Darth Fluffy

Also, it's really not true, because people tend to clump, they hang out with similar people. So you look to the right, and look to the left, and you see two people who are similar to you. You need a wider sampling to get the averaging effect.

You misspelled 'stinkers'.

Comic for Friday, August 19, 2022 So it would seem that Elliot is learning a lesson skewed away from reality. Self sacrifice can be noble; it should not be a goal at the outset. (Granted, extreme circumstances might warrant even that. I recall a plot line somewhere where the person sacrificing themselves for a group gain had a terminal illness an a short time remaining.) There is a reason George C. Scott's opening speech in Patton resonates: "No son of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. You make the other son of a bitch die for his country." It is, after all, intuitively obvious, once framed that way. Yet Elliot's take away is the opposite of the lesson that was demonstrated; he's still focused on sacrifice as a good thing. I suspect Elliot is being set up for a future growth opportunity plot line where he gains some wisdom about this. He needs more Liz point of view in his life. (Liz would have been a better match for him than Ashley, she is too much like him, but there's no going back; Ashley being dumped would upset Liz, so Liz is not happening.) Elliot's approach, especially when he's Cheerleadra, is a half-assed plan that puts him in a situation that is over his head. He also shows a lack of thinking things through when he's defending someone, Tedd frequently, in discussions. Being part of a show with Susan, where they analyze films is good for him, it makes him use his head; it might be one of his few intellectual outlets. Other than that, being unaware is a good part of his shtick. He actually has a lot in common with Catalina, but she is more aware. Sarah was right, he was not taking the initiative in their relationship; Ellen, with his memories saw him as a stick in the mud, but he takes initiative with Ashley. It seems that the bar is lower because she is a reflection of himself. I don't understand why that should matter; Sarah seemed quite supportive, but he must have had some internalized fear of overstepping some boundary. Or maybe his character is just nor fully developed, changes as plot need dictates. Albeit, unlike many of the other characters, Elliot has not made a sudden sharp change of direction in his personality. Curiouser and curiouser.

Edward had Elliot reduce his Charm allocation and use the stat points to enhance his ability to flee, now he's rethinking that they should have allocated three points to Charm.

What! Dan drew a non-hot mom? Does he know about this?

The flaw in the ointment (extra points for noticing how this is self-referent) Rat means 'below average', then it is by definition literally true.

You have a gift for understatement.

Anne Heche, only 53 years old, best known for dating Ellen DeGeneres during the late 1990s, died as a result of burns and injuries sustained during a car accident. She was intoxicated and ran off the road at high speed into multiple dwellings. She has a reasonably impressive film and TV resume, and was known to have mental illness; she admitted as much. Sad.

Conjecture, EGS does not have a non-hot sample, so this is extrapolation, but I don't think Rich requires 'hot' for the bad attitude, just female. He seems more feeling entitled, yet lacking self confidence, fearful of rejection, perhaps through experience, leading to hostility, with a resultant accompanying overall bad attitude, but not given to sleaze; there is an air of civility, albeit thin. Kind of like Mars, you couldn't breathe the air, but it's there, you can see it blow dust around. Add to that somewhat delusional - recall the glove slap sequence. He really is in a deep hole.

Holy carps! You're in IMDB! I didn't know they did video games, is that new? (-ish?)

This reminds me of a sad shapeshifting tragedy, wherein the the girl in squirrel form said, "I'm game." and was shot by a hunter.

Curiousity

Well, she has been acting for her Mom, but probably more in the sense of suppressing emotion rather than faking emotion. Thus may still come down to Rich, and possibly George, not wanting to 'act' in front of people she views as judgemental.

Cute. You've also got " Camellia sasanqua is used as a garden plant, its leaves are used for tea, and its seeds for oil." - she's named after an herbal tea ingredient. Would her name-based magic mark turn her into a plant? Maybe a dryad.

I agree that it looks good, I don't see the connection, personality-wise. The only bit we know about her is that at her first appearance, she seemed to be performance motivated, but a few comics later turned out to have a good deal of empathy and concern. The origin of 'fit to a t' seems to have faded with the passing of time; "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the exact origins of the phrase to a T are unknown." " So 'to a T,' meaning 'just right,' is actually a shortened form of 'to a tittle,' meaning that something is correct down to the smallest point." seems plausible to me; I can see why that origin would be forgotten, who says 'tittle'?

Good luck. Thanks for the update.

Comic for Wednesday, August 17, 2022 You could kidnap them all, Tara.

Huh. I learned some things. I've always heard 'The King in Yellow' in conjunction with Lovecraft, but it's not. Many have contributed to Lovecraft's Cthulhuverse, but The King in Yellow is not a part of it, it predates it. It is an influence on style, nothing more. Still not a hopeful work, but Robert W. Chambers was no so exclusively focused as Lovecraft, so you may have a point. If it starts to grow and takes on a life of it's own, you should have it looked at, perhaps excised or exorcised, or both.

That is Lovecraft's specialty, no hope.

Contented kitty.

I can picture it, 'coons with crowbars.

NP Comic for Tuesday, August 16, 2022 ... comic makes the point that George is a loner, and Nanase has some yet unstated issue. The shadowy background figures in panel 2 are interesting. I guess that's a book cover? Back in the day, it might have been an LP. George does not strike me as a vinyl hipster.

Cats are an exotic state of matter that takes up more volume than the object it constitutes. They have an amazing ability to be exactly where they will cause the most immediate inconvenience while not physically being larger than they were. I believe it has something to do with temporal instability; they retroactively edit their location to fill spaces until the system stabilizes at a maximum cat presence to the observer. While generally benign, occasionally the system tips into the domain of cat-astro-phe; "My stars! How did the cat get up there?"

The Glorious Revolution of 78 RPM was overtaken by the Revolution of 45 RPM and the Revolution of LP 33 RPM. There's always a New Deal on the horizon. We all oppose objects, doors for instance; you pull or push them to open them, even sliding ones, though the opposition is not as direct. Does someone who objectifies others always oppose only objects? Do you object? I'm not certain if my duck-billed griffins are in a scuffle or not; since they are metaphorical, the choice seems arbitrary. Are they noted to squabble often? Explosive fireballs upsetting the arrival of the Orange Prince would make his face red, invalidating his citrus based rulership. Too bad he was not a Limey. Since this involves invading other realms of existence, we may be dealing with the King in Yellow, Jack Lemon, and his craft of love.

As Vinny Gambini said, "I could use a good ass kicking." I suppose Elliot tops the chart; he's come close to receiving one several times. I vote Liz as the thwacker. Pretty much everyone else has needed one at some point. Might be a shorter list to come up with folks that haven't needed one.