Calvinball is a convoluted game where Calvin constantly and arbitrarily introduces new rules and addendums and exceptions to existing rules, on the spot, whenever something he doesn’t like happens, so that the outcome will always bend toward what he wants it to be, ie, him winning.
The strip is basically a storyboarded out version of the concept of ‘moving the goalposts’.
Calvinball! is that a C&H reference? ive never seen that particular joke in the comic strip but i feel like i instantly get what the reference means
Yes.
Calvinball is a convoluted game where Calvin constantly and arbitrarily introduces new rules and addendums and exceptions to existing rules, on the spot, whenever something he doesn’t like happens, so that the outcome will always bend toward what he wants it to be, ie, him winning.
The strip is basically a storyboarded out version of the concept of ‘moving the goalposts’.