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2024-03-25, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Space is the ocean on steroids. Every part of it wants to kill you. And in fact is actively trying to kill you in a dozen ways slow fast and medium speed. And yet people still want to go there.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-03-26, 01:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
* my emphasis
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Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2024-03-26, 04:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
A former cult member runs a yoga studio. That's an interesting reversal. Usually it's the yoga studios that get you to join cults.
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2024-03-26, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2007
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- England
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
In defence of Willow, I did a lot of LARPing in my teens and early 20's, and I know for a fact that I met more than a few people who were barely a tiny hop, step, and laminated card away from unironically worshipping Cthulhu. A handful of them even brought actual Kool Aid to events (the fruity kind, not the... y'know....)
I'm not sure where I was going with this anecdote. Something about the increased need for mental health support within the community, possibly.
Also; obligatory crude euphemism about earning the rank of head wizard. I think most of us would be proud of such an accomplishment.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2024-03-26, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Eh, I could see it. The renfaire aesthetic aside, If this was a new-agey cult it's possible they did a lot of Yoga there, so that would be one of Willow's marketable skills after she left, I doubt living in a yoga renfair cult for most of her life would result in her having the sort of educational background needed for a lot of careers.
Also, here's hoping that Jeph leaves this as an interesting background bit for Willow, rather than trying to do a Thing About Cults And How Cult Survivors Are Affected By Their Experiences.
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2024-03-26, 09:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Well, so much for those hopes...
It strikes me as kind of unusual that Willow would have left such a community and still be so New Age-y, rather than becoming some sort of Calvinist ascetic or the like. I was under the impression that people who leave controlling subcultural groups tend to exhibit something of a hardline reaction to their points of origin (though I'll admit I don't have a rigorous data set on such instances).
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2024-03-27, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-03-28, 04:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
at what point does teasing girl/girl relationships stop being progressive and start being a fetish? I feel like jeph is teetering on that line.
Last edited by Beelzebub1111; 2024-03-28 at 04:42 AM.
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2024-03-29, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
The angle on Willow's spine there is horrifying. That is extremely broken.
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2024-03-29, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-03-29, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Super Stupor parodied it excellently, but the site is unfortunately not working currently. It is however stored by archive.org.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2024-03-29, 11:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
On the QC Reddit forum, there's a guy who does a parody re-dub of every strip which often features much better dialogue than the original. With this one, he replaced Willow with a picture a flexing She-Hulk in a catsuit.
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2024-03-29, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
I renew my complaint that this looks like the lamest party ever conceived. No food, no mood lighting, just 5 drunk girls being stared out by a weapons-grade tsundere edgelord....
What even would a song to which you can twerk AND do The Monkey AND The Robot AND ballroom twirls even sound like?
Originally Posted by Beelzebub11
I know that Amanda was established as being gay for a while so that isn't so surprising, but for her to turn up unannounced with a new character in tow who fulfills exactly one function and then is never mentioned again feels like Jeph just gave up on storytelling and started slamming his action figures together, unable to wait to get to 'the good stuff' no matter how abrupt or unsatisfying it was.Last edited by Wraith; 2024-03-29 at 01:18 PM.
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2024-04-03, 04:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Clinton: *Literally Just Stands There.*
Claire: Ugh I hope that guy dies and goes away forever that weirdo freak. Stop Embarasing me.
And we are supposed to like Claire?
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2024-04-03, 07:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-04-03, 07:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
No, it's the Clinton who is about to admit to stalking his sister's colleagues.
Let's go through the strip. First, we're told that we aren't seeing Eliot, despite this being the single best time to reintroduce him and allow us to see him again. "I've got work in the morning" is apparently code for "Help help I've been eaten by an Allosaurus."
Then Claire comes in and doesn't give any kind of greeting to the brother she's about to move hundreds of miles away from. Instead, she hands him over to Liz like he's a dead raccoon in a paper bag. This is before he's said anything.
Then Clinton admits to creeping on Claire's colleagues, when a much simpler "I heard about you from Claire and I like science" would have sufficed.
And Liz's response on hearing that somebody is actually interested in her work (after just getting over a major breakdown about said work) is to arrogantly dismiss them and demand they write a paper on it!?
Our wacky cast of sitcom characters, ladies and gentlemen! Aren't they fun to hang out with? Aren't you invested in their relationships?
What's most infuriating is the strip from Monday with Faye, Marten, and Pintsize. A classic QC conversation with friends riffing on each others jokes. And every time we flash back to them, I get the same vibe - Jeph can write like that still, he is actively choosing not to.
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2024-04-03, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Not to mention that Liz unironically did the "Oh you like <band>, name 5 of their songs" meme that people stereotype male fans as doing.
also, I think stalking is a bit strong for what he's doing. If my sister is a literary agent and I look up info author's she's representing, how is that stalking?Last edited by Beelzebub1111; 2024-04-03 at 10:27 AM.
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2024-04-04, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Honestly, thats more of a generic gatekeeping thing than a male music fan thing. Though it does get ascribed to guys more often. Im pretty sure thats sexist. /serious nod. But yeah "Oh you like xmen? name 72 members of the team!" "Oh you like star trek? How many times has worf been worfed in tng alone?" "Oh you like nickelback? GET OUT!"
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-04-05, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Reading someone's dissertation - which is what Clinton says he did - would be kind of creepy, mostly because a dissertation averages 250-300 pages in length (though admittedly, in STEM a good half of that can be some combination of tables, figures, and works cited). It's not like reading a 1000-word paper in Nature or even a 10-page paper in Ecology or something. Also, usually dissertations are only published by the university and to get a look at one you have to go an specifically ask for a copy (I referenced a Master's thesis from the 1970s once, it had to be mailed to me via interlibrary loan). Usually, however, if a dissertation contains legitimate publication quality work, portions of it will have been published in proper journals prior to the completion of the degree.
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2024-04-05, 05:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Well I appreciate the attempt to have Clinton stand up for himself after constantly being talked down to by his family members. (#relatable) Although I'm not sure that was the intent.
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2024-04-05, 08:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Its also possible that its become widely read because its from the latest teen genius. i could see there being a lot of professional interest in the scientific community over what sort of work this person is releasing when normally they wouldnt care much about random phd student #76534756.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-04-08, 02:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
The combination of the jarring cut between panels 2 and 3 plus Liz's cybernetic arms being easy to read as just human arms with armbands made this comic considerably stranger than it needed to be.
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2024-04-08, 05:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
How long has claire been making the same joke about his hand that he feels the need to open with that? Guy gets his hand blown off by a firecracker and that's not bad enough?
Do we ever get a reason WHY Claire treats her brother like ass?Last edited by Beelzebub1111; 2024-04-08 at 05:50 AM.
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2024-04-08, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-04-08, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
I guess I'd feel better about it if he gave as good as he got, but from what I've seen it's mostly Claire being dismissive or talking down to her brother and he just sulks over it.
But I feel like if he tried to snipe back everyone would shut him down with a "not cool" look and he would have to learn a lesson.
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2024-04-08, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Clinton has a mental image of himself as the protective sibling, something Claire has been shown to understand but not especially appreciate in the past. On top of that he's... shall we say, awkward. Claire's trepidation about him putting his foot in his mouth is not especially unwarranted.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-04-08, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Also, before Willow interrupted, we could view this as Claire's treatment of Clinton blowing up in her face.
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2024-04-09, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
I have to say i loved this cutaway joke.
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2024-04-10, 04:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
"we might be 2-dimensional data on an infinite surface" haha. it's funny because they are.
"reality may be a lie and all past and future experiences may be fabricated at any instant" Okay, the physicist crossed over into navel gazing philosophy. We have been talking about this since 400 BC. Ultimately it doesn't matter if reality is a fabricated illusion of our memories, we experience events in a continuity and treat other people as though they do because it's polite to assume the other people around you are not automatons, and we hope they afford you the same respect. We call that "society."
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2024-04-10, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
I mean, when your realm of research is the basic underpinnings of reality and how it all works, id imagine its hard to not get philosophical from time to time.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."