Who knows what’s up with that cult end
August 7, 2017
2:04 am
Dude’s on casual brunch terms with Ganondorf, he can probably handle whatever Dover-Demons Joseph may-or-may-not be hiding up his sleeve.
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It amuses me to think that he might be including Jared in that criteria, what with the Helix cult stuff and all that.
Helix cultists are harmless. The ones you really have to worry about? Us Amberists. We didn’t elect a reincarnation of our Lord Amber to be named “Jihad” for nothing.
You’re not wrong… But I think because Commander fixed it, Jared never had been a cult leader.
“Never Had Been”… :’) Time-travel Tense Trouble.
Wioll never haven been.
nice to see someone learned their time-travel grammar.
oh god i remember that passage,i kept spontaneously traveling to a
point in the future before i had read it, after the 42nd time i hit
my head on a 9 foot ceiling and came back to earth with a crash.
(never store house keys in your rear trouser pocket.)
incidentally i totally destroyed my vase of petunias.
But he does remember being one.
Nah, Rock just fixed the situation after coming back to the “present”.
Jonesy questioned how time travel worked, which prevented the whole thing from being cancelled out. Lobster had to fix it, yes, but we see him talking about it with them afterwards, so we can safely say that Jared has been and will have been a cult leader.
… So are we ever going to do a head count on that one?
It’s a floating cast… so i doubt it. We could just go off the numbers for whom we have already seen. The tags can help with that a bit.
To be fair it always seems like it’s the demonic cult leaders who make some of the best BBQ or picnic food. Sure maybe that’s to entice new initiates, but you can’t say that they’re not good hosts!
They start off as good hosts, but then they expect you to be good hosts for their possessive relatives, and it just gets awkward.
They just want to share the Gift of their divine experiences with you. After all, it has been so powerfully transformative in their own lives! Very considerate, really. Sharing is caring.
Demonic Possession: It’s not so bad, once you get used to it.
The food is good, but the kool aid is lousy.
Oh don’t be like that. I hear it’s to die for.
I trust Rock to be able to hire Mass-Murdering Cult Leader Supervillain Joseph into his agency and keep Joseph in line about as well as he does mass murderer Kratos, cult leader Jared, and supervillain Ganon.
The man clearly has Skillz, as an employer.
I don’t think ‘being a bad husband and a manipulative partner’ really qualifies someone for Rock’s agency.
Well, maybe that *alone* won’t qualify someone, but sometimes it’s a matter of degree, especially with cult leaders. I mean, ‘being a bad husband and a manipulative partner’ could be some evil villian at their, ah, least horrible.
Lots of heroes in civilian life, too.
*cough*Superman*cough*
He’s not a cult leader, tho
I don’t know if MGDMT is set in the future or an alternative universe, but the days of the cult seem to be waning in western society. Kimmy Schmit notwithstanding, I don’t see the orange robes and the Hare krishnas anymore that used to be quite common. i think the heyday of the cults was the 70s and the 80s, the last holdouts seem to be the scientologists and the brethren, they are both pretty evil but hopefully fading away. People these days are more self-centred and consumer electronics is now the dominant cult.
…The Hare Krishnas literally had a booth outside comic con. The set up a tent, and had a booth.
Are you sure it was real Krishnas? Maybe it was just ironic cosplay. Are people who attend comic con more susceptible to braiwashing?
The people willing to dress up as a character from their favorite series and spend too much money acquiring all the related merchandise? Yes. Yes they are.
Not particularly, at least not on the basis of this sort of thing. Most of the cons I go to have a sizable chunk of its attendees as hardline militant atheists.
Did they give out cookies? That’s what I did when we were trying to drum up new members for our Whovian club back in the 80s.
Back in the ’80s it seemed like every pretty girl I talked to was in a cult. These days I don’t get to talk to many pretty girls but it’s a long time since i met a cult member. I was a big Dr who fan back in the 80’s, we had a really epic party in 84, with daleks and a K9, but the modern Dr Who is a different thing, I don’t think it would inspire any cults.
might be an age thing- maybe kids who are *your age in the 80s* are more susceptible to cults than people who are *your age now*. sampling bias, yknow?
Cults are waning in the west? Is that why populism is on the rise, led by “strongman” figures who claim only they can save you from evil forces trying to secretly destroy your way of life?
If it quacks like a duck…
True fact: Trump supporters are sometimes referred to as “Cult 45”. Sure, it’s a joke, but the best jokes are built on a nugget of truth…
And on the other hand, we have the “everyone we don’t like is a fascist and needs punching” crowd. Hopefully their collision won’t have too much fallout for the rest of us.
American Civil War Part Two: Electric Boogaloo
I have literally never seen that description used.
Check out the Mommy Wars if you want to see modern day cults.
While we’re on the topic, and this is of course completely secondhand and thirdhand, but I’ve heard ex-Jehova’s Witnesses call that whole biz a cult.
Only insofar as any specific church can be a cult. Now Mormonism, on the other hand…
Severing people who leave from their families, and possible having you fired for leaving? Only hear bad things.
I’m sure that happens in some places/congregations, but for the record, I have two Mormon friends who are openly atheist and still on perfectly good terms with their family.
That should say “ex-Mormon,” of course.
I think there are still some rules. They may speak with their family but were one of those family members to die and the funeral to be held in a Mormon church (do they call them churches?), the Religion would NOT let a former/ex Mormon in. Directly from a Mormon friend in discussion about his father’s pending funeral. Pretty sad. But I do know that the church does positive things as well. I guess I’d see that as the difference between a cult and religion (that maybe has a few messed up folks making rules). Positive community/world impact.
As an ex-Mormon. I can happily say this is bullshit. Firstly, anyone can walk into a mormon church, and there’s a good chance they will happily welcome you in. What you’re thinking about is the temples, which do require you to be practicing (if only kinda) to enter. Funeral viewing are held in churches, so anyone could come to a Mormon viewing. However, weddings are held in Temples, and are generally the ceremony is limited to close friends and family, everyone else, including other church members, wait outside. However, I heard that sometimes someone is giving a “temporary pass” if they want and are wanted to attend the wedding ceremony but arnt a member.
As a current Mormon, Jack is spot-on. To add on to that, the common theme of ‘Mormonism’ no matter where you live in the world is that family is the most important thing in the mortal world we can have outside of Christ’s atonement, and that nothing should, and nothing can, divide it.
Are you the Jehovah’s Witnesses are a cult, or that they say the Shmit thing or whatever is a cult.
One thing I can say for sure is that they are not a cult. Their about the friendliest and nicest religious folks you’ll ever meet.
to quote something i have heard before: the difference between a cult and a religion is in a cult there is a man at the top that knows it to be fake. in a religion that man is dead. and they are not that nice if you actually disagree with them about things to their face. I can also say with full honesty that it was in doing bible studies with them that put me on the path to atheism.
That’s not actually what a cult is defined as.
LOL! It’s pretty freaking funny though! And it has a ring of truth to it, in my opinion. Maybe I’ve read one too many books but most stories in which a religion is created (even by the good guys) make it clear that the religion overtakes the creator(s) and takes on a life of its own. Creating it’s own mythos. And I agree that in religion, as in politics, people are nice until you challenge their ideas. Then the worst of us all comes out… and nobodies mind is ever changed. REALLY makes me wonder why people bother to argue. What they get out of it. Maybe it’s just a chance to feel self-righteous.
Shoulda said “we” not “people” or “they”. I’m just as guilty.
So are actual cultists. #notallcults
I’d say Westboro Baptists are pretty culty.
Literally a cult of personality, based around Fred “no scam too sleazy” Phelps.
Heyday of big organizations hitting the streets for marks maybe. Setting aside Christian compounds, fanatical anti-establishment groups, gurus, and whatever the hell R. Kelly is up to, I think the bigger stuff may have moved a lot of their recruitment online where it’s less public. LessWrong and the whole Dark Enlightenment would be a good example.
Being evil and being nice aren’t mutually exclusive. It does require a bit of a balancing act though. Not that I’m speaking from personal experience or anything…
The way I see it, one can be Lawful Awesome towards a tiny handful of trusted friends/followers/loved ones while still being flagrantly Chaotic Evil towards the rest of the world.
Hank Scorpio is the goto example in my mind. While he is a doomsday device armed, world threatening Bond villain, he’s also a guy I’d absolutely love to work for.
General way I’ve heard it…
How Lawful Good vs Lawful Evil a lawful person is, is purely dependent on how many people fall under the umbrella of those protected by the lawful person.
Chaotic good on the other hand, generally come across as good to everyone except the lawful people.
I’ve allways seen it kinda like this when it comes to the moral alignment:
Lawful good: uphold the purpose of the law. For order, and JUSTICE!
Lawful evil: uphold the letter of the law, usually as an beating rod or scam
Lawful neutral: follow the law
Neutral good: laws are guidelines on how to be a better person
Neutral: laws are guidelines on how to live you’re life
Neutral evil: laws are effective means of taking advantage of others
Chaotic good: what are laws? I just do what I feel is right
Chaotic neutral: I do whatever I want
Chaotic evil: f*** you, f*** laws, f*** me, f*** everything
Lately I’ve been thinking that nice/mean/good/evil isn’t a one-dimensional spectrum, it’s a matter of who you consider to be real people vs. faceless stereotypes. There’s awful bigots who are endlessly generous to their friends and loved ones. For that matter, there’s people who would risk their lives to save a stranger but are toxic assholes on a normal day.
It’s called “in-group vs out-group thinking” in sociology.
I always figured that in situations where it is *obviously* in your best interest to be nice, it doesn’t count as nice. Family and friends (that you want to think well of you) it is in your interest to behave well toward them. Strangers, subordinates, and possible competitors… how people treat THOSE people is the measure of how good a person they are.
(It just always amazes me how many people think being rude to someone with access to their food is a good idea)
I think Dave Barry said it best: “If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.”
These comics are making me really want to play this game… and I’ve never played a dating game in my LIFE. I love this comic so much (recently got back into it after a long time of not really being about the internet), and that’s coming from perhaps the least manly person on this planet. Also (very) belated congratulations on your wedding!
Joseph’s kind of a twat there at the end though.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone doubted that “Commander Badass” would have any problems handling some random single dads… unless they turn out to be secretly Canadian.
It’s not that Canadian Guy is Canadian that makes him mad, it’s that he’s an “unlicensed reproduction” (AKA, bootleg) and that Canadian Guy is just so inexplicably weird even by Canada’s standards.
Wasn’t it because he beat Commander’s high scores at games? Would be awkward if Canadian Guy is both a bootleg of Commander and the guy they took the genes from to make Commander in the future due to time travel shenanigans. Or that last part could be Jared.
He’s got enough cultist and demon friends he’s starting to develop…
Ugh, “cultdar” and “demondar” both scan horribly.
Beelzebaedar?
shit, beelzabaedar. shit titties that’s amazing
OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED THAT JARED WAS BARELY AFFECTED BY THE NOMURA VIRUS BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY FROM A JRPG.
…
That… doesn’t have anything to do with todays strip, I just… I’m gonna go.
……I never even thought about that. Huh.
Fridge brilliance.
how in the hell did that not come to my mind? I guess I just kind of forgot Pokemon is actually a jrpg
HOLY ASSMONKEY
But yeah, I thought that it was he’s just very much MATT BEEG UND MANLEE tO begin with either way.
Goddamn autocorrect
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Confound those Dover-Demons, they drive me to drink!
Fuck I wanna draw that now
*gigglesnort*
Isn’t Joseph into bondage? I haven’t done a play through for him yet, but that’s what I heard. If so THAT’s the reason why he’s so cheerful: He’s satisfied.
Ok, who is the guy that looks like Markiplier supposed to be? I’m officially lost.
I think it’s Robert, the leather jacket dad from some of the previous comics.
Well , there was a Tumblr where the cult ending was a final for damien’s son (directorio Major, i Guess). And the little ines as Vessels was a impromptu by the same. After of course the wife tolds to be not a a whiner (and high fiving with Robert for a good rebuke). [The twins we’re not supposed to know about the movie]
Visual arts Major… Sry.
Andbthen wife tolds HIM. I Will have words with the autocorrect. WORDS!
I’ll just save you more time and link the comic in question: http://goingloco.tumblr.com/post/163841099879/the-cult-ending-is-so-edgy-feels-like-it-could
Thank you kind person…
Friend of mine Heard i bought that game and commented oh your playing a Dating sim hah…wait its run by game grumps…ok i’m interested.
Huh!
Now that I think about it, even Jared qualifies under the “Cult Leader” category…
“All Hail Helix!”