Considering the sliding time scale it’d have to be 2003 right? That’s the one that would have been around when Danny was a kid. I guess it could be the 2012 one, he would have been 13ish?
Yeah, a cursed artifact out to make my life miserable. In a way it’s a gift as much as a curse as I have to go on a side quest to fix it and get delicious bonus XP out of it…if I survive all the way to the end!
Maybe I should get myself a ukulele like Danny. Never hurt to have some music…
Exotic weapon proficiency – Group Stringed instruments – That way you could always use that Banjo from the infamouse El’Kabong the second you get your hands on it.
What’s scary is that when this comic started, I would have said “he’d play the 4Kids theme for her”, but now enough time has passed such that the Nickelodeon theme makes more sense given sliding timescales.
At first I thought she meant Danny was the friend who wasn’t talking to her, but he clearly is, so she must mean Marcie. :c It’s genuinely sweet that she’s opening up to Danny and looking for comfort, though. Sal needs to do more of that, it’s good for the soul.
I agree with most of your post, except for “EVEN to her own brother”. That makes it sound like one would expect them to be close, but everything about their relationship and history makes me feel like her being distant from him is the only outcome- at this point in their lives at least. In fact I feel like he’s a big part of why she developed into an emotionally unavailable person.
I think that, in a few years, they would re-establish their relationship and it would be a strong and healthy one. I know we won’t see that but that’s what I choose to believe.
You just know that, somewhere out there, someone has done a death metal remix of the tmnt theme. Also the theme is stuck in my head now, thanks a lot. :p
That’s not even all that odd. There are quite a number of Moonlight Densetsu metal covers and metal covers of the not so hot US dub version.
Pretty much since kids that grew up watching cartoons have been becoming professional musicians as adults there have been recorded covers of cartoon themes (cf. The Ramones covering Spiderman and anything one cares to name from Saturday Mornings Greatest Hits) and since the internet and especially YouTube became things, it’s been a growth industry among amateurs as well.
Damn straights is no different from “I hate lawyers” or “I hate bankers” or “I hate rich people”.
It’s not really condemning individual people who just happen to have that trait; it’s a shorthand for frustration with a System, such as classism, or the recession. People who express frustration with “straights” (or cis people) are talking about the way that Straightness as a class materially hurts them, and occasionally the cluelessness and hurt feelings they encounter from individual straight (or cis) people when they cry out from that pain.
Like I understand what you’re going for here, but no. What you’re describing, the vanilla sexual habits associated with certain cis heterosexual people, is not what’s being complained about, even as a joke, which butting’s reply surely was.
(See also complaints about: the police, white people, liberals (when not uttered by a FOX Nees talking head), neurotypical people, so on and so forth. They’re not personal attacks, they’re expressions of frustration and pain with shitty situations, and we seem much better able to recognize this about some examples than others.)
Just in case this isn’t clear enough: I made a lame joke playing off exaggerated stereotypes of heterosexuals. I did not say anything about anyone complaining about straight people.
I’ll leave it at that, before my annoyance at this practice gets the better of me.
well I think the joke was targeting specifically that the “damn straights” are the ones responsible for the 7 billion people mentioned in few comments above that, due to procreative sex.
this does technically overlook queer folks who have biokids, but yeah, you can easily make a case that the majority of kids are born to straight people. so that’s what the joke was saying.
*takes joke and beats it over the head a few more times for good measure*
It “technically overlooks” a lot of people, and no, you can’t easily make a case that the majority of kids are born to straight people. Literally every generation we have where it’s more acceptable to be queer turns out to suddenly have more queer kids in it — or, you know, alternately, people feeling like they’re allowed to both question their identity and publicly tell other people they aren’t straight… tend to be more likely to do both of those things.
So if that’s what the joke was saying, it was a poor joke built on faulty premises. 😉
(Never mind the fact that there are plenty of good reasons not to actually be grateful for straight parents, which is what “the ‘damn straights’ are responsible for seven billion people mentioned above” implies. Like, there are queer folks who would much rather have just not been born than had the parents they got saddled with. This is just… it comes from ill-considered assumptions.)
Sal. Just, like, herself. Another Sal. That probably wouldn’t really go anywhere in terms of shifting the plot of the comic towards a new direction from adding in new variables, but I think it would be kind of funny.
“Really don’t like new people while at the same time also losing old people, especially when one of those old people is my absolutely bestest best friend on whom I’ve relied on for years and years to keep me somewhat collected now.”
“Don’t like the potential new unknown because the current known actually wasn’t too bad, and odds are that the unknown replacing it will be worse.”
“Don’t like not having someone that I can talk about everything with. Don’t like not having someone I can let down my guard around. Don’t like not having someone I can trust with my life.”
But also:
“I do like having you.”
“I do like that you’ve treated me as a full person all this time.”
“I do like that you’ve never tried to put me down.”
“I do like knowing that I can tell you these things and feel confident that you will not betray the trust I am putting in you here.”
“I do like that you’ve helped me without ever asking for anything in return (except maybe making you better in Mario Kart).”
I am totally not Emperor Daniel under an assumed name, with him supposedly now being in hiding because of a terrible, terrible pun about how a tree was preserving Amber. That was just an awful pun, really. Who would make such an observational pun? Certainly not I, for I am certainly not Emperor Daniel.
Also, We now declare that the whole post is in fact fine in italics, as it makes it look a bit like it could be a song that Danny could sing while playing on his ukulele.
Death metals are the highly radioactive ones that aren’t normally found in appreciable amounts in nature. So, technetium, promethium, and anything with an atomic number higher than 94. Normal metals are things like, y’know, iron, copper, that kind of stuff.
Atreyu is usually classified as Metalcore and usually lean more into the Punk and hardcore Alt-Rock influences of that genre than the Metal ones, though they aren’t as musically stripped down as most of either due to the Metal influences.
There is no “regular” Metal. “Metal” in modern parlance is simply a generic metagenre while “Death Metal” is a specific genre within that metagenre usually typified by very dirty down tuned electric guitars and bass, fast tempo drums and deep gravely scream singing. Death Metal largely grew out of the Punk/Metal synthesis that was Thrash Metal in the ’80s and as such holds a lot of the same anger at the ills of society and exploration of the innate darkness of the human psyche in both tone and lyrical content.
I could go on, but I love me both some metal and some media taxonomy and would inevitably spend hours doing that rather than just answering the question ;D
They had to work really, really hard to come up with lyrics that were sillier than actual death metal bands. But they’re still one of my favorites along with Austrian Death Machine.
Metal bands that take themselves too seriously tend to be crappier bands
I don’t have much taste for metal, but I love the show. (Plus I think it’s raised the bar for any cartoon which wants to call itself serious about music.) These…idiot rock savants…are a hoot.
PS I barely understand any of the lyrics, and don’t think I’m missing any of the experience.
They had to work really, really hard to come up with lyrics that were sillier than actual death metal bands
Seriously… Saints Row the Third has The Cyborg Slayers by Dethklok on the soundtrack. (On the Adult Swim radio station, though I always have a mixtape with it and some of the tracks from The Blood, the metal/hard rock station.) If I had to pick out which track on the soundtrack was a parody of metal…it would not have been it.
It would have been Arma-Goddamn-MFin-Geddon*, by Marilyn Manson.
Musically they’re fairly typical Black Metal, which is typically more stripped down and less downtuned but more melodic than Death Metal while lyrically more akin to Gothic Metal. As characters they’re extremely brutal as is appropriate for a sendup of the image of the Metal genres in general.
I’very always been able to relate to Sal when it came to the challenge of being social, when I was Younger I was a bit uneasy about making first impressions.
If he’s 18 on a floating timeline, does that mean Danny grew up with the surprisingly good 2000’s Ninja Turtles show with the still-ridiculous theme song, or the lighter 2010’s Ninja Turtles show with the 80’s-nostalgia theme song?
(Dear god, 2003 was 14 years ago already, I’m still in my 20s and I already feel old.)
There’s one webseries that I read– Not this one, though it’s totally possible for it to have happened for someone with this one– where the characters are in college, and I started reading it in high school. Not like senior year, either, but like sophomore year of high school. And then I went to college, graduated, and did an internship. And the characters are…still in college. It’s a weird feeling.
(Especially going from thoughts like, “Is this what x is gonna be like?” to, “Huh, that was not at all what my experience of x was like.”)
Starting to feel old in your twenties is pretty normal. I get daily reminders of how old I am having coworkers who are as much as twenty years younger than me and absolutely don’t get some of the cultural touchstone references I’m prone to make because they never had those experiences.
You don’t really start feeling old until the people you think of as kids (coworkers who are as much as twenty years younger than me) start complaining about being old.
Do it. Plug ’em. Well, unless it’s Baby Metal….
I’m old enough that all my favorites are reasonably well known (Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, et al)
Yeah, change sucks, Sal, but sometimes you just have to live with it.
It’s the first time that Sal has even suggested that, if not a friend, Amazi-Girl is a fixture in her life that she’d prefer not to do without. It’s strange, the knots we get tied into in our social relations, isn’t it?
Wouldn’t Roz have tried to get the new person to end up as Mary’s roommate and Roz with Sal? Not that she likes Sal, but that’s better than loathing Mary.
That isn’t the point; the point (at least to Marcie) is what Sal did, not why. Marcie could be forgiven for seeing it as a personal betrayal of sorts. It could be a long time before she is willing to give Sal the time of day.
It’s strongly implied that Marcie was fired (or otherwise not kept on as a trainee) after the incidents at the rally.
We haven’t actually seen Marcie since then and it hasn’t been clearly confirmed.
We could be at something of a paradigm shift moment for lots of characters if many rooms are re-arranged to get around Billie being moved out because Chloe seemed to enjoy having Clint’s smile of approval directed at her. Sal may not be the only one to get a new roomie. It’s entertaining to speculate on new combinations that might emerge.
I get the feeling that Chloe and the school aren’t going to put in that much work to deal with this. More likely they’re bringing in someone who was waitlisted. IU has over 48K students so it’s extremely likely that not everyone who wants to live on campus gets into the dorms.
The only other change that *might* happen is Roz moving in with Sal since she’s previously indicated that she wanted to change rooms. They might put the new person in with Mary instead. But I don’t think they’re going to move a bunch of people around just because one left.
I genuinely believe that this is the first time I’ve seen Sal looking so down that she needs a hug! Normally, she doesn’t let it affect her but I think that she really doesn’t want to lose having Billie there and, worse, having to share her living space with a stranger.
I’m sorry about disappearing. I haven’t been well. Bad enough to fall behind on my comics even. Unfortunately, now I’m in the hospital. I fell. Snapped my radius and ulna. Compound fracture. So much blood. I’m on morphine and sometimes I still scream. My voice is hoarse from it. Going in for surgery in a few hours. It will take 3 hours. Maybe more. And I might need physical therapy, but won’t know until surgery is over. I’m scared, but anything is better than this pain.
Thank you all. I appreciate every reply and wish I could hug you all. Wish I could respond to everyone, but I’ll be back out soon so I’m updating everyone before I doze off. Woke up in pain so had to press my morphine button. Glad i decided I might as well see the new comic.
The surgery went well and my forearm no longer buckles when I try to move it. I’m on enough meds to kill a mule. 2 antibiotics to keep the bones from getting infected, fluid, morphine delivered when I press a button, lots of various shots in my IV for various stuff, and one bag I’m not sure what’s for. Plus all the shots (like for tetanus) and some pills (like benadryl because morphine makes you itchy). I’m also now on oxygen because my blood ox kept falling into the 80s percent wise.
The surgery went well considering. Pre op was gonna take and hour to and hour and a half and the surgery itself would take about an hour and a half with an hour to come out of anesthesia. It was most likely to only take a small incision or two. Neither of those things were correct. I was much worse than they thought, surgery took 2 hours 45 minutes, and they had to split my arm open on both sides. It’s painful I won’t lie, but less so then having the bones loose inside my arm. I’m also running a bit of a fever tonight. I’d say more but I’m being pulled back into sleep. I’ll be okay. And thanks again. You guys are great.
Just in case there’s any confusion, I’ve changed my e-mail address to something slightly different. My old one was honestly kinda cringey, and I don’t really identify as a “gamer” anymore, since it’s gained something of a negative connotation. My URL is also changed, since I’m wanting to focus more on writing than making videos.
Good thing I looked to see if someone already pointed this out.
Gossip rags love to use the word “canoodle” to describe the activities of new or suspected/secret celebrity couples. In other news, I have apparently lost enough of my sense of shame to be able to share that I know this.
I mean, Sal did try to stop her, and only got involved to save Amazi-Girl’s ass (again), so I’d hardly call it “gleefully”, but that holy shit could that conversation go south fast if/when the subject ever comes up again :/
I kind of missed it on the first read, but those first couple panels are nicely subtle. Sal’s just talking about not having contact with one of her friends, but you can see Danny wondering if she’s hinting at Amber being away, if she knows. He even starts to say something, probably to cover for her, but Sal just keeps plowing on about personal problems.
so i was thinking that malaya would be the new roommate since that’d be the funniest, but now i’m wondering if it isnt going to be “funniest choice” for roommate but “most dramatic choice”
i mean that or we get introduced to a new character, which could ALSO go either way
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WHICH theme, tho
just sayin’
BACK! BACK TO THE SEWERS!
T.U.R.T.L.E POWER, T.U.R.T.L.E POWER.
POWER, GET POWER…
ADORENALIN AFURE DASU ZE!
I give that theme about a 9.95.
Nah, gotta be the 2003 one.
Dunno how well it’d translate to ukulele tho.
Original 80’s theme or nuthin’!
I like to think Danny will get rocked with the shell-shocked pizza kings.
Considering the sliding time scale it’d have to be 2003 right? That’s the one that would have been around when Danny was a kid. I guess it could be the 2012 one, he would have been 13ish?
Anywhere from 12 to 14, yeah.
The 2003-2010 series is the one that fell during his formative years.
Ducktales . . . A-WOO-HOO!
Everyday they’re out there, making Ducktales, A-WOO-OO!
Not ponytails or cottontails?
No, Ducktales, A-WOO-OO!
Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales
It’s almost time for Dragon Tales.
Come along, take my hand,
Let’s all go to Dragon Land.
I wish, I wish, with all my heart,
To fly with dragons, in a land apart
Gummibears
bouncing here and there
and everywhere
High adventure thats beyond compare
They are the Gummibears
Daring duck of mystery,
Champion of right,
Swoops out of the shadows,
Darkwing owns the night.
Somewhere some villain schemes,
But his number’s up.
(3-2-1) Darkwing Duck (When there’s trouble you call DW)
Darkwing Duck (Let’s get dangerous)
Darkwing Duck (Darkwing, Darkwing Duck!)
Sometimes, some crimes
Go slipping through the cracks
Ma ma macgyver!
You can win it in a minute when you spin it spin it spin it
d-d-d-danger
lurkswatch behind you“But if you’re afraid you’ll have to overlook it.
Besides, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it!”
He will drink his Super Sauce and throw the bad guys for a loss, and he will bring them in alive and kickin’!
. . . .I’m sure you could find a Death Metal cover no problem online.
Second Note, Totally get Sal’s feeling here.
Darnit, rolled a 1 on my skill check to craft that link lol
You don’t have to look far, it only requires a quick search on Youtube. . .
https://youtu.be/BxdNiRXMeo4
The DC on that was 5, and you had a +2 bonus. That die is fuckin’ cursed.
Yeah, a cursed artifact out to make my life miserable. In a way it’s a gift as much as a curse as I have to go on a side quest to fix it and get delicious bonus XP out of it…if I survive all the way to the end!
Maybe I should get myself a ukulele like Danny. Never hurt to have some music…
You can multiclass in Bard, or just use the ukulele as an improvised weapon.
Exotic weapon proficiency – Group Stringed instruments – That way you could always use that Banjo from the infamouse El’Kabong the second you get your hands on it.
Thanks. Now I’m going to go find death metal for the ukelele.
Here’s some Pantera played on a ukulele. Up your game, Danny! You’ve been playing since this morning, you can do it!
that one woulda worked on Amber, danno
“Got a friend who still ain’t talking to me, either.”
“Also, she still ain’t typing to me.”
That’s a dumb joke.
(pun intended)
Well, Sal IS cool but rude.
gimme a break
Daniel, though, is a whitebread dude!
He’s a good egg.
Never!
Nobody better lay a finger on my Kit Kat bar
It’s Butterfinger, you heretic.
Hey, now, when someone’s reference game is off, sometimes you just have to…
Give them a break.
*finger guns while dodging tomatoes*
at least you know she won’t lie to you
What’s scary is that when this comic started, I would have said “he’d play the 4Kids theme for her”, but now enough time has passed such that the Nickelodeon theme makes more sense given sliding timescales.
FRIGHTENING.
At first I thought she meant Danny was the friend who wasn’t talking to her, but he clearly is, so she must mean Marcie. :c It’s genuinely sweet that she’s opening up to Danny and looking for comfort, though. Sal needs to do more of that, it’s good for the soul.
I’m so happy that she’s opening up to someone, too 🙂
see the last time she tried: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/pissybaby/
Danny should not play Desperado.
Does that really qualify as trying to open up to someone though?
Yes? Especially for Sal, who is extremely closed off, even to her own brother.
Marcie’s the only person she’s remotely open with, and not because there’s nobody else she cares about at all. This is a big deal for her
I agree with most of your post, except for “EVEN to her own brother”. That makes it sound like one would expect them to be close, but everything about their relationship and history makes me feel like her being distant from him is the only outcome- at this point in their lives at least. In fact I feel like he’s a big part of why she developed into an emotionally unavailable person.
I think that, in a few years, they would re-establish their relationship and it would be a strong and healthy one. I know we won’t see that but that’s what I choose to believe.
Danny, we all know she’s better suited listening to the MMPR theme
Or Biker Mice from Mars.
TV or movie version?
Samurai Pizza Cats theme.
*cues up Blue Oyster Cult*
You see me now a veteran, of a thousand psychic wars..
Then again, we would need Sayyid to bring the cowbell.
hung there dependent from the sky, like some heavy metal fruit?
Nah. Probably more like Abbath or Insomnium.
I would love to see Danny try to play death metal on his ukelele.
I’m sure Jake Shimabukuro (whom I’ve mentioned before) could manage it.
Death metal ukulele
Huh. welp, I don’t know how to link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xJwKyF2Ao
A fellow companion who suffers under the same curse!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9zT_i6LdX9w
Some ukulele death metal for you all to enjoy 🙂
He could probably handle this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Zmkevry5g
You just know that, somewhere out there, someone has done a death metal remix of the tmnt theme. Also the theme is stuck in my head now, thanks a lot. :p
Someone did so indeed~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdNiRXMeo4 *grins*
Nice song. Too bad he used clips from that gawdawful movie.
Someone did one for Sailor Moon; totes in the realm of possibility.
That’s not even all that odd. There are quite a number of Moonlight Densetsu metal covers and metal covers of the not so hot US dub version.
Pretty much since kids that grew up watching cartoons have been becoming professional musicians as adults there have been recorded covers of cartoon themes (cf. The Ramones covering Spiderman and anything one cares to name from Saturday Mornings Greatest Hits) and since the internet and especially YouTube became things, it’s been a growth industry among amateurs as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2F5CrJh3pE
Here ya go. Unfortunately Nerlich isn’t something I could personally headbang to.
ok, but the TMNT death metal yukulele version.
….TMNT, Steven Universe, and Pokemon eh?
Danny is a catch.
I’m blanking on when he mentioned SU.
Isn’t that just Leslie’s interest?
He was playing the theme yesterday.
oh wow, i didnt catch that. danny is an su fan, i like him even more now
Oh, that was? I heard comments of different songs but kay.
Willis confirmed it in the comments, but a ways down from the song speculation near the top.
Word of Willis.
New Danny is a party dude.
I want to see him do this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnRUtMHGow
Is Sal’s new roommate Blowjob Cat?
How about a Death Metal Josie and the Pussycats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I76wXLoskdA
Hah, I knew exactly what that was going to be! 🙂 The CN groovies were sooo good.
I would seriously buy the theme done in each of the genres represented.
There’s already like, a BILLION people. What do we need new ones for?
damn straight
ITYM “damn straights”
Damn straights, always sneakin’ into houses to have missionary-position vaginal sex with all the lights off.
Damn straights is no different from “I hate lawyers” or “I hate bankers” or “I hate rich people”.
It’s not really condemning individual people who just happen to have that trait; it’s a shorthand for frustration with a System, such as classism, or the recession. People who express frustration with “straights” (or cis people) are talking about the way that Straightness as a class materially hurts them, and occasionally the cluelessness and hurt feelings they encounter from individual straight (or cis) people when they cry out from that pain.
Like I understand what you’re going for here, but no. What you’re describing, the vanilla sexual habits associated with certain cis heterosexual people, is not what’s being complained about, even as a joke, which butting’s reply surely was.
(See also complaints about: the police, white people, liberals (when not uttered by a FOX Nees talking head), neurotypical people, so on and so forth. They’re not personal attacks, they’re expressions of frustration and pain with shitty situations, and we seem much better able to recognize this about some examples than others.)
I’m a little confused. See, I was taking butting’s “ITYM” and running with it, not objecting to a perceived condemnation of straight people.
Just in case this isn’t clear enough: I made a lame joke playing off exaggerated stereotypes of heterosexuals. I did not say anything about anyone complaining about straight people.
I’ll leave it at that, before my annoyance at this practice gets the better of me.
I thought your missionary position joke was funny 🙂 and didn’t see it as arguing.
I thought I heard irritation under the joke, so I thought I would explain where the comment was coming from. That’s all.
well I think the joke was targeting specifically that the “damn straights” are the ones responsible for the 7 billion people mentioned in few comments above that, due to procreative sex.
this does technically overlook queer folks who have biokids, but yeah, you can easily make a case that the majority of kids are born to straight people. so that’s what the joke was saying.
*takes joke and beats it over the head a few more times for good measure*
It “technically overlooks” a lot of people, and no, you can’t easily make a case that the majority of kids are born to straight people. Literally every generation we have where it’s more acceptable to be queer turns out to suddenly have more queer kids in it — or, you know, alternately, people feeling like they’re allowed to both question their identity and publicly tell other people they aren’t straight… tend to be more likely to do both of those things.
As of this current generation of teens, straight people are officially no longer the majority in any sense:
https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2016/3/11/less-50-teens-identify-straight-says-new-study
So if that’s what the joke was saying, it was a poor joke built on faulty premises. 😉
(Never mind the fact that there are plenty of good reasons not to actually be grateful for straight parents, which is what “the ‘damn straights’ are responsible for seven billion people mentioned above” implies. Like, there are queer folks who would much rather have just not been born than had the parents they got saddled with. This is just… it comes from ill-considered assumptions.)
Then Danny should play a death metal version of the TMNT theme on his ukulele. I’d listen to it.
Ukuleles are extremely metal.
I DON’T LIKE CHANGE
Who do you WANT to be Sal’s new roommate, if pesky things like logic didn’t get in the way?
From in comic, I want her new roommate to be Jocelyne because I want to see her more in comic.
From not in-universe, I’d kinda like to see her with Rosa Diaz.
Jocelyne is out of school by now I’m pretty sure, and at the very least if she’s pursuing a higher degree she wouldn’t be rooming with a freshman
“if pesky things like logic didn’t get in the way”
Fair enough
From out-of-universe: Aang, from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I can’t think of anyone who would be more Sal’s opposite.
Aang at (1)12 or college-aged Aang? Because that would be interesting.
College-aged Aang, just to make it a tiny bit less nonsensical.
Actually, I did think of someone: Jack McCoy from Law and Order. I think it’d be funnier if it was Aang though.
Imaginary College-age Louise Belcher.
I second this motion.
…emma swan.
failing that, bonnie bennett.
failing that, rosa diaz.
failing that, america chavez.
failing that, london tipton.
Raidah.
Jordan from Real Genius. Sal’s never there, Jordan never sleeps. It’s a perfect match.
How about the women Leslie fell for? Or Raihda or one of here friends?
There is a character study of Raihda on the tumblr.
Sal. Just, like, herself. Another Sal. That probably wouldn’t really go anywhere in terms of shifting the plot of the comic towards a new direction from adding in new variables, but I think it would be kind of funny.
“Don’t like new people.”
“Really don’t like new people while at the same time also losing old people, especially when one of those old people is my absolutely bestest best friend on whom I’ve relied on for years and years to keep me somewhat collected now.”
“Don’t like the potential new unknown because the current known actually wasn’t too bad, and odds are that the unknown replacing it will be worse.”
“Don’t like not having someone that I can talk about everything with. Don’t like not having someone I can let down my guard around. Don’t like not having someone I can trust with my life.”
But also:
“I do like having you.”
“I do like that you’ve treated me as a full person all this time.”
“I do like that you’ve never tried to put me down.”
“I do like knowing that I can tell you these things and feel confident that you will not betray the trust I am putting in you here.”
“I do like that you’ve helped me without ever asking for anything in return (except maybe making you better in Mario Kart).”
“I do like you. And I do trust you.”
<3
Dammit, forgot to put in the / to close the italics after the first line!
The Emperor of the Internet has made a critical code error, and the time for our attack has come!
I thought DYW told you to get lost.
Also, where’s King Daniel? I haven’t seen him in a while.
Uh…uh…*quickly puts on disguise*
…I have no idea who this “Emperor Daniel” is. Hello, did you miss me?
Hey, cool, Mandy!
I am totally not Emperor Daniel under an assumed name, with him supposedly now being in hiding because of a terrible, terrible pun about how a tree was preserving Amber. That was just an awful pun, really. Who would make such an observational pun? Certainly not I, for I am certainly not Emperor Daniel.
Also, We now declare that the whole post is in fact fine in italics, as it makes it look a bit like it could be a song that Danny could sing while playing on his ukulele.
there are days i just….feel sal so hard
this is one of them
*sob*
*snoof*
Danny has leveled up to “old friend” status with Sal.
That good, good egg.
(My predicitve tablet kbd now wants to put “egg” after each time I type “good”. Damn You Willis.)
Does Sal really like death metal or is she just messing with Danny?
What even is the difference between death metal and regular metal?
I don’t know, but they both scare me.
Death metals are the highly radioactive ones that aren’t normally found in appreciable amounts in nature. So, technetium, promethium, and anything with an atomic number higher than 94. Normal metals are things like, y’know, iron, copper, that kind of stuff.
Hehehe 🙂
That’s a LOT of subgenres right there. Recomend any actinium bands?
Actinide as a genre is just derivative of the classic Lanthanide sound.
What is even regular metal?
My favorite metal song (which again, scares me, and I’m not sure which sub-genre it falls under) is this one:
https://youtu.be/29UoIIZ77pI?t=44s
But that’s largely because I first heard the chorus out of context.
Atreyu is usually classified as Metalcore and usually lean more into the Punk and hardcore Alt-Rock influences of that genre than the Metal ones, though they aren’t as musically stripped down as most of either due to the Metal influences.
I saw “Atreyu” and “punk” in the same sentence, and thought you were talking about that little jackass that let his horse die in the mud.
There is no “regular” Metal. “Metal” in modern parlance is simply a generic metagenre while “Death Metal” is a specific genre within that metagenre usually typified by very dirty down tuned electric guitars and bass, fast tempo drums and deep gravely scream singing. Death Metal largely grew out of the Punk/Metal synthesis that was Thrash Metal in the ’80s and as such holds a lot of the same anger at the ills of society and exploration of the innate darkness of the human psyche in both tone and lyrical content.
I could go on, but I love me both some metal and some media taxonomy and would inevitably spend hours doing that rather than just answering the question ;D
So is the band Dethklok as btutal as they claim?
Yes, but Dethklok is a special thing because while they are a band, they are at the same time a parody of the genre.
They had to work really, really hard to come up with lyrics that were sillier than actual death metal bands. But they’re still one of my favorites along with Austrian Death Machine.
Metal bands that take themselves too seriously tend to be crappier bands
I don’t have much taste for metal, but I love the show. (Plus I think it’s raised the bar for any cartoon which wants to call itself serious about music.) These…idiot rock savants…are a hoot.
PS I barely understand any of the lyrics, and don’t think I’m missing any of the experience.
Seriously… Saints Row the Third has The Cyborg Slayers by Dethklok on the soundtrack. (On the Adult Swim radio station, though I always have a mixtape with it and some of the tracks from The Blood, the metal/hard rock station.) If I had to pick out which track on the soundtrack was a parody of metal…it would not have been it.
It would have been Arma-Goddamn-MFin-Geddon*, by Marilyn Manson.
* Title censored by me.
Yeah, Cyborg Slayers is relatively normal (and awesome). Hatredcopter, on the other hand, is much more obviously a parody with lines like:
I, am likely to find,
From my failure to fly,
That I will be fired for not killing you,
Cause that is my job,
Hatredcopter!
(still awesome though)
Murmaider is my favourite of the really ‘WTF?’ ones.
Agreed – but still a far cry from the brutality that is Slayer … \m/
Musically they’re fairly typical Black Metal, which is typically more stripped down and less downtuned but more melodic than Death Metal while lyrically more akin to Gothic Metal. As characters they’re extremely brutal as is appropriate for a sendup of the image of the Metal genres in general.
And then there are the Japanese, who manage to really twist the genre and come up with babymetal.
yes
The TMNT theme is probably one of the three and a bit songs that Danny knows how to play. For a given value of ‘knows’.
Play the death metal version of Desperadooooo
yesss sal likes similar music as me, which means i’m cool 😎
play death metal xmen tas theme!!!!
You asked for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwlxmqQA8s4
I’very always been able to relate to Sal when it came to the challenge of being social, when I was Younger I was a bit uneasy about making first impressions.
I got better but at it but even to this day it’s hard to be bold enough to be more open with people I meat for the first time.
If he’s 18 on a floating timeline, does that mean Danny grew up with the surprisingly good 2000’s Ninja Turtles show with the still-ridiculous theme song, or the lighter 2010’s Ninja Turtles show with the 80’s-nostalgia theme song?
(Dear god, 2003 was 14 years ago already, I’m still in my 20s and I already feel old.)
Yes
Or he could just be that much a hardcore TMNT fan.
Holy shit, I’ve finally become older than most of the strips characters (anyone 18 and younger) I didn’t even think about that until now!
There’s one webseries that I read– Not this one, though it’s totally possible for it to have happened for someone with this one– where the characters are in college, and I started reading it in high school. Not like senior year, either, but like sophomore year of high school. And then I went to college, graduated, and did an internship. And the characters are…still in college. It’s a weird feeling.
(Especially going from thoughts like, “Is this what x is gonna be like?” to, “Huh, that was not at all what my experience of x was like.”)
I’m fairly certain my college experience will not include mentally unbalanced girls dressing as superheroes.
No, that part is accurate and universal.
Starting to feel old in your twenties is pretty normal. I get daily reminders of how old I am having coworkers who are as much as twenty years younger than me and absolutely don’t get some of the cultural touchstone references I’m prone to make because they never had those experiences.
You don’t really start feeling old until the people you think of as kids (coworkers who are as much as twenty years younger than me) start complaining about being old.
Come on, Danny! You need to buy her a TMNT Pies. They’re fresh from the sewers!
https://youtu.be/SflSwaNc0tI
Pie, not pies; though several pies may help…
If she doesn’t like TMNT the tune could be about almost anything.
hmm, different link failure than usual. https://xkcd.com/1412/
Must…resist…urge…to…plug…favorite…metal band.
Do it. Plug ’em. Well, unless it’s Baby Metal….
I’m old enough that all my favorites are reasonably well known (Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, et al)
Is it Nightwish? It’s Nightwish, isn’t it?
Ya know, even if he is friends with garbage sack Joe, that Danny is still a good egg. He means well and keeps trying and growing when he can.
Yeah, change sucks, Sal, but sometimes you just have to live with it.
It’s the first time that Sal has even suggested that, if not a friend, Amazi-Girl is a fixture in her life that she’d prefer not to do without. It’s strange, the knots we get tied into in our social relations, isn’t it?
Wouldn’t Roz have tried to get the new person to end up as Mary’s roommate and Roz with Sal? Not that she likes Sal, but that’s better than loathing Mary.
On another note: Even after learning the fight that lost her job was with a rapist, Marcy didn’t reconnect with Sal? Huh….
That isn’t the point; the point (at least to Marcie) is what Sal did, not why. Marcie could be forgiven for seeing it as a personal betrayal of sorts. It could be a long time before she is willing to give Sal the time of day.
Plus, she may not have known it was the same guy Sal was fighting with – the paper may not have published pictures if it was gruesome enough.
If he’s 18, I see no reason his identity, and history of being wanted in the other cases, would be removed from press accounts. (i could be mistaken.)
“lost her job”?
Marcy got fired because she let Sal hang around, and her bosses blamed the fight with Ryan on her
It’s strongly implied that Marcie was fired (or otherwise not kept on as a trainee) after the incidents at the rally.
We haven’t actually seen Marcie since then and it hasn’t been clearly confirmed.
can danny play the chip and dale rescue rangers theme?
Why not sing Cookie Monster songs, speaking of death metal vocals?
You mean like this?
SMOOOOOTH, new Danny
He’s so smooth, he’s managing to make you forget it was yet another day without Becky.
We could be at something of a paradigm shift moment for lots of characters if many rooms are re-arranged to get around Billie being moved out because Chloe seemed to enjoy having Clint’s smile of approval directed at her. Sal may not be the only one to get a new roomie. It’s entertaining to speculate on new combinations that might emerge.
I get the feeling that Chloe and the school aren’t going to put in that much work to deal with this. More likely they’re bringing in someone who was waitlisted. IU has over 48K students so it’s extremely likely that not everyone who wants to live on campus gets into the dorms.
The only other change that *might* happen is Roz moving in with Sal since she’s previously indicated that she wanted to change rooms. They might put the new person in with Mary instead. But I don’t think they’re going to move a bunch of people around just because one left.
Danny should learn from Rob Scallon
I genuinely believe that this is the first time I’ve seen Sal looking so down that she needs a hug! Normally, she doesn’t let it affect her but I think that she really doesn’t want to lose having Billie there and, worse, having to share her living space with a stranger.
I’m sorry about disappearing. I haven’t been well. Bad enough to fall behind on my comics even. Unfortunately, now I’m in the hospital. I fell. Snapped my radius and ulna. Compound fracture. So much blood. I’m on morphine and sometimes I still scream. My voice is hoarse from it. Going in for surgery in a few hours. It will take 3 hours. Maybe more. And I might need physical therapy, but won’t know until surgery is over. I’m scared, but anything is better than this pain.
Be well soon, Bluewind.
Thank you sweetheart. I appreciate it 🙂
Christ on a bike. And I thought my carpal tunnel was bad.
Get well soon.
Holy shit! Hope you make a speedy recovery and get well soon.
Oh, no, I hope you feel better soon! <3
Holy hell. O_o Hope the physical therapy isn’t needed. Either way, get well soon. o_O
OMG!
You don’t need to apologize for not making comments while you’re literally screaming in pain.
Wishing you a speedy and complete recovery.
Hoping for a speedy and complete recovery.
Good luck *hugs* pain fucking sucks.
Thank you all. I appreciate every reply and wish I could hug you all. Wish I could respond to everyone, but I’ll be back out soon so I’m updating everyone before I doze off. Woke up in pain so had to press my morphine button. Glad i decided I might as well see the new comic.
The surgery went well and my forearm no longer buckles when I try to move it. I’m on enough meds to kill a mule. 2 antibiotics to keep the bones from getting infected, fluid, morphine delivered when I press a button, lots of various shots in my IV for various stuff, and one bag I’m not sure what’s for. Plus all the shots (like for tetanus) and some pills (like benadryl because morphine makes you itchy). I’m also now on oxygen because my blood ox kept falling into the 80s percent wise.
The surgery went well considering. Pre op was gonna take and hour to and hour and a half and the surgery itself would take about an hour and a half with an hour to come out of anesthesia. It was most likely to only take a small incision or two. Neither of those things were correct. I was much worse than they thought, surgery took 2 hours 45 minutes, and they had to split my arm open on both sides. It’s painful I won’t lie, but less so then having the bones loose inside my arm. I’m also running a bit of a fever tonight. I’d say more but I’m being pulled back into sleep. I’ll be okay. And thanks again. You guys are great.
Willis, are you trying to get “ukelele death metal” to trend as a Google search term?
…Because it is WORKING.
Why not? We already have black metal surf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLxdNqMXBM
God, I feel for you, Sal.
“Don’t like new people” is the next book title!
It’s also the philosophy of the comment filter, which is usually fine, but it’s made my E-mail shift into a task.
Also, too short for a book title.
Things are definitely happening.
Just in case there’s any confusion, I’ve changed my e-mail address to something slightly different. My old one was honestly kinda cringey, and I don’t really identify as a “gamer” anymore, since it’s gained something of a negative connotation. My URL is also changed, since I’m wanting to focus more on writing than making videos.
If you sing it in grunts and screams, anything can sound like death metal.
Fuckin’ HTML.
Counterpoint:
http://www.digital-jokes.online/post/161937468096#notes
Death Metal Ukulele? Sounds weird enough to be interesting…
Now an Electric Ukulele, that might be even more interesting…
Pedant time: It’s canoodlin’.
That’s another term, along with knickers, which don’t see old-fashioned out of her mouth. She’s just that cool.
Good thing I looked to see if someone already pointed this out.
Gossip rags love to use the word “canoodle” to describe the activities of new or suspected/secret celebrity couples. In other news, I have apparently lost enough of my sense of shame to be able to share that I know this.
Gossip? I have no shame either, so here’s one Walter Winchell slang: pashing it (for canoodling).
Also, seeing as how Joyce can go all noir on us, what’s keeping her from breaking out terms like “pashing it”?
(Once again I have to remind other DofA fans that I’m older than Willis but I did not live through the era described.)
Canoodlin’ [disambiguation]
2: a protein molecule found only in tinned spaghetti.
Is nobody gonna ship Sal and Danny? Danny is giving off a vibe really similar to that math TA she was with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznAYy5yL2A Amazingly, a thing.
I dunno if Danny could do it, since he seems to have gotten his uke “today”, but… he could try learning. 🙂
I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL!
Is it amazing? Is it goofy? Does the Internet need to be stopped? I DON’T KNOW!
Danny suddenly busts out the 1990 Partners in Kryme hit single “Turtle Power.”
*whispers* danny x sal
same tho
Panel 6
Sal: “Yes, please.”
“By the way ah’m friends with Amazi-Girl now. Hope you don’t mind me telling you not to enable her while ah gleefully do that.”
I mean, Sal did try to stop her, and only got involved to save Amazi-Girl’s ass (again), so I’d hardly call it “gleefully”, but that holy shit could that conversation go south fast if/when the subject ever comes up again :/
Danny per tumblr is just happy they’re getting along so I doubt he’d care.
Franky, he’s pretty obviously glad to be out of that shitshow of a relationship.
Frankly*, you stupid piece of shit. Learn to spell.
Whoa, hey. Don’t be so mean to yourself over a typo. Happens to the best of us.
I kind of missed it on the first read, but those first couple panels are nicely subtle. Sal’s just talking about not having contact with one of her friends, but you can see Danny wondering if she’s hinting at Amber being away, if she knows. He even starts to say something, probably to cover for her, but Sal just keeps plowing on about personal problems.
so i was thinking that malaya would be the new roommate since that’d be the funniest, but now i’m wondering if it isnt going to be “funniest choice” for roommate but “most dramatic choice”
i mean that or we get introduced to a new character, which could ALSO go either way
There’ve been some new character designs showing up in the Tumblr previews, so that’s what I’d expect.
Mindy’s niece. Or Anna’s.
Peter’s little sister! Mary’s cousin! The hijinks-enabling possibilities are endless!
An actual unsolicited boner update. Great job getting into your gravatar’s character!
Aaand of course the Great Hand of Willis removed the UBU post during the time I was writing my reply.
Trust me, no one missed anything. But it was an actual UBU, directed at Sal. I am not hallucinating. I think.
Lol, I saw it too 🙂
Well at least he accepted that it was too challenging for him.