![[0883] Sweet Talkers](/comics/2017-05-04-0883-sweet-talkers.png "[0883] Sweet Talkers")
Our Sandra and Woo adventure game has just been released!
One night, Sandra and Woo get sucked into a medieval gaming world. Now they must find a way back home before it’s game over for them! Our classical point-and-click adventure comes with a playing time of more than 10 hours and a full voice-over!
- Richard: In a week you’ll turn thirteen, Sandra. High time to warn you about sweet talkers who–
- Sandra: –just want to get into your pants?
- Richard: No.
- Richard: … Sweet talkers who are extremely eager to join your project. They promise you the world and have exactly the skills you need to lead the project to success.
- Richard: But then they do… … NOTHING! You beg and plead until they finally finish the first task… … Half-assed! And then they disappear forever.
- Richard: I’m just a shell of the man I used to be!
- Sandra: You should never have started this open-source project!
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Everyone is a sweet talker… got it
Wait a second. At first I thought the characters were aging naturally alongside the comic, but if Sandra’s only turning thirteen as of 2017, that would mean she’d have to be FOUR in the first comic back in 2008. Was she really that young, or does the world of Sandra and Woo work, like… two years our time is one year comic time?
@ Pax:
It’s a comic. The characters don’t have to age at the same pace as the comic moves.
Yeah… someone just getting in the pants might actually feel better…
@ Pax:
Sliding timescale.
Between two comics is either zero time or an inferred amount of time far above 2 days.
I mean, Calvin will be 6 forever. So age is always left to the author to explicitly state.
That’s why I ask nobody to join my group project. The feeling when you did all of the works but anyone else take the credit while they barely did a thing is too painful.
Yeah… I would definitely be the sweet talker…
Trimutius wrote:
Well, we *don’t* know Sandra and Cloud’s status (and polite readers don’t ask) but Sandra is apparently on the pill so they *might* be experimenting…
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/08/07/0605-teenage-pregnancy/
There are other reasons for her to take the pill but Richard was specifically mentioning them in the context of pregnancy prevention (from the context of the entire comic)
(I say this because Richard *did* purchase birth control pills for her and I would assume she is using them because they are prescription and don’t have a very long expiry date…)
Although Cloud’s Mom’s method of birth control is similar to how she deals with any other problem; extreme bloodshed and decapitation.
@ Pax:
With this comic’s… attitude to reality, I figured it was in one of those comic voids where the characters don’t really age, or are on a sliding or repeating timescale, where years pass but characters do not age. With maybe one or two rare exceptions where the authors may age the characters a year for permanent for a one off storyline, before leaving them at that age forever.
In particular, as this comic has animals which age faster than humans, care must be taken not to age them too fast.
All-Purpose Guru wrote:
While they might, I don’t think Richard giving Sandra pills is a sign for that. Suppose Sandra and Cloud starts experimenting at age of fifteen. Can Richard possible at this point know that they will wait until they are fifteen and therefore he can also hold of giving Sandra pills until say a month before that? Hardly, all Richard really knows is that Sandra and Cloud has a very stable relationship and they can start at any time, be it tomorrow or in a few years.
I was part of a group project that had a whole semester to design a game.
We wasted 3 weeks worth of classes before even finalizing an initial concept because nobody could agree which was the best Overwatch main.
I’ve never felt bad for Richard…
…I feel bad for Richard.
Constant communication on multiple small tasks first to establish groundwork relations, Then the important stuff.
I can relate, as a bloody Engineering student, they are everywhere T^T bloody everywhere T^T
This sounds exactly like what happened to Hiveswap
@ Crestlinger:
Step one, order pizza…
Uh, is there a reason why the website is asking for my location?
@ McDouggal:
Ads want to know, simple as that. Just disable location services, or tell them that you are in Antarctica.
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
Step 2: Prevent a civil war in your group because everyone wants a different kind of pizza
That’s exactly how I feel in every group assignment ever in the course I’m currently attending to.
The only difference here is that the people in the project do NOT have the necessary skills to make it a great project. Not only that, but they also back talk my experienced advice and view of things of the area (which I have 10 years of experience at) quite often.
@ Warcraft_III_gamer:
Many were lost in the “Joe wants Hawaiian” war of 2017. None of them were missed. 😉
I think Novil metioned, that they age slowly. But in the end, it doesn’t really matter. When Novil wants us, to know how old they are, he will probably mention it. (Maybe, this is the hidden agenda within this comic, to tell us how old Sandra is because it will be important)
1 week mightn’t even be a week if more or less time passes between comics. A day might even take place in one comment each and take 7 comics to be a week.
Things certainly have changed in the last few decades.
@ Agarax:
I blame the Internet . . . or Global Warming, depending on which sort of paranoid you are.
I think the implied time passage is 1 day per arc, unless day change is explicitly mentioned in the arc. But maybe someone can go back and double check. There are hundreds of strips, so I’m certainly not doing that.
Also, Sandra is now as old as Sakura. Which is still 1 year too young to be a magical girl proper.
Exactly my story.
SlugFiller wrote:
Well, Sakura is actually ageing throughout the manga/anime, too.* (But she is never older than Sandra, so Sandra is definitely old enough to become a magical girl, although the indications for that to happen are still not obvious to me… 😉 ) Sakura’s ageing makes sense, given that the story covers annual school events like summer holidays or cultural festivals. In Sandra&Woo such things are not really mentioned, so it’s rather timeless. – As has been pointed out: that’s good, otherwise Woo would be an old man – sorry – racoon by now! (It’s also bad, because we all want to see Sandra and Cloud to marry and have cute little children……)
*Here’s a table of Sakura’s age copied from Wikia:
9 (beginning of the manga)
12 (end of the manga)
9 (1st season, 1st movie)
10 (2nd & 3rd season)
11 (2nd movie)
Sorry, for writing too much about another comic, but if somebody says “Sakura” I feel the urge to reply! 🙂
@ Pax:
the cast section refers to sandra asbeig 12, so its only been a year
The progression of art style made me think they aged up already, but this, and the birth control comic say otherwise.
In the modern age, this is probably much more useful than the traditional talk. Be prepared, Sandra!
Look at the bright side. At least it wasn’t an open sores project.
It could be worse. When you’re the only one in the team, you have to beg and plead yourself to fix that blocking bug already, and there’s always a reason to postpone it for years.
@ Pax:
If the characters aged along with the comic Woo would be dead with the adverage life of a racoon being 3-4yrs
@ CC:
is that someone who reads homestuck i see???????? :33 really???????? in this corner of the internet????????
i’m turning thirteen on sunday
I’m torn between snickering at the unexpected turn of the lecture and wanting to comfort Richard. I knew a young man in real life who experienced such a thing, in not just any high school but a pretty prestigious one.
1oldbear wrote:
I blame wishful thinking and self-censorship due to fear of the so-called “moral guardians” of that time.1oldbear
“Parental Wisdom” or “fatherly advice” needs to be a tag or something.
@ Dark Impulse:
Only in the wild, in captivity they can live for over two decades. Also, that average does not take into account smart talking raccoons blessed by the raccoon goddess and are also more adept at avoiding the natural dangers that keep that average down.
As a game designer… This rings so true… I’ve had to stop paying new artists in advance because so many will take the money and run…
@ Pax:
If you go to “cast” it says she starts out 12 years old.
SlugFiller wrote:
Which Sakura are you talking about here? Somehow it’s not obvious to me, but I don’t watch much anime anymore.
ooooh a birthday party! bring on the strippers and truth or dare shenanigans in the closet!
@ Pax:
A couple of scripts latter Sandra is 13, so she’s aging, but slowly. Good news, at this rate I will never see Larisa die; bad news I shan’t live long enough for Larisa
@ Tunaro:
We always spend 90% of our allotted project time on goofing around, and then pulled one all-nighter after another to cram 90% of the work into 10% of the time. It got so bad at one point we had to climb out over the steel fence around our campus, because it was long after midnight and the university had already closed for the night.
During another project, we were thrown out by the guard and had to search for another place to continue work.
And of course we were even worse when we worked on our own, individual parts at home. Several projects I worked on were finished between 3-5 am on the day the project was due.
On the other hand, one time I was put into a project of people I didn’t really know and didn’t really like, so I did as much work as possible and made sure to finish it all on time. Mostly out of a mixture of spite and paranoia.
The worst group project I ever had to do ended with both of us conflicting so badly we stopped talking to each other, finished our parts completely separate from each other and then handed them in with passive-aggressive emails going “I sure hope that other guy didn’t forget to do his part. Anyway, nothing I can do, I did my work and since he doesn’t talk to me…”