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new_otters_raft piefed.ca new_otters_raft@piefed.ca
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Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/battle

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themeatbridge lemmy.world themeatbridge@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
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Plot twist, they were actually playing Warhammer 40k with the neighbors.

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baines piefed.social baines@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-27
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is the joke horror or swinger?

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can sh.itjust.works can@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-10
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is the joke horror or swinger?

You tell me

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marcos lemmy.world marcos@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#5 · Quote Reply

is the joke horror or swinger?

The mouseover text on the original will also help answer your question.

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nailingjello lemmy.zip nailingjello@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-03-15
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

The mouseover text on the original will also help answer your question.

BUT THEY ARE LOSING.

Still don't know why they kept asking their ghostly duplicates whether they liked that over and over.

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egrets lemmy.world egrets@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#7 · Quote Reply

Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!

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TryingSomethingNew sopuli.xyz YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-08-11
#8 · Quote Reply

You tell me

Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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the_mighty_kracken lemmy.world the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#9 · Quote Reply

You tell me

S&MBC

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-17
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay.

These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally taxing, and the wounds manifest the next day as a slow crawl towards Dementia.

Anyway, this comic reminded me of that before I undestood the sex stuff

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YerLam lemmy.world YerLam@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#11 · Quote Reply

Didn't realise we were looking at the back of her head and thought she was actually a doppleganger with a weird blobby eye and mouth.

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Xerxos lemmy.ml Xerxos@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-11-19
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If course the next day the kids had to kill their parents: "Mom never smiled like that, the doppelgangers must have won!"

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OldChicoAle lemmy.world OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-26
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Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Calm down Hedonismbot

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TryingSomethingNew sopuli.xyz YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-08-11
#14 · Quote Reply

Calm down Hedonismbot

Not sure what you mean, but okay.

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toynbee lemmy.world toynbee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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Didn't realise we were looking at the back of her head and thought she was actually a doppleganger with a weird blobby eye and mouth.

I thought it was a paper bag to disguise whether she was.

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MrShankles reddthat.com MrShankles@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Not sure what you mean, but okay.

It's a Futurama reference

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bobalot lemmy.world sirboozebum@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
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There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay. These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally ...

What was the name of the story?

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TryingSomethingNew sopuli.xyz YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-08-11
#18 · Quote Reply

It's a Futurama reference

Thanks.

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imetators lemmy.dbzer0.com imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-10
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Didn't realise we were looking at the back of her head and thought she was actually a doppleganger with a weird blobby eye and mouth.

I saw a woman with voluminous hair with a head that is a potato

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YiddishMcSquidish lemmy.today YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-03-10
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Are they swingers? I think I'm too awetistic to get the joke here.

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noughtnaut lemmy.world noughtnaut@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#21 · Quote Reply

There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay. These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally ...

I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to "fight the nightmare monsters" which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I'm totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you're cutting onions ya bastard)

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Allero lemmy.today Allero@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-20
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Are they swingers? I think I'm too awetistic to get the joke here.

Yes, you got the joke right

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WIZARD POPE💫 lemmy.world Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-08
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Didn't realise we were looking at the back of her head and thought she was actually a doppleganger with a weird blobby eye and mouth.

Yeah same. I was confused as all hell

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farfalla jlai.lu farfalla@jlai.lu
Joined: 2025-01-21
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What was the name of the story?

I want to know too !

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-17
#25 · Quote Reply

Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Calm down Takei

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MBM lemmings.world MBM@lemmings.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#26 · Quote Reply

"You'll know who the monsters are because they are the ones that lose" is a fun implication (before I got the actual joke)

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