• other_cat@lemmy.zip
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      6 minutes ago

      There was a series of these for a while on reddit on r/comics, and people would routinely hop into the comics to ask “wtf is going on?” and give their opinion on whether or not they like or dislike this brand of storytelling (aka random ‘snapshots’ of a story with nothing between them. It would be like reading a book by flipping to random pages and reading just that page, basically.)

      Anyway I was pretty certain that it was the same artist making these, and I’m pretty much 99% sure I’m right because I found the ol reddit collection here: https://imginn.com/blujayooo/

      I remember at the time being more on the annoyed side because some of the ‘issues’ had some pretty interesting stuff going on and I would have liked an actual story to go with them, but I find myself feeling pretty neutral about it now, mostly because I’m NOT invested or interested this go around.

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      13 hours ago

      I have the feeling the artist themselves don’t know what the fuck is going on. Which is fitting for the current zeitgeist if you ask me.

      Or they say “fuck it”, do a yes amount of drugs and start scribbling. Which probably is what’s really happening.

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      15 hours ago

      My guess is that it’s a cynical take on optimism and maybe hustle-culture. Whatever people say, it’s futile anyway.

      But maybe I’m just too dumb to get the “jokes” buried somewhere in them.😁

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      14 hours ago

      Except water becomes incredibly hard if being hit with too much speed. If there’s vegetation next to it and you’re at (or close to) terminal velocity you might want to land there instead. There are confirmed cases of people surviving a fall into vegetation after their parachutes didn’t open.