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PA Comic: Monday, Oct 3, 2011
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Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
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Given the disrespectful manner of my treatment, my husk is holding up super well! I hate it, and I hate the idea of it, it’s my enemy in addition to being a kind of prison, but aside from the occasional twinge of piercing, mysterious pain, this thing just keeps on going. Sure: there are the occasional parasitic lumps, sucking out my vitamins. But it’s mostly cool. My teeth are rarely pulled out by a Charleston Chew.
Gabriel’s body is always resentful of their arrangement - always quick to dispense abuse. Sometimes, when we are in an airplane, one side of his face becomes paralyzed. Sometimes his jaw will squeeze a nerve in the side of his head, and even though the worst pain he knows is eating part of his skull, we have a panel to do and he must approximate humanity for the next hour and a half.
Sometimes he will try to eat a piece of fresh, ripe fruit, because we are fucking omnivores, and we respond at a fundamental level to everything that fruit represents. It is at this point that his lips become plump, hideously so, like some Hollywood cautionary tale. This causes him to spend an evening cross referencing symptoms, pacing the skeins of an infernal Web, until he is able to craft himself an entirely custom apocalypse.
I’ve managed to tuck several hours into Dark Souls, the multiplatform followup to the Sony published/From developed grindhouse RPG grudgefuck. You’ll be entirely at home coming over from Demon’s Souls, if you were one of the people exposed to one of the greatest surprises of this console generation.
It’s blistering difficulty is the most salient point, as a message it’s certainly travelled far. This means some of the basic stuff you’d think it would: survival-horror style rationing, big hits, mean-spirited booby traps and the occasional instakill. But it’s also difficult in ways modern games have simply decided against: a “ledge” in Dark Souls is not an aesthetic trapping, a fetish, an object meant to represent another object and evoke its properties without actually embodying them. It’s a fucking hole. There is no magical forcefield that will keep you from that hole. This world does not have your best interests at heart; it will eat you like anything else.
(CW)TB out.
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Really?
We're making fun of hypochondria and racoon fucking. I laughed.
Dumb, but funny.
Also, this is a long time to have gone without ever having eaten a peach. I'm impressed.
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Sometimes fresh fruit allergy is really just a pollen allergy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome. Try chopping the peaches into small cubes or thin slices and boiling in enough water to cover them. Boil for 10-15 minutes, and add water if there's not enough to keep the peaches from burning. The heat may degrade (change the protein folding of) whatever heat sensitive compound is causing the problem. Swollen lips like in the comic more accurately depict anaphylaxis, not an oral allergy. Hyperbole ftw.
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What I did was politely decline the few opportunities that came my way, and I had the fortune of not surrounding myself with people who have pushy personalities.
It's not an active MUST AVOID and more of indifference. TO THE EXTREEEEEEEEEEEME
But no seriously I just don't care to and I'm sure that was the same for Mike. And now I have a reason to avoid it because what if I'm allergic to them too? That would be fucked.
Had a pear only because someone bought us one of those Harry & David gifts.
Except Granny Smith apples. Those are just way too tart. I hate that pinched feeling at the back of your jaw that tart foods cause.
I see what you did there.
This is something I have. Like you said,the cooking part denatures whatever causes the allergy typically. I don't remember peaches specifically causing me a problem, but tree nuts like almonds, things like green peppers, bananas.
Basically what happens to me is the back/roof of my mouth will start to itch like crazy and I find myself doing this weird tongue move trying to scratch it, my sinuses start acting up and suddenly I'm blowing my nose, my eyes may itch, etc. It's basically the effects of a sinus allergy but with the mouth/throat itching part.
seriously there's only One Way Out of this situation if you don't want Trouble No More, have Melissa make you some peach Mountain Jam and Stand Back!
Actually, come to think of it, the story develops further complexity once you realize that his pre-"Gabe" handle was "Deadly Peach".
Wasn't it "Dark Peach"?
edit: nevermind, I remembered that wrong from a 4th panel.
also, OH GOD THE HORROR OF TERRIBLE MID-90s AMATEUR WEB DESIGN
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