I think the phrase 2.5 children is a corruption of “2.4 Children” which used to be the average size of a British family. They made a Sit Com with that name in the 90s, I guess it entered the language at some stage and crossed to pond through the magic of the internet.
I think the modern version of 2.5 children should be two children and a fridge full of enough back up organ meat to replace half of one child in case it breaks.
And the 1.3 pets. Anywho it’s the great error of an old census that wasn’t properly announced when it said the average american familly consists of parents, 2.5 kids, and 1.3 pets
Enough fanfic is garbage that any cost/benefit analysis will show that it’s not worth spending your time to find the one shiny quarter that got dropped in the septic tank.
Fanfic should not be confused with fanart, which not only has a much higher ratio of awesome to awful, but is much easier to comb through since an assessment can be made from a thumbnail or half a glance.
I don’t know about that… The summaries alone can often tell me if a fanfic is worth looking into or not and if I do check it out, I can scan through in a minute or so and figure out if this fic has any promise or not.
I have read shitloads of fanfics in my time & while some of ones I picked ended up being kinda shithouse, most of the ones I have read ranged from OK to Better Than Canon.
And not far away. O’brien and bashir are questioning Worf about why all the Klingons look nothing like him, who is dodging the question so he doesn’t have to summarize how awful that enterprise episode is.
Eventually Walky will meet Ethan, their mutual love of toys will be the beginning of an awkward affair, eventually Mike will outright kiss Walky & everything will make sense to him.
…yeah. As much as Dorothy has managed to avoid being that much of an ass out loud (so far), she has a significant amount of snobbery in her character. There are times when you can tell that “I’m too good for this place and these people” is right below the surface. I have little doubt that that’s the character flaw she’ll have to deal with as the series goes on. Still, I can’t help but sympathize even with the snobbery. When you work hard and sacrifice much to reach a goal, sometimes arrogance can almost be self-defense. I hope things turn out better for her than they did for Dorothy Prime.
There are all sorts of specialty pieces these days, and most of them can be purchased individually at the online Lego store. See Pick A Brick. So Walky could have his Lego penthouse and furnish it properly without resorting to IKEA or any other non-Lego retailer. LEGO uber alles!
I forsee a bizarre conversation between a bitter and dispirited Walky and Joe waiting for Roz to show up, with neither of them having a clue what the other one is talking about.
Wasn’t Walky the main character of the Roomies/It’s Walky comics? (Haven’t read those yet.) Then why does he seem like the least developed, most one-dimensional character in Dumbing of Age so far?
He was the main character of It’s Walky, but he wasn’t introduced into Roomies until fairly late in the game, IIRC.
Walky always has been pretty juvenile, but college can have a way of forcing you to grow up. Much like being drafted into an alien-fighting secret agency.
Oh, dear. There are so many possible replies to that. Let me distill them down to useful ones.
First, he was not the main character of Roomies. That was Danny and/or Joyce, depending on your point-of-view.
Second, this version of Walky is a lot more multidimensional that the “It’s Walky” Walky was. But in order for this Walky to properly be Walky, a lot of previous Walky’s uncomplicatedness had to be included. It will be interesting to see how the character will change and evolve this time through.
So. How much of Walky’s response was a sort of “You can’t fire me, I quit” self-defense, and how much was desperately clinging to “girls are icky” immaturity?
Considering his background and the fact that Dorothy seems to be his first, he probably hasn’t decided what these feelings mean for him no. I’d be surprised if his current analysis went terribly far beyond the fact that for some reason he becomes a nervous wreck around her and she’s not like other girls.
If you’re talking something more biological then I don’t know. Does he know a mating instinct when he experiences one? Maybe. Most people don’t so he’d hardly be unique in his ignorance.
I’d hope he’s at least aware of what sex is though. We do not need him to become this universe’s Joyce.
So did Walky EVER hit puberty? I’m just curious about how much of this behavior is mental and how much might be biological.
But hey, he said another two complete sentences that were completely appropriate to the topic of conversations unlike “I like don’t pretty things”.
Meanwhile… a Sweet Penthouse built of Legos sounds really cool, but I’d hate having little Lego bumps and logos on imprinted on every exposed part of skin when I lay down, or stand on the floor barefoot.
Okay, you’re not the first to bring this up, and I gotta ask. Does a lego penthouse necessarily have lego furniture? Because I’ve totally been picturing Walls, floor, ceiling and doors of lego furnished with non-lego furniture.
Walky has always been a genius with deceptive appearances, but never known for his planning abilities. More of a split second decision making kind of guy. Perhaps that’s different now that Alien Tampering hasn’t rendered his mind incapable of forethought or focus? A Walky with a fully functioning brain could be… interesting. Interesting and frightening.
I just noticed that in all the comic I read (This, LICD, LFG, QC, Penny Arcade, etc.), the words are all capitalized. Is there supposed to be a reason for that or is it a “just ’cause” kinda thing? Just curious, you know?
I’ve actually wondered about that in the past too. I never know how to handle capitalization when quoting a character who talks in all caps. A lot of webcomics seem to do it. Most I might even say if I thought my readings were a representative sample of online comics as a whole.
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But it could be a SWEET PENTHOUSE with a white picket fence and 2.5 kids…
That will take a lot of legos.
Maybe he can get a bulk discount.
That phrase 2.5 kids always bothers me. Seriously, do you want 2 whole kids and one half of a kid?
It’s possible with LEGO!
It’s easy enough to get the .5 of a kid, just add Thalidomide.
Not cool man.
That’s just wrong’ but I laughed so hard!
I am in equal parts amused, horrified and informed. *cue Titanic soundtrack* My 33.(3)% will go ooooooon.
In my experience, that half kid is usually the dad. Who still wants his lego penthouse.
Rimshot!
Rimjob!
…
with my penis
for a nickel
And the FAAAAACE meme works somewhere in there as well.
Actually FAAAAACE would have been much more appropriate than penis for the rimjob…
PROGRESS!
Or maybe it’s just a more mathematical way of saying “2 or 3”
I think the phrase 2.5 children is a corruption of “2.4 Children” which used to be the average size of a British family. They made a Sit Com with that name in the 90s, I guess it entered the language at some stage and crossed to pond through the magic of the internet.
I think the modern version of 2.5 children should be two children and a fridge full of enough back up organ meat to replace half of one child in case it breaks.
You, sir, are an innovator!
House is kind, he fixes us when we’re broken.
It’s because the typical american dream family has two or three kids. But it’s funnier to say 2.5.
And the 1.3 pets. Anywho it’s the great error of an old census that wasn’t properly announced when it said the average american familly consists of parents, 2.5 kids, and 1.3 pets
Has he shrunk to .5? Last time I saw him in The Phantom Tollbooth he was .58 of a child.
Maybe it’s a cyborg, or a teenager, or a centaur, or it has progaria, or maybe it’s a mechanically augmented teenage centaur with progaria
Don’t forget the puppy named Wonwon!
And the illegal immigrant housekeeper.
SHIP SUNK!
Abandon ship! Abandon ship! All hands abandon ship!
Don’t worry, the SS Fanfic can rescue the shippers!
SS Fanfic is the true unsinkable ship.
Too bad it’s a garbage scow.
I think the SS Fanfic is half garbage scow and half cargo ship. Not all fanfics are garbage, are they?
Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of anything from a genre is crap.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. And by treasure I mean fanfic.
Enough fanfic is garbage that any cost/benefit analysis will show that it’s not worth spending your time to find the one shiny quarter that got dropped in the septic tank.
Fanfic should not be confused with fanart, which not only has a much higher ratio of awesome to awful, but is much easier to comb through since an assessment can be made from a thumbnail or half a glance.
I don’t know about that… The summaries alone can often tell me if a fanfic is worth looking into or not and if I do check it out, I can scan through in a minute or so and figure out if this fic has any promise or not.
I have read shitloads of fanfics in my time & while some of ones I picked ended up being kinda shithouse, most of the ones I have read ranged from OK to Better Than Canon.
ANd the readers are like the seagulls who pick & sift through all the crap in to hopes of finding something worthwhile.
Sorry. They didn’t mean the SS Fanfic should be hauling garbage, they meant it should be hauled away *as* garbage.
(and then Mr. Scott starts a bar brawl) 😉
And not far away. O’brien and bashir are questioning Worf about why all the Klingons look nothing like him, who is dodging the question so he doesn’t have to summarize how awful that enterprise episode is.
Yeah, but it’s run by Commander Quark!
SPACE BAGGIES!
All the true fans already knew she’d end up with Ultra Car anyway.
well, yeah. she is teamed up with billie, who’s doing the amazigirl story. it’s inevitable that dorothy meet amazigirl and immediately be smitten.
HNG NO WAY. Dorothy BELONGS WITH Amber. THEY ARE PERFECT.
SHIPSHIPSHIP.
And Amizigirl ends up with Ultracar, who is really Walky.
Well, that could go better.
that sounds pretty awesome, but the face when he talks about the lego penthouse ruins it
You mean the FAAAAAACE when he talks about LEGO penthouse?
You mean his “dat ass” face?
He speaks! And I’m sensing an “I don’t like girls! Girls have cooties!”
Goodbye Mature Walky, hello Cloud Cuckoo Lander Walky.
more fun that way though
Only if he evolves over the course of the story. Otherwise it’s all been done before.
I don’t think mature Walky’s ever existed. The latter one though, yes.
His point has a certain logic to it.
And considering how he’s behaved around Dorothy in the past, this is actually a pretty lucid response for him.
There is always the gay solution, that is how things end up working in the Walkyverse after all.
Well I did sense some sparks between Leslie and Dorothy in that first class;)
I must remember to check those comics again to see I can spot these sparks.
those “sparks” were really just the stars circling around dorothy’s head after getting hit by the monkey master toy.
Eventually Walky will meet Ethan, their mutual love of toys will be the beginning of an awkward affair, eventually Mike will outright kiss Walky & everything will make sense to him.
The scary thing about your comment is: it makes perfect sense to me from what I know about the Walkyverse.
I want to be Walky’s roommate in that lego penthouse
Look! He (looks like) he won’t have any issues! PROGRESS, all in the span of three strips!
Hurray for PROGRESS!
See, now the question is, what is her type?
Maybe Ethan, that could make for some interesting misunderstandings and rivalry with Joyce.
My guess? A studious, caring and willing to giver space type of person.
You believe that someone that well adjusted will appear in DoA??
Maybe.
sarah?
This makes a surprising amount of sense …have their characters ever even met?
Maybe -Joyce-.
Mike. Absolutely no questions it’s Mike.
That would go quite well with the current similar hair colour currently prevalent in DoA ships.
An all blonde banner, how very Aryan.
Her type is someone serious who goes to Yale. Not any of these losers. Yuck! She’s going to make something of herself after all.
…yeah. As much as Dorothy has managed to avoid being that much of an ass out loud (so far), she has a significant amount of snobbery in her character. There are times when you can tell that “I’m too good for this place and these people” is right below the surface. I have little doubt that that’s the character flaw she’ll have to deal with as the series goes on. Still, I can’t help but sympathize even with the snobbery. When you work hard and sacrifice much to reach a goal, sometimes arrogance can almost be self-defense. I hope things turn out better for her than they did for Dorothy Prime.
Keep repeating that, Walky. Eventually SOMEBODY might believe it.
a lego penthouse just sounds uncomfortable. have you ever stepped on a lego barefoot? it hurts.
Not if you use the LEGO smooth tiles dor the flooring.
Those are generally pretty slippery. but I don’t see why you can’t add normal rugs over the floors of the lego penthouse.
The penthouse itself is lego not the stuff inside of it.
If it isn’t made out of LEGo then it is from IKEA.
I thought IKEA furniture WAS made of LEGOs…
Nah, I have never needed an Allen key to use LEGOs.
Obviously you haven’t been buying the right LEGOs.
The last LEGOs I ever owned were the ones from the 70s.
There are all sorts of specialty pieces these days, and most of them can be purchased individually at the online Lego store. See Pick A Brick. So Walky could have his Lego penthouse and furnish it properly without resorting to IKEA or any other non-Lego retailer. LEGO uber alles!
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Nobody here has seen Top Gear presenter Jame May’s Lego house? It was built for a show he made about toys some years back.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html
I was wondering if someone was going to mention that. Awesome episode, but sadly it proves that LEGO furniture doesn’t work very well.
Thanks for the link: that was new to me. Too bad it was disassembled.
🙁 🙁 🙁
I can see why it isn’t wanted, the colour scheme is SOOOO TACKY.
Plasma Mongoose uses FACETIOUSNESS.
It’s super effective. Really.
DorothyXPanel5Door, OTP.
I forsee a bizarre conversation between a bitter and dispirited Walky and Joe waiting for Roz to show up, with neither of them having a clue what the other one is talking about.
So after college Walky is gonna move to Lego Land?
Dude, he’s going to OWN a LegoLand.
OH SHIT SCARY WALKY FACE
RUN
RUN
RUUUUUUUN
Wait, these comments. Is this… am I reading shipping? The internet has tricked me into reading shipping.
BWAHAHA!
Well, he’s still making the face, but at least he finally managed to say something in her presence.
…So, uh, I guess that’s improvement?
You mean it’s PROGRESS!
Which could turn into REGRESS!
Either way, it will not be good for that FAAAACE!
If he bites his lip any harder, it will bleed… down his FAAAACE.
And Dorothy’s out the EGRESS!
Well played.
Panel 4 Walky face is best thing ever.
Dare to dream Mr Walkerton. Dare to dream.
Walky+Dina shipped forever.
“However, getting naked with you INSIDE the Lego Penthouse doesn’t sound bad…..”
Better than rocking a bed of nails, I suppose.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q24/BillyShears1600/DoAcomicedited.png
That is fantastic.
GLad I’m not the only one who saw it.
Portal has conditioned me to experience fear when you capitalize the L like that,
Sorry Walky, but Dotty isn’t going to be ‘trading pokemons’ with you anytime soon.
Aww, and he had a Latios ready to exchange for a Latias, too.
Dammit Walky!!!
Didn’t James May try something like that out? Worked horribly IIRC.
I thought “sister of a lawmaker” was Dorothy-ese for S.O.B.
Walky is slowly becoming the best character.
You misspelled “Amber”.
Of course not, Walky… Dating. Pshaw, you want to Joe her.
Wasn’t Walky the main character of the Roomies/It’s Walky comics? (Haven’t read those yet.) Then why does he seem like the least developed, most one-dimensional character in Dumbing of Age so far?
He was the main character of It’s Walky, but he wasn’t introduced into Roomies until fairly late in the game, IIRC.
Walky always has been pretty juvenile, but college can have a way of forcing you to grow up. Much like being drafted into an alien-fighting secret agency.
Oh, dear. There are so many possible replies to that. Let me distill them down to useful ones.
First, he was not the main character of Roomies. That was Danny and/or Joyce, depending on your point-of-view.
Second, this version of Walky is a lot more multidimensional that the “It’s Walky” Walky was. But in order for this Walky to properly be Walky, a lot of previous Walky’s uncomplicatedness had to be included. It will be interesting to see how the character will change and evolve this time through.
Walky’s just walky man. Nothing you can do about it. Gotta let him go and be Walky.
Walky’s gotta walk
The Walky abides.
BURN!!!
So. How much of Walky’s response was a sort of “You can’t fire me, I quit” self-defense, and how much was desperately clinging to “girls are icky” immaturity?
I think it’s actually just being sincere. No reason to read anything more than that into it. He doesn’t wanna date her. It’s cool.
Does he even know what he wants to do with her, or is he too completely brain-blown to figure out what these strange feelings are urging him to do?
Considering his background and the fact that Dorothy seems to be his first, he probably hasn’t decided what these feelings mean for him no. I’d be surprised if his current analysis went terribly far beyond the fact that for some reason he becomes a nervous wreck around her and she’s not like other girls.
If you’re talking something more biological then I don’t know. Does he know a mating instinct when he experiences one? Maybe. Most people don’t so he’d hardly be unique in his ignorance.
I’d hope he’s at least aware of what sex is though. We do not need him to become this universe’s Joyce.
actually I think it was more the latter
So did Walky EVER hit puberty? I’m just curious about how much of this behavior is mental and how much might be biological.
But hey, he said another two complete sentences that were completely appropriate to the topic of conversations unlike “I like don’t pretty things”.
Meanwhile… a Sweet Penthouse built of Legos sounds really cool, but I’d hate having little Lego bumps and logos on imprinted on every exposed part of skin when I lay down, or stand on the floor barefoot.
Okay, you’re not the first to bring this up, and I gotta ask. Does a lego penthouse necessarily have lego furniture? Because I’ve totally been picturing Walls, floor, ceiling and doors of lego furnished with non-lego furniture.
That’s the sensible response, but I can’t see Walky as the sort to do this sort of thing halfway. All Lego or nothing!
I can get behind that.
For a nickel.
Paying for this Lego Mattress one mom at a time.
Wait…
wait…
I JUST REALIZED
Walky is a super-genius.
By establishing himself as not wanting to date her, he has made himself unattainable.
And now he is irresistable.
I CAN SEE FOREVER
Walky has always been a genius with deceptive appearances, but never known for his planning abilities. More of a split second decision making kind of guy. Perhaps that’s different now that Alien Tampering hasn’t rendered his mind incapable of forethought or focus? A Walky with a fully functioning brain could be… interesting. Interesting and frightening.
Ah, but he’s still undesirable and unavailable, so those cancel each other out.
I just noticed that in all the comic I read (This, LICD, LFG, QC, Penny Arcade, etc.), the words are all capitalized. Is there supposed to be a reason for that or is it a “just ’cause” kinda thing? Just curious, you know?
I’ve actually wondered about that in the past too. I never know how to handle capitalization when quoting a character who talks in all caps. A lot of webcomics seem to do it. Most I might even say if I thought my readings were a representative sample of online comics as a whole.
It’s because it’s easier to letter something like that. Most Comic Books are done that way too. It’s easier to read and easier to write out.
In this case, it’s how I write normally, being that my strip is lettered in a font of my handwriting.
For them as were wondering what a Lego house (complete with Lego furniture etc, may I point your attention towards:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html
http://legohouse.co.uk/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-gb%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GPEA_en&biw=1259&bih=873&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=lego+house+james+may&oq=lego+house+J&aq=0&aqi=g2g-m1&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=7797l12657l0l6l6l1l0l0l0l953l2390l4-2.1.1l4
……ive seen a picture of a house of legos.
Walky’s anger-face makes me seriously consider my own future.
I don;t like it…..any single ladies in the San Diego area?
He’s gonna knock up Satan’s daughter, it’s all good.