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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules
  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

    • Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
  6. πŸ“¬ Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.
  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
  8. 🍿 Moderation

    • We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm dating a new girl, and thought it would be fun to play a few games with her as a fun date night activity. Games like "truth or fear" and "would you rather". I bought both of those games at target. They had another game, and I thought "Well, if the date goes well.....". It's called "Date night. A sexy game for couples".

So I'm buying these 3 games, and a handful of unrelated things. And after each purchase she scans, she's like "Oh, cherries! I love cherries! Oh, a dog leash! I love dogs!"

Well eventually she gets to the date night game, and she just gives me this dirty stare. She's in her 60s, and you can just tell she's been a lonely cat lady for at least 30 of them.

She just said "Oh.....well SOMEONE is going to have fun TONIGHT!!!" in this angry tone.

Like, bitch it ain't MY fault you ain't getting laid! I'm trying to get my dick sucked tonight! Sorry about your pathetic Saturday night!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Quip back: I love dating, don't you?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're required to do this and are following a script πŸ™ƒ

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 24 points 1 year ago

The system hurts workers and customers alike.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Not being familiar with this place, I'm pretty surprised it's a thing. It just seems terribly impolite to comment on purchases. I never would have done it when I had a cashier job. There are plenty of other things you can make conversation about, you should try to pick up on whether they even want the chitchat. Not everyone does.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was a cashier I'd have to ask if they found everything okay, and at the end to <have a nice day, come back soon, random holiday here>. In between I didn't have to chat. So my autistic ass did not. I would chat if they did though. I just never started it.

[–] cutofmyjib@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was a cashier they trained us not to greet people with "Hi, how are you?" just "Hi" because some people will tell you their whole life story holding up the line.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We really need third places so people do not dump on cashiers just trying to ring up bananas! (4011)

[–] cutofmyjib@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dog from Chicory became a cashier?

Guess it happens to a lot of artists

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Pizza,

Or, in my case, Spagut

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Caroline Ahearne did a whole series of these in the fast show. They were great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsNq3nQ612c