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Missing Pieces, p11

August 28, 2024 by Tim


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Urainkhali
Urainkhali
3 months ago

Having Ethan as a subconcious personification is scary indeed.

Last edited 3 months ago by Urainkhali
Robert
Robert
3 months ago

Just came here to say bwaaahahaha did not see that coming. Today I dreamt of having a Games Workshop store and hating each and every customer. Why? How? I don´t even played that for 20+ years now.

kaladorn
kaladorn
3 months ago
Reply to  Robert

PTSD – Post Tabletop Stress Dysfunction

Graeme
Graeme
3 months ago
Reply to  Robert

Funny cause when I was 28 I went into a Games Workshop and was interested in buying a set to start up but the snobby store clerks who laughed at me when I said is it required to paint them and another clerk who was eyeing up my partner been the only woman in the shop at the time put me off games workshop for life

GUNnibal
GUNnibal
3 months ago

“…being unloveable” – I wonder if this is a hint at something in Lucas’ past. I’m no shrink, but this feels like an echo of some kind of trauma that’s still stuck in his subconscious.

Curtis
Curtis
3 months ago
Reply to  GUNnibal

To be fair, this is the mindset of a lot of men.

Timmeh
Timmeh
3 months ago
Reply to  Curtis

To be fair, we have a lot of trauma.

kaladorn
kaladorn
3 months ago
Reply to  Curtis

And to not make it necessarily or accurately a man thing, women also worry about unloveable. It’s a human thing.

Reso
Reso
3 months ago

Oh my god, panel 1 reminds me so much of shojo/yaoi manga. Absolutely perfect.

Jedi
Jedi
3 months ago

There is the last panel missing where Ethan says “shhh shhh shhhh shhhhh, quiet now” and boxes lucas in his ethernal prison 🙂

Soeroah
Soeroah
3 months ago

You’re a good friend, Ethan

Bakamoichigei
Bakamoichigei
3 months ago

Oh my god, lol… These last two pages are giving me flashbacks to the Will Wright interview where he just deadpan says how interesting it is that people choose to torture and kill their Sims, describing it as users “Exploring the failure states“.

kaladorn
kaladorn
3 months ago
Reply to  Bakamoichigei

Well, on the one hand…. yikes. On the other hand, we don’t often get a pre-vis of what’s coming in our real lives and a tool that helps us prepare for a range of things *could* (in some ways) prepare oneself, although I’m hoping not by concluding ‘apathy to other humans’ is the lesson to learn. I know when I’ve got something big and unpleasant that could be on the close horizon, my brain kicks into the possible serious failure modes and then the possible responses and mitigations. On the one hand, I feel lousy heading into one of these… Read more »

Orodrim
Orodrim
3 months ago

One of the funniest pieces you have made in long time, love Ethan nightmare sims combined with relationship drama

Phaet
Phaet
3 months ago

I don’t quite understand what Lucas problem is. That relationship stuff is hard to comprehend if you’ve never been in one (not even tried to be). But there’s deleting doors and windows so… yay 😀

Soeroah
Soeroah
3 months ago
Reply to  Phaet

He really wants to be in a relationship with this guy, but their jobs are opposites and would cause problems unless Lucas lies to Ben forever, which he also doesn’t want to do. And apparently he has some issues from a past relationship, which may be contributing.

7eggert
7eggert
3 months ago

Useful nonsense if it makes you realize that it’s just a dream

Crestlinger
Crestlinger
3 months ago

Claustrophobia Acquired! Will now seek Any Direction out if trapped.

Erandipiti
Erandipiti
3 months ago

Oh god! That was so unexpected and still felt so logical

notme
notme
3 months ago

Aw man, I really thought the dream would turn sexy where he gets handcuffed for being too handsome or something, but nooooo, anxieeetyyyyyy

Gonfrask
Gonfrask
3 months ago

From “potentially horny” dream to trauma in just three panels

kaladorn
kaladorn
3 months ago

Welcome to the real (within the comic) world. Hard stuff never comes at you in dribs and drabs and when it arrives, its overwhelming.

I guess, if you survive those moments and learn a bit more on the way, you’re a bit toughened or at least are a bit more resilient for the next thing that comes along.