Scott Meyer

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How to Devise an Innovative Solution

I actually flipped this one so that Rick had the problem I do in real life. It’s hard to say why. The mumbling coming from behind him just felt like more of a Rick punchline to me.

Anyway, yeah, I started noticing that I would have to turn the sound up to unreasonable levels to hear the dialog on my TV. The weird thing was that the music and the sound effects were unreasonably loud, but I still had trouble with the dialog. Missy could hear every gunshot and explosion two rooms away, b...

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How to Deal With Your Character Flaws

I haven’t actually taken any pictures, but there are two dogs that pass every day, and it makes me happier when I see them.

One is an elderly bulldog I have named “Dense Boy” who shuffles by with an old lady. They don’t move very fast. I’m not sure if she’s moving slow for his sake, if he’s moving slow for her sake, or if their speed is a case of water finding its own level.

The other daily dog is a gray great dane I have named “Big Boy.” He runs past, spreading ...

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Ric has decided to release an album on BandCamp. It's a concept album: the soundtrack to a non-existent Rocket Hat movie!

How to Watch History Repeat Itself

I have a Meta Quest 2. It’s a good game platform, but I found most of the actual games to get old pretty quickly. It’s a very good personal theater solution, but the resolution lets it down a bit in that regard. For productivity, it offers a tantalizing glimpse of a future that will be amazing when it arrives, and is affordable.

It looks like Apple’s headset has built on this, and offers a tantalizing glimpse of a present that will be amazing when it is affordable.

Speaking ...

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How to Process a Disturbing Dream

I’ve always thought I was totally okay with being bald, but when I woke up from a dream where I had hair, I was a little disappointed. On the balance, if I’d been given the choice between hair and no hair, I might well have chosen baldness. It really does have quite a few advantages. But I would have liked to have had a say in the matter.

I don’t have much more to say about that, so I’ll say this instead.

I’m not what you’d call “emotionally demonstrative.”

T...

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How to Seem Wise

The same thing goes for touching someone else’s phone. You know they’ve used it in the bathroom, then washed their hands, but didn’t wash the phone. Really, you shouldn’t borrow another person’s phone unless you’d be willing to hold hands with them after they use the restroom without washing their hands, or let them caress your face.

Knowing that I feel that way, you can be sure that if I ask to borrow your phone, it must be an emergency.

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How to Identify the Song Fragment Stuck in Your Head

My memories of the show BJ and the Bear are sketchy at best. It was very much something that we only watched in our house if the weather was bad and there was nothing better on. I hate to go all “in my day” on you, but people who grew up in the age of cable and the internet have no idea what it means to say there’s “nothing good” on.

The concept of only having four options is foreign to them.

On an afternoon in the Yakima Valley, in 1981, you could easily have a...

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How to Handle It When Things Get Weird

I dunno. Maybe it’s just me, but standing there over the sink rubbing a plate with my bare hands just felt unwholesome, somehow. Like, if someone had walked in on me doing it, I might have had a hard time explaining myself.

But, then again, I always have a hard time explaining myself. It might just be that I’m inexplicable.

Feeling a need to wash my hands after using my hands to make a plate clean just brings up logical problems. If my hands aren’t clean at the end, then the...

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How to Realize What You Should Have Said

Thanks for your patience over the last two weeks.

The move is 90% complete. As anyone who has moved a few times knows, “90% moved-in” means that we might be fully moved-in a week from now, or we might stay 90% moved-in the rest of the time we live here. I hope to avoid that this time, but I hoped the same thing every other time we moved too.

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How to Let People Know About a Major Life Change

Yeah, Missy and I are moving.

I’ll tell you; you never realize how much junk you’ve accumulated until you have to pick all of it up and drive it around in a rented truck. There’s been more than one thing that, when I picked it up, I seriously considered buying a smaller, lighter item that would do the same job. Of course, that would just mean that I’d have two of the thing to carry in the rented truck, and an extra stop to make at the thrift store drop-off.

How’s that fo...

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How to Evaluate Your Readers' Opinions When Considering Making Changes to Your Comic

So, here’s what I’ve decided: if I have an idea for a comic where including instructions makes sense, I will include them. If, on the other hand, I have an idea where I feel like I’m trying to shoe-horn instructions in after the fact, I will not.

Panel 3 is not true, by the way. There has been a time or two that I have put a tremendous amount of effort into making a comic only to end up posting nothing, because I didn’t come up with a final product that I felt was good enough to...

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Eventually, I'll Figure Out What to Write Here

The Rick art is a little wonky in this one. I took a bunch of new photos to work from (thus the change in facial hair) and am trying a new art method. While the current results are "acceptable," I'm not happy with them yet.

The real Ric came to visit (We live in Phoenix, while he's still in the greater Seattle metroplex). That's when I took the new photos and we visited the ghost town. There was never any chance of us taking the old-west photo. Missy thought we were interested, but in f...

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I Still Don't Know What to Write Here

“The science torpedo went badly wrong. Prepare the funeral torpedo!”

Spoilers ahead for Picard: Season 3.

There’s an episode of the show where an away team goes to Daystrom Station; where Starfleet keeps all of its most dangerous weapons. I mention the second Genesis Torpedo in the strip. What I don’t mention is that they also have Captain Kirk’s corpse. You find out later, that also appear to have had Picard’s corpse as well.

This raises several questions.

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NOTE: I have a new novel out! It's called Brute Force, and I am quite proud of it! Please consider checking it out!

I honestly don't know what to write here.

NOTE: I have a new novel out! It's called Brute Force, and I am quite proud of it! Please consider checking it out!

We’ll call the narration-removal an experiment for now.

Over the years, I’ve had a surprising number of...

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NOTE: I have a new novel out! It's called Brute Force, and I am quite proud of it! Please consider checking it out!

How to Accept Your Own Fallibility

NOTE: I have a new novel out! It's called Brute Force, and I am quite proud of it! Please consider checking it out!

The situation described in this comic is actually slight oversimplification of what really happened.

I wrot...

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How to Manage Your Own Ignorance

They don’t actually go down in tunnels to dig it up. They pump water into the ground to dissolve the baking soda, pull the water back out and separate the baking soda from the water. What can I say? I never claimed to be a journalist over here.

Here’s the segment of How It’s Made that inspired the comic. 

And the fact that old segments of How It’s Made are available on YouTube inspired the joke from ...