Velocity

[Sandytimeman]

I'm like...really mad at elliot here. He seriously just told someone he knows has mental problems to grow up.

LIKE GROWING UP CURES MENTAL PROBLEMS!!!!

Indeed. However there is an issue when someone doesn't take their medication. And to a certain degree, it's not his problem, it's Erin's. However storming his house, stripping down to her panties, wrestling with a girl and throwing a console at someone's face is well an issue...

Right but he is also the one responsible for the accident that gave Erin that mental condition. Apparently if I were to lame someone and then ***** about them having to sit in a wheel chair. Finally culminating in me yelling at them "STOP BEING LAZY AND WALK!"

 

[Dirty Apple]

Maybe I'm a sucker/softie, but giving her an airborne exit seems extreme. March her out and slam the door in her face, sure I could get on board with that. Not the bouncer special though. A bit too much.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Love the discussion in the facebook comments about whether this encourages violence against women or not.
(Protip: It doesn't)

I also love that I got the Lonely Island reference. I keep listening to that song lately.

 

[Danzavare]

For some reason I find I enjoy these comics significantly less when Elliot is present. If he's not boring me he's irking me. It's probably my dislike of him that's led me to dislike this recent venture into storyline country.

Ah well, I'll get over it.

 

[DugMachine]

Shit just got real...er. I mean shit got real when she threw an xbox, BUT A SHOE TO DA FACE? Oh boy

 

[esperandote]

Third last panel.

hnnnnnnnnnnnngh

The THIRD panel...

For kratos anything less being trown to hell and/or being killed is doing pretty well

 

[Shadowstar38]

Cerberus syndrome claims another victum.

But seriously I find it funny how this has turned into a serious discussion on mental defects and domestic violence. Its rather weird.

Also, Kratos is a dick.

 

[PunkRex]

Is there anything cuter then Erin all scruffy from fistycuffs, kneeling in the mud with no trousers on?



The answers no.

 

[Sandytimeman]

Dude...that was a dick move. I'm...like not even able to express my hate towards characters I previously liked. Mol and Mr.Geeky there need to go take a drive asap so they can run into another poll.

Seriously he is pretty much responsible for her brain damage, he doesn't know what its like to try and deal with the meds, and he doesn't care because hes hooking up with her roomate anyway. Why should he take any responsibility. Grrr >.>

And sneaking into somebody elses house in the middle of the night for no sane reason, seemingly stealing there property and then reacting with a violent outburst for what honestly sounded like a good point (why doesn't she take her meds?) is the proper way to act? Accident or not she has very little ground to stand on considering the all clear she got from the hospitable, the fact that she's not taking steps to fix her problem and cant seem to explain just why she attempted to inflict pretty severe harm on a friend- no ***** deserved to get bounced

Except you've probably never been on those meds. Sometimes they put you into a semi veg state, sometimes your filled with extreme bursts of emotion, sometimes you are suicidal and try and harm yourself. It takes years to properly dose and tweak meds so they work and arn't worse then the problem they are fixing.

It is hard to stay on your meds, growing up I loved to draw and write. After going on my meds I would just sleep all day, a couple of times I tried throwing myself down the stairs, I only ever had the inspiration and motivation to draw when I wasn't on meds. So I kept not taking my meds when I could get away with it.

 

[Monoclebear]

Uh, grow up? I really don't see how this is a "grow up" situation. I really don't think it boils down to Erin being immature. I think a more appropriate response would have been "mind your own business," or maybe "take your damn meds," since we've just been told that she has medication to help with her condition but she's refusing to take it for some bizarre reason.

On the other hand, some of her behavior that led up to this situation could be seen as immature, I suppose. Sneaking into Clutch's house to swipe his Xbox just to spite him for preferring consoles to PCs is pretty childish. Then again so was his mocking Erin for her own preferences. So yeah...pot calling the kettle black there? Well granted her behavior was much more childish than his, but they were still along the same vein.

Ugh, this is getting complicated. Why do web comics which start out focusing on humor always seem to inevitably try to turn soap opera serious? All we need now is for one of the female characters to have a miscarriage.

Oh yes, I went there.

The reason she doesn't take the med is that the pills don't help they just make the hallucinations weirder. For example in the comic that that was expleined she saw a Spacemarine/Link mix-thingie with a weird, floating Roboskull navi.

 

[Monoclebear]

Except you've probably never been on those meds. Sometimes they put you into a semi veg state, sometimes your filled with extreme bursts of emotion, sometimes you are suicidal and try and harm yourself. It takes years to properly dose and tweak meds so they work and arn't worse then the problem they are fixing.

It is hard to stay on your meds, growing up I loved to draw and write. After going on my meds I would just sleep all day, a couple of times I tried throwing myself down the stairs, I only ever had the inspiration and motivation to draw when I wasn't on meds. So I kept not taking my meds when I could get away with it.

There's a point when not staying on meds due to the fact that they suck stops being all about you. That point is rapidly shrinking in the rear view mirror when breaking and entering seems like an ok idea. That's when the meds are not really for your sake anymore and that's where the "grow up" bit comes in. Sometimes (Well, ok, pretty often) we suffer discomforts in order to not be a burden to others, and that's something we all have to do. It's a bummer, but there there you go.

But there was one comic were it was explained that the med don't help, they just mix the viedeogame hallucinations up with each other.

 

[Frostbyte666]

The guy just watched Erin throw an x-box at his girlfriends head. I don't think he's thinking rationally, his rage on a hair trigger and is just about keeping from beating her to a pulp so best course of action get her out the house now before he does beat her up. The grow up Erin comment is probably more from anger than actually addressing her issues.

 

[LazyAza]

Considering Kratos would have solved the situation by ripping the limbs off one of them and having sex with and then ripping the limbs off the other I'd say its a bit odd he thinks she did well. =P

 

[putowtin]

Wow, maybe physically throwing her out was a bit of an over-reaction?

What do you mean? That Xbox could be damaged!

And if the disk was still in.... ruined!

 

[370999]

I'm like...really mad at elliot here. He seriously just told someone he knows has mental problems to grow up.

LIKE GROWING UP CURES MENTAL PROBLEMS!!!!

Indeed. However there is an issue when someone doesn't take their medication. And to a certain degree, it's not his problem, it's Erin's. However storming his house, stripping down to her panties, wrestling with a girl and throwing a console at someone's face is well an issue...

Right but he is also the one responsible for the accident that gave Erin that mental condition. Apparently if I were to lame someone and then ***** about them having to sit in a wheel chair. Finally culminating in me yelling at them "STOP BEING LAZY AND WALK!"

He crashed yeah but I can't remember him forcing her to not wear a seat belt.

Your wheel chair example would make sense if someone could take exercises to be able to walk and refused to do so

 

[Fasckira]

After she threw a games console at someone's face? Not really.

Aye but he also knows shes not quite well in the head. I think if I had been in that situation I may have grabbed her by the arm and shoved her out the house, but I just think actually picking her up and flinging her out is a bit extreme!

Then again, as you say... game saves were at stake of course....

 

[The Ubermensch]

... This is the same guy responsible for Erin's head trauma right? Man, I know you should always side with your GF... but god damn that guy just came across as a prick!

Also, anti-psychotics, if you have a problem but that problem doesn't cause you to want to cause harm to your self and others I don't think you should have to take them... they make you feel like you're not you.

...NOT that I have personal experience or anything... ((Fuck, now everyone thinks I'm a loon)) I did 2 years of Nursing and have a strong medical predisposition in my family.

"Hey mum, I don't want to be a nurse OK, I want to kill people" - Not what I said, but what she heard

 

[Riobux]

Wow, this just took an incredibly depressing turn. That Erin's hallucinations because of her brain damage has caused an insanely large rift between her room mate and her friend, the one who caused the brain damage in the first place. That Elliot is less mad, but rather just pities Erin for acting to her hallucination's demands and just asks her to just grow up. Meanwhile, Erin is still convinced she's not crazy to the point of launching an X-Box 360 (which to a game reviewer must be pretty valuable) at her room-mate who calls her crazy's head (not at her, but directly at her face, which is slightly different in feelings of malice).

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the rift and her proclamation of not being crazy despite everyone yelling at her that she is and she should take the meds which make her feel like a half-vegetable state will cause her to go into a deep depression. God damn it Grey, just god damn it.

 

[Monoclebear]

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So then the grown-up thing is to go to your doctor and fix the dosage or get some other meds. Or at least wait for her doctor to say it's okay to stop taking them. For all she knows that's something that passes. You don't stop taking your medication on your own volition.

1. Seeing hallucinations this specific is a very unusual thing, as far as anyone knows these are the only meds there are. Changing the dosage doesn't alter the effect, just the strenght of the effect.

2. At least as far as i know mental illnesse like hallucinations can't be cured, just supressed, so it can't just pass. So if that's true any doctor would tell her that.

3. Asking the doctor for anything besides the meds she already has would be pointless because they pretty much told her that they have no idea what she has and are just flinging shit against the wall here.

4. If the one thing that she has doesn't help with anything (the meds in this case)would a cynic like her really keep taking them? It's hard to stop old habits, especially if they are so old that you don't notice them anymore.

 

[Grahav]

There is a point where the insanity excuse and the "you were responsible for the accident" excuse don't serve as an excuse anymore. That is when you start acting like a violent idiot. Treating her like an adult will be the best in this situation.