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lemme guess… it’s an ACNH Switch that’s going on eBay
As spoiled as Walky is, he doesn’t know what console it is, just “a Nintendo”? Dag, how confusing would that be to call an Xbox (any gen) “a Microsoft”?
A ‘Microsoft’ is the box on the desk. The thing inside is an ‘Intel’ (CHANG! Dun din dun din)! They even came up with a handy mnemonic to help us remember – Intel Inside.
If Booster was trying to flip an Animal Crossing switch why would they take it out the box? Maybe as proof it’s authentic I guess but I feel like it cuts a little off the bottom line doing that.
If it’s New or New (Other), you very much wouldn’t want to take it out of the box or packaging- there’s no purpose or benefit to that, and it’d just force you to have to lower the condition rating. Even Like New is generally fairly safe since, any issues it may have would be internal anyway. Fundamentally, the only time it’s dubious is if they’re marking it as used (or some specific used condition) and not actually showing photos of it. Or, of course, if the account is suspicious in some way [ie, being new].
Besides, doesn’t matter if it DOES have photos. Ebay had a confirmed, removed from ebay scammer, and told me they couldn’t refund the ($60?) because the other party was no longer a user, due to having been removed due to being a scammer. Meanwhile, all my other issues (with users who have NOT been banned) have gone through support just fine. So Ebay safety is.. simultaneously both very reliable, and very much going to sucker punch you when you least expect it for absurd reasons that have nothing to do with things you can actually control.
Rather, the important part of using ebay would be to avoid buying anything you can’t immediately test. In that regard, never ever buy plant seeds off ebay, nor any specific variety of pre-grown blooming plant which has not yet already bloomed. Conversely, you’re pretty well set to buy a console, game, or similar, assuming you’ll be confirming its functionality immediately.
Rather, a more pressing concern when it comes to video game consoles, is the current trend of people posting empty console boxes in ways that mislead people into thinking it contains an actual console. It’s a whole thing on ebay right now. So.. the real concerns lie kinda in the opposite of where you were looking.
“AUTHENTIC RARE NINTENDO SWITCH box ANIMAL CROSSING no console MARIO just box” – Current bid: $177.50 6d 14h remaining
People do the same thing with Apple products.
Even shrink wrap isn’t an indicator, because anybody can order shrink-wrap film, a heat gun, and an impulse sealer. I wouldn’t trust a “new in box” sealed listing from an individual, only “like new, with box” with pictures of the actual unit (preferably with at least one shot of it running). It’s not exactly a new scam; I remember hearing stories about shrink-wrapped N64s getting returned to retailers and getting resold, only for the second buyer to discover the first returned a brick with a photocopy of the console’s serial number taped to it.
I bought a Switch Lite from a pawn shop through eBay this past summer (for Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing), it was loose with no box but they had pictures of it running and it came with a case and charger. It looks new and was factory reset.
One thing eBay is no help at all with is a mis-delivery. eBay will state “UPS says package delivered” and it’s case closed. Make your purchases by credit card, and you operate under banking laws, which are friendlier to consumers than eBay policies.
Someone make a single panel gif of Walky holding a Nintendo with a look of wonder and the only animation being the handheld evolving through all the different types.
A sliding timeline doesn’t mean that DW is gonna constantly keep updating the art. Danny and Sal are still playing with Nintendo DSs in earlier arcs. Marvel don’t go back and change who’s president in earlier issues. Stuff like that would become a full time job.
Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna ship it back to you
By now, you should have somehow realised what they’re tryin’ to do
I can’t believe that anybody tries to sell online with ebay now
Backbeat, the word is on the street that the box has been shipped out
I’m sure they stole it off your porch, but a part of me wants to doubt
I can’t believe that anybody tries to sell online with ebay now
But all the stores we have to shop are closing
Until the vaccine teams have done their dosing
There are many things that I would like to sell to you
But I don’t know how
Because maybe
You’re gonna be the one that pays me
And life goes on
With my WonderSwan
Nah, more like an iPad 2, Wii, or Game Boy Advance. Once its replacement comes out, there will be used Switches galore. (They’ll be covered in scratches, snack residue, and stickers, but they’ll be cheap.)
In his defense, sometimes I do that. Though in my case, it’s more because otherwise, I’m going to slip up and call my Switch a DS for the 390709th time (oops)
What, 40 years and she hasn’t yet figured out that she’s an adopted replacement for [that name you keep confusing her with]? =O
Well, I can’t say I ever confuse familiar names, but I do sometimes blank on them, and just kinda sit there glaze-eyed before yielding and referring to them as “whatsyourface” or by their association title [eg, “your sister”]. It goes over well enough, though- after all, my half-senility is well-established by this point.. :S
I frequently get confused between the names of my sister and my neice, or our cat and their cat. Sometimes when I’m referring to my sister I go through a desperate loop of every female relative whose name pops into my head. On at least one occasion, I also included the cat.
My mother would include my father and her brother in the list with my three older brothers and, once, the dog. Occasionally she’d get my name in there and just keep going.
My grandma still sometimes calls my dad by his little brother’s name. It’s not dementia, she’s done it since they were kids. (Said little bro is in his fifties.)
As spoiled as Walky is, he doesn’t know what console it is, just “a Nintendo”? Dag, how confusing would that be to call an Xbox (any gen) “a Microsoft”?
To be fair, if your aim is playing Mario Kart, “a Nintendo” is probably exactly where your mind is at, rather than on any specific console release. Well, unless you’re looking at a Wii, in which case you’re more likely to call it “Oh, it’s that Nintendo I can’t play a decent Mario Kart on. Bummer. ..do you have Brawl? Well, of course you’ve got Brawl. You’ve gotta have Brawl. It’s literally the only game on the console worth playing. Guess you can’t afford a Switch, huh? Yeah, me neither. Here’s hoping they go down in price soon.”.
Eh, I mean.. I assume. Totally not speaking from actual experience with my present roommates or anything. :S
But seriously, I don’t find it weird at all. But then, it’s your interpretation of the formatting that’s bizarre relative to what I’m used to, to begin with. While certainly, Nintendo and Microsoft correlate as far as branding/company ownership, that’s not how they match up when you refer to the consoles themselves. While the Wiis are an exception, Super Nintendo, N[intendo]64, and Nintendo Switch do have a strong Nintendo association, and I’ve often heard people refer to them within the framework of “Let me grab my Nintendo”, in the same vein as “Let me grab my Xbox”. In other words, Nintendo as it relates to gamer console reference would correlate to Xbox, not to Microsoft. ie, it’s a categorical reference, not a brand reference.
I think Millennials who grew up hearing their Boomer parents unironically say “just pause your Nintendo tape and come eat dinner” are now using it (despite knowing better) just to get a rise out of Gen Z.
I think it’s funny that Walky, a college kid, does the same thing as my mother, who is at least 73. Growing up, she would always call any gaming thing a “Nintendo,” whether it was actually made by Nintendo or not. I’m sure if I placed every console I own in front of her she’d be like “why do you have so many Nintendos”
A “nintendo” can be whatever current console there is on the market by nintendo, once they aren’t the newest one they get back their first name and are mentioned as “a ds” a “wii” and stuff
“Nintendo” is usually just used for the tv-adjacent consoles. The handheld models prior to the Switch are more commonly referred to as a “Game Boy”.
And to be fair, prior to Sony and Microsoft entering the market, most of the console industry offered a single console at a time. When the “Super Nintendo Entertainment System” hit the market, the “Nintendo Entertainment System” left the market. Same for the “Sega Genesis” vs “Sega Master System.” Even the famed Atari 2600 was often just an “Atari.”
Sony and later Microsoft having a wider range of products encouraged referring to their console products by ‘Playstation’ and ‘XBox’ instead of “Sony” and “Microsoft.” “I’m going to go buy a Sony!” could have any number of meanings both then and now.
At least the incoming administration is trying to shift back to grounded sanity. I just hope the strategy is to bring boring, respectable civility and an amiable face back to the executive branch while letting the DOJ and other assorted alphabet soup agencies off their chains to do the dirty work.
Is it everything we need? Not by a long shot. Is it a step in the right direction? Absolutely. Is it the biggest step we could have reasonably hoped to succeed in 2020? I think so.
Yeah, not my first choice, but honestly I’ve come around to thinking he might be what we need to deal with the immediate crisis we’re in. Or crises, really.
Given the complete lack of transition help – sabotage really, from the Trump administration, Biden’s experience in the White House is going to be critical to hitting the ground running.
And he’s shown a lot of signs of recognizing the problems and the magnitude of solutions we’re going to need. That said, with only narrow control of Congress, especially in the Senate, it’s going to be nigh impossible to get much in the way of big structural changes done. Which would be true regardless of which Democrat had won the White House.
Right? The 0-100 hyperactivity is one thing, but the repetition is annoying. “Oh wow you have a Nintendo! I can’t believe my roommate has a Nintendo! That Nintendo is the best thing about having a new roommate right now! I want to play Nintendo with my new roommate!”
No but being serious, if you got no Nintendo and someone else has one in close proximity to you, they can’t be surprised if you wanna at least see them play it.
I bought one almost exclusively because they haven’t released Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled for PC yet, and the PS5 and new Xbox weren’t out yet at the time so a PS4 or Xbox One didn’t sound like a good idea.
It also makes a good YouTube machine because I avoid ll other doomscrolling on it.
You think this is actually some attempt to torture Walky? Like, Booster is a subtle version of Mike, and instead of being an asshole they just do random Dadaist activities to slowly drive Walky insane?
Walky walks in and Booster is gluing Froot Loops to the ceiling, then carefully arranging seventeen ketchup packets on the floor. They listen to a random three second segment of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus on repeat for two hours. Then they diligently study for all their classes and do their homework.
Walky can’t fathom the meaning behind any of these random activities.
Walky is acting like me whenever I see a console in a comic. “Ooh! That character has a game console!? Why are they talking to someone instead of playing it?”
I had a roomate that would do anything besides playing with his 3DS. But he would carry that damn thing everywhere and post pictures of it every now and then on his facebook.
I still don’t know what I hated more, his lack of playing it or he never letting me or close friends play that thing.
I kind of hope it’s not that. People are already making the Booster is just Mike 2.0 argument and scalping a Switch while also finding a way to torture Walky with is would be a real Mike move. I’m kind of neutral on Booster but it would be nice if they had something else they were interested in.
I still have a Sega Genesis that I used to play when I was a kid. I rarely play it these days since it’s old and I’m not sure how easy it is to try to connect it to a newer flatscreen type TV.
That was my console when I was a kid, my father brought one back from the U.S. long before they were available in Canada, made us the cool kids on the block for a while. I felt nostalgic a while back and found an Intellivision emulator for PC, so I got to show my kids the games I played when I was growing up. They were not impressed.
Hmm this could be interesting, in their first appearance Booster mentioned his roommates inability to adhere as a reason as to why they’re now roommates
However we’ve also seen Booster point out other peoples failings in a manner some could say is highly inappropriate so now I’m wondering how much fault was on each side
So rooming with someone like Walky should provide some interesting, and new, story lines
Booster is conducting a fiendish psychological experiment on Walky’s mental state. I mean, it isn’t convincing him that his favorite show has been cancelled and recording him crying, but it’s something.
I think it was Booster’s former roommate’s inability (or unwillingness) to use their preferred name and pronouns that prompted their move request. Walky hasn’t violated that yet, but he also probably doesn’t know their deadname so wouldn’t address them as such (except by a wild guess or incredibly unlucky slip).
Yeah, that was very much transphobia that prompted Booster’s roommate change. If your roommate won’t respect your name and pronouns because you’re annoying them, the issue is not that you’re annoying them, it’s that your roommate thinks acknowledging you by your proper gender is a reward for good behavior and not. You know. Basic human decency.
Walky and Booster may not be a compatible roommate situation for other reasons, but so far as we can tell Walky is pretty respectful of Booster on that front. (If he were inclined to be awful about it I’d expect something extremely obnoxious and noticeable.)
It seems that Booster and Walky are both trying (as you put it so well). So this may be an oil and water situation, but with sufficient agitation, we could get a useful emulsion.
Sure I get that but, not unlike the Becky and Dorothy situation, isn’t it also basic human decency to not deliberately annoy the person you have to live with, its not like its that easy to get away from them especially when your beds there
Having said that it seems plausible, to me anyway, that given Boosters lack of social skills that instead of trying to be annoying they may have been trying to get on with their roommate
“Hey you like watching sports, is it because you’re making up for the inadequacies you think you have”
The roommate’s inability to adhere was SPECIFICALLY to ‘calling Booster by their actual name.’ No other reason has been given. Given Booster is nonbinary, it’s a pretty heavy hint that the issue was the roommate being transphobic. Your comments are thus coming off as ‘Booster was annoying so Booster’s roommate didn’t think they deserved their gender acknowledged.’ Like, I called it basic human decency, let me rephrase that: It’s the bare minimum to not being a bigot. Anyone who’s willing to make acknowledging your name or gender conditional on good behavior is someone who fundamentally does not think your name or gender are legitimate. (No one says that because the ex-president is a fascist asshole, he doesn’t deserve ‘he’ pronouns. There were commenters saying exactly that about Booster in their first arc.)
Annoying behaviors can at times be subjective/Person Did Not Know It Was Annoying. Some are much more likely to be annoying than others, and this is definitely up there, but I sometimes apologize and leave a room because I find the sound of people’s voices intolerable. It’s not their fault! It is not in any way conscious. But I can’t stand it. Walky should definitely apologize once pointed out, and he definitely needs to learn in a hurry that his schtick is in no way as charming as he think it is (and never has been, even when it might have been marginally more socially acceptable as a preteen – pretty sure Linda’s David Can Do No Wrong, All Of This Is Sally’s Fault filter lets her gloss over a lot of bullshit,) but he’s also an 18-/19-year-old and some variety insufferable obnoxiousness is a given there. He can be obnoxious without necessarily being intolerant.
Carla was definitely not 100% perfect. The point was Mary still does not get to be transphobic. If Booster had been deliberately annoying their roommate, that’s what room transfer requests in the long term and cussing them out in the short term are for.
Thats sort of what I mean (but not explaining properly) in that Booster is not 100% perfect which means there were probably issues on both side but we’ve only heard from Boosters pov so we don’t know the roommates view of things
Remember when Carlas initial reaction to the ding-dong on her board was a hate crime then it turned out it wasn’t
The important thing to keep in mind is that, regardless of how annoying Booster can be, their base humanity shouldn’t be under attack.
There really isn’t an appropriate place to throw “your identity, something deeply intrinsic to you that you have to fight to keep recognized as true and valid, is actually bullshit.” Like, misgendering isn’t just a singular act by one douchebag, it’s a reinforcement of an entire culture that demeans trans and non-binary identities and reminds them that people who hate them for *existing* will be there to tear them down when they “get out of line.”
I am a little surprised Walky doesn’t have a Switch. He seems spoiled enough to have one. The console came out a couple years ago so I feel like he could have just brought it up once and BOOM! Switch for Christmas or his birthday or some shit. Maybe he’s not as much of the favorite as it seems.
It’s also kind of interesting that Booster is taking these photos with an actual camera and not their phone. Assuming that’s not just a more recognizeable indicator that they’re taking pictures you’d think their phone camera would be enough for simple reselling right? It hints to me that Booster might need a higher quality image for whatever reason and that this is more likely a kind of hobby.
Booster DID in fact say that! https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/ditchin/
It was just kind of slipped in there so good job remembering! Now all we need is to see the twin sister and there will be no more mysteries to Booster. Also nice to know they’re not intentionally torturing Walky and that dude is just an annoying, whiny baby, poopy head, loser, chump!
I’m also surprised because I thought their family had money, not like Carla’s family is rich but definitely enough to always have the newest console (and the Switch is the least expensive of the current gen).
You don’t particularly need to be rich to own a Switch.
However, possibly Walky’s mother doesn’t think he should have it at school so he can focus on his studies. My dad didn’t actually stop me from taking my consoles, but he did make fun of me.
“Guess he thinks he’s not going to be doing much studying while he’s here!”
“…most of what I did at home was studying already, but not 24/7. You do get I’m moving in and that I’m going to be living here, right?”
Probably taking pictures of it to compare to after they leave and return to make sure no one (cough, Walky) has touched his stuff. (Said sadly by someone who had that kind of sibling growing up. And don’t lock something up if you don’t want someone to attempt to pick the lock.)
And don’t lock something up if you don’t want someone to attempt to pick the lock.
So YOU’RE the sonuvasnake who stole my bike!!!
Seriousy, though, I was thinking something along those same lines. Either that or Booster is trying to do a series of ‘unboxing’ shots for a photo class project or something.
So… bets that Booster is taking pictures of his stuff to know exactly where everything is when he leaves the room because he has zero trust in Walky not to touch said stuff?
Is it because a 14-year-old is likely to take actual caramel and sculpt it into an idealised body shape to place over their own torso and trick their crush into thinking they’re ripped?
A) If it’s a classic ’80’s Nintendo (NES), Of course Booster would be taking pictures of it, to archive and document an important piece of video gaming history.
B) Calling it a “Nintendo” would only be reasonable (if not appropriate) if it actually WERE the 80’s.
It’s a game console made by the company Nintendo, who unlike their competitors have decided against using a semi-consistent naming scheme for their consoles.
Calling it a Nintendo is the correct and MOSTLY consistent general name, same with a playstation and an xbox.
It’s always been the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo DS, and now the Nintendo Switch.
They only really stepped away for the Game Boy (Advance) and Wii (U), although I’ve heard them being referred to as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Wii all the same.
Well, yeah, because Nintendo’s consoles tend to look different from each other so the name doesn’t need to be consistent. You can’t confuse a Game Boy with a Gamecube or a Switch easily because one of these is literally a cube shape. But Nintendo does tend to be the consistent attached name, most people just drop it when talking about it because everyone knows what you mean when you say the Gamecube, the Wii, the Switch.
You can’t really do that with an Xbox because everything after Xbox is literal nonsense if said by itself e.g. the One X, the Series S and Playstation is numbered so only really works if you say the whole thing.
Yeah, Walky just calling it a “Nintendo” instead of saying Nintendo Switch had me thinking Booster had a NES for a moment there. Now I feel old, even though I’m only 32.
I’m wondering if this is an indication that, like Walky, Booster is being pressured by their parents into an professional field (psychology in this case) when their true love is the visual arts?
Doubtful. He’s a second semester freshman and he already read a room full of mostly strangers as if it were a picturebook.
For no particular reason other than to show off he could, it seems.
oh god, please tell me Booster isn’t like these stupid pricks who take pictures of their meal before eating, but in this case, it’s with video games (which is probably even worse)
I mean, having got the Animal Crossing Switch? I absolutely took pictures of it when I got it. (Mostly the box, which I wasn’t going to keep but had a delightful amount of cute details, but seriously it’s a great color scheme and I love the back design. It’s gorgeous. Ten months later I still see the little island on the dock and am happy.) Especially with special editions, you’ll see a lot of effort that goes into packaging. There’s also a trend to put print on both sides of the game box art, at least for the Switch but I think the PS4 is also transparent plastic for its game boxes. Haven’t seen a PS5 or more recent Xbox one yet. Anyway, there’s some seriously nice inner designs from Nintendo.
And yeah, seconding Zee. Sometimes you just want to go ‘hey this is a lot of effort in presentation and I appreciate that effort.’
Perfectly reasonable! I don’t take issue with but don’t really ‘get’ selfies, since I’m not one for pictures of myself in general. (At events, casual – never huge on them, at least for posed ones and not candids.) Not huge on food presentation either, but I have just enough of a liking for well-composed pictures of things in general to go ‘oh yeah that is indeed a nicely-arranged plate.’ (And that’s setting aside the extremely blatant ‘a ton of work went into making this pretty’ stuff like latte art or fancy pancakes.)
Hey David, not sure if you’ll read this, but since you’re usually quite a stickler for detail in your comics (and there have been some good details over the years since the later Walkyverse comics), I thought I’d point out that if Booster’s that much into photography as they say, they won’t be holding the camera that way; typically the left hand will be cradling the lens in an underhand grip. Or maybe that’s intentional for a plot point later, if so, then you can ignore this! XD
With a short lens (anything under 55mm or a compact zoom) I never cradled the lens either. I usually held it with the right hand in position to trip the shutter button and the left hand holding the lens from the side to be able to adjust the focus and/or zoom.
Maybe it’s their first DSLR after years of point-and-shoot or superzoom cameras.
Booster deserves credit for using a real camera instead of a phone, either way. Phone cameras take perfectly adequate casual shots, but interchangeable lenses and filters give you many more options.
Wasn’t Mike taking a photography course? Didn’t Mike have a similar camera?
Theory: This isn’t real. It’s a trauma dream of Walky’s, literalizing Booster’s status as “replacement Mike.” That’s why they aren’t talking and why we don’t see their face just yet.
The conspiracy theory that Booster is actually Mike in disguise has just received a significant boost. (I promise that pun was unintentional, but I’m keeping it.)
I wonder now, and don’t get me wrong it’s okay to take a moment to process everything being said and consistant to take one’s time to spite Walky because spite is what Booster’s been about so far, but I wonder: Is Booster hearing impaired, and not wearing their normal hearing aids to focus on photography?
Walky, you don’t automatically get to use your roommate’s stuff. You don’t see the girls raiding each others closets or swiping their pets or anything like that, do you?
So, um, apropos of nothing and unrelated to today’s strip…I came out as bi/grey-ace to one of my sisters last night. This is another one of those moments where my grav’s particularly fitting at the moment, I think.
Sometimes I forget that people decide whether or not they like characters based on whether they would be a tolerable person in real life, and then I read a strip like this where I say “God I love Walky” and scroll down into a bunch of comments about how much they hate Walky
I have multiple forks to whether I like a character or not. I feel very little for this Walky moment and in general my opinion is ‘eh’. In real life I would throttle him for a lot of his nonsense.
My guess is, from the angle that Booster’s doing this on, they’re not taking a picture of the Switch so much as a picture of their desk area. Likely, to compare later on, and see if anything’s been changed.
Call me cynical – but I’ve had bad roommates and bad situations before. And if you’re with a new guy, and you don’t know how it’s going to be, you make sure you get evidence.
The only thing that came to mind after reading this is that if I never see a Walky with baby a cup man boobies and a slight tummy, I’ll be sad. I’m honestly surprised he doesn’t have it yet.
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one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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lemme guess… it’s an ACNH Switch that’s going on eBay
As spoiled as Walky is, he doesn’t know what console it is, just “a Nintendo”? Dag, how confusing would that be to call an Xbox (any gen) “a Microsoft”?
Don’t be silly. A Microsoft is that thing on your desk connected to a keyboard, a monitor, and a mouse.
No, that’s the hard drive. Microsoft is inside it, everybody knows that.
(This physically hurt to write, I hope you’re happy.)
WRONG.
A ‘Microsoft’ is the box on the desk. The thing inside is an ‘Intel’ (CHANG! Dun din dun din)! They even came up with a handy mnemonic to help us remember – Intel Inside.
If Booster was trying to flip an Animal Crossing switch why would they take it out the box? Maybe as proof it’s authentic I guess but I feel like it cuts a little off the bottom line doing that.
I definitely wouldn’t buy a game console with only a photo of the box, not from eBay.
If it’s New or New (Other), you very much wouldn’t want to take it out of the box or packaging- there’s no purpose or benefit to that, and it’d just force you to have to lower the condition rating. Even Like New is generally fairly safe since, any issues it may have would be internal anyway. Fundamentally, the only time it’s dubious is if they’re marking it as used (or some specific used condition) and not actually showing photos of it. Or, of course, if the account is suspicious in some way [ie, being new].
Besides, doesn’t matter if it DOES have photos. Ebay had a confirmed, removed from ebay scammer, and told me they couldn’t refund the ($60?) because the other party was no longer a user, due to having been removed due to being a scammer. Meanwhile, all my other issues (with users who have NOT been banned) have gone through support just fine. So Ebay safety is.. simultaneously both very reliable, and very much going to sucker punch you when you least expect it for absurd reasons that have nothing to do with things you can actually control.
Rather, the important part of using ebay would be to avoid buying anything you can’t immediately test. In that regard, never ever buy plant seeds off ebay, nor any specific variety of pre-grown blooming plant which has not yet already bloomed. Conversely, you’re pretty well set to buy a console, game, or similar, assuming you’ll be confirming its functionality immediately.
Rather, a more pressing concern when it comes to video game consoles, is the current trend of people posting empty console boxes in ways that mislead people into thinking it contains an actual console. It’s a whole thing on ebay right now. So.. the real concerns lie kinda in the opposite of where you were looking.
“AUTHENTIC RARE NINTENDO SWITCH box ANIMAL CROSSING no console MARIO just box” – Current bid: $177.50 6d 14h remaining
People do the same thing with Apple products.
Even shrink wrap isn’t an indicator, because anybody can order shrink-wrap film, a heat gun, and an impulse sealer. I wouldn’t trust a “new in box” sealed listing from an individual, only “like new, with box” with pictures of the actual unit (preferably with at least one shot of it running). It’s not exactly a new scam; I remember hearing stories about shrink-wrapped N64s getting returned to retailers and getting resold, only for the second buyer to discover the first returned a brick with a photocopy of the console’s serial number taped to it.
I bought a Switch Lite from a pawn shop through eBay this past summer (for Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing), it was loose with no box but they had pictures of it running and it came with a case and charger. It looks new and was factory reset.
Which is unfortunate since there are a couple of reasons people might want to buy empty boxes and tins, just not when they are being tricked into it.
One thing eBay is no help at all with is a mis-delivery. eBay will state “UPS says package delivered” and it’s case closed. Make your purchases by credit card, and you operate under banking laws, which are friendlier to consumers than eBay policies.
I assume to accommodate sliding timescale? In 20 years time a Switch will be like a Wonderswan.
My assumption as well, also makes it a lot easier to swap out the art for a different (newer) Nintendo console later without needing to edit the text
Someone make a single panel gif of Walky holding a Nintendo with a look of wonder and the only animation being the handheld evolving through all the different types.
A sliding timeline doesn’t mean that DW is gonna constantly keep updating the art. Danny and Sal are still playing with Nintendo DSs in earlier arcs. Marvel don’t go back and change who’s president in earlier issues. Stuff like that would become a full time job.
No, people have used the Switch.
By Oasis?
Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna ship it back to you
By now, you should have somehow realised what they’re tryin’ to do
I can’t believe that anybody tries to sell online with ebay now
Backbeat, the word is on the street that the box has been shipped out
I’m sure they stole it off your porch, but a part of me wants to doubt
I can’t believe that anybody tries to sell online with ebay now
But all the stores we have to shop are closing
Until the vaccine teams have done their dosing
There are many things that I would like to sell to you
But I don’t know how
Because maybe
You’re gonna be the one that pays me
And life goes on
With my WonderSwan
Nah, more like an iPad 2, Wii, or Game Boy Advance. Once its replacement comes out, there will be used Switches galore. (They’ll be covered in scratches, snack residue, and stickers, but they’ll be cheap.)
In his defense, sometimes I do that. Though in my case, it’s more because otherwise, I’m going to slip up and call my Switch a DS for the 390709th time (oops)
I have been known to refer to our Switch as the “Wii”.
**sigh**
My oldest niece is almost 40…
I still call her by the wrong name sometimes.
What, 40 years and she hasn’t yet figured out that she’s an adopted replacement for [that name you keep confusing her with]? =O
Well, I can’t say I ever confuse familiar names, but I do sometimes blank on them, and just kinda sit there glaze-eyed before yielding and referring to them as “whatsyourface” or by their association title [eg, “your sister”]. It goes over well enough, though- after all, my half-senility is well-established by this point.. :S
I frequently get confused between the names of my sister and my neice, or our cat and their cat. Sometimes when I’m referring to my sister I go through a desperate loop of every female relative whose name pops into my head. On at least one occasion, I also included the cat.
I had 4 older brothers. As a child, when my mom was really mad, I would get called MarkKevinTimRandyRICHARD! (My name is, of course, Richard.)
We have two bio-daughters whose name starts with “A” and I frequently say the wrong one.
Now we’ve adopted three children whose names all start with “R”. It’s a predictable shitshow when I need to get someone’s attention.
My mother would include my father and her brother in the list with my three older brothers and, once, the dog. Occasionally she’d get my name in there and just keep going.
My grandma still sometimes calls my dad by his little brother’s name. It’s not dementia, she’s done it since they were kids. (Said little bro is in his fifties.)
As spoiled as Walky is, he doesn’t know what console it is, just “a Nintendo”? Dag, how confusing would that be to call an Xbox (any gen) “a Microsoft”?
To be fair, if your aim is playing Mario Kart, “a Nintendo” is probably exactly where your mind is at, rather than on any specific console release. Well, unless you’re looking at a Wii, in which case you’re more likely to call it “Oh, it’s that Nintendo I can’t play a decent Mario Kart on. Bummer. ..do you have Brawl? Well, of course you’ve got Brawl. You’ve gotta have Brawl. It’s literally the only game on the console worth playing. Guess you can’t afford a Switch, huh? Yeah, me neither. Here’s hoping they go down in price soon.”.
Eh, I mean.. I assume. Totally not speaking from actual experience with my present roommates or anything. :S
But seriously, I don’t find it weird at all. But then, it’s your interpretation of the formatting that’s bizarre relative to what I’m used to, to begin with. While certainly, Nintendo and Microsoft correlate as far as branding/company ownership, that’s not how they match up when you refer to the consoles themselves. While the Wiis are an exception, Super Nintendo, N[intendo]64, and Nintendo Switch do have a strong Nintendo association, and I’ve often heard people refer to them within the framework of “Let me grab my Nintendo”, in the same vein as “Let me grab my Xbox”. In other words, Nintendo as it relates to gamer console reference would correlate to Xbox, not to Microsoft. ie, it’s a categorical reference, not a brand reference.
I think Millennials who grew up hearing their Boomer parents unironically say “just pause your Nintendo tape and come eat dinner” are now using it (despite knowing better) just to get a rise out of Gen Z.
I have never called my Switch a Nintendo.
My 3DS is absolutely a GameBoy, though.
I think it’s funny that Walky, a college kid, does the same thing as my mother, who is at least 73. Growing up, she would always call any gaming thing a “Nintendo,” whether it was actually made by Nintendo or not. I’m sure if I placed every console I own in front of her she’d be like “why do you have so many Nintendos”
A microsoft is what you jack into your neural port.
A “nintendo” can be whatever current console there is on the market by nintendo, once they aren’t the newest one they get back their first name and are mentioned as “a ds” a “wii” and stuff
“Nintendo” is usually just used for the tv-adjacent consoles. The handheld models prior to the Switch are more commonly referred to as a “Game Boy”.
And to be fair, prior to Sony and Microsoft entering the market, most of the console industry offered a single console at a time. When the “Super Nintendo Entertainment System” hit the market, the “Nintendo Entertainment System” left the market. Same for the “Sega Genesis” vs “Sega Master System.” Even the famed Atari 2600 was often just an “Atari.”
Sony and later Microsoft having a wider range of products encouraged referring to their console products by ‘Playstation’ and ‘XBox’ instead of “Sony” and “Microsoft.” “I’m going to go buy a Sony!” could have any number of meanings both then and now.
Someone has a more insightful perspective of four-year college priorities….Assuming they’ll get enough for it to cover their expenses…
Ahhhhh, rooming with Walky.
Godspeed, Booster.
Also, congrats to the American type Pokemon on hopefully ridding themselves of Agent Orange.
It took me way too long to work out what you meant because you said pokemon
Agent Orange has been a Trump nickname for awhile.
Thank you~
Not sorry to see him go, but I’m hardly wild about the replacement, either.
At least the incoming administration is trying to shift back to grounded sanity. I just hope the strategy is to bring boring, respectable civility and an amiable face back to the executive branch while letting the DOJ and other assorted alphabet soup agencies off their chains to do the dirty work.
Is it everything we need? Not by a long shot. Is it a step in the right direction? Absolutely. Is it the biggest step we could have reasonably hoped to succeed in 2020? I think so.
Four hours, twenty-nine minutes remaining.
Yeah, not my first choice, but honestly I’ve come around to thinking he might be what we need to deal with the immediate crisis we’re in. Or crises, really.
Given the complete lack of transition help – sabotage really, from the Trump administration, Biden’s experience in the White House is going to be critical to hitting the ground running.
And he’s shown a lot of signs of recognizing the problems and the magnitude of solutions we’re going to need. That said, with only narrow control of Congress, especially in the Senate, it’s going to be nigh impossible to get much in the way of big structural changes done. Which would be true regardless of which Democrat had won the White House.
Dear God, all of that first thing in the morning, I’d probably kill him at least twice.
Right? The 0-100 hyperactivity is one thing, but the repetition is annoying. “Oh wow you have a Nintendo! I can’t believe my roommate has a Nintendo! That Nintendo is the best thing about having a new roommate right now! I want to play Nintendo with my new roommate!”
…..I HATE….not playing my Nintendo Switch right now. I guess. I don’t know why having a Switch is a big deal. It’s two years old.
You’re two years old >:(
No but being serious, if you got no Nintendo and someone else has one in close proximity to you, they can’t be surprised if you wanna at least see them play it.
2 years? Try nearly 4 years old.
I bought one almost exclusively because they haven’t released Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled for PC yet, and the PS5 and new Xbox weren’t out yet at the time so a PS4 or Xbox One didn’t sound like a good idea.
It also makes a good YouTube machine because I avoid ll other doomscrolling on it.
Good morning… new storyline?!
Torturing Walky? Niiiice.
You think this is actually some attempt to torture Walky? Like, Booster is a subtle version of Mike, and instead of being an asshole they just do random Dadaist activities to slowly drive Walky insane?
Walky walks in and Booster is gluing Froot Loops to the ceiling, then carefully arranging seventeen ketchup packets on the floor. They listen to a random three second segment of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus on repeat for two hours. Then they diligently study for all their classes and do their homework.
Walky can’t fathom the meaning behind any of these random activities.
The ketchup packets form an arrow pointing to a blank wall.
Quick! Destroy the wall to see what’s there.
Or is that what they want you to do?
Seems like it’s a storyline about Walky trying to come up with a comic for the school paper at that.
As long as it’s not “two gamers on a cough playing video games”.
*couch
“Two gamers on a cough” just sounds like an unpleasant voice chat.
dude, that’s so 2000, no one makes those comics anymore
/s
I could’ve sworn there were a few still around, but I’m at a loss as to their titles.
Walky is acting like me whenever I see a console in a comic. “Ooh! That character has a game console!? Why are they talking to someone instead of playing it?”
Amber never disappoints.
Let’s hope that Booster isn’t one of those terrible, depraved people:
A scalper.
I had a roomate that would do anything besides playing with his 3DS. But he would carry that damn thing everywhere and post pictures of it every now and then on his facebook.
I still don’t know what I hated more, his lack of playing it or he never letting me or close friends play that thing.
I… I got nothing. I am baffled.
Same, thats pretty weird and not in a good way
Maybe he was really devoted to the streetpass life.
Maybe it’s a flexing thing, like buying the latest flagship phone and not putting it in a case.
I kind of hope it’s not that. People are already making the Booster is just Mike 2.0 argument and scalping a Switch while also finding a way to torture Walky with is would be a real Mike move. I’m kind of neutral on Booster but it would be nice if they had something else they were interested in.
Here’s hoping it’s product photography practice.
The only difference between a scalper and a poacher is that at least someone could eat those poor elephants.
Maybe. I hear elephant tastes like spam or worse. https://www.theawl.com/2012/04/what-does-elephant-taste-like
from the best to the worst, so are the roommates of our lives.
He is probably playing Pokemon Snap!
in that he is shaping pictures of Pokemon Sword or Sheild or Let’s go Evee or Pikachu
*They prob!bly sorry
They are snapping also really sorry forgot
They are probably playing Pokemon Snap!
in that they are shaping pictures of Pokemon Sword or Sheild or Let’s go Evee or Pikachu
My apologies for forgetting.
Call for editing option intensifies.
I had an Intellivision once.
I still have a Phillips CD-i, which is a lot younger, but just as obscure
[Vibrates in YTP]
Once was brought in to a developer studio to play/test a bunch of CD-i games, and they also had a 3DO as well. That was a fun summer.
You got to test those? I’m extremely jealous.
I still have a Sega Genesis that I used to play when I was a kid. I rarely play it these days since it’s old and I’m not sure how easy it is to try to connect it to a newer flatscreen type TV.
I’ve got a TI-99/4a, and probably a few dozen old Macs. Some of them usually work!
That was my console when I was a kid, my father brought one back from the U.S. long before they were available in Canada, made us the cool kids on the block for a while. I felt nostalgic a while back and found an Intellivision emulator for PC, so I got to show my kids the games I played when I was growing up. They were not impressed.
*plays Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again” on the hacked Muzak*
Nice one
Hmm this could be interesting, in their first appearance Booster mentioned his roommates inability to adhere as a reason as to why they’re now roommates
However we’ve also seen Booster point out other peoples failings in a manner some could say is highly inappropriate so now I’m wondering how much fault was on each side
So rooming with someone like Walky should provide some interesting, and new, story lines
Also no Becky so thats a bonus
Booster is conducting a fiendish psychological experiment on Walky’s mental state. I mean, it isn’t convincing him that his favorite show has been cancelled and recording him crying, but it’s something.
their*
I think it was Booster’s former roommate’s inability (or unwillingness) to use their preferred name and pronouns that prompted their move request. Walky hasn’t violated that yet, but he also probably doesn’t know their deadname so wouldn’t address them as such (except by a wild guess or incredibly unlucky slip).
Yeah, that was very much transphobia that prompted Booster’s roommate change. If your roommate won’t respect your name and pronouns because you’re annoying them, the issue is not that you’re annoying them, it’s that your roommate thinks acknowledging you by your proper gender is a reward for good behavior and not. You know. Basic human decency.
Walky and Booster may not be a compatible roommate situation for other reasons, but so far as we can tell Walky is pretty respectful of Booster on that front. (If he were inclined to be awful about it I’d expect something extremely obnoxious and noticeable.)
Walky is trying, in many senses of the word.
It seems that Booster and Walky are both trying (as you put it so well). So this may be an oil and water situation, but with sufficient agitation, we could get a useful emulsion.
Sure I get that but, not unlike the Becky and Dorothy situation, isn’t it also basic human decency to not deliberately annoy the person you have to live with, its not like its that easy to get away from them especially when your beds there
Having said that it seems plausible, to me anyway, that given Boosters lack of social skills that instead of trying to be annoying they may have been trying to get on with their roommate
“Hey you like watching sports, is it because you’re making up for the inadequacies you think you have”
The roommate’s inability to adhere was SPECIFICALLY to ‘calling Booster by their actual name.’ No other reason has been given. Given Booster is nonbinary, it’s a pretty heavy hint that the issue was the roommate being transphobic. Your comments are thus coming off as ‘Booster was annoying so Booster’s roommate didn’t think they deserved their gender acknowledged.’ Like, I called it basic human decency, let me rephrase that: It’s the bare minimum to not being a bigot. Anyone who’s willing to make acknowledging your name or gender conditional on good behavior is someone who fundamentally does not think your name or gender are legitimate. (No one says that because the ex-president is a fascist asshole, he doesn’t deserve ‘he’ pronouns. There were commenters saying exactly that about Booster in their first arc.)
Annoying behaviors can at times be subjective/Person Did Not Know It Was Annoying. Some are much more likely to be annoying than others, and this is definitely up there, but I sometimes apologize and leave a room because I find the sound of people’s voices intolerable. It’s not their fault! It is not in any way conscious. But I can’t stand it. Walky should definitely apologize once pointed out, and he definitely needs to learn in a hurry that his schtick is in no way as charming as he think it is (and never has been, even when it might have been marginally more socially acceptable as a preteen – pretty sure Linda’s David Can Do No Wrong, All Of This Is Sally’s Fault filter lets her gloss over a lot of bullshit,) but he’s also an 18-/19-year-old and some variety insufferable obnoxiousness is a given there. He can be obnoxious without necessarily being intolerant.
It probably was but since we’ve had a similar storyline with Carla and Mary I’m wondering if the author is going down a different path
A path in which Booster isn’t 100% perfect which seems likely given how they were introduced
Carla was definitely not 100% perfect. The point was Mary still does not get to be transphobic. If Booster had been deliberately annoying their roommate, that’s what room transfer requests in the long term and cussing them out in the short term are for.
Thats sort of what I mean (but not explaining properly) in that Booster is not 100% perfect which means there were probably issues on both side but we’ve only heard from Boosters pov so we don’t know the roommates view of things
Remember when Carlas initial reaction to the ding-dong on her board was a hate crime then it turned out it wasn’t
Then it turned out it was hilarious.
According to Carla, at least.
The important thing to keep in mind is that, regardless of how annoying Booster can be, their base humanity shouldn’t be under attack.
There really isn’t an appropriate place to throw “your identity, something deeply intrinsic to you that you have to fight to keep recognized as true and valid, is actually bullshit.” Like, misgendering isn’t just a singular act by one douchebag, it’s a reinforcement of an entire culture that demeans trans and non-binary identities and reminds them that people who hate them for *existing* will be there to tear them down when they “get out of line.”
wow, walky. way to make them feel welcome on every level.
I like Booster’s shirt, where do I get one?
I assume step one is to be as cool as Booster
Whut? Booster is a jerk.
a cool jerk
Start with a basic white T-shirt, eat as many flavors of sherbet as you can in as short a time as possible, and never wash the shirt.
or get a tie-dye kit
Less ice cream, but probably the more respectable route
Maybe I will as well, but you definitely misspelt conventional.
Anyone who manages to achieve that degree of colour from spilled food deserves a fair degree of regard.
I THINK Willis posted a picture of this shirt at Target? He gets a lot of clothes ideas from there so it might be worth a look anyway.
Sierra’s closet? That’s where Dorothy got one.
Just get one of those things Danny, amber and Sal has and be like the cool kids, Walky
Hmm, wonder what they’re up to here. Perhaps selling it, or taking pics of it to show that they got it? Hmm.
Also, it’s going to be kind of interesting to see how these two get along, or perhaps more likely, don’t.
I am a little surprised Walky doesn’t have a Switch. He seems spoiled enough to have one. The console came out a couple years ago so I feel like he could have just brought it up once and BOOM! Switch for Christmas or his birthday or some shit. Maybe he’s not as much of the favorite as it seems.
It’s also kind of interesting that Booster is taking these photos with an actual camera and not their phone. Assuming that’s not just a more recognizeable indicator that they’re taking pictures you’d think their phone camera would be enough for simple reselling right? It hints to me that Booster might need a higher quality image for whatever reason and that this is more likely a kind of hobby.
Didn’t Booster say something about minoring in Photography or having an interest in it?
Booster DID in fact say that!
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/ditchin/
It was just kind of slipped in there so good job remembering! Now all we need is to see the twin sister and there will be no more mysteries to Booster. Also nice to know they’re not intentionally torturing Walky and that dude is just an annoying, whiny baby, poopy head, loser, chump!
They can do two things at one time.
I’m also surprised because I thought their family had money, not like Carla’s family is rich but definitely enough to always have the newest console (and the Switch is the least expensive of the current gen).
Their = Walky & Sal.
The Walkerton family may not be hurting, but they aren’t in Jennifer’s family’s league, much less Carla’s.
You don’t particularly need to be rich to own a Switch.
However, possibly Walky’s mother doesn’t think he should have it at school so he can focus on his studies. My dad didn’t actually stop me from taking my consoles, but he did make fun of me.
“Guess he thinks he’s not going to be doing much studying while he’s here!”
“…most of what I did at home was studying already, but not 24/7. You do get I’m moving in and that I’m going to be living here, right?”
Probably taking pictures of it to compare to after they leave and return to make sure no one (cough, Walky) has touched his stuff. (Said sadly by someone who had that kind of sibling growing up. And don’t lock something up if you don’t want someone to attempt to pick the lock.)
And don’t lock something up if you don’t want someone to attempt to pick the lock.
So YOU’RE the sonuvasnake who stole my bike!!!
Seriousy, though, I was thinking something along those same lines. Either that or Booster is trying to do a series of ‘unboxing’ shots for a photo class project or something.
So… bets that Booster is taking pictures of his stuff to know exactly where everything is when he leaves the room because he has zero trust in Walky not to touch said stuff?
Would you trust Walky not to touch your stuff?
Contrawise, would you trust Walky to touch your stuff?
Contra-contrawise. Would you touch Walky with your Trust?
I would not.
Or maybe they just want to sell their Nintendo. But I like your idea better.
Oh no, no way- sorry Walky.
Back to Sarah it is
I just want to say I love Booster’s shirt. That is all.
Wally is such a worthless turd.
Hes not worthless but he seriously needs to buck his ideas up, find a mentor, that kind of thing
Plot twist: Walky is a genius-so much so he’s actually only 14 years old.
Did Dorothy not notice, or not care?
She was distracted by his caramel sculpted bod.
Please do not put the terms “14 year old” and “caramel sculpted bod” so close to eachother in my head.
Is it because a 14-year-old is likely to take actual caramel and sculpt it into an idealised body shape to place over their own torso and trick their crush into thinking they’re ripped?
That plan’s kind of doomed to fail in the preliminary stages, probably doesn’t even pass the acquisition phase. So not a huge deal.
But it’s such a sweet plan, how can it fail?
Really? I think greek armour meets caramel apple would work.
Ah, so timeline shenanigans happened and Sal aged 5 years ahead of him.
Booster’s a spy! OMG!
Dang it, Walky…
A) If it’s a classic ’80’s Nintendo (NES), Of course Booster would be taking pictures of it, to archive and document an important piece of video gaming history.
B) Calling it a “Nintendo” would only be reasonable (if not appropriate) if it actually WERE the 80’s.
It’s a game console made by the company Nintendo, who unlike their competitors have decided against using a semi-consistent naming scheme for their consoles.
Calling it a Nintendo is the correct and MOSTLY consistent general name, same with a playstation and an xbox.
It’s always been the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo DS, and now the Nintendo Switch.
They only really stepped away for the Game Boy (Advance) and Wii (U), although I’ve heard them being referred to as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Wii all the same.
Well, yeah, because Nintendo’s consoles tend to look different from each other so the name doesn’t need to be consistent. You can’t confuse a Game Boy with a Gamecube or a Switch easily because one of these is literally a cube shape. But Nintendo does tend to be the consistent attached name, most people just drop it when talking about it because everyone knows what you mean when you say the Gamecube, the Wii, the Switch.
You can’t really do that with an Xbox because everything after Xbox is literal nonsense if said by itself e.g. the One X, the Series S and Playstation is numbered so only really works if you say the whole thing.
Yeah, Walky just calling it a “Nintendo” instead of saying Nintendo Switch had me thinking Booster had a NES for a moment there. Now I feel old, even though I’m only 32.
I’m wondering if this is an indication that, like Walky, Booster is being pressured by their parents into an professional field (psychology in this case) when their true love is the visual arts?
Doubtful. He’s a second semester freshman and he already read a room full of mostly strangers as if it were a picturebook.
For no particular reason other than to show off he could, it seems.
*they
Come on, no parent would ever do something like that to their child. Inconceivable!
oh god, please tell me Booster isn’t like these stupid pricks who take pictures of their meal before eating, but in this case, it’s with video games (which is probably even worse)
I do take photos of new gadgets when I get them. xD
At least the video games don’t (usually) get digested and transfigurated into actual human excrement a few hours after the photo is taken.
Sometimes food is pretty or you know the chef put effort into the presentation and want to preserve it :c
I mean, having got the Animal Crossing Switch? I absolutely took pictures of it when I got it. (Mostly the box, which I wasn’t going to keep but had a delightful amount of cute details, but seriously it’s a great color scheme and I love the back design. It’s gorgeous. Ten months later I still see the little island on the dock and am happy.) Especially with special editions, you’ll see a lot of effort that goes into packaging. There’s also a trend to put print on both sides of the game box art, at least for the Switch but I think the PS4 is also transparent plastic for its game boxes. Haven’t seen a PS5 or more recent Xbox one yet. Anyway, there’s some seriously nice inner designs from Nintendo.
And yeah, seconding Zee. Sometimes you just want to go ‘hey this is a lot of effort in presentation and I appreciate that effort.’
damn, I probably don’t get it because I’m not the picture takey kind of person
Perfectly reasonable! I don’t take issue with but don’t really ‘get’ selfies, since I’m not one for pictures of myself in general. (At events, casual – never huge on them, at least for posed ones and not candids.) Not huge on food presentation either, but I have just enough of a liking for well-composed pictures of things in general to go ‘oh yeah that is indeed a nicely-arranged plate.’ (And that’s setting aside the extremely blatant ‘a ton of work went into making this pretty’ stuff like latte art or fancy pancakes.)
I hear that in the afterlife they make you watch unboxing video after unboxing video.
I like to think they’re taking aesthetic desk pictures for Instagram, which just happen to include a switch.
Well Walky escalated quickly.
Yes, he’s Walky.
For a moment there I thought Booster had a NES when Walky called it a “Nintendo”.
Walky
My dude
I am firmly anti-The Haters in these comments, and I unironically loathe the ones taking a shit on Becky, who are criminals, but
But you’re kind of INVITING them right now
Like damn this is some Regressed To Season One behavior up in
I think Walky’s going to learn a lesson in not being a hyperactive manchild in the not-too-distant future…
Hopefully
He’s gonna have a girlfriend again?
Hopefully not, well not until he emotionally ages
Hey David, not sure if you’ll read this, but since you’re usually quite a stickler for detail in your comics (and there have been some good details over the years since the later Walkyverse comics), I thought I’d point out that if Booster’s that much into photography as they say, they won’t be holding the camera that way; typically the left hand will be cradling the lens in an underhand grip. Or maybe that’s intentional for a plot point later, if so, then you can ignore this! XD
With a short lens (anything under 55mm or a compact zoom) I never cradled the lens either. I usually held it with the right hand in position to trip the shutter button and the left hand holding the lens from the side to be able to adjust the focus and/or zoom.
Yea, my point was, you generally don’t hold the camera itself with the left hand like that, there’s usually a few fingers on the lens either way.
Maybe it’s their first DSLR after years of point-and-shoot or superzoom cameras.
Booster deserves credit for using a real camera instead of a phone, either way. Phone cameras take perfectly adequate casual shots, but interchangeable lenses and filters give you many more options.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaJQpgWV9f0
Wasn’t Mike taking a photography course? Didn’t Mike have a similar camera?
Theory: This isn’t real. It’s a trauma dream of Walky’s, literalizing Booster’s status as “replacement Mike.” That’s why they aren’t talking and why we don’t see their face just yet.
“I’m not Stu!”
The conspiracy theory that Booster is actually Mike in disguise has just received a significant boost. (I promise that pun was unintentional, but I’m keeping it.)
Damn. We have now exceeded my short term memory and I’m going to have to start keeping an “evidence that Booster might be Mike” list.
Your theory would hold up if this comic wasn’t in full color.
I wonder now, and don’t get me wrong it’s okay to take a moment to process everything being said and consistant to take one’s time to spite Walky because spite is what Booster’s been about so far, but I wonder: Is Booster hearing impaired, and not wearing their normal hearing aids to focus on photography?
It’s an art thing: “I’m in the zone! I can’t deal with you right now!”
Walky is a Boomer Confirmed.
But how can that be when Mike is Boomer?
Walky, you don’t automatically get to use your roommate’s stuff. You don’t see the girls raiding each others closets or swiping their pets or anything like that, do you?
Actually we did. Sal and Sarah and Billifer were all involved in dressing Joyce early on last semester.
I thought this comment was going to go the “Other Jacob” route and was disappointed.
I’m not sure light sabers count.
Dude, he’s selling it for food and beer money.
Should I be surprised that butt taco shirt is clean now?
They only just came back from break. Walky’s going to need at least a couple days to dirty all the clothes Linda and/or Charles washed for him.
Okay, if Walky’s emotions swung any faster, they would be breaking the laws of physics. I guess Ruth is not the only one who needs therapy, and meds.
Booster could at least have the decency of answering Walky. But be called Replacement Roomie surely is annoying.
So, um, apropos of nothing and unrelated to today’s strip…I came out as bi/grey-ace to one of my sisters last night. This is another one of those moments where my grav’s particularly fitting at the moment, I think.
High five!
*high fives*
Nice!
Nice.
Appropriate degree of supportive response and best wishes for same from your IRL friends and family. Wooooo!
Yay! Well done.
Woo hoo! Congrats!
“What happened to your 3DS, Walky?”
“I dunno. It just kind of faded out of existence around the time my phone upgraded itself”
Are self-upgrades the latest feature offered by the xkcd Phone series?
*puts on tinfoil hat*
BOOSTER IS MIKE.
This has nothing to do with today’s strip, I just wanted to say it because I am convinced that my theory is correct.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.
*takes off tinfoil hat and exits stage left*
OH SHIT I’M BLOWJOB CAT NOW? Heh. Awesome.
Sometimes I forget that people decide whether or not they like characters based on whether they would be a tolerable person in real life, and then I read a strip like this where I say “God I love Walky” and scroll down into a bunch of comments about how much they hate Walky
I have multiple forks to whether I like a character or not. I feel very little for this Walky moment and in general my opinion is ‘eh’. In real life I would throttle him for a lot of his nonsense.
My guess is, from the angle that Booster’s doing this on, they’re not taking a picture of the Switch so much as a picture of their desk area. Likely, to compare later on, and see if anything’s been changed.
Call me cynical – but I’ve had bad roommates and bad situations before. And if you’re with a new guy, and you don’t know how it’s going to be, you make sure you get evidence.
Imagine if Booster was the kind of person who destroys videogame consoles and photographs them online… Walky would die from shock…
I mean, it’s a bit rude to not say mornin back.
Walky should take a hit but still and that last line is rude itself but still.
The only thing that came to mind after reading this is that if I never see a Walky with baby a cup man boobies and a slight tummy, I’ll be sad. I’m honestly surprised he doesn’t have it yet.
Alley-oop, better gravie, pls…
It got worse
In this house we love and respect Carla Rutten
4th times the charm?
I’m surprised Walky doesn’t already have one of his own if he’s this excited. Maybe Linda has a thing against video games?
Linda has a thing against fun
Video games rot your brain, and divert attention that COULD be going to studying for med school.
Or maybe Walky’s only been more than passingly interested since Sal took up Mario Karting.
Or maybe the Walkerton home video game collection is Charles’s.
Attention everyone, I have an important announcement:
We are now two weeks away from the release of IDW’s new Beast Wars ongoing.
*Cybertronian Kermit flail*
…buttrito ?