probably cuz every time it picks randomly from the pool of *all* the avatars, and there’s no rule preventing it from picking the one you already have (odds of it happening are ~1/30)
Ah! Another season of my favorite show! Grav Roulette: The Search for Sal. I always fear each season will be the last but it inevitably renews. I have, like many, opted to draw and input my own unique grav but I do sometimes miss the chase!
Sal was difficult, but not the most difficult this time around. I’ve seen very few Amazigirls so I suspect she’s the hard one this time, though I finally found her. I’ve seen plenty of Beckys, but I can’t seem to get one.
Why walk away from where the trash can isn’t? “I’m throwing away my cup.”, Panel 3. He has to walk to the trash can to get to the trash can. He can’t get there by staying at the table. Walking toward Sarah would only result in collision with Sarah, not the trash can.
Obligatory philosophical musings meant to undermine cultural norms of “polite” and “impolite” as containing any well-defined and relevant meaning, thereby making the distinction pointless.
Gotta say I don’t know how I feel about Tony being a guy who says “buffoonery”. Really changed my perspective on him. I just don’t’t know where I’d stand.
Worse than “tomfoolery”, not as bad as “shenanigans”. And for gays sake be wary of anyone who uses “hijinx” regularly. Once every fort night is acceptable.
Fat fingered a report on your comment when I was going to reply, so my bad.
I think it’s to help denote his father/family being older/old money, that WASPy young but also kind of old soul approach. But he seems mostly really good on stuff so it could be a fun contrast.
I wonder if this will get us more insight into his dad and his dad’s generation, which will then maybe get us more insight into Walky’s mom and so on.
Mike’s dickish behavior was born out of general spite and genuine care for others’ ability to handle negative social interaction in addition to Mike’s penchant for schadenfreude. Booster’s dickish behavior is entirely self-serving by all appearances, and being neurodivergent doesn’t excuse being a dick.
In case you were wondering, a ‘buffoon’ refers to Medieval European entertainers who elicited laughs from a crowd by whacking people with inflated sheep’s bladders.
I, too, do not suffer people to whack me with inflated sheep’s bladders.
For me, the main problem is sitting down in Tony’s chair uninvited. It’s rude. Hilarious from a comic-reading perspective, and I’m interested to see where this goes, but rude.
I think people are afraid Booster will do something For The Plot, in a way that will have negative effects for Sarah, who has already been through quite a bit between how things went with Jacob and being attacked by an incel and also the lasting damage from Raidah’s bullshit. Like, Booster has done things that were not wrong but were also not polite or arguably necessary, like the floor meeting analysis or how they treated Amber after she asked them to befriend Ethan. So I think it’s just preemptive dread rather than that they have already done something objectionable.
I really want Sarah to not let the “I am taller than him” thing get in the way. Tony seems like a good match. And Booster is there… we will see where they are going with this. I suppose.
When I was younger I dreamed of dating somebody with this low bullshit attitude. Never happened but oh it would have been nice. Knowing whats expected, not playing “Guess the emotion I”m having now” while I sit and look constipated at you. Hope she does not mess this up.
The foreseeable problem, of course, is that Sarah is constantly surrounded by and lives with buffoonery, and I’m pretty sure she’d choose her friendships and Joyce over any guy, buffoon or not. She talks a big game, but what’s it gonna be like when that’s actually challenged by someone who legitimately doesn’t suffer buffoonery?
Was just thinking this. I foresee a “Damn you Willis! moment coming. A specific one dealing with this new maybe relationship mind you, not the general one that’s always lurking in the shadows.
Booster, please do not screw this up for Sarah. She deserves at least a few good things, and this potential relationship with her and Tony seems like it could be good for her.
Reusable cups would mean the cafe would need the same scale of dishwashing utilities as a sit-down restaurant, instead of just a small machine to wash their preparation utensils. Customers would break them, walk out the door with them, or throw them away.
Giving everyone disposable cups is wasteful but streamlines their workflow.
It… can get complicated. Re-washing crockery means you need to use water, soap, and possibly hot water. You may also need to use dryers to dry the crockery before they can be sent out to customers again. All of those also involve resource and electricity costs, which when you break it down, depending on your exact location and availability of resources and how the electricity is produced, might actually cost the environment MORE than if you used disposable (and biodegradable) one-use cups that can benefit from things like mass production and economies of scale.
He’s on the football team, I imagine there’s some level of socializing involved? Maybe not his first pick but he probably interacts with more people than Sarah.
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dammit Booster, leave Tony’s seat and stop making me hungry! XD
*plays “Buffoonery” from SpongeBob Music on hacked muzak*
he’s built like a steakhouse but he handles like a bistro
More like a beefstro, am I right kids?
Beefstro is a comic book villain for sure.
I am continually baffled by the lack of a Ghost Rider style supervillain named “The Vicious Cycle”.
You would think someone at Marvel, DC or Image would have pounced on that by now.
Takes notes.
Booster was there all along. They’ve been taking lessons from Dina.
Booster was behind the door?
They are a fast learner.
The snarks are coming from Inside The Tony!
It is Ghost Booster in Sarahs mind – like Ghost Mike in Ambers. Just look at the shading.
Booster, Tony is perfectly average height, are you the kind of person that only goes after men of Joe’s height
Maybe! Nothing wrong with that.
The campus average size may have distorted Booster’s view of men. (Willis likes his giants.)
Giant men and short thick women with glasses?
He has a type?
I thought that he fed off of drama and other people’s angst and internal suffering?
I know we’re joking but what you like to draw doesn’t really say anything about any of that. . .
It has probably changed over the years considering in the first strip Danny was originally supposed to end up with Mary.
I guess new gravatar shuffle? Good luck to everyone I guess.
new gravitars? Do they stick to an email?
hell yeah! blowjob cat.
Ooh! What do I get I wonder!? I’ve had Sarah for a while now…
Appropriate juxtaposition!
You can basically change the capitalization of letters in an email to try and fish for a different one.
I’m currently trying to catch Becky. She’s proving resistant.
Have you considered using a lesbian as bait?
Good thought.
It worked!
But why would they when they already have the best one?
Didn’t know this was a thing.
…testing to see if it works.
Huh, wow, it does.
Bleah I liked who I had. Rolling i guess.
Hm. Let’s see other options
2 gay girls in a row let’s see if we can make it 3
Idk if bj cat counts
Universe really wants me to have Leslie. I was hoping Jocelyne would be in here tbh.
Absofuckinglutely not. One last roll and we’ll see what comes up
Hell yeah last try lucky! I’ll take Carla any day of the week.
heh, wonder if Willis can fill us in on their orientations ^^
I didn’t realise BJ cat was a real option (I thought a few people had it as a custom one!)
rolling
fine with that, but one more for good measure
i don’t have a gambling problem
Ooh, testing
re: the alt text, booster is absolutely a cryptid, yes.
hmm… i don’t hate lucy, but i don’t love her either.
gravatar roulette GO
oh come on…
squints at site, now you’re just doing this on purpose
…yeah okay, considering I have two panels of Ruth clipped and saved on my desktop because of how much I felt that in my soul, I’m good with this.
Congratulations on achieving your final form.
Final form for now.
Booster may absolutely be a cryptid, but I’m not at all clear where the question is coming from.
Probably from the cultural referent flying over my head.
Probably in the sense of appearing out of nowhere in a paranormal sense?
Wouldn’t that be a spectral?
I totally forgot about Booster; how long has it been since we have seen them?
Strangely though I did not forget about Charlie because she’s with Carla and that delights me.
Roulette time!
How about no?
Forgot to change a letter
Neat, but not Sal.
Hell no
Why didn’t that change anything?
Danny is Sal adjacent, so he’ll work for tonight.
probably cuz every time it picks randomly from the pool of *all* the avatars, and there’s no rule preventing it from picking the one you already have (odds of it happening are ~1/30)
I’ve got a count of 36, not counting the super-rare Arnold one.
1 in 34 by my current calculation. Which is indeed about 1 in 30.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/too
I counted 33 unique ones here, although might be missing one XD
heck, when we get 3 more that’ll legit be enough for a standard roulette wheel hahahaha
Ah, 35. I forgot to count Danny because I have him listed separately for expression.
My list: (loosely alphabetic-ish)
Amazigirl, Asher, Amber, Agatha, Becky
Blowjob Cat, Booster, Brock, Carla, Charlie
Danny, Daisy, Dorothy, Dina, Ethan
Fuckface, Jason, Joyce, Jennifer, Julia Gray
Joe, Jocelyn, Jacob, Liz, Leslie
Lyle, Lucy, Marcie, Malaya, Ruth
Robin, Sarah, Sal, Tony, Walky
Am I missing anyone except for Arnold?
Ah! Another season of my favorite show! Grav Roulette: The Search for Sal. I always fear each season will be the last but it inevitably renews. I have, like many, opted to draw and input my own unique grav but I do sometimes miss the chase!
Sal was difficult, but not the most difficult this time around. I’ve seen very few Amazigirls so I suspect she’s the hard one this time, though I finally found her. I’ve seen plenty of Beckys, but I can’t seem to get one.
And there we are!!!
I’ll do a roll in your honour 😉
Ooh Tony’s in the mix, I’d be okay with him. Or Joe/Asher I guess?
Tony is indeed in the mix.
Last time was basically the party in Joyce’s room where Lucy and Jacob hooked up. So around 5 months ago.
I sometimes forget how long it takes to finish a day, let alone a week.
Why walk away, that is pretty disrespectful. He can still be romantic even if he likes grumps.
I suspect Tony is not the most romantic guy, like, in general.
He’s only throwing away the coffee cup. He’ll be back.
Why walk away from where the trash can isn’t? “I’m throwing away my cup.”, Panel 3. He has to walk to the trash can to get to the trash can. He can’t get there by staying at the table. Walking toward Sarah would only result in collision with Sarah, not the trash can.
Speaking as one himself I don’t know yet if I like or dislike the frequent reminders that Tony is a short king.
He’s around 5’8”? That’s like average. Just that the men as part of the cast have been kinda tall other than Walky.
Kinda funny comment from a Becky gravatar.
It seems like the kind of bullshit he would not suffer.
I think it’s probably getting mentioned so much because it’s going to be part of a plot in a bit here.
Someone’s gonna try sniping him, but they’ll aim for his head and miss because his head is lower than they expected.
He’s Booster, moment killer.
Obligatory and polite “they” correction for Booster.
They’se Booster, moment killer.
like Hannibal Lecter for moments XD
*they
*they
Obligatory and impolite correction to they/them for Booster to counteract the polite one.
Gratuitous and random lack of any correction to counteract the coherent ones.
Obligatory philosophical musings meant to undermine cultural norms of “polite” and “impolite” as containing any well-defined and relevant meaning, thereby making the distinction pointless.
Hopefully soon to be Booster, hot coffee wearer.
Now is when Sarah will realize that being a main character in a comic named “Dumbing of Age” means there’s lots of buffoonery in her life.
You never knew it, Sarah, but Booster was always there.
…there.
…there.
…there.
…their.
they’re
Here.
A rival has arrived! But whose rival are they?
Tune in next time for:
Three For Tea
Or
Poly Me Pnother One
-Another-
No, no. I feel Pnother has possibilities.
I’ll have a pnother pnutbutter pnanna sand-witch.
Booster is always with us!
And they ain’t wrong about Tony.
Steak’s taken, Booster!
every nb ive ever met is definitely a cryptid. i think that’s why people keep thinking they don’t exist!
Malaya being a cryptid makes some sort of twisted sense, I guess?
Booster has been a fun addition to the cast.
So far, so has Tony.
Oh yeah, I could get used to this one.
Booster has already been installed to see more.
“Can we get more of Charlie?”
“We have Charlie at home.” –> last panel
Excuse me, I was thinking about steak.
What were you thinking about?
If Booster is a Cryptid, does that mean the Secret Saturdays will soon guest star?
Find it hard to believe Walky didn’t at least point him out to Booster, so that he could make his joke again.
Willis is saving that for the next time Walky wins the pateron poll.
Dina? Acceptable! I too have wanted to engage in sexual relations on top of a giant plush dinosaur.
Haven’t we all?
Gotta say I don’t know how I feel about Tony being a guy who says “buffoonery”. Really changed my perspective on him. I just don’t’t know where I’d stand.
Is it better or worse than tomfoolery?
Worse than “tomfoolery”, not as bad as “shenanigans”. And for gays sake be wary of anyone who uses “hijinx” regularly. Once every fort night is acceptable.
Is hijinx on the same level as hijinks, or will we just chalk that up to regional differences?
I for one would absolutely get a cup of coffee with a guy that says ‘chicanery’.
Fat fingered a report on your comment when I was going to reply, so my bad.
I think it’s to help denote his father/family being older/old money, that WASPy young but also kind of old soul approach. But he seems mostly really good on stuff so it could be a fun contrast.
I wonder if this will get us more insight into his dad and his dad’s generation, which will then maybe get us more insight into Walky’s mom and so on.
I reported you on purpose, which you’d never have known if I didn’t say so.
Why??
fuck off booster
I’m really hoping Sarah decides to get rid of the rest of her coffee, too–in Booster’s lap.
Did Dina teach Booster teleportation?
solid maybe?
Instant Transmission is a technique which takes quite a while to hone
Weirdly, almost every time there’s a gravatar shuffle, my old email ends up as Daisy.
There are worse fates.
Booster is a collective tulpa born from the trauma
Mike’s death wrought on the cast.
That makes a scary amount of sense XD
Still say he’s some kind of Mike Cryptid. The hair and general miasma of dickish-ness lean into some kind of clone or alternate reality.
They’re not enough of a dick for me to see it, but I do get they serve a similar role as catalysts!
Sorry Lucy
Hrrm I’d like one more try for tonight!
I’ll take it
Mike’s dickish behavior was born out of general spite and genuine care for others’ ability to handle negative social interaction in addition to Mike’s penchant for schadenfreude. Booster’s dickish behavior is entirely self-serving by all appearances, and being neurodivergent doesn’t excuse being a dick.
In case you were wondering, a ‘buffoon’ refers to Medieval European entertainers who elicited laughs from a crowd by whacking people with inflated sheep’s bladders.
I, too, do not suffer people to whack me with inflated sheep’s bladders.
How are you at whacking others?
Buffoonery.
Buffoonery.
Slappy Squirrel is in the back of my head now saying, “You remind me of a very young Monty Burns.”
Re: title text
In all likelihood yes, surprised it took this long to be realized.
Tony: “I don’t suffer buffoonery.”
Booster: “Speak of the devil, and I shall appear!”
Yes, Booster darling, I’m insulting you. Fortunately, I have a little more tolerance for buffoonery than Tony and Sarah do.
I actually really love Booster, and I’m struggling to see what they’re saying in this strip that’s bugging people so much. Genuinely.
For me, the main problem is sitting down in Tony’s chair uninvited. It’s rude. Hilarious from a comic-reading perspective, and I’m interested to see where this goes, but rude.
I’m just suspecting they’re a Sarah subconscious fragment taking the form of Booster to remind her how she feels about shorter guys.
Mike is this universe’s version of the Smile entity confirmed XD
His empty chair he’s not even currently sitting in, which can be un-sat just as easily as it’s been sat.
Booster is one of the characters some people get pissy whenever they do anything. Like Becky.
Becky never paid Joyce back for the haircut. Or something like that.
Oh my god people were so weird about the haircut!
Wasn’t Jennifer the one who gave her the $20 for the haircut?
Jennifer gave Becky $20 to go away. Becky used that $20 for the haircut.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/waitup-2/
Yeah, I was confused why Becky would have to pay Joyce back for it.
Booster is top five for me probably. Idk, i don’t have a line up. But they’re up there for sure.
I think people are afraid Booster will do something For The Plot, in a way that will have negative effects for Sarah, who has already been through quite a bit between how things went with Jacob and being attacked by an incel and also the lasting damage from Raidah’s bullshit. Like, Booster has done things that were not wrong but were also not polite or arguably necessary, like the floor meeting analysis or how they treated Amber after she asked them to befriend Ethan. So I think it’s just preemptive dread rather than that they have already done something objectionable.
How is Booster a cryptid? Came out of the wall like *popping sound*?
More like steak bites than a filet mignon
Sarah’s focused on TUBE steak, methinks..
could really use an actual tube steak rn, ngl
Is that anything like a finger steak?
well Booster is certainly some sorta unidentifiable whatsahoosit, but “cryptid” is a strong word
I mean I’m lookin’ right at ’em they’re right there
Booster isn’t real.
Dude is just a figment of your imagination that pops up when nobody is around.
I like Tony. Tony is chill.
Not chill with buffoonery. Or smiling too much.
Maybe we should start a list.
…and his features travel all over his face. Are his eyes above or beside his nose? You tell me.
Oh no. Tony would hate me irl
I really want Sarah to not let the “I am taller than him” thing get in the way. Tony seems like a good match. And Booster is there… we will see where they are going with this. I suppose.
Nope. Sorry Danny.
maybe
When I was younger I dreamed of dating somebody with this low bullshit attitude. Never happened but oh it would have been nice. Knowing whats expected, not playing “Guess the emotion I”m having now” while I sit and look constipated at you. Hope she does not mess this up.
Yes, Sarah deserves something good.
Now, this gravatar I can live with. Praise be gravatar gods.
Willis, you turned an object into a character and you’re surprised the result is a cryptid? Really?
Would be funny if the booster stick had their exact personality but we didn’t know because it couldn’t talk.
Not to be confused with Ultra Car in the other universe.
…. it occurs to me that insightfulness might not actually be a trait that evolution selects for.
*natural selection is what happens to individual living organisms, evolution is what happens to populations of them over a very, VERY long time
The foreseeable problem, of course, is that Sarah is constantly surrounded by and lives with buffoonery, and I’m pretty sure she’d choose her friendships and Joyce over any guy, buffoon or not. She talks a big game, but what’s it gonna be like when that’s actually challenged by someone who legitimately doesn’t suffer buffoonery?
Was just thinking this. I foresee a “Damn you Willis! moment coming. A specific one dealing with this new maybe relationship mind you, not the general one that’s always lurking in the shadows.
Does Ruth suffer buffoonery? I think Ruth won that round during orientation.
There it is! The top gravatar.
Skunk wallpaper?
Bold choice!
Off: Must be fun to to play with Avatar Roulette (I do my own questionable avatars)
Booster, please do not screw this up for Sarah. She deserves at least a few good things, and this potential relationship with her and Tony seems like it could be good for her.
I feel like smallish steak of a man is going to enter my vocabulary…
Is it an American thing to use single-use cups even when drinking in the café? That seems wasteful.
yes, and it is one of the many ways our capitalist society is rather wasteful
Reusable cups would mean the cafe would need the same scale of dishwashing utilities as a sit-down restaurant, instead of just a small machine to wash their preparation utensils. Customers would break them, walk out the door with them, or throw them away.
Giving everyone disposable cups is wasteful but streamlines their workflow.
Are cafes not considered sit-down restaurants? You get coffee and sometimes food, you sit down and consume them.
Starbucks uses both resuable and plastic cups.
It… can get complicated. Re-washing crockery means you need to use water, soap, and possibly hot water. You may also need to use dryers to dry the crockery before they can be sent out to customers again. All of those also involve resource and electricity costs, which when you break it down, depending on your exact location and availability of resources and how the electricity is produced, might actually cost the environment MORE than if you used disposable (and biodegradable) one-use cups that can benefit from things like mass production and economies of scale.
Nobody asked, Booster.
Boos5er, butt out
Grav Roulette time!
Joining in…
What if Tony is TOO MUCH of a misanthrope for the gradually softening Sarah?
He’s on the football team, I imagine there’s some level of socializing involved? Maybe not his first pick but he probably interacts with more people than Sarah.
This strip reminds me of something that Tommy Lee Jones once said to Jim Carrey when they were filming Batman Forever together.
TLJ: “I do not like you. I cannot stand you. I cannot sanction your buffoonery.”
Apparently the two actors did not get along on the set.