The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread

Posted at 3:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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Urgh, I ate too much noodles.

When I make noodles, I keep the water with them and eat them like a soup. :)

Eating noodles all the time though makes you fart a lot. lol!
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I don't really like birthdays that much…
Oh, and I remember when $100 was like a fortune to me, heh, it's not nice not having money. But when you do have it you don't appreciate it any more. -at least in my case. Money spoils you.
But even so, I still live just as frugally as I ever did, just because I really like it.

No farty party for me.
*cuts down on noodles from now on*

I never got any large money from anyone (it was either gifts or equivalents of getting 10-25$, and I'm kind of coming up with the numbers trying to match them up to prices and pays rather than simple currency conversion). And then on my 18th birthday, or actually a month AFTER that, my godfather visited us (damn, that was 11 years ago, seen him only once after that, on my mom's funeral) and pulled out a nice wad of cash from his pocket. That'd be like getting 500$ or so (was certainly enough for a fairly large computer upgrade).

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Also… All major webcomic sites (dd, comicgenesis and smackjeeves) had a hit in traffic in the last year or so. Hell, even places like Penny Arcade had that too. I'm guessing it's the fact that people loose their jobs and can't access the web from the workplace anymore, and the remaining ones have to pick up extra work, thus not having time to browse either.

Only unemployed (*raises hand*) slackers and people who check the web after work seem to be online these days according to my observations (which can be totally wrong).

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Posted at 4:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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I hate Sunday.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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i'm losing intrest in you drunk duck….if it wasnt for God's of Arr Kelan, then i dont know what i'd do. there are several other comics here that i read, but i only keep up with GoA when it updates everytime.

Yes, this site has certainly become bland over the past few months. TD shut down, featured comics aren't getting as much notice as they used to, the Comic Reviews sub-forum gets one comment a week (if its lucky), and currently, there doesn't seem to that many comics that stand out from the rest.

Welcome to the banality of DD!

I only showed up last November so I guess I missed out on the Glory Days, eh? ;)

Only unemployed (*raises hand*) slackers…

Yup, that'd be me.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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cartoon

Ha! :)

Oh, DD's had it's ups and downs. I wasn't even here for the very beginning, I came just a bit later. But even so I've been here since the early days and it was quite different then… the site used to go down constantly. There were a lot less users on the site, but more of them visited the forums,
We've always had people who say "it's better as it was", but they're always talking about a different "was". it's hard to keep track of when they mean sometimes. lol!

The other side of it is that the "golden days" (whenever people mean) always had some serious downsides to them too which we were much happier to get rid off: could be the site going down all the time, serious bugs with the image servers, a huge influx of nooby kids or hopeful obnoxious comicers thinking that Plat would pick them up for a deal if they made a nuisance of themselves on the site, legions of devoted fans of a warhammer comic or the fat fetishist Craving Control or the troll fake gaming comic deluging the forums with their strangeness and spam.

As things stand now, it's pretty good. We trundle along nicely. No big problems right now, people are being pretty good, and our regular posters are al pretty much great people-
And let me tell you: a few regular posters who are great, interesting people is a LOT beter than hundreds or thousands of posters who are boring, stupid tits!

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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Ha! :)

Oh, DD's had it's ups and downs. I wasn't even here for the very beginning, I came just a bit later. But even so I've been here since the early days and it was quite different then… the site used to go down constantly. There were a lot less users on the site, but more of them visited the forums,
We've always had people who say "it's better as it was", but they're always talking about a different "was". it's hard to keep track of when they mean sometimes. lol!

The other side of it is that the "golden days" (whenever people mean) always had some serious downsides to them too which we were much happier to get rid off: could be the site going down all the time, serious bugs with the image servers, a huge influx of nooby kids or hopeful obnoxious comicers thinking that Plat would pick them up for a deal if they made a nuisance of themselves on the site, legions of devoted fans of a warhammer comic or the fat fetishist Craving Control or the troll fake gaming comic deluging the forums with their strangeness and spam.

As things stand now, it's pretty good. We trundle along nicely. No big problems right now, people are being pretty good, and our regular posters are al pretty much great people-
And let me tell you: a few regular posters who are great, interesting people is a LOT beter than hundreds or thousands of posters who are boring, stupid tits!

I remember I visited the TD like, once (which is what pretty much half of DD references anymore), and I saw nothing of interest in there. From what I've been told, it was basically another "What the heck!?!" kinda place, but you could pretty much post whatever.

And I most definitely agree with you ozone.

Wow! I went to bed at 1 AM last night/this morning, and woke up at 8:30. I'm so proud of myself! Waking up early definitely starts the day off right!

I think today, I'll lift, since I ran twice (I switch on and off), and I'll pencil a ton of pages. And of course, play some XIII. I love that game.

Also, I'm trying to re-design my comic layout, but it's so tough, because I'm doing it ALL in notepad. I have an old version I made for Basic Web class (it actually started out as an assignment) but it looks a lot better now, you just have to trust me.

Here's the old one

My teacher thought it was over the top, and actually used it as an example. This, of course, was before I started making it cooler. There's a lot that still needs to be done to the better version.

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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Yeah, DD has been a bit slow lately but I still like it a lot. The people who post regularly are almost always really neat, intelligent people, which is pretty amazing considering the way so many people take advantage of the internet to be total morons.
We do have exceptions, of course. coughcoughhumormancough
But overall, a pretty good place with some great comics and people.

I haven't been getting enough sleep lately. I lose track of time and go to bed way too late, and then for whatever reason I haven't been able to sleep in past 8 or so.

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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There will always be complaints about something. DD is one of the steadier sites I have ever seen (I don't like change). I have been on this one site that changes everything at least once every three months and they have also sold out to the cooperate world. Used to be a free site, but now you have to pay for some things (if you want them). You now have to wade through announcements of new movies/books/products in order to get through to what is actually going on in the site. After a wild site like that. I like the steadiness that is drunkduck and don't feel so lost in the crowd.

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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More DD perks:
-Users over the age of 18. OMG! huh!?
-Top 100 isn't a seething cesspool of generic manga and equally generic gag-a-days. (No offense to either genre- so long as it ain't generic, see?)
-Forums are actually pretty active compared to some other ones.


But I totally empathise with the "Grr, use t' be better back in th' old days!" crew. I felt the same way when a site I used to belong to got popular, the forums got flooded with morons, everything changed… We actually had a private group, that to be a member you had to have been on the site for three or four years. All we did in that subforum was bitch about all the new people, flame specific users, and talk about how things used to be better. It was comforting, but a bit… sad. ;)

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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More DD perks:
-Users over the age of 18. OMG! huh!?

:(
I get what you mean, though…I wouldn't want to be part of a forum full of people my age. :P

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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-Users over the age of 18. OMG! huh!?

That is my favorite perk.

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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More DD perks:
-Users over the age of 18. OMG! huh!?

:(
I get what you mean, though…I wouldn't want to be part of a forum full of people my age. :P

I'm about your age, I think.
But yeah, I also see what you mean Hyena.
Teenagers nowadays are way too immature.
Drunkduck would be terrible with a bunch of 16-year-olds typing things like…

yo lol wat up guise? i loev comicz. so yeah, you shuld all chek out my comik cuz its guud, cuz dats wut my freidnz tell me lol.

Sadly, I actually think someone would say that.

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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No way, Ryu. That's way too intelligible. I can actually understand what you're trying to say.

Aw, I didn't mean to alienate the teenfolks! I loves y'all jailbait, I do. lol!

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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No way, Ryu. That's way too intelligible. I can actually understand what you're trying to say.

Aw, I didn't mean to alienate the teenfolks! I loves y'all jailbait, I do. lol!

The sad thing is you're not exaggerating…I don't understand how some people think their posts are legible. Does it really hurt to use capitalization? Or at least punctation? Or, I don't know, spellcheck? People are so silly sometimes.

Haha, DD is so creepy today. I love it.

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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I could probably find some great samplings of bad chatter, but I prefer my eyes to stay in their sockets. I got dressed in some comfortable clothes and got a whole day of doing my homework planned…then I just realized that I'm going to a play this afternoon. So most likely I'm going to have to cut down on my plans. Hopefully the play isn't too long…how long is The Tempest anyhnow?

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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-Users over the age of 18. OMG! huh!?

That is my favorite perk.

My favourite perk is Bloody Mess.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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It's a matter of maturity more than age. The weird thing is, a forum full of teenagers is a mind-numbing idiotic sort of place, but if you throw in a few actively participating older people, those same moronic adolescents start acting like mature adults. I'm guessing it's because those who don't end up being ignored, and being the center-of-attention is the reason they were acting like idiots in the first place. Teens/preteens have an amazing capacity to be logical, mature beings if they choose to.

However, I concur that it is nice to have "adults" in a forum because attitude alone won't let a high school kid relate to a late 20's, 30's and beyond adult who has to buy pay rent, utilities, worry about losing/finding jobs, etc. It's nice to talk to people who actually share those life experiences and not just find a bunch of threads about "school is hard" or "my parents are mean."

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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It's a matter of maturity more than age. The weird thing is, a forum full of teenagers is a mind-numbing idiotic sort of place, but if you throw in a few actively participating older people, those same moronic adolescents start acting like mature adults. I'm guessing it's because those who don't end up being ignored, and being the center-of-attention is the reason they were acting like idiots in the first place. Teens/preteens have an amazing capacity to be logical, mature beings if they choose to.

However, I concur that it is nice to have "adults" in a forum because attitude alone won't let a high school kid relate to a late 20's, 30's and beyond adult who has to buy pay rent, utilities, worry about losing/finding jobs, etc. It's nice to talk to people who actually share those life experiences and not just find a bunch of threads about "school is hard" or "my parents are mean."

I doubt the adults being thrown in is why these teens are acting more grown-up. I don't act any different if I'm in a forum full of immature teens. I would just prefer not to go to that sort of forum in the first place, because I obviously would not fit in very well.
Most teens aren't very mature because, obviously, they're young. So all those silly adolescents will find one place, and the older people and more mature young 'uns will find another. If you threw some adults on a crazy forum full of dumb young people, it wouldn't all of a sudden turn into a sophisticated, mature place.

And it's true that sometimes it can be hard to relate to people older or younger than yourself because you're at very different places in your life, but that doesn't mean it can't work. In fact, it can make for more interesting conversation because rather than having ten people saying "work is hard" or "school is hard" you have ten different people with ten different experiences at ten different points in life. And there are endless topics that can be talked about! We don't have to keep it within those sorts of boring boundaries. I consider my dad one of my best friends, and we never run out of things to talk about.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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No, I don't wanna give the wrong impression. I actually really enjoy interactin' with younger folk- it keeps me from turning into even more of an insufferable, old-timey grump. ;)

It's a point of view thing for me- kids who grew up in the aughts (that's them 00 years, for you non-old-timey folk) have a different perspective from those of us who grew up in the 80's or 90's; I mean, they never didn't have the internet, or spell check, or cell phones, you know? I guess it's just frustrating to feel like you don't have the same shared experiences or points of reference as anyone around you; almost like speaking a different cultural language. I'm sure younger folk have the same dissonance when dealin' with their seniors, eh?

Not that there isn't common ground- I think way too many of my peers are kinda stuck in this rut where they stop paying attention to what's going on- pop culture, new music, tech stuff- as soon as they graduate from college and enter into the "real world".

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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It's a matter of maturity more than age. The weird thing is, a forum full of teenagers is a mind-numbing idiotic sort of place, but if you throw in a few actively participating older people, those same moronic adolescents start acting like mature adults. I'm guessing it's because those who don't end up being ignored, and being the center-of-attention is the reason they were acting like idiots in the first place. Teens/preteens have an amazing capacity to be logical, mature beings if they choose to.

However, I concur that it is nice to have "adults" in a forum because attitude alone won't let a high school kid relate to a late 20's, 30's and beyond adult who has to buy pay rent, utilities, worry about losing/finding jobs, etc. It's nice to talk to people who actually share those life experiences and not just find a bunch of threads about "school is hard" or "my parents are mean."

I doubt the adults being thrown in is why these teens are acting more grown-up. I don't act any different if I'm in a forum full of immature teens. I would just prefer not to go to that sort of forum in the first place, because I obviously would not fit in very well.
Most teens aren't very mature because, obviously, they're young. So all those silly adolescents will find one place, and the older people and more mature young 'uns will find another. If you threw some adults on a crazy forum full of dumb young people, it wouldn't all of a sudden turn into a sophisticated, mature place.

aeeiii…actually it could have something to do with it. People react differently to different people, ESPECIALLY young people, and especially, ESPECIALLY the immature ones,just because..well…they ARE immature. they dont have much of a structure to their personality, so they can sway a lot more according to who they come in contact with. you probably werent like that becuase you probably matured faster, but more average kids change in personality when say talking to one group of friends to another or to their parents.

i wont say it's why things arent completely off the wall here, but it could very well have something to do with it.

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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I had to go into the office on Saturday to do work on a thing that is due Monday… at least I was meeting a coworker there and we were both working on it, but having to work from 9-4 on a Saturday when you've already put in regular hours sucks :[ And today I have more to do, about 3 hours worth (and about 150 pages of printing, if my ink holds up). It's not difficult but it's fiddly Word stuff which gets old fast.

At least I've earned myself a day and a half off, which I will want this week… Monday is gonna be packed, so I'm thinking I'll take Tuesday and half of Friday off… also my Chinese class got cancelled since I was the only one still going and they don't want to run it for one person, and they don't intend to offer it next year. :[ There were only 5 weeks left… I don't even get to take my fluency test. :[ Hey that reminds me though, they owe me a refund for the 3 weeks the tutor cancelled… maybe I'll have time to stop in tomorrow morning.

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 26, 2009

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I'm about to collapse under my work load. I wish I could take time off, but you know…school. My classes either have mandatory attendance or group work.

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 26, 2009

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Okay, I've been wonderin' this forever- what does the size of our names at the bottom of the forum index signify?

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 26, 2009

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The size of your e-penis ( TD and other troll forums only ) or your post count.

It's supposed to help show who's the most active and helpful.

This years finals seem much busier than last years and last semesters. And I don't think I'm the only one feeling that way. A lot of the other sophomores and juniors have been saying the same thing. It's kind of weird.

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 26, 2009

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It's 3:30AM on Sunday here.
But I don't care too much since Monday is a holiday. God bless the ANZACs! :)

I just watched a couple of Sharpe episodes again, and decided to sew while I was at it. I like watching DVDs and stuff so much better when I have something to do, I get so twitchy when I'm just sitting there not doing anything! It made me get some stuff done that I'd been meaning to do for months.
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As to older people.
Yep, age is great, but as Used books says it's maturity that clinches it. You don't want to be around a bunch of older people acting that immature dicks, it's pretty sad. Over on the Adobe forums for example you have 40, 50 and 60 year olds calling each other the equivalent of "poop-heads". Age is no guard against immaturity.

But here's to the good people of DD! :)

The size of your e-penis ( TD and other troll forums only ) or your post count.

If I wasn't an admin you'd need to horozontal scroll for about 10 minutes to see all of mine… ^______________^

…not really. :P

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 26, 2009

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I just seem to find more and more ways of not doing homework. Also i was at the gym this morning and reading elle magazine on the bicycle thing that takes little effort, and one page had the hottest model i've ever seen. Couldn't find her name or anything damnit.

So far the treadmill/stepladder/bicycle combo machine is my favorite and i was doing this leg push thing at 100lbs easily. I like how all the machines look so complicated yet once you get down to it they're really simple to use.