I am not sure he’s seen her naked, no. I know they had a grinding session once when they were kinda-sorta a thing, enough to where Walky finished, but I don’t think they got outright naked. I could be wrong, though, I never got the slipshine, I just remember in-comic references to the events.
This. I like all three, and think Walky’s dad is right, but this isn’t how you go about finding out Mr
Walkerton. Treat those around you with more respect, not because you’ll be caught and end up lonely, but because they’re people too, and they deserve to be shown at peast that much love. 💔 Your personal brand is happy go lucky, but that doesn’t have to include “asshole”.
TBH I opened up a zoomed version of it to see what witty Amber appropriate noun had replaced base, like “All your IRCs are belong to us” was my leading contender, just had to give up and assume it was base which is fine…
but back in the good old days of webcomic artists supplying 90% of the world’s quirky t-shirts it would have been something that wasn’t stock.
you’re making me want to chart out the various factions and how they overlap or don’t.
i wouldn’t, because that’s very creepy, but the idea of a database that can answer “oh, yes, Charlemagne and qwerty are pro Dorothy, anti Walky, neutral on Carla, but Charlemagne is extremely anti Sal and qwerty loves Sal” sounds kinda neat
Why is noticing it okay but putting it in a database creepy?
Would it be creepy to make notes on index cards or is it the act of using a computer that makes it creepy? Or is keeping track okay but sharing the results creepy?
Inquiring minds. (I mean the only reason I’m not going to keep track of what people have said in public is that it’s too much like work. )
I think it’s the keeping track. Which is different from noticing.
Like if somebidy IRL learned I was autistic and said “there’s several other autistic people here, actually” I’d think “okay, cool.” If they consulted their notebook, wrote down my name, and said “That makes you the seventeenth autistic person here”, my reaction would be more like “Why are you collecting that information? What are you going to do with it?”
As far as I can tell, those of us who chant for makeouts and or ‘just FUCK ALREADY’s typically do so for any and all couples where it could conceivably happen.
I’d be thrilled if Lucy, Dorothy, Amber, and Walky had an intense fourway. Or any combination of threesomes or twosomes thereof.
See also Dorothy/Joyce/Joe and Ethan/Asher/Jennifer/Ruth/Jason.
I’m in the camp of I’d prefer Walky to break up with Lucy instead of cheating.
BUT…if realizes that via a hot make-out session, dry hump session, or actual sex that Yotomoe can draw, I’ll…reluctantly…inject it into my veins!
Seriously, I think Amber, then Dorothy are better relationships for him, and I’m still not convinced he even desires Lucy, which is another reason I want them to break up, so they can both be with someone they want as friends AND lovers.
I’d put Dorothy above Amber, honestly, at least Amber as she is at this point in her arc. Shoving Walky hard enough to knock the table over at the Halloween party, over what was clearly his inability to cope with his own grief? Sorry, that’s a huge red flag, way beyond Dorothy’s issues. It really was, or at least could ben, Baby’s First Domestic Violence Incident.
Amber being in a relationship with anyone right now is a bad idea, no matter how hot Yotome’s drawing of it would absolutely be.
Yes. Me. I’m that. Amber is hotter to me than Dorothy is, so I care less about how she gets from Point A (not making out with anyone) to Point B (making out with someone).
Walky: You again? Get out of here you. Scoot scoot.
Yoto: *Stops hiding behind box but stares defiantly and pushes his two custom action figures closer together slowly. Menacingly.
Walky: I said scram *Sprays with water bottle
Yoto: HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS *Jumps out window
I… don’t even know how to parse that. He and Amber broke up–after Amber physically assaulted him at the Halloween party. Saying that it’s ‘cheating’ for him to be going out with Lucy instead is, frankly, kind of ick, the sort of mentality that gets used in real world abusive relationships to make victims think they owe it to their partner-abuser to keep trying to make it work.
Amber and he might drift into a situation where it’s more likely than Dorothy desperately asking him to get back together while standing in the middle of a muddy pile of melted plow snow.
Never got drift, myself, thankfully. Also, Amber answering the door in her underwear surprised me, but I guess she’s more socially anxious, not so much about her body.
I know Ambers shirt reads: “All your base are belong to us”
but from this angel it could be “all your abuse are belong to us” which fits Amber disturbingly well.
Also, are those Transformers Beast Wars heraldry on her door? One is Insectacons right?
_An_ Amber was. However DoA started in 2010 and /this/ Amber was 18 *then*. Maybe if Ana’s sliding time scale doesn’t only apply to the active time-line, then Amber was 18 for AYBABTU. But if not (what I’m figuring on) then Amber was eight in y2k/2k1 when the AYBABTU meme took off. Interestingly, she may not have shocked mom or Blaine with it, since “unlike other memes of the time, it lacked sexual innuendos or vulgarity.”
I know what it should say, but also am not sure about that word.
I have shirts older than that meme (I’m currently wearing Now I am Become Death in the Barbie font, which is newer than AYB), so it could be the original (especially given the dumbing time undertow), but it’s not hard to just make your own.
Specifically the Mac version for me. The music just hits different going through that version’s MIDI sequencer. (Why they didn’t just leverage QuickTime Musical Instruments, I have no idea.)
I still think its the best city sim ever I loved that you could make your own buildings. It’s grid system is easy to pick up and a good road design system.
My biggest gripe is the subway system. 8-year-old me could never get the damn subways to line up due to the parallax offset between the overworld grid and where the game draws the tunnel sprite. 35-year-old me doesn’t fare much better. None of my cities have a robust subway system.
2. Probably still Mario Galaxy, if we’re sticking to Mario, although Odyssey is a close second. And if we expand beyond that, I’ve had a lot of fun with Sonic Frontiers.
1. I did not really play video games as young child, but I really enjoyed playing Age of Empires and Star Wars Battlefront II at my friend’s house. Later in middle and highschool I would get really into Bioware Games.
2. Though I love RPG and strategy games, I guess my current favorite video game would be Dishonored 2 (I keep trying to beat it on New Game+ Ironman, but when the smallest mistake kills you and the games version of powercells explode if you even set them down wrong — its hard)
PS. What about you?
PPS. You change your Avatar a lot, and I’ve forgotten how to do that. Can you remind me?
Part of me wants to become an active contributor on Walkypedia to fix everything that’s out of date but then I’d wanna fix everything that’s out of date and a) wouldn’t know where to start and b) it would totally take over my life if I let it
1. My favorite Mario game as a kid hands down was Super Mario Galaxy 🌌
2. My current favorite game would have to be The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth, I’ve beaten it so many times it’s basically a stim toy for me at this point 😆
funny enough I don’t play a lot of games these days besides the ones I work on for my coding commissions, they are fun games tho! 🎮
That’s Quitter Talk there. You never *need* to quit playing games. I’m 59 and still doing it. Reading fiction & playing “vidya games” keeps your brain young! (even as your body fails you)
Yeah. Like, no-one ever says “I realised that I was 45 and so needed to quit reading books”, so why would you say it with video games? It’s a hobby! Hobbies are great!
(Unless BB meant that they were in their 40s when they were playing Carnival for the Colecovision. If so, I’m not going to tell an 80 year old what to do.)
Bridge (the card game) used to be a game college kids skipped class to play in the dorms, a game people would bet money on. Those folks didn’t give up their “silly game” – it’s a super-popular hobby among those same folks now in their older age! Great example of how the fun hobbies (like games) you like to do as a kid are totally reasonable to keep doing as an adult of any age.
The oldest Mario game I’ve played is New Super Mario Bros. on the DSi, and that was only a few years ago.
If we’re talking pure nostalgia, I have to go with The Legend of Dragoon, on the PS1. It was my first console RPG, and I honestly think it holds up today. In fact, I’ve been streaming it lately, and it’s just as fun as I remembered. Never did manage to beat it, but at the rate I’ve been going, that’ll change by the end of the week.
I used to play Donkey Kong competitively. Does that count?
My current favorite game is probably Fortnite. It’s just really fun to get on voice chat and pester my squad mates so they’re distracted and don’t notice me taking all the gold.
Chess, on account of I pre-date video games. By the time Pong came out I was out of my teens.
Nowadays, Eve Online, on account of the depth of the game and the number of different playstyles it accommodates. It’s a thinking persons game, but the graphics are cool and the sparse but intense adrenaline surges are nicely addictive.
My favorite game growing up was the first game I played, Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis. Right now my favorite game is probably Stardew Valley, though I rarely have time to play it these days.
1. Sunshine, though in retrospect I think I like 64 slightly better, we had an Action Replay disc with Sunshine cheats on it for the Gamecube though, and that was tons of fun to just mess around with. Moonjump cheats with Sunshine’s versatile movement set is ecstasy to a young gamer.
2. Really enjoying going back and playing modded Fallout New Vegas again lately, but for new games it would probably be Baldur’s Gate (special credit to Vampire Survivors though for popularizing my favorite subgenre of cheap indie games, I think I have like 5 or 6 <$10, many of them $5 or less, swarm survivors on Steam that all fill a certain slightly different niche urge when I just have like 30 minutes to play a session).
I think I played SMB3 the most of any of them, or SMW (not SMBW), but the only one that made me hyperventilate was SMB. As I recall it was a least levels no glitches playthrough, and it was the first time I beat the first quest. I recorded it on my VCR, and I think someone got me on camcorder as well, but god knows where those tapes are today.
SMW had me coming back because of all the bonus levels (I unlocked pumpkins), and SMB3 because of the randomness, route optimizations, and special outfits (Hammertime).
1.5 (in between, all growed up but years ago) Colossal Cave Adventure. (Unkuulian Unventures was interesting but I could never get out of the starting scene.)
props to all of your choices 🙂
(I used to be in an online X-wing squadron (club), I love KSP, and I don’t let myself play Civ games anymore – they eat entire weekends.)
I didn’t really start actually gaming till the pandemic bc I grew up in the 2000s and “ewww that’s a boy thing” but I did have some safe gender neutral normie stuff. I think my favorite is unironically Wii sports resort, that shit slapped severely. Matt is my lifelong rival. And just dance 2, which for no reason than my own nostalgia is the greatest just dance. Ra ra raputine and toxic? Incredible.
I was more of a flash game kid. Like addicting games if y’all remember that. I was on that shit every weekend.
In honor of Walky’s ADHD and in the spirit of blocking out uncomfortable reminders, I’ll just straight-up play a little white noise on the hacked waterfall outside:
Honestly right now I’ve been using my Switch to play classic Tetris and FE Blazing Blade but outside of BG3 I’ve been playing Fire Emblem Sacred Stone rom hacks.
Frankly, I’m just glad to know Walky is actually interacting with other characters than the main ones.
I’ve been a little worried about his ability to make friends, especially male ones.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the main characters or having mostly female friends; I just wanted him to have a bit more range, to branch out more.
Walky gets along pretty well with Joe, actually.
They don’t go out of their way to hang out, but when they’re around each other, they’re usually friendly.
As for Danny, that’s almost all on the good egg for disliking Walky for stupid reasons.
Walky has recently mouthed off to him, but if you look over their past encounters, he almost never says anything negative or mean about Danny.
But Danny has disliked Walky nonstop from the moment he found out that he was messing with Dorothy, and it boggles my mind why anyone, Danny included, would put that on Walky or think that’s ok (not that you necessarily do).
I got the impression Danny didn’t like the situation, when introduced to Walky by Dorothy asking for Danny’s shoes for her new boyfriend shortly after dumping him because she said she didn’t think she should have a boyfriend. And the dislike for Walky personally grew from him reducing Danny to that, eg https://www.dumbingofage.com/flavor/
so boggle away at me, I can’t unsee Walky antagonizing Danny.
Dorothy never said she shouldn’t have a boyfriend.
She broke up with Danny because she didn’t like that he made his life choices based off her decisions and the final straw was when he suggested the possibility that she might change her mind on wanting to be president.
Yes, she told Walky she needed to take a break to concentrate on her studies, but she never said that to Danny.
And Danny called Walky Mowgli a minute after meeting him, and later spoke negatively about him with Amber.
So no, it wasn’t the situation, it was Walky.
Would Danny feel that way about anyone Dorothy dated, sure probably, but it’s still irrational dislike on a person because of a situation that has nothing to do with Danny and not because of what the person did.
Also, considering the strip you chose is the beginning of the second semester, that’s almost half a year of Danny not liking Walky (and let’s be fair, most of the characters in the comic remember Danny for the Hat and he DID like that he wore it).
I put that squarely in the “teenager fresh out of highschool logic” box. Lil toxic? Maybe but teenagers are all inherently toxic in some way. He’ll realize it’s dumb in his 20s and get over it
It’s not surprising that Walky doesn’t have more male friends when you consider that the cast (at least the main and secondary characters) of this comic is predominantly female. Just an observation/opinion.
Yeah – it’s like a hallmark movie in some ways. Or Sex in the City. Male characters who aren’t either close friends or romantic interests for the female leads kind of fade into the background. Alas – poor Jacob. Last appeared three years ago
It’s unclear, like so far I don’t think it’s been firmly established, though he has walked around in his boxers plenty of times. He does sometimes wear pajama pants, though, so, it could honestly go either way.
I see it more of a slow build. He has a knack for doing the reality check without any animosity or disappointment that makes her feel better being around.
If he misses the connection with Dorothy, he’ll end up with Sarah and that will be love at first sight (first interaction at least). He has enough snark they mesh well, and she find’s alternate timeline Arnold’s corny pickup line hilarious. He likes his women like he likes his beer: tall, cold, and bitter.
Anything could have happened offscreen between the timeskip part up to Halloween, but I think from what’s been stated between them before they have done some ‘clothes on dry humping’.
Nintendo went from “this gameboy survived the bombing of Baghdad” to “half of all Switches are literally unplayable. It’s been like five years and they haven’t done anything about this.”
Why should they? They make more money when you spend $80 on a new pair of Joycons, so they have no incentive to make them more functional. People wanting products that work are being selfish and need to think about the bottom line.
Nintendo really has dropped in quality. Given that the Switch came out in 2017 and “today” is January 2011 the controllers are broken 6 years ahead of schedule.
Planned obsolescence babeyyyyy
Same reasons your old Nokia could tank a train but your new iPhone shatters if you breathe on it wrong and self destructs a year or two after purchase date
Hey y’all with stick drift, look into getting a repair kit with Gulikit hall-effect sticks. Doing the repair yourself can seem a bit daunting, but be patient and believe in yourself and you can eliminate stick drift forever.
I don’t have a Switch, but I flew literally thousands of hours of X-plane and MS Flight Simulator and wore out many sticks before getting an early version of the Hall Effect stick that lasted until I finally got a computer without a dedicated joystick port, so about 6 years, maybe? I need to get one for USB and a flight sim for this janky laptop. Lots of definition but almost no framerate.
I don’t think I’ve played a video game on a console in years. These days I either buy games on Steam, or find ones that are available for free online and download them or play them in browser if I can. And sadly I rarely have time to play games anyway.
I like that Amber isn’t really a gamer in the traditional sense, she’s just hyperfixated on competition and being the best at everything (there’s that Batman personality coming to the forefront).
She has sometimes been shown to play MMOs, so there’s that, too, though yeah, she’s definitely competitive, like her running rivalry with Sal in Mario Kart.
Does “not a traditional gamer” mean that in the 90’s she would have been playing the less popular Doom instead of the much more popular Barbie Fashion Designer video game?
Many years ago, I overheard a girl I worked with mutter “All your base are belong to us” while we were working. We’ve been married for almost 15 years now.
Related: As a Valentine’s Day gift one year she got me a shirt that read: “Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF. All of my base are belong to you.”
I bought a Switch Lite a few years ago specifically for Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled. They won’t port it to PC, and this way I can feel a little less guilty about playing it on PC anyway.
Once the novelty wore off, the Switch became the portable YouTube machine.
This made me dust the Nexus tablet off. Apparently T-Mobile killed off the free 200 meg plans in 2020? It was supposed to be “for life”, ya jerks! Excuse me for taking care of my stuff so a tablet lasts a decade.
Oh well, my current place has much more reliable infrastructure than my old one, and my work phone has tethering enabled anyway, so I don’t really need a tertiary backup plan to get my morning webcomic fix. It’s more the principle of the thing!
I know what you mean, but it feels unlikely. The people he needs protecting from are dead (unless you count the ambiguous mafia connections Blaine had) and his parents seem to legitimately act as if he is dead.
Though i still wouldn’t put it past him to pop up behind Walky one day just to insult him.
Hi hi completely unrelated I’m so fucking stupid i just looked back at the whipped cream recipe I posted yesterday and I left off the most important part. Half a teaspoon OF LEMON EXTRACT fuck. Or vanilla if you want but preferably actual vanilla extract since the flavor is super different from artificial flavoring but it can be expensive and hard to get depending on where you are so no judgement.
2 parts whipping cream, 1 part sugar, Use a quarter to a half of a teaspoon of whatever flavoring you want, it’ll really pop and make the whipped cream unique from the premade stuff. Also keep an eye on it if you’re using a stand/electric mixer, it’s easy to over whip and then it’ll start separating. I think it starts turning into butter or something
She is not wearing pants?
What is the protocol on such interactions?
A woman he dated greets him without pants while he is dating another woman, she knows he is dating another woman… This feels too familiar to be okay in this context.
Woman, put on some pants.
Dang the lack of an edit feature, but this is the 22nd anniversary of being officially unkillable with blunt force trauma. At 2001-08-31 0119 a truck travelling at an estimated 45-65 MPH (based on distance from point of impact and weight and also on my bike being 1/4 mile further away) was used as a murder weapon, but it failed to keep me dead and I revived enough at the scene to inquire if anybody got the number of the truck and also give the wrong home address and wrong phone number. They were an address and phone number where I lived previously, 25 and 15 years previously respectively. but not my current address and phone number.
The driver of the truck died in another wreck about 2 years later and was verifiably drunk with a BAC% of 0.30+ (test unreliable over 0.30 BAC%). I’m so badass I can kill people without having to be there, they just do it for me.
They only read the test to 0.30% because the legal limit at the time was 0.10%, so to get the calibration tight around 0.10 they limited the test to a max reading of 0.30%. Now they can get a good reading from as low as 0.04% to pure ethanol.
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surprised Walky never asked for a game system despite throwing away whole ass laptops
might be kinda tough to do NOW
When did he throw away a laptop?
He joked about it when Dorothy says crying is like resetting a lagging laptop.
I spent a VERY long time trying to find the link but *low energy*
When she visits the therapist after the Ryan stabbing
I got a hacked ROM emulator to play the Beast Wars II Gameboy fighting game.
doing god’s work
If you’re into RPGs, I’ll always and forever recommend Golden Sun :33
Pants?
Nope!
Pants are a torture device created by the ruling class to hold society back.
Yeah!!! Power back to the pantie-lateriot! XD
*PICHU!!!*
Good friends don’t need pants.
Hasn’t he already seen her naked? why would she be worried about him seeing her in her underwear enough to go get changed lol.
I am not sure he’s seen her naked, no. I know they had a grinding session once when they were kinda-sorta a thing, enough to where Walky finished, but I don’t think they got outright naked. I could be wrong, though, I never got the slipshine, I just remember in-comic references to the events.
Pantsu.
Poor Lucy
This. I like all three, and think Walky’s dad is right, but this isn’t how you go about finding out Mr
Walkerton. Treat those around you with more respect, not because you’ll be caught and end up lonely, but because they’re people too, and they deserve to be shown at peast that much love. 💔 Your personal brand is happy go lucky, but that doesn’t have to include “asshole”.
What? How is this disrespectful to anyone?
It’s not. Yet.
But we can hope.
Pants are an illusion and so is death.
See my comment below about unkillable badass…
ban them, thighs save lives
[disclaimer: i live in winterlands, please do not actually ban pants]
Nice shirt Amber
Love the shirt!
Love the everything.
The meme on Amber’s shirt is older than she is by sliding timescale rules, and that’s horrifying in multiple ways lol
OMG Amber’s shirt ♡
What does it say? All I can read is “all your ???? are belong to us”
All your base are belong to us.
Kid’s nowadays. No history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
TBH I opened up a zoomed version of it to see what witty Amber appropriate noun had replaced base, like “All your IRCs are belong to us” was my leading contender, just had to give up and assume it was base which is fine…
but back in the good old days of webcomic artists supplying 90% of the world’s quirky t-shirts it would have been something that wasn’t stock.
Ships would have been good too, also I’m not closing that zoomed in image.
…I mean, to be fair, it’s a good image. Especially for people who like… uh, T-shirts.
(It’s no Kraft Mac & Cheese shirt, though.)
Back in my day, we would take off every zig. For great justice.
MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT.
That would be real garbage (roof) of him.
Yes, and I’m all for it.
MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT. MAKE OUT.
Are any of the folks calling for makeouts here in the same camp as those criticizing Dorothy for making a play for Walky? Just curious, really.
you’re making me want to chart out the various factions and how they overlap or don’t.
i wouldn’t, because that’s very creepy, but the idea of a database that can answer “oh, yes, Charlemagne and qwerty are pro Dorothy, anti Walky, neutral on Carla, but Charlemagne is extremely anti Sal and qwerty loves Sal” sounds kinda neat
Why is noticing it okay but putting it in a database creepy?
Would it be creepy to make notes on index cards or is it the act of using a computer that makes it creepy? Or is keeping track okay but sharing the results creepy?
Inquiring minds. (I mean the only reason I’m not going to keep track of what people have said in public is that it’s too much like work. )
I think it’s the keeping track. Which is different from noticing.
Like if somebidy IRL learned I was autistic and said “there’s several other autistic people here, actually” I’d think “okay, cool.” If they consulted their notebook, wrote down my name, and said “That makes you the seventeenth autistic person here”, my reaction would be more like “Why are you collecting that information? What are you going to do with it?”
Reminds of the distinction between Joe’s List and people just noticing people they thought were hot.
As far as I can tell, those of us who chant for makeouts and or ‘just FUCK ALREADY’s typically do so for any and all couples where it could conceivably happen.
I’d be thrilled if Lucy, Dorothy, Amber, and Walky had an intense fourway. Or any combination of threesomes or twosomes thereof.
See also Dorothy/Joyce/Joe and Ethan/Asher/Jennifer/Ruth/Jason.
I’m in the camp of I’d prefer Walky to break up with Lucy instead of cheating.
BUT…if realizes that via a hot make-out session, dry hump session, or actual sex that Yotomoe can draw, I’ll…reluctantly…inject it into my veins!
Seriously, I think Amber, then Dorothy are better relationships for him, and I’m still not convinced he even desires Lucy, which is another reason I want them to break up, so they can both be with someone they want as friends AND lovers.
I’d put Dorothy above Amber, honestly, at least Amber as she is at this point in her arc. Shoving Walky hard enough to knock the table over at the Halloween party, over what was clearly his inability to cope with his own grief? Sorry, that’s a huge red flag, way beyond Dorothy’s issues. It really was, or at least could ben, Baby’s First Domestic Violence Incident.
Amber being in a relationship with anyone right now is a bad idea, no matter how hot Yotome’s drawing of it would absolutely be.
It could have been, but it was also coming out of her own inability to cope with her grief, not something that was likely to be an ongoing pattern.
Yes. Me. I’m that. Amber is hotter to me than Dorothy is, so I care less about how she gets from Point A (not making out with anyone) to Point B (making out with someone).
Walky: You again? Get out of here you. Scoot scoot.
Yoto: *Stops hiding behind box but stares defiantly and pushes his two custom action figures closer together slowly. Menacingly.
Walky: I said scram *Sprays with water bottle
Yoto: HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS *Jumps out window
CATS, am I right?
TAKE OFF EVERY CLOTHES.
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING.
MOVE CLOTHES.
FOR GREAT GARBAGE.
I pressed Flag instead of reply, sorry 🙁
Ziggety ziggety
seconded
Amber’s, like, ridiculously hot, but if he wasn’t going to cheat for Dorothy, I don’t see him cheating on Lucy with Amber.
Cheating with Amber on Lucy might be overdoing it.
Yes, but he’s currently cheating on Amber with Lucy, so he doesn’t have much of a foundation as it is.
I… don’t even know how to parse that. He and Amber broke up–after Amber physically assaulted him at the Halloween party. Saying that it’s ‘cheating’ for him to be going out with Lucy instead is, frankly, kind of ick, the sort of mentality that gets used in real world abusive relationships to make victims think they owe it to their partner-abuser to keep trying to make it work.
Yeah, I mean, before they even get started I think Lucy’s going to ask them to get off of her. I doubt they’d even get to the cheating, really.
Amber and he might drift into a situation where it’s more likely than Dorothy desperately asking him to get back together while standing in the middle of a muddy pile of melted plow snow.
MAKE OUT EVERY ZIG.
FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
I need to know where she got that shirt. Now!
They can still be found here: https://www.zazzle.com/all_your_base_are_belong_to_us_t_shirt-235138709556651372
Never got drift, myself, thankfully. Also, Amber answering the door in her underwear surprised me, but I guess she’s more socially anxious, not so much about her body.
I know Ambers shirt reads: “All your base are belong to us”
but from this angel it could be “all your abuse are belong to us” which fits Amber disturbingly well.
Also, are those Transformers Beast Wars heraldry on her door? One is Insectacons right?
I read it as “all your base etc” too … but how old would it make that shirt? Wouldn’t she have outgrown it years ago?
You can buy them on several websites brand-new, tonight if you wanted to. The Internet is a marvelous curse.
Long may it curse.
Nah, she was 18 years old when that was a thing.
_An_ Amber was. However DoA started in 2010 and /this/ Amber was 18 *then*. Maybe if Ana’s sliding time scale doesn’t only apply to the active time-line, then Amber was 18 for AYBABTU. But if not (what I’m figuring on) then Amber was eight in y2k/2k1 when the AYBABTU meme took off. Interestingly, she may not have shocked mom or Blaine with it, since “unlike other memes of the time, it lacked sexual innuendos or vulgarity.”
Amber’s shirt definitely doesn’t say “all your abuse are belong to us”, but the fact that you thought it could says a LOT about. Society.
I know what it should say, but also am not sure about that word.
I have shirts older than that meme (I’m currently wearing Now I am Become Death in the Barbie font, which is newer than AYB), so it could be the original (especially given the dumbing time undertow), but it’s not hard to just make your own.
Okie, new game for anyone in the mood —
1. What was your favorite Mario game growing up? (or if you didn’t play Mario, any nostalgic game really)
2. What’s your favorite game right now?
Growing up Mario 3 for the NES right now Balders Gate 3
If I am going favorite game of all time it’s Sim City 2000
YES.
Specifically the Mac version for me. The music just hits different going through that version’s MIDI sequencer. (Why they didn’t just leverage QuickTime Musical Instruments, I have no idea.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZwCVd6P90
I still think its the best city sim ever I loved that you could make your own buildings. It’s grid system is easy to pick up and a good road design system.
My biggest gripe is the subway system. 8-year-old me could never get the damn subways to line up due to the parallax offset between the overworld grid and where the game draws the tunnel sprite. 35-year-old me doesn’t fare much better. None of my cities have a robust subway system.
1. Tetris.
2. Tetris.
Ha! xD
Man, reaching Level 9 on Tetris still gives me nightmares. Just DROP DROP DROP, no delay. So fast. PANIC PANIC PANIC. Game Over.
Just like life!
“Successes vanish. Mistakes pile up.”
Life lessons from Tetris!
xD
Da, comdrade. Tetris is life. As the Americkanskis say: “True dat”. 😀
1. Super Mario Galaxy, no contest.
2. Probably still Mario Galaxy, if we’re sticking to Mario, although Odyssey is a close second. And if we expand beyond that, I’ve had a lot of fun with Sonic Frontiers.
1. I did not really play video games as young child, but I really enjoyed playing Age of Empires and Star Wars Battlefront II at my friend’s house. Later in middle and highschool I would get really into Bioware Games.
2. Though I love RPG and strategy games, I guess my current favorite video game would be Dishonored 2 (I keep trying to beat it on New Game+ Ironman, but when the smallest mistake kills you and the games version of powercells explode if you even set them down wrong — its hard)
PS. What about you?
PPS. You change your Avatar a lot, and I’ve forgotten how to do that. Can you remind me?
Gravatar.com, just gotta log in and pick a different image.
For the curious:
There’s a full write-up of Grav Roulette on Walkypedia.
This comment-py pasta, brought to you by, “no pants!”
Part of me wants to become an active contributor on Walkypedia to fix everything that’s out of date but then I’d wanna fix everything that’s out of date and a) wouldn’t know where to start and b) it would totally take over my life if I let it
1. My favorite Mario game as a kid hands down was Super Mario Galaxy 🌌
2. My current favorite game would have to be The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth, I’ve beaten it so many times it’s basically a stim toy for me at this point 😆
funny enough I don’t play a lot of games these days besides the ones I work on for my coding commissions, they are fun games tho! 🎮
PPS: change the case in your email to play avatar roulette, I think
That only applies if you haven’t already set your own gravitar LOL
1. Mario 64 was mind-blowing to me, though it wasn’t my first. I think my favorite was actually Mario’s Time Machine, the edutainment game, lol.
2. Probably modded Minecraft, when I can focus on it, and Slay the Spire when I can’t.
Carnival for the Colecovision
Tetris and Radar Mission for the Gameboy
Then I realized I was getting into my forties and needed to quit playing games.
That’s Quitter Talk there. You never *need* to quit playing games. I’m 59 and still doing it. Reading fiction & playing “vidya games” keeps your brain young! (even as your body fails you)
+1
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Yeah. Like, no-one ever says “I realised that I was 45 and so needed to quit reading books”, so why would you say it with video games? It’s a hobby! Hobbies are great!
(Unless BB meant that they were in their 40s when they were playing Carnival for the Colecovision. If so, I’m not going to tell an 80 year old what to do.)
Emphatic agreement from someone who’s also in her fifties. We Will Never Stop!
There’s a rather famous C.S. Lewis quote about that.
Then again, it might be that the issue is less “video games are childish” and more “my reflexes can’t keep up anymore.” 🙁
Bridge (the card game) used to be a game college kids skipped class to play in the dorms, a game people would bet money on. Those folks didn’t give up their “silly game” – it’s a super-popular hobby among those same folks now in their older age! Great example of how the fun hobbies (like games) you like to do as a kid are totally reasonable to keep doing as an adult of any age.
Spider-man 2 growing up.
Favorite game right now? Not sure. A three way tie between Infamous, The Force Unleashed, and Spider-man 2018?
1. Super Mario World!!
2. FFXIV
The oldest Mario game I’ve played is New Super Mario Bros. on the DSi, and that was only a few years ago.
If we’re talking pure nostalgia, I have to go with The Legend of Dragoon, on the PS1. It was my first console RPG, and I honestly think it holds up today. In fact, I’ve been streaming it lately, and it’s just as fun as I remembered. Never did manage to beat it, but at the rate I’ve been going, that’ll change by the end of the week.
I used to play Donkey Kong competitively. Does that count?
My current favorite game is probably Fortnite. It’s just really fun to get on voice chat and pester my squad mates so they’re distracted and don’t notice me taking all the gold.
It sure does! Any nostalgic game really! 🕹️
Chess, on account of I pre-date video games. By the time Pong came out I was out of my teens.
Nowadays, Eve Online, on account of the depth of the game and the number of different playstyles it accommodates. It’s a thinking persons game, but the graphics are cool and the sparse but intense adrenaline surges are nicely addictive.
awe shit, fucking LOVE Eve Online, barely got the spoons for it these days unfortunately
for those who don’t know, it’s an intergalactic spreadsheet simulator for all those hard-to-scratch autistic itches if ya got em
1. Carmageddon – particularly Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now.
2. Heavily into the Fallout franchise, and yes, that includes FO76.
My favorite game growing up was the first game I played, Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis. Right now my favorite game is probably Stardew Valley, though I rarely have time to play it these days.
1. Sunshine, though in retrospect I think I like 64 slightly better, we had an Action Replay disc with Sunshine cheats on it for the Gamecube though, and that was tons of fun to just mess around with. Moonjump cheats with Sunshine’s versatile movement set is ecstasy to a young gamer.
2. Really enjoying going back and playing modded Fallout New Vegas again lately, but for new games it would probably be Baldur’s Gate (special credit to Vampire Survivors though for popularizing my favorite subgenre of cheap indie games, I think I have like 5 or 6 <$10, many of them $5 or less, swarm survivors on Steam that all fill a certain slightly different niche urge when I just have like 30 minutes to play a session).
I think I played SMB3 the most of any of them, or SMW (not SMBW), but the only one that made me hyperventilate was SMB. As I recall it was a least levels no glitches playthrough, and it was the first time I beat the first quest. I recorded it on my VCR, and I think someone got me on camcorder as well, but god knows where those tapes are today.
SMW had me coming back because of all the bonus levels (I unlocked pumpkins), and SMB3 because of the randomness, route optimizations, and special outfits (Hammertime).
1. Mario Bros. Not Super Mario Bros. I mean the Mario Bros arcade game.
2. Transformers: Devastation
1. Chinese checkers.
2. I have a computer and a cartload of languages and I know how to use them. There is no better game!
1.5 (in between, all growed up but years ago) Colossal Cave Adventure. (Unkuulian Unventures was interesting but I could never get out of the starting scene.)
1. Most formative game, I think that’d be the X-Wing series. Those games stayed with me for a good part of my teenage years.
2. Other than some playthroughs of Civ VI, I’ve started KSP. It was in the backlog. xD
(also accidentally flagged your post, hope David sees this and doesn’t delete your comment or anything, sorry!)
props to all of your choices 🙂
(I used to be in an online X-wing squadron (club), I love KSP, and I don’t let myself play Civ games anymore – they eat entire weekends.)
I didn’t really start actually gaming till the pandemic bc I grew up in the 2000s and “ewww that’s a boy thing” but I did have some safe gender neutral normie stuff. I think my favorite is unironically Wii sports resort, that shit slapped severely. Matt is my lifelong rival. And just dance 2, which for no reason than my own nostalgia is the greatest just dance. Ra ra raputine and toxic? Incredible.
I was more of a flash game kid. Like addicting games if y’all remember that. I was on that shit every weekend.
no console, Hack was the first game I remember being really into.
currently playing a lot of civ5, but have an idea for a patch (what we used to call mods) for NetHack kicking around.
When I was growing up Pong was still in the distant future.
Man that shirt really made me feel old.
Oh man, an “all your base” shirt. That was already old before my time, but it still makes me feel old.
There is no chance to survive make your time
Ha. Ha. Ha.
what you say
HA HA HA HA . . . .
Accurate quoting is important! Without it, you’ll remember the whole atmosphere wrong! Four HAs, four dots, all separated by spaces!
Evidence: https://youtu.be/qItugh-fFgg?t=30
Is it just me, or does that URL look like a slur typed by an inebriated person?
I would say no, but maybe you know more slurs than I do.
sounds like something a 30 year old would say.
Oh wow, little bit, yeah.
In honor of Walky’s ADHD and in the spirit of blocking out uncomfortable reminders, I’ll just straight-up play a little white noise on the hacked waterfall outside:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWlFKrzvsm0
Walky you are on the way to destruction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
Oh, yes! Much more appropriate to play over the hacked Starship viewscreen!
Honestly right now I’ve been using my Switch to play classic Tetris and FE Blazing Blade but outside of BG3 I’ve been playing Fire Emblem Sacred Stone rom hacks.
Frankly, I’m just glad to know Walky is actually interacting with other characters than the main ones.
I’ve been a little worried about his ability to make friends, especially male ones.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the main characters or having mostly female friends; I just wanted him to have a bit more range, to branch out more.
Oh no you’ve said the magic words that will bring the wrath of the boards down on your head
Walky having more/any male friends?!?!?!?! Why!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Too subtle?)
I agree, and he could probably benefit from an example of masculinity that’s not pulled directly from an old boy-centered cartoon.
if Walky wasn’t such a horses arse he would have done well with Danny and Joe
Walky gets along pretty well with Joe, actually.
They don’t go out of their way to hang out, but when they’re around each other, they’re usually friendly.
As for Danny, that’s almost all on the good egg for disliking Walky for stupid reasons.
Walky has recently mouthed off to him, but if you look over their past encounters, he almost never says anything negative or mean about Danny.
But Danny has disliked Walky nonstop from the moment he found out that he was messing with Dorothy, and it boggles my mind why anyone, Danny included, would put that on Walky or think that’s ok (not that you necessarily do).
I got the impression Danny didn’t like the situation, when introduced to Walky by Dorothy asking for Danny’s shoes for her new boyfriend shortly after dumping him because she said she didn’t think she should have a boyfriend. And the dislike for Walky personally grew from him reducing Danny to that, eg https://www.dumbingofage.com/flavor/
so boggle away at me, I can’t unsee Walky antagonizing Danny.
Dorothy never said she shouldn’t have a boyfriend.
She broke up with Danny because she didn’t like that he made his life choices based off her decisions and the final straw was when he suggested the possibility that she might change her mind on wanting to be president.
Yes, she told Walky she needed to take a break to concentrate on her studies, but she never said that to Danny.
And Danny called Walky Mowgli a minute after meeting him, and later spoke negatively about him with Amber.
So no, it wasn’t the situation, it was Walky.
Would Danny feel that way about anyone Dorothy dated, sure probably, but it’s still irrational dislike on a person because of a situation that has nothing to do with Danny and not because of what the person did.
Also, considering the strip you chose is the beginning of the second semester, that’s almost half a year of Danny not liking Walky (and let’s be fair, most of the characters in the comic remember Danny for the Hat and he DID like that he wore it).
I put that squarely in the “teenager fresh out of highschool logic” box. Lil toxic? Maybe but teenagers are all inherently toxic in some way. He’ll realize it’s dumb in his 20s and get over it
It’s not surprising that Walky doesn’t have more male friends when you consider that the cast (at least the main and secondary characters) of this comic is predominantly female. Just an observation/opinion.
Yeah – it’s like a hallmark movie in some ways. Or Sex in the City. Male characters who aren’t either close friends or romantic interests for the female leads kind of fade into the background. Alas – poor Jacob. Last appeared three years ago
Wait for it.
So wait is Walky wearing pants?
I don’t think either of them are, which is a thing people in this dorm keep doing.
Amber definitely isn’t.
It’s unclear, like so far I don’t think it’s been firmly established, though he has walked around in his boxers plenty of times. He does sometimes wear pajama pants, though, so, it could honestly go either way.
There must be justice: Walky should have no pants, too.
For great justice.
Arnold mention 😀
Any day now, Dorothy’s gonna run into him and it’ll be True Love at first sight.
I see it more of a slow build. He has a knack for doing the reality check without any animosity or disappointment that makes her feel better being around.
If he misses the connection with Dorothy, he’ll end up with Sarah and that will be love at first sight (first interaction at least). He has enough snark they mesh well, and she find’s alternate timeline Arnold’s corny pickup line hilarious. He likes his women like he likes his beer: tall, cold, and bitter.
Amber would fit in Walky’s bed.
I’ll let myself out.
Kind of you to vacate the bed so she has room.
… for Walky. And her computer.
I like that Walky and Amber are talking again. of course, that won’t make me forgive you, Willis
Did Walky and Amber ever have sex before they broke up? I know Amber and Danny did, but I can’t remember with the former.
Anything could have happened offscreen between the timeskip part up to Halloween, but I think from what’s been stated between them before they have done some ‘clothes on dry humping’.
Yeah, as far as we know, they haven’t seen each other’s crotches. Which is a shame, really.
Yeah, it was sort of a point that they did not actually have intercourse, it was just dry humping to, uhh, completion.
So it depends if outercourse counts as sex, something that everyone agrees yes or no, and even everyone has an unambiguous opinion on.
Nintendo Switch’s controllers being drifty should NOT be a zeitgeist but here we are
And that is why I want the Xbox Kinect back
The distinction of being the worst console AND the worst handheld I’ve ever owned.
I just loved being able to talk to my kinect.
Depends how determined you are to fit it on your bed, Walky.
Walky needs a Steam Deck, AYANEO, or ROG Ally.
Also, her bed is right there.
Nintendo went from “this gameboy survived the bombing of Baghdad” to “half of all Switches are literally unplayable. It’s been like five years and they haven’t done anything about this.”
Why should they? They make more money when you spend $80 on a new pair of Joycons, so they have no incentive to make them more functional. People wanting products that work are being selfish and need to think about the bottom line.
Shit attitude that’d have driven them out of business, and rightfully so, if it weren’t for the pandemic lockdowns.
Nintendo really has dropped in quality. Given that the Switch came out in 2017 and “today” is January 2011 the controllers are broken 6 years ahead of schedule.
See About/Read Before Posting, at the top of the page, #6
That would normally be my response, too, but a Switch could actually do that.
Planned obsolescence babeyyyyy
Same reasons your old Nokia could tank a train but your new iPhone shatters if you breathe on it wrong and self destructs a year or two after purchase date
Walky being unable to live without a borrowed Nintendo is super relatable and sad.
Her little smile in the penultimate panel is so cute.
Vintage meme shirt.
I want her All Your Base shirt….
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Hey y’all with stick drift, look into getting a repair kit with Gulikit hall-effect sticks. Doing the repair yourself can seem a bit daunting, but be patient and believe in yourself and you can eliminate stick drift forever.
I don’t have a Switch, but I flew literally thousands of hours of X-plane and MS Flight Simulator and wore out many sticks before getting an early version of the Hall Effect stick that lasted until I finally got a computer without a dedicated joystick port, so about 6 years, maybe? I need to get one for USB and a flight sim for this janky laptop. Lots of definition but almost no framerate.
I’ve missed these Walky/Amber interactions
I don’t think I’ve played a video game on a console in years. These days I either buy games on Steam, or find ones that are available for free online and download them or play them in browser if I can. And sadly I rarely have time to play games anyway.
I poured a thousand hours into the Animal Crossing on the switch before I learned to love myself and stop playing bad games.
How dare?
Seahorses lack a stomach, so they need to constantly eat.
Huh. Today I learned…
I like that Amber isn’t really a gamer in the traditional sense, she’s just hyperfixated on competition and being the best at everything (there’s that Batman personality coming to the forefront).
She has sometimes been shown to play MMOs, so there’s that, too, though yeah, she’s definitely competitive, like her running rivalry with Sal in Mario Kart.
Does “not a traditional gamer” mean that in the 90’s she would have been playing the less popular Doom instead of the much more popular Barbie Fashion Designer video game?
According to this I think it’d mean she’d be submitting Quake speedruns and downloading DOOM WADs.
or on hers ? :3
Many years ago, I overheard a girl I worked with mutter “All your base are belong to us” while we were working. We’ve been married for almost 15 years now.
Related: As a Valentine’s Day gift one year she got me a shirt that read: “Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF. All of my base are belong to you.”
Haha awesome
Awe that so sweet!
Also I wish I had that shirt, it sounds awesome. 😍
Definitely a keeper.
That is one of the most awesome Valentine’s stories I’ve ever heard. 😀 Congrats, you two!
I bought a Switch Lite a few years ago specifically for Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled. They won’t port it to PC, and this way I can feel a little less guilty about playing it on PC anyway.
Once the novelty wore off, the Switch became the portable YouTube machine.
But that’s what tablets are for.
My old Nexus 7 FHD was getting tired, so now I just keep it around for the free 200 megs of data it gets from T-Mobile every month.
Why buy another tablet for night time wind-down YouTube when the Switch Lite can do it?
This made me dust the Nexus tablet off. Apparently T-Mobile killed off the free 200 meg plans in 2020? It was supposed to be “for life”, ya jerks! Excuse me for taking care of my stuff so a tablet lasts a decade.
Oh well, my current place has much more reliable infrastructure than my old one, and my work phone has tethering enabled anyway, so I don’t really need a tertiary backup plan to get my morning webcomic fix. It’s more the principle of the thing!
Ah
this is going to end poorly
Well, I certainly hope so. But the odds are actually against it getting that far.
But then, I’m still pulling for Mike in witness protection. With your mom’s nickles.
I know what you mean, but it feels unlikely. The people he needs protecting from are dead (unless you count the ambiguous mafia connections Blaine had) and his parents seem to legitimately act as if he is dead.
Though i still wouldn’t put it past him to pop up behind Walky one day just to insult him.
to be fair, while not always the case sometimes even immediate family are not privy to if youre put in witness protection
I had to look up who Arnold was… apparentle, he’s only been in 3 strips, and barely.
more bonus strips, and he’s a Shortpacked transfer.
Amber fits on your bed Walky.
get out of my head, i was just thinking that.
Amber AND her computer would fit.
Look, you all need to stop stealing my jokes.
Walky’s avoidance is so relatable and also anxiety inducing lol
Sarah is cute af here but I’ll try for a guy
Love Ruth but she is very much a lady and I’m feeling more dude today
I would’ve taken Booster as a fellow enby, I think I’m just being mocked now
Forgot to change the case
LUCY BROTHER, I’ll take it
I do not know you but I feel like it suits you.
Hi hi completely unrelated I’m so fucking stupid i just looked back at the whipped cream recipe I posted yesterday and I left off the most important part. Half a teaspoon OF LEMON EXTRACT fuck. Or vanilla if you want but preferably actual vanilla extract since the flavor is super different from artificial flavoring but it can be expensive and hard to get depending on where you are so no judgement.
2 parts whipping cream, 1 part sugar, Use a quarter to a half of a teaspoon of whatever flavoring you want, it’ll really pop and make the whipped cream unique from the premade stuff. Also keep an eye on it if you’re using a stand/electric mixer, it’s easy to over whip and then it’ll start separating. I think it starts turning into butter or something
Wow,cool! Thanks zee!
Taking Amber’s computer to your bed, Walky?! That is beyond wrong, to both Lucy and Amber! :p
Yeah. Go get Lucy’s computer.
She is not wearing pants?
What is the protocol on such interactions?
A woman he dated greets him without pants while he is dating another woman, she knows he is dating another woman… This feels too familiar to be okay in this context.
Woman, put on some pants.
The protocol is to chat politely about whatever you were visiting her for and not comment on her lack of pants. Like he’s doing.
It’s a dorm. This kind of thing happens.
Having a protocol would be ridiculous. None of the people involved are each other’s property.
She can buy pants on the way!
David (damn you) Willis’ Army of Unkillable Badass is back reminding him I still exist (because unkillable).
Dang the lack of an edit feature, but this is the 22nd anniversary of being officially unkillable with blunt force trauma. At 2001-08-31 0119 a truck travelling at an estimated 45-65 MPH (based on distance from point of impact and weight and also on my bike being 1/4 mile further away) was used as a murder weapon, but it failed to keep me dead and I revived enough at the scene to inquire if anybody got the number of the truck and also give the wrong home address and wrong phone number. They were an address and phone number where I lived previously, 25 and 15 years previously respectively. but not my current address and phone number.
The driver of the truck died in another wreck about 2 years later and was verifiably drunk with a BAC% of 0.30+ (test unreliable over 0.30 BAC%). I’m so badass I can kill people without having to be there, they just do it for me.
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing your story, unkillable badass!!! 😎
Damn. You are impressively unkillable.
WOW!
So how are you feeling about all that?
Also holy crap, BAC% of 0.30? That’s like over 7x the legal limit for commercial truck drivers, fucking YIKES 😮
They only read the test to 0.30% because the legal limit at the time was 0.10%, so to get the calibration tight around 0.10 they limited the test to a max reading of 0.30%. Now they can get a good reading from as low as 0.04% to pure ethanol.