to her character!
No regrets.
I don’t feel like Becky has the same haircut as Dorothy the more I look at it. That is just what hair looks like when you grow out your undercut and even in out. If her hair on both sides was longer, and she cut it like this, then yeah if I could see it. But the only other cuts she could really do would be another side shave, which she seemed tired of or else wouldn’t have let it grown out, or a super short cut / pixie cut. Like, there’s not a whole lot of options wrt evening out hair that’s longer on one side
i mean cutting hair is one thing but at least she didn’t dye it the same color
nice black overalls lol, i feel like htat’d be rare to find even if ‘overall dresses’ werea trend at some pont like hoodie dresses
“I’m fine” she says, while retreating to her suspiciously void tinted room
Doesn’t Ruth have trademark on Murder Cave Lighting?
Do you normally leave your lights on when nobody’s there?
“There needs to be a gas leak here if I ever decide to cut these bangs.”
I guess Becky’s double Significant Haircuts means it’s less likely Dorothy will shave her head when she continues her spiral. :/
who let becky watch southpark!
Kissing Joyce did not by any means solve Dorothy’s anxiety and depression.
Gas leak more like gas light.
So wait, Ruth wants to make out with Joyce?
They’re still freshmen, everyone knows the gas leak year is year 4.