I don’t know what I’m doing, Sal
on March 24, 2016 at 12:01 amWhen you define yourself as the person who doesn’t swear and the person who avoids certain vices, when you start to break down those barriers, yeah, there’s a certain feeling that you’re losing part of your identity.  Thing is, maybe that’s a bad thing to define yourself around!  I know those feels, especially as you grow to learn that some of the things you define yourself around miiight just be a little destructive!
Instead, define your identity around knowing lots about alien robots who become cars and eating certain kinds of fast food!
Or just drink the goddamned beer, Joyce.  You’ll hate it.  But the world won’t end.  And you’ll still be you.
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Yeah, imagine–trying things and confirming biases (or not) gives you a broader grasp of the world around you, enabling you to find out who you really are instead of who you thought you were when you were like twelve!
although, can’t attest to beer not actually being a pint of piss
Turns out it’s Whiskey that’s a pint of piss. From panthers, yet!
So drink your goddamned Panther Piss, Joyce– and get in the goddamned Robot while your at it..
Yeah, defining yourself as being the “good” or “pure” one is basically just arrogance. It assumes that everyone else is completely fallen to temptations and vices and that somehow your willpower/beliefs/morals are SO MUCH BETTER than theirs.
I won’t even try to argue that there is no arrogance in such a choice, for many people. There is. But does that make the choice itself lack validity? Would you argue that the alternative (partaking of vices) is an objectively superior choice? No. Both abstaining and partaking are just choices, personal preferences on how to live your life. It is important to keep an open mind and to leave some wiggle room for personal growth, yes, but in the end you have as little right to judge a straight person as that person has the right to judge a decadent one.
Moreover, arrogance and holier-than-thou attitude is not, as many would like to think, the monopoly of the religious or the straight-edge. Try being “pure” for a few days and come back and tell me you didn’t suffer from loads and loads of “straight-shaming” from people on the other side of the fence. People whose own personal choices made them feel entitled to criticise and mock the choices of one who chose differently.
Yeah, let me tell you about that time I was sitting in the Uni bar having an Irn Bru and a complete stranger lectured me for ten minutes about the evils of not drinking. He’d probably have kept going, except thankfully my friends arrived.
Personally, I define myself as someone who doesn’t partake of certain vices because other people are self-evidently better able to deal with them than I am. It’s not that I think Drinking Is Wrong, it’s just that *my* judgement is impaired enough as it is, thanks.
An identity based around robot toys is far more constructive, anyway. Good and Evil are relative concepts, but Transformers are superior to GoBots any day of the week.
I remember enjoying both line’s shows and comics equally as a kid in the ’80s at least… mind you I was young enough when they were originally concurrently on that most of the shows and comics of that ilk (MASK, He-Man, ThunderCats, GI Joe, Centurions, Wheeled Warriors, SilverHawks, GoBots, Transformers, Robotech, Voltron, Visionaries, et al) seemed top notch and I had at least a few toys from each line.
Now the toys yeah, GoBots are really shitty compared to Transformers. Hell, in that era Hasbro was the best we had in the US toy company game, so it was hard to not be substandard to their work. Mattel and Kenner were fairly even in quality as runner ups, but not near Hasbro during that era.
omg Silverhawks! I’d completely forgotten about that show. I used to love that show as a kid. Thanks for reminding me! ^^
Yeah Joyce, you’ll still be you. Which is someone who murdered an innocent person. Well mostly innocent.
Anti-Joyce takes offense at that.
I’m still chocking this up as technical suicide, because I see it as her killing a manifestation of herself out of self-loathing.
No, it was a _metaphorical_ suicide. Technically, it was still murder, or at least manslaughter.
JIMMY DIED, TO-DAY! He blew his brains out into the bay! In this state, of mind. It’s my own private suicide~
(I am having waaaaay too much fun with this.)
Come on Sal you don’t see people getting drunk during your dramatic self inflicted tangents.
And as for Joyce knowing who you are and excepting who and what you are is two completely different things. Also as a Christian she should know more than anyone else that things like Purity or innocence is something none of us have since the thought of someone who lived their life without doing heinous act is absurd as all hell.
*A single heinous act
She’s from a strain of Christianity which has a big double standard where you both aren’t expected to remain pure or do good works because faith in Christ saves and no-one is without sin, but also absolutely are because otherwise God hates you. It’s mostly an excuse to be hateful and judgmental.
And making mac and cheese exactly the way it says on the label like some kind of wind-up tin soldier. I bet you get out measuring cups and everything.
I’ve decided to try to find songs that best represent Its Walky characters. I know something similar was or is happening with the dumbiverse, but screw that, I want to do the Walkyverse!
Danny: Every thing you Know is wrong, Weird Al Yankovic. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYlxqWRe3M
Joyce: Heart of Gold, James Blunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmeNCWFEKI0
first link screwed up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYlxqWRe3M
Maybe if you tried drinking a little of your beer, Joyce; you haven’t even taken the foam off of it yet.
Giver her time, maybe she’ll even like it.
Honestly, her excessive self-disclosure in public reminds me of getting drunk in my early 20s and unloading on the nearest innocent bystander. Sooo I assumed she’d already been drinking until that last panel.
That is a hideous amount of head. It’s like we’re in mainland Europe or something.
The world will only not end assuming HA doesn’t make his move tonight while Squad 128 is smashed.
I dunno, if HA made his move while Squad 128 was incapacitated maybe SEMME would have been forced to send out someone actually competent. 😛
“Am I a good man? Am I a mad man? There’s such a fine line, between a good man and a…”
Seriously, these Jekyll&Hyde references are too easy. I’m having a field day with this plot.
The commentary isn’t turning into another round of ironic self-righteousness over not being less self-righteous than others, is it? I was kinda’ hoping that joke died out with the Roomies redux.
“Over being less self-righteous than others” or “over not being self-righteous” Pick one of those 😛
I’m still the guy that doesn’t swear but, eh, I define myself by so many other things that it’s a footnote.
People always seem to think of me as the Guy Who Doesn’t Swear.
But I do. Quite a bit.
I think it’s ’cause I live in Australia.
But of course it’s easier to define yourself by your actions and then act like your definition than to find out what happens when you never know what you’re going to do. And then it gets hard to let go of the comfort of a familiar role.
It is perfectly fine to be the person who doesn’t swear or drink or do drugs. Defining yourself by that is perfectly acceptable.
I hate the term “self-righteous”. It’s almost always used incorrectly to mean “people I envy who are capable of self-control” rather than “people who see themselves as superior to everyone else”.