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2016-08-16

by shaenon on August 16, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Purple Waves
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  1. woozy
    August 16, 2016, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Marcie, sometimes it just isn’t you.

    • Mental Mouse
      August 16, 2016, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      Poor Marcie!

  2. Alabat Macord
    August 16, 2016, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Come on Chris. Take a chance. Go with her.

    • Gerald Sears
      August 16, 2016, 8:04 pm | # | Reply

      Indeed start a new webcomic of romance in a world of mad scientists!

  3. Miyaa
    August 16, 2016, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Marcie should just hit Chris with a clue by four. Twice.

    • Seph
      August 16, 2016, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      So, a clue by eight?

      • comicsgal
        August 16, 2016, 7:01 am | # | Reply

        Perhaps if the clue by four is squared, it would be a clue by sixteen?

      • Guesticus
        August 16, 2016, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

        Or a 4×4

    • Gerald Sears
      August 16, 2016, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      No! Given this couple’s history she needs to give him a strong blast of cluetonium.

  4. Urlance Woolsbane
    August 16, 2016, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Chris has family in California (in Napa Valley, if memory serves.) Surely that significantly lessens the difficulty of moving there? Or is Nick’s Livejournal non-canon now?

    • Amy
      August 16, 2016, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Chris seems to have COMPLETELY missed the fact that Marcie’s asking him to move in with her. So he’s thinking she wants him to pack up and move several thousand miles to a much more expensive area just to live NEAR her, while he’s having trouble paying the rent where he is. He’s worried about where he’s going to live. Having family there would be a good safety net, but it wouldn’t make it much easier for him to live there independently (unless they’re rich enough or well-connected enough to get him a job). And he probably doesn’t want to depend on his family to the point of moving in with his parents or begging them for money.

      Also, California is a big state, so just because he has family in California doesn’t necessarily mean they’re anywhere close to where Marcie will be. (Although if you’re right that they’re in Napa Valley, Google tells me that’s about an hour and a half from Palo Alto, which isn’t too bad.)

      • Altarboy
        August 16, 2016, 2:16 am | # | Reply

        Google says an hour and a half, but it’s a bit different during commute hours.

        • Sir William
          August 16, 2016, 3:47 am | # | Reply

          So don’t go during those hours

      • Urlance Woolsbane
        August 16, 2016, 3:54 am | # | Reply

        Fair enough, it just seemed odd for them not to come up at all.

        That said,I found the entry, and they are indeed in Napa.
        https://nickzerhakker.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/33/

    • Guesticus
      August 16, 2016, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

      Or maybe there is a reason why he hasn’t been back to visit them, or mention them, or why he is on the east coast

  5. Moe Lane
    August 16, 2016, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Here’s a radical line for her to try: “Hey, let’s get married!”

    • Jay
      August 16, 2016, 2:25 am | # | Reply

      If this wasn’t the US, it would be “Hey, let’s live together!” (There’s really only correlation between marriage and cohabitation, not causation, anyway.)

      But it is the US, so I guess “Hey, want in on my health insurance?” works too.

      • Cloudster
        August 16, 2016, 10:57 am | # | Reply

        My not-yet wife and I were planning on going the cohab route since her employer had good benefits that totally worked for cohab, then her dad got massive cancer. We married to make him happy, and we’ve been married for eleven years.

    • Matt w
      August 16, 2016, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      That’s a lousy line, if you don’t want to get married yet.

      • Moe Lane
        August 16, 2016, 11:42 am | # | Reply

        :shrug: Sometimes you need to shoot 50K volts through the system.

      • DarkStarling
        August 16, 2016, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

        Not neccessarily, I’ve been living with my girlfriend for six months. Living with someone before you actually get married just seems sensible.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 16, 2016, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      I felt a little cheated not seeing the wedding of Bubbles and Killbot #2…maybe this’ll make up for it.

      • Jeffrey C. Wells
        August 16, 2016, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

        A wedding? Already? Killotron-2 is a gentlebot, sir, and requires time to both court and to destroy.

        • Robert Nowall
          August 16, 2016, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

          They could elope…I’d just like to see the minister (Artie?) read out, “Do you, Olympia Waters, take this robot to be your lawful husband?”

          • Shadowmehr
            August 16, 2016, 7:26 pm | #

            Not to be pedantic, but I think it’s Bubbles Britta Cooler.

          • Robert Nowall
            August 16, 2016, 8:06 pm | #

            They used “Olympia Waters” once in an extra, a stretch of unused script. “Bubbles” is the name they gave her.

          • Jess Kay
            August 16, 2016, 10:28 pm | #

            “I, Killotron-2, take thee, Olympia Waters, to be my lawful wedded wife, to have and to destroy…”

  6. Darwin
    August 16, 2016, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    I’m hoping these crazy kids hit it off. I thought they were already into each other. And yes, it is possible to be that bad at relationship. I’m that bad.

    • chrisn
      August 16, 2016, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

      Marcie seems to have no real problem with relationships, but Chris is pretty clueless. He’s the one that needed help from Tip (makeover!) to get started on it. Once Marcie knew that he liked her, she was all over him, literally (“Wow that girl can climb”).

  7. Amy
    August 16, 2016, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Is anyone else having trouble leaving long comments in Google Chrome? I am, but I’ve been having lots of trouble with Chrome lately, so I’m not sure what’s widespread and what’s just my computer.

    For me, it’s like the page only allows so much room for the comment interface, and if you type too much, the “Post Comment” button (which is at the bottom) disappears. It happened to me the other day on Narbonic too. When I want to post a long comment, I have to do it in Internet Explorer.

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      August 16, 2016, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

      Well, I’ve tested it out, and I can confirm that it’s doing it for me too, but I’ll be boogered if I can figure out why. But at least you’re not alone? Small comfort? I’ll see if anything jumps out at me on a cursory troubleshooting search…

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      August 17, 2016, 6:21 am | # | Reply

      Well, I don’t know *why* it’s doing it, but the workaround is to just hit the tab key whenever you’re done typing what you’re typing, which should bring the cursor onto the post button regardless of the fact that it’s hidden. Lemme know if that works for you or if we should be looking into other options.

    • greenknight32
      August 17, 2016, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      Firefox has no such problem. I won’t touch Internet Explorer with a ten-foot virtual pole.

  8. Robert Nowall
    August 16, 2016, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    And I thought Tip was the most dense Skin Horse denizen…

  9. ugwump
    August 16, 2016, 7:10 am | # | Reply

    Girl, it’s not you. You just picked a hard target.

  10. Nomi
    August 16, 2016, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    Marcie’s pout in the last panel is adorable.

  11. Persona
    August 16, 2016, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    This strip reminds me of this one here: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/meeting-even-cuter

  12. Sheik
    August 16, 2016, 4:08 pm | # | Reply

    Face it Marcie, you are just gonna hav’ta go cavewoman on him.
    Konk him on the noggon and drag him by the hair to his doom.

  13. forklifter16
    August 16, 2016, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

    To be that clueless, I suspect he accidently irradiated his own brain.

  14. Robert Nowall
    August 16, 2016, 6:32 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve heard they’ve got guys bathing in the restrooms in the New York Public Library—the one with the lions out front. Was one of them Chris? Where’d he study?

  15. Shadowmehr
    August 16, 2016, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, in ten minutes, he’s going to get a drink out of the fridge, then the subtext of this conversation finally sinks in, and he soaks himself squeezing the bottle too hard while going “Oooohhhh . . . . “. Followed almost immediately by him pounding his head on the fridge in embarrassment.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 16, 2016, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps he’s being deliberately clueless, to avoid embarrassing her with an out-and-out rejection. I doubt it, but perhaps…

  16. Pygar
    August 16, 2016, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

    Talk about obtuse… this guy just pegged my Jethrometer!

  17. Gyrre
    August 21, 2016, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

    Thank God there are men more oblivious than me.

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