One of the rebloggers posted the actual relevant pages, the one you quoted seems to be way off.
So she says she's older than 23 (and looks it), and Sam's the one that wakes up with the hangover and with a poor memory of what happened.
So... its a Marvel comics version of Trainspotting? Thats...not as bad as what I thought but still pretty bad.
One of the rebloggers posted the actual relevant pages, the one you quoted seems to be way off.
So she says she's older than 23 (and looks it), and Sam's the one that wakes up with the hangover and with a poor memory of what happened.
I'm sorry, I want outrage. Bring me something outrageous.
But not truly, truly, truly outrageous.
GasBandit
Staff member
It's the last day before a 3 day weekend and everybody's busting ass to get everything finished up for the weekend.
So naturally the main production and file server chose last night to have its motherboard die. /headdesk /headdesk /headdesk.
Thankfully I managed to pull the drive and share the critically needed shares from another machine which I renamed to be the same as the dead server, so now we're back in business. And I'm only an hour or so behind schedule now! Woooo.
So naturally the main production and file server chose last night to have its motherboard die. /headdesk /headdesk /headdesk.
Thankfully I managed to pull the drive and share the critically needed shares from another machine which I renamed to be the same as the dead server, so now we're back in business. And I'm only an hour or so behind schedule now! Woooo.
I estimate perhaps 15-20% of the traffic I get is from people who have something important that's due tomorrow before their computer suddenly stopped working. I further estimate that 50% or more of them were "…just about to make a backup when this happened."
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Yeah, what Jet Black/Zola says about herself in that panel is radically different from how the character has been represented in comics up until now. This post, and this post, show that she was portrayed as a teenager right up until the issue in question.
At best, this is just really horrible writing that's paying no attention to continuity (and that's saying something for a character who was a teenage girl whose superpower required her to expose as much skin as possible); at worse it's a deliberate retcon with really disturbing implications.
GasBandit
Staff member
On the one hand, it's pretty bad writing to retcon someone 9+ years older, especially just to render her suddenly sexable, regardless of whether it was intentional or not.
On the other hand, how many people call GRR Martin a pedophile since Daenerys Targaryen was 14 when Khal Drogo started putting the spurs to her? Yes, it's an alternate fantasy land with alternate fantasy morals, but it's still an author in our world depicting a grown man having sex (and sex that doesn't quite pass the consent "smell test" at that) with a 14 year old. Just something to think about.
On the other hand, how many people call GRR Martin a pedophile since Daenerys Targaryen was 14 when Khal Drogo started putting the spurs to her? Yes, it's an alternate fantasy land with alternate fantasy morals, but it's still an author in our world depicting a grown man having sex (and sex that doesn't quite pass the consent "smell test" at that) with a 14 year old. Just something to think about.
If anyone gets rude and asks you if you crapped yourself, just stare at them and say "yes." Then keep staring and hopefully they will ask you to go clean up... then say "I am not finished yet..."
"backtearea"
I actually saw this in a comment on a local news story. I don't know if I want to laugh or cry.
I actually saw this in a comment on a local news story. I don't know if I want to laugh or cry.
fade
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Awwwwwwwww[DOUBLEPOST=1404495069,1404494989][/DOUBLEPOST](Ah Jem, the cartoon no one actually watched in the 80s yet everyone makes fun of it.)
GasBandit
Staff member
Are you kidding? We all watched it because it came on in that 30 minute dead zone after GI Joe and Transformers but before Looney Tunes came on.
figmentPez
Staff member
I had three sisters. They owned some of the dolls. Yes, I watched Jem.
Shhhhh! Don't mention Jem and the Holograms! Not where my wife can here! Lord please don't let her see this thread, I don't think Halforums could survive her going sayan-nerd on us.
AND DON'T BRING UP THE UPCOMING LIVE ACTION MOVIE!!!!!!
I'm sorry you weren't warned.
I wish people on Tumblr were only warning people or notifying Tumblr; instead there's this mass retaliatory panic going on, which has the 4channers feeling validated and deciding to up the ante. All this does is encourage 4chan to do more, which they are. If they had been ignored, they would've moved onto another target. Not to mention, my dashboard is cluttered with more anti-4chan stuff than any real content. They're tricking people on Tumblr into spamming their own website.
I searched a couple of the targeted tags and didn't see anything. The people I follow are talking about steps to take, and even saying Tumblr users should launch a counterattack on /b and spam them with social justice and stuff. They have NO IDEA what they're fucking getting into if they want to have a pissing contest with 4chan.
Man, the Tumblr community is usually so smart about not getting caught up in that crap. I guess there has to be a few people who aren't bright enough to let it roll off their shoulders and just move on already.
No, dad. Go do dad stuff, like fixing the power.
NOTHING rolls off your average tumblr user's shoulders.
You and I are following different types of people then. Of course, I follow almost no one I don't personally know.
Truth. But I still don't think they know what they're doing. But that's also normal for the average Tumblr user, at least in the social justice warrior group.
EDIT: Oh, this is gonna be so fucking fun to deal with.
If you're only following people you already knew, you're not going to be viewing a lot of the general Tumblr stuff.
The point is for them to get their lols. That's all they care about; obviously they can't take down Tumblr permanently like they talk about. Which is why people should've just ignored them, because if there was no outrage, they wouldn't have been amused. But general Tumblr people get outraged at the tiniest non-attacks, so of course they'll get a-raging when someone actually attacks them.