• Stolas@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Who just gets up and walks away after a hug like that? You should stay and cuddle…

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      5 hours ago

      “Mad” as in “angry”, I assume. So, the woman is angry at the guy. You don’t want to force them into a cuddle, if they need a bit of distance to cool down first…

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        1 hour ago

        She’s not necessarily angry at the guy, just angry in general. She might prefer to be alone after something irritating or otherwise anger inducing happened, and he’s trying to add a little love to remind her that he’s there, then leave so he can give her space to be angry.

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        34 minutes ago

        Yeah but he gave her a hug. You can’t just give a drive by hug when someone is angry. Either you go for the silent apologetic cuddles or you stay away.

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    14 hours ago

    Tangential, but ever since we watched Obsession I can’t get up to pee in the middle of the night anymore without my girlfriend shrieking “STAAAAAAAY!!”

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      8 hours ago

      Count your blessings. That’s seriously awesome.

      ~For funsies go buy those housebreaking pee pads for pets, and leave one right by the door. When you leave make sure your girlfriend is standing nearby so when she asks why that’s there, you can tell her it’s so when she *waves hands* “does things”, the pad will catch it for her.~

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      5 hours ago

      It’s the keming (kerning).

      Technically it’s the letter spacing since it’s every letter, but just a few pairs.

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      6 hours ago

      I’d bet, even without looking at other strips in the series, that it’s a font. The letters are very consistent.

      I was looking at comic lettering the other day, and saw someone try to make a font based on Bill Watterson’s lettering in Calvin and Hobbes. One thing you immediately notice is that all of the individual letters look identical. You can make variable fonts these days, and I’d guess that there’s likely some technical route to create variation, but ordinarily, fonts don’t have that variation, and even someone who does a lot of lettering has a certain amount of natural variation from letter to letter.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s so weird.

      I think I’d have an easier time reading unowns from pokémon than this.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s not monospace. The “r” is very narrow, for example.

        EDIT: Some unusual properties:

        • Very tight letter spacing.

        • Very low crossbar on the “t”.

        • Very small (looks up term) bottom terminal on “a”.

        • Use of all lowercase.

        • Apostrophe absent or very small in “you’re”.

        • Tiny middle bar on “m”.

        • No descenders.