Wrong community. This dystopia is about get real interesting, real fast 😬

Dang, I think I’m going to have to get that. Even if it sucks, that’s a great premise

Back in the days of the Stony Express

Bonus panel from a terrible romance comic:

She hates him because he spanks her in public and humiliates her, and of course she falls for him in the end. Definitely written for 50’s housewives that didn’t realize they had a spanking fetish.

Also some weird daddy kink:

Lots of rain. Should be snow 😢

wow. you made a talking chimpanzee. definitely worth dropping out of college for, huh? you going to show me to your parents and hope i prove you’re not a disappointment?

Another comment explains the moon landing one. It’s a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:

The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

Can’t really blame people for defederating though. It’s a slog to find the treasure in the shit. In this same thread there’s both “Death to America” and “kill all honkeys” non-sequiturs. I can see why they drove off their admins in a stupid struggle session recently. I’m just waiting for another struggle session when they discover the etymology of “bad” and have to rename !badposting@hexbear.net:

It is possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling “effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast,” which probably are related to bædan “to defile.”

One of the ways I can track down sources for comics is by searching the text from the panels. Would not recommend searching for this one though. “I’M DOING THIS FOR PURE PLEASURE NOW, MY SISTER!” comes up with

Stay classy, Reddit 😬

I think it’s either “Charlie Brown discovers something basic that amazes him” because he’s 4 years old in these early strips, or “He’s been confusing cats and rats in some written context” like “Beware Of Cat” or “Danger: Rat Poison”.

Either way, not his best strip, but they can’t all be zingers.

Here’s the tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m

Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?

Other than the happy ending on some cuts providing a different tone for the ending, I don’t think there’s any difference in the story/aesthetics

Yeah, Blade Runner is also amazing at capturing the aesthetic. I watched the final cut version of it, which is the only one that Ridley Scott got complete creative control over. Haven’t watched the other cuts but did check out the monologue voiceovers on youtube that are on some of the other cuts, and I didn’t care for them. The happy ending on some of them also seemed silly. There’s a whole Wikipedia article about the various versions lol.

Haven’t yet watched Blade Runner 2049 yet, but I’ve heard it’s worth watching. Not quite as good as the original, but not much worse.

I’ll be posting that panel to a very different community over at lemmynsfw.com

Context, no spoilers:

Sure, crossposted

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This is a great explanation. Thinking of the question @ad_on_is@lemm.ee asked the other day of How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy?, this is the sort of post that is good to share and draw people in to Lemmy.

!truecomics@midwest.social

Send interesting Lemmy links to people you know. That’s how they get interested, and check it out. You won’t convince many people by extolling the benefits of the Fediverse, you just have to show them that they’ll be entertained, and maybe they’ll be somewhat more likely to switch if they know it won’t enshittify. I’d say you should send links from instances that don’t federate with some of the weirder places like Hexbear though, that’s likely to turn people off until they realize how the Fediverse works.

One thing that we could use more of that draws people in is posts about relationship issues. Entertaining for almost everyone, and pretty much anyone can create them from their own experience.