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[PA Comic] Friday, May 23, 2014 - Nipping
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This concludes My Very Important Opinions That Matter A Whole Lot. Thank you for your time.
my first post contains an important observation:
Gabe the elder is getting ice cream all over his face. Gabe Jr. is not.
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Next thing you know he's going to "reenactments" of LOTR battles for entertainment.
Until finally you find a set of pointy ears and a foam sword under his bed and you know it's too late.
But I would question your judgement.
John is gone now, there is only Kel'Thar the Elf Barbarian.
"Just got my new tail! It looks great with the sad ears."
I'm glad that a certain class of self-styled geeks prefer to do their obsessive role-playing where they can get away from their computer desk and get some exercise/social activity/sunshine.
I've never personally met a LARPer whom I personally would want to hang out with on a regular basis, though. I'm sure that communities of LARPers exist that consist of people who are not extremely socially awkward and obsessive about their alternate persona, but I've yet to personally find one and I wouldn't be surprised if many others haven't, either.
All that aside, I think a lot of the humor in this one (intentionally or otherwise) comes from the idea that it's funny to stop a kid from basically glorifying their imaginary "Cowboys & Indians" play for fear that it will creep into their adult life. G&T don't strike me as the kind of people who would try to alienate nerdy folks.
Frankly, using Gabe or Tycho as a foil to point out the silliness of prejudice is common enough that I'm surprised any posters thought this comic was anything more than a straw man in the first place.
Oh, and hi, first time actually posting.
This, pretty much.
Gabe is not Mike. They occasionally overlap but they are not supposed to be complete representations of how they actually act as parents or people.
It has been established on multiple occasions that Gabe is a terrible person. I think you're taking this comic strip way too seriously.
- H. P. Lovecraft
I do not think Mike is Gabe. In fact have referred to them separately in this thread, saying I think better of Mike than that. I was saying I think the idea in the comic is gross and horrible. Not that I think Mike Krahulik is a bad person. It's a comic, not a memoir.
Indeed.
That both Gabe and Tycho, the characters, are terrible people is something fairly easy to demonstrate. Their terribleness allows Mike and Jerry to regularly use them as cautionary tales, warnings against others attempting to emulate their behavior, if you will.
Expecting that either of the characters will make reasoned, rational, sensible decisions or take actions that reflect the same is always going to result in disappointment.
Spoken like a LARPer!
- H. P. Lovecraft
Gabe (the character) is pretty ignorant and elitist.
you add airsoft guns
I read it as an important Public Service Announcement.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Facebook? I have no idea what you're talking about seeing as it's 1864. Welcome to Pioneer Village!
I once texted a friend who was at a '30s theme party, "Stop reading texts, phones didn't exist in the '30s"
She responded "GET OUT OF MY HEAD"
Satire comic is SO OBVIOUSLY trying to get folks riled up.
pretty sure that turns you into civil war reenactors
suggesting that people eat their babies would also have come off as ignorant elitism, and yet for some reason we hail it as a great piece of writing... I can't quite remember why...
That is the joke. As others have said, the character of Gabe has been shown in the past to be somewhat of a nerd elitist and this is just a strip of him doing it again with the joke being at his expense.
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it can be this:
it can be this:
and sometimes it can be this:
all of those people are LARPing (although the last group would be loath to admit it, that's what they're bloody well doing and I can admit it when I'm doing it), and all of them are having a good time
whether or not any of that appeals to you is up to you
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