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

Posted at 8:03AM, Mar. 19, 2009

I wish I could rip my ovaries out; it's not like I'm usin' 'em.

They'll make interesting earrings. ;)

Oh all right… I'll do your web page stuff for you if you like. I used to do that for a lot of people, simple web page help, adding ads, links and what-not, but these days I don't get as much time to myself.
So I spend all the time I do have trying to psyche myself up enough to do comic work again and end up not even doing that for hours and hours and hours at a time. :)

So yeah, I'll do it- If you want it close to the current template, that shouldn't be any problem for me I designed it and have modifications all over the place here.

Posted at 8:03AM, Mar. 19, 2009

Also: cramps from hell. Ibuprofen doin' nothin'. I wish I could rip my ovaries out; it's not like I'm usin' 'em.

Why don't you? If you don't plan on kids you may as well remove them, i plan on doing that in a few years actually.
I used to get horrible cramps, like make me confined to bed crying cramps, now i don't get them bad at all i do this;
1)don't drink water during it, you retain water during your period and it makes cramps worse. Avoid fluids in general on the first day.
2) exercise the day before, i don't understand this but it works wonders. i also do it when i start and the cramps are nearly gone.
3) hot waterbottle to stomach, get some water/fill it up/microwave it and press to stomach. I only need this when didn't exercise.
4)advil, i tend to not need these often after all the others.

Posted at 9:03AM, Mar. 19, 2009

I wish I could rip my ovaries out; it's not like I'm usin' 'em.
They'll make interesting earrings. ;)

I would totally save them in an old-fashion specimen jar, and put 'em on my mantle. >:)

Oh all right… I'll do your web page stuff for you if you like.

Aw, I wasn't beggin' or anything… okay, maybe I was a little. I'll send you cool prints in exchange, if you're willing, though- they might take a while to travel halfway across the globe…

Why don't you? If you don't plan on kids you may as well remove them, i plan on doing that in a few years actually.

I'm planning on the tubes tied thing, but I'm-a wait until I'm 30 I think. Besides, I don't think I'll be in any position to raise a kid for at least another ten years, and by then I'll be in my late 30's, and it'd be really impractical/difficult to have one. I figure if I change my mind, I'll just adopt.

Posted at 10:03AM, Mar. 19, 2009

huzzah!! now you're super clean….
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now i remember…

Doctor Who. I cant seem to find any volumes of the first 8 Doctors. i can find individual movies, or episodes here and there. but no actual season. and with a recent hint in the series, i feel as tho i'm missing out on whats going on, because the way they did it, is that i should know, if i had been up to speed.

but that's like 20 straight years of shows, and the movie….

All of the existing episodes are on DVD. Tom Baker episodes (and it looks like Pertwee too) are on DVD as well as collections of Hartnell and Troughton and some complete episodes. Davidson, McCoy, Colin Baker are also available.

Once upon a time my local PBS station showed all the early episodes and those are on the early years DVD sets. Pertwee is the first doctor whose complete (nearly?) episodes are out there. I remember some installments of Pertwee were in B&W as they were private copies, but they're in there so Pertwee should be complete. The McGann Dr. Who the movie may be hard to find. (Personally I want the spoof they did for the anniversary with a female doctor) The two Peter Cushing movies are also on DVD.

I'm old fashioned, my favorite doctor is Pertwee and I watch my old VHS of the Five Doctors from time to time. :)

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 19, 2009

And I actually got to do a hardcore workout yesterday! And I don't feel like I'm gonna die! Woo!
What do you do? Exercise tapes? I have trouble getting into it when i'm all by myself :P

Shadowboxing for a few minutes. You basically stand by a mirror (well, doesn't have to be, but it makes it cooler :P) and start moving around, and pretend like your boxing. You do a few minutes of throwing punches, and a few minutes of defending. It works your core, and you usually feel very sore the next day.

Also, did a 10 minute run, which for me, is usual.

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 19, 2009

Whoops! Tonight was my Chinese class. Uh… oh well.

I guess that explains why I didn't think I had enough time to work on comics today. Well, now I have some. :]

Posted at 12:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

edit:oh…i see what the problem was.
I added a shoutbox, looks like it's comming out of my sidebar lol i love widgets.

I guess i didn't get into sage-comics, i never got an email back or a rejection letter, but ah.

Posted at 3:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

I guess i didn't get into sage-comics, i never got an email back or a rejection letter, but ah.

Could this have affected your application…

The application form broke during the server move but has now been fixed and should display a confirmation message. Any submissions that were made didnâ€™t get through and will have to be resent. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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February 7th, 2009

Posted at 4:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

I sent it when it was fixed, i got a confirmation message and my tracker picked up views from a hidden forum on there.

Man i need to focus on something more than webcomics for once xP *gets ready to exercise*

Posted at 4:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

I'm hoping to high hell it's not the case, but it looks like the issues with my back aren't fixed. I was wrong once before and I'm hoping I'm wrong again, but this time it seems a little more likely.

I need to go kick a pigeon or something to cool off. This constant in-out of the hospital thing is taking more of a toll on my patience and health than everything else in my life combined.

Crap. No such luck as a false alarm. It's back. :(

editedit: On the plus side though, I have just completed this animation of a watermelon committing suicide:

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

So I realized something today. I act really old.
Actually, this probably explains why I have like no friends.

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

i'm sorry to hear that iba.
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at first i was worried that skool was right, and that i wouldnt be able to watch all of them. but now i'm alive and excited with bravo's news.

also i tested for the next rank tonight (TKD, military isnt for another month). we did mass testing, which i feel is a little unfair, as the judges cant really get everyone thoroughly checked. And afterwards, i was standing by, listening to the judges talk, and they were upset that master passed so many. they said "i would have passed 5, maybe 6" and then it seems they noticed i was there, and they go "oh but you did well". I did make the next rank. but i can take criticism. as long as it's not like "you suck" or other such remarks. but if it was like, "you failed. This is what got you the most" that works best….constructive criticism….that's the word.

also, i'm pumped to get working out again. yeah!

tomorrow is my PT test. i hope i'm close to my goal to make the special ops. (this isnt the test for that, but involves some of the other test, but enough to let me see where i stand)

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

Aw, I wasn't beggin' or anything… okay, maybe I was a little. I'll send you cool prints in exchange, if you're willing, though- they might take a while to travel halfway across the globe…

YES! I like original art :)

at first i was worried that skool was right

Ha! She almost never is… Woman is mad. @_@

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O man. I am SO tired of my job now… I don't need the money my savings are good, but I like the money going IN to those savings. What to do…?
I just want to stay at home. -_-

Posted at 7:03PM, Mar. 19, 2009

I fucking hate that woman from millionaire matchmaker! God damn does she talk a lot of shit, and she's hideous! She's like those homely girls in high school that think they're part of the cool babe group- but hang out with the losers every lunchtime and talk shit about people to comphensate. She's so full of herself when talking to people how does she get any service?? :gem:

Posted at 1:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

So let's see: I shot 60+ pictures, edited 20, ended up with 9 panels and got two pages out of a several hour shoot.
One panel for every six pictures taken? And here I was thinking I could get ahead of schedule.

After 134 pages and coming up on my first anniversary; it's a little late to switch to drawing now.

If I've been cranky lately; guess what? I am cranky. So if there's anyone who's currently cursing me; I'm sorry. Been very cranky. Grief has been sneaking up on me and kicking me in the ass. All the roadsigns are now saying DEPRESSION: next few weeks… and I'm fighting it but it never plays fair.

Posted at 3:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

So, I pretty much now know who my real friends are. Sadly, the real ones, there's only about 2 or so. Every other 'friend' is a fake. I guess that's what I needed to realize. Thank God I finally did.

I had two pretty scary nightmares last night. One is where my best friend died, and it actually seemed realistic. Another one was…um…ugh. I don't remember, but it was bad too.

Even with all this sad news, today is Friday, and I'm going to try my damnedest to have a good day. Then when I get home from school, I'm gonna pencil. I'm going to try to get through the pencils for every page first, then inks, and such. Because it seems to work better that way…somehow…

So let's see: I shot 60+ pictures, edited 20, ended up with 9 panels and got two pages out of a several hour shoot.
One panel for every six pictures taken? And here I was thinking I could get ahead of schedule.

Is it just you didn't like some of the pictures?
That's the thing that kinda sucks about making photo comics. Because you have to make sure everything is perfect.

You know what's even worse? Trying to do a stop-motion animation with a camera that takes about 15/more seconds to take a picture. -_- lol

Posted at 4:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

You know what's even worse? Trying to do a stop-motion animation with a camera that takes about 15/more seconds to take a picture. -_- lol

That's what Stop Motion Pro is for.

Posted at 5:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

Grief has been sneaking up on me

It works like that. Thank goodness I still have both parents! But grief for my grandparents, old pets etc is really long range. YEARS after it can still strike heavily for no reason and leave you down for days.

Posted at 7:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

So let's see: I shot 60+ pictures, edited 20, ended up with 9 panels and got two pages out of a several hour shoot.
One panel for every six pictures taken? And here I was thinking I could get ahead of schedule.

Is it just you didn't like some of the pictures?
That's the thing that kinda sucks about making photo comics. Because you have to make sure everything is perfect.

You know what's even worse? Trying to do a stop-motion animation with a camera that takes about 15/more seconds to take a picture. -_- lol

That's why I won't do stop motion anymore. lol!

Pictures are shot with different angles, different poses, varying the lighting, costume changes and props and then images get weeded out and weeded out. Most recently I've had three finished frames (composited foreground/background with effects) for each panel that ends up in the strip. It's like a movie shoot. Shooting hundreds of feet of film for 30 seconds of screen time.

Some cast members are very unruly. They fall over while I'm getting the camera ready or won't hold the pose or won't go into the pose I direct or just refuse to look like anything but a stiffly posed action figure! (another reason Babs isn't in the story she's always so stiff) Then props won't go in the hands or break, tweezer launch of small props, costume malfunctions.

Those of you that are doing pencils right now… thank the gods for that eraser! Me? I have to set up a whole new shoot. ;)

Posted at 8:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

Ryu: That's how I do it- all the pencils first, then inks. I was gonna do it differently this chapter, but ozoneocean got me all paranoid. And I fear change anyway, so I lost my nerve. ;)
Bravo: I thank God for my eraser on the daily! I'm also glad I finally switched to bristol board- it's more expensive, but erases soooo much better than the paper I was using before.

Posted at 8:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

Erasers and ctrl+alt+z are the most important tools I think I'll ever own.

One of the guys in my illustration class gave me a few tips on photoshop brushes since I was having trouble getting my stuff to look like anything but web2.0, hard-edged vectors and it looked pretty bad for anything but comics. Now I'm actually enjoying dinking around in Photoshop and playing with things. At this point I actually feel like I've got a decent enough grasp of it that I could work totally digitally.

Posted at 8:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

Erasers and ctrl+alt+z are the most important tools I think I'll ever own.

One of the guys in my illustration class gave me a few tips on photoshop brushes since I was having trouble getting my stuff to look like anything but web2.0, hard-edged vectors and it looked pretty bad for anything but comics. Now I'm actually enjoying dinking around in Photoshop and playing with things. At this point I actually feel like I've got a decent enough grasp of it that I could work totally digitally.

Man, I wish I could get to that point. Just to have the option, ya know? Especially for illustration/design stuff. But I'm beginning to think that without taking an actual class on it, I'll never frickin' catch on.

Posted at 9:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

Take this however you will, and if you're easily offended stop reading now, but as a black man, I hate n-words. What I should probably say is I hate n-words, and their respective counterparts, because I know the kind of idiocy I've seen today isn't limited to race. Better yet, why don't I just say I hate stupid people, and people who willingly act stupider just to prove a point.

I'm only saying this because of the case I just went out on, and I've seen all kinds of people in all kinds of living situations, but these people just couldn't hold back from showing me how stupid they could be. What's WRONG with these people? Has decency and common sense died stillborn? Is there no more logic left in this world?

I know these people are angry, because no one is ever glad to see a child protection worker at their front door, but at least most people have the decency to be angry civilly.

Man, I'm starting to hate being a social worker. It's not doing anything but showing me the shittiest parts of society and how fucked up some people are.

But the good news is, it's lunch time. A few cokes and an angus steak burger and all will be right in the world again.

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

So, I've been having a terrible week, right?
I just got my report card today…

All A's and B's!
I've never gotten this good of grades before! I actually really starting working on school, and it payed off!

My GPA went from a 2.67 to a 3.45!!!

I couldn't be happier.
Now to finish my homework, eat, workout, and draw! :D

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 20, 2009

Erasers and ctrl+alt+z are the most important tools I think I'll ever own.

One of the guys in my illustration class gave me a few tips on photoshop brushes since I was having trouble getting my stuff to look like anything but web2.0, hard-edged vectors and it looked pretty bad for anything but comics. Now I'm actually enjoying dinking around in Photoshop and playing with things. At this point I actually feel like I've got a decent enough grasp of it that I could work totally digitally.
Man, I wish I could get to that point. Just to have the option, ya know? Especially for illustration/design stuff. But I'm beginning to think that without taking an actual class on it, I'll never frickin' catch on.

It's actually surprisingly easy to get traditional looking results with a tablet in photoshop. Just make a bunch of circles, go to edit: define brush. It pops up in your brush palette then you can mess with the brush settings for opacity and size until it looks right. it gives a nice oil brush effect. Most of the tools are pretty easy to figure out. Just give it a try. I've taught myself everything I know by playing around and asking people.