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I think the comic has made it fairly clear that monsters have their own free will, and that Rjinder's is in control of him. For one, he's been very insistent to everyone at Shell that monsters don't have minds of their own. He gave that weird-rear end speech about how he's glad his monster isn't an intelligent being, because if it was it could slowly and painfully murder him in an excruciating way. (Tell me that's not a cry for help.) We've seen Guuzy and Rixis act on their own and keep secrets from their human hosts, plus there's that boneless girl who is terrified of her monster, and Enid's monster seems to be bossing her around as well. These are all big hints the comic has been dropping for a while, I think it's been made fairly clear that Rjinder's skin monster is the main antagonist setting things in motion. The question is, why?
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The last two mentions of "Chakra" had Lulenksi recoiling in disgust, and this is supposed to be a "proto-Chakra" device, which suggests this is just a test run for something far more grandiose and disturbing.
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May 23, 2016 23:44
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GenericServices posted:The critical question is whether this heartfelt conversation finishes before Petunia walks in on them. The only thing bad about today's Poppy update is that the mysterious figure in the last panel isn't Petunia come to horribly misconstrue (?) the situation.
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May 24, 2016 04:11
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Actually so far Petunia has been reading the situation very accurately.
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May 24, 2016 06:14
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Captain Bravo posted:What I don't get is why Rjinder's skin wants the Chakra program to succeed. It's the mastermind behind Rjinder, he's said before that he's completely at its mercy, and it seems to be the one pushing Lulinski forward as well. (Without her knowledge) But why? Surely it doesn't want to be reintegrated with Rjinder, that would erase its mind and revert it back into normal skin. Does it just want to get rid of all the other monsters? I don't get it. Maybe it's the other way around and the skin monster wants to become whole and erase Rijinder's mind since it seems to be the dominate force.
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May 24, 2016 06:39
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The Lone Badger posted:Actually so far Petunia has been reading the situation very accurately. Thus the (?) part of that post  Petunia is right, seemingly, but for all the wrong reasons. It's great. I sincerely hope she just goes on thinking that her "clues" were the real smoking guns all along and nobody corrects her.
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May 24, 2016 07:03
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Today's Daughter of the Lilies update is clever as heck.
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May 25, 2016 01:39
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Zweihander01 posted:Today's Daughter of the Lilies update is clever as heck. I don't think I was prepared for that kind of fourth wall brushing.
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May 25, 2016 05:35
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Ok today's dumbing of age kind of pisses me off. If you're going to do drama, do loving drama and own it. If you're going to do content warnings do them up front. Don't do a big song and dance about trigger warnings deep into your ongoing comic, then apologize for that content afterwards. You might as well not even do the strip.
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May 25, 2016 19:05
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I never thought that I'd say this, but QC did it better. Its suicide was way more funny.
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May 25, 2016 19:07
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Eh. I don't mind it. Its a big enough warning that people can definitely stop without seeing the strip and the thing at the end probably helps people too
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May 25, 2016 19:23
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I think the kitten is a little over the top. But that's just my opinion.
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May 25, 2016 19:32
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The problem is he wants it both ways--he doesn't want to offend anyone, but he still wants to exploit a kid walking in on their mom's suicide for cheap shock value. Compare it to Strong Female Protagonist's handling of a sensitive topic. Not to say that chapter didn't have its problems, but it started out with the content warning in advance of the content in question, and rather than using it as a single moment of shock, it examined the issue to the best of its creators' abilities. As opposed to Dumbing of Age here, which is basically "trigger warning: Kyle Rayner's girlfriend dismembered in a refrigerator (it's cool, guys, I used a trigger warning)".
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May 25, 2016 20:37
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On the one hand, it's cool to take into account that this is a topic that can upset people, and that people who enjoy reading Wacky Highschool Hijinks by David "Butts Disease" Willis do not necessarily want to get this kind of stuff instead of wacky hijinks about butts. On the other hand, a giant warning like that is a great way to make any sort of emotion fall flat. This strip is even more of a loss.jpg with it than it would be without it. The kitten is nice, but the comment on it is dumb.
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May 25, 2016 20:38
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I never thought that I'd say this, but QC did it better. Its suicide was way more funny. Who did the guest strip where Faye went back in time to prevent her dad's suicide, only for him to see two Fayes at once and pull the trigger Chris Doctor McNinja Hastings did the hostess fruit pies strip Phy fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 20:51
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Phy posted:Who did the guest strip where Faye went back in time to prevent her dad's suicide, only for him to see two Fayes at once and pull the trigger Chris Hastings again.
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May 25, 2016 21:00
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Pavlov posted:Ok today's dumbing of age kind of pisses me off. If you're going to do drama, do loving drama and own it. If you're going to do content warnings do them up front. Why are you bothering to read Willis rehashing all his old poo poo again? Don't be another victim of Webcomics Inertia.
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May 26, 2016 06:20
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Didn't read his old stuff, so it ain't old to me. Some of the stuff he did with the sheltered christian girl was pretty well done, I think because it was based on the author's own experiences. It's been kind of disappointing lately though.
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May 26, 2016 06:53
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Pavlov posted:Ok today's dumbing of age kind of pisses me off. You could post this every day and not be in the wrong
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May 26, 2016 08:19
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Phy posted:Chris Doctor McNinja Hastings did the hostess fruit pies strip The what now?
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May 26, 2016 08:40
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this strip pretty much validated QC's existence up to 2012. for everything after then of course there's no excuse
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May 26, 2016 08:48
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Poppy Opossum is making me sad, you guys. Why can't Lily have nice things? 
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May 26, 2016 12:54
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woah poppy
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Pavlov posted:Ok today's dumbing of age kind of pisses me off. If you're going to do drama, do loving drama and own it. If you're going to do content warnings do them up front. Yeah sorry you are expecting way too much tonal and emotional maturity from Willis. Hes been doing the exact same poo poo the exact same way for over a decade now- minus the trigger warnings. Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 13:52 on May 26, 2016 |
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May 26, 2016 13:41
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Pavlov posted:Some of the stuff he did with the sheltered christian girl was pretty well done, I think because it was based on the author's own experiences. It's been kind of disappointing lately though.
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Green Intern posted:Poppy Opossum is making me sad, you guys. Why can't Lily have nice things? I dunno. It can go one of two ways. Learning your parent(s) is/are just as fallible as anyone else with the same fears and hopes can improve empathy orrr it could just lead to Lily becoming even more disillusioned and I'm not sure which is more likely here.
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Captain Oblivious posted:I dunno. It can go one of two ways. Learning your parent(s) is/are just as fallible as anyone else with the same fears and hopes can improve empathy orrr it could just lead to Lily becoming even more disillusioned and I'm not sure which is more likely here. Lily is smart. I think this will give her perspective on where her mom is coming from and maybe help her stop being so focused on her own pain. I mean, she was in a place where she didn't even care that her mom didn't die. She needs something to get her out of her own head.
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Sorry kid, you can never achieve anything in your life and the rest of the world wants nothing to do with you but to kick you around in the dirt. Cheer up and get used to your station in life.
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Thanks Morbi for breaking us of the illusion that a small cloth can keep a child unconscious despite being waved around and in a room full of screaming adults.
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May 26, 2016 17:14
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It's being carried by a tail that really puts them under.
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Green Intern posted:Thanks Morbi for breaking us of the illusion that a small cloth can keep a child unconscious despite being waved around and in a room full of screaming adults. From context I get the impression that it's a thing that works on young opossums in the real world but I could be totally off base  I'd actually been meaming to ask cuz I have been wondering.
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Pavlov posted:Ok today's dumbing of age kind of pisses me off. If you're going to do drama, do loving drama and own it. If you're going to do content warnings do them up front. I've never read anything of this guy's before Dumbing of Age and I generally like the comic, at least enough to keep following it, but this strip was dreadful. If this is leading by example, I really hope people realize that placing a giant warning label on top of your comic strip just sucks all impact that strip may have had. And he acts like by having this in his strip, he has done some bad action. I just don't understand. Is this really what people want?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Sorry kid, you can never achieve anything in your life and the rest of the world wants nothing to do with you but to kick you around in the dirt. Cheer up and get used to your station in life. The game is rigged but life still needs living.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:I've never read anything of this guy's before Dumbing of Age and I generally like the comic, at least enough to keep following it, but this strip was dreadful. If this is leading by example, I really hope people realize that placing a giant warning label on top of your comic strip just sucks all impact that strip may have had. And he acts like by having this in his strip, he has done some bad action. I just don't understand. Is this really what people want? He's learned from his peers, that if he does something which his fanbase does not like they will skin him alive. He puts a trigger warning there, because if he doesn't someone will get stupid offended, blast him on tumblr, which will get reblogged a billion times, and he'll end up putting a pair of scissors through his hand.
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color me astonished that the wolf boy raised by Transformers cartoons in a cult compound still struggles with the fine points of social graces his endless comic strip soap opera is bad but otoh every day he doesn't try to drag somebody behind his truck is a victory so A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 01:38 on May 27, 2016 |
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Captain Bravo posted:He's learned from his peers, that if he does something which his fanbase does not like they will skin him alive. He puts a trigger warning there, because if he doesn't someone will get stupid offended, blast him on tumblr, which will get reblogged a billion times, and he'll end up putting a pair of scissors through his hand. This is a dramatic overstatement because posting a trigger warning is not that bad, however taking up half the page with two warnings for a four panel strip, then immediately making a joke/apology is taking things a bit too far. Like drat, just because you don't make all of your audience happy 100% of the time does not automatically make you a douchebag going "sorry you were offended" to people on Twitter. There's a middle ground.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:color me astonished that the wolf boy raised by Transformers cartoons in a cult compound still struggles with the fine points of social graces Willis is probably the lead example in some psychologists long term study on how the internet has curbed the occurrence of serial killers in the post-internet western world, if he'd been born 30 years earlier he'd have at least six dead co-eds in his yard by this point in his life
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mr. stefan posted:Willis is probably the lead example in some psychologists long term study on how the internet has curbed the occurrence of serial killers in the post-internet western world, if he'd been born 30 years earlier he'd have at least six dead co-eds in his yard by this point in his life you sound really normal yourself TwoPair posted:This is a dramatic overstatement because posting a trigger warning is not that bad, however taking up half the page with two warnings for a four panel strip, then immediately making a joke/apology is taking things a bit too far. Like drat, just because you don't make all of your audience happy 100% of the time does not automatically make you a douchebag going "sorry you were offended" to people on Twitter. There's a middle ground. yeah i agree with this. my ideal trigger warning method would be a little blurb on an opaque overlay over the comic itself that you click to make go away. this method that was chosen in the comic is a sure fire way to knock any tension out of a scene fun hater fucked around with this message at 03:56 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 03:52
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List of people who are now screwed in Widdershins
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8-Bit Scholar posted:I've never read anything of this guy's before Dumbing of Age and I generally like the comic, at least enough to keep following it, but this strip was dreadful. If this is leading by example, I really hope people realize that placing a giant warning label on top of your comic strip just sucks all impact that strip may have had. And he acts like by having this in his strip, he has done some bad action. I just don't understand. Is this really what people want? I'm particularly confused about why he decided that this specific comic was the one he needed to warn people about so badly. He's already had plenty of trauma and violence and even a big bit about college date-rape right? What made this one so special?
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