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Jelle’s Marble Runs on YouTube
This is not about a specific event in the marble league. I didn’t want to spoil anything.
- Jack: Why the long face?
- Richard: My team snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!
- Jack: Yeah, the Giants were really unlucky yesterday.
- Richard: The Giants? Who cares about the Giants?! I’m talking about the Minty Maniacs!
- Coworker: The Minty Maniacs?
- Richard: All they needed was a measly tenth place in block pushing!
- Jack: What the hell are you talking about?
- Jack: You’re upset because of a marble race?!!
- Richard: These goddamn Savage Speeders! Haven’t they won enough already?!
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Screw the Savage Speeders. Midnight Wisps TID
Crazy Cat’s Eyes FTW!
OoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOrangers!
Aner-Dyfan wrote:
O’rangers is the team where I’m not sure if I should love or hate them.
Oceanics all the way for me.
Doesn’t matter if we win or lose.
Stayin’ true to my blue! <3
Raspberry Racers all the way.
#hazeamaze
A marble race joke? Man, I’m still waiting for the next season…
OOOOOOOooooooRangers!!!
@ Mad Hatter:
Darn html… It was supposed to have (clicks link) in between those lines.
Oh well. OOOOOOOooooooRangers!!!!
At one time I was quite fond of team Momo, but nowadays I rather like the Oceanics. I’m not a dedicated fan of one team or another, I just want to see good sportsmanship and performances.
Hmmm … ok, there are several Olympic disciplines I consider less interesting than marble races. But being THIS invested in specific team …
Green Ducks fans represent!
…we exist, I swear.
Now here’s a comic I can get behind!!
UP SPEEDERS UP SPEEDERS UP SPEEDERS!!!!
Eh, I only ever watch the Sand Rally nowadays.
Minty Maniacs? Richard likes a longshot team I see.
I’d rather stay right in the middle of the pack with my Momo and Primary teams.
Go! Go! Galactic!
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE the fact that this strip referenced Jelle’s Marble Runs!! Best marble racing channel out there!
…what the actual factual bear are you all talking about.
TIL That there’s an actual competitive marble scene… and I somehow was not surprised
@ EvilMidnightLurker:
https://www.youtube.com/c/JellesMarbleRuns/videos
Check it out….
@ Sam:“What the hell was that?”
Raspberry Racers, I’m way to invested in the Marble racing.I totally had to take a break.
#MoMomentum #MomoStrong
Best sport in the damn world.
Savage Speeders are the GOAT
I’ve watched Jelle’s marble runs, but didn’t know about the Minty Maniacs, so the third panel threw me for a loop thinking Richard was talking about crypto mining. 🙂
But a game where two groups of people can’t agree which end of a field a pumpkin goes on is TOTALLY serious.
Elmar wrote:
Team Momo is my second choice. They’re just so likable.
GRAYWOLFSA wrote:
No doubt about that.
I go with Team Galactic, because A) Space and B) Team Galactic is in Pokemon.
@ LostDemonHeart:
I like Blue Eyes! Crazy race he ran!
Richard sounds like he lost his marbles.
OooOOOooorangers all the way.
But I’m Dutch, so in sports you root for the Orange team… it’s kinda obligatory xD
It’s almost amusing to have NO idea whatsoever what people are carrying on about. I’m just going to sit here and enjoy my bagel with onion & chive cream cheese.
Somehow I can’t help but to feel a little bit of myself dying when it realised I actually got the reference from Minty Maniacs…
Not that I’m follower or any of the said gentlemen’s sport, but seen enough to recognize the names… XD
I remember how marble works was so great as a child different sets fit together to make great marble tracks. They have tried to recreate this for years but the newer marble sets I bought for my children just are not the same. On another note snatch victory from the jaws of defeat which is the actual original idiom is annoying. The proper thing is miraculous comeback. It is just like win win situation no such thing one side always gets a better deal.
Lantheria wrote:
You…. I like you.
#Speediskey
Had to chose a winner and for once in my life I actually did.
Unlike the human teams I follow, these marbled deliver.
Marble Works wrote:
So you think it’s not a good deal if the other side profits even more than you do, and you’d rather make the deal worse for both of you?
Red Number 3 FTW
#speediskey #COYSpeeders
Oh wow. One that made me giggle by the second panel! (O’Rangers all the way!!!)
[…] Blame Sandra and Woo. […]
Um…yeah…I was hoping for more context on why Richard is apparently suddenly wealthy, but I guess we can talk about marbles too?
Ooooooooooooooo
So. This is a thing. Sort of like lacrosse or competitive walking is a thing.
At first, I wasn’t sure what the strip was about.
Now, I gather it’s about a game on smart phones that involves people following clues to find locations in the real world.
I have to wonder…
Doesn’t trying to follow those clues sometimes get the ‘player’ in trouble?
@ Steve:
I think readers were supposed to initially get the impression that Richard’s business team had somehow snatched defeat the jaws of victory by screwing up the deal that had just made them rich, only to find out in later panels that he was actually talking about, um, marbles. That’s how I read it anyway.
This is so accurate, the production value on Jelle’s Marble Runs is so high and it’s legit suspenseful, it’s such good content.
I swear, Novil could make a joke about some very obscure sport and there will still be some fans of it here.