Yeah, if anything, they just gave the word real-world bad connotation. Seems like that’d make it more like a real swear word, but that’s just my opinion.
2010? I mean, I don’t often find myself using euphemisms instead of outright swearing anymore except around my parents, but “eff” is kind of the go-to. I mean there’s a ton of other euphemisms if you’re using “fuck” to refer to sex, but the way Joe’s using it? Pretty normal, I’d say.
Enough time has passed. Time to make those euphemisms into Retro Euphemisms. If they can make remastered version of games that came out just a couple years ago we can consider 7 year old fake swear words to be retro!
Always wait for a couple patch cycles before you upgrade DanOS. There’s almost always a zero-day exploit or serious interface flaw that slipped through QA.
You’re lucky you missed Danny 1.8 with the godawful “function tiles” business. AND he used to crash while booting up every other time. It was like Danny Vista all over again.
Yeah, though when you don’ tell have to go to class the same time every day, you have some leeway on sleeping hours. Some weekdays you don’t have to do anything
College was when I discovered that I could stay up ridiculously late and wake up late too if I wanted to, and my sleep schedule has never been the same since.
It’s really frustrating for me. Ever since college I’ve been naturally nocturnal biologically, but psychologically it wrecks havoc with me. Brain still doesn’t want to do actual work-like stuff after about 6PM no matter when I woke up, and I just feel like crap. I’m so much happier and get so much more done when I wake up at 6AM (and sleep appropriately), but I need to drag myself every morning and one night up late to a book or video game or what have you snaps me back onto nights.
My understanding is that people like dunking on original-continuity Danny because the story keeps telling you that he’s a Very Good Boy and centering a lot of the narrative around that (e.g. Sal’s ‘he’s the only person who truly loved me for who I am’ deal), but doesn’t actually give him traits that would make him a Good Boy. So making fun of Danny for not earning his Goodest Boy status in the narrative became a comments meme, and then that snowballed, as these things do.
In this continuity, Danny genuinely is a Pretty Good Boy who has redeeming qualities, so it’s a pretty jarring contrast.
Old Danny (in Roomies) was the classic “enabler Nice Guy who does nothing to confront his shitty sexual harassing friend and in general is very self-involved and self-righteous” archetype. New Danny: Actually nice, but still fun to hate on. ;D
I get the dude had flaws, but comment section made him out to be a super villain. The dude could be on panel with Mary and other eldritch abominations, and some how he was worse. He isn’t perfect, and I think that’s okay.
The problem in the old Roomies! was that his flaws weren’t really acknowledged in the story. He was the self-righteous Nice Guy enabler and that was presented as a Good Thing.
It’s one thing to have the acknowledged villain on panel doing villainous things, another to have the hero being a jerk without any acknowledgement that he was doing anything wrong.
That picture where Batman wields the ukulele as a club and chases after Superman who’s on a unicycle playing a bagpipe with flames coming out of it is pretty nice, though.
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Danny and Dorothy have surprisingly similar coping behaviors
Also, Joe can’t throw any shade at Joyce for silly fake swears, nobody’s said “eff” as a euphemism for “fuck” since, like, 2010
2009. That’s when Fantastic Mr. Fox came out, and we all started saying “cuss” instead.
“What the cuss” and “clustercuss” have become permanent additions to my lexicon.
Fantastic Mr Fox came out in 1970 thank you very much. Kids these days, they wouldn’t know things existed unless there’s a film about it.
Your avatar makes this 10x funnier.
Do you have punnitis, like the actual Claire?
Bit of a vixen about it sometimes.
Oh my god, that’d be fantastic XD
I still use effin.
So do I, but seeing it written down like that makes me want to try “Elfin” instead.
I have started using “fuckity”. Only because I think it is funny.
Let’s not forget, we are also looking at New Joe. At least for a week.
Personally I’m a big fan of “what the effing shit”
I use fricking!
Gosh-darn it for the modern fossil fuel industry ruining the perfectly good curse word “fracking!”
On the other hand, it does mean they can’t object if you say “those frackers are fracking up the planet”!
Yeah, if anything, they just gave the word real-world bad connotation. Seems like that’d make it more like a real swear word, but that’s just my opinion.
what the frell are we going to do without the word “frack” as profanity?
2010? I mean, I don’t often find myself using euphemisms instead of outright swearing anymore except around my parents, but “eff” is kind of the go-to. I mean there’s a ton of other euphemisms if you’re using “fuck” to refer to sex, but the way Joe’s using it? Pretty normal, I’d say.
Or maybe… Oh God am I… an old?
Double-you Tee Eff are you talking about, dude?
Enough time has passed. Time to make those euphemisms into Retro Euphemisms. If they can make remastered version of games that came out just a couple years ago we can consider 7 year old fake swear words to be retro!
I’ve used “frip” instead.
I’m rather fond of using Bob Saget as a curseword… phrase…? eh
New Danny: Kinda the Same as the Old Danny
inb4: on my phone and Splatfest started, shut up
Except Old Danny didn’t wear a hat and play ukelele.
The basis of lasting change is to always keep something, and not try to change everything at the same time
He transformed from Danny 1.0 to Danny 1.1
I beg to differ. It’s more like he’s gone from Danny 1.4 to Danny 2.0.
The new user interface takes some getting used to, and is kind of awkward and clunky, but it’s still a noticeable improvement over the original.
And under the hood, there’s a lot of junk code that needs refactoring and/or re-architecting. But that’s what iterative development is for.
Always wait for a couple patch cycles before you upgrade DanOS. There’s almost always a zero-day exploit or serious interface flaw that slipped through QA.
You’re lucky you missed Danny 1.8 with the godawful “function tiles” business. AND he used to crash while booting up every other time. It was like Danny Vista all over again.
New Danny: Old Danny With Props
College was when I discovered I had a weird sleeping schedule.
Yeah, though when you don’ tell have to go to class the same time every day, you have some leeway on sleeping hours. Some weekdays you don’t have to do anything
College was when I discovered that I could stay up ridiculously late and wake up late too if I wanted to, and my sleep schedule has never been the same since.
I discovered that too!
…and then I discovered that my 8:00 AM classes still ahead even when I wasn’t there…
…and then at some point I wasn’t in college any more.
Yeah, discovering the world doesn’t end if you miss a class is the cause of many failed studies.
It’s really frustrating for me. Ever since college I’ve been naturally nocturnal biologically, but psychologically it wrecks havoc with me. Brain still doesn’t want to do actual work-like stuff after about 6PM no matter when I woke up, and I just feel like crap. I’m so much happier and get so much more done when I wake up at 6AM (and sleep appropriately), but I need to drag myself every morning and one night up late to a book or video game or what have you snaps me back onto nights.
I have the natural advantage of never having had a normal sleep schedule. That’s my secret. I’m always tired.
It took my whole first year of college to break out of my 5:30 am wake-up routine.
Danny’s expressions have come full circle in this one strip.
Danny, Classic Old Danny, Determined New Danny, Trying Too Hard New Danny, Danny
New Danny: Healthier for you, but with the same great taste!
Danny, I like you. You’re not perfect, but we could get along well
See those are my feelings too, but go read the comments in Roomies and you’d think he murdered a puppy or something. I don’t really get it
My understanding is that people like dunking on original-continuity Danny because the story keeps telling you that he’s a Very Good Boy and centering a lot of the narrative around that (e.g. Sal’s ‘he’s the only person who truly loved me for who I am’ deal), but doesn’t actually give him traits that would make him a Good Boy. So making fun of Danny for not earning his Goodest Boy status in the narrative became a comments meme, and then that snowballed, as these things do.
In this continuity, Danny genuinely is a Pretty Good Boy who has redeeming qualities, so it’s a pretty jarring contrast.
Old Danny (in Roomies) was the classic “enabler Nice Guy who does nothing to confront his shitty sexual harassing friend and in general is very self-involved and self-righteous” archetype. New Danny: Actually nice, but still fun to hate on. ;D
Also, new Danny reminds a lot of people of all the ways they were dumb at his age.
I get the dude had flaws, but comment section made him out to be a super villain. The dude could be on panel with Mary and other eldritch abominations, and some how he was worse. He isn’t perfect, and I think that’s okay.
The problem in the old Roomies! was that his flaws weren’t really acknowledged in the story. He was the self-righteous Nice Guy enabler and that was presented as a Good Thing.
It’s one thing to have the acknowledged villain on panel doing villainous things, another to have the hero being a jerk without any acknowledgement that he was doing anything wrong.
Mostly because young Willis had no awareness that it was.
Absolutely. Which is why reading his comments on the rerun of the old stuff is so great.
Freaking the eef out, you mean. *wink wink*
(preemptive reminder, just in case, I use a 3DS and can’t read the hovertext until I get on my computer next morning).
oh good, I didn’t accidentally copy the hovertext, yay!
Fee~eelings…wo wo wo…
(My favorite version of that song is Lindsay Wagner’s from The Bionic Woman, but I don’t believe that’s available anywhere but the DVD.)
So Joe put Danny to bed?
Or just the natural followup to this strip: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/comfortable-2/
Nah, Ethan did 🙂
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/comfortable-2/
Making me think that Ethan took Danny to bed but Joe put Danny in bed
What the Eef?
A different large member of the cast. Different hair cut. Use to date Amber, before he came out.
Last we saw, Danny was passed out with his head in Ethan’s lap. So, presumably, Ethan took care of him.
Meanwhile, depending on what time Joe got up on Saturday, Joe’s been up for maybe 30 hours straight.
Danny was passed out with his head in Ethan’s lap. So, presumably, Ethan took care of him.
This comment would be sooo different from someone with a winking avatar. Where is one of our “Erics” to demonstrate?
Say no more!
Kinda liking “new Joe” so far, however.
So, Danny’s Ukelele and the picture of Batman on the wall made me google “Batman Playing Ukelele”. Results were kinda underwhelming, actually.
That picture where Batman wields the ukulele as a club and chases after Superman who’s on a unicycle playing a bagpipe with flames coming out of it is pretty nice, though.
I do, in fact, crave more Joe/Danny. Thank you for noticing.
Danny, I’m getting to love you more and more!
Oh just kiss each other already.
*fries under everyone’s glare*
No glares here buddy <3
I guess Danny’s officially my favorite character now since :D!!!!! was my immediate reaction to seeing him reappear.
One of us!
Danny’s being suspect.
Are replicants canon in this strip? I forget.
New Joe contributing feels! HE really is trying to become something else
That’s three people he’s passed the Joe-Del test with in, what, two days?
For.Danny it must beat waking up with a webcam tied to your foot to make Joe and Roz’s sex video.
You’re dang right these are the comics I crave for
I love how not even Danny’s hat can contain his eyebrows.
Noticed with approval.
I couldn’t recall, has he had orbiting eyebrows with the hat before this?
new danny is sounding like archie andrews
D’awwww
The dark side of the information revolution: The truly geek are never spontaneous again!
New Danny is a jerk
“more of that sweet danny and joe you crave”
Sweet Danny and Hella Joe?
It keeps happening.
Panel 2 has some kind of weird foreshadowing ?
New Danny is a cute
I do crave!
You know what, I DO crave, dangit.
Both new Danny and old Danny need to get laid
(by a nice hunky gentleman)
(by Ethan)
Does that count as a three-way?
Asking for a friend.
I can’t second this hard enough!
(haha hard)
The thoughts have crossed my mind.
…I now completely understand why Dorothy and Danny dated in the first place, as Dorothy ABSOLUTELY schedules her deep feelings talks too.
oh yes I crave it.
I just binged this whole entire comic… that is all
Your next challenge: Binge all of the Walkyverse.
wait, what is THAT in panel 3???
….oh. top of the Ukelele. out of context it looks a bit like something else.