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the rave arc continues.

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[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 53 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I understood nothing. The text sounds like total gibberish to me.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Uh oh, weird possibly sexist guys

Nvm they are just gay dudes that have the same style

after that im also lost

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Molly is MDMA,

It’s apparently burning man and all the problem guys are freaked out by the bears tripping Molly and just staring.

The last pannel, the dude on the left is a Molly bear.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There’s the missing link. It’s been about 20 years since I knew anyone who took mdma, and back then they called it eckies.

At risk of sounding out of touch, there’s no way I could have known what anything in panel 4 was supposed to mean.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Speaking as a perpetual wallflower who has never been to a rave in my life, I found it understandable. Admittedly I've heard the term "molly" in reference to ecstasy, but you see as guy wide-eyed staring at someone who looks incredibly uncomfortable about it. Seems pretty obvious that's the "molly bear" that uses "prolonged eye contact" to make "uh-ohs" so uncomfortable that they either leave or at least don't come to another one.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Understood the spirit of the comic, not the detail or terminology.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 11 hours ago

its in portland and he calls it burning man camp so im thinking its something like the old bar camp but instead of being tech its like a side party for folks who attend burning man.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's a man not a bear though, what does bear mean in this context?

Life is strange haha

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Well, if it's using the term in the same way as the first couple panels, it's a big hairy gay man.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe the joke is not to judge a book by its cover? Or that it's nice to go to safe events where bad people are harassed until they leave?

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was a smidgen of self awareness about how quickly we judge people.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

That was my thought in the first two panels but the last two seem to reverse that. But hell I probably already put way more thought into it than I needed to already.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

Thanks, i thought i was having a stroke

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

None of these words are in the Bible.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

Isn't the Burning Man a dude from New Vegas ?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

what are the goth clubs in Atlanta? The Heretic? Masquerade?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 9 hours ago

@JennieBreeden@lemmy.sdf.org any of those sound familiar?