Thread "The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 10:09AM, Sep. 17, 2009

And I went through all of it while feeling like I was gripping a hot coal between my thighs because I forgot to use that fucking cream the fucking doctor took four fucking weeks to finally fucking give me, the fucking fucker.

Ow! What's the cause?

I've found like, five comics I'd feature (had I the power) in the past couple weeks. Of course, they're all… dum. dum. DUM. …black and white. ;) But no furry boy rape stuff.

Please PQ the to me :)
Skool and I like recommendations, as long as people don't recommend themselves of course. :)

I wonder if that's the same dream apartment that I dreamed that you, she, and I lived in? huh!?

Ooo, I missed this!
Possibly. But then it'd be in Britain and I don't know if she's got the rooms. :(
We'd prolly have to sleep on the floor… Batman can hang from the ceiling though, so that's ok.
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Well I watched the Royal Flash DVD. First time I've seen that film in YEARS… It wasn't as close to the book as I remembered it and the whole script was a little poor. It was poorer where they tried to make it stick to the book at the expense of the on screen plot rhythm. AND t was neutered. Flashman books have full on sex. No one in the film sowed a single buttock or even the edge of a breast. No one even swore! Shocking! D:
But Malcolm McDowell was such a pretty boy in it. Good to see him in his big blue eyed prime before be became a crabby faced, skull headed, eternally white haired movie bad guy.

The costumes were phenomenal throughout though. O_O
Man, such beautiful 19thC gear… Amazing. Worth having just for that.

Posted at 10:09AM, Sep. 17, 2009

And I went through all of it while feeling like I was gripping a hot coal between my thighs because I forgot to use that fucking cream the fucking doctor took four fucking weeks to finally fucking give me, the fucking fucker.
Ow! What's the cause?

I have a huge r- um, 'patch of irritated skin' between. . . actually, you can probably guess. It still hurts to move my legs and to not move my legs.

Also hey, it turns out Atari discontinued the premium modules for Neverwinter Nights! And here I was finally acquiring the means to actually buy them, the fuckers. Why do Atari hate my money so much?

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 17, 2009

I'm wondering how much I can get away with on this project. I think people might balk at an illustration of someone's arms with the word "fag" tattooed on it like a holocaust prison tattoo. But I'm a bit afraid that people wouldn't be upset by that at the same time.

It relates to the article which is an editorial on someone's experience volunteering at the local GLTB Resource Center, and the main point of the article is about how these people are treated, but I don't necessarily want to make something so cutting that nobody in their right mind would run it and I'm not sure it would get the message of the article across as well as I need to.

Posted at 12:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

Being featured won't solve all your problems and often creates a whole pile of new ones. A comic could always be featured and then not live up to the hype, not retain the audience and just fade away.

I started re-watching Sharpe for the seventh time. What soldiers really looked like. Makes me want to get out the Historex figures. :)

If you want the real deal you have to put up with the smelly wool. Wartime production was often from subpar and erzatz materials, so you collect the real thing you get what you get. A collector can always claim to be a laser beam when it comes to his interests but the reason to go outside of that main interest always pops up. God dammit. I only wanted British world War II! I stopped collecting and sold everything off.

Osprey Men-at-Arms, Warriors and Historiare and Collections books are much cheaper and more detailed than any collection I could amass could ever be. Give me miniatures. I mean I have 25+ figures of Napoleonic Hussars and still am not even close to having examples of all the various uniform variants. I don't have any Imperial Russian figures yet. I did get an Austrian one finally. British? Two or three. French? 14?, Brunswick, Prussian and endless conversion possibilties. All for about the cost of one real pelisse. A whole shelf of figures in a vast rainbow of uniforms and half on horseback. After painting all that braiding only 31 weeks for the real thing? ;) I discovered reinactments. Living in the "crossroads of the American Revolution" and within four hours drive of Gettysburg means I can see all the real deal I could want. After all I can't afford a horse and full gear for an 18th century 17th Dragoon or a Napoleonic French 1st Hussar.

Then there is the model collection. I told myself I'd only get WWII RAF bombers, then came all the Fleet Air Arm aircraft, then all carrier borne aircraft and then some other bombers, then how about some other fighters, now it's anything with wings after 1936 and I have to have all the variants! But I did manage to stop after nine Phantom IIs with about six more variants I've resisted buying. Though I did recently get a glass nose A-26C to go with my A-26A. lol!

Okay build Prince of Wales for a friend's birthday. Then came George V 1942, then George V 1941, another Prince of Wales, and soon enough I had nearly every WW2 battleship available in 1/600th scale in plastic! (and a pile of 1/700th scale to fill in some other ships in the class… Graf Spee just wasn't enough I had to have Lutzow and Deutschland)

I'm resisting going to the next visit by the local warbird tour. Seeing a B-17G and B-24J in person? I've resisted kits of both bombers so far. I visited Yorktown and Wisconsin? I came home with kits of both. I saw U-505? I found a kit of a type IXC U-boat…

Laser beam collecting; just zero in on one thing? Right. I don't believe that for one second. ;)

Posted at 1:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

well if ya've got cramps and yer not takin any drugs, then slame some water. seriously man. cramps happen ussually when the body doesnt have enough water get 3 or 4 big glasses and just fuckin slam em.give it a little time, but it'll help. and again, i mean ALAM THAT SHIT DOWN! dont sip every now and then. yeah breath a little bit, but gulp that shit down STAT!

Dude it's the exact opposite for me, water makes me bloat like crazy and that worsens the cramps. Seriously if i drink like only half a glass of water a day two days before it starts i have no cramps ever.
I usually do sip it, i'm too scared i'll make them 10x worse if i try slaming it down though -.- thanks for the suggestion at least.

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Skipped classes today, guarantee it'll bite me in the ass later. Man it's like with making comics for me, i get all excited the fist few pages than it's like a chore to get it done. Schools getting that way too.

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

well if ya've got cramps and yer not takin any drugs, then slame some water. seriously man. cramps happen ussually when the body doesnt have enough water get 3 or 4 big glasses and just fuckin slam em.give it a little time, but it'll help. and again, i mean ALAM THAT SHIT DOWN! dont sip every now and then. yeah breath a little bit, but gulp that shit down STAT!
Dude it's the exact opposite for me, water makes me bloat like crazy and that worsens the cramps. Seriously if i drink like only half a glass of water a day two days before it starts i have no cramps ever.
I usually do sip it, i'm too scared i'll make them 10x worse if i try slaming it down though -.- thanks for the suggestion at least.

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Skipped classes today, guarantee it'll bite me in the ass later. Man it's like with making comics for me, i get all excited the fist few pages than it's like a chore to get it done. Schools getting that way too.

aw that sucks man.well glad you knew that already before it ended up fuckin ya over!haha! if it's any condolence,im in the same horrible fuckin boat as you right now so here's to being completely wretched to everyone! cheers! also decided to skip class tonight.wait till the last minute to do this homework that's just agonizing at the moment. so i guess here's to being to fuckin cool for school as well.

Posted at 3:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

I kind of feel like a slacker this week after not doing an update. But I've been working on this prologue comic night and day, it's turning out good. So it's not like I'm completely slacking off.

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In other news, I noticed that Scott Kurtz of PVP webcomic fame, featured a guest strip from David Herbert and Paul Salvii creators of the Drunk Duck featured Living with Insanity.

The price of his newfound fame.

Well, all the extra traffic crashed his server.

That must suck.

Posted at 7:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

Welp, stellar week. I found out all of the film I bought for my photo class isn't the correct kind(about $64 worth), my only roll I did have loaded incorrectly, I did almost nothing productive all week, and I just got into a huge fight over the phone with my girlfriend. Yay me.

I think I'm just going to hide under a rock, draw, and hug stuffed animals for most of the weekend. It's my usual feel-better technique.

Posted at 8:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

Welp, stellar week. I found out all of the film I bought for my photo class isn't the correct kind(about $64 worth), my only roll I did have loaded incorrectly, I did almost nothing productive all week, and I just got into a huge fight over the phone with my girlfriend. Yay me.

I think I'm just going to hide under a rock, draw, and hug stuffed animals for most of the weekend. It's my usual feel-better technique.

Aw. Feel better, ya hear?

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You know, you've never fully experienced being fifteen until you cry for an hour over mistakingly believing the person you have a crush on is spoken for… Only to find out two days later that he's not and he starts flirting with you. Now I can't sleep because I'm too happy. Somedays I hate being young, others it seems like the most lighthearted of times.

I'm so glad it's Friday.

Posted at 8:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

Lol good to hear that Graceh, hope results turn out between you two :)

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So i might go hang out with that friend i got the weird vibe from, we talked for a while on the phone and i guess it might have been my imagination… in any case *rejection guard activate~*

I thought it was cute she called the same i class i was in last semester 'retard math' just like i coined it. She's kind of like Nick though, i.e. starts talking and then doesn't shut up/buts into your sentences/yo imma let you finish/etc. Hopefully it'll mellow out and it's just making up for lost time..

I felt so lame though. She was in a sorority at her university, and was talking about her ex bf and a 'cute guy' she's met now, and also about her speech class having a lot of socially awkward nerds. I was just like '…..fuuuuuuu-'. I of course steered our conversation away from hobbies everytime it came up *faggot moe anime fan that likes vidya and making webcomics*

Posted at 10:09PM, Sep. 17, 2009

Out of all hussar uniforms the British and Prussians are best with colour generally- good, subtle, stylish stuff.
The French are generally king of the hats though. Their busbies are the absolute best of any nationality, even if their uniforms can sometimes have some really crap colour mixes… Brown and sky blue? Yeah, if you're a dirty, dirty hipster. -_-

Anyway, their Busbies and amazing. Nice and huge and fluffy! -Sometimes they went a little overboard with chunky cord handing off them though… They called them Colpaks?

British Busbies are WAY too narrow… and often too small. You can't be reserved when you're wearing a giant fur hat! You have to go all out! …They did with most of their crazy huge bearskins, so why not the busbies as well?

Germans/Prussians didn't get it… Their short fat little furry ones they call preumetzzles or something look more like a drum coated in fur. The only good touch is the totenkomf.

Shackos for hussars just don't seem right. They take away their distinctiveness… All the other guy already knicked the pelisses and dolmens, with hussars having shackos too it's hard to tell the difference.

Then there's those strange tall caps with cloth hanging from hem. They look too much like fairy princess hats.

I reckon those dicks haven't really even started my order yet. Rumour is that they get big orders from film studios and always prioritise those. If that's so then The should be able to farm out the orders they can't do to subcontractors, or at least be honest about their situation. Looks like I'll either have to hound them about my damn jackets every week to get them working, or just ask for my money back. I could have made them myself by now. In 31 weeks I could have done test versions and then perfected the technique to a good quality…

My fear is that after all this time if they ever DO deliver the things they won't even fit and will have problems, mistakes, shortcuts, poor quality details and stuff missed out. If that's the case I will ***k them up. >_<

Posted at 2:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

*just made a rant*
*doesn't find ozones interesting enough to comment on and do a ——- to put rant under*
*meh*

I just put decorative lacing on some of my shoes, weird how that completely livens them up. (lattice lacing looks so good on fatlace converse)

I actually have a pair of shoes i bought last year and wore 3 times total, the heel gave me mega blisters even through hightop socks. I took a hammer and beat it down, so maybe that'll help next time i wear them.

Yee-up, 3am and lacing shoes.

Posted at 3:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

i'm currently putting together my halloween costume. you'll never guess. i just finished buying the shoes. apparently converse doesn't "have" the correct shoes already made. normally chuck taylors are like $40. but if you "make your own" then it raises the price to $74 (with shipping and handling)

The multi tool was especially hard to find. seems i'm not the only one with this costume idea, and it was all sold out. i already have a suit that works, so i don't need to go out and buy one. i just need one or two more props, and an overcoat. and i'm good to go. only problem is the overcoat is the most expensive single piece of clothing (or even more than my suits) i have seen.

Posted at 4:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

The dog came back! o_0 I'm stunned. She's been gone for ten days, and I already pretty much wrote her off.

Posted at 4:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

@ Skull.- SHoes without laces are so much better. I'd like to get into wearing cowboy boots everywhere, but I don't know if it's a style I could pull off…

@UsedBooks- Hooray! Naughty dog! Get her microchipped, then there'll be less worries about the pound.

@Seventy2- Get the coat and damn the cost man! A good coat is a GREAT investment. It's a stylish piece of clothing to wear when you're cold and need to go out. Far more stylish than any neon, purple, striped, red, blue whatever coloured shiny/nylon/gortech/plastically looking wtf padded parka hooded rain jacket thing.

A good coat is worth every cent!

Posted at 6:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

The dog came back! o_0 I'm stunned. She's been gone for ten days, and I already pretty much wrote her off.

That's wonderful news! :)

Posted at 6:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

I second ozone. A good coat is worth it. I wore my Burberry over coat until it practically fell off me twenty years later. Who knew my shoulders and chest would grow from a 38 to a 42? (but not my waist didn't until I hit forty) :(

Mirletons are pretty neat when worn by 18th Century Prussian Hussars with the red or yellow boots and the leopard skin cloak, or with a huge skull badge on the front. There were some excellent recreations in Hollywood's Marie Antoinette (the original, not the remake)

Among the best looking color combinations were the sky blue uniforms (Lauzon's Legion in the American revolution? Imagine a hussar with a mirleton in 18th Century South Carolina. Some back country Scotch-Irish or a rag tag Continental in a discolored hunting shirt?- WTF is that?) Then there's the green and red. Even in undress one of Napoleon's Chasseur a cheval de la garde was impressive. (There's a colonel in Sharpe's Rifles)

The idiotic British tube busbies were supposedly shakos with fur stitched on the outside just like the first British fur caps were the cloth Mitre caps with fur stitched on the outside. (Osprey MAA Wellington's Light cavalry and King George's Army) The movie "The Devil's Deciple" goes with this interpretation featuring some excellent 18th century uniforms as opposed to the silly Hollywood crap of The Buccaneer and so many other movies where the British infantry at New Orleans are wearing American Revolution uniforms and the Highlanders are wearing Victorian uniforms!

As for shakos- there is something about the slated crown of a Russian kiwer shako that just looks cruel with a hussar uniform. The tall cyldrical shako of late Napoleonic French hussars takes getting used to but the tight, high waisted uniforms make up for it.

Busbies and colpacks turned out to be highly impractical and difficult to wear and care for in the field which is why they were reserved for elite companies.

One of most unusual Hussar uniforms was of the only US serving regiment to adapt one. The so-called butterflies of the self-styled US First Hussars or 3rd NJ Cavalry. It was created using modifications of the basic US shell jacket and forage cap and looked like a British 10th Hussar undress uniform. These cavalrymen earned a great hard-fighting reputation in the Army of the Potomac where the US Cavalry after 1863 repeatedly bested Stuart's cavaliers. There is one existing uniform in the collection of Don Troiani.

Posted at 6:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

Please PQ the to me :)
Skool and I like recommendations, as long as people don't recommend themselves of course. :)

To sent to you! :)

The dog came back! o_0 I'm stunned. She's been gone for ten days, and I already pretty much wrote her off.

Congrats! :D

So my "rant."
In my digital art class, I finish all the work, then make comics, then fool around online (drunkduck), then harass my friends in that class. It's going good.

Posted at 7:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

So my "rant."
In my digital art class, I finish all the work, then make comics, then fool around online (drunkduck), then harass my friends in that class. It's going good.

That's my rant, too…I'm in digital multimedia, already a couple assignments ahead of most people with nothing to do.
And I have to be real sneaky about messing around on DD…it's not really allowed…

Posted at 7:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

wtf is with the people in my office… they say the air 'smells funny' and evacuate everyone. oh well, there's a nice, paid cigarette break with my name on it…

the air smells fine. I smell nothing.

Posted at 8:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

wtf is with the people in my office… they say the air 'smells funny' and evacuate everyone. oh well, there's a nice, paid cigarette break with my name on it…

the air smells fine. I smell nothing.

If they evacuated the place I work now because the air smells "funny" we'd never spend any time in the building!

If the ductwork is of a certain age it'll have all kinds of weird things in it and will always smell "funny"

"Hey I smell gas!"

"The heat came on, the system is a little leaky. The Gas Company won't do anything and says it's within tolerance. So get used to it."

It took two months to get a gas burner in the kitchen replaced. It leaked gas all that time. But hey it was within tolerance so there was no danger. But it smelled funny. *hits head against the wall* Sure, am I going to evacuate several hundred people or panic a whole building by calling the Fire department and Gas Company?

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

Man, I've been gettin' this tingling numbness in my left arm for a few months- dizziness too, but that a bit less frequent. Yesterday was really bad, probably the worst spell I've had yet. Might be anything- from leaning on my arm constantly when I'm drawing, to poor circulation on account of my smoking, to somethin' more serious- so I set up an appointment with a doctor today. Still need to find a shrink/psychiatrist, but I figure I can ask the doc for a recommendation when I go. I hate this bullshit, by the way. :mad:

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

Right, there'd be NO way I would stay in a building if it smelled of gas. I survived through one gas explosion (a minor one, the water boiler in bathroom went BANG! and threw bits of metal in every direction, luckily my mom pulled me out of there in time), I averted a potentially second one (same type of water boiler; you have to light up a match to start it and then the small flame becoems big when you turn water on… well, here it turned big instantly which I noticed) plus a kid in my school lost his mother when a gas tank (the large kind used for portable cookers) went off on some open air market. So yeah, building smells of gas? NEVER GOING IN AND YOU CAN'T FORCE ME! So yeah, I'd cause total panic, lol

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umm, I had something to rant about but it has slipped my mind. Bah.

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

Man, I've been gettin' this tingling numbness in my left arm for a few months- dizziness too, but that a bit less frequent. Yesterday was really bad, probably the worst spell I've had yet. Might be anything- from leaning on my arm constantly when I'm drawing, to poor circulation on account of my smoking, to somethin' more serious- so I set up an appointment with a doctor today. Still need to find a shrink/psychiatrist, but I figure I can ask the doc for a recommendation when I go. I hate this bullshit, by the way. :mad:

I'm glad you're getting it checked out.

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

Today, I made someone's nose bleed by kicking them in the face.

It was an accident, I swear.