Oh, ginger, you ought to check out Calvin and Hobbes!

It is literally the best thing ever.

I'm dead serious.

@condo Not just Jungle Cat, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.

And I need to go to bed now.

Goodnight.

Goodnight crowlover

I need to be here sooner

edited 12th Jun '12 8:32:40 PM by FallenLegend

What's interesting is that C&H doesn't seem to have any vocal haters. People love it, or they like it, or they're indifferent towards it, but no one dislikes it enough to rant about it online. Or at least that was the case a few years ago; maybe the situation has changed since then.

It's too bad Bill Watterson got out of comics.

@Ginger: Again, it's up for them to decide. If they decide that being RD's pet is worth the risk, that's their issue. And yes, check out Calvin and Hobbes.

@Fallen: Hey, good to see you too.

edited 12th Jun '12 8:34:07 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Oh, yeah, like I'm gonna type the whole thing out.

Learn to cut corners and save yourself the headache.

Yes Ginger, go find it if you can. Nothing else captures the feel of being a kid like that strip does.

@con meh, looks boring

When I have disposable income, I will go get myself the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection.

And Ginger probably doesn't like it because there are no competent villains.

edited 12th Jun '12 8:35:07 PM by KylerThatch

After a bit of reminiscing, there where two moments when I was watching animation that made me tear up.

1st was the ending to Grave of the Fireflies.

2nd was this

IT IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING EVER. OH MY GOD IT IS AWESOME.

SPACEMAN SPIFF

TRACER BULLET

STUPENDOUS MAN

...

There is almost nothing in this world that I love more.

Can you understand that?

edited 12th Jun '12 8:36:26 PM by condottiera

@JT Stop saying that like it takes away all of her responsibility. She should'be figured that some of the pets might be OVERCONFIDENT, or peer pressured, or other stuff like that.

No, she wasn't being actively being hostile, but her criteria was dickish and her methods were THOUGHTLESS!

...sorry, I'm okay

Naw, the best thing about Calvin and Hobbes is Hobbes. In my opinion.

@Stevebat: I wish Watterson was still making comics, but I also have tremendous respect for him for stopping while he was at the top of his game, rather than allowing C&H to go south and end on a whimper.

You do know the premise of This Is Spinal Tap, right? It's freaking hilarious, but it's so full of sarcasm-with-a-straight-face humor that some viewers have actually mistaken it for a real documentary about a real band.

This doesn't sound like overhyping in the slightest.

@Ginger And she learned her lesson. I don't see why this is even a problem.

edited 12th Jun '12 8:37:50 PM by PerpetualLurker

Oh, Hobbes... how I wish you were real.

You're right. It's not.

edited 12th Jun '12 8:38:00 PM by condottiera

We are still trying to show new stuff to Ginger?

@Ginger

I love the fact that you liked this show even tough there weren't any good Manignificent Bastard villains at season 1

I don't know how saying "I do risky things, and if you want to hang around with me you have to do so as well" is thoughtless. I'm saying that because she doesn't have responsibility unless she somehow forces them to take part. She's basically saying "If you hang around with me, we'll do dangerous stuff, and you'd better be able to handle it". If one of the pets overestimates their abilities, that's an error in their judgment, not hers. Yeah, the criteria themselves were pretty bad (which was the whole point of the episode), but forcing those who wanted the position to do a trial run isn't a bad methodology. It would be worse if she just picked one at random and later did a canyon run without informing them of the danger.

@Con: How did you forget the deranged mutant killer monster snow goons?

edited 12th Jun '12 8:41:05 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Meta Four: Actually Twilight Sparkle has a tendancy for this, maybe what makes her flaws kind of depthful. She has something of a one track mind that is too set on accomplishing one goal she doesn't notice the other risks or scenarios happening around her. In Lesson Zero for example the moral is about being so overfocused on one particular task and not seeing the big picture.

1. She obsessively tries to even out the icing on the cupcakes despite them all being reduced to a tiny spec on top in the process. 2. When trying to make the CMC grow attached to her doll, she is so obsessed with making them argue over loving it, she fails to realise they are actually fighting over who should be forced to play with it first anyway. 3. Even when Celestia confronts her about her misbehaviour, her main rebuttal seems to be concerning her tardiness. She still thinks that is her key error.

As for Sunday comics, always been more a Garfield fan myself:

http://garfield.nfshost.com/1996/11/19/

edited 12th Jun '12 8:42:09 PM by Psi001

Hobbes totally is real. Calvin could tell you as much.

@Lurker JT seemed to be insinuating that RD wasn't being unreasonable in that episode.

We're introducing things to Ginger?

How about Fate/Stay Night/ Fate/Zero? :K

I am not even joking here, you know?

I won a poetry slam once by reciting the T-Rex rampage ballad.