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Never Give Up (lemmy.world)
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[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

I'm really confused by these strips. Are there more panels than the ones we see?

[-] Master@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago

Just keep reading it until it makes sense. Giving up is for pussies.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Glad I'm not the only one

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week 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.😁

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The joke is that she's still telling him not to give up after he's already falling

that's dumb, that's not even a joke that works in this format

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

the joke is he's falling to his death and someone is telling him "you can do it [survive]!"

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

These seem more in an absurdist vein of comedy to me, rather than having or needing a particular punch line

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Land in the river and you won't take fall damage

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 week 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.

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Someone never played a video game.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Naah, was just early in the morning and I didn't caught the joke.

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

You won't fool anyone mate, I know it for A FACT that you don't take damage if you fall in water from ANY height! I've done it countless times in Minecraft!

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Even non-cartoony, somewhat serious games do it.

Horizon Zero Dawn does it. Even has a few spots where you're supposed to jump semi-blindly into dark pits because you can vaguely see a body of water deep down.

Even ignoring the fact that anyone but a olympic-level diver would just crash against the surface and die horribly, has Aloy considered that for all she knows it could be a 10cm deep puddle?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I just watched the new Jurassic Park movie yesterday and a guy falls 500 feet into a shallow river and is completely unhurt so now I don't know who to believe

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why the hell are you down voted? It's true.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Because responding seriously to a comment that is obviously tongue in cheek is annoying.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Thanks for explaining - seriously.

As a neurologic divergent I literally do not see it that way. So I would now criticize the tolerance of neurotypicals and get me downvoted. 😁

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Is this why we can't see John Cena? He's a ghost who died as a horny teenager in puberty?

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Show me a pussy that's given up

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

thought you had a point, but C-sections exist for a reason

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's the baby giving up.

yhea, he came in unassisted, he can get himself out

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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