Avenger
And the first day of the Due Draghi food truck comes to an end.
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Running on ninety-nine
whilst Dinah fights her side;
indulging on Churros,
keeping up her pride.
A harmless revenge here,
a cyber ‘warrior’
in a gang of just one
where once there were three more.
Of course, if it’s not her
writing the bad retorts
we’ll have judged her poorly.
So keep that in your thoughts.
Dinah is a “tappity nom nom” avenger ^_^”
Right up until she tries to review on her food and eats her phone.
You don’t know what a Churro looks like.
To be honest, that’s true. (Although I figured they might not be as they don’t look like what Dinah was eating earlier.)
For reference she’s currently eating dango. Both are sweets, churros are from central America and dango is Japanese.
Also for some reason “dango” is marked as misspelled even though typing it out brings up the 🍡 emoji.
On one hand, the fact that Dinah thinks THAT constitutes the sort of revenge that Larissa wanted doesn’t speak to much cleverness.
On the other hand… don’t most review sites prevent one user posting multiple reviews on a single topic? Maybe there’s more to her mind than I thought.
Meanwhile, assuming reporting the spam reviews does NOT immediately remove them until they’ve been checked by the moderators (which, to my experience, is how most spam-report systems operate)… all of Dinah’s reviews could be the remaining 6 percent. Which says a LOT of GOOD THINGS about Due Draghi’s service today. Clementine’s publicity boost wouldn’t affect the reviews, only the size of the customer base.
It seems like a rather bad review site if it allows a single account to post 50 reviews of the same place within a day. Even more so if it’s necessary to report each fraudulent review separately. It should have been possible to report the account as dishonest and be done with it. If Dinah had been clever enough to open 50 separate accounts, then it would have been more understandable that it took a lot of work to prove that they were fraudulent.
Yes, this fictional review website made up by the author is showing some shocking lapses. How dare the author create a fictional website like that… It’s almost as if he WEREN’T an expert in every single thing in the universe…. C’mon people! Stop expecting a comic to get EVERYTYING to your specifications! He’s juggling a whole world here!
A bad fictional website doesn’t mean that the fiction is bad. There are plenty of bad real-world websites, so having one in the comic is realistic. I criticized the fictional review site, not the comic.
I’d take it a step further, and assert that most of the review sites that have good controls in place to block this sort of thing started out without those controls, and only implemented them after an incident such as this, except on a larger scale. If this is a relatively new food festival and the organizers set up with a relatively new review site, it’s pretty much expected to allow this sort of thing.
(I wouldn’t expect an established food festival would opt to boost a relatively new review site that lacked these sorts of controls, as they probably would have enough experience to know the importance of these sorts of controls.)
Hey, I was asking an actual question! The only review system I’ve ever seen firsthand is on FictionPress.
Most of the real world comment sites have rather literal minded robots in charge. If someone, somewhere has used that word as part of an insult, it is banned. Even language safe around kindergarten students can be flagged.
Aaaand only now do I remember that this comic has alt-text, and discover that DINAH IS A HACKER. Now I am very scared – not because of what she’ll do on her own motive, but what she’ll do with Larissa to guide her.
Dear user: One of your reviews for Due Draghi was reported as inappropriate. Your review has been hidden until a moderator can determine if you post was appropriate or not. If our moderator approves your message, it will be restored in its original location.
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Dear user: 40 of your recent reviews have been reported as inappropriate. Due to this, your authority to post reviews on our site has temporarily been suspended until a moderator can assess your activity and determine what actions should be taken, if any. This could include restoration to full permissions, restricted read-only access, or even the permanent suspension of your account. Our moderators will be in touch with you shortly.
Spot on.
In practice, there are no human moderators, or almost none. Like 8 care givers with 20,000 babies (another web site). They exist, but are badly overloaded.
Congrats on a successful first day to the whole crew! And yeah I think some in the previous comics predicted this would be how Dinah would go about it. Question is: where did she get that snack she’s nomming on? Is Dinah being entirely honest in her reviews?
If she got it at Due Draghi, she’s clearly enjoying it, and thus her reviews* are not honest. If she DIDN’T get it at Due Draghi, then she has no grounds on which to make any review at all, and thus her reviews* are not honest.
*based on her claim that those reviews make her an “avenger” for Larissa having been “wronged” by the Romeros.
It looks like she’s eating Dango skewers. They’re a Japanese sweet dumpling sometimes drizzled in a sauce.
Regardless of where she got the skewers, Dinah can’t possibly have eaten 50 dishes in a single day, so writing 50 reviews is definitely dishonest.
It’s a “food festival.” I don’t think it was ever said it was restricted to Italian food. 🙂
Guess I should have made it more obvious I was joking. *shrugs*
Well at least her “Avenging” is relatively harmless. I’m sure all the spammed reviews will be taken down. They must be at about 99% positivity if it took fifty reviews to knock them down to 94%. I hope Cleo gets some love from her dad for showing her business savvy in picking such a good cook for an investment. And maybe a bit more for doing it in a way that benefits those she is working with and not just herself.
Hmmmm, considering she had to be told twice and responded with maniacal laughter each time maybe Kaya should be put on the wait staff instead of “helping” in the kitchen!
She is just exited, it will be fine (ignore the fire spewing out of the induction stove, that is a feature)
Something tells me Lala usually doesn’t think her plans through, all the plans we’ve seen her employ were ill-advised at best and almost criminal at worst. So she either doesn’t bother to think things through, which just makes her an idiot, or she’s so ruled by her emotions she’s practically impulsive, which means she just hasn’t learned any methods for controlling or mediating her emotions, which would just make her an emotionally stunted individual. Either way, it doesn’t look good for her in the future because both will cause the problems she gets herself in to get bigger and bigger.
As impulsive as Kaya usually tends to be, she at least takes more than a nanosecond to think through potential consequences and decides how much she’s willing to deal with said potential consequences. Of course, that’s usually for her, sometimes Kaya doesn’t really think the consequences through, but that’s usually when she has others around to help mitigate her behaviors anyway, and Kaya does at least have a bit more social awareness than she typically projects.
First day?! Does that mean there’s gonna be more Due Draghi food trucking and more days?! Well, at least it looks like Mr. Marco and his Twin Dragon babies enjoyed the rush of serving the lunch and dinner rushes. He looks like an athlete who’s just finished a fulfilling competition, and so does Kai with his kitty smile (both the Twins have cat like mouths, if you haven’t noticed). It would have been a nice addition to put a narration box announcing the passage of time (with a French, Jacques Gusteau esque accent of course). Team Due Draghi has earned a nice cool soak after this. If the Asian District has Japanese bath houses, Jin might take his friends there to clean off after a hard day’s sweat. I doubt the Asian District would have hot springs unless Hybrid City is located in California or somewhere else along the Pacific’s Ring of Fire, and even then I’m unaware of any large hot springs located in California… (And before anyone else decides to reply about any bathhouse hijinks the younger cast may get into, I feel that Kaya is most likely to be the perpetrator, mostly by shamelessly entering the men’s bathing area and subsequently getting a wash bin chucked into her face.)
Dinah seems pleased with herself over her (eventual) plot. In her mind, she has avenged Larissa’s “death” and vets to eat some Japanese dessert. Thankfully her plan is more tame than LaLa’s…
Me: “Gentlemen, lady, Kaya, [Kaya: “…Hey!”] we are fortunate!”
Due Draghi team: “Why?”
Me: “She’s an imbecile!”
First day?! How long is the food festival?! But still, with the flyers and Clem’s review on Instawham, that’s a huge showing for Due Drahi! Kudos to the Romeros. Hope they have the energy to get through the rest of the festival.
Kaya just can’t help but turn up the heat, can she? lol
Probably one more day, believe this is a weekend long festival.
It’s a little unclear how many days the festival is, but Cleo’s plan was to continue operating the food truck with Marco as the chef until he can open his restaurant. The food festival is just the debut. Cleo also intends to continue running the food truck business even after Marco leaves, and expand with more trucks.
It wouldn’t make economic sense to start up a food truck and then use it for just one or two days. Even if the Portas business empire had all the equipment lying around, they at least paid someone to paint the truck. How many days might it take to earn back the cost of the paint job?
Weekend festival can easily be Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, two and half day.
Le what ???? Cleo doesn’t know she can ban such account ? 0_o
I bet Rex is collapsed somewhere ……. ^_^”
Safer for him if he’s standing. There are Bats about…
I think the Bat sisters have left since the time , unless they enjoys the food and pays it from themselves now ?
Given this rush, I feel like one of the ways they could pay for more Due Draghi food would be to volunteer as emergency wait staff.
I do not know how well that would suit their temperaments. I’m pretty sure Rex would not be appreciative, unless it let him take his break. Also, I mean really take his break. Back when I was in Boy Scouts, working a dinner service we were providing, and another scout volunteered to “take over” my task to give me a 15 minute break, and then proceeded to not do the job at all but simply use the position as access to harass one of the customers, I was not net appreciative at all, because he didn’t do any work at all. He instead just got me further behind on a task I already wasn’t able to keep up with. At least I didn’t get in trouble for his mischief.
You can give the adress of this scout to Freddy or Jason ^_^”
Rex is in the restroom. 😉
Rex plops down in a chair at an empty table, panting, too tired to move, and that’s when Trixie sits down next to him.
Trix: Hey Rexy, rough day?
Rex: *groans* Oh god, Trixie please! I really don’t have the energy for this right now.
Trix: Really, what a shame. Guess I’ll have to go drink this big, ice cold bottle of water by myself then.
Rex: ….. Fine. When and where?
Trix: *smiling* Next Friday at seven work for you? There’s a movie coming out I’d love to go see.
Wow. There’s petty and then there’s dora the explorer’s evil twin over here
Holy! If we assume that she was the only one to give dislikes at all… that would mean that her 50 reviews made up 6% of all reviews, meaning that they got on that day alone AT LEAST 833 reviews. And that is if she was the only one to write negative reviews! Honestly not even 3 star restaurants don’t get that many reviews. They are on the verge of achieving global fame!
Or maybe Cleo has succeeded at getting most of Dinah’s posts removed, so that only the latest few are currently counted. There might for example be 47 positive reviews, two recent slander posts from Dinah, and one negative review from an unlucky person who got a whole jar of chili pepper dumped on their spaghetti.
Or the review site might actually be smart enough to only count Dinah once, even though it allows her to post many comments.
I know comics are meant to be funny, rather than accurate, and this WAS funny, but if you overheat the stove, the food comes out raw inside and/or dry. It’s largely this sort of detail, not the recipes, that makes for a great restaurant vs. a not-so-good restaurant. As I recall, both twins helped in the kitchen in Marco’s previous restaurant, back in We Hate Hybrids Town, and so Kaya’s pyromaniac tendencies would have been resolved long ago, or else she wouldn’t be allowed in the kitchen. (P.S. I know all this not because I’m a restaurant cook — I’m barely a home cook — but because I LIKE my steaks raw inside. Not my spaghetti sauce, though.)
Okay, I am satisfied. In the previous page, I wondered what Cleo was doing. Turns out she was doing something very, very important.
Also, is it just me or does Dinah seem to have the mental capacity of an inbred pigeon?
You’re kind of high balling it a bit aren’t you?
Dude, that’s mean! What has the pigeon done to deserve such an insult?
Yeah, in all honesty the pigeon would obviously be smarter
Yeah. Any social media based attack was neutralised once they had influencer backing.
Larissa didn’t count on that.
And while Dinah might try, she does not have Larissa’s scheming intelligence.
And then tomorrow… “Kaya the STOVE!”
Dinah texts away
Fifty negative reviews
Not too bright, methinks
Why can’t the people that review the reports just block Dinah from leaving reviews on the food truck because i don’t think it’s normal for someone to leave more then 50 reviews on the same food truck in the same day.
Daniel here…
Huh, OK. I was wrong. Fair enough. I guessed Dinah would try their food, love it, give a bad review in a robotic tone when interviewed by a polar bear Hybrid only to show just how much she actually loved it when directly asked about her reaction. Oh well, can’t win them all… 😋
The twins have a built in advantage for this job. One way to spot an experienced cook / chef is their hands. “Rough” can be an understatement. Hot handles won’t bother them.
Being somewhat knife-resistant probably helps too.
Dinah surprised me by actually coming up with a plan. – It’s no surprise that it’s not as clever as she imagines: I wonder how Larissa reacts, when she brags about it and there isn’t a single review left to prove it.
Who is that Easter bunny in the vote incentive?
I believe that’s the guy who kidnapped Jackie and brought in the Windigoes.
Cleo: “We have a bit of a spam problem.”
Marco: “Trolling comments?”
Cleo: “No, the recipes. One of our customers is from Hawaii and wants to adapt our food to local available meat products.”
Kaya: “MWAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Kai: “Kaya, we’ve been done for the past five minutes, turn down the stove.”
Cleo: “The Hawaii request also brought on a bunch of positive reviews from many of our diners who are also Monty Python fans. Legitimate, though…nonsensical.”
Kaya: “MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Kai: “KAYA!!!”
Rex: “Is the roof of the the trailer supposed to be glowing like that?”
Katsumi (comically singed a la Wile E. Coyote): “Am I missing an eyebrow?”
Also, Kaya with the stove reminded me of this… http://sharingauniverse.comicgenesis.com/d/20030627.html
Random Vikings: “Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, SPAAAAAAM, Lovely spam, wonderful spam! Glorious spam! Lovely spam! Spam, wonder spam! Lovely spam!”
Marco: “Dios mio. Not these guys again. *bangs on an empty pot with a serving spoon* Aw, shaddup you maledetti stupidi vichinhi!”
Viking: “Racist bast@*#.”
Vikings: “Finland, Finland, Finland! The country is quite like to be, pony trekking or camping or just watching tv. Finland, Finland, Finland, that’s the country for me! Spam, spam, spam spam!**(times 3)** Oh, spam, lovely spam! Lovely spam! Oh, lovely spam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Lovely spam, wonderful spam! Lovely spam, wonder spam! Lovely spam, wonderful spaaaahaaahaaaam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!”
Elderly man carrying an unconscious blue Macaw Hybrid: “I’d like to register a complaint! My grandson seems to have gotten a bit of tummy trouble from eating an overly spicy dish!”
*Kai glares at Kaya.*
Marco: “Thank goodness, I thought those cantare strani would never shut up…”
Cleo, Benji, Nate, Katsumi, and (exhausted) Rex: “Where’d those Vikings come from?!”
Marco: “I’m not sure we want to know…”
Marco’s line is in Spanish, not Italian. You want “Mio Dio”.
I was afraid of that. Too bad I can’t edit my posts here…
This is what I thought of when I read the last 2 pannels:
https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2000/09/20
I keep forgetting this character exist. They don’t really do much or have much of a personality besides going with/doing whatever Larissa wants.
I work in a kitchen. When someone asks how a day went, I like to respond, “Well, at least nothing’s on fire.” With Kaya around, I’m not sure I could use that.😉