![[0573] Next Step II](/comics/2014-04-17-0573-next-step-ii.png "[0573] Next Step II")
Just a few days ago, I experienced a bluescreen myself. (Windows 7 Enterprise)
- Larisa: I don’t know about you, but I’m perfectly fine with just smooching at the moment.
- Larisa: Although I’m curious, I’m not ready yet to go any further.
- Larisa: However, I’ll be ready in 10,… 9,… 8,… 7,…
- Landon: A problem has been detected and Landon has been shut down to prevent damage to his brain.IRQL_LARISA_EXE_WANTS_TO_PERFORM_ILLEGAL_OPERATIONSIf this is the first time you’ve seen this error bubble, restart Landon. If this bubble appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new organs or pieces of knowledge are properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask Landon’s mother or father for any updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed organs or pieces of knowledge. Disable brain options such as peripheral vision or body coordination. If you need to operate on Landon to remove or install body parts, restart Landon, put him on an operating table to get better access, and then inject an anesthetic.
Medical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x000000000000004C, 0x000000000000004F, 0x0000000000000056, 0x0000000000000045)
Collecting data for crash dump …
Initializing short-term memory for crash dump …
Beginning dump of physical memory.
Dumping physical memory to short-term memory: 15
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@ Orlah Ehontas:
Woho! Spinny!
New experiences can be scary, but everyone has their own way of dealing with them. Some people confront the unknown with caution and a bit of apprehension. Some people tackle it to the ground and molest the hell out of it.
HOLY COW!!! As a programmer I must say THIS made my day.no matter what this turned out to be my favourite!!!
and the Comments….GOD..can’t stop laughing
Hey Novil, do you mind if I translate this for some friends ?
Larisa you dirty little b**** XD
Should I be surprised that Larissa can time these things down to the second?
one word: youtube. com/watch?v=56mHyC5m1qo (∩_∩)
Bwhahahaha oh man, this reminded me of one of my favorite fanfics of all time, actually dug the thing up because of this strip ^ ^Thank you for not only providing some premium entertainment for the morning, but bringing back some very fond memories.
Fic in question if anyone wants a good laugh, ‘I am not Submissive’ by Chronos Astral over on fanfiction. Its rated T, a bit rough here and there but still a barrel of laughs…too bad it hasnt been updated for years.
I look foward to seeing where this will be going however as we’ve seen in the past NOTHING is as it seems with Larisa lol
I really, really want to see Landon’s parents one day, and soon! Their reaction to their son dating Larissa just HAS to be a classic!
@ Anime fan:
LARISSA YES. (Couldn’t resist, mate.)
Quick! We have 7 seconds to get him rebooted! Probably at the expense of body coordination though…
@ I’ll Eat Yourself:
Nah I know how you feel. I’m still single too! ………..sigh………..
Switch Master wrote:
On second thought I’m kinda glad I’m not with a pyro/psycho girl. I won’t get burned or stabbed when I don’t wash the dishes or something. Landon may be lucky now but he’s stuck with Larissa. One wrong move and it’s bye bye Landon. That is unless Larissa gets tired of him first.
If they’re 16, that’s legal age in many jurisdictions. And if not, then Larissa probably has something a lot less “naughty” in mind than most of the readers. 🙂
Wow, haven’t seen a blu screen for a while.
And that would probably have been my reaction too
@ Melkior:
in half of the Europe 15 is enough. (author is german… I am just one border east and it is the same (czech)) sooo…
16 is when people can marry here (and that mostly because paperwork for that is a bit… when you are 15 and noone manages)
How long before Landon starts to malfunction completely and turns against his human masters?
Skunk wrote:
This pun…this pun has made my day.
A lot of people seem to wonder how old the characters are. Well, we know that they were twelve when this web-comic received an art upgrade (right at the start of the beach arc where Sandra and Cloud hooked up.) This may sound cheap, but based on the girls’ chests, they cannot be much older now than they were then. Back then, their breasts looked like they had recently begun to grow and they look the same now. That would put the characters at still twelve or early thirteen.
The joke is that Larisa’s punchline could be “10 YEARS”, not 10 seconds or minutes. =)
I improved the strip so that the HEX code now has a meaning.
*observes comments from this strip*
*observes comments from last strip*
It seems everyone is more comfortable at the thought of Larissa expressing sexual curiosity above Sandra or Cloud. It could be because that it is typical or Larissa to joke about that sort of thing, and also it seems that a lot of the readers find Larissa very attractive (and she is…) yet last strip everyone was so shocked (maybe some were disgusted too) over the innuendo made, even though this strip is a little more… hands on with the subject in question.
Even if Cloud or Sandra were doing something a little more perverted for real, it wouldn’t be the first time they expresses sexual curiosity (see: the story arc in which Cloud gets a boner over Sandra and Sandra admits having ‘naughty thoughts’ about Cloud all the time). I’m just trying to wrap my head around why everyone was so surprised????
Boyfriend Blue Screen of Death. Been there, felt that. Reboot is tricky
So how old are they now? 14 or 15 right? Seems legit. Landon’s shutting down, Sandra and Cloud are taking it slow, and Larisa’s going for broke. All well within their age range, character arcs, and personality types. Hell this is almost boiler-plate. I’m waiting to see how Sandra’s lack of confidence, Landon’s timidity, and Larisa’s forced pseudo-adulthood play out. This’ll have some interesting consequences.
@ Puyon:
Larissa, at least to me, seems to be at least a year older than Sandra too, though that could just be cause she is taller and I use height to as the first variable to determine age.
@ Orlah Ehontas:
I hope you don’t mind too much if I borrow that quote for IMGUR ^_-
I would thought Landon would run on Linux…
Haha! So a Heroic BSoD lampshaded and played for laughs, together with an error code that #52494348414244 would understand…
@ Melkior:
Actually, In germany if you are less than 14 years old, it is totally okay. It might not be legal to draw such things, it might be a legal problem for their parents, but the kids are fine.
As long as kids don’t turn 14, they can do whatever they want. 14 + 15 year olds are illegal until they are 16+17.
Some German Guy wrote:
That’s wrong. A 14 year old teenager in Germany can have sex with any person >= 14 as long as that other person isn’t taking advantage of some special bond of trust, e.g. a teacher. Someone >= 14 is not allowed to have sex with someone < 14, though. If both are < 14 it’s okay as well.
@ Luke:
Lindon? Did I say Lindon? My god, why am I such an idiot?
@ Rarefoil:
I guess that would be either Interrupt ReQuest Line or Interrupt ReQuest Level.
Those 5 hexnumbers when compared to ASCII table read:
New Line (0A), LOVE
I figured we were going down this road after yesterday’s strip… thought it would be with Sandra and Cloud though – should’ve realized, of course Liz would go first.
Greenwood Goat wrote:
Linux, surely. Nobody runs Unix anymore. Except maybe a few AIX masochists off somewhere chanting and hitting themselves in the head with a user’s manual.
Services? You mean daemons? Wouldn’t the exact equivalent of a BSOD be a kernel panic?
But those are both general x86 architecture jokes, not specific to Windows…
@ Novil:
I think I like Germany better than the US, on this issue.
Knowing Larisa, her idea of “going further” involves blowing something up (not intended to be an innuendo).
@ Novil:
Yup I heard of places that allow 14+ sex while talking to someone on Joyreactor. Strange……Guess I’m use to the 18+ rule. Oh well.
Edgar wrote:
Nah I stick with the good old CRT alt del or ctr esc
Or this “Pokemon Anti Virus” look at the very end
Ah, relationships. They all grow up so fast.
@ Professor Q:
In that case she is sitting in Asgard time acceleration field and Landon is not…
@ Switch Master:
Oh actualy in most of the places you can have sex at almost any age… however if your partner is older than some age (meaning that he is criminaly acountable) he becomes a criminal if you are under certain age.
meaning there is really noone to criminaly punish when 2 12years old have sex. Generaly only things that remain to be said about such case is that parents are incompetent idiots but that is about all that can be done with it. (and schools sex edu to remedy these things comes too late)
According to Microsoft’s documentation, it seems likely that LARISA.EXE was attempting to write a set of memories that the OS considered forbidden to the program. This suggests that LARISA.EXE may not have been adequately exposed to the host system during its development. As a developer I recommend further experimentation to identify any remaining compatibility issues.
What if due to lack of experience with tech he blows up?
RUN LANDON! SHE’S GONNA EAT YOU!
Hinoron wrote:
RUN LARISSA HE’S GONNA SELF DESTRUCT AND RUIN YOUR ART!!!!!
As no one seems to have noticed by now:
In the () brackets in the STOP line the word “love” is written in ASCII hex codes.
Enjoy!
My bad, I haven’t seen page 2 of the comments. Christopher noticed it, too.
She wants him inside her
Well, it is a difficult situation, but I don’t think we have to worry about higher ratings and so on. Bringing Landon to her secret evil hideout is quite a step but as long as there isn’t too much violence included, I don’t see a reason for a change of the rating.
Bit extreme for however old she is