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dang people who get along with their exes what’s that about
(j/k I managed to uproot my life each time so they aren’t in my circles anymore for getting along to be relevant)
alt: I totes understand that, I’m always looking at new coats even though I have five (BESIDES the ones I donated already)
I know, right?
I just love leather coats. I love how they look in general, I love how they look on me, and I love how they feel.
I have far too many leather coats.
I need more leather coats …
Black leather jackets get issued to old men when they qualify for social security. It’s part of the uniform. Plus a stretch of road to drive on at 5 under the speed limit.
BTW, I have two of them in case I need a backup.
And driving five under you will be causing backups.
I get along with one of my exes, so that’s something I guess? Though I’ve only had 4 gf’s in my life.
I’m still friends with one of my exes.
Which is kind of a shame, I was hoping for an evil one so when I acquire enough of them they can form a League that suitors must battle for my hand.
Eh, getting enough evil exes to make a league is such a hassle. Really not worth the effort
I was technically in a league of evil Exes once.
Although I was less inclined to battle for his affection and more inclined to date one or more of the other exes.
Also, while we were certainly a league and we were also his exes, I don’t think it was ever established that we were evil. Certainly, so far as we were concerned, he was the evil one for the manipulative way he tended to seduce and then dump various women.
Yeah he must’ve sucked from what I can gleam, though in that league it would be kinda fun to make yourselves out to be affably evil, if not while also to mock him with it at the same time, no?
The sad part was, when he wasn’t being a suzbag about relationships, he was actually pretty fun. He and I were friends first and used to game a lot.
The trouble was that I kept meeting people that I wanted to befriend/maybe date and he kept seducing them, sleeping with them, and then either dumping them outright or going ‘oh, I thought this was just a casual thing’ whenever ‘relationship’ stuff came up.
Also, and here’s the really sad thing – I had a huge crush on him, but since we were gamer friends, he didn’t make any moves on me. Also we lived in the same dorm on the same floor (much like DoA, one side of the hall was for females, the other for males). More than once, I would be walking down the hallway and hear him having sex with one of my friends. It was super depressing, and led me to make several relationship mistakes of my own. One of which was sleeping with him even though I knew 100% that it wouldn’t lead to anything good.
On the bright side, I did make several very good friends out of it. The League endures.
Might get a movie about it though.
Tradsies?
Kidding. I wouldn’t wish the witch spawn uterus for my second-born on another living soul…
maybe on a Republican.
Many Republicans are, unfortunately, living, but they don’t have souls, so your initial stance still applies.
That’s kinda romantic, in a cross-time way. Very mmmmm…? What? Medieval?
He never dated Amber.
Watching speed running videos finally pays off, as I actually understood that.
I don’t, but SOMEBODY in this house does, so I understand it =p
I don’t watch speed running videos, but I still understood every single word of that.
And I live with nobody who does.
I don’t watch speed running videos either, but I’m a gamer so I understood most of it.
I understood it, and I’m not a gamer, nor living with one, nor having access to the internet.
One of these propositions is false. It may be the first.
In order to explain it, we’re going to have to talk about parallel universes…
KILL THE ANIMALS
I need a girlfriend who I can say stuff like that to, and not get a blank look in return. Although to be fair, I don’t speed run so the conversation would be slightly different.
Also. Sal, you know you love how much of a dork Danny is. <3
Sal, you’re a speed freak who literally schooled Danny on beating Mario Kart times mere hours of play time after first picking up the game. Leather jackets or no how don’t you get this?
That’s different, playing the game isn’t what confuses her, it is the jargon and enthusiasm for such stuff that cinfuses her. Besides, all leather jacket/speed enthusiasts should play Saints Row 3.
Man I hope the new Saints Row is good, I’ve been jonesing for that series to make a triumphant return.
I have a hard time deciding if I like 3 or 4 more. On the one hand 3 has a better progression, on the other hand 4 has fucking superpowers.
I guess they are tied for 1st place.
SR4 also has an alien providing opera accompaniment to a Biz Markie song, Roddy Piper and Ashly Burch (as themselves, not playing characters) as sidekicks, Keith David (again, the actual person) as vice president of the US, a sing-along sequence of Opposites Attract, and this is the ending.
Puts it all in perspective.
I totally forgot about the ending, I love it. Man, if I wasn’t super backlogged with games I would replay SR4 right now.
I’m sorry how could you both ignore SR2 sitting right THERE being the best in the franchise
Am I the only person that thinks Kinzie’s regular outfit is way cuter than her “superhero” outfit? Possibly.
That it is.
Daisy would definitely favor the superhero outfit though…
There’s a big difference between finding shortcuts in a circuit racing game and Amber-level platformer speedrunning.
Sal did *a* speedrun
Amber is going for THE speedrun
Neeeerds
“And DAMNED proud of it!” – Percy Blakeney “The Scarlet Pimpernel”
There’s only one rule in this relationship and it’s the frame rule
So, imagine a bus
That leaves every 21 frames to take you to the next stage
I still can’t believe it only checked every 21 frames to see if you made it.
Hardware was really limited back then…
The hardware and its limitations was not the real culprit. It was framed.
That’s still more than once or twice a second (at 30 or 60 FPS). That’s plenty often enough that most people would never notice just playing with a regular controller on a stock console hooked up to a TV in your living room.
I was just thinking of that “leather and sexy boots” scene from CRFH!!! earlier today.
framerule zone
Sal is still right, although this page kinda spells out why Amber and Danny would’ve worked if Amber/Amazigirl wasn’t so damanged.
Same, Sal, same.
Danny, you’re not supposed to cup your mouth on the same side of your face as the person you’re whispering to. This defeats any and all points doing so might have.
It’s visual shorthand for the benefit of the audience; Danny knows he’s in a production.
Sometimes Amber knows too.
It’s really funny to me that Amber’s completely unimpressed that Danny knows this and is excited about it.
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS
Oh cum on, there’s gotta be SOMETHING that’s interesting in that stream, if not that hopefully superhuman accomplishment.
Gohan: I can almost hear him now.
*Piccolo miles away*: NEEEEEEEERD
I just rewatched Broly last night and their exchange when Piccolo enters the movie is still fantastic.
“How?”
See my response to DarkoNeko!
does she have fewer or more leather jackets than Gretchen Whitmer?
Amber really needs a therapist. Although a new friend would probably be good too. A lot of the cast could use a therapist tbh.
Most characters in any media could probably use therapy, frankly
Yeah, now that I think of it, the only media I’ve seen that really scores depictions of therapy is Tuca and Berty.
Regardless on how much of a gamble picking a therapist actually is, I still love that show.
If I’m being 100% honest the show itself has brought me more calm and comfort than any therapist, and that’s really saying something :3
Yeah as I was typing my comment, I was thinking about how a therapist provided by the school would probably suck. The one at my college absolutely did and I didn’t get back into therapy until this year. Luckily my insurance covered one that is a good fit for me.
I think Questionable Content handles getting characters into therapy well.
Most people in real life could use therapy.
Yeah, that comes up in comments regarding… just about all the characters in this strip. Like it’s a trope or something in DOA…
Sal, leather jacket rebels were a 60’s thing. Today, we idolize colorful hair and Minecraft.
The kids are still into building with brown bricks in Minecraft?
42?
Oops, I geeked it again.
The last one comes with an iron collar.
Ignoring the drama and weirdness of Amber in the previous couple comics, I’ll just throw up a “speedrun gamer nerds units” placard banner for us all to hold hands and sing under.
I appreciate it.
What are everyone’s favorite types/genres of games that you think make good speedruns? I prefer games with very little “randomness”/luck/RNG so that there is a display of skill. (Though, a tiny amount of RNG to spice things up by plus or minus a couple seconds or minutes in the long run can be fun while the community brainstorms the next timesave.)
Pokemon runs are long for the reason of heavy random elements lmao… but its random elements can be manipulated in some ways we’ve discovered, and the manipulation is skill, which can be pretty interesting! But if I’m going to watch a speedrun that’s hours long, I still feel like there are more entertaining options
I don’t play lots of games that aren’t random LOL but I think Hotline Miami speed runs are SUPER intense and just about a raw test of skill.
Also lots of fighting games make good speed runs too!
I got into watching speedruns through Pokémon, funnily enough. My favourite runs tend to be ones that utilise glitches, just to see a game get broken into smithereens.
What kind of pissing contest even is this?
Is that a challenge?
*readies pixel brushes*
The kind where if you can piss six feet in the air straight up and not get wet, you win no down payment.
The kind you don’t have a 20-frame grace period to win.
I am glad Sal called Amber out. Even if it was just a little.
And I like loner nerd Amber way better than loner horny Amber.
I’m with Sal in this, nerds confuse the hell out of me even after dating a few.
C’mon, Sal. ‘Getcherself laid’ is not the miracle cure-all.
Last time I checked, it was two, did she get another one over Christmas break?
It’d be awesome if she could pull that off.
And also Sus as Hell, given she’s playing on a NES controller and Fast Acceleration, a technique essential to the completion of the level, is impossible using the official NES controller.
There might be something to the idea of her setting herself a literally impossible goal to either sink all her time in to it not to think, or secretly punish herself by orchestrating a fail…
Brain!Blaine might still be in there, setting impossible goals for her to inevitably fall short of, so she has an endless supply of things to beat herself up over for no reason.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/proved/
It looks like Brain!Blaine had shadows back then. Huh.
O Malleys always have some distorsion to do with the sunn
o))
Well of course, he’s a shady character.
I keep finding leather jackets in thrift stores and it is ridiculously hard to refrain from buying them, Sal can own as many as she wants.
I dont know enough about speed running to verify if this is all true or not
It is. If you wish to know more, there are videos on the Youtubes.
“For your information, I am currently wasting my life on the most pointless way imaginable to catch carpal tunnel RSI.”
Sal’s life is amazing. Sha has such a great variety of people around her and a lovely boyfriend with a lot of interests.
Every time Sal remembers her social group is mostly nerds, she buys a new leather jacket in case it helps somehow.
Danny: Gets sexually harassed alongside his current partner by an ex-partner.
Also Danny: Oh dunk, person that just made my partner incredibly uncomfortable, that’s a real neat thing you’re doing on your stream! Hey Partner, did you know that this is a really cool and hard thing?
Already Danning things up. At least we can finally see Amber’s right hand now.
Here’s how I see it:
To me, the most appropriate avenue of this conversation would to be shove a lecture down Amber’s throat. If a friend did this to me, I’d be furious, and if they were the kind of person I wanted as a friend they’d let me say my piece. Not radically change in an instant, harmful thought processes take time to come out of, but I’d really only feel comfortable staying friends if I had some assurance this wasn’t going to happen again.
But, I’m not Danny, who has only ever criticized Amber for the third time in 11 years of comics two days ago. He vocalized his objections, but I don’t think Danny is really capable of staying mad at her because that’s not how he’s wired, and that’s to Amber’s detriment. Even when he got mad at her for breaking up with him for hanging out with Sal and then starting to hang out with Sal herself, once Amber indicated some DID confusion he tried to understand how it worked and then was actually happy she was befriending her. For Danny to stay mad, I think Amber would have to keep pushing until he couldn’t take it anymore.
Danny’s slowly building up a spine, while Ethan had to have massive amounts of trauma and the realization that Amber isn’t a great friend for him to pull away, and if there’s anyone who enabled Amber’s self-loathing more than Danny, it was him.
Amber’s right hand makes an appearance, at last!
Honestly I was getting worried that it was down her pants.
We don’t know for sure that it wasn’t there before this strip.
Yo JBento, i didn’t see the comment until this morning but you said i made a good call the day before? Idr making any predictions and can’t find a comment where i did
This is because my brain is unable to properly localise things temporally, so “the day before” was actually “the day before the day before”. :grimacing:
You’re lucky it was two days prior, if it had been a week before there would be a 50/50 chance I’d say you were a genius for predicting something a month earlier, and then NEITHER of us would have any idea what I was talking about.
Lmao fair enough
Sal’s gonna be in for a shock when she learns nerds can wear leather jackets too.
Can confirm.
(Source: am nerd.)
They’re definitely summoning some saltiness from Sal.
Saltiness is actually her first name, not Sally.
No, “Tiness” is her title. Sal, Tiness of Clark Wing.
Sal says this like playing Mario Kart isn’t going to be her inevitable spiral into going to Guilty Gear Strive tournaments and getting to finals with her sick Ramlethal tech until she gets knocked out and starts complaining that Sol Badguy needs to be nerfed.
Welcome to Nerd Town, Sal.
See, sal came in and immediately ended the whole sexual harassment thing. Fuck yeah, sal
Sal: “Fuck?”
Danny: “Yeah, Sal.”
Amber “…can I try a leather jacket ?”
Unrelated, but how has this group of misfit teenagers with a history of fighting against exploitative adults-including one literal costumed vigilante who wears a mask-not found out about Persona 5?
None of them are weebs?
More likely they do know about it but it’s not really been relevant to any discussions had on screen
Neither was the SMB1 speedrun meta-until it was.
Ffs comrade that was strident.
Danny definitely reads shoujo manga.
His favourite is Ouran High School Host Club.
If it didn’t exist, Danny would inspire its creation.
at least he got good taste
Hey wait I just remembered! Near Christmas time, the strip is gonna have Joyce or someone watch ANIME!!!!
I’m not sure Japan exists in this universe.
Dina Saruyama is Japanese-American.
Mary makes all the anime she watches by herself.
How in god’s name does that make any sense
The comic never outright confirms Indiana is a federally recognized state in the continental United States either lol. Why don’t I just head-canon IU takes place in a dystopian post-civil war US?
Also, yes, the part where a cast member is literally Japanese-American.
[The comic never outright confirms Indiana is a federally recognized state in the continental United States either lol. Why don’t I just head-canon IU takes place in a dystopian post-civil war US?]
It does? SWEET!
Except Mario is also a Japanese game
Then where did the in-comic sushi originate?
Clearly I did not think this joke through.
In fairness to you, I was irritated at the other commenter and you were caught in the splash zone.
It was meant to be a silly thought experiment but I forgot that Dina is ethnically Japanese. Fail.
The Dumbiverse takes place inside Amber’s imagination snowglobe.
I did not know that about World 8-4. I used to watch speedrun videos of SM64, but not SMB1.
Surprise, THIS is the threesome Amber is actually getting
Sal : [glare] No.
I own 3 leather jackets and proudly understand Amber and Dave.
Also worth pointing out, I also have a motorcycle, and long dark hair and dark eyes, and my accent sometimes slips to a southern/country accent.
So of course I identify with Joyce.
Wait, what did you think I was going to say?
All things considered (especially given what amber was just doing) this whole thing is kinda wholesome. It’s nice that it’s not suffused in rivalry and bitterness. or even extra awkwardness. it’s just normal awkward, heh.
dang, most people usually don’t keep in touch with their exes but I’m a lesbian so in this circle you either stay close to your ex or you become mortal enemies, and I usually lean on the stay in touch side
is Danny a lesbian?
I fucking love Sal! she’s highkey hilarious
I wonder what game Sal would like speedrunning?