#821; In which Things are Not Fine

Comic Transcripts

[[Two friends meet.]]
Friend: Hey! How ya doin’?
Unfortunate: Well
Unfortunate: Not great, but let’s unpack this.

Unfortunate: The simplest thing to say is just “fine”.
Unfortunate: But my PARROT is missing. Her cage is open when I got home. I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again.
Unfortunate: So I’m WORRIED, and FRUSTRATED because I can’t remember if I latched the cage properly this morning.

Unfortunate: But YOU don’t care about my parrot. You can EMPATHIZE, but your knowing about the parrot affects YOUR life not in the least. If anything, it brings you DOWN a bit.
Unfortunate: As my friend, you may listen to my complaints for MY sake – assuming there is some value to me in venting. But as YOUR friend, I wish to spare you having to hear about something you don’t care about and cannot affect.

Unfortunate: So, to answer your question, “I am fine.”

[[The dog from the previous comic flies out of the air, hitting the unfortunate in the neck.]]

#821; In which Things are Not Fine transcribed by in

[[Two friends meet.]]
Friend: Hey! How ya doin’?
Unfortunate: Well
Unfortunate: Not great, but let’s unpack this.

Unfortunate: So, to answer your question, “I am fine.”

[[The dog from the previous comic flies out of the air, hitting the unfortunate in the neck.]]

#821; In which Things are Not Fine transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!