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09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
We, the old ghosts of Pizen Bluff, who still roam about this dead forum screaming imprecations at the characters and whatnot.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
Personally I'm hoping that Ziis anger wins out over her arousal in this situation, even if it's very unlikely. At this point Zii seems to be in a place where even when she does something wrong it gets her what she wants, and I'd kind of like something to happen where she doesn't end up the victor.
I'd have to agree though that at this point, id doubt any of them that could claim the moral high ground, even if I personally do root for Sonya in this situation.
I'd have to agree though that at this point, id doubt any of them that could claim the moral high ground, even if I personally do root for Sonya in this situation.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
It's cold, lonely, and barren up there, in this setting.magicrectangle wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:55 pmOnce again confirming that there is literally no one in this comic who ever gets to claim the moral high ground.
Too late. Panel 2 shows that DiDi is exactly as shallow and obsessive as expected.
Dunno about that, but Zii has already blown her chance of blocking this idea by questioning Sonya on the practical details. She's implied assent; trying to stop things now would look like an admission of weakness, and DiDi would likely fend her off with one hand and a pout. ("Do you not want me to be happy?")
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
At first I was like, "What?"
But then I remembered. Sonya is a dramasexual. She gets off on stuff like this.
But then I remembered. Sonya is a dramasexual. She gets off on stuff like this.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
Oh yes. Win or lose, she's going to enjoy the fuck out of this whole incident.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
At the time, there were hundreds of posters and about 30 pages of comments per strip.Spidrift wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:57 pmIf anything, the volume of complaints about how we're being hypnotised and forced to read a comic about such awful people seems to have dropped off a bit lately. If so, I don't know whether that's because the characters have improved, the big complainers have given up and mostly bogged off, anyone who wants to complain can go and whine about the literally demonic characters in Dangerouously Chloe, or - shock! - people have finally noticed that these are nuanced, comedically fallible characters rather than plaster saints.
Now, there are twenty regular posters and like 3-4 pages of comments per strip.
Even True Avery, who claimed to like it better like this, has stopped posting.
Do the math. It's no surprise that the volume of whatever you can name has dropped off.
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Some strips are easier to discuss for longer than others.
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Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Is one of my dreams actually coming true?! Be still my heart...
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Well, 30 pages would always have been an exceptional day. But I know what you mean.
I think the thing is, we all know what the comic is like now. We're familiar with the characters and what was once a slightly startling and novel approach. I'm certainly not saying it's become repetitive, but there's less to jolt readers into commenting, and some things - like "these are all flawed people" - have been said now, over and over. I bet that most of those hundreds are still reading the comic as it appears, but not then feeling obliged to jump up and down and talk about it.
Either that, or the lack of nipples makes a lot of people less interested.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
I'm having fun and feel no real reason to comment on the strip, so I don't.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
I'm wondering why no one in the strip, even those for the alternative is clearly unhealthy, seems to have heard of an open relationship.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
Well, Amber over in SDB is quite explicitly cool about her relationship with Ray being non-exclusive, though she's always shown as having a somewhat clinical view of sexual relationships. And pretty much all of DiDi's relationships used to be open by default, even if she recognised the possibility of non-casual relationships in theory. ("I can't live with someone; it would make it awkward when I brought other lovers home...") But the assumption seems to be that when recognisably romantic feelings kick in, openness becomes emotionally difficult for most of the cast. You're either serious or you aren't.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
Hey, Opus! How are you?Opus the Poet wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:08 amI'm having fun and feel no real reason to comment on the strip, so I don't.
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Re: 09-09-17 Learned tricks from you both
Dillon should crash into the strip! Now!
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And then what? Stand around going LesEww?
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"Brevior vita est quam pro futumentibus negotium agendo."
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