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Kayeka from Amsterdam (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1501: Jul 15th 2014 at 2:06:37 PM

It's actually kinda funny how skinny people take make all kinds of crazy poses when they are completely exhausted.

... At least, it;s not just me and Jared, right?

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#1502: Jul 15th 2014 at 6:33:51 PM

Hey, I am 15? stones of fat ugly bastard and the postures I get into when I'm completely knackered would amaze you. smile.

Lightblade The Shrouded Knight from Philadelphia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
The Shrouded Knight
#1503: Jul 15th 2014 at 6:47:03 PM

Yoga pants are indeed magical.

Yes, they are.

Also, the great Ozzy Osbourne's opinions on yoga, as chronicled in ''Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy''

  • Handy Tip: Find the best-looking woman in the class and stand behind her. It'll cheer you up to no end.
  • Dangers & Annoyances: Bulges can be spotted easily through Lycra.
  • Pay-off: Being able to jump off a drum riser while doing the splits - and not wake up in hospital.

I won't say that the views were not pleasant, but like I said, my being motivated by the chance to meet women was missing the point, and realizing how shallow my motives were for doing it was why I stopped. I also don't recommend trying to jump off drum risers.

The Living Guildpact rules that coffee is an acceptable substitution for rest as specified in subsection … whatever.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#1504: Jul 21st 2014 at 9:03:43 AM

This week's update

Not in color but it's still a sweet strip and some good advice.

Digging the viking beard.

Oh really when?
TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Queen of Good Things, Honest
#1505: Jul 21st 2014 at 9:26:43 AM

The garlic bread bits had me cracking up.

My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.
Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Absolutely no relation to NLK
#1506: Jul 21st 2014 at 10:55:35 AM

His brother's comeback had me giggling. Also, damn is CB well-adjusted.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#1507: Jul 21st 2014 at 3:46:36 PM

Strip is now in color and there are background viking slaves.

I love that he mentions that is was the first time they got captured by vikings.

Oh really when?
GethKnight from St Charles, Missouri Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: Mu
#1508: Jul 21st 2014 at 3:52:28 PM

He should have just skipped over the whole "Kidnapped by vikings helped me put on muscle"

(V)(;,,;)(V)
aceofspades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#1509: Jul 21st 2014 at 4:26:09 PM

It's loading super slowly for me today. But Commander continues to be the sanest guy in his world.

TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#1510: Jul 21st 2014 at 9:53:23 PM

[up] Any other less-adjusted person would have lost their mind long ago.

Frankly, I'm surprised Vikings were able to capture them all in the first place. Let alone multiple times.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#1511: Jul 21st 2014 at 9:54:02 PM

Some of the commentators are dicks, though. Coela doesn't seem to worship at the same Church of Muscle that they do or something - I guess that's what's giving me the distinct impression that those folks think that she has pee'd in their whole egg drinks or something.

Desertopa Not Actually Indie Since: Jan, 2001
Not Actually Indie
#1512: Jul 22nd 2014 at 9:17:01 AM

Well, if you surround yourself with people who constantly take an interest in each others' physical fitness, if you improve your shape, they'll probably notice. And the sort of friends or acquaintances who comment on, say, every haircut, they'll probably notice too. But it's not likely to change the way total strangers relate to or interact with you, unless maybe if you start out obese and you change that.

When I went from slightly pudgy from the freshman fifteen to single digit body fat percentages, plenty of acquaintances noticed and commented on it, but for my relationships with strangers it's not like it particularly made a difference.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Rotpar Always 3:00am in the Filth from California (Unlucky Thirteen) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Always 3:00am in the Filth
#1513: Jul 22nd 2014 at 9:49:14 AM

I have to say, I absolutely love how Commander Badass is one of the most reasonable and wise characters I've ever read. Especially for a vat-grown super-soldier whose day job to keep Pyramid Head and Kratos out of trouble with productive work.

"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
Adannor from effin' belarus Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#1514: Jul 22nd 2014 at 2:10:54 PM

Well it's not like he grew up without problems. He had to put himself together from a breakdown at least once - the sanity we see is the result of some damn strong glue.

TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Queen of Good Things, Honest
#1515: Jul 22nd 2014 at 3:01:12 PM

Commander Badass has genuine wisdom; the kind that comes from experience, not age.

My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.
Desertopa Not Actually Indie Since: Jan, 2001
Not Actually Indie
#1516: Jul 22nd 2014 at 6:27:01 PM

He is the man for our times, even if he won't be born for a couple hundred years or so.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Gilphon Untrustworthy from The Third Sound Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Untrustworthy
#1517: Jul 22nd 2014 at 7:51:08 PM

He's an interesting case where he's literally behind the times, but figuratively ahead of his time.

"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#1518: Jul 25th 2014 at 6:55:31 PM

I gotta say that the Commander is the second favourite comic book character I have ever came across. He's still just behind Walter Joseph Kovacs though. A man I feel closer to the older I get.

You may know him better as Rorschach.

Elfive Since: May, 2009
Maridee from surfside Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
#1520: Jul 26th 2014 at 5:30:53 PM

check the icon.

also Cass. actually Cass should come first because Steph's back in comics but i love them both equally

ophelia, you're breaking my heart
TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#1521: Jul 26th 2014 at 10:50:08 PM

[up] I keep hearing about Steph being back, but I can never remember which comic it is she's supposed to come back in.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#1522: Jul 26th 2014 at 11:47:46 PM

“None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”

Still one of the best lines in comic book history.

Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#1523: Jul 27th 2014 at 12:05:13 AM

It is badass. But actually identifying with Rorschach is... kinda concerning.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#1524: Jul 27th 2014 at 12:51:21 AM

Ah but there's the thing. Lots of folks identify with Batman (why? He's just as fucked in the head as Kovacs is, if not more so. And he makes supervillains hang round Gotham in order to fight him. And in at least one continuity he was actually created by/created the Joker - it's complicated). And Kal-El, who doesn't even come from this planet, becomes the shiny symbol of the good old US of A. (I still think the best evisceration of his alter-ego(s) (he has two, remember) came in Kill Bill Volume Two with the speech that Bill did just before the Bride took her revenge on him.)

Yet just about every kid I've ever heard of wears Batman or Kal-El costumes every Hallowe'en and hardly anyone bats an eyelid.

I could list all day the comic book heroes and heroines who I consider to be on equally shaky mental health grounds with Kovacs but I don't really see the point.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#1525: Jul 27th 2014 at 12:55:06 AM

That's just dumb new Batman and Superman. Old Batman and Superman were better.

Oh really when?

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