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Added 2023-11-10 18:00:04 +0000 UTCI got to thinking about how much extra energy is expended streaming all this video for phone calls, and it stressed me out. It used to stress me out when a friend said they streamed Pandora music in their car all the way to my house. All those zillions of bytes, heating up and bothering all those copper electrons and switches and routers...how much activity can there be before the earth just blows up?
And that is how you write Roast Beef: by copy-pasting from the primary buffer into the Adobe Illustrator boxes.
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Hidden in this stream of invective against the modern age and the climate apocalypse it makes all the more certain every day is the revelation that Roast Beef thinks Teodor is handsome.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-03-17 19:31:49 +0000 UTCConversely, a phone call feels like being trapped in a burning building.
izy fay
2024-02-20 06:49:11 +0000 UTCagree on almost all points but trapped in a burning building feels like a phone call
Joe Allocco
2024-01-26 18:40:10 +0000 UTCI'm dating sodium man
Alex Ruppel
2023-11-28 00:30:42 +0000 UTCI don't even like voice calls. Asynchronous communication is superior for almost every use case because it allows both participants to time-slice the interactions with whatever else they are doing, including responding to the most time-sensitive inputs first. I'm happy to hear my older sister completed the LEGO set I sent her. I don't need a phone call about it. I'm shocked to learn that my friend is trapped in a burning building and 911 isn't responding. I'll pull over immediately and try to contact 911 myself. Still no need for a phone call, and it would even slow the process down and interfere with my driving. Text communication also puts a light pressure on participants to be brief, except for weirdos like me who use messages.google.com to send and receive texts so we can use a full-size keyboard and a 30" monitor or a fancy laptop with a nice keyboard and 16" screen. Then we can type at full speed which is sometimes faster than verbal communication. Probably. Yes, this topic hit a nerve and I have no regrets posting about it.
Robert de Forest
2023-11-14 08:43:34 +0000 UTCGoddamn the last story arc is really fantastic but if this ain't some perfect Achewood
Miles McMahon
2023-11-13 15:58:53 +0000 UTCAnyway, there's only one reason to ever have a video call, and that is because your stupid job is making you do it.
Eli Parker
2023-11-12 23:53:03 +0000 UTCOld people like video calls because they came up in a time when new technology was game-changing and always good and they've been trying to chase the high of being the first on the block with a color TV their whole lives.
Eli Parker
2023-11-12 23:48:23 +0000 UTCwell good news, streaming music in the car spends less energy than driving the thing in the first place
Guilherme Töws
2023-11-12 00:39:52 +0000 UTCI love my Achewood Fridays.
Christopher Hastings
2023-11-11 19:37:42 +0000 UTCthe dude has got no mercy
Nathan
2023-11-11 16:52:21 +0000 UTCSaw the reply about the negative comment; let’s just excise that stuff here ok? Sorry to have edited but I want this place to stay positive, it’s amazing how clean it’s been for half a year. Thanks Allan!
Chris Onstad
2023-11-11 16:50:33 +0000 UTCSodium gets around. No way it'll settle down just with Beef.
A. Christopher
2023-11-11 12:10:11 +0000 UTCOk good um what is your least sodium food item
Joshua M
2023-11-11 05:20:25 +0000 UTCBeef speaks for all of us who do not wish to be Perceived
Lionstooth
2023-11-11 04:15:29 +0000 UTCThis is so Achewood
bentleyjet
2023-11-11 01:49:41 +0000 UTCThis is timely. I also hate video calls with a passion. Maintaining eye contact while having a conversation freaks me the hell out. I have an attention problem and I don't want the person I'm talking to wondering why I'm scanning their eyes, nose, ears, facial hair, shoulders, the floor, a bird passing behind them etc. If it's an audio call I can focus on the sound and the meaning of the words they're saying, which results in more memorable and meaningful interaction.
Ben Cooper
2023-11-10 23:54:32 +0000 UTCT is never right.
GruntyGinMan
2023-11-10 22:46:25 +0000 UTCThrowing car batteries is a safe, fun, clean activity that recharges electric eels
GruntyGinMan
2023-11-10 22:45:24 +0000 UTCSodium: Respect. Moderation.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-11-10 21:31:30 +0000 UTCRay did him nasty with that call, there's no doubt about it.
Nicholas Williams
2023-11-10 20:11:06 +0000 UTCI fully agree!!! End video calling
Tom PM
2023-11-10 19:47:42 +0000 UTCDoes Triangle Man hate Sodium Man
Jenn
2023-11-10 19:26:11 +0000 UTCAlso you could probably cut like half the panels for use in alternate-version strips, this is hella wordy for the punch lines
Allan
2023-11-10 19:20:53 +0000 UTCSeveral billion people texting each other hello every morning is not the same as throwing car batteries in the ocean. I'm not committed to that belief.
Allan
2023-11-10 19:17:30 +0000 UTCDid Molly lose a bet again.
b.zap
2023-11-10 19:07:12 +0000 UTCTime was a phone call could just be “no” or “I won’t be there…” Beef doesn’t realize he’s Being Beef when he says that.
Cody Richmond
2023-11-10 18:56:02 +0000 UTCRay delivering a hard CRTL + ALT + DEL to all of T's hard work there.
W. C.
2023-11-10 18:52:13 +0000 UTC"Put a hose in it, mongrel!" is a new classic but I'm really here for Beef's defiant expression after his statement about movies.
Joe Locastro
2023-11-10 18:45:36 +0000 UTCSodium Man just wants respect and moderation.
Alex Schlesinger
2023-11-10 18:35:15 +0000 UTCPerfect setup and ending. I laughed too hard.
Christopher Malone
2023-11-10 18:28:29 +0000 UTC“FaceTime” could be a horror film
Cf Duddy
2023-11-10 18:27:52 +0000 UTCI guffawed, against my best efforts to not do so.
Colin Sueyres
2023-11-10 18:26:46 +0000 UTCCan't wait to explain my Sodium Man costume next Halloween.
Brian Sutton
2023-11-10 18:26:15 +0000 UTCIs Teodor referring to when Beef proved himself a Coward that would abandon a dying man?
Hunter
2023-11-10 18:23:26 +0000 UTCGod damn if my in-laws don't PROCLAIM on that Facetime, all heavily artifacted video and entirely too much wattage being forced through those teeny-tiny iPhone speakers generating frequencies unproducible by nature yet somehow perceptible to my organ of Corti
Don Rowe
2023-11-10 18:20:29 +0000 UTCSodium Man didn't make it into the They Might Be Giants song (too unhealthy, looked like he was about to stroke out)
Jay Y
2023-11-10 18:18:03 +0000 UTCI thought all Sodium Man's babies self-aborted because hella sodium
J Hardy Carroll
2023-11-10 18:10:56 +0000 UTCBut did T stop to consider that Ray is an unrepentant asshole?
Jacquelyn R Walters
2023-11-10 18:09:51 +0000 UTCThey both are.
Matthew Harris
2023-11-10 18:08:07 +0000 UTCHumanity is all Thelma & Louise on the carbon output. It is know, khaleesi.
Rob Dalton
2023-11-10 18:07:45 +0000 UTCThis one really got me. Beef's face, "sodium man". Hardest I've laughed in a minute. Beef is comprehensively right throughout, of course.
Glen N
2023-11-10 18:06:49 +0000 UTCEven when Teodor is right, he's wrong.
Josh Egbert
2023-11-10 18:05:49 +0000 UTCIt's Friday night, the fish is frying, and that means Achewood. It's become downright Proustian.
Matthew Harris
2023-11-10 18:05:32 +0000 UTCGod dammit Ray.
Steamed_Grahams
2023-11-10 18:04:16 +0000 UTC
