page 1194 – no backstory today
If there’s anybody who doesn’t need to hear about dramatic backstories, it’s Layla.
Okay, so one week after deciding to start doing new Voting Incentives on Thursday, I nearly forgot about it last week. Goin’ great so far, huh? Well, seeing as I’m only just now getting this page finished and online at around 5 in the evening, this week’s incentive probably would have wound up being a day or two late either way, so I’m still gonna stick with the “later in the week” set up. Oh, and just as an extra reminded, not only are there still extra Far Out There comics coming out on Patreon, but we’re about due another special blog for $2+ patrons! So keep an eye out for that soon, too!
9/23 Edit: VOTING INCENTIVE IS UP!
9/26 EDIT: Just giving you guys prior warning, the new page is gonna be at least a day late. Various distractions have conspired to get me started on the art even later than usual, and that’s even more of a problem than usual given what I’ve got planned for 1195. So, just to avoid the scramble, I’m preemptively pushing the page back at least one full day. So, sometime Tuesday, at the earliest. Sorry!
That is an excellent policy in regards family knowledge. Unless it is offered first hand, no one wants to hear it
Nitpickers are renowned for their lack of awareness on when to leave well enough alone
Those who have that awareness do NOT have the capability of becoming proper Nitpickers, a job that requires one to go further into details than anyone has any conceivable desire to know, let alone right, as a starting point.
This is yet another reason why Nitpickers need a Guild to cover their backs. They just can’t help making people mad at them.
I just had a thought about whether or not there should be a Nitpicker who’s actively trying to work out all the “unspoken rules” of communication, purely so that they can write them down into a guidebook suitable for other Nitpickers. Possibly one with a “General” Section, before breaking down into typical regional variations. Though, Von Cannon might be the closest to be willing to do that, that you have shown.
Then I saw the new voting incentive! Definitely looks like the epilogue will have it’s own interesting point to make.
“The Nitpicker’s Guide to Nitpicking” …that’s definitely a concept worth toying with at some point…
That is a good idea, but, just to nitpick, I was thinking more about “A Nitpicker’s Guide to Social Interaction”, rather than “A Nitpicker’s Guide to Nitpicking”. The first focuses on how to interact with people, the social rules of interaction and when or how to apply them. The second is more a guidebook on how a Nitpicker is expected to act, a guide to the work, and examples of the environments that they often find themselves in.
In short, one is about how to interact with people, and the other is a “simple” guidebook to the job.
It doesn’t really matter though, since they’ll just nitpick everything that they think is wrong with it anyway. Which probably proves that it works.