# Re the gamer girl in the "Questionable Content" web comic. Are those zits or freckles on her face? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523 "2009-09-10T05:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/21 "2009-09-13T03:46:56Z")
I thought they were not room mates so much as living in the same building and also friends, or at least acquaintances. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/22 "2009-09-13T03:53:28Z")
It has been remarked that Dora is thin with a quick metabolism, and Faye well rounded several times in the comic. Faye’s weight has fluctuated a bit. Swen dedicated Fat Bottomed Girls to someone he knew in the crown and there was no doubt he was talking about Faye. Also, at one point she asked Marten if a skirt made her ass look fat and he asked why did she not check it out in the mirror and she said the mirror was not wide enough. She is curvaceous, but never fat enough to sport a double chin. Her current exercise kick is more about getting fit so she doesn’t keel over young than losing weight, as evinced by the ice cream she allowed herself after the work out. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/23 "2009-09-13T03:56:43Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Frankly, considering Marigold’s personal and home hygiene problems, I’m constantly surprised that Hanners can even be in that apartment. Then again, the Hanners of today is a very different Hanners than the one who went out to the bar by herself the night she met Marten. Hannelore cleaned Marigold’s apartment early on. Which is how she found out about manga. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/24 "2009-09-13T04:00:06Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Hannelore cleaned Marigold’s apartment early on. Which is how she found out about manga. True, but she was in full hazmat gear to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/25 "2009-09-13T05:37:44Z")
> [@lee](#): > > I thought they were not room mates so much as living in the same building and also friends, or at least acquaintances. Marigold and Angus are roommates, according to Wikipedia and also my memory of the current strips. I’m not sure if they live in the same building as Hannelore, Martin, and Faye, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/26 "2009-09-13T06:16:55Z")
> [@Leiko](#): > > Marigold and Angus are roommates, according to Wikipedia and also my memory of the current strips. I’m not sure if they live in the same building as Hannelore, Martin, and Faye, though. [Roommates](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1422), but I can’t tell if they do live in the same building. Given Jeph’s penchant for unlikely coincidences, though, I honestly wouldn’t doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/27 "2009-09-13T17:31:39Z")
[They don’t live in the same building](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1476). Not definitive, but I don’t see how Faye would need direction to her own apartment building. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/28 "2009-09-14T01:07:31Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > [Roommates](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1422), but I can’t tell if they do live in the same building. Given Jeph’s penchant for unlikely coincidences, though, I honestly wouldn’t doubt it. No wonder Angus was so grateful for Hannelore cleaning her room up. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/29 "2009-09-15T13:36:47Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > By the way, is anyone getting a vibe between her and Hanners? Granted, Hanners is way too OCD to even think about the sex thing, but man, it seems like there’s a hookup in the works. [“Suck it, shippers”](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1492). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/30 "2009-09-15T13:40:14Z")
Poor Hanners…that’s two fairly hard blows to her OCD restraints in less than four hours (assuming normal average raid duration)…I admire her for not fainting. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/31 "2009-09-15T13:51:10Z")
MGold is a fem-geek, so I would guess zits. As far a a romance goes-My Ghod! Are you trying to give poor Hanners a freakin’ heart attack? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/32 "2009-09-15T13:51:25Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > [“Suck it, shippers”](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1492). 🙂 Heh… that was hilarious. As soon as I saw the title, I knew what was going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/33 "2009-09-15T16:42:45Z")
I think her skin’s clearing up. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/34 "2009-09-15T16:59:09Z")
Hannelore is too freaking adorable, especially in the fourth panel. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/35 "2009-09-16T21:08:09Z")
damn you all for introducing me to QC. I have spent the past six days reading that from first strip to last. Weird how the look of the characters evolved from looking like “Dr. Katz” to today’s art over the course of six years. I didn’t notice Sara quitting her job at Coffee of Doom. Can anyone point out where that happened? Or did she just do a Chuck Cunningham? ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/36 "2009-09-16T21:30:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I didn’t notice Sara quitting her job at Coffee of Doom. Can anyone point out where that happened? Or did she just do a Chuck Cunningham? The artist just dropped the character without ever explaining it in the strip. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/37 "2009-09-16T21:55:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I didn’t notice Sara quitting her job at Coffee of Doom. Can anyone point out where that happened? Or did she just do a Chuck Cunningham? She was eaten by an allosaurus. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/38 "2009-09-17T00:37:02Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Look at the gamer girl’s nose, and compare that to the nose of the blonde girl. See how much that one simple feature can be the difference between cute and homely. A pointy little nose on the gamer girl, and the whole character’s aesthetic would immediately change, the zits notwithstanding. > > Someone in that thread about manga and anime argued (against me) that the eyes and mouth are the most defining features of the human face. I say bullshit. It’s the nose, and nothing illustrates this better than that comic. on the subject of noses, compare [this](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1463) QC comic featuring Marigold with [this](http://xkcd.com/1463x.png) parody done by the XKCD guy.😃 ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/39 "2009-09-17T01:43:28Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > She was eaten by an allosaurus. This. I believe it’s mentioned somewhere in the strip, or maybe the notes… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523/40 "2009-09-17T01:54:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > damn you all for introducing me to QC. I have spent the past six days reading that from first strip to last. I experienced that last summer. I eventually got to the point of being OK with sparing the life of the responsible party. [QUOTE=jayjay] Then again, the Hanners of today is a very different Hanners than the one who went out to the bar by herself the night she met Marten. [/QUOTE] The [fanon/fanwank, not sure which] explanation inferred from various strips attributes her personality changes to changes in her medication/therapy mix. I still like it when she goes all hard-ass on someone. And yes, _“Suck it, Shippers”_, was brilliant. Jeph rose for me to towering heights of admiration on that line alone. Isn’t this what TVTropes calls “Word of God”? I’m just a fan of the Daily Specials blackboard at the coffeeshop. Not enough of those. “Espresso with a battery in it”; “Latte and a punch in the mouth”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-gamer-girl-in-the-questionable-content-web-comic-are-those-zits-or-freckles-on-her-face/509523.md?page=3)