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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Obligatory joke about the helpful thought bubble making sure you know what the concept of taking photos is. The real skinny here is: huh? Mark didn't take photos. He went straight to the interview. Also there's nothing stopping anybody from taking photos of the place? "It's hard getting..." no, Mark walked right in. You could walk right in, or up to. Drive around the perimeter, use a telescope lens or a literal telescope. Oh well, the character with informed competence continues to be awful at her job. Mark Trail is only worth commenting on now when it gets worse and fabricating events off-screen is a new one. Forgot to do your story set-up? Uhm... nuh uh, reader!
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Apr 11, 2024 21:30
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The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(October 13, 1910) Baron Bean(April 13, 1916)  Hoo boy. Polly and Her Pals(March 13, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(December 4, 1919)  Us Boys(April 11, 1912)  Lotta good names in this one. The Gumps(May 10, 1917) 
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Apr 11, 2024 21:48
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We Are Reproducingquote:  Any Sega Pico fans in the house?
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Apr 11, 2024 22:18
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Lordy, this kid has a computer and multiple game systems. Meanwhile my wife and I are so nervous about letting our two year old use a tablet.
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Apr 11, 2024 23:04
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Safety Dance posted:Lordy, this kid has a computer and multiple game systems. Meanwhile my wife and I are so nervous about letting our two year old use a tablet. How is your kid drawing Pa-shi, then??
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Apr 11, 2024 23:21
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail So the plan is to get Mark close to take pictures of Tad Crass's campus...by having him cause a ruckus so that security chases him out and bans him from going near the place?  Are you even loving reading what you wrote here, Jules?Murdstone posted:Mary Worth You would think Estelle'd learn she should really stop inviting Wilbur anywhere after he embarrassed her in front of others by getting completely drunk in a restaurant.
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Apr 12, 2024 00:00
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amigolupus posted:So the plan is to get Mark close to take pictures of Tad Crass's campus...by having him cause a ruckus so that security chases him out and bans him from going near the place? Yeah, and then they had the epic rap battle where she dropped the mic on him
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Apr 12, 2024 01:02
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Conan: The Blood Egg Part 2 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Bone lines often occur in nature, driven by the wind and the natural magnetism of calcium. They tend to align north to south.
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Pogo 9/22-24/52   Archie 2/6-8/50    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 6/16-18/77   
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Apr 12, 2024 01:12
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Safety Dance posted:Lordy, this kid has a computer and multiple game systems. Meanwhile my wife and I are so nervous about letting our two year old use a tablet. I think there's something about being an early adopter, still having the idea (that living books really tapped into) that computers can be really good educational tools if you just let the kid fiddle with them. (Combined with what looks like a pretty laissez-faire parenting style on the author's part, to be fair.)
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Apr 12, 2024 01:15
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it was already weird realizing that this was a motherhood journal about a kid who should be about the same age as me, but even weirder when he suddenly has the same kind of childhood
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Apr 12, 2024 01:23
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Safety Dance posted:Lordy, this kid has a computer and multiple game systems. Meanwhile my wife and I are so nervous about letting our two year old use a tablet. 2 does seem a bit young but that's me. The kids I nannied/nieces and nephews all got their tablets older: one family at 7 and 9, the other 6 and 7. By then the latter already had a Wii. My friend has a 4 year old who has a tablet (got about 3ish?) and a cell phone that only has kid games, and she loses time on both when she misbehaves, but that's normal for kids with any toys.
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Apr 12, 2024 01:39
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Mister Olympus posted:it was already weird realizing that this was a motherhood journal about a kid who should be about the same age as me, but even weirder when he suddenly has the same kind of childhood I wasn't surrounded by computers but I was completely obsessed with Tapa (aka Thomas the Tank Engine)
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Apr 12, 2024 01:42
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this isn't a value judgement on anyone-especially since the things a kid has access to *now* are very different from the 90s- but it is funny seeing posts effectively going "this was literally the exact timeline of me as a child, the nostalgia...." and "we're concerned about letting our kid use a tablet" one after another
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Apr 12, 2024 01:42
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Professor Wayne posted:
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I feel like the landscape and the kind of games available on a tablet are different from the kind of things available on PCs in the early 90s, but also I learned to read and type extremely early, and I can only imagine the edutainment software I grew up with (from about 2, just like this kid) was a benefit in that regard parenting is complicated!
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Apr 12, 2024 02:02
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Comic Strips 2024: Is Hackensack Ready For This?
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Olive & Popeye Our Boarding House (June 15-17, 1925)    Out Our Way: The School Ma'am Saga (June 16, 1925)  Toonerville Folks (September 4-6, 1922)    And a bonus Mutt And Jeff sequence about how thoughts are things. Stupid, stupid things. (Published September 4-6, 1922 in my paper, but I'm suspicious.)    Dok's Dippy Chemical Warfare (March 5, 1915)  Little Lefty (January 30-31, 1940 (no strip published for the 29th))  
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Apr 12, 2024 02:14
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rannum posted:this isn't a value judgement on anyone-especially since the things a kid has access to *now* are very different from the 90s- but it is funny seeing posts effectively going "this was literally the exact timeline of me as a child, the nostalgia...." and "we're concerned about letting our kid use a tablet" one after another I watch my nieces, nephews, and younger cousins play on their tablets or their parents' phones and I can kind of see where people would say "it's not the same as when we grew up" for a couple reasons. It is very easy for kids to get swept up in either a gacha type game or other, more predatory pay-to-win games, especially if the parents aren't checking out the games first (let's be fair, people in general suck at this, that's why there's so loving many of them). The other reason, to me, is that technology is far more ubiquitous today than it was 30 years ago. In my household the only reason we had our Macintosh was because dad needed it for work (he also had an old 486 laptop that we could play DOS games on, but usually only if we were at his office, not at home) and we didn't get a "personal computer" until late 1997. Heck, we didn't have the internet until late '99. Honestly, I think the internet is probably one of the biggest differences, it is quite easy to find things, and find more things these days. You don't have to go anywhere to get anything, you don't have to phone and order things and wait for them to arrive in the mail (I'm still talking games). Five year old me wouldn't have been able to buy new games, but could certainly badger my parents enough to maaaaaybe get a new one every 5 or 6 months, but five year old me today could very easily download a dozen games off the app store or Google Play pretty quickly
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Apr 12, 2024 02:54
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Safety Dance posted:Lordy, this kid has a computer and multiple game systems. Meanwhile my wife and I are so nervous about letting our two year old use a tablet. None of these devices have social media, so I'm sure WARbaby will be fine
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Underground Lockdown Funnies        He Is Suffering Under The Wheel Of The Grindset As A Streamer And Must Learn To Set Healthy Boundaries 
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Apr 12, 2024 03:44
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Safety Dance posted:Lordy, this kid has a computer and multiple game systems. Meanwhile my wife and I are so nervous about letting our two year old use a tablet. I'd say the old computers and stuff of that era were more kid safe (as in helping development rather than hindering it) than todays tablets. I too would be a lot more weary letting a kid using a tablet today, than a 2 year old in 1990 something using a computer or gaming system. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Apr 12, 2024 04:37
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amigolupus posted:So the plan is to get Mark close to take pictures of Tad Crass's campus...by having him cause a ruckus so that security chases him out and bans him from going near the place? She didn't even tell him what kinds of things she was hoping he'd catch pictures of, preferring to leave it to random chance. Hope that picture of the driveway helps you solve your feral horse mystery, Lady! Luann  Gil Thorp 
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Aces High posted:I watch my nieces, nephews, and younger cousins play on their tablets or their parents' phones and I can kind of see where people would say "it's not the same as when we grew up" for a couple reasons. It is very easy for kids to get swept up in either a gacha type game or other, more predatory pay-to-win games, especially if the parents aren't checking out the games first (let's be fair, people in general suck at this, that's why there's so loving many of them). The other reason, to me, is that technology is far more ubiquitous today than it was 30 years ago. In my household the only reason we had our Macintosh was because dad needed it for work (he also had an old 486 laptop that we could play DOS games on, but usually only if we were at his office, not at home) and we didn't get a "personal computer" until late 1997. Heck, we didn't have the internet until late '99. Games with in-app purchases are always a risk for kids -- my daughter managed to drop $70 on Littlest Pet Shop when she was seven. And of course back in the day we didn't have algorithms pushing stuff at us relentlessly, whether on YouTube or social media. (*I* didn't have a computer until I was 10, and it was a Commodore VIC-20.)
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Selachian posted:(*I* didn't have a computer until I was 10, and it was a Commodore VIC-20.)
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I've actually seen this happen - we had an estate sale when my grandmother died, saw some dude bought an outboard motor, and was making my way over to help the guy get it to his car, since I knew it was heavy as gently caress. My (female) cousin beat me there, and the buyer pointed at me, and told her to "wait and let him handle it". She gave him a glare that can only be described as 'you loving dumbass', immediately stands up with the motor, and walks it to the guy's car by herself. The memory of that facial expression still makes me laugh my rear end off.
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1981 comics      Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins  Mexikid Stories 
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail 
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Haifisch posted:Mexikid Stories gently caress the police.
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Professor Wayne posted:[ Vikings loved to bathe and clean themselves though. So much that they were buried with toiletries. They loved it so much that being filthy was a sign of deep grief, part of the myth of the death of Baldr for example is that his brother Vale swore to not wash himself before he had avenged his death.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'd say the old computers and stuff of that era were more kid safe (as in helping development rather than hindering it) than todays tablets. I too would be a lot more weary letting a kid using a tablet today, than a 2 year old in 1990 something using a computer or gaming system. I mostly got freaked out by anecdotes of kindergarteners who didn't have the finger dexterity to use a pencil because they played with tablets all day. I don't know when li'l dude will get something internet connected. That's a decision I'm going to have to make at some point.
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FINGERPORI Is "give you grey hairs" an expression outside Finland? It naturally means that something is stressful or problematic and therefore will give you grey hairs. I guess it make a kind of sense?
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Apr 12, 2024 07:22
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Safety Dance posted:I mostly got freaked out by anecdotes of kindergarteners who didn't have the finger dexterity to use a pencil because they played with tablets all day. I don't know when li'l dude will get something internet connected. That's a decision I'm going to have to make at some point. I believe that was statistically verified in Finland by schools, a decline in manual dexterity and ability of children and teenagers.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:FINGERPORI 
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:FINGERPORI Oh yeah absolutely.
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Cowslips Warren posted:2 does seem a bit young but that's me. The kids I nannied/nieces and nephews all got their tablets older: one family at 7 and 9, the other 6 and 7. By then the latter already had a Wii. According to WHO one year olds should not have any screening time at all. 2-5 year olds should only have one hour.
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