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Gamer Dilbert is just ripping off a story line from famed Science Fiction Novel "Bill the Galactic Hero".
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Jul 15, 2020 06:31
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I was thinking that Wally was out of character in Gamer Dilbert, but suddenly his masterplan is unveiled
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Jul 15, 2020 06:33
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Elviscat posted:Gamer Dilbert is just ripping off a story line from famed Science Fiction Novel "Bill the Galactic Hero". Only if the doc reattached the replacement hands to the wrong arms (Bill ended up with two right arms)
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Jul 15, 2020 06:39
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Am I misreading this, or is Everett taking a poo poo behind a dumpster here? 
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Jul 15, 2020 07:56
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Frazzbo posted:Am I misreading this, or is Everett taking a poo poo behind a dumpster here? He's taking a poo poo behind a desk. 
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Jul 15, 2020 07:59
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Doesn't really have a very effective work surface, the sliding cupboard doors make it more of a bureau.
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Jul 15, 2020 08:00
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Only if the doc reattached the replacement hands to the wrong arms One of which was from his dead black buddy. I just hope Dilbert's hands start acting independently and I'm right. Or Dilbert lucks out and blows up a superior alien Battle Cruiiser through sheer luck and incompetence, after being impressed into the Galactic Space Navy.
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Jul 15, 2020 08:01
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BioEnchanted posted:Doesn't really have a very effective work surface, the sliding cupboard doors make it more of a bureau. That's explicitly a writing desk, the top rolls up to reveal a flat writing surface with quills, blotters, sand, sealing wax, everything the modern businessman requires to conduct correspondence.
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Jul 15, 2020 08:03
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Everett doesn't really seem like some desk sitting bureaucrat, he seems like he gets paid for randomly wondering around and beating people. Some sort of municipal special officer perhaps.
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Jul 15, 2020 08:16
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Elviscat posted:That's explicitly a writing desk, the top rolls up to reveal a flat writing surface with quills, blotters, sand, sealing wax, everything the modern businessman requires to conduct correspondence. Ah, I only saw one like that as a kid and we used it more for storage of papers and things, so I never thought of it as a desk. :P
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Jul 15, 2020 08:28
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BioEnchanted posted:Ah, I only saw one like that as a kid and we used it more for storage of papers and things, so I never thought of it as a desk. :P Your family was all buffoons! *punches u all*
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Jul 15, 2020 08:37
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Obi-Wan didn't say "Use your eyeballs, Luke" The comic was wrong, and the universe needed to know.
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Jul 15, 2020 08:54
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Let's face up to the facts, Luke was not the most impressive jedi knight. Anakin would have done it blindfolded.
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Jul 15, 2020 08:56
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Nastyman posted:He's taking a poo poo behind a desk. I've never seen one of those without a lock. I mean the whole point of those was so you could lock up your work, unlike drop-front secretaries where the idea was to save space by folding up the writing surface (although I've never seen one of these without a lock, either):  
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Jul 15, 2020 08:59
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Jul 15, 2020 09:13
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It's a political cartoon that's been mutilated by 4chan, there's nothing of value to glimpse here.
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Jul 15, 2020 09:21
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By popular demand posted:Let's face up to the facts, Luke was not the most impressive jedi knight. He wasn't anything but a force sensitive at that point.
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Jul 15, 2020 09:22
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By popular demand posted:It's a political cartoon that's been mutilated by 4chan, there's nothing of value to glimpse here. 1) What's the blue/red stance on GIF 2) I resent that
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Jul 15, 2020 09:23
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By popular demand posted:It's a political cartoon that's been mutilated by 4chan, there's nothing of value to glimpse here. I believe the original was about the pronunciation of 'gif'.
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Jul 15, 2020 09:23
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1. Pardon me for not memorizing every Bors in existence. 2. Good.
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Jul 15, 2020 09:25
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Beachcomber posted:Obi-Wan didn't say "Use your eyeballs, Luke" Comic would have been better is the Death Star missed in the last panel.
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Jul 15, 2020 09:30
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I've never seen one of those without a lock. There's a tiny keyhole right up the top  E: or maybe a 19th century webcam, I'm no professor of antique rolltop desk-ology
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Jul 15, 2020 11:50
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Jul 15, 2020 12:22
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I got a mobile telephone in 1998 because I was stationed in a fort in the middle of nowhere with only two telephones for conscripts and the very first call I ever get is, of course, when I'm in a public library. I was loving mortified but at least learned quickly how to mute the drat thing.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:28
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Old timey comics could be pretty dark https://twitter.com/BarnaclePress/status/1283284249429377025 
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Jul 15, 2020 12:28
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Lol, that idiot couldn't even foresee the invention of hands-free headsets.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:30
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I pity the fool who has no designated pocket phone answering personal assistant.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:33
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Jul 15, 2020 12:33
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anyone else hear a slide whistle?
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Jul 15, 2020 12:38
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Carthag Tuek posted:anyone else hear a slide whistle? No but I smell toast.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:43
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:Does anybody else find it bizarre how often mr true is...I dunno...not a chud? Yeah, "An angry man who vigilantly makes sure that his fellow citizens behave properly" sounds like something that would very quickly became super conservative and he looks like a mascot of a far-right group, but thankfully it manages to avoid most pitfalls and even be pretty progressive at times. There's still stuff like him bullying people who dress non-traditionally and an excessive use of violence for minor offenses can be a bit too much, but it's mostly fun.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:55
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Svenska? Varför?
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Jul 15, 2020 12:58
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Kennel posted:excessive use of violence for minor offenses can be a bit too much, but it's mostly fun. August 2020: Disney finally starts asserting their copyright so American cops appropriate Everett True with a blue waiscoat as their symbol for "we will murder you with impunity".
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Jul 15, 2020 12:59
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:Does anybody else find it bizarre how often mr true is...I dunno...not a chud? I'm not American but I'm pretty sure this is the era of American history dominated by 'morally upright social justice', see suffragettes, the temperance movement, serve your country in WWI like a good boy, etc. I would guess that the main reason it came to an end (specifically things like temperance when Prohibition failed spectacularly, not so much the idea of women voting obviously) is that it was often a front for hypocrisy, classism, and xenophobia. Or in Everett True's case, ultraviolence.
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Jul 15, 2020 13:26
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Don't mind me, just posting more Viz   
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Jul 15, 2020 14:10
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-Zydeco- posted:Old timey comics could be pretty dark Turns out the real solution to the trolley problem had already been found two centuries ago!
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Jul 15, 2020 14:21
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Phlegmish posted:I'm not American but I'm pretty sure this is the era of American history dominated by 'morally upright social justice', see suffragettes, the temperance movement, serve your country in WWI like a good boy, etc. I would guess that the main reason it came to an end (specifically things like temperance when Prohibition failed spectacularly, not so much the idea of women voting obviously) is that it was often a front for hypocrisy, classism, and xenophobia. Or in Everett True's case, ultraviolence. I do not quite recall where I read it, but I did read a bit that said Prohibition did not fail. Yes, the law was repealed and people could drink again, but it massively reduced how much, and how many of the population drank regularly. That is, for the decades after it was ended. So, it failed in removing alcohol entirely, but it succeeded in reducing it's consumption across the national board. it could have been bullshit,though. I unno
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Jul 15, 2020 14:45
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Johnny Aztec posted:I do not quite recall where I read it, but I did read a bit that said Prohibition did not fail. Yes, the law was repealed and people could drink again, but it massively reduced how much, and how many of the population drank regularly. The decade after prohibition? You mean 1933-1943, a decade that started early in the Great Depression and ended in the middle of WWII? I can think of different reasons why people wouldn't be able to drink regularly as much.
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Jul 15, 2020 14:52
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Johnny Aztec posted:I do not quite recall where I read it, but I did read a bit that said Prohibition did not fail. Yes, the law was repealed and people could drink again, but it massively reduced how much, and how many of the population drank regularly. This is supposedly alcohol consumption in the US over time, measured by gallons per capita per year. 
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Jul 15, 2020 14:54
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Johnny Aztec posted:I do not quite recall where I read it, but I did read a bit that said Prohibition did not fail. Yes, the law was repealed and people could drink again, but it massively reduced how much, and how many of the population drank regularly. Maybe, but I'm pretty sure that is just the period in which alcohol consumption would have dropped regardless, as it was when the working classes rose from crushing poverty to a quasi-respectable standard of living. It happened in Western Europe as well, where in most countries there was never any form of prohibition on alcohol. Correlation is not causation, and I'd like to see how the study disentangled that. Prohibition did make sense in the context of America's Puritan tradition and enforcing Protestant supremacism. What I don't really understand is how they reconciled that with their national mythos of loving liberty, freedom from tyranny, big gub'ment telling me what to do, etc. I realize they weren't entirely the same groups, as I believe temperance was mostly a Northern Protestant thing, but I'm amazed at how easily everyone just went along with a blanket ban on alcohol.
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