Joe Slowboat posted:...also, is anyone else annoyed by the use of real-world ethnic conflict or its implication to comfort an obnoxious super-powered white college student about her choices? It feels kind of scummy and I hate all the people in the comments section who praise the author for using real world poo poo as a tool to explain why his super strong violent rear end in a top hat is correct for abusing a person.
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hostess with the Moltres posted:This whole "violence is good when it's used for a good reason and it's good to coerce people into doing what you want, regardless of it goes against their personal choices" bit is bugging me but I'm having difficulty putting why I don't like it into words. That may be because those things are objectively evil  Joe Slowboat posted:...also, is anyone else annoyed by the use of real-world ethnic conflict or its implication to comfort an obnoxious super-powered white college student about her choices? Yes, the comic is all about First World Problems.
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If there were a rich guy whose super power is making people more tolerant, she'd sure as hell beat him up to stop ethnic cleansing.
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Mar 10, 2017 09:38
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Has anyone said "Clevin Bundy" yet?
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Mar 11, 2017 01:03
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No comic today, thank Clevin.
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Flesh Forge posted:That may be because those things are objectively evil So you're an anarchist, eh? 
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Mar 11, 2017 02:39
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See how quickly we adopt the viewpoint of the enemy?
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Mar 11, 2017 03:21
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how is the fat sparrow, please
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Mar 11, 2017 17:38
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I wouldn't be surprised if this comic goes on an indefinite hiatus at the end of this issue. Ostertag has so much going on she can't find the time or the will to buffer a week's worth of updates while she's in Scotland despite the last 12 pages being nothing but talking heads in a blue void. Mulligan ran out of steam hundreds of pages ago and is now using the comic as a platform to rail against libertarianism and the concept of voluntary exchange in a way that makes me feel embarrassed to be a liberal. I'm hanging on just to see where this war story goes and then I'll probably drop it.
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:how is the fat sparrow, please I haven't been back there so I don't know. Probably still fat and happy since it was an open air cafe that sold muffins.  I found this guy hanging out under my garbage can though, that's close enough right?
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Mar 11, 2017 22:48
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Flesh Forge posted:
Do it. It hasn't kept its end of the social compact, so it's entirely within the demands of justice that you squish it.
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Nuebot posted:I haven't been back there so I don't know. Probably still fat and happy since it was an open air cafe that sold muffins.
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Flesh Forge posted:
He's actually pretty huge for a gecko and is like, twice the size of the house geckos around here. Also they're apparently an invasive species. I'm cool with letting it chill in my yard, it seems happy.
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while we're sharing lizard friends, i found this entity in my firewood heap a few days ago when it's full-grown it'll be about as long as my arm. yesterday my dog found one that was about half this size (he didn't hurt it, just poked it with his nose and wandered on) but i didn't have my phone on me so no photos unfortunately 
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Avshalom posted:while we're sharing lizard friends, i found this entity in my firewood heap a few days ago  I wish we got big cool lizards here.  Mostly we just get house geckos. They make loud Eh-eh-eh sounds in the middle of the night.
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geckos are the best and you're very lucky, we have native geckos in my area but they're very shy and seldom seen
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Nuebot posted:
"Just get house geckos?" Here I don't have any awesome lizards at all.
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Here in the tropical rainforests of Texas we have both geckos and radical colorful tree frogs  In fact it's about time for them to start coming out, I'll get some pictures.
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Avshalom posted:geckos are the best and you're very lucky, we have native geckos in my area but they're very shy and seldom seen They come out a bunch and when it's breeding season or whatever and baby geckos are out in full force trying not to be eaten by the adults I get really worried they're going to hide in my computer. It's happened before. My cat loves eating the baby geckos too.  We also have bugs up the wazoo.  I have no clue what kind of butterfly this becomes, but I watched it crawl for like a solid ten minutes. It was fascinating. Little dude loved him some grass.  Grass hoppers aren't exotic at all, I just think they're cool.
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Joe Slowboat posted:...also, is anyone else annoyed by the use of real-world ethnic conflict or its implication to comfort an obnoxious super-powered white college student about her choices? The lack of specificity bugs me more. If you are going to hint about this stuff, pick something that actually happened (or that didn't, but hints at how things are different in SFP world).
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Nuebot posted:They make loud Eh-eh-eh sounds in the middle of the night. hell, same
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All I have are loving box elder bugs. Send me some cool rear end lizards and poo poo.
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I appreciate the turn this thread has taken. "Look at our weird critters!"
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Strange Fauna Parade
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That one down in the bottom left seems slightly more clever than the rest of them. He's got his eye on you.
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there is absolutely no such thing as a clever keet, they're about as smart as earthworms (but much faster!)
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Don't you stop me from projecting onto these cute little birds.
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Nuebot posted:Don't you stop me from projecting onto these cute little birds. 
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Looks like it's about one good spark away from being a delicious chicken nugget.
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that's a weirdly framed photo, why aren't the chicks in the centohhhhh right
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This would not have happened if I had not had a gun
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Flesh Forge posted:This would not have happened if I had not had a gun People don't kill people, guns kill people! EDIT: Can I blame this donut for making me eat it? EDIT2: Guys, I Couldn't stop it!  If only I hadn't picked up that donut, my stomach would have gone unsated in peace.
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If only I wasn't in a warzone, literally surrounded by guns, I would not have ethnically cleansed that doctor.
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There is literally no way to kill a person without a gun, actually.
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This is all going to lead to a The Boys situation and its going to be presented as a good thing, isn't it. I guess a more likely ending would be Miracleman but I haven't read that one.
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I know this is stupid and overwrought, but come on. The intent of this parable is not that he couldn't have killed the doctor without a gun, but that the gun created a such a huge power imbalance between the two it enabled the professor to feel like he could kill, or not kill, the doctor with impunity. The exact situation Allison finds herself in constantly. Hating this dumb comic is fine but at least hate it for the right reasons. My reasons.
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Galvanik posted:I know this is stupid and overwrought, but come on. I don't think that's quite right. Finding the gun is framed as giving Guwara /responsibility/ to overpower others. It's not about impunity, or the way in which the capacity for violence twists one's thinking. It's about how hard it is to be powerful, to be able to hurt people. I just think it's important to keep an eye on how this comic frames doing evil things as an injury done to the doer by the world, for forcing them to be tyrannical.
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It's a weak analogy though since the professor chose to arm himself and could have disarmed himself at any time. Also there was nothing to be gained from murdering the doctor. His friend was already dead, he killed out of spite. Edit: I mean it's pretty gross how he uses deontology as an excuse for sectarian killing Typical Pubbie fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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