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the rave arc continues.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

So... there was a possible way you could understand something in panel 4...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

A burning man camp is a pre/post burning man meetup where you can get a feel for new people to the group and make plans. Generally easier to pile 6 people into one car rather than try to get 6 cars into the desert.

My dude owned a suburban that he only used for taking his people to burning man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Life is strange haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

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