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Fried Chicken posted:Unless the balls have spectral energy they can't use their powers to manipulate them But they can use their powers to manipulate themselves! that sounded dirty
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I look forward to Johnny getting distracted by the big mass of purple blobs at the ceiling and getting smacked in the face as a result
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Apr 7, 2015 13:38
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This is going to be fun. From a reader's perspective, anyway. For a lot of the participants this is gonna be a lot of hurting and BLEACHERS. FEEL. BAD.
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Apr 7, 2015 13:43
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What the gently caress are "bleachers" in this context? Is it just "go sit on the bench"? Non-native english speaker here. Love the "XTREME" headband Isabel is sporting. Goes so well with her game-face.
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Apr 7, 2015 13:56
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Bleachers are those big roll-out benches they have for high school sports stuff. Why so many spirit fish in the gym?
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Apr 7, 2015 13:58
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Kikas posted:What the gently caress are "bleachers" in this context? Is it just "go sit on the bench"? Non-native english speaker here. If you look in the background of panel 3 you can see some. Most school gyms have some tiered seats you can fold out for an audience to sit on and it's a good place to put loser children that should feed bad. Max has a red wristband on one arm and a blue on the other, he's really getting into this whole magnet thing 
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Fried Chicken posted:Unless the balls have spectral energy they can't use their powers to manipulate them The Chapter's title page does feature a dodgeball with grey spectral energy.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:17
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Oh my god I can't wait to see Johnny's family. They will probably be kind, loving, and supportive.
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Go Mildcats!
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Kikas posted:What the gently caress are "bleachers" in this context? Is it just "go sit on the bench"? Non-native english speaker here. Americans are mental and people will go and see sports played by a bunch of, uncoordinated half grown dwarves so they need seats for the audience at school.
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theshim posted:Oh my god I can't wait to see Johnny's family. Just like Johnny is!
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You can google the word "bleachers" and see an example, this is literally what they're referring to. Yes, American school gyms have seating for audiences, as sometimes they and other, rival schools, will challenge each other to a duel of Hoops and occasionally beachless beach volleyball. These are also the favored staging grounds for such maneuvers as "school pep rallies" where you're encouraged to build pride in one's school and its associated sporting representatives. And if the school in question doesn't have a proper auditorium, as is often the case for schools holding the younger age bracket, these are also where less prestigious mass-assembly functions may be held. Such as spelling bees (known by some to be Hoops for Nerds) and science fairs (beachless beach volleyball for Nerds).
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Apr 7, 2015 16:02
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This is the best fictitious -ball since Calvinball, would play
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We literally played "love ball" in elementary school. Did other schools have this? Because "dodge ball" was banned. It was basically the same thing.
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In middle school I came up with a capture-the-flag/dodgeball hybrid that the gym teacher liked, but we only played it twice since kid realized we could just hold on to the dodgeball and deck the other players in the face with them without actually throwing them. Dodgeball variants are the best.
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Space-Bird posted:We literally played "love ball" in elementary school. Did other schools have this? Because "dodge ball" was banned. It was basically the same thing. We played "funball." Literally just dodgeball. Also, uh  Not sure whether or not to be ashamed that I caught this.
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Coach Oop. Ollie Oop. Man, no wonder he's a bully. He's taking pre-emptive measures.
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MikeJF posted:Oh poo poo Isabel's got the competitive eyes. I predict this will be the best magical dodgeball game since the one in Hunter X Hunter.
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In my school back in the 90's, we called it "battleball."
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Apr 7, 2015 18:02
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Well, if the dodgeball equivalent in this shounen comic is even half as good as the dodgeball match in Hunter x Hunter this comic is gonna be pretty good the next little while.
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Why are there Wailords? Who put the Wailords there? This is ridiculous. Also that swapping teams thing is terrible people are just going to let themselves get hit on purpose so they can be on the winning team/their friends' team. I bet that's what Isabel is thinking right this very now.
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Am I the only one who misread the last panel as "Aim for the enemy's faces"?
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I honestly thought Coach's Oop's son was a new character, somehow I didn't connect the dots between "Johnny's big bald bud" and "big bald beloved baby boy" until people here pointed it out. As for dodgeball, it was allowed at our school, and we also had "Solo dodgeball"; which was like dodgeball but with no teams. Fun times.
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We had Dodgeball then also Dollie Ball where you could not leave the gym dollie but it was the same concept
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Deki posted:Am I the only one who misread the last panel as "Aim for the enemy's faces"? Nope. When I read the alt text I became confused.
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My school had dodgeball, but it was once in a blue moon thing, while kickball was an omnipresent constant. So many loving kickball games.
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We played War. It was just dodgeball with gym mats setup to provide cover across the gym floor. You'd have multiple players volleying fire at one mat at once to knock it over and get everyone underneath.
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t my school they did this weird thing where you could get the other team out by hitting them with the ball, but to win each team had to knock down three bowling pins that the other team was defending, and this weird exploit strategy was developed to block enemy balls with a ball that you held in your hands, because it doesn't count as hitting you if it just hits the ball. I think there were also regular "jailbreaks" once one team got depleted enough. Also instead of proper round balls we played with these weird, yellow, not-fully-inflated, low quality footballs, so we would just be tossing around these lovely lemons.
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Just noticed the lack of Isaac. He could just be in a different class, but him and Stephen are the only named students that appear to be missing.
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I mentioned solo dodgeball earlier, so I thought I'd might expand on it. In essence, it has the same rules as normal dodgeball, except without teams. When someone gets hit they're sent to "timeout" or whatever you'd call it, and they'd be sent back into the game if the guy who hit them got hit themselves. Due to the lack of teams there weren't any designated zones, so people could just run wherever, as long as it was within the limits of the playing field itself. This led to a lot of fun situations where someone would narrowly dodge a ball only to find that the guy who had been cowering/running next to them seconds before had taken up the Call of the Ball, and were now armed and dangerous. People often tended to gather in groups in whatever corner that was the furthest away from whoever was playing the role of walking ball dispenser, so whenever the ball was thrown at them, there would be lemming levels of people fleeing in every direction, though a few brave ones would always try to grab the ball before anyone else did, usually while someone else were trying to do the exact same thing right next to them. Nothing like whenever two kids would grab the same ball at the same time. Western standoffs can go burn, that was what a real standoff was like. Sometimes we would even put up obstacles, which just made it even better. Nothing like 5 people trying to hide behind a plyo box with a ball bearer sneaking up on the side. Then the teacher would suddenly throw in another ball and that's when the real fun started. Not to mention when the third ball entered the game. ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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ThaumPenguin posted:I honestly thought Coach's Oop's son was a new character, somehow I didn't connect the dots between "Johnny's big bald bud" and "big bald beloved baby boy" until people here pointed it out. Solo dodgeball is the best. All semblance of civilization breaks down, it's every child for themself in the dodgeball apocalypse.
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SlothfulCobra posted:and this weird exploit strategy was developed to block enemy balls with a ball that you held in your hands, This isn't a Murphy, it's rules working as intended.
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MarquiseMindfang posted:The Chapter's title page does feature a dodgeball with grey spectral energy. Looks like someone is going to gain spectral powers during HITBALL. Which is good, in a story that has more frequent updates it's good to give some time between the set up and payoff but considering the set up happened over 5 months ago in real time I'm not complaining.
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Zerilan posted:Just noticed the lack of Isaac. He could just be in a different class, but him and Stephen are the only named students that appear to be missing. Nice catch. Given the amount of detail put into the gym crowd (and how pissed off Isaac was before), there's a good chance that's intentional
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I can't believe Ollie Oop. If Isaac is indeed in the class then I bet there will be some drama involving his side relative to the rest of the Activity Club.
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My strange exotic dodgeball rule was that tagged players moved to the Dead Zone, which was two narrow rectangles to the side of the enemy team. Once you settled on a spot there, you weren't allowed to move, but you could still catch and throw, and if you tagged someone you'd get to come back to life.
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We played dodge ball on a basketball court, and if anyone made a basket (from half court obviously) that was the "release all your teams players" mechanism. We also had to stay behind the opposing teams basket, so we'd just collect the balls and throw them to whoever on our team was best at basketball.
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Wait a sec. There's a dodgeball variant with teams???
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Autonomous Monster posted:Wait a sec. They even made a movie about it.
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