Lalaithion42

I hate to be the other guy, but the Big 5 has it's own flaws. It's true that it's much more accurate – but that's because it's merely an observation based on data. The names came after the data, which essentially means we're fitting the theory directly to the data – no wonder they match so well. However, we have to be careful of overfitting, which a lot of psychologists think we have done. For instance, some non-western cultures seem to have completely different clusters of traits than the Big 5.

MBTI and Big 5 are both attempts at something, and they both fail in different ways. But they both contain valuable, and different information – figuring out which one has more information, or which data is more valuable, is hard.

Imagine your talking rock was from, originally, Tivoli, in Italy. It was mined in one of the Travertine quarries around there during the height of the roman empire, and then it was used in construction for the Colosseum. After the Colosseum had been converted from arena to church to graveyard to a castle, the earthquake in 1349 shakes your rock loose. A hundred years later, it is dug from the earth and sent to London, where it is used as a stepping in a large garden, where hundreds of Lords and Ladies, Princes and Princesses, Kings and Queens have wandered, whispering court rumors and state secrets. Then, in WWII, your rock is blasted from the earth by a german bomb. An american soldier stationed in London likes the look of it, so he pockets it. he brings it back home, where he drops it into his father's farmland. The farmland is sold and a Walmart is built there. The stone is removed in a load of dirt and the dirt is used in a children's park, where it watches children play for a couple years until you pick it up, and it begins to tell it's story.

Which of your comics is your favorite, and why? Also least favorite, and why?

My favorite is the Maturity Climb, which I have hanging as a poster above my bed. I don't really have a least favorite, I guess, but it's often surprising to me what authors dislike about parts of their work.