I mean, if you’d rather be suicidally pacifistic that’s up to you, but the undeniable fact is that it’s not exactly a great individual strategy.

Self-defense is not “murder.”

It’s almost unreliable narration the way Liz is presented, I’m sure that was super tough for her but what’s shown in comic is ultimately just the positive stuff.

To be fair, there was a whole story arc where immediately after Mae told her, she had a panic attack and was involuntarily committed.

The trouble is that it then goes into a “trapped in the psych ward” plot, resolves nothing (explicitly showing Liz as indignant that she didn’t actually get any therapy while she was stuck in there), and then pinballs between them planning to have a second baby before Mae starts HRT and “normal” comics about video games and whatnot, with Liz appearing fully-adjusted and supportive. It’s hard not to think there wasn’t significant drama left out.

I binge-read it last night after making that previous comment. As a cis guy, I particularly enjoyed this comic about her being excited about surgery, and particularly, Dave’s reaction to it. I also wish there were more comics exploring Liz’s feelings about her marriage turning into a same-sex relationship without her orientation necessarily changing, as well as Harper’s reaction to it (she’s depicted still calling Mae “daddy” and I feel like there might be some subtext there). I’m happy for her that things have been [depicted as] working out well, but also a little worried since there haven’t been any comics since April 2024, ya know?

TIL Real Life Comics didn’t end in 2015. I kept that bookmark for years hoping for a new post, but gave up eventually, which was apparently slightly too soon.

I was playing D&D (for the first time) and my party were a group of exterminators killing giant spiders on city rooftops. The first thing I did when we got up there was tie myself off to a chimney. Later, we were fighting a really big spider that was right at the edge of the roof:

Me: “I hurl myself at the spider.”

DM: “You mean you try to hit the spider, or try to grapple the spider…?”

Me: “IDK, I just throw all my body weight at it.”

The spider ended up splatted dead on the ground (traumatizing some unfortunate passerby), I ended up dangling off the side of the building, and one of my party members had to make a saving throw to dodge the rope as it swung through his square, LOL!

I find that one can of tuna is just about the right amount for one meal of tuna salad for one person (if you’re not having it with anything extra, like bread).

What’s the contradiction? Clearly, he likes traditional families so much he started four of them! \s

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Now we just need to get boycotts started on Walmart and Family Dollar, and the hicks will all have to switch back to subsistence farming or something.

Alternatively, for a shop to be economically viable in the middle of a swamp, it needs to be one of those tourist traps with kitschy signs all over the place for miles around.

If you’re gonna do that, you can’t just have it be a normal shop! There’s got to be consequences:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday

but I want to make sure everything about it is unassailable before I do.

I appreciate your ethics, but keep in mind that right-wing bigots don’t give a flying fuck whether the things they are saying are true and you’re putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage by holding yourself to that higher standard.

Me: “Can we have Q in our campaign?”

GM: “We have Q at home.”

Q at home:

I wish I’d paid attention to that show when I was a kid. Weird west + Bruce Campbell sounds pretty cool. I just never gave it a shot because I was distracted by the stupid name (who names a person “county‽”).

But yes, I agree: weird west sounds like the perfect setting for this.

And I guess since the Meiji Restoration was bad news for the samurai class, it makes sense that they would want to emigrate.

(I looked it up because often it isn’t the upper classes that are motivated to leave a society, but in this case it checks out.)

It’s only rogues that have to be orphans; rouges’ families are safe.

Anything you see crossposted to both !rpgmemes and !noncredibledefense, you know is gonna be good.

“Were” is subjunctive in that sentence, not plural.