>Well, that shot certainly seemed a lot more romantic on the cover.
Morbi is a bad writer.
Why is Kit's suffering so adorable?
I am intensely satisfied by this page
>>82744948
Are girls crying about their butts your fetish?
>Lily still fast asleep
>Lily's still asleep in Poppy's tailhold
That's fucking great.
>>82744801
>People recording
"Old Possum lady makes Queen cry!!"
"Possum knocks Queen from stairs and makes her cry!!"
Kit's breakdown is going to get so many views on not-youtube
>the not ipad in the third panel that is recording the whole thing
>>82745078
Yeah, those are probably going to be the headlines.
>>82744990
No, but I have a friend whose fetish is pretty much that. I'm just glad that Kit was finally bullied to a breaking point.
>>82745087
>Ewetube
Step it up, Anon.
>>82745153
I am not a clever man.
kit is not fit to rule eggton
bring back vix
>>82745205
She rules the entire territory. Eggton is just a small town underneath the city of Canopy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su3ovMsFXMg
Kit's crying must be unbearable
>>82744801
> butthurt
KEK
>>82745205
Vix has better things to do than look after that podunk territory
Dare I hope that enough images of fennec foxes that look like crying exist?
>>82745078
>>82745113
OH GOD DAMN IT
Is Kit crying out for her mother in the last panel? If so that's really sad since her mom is super dead.
>>82745113
Time for Poppy to lose her job(s) and live with other Possums in the slums!
>>82745385
>>82745113
>>82744801
christ Morbi
hasnt she suffered enough?
Welp.
So much for a romantic turn of events
>>82745385
Kit in general seems like she just wants to be loved. Everyone seems to either hate her or completely hold her in contempt. Which is sad, she is a pretty good hearted person.
I want to cheer her up so bad.
>>82745519
I'm pretty sure someone who has been through as much shit as Kit wouldn't want to be cheered up.
>>82744801
>Kit hurt her butt
Come on, Poppy! Kiss it an make it better!
>>82745385
She probably doesn't even know what her mother looks like due to her lucky star
>LetsShowOurLameSides.png
Morbi has good taste in comedy anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyOT0jq2lqM
>>82744801
>>82744888
>>82745385
Kit almost doubles Poppy in age, this makes no sense.
>>82745305
Though when you put it like that...
>>82745113
What ifthe chapter picture/cover is actually the pic/recording from the smartphone/tablet thing?
>>82745708
So people can't have mental break downs when they are in this much stress especially as a not so good ruler of a place that doesn't appreciate you?
>>82745756
>>82744948
My brother
>>82745708
Kit is like 33 and Poppy is 23. That isn't double her age.
Poppy is best person to handle this situation given the fact she's mom
>>82744801
Does this means we're finally going back to Mary and Petunia's shenanigans? Because this whole torture porn with Kit has grown old.
>>82745856
Oh, thanks.
>>82745778
Having a mental breakdown shouldn't be the same as age regression. Have you ever seen a 30something seriously crying and whining like a baby?
>>82745871
She is also naturally good at it. She did the same for Ewe Lala.
>>82745935
sounds like you need to try working an office job surrounded by 30-40 y/o women
>>82745935
you see it all the time if you hang out on 4chan
>>82745936
Ewe Lala was also like 16 too
>>82745871
Not really, Fried is a dad and knows Kit much better.
>>82745935
Yes. Both as a regular temper tantrum, and as a result of a complete mental break-down. Kit is experiencing the latter. It's not crying for the sake of crying, she's mentally shutdown.
>>82745999
hes also expected to maintain a more professional appearance with her
Poppy is purely a friend and doesnt care about that
>>82745342
I'm liking it, keep up the good work anon.
>>82745935
>Having a mental breakdown shouldn't be the same as age regression. Have you ever seen a 30something seriously crying and whining like a baby?
Yes.
You do not seem to be understanding the concept of mental breakdown. Nor the concept of crying.
>>82746045
Are you implying that Fried is insensitive?
FRACTURED
>>82745974
>>82746007
>>82746064
Is that actually a thing in northamerica? I've seen women losing their shit many times and they never acted like this.
>>82746073
Not that anon, but overall he's extremely distant, sarcastic, and detached from people.
Kinda like Morbi actuallyIs he his self-insert?
>>82744990
LOOK AT THIS FENNEC
SHE CRY ABOUT OWN ASS
>>82746164
I'm in bongland but yes I've seen it happen a couple times
>>82745342
Fennecs are always screaming, don't worry.
>>82746164
I'm south american, and I've seen it too.
>>82746164
How many women have you seen break down due to fucking up as hard as Kit thinks she has.
>>82746171
>Morbi shipping his self insert with Lily
>>82745935
I'm 30 and I've done it. Mostly in privacy, thank god, but still...
>>82746164
How many of those woman were queens, pretty much blind, trying to find a cure for cancer, and haven't slept for around 3 days straight?
>>82746164
Acted like what? Crying inconsolably? It's not a woman thing, I've seen men do it too. I knew a guy whose brother died and it hurt but he didn't seem to really process the event until a week after the funeral. All of the sudden the guy just falls to his fucking knees and bawls for half an hour. People just break under stress.
>>82746221
About 4.
>>82746164
I've seen it a couple of times.
Also, Kit is going on 3 days without sleep. Having done that a couple of times, I can say you start getting pretty mental at that point.
>>82746164
>Is that actually a thing in northamerica? I've seen women losing their shit many times
Hold up, everyone. We have a professional champion grandmaster of women losing their shit from shitlakastan, where apparently that's just a thing that happens all the time. Let's ask his expert advice.
>>82746249
wow she sounds pretty unqualified to be a queen
bring back vix I say
>>82746280
She never even wanted to be queen. The job was forced on her. She just wanted to continue being head researcher for her medical companies.
>>82745756
Also has a strange case where her paws create a squeaking sound.
Its not funny, its actually a tumor releasing air. She needs her feet cut off.
>>82746274
>shitlakastan
I can't stop giggling, thank you.
>>82746252
society also expects men to be stoic and keep a brave face at all times but people can only bend so far
>>82746322
Wait, what?
As sad as this chapter is for Kit, at least we know she's gonna be happy again in a month or so.
>>82746384
With her butt nicely healed.
>>82746252
Kit is not only crying inconsolably, she's crying like a toddler. And if we include men then I've seen 7 people and non of them go full baby.
>>82746274
1. I'm in Mexico.
2. I've just been there by sheer coincidence.
>>82745605
Uncalled for
>>82746369
Hush. The doctor knows best.
Now lay down while I get the magical hammers ready to knock you out magically.
Magic is wonderful in our funny ass world.
#notmyqueen
>>82746384
Probably after a lot of mothering from Poppy
>>82746384
Until she sees the headline QUEEN BEEFS IT
>>82744801
> says Kit has a bruised ego
> ignores the hurt butt
Bad mom
>>82746504
This just in: Kit guaranteed to be happy forever.
>>82746322
Someone said once that it was a condition of inbred dogs where the pores in their pawpads are empty. I haven't found anything about it but it makes sense.
>>82745871
>Poppy throws a blanket over Kit's head to put her to sleep
>>82746521
>ignores the next part of what Poppy says
>it's even on the same page
>and same panel
try harder
>>82746567
that would work on the birds too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su3ovMsFXMg
So is this what kit sounds like when she's crying?
>>82746601
The tranny is out of control
Throw a towel over her face so she passes out suddenly.
>>82746358
I hope you don't get offended by "clapistan" then.
What do you guys think surrounds the remains of the possum tree? Is it a wasteland, or maybe they have a shitty little slumtown going on.
>>82746545
....empty paw pads? The hell are you smoking? Listen Jr, come back and talk to me after you take two years of magical med school and drop out in the middle of the second year.
Till then you keep the strange fantasies of this "empty pawpads" outta my patients diagnosis.
>>82746809
You just drove >>82746435 to the ground.
>>82746708
Americans fucking love stereotypes. It never ceases to amuse me that the rest of world is fucking stunned by the idea of us clapping at the end of movies.
>>82744801
>That cel rec on panel 3
This will go viral in the interweebz
>>82746924
>clapping at the end of movies
I just cringed.
>>82747013
go away commie bastard
here in America we show appreciation for art
>>82747013
You don't express your joy at the end of a good movie?Seriously, I've never actually seen this, but so many people seem to get butthurt over it that I think I'm going to start.
>>82747013
>cringed
Everyone who uses this should be range banned.
>>82744801
Wait, we've been on this arc for months and it becomes a https://youtu.be/XsYJyVEUaC4 ?
Noice.
>>82747116
I seriously flinched/winced in disgust.
>>82744801
Poppy is everyone's mom now I guess.
>>82747282
except mine
>>82747282
She's a simple character.
>>82747116
Cringing is a perfectly legitimate verb.
It's the recent adjectivication of cringe that is annoying.
>>82747282
>she'll never be your mom
>>82747405
Shush, let anon believe that he's smart enough to be mad at something people do wrong even if he doesn't actually know why.
>>82747472
I want to be Lily's big bro
>>82746073
He literally has no emotions at all. Morbi himself pointed this out. Only thing he gives a fuck about is his family.
>>82747575
He clearly also cares about Kit, though
>>82746924
You too? nice,let's join in our after credits clapping brotherhood!
>>82747589
He has a duty to Kit. There's a difference.
>>82747609
Fuck yeah, I'm in!
>>82747575
>what is hyperbole?
Also, it's implied that Fried is simply trying too hard to look cool and it works because he actually is. He's not completely flawless either, just a few pages ago he laughed rather inmaturely over making Petunia reveal her power level.
>>82747613
This is outright sociopathic.
>>82747497
Oniiiiiiii-chaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!
>>82747609
I've already got secret poppy lewds. who else should I get porn of?
>>82747575
Morbi also claims that he's the most heterosexual man in Flora yet Mr. Quibble exists.
>inb4 Morbi implies Quibble is a bit bi just to spite me
>>82747646
>>82747698
https://youtu.be/RjkVLE78Cpc
The Clapping Fellowship is REAL
>>82747710
We have a whole booru for lewds.
>>82747613
>Friedrich and Kit are so familiar that she calls him by a nickname and he still responds
>Seriously believing they have no personal connection
>>82747710
The secretary(?) sheep from 2 pages ago.
>>82747754
It's good shit. The rest of the world doesn't know what they're missing.
>>82747748
>Mr. Quibble is omnisexual
the fucker has to be in order to get someone like Tuna's mom to both marry him and have a child with him
>>82746420
>she's crying like a toddler.
She's just crying. You're perceive her crying like a toddler because she's being carried like one.
>>82747779
That sheep was THICK...Ultimate Fluffyness
>>82747754
I can get behind this
>>82747800
This doesn't help.
>>82744801
Thats how it starts...first they engulf you with their unbearable motherly cuteness...the next second you're inside an imfirmary with a broken butt, a forever gone dignity and an absent wallet...damn clockbellies...damn the lot of 'em!!!
>>82748003
i awnt poppy change my daiper
>Kit gets taken to her room
>Kit builds a pillow fort and refuse to leave it for a couple days
>Tfw you will never carry a mentally broken Kit by here royal butt... all the while comforting her...
I wish there was more art of Friedrich and that one Opossum dude from Chapter 3
>>82748284
HANDFULS OF ASS
>>82748326
Quite literally when you remember how small she is. Poppy is around 3 feet tall, so Kit barely 2 feet tall.
>>82747935
She's pretty obviously beyond dignity right now. It's a bizarrely comfortable place to be. Just giving up the masks and the pretenses and just letting your emotions pour out of you uninhibited for a rare moment in your life. I imagine. Personally I'm dead inside. I envy the baby queen, though. You know, besides the blindness, dying father, the bullying and basically anything else that led to this.
I want to see PoppyadoptKit.Like she did with Lily.
>>82748313
>>82748421
You can't adopt someone older than you.
Lily?
Daijobu?
DAIJOBU?
LILY!
>>82748380
Wait really?
>>82748165
>"Your Highness,pleeease...."
>>82748566
>read the fucking comic
we've known Poppy's canon height/weight for a long time
http://www.poppy-opossum.com/comic/poppy-2-page-10/
>>82747935
She probably can't stand anytime soon if that "Pop!" was her hip dislocation, so her only option righy now is to cry on the floor
>>82748570
>>82748570
You've just done something real special, friend.
>>82748638
Oh yeah
Amerifat, so the metric stuff just kinda went in one ear and out the other
Plus it's been a good long while since I read that chapter
>242 kilograms of ass
plz draw poppy change a diaper
>>82748770
Please don't
>>82748759
I use Poppy like a yard stick and compare her height to other characters to get a read on their size
>>82748570
>>82747472
Thank god.
I don't know what i would have done if my mother had died at 35.
>Because i would have been 3.
>>82748770
*changing
At least request with proper grammar.
>>82748465
The queen's new mom can do whatever she pleases.
>>82748570Are you from /scvg/?
>>82748465
UNLESS it's JAPAN!
In which case you can adopt people older, younger, the same age... ESPECIALLY if you want them to run your family owned company.
OR you can become a German Prince by being Adopted into the royal family in exile.
>>82748677
Morbi said it was just a mild hip injury. Nothing too serious
I want to see how long this could keep going on for.
please draw poppy changing Gloria's big full stinky drooping gator diaper
>>82748035
>>82748770
>>82749011
>>82748934
Hip dislocation is a minor injury in magic magic world
That being said, I imagine this is not Kit's first faceplant on these stairs, just the first time she isn't mentally and emotionally stable enough to laugh it off while Fredrich escorts/carries her to the infirmary.
In times of great stress, people will mentally regress as a coping mechanism to stress.
Regression is a psychological coping technique, and Kit is throwing this tantrum to alleviate her emotions.
She'll get over it, but for the time being, she needs someone to mother her for a bit, and nurse her back to physical and mental health.
>>82749238
Next chapter is Poppy taking care of Kit for half the chapter and Kit annoying everyone with her overbearing kindness.
>>82745483
Think how it must feel, when even your staff speaks bad about you behind your back. All she wanted was to be loved, and even though she's nice and successful she can't get even that.
>>82749308I love her.
>>82745452
>suffered enough?
These words do not exist together in such a way in Morbi's vocabulary.
I want to see Kit in Footsie PJs with Lily now
>>82746420
>I'm in Mexico
First off, that is in North America. Second off, women aren't allowed to do that or the Cartel will sell them off into sex slavery there, so it makes sense you haven't seen it.
>>82749738
That sounds completely batshit made-up. Like, what, does el presidente have a fetish for crying chicks?
>>82749394
Where are you getting all this art from?
>>82745342
The real problem was not enough side shots of screaming goatsI still had to give up on most of the fox faces tho
>>82746056
thx
>>82750531
did you try searching for pictures of goats mid-bleat?
>>82745935
>Have you ever seen a 30something seriously crying and whining like a baby?
When she hasn't slept for 72 hours and just concussed herself?
>>82750531
These are now my favorite things in these threads.
>>82747092
The one time I saw it, I was watching Miracle.
>>82747710
Nora
>>82750472
Senior Nieto's fetishes are nobody's business but his own.
So Kit is acting out like this because of stress, lack of sleep, AND a head injury.
No wonder she's completely broken down.
>>82745605
Actually, given that she had a little while before her Lucky Star came into effect, her mother's face might be the ONLY one she'd remember clearly.
>>82750677
All the goats were screaming directly into the camera. I'd use youtube and grab screenshots, but no one on youtube is good at filming anything involving animals. "lol it's funny I'm going to zoom in on it's mouth!"
>>82750926
dem feels
>>82748638
>Voluntarily using subhuman measuring units
>>82747013
The only time I've experienced the audience clapping was at a special one-time showing of both episodes of Best of Both Worlds on the big screen to celebrate the bluray release.
It was a packed house full of nerds (and nerd significant others), there had been special guest speakers before the show, special documentary features before the episodes themselves...
Yeah, one time. But then, I'm Canadian.
>>82750913
B R A I N D A M A G E
>>82751025
There was cheering and clapping at the theater I went to when godzilla atomic blasted the muto when I went to see the new godzilla movie
>>82751056
And when she wakes up, she can get brand new emotional scars from becoming a viral video laughingstock
>>82744888
Why do I get the sense that your idea of good writing is Zach Snyder movies and stories from video games?
Oh yeah, the bad taste.
>>82751097
I'm not sure that can really compare to the ones from blaming herself for the death of all those monks and every poor person strapped inside her father's soul vacuum of a chair.
Plus no one takes her seriously already so this won't be anything new.
>>82751019
Morbi is American and the metric system is 'exotic' to him, therefore fitting for a fantasy setting.
>>82751097
Does that goat have a liver damage or why he's so yellow?
>>82745619
I didn't even look at the file name and that's how I imagined the inarticulate crying.
>>82751392
He has jaundice
I've cried so much I could barely speak after staying up for two days, like downright sobbing, so I can really empathize with Kit here.
Except I was alone, and didn't have anyone to take care for me, unlike her.
>>82746280
>Qualified
>Monarchy with actual power
Anon, there's only two kinds of qualifications to become royalty.
1) Be the biggest warlord in town.
2) Be the biggest political and personal manipulator around.
The former is for the first generation and any time civil unrest rears its ugly head, and latter is for subsequent generations.
Bonus points for "Believed to be a living god".
>>82745078
>Petunia discovers they aren't romantically linked
>The tabloids all say they are
>Everyone is telling Petunia she just doesn't know what she's talking about when she tries to correct themMary doesn't know who this "Kit" everyone is referring to is.
>>82751150
Now, now. There's no need to be overly sensitive for someone else's sake. You just make yourself look silly. There's always a place for criticism, and responding in kind to poor criticism isn't proper at all.
>>82744801
>>82751349
I don't think that's the case.
The imperial measurement system would be uselessly unintuitive in a world governed by animal people and the viewer wouldn't be able to get a distinct impression of scale just from the units if they were adapted from some royal animal family or whatever.
Metric system does not have these flaws.
It translates correctly to the real world regardless of the scale of the animal inhabitants and as such gives the reader a clearer image.
Moreover it's arguably more useful in a world where people can vary on such large scales since it's far easier to convert into arbitrarily large or small units and possesses a more universal standard.
>>82751530
Three days without sleep and sick, moving heavy boxes full of my things, while not having had breakfast, lunch, or dinner that day.
In my defense, I was under a lot of stress and due to some troubles in the family was faking being alright so I wasn't one more problem on everyone's minds.
I was talking to myself and starting to get hysteric. I don't mean like thinking out loud, I mean I went full fucking Gollum. I quite literally made myself cry, not by insults but by complaining to myself about all the shit I had to deal with, then started cackling afterwards.
Thank goodness I was alone.
I only even realized I was doing it when I had to go outside to move something to the car and said "I better keep it down, people are trying to sleep at-" (checked my phone) "-six o'clock in the morning? I should be getting ready for..." then realized what I had been doing all night.
I called in sick for work and asked for the next day too, then ate some bread with peanut butter and slept for close to about 18 hours, used the bathroom, ate a full sandwich, bathed and brushed my teeth, then slept another 18.
>>82751894
Thanks for updating for your fucking blog when no one responded the first time.But seriously, that's some rough shit. I've been there before, and it is a nightmarishly miserable experience.. Hope it worked out for you.
>>82751913
Sorry, thought an anecdote about how fucked up lack of sleep can get you was fitting.
Its like a checklist where every single thing about you just starts going wrong. Body, mind, emotions, self-awareness, inhibition, the whole deal.
Makes me wonder how many actors use it to improve their acting in certain roles. I know Kubrick fucked with Shelley Duvall and kept her up for like a solid week to make her really fritzed for the finale of The Shining, and I think Christian Bale did it for The Machinist to seem more broken down.
Yeah, at some point Kit just had to break. Too much piled on her. She's been strongarmed into giving the mafia a ministerial position, her stepmother hates her, everyone thinks she's a failure, fuck, she herself thinks she's a failure, and she is in sharp pain and hasn't slept in three days and hurt her head. It was crying breakdown or straght up shutdown.
As for why it's such a loud crying... have you SEEN fennecs calling out? Those motherfuckers are SHRILL. That's just Kit crying like an anthro fennec would, ie, able to puncture eardrums at ten paces.
>>82751947
It would certainly fuck you up. In my experience, being up for a few days straight puts you into a waking dream state. It's kind of hard to explain, but what I experienced is that my reality was like my dreams. In the sense that in a dream, absolutely everything makes sense. We can all understand that concept, right? You wake up and you wonder why and how in the fuck you were thinking of any of that, but at the time, it all made perfect sense. Teeth falling out and flying but only if you contort into weird positions, right? When I've been awake over the 48 hour mark, that starts to invade my reality. You just think stuff, and you no longer have an ability to make a distinction between your senses and your thoughts. You think about a bowl on a table and you see a bowl, and the bowl is "there". Your eyes tell you it isn't, but you aren't able to distinguish between internal thoughts projecting imagery, and your senses receiving imagery.
Oh, and this isn't something that's fun, so don't try it.
>It's normal for stress to make adults turn into babies
This is why the west must fall. It wasn't normal 40 years ago, or for the thousands of years before that. There is something wrong with all of you.
Turning into a child when under stress is the opposite of survival, it'll get you killed.
>>82751984
That's canon. She's a lethal fucking weapon.
>>82752057
We have never had to deal with the stress of modern life. All the tech and responsibilities and the fast paced life is something we are completely incapable of dealing with. 100 years ago, most of us were still farmers, or basic factory workers. News could take days to travel. We weren't forced to monitor things on a second to second basis. We're breaking the fuck down because we are not evolved enough to deal with the society we've created. You aren't wrong, but you aren't looking at it in the proper context.
>>82752063
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su3ovMsFXMg
>>82744801
When there's rapid hand movement, there are two hands. When there's quick head turning, there are two heads.
Beast with 3 arms and 2 heads.
Morbi, your motion smears are terrifying.
>>82752095
>>82752057
Also, you're right. It's the opposite of survival. These moments of mental breakdown is basically our way of desperately trying to kill ourselves just to make this shit stop. It's like how chickens will spontaneously die if they feel overly threatened. We're making ourselves purposefully vulnerable as a last ditch defense mechanism against our own existence, but unfortunately we no longer live in an era where wolves will come and rip us apart.
>>82752095
>Things were less stressful
Fucking bullshit, you've no idea what you're talking about. You're less stressed right now in your pampered fucking tower than anyone has ever been.
Adult babies are not normal. Grow the fuck up.
>Nu-uh, you're wrong, mommy tells me i'm a big boy!
>>82746384
She isTOUCHING HER BUTT!
>>82752057
No fucking shit, Sherlock.
Why the hell do you think militaries have training? We don't get sent straight into combat.
Here's some things you do in the USMC.
1) Gather into teams of two on a stretch of sand. Stare forwards, unflinchingly, as your partner shovels sand into your face. If you cough or flinch or close your eyes, you get the shit kicked out of you by a Drill Sergeant. At the end, you no longer need to stop and reorient yourself if an explosion goes off nearby and kicks dirt and dust everywhere.
2) Gather into teams of two, and strangle each other with rubber hosing. You get to feel what its like to kick and sputter as your instinct takes over and you thrash until everything goes black. Then on-base paramedics revive them, and you strangle them and feel a human being struggle to live in your hands only for them to suddenly double in weight and go limp when they lose consciousness. Now you know both what its like to kill, and what its like to die.
3) Clean the barracks. Not just pick up trash, you have to take a fine tooth comb and go blade of grass by blade of grass, inch of sand by inch of sand, and make sure EVERYTHING is one solid perfect line, which lines up to the marks on a ruler. So you know you cannot quit until the job is done, and you do whatever is asked of you because that's what you fucking were ordered to do.
Then you come back to the civilian world and see people complaining about Merry Christmas VS Happy Holidays and just want to scream at every stupid asshole who thinks it matters either way for the fact you're now an adult stuck with a world full of adult-sized children for the rest of your life.
>>82752195
How......... how long did it take you to write that?
I think you wasted your time.
>>82752095
>We're breaking the fuck down because we are not evolved enough to deal with the society we've created
>not being part of the ADHD master race
>>82752145
I'm a programmer.
I work 60+ hours a week. I have no fucking money to show for it. I have thousands of people depending on the work that I as a single person does, and that's because I'm doing contract work. If it was general open market, it would be millions of people.
We're barely able to imagine even a hundred unique individuals, and this is the shit that every single person has to deal with, no matter what their job. The problem is that the world is bigger than we are capable of understanding. If you want some fucking proof, just look at all of the nude photo leaks and people confessing to crimes on Facebook. We are completely incapable of understanding on a biological level that in today's world, we are interacting with the planet. Not a town, or village, or city, or something understandable. And we cannot fucking deal with it, but we are confronted with the consequences of that every day. It's fucking killing us.
Yes, life is better than it was, but it's infinitely more stressful. It's a basic fact of biology that we haven't evolved to deal with the tertiary aspects of this better life.
>>82752145
People who have actually gone into survival mode are people at peace.
Look at the pioneers of the mid 1800's. To them, life in the city was stressful and suicide not uncommon. Despite being at constant risk of attack from natives (or Mormons), they always say it was a simpler time because they had too much time on their hands and life moved too fast around them. Compare only having chores to work on every day to hearing on the radio about how World War 1 is tearing apart civilization as you know it.
>>82752145
Crying releases chemicals in the brain that help with stress coping flushing the system and getting the bad chemicals out through the tears.
Sometimes you need a good cry.
>>82752222
That's the weird thing. Autistic people aren't a problem. They are the Homo-Superior. They are perfectly evolved to deal with modern life. Autistics will inherit the Earth, because it's perfectly suited to them. Hyper focus to very niche tasks, and no emotion to get in the way of that.
>>82752195
Letting sand or blast particles getting into your eyes endangers your vision or makes you blind. Which is also the opposite of survival. It's like "ream men eat nail sandwiches and trek to the south pole naked".
I know it's a joke, but still simple logic destroys the "examples".
>>82752223
The worst part is, that's not something we need to have.
You can live in the modern world, have your smartphone, go on the internet and play video games, and spare yourself most of the stresses of living.
Facebook is only mandatory as a resume. You create it, populate it with enough standard shit that you look like a normal but responsible human being with some hobbies, and you never have to touch it again.
You don't have to constantly check the news, you can set aside a specific time in the day. You treat your phone like you would getting the mail or a newspaper. You don't bring that around with you at all times, you look it over at breakfast or when you get home or whatever.
Even the biggest stress, motor vehicles, is going to be relaxing with self-driving cars.
You have to just stop and put your life in perspective, sort everything you need to do into allotted times.
>>82752265
Except that shit happens without warning at a moments notice. The point is to be able to not panic when shit that destroys your chances of survival happens.
>>82752265
Except the point of that is not to train yourself to never blink when shit gets in your eyes, its to train yourself not to stop and cover your face with your hands in the middle of a firefight or to panic. To become so focused you can override your instincts in the moments that it matters.
Its actually the exact same training technique the Romans were doing. Combat is dirty, chaotic, and there's going to be shit fucking EVERYWHERE.
The average person panics, screams, takes cover, hides their face, puts their arms over their head, and so on. Discipline is when you can be ready to charge or fire the second you get the order as long as you're still alive and upright.
>>82752241
>Sometimes you need a good cry.
Words to live by.
Ever seen a really sad movie that made you bawl, then the next day just felt better?
Its like the emotional equivalent of a hot shower. You just feel fresh again.
>>82752277
I don't disagree, but the problem is that we are very social creatures. I don't use Facebook at all. I think I technically have one, but I created it almost a decade ago and haven't touched it since. I only talk to friends and family on the phone. But even then, I'm asked about news stories (since all my friends and family enjoy following the news) and if I have missed something that happened in that very day, I'm left at a disadvantage, and it's a pain to try and scramble to research it during a conversation, and the stress of not knowing can last for a day or two. And that fucking builds up. So I feel forced to spend time outside of your already busy schedule to pay attention to all of the news stories and make sure that I'm caught up on anything that might be discussed. We're social, but we're also competitive. Knowing that it doesn't really matter doesn't change the fact that we feel that we're completely lost as a human being by not knowing something.
>>82752327
>tfw so emotionally repressed you need drugs and anime to cry
>>82752278
Panicking ≠closing your eyes when you have sand flying into your eye.
>>82752330
Thing is, not knowing about something can be an advantage in conversation.
It gives something to talk about.
I realized that recently. If I know about a news story completely, then it gives like ten minutes of conversation and two hours of silence.
But if I only have the gist of it, or don't know at all, then "So what's going on today?" becomes a full day of bullshitting and having a good time. People tend to like to babble on, so letting them explain it is good to uplift the spirits of family members or coworkers or anyone else that tolerating for a few hours is mandatory for. Of course you'll want to read the real thing later, not just get their spin on it.
>>82752362
Really? I've got a shitload of music I can listen to that makes me tear up, especially if I'm alone or resting.
Most of the Telltale Walking Dead credit songs, the ending music to the Simpsons episode with Homer's mother where he sits on the car and watches the sunrise, Mother Earth And Father Time, Bright Eyes, Cats In The Cradle, Obstacles, and so on. That's just what immediately comes to mind, I've got a whole folder of songs like that.
>>82752308
Okay then. Get some sand thrown into your eyes.
Without blinking.
Let's see how great a fighter you will be with your vision impaired.
>>82752394
Hmm. I can understand that. Might be a difference in personality then. Personally speaking, I'm one of those kinds of people who doesn't want to talk about something I don't understand and hasn't gone through. This was a problem for me when the Panama Papers came out. I didn't read it, I really didn't understand it, and I didn't want to talk about it (unless the other party had information) so it killed the conversation. And that's the other thing. I just ended the conversation feeling like I'd left my family down by not talking about it. The only conversation I was able to have was with a friend who knew someone in international banking so they had information they could give to me.
>>82752401
Anon, in a legitimate battle the air seems like its more dirt and sand than it is oxygen.
If you're on a battlefield, there is sand in your eyes. Period. Not to mention sweat from your brow that burns like acid, and the good old-fashioned smells of war; WD-40, shit, and burning meat which all work like onions together.
The only question is if you're going to stop and rub your eyes every five minutes, if you're going to stop and scream when an explosion goes off to your right or a bullet goes by, or keep one finger on the trigger while your other hand aims your rifle and advance with the rest of your unit leaving no gaps in the firing line.
>>82752442
You speak as if you've been over there.
>>82752145
Yes, we know, you're so tough and all.
But yes, breaking down IS normal. It's always been. People crack. The difference is that in the olden times people dealt with it by beating their family or killing themselves. Now there's a bit of a growing realization that hey, maybe just spending an hour or two crying your shit out for catharsis is in fact not worse than bashing your neighbour's face in with a shovel.
(And even then, aforementioned shoveling is in fact still quite popular as a reaction to stress breakdowns, as you can see in the reports of any police department).
>>82752477Grandpa was a Vietnam vet, dad was Gulf War. I grew up on more war stories than I did fairy tales. Grandfather especially, he was that special kind of period in history where the last part of training was making a will because they flat out told you that the life expectancy is six months tops. The kind where they don't even check to see if you qualify for mental disability when you come back, they just assume if you lived through it they automatically figure you're too fucked up to function in society and give you a check a month for life. Most of my summers were hearing about boot camp in 1970 and the hills northwest of Dong Ha.
>>82752515
That sounds amazing in a fucked up way.
>>82752496
We know people did it back in the day just because it survives in mythology.
The king of Troy's grief after the death of Hektor was so pitiable that even the fucking Greeks, who within weeks would be bashing Trojan babies against the walls due to a Roman/Cathage tier hatred of the Trojans, returned the corpse and gave him time to grieve.
Shit, the Greeks literally invented the manly cry. They created the dirge (the funeral march is an example), and there's one for basically every myth.
>>82752442
>what are goggles
It is as if your understanding of the military is 300 years oldNice pic, I hope you have more.
>>82752435
I feel you man, people are so fucking antsy to comment on shit they don't know anything about, or just retread a conversation using only the most basic information available when they don't have anything original to say.
I've heard people have conversations where both parties are essentially just regurgitating the exact same news article to each other, line by line, with no actual discourse occurring, but somehow this counts as a conversation?
My friends will try to bring up shit to me like "Oh did you see that new PPG remake" or "Did you hear about the Overwatch butt thing" and I just don't ever want to talk about it because I know we both have nothing to say about it except the exact same shit that we've been reading about all week. I don't want to spend half an hour confirming that we've both heard every little tidbit about this stupid controversy.
People think their personal opinions are way more important than they actually are. If I'm not qualified to speak on something, and have nothing original to add, then I don't fucking speak about it. Everyone else seems to think they NEED to have an opinion on EVERYTHING, and share it as well. I don't get it.
Morbi is gonna have fun reading this thread.
>>82752567
Goggles limit your field of view immensely, and become scratched or damaged easily requiring them to be constantly replaced.
That's why, despite the technology existing since the 1700's, you never see them at any point on standard infantry.
>>82751888
It's only easier if you are a dumb shit who can't into math.
Imperial system is for those who know their shit.
>>82752442
Man, your military sounds fucking retarded.
Good luck with that, I guess. If you were ever even part of it, which I also doubt.
war never changes
>>82752607
>retarded infantry
Fixed that for you.
Keep defending retarded amerifat army practices though. Served them good in Vietnam, when americans FUCKING LOST.
>>82752571
Damn son, you sound like a bore.
Like you don't know how to shoot the breeze.
You aren't a television commentator being recorded, its okay to blather on and joke about shit. You don't need to have an immediate opinion before you can comment on something.
Poppy threads have the most intelligent trolls.It's a compliment, so fucking take it.
>>82752571
I hear you. I sometimes feel like I'm a weird asshole because I refuse to do that. Most people I know just want to do exactly what you say. And I hate it. I really don't want to talk about something unless I feel I've digested enough material to actually give a comment on it. Even then, I'm capable of realizing that my comment is probably misinformed or lacking information, but at least I have enough information to generate a thought that isn't just a quoting a news article I read. And it makes me sad when I find my friends or family just regurgitating some Times or Post article back at me. At that point I just wonder "did you actually take in the content? Did you actually think about it? Do you have any opinion about it?"
>>82752681
I will!
And I'm fucking clapping about it.
>>82752638
Let me know when your military wins a war that matters.
>>82752665
Vietnam was like Iraq; there was no victory condition going in, so there's nothing but a defeat coming out.
Although to be fair the only point to Vietnam was to show the Commies that was willing to throw every man, woman, and child into a fight if they brought out. There's a reason the Soviets never engaged in another major military conflict with the west after that.
It also forced them to keep up on military spending, which contributed to their virtual economic black hole when they dissolved back into Republics and semi-Communist entities.
>>82752638
you should read how the British keep using shitty outdated guns jam/break all the time and don't get newer/better ones just because they're British made.
>>82744801
>a concussion
In her butt, possom? I know you're dense but come on.
It's called a contusion.
>>82752712
Let me know when this is relevant to the fucking comic, anon
Why are you talking about this shit in a Poppy thread
>>82752718
>hits her head/face on hard palace floor literally last page
read the comic before you post dumb things
>>82752685
Don't worry anon. We are weird assholes and bores, but we are not alone.
>>82752718
She hit her butt firstPOP
Then she rolled down the stairs, hitting her head multiple times before ultimately landing on her face. Concussion is not just plausible, but likely.
>>82752743
That is heartening to think about.
>>82752713
The British fucking LOVED American tanks in World War 2. They may have had colorful opinions of the Americans themselves, but they loved the equipment and vehicles.
When a tank was sent from England to Africa or to the coasts of mainland Europe, it'd be stripped of everything loose that could be sold on the black market during the trip and already falling apart. You'd need a day minimum of maintenance to get them back into fighting shape.
American tanks were well-packaged, protected from the weather and salty sea, not only had all their parts but actually had repair kits and medical supplies shipped with them and sealed, were actually tested before leaving the US, and as soon as they got refueled and armed could be immediately driven at maximum efficiency.
>>82752729
Actually...there is a war going on in the comic, we know of what is basically a cyborg antagonist that will be appearing.
So...marginally relevant.
Also, its easy to trace back to the original point which was somebody without human emotion not being able to understand a complete mental breakdown leading to discussion of stress and lack of sleep leading to discussion of discipline and training leading to statements on the military.
>>82744801
This is not where I expected this thread to go when I clicked on it. Probably should have saw it coming though
