Tollymain posted:

it only gets referred to every few months at most it's not something that happens on every page

RandomPauI posted:

Today's Questionable Content is really bugging me. This fire destroyed a person's residence making it a household fire. Which means the local Red Cross chapter gets contacted by the fire department and a Disaster Action Team gets deployed.

Here's a simplified summary of what should happen. A Disaster Action Team would arrive within about 30 to 45 minutes of being notified of the fire. They would talk with the fire victims and the fire department to determine how many victims needed what kinds of immediate assistance. The DAT lead would distribute a Client Assistance Card or Cards to the victims. Each card would contain several hundred dollars which the client or clients could use on food, lodging, and other needs.

In this case Bar Owner would get a CAC card because she lost her house. Robot Hand wouldn't get a CAC card because he just missed the bus. They'd also probably get some sweet and salty snacks, light beverages, and a stuffed animal if it's appropriate.

Client Casework would also be notified. Client Casework would connect the victim to services from other agencies they'd qualify for. They often work as an advocate to for the client if their insurance was giving them a hard time. They can also authorize disbursement of additional funds in certain circumstances.

We don't see a Red Cross presence here. The real life reasons could be that the fire department didn't notify the chapter or that the Red Cross simply hasn't gotten there yet. But what's probably happened is Jeph used this as a way to get the Bar Owner and Robot Hand to spend time together so they could become a couple down the line.

You might rightly point out that Northhampton, MA is about an hours drive away from the headquarters of the West Massachusetts Chapter of the Red Cross. But DAT teams aren't stationed at the headquarters. DAT and Client Casework are exclusively made up of volunteers who live and work throughout a chapter's geographical boundaries. You could also point out that calling it a CAC card is redundant. This is true, but getting a (KAK) Card sounds much more appealing than getting a (KAK).

8-Bit Scholar posted:

Yes, that's what's sort of frustrating about it, because at its core, Dumbing of Age has a kind of interesting story happening. I like Joyce, I like the idea of framing an ordinary college as an eye-opening experience for a sheltered girl with deeply entrenched assumptions and lessons about the world. The problem is is that he's identified his demographic and he panders to them nigh-exclusively, to the detriment of the quality of the comic overall.

Autonomous Monster posted:

I guess this is the day I admit that I read It's Walky end to end and enjoyed it. Well, I enjoyed swathes of it- the tone and the plot is all over the place in that early webcomic way.

Shortpacked was really dull though, and DoA is rapidly burning off any residual affection I had for these characters.


what the gently caress is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssss

Rand Brittain posted:

There's really no call to go comparing anybody to Mary Worth.

Tollymain posted:

today in paranatural:

Constr posted:

After reading through Girly and some of Lesnick's other webcomics, I can say that he's pretty good at cartooning. But I don't get why he's so defensive about Moon over June. What's the deal? Getting defensive about the webcomics you sell on your porn site doesn't seem like a good way to get people interested in subscriptions.

The Ayshkerbundy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9qHT8VA4Q

Tunicate posted:

Yes now let's get into racial depictions in a cultural context, and also whether 'oriental' is a racial slur or just old timey.

Cat Mattress posted:

The perception of what is offensive depends a lot on the kind of upbringing you had so it's easy to not realize that something is terribly racist if you never got to see people telling you that indeed it is racist. This is an example of what is called "being sheltered". The Internet abolishing boundaries, so here you go using stuff that you had no idea was deeply offensive, because you had never met anyone who had been offended by it IRL, and suddenly you're told that actually it's very offensive. Many perceive that as an attack on their character (not: their characters) and so they react overly defensively instead of just going "my bad, I didn't realize".

And of course, this is always the opportunity for a smug American to pontificate about how Europeans are incredibly more racist than them, because Zwarte Piete.

Alaois posted:

wow don't doxx me

MockingQuantum posted:

Hey, there's a webcomics thread. I shouldn't be surprised.

So after a long hiatus from webcomics, I've picked Broodhollow back up, and discovered Stand Still, Stay Silent & K6BD. I'm digging them all again, particularly the Lovecraftian feel of Broodhollow, and the postapocalyptic + magic themes of SSSS. Any others along those lines that I absolutely have to read? The only other long running or notable webcomics I really read back when I checked them out daily were Starslip Crisis and Spacetrawler.

The Lone Badger posted:

Sword Interval: Oh. I don't think that that is good.

Cat Mattress posted:

I think Dominic Deegan was a great webcomic experience to enjoy, but that it was really a "you had to be there" thing. Specifically, you had to be there in a mock thread with a lot of funny edits. Pretty much all the Dominic Deegan threads on any forum where any existed were full of edits. It was magical. Sadly, this is all gone to the digital dustbin, along with everything else ever put on ImageShack and Photobucket.

Hogge Wild posted:

i read it ages ago, and iirc someone there said that it became a mockthread only bit after jazzhands

Avshalom posted:

Hogge Wild posted:

But ironically, it's the BSS thread that Jeff Jacks hates. He had a meltdown about the last thread 2 years back. No hand cutting though.

Hogge Wild posted:

I don't recall that goons had trolled his twitter. The people who made him cut himself were his "normal" readers. And the BSS Webcomics threads have been negative of QC from the beginning. Did he have an account here? I think that most of the older big names have posted here at some point.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

people can but I think there is bountiful evidence that goons cannot, especially when their posts about the thing are universally humorless, and the ones claiming they're totally normal people having harmless fun and it is everyone else who is the weirdo always actually have like a Doobie hate shrine or lost their day job because they stayed home to do loss edits all day

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

People seem to like to make up things about SFP, or willfully misinterpret plot points, so they can safely bitch about SJW's or whatever

Xarbala posted:

Was that me or the other guy

Because if that was the other guy then I think, ironically, most people would kinda agree with him now. Myself included.