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  • NelDel@lemmy.onetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Feline!
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    2 months ago

    When I was 18, 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life, I saw a vision of clarity. I saw a comic strip, a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed, changed me, changed my being, changed who I am, made me who I am, enlightened me. The strip, Garfield, the comic strip was new, no more then maybe a month and a half since inception, since… since coming into existence, and there it was before me in print, I saw it, a comic strip. What was it called? Garfield. The story here is of a man, a plain man. He is Jon, but he is more than that. I will get to this later, but first, let us just say he is Jon, a plain man, and then there is a cat, Garfield. This is the nature of the world here. When I see the world, the…the politics, the future, the… satellites in space, and the people who put them there, you could look at everything as a man and a cat. Two beings, in harmony, and at war. So this strip I saw about this man, Jon, and the cat, Garfield, you see… yes, hmm, it is about everything, this little comic is, oh… lo and behold not so little anymore. So yes, when I was 18, I saw this comic and it hit me all at once, its power, I clipped it and every day I looked at it and I said, okay, let me look at this here, what is this doing to me? Why is this so powerful? Jon Arbuckle, he sits here, legs crossed, comfortable in his home and he reads his newspaper. The news of the world perhaps. Then he extends his fingers, lightly, delicately, he taps his fingers on an end table and he feels for something. What is it? It is something he needs, but it is not there. Then he looks up, slightly cockeyed and he thinks… his newspaper in his lap now, and he thinks this: “Now where could my pipe be?” This… I always come to this, because I was a young man, I’m older now, and I still don’t have the secrets, the answers, so this question still rings true, Jon looks up and he thinks: “Now where could my pipe be?”, and then it happens, you see it, you see… it’s almost like divine intervention, suddenly, it is there, and it overpowers you, a cat is smoking a pipe. It is the mans pipe, it’s Jon’s pipe, but the cat, this cat, Garfield, is smoking the pipe, and from afar, and from someplace near, but not clear… near but not clear, the man calls out, Jon calls out, he is shocked. “Garfield!” he shouts. Garfield, the cats name. But let’s take a step back. Let us examine this from all sides, all perspectives, and when I first came across this comic strip, I was at my fathers house. The newspaper had arrived, and I picked it up for him, and brought it inside. I organized his sections for him and then, yes, the comic strip section fell out from somewhere in the middle, landed on the kitchen floor. I picked up the picture pages and saw up somewhere near the top of this strip, just like Jon, I too was wearing an aquamarine shirt, so I thought, “Hah! Interesting, I’ll have to see this later.” I snipped out the little comic and held onto it, and 5 days later, I re-examined, and it gripped me, I needed to find out more about this.

  • NelDel@lemmy.onetoMap Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016
    62·
    4 months ago

    Since I moved from a red state to Colorado it’s been mind blowing how painless and accessible it is to vote in this state.

    Before every election all registered voters automatically get a mail-in ballot, as well as a detailed book explaining every issue & candidate on the ballot with sample arguments for & against. You can then either mail the ballot or drop it off in very convenient drop boxes that are usually less than 10 min from your place. In some ways it’s difficult to not have at least some idea of the political landscape for most voters.

  • NelDel@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•What are the dress rules?
    3·
    4 months ago

    Yeah I definitely agree, one of the more interesting things about Oblivion to me is that different writers wrote all of the different guilds. The dark brotherhood is basically the only quest line in the game that gives you different choices of dialogue. Every other quest in the game has only one response, which looking back is pretty laughable as an RPG.

    (Oblivion is one of my favorite nostalgia games and I listen to the soundtrack almost every day, it’s just fun to point out interesting things in it)