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Pants Donkey posted:Seems like people involved with cars beyond making them are evil or hosed up. Ford was a Nazi and stole credit for the things unions accomplished, you got Midgely, there’s of course the decades-long campaign to stifle alternate energy sources because profits > problems that won’t matter til you’re dead, and poo poo like the Pinto debacle. DeLorean just wanted to make people happy.
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I need someone to explain this Sunday's Sinfest. Please?
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Comstar posted:I need someone to explain this Sunday's Sinfest. This is supposed to be dystopian, but the problem is that, as a goddamn terf of all people, he should realize how loving stupid and self-defeating it is to portray men treating something that literally isn’t female as an object.
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Although the Pinto wasn't too much worse that other small US cars from the time. They all put the gas tank behind the rear differential, which would rupture the tank whm hit hard enough from behind. Part of the problem was the Pinto had some spectacular episodes, and Ford refused to put in a plastic shield to deflect the tank. The reason: cost of shield over millions of cars > paying out lawsuits. Each shield cost a couple of dollars. They eventually installed them due to forced recalls. I drove one for several years. My main issue with it was it was mechanically unreliable, and had no AC in central Texas. Fun to drive, though.
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MrUnderbridge posted:Although the Pinto wasn't too much worse that other small US cars from the time. They all put the gas tank behind the rear differential, which would rupture the tank whm hit hard enough from behind. It's not just the location of the gas tank, which was common. The fuel filler neck was poorly attached so it would tear off the tank, plus the rear mounting brackets and bolts would penetrate the tank allowing a significant amount of fuel to pour onto the ground in a relatively minor collision, plus leave enough vapor in the tank to go all FAE on everyone. The shield for the brackets and bolts plus a reinforced fuel neck would have cost about ten bucks per car.
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Pants Donkey posted:Dude’s robot girlfriend is breaking down, so he takes it to the repair shop which fixes it by…giving it a vaccine? Robo-shot? See, vaccines are bad, is the thing. It's one of those Asay-style comics, where in order to understand why it's supposed to be bad and dystopian you have to already believe that the twitter checkmark is a symbol that you're controlled by the Jew media. If you don't know that it's just a comic about a guy who takes his sick robot girlfriend to the robot doctor and a shot makes her better somehow VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Feb 21, 2022 |
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Have the sinfests in question been posted for the usual roundup? edit: 70% of the last year's thread is processed, I'm now also starting to format the nominations post. I have the holiday off tomorrow and will try to finish up then.
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Discendo Vox posted:Have the sinfests in question been posted for the usual roundup? They're about to be! There's no set time I post, sorry about that, it's kind of just when I'm awake, thinking about it, and have time, because that's the way I live my life and do most things. Could be done at 1 AM, could be done at 8 PM, it's fun surprise every time! Anyway....  Sinfest Sunday       ....what? I know I say that basically every week, but seriously, what?
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
I love that our big wet feminist has 360 noscope rake-stomped himself into accidentally writing a story about how the real problem with sexbots is that they're too woke on twitter these days from all the mind control vaccines This is why creative people let projects die and move on from them, you need to shed old story baggage before your metaphors strangle each other to death
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This one is just completely incomprehensible to me. I know that the devil kid is going to the evil woke school but I mean he's a devil so isn't that good? Wouldn't "corrupting" a devil be like, sending him to a Christian school or something?
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Yeah, I feel like this a metaphor that has gotten out of hand and become literal. Women as allegorical objects but inadvertently objectifying all women, even outside the allegory. But as it, I don't think I can interpret that as anything beyond 'I view and interact with women through the lens of validation and emotional support they give me, and I'm uncomfortable with the women I want to date challenging my beliefs on Covid in general and vaccination in particular' with a frankly unknowable amount of self-awareness and separation between the character and the author.
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Feb 21, 2022 01:59
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Twelve by Pies posted:This one is just completely incomprehensible to me. I know that the devil kid is going to the evil woke school but I mean he's a devil so isn't that good? Wouldn't "corrupting" a devil be like, sending him to a Christian school or something? I think other than the Sunday strip all of those are mainly about character stuff for characters that haven't mattered in a long time. So there's probably some history that makes at least some of this make more sense. Although "probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:02
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Listen i ain't a therapist, so im not able to explain sinfest to people
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who dares to extract the QR code from that sinfest?
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I don't know much about this Sinfest comic or guy, but seriously what the gently caress was that?? None of those made any fuckin sense at all, wtf is the narrative? Who are these people? What's going on?? I just.... wtf?
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Dial911 posted:I don't know much about this Sinfest comic or guy, but seriously what the gently caress was that?? None of those made any fuckin sense at all, wtf is the narrative? Who are these people? What's going on?? I just.... wtf? I promise you that knowing more about Sinfest or Ishida does not help.
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All I can draw from it is that he doesn't seem to be able to distinguish a cure from a vaccine, which prevents illness in advance, not gets rid of it once you've been infected.
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i have to imagine this man's head is shaped like that on purpose to bait the cum edit people
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Isn’t Mallard Fillmore also a tv reporter? Do they not work for the same network?
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Stultus Maximus posted:DeLorean just wanted to make people happy. Selling $55M worth of cocaine was gonna make a lot of people happy 
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But if you're the mainstream news (which, by definition, means you're the most popular and consumed form of news there is), then how can your ratings be lower than ever? These two points cannot exist in the same world. Drunky Duck, please only argue for one or the other.
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My favorite thing about this thread are the hardworking posters who put up the political cartoons, and my second favorite thing is the bump in activity after sinfest is posted where you all try to make sense of it. It's like clockwork, it's the most activity this thread gets every week and sinfest is ALWAYS forgettably incomprehensible.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
Anti-virus software, something a computerized device will never need. My metaphors are amazing!
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Clay Bennett Steve Breen  Jeff Danziger  Matt Davies  Clay Jones  Steve Kelley  Jeff Stahler  Tom Stiglich  I know what I said. Tony Branco  quote:Jail Bail Fail Minnesota Freedom Fund allows criminals like rapists and murderers bail to continue victimizing society.
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Did Bennett ever actually draw things? It’s like he’s stuck in that period where every blu ray release had a minimalist cover, even when it was badly at odds with the movie.
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Raised By Birds posted:Jeff Stahler My immediate neighbor is a MAGAt and he's a giant self-important shitpile who makes living here noticeably worse and ruins what is otherwise a fairly nice place for me by his constant belligerence, so good choice there. Neighbors are an important factor in having a pleasant living experience. AGC.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Did Bennett ever actually draw things? It’s like he’s stuck in that period where every blu ray release had a minimalist cover, even when it was badly at odds with the movie. Bennett does appear to actually be drawing his cartoons, even if they are remarkably low effort compared with the past. As low effort as it sometimes is, it's not truly able to compare with Gorrell.
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Discendo Vox posted:Bennett does appear to actually be drawing his cartoons, even if they are remarkably low effort compared with the past. As low effort as it sometimes is, it's not truly able to compare with Gorrell. Yeah, Bennett does draw his stuff, but 2016 broke something deep inside of him and he never really recovered, you can tell he's really been phoning it in. Granted, his low effort is still fairly high compared to some of the other thread regulars we post here, but yeah, he's definitely a shadow of what he once was.
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Bail should be unpayable. I have very reasonable opinions about the justice system.
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Raised By Birds posted:Tony Branco These kids don't look disgusted or horrified, they just look a little sad or vaguely bored. I can only assume that he actually has high quality unlicensed Strong Bad merchandise under that trench coat.
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Cat Puke posted:Bail should be unpayable. I have very reasonable opinions about the justice system. Bail money is such a weird concept and as far as I can see it's just a tool to keep poor people locked up.
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Raised By Birds posted:Jeff Stahler the neighbors are black
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moonmazed posted:the neighbors are black Stahler's at least a centrist; I think this is a "politics is divisive rn" comic, at worst.
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Alhazred posted:Bail money is such a weird concept and as far as I can see it's just a tool to keep poor people locked up. DING DING DING We have a winner, folks!
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Alhazred posted:Bail money is such a weird concept and as far as I can see it's just a tool to keep poor people locked up. Hey now, that's an unfair assessment. It's also a tool that the courts use to enrich themselves through the industry of bail bonds!
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Twelve by Pies posted:These kids don't look disgusted or horrified, they just look a little sad or vaguely bored. I can only assume that he actually has high quality unlicensed Strong Bad merchandise under that trench coat. He must be an unlicensed unlicensed seller. Would explain the arrest.
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