[1553] Oops
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 12:17 pm
Fred has posted the comic to his Patreon. He'll post it to the main site and elsewhere probably later tonight.
The effect will be that Fred will have to figure out how to fit 7 people into every frame rather than a mere 5.
Oh sure. Ping goes racing off to find Piro-san, and we get a Scooby-Doo style chase sequence with them running in and out of doors. Maybe Fred could get the website to play Yakkity Sax, but even without that it's still a great opportunity to show off some of the other theme rooms at the Foxhole. Then Ping finds the right door, stops in in the doorway, and shouts "Piro-san!". Her four pursuers pile into her from behind and they all tumble into the room. They look up, and we see Piro and Kimiko playing Splatoon on a Playstation while Kimiko's hair dries.Invisigoth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:35 pmI honestly can't imagine Fred letting Ping and whoever actually intrude on Kimi and Piro.
I think Kimi could be convinced if Ping was actually willing. She was devastated when Megumi said the threesome question was a joke.Invisigoth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:14 pmyeah....Kimi and Piro are not playing on a Playstation....
I feel so terrible about laughing at this...chemi wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:29 pmI think Kimi could be convinced if Ping was actually willing. She was devastated when Megumi said the threesome question was a joke.Invisigoth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:14 pmyeah....Kimi and Piro are not playing on a Playstation....
Walking in on Piro right now is about the worst thing that could happen to him, so yes, that sounds right about on track. Protagonists are defined by how much they suffer, after all.Invisigoth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:35 pmI honestly can't imagine Fred letting Ping and whoever actually intrude on Kimi and Piro.
I have a good imagination and a twisted sense of humor but I just feel vaguely horrified at the notion of that happening.
Gamecube?Invisigoth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:14 pmyeah....Kimi and Piro are not playing on a Playstation....
Not to be a grammar nazi but I believe it is spelled "biZAY".
I sure hope so, because they are a business, and they just violated their customer's privacy. And in the business they are in, their client's privacy is paramount. If they let Ping go rampaging through the hotel, their customers won't ever be coming back. God save them if Ping actually finds Piro and Kimiko, cause their name will be mud.Eraden wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:05 pmI don't really know sign language so please forgive me if I am misinterpreting this, but in that last panel was Ashe trying to cut Megumi off from saying anything else about Piro and Kimiko? If so, I have a funny feeling that Ashe and Granny might be the only sensible ones in that room right now.
Piro and Kimiko they might finesse. What about all the other customers in the hotel? Might be a little difficult.TarsTarkas wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:22 pmI sure hope so, because they are a business, and they just violated their customer's privacy. And in the business they are in, their client's privacy is paramount. If they let Ping go rampaging through the hotel, their customers won't ever be coming back. God save them if Ping actually finds Piro and Kimiko, cause their name will be mud.Eraden wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:05 pmI don't really know sign language so please forgive me if I am misinterpreting this, but in that last panel was Ashe trying to cut Megumi off from saying anything else about Piro and Kimiko? If so, I have a funny feeling that Ashe and Granny might be the only sensible ones in that room right now.
"Honest, it's not like that! It was toner, he was washing printer toner out of my hair!"
Megumi: Name?
Based on my reading of the comics, I have inferred that Ashe is extremely fluent in reading lips, and that the comics which show normal speech bubbles of people talking to Ashe, indicate that she looks at them while they are speaking and she is able to know what they are saying based on reading their lips. To me, Comic 1550 ("raging noises") indicates that Ashe's hearing itself is bad enough that she is unable to discern words, but is still capable of barely hearing that someone is yelling.Fujii Yakumo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:45 pmThis is perhaps a bit off topic, but I'm wondering about how well Ashe actually hears, or doesn't....
She's been referred to as deaf, by Megumi a comic or two ago, but a few pages before, Fred drew the comic in such a way as to suggest that Ashe can hear voices, but can't make sense of them. Between that, and the fact that she's wearing a T-shirt that references cymbals, I have to wonder if she's truly deaf, or merely hard-of-hearing. Or maybe she has minor brain-damage (congenital, possibly) that affects the speech-centers of her brain, both for producing speech (rendering her mute) and for understanding speech (rendering her "deaf" for purposes of conversation, for example).
Is there such a thing as "speech-deafness", analogous to "tone-deafness" (for music)?
Fujii Yakumo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:45 pmThis is perhaps a bit off topic, but I'm wondering about how well Ashe actually hears, or doesn't....
She's been referred to as deaf, by Megumi a comic or two ago, but a few pages before, Fred drew the comic in such a way as to suggest that Ashe can hear voices, but can't make sense of them. Between that, and the fact that she's wearing a T-shirt that references cymbals, I have to wonder if she's truly deaf, or merely hard-of-hearing. Or maybe she has minor brain-damage (congenital, possibly) that affects the speech-centers of her brain, both for producing speech (rendering her mute) and for understanding speech (rendering her "deaf" for purposes of conversation, for example).
Is there such a thing as "speech-deafness", analogous to "tone-deafness" (for music)?
My husband is deaf. Deafness means you can't hear at all, although you can still feel vibrations of low frequencies through the floor and such. There are lots of ways to become deaf, from puncturing your eardrums to having auditory nerves damaged. I'm sure some brain injuries would produce that result too, although the brain is pretty adaptable, so if someone became deaf that way, there would be a chance that they could start hearing again. If someone has aphasia, inability to understand speech, I'm pretty sure that would apply to both sound speech and sign language. I think it's a problem with symbolism, and both forms of speech use symbolism. On the other hand, some people with strokes who cannot speak can write, so I suppose it is a low-probability possibility that someone with verbal speech receptive aphasia would have no difficulties with visual speech. Some degree of aphasia is common with brain injuries such as strokes.Murren wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:09 pm
But those are just my inferences, which may or may not be correct! I don't fully know how deafness works. My brother's wife's cousin is partly deaf, but she can still talk to people, but her talking is a little off (if you have been around someone who is deaf who is talking (or if you've watched "Mr. Holland's Opus"), you'll know what I mean).
In the USA anyway, there are speech coaches who can teach deaf people to talk. I think part of it is feeling the throat of the speaker while learning, to learn to produce the correct vibration (or used to be, maybe they use computers to show the waveform now). Anyway, it's definitely possible for deaf people to learn to talk, just difficult. Ashe is so great at lip reading that I wonder why she doesn't learn to speak, but perhaps she is mute. Also, speech coaches cost money.Murren wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:09 pmMaybe Ashe's hearing is bad enough that she was never able to learn how to produce speech in a way that people will understand at all (due to not having a reference point by which she can know what her speech sounds like, and therefore she would sound extremely different than she thought she sounded, to the point where her words were not understandable at all), and that's why she doesn't talk? idk.