Steve B.

Steve B.

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7 years ago @ octopus pie - #907 - still kinda hea... · 0 replies · +18 points

Or maybe Park is a more complicated person than Eve is willing to see right now. Greg seems to be a pretty self-aware and grounded guy, and he sees both sides of Park. Park's a snob, he's arrogant, but he's also talented and ambitious, and he wants to see the people he cares about succeed as he succeeds (even if his attempts to push his friends to succeed come off as arrogant and, well, pushy). He's a human being, and being a bad date for someone and lashing out after having a drink thrown in his face doesn't make him a villain.

7 years ago @ octopus pie - #900 + 901 - the weath... · 1 reply · +19 points

Park grew up in New York.

8 years ago @ octopus pie - #851 - there's no jump · 0 replies · +51 points

Eve doesn't know what Google's called.

8 years ago @ octopus pie - #804 - okay bye · 0 replies · +14 points

Also, just because their relationship is generally socially acceptable in New York doesn't mean Marigold is comfortable with it. We don't really know what Mar's level of experience with girls is. What's more, it's easier to be straight than to be gay even in New York, which is why plenty of bi-sexual people prefer to be seen by their peers as straight. That last point isn't the most noble impulse in the world, of course, but it wouldn't make Marigold a monster.

Which, as others have pointed out, is assuming Mar's behavior even has anything to do with sexuality, which it might not. I tend to think it is about that, though. You don't devote a whole page of a comic to a meaningless relationship hiccup, this is the first time we've seen Marigold have an intimate relationship with a woman, and one of Jane's recurring themes is the unique set of relationship difficulties that come with being a gay/lesbian person.

8 years ago @ chainsawsuit by kris s... - an energy solution · 0 replies · +12 points

You're cursed to live an increasingly alienated life in a world that will only grow more and more frightening and infuriating to you, and I think that's great. Suffer forever.

8 years ago @ chainsawsuit by kris s... - an energy solution · 5 replies · +24 points

It's okay for South Carolina to fly a rebel flag because the Union burned Atlanta in the Civil War? Should Berlin fly a Nazi flag because the Allied forces razed Dresden in World War II? What does it mean to you that General Sherman burned Atlanta? Does it somehow retroactively justify the Confederacy's attempt to build a slave nation?

People like you also tend to get hung up on the fact that not every Confederate soldier owned slaves. I've never understood why the fact that a lot of Confederate soldiers were gullible saps who fought and died in a war that was fundamentally about securing the rights of their wealthier neighbors to profit off of human slavery, instead of resisting or doing anything else, somehow gives some magical patina of sacredness to the Confederacy.

8 years ago @ chainsawsuit by kris s... - an energy solution · 1 reply · +22 points

The funniest thing is that most of the conservatives who take this very cultured, even-handed, shades-of-gray view of the Civil War think that literally every other American war was a simple clash of good versus evil, lol. The second funniest thing is that the non-slavery reasons they claim the Civil War was fought were all only contentious because of slavery.

8 years ago @ chainsawsuit by kris s... - booooo · 2 replies · +34 points

When I was a kid, I was coloring myself in with the transparent crayon, not the peach crayon or the brown crayon.

8 years ago @ Broodhollow - Concerns of the Auxiliary · 2 replies · +8 points

I don't understand how anybody is not understanding that the memory loss IS selective. These people all remember who they are, and how they relate to one another, but they forget the creepy stuff within weeks. In chapter two, Zane had already forgotten about the skeletal tailor and the bat invasion, but he still remembered that he was new in town, the friends he'd made, and so forth. The memory loss is selective. People forget the dark things, the things that somehow relate to the supernatural, but they remember basic stuff.

8 years ago @ chainsawsuit by kris s... - let's go to the movies!! · 0 replies · +6 points

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