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[pa comic] Friday, July 11th, 2014 - Dobber
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Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
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That's what makes it so awesome. Cute and sweet, but then they remind you "This is Penny-Arcade!"
The part where the imaginary friend is trying to convince the kid that his parents are imaginary seemed a little dark to me too.
Dobber don't give a fuck
I thought he was using that to say that the "never seen him, therefore imaginary" line of logic is flawed.
I stared at the first panel for a while trying to figure out what was happening. Had to read through the comic then go back to see what was really going on.
Still, cute comic.
That sentence was really hard to write: autocorrect just really refused to let some of those words go.
to be fair, i don't thinks that's something you've got to imagine, though its usually a different type of orangeman and its probably best we don't get into what's being shouted.
yes, this thread is certainly going to interesting places folks.
this is a perfectly natural reaction to what is happening. that confusion you're feeling is perfectly normal and will pass once the wild Scots have dispersed.
"Please stop recommending new games! Stop the bleeding!"
Thank you.
Then I kicked the cynical part of me in the balls because it deserved it.
Nah, anti-vaxxers are confirming their identity as counter-culture people; that's why you can't logically convince them to drop the nutty ideologies.
Children with imaginary friends can, and will, drop their imaginary friends.
Imaginary friends are a phase. Anti-vax/climate-change denialism is just a clear sign that someone should be fenced in and excluded from regular population.
Perhaps it was just me, but I definitely never thought my imaginary friends were real.
but seriously why this seems like an appropriate place for this discussion
You must be a hit with parents who tell their kids about Santa Claus.
Definitely and obviously this ^^ in a "just joshing" kind of way. Just look at the expression on Dobber's face
Also, I'm not saying that this kid is like a climate change denier, I'm saying that having "It's okay to delude yourself if it makes you happy" as a moral does subtly encourage that sort of behavior.
It's not a moral. No one is reading this to learn how to live their lives. It's a cute gag about kid's and their imaginary friends.
Alright, if this debate is going to work, we're either going to have to debate the imaginary friend/hallucination point, and if we decide it is a halluctination or whatever, get back to this discussion, or we can assume it is a hallucination to do this a little faster. Either way is fine with with me, it depends on whether or not you think the imaginary friend point.
Morals are concerned with ethical behavior & good vs wrong. Children believing in imaginary friends is not a moralistic issue.
This is a non-issue which you are nit-picking for no real reason. This does not translate into climate change denialism; this is a child believing in an imaginary friend which will clearly end with pubescence. It does not apply to science, the scientific method, rational thought, or logical processes. It's just a kid being a kid.