Stuff I learned about attracting women in College:
1.Be an athlete (one check)
2. Don’t be a comp sci major (canceled out the first check)
3. Take a lot of psychology classes (because there are way, way more female psych majors than male ones)
4. NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BRING UP WEBCOMICS OR YOUR “BLOG” /sigh
Yes, but unless he learned something from his experience – like how to pay attention to what your partner actually wants, instead of trying to fit them into your own perfect life fantasy – his experience won’t be any help to him. Remember, his three-year relationship ended with him being completely blindsided by what his girlfriend actually wanted out of life.
Not trying to contradict or anything, I know he was being nearly clueless with the hints she kept dropping, but being blindsided like that doesn’t mean it’s HIS fault. I dated a wonderful woman and we complimented each other nicely. After 9 months of dating, I proposed. Our engagement went on for more than a year. A year after we’re married, I notice she’s not happy and she doesn’t want to talk about it. Eventually it comes out that she didn’t apply what she wanted in a hubby to me until AFTER we were married. So I was fun to date, fun to be engaged to, but not what she wanted in a hubby. Totally blindsided cause she didn’t communicate or think until after marriage. Good thing we didn’t have kids.
Either Danny and Dorothy never had sex – a score of zero in Danny’s one relationship – or Joe believes that Danny bollixed his relationship with Dorothy so totally that it counts as a total loss. If it’s the latter, I kinda agree, at least based on what we saw.
Joe is also a superhero, notice how his cape has dissapeared from his bed in the background? Obviously he’s walking off panel to change into his alter-ego. Probably some sort of purple Pimp-themed hero.
Gotta love it how the female in anthropological studies is actually the one who initiates flirting and the social game to work towards finding a mate, but the male is expected to practically beat her upside the head and drag her away in classic caveman fashion.
Someone explain to me again why I don’t just use sperm donation centers as a cheap means to raise my clone army of Boba Fetts?
Doesn’t really matter, as I imagine in 30 years, when the timing is right, they will all be in place. Wait, is this getting too creepy to talk of clone troopers and a surgical strike?
OK, Joe’s putting waaay too much emphasis on this whole thing. Does he even know who goes to his class? Is girls from that class everyone’s only option from the whole campus?
Or maybe computer class girls are some sort of nerdy prom queen equivalent. Which, IMO, sounds bull.
No it’s not that, it’s just computer science chicks, let alone hot computer science chicks, are incredibly rare. Since the stereotypical comp sci geek is the antisocial kid who’s never talked to girls before, he thinks he might have a chance with this girl who’ll understand what he’s talking about when he goes off on a computer nerd rant.
So now you have, say a 60-person class with one girl. That’s at minimum 40 guys who might be competing for her attention.
Now this isn’t the case at most, if not all colleges, but it is more common than you might think.
I have to give Danny the argument on this. He might have been misguided on his idea of a relationship, but at least he was looking for something beyond a notch on his bed post. I honestly cannot wait for the strip where Joe’s misogyny and womanizing causes him to get the shit beat out of him.
I have to point out that Joe does sort of know what he’s talking about. As usual, if you take his viewpoint into account, Joe is right about pretty much every practical point. And Danny really doesn’t know what he’s talking about- he dated Dorothy for three years without realizing that she pretty much despises him and was looking to dump him for something better the first chance she got.
Joe only wants one thing, but he’s totally honest about that fact. No girl is going to be fooled into thinking Joe wants a relationship unless she’s as dumb as Joyce, and only Joyce is that dumb in the entire world. Joe doesn’t have any obligation to want a relationship- he’s entitled to go on doing his thing as long as it makes him happy.
Danny, on the other hand, is completely ignorant about relationship dynamics. He could stand to be more like Joe even if what he wants is a relationship instead of strings-free sex, because Joe’s social skills are useful even in that context. As it stands, Danny is completely incompetent at achieving his only goal.
Joe being honest about how he views, and treats, women, is not a justifacation he can/should stand behind. Looking for something beyond a one night stand still gives Danny the advantage; true, his first “relationship” was not a healthy one, but at least he can learn from it, and grow as a person.
no..it’s totally High School. My first year of classes, I had a few dorm neighbors who simply could not make a correlation between their actions and the consequences.. Subsequently, those kids were either asked to leave based on poor performance, or they dropped out. They just weren’t ready for college.
And one thing not pointed out by the above three: this is still day 3 of college. And there was no (on-camera if any) Frosh Week. Most of the cast is still in high-school mode.So naturally, they’d all be high-school-ish.
1 girl in a million is a slim shot, but might as well give it a shot, Whats the big deal? The worst that could happen is that she says ‘no’. Not the end of the world.
By this time in Roomies! we would have already seen a lot of girls that have been “joe’d”. I haven’t seen Joe get something in this AU yet, so I can assume he is not as suscessful at that as his counterpart is. That makes me think his abductee power was the pheromones thingy. That would mean his gadget-building skill is natural, so he can build Ultracar in this universe too…
But Roomies was partially real-time, while DoA is halfway through day two and it’s mid-January. Extrapolating from that, by the end of his first DoA year he’ll have banged everyone twice.
I don’t know why more people don’t take into account the math involved in odds of success. It’s like, if the publishing company gets 2 million books sent to them a year, and every year they accept five new authors, then guess what buddy. You’re not gonna get published. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re the best, or if you have an “In”, you’re still not one of the five.
Same thing here. If there are hypothetically five hundred men pursuing this woman, and there is only one of her, then move on because your time is wasted here.
Wrong, it means you’re unlikely to get published, you could be one of those five. If you don’t try you don’t know, if we all only did things with high odds of success instead of taking a chance… that’d be a boring world.
Oh right Mike avatar. Speaking of doing things with a high rate of success, your mother.
Oh try for sure, not saying we shouldn’t have dreams. Just don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If you can’t get a decent non author job, or if you’re unwilling to pursue other women aside from the dream girl, then you’re setting yourself up for failure. Should have been more clear on that.
Valid. Still couldn’t hurt to find something to kill time with while you wait in line though lol. A girl like amber is probably a long wait, seeing as she probably doesn’t move straight from one man to another.
lol, no. Pretty sure that’s not the case. For one, I think this roommate was involved with actual illegal drugs, something which Robin simply has no use for; she has sugar. For another, apparently everyone liked Sarah’s old roommate >_>
Keep in mind though that this robin wouldn’t have abductee powers. Maybe lacking the high she gets from sugar, she spends her time seeking other highs.
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Yeah, I’m with Joe on this one.
Stuff I learned about attracting women in College:
1.Be an athlete (one check)
2. Don’t be a comp sci major (canceled out the first check)
3. Take a lot of psychology classes (because there are way, way more female psych majors than male ones)
4. NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BRING UP WEBCOMICS OR YOUR “BLOG” /sigh
The Leslie av makes your comment… illuminating.
Join an anime/manga club and find the cute cosplayers.
True, Danny may be setting his hopes a little high, but as he points out, he does have experience on these matters, he’s not a total noob.
True, having had a relationship in the past probably puts him ahead of 70% of the other CS majors. Excluding WoW relations, of course.
Owch dude that’s harsh dont b dissing the wow nerds
No diss intended 🙂
Yes, but unless he learned something from his experience – like how to pay attention to what your partner actually wants, instead of trying to fit them into your own perfect life fantasy – his experience won’t be any help to him. Remember, his three-year relationship ended with him being completely blindsided by what his girlfriend actually wanted out of life.
Not trying to contradict or anything, I know he was being nearly clueless with the hints she kept dropping, but being blindsided like that doesn’t mean it’s HIS fault. I dated a wonderful woman and we complimented each other nicely. After 9 months of dating, I proposed. Our engagement went on for more than a year. A year after we’re married, I notice she’s not happy and she doesn’t want to talk about it. Eventually it comes out that she didn’t apply what she wanted in a hubby to me until AFTER we were married. So I was fun to date, fun to be engaged to, but not what she wanted in a hubby. Totally blindsided cause she didn’t communicate or think until after marriage. Good thing we didn’t have kids.
I think whether or not he’ll have a chance depends entirely upon what the other guys in that class are like.
He has no hope against Shaggy.
“So you’re scoring zero for one, with your penis?”
Wow, that line makes complete sense now.
What does “scoring zero for one” mean?
Either Danny and Dorothy never had sex – a score of zero in Danny’s one relationship – or Joe believes that Danny bollixed his relationship with Dorothy so totally that it counts as a total loss. If it’s the latter, I kinda agree, at least based on what we saw.
Scoring, to Joe, means having sex. Since Danny and Dorothy haven’t, he regards that relationship as a failure.
It could also be zero for one because it ended so poorly.
I’d say it’s more likely a zero because Joe has zero respect for actual relationships.
Word of God: Danny and Dorothy had sex.
It means he played one game and did not win it. It’s sports terms, so I was puzzled at first too.
Ah but Joe you didn’t take into account those other students don’t have names.
They do so. Shaggy is banging Amber as we speak.
Oh, please. Shaggy’s after Roz.
Shaggy needs a speaking part now.
But would it lead to disappointment?
Wow…my flaw where I read everything wrong for the first couple seconds strikes again.
Saw that as “Oh please. Shaggy’s after Faz” >.>
Oh, he is. You just won’t see it right now. 😀
I think Shaggy could do better than Faz.
ANYONE is better than Faz! (No offence to Faz-fans.)
There are Faz-fans?
Not fans per say but you have to admit, he can makes things more interesting from a reader’s POV.
What Joe isn’t taking into account is the fact that Amber is secretly a super hero, which changes everything.
Unless Amber has saved anyone else from computer science, Danny’s clear for “Lois Lane” status.
Joe is also a superhero, notice how his cape has dissapeared from his bed in the background? Obviously he’s walking off panel to change into his alter-ego. Probably some sort of purple Pimp-themed hero.
Nah. At first they’re standing in front of Danny’s bed, but then Joe walks past Danny and the “camera” moves to in front of Joe’s bed.
Don’t ruin Joe being a pimp-themed superhero for us.
Damn it, someone draw Joe as a Super Pimp! I would, but I suck at drawing.
I would, but I’m still working on a BilliexWalky piece. Things taking forever.
I have a half-finished piece of fan art of Ethan dressed as Elton John, will that do?
Gotta love it how the female in anthropological studies is actually the one who initiates flirting and the social game to work towards finding a mate, but the male is expected to practically beat her upside the head and drag her away in classic caveman fashion.
Someone explain to me again why I don’t just use sperm donation centers as a cheap means to raise my clone army of Boba Fetts?
Not enough quality control.
Good point, though quality doesn’t matter so long as I have numbers of clone troopers. I can worry about acquiring an apprentice later.
I love how your avatars make it look like Amber and Dina are talking.
They won’t grow as fast as clones either.
Doesn’t really matter, as I imagine in 30 years, when the timing is right, they will all be in place. Wait, is this getting too creepy to talk of clone troopers and a surgical strike?
Hate to be the one to bring it up again, but it should be pointed out his conversation was don’t talk to me and you look like someone I used to date.
That just might be an “out.”
They talked about the class after that, on a less “don’t talk to me” level.
OK, Joe’s putting waaay too much emphasis on this whole thing. Does he even know who goes to his class? Is girls from that class everyone’s only option from the whole campus?
Or maybe computer class girls are some sort of nerdy prom queen equivalent. Which, IMO, sounds bull.
No it’s not that, it’s just computer science chicks, let alone hot computer science chicks, are incredibly rare. Since the stereotypical comp sci geek is the antisocial kid who’s never talked to girls before, he thinks he might have a chance with this girl who’ll understand what he’s talking about when he goes off on a computer nerd rant.
So now you have, say a 60-person class with one girl. That’s at minimum 40 guys who might be competing for her attention.
Now this isn’t the case at most, if not all colleges, but it is more common than you might think.
I have to give Danny the argument on this. He might have been misguided on his idea of a relationship, but at least he was looking for something beyond a notch on his bed post. I honestly cannot wait for the strip where Joe’s misogyny and womanizing causes him to get the shit beat out of him.
I have to point out that Joe does sort of know what he’s talking about. As usual, if you take his viewpoint into account, Joe is right about pretty much every practical point. And Danny really doesn’t know what he’s talking about- he dated Dorothy for three years without realizing that she pretty much despises him and was looking to dump him for something better the first chance she got.
Joe only wants one thing, but he’s totally honest about that fact. No girl is going to be fooled into thinking Joe wants a relationship unless she’s as dumb as Joyce, and only Joyce is that dumb in the entire world. Joe doesn’t have any obligation to want a relationship- he’s entitled to go on doing his thing as long as it makes him happy.
Danny, on the other hand, is completely ignorant about relationship dynamics. He could stand to be more like Joe even if what he wants is a relationship instead of strings-free sex, because Joe’s social skills are useful even in that context. As it stands, Danny is completely incompetent at achieving his only goal.
Joe being honest about how he views, and treats, women, is not a justifacation he can/should stand behind. Looking for something beyond a one night stand still gives Danny the advantage; true, his first “relationship” was not a healthy one, but at least he can learn from it, and grow as a person.
Why not? There’s nothing wrong with how Joe treats women, if that’s what he wants out of life.
… By Beef
…with his penis.
Okay, so it’s been nearly two decades since I was in college but I really don’t remember college being so… high school-ish.
It’s a soap opera. Soap opera characters are always a bit high-school-ish, for maximum drama.
no..it’s totally High School. My first year of classes, I had a few dorm neighbors who simply could not make a correlation between their actions and the consequences.. Subsequently, those kids were either asked to leave based on poor performance, or they dropped out. They just weren’t ready for college.
Pshaw. If Bowling For Soup has taught me nothing else, it’s that high school never ends.
And one thing not pointed out by the above three: this is still day 3 of college. And there was no (on-camera if any) Frosh Week. Most of the cast is still in high-school mode.So naturally, they’d all be high-school-ish.
1 girl in a million is a slim shot, but might as well give it a shot, Whats the big deal? The worst that could happen is that she says ‘no’. Not the end of the world.
According to the Terry Pratchett law, though, in fiction “one in million chances” tend to work out 9 times out of 10.
By this time in Roomies! we would have already seen a lot of girls that have been “joe’d”. I haven’t seen Joe get something in this AU yet, so I can assume he is not as suscessful at that as his counterpart is. That makes me think his abductee power was the pheromones thingy. That would mean his gadget-building skill is natural, so he can build Ultracar in this universe too…
Joe didn’t get together with anyone in Roomies! until the end of the first year. (It was Sarah.)
But Roomies was partially real-time, while DoA is halfway through day two and it’s mid-January. Extrapolating from that, by the end of his first DoA year he’ll have banged everyone twice.
He totally Joe’d Roz up already. Possibly during gender study class without anyone noticing. SEX NINJAS!
Definitely during gender studies. If this Roz is anything like SP’s Roz, she’d enjoy the idea of still being in class.
Did you change your avatar to Leslie on purpose for this response because it makes it hilarious :p
I don’t know why more people don’t take into account the math involved in odds of success. It’s like, if the publishing company gets 2 million books sent to them a year, and every year they accept five new authors, then guess what buddy. You’re not gonna get published. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re the best, or if you have an “In”, you’re still not one of the five.
Same thing here. If there are hypothetically five hundred men pursuing this woman, and there is only one of her, then move on because your time is wasted here.
But if no one gets in, wouldn’t they publish zero books, instead of five?
Wrong, it means you’re unlikely to get published, you could be one of those five. If you don’t try you don’t know, if we all only did things with high odds of success instead of taking a chance… that’d be a boring world.
Oh right Mike avatar. Speaking of doing things with a high rate of success, your mother.
Oh try for sure, not saying we shouldn’t have dreams. Just don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If you can’t get a decent non author job, or if you’re unwilling to pursue other women aside from the dream girl, then you’re setting yourself up for failure. Should have been more clear on that.
Internet porn has led me to be aware that what lies betwixt the legs is a renewable resource for both parties.
Valid. Still couldn’t hurt to find something to kill time with while you wait in line though lol. A girl like amber is probably a long wait, seeing as she probably doesn’t move straight from one man to another.
This is entirely unrelated, but I was reading Shortpacked, and is Robin Sarah’s druggy ex-roommate?
If so, I totally called it.
lol, no. Pretty sure that’s not the case. For one, I think this roommate was involved with actual illegal drugs, something which Robin simply has no use for; she has sugar. For another, apparently everyone liked Sarah’s old roommate >_>
Keep in mind though that this robin wouldn’t have abductee powers. Maybe lacking the high she gets from sugar, she spends her time seeking other highs.
Why would Robin’s obsession with sugar come with abductee powers? I’m pretty sure it just comes from being Robin.
Relationships are nothing. One-night stands, however, are truly meaningful. Thanks for that advice, Joe!
…This is an amusingly ironic conversation, in retrospect.