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![[0092] One Moment In Life](/comics/2009-09-07-[0092]-one-moment-in-life.png "[0092] One Moment In Life")
Powree was of the opinion that this would have been a good choice for our 100th strip. But since I think that the 100th strip should be colored like the 50th strip and this one does not really need to be colored, I have chosen another one for that special occasion.
- Caption: People can get as old as 3,155,692,600 seconds (raccoons 631,138,520 seconds). And yet it often seems that the most important thing for the way we think, feel and live is what happens in just a few of them.
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Kind of bland.
i don’t really get it. Did Woo learn how to pick locks? are they playing videogames together?
I honestly can’t see a couple sharing Aeris’ death as one of the most important moments of their lives.
It took me a few moments but now I get it :). Nice 100th strip!
Methinks the math needs a bit of an adjustment. The racoon I believe comes out to twenty years and the humans to one hundred. Think human life expectancy is around eighty to eighty-five. not sure about racoons.
Racoons:
second = 10,518,975 minutes
minutes = 175,316 hours
hours = 7,180 days
days = 19.7 years (365 days per.)
Humans:
seconds = 52,594,876 minutes
minutes = 876,581 hours
hours = 36,524 days
days = 100 years
Ah, that part of VII was particularily heart wrenching….
to born, to escape and to be loved, I cant really see what part of Final Fantasy VII is that
i am dissapointed with this strip. As incredable as Aeris’s death was, where is the love for Anime in here? The sheer greatness and WTFness of Neon Genesis Evangelion matches FF7 and then some. Heck, i was there in the room at Otakon when the NGE movie first came to the US shown for the first time (subbed). I remember when both FF7 and NGE was brand new…. my god, i am showing my age. ><
woops, forgot to note, is that Sandra’s mom there in first panel?
OH! It took me a moment to figure this out but now I get it. It’s the most important moments for Sandra’s folks (Sandra’s birth), Woo(escaping captivity), and Cloud’s folks (Bonding over FF7).
Very nice moments. The birth of Sandra, Woos escape (from his crude first owner, I think) and the beginning love of Clouds parents (while they look FF7) .
Thank the comic that this comments option is here. Lest, I may have never understood panels 2 & 3.
BTW: Notice the “pony” television set? That takes me back to the days when Price is Right permitted a video game to be made of their series…and all the prizes had to be knock-off names to avoid copyrights. “Yes. You can get this $230 tool set by Rears…IF The Price is Right.”
@ Cairn Destop: I have not used the average life span of the species but a very high age. I had to take a specific number in the end so I took 20 years for raccoons and 100 years for humans. But 18 years and 110 years would have worked just as well.
@ jup-reindeer: You certainly don’t have to worry about your eyesight. The Pony logo (that was Powree’s idea) is so tiny that I thought nobody would see it.
What a lovely looking comic. Bookmarked. 😀
What could have been a better time to read all of this comic. Heartwarming.
You know I had a friend who was playing FF7 and when Aerith died she said she cried for a bit turned off the psx and never finished the game, guess that was one of her seconds.
Aww! (RL Raccoons can be rather surly in their old age though.)
🙂
i can’t help but agree… occasionally some longer periods can have great weight also, but there’s nothing like the impact a single, important sentence can have upon the rest of your existance.
I think the second sentence could be better if written something like this:
“And yet, it often seems that the most important things for the way we think, feel, and live, happen in just a few of them.”
“And yet, for the way we think, feel, and live, it often seems like the most important things happen in just a few of them.”
But point taken. It certainly rings true. It’s a sobering fact.
@ Novil:
Yahoo news just reported that today (as of this typing; 9/11/09) that Gertrude Baines had just passed away. She was the oldest living person on record: Age 115.
And, funny you should mention my eyesight. Very similar to what a co-worker said, just the other week.
@ waffle911: The wording of your first suggestion sounds better, that’s true. But I think it also involves a slight change of meaning, so I won’t change the strip.
It’s nice to see what Sandra’s Mother looked like…after all this time you finally see her mom after all the reference and mystery behind her…
…I never got to play FF7…
It is. Julie North is – or rather, was 🙁 – “amongst” us.
Ah, poor Aeris, remembered forever for how she died. Although my main memory is how I only got to use Great Gospel once, ONCE, and then they took her from me. YARGH!!!
It was great to get a chance to see Sandra’s mom, but now I’m curious about Cloud’s folks. We’ve only seem them fleetingly. I wonder what they’re like in day to day life. For some reason I picture them being like Daisuke’s (of D.N. Angel) mom and grandpa. Setting up deadly traps to ensure he always stays capable and him being unbelievably cut despite of it.
@ Leinad:
These are different moments of their past. 1st pic Sandra and her parents 2nd Woo escaping his old owner (he can pick locks… remember Tweety) 3rd Cloud’s parents playing FFVII hence his name. Did u read the prev ones? U would get it.
At first I was like hmmmmmmmm
Then I figured them out and I was like awwwwwwwwwwwww
Then I noticed the austere room in which Cloud’s parents are bonding over a beautiful story and awesome game…I am now trying to figure out a method to obtain liquid rainbows and get them to you.
Thank you, this brightened my day.
I think Cloud Mom’s met his dad at some sort of refugee camp (noted by red cross on a bag and thatched enviroment)!
P.S- Most of my Burmese friends (I am Chinese Burmese) enjoyed Final Fantasy and Counter Strike and Warcraft 3 DoTA!
@ Vryl:
Then you, my friend, need to play the Final Fantasy series. All of them. The first few tutorials will only take a couple of weeks. You’re lucky at how short they are now.
i find it kind of sad that this is the first and perhaps, the only time we see Sandra’s mom. 🙁
It’s also interesting to learn more about Cloud’s dad from this strip. Can we assume that he was a humanitarian helper in the past?
You gotta love FF7…
@ Leinad:
He’s escaping from his cage. From his previous owner who abused him.
excellent comic i love your quirky sense of humor and your characters faces shine with feelings
thanks for a solid contribution to the artistic culture truly ,Ethan aka aveanth
/[ovo]\ <-penguin thingy (=
Long lifespan is useless if one is just throwing the time away. (for example, the people who say “oh, they grow up so fast”; it only seems fast if you aren’t actually involved in their lives.
@ Krof Gninut:
actually all time spent on an adventure (whether it be, discovery, exploration or life itself) seems fast when its at a close…i have had a lost of fun….but at the end it all seems short.
Oh I get it! That’s Sandra’s parents in the first panel! And in the second…Woo? And the 3rd, that’s Cloud’s parents as refugees from Burma! Cute, great strip.
@ Cairn Destop:
YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT’S OVER ONE HUNDRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, this makes a bit more sense now I’ve read Skunk’s comment…
Though the text itself… well…
Of course you’d claim the most important things happen in moments. This is a comic. Of still images. It is limited exclusively to depicting singular moments.
Isn’t like you could have written: “The most important things in life happen over the course of a few minutes, but we can’t really show that, so here are some snapshots from them.”
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You might have guessed, but this arbitrary “feel-good” stuff really isn’t up my street.
And besides… I laughed when Aeris died. Laughing and deliberately singing her theme music in a mocking, deliberately off-tone voice… Partly because I thought she was lame, and partly because I was shipping Cloud / Tifa, and Aeris was just the an obstacle to that. Since then I have learnt that shipping is wrong and unjustifiable, but I was young and foolish back then.
… Now, you want a real sad death… Alys Brangwin. From Phantasy Star IV. One of only two fictional deaths I’ve ever cried for.
@ Vryl:
It is important because it was during that time they fell in love.
…..I feel like I missed out by never having played 7. I played 1 – 6. 6 is my favorite, though of course, that’s probably because I didn’t play 7.
I still can’t even listen to Aerith’s Theme without crying… Once I see something, I usually don’t forget it; and that scene is burned into my memory, so when I hear the song, I start to weep…
Tsuki_Ouji wrote:
I didn’t even bother keeping her in the party outside of the few places where it was mandatory.
That aside, the plot treated her more as a living Macguffin than an actual character. She didn’t really have any personality or anything. Mostly, she just seemed to be a walking container for green goo or something like that.
That, if nothing else, is why I’ll never consider her death to be sad.
Plus Sephiroth just dropping out of nowhere to randomly impale her was hilariously random. Monty Pythonesque comedy.
@ Cairn Destop:
Rather than the actual number used, if I were to complain it would be about how many figures they have been quoted to. It’s a ridiculous level of accuracy for something as variable as lifespan measured in seconds. I would have rounded it to 3 billion and 600 million respectively. If you wanted to quote a few more figures, that’s fine, but quoting 100 years to minute accuracy? That’s just silly.
@ Leinad:
For Woo, it’s the moment he escaped his previous owner, and was free to cause this comic to happen. For Cloud’s parents, it was a major moment in Final Fantasy VII, the game that inspired their son’s name.
Panel 1: Sandra and her parents at Sandra’s birth
Panel 2: woo escaping his previous owners cage
Panel 3: clouds parents in burma
Is it sad that for me, this would be an upside-down landscape with me looking at a tuna fish sandwich I am holding?
@ Vryl:
Those are Cloud’s parents. Since they named him Cloud, obviously it would be an important moment, also, it is more of the fact that they are together (though David would disagree).