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

Posted at 1:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

Our new favourite thing at work is "What are they going to do? Fire me?!" Haha.

that sounds like my last job. Since we were under 1-2 week long contracts that kept on being renewed again and again, our employment within the next month was always a big question mark.

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Yay, I think I've completed all the additional pages necessary for Coilstar Illustrated #2.

Maybe THIS time I can sell MORE than SEVEN copies, heh.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

Our new favourite thing at work is "What are they going to do? Fire me?!" Haha.

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I don't have enough patience for working with clay.

I've been in the position where they took me up on the offer.
How about when your supervisors wish they could be fired so they could collect unemployment and go work on their perpetual motion machines?

— (wildebeasts doing model building)
Try working with epoxy resin. It's clay with a time limit. You have an hour, GO!

—(wildebeasts with plungers)
Today the plumber comes and fixes the sink as opposed to last weekend when they cleared the clog. Our secondary sewer line pipe cracked and we got dirt in the sink instead of the water going down.
Now the kitchen sink went ka-fluffle which it does every year because you have to replace the cartridge yearly because it wears out.

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

Also - just in case anyone is in the same boat, I needed to find a microphone and I really like the one I ended up with: Logitech USB for about $20 (from http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RL84OY) MAJOR CAVEAT: it is NOT compatible with Windows 7. But otherwise I really like it.

OMG. The preview site is advertising this VERY item, from Amazon, which is the link I provided.

So - here's the thing. If we all promise to include an advertisement in our forum posts, maybe we can convince Wowio to remove some of their ads from the site!! Like the damned 1,000,000 winner

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

I don't see those ads at all so i have no idea.

That said I pay £1 for mine and they work fine. Well the last recording i sent for the quackcast was done with the mic that came with rockband as my old one broke.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

I got 5 baby chicks today! I'm worried one of them is retarded….go figure it was my favorite one too. But it keeps doing this weird shit with its head like its praising chicken jesus or something.

There were so many kids there picking up chicks with their parents. One kid started crying because his brother and sister were trying to make him pick one, but he couldn't decide "they look the saaaame bawwwwl". I sniggered a bit since I have no soul.

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

@ Ayes and Gene-
I use one pretty similar to this for the Quackcast. Cost me over $50 here T_T
And to add insult to injury the American dollar is really weak against the Aussie dollar right now so those headphones would be even cheaper than listed there for me.

Being USB rather than miniplug is an advantage I needed with those particular ones though- much easier to cut out system noise for me. \

OK, THIS is just godly: http://www.instructables.com/id/Headset-like-the-Pros/
-A USB mod of a helicopter headset.

But if you really wanna go mad with money then there's this adapter that you can use with the real things, like this, or this. And I DO like em both :)
I might actually have to invest in this option…

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 15, 2011

Today was my school's Day of Silence.

LINK
(cause I don't feel like explaining…)

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That is all.

Posted at 3:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

Today was my school's Day of Silence.

LINK
(cause I don't feel like explaining…)

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That is all.

man that is so gay.

What about the fat kids? the awkward kids? skinny, smart, stupid, ugly etc.

i hate when individual groups are treated better than the rest.
It should be a day of silence to recognize the effects (affects?) abuse has on all people.
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I don't know how much longer…

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

man that is so gay.

What about the fat kids? the awkward kids? skinny, smart, stupid, ugly etc.

i hate when individual groups are treated better than the rest.
It should be a day of silence to recognize the effects (affects?) abuse has on all people.
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I don't know how much longer…

"Im a straight, white male from a working class family"
"No rights for you! Come back when youre Bi curious and we'll see."

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

man that is so gay.

What about the fat kids? the awkward kids? skinny, smart, stupid, ugly etc.

i hate when individual groups are treated better than the rest.
It should be a day of silence to recognize the effects (affects?) abuse has on all people.
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I don't know how much longer…

"Im a straight, white male from a working class family"
"No rights for you! Come back when youre Bi curious and we'll see."

I'll agree to disagree because I can realize it doesn't go into all abused children but I am an "outcast" and have friends who are gay/bi and get treated differently henceforth.

Hope no one here's homophobic cause I won't stand for it.

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

Hope no one here's homophobic cause I won't stand for it.

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

I'll agree to disagree because I can realize it doesn't go into all abused children but I am an "outcast" and have friends who are gay/bi and get treated differently henceforth.

Hope no one here's homophobic cause I won't stand for it.

Of course they're treated different. When you're being mean to people, you have to change your tactics.

Saying "lulz, your dad is dead" isn't going to affect you the same way it would affect me. Just like "hey fatty" won't affect a skinny person. unless they're anorexic, then they deserve it.

Posted at 7:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

I'll agree to disagree because I can realize it doesn't go into all abused children but I am an "outcast" and have friends who are gay/bi and get treated differently henceforth.

Hope no one here's homophobic cause I won't stand for it.

Part of what's been eating my time is working on stuff for the local May Day celebration. A fraction of it has basically involved codifying the roles of May King / May Queen. I used the opportunity to specifically inject that even though we were using gendered language, it was the explicit policy of the group to respect transgender status… and that even though the iconography was heternormative, there was no need for us to be literal about it. I'm waiting to see if I get run out on a rail…

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On a slightly related note, I met someone that is absolutely fascinating and shares most of my interests and is fun to be around. Only two problems: he's pregnant. Oh gender dysphoria, you make life far too interesting (in this cases: female to male transgender, but identifies as a gay dandy instead of a straight butch). Considering that I live in Kansas, I'm not sure how things like this keep becoming issues in my life >.>

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Still alive and chugging along on a comic project. Today: 7 pages pencilled, 7 pages inked. I should probably put some sort of sign up where my comic used to be until I can get around to getting it fixed back up >.>

Posted at 7:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

Today was my school's Day of Silence.

LINK
(cause I don't feel like explaining…)

—

That is all.

man that is so gay.

What about the fat kids? the awkward kids? skinny, smart, stupid, ugly etc.

i hate when individual groups are treated better than the rest.
It should be a day of silence to recognize the effects (affects?) abuse has on all people.

It doesn't represent abuse per se it represents those who stay in the closet/are silent about their homosexual feelings because they fear a backlash. It's not the same as some physical obstacle like being fat. Though i suspect you were just joking because of you thinking that gay people are 'treated better' because people are trying to raise awareness. If not that was a really retarded comment. B/

And people are raising awareness for bullying.

/gets off the soapbox

Posted at 7:04PM, Apr. 15, 2011

Our new favourite thing at work is "What are they going to do? Fire me?!" Haha.

I've been in the position where they took me up on the offer.

No, we say that because we've already been laid off(as off the end of the month).

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New foster kittens. : ) I named two of them Emily and Vincent(my sisters get to name the others). They're kind of sick, so I really hope none of them die. : (

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I've been spending just about every spare moment studying history…it's filling up my brain! Every time I start having a conversation with my dad it ends up being "And then guess what the Russians did!" or "Trivia! If Hitler's reign was the third reich, what were the first two?"
At least I enjoy my classes.

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I hate when people don't just 'fess up to things. I was sitting next to a girl in the computer lab today, working on the same project as her. I typed a quotation in to respond to, and immediately afterwards I noticed her typing in the same one. Jokingly I said "Hey, quit stealing my proverbs!" (I didn't really care if she copied that off of me.) She was like "No! I didn't!"
Which might have been believable, except that I changed the proverb slightly so that it made more sense without the context of the book, and she had made the same exact change.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 16, 2011

Ok, now I'm pissed…

So I spent the last few days finishing the new print comic and was ready to send it off to Ka-blam… ONLY TO FIND OUT THEY AXED THE DIGITAL PROOF! So now I HAVE to order at least ONE copy. And I have 2$ in my Ka-blam earnings and exactly 0$ in my Paypal (and whatever I have in my pocket is reserved for food).

That not only won't cover the cost of proof copy, it won't cover the shipping cost either… which I have no idea what they are. The first time I ordered, I paid something around 13$ for shipping of ONE manga sized trade (cause the package was insured and flat rate and all that) and the second time it was three single issues and the shipping also came out a little under 13$.

So I have no goddamn idea whether I'll have to pay 13$ again to ship one comic just so I can put it online…

(I'll send them a message after I have calmed down, right now I feel like punching stuff)

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 16, 2011

shut up multi-personality man.

Story from day of silence:
Somebody made a poster that said "Adam and Eve, not adam and steve"

So you can see why I'm testy.

That and a new good friend of mine is bi and another friend won't sit with us anymore because he does.

I mean I hate it when the freaks hate on the freaks.

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 16, 2011

I mean I hate it when the freaks hate on the freaks.

The preppy and jock gays are totally fair targets though :p

(Just joshin'- I'd be the last person to actually advocate that sorta thing)

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

I mean I hate it when the freaks hate on the freaks.

I hate it too. Unfortunately it happens almost as much as any hating.

Posted at 3:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

Lovely. I finally figured out how to sync my old XBox 360 controller so that it works with my new XBox 360S. Now I've got two controllers to play with which will make visiting my nieces pretty nice. I just wish they'd stop pressuring me to let them watch me play Dead Space… -_-

Heh… they say they're "mature" enough to watch me play that scary game. However, when someone exclaims to me that they're mature enough for this or that a big red flag raises up in my mind saying they're not as mature as they think they are…

Posted at 3:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

Wow, comicfury is actually really nice. I've kinda been on the fence since it's kind of UGLEH but half of DD is over on the forums anyway lol.

I didn't see a rant and vent thread though. *grumbles*

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

well then make one. It wouldn't be that hard. I'm sure some people there will know how to follow suit.
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mommy and daddy are fighting. this makes me sad on the inside :cry: at least it's not my fault this time, when everything goes to hell (as mommy and daddy are figurative names for people)

Posted at 7:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

I found Vietnam-era jungle boots for $8 at a resale shop today! This is a personal victory, the surplus shop wanted five times more. I wasn't even looking for them this time!

When it comes to finding outlandish, outsized military dress from different eras, I'm surprisingly lucky, as it turns out.

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

I found Vietnam-era jungle boots for $8 at a resale shop today! This is a personal victory, the surplus shop wanted five times more. I wasn't even looking for them this time!

When it comes to finding outlandish, outsized military dress from different eras, I'm surprisingly lucky, as it turns out.

that's because Military surplus stores pay outlandish prices for used military equipment.

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 16, 2011

well then make one. It wouldn't be that hard. I'm sure some people there will know how to follow suit.
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True, but idk i'd feel kinda weird if i made that thread then posted in it all the time.

I'm playing the vagina game. Basically you take a movie title and replace one of the words with vagina. So Vaginas on a Plane, V for Vagina, Journey To The Center Of The Vagina, No Vagina for Old Men,Edward Vagina Hands,Vagina Got Fingered

….~forever alone~