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Those 11 year probations really are a beautiful 'kick the can two decades down the line not my problem anymore'.
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Outrail posted:Those 11 year probations really are a beautiful 'kick the can two decades down the line not my problem anymore'. Has anyone officially served their time on one of those and come back?
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Has anyone officially served their time on one of those and come back? yep
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Has anyone officially served their time on one of those and come back? Lungfish (I think that was the username) just had one expire a month or two ago and posted a bit.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Lungfish (I think that was the username) just had one expire a month or two ago and posted a bit. What a time to come back. Like spending the entire party in the bathroom and coming back to everyone throwing up and going home.
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100,000 hours ago is when I first registered, so it's safe to say they didn't miss much
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Collateral Damage posted:This one? Jeza posted:Not confused, this is the post you were looking for: Turns out I was the one mixing up stories! Thanks friends
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Has anyone officially served their time on one of those and come back? I think Glistening Hodor got like 5 or 6 years into his before it was undone and he came back.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Has anyone officially served their time on one of those and come back? they only became a thing about 10 years ago, so the first ones have been starting to wear off over the past year or so, and a few people have come back willing to be that they are people who just kept posting on a parachute account or why the hell would they have remembered?
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RFC2324 posted:they only became a thing about 10 years ago, so the first ones have been starting to wear off over the past year or so, and a few people have come back I definitely would have set a reminder. I frequently do that to remind myself to tweet or post about stuff months away.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:broke: canceling Skullgirls at EVO
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Gaukler posted:Your wife is so fat and irradiated, she needs a tresimeter!!
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Stoatbringer posted:Is "Alive Girl" DC or Marvel? Krowley posted:Neither, you're thinking of refrigerator girl Dick Burglar posted:That's the opposite of an "alive" girl.
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For the minority of non-losers who don't know-- a "fridge" character is when a supporting cast member, usually a woman, is killed off to motivate a main character, usually a man. This happens so often in superhero comics that it's now a 3 decade-old joke that shows no real signs of ever stopping.
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mind the walrus posted:For the minority of non-losers who don't know-- a "fridge" character is when a supporting cast member, usually a woman, is killed off to motivate a main character, usually a man. This happens so often in superhero comics that it's now a 3 decade-old joke that shows no real signs of ever stopping. I've always wondered, why is it called that? Like is it based on an actual example or is it just metaphorical?
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Danaru posted:I've always wondered, why is it called that? Like is it based on an actual example or is it just metaphorical? Actual example. In 1993 after a character "Kyle Rayner" took on the title of Green Lantern, his girlfriend was killed and literally stuffed into a refrigerator:  There was no reason to do this either. The enemy that did this to Rayner didn't go on to be some particularly juicy thematic nemesis, Rayner never needed the "extra push" nor did he need a particular example of how hero work was dangerous to humble him. It was done pretty much "just because." The best explanation is that the writers couldn't think of anything else to do with the girlfriend character-- because who wants to identify with a hero if he can't womanize? -- and felt it was a good shock moment to get them through the month... and that's lame. So eventually actual good female writer Gail Simone coined the term "fridged" for when this happens to a character and a contingent of fans started recognizing this cheap bullshit for the cheap bullshit it is. Marvel is overall better on this than DC, usually relegating cheap "motivation" deaths to the origin story and usually making it thematically worthwhile. That said it's honestly not even the worst example out there of a supporting lady suffering a horrible fate just to motivate the boys-- that honor is still held by Sue Dibny in 2004's Identity Crisis. Don't look that one up on a weak stomach.
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Didn't the Wasp get eaten alive and on-panel once? I also remember a Marvel comic (can't be arsed to remember which one) in which someone calls out Captain America for being squicked out that a brother and sister anre banging (which is why I wan't arsed to remember it).
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Both of those are Ultimate Marvel which was entirely garbage except for the Spider-Man content. It's where Miles Morales came from. The siblings were Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
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Yeah, with pretty much the sole exception of Miles Morales, if you ever wonder where [god-awful comic book thing] came from it almost certainly came from Ultimate. Ultimate was real bad.
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CommissarMega posted:Didn't the Wasp get eaten alive and on-panel once? I also remember a Marvel comic (can't be arsed to remember which one) in which someone calls out Captain America for being squicked out that a brother and sister anre banging (which is why I wan't arsed to remember it). Yes. That was in Jeph Loeb's Ultimatum around 2007, and while that was ghastly that was more "edgelord for edgelord's sake" which is subtle but distinct, because comics are that loving terrible. I could be misremembering but if I'm not mistaken that was just an early event in the book to indicate "poo poo be wack and no one is safe yo" and thematically the Wasp dying didn't really mean much for any of the characters' subsequent arcs-- e.g: it could have been just about anyone who was eaten. Jeph Loeb is terrible. Don't support anything he touches. A good contrast from the same time is Lian Harper-- a cute orphan infant being raised by recovering drug addict Roy Harper (aka Green Arrow's 20-something former sidekick)-- who was fridged via a villain's earthquake machine just so Roy Harper could get super angry, depressed, go back on drugs, become a villain for a bit, and then die in a blaze of glory. The key there is that Lian was a supporting player who solely existed in relation to a male character who was killed off at the exact instant she became old enough to exist as a character in her own right, and not a plot device. She had her potential deliberately cut off to motivate an existing main character in a trite and frankly uninteresting way. Another ur-example from before the actual "fridging" event happened, and much more well-known, was when Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl) was shot in the spine and then sexually assaulted in "The Killing Joke" in 1989. She didn't have any real life inside of the story up to that point, she just shows up and gets shot solely to motivate her father and Batman into deciding whether or not they should just kill the Joker. The writer-- Alan Moore-- has gone on record saying that he regrets writing it and that it really was just "shock value for shock value's sake" and it absolutely set the example that you can see me listing in four separate DC Comics events in a 15 year-span. So fridging isn't just "a supporting character died in a brutally unfair way," it's "a supporting character died in a brutally unfair way and it's clearly done solely to motivate a main character." ------------------------------------------------------------ Now content: Cradle to the Grape posted:Love how he keeps saying "bipolar alcoholic woman" like it's some kind of fuckin' Dungeons and Dragons monster that devours sad doughy guys.
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i have 100% resistance to women, and men e: or wait, whats the negative one. they hurt me a lot 
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Wendigee posted:never had shy bladder... i suffer from shy penis though Anticheese posted:Michigan J. Hog
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Ultimate marvel was like if Maddox wrote the Avengers
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The key thing about a fridging is that the character isn't just killed off, but then completely forgotten once the protagonist stops being sad about it, and it's like they never existed. It's not exactly exclusive to comics; happens enough in movie sequels that Austin Powers makes fun of it with the last movie's love interest turning out to have been killed offscreen and replaced by a robot, and he just goes 'Now I'm single again!'
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I tried it once and didn't like it, but then I tried it again and it was a lot of fun. It was a resounding success!
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I'm so angry I got this pun without having to click through for context.
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Joe Bogan posted:I'm so angry I got this pun without having to click through for context. 
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Was it this thread where we discussed a foreign language word about staying up heh you’re exhausted because you just want to claim some time as your own? I’m trying to remember the word and the language.
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Trevor Hale posted:Was it this thread where we discussed a foreign language word about staying up heh you’re exhausted because you just want to claim some time as your own? I’m trying to remember the word and the language. I think it was Chinese and it was something like awake vengeance time.
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Joe Bogan posted:I'm so angry I got this pun without having to click through for context. 
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직업 복수
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Trevor Hale posted:Was it this thread where we discussed a foreign language word about staying up heh you’re exhausted because you just want to claim some time as your own? I’m trying to remember the word and the language. https://twitter.com/daphnekylee/status/1277101831693275136
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Joe Bogan posted:I'm so angry I got this pun without having to click through for context. 
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Joe Bogan posted:I'm so angry I got this pun without having to click through for context.  
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dokmo posted:First, the midgets would need to concentrate all the gorillas into a single location. A ring of midgets surrounds the gorillas -- if midgets are, say, 40cm wide, and the gorillas are spread out over a 1 km^2 area, you'd need 22,000 midget to form a ring around the gorillas. But a gorilla could easily break through that ring, so you'd reinforce the ring by making it 10 midgets deep. And then, have every midget in that ring carry another midget on his shoulders, just for fun. That takes up only 440,000 midgets. Now, the midget ring begins to tighten up on the gorillas: one by one midgets back out of the ring, which closes that much tighter in their wake. The gorillas begin to feel the squeeze!
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Haha gently caressTiler Kiwi posted:im 100% sure there is a tediously detailed diagram of Data's robot cock and how it works out there Pick posted:okudaglans
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