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Since some of you don’t seem to be fond of speedrunning related comics: This will be the last one about the topic for a while.
- Teacher: ?
- Blackboard: Agenda:
- Ye Thuza: Wa-hoo!
- Teacher: Mrs. Williams, you can’t wall-clip out of a parent-teacher conference.
- Ye Thuza: Maybe if I take a run-up…
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Why would a random teacher know about wall clip bug in Super Mario? It is such an obscure bug, that only people who care about speedrunning or minus world know that…
I actually didn’t immidiately understood the joke, but then launched twitch and so darbian training to do wall clip in SMB3… And I’m “Oh yeah!”
For that to work, you need to be in a crouch only space then try standing up. Like the “everybody clip” in Bowser’s castle.
Given the “Wa-hoo”, backwards movement, and the Super Mario 64 tag, I’m pretty sure that this is referencing the BLJ in SM64, not any other wall clip. Shoutouts to SimpleFlips. BLJ’d right out of our lives. What a great entertainer he is.
I asked Darbian about the previous page. He said he doesn’t understand this site.
In any case, I think this strip would be a lot more approachable than the last. The previous strip requires a lot more intimate knowledge about speedrunning to even start approaching, otherwise it just seems like a garbled mess and a new name. With this one (especially due to the term “wall clip” being used rather than something more domain specific like “backwards long jump”), it’s a lot more understandable even without domain knowledge. I’d argue that most people familiar with games have a basic understanding of what clipping through terrain means, but the kind of full-corruption glitches used in really broken speedruns are a lot more niche.
Maybe she could if she built up speed for 12 hours!
Clearly she forgot to build up speed for 12 hours.
QPU mind@ ViridiMayai:
@ Trimutius:
Somebody probably tried that before.
Listen, don’t give up because you didn’t do it first try. Even the Kool Aid Man didn’t clip through a wall on his first try. Look at him go now! OH YEAH!
Having been to a couple of such meetings, I can see why she tries though.
At least for our spawn, parent-teacher conferences were one-on-one.
Also, Ye Thuza is a fantastic mom.
I think it has been patched since the last update.
Should have checked to see if that picture rippled to the touch first.
Silly Ye thuza, You can’t just BLJ through a wall. You need stairs or a moving platform or a ceiling. Under the table might work, you could try that.
d.artemis wrote:
I didn’t know Sandra and Woo used the Shindou version.
No you clearly need a magic potion for that. Subspace has warp capability after all.
Sometimes I forget that Ye Thuza is the best adult.
Given that Yuna can accidentally reverse entropy, I don’t see why Ye Thuza couldn’t wallclip.
“This will be the last one for a while”
Then there shall be more in the future? Hallelujah!
I don’t get it but it seems to be a video game reference….I guess, I better move on. *sigh*
Gotta build up speed for 12 hours Ye Thuza!
Not all clipping turns out good. Do you know what happens if you are in a vehicle in Halo and drive it into an elevator?
Oh! and here I thought that you deal with something like this by being a no show.
Everybody else did seem to do so when I went to school, although I suppose that you need a plan B for when your parent’s get in the way of that.
But do however beware that if the teachers’ dissatisfied with student absentee rate they will be quick to resort to sophistry in an attempt to rectify that.
Hit the hidden block first, and jump on it. From there it’ll work.
Surely there are other games with wall clipping?
I suggest trying the windows and the doors. It doesn’t seems like a cutscene but rather an important story exposition so using an object on the doors or windows (maybe the bucket glitch?) would progress the story on?
@ Trimutius:
I encourage you to look up Games Done Quick.
They are a regular charity speedrunning event, a weeklong stream, that typically has raised to date something like 15 million dollars total for cancer research.
Speedrunning is a massive category of VODs to be found on Youtube, Twitch, and beyond.
That being said you’re right about the odds of the teacher seeing what she was doing and putting the pieces together that quickly are slim to none, unless it was a regular topic of discussion for her among her classmates.
Trimutius wrote:
Prior experience with Ye Thuza would have driven him to learn. This is a parent who named her child after a video game character. And trained him to fight like one. Any sufficiently wary teacher would have done some rudimentary research about what such a crazy parent could be thinking.
This is what happens when you play to much videogames.
However, if anyone could do it, it’d be her or Yuna.
Have we ever learned what Ye Thuza’s and David Williams’ do to produce or acquire food, water, sustain a sufficiently insulated house and nurse their social attitudes?
Just occurred to me with all their love for gaming.
(Comic strip, yes, but discuss thoughts, why should we not?)
Also, my Mom is not particularly fond of these meetings either. She’s a teacher though.
It’s not that I didn’t like it as much as I didn’t get it.
This one neither.
I’m cool with speedrun comics, any% speedruns can be quite entertaining to watch.
I’m not sure why she thought she could pull this off, though. Is she delusional? This could have… entertaining consequences.
Novil, I’m happy that you are a video games expert. And I hope you find some vehicle other than S&W to express yourself on that topic. After this much time it’s problematic to change themes and attract a whole new cadre of viewers.
I enjoy reading comics and thank you in advance for more adventures starring our favorite people and animals.
Of course you first need to pause buffer so you can make multiple jumps really close together and build up a lot more speed, how could you forget that Ye Thusa?
Also, when you finally succeed, try to do it in 0.5 a presses without crashing paper mario.
😉
Is it really about speedruning? I think it’s more about Ye Thuzas awesomness.
Sometimes I feel like I must have wallclipped into my current life around age five and I don’t know the reset sequence.
How do we know that she didn’t end up in a parallel universe from her backwards jump?
@ civiltongue:
One of the main characters is called after a videogame protagonist and his whole family are rabid gamers, while the rest of the cast (barring the animals) are gamers to an extent. Sorry if it bothers you, but this is already the authors’ outlet for gaming “expression” and it will keep going as deep down the hole as the last couple comics, so you better hold tight for the ride, or find a comic more your speed where you won’t have to tell its authors what to do to better entertain you.
I wonder how many A press is needed to date Sandra & Cloud…
CAD97 wrote:
It may be understandable to most people familiar with games, but the strip does have some readers with no game familiarity. Shocking, I know, but somehow true. I didn’t know today’s had anything to do with gaming or the previous strip until I read the comments.
I love my older copy of Metroid prime high jump first bitches ^_^
I don’t know which was more surprising; that Ye Thuza hates Parent/Teacher conferences, or that the teacher knows about wall clipping. XD (I did get the joke though and enjoyed this comic, I feel like this one was a bit easier to understand than the previous one.)
Cyberohero wrote:
The room is clearly visible.
IDK, when I look at people pointing out that they don’t get it, or even complaining about it, I don’t really see the point. People even went off on tangents about how it should be more approachable, or that this one is more approachable than others, if you have this bit of knowledge, then other people pointing out that not everyone has this bit of knowledge.
On the flip side… I know next to nothing about having kids, especially growing up, and I was still able to get enjoyment out of The Family Circus (most times) when I was a pre-teen reading the funnies. Sometimes, the jokes just didn’t hit because I had no frame of reference to go off of. And that’s OK.
Comics don’t need to appeal to a broad audience with every strip. Hell, Mary Worth was terrible for everyone except for people who liked episodic, two sentence melodramas with the occasional pithy quip.
@ Naroji:
This. Absolutely this.
I’d also add that this very comic had references to obscure math as well, and instead of complaining about approachability, the comment section was full of calculations. And don’t get me started on the cryptography strips.
Compared to that, BLJ is a LOT easier and faster to look up. But I didn’t hear anyone complain about how difficult it is to decode a secret strip.
You don’t have the Mario cap for that.
@ SlugFiller:
I think it might be connected to cryptography being a task for a few and an entertainment for the rest of us to see them thinking and math being… well… a useful thing, while this is a joke that references gaming.
And as such it is not as much a “come think with me!” as a “do you remember this?”. And many of us don’t.
I did read this strip readily none the less.
Łukasz Kiernozek wrote:
Entertaining-ness? Absolutely.
Awesomeness? I would argue.