PG implies that you wouldn’t want your children reading it without your previewing it first. And I wouldn’t have let my kids read it at all when they were little. So no, it doesn’t fit the definition of “family friendly”: “considered to be suitable for all members of an average family.”
This discussion moves me to repost something I posted almost two years ago.
A long time ago, when the ‘Net was young,
There were all kinds of comics that were being done.
They floated all around, when “Skin Horse” was being born,
And the funniest of all was the cyberporn.
There were web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Some amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
The funniest of it all made it cyberporn.
Now Jeff said to Shaenon, “Let’s do us a strip.”
He said, “Come on, we’ll really make it rip.”
Jeff said, “Hey, sister Shaenon, I’ll tell what to do:
Make it a Skin Horse zoo!”
And use some of them web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Some amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
Don’t you forget the cyberporn.
Well, Shaenon was there, to step up and draw,
And some of the artwork was kinda raw.
The strips started appearing, one by one,
And she shouted when she was done,
“Hey, Jeff, I’ve drawn yer…”
Web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
But I’m just not drawing any cyberporn.
The strip started moving, it started to do well.
But none of the characters appeared au naturel.
The filth and the swear words were masked and scrubbed away,
And that’s why there’s no porn here, to this very day.
You’ll see web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Some amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
But you’re never gonna see no cyberporn.
—from “The Unicorn,” the Irish Rovers. (Well, Shel Silverstein.)
We’ll never know what Mistycorn’s second question was, because Virginia is using the threat of force to infringe Mistycorn’s first amendment rights. It was probably something about solar powered windmills for the poor though.
Honestly, when the big crate was introduced, I thought Baron M. managed to ~steal~ obtain Nick’s chopper form and made upgrades, then it/he/she was named and I thought it wasn’t possible. Now, a curling iron?? That doesn’t seem necessary for an average robot?
A taser is only 1200 volts, so it might not be quite as severe, but I still imagine that a robot getting hit with a taser would be kind of like your phone getting struck by lightning.
You can harden electronics against electrical attacks using various methods, so it really all depends on how he’s constructed and whether or not Whimsey intended him for outdoor use.
I’d be more worried about his fake fur catching fire.
Wrong implement. The hand sanitizer would start dissolving the how-ever-many-decades old fabric that’s covering the Baron’s endoskeleton, exposing his servos to dust, wind, and corrosion. It’ll just be a matter of time until he grinds to a halt and can only make snarky / lustful comments at passerby.
Yeah, Doc. I don’t like the sleazy, sneaking little turdlette either. I didn’t like him very ‘way back when he played games with Nick, either. Considering how ‘holy-holy’
ethical and barfically ‘nice’ Ginny considers Nick to be, it strains credulity to imagine he’d even have hung out with the little POS.
… Nick has never been nice or “holy” and Ginny has never seemed to have any illusions about him. She’s the one who put in expense requests for lead-lined underwear, never mind his swear filter.
What he is, is loyal and brave. He stuck to his (metaphorical) guns under imminent execution. He’s also a massive geek, and so is she.
We actually know of a robot that is drastically overpowered for what she does: Hitty, with her fusion power system. Which makes me wonder if Monstro is supposed to be a sibling to Hitty, with a heretofore-unknown man-portable fusion pie. Or maybe the twist is that the fusion device is not “man-portable”.
My fusion device masses 300 kilos. Please do not make sizeist jokes.
Monstro: My fusion device masses 300 kilos. Please do not make sizeist jokes.
Nick: Dude, you are literally named for a giant whale.
Monstro: Also, my primary attack is swallowing my opponents whole.
Nick: You said that, not me!
Monstro: Nonetheless, don't be cheap.
… if it had a fusion pie, wouldn’t need to be draining a lot of power… or would mean that the huge power drain IS something like the unicorn thing said.
Are you implying he’s able to say the truth? (?)
Depends on whether they were observing a drain on the power grid, or simply a massive power expenditure – e.g. an unusually high heat signature without accompanying fire and smoke.
Completely off topic, but what would happen if Ira was hit by his reality blindness weapon? Would he start to go ‘Aaaaah talking dog!’ all the time only to forget about it seconds later as reality blindness sets back in?
Maybe we don’t need the fusion generator. Maybe Monstro really does swallow his opponents whole, and uses Jenkinsonian quadratics folded space internally to keep them all inside simultaneously. The high energy signature isn’t Monstro’s alone; it’s his and also the energy of everyone he’s swallowed.
Nick’s a good friend to tell her that.
She was listening!
I hope Nick wasn’t listening.
I kinda wish Nick had been listening. The thought of Mistycorn horning in on Virginia might be enough to prompt Nick to make a move of his own.
Pun intended?
Of course.
What are Mistycorn’s questions? How far will Jeff and Shaenon push the envelope for a family friendly comic?
Since when has this comic fallen under the definition of “family friendly”?
I think it still Parental Guidance-rated even with Nick’s Profanity so in a way it still ‘family-friendly’
PG implies that you wouldn’t want your children reading it without your previewing it first. And I wouldn’t have let my kids read it at all when they were little. So no, it doesn’t fit the definition of “family friendly”: “considered to be suitable for all members of an average family.”
Oh.
Noted that.
Everyone forget “PG” is [b]Parental Guidance Suggested[/b].
PG 17?
This discussion moves me to repost something I posted almost two years ago.
A long time ago, when the ‘Net was young,
There were all kinds of comics that were being done.
They floated all around, when “Skin Horse” was being born,
And the funniest of all was the cyberporn.
There were web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Some amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
The funniest of it all made it cyberporn.
Now Jeff said to Shaenon, “Let’s do us a strip.”
He said, “Come on, we’ll really make it rip.”
Jeff said, “Hey, sister Shaenon, I’ll tell what to do:
Make it a Skin Horse zoo!”
And use some of them web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Some amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
Don’t you forget the cyberporn.
Well, Shaenon was there, to step up and draw,
And some of the artwork was kinda raw.
The strips started appearing, one by one,
And she shouted when she was done,
“Hey, Jeff, I’ve drawn yer…”
Web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
But I’m just not drawing any cyberporn.
The strip started moving, it started to do well.
But none of the characters appeared au naturel.
The filth and the swear words were masked and scrubbed away,
And that’s why there’s no porn here, to this very day.
You’ll see web-comic lions, and cobra snakes,
Some amusement park robots, and some big earthquakes.
Some mutts and nuts and craziness, but sure as you’re born,
But you’re never gonna see no cyberporn.
—from “The Unicorn,” the Irish Rovers. (Well, Shel Silverstein.)
Now, for the Manson family? I see no problems.
The language content since Nick’s revival has been a little on the raw side.
We’ll never know what Mistycorn’s second question was, because Virginia is using the threat of force to infringe Mistycorn’s first amendment rights. It was probably something about solar powered windmills for the poor though.
As a private citizen and an individual, she is not bound to abide by those notions—in fact, she has free speech rights of her own.
I thought Baron M. was Nick’s friend, too. I guess he doesn’t have any illusions about him.
Honestly, when the big crate was introduced, I thought Baron M. managed to ~steal~ obtain Nick’s chopper form and made upgrades, then it/he/she was named and I thought it wasn’t possible. Now, a curling iron?? That doesn’t seem necessary for an average robot?
A space heater doesn’t seem necessary either. Since it’s in a fairly small enclosure, an air conditioner seems more appropriate.
Remember how I said I hope nothing bad happen to the Baron? Forget all that,zap the little horn-dog Ginny!
He’s a robot; would getting Tasered actually hurt him?
I mean, assuming it doesn’t blow his fuses and that Whimsy didn’t make him out of pure magnesium/aluminium alloy or something…
A taser is only 1200 volts, so it might not be quite as severe, but I still imagine that a robot getting hit with a taser would be kind of like your phone getting struck by lightning.
You can harden electronics against electrical attacks using various methods, so it really all depends on how he’s constructed and whether or not Whimsey intended him for outdoor use.
I’d be more worried about his fake fur catching fire.
Wrong implement. The hand sanitizer would start dissolving the how-ever-many-decades old fabric that’s covering the Baron’s endoskeleton, exposing his servos to dust, wind, and corrosion. It’ll just be a matter of time until he grinds to a halt and can only make snarky / lustful comments at passerby.
So Mistycorn will dissolve like the Wicked Witch of the West?
“I’m rusting! I’m rusting! What a world . . ., ooh, cute babe!”
Yeah, Doc. I don’t like the sleazy, sneaking little turdlette either. I didn’t like him very ‘way back when he played games with Nick, either. Considering how ‘holy-holy’
ethical and barfically ‘nice’ Ginny considers Nick to be, it strains credulity to imagine he’d even have hung out with the little POS.
… Nick has never been nice or “holy” and Ginny has never seemed to have any illusions about him. She’s the one who put in expense requests for lead-lined underwear, never mind his swear filter.
What he is, is loyal and brave. He stuck to his (metaphorical) guns under imminent execution. He’s also a massive geek, and so is she.
When Monstro does emerge from his crate, at least we know he’ll be warm and nicely coiffed…
We actually know of a robot that is drastically overpowered for what she does: Hitty, with her fusion power system. Which makes me wonder if Monstro is supposed to be a sibling to Hitty, with a heretofore-unknown man-portable fusion pie. Or maybe the twist is that the fusion device is not “man-portable”.
My fusion device masses 300 kilos. Please do not make sizeist jokes.…”overpowered”? (Ahem…) Hitty knows EXCEL. She may have a few more tricks up her hammer-ended sleeve.
Yea, but nothing beats powerpoint for inflicting blunt force trauma.
Monstro:
My fusion device masses 300 kilos. Please do not make sizeist jokes.Nick: Dude, you are literally named for a giant whale.
Monstro:
Also, my primary attack is swallowing my opponents whole.Nick: You said that, not me!
Monstro:
Nonetheless, don't be cheap.… if it had a fusion pie, wouldn’t need to be draining a lot of power… or would mean that the huge power drain IS something like the unicorn thing said.
Are you implying he’s able to say the truth? (?)
Depends on whether they were observing a drain on the power grid, or simply a massive power expenditure – e.g. an unusually high heat signature without accompanying fire and smoke.
The kevel of mutual denial is reaching the problematic stage.
Completely off topic, but what would happen if Ira was hit by his reality blindness weapon? Would he start to go ‘Aaaaah talking dog!’ all the time only to forget about it seconds later as reality blindness sets back in?
On the one hand, he actually did that, in the VR let’s-play-on-Sweetheart’s-neuroses sequence.
On the other hand, more recently, Ira revealed himself as Mr. Green, and the whole forgetting thing was fake.
Maybe we don’t need the fusion generator. Maybe Monstro really does swallow his opponents whole, and uses Jenkinsonian quadratics folded space internally to keep them all inside simultaneously. The high energy signature isn’t Monstro’s alone; it’s his and also the energy of everyone he’s swallowed.
Monstro ate Renfield?
Still a better line than anything Sweetheart came up with.