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So I thought this template ad thing was temporary and would only last two weeks? Now we've got another massive one that is bright orange? Jesus christ, just make the landing page a huge ad already, its getting more obnoxious than myspace.

Just gonna put on adblock…

MY EYES!! THE ADBLOCK DOES NOTHING!!

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So I thought this template ad thing was temporary and would only last two weeks? Now we've got another massive one that is bright orange? Jesus christ, just make the landing page a huge ad already, its getting more obnoxious than myspace.

I was just going to complain about the same thing.
Bright orange, full page ad? Gee, thanks Wowio!
Seriously though, DD never had intrusive ads for me until Wowio took over. Now they're everywhere. The video ad is still there, and now that. At least it's not a Maxim ad any more. Cos that was totally appropriate for an all-ages webcomics site. I have nothing against ads on the site, but the front page one is quite obnoxious.

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Wow, first I heard of it was an e-mail complaint by Skool just now…

Very likely I shouldn't say much about what know- suffice to say it's not popular.

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Finally finished that damn comic with mspaint. I miss photoshop so much ;-;

The thing is i'm not sure what i should do with my laptop…buy a brand new 550$ laptop with inferior capabilities or buy the 350$ motherboard for my old laptop which was fairly powerful.

The problem is there's no guarantee the new motherboard will work.

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It turned out that the control for the a/c vents was broken in three places, which is why my car's been faithfully refrigerating my toes for months.

No one could figure out the mysterious high-speed engine whir though, so I'm just going to believe my engine is excitingly haunted! There are so many things wrong with this car, it has so much more personality than other cars, I love it. <3

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My throat has been bugging me all week. One minute it's at it's worst, feeling like a rat literally climbed inside me and died - while the next minute it's feeling like an annoying tickle. Coughing up violently winds up making me dizzy in the end, and woozy. :/ I sure hope it's nothing serious, but it's been going on for about a week now.

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Last year, my oldest cat died on Christmas day.
I'm glad we decided to get a new one though.

Whiskey is his name-o.

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Finally finished that damn comic with mspaint. I miss photoshop so much ;-;

You went from photoshop to mspaint?

:O

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MSPaint's not as bad as people make it out to be, despite the simplicity of it all. xD … it hasn't changed much over the years though. :/

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Me and a guy I used to hang out with are now running a video game blog. Nothing exciting. Just thought I would bring it up.


As for MSpaint. Its not that bad as long as you can use it well enough. Its just simplistic and there are a lot of better programs even free ones.

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My sj comic just got a bunch of hits but i can't tell where they're coming from, gah. Hmm i still haven't put that comic up here on DD. When i made it DD was farting its lung out during the server move.

Just watched the bizarro seaslab 2021 episode. God that shit cracks me up.
Bizzaro cracks me up.

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It depends what you want to do with your artwork. MS paint could suit certain styles to a tee. I remember that when I did some colab work with Katch she'd do amazing little quick gestural sketches in MS paint!
Better than I could do in Photoshop.

Whiskey is his name-o.
What a cute kitty!!!!!!!!!

Just watched the bizarro seaslab 2021 episode. God that shit cracks me up.
Bizzaro cracks me up.
I got that for my sister for her birthday a couple of years ago. We laughed our arses off.

—————–

Sooooooooo tired… feel like death. I got my normal 6 hours sleep, so it must be something else. I suspect it's the non-drowsy sinus medication I took yesterday. Stuff that picks you up tends to drop you down 3 times as hard later on.

I tried to get to bed early at 1am, but my cat came in wanting to play, so what could I do? :(

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You went from photoshop to mspaint?

:O
It's like wrecking your mustang and having to use a horse drawn carriage with a real mustang ;-;
MSPaint's not as bad as people make it out to be, despite the simplicity of it all. xD … it hasn't changed much over the years though. :/
If you're used to having layers, being able to center your text(!), being able to edit text after you inserted it, and all that other stuff that seems like the basics of an image editing program it kind of is. >_>

But Oz is right that some styles look amazing in mspaint.
Bizzaro

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Last year, my oldest cat died on Christmas day.
I'm glad we decided to get a new one though.

Whiskey is his name-o.

Looks like my cat!



: )

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Finally finished that damn comic with mspaint. I miss photoshop so much ;-;

The thing is i'm not sure what i should do with my laptop…buy a brand new 550$ laptop with inferior capabilities or buy the 350$ motherboard for my old laptop which was fairly powerful.

The problem is there's no guarantee the new motherboard will work.

get a new desktop instead, if that's an option, more scope for fixing and upgrading.

also why mspaint? paint.net is free and does a lot of what photoshop does.

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It's like my life has borrowed a chapter from Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS maybe.

I'm freezing cold (because they've left the door open to the outside and it's 27 f'n F degrees). Everything in the house is covered with dust because they've been sanding for three days. We're coughing like we have consumption. And we can't get to our food because the kitchen is blocked off.

the #@#$W$#@$$# joys of an inept kitchen contractor



changing Dicksonian characters: "Please, sir, I want some more."

Give me DISTRACTION!!! Send in voice guesses!! Please, I'm a nice person. I need help. GOD, no!!! they've just started up the buzz saw again.

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Give me DISTRACTION!!! Send in voice guesses!! Please, I'm a nice person. I need help.
They're intimidated because they know they can't beat my awesome guesses ^________^

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They're intimidated because they know they can't beat my awesome guesses ^________^

Ah! The awesomely Ozsum that is ozoneocean :)

(do not be intimidated peoples)



seriously, I'm so cold my hands are shaking. I'm finding new realms of ludicrous as I try to ink my page

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also why mspaint? paint.net is free and does a lot of what photoshop does.
Haha i actually downloaded that and it wouldn't install on this computer. Looking for an older ver now.

So last night something awesome happened to me. I was trying to fall alseep but couldn't because of the sharp, nasty smell of burning wood seeping in from outside. So i finally gave up and angrily got out of bed and tried to find something to do until the smell went away. Then i started writing and i made a great short comic plot in no time at all, this one just flew together and i'm gonn use it as my next story. Usually it takes me a lot longer to think up something good.

But it was pretty cool. Maybe i should try writing half asleep with nasty turd wood wafting in more often. :)

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I just spent a good deal of time shoulder deep in my daughter's heating vent with a short stick, to the end of which was attached a hangar, because there has been no warm air going into her room since we moved in and the maintenance folks are some sort of level 15 jerkoffs.

There was a purple towel in the duct. I have never owned a purple towel, so I can only assume it was stuffed in there by the previous residents. The question I find myself asking involves the how and why a person would stuff a towel into the duct, and then push it an additional 4 or so feet. It's maddening.

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[Quote="KomradeDave]There was a purple towel in the duct. I have never owned a purple towel, so I can only assume it was stuffed in there by the previous residents. The question I find myself asking involves the how and why a person would stuff a towel into the duct, and then push it an additional 4 or so feet. It's maddening.[/quote]Perhaps it was to keep the demons out?


Or maybe it just smelled like Skull's stinky burning wood?

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Today I was pulled over by cops who mistook me for someone else. What makes this really hilarious is that they went for the guy with the wrong description; Susan, an older woman I know who runs the Dos Palos Bronco Video store, called in for a guy who was apparently on a dope high and spazzing out in front of her place. I walked around her place (presumably, I think, the same path said guy took), and the cops busted me instead.

Not only did I waste 30 minutes of my time looking like a complete fool, but the cops were pretty rough on me. They were called in to look for a guy wearing a white shirt, black jersey, and stuff like that.

I was walking around with my music up, a yellow sweater with a Tom and Jerry shirt, black leather jacket. I'm not sure how that could have passed off for a bearded kid either, considering I shaved my beard about four hours prior.

Considering that DP resident cops have gone through more fumbles like Steve Guttenberg in all seven Police Acadamy films, I'm not surprised they'd goof up another time. It pissed me off for awhile, but now I think I've never laughed so hard.

"Naruto, you say? Must be gang related, like the XIV."

Sure. Gotcha.

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There was a purple towel in the duct. I have never owned a purple towel, so I can only assume it was stuffed in there by the previous residents. The question I find myself asking involves the how and why a person would stuff a towel into the duct, and then push it an additional 4 or so feet. It's maddening.

Sounds like there was a bag of stolen cash wrapped in the purple towel and when they hooked out the bag, the towel stayed behind. But you never owned a purple towel? Come on KD, live a little - get purple bath towels, a matching hand towel - hell, while you're at it, treat yourself to a purple bath mat too!



Is it me or does DrunkDuck load really, really slowly now? It's so slow for me I don't have the patience to look through the forums anymore. :(

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[quote="itsjustaar']Today I was pulled over by cops who mistook me for someone else. [/quote]What a bunch of useless cocks.
Everyone makes mistakes, but no need to be rough!

Haha, that story reminds me of something that happened [i]yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaarrrs [/i]ago.
During the long train ride back home from school…
Some background- The trains were in the process of upgrading and modernisation, moving to being electrified, which conversely meant that they had to bring [i]ancient [/i]wooden carriages out of retirement while the 1960s era diesel trains were retired. All the old green wooden carriages were very dark and poorly lit, with booth style seats that faced each other and were separated by partitions that gave people a measure of privacy from those behind and infront.

Well I was sitting there, minding my own business, nose deep in the Lord of The Rings. The people on the facing seats across the isle were dodgy, dirty, rough kids. One had a butterfly knife and he was playing at throwing it into the seats and then slashing away for fun…
Unbeknownst to me, some other people in the carriage saw what was happening and went and told a train guard about it. The guard came along and angrily got my attention, then started telling me to stop playing with knives and stop vandalising the train! …I was pretty stunned, but could only protest innocence… Meanwhile the real vandals were giving me very dirty looks, so I couldn't really say anything about them.

Anyway, I assured the guy I wasn't doing anything and he went away… The vandals thanked me for not saying anything and started up again. Then the guy comes around and it's the same story all over again with me claiming innocence and the gaurd being an angry bear with the real vandals looking on to see what I'd say…

So it happens a [i]THIRD [/i]time, and while the guard is in mid harangue, one of the people who actually [i]MADE [/i]the complaint in the first place comes up to tell the guard he's got the wrong person! The gaurd goes "but you said he had a black shirt… OH!" as he sees that while I'm wearing a black polo shirt, the vandals are wearing black AC/DC shirts…
Then he turns to me and berates "Well why didn't you SAY anything…? He looks over at them, sees the slashed seats and then it dawns on him why and he goes "…Oh!"
And finally the knife kids get what's coming to them.

But all the while I was in a delicate situation… retaliation could've been nasty.

Is it me or does DrunkDuck load really, really slowly now? It's so slow for me I don't have the patience to look through the forums anymore. :(
I think it was just slow this afternoon. It's not so bad now :)

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