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Der Waffle Mous
Nov 27, 2009

In the grim future, there is only commerce.

Axe-man posted:

I mean; look at the lack of mask and face armor. Totally exposing herself to enemy fire. Also the coat doesn't look like it is asbestos so I mean when she burns all the people around her alive in a paranoid psychotic break, she will totally ruin that armor plated jacket.

Should have gone power armor; imo.

Look sometimes you have a bad PUBG drop and you need to make do with the lovely double barrel shotgun.

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King Possum III
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ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

loving Bok.

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
Confession I kinda like Questionable Content. Dunno why, just do,

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

This is confusing me. I thought at first it was a conservative saying Graham-Cassidy is bad because it's single payer (:psyduck:), but then I looked up the artists and found they're pro-labor types (who don't like single payer?? :psyduck:), who presumably wouldn't conflate the two very different systems. If it's saying both single payer and Graham-Cassidy are bad then why is there nothing connecting the two messages? This is like two low-effort cartoons smushed together, not a singular, cohesive thought.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Flashback sunday:

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

Pakled posted:

This is confusing me. I thought at first it was a conservative saying Graham-Cassidy is bad because it's single payer (:psyduck:), but then I looked up the artists and found they're pro-labor types (who don't like single payer?? :psyduck:), who presumably wouldn't conflate the two very different systems. If it's saying both single payer and Graham-Cassidy are bad then why is there nothing connecting the two messages? This is like two low-effort cartoons smushed together, not a singular, cohesive thought.

Maybe they're big single-provider fans who hate doctors?

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

Pakled posted:

This is confusing me. I thought at first it was a conservative saying Graham-Cassidy is bad because it's single payer (:psyduck:), but then I looked up the artists and found they're pro-labor types (who don't like single payer?? :psyduck:), who presumably wouldn't conflate the two very different systems. If it's saying both single payer and Graham-Cassidy are bad then why is there nothing connecting the two messages? This is like two low-effort cartoons smushed together, not a singular, cohesive thought.

This is referencing that they've been selling G-C as the only way to stop Single Payer from going forward. Bringing up SP is the red herring to distract from how lovely the bill is and it's also red baiting, thus the communist symbolism.

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Prickly City has become Goblins.

:sadfan:

Now that was a good comic. :v:

Also gently caress that dude with the Mexico/Hooters comic.

du -hast
Mar 12, 2003

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

Fathis Munk posted:

:sadfan:

Now that was a good comic. :v:

Also gently caress that dude with the Mexico/Hooters comic.

Wait so we are in agreement that the Mexico comic's entire joke was that big ol' Mexican titties was jigglin during the quake? That's what it was trying to say?


Also Fathis Munk I had the flu a couple weeks ago and had a fever of 104F and was reading these forums. I'd seen you post a bunch of times but never noticed your avatar moves, so I sat there for no joke approximately 30 minutes staring at it wondering if the fever was cooking my brain or if it was actually moving and talking to me or something, it was one of the weirdest experiences I've ever had.

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
Haha, happy to contribute to your fever dreams.

If he was trying to say anything else, idgi. And using a quake that killed hundreds to make a hah, titties joke is such bad taste.

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp
I can't believe that Hooters joke, like actually could not and spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to think of a more charitable interpretation.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/911595903336796160

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Pakled posted:

This is confusing me. I thought at first it was a conservative saying Graham-Cassidy is bad because it's single payer (:psyduck:), but then I looked up the artists and found they're pro-labor types (who don't like single payer?? :psyduck:), who presumably wouldn't conflate the two very different systems. If it's saying both single payer and Graham-Cassidy are bad then why is there nothing connecting the two messages? This is like two low-effort cartoons smushed together, not a singular, cohesive thought.

Single-Payer is the red herring which the other red herring wants to use to scare you into approving G-C

The confusing part to me is that the GOP elephant is being drawn as a red herring IMO; I think that's just bad cartooning. The point of it still definitely seems to be that the GOP wants people going "oh no, save me from the scary socialism :ohdear:"

loquacius fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Sep 24, 2017

Abyssal Squid
Jul 24, 2003


Yeah I get that Kim Jong Un looks like a total nerd, and he's still a deluded bloodthirsty monster who thinks his subjects sincerely love him, but North Korean propaganda and messaging has been on point since he took over. "Dotard" is accurate, concise, and savage, in no way equivalent to "Rocket Man" or "booger head."

I totally get not wanting to glorify Kim here, but acting like he's comparable to Trump is probably the worst thing you could do here. Kim's been surprisingly rational and predictable, but we keep daring him to escalate and then being surprised and upset when he does. The idiocy is asymmetrical. It's us, we're the idiots here.

Pakled posted:

This is confusing me. I thought at first it was a conservative saying Graham-Cassidy is bad because it's single payer (:psyduck:), but then I looked up the artists and found they're pro-labor types (who don't like single payer?? :psyduck:), who presumably wouldn't conflate the two very different systems. If it's saying both single payer and Graham-Cassidy are bad then why is there nothing connecting the two messages? This is like two low-effort cartoons smushed together, not a singular, cohesive thought.

From context it's pretty clear that "single payer is communism" is the claim (not even necessarily the belief) of the character in the cartoon, not of the cartoonist. It could stand to be in a speech bubble to emphasize "this is the villain talking, I don't actually believe this," and yeah every cartoon in that post was pretty low-effort, but c'mon man.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Abyssal Squid posted:

Kim's been surprisingly rational and predictable

He's the fathead who set off a nuke and keeps shooting rockets over other nations. That's not what rational and predictable means in diplomacy.

Abyssal Squid
Jul 24, 2003

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

He's the fathead who set off a nuke and keeps shooting rockets over other nations. That's not what rational and predictable means in diplomacy.

He'd rather die in mutual nuclear hellfire than of a one-sided knife enema. That's perfectly rational.

"I'm going to do this thing." *does thing* That's perfectly predictable.

We don't have to like him or what he's doing to understand why he's doing it.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
I'm sorry, I know you want to move on, but someone's going to have to explain that hooters comic to me.

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp

Discendo Vox posted:

I'm sorry, I know you want to move on, but someone's going to have to explain that hooters comic to me.

The patrons of the Hooters are elated because the earthquake that collapsed buildings and killed people also made the waitress's boobs jiggle

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
Hooters is a restaurant that exclusively hires busty women and has them wear tight shirts. It's basically a place you go to ogle boobs. During an earthquake, everything shakes around. If you somehow manage to ignore the building possibly falling down, silverware going everywhere, and glasses falling and breaking, you might notice that 'everything' includes the waitresses' boobs. Many men like jiggling boobs for some reason.

The joke is that they got to watch really, really jiggly boobs and that makes the deaths okay.

Honestly, as terrible as it is, it's not the most inexplicable Hooters-related thing I've seen this week. That honor goes to the Sonic the Hedgehog cross-promotion.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Jedit posted:

Imagine four conservative cartoonists on the edge of a cliff.




Nice image, isn't it?
On the cliff below them, white paint, not yet dry, forms giant letters, spelling out "FINANCIAL CLIFF".

e: In the distance, the sound of a car engine revving draws closer quickly.

Newfie
Oct 8, 2013

10 years of oil boom and 20 billion dollars cash, all I got was a case of beer, a pack of smokes, and 14% unemployment.
Thanks, Danny.
Did the mad whitey gif get updated with the new comic? Because that gif was a treasure

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

The fact he's in an A-10 makes me angry for a variety of reasons.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

The fact he's in an A-10 makes me angry for a variety of reasons.

Yeah, the cartoon would be way better if it was him firing a rocket named "Jimmy Kimmel" across the flight deck of the carrier G.O.P.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
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uh, yes?

Shuka
Dec 19, 2000
I don't even feel stupid for not getting the hooters comic. I should, but jesus, that's too juvenile and lovely for me.

And i love squidbillies

Trogdos!
Jul 11, 2009

A DRAGON POKEMAN
well technically a water/flying type


Tardigrade
Jul 13, 2012

Half arthropod, half marshmallow, all cute.

I'm glad he put that huge label on Jane Goodall's briefcase, I was getting her mixed up with Jane Goodall the forensic entomologist, Jane Goodall the weightlifter, and Jane Goodall the short-order cook.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Yeah, the cartoon would be way better if it was him firing a rocket named "Jimmy Kimmel" across the flight deck of the carrier G.O.P.

:drat:

Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?
Anybody have some football poltoons? I'm drinking in a lot of conservative tears today

itskage
Aug 26, 2003





Darth Windu posted:

How is this political at all
Can you please take it to the webcomic thread

E: I think he got banned in the time it took me to do this.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Admiral Bosch posted:

Anybody have some football poltoons? I'm drinking in a lot of conservative tears today

As a Pittsburgh goon, my cup runneth over today.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




itskage posted:

E: I think he got banned in the time it took me to do this.

Trogdos!
Jul 11, 2009

A DRAGON POKEMAN
well technically a water/flying type

Admiral Bosch posted:

Anybody have some football poltoons? I'm drinking in a lot of conservative tears today



literally parroting trump

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.
Is there even a shred of evidence that this is the case? And would it even count if like 0.1% of viewers cried and "Boycotted" (not watch sports channels until the next game they care about)?

Tibalt
May 14, 2017

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee

Ularg posted:

Is there even a shred of evidence that this is the case? And would it even count if like 0.1% of viewers cried and "Boycotted" (not watch sports channels until the next game they care about)?
NFL watching is down, but mostly because every ~3 months or so there's new evidence that <CURRENT OR FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO COMMITTED CRIME> had behavioral issues due to CTE, and/or debilitating injuries across the league have reduced the level of skill, and/or new penalties designed to make the game safer have simply highlighted how futile it is while making penalties seem capricious and random.

If you're okay with a blood sport, the reduced skill and ability on display reduces your interest. If you're okay with not seeing "good football" and just want your team to win, getting hamstrung by a bad tackle penalty makes the game win/loss seem random.

But, sure, maybe somebody stopped watching because black players were quietly kneeling last year. But from anecdotal evidence, we used to have a weekly game watching session that struggled last year, and fell apart this year. Now, it could be because we're all getting older and more busy, but that never stopped us before. A couple of us have kids that are getting old enough for peewee football, and so far no one has signed them up. Watching someone stagger off the field and stay off due to "migraines" puts a damper on the mood. Fantasy draft started out fun, but now it feels like a thankless job. I still watch the games, but I record them and watch them later during the week, and usually I know how they're going to end, so I skip the blow outs.

More and more, it feels like watching a boxing PPV, and not even for a good fight.

BarbarianElephant
Feb 12, 2015
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Tibalt posted:

NFL watching is down, but mostly because every ~3 months or so there's new evidence that <CURRENT OR FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO COMMITTED CRIME> had behavioral issues due to CTE, and/or debilitating injuries across the league have reduced the level of skill, and/or new penalties designed to make the game safer have simply highlighted how futile it is while making penalties seem capricious and random.

This in particular could be the doom of the game, especially as parents are starting to pull their kids out of football and into safer sports, no doubt to the detriment of the game in 10 years time.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Dr Cheeto posted:

The patrons of the Hooters are elated because the earthquake that collapsed buildings and killed people also made the waitress's boobs jiggle

Keiya posted:

Hooters is a restaurant that exclusively hires busty women and has them wear tight shirts. It's basically a place you go to ogle boobs. During an earthquake, everything shakes around. If you somehow manage to ignore the building possibly falling down, silverware going everywhere, and glasses falling and breaking, you might notice that 'everything' includes the waitresses' boobs. Many men like jiggling boobs for some reason.

The joke is that they got to watch really, really jiggly boobs and that makes the deaths okay.

Honestly, as terrible as it is, it's not the most inexplicable Hooters-related thing I've seen this week. That honor goes to the Sonic the Hedgehog cross-promotion.



T...thanks. :cripes: I knew what Hooters is, but I hadn't made the jiggling connection at all.


...The sonic thing is fantastic only because people are now drawing Sonic the Hedgehog in a Hooters outfit, and demanding Hooters uniform DLC for the main characters.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Trogdos! posted:



literally parroting trump

Hold on, did Stiglich seriously just throw some text on there and not even bother making it look remotely hand drawn

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Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.

Tibalt posted:

NFL watching is down, but mostly because every ~3 months or so there's new evidence that <CURRENT OR FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO COMMITTED CRIME> had behavioral issues due to CTE, and/or debilitating injuries across the league have reduced the level of skill, and/or new penalties designed to make the game safer have simply highlighted how futile it is while making penalties seem capricious and random.

If you're okay with a blood sport, the reduced skill and ability on display reduces your interest. If you're okay with not seeing "good football" and just want your team to win, getting hamstrung by a bad tackle penalty makes the game win/loss seem random.

But, sure, maybe somebody stopped watching because black players were quietly kneeling last year. But from anecdotal evidence, we used to have a weekly game watching session that struggled last year, and fell apart this year. Now, it could be because we're all getting older and more busy, but that never stopped us before. A couple of us have kids that are getting old enough for peewee football, and so far no one has signed them up. Watching someone stagger off the field and stay off due to "migraines" puts a damper on the mood. Fantasy draft started out fun, but now it feels like a thankless job. I still watch the games, but I record them and watch them later during the week, and usually I know how they're going to end, so I skip the blow outs.

More and more, it feels like watching a boxing PPV, and not even for a good fight.

I don't have anymore to add but I want to thank you for the insight.

Sir Tonk posted:

Hold on, did Stiglich seriously just throw some text on there and not even bother making it look remotely hand drawn

The NFL logo doesn't look centered in the image to me either.

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