A turbulent loop
on November 10, 2013 at 12:01 amHey, remember when TV/VCRs were a thing? These days you’d just pull out your phone and browse to porntube or youporn or pornporn or youyou.
Hey, remember when TV/VCRs were a thing? These days you’d just pull out your phone and browse to porntube or youporn or pornporn or youyou.
Loading ...
Question: how did Joyce even end up like this, mentally? Her parents never seemed like this when they showed up.
They probably had hope for grandchildren from there other kids at the time.
I think it’s a mix of denial and repeated memory wipes.
Probably the same way I did.
People can desire grandchildren but also still completely neglect to tell their daughters the facts of how reproduction works. I know one girl who’s mom informed her of how things worked on her (the daughter’s not the mom’s) wedding day. The girl freaked out and spent her wedding night locked in the bathroom and refused to come out. They played Scrabble under the door until she fell asleep.
(She didn’t know, and I quote, “that the guy enters the girl”.)
Sorry. I’m tired. Too many pronouns. She went through with the wedding and spent the night in the honeymoon suite’s bathroom. She played Scrabble with her husband, not her mom.
Sounds like a very loving husband to accommodate her like that. Cute story, really. If a little sad on the educational side.
Aren’t they still in front of the hospital? Won’t they be arrested for showing these in public?
Man why do these aliens even have porn?
The same reason anyone else has porn, I’d imagine. Of course that probably means it’s alien porn, so who knows what that entails. (As far as I can recall, all of the aliens we ever see are male, so the implications of that…)
… Wait, wouldn’t this count as sexual abuse?
Yes. Yes it would.
And that’s terrible.
Tomorrow, watch as Joyce’s brain literally explodes.
So, aliens from outer space use TV/VCR? You’d think their technology would be slightly more advanced.
Well, for maximum impact on Joyce, they’d have to use Earth pornos. And given Earth’s tech at the time, it would likely require TV/VCRs.
Oh damn I’m overthinking it again.
Well, wouldnt Alien porn be even more disturbing for Joyce?
But yeah, I’m just nitpicking.
She’d probably think it was just some kinda strange cartoon
Sonehow I don’t think they have alien porn, I mean, do they even have gender?
Yes, as per the Canadian incident.
Later the Head Alien is reverse-gendered, therefore they have gender, therefore they have sex, so logically they MUST have porn.
Rule 34b: if a species is sentient, they will create porn of themselves.
I keep thinking it’s not porn they’re showing her. It’s interpretative dance. They’re just as confused about it as she is.
“Epitome,” H.A.
Yeah but would that porn impact Joyce. As has been mentioned, she’d likely think it was ‘cute’, after all thinks the aliens are cute.
I have to admit, that I actually checked for “youyou” and “pornporn”. Was nothing there.
You must have very efficient net filters …
And tubetube is self-filtered …
Youyou…
Never again.
I thought the rumors of 4chan disavowing it as depraved were just…
It was horrible.
The horrors that I watched……..
All the horrors….
All of them…..
I am particularly fond of youyou.
Isn’t youyou mainly porn for narcissists? Or was that meme? (Not to be confused with the completely safe-for-work me-me and you-ness.)
This youyou meme can’t be allowed to spread. Too confusing.
Gah, when writing the above, I didn’t even notice that I re-created the word “meme” (/miːm/) when doubling the “me” (/miːmiː/). So yeah … kinda confusing.
Though, if confusion potential was the criterion, we’d have to prevent a lot of memes (/miːms/, not /miːmiːs/) from spreading. And also a lot of porn. Joyce probably wants the latter banned, anyway, especially considering today’s strip.
When I read that, I initially saw it as ‘me-me’ rather than ‘meme’, if that helps.
@Terah: Yeah, thanks.
The SEP Field on this hospital’s entrance grounds is just superb. I wonder if it’s located at the future site of Shortpacked…
Excellent. Thank you for that.
Ah, TV-VCRs … those of us at college with separate sets and decks used to look down on the guys with combis…
Nowadays, I’d quite like to have one, at least to put in the kitchen, because the bulk of a TV plus a separate media player is just too much on top of the fridge. Combi would allow one to more easily get through all the old piles of not yet watched VHSes and DVDs, with the addition of a fairly small, budget disc player…
Originally posted:
April 19, 1999