Thread "Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, and wildebeest needs" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 27, 2011

So I posted this earlier…
http://www.drunkduck.com/community/view_topic.php?tid=55899&cid=236
I had been thinking about it for a while but not done it so i decided to take the plunge.

Then I saw Hark and Kevs webcomic review comic had updated with this…
http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Webcomic_Review_Comic_On_The_Web/

I doubt anyone will believe me that I hadn't read harks post first.

Ah well.

Posted at 3:03PM, Mar. 27, 2011

I need to make my solo album demo already…I have about ten songs written and just need the equipment. Wish me luck.
Luck!
Give us your best track to play on the Quackcast so more people can hear you :)

I don't imagine we get that many listeners, but every little bit helps!

I listen to them and that should be good enough.

Granted them being a couple. :P

But yes. I'll send it as soon as I record it. Maybe I'll actually end up writing that DD song already.

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 27, 2011

So since February 15th I have spent 266$ on pokemon merchandise…and that's not including all the money i spent on shipping costs for trades. And then i still have about $30-ish worth of stuff I still need to pay for online.

I feel kind of nauseous… like a crackhead who realized her crack pipe was 300$ and she could have bought a ton of crack.

Edit: It's actually more like 320$ if i add up all the little 5-8$ purchases. Jesus fuck

Posted at 7:03PM, Mar. 27, 2011

Il fais fois (clap, clap)

Froid?

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Speaking of French, I hope my bilingualism will get me a city job come summer. I would love a government job.
I suppose I'll just have to be happy with whatever I get, though. I hate job hunting. Especially when I like the one I have now. : (

I should probably keep up to par on my French if I'm going to be using it a lot. Any suggestions for good French movies/books?

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Oh, and speaking of my job, I have a funny story. There's this big sketchy guy who comes into our store every few weeks in a big jacket and buys a couple cans of cheap cat food. A coworker of mine told me months ago she's convinced that he steals.

Today, he came in. Another one of my coworkers was on her break just around the corner and stuck her head out to see who was there. She sees the guy in the process of putting a can in his jacket. The guy sees her looking, puts the can back on the shelf and makes a beeline for the exit.

Meanwhile, I'm at the front and missed this whole episode. I see him hurrying out without buying anything and ask if he didn't find what he was looking for(like a good employee). "Uh yeah, you don't have what I need." I try to ask him more but he is GONE.
What's great, too, is that he apparently works for a security company!

I kind of doubt we'll be seeing him back any time soon. :P

Posted at 11:03PM, Mar. 27, 2011

What's great, too, is that he apparently works for a security company!

They don't pay security professionals very well. Since someone in the security industry knows the ins and outs of store security there's always the temptation to test the system.

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Woke up all stiff and dizzy like I'd taken a pile of muscle relaxants. Massive head rush.
Had a really cool dream too, one of those ones where when you go back to sleep you're right back where you left off.
Sure I was cheating on the wife with a twenty-something coffeeshop waitress but it was fun. I know a twenty-something coffeeshop waitress who bears an uncanny resemblance to the girl in the dream but I don't go there very often and the events leading up to the first date could not happen outside of a dream.
Guilt aside, it was nice.
Maybe the dizzy spell was the jetlag from my commuting between alternate universes.
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So I finally worked out how to present one of my shot comics. I'm really surprised how it's working out and want to rush through everything and get it out there. I was playing with the filters in my ancient edition of Photoshop and rediscovered something I always really liked.
And I've already gotten the inspiration for a follow-up. Can I finish this one first? Does the imagination always have to rush so far ahead of me?

Posted at 3:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

Pokemon white…. Got it back. Cant… put down…

In other news im quitting smoking due to the amount of blood I keep coughing up and chest pains. Id rather not die at 20. On one of those inhaler things. Makes my tongue feel raw but at least I can use it inside.

Oh how much I want a cigarette…

Posted at 3:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

Well, read more of the Dead Space wiki and I'm beginning to wonder what's more scary about the game… those Necromorphs that you end up having to kill, or the characters and organizations that make up the backstory… Who'd have thought that in the far future the leaders of various organizations and countries would be so incompentent and reckless to the point of becoming the cause of Humanity's extinction? Then again it's probably not to far fetched when you think about the organizations and governments of TODAY. I guess I'm just thinking a little too much…

Maybe someday someone will make a game out there where you have to deal with a disease that transforms people into Pokemon… or vampires that sparkle instead of burn in the sunlight… :)

Posted at 4:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

So since February 15th I have spent 266$ on pokemon merchandise…and that's not including all the money i spent on shipping costs for trades. And then i still have about $30-ish worth of stuff I still need to pay for online.

I feel kind of nauseous… like a crackhead who realized her crack pipe was 300$ and she could have bought a ton of crack.

Edit: It's actually more like 320$ if i add up all the little 5-8$ purchases. Jesus fuck

Who keeps allowing you to spend money?!

Posted at 5:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

Today I went to Ikea.

Posted at 6:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

Woke up all stiff and dizzy like I'd taken a pile of muscle relaxants. Massive head rush.

I think it depends on what part of the sleep cycle you wake up from.
There are all different reactions depending where on that somnolent circle you escape from sleep. :)
It can be pretty trippy.

Edit: It's actually more like 320$ if i add up all the little 5-8$ purchases. Jesus fuck
Who keeps allowing you to spend money?!

I literally spend WAY more than that on antique trousers last year…

Thank the clothing gods I kicked that habit.
Finally.
For now.

Posted at 6:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

The shit hit the fan with the May Day committee. It does that every year. At yesterday's meeting, the most annoying part was when someone piped in saying that "whenever someone comes into my shop and asks about the May King and May Queen positions, they ask if they have to have sex, and I have to tell 'em I don't do anything with that group and don't know."

It's a line the royalty has been haunted with since this lineage started 5 years ago and it makes me roll my eyes every time. Just wanna shake them and say "My God, woman! The answer is simple! It's a family friendly event at a public park! Family friendly. Public park. What parts of those two phrases includes ritual sex?!?"

My other favorite is "I don't want my kids just playing dress up. Wer're real pagans, not fakers." Which always make me want to shake them and say "Yeah, there's no precedent for public recognition and celebration of a rite of passage, and our culture is at a point where we definitely don't need that kind of thing. I mean, publicly celebrating that would just shatter our credibility as a community. It's the worst possible thing we could do for our young adults- giving them something to be excited about, proud of, and to work towards. And just imagine how corruptive it is for the younger kids to have someone to look up to that isn't an elder. You're right. It's a disaster waiting to happen."

In related news, I'm now 16 pages behind where I want to be in penciling.

Posted at 7:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

The shit hit the fan with the May Day committee. It does that every year. At yesterday's meeting, the most annoying part was when someone piped in saying that "whenever someone comes into my shop and asks about the May King and May Queen positions, they ask if they have to have sex, and I have to tell 'em I don't do anything with that group and don't know."

That reminds me of the most awesome rockband ever in the history of rockbands ever in the history of this world. -not for their music mind you. Their music is ok, but not super amazing.

That band was Rockbitch.

Those gals took the sexy pagan thing very seriously… Got some tasty pics on their website, which I won't link to because of the naughty stuff.

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 28, 2011

So since February 15th I have spent 266$ on pokemon merchandise…and that's not including all the money i spent on shipping costs for trades. And then i still have about $30-ish worth of stuff I still need to pay for online.

I feel kind of nauseous… like a crackhead who realized her crack pipe was 300$ and she could have bought a ton of crack.

Edit: It's actually more like 320$ if i add up all the little 5-8$ purchases. Jesus fuck

Who keeps allowing you to spend money?!

The majic cards in my wallet

….

;______;

Gl on quitting your smoking habit btw! Maybe you could try that shot I heard about a few months back.

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 28, 2011

The shit hit the fan with the May Day committee. It does that every year. At yesterday's meeting, the most annoying part was when someone piped in saying that "whenever someone comes into my shop and asks about the May King and May Queen positions, they ask if they have to have sex, and I have to tell 'em I don't do anything with that group and don't know."
That reminds me of the most awesome rockband ever in the history of rockbands ever in the history of this world. -not for their music mind you. Their music is ok, but not super amazing.

That band was Rockbitch.

Those gals took the sexy pagan thing very seriously… Got some tasty pics on their website, which I won't link to because of the naughty stuff.

Very tasty indeed. I only saw a fraction of the photos, but that was enough to know I should check back when I had more time.

The thing that gets to me is that in four months, I was able to gather a coalition of volunteers from the Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and Socialist parties to work together on a project and get a law changed. When I finished, everyone that worked for the cause thought highly of me as articulate, intelligent, and diplomatic. And the city council members we were dealing with? They said the same things about me. All of my friends describe me as tactful and I'm the guy that both sides can talk to no matter what the situation is.

In four years, I can't get this community to agree on something as positive as giving grounds for youth to affirm and celebrate their identities- and for all the work and pain, I get labels of emotional immaturity and thoughtlessness. Waitaminute- crossing those deeply entrenched political barriers that are destroying the democratic process in my country and changing a law thats already on the books is easier than dealing with my spiritual community? Poop.

Posted at 3:03PM, Mar. 28, 2011

wow… just thought up a weird perverted game I could try making while I work on my programming skills and the survival horror "lightgun" type game I've got on paper.

Aliens drop from the sky and latch on to women. You can't grab them and neither can she and the longer they remain attached the more her mind will be taken over by them 'til she becomes a soldier that they'll use to invade the Earth. The only way to kill them? A special gun that will damage them but won't harm human flesh…

What makes this a game? Well… you don't harm the girl you're shooting the aliens off of, but you can shred her clothing. And if you manage to shred too much off you get a death scene where she bashes you to death with a nearby object (like a stone table, a lamp post, a Peterbuilt 379, etc…) out of extreme anger.

okay… back to playing Harvest Moon Animal Parade. Gotta figure out how to change the Frog Princess back into the Witch Princess. And find an elephant… and a hippo…

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 28, 2011

I'd play that game. not that i'd admit that out loud.

wait what? are those

wildebeests changing the subject?

I want to rally my car. but the more i get into it, the more i realize it's going to take a long time. Mostly coming up with the money for safety gear. i mean, i understand the rollcage expense. It's metal, that has to be bent. while cold. then they have to do the man hours to put it in.

But seats are almost the same price as that. helmets are about half. now we're at the price i paid for the car (if not more)

This is going to be fun. but long.

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 28, 2011

I'm still amazed by the fact that I'm the only one of my friends for whom small homework assignments are not a long, labor intensive process that takes multiple nights to complete.

I get my work done in class and because of that I barely ever have any homework at all. I get my shit done, get a comic page done, and still have a social life and time catch up on tv and the internet… I'm on the deans list and I'm not a terribly organized person. None of them work and most of them do a lot less than I do in general. I'm just getting sick of every one of my friends bitching and the constant I CAN'T TALK I HAVE HOMEWORK messages and then they're playing minecraft and posting art student owl on tumblr.

Goddamn it guys, we're in college. We're actually paying for our education now, and we have STUDIO TIME. Use it. @_____@
If you use your studio time you can bullshit at home. You don't have to drag 6 foot tall canvases on the subway.

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No one is going to agree with me there, but I needed to post that somewhere.

The constant complaining. It wares so thin. @___@

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 28, 2011

I'm still amazed by the fact that I'm the only one of my friends for whom small homework assignments are not a long, labor intensive process that takes multiple nights to complete.

I get my work done in class and because of that I barely ever have any homework at all. I get my shit done, get a comic page done, and still have a social life and time catch up on tv and the internet… I'm on the deans list and I'm not a terribly organized person. None of them work and most of them do a lot less than I do in general. I'm just getting sick of every one of my friends bitching and the constant I CAN'T TALK I HAVE HOMEWORK messages and then they're playing minecraft and posting art student owl on tumblr.

Goddamn it guys, we're in college. We're actually paying for our education now, and we have STUDIO TIME. Use it. @_____@
If you use your studio time you can bullshit at home. You don't have to drag 6 foot tall canvases on the subway.

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No one is going to agree with me there, but I needed to post that somewhere.

The constant complaining. It wares so thin. @___@

tell me about it, but not only did I also experience this in college but I'm also getting that same wipe from my University department. But that might steam from the fact that bunch of pretentious indy/hipster girls make up the vast majority of my classes, I'm still amazed how many made the cut for this semester <.<

Posted at 5:03AM, Mar. 29, 2011

Goddamn it guys, we're in college. We're actually paying for our education now, and we have STUDIO TIME. Use it. @_____@

This aspect shocked me when I taught digital animation to art students.
Really promising people who could've easily aced the whole thing with something amazing ended up failing completely because they just didn't finish.
Seeing it from the other side was a real eye opener.
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In a bad mood today. Just generally pissed off and feeling tetchy. Not really sure why, but I'm definitely not in a good mood.

Posted at 12:03PM, Mar. 29, 2011

Not quite so pissed off now.

I finished the latest page of Pinky TA. It will update tomorrow.

Also… I got my pass for Comic Con 2011. A Professional Pass!
I'm so happy. :)
A Professional pass all my own ^_^
Big thanks to Warpedwenger for suggesting it!

Now I just need somewhere to stay… And hopefully they'll have more passes available like last year so my friends can come along too

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 29, 2011

Not quite so pissed off now.

I finished the latest page of Pinky TA. It will update tomorrow.

Look at the correlation!!

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 29, 2011

I hate mood swings.

Especially when I have no reason for them to swing.

I keep going from fucking ecstatic to terribly depressed and this happens in only these two states.

And then I come on here and bitch about it.

And then I rant about other shit.

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/Other shit.

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So…my drama production, a rock-based caberet, is looking terrible and even though I'm not supposed to put down it, I just did, me being honest with the internet rather than the directors.

Also I have another two concerts (one for my vocal group and the other for an afterschool band) that we're not prepared for.

…man this month has sucked.

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 29, 2011

the stress of perfectionism. i wish i had it. oh well, i'll continue being content with mediocrity. But that's mediocrity at what i'm doing at the moment. I'll do everything i'll ever want, and wake up one day and realize i'm a jack of all trades and master of none.

So keep adding stuff to your pile, i guarantee most of it will make you better.
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I'm concerned for my brother. He was borderline alcoholic, and now he's just had a really bad break up. Probably the most serious relationship he's ever had. makes me sad.

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 29, 2011

Sleep…

Posted at 7:03PM, Mar. 29, 2011

I'm concerned for my brother. He was borderline alcoholic, and now he's just had a really bad break up. Probably the most serious relationship he's ever had. makes me sad.

I suggest you keep a VERY CLOSE EYE on him. Not literally, though. I don't like the idea of anyone else ending up like my uncle did. He became an alcoholic when wife died, and it ultimately killed him via a badly burnt liver (or whatever alcohol does to it). He basically drank himself to death with hard liquor… :(
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And as for that light gun game I mentioned I might try to make, it would be as tasteful as possible and would get as close as it can to certain borders while remaining something most people could play. It's really funny how something like Dead Space can be played and most people won't think a second thought, but any game that shows so much as a bare ankle gets a load of bricks dropped on it…

You probably wouldn't have to turn your volume down… 'til you realized you've shredded more than you should since her kill scream will be very very loud… followed by the thud of the heavy object used to bludgeon you to death (a stone table, a lampost, a Peterbuilt 379, etc…). Of course if her mind is totally taken over you'll probably just be strangled…
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Ugh… I don't want to go to work today. But I have to. I wonder what it must've been like for our ancient caveman ancestors. All they had to worry about was survival. After hunting down a mammoth they wouldn't have to hunt for several days meaning they probably had a lot of freetime, right?