Philosophical Friday: Anger, Disgust and Curiosity

Nancy, 2014-05-06.

WHAT? No. I covered this last week, Fritzi is at least ten years older than Phil, there is no way he can possibly be a year older than her. That does not work. I'm not talking about how the comic's actually been running since 1922 so they should actually be over 100 or anything crazy like that, just going by in-universe evidence presented within the last couple of years. You are blatantly contradicting yourself, Mr. Gilchrist, and I add this to the long, long list of reasons you are terrible at your job. This retconning of Fritzi and Phil would be bad enough even without the blatant inconsistencies.

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Turning now to something that horrifies me for completely different reasons, a post on the Something Awful forums recently mentioned the existence of a Kevin & Kell roleplaying game. For those not familiar with Kevin & Kell, consider yourself lucky. This part of the description for the RPG gives some idea of the horror.

A world somewhat like our own, where there are no humans and every animal under the sun is sentient, where predator and prey dance endlessly in a waltz of death, and where the love between a rabbit and a wolf may offer the world's last, best hope.

It's a light-hearted sit-com where people murder each other all the time and the only people who think there's anything wrong with that are considered to be terrorists. But it's OK because none of the main characters get murdered. Some of them do the murdering though. In fact, some of them work for a company that specialises in murder for those who can't be bothered killing their neighbours themselves. And this is just casually mixed in with the usual sort of jokes about tech support and relationships.

So I kind of really want to know what this game is like, but I'm glad it's out of stock, because otherwise I might be tempted to actually buy it, and I'm sure that that would not be a good use of my money.