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

Posted at 12:02PM, Feb. 20, 2012

Ironscarf wrote:
ozoneocean wrote:
Young men go on holiday to get away from parents and "get laid". stay at cheap hotel, corrupt developer wants to close hotel to build a resort (or something), young men vow to help save the place. They DO save it and nerdy man finds his true love/lust partner, everyone parties.

This sounds awesome and the part about the corrupt developer - who saw that coming?
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I have the worst cold ever, since the last worst one.

He's back! Welcome back to this little slice of inanity WOWIO likes to call THE DUCK.
*Duck*
Yeah some of those quackers fly awfully low this time of year in the Western Hemisphere. But they make great soup.

So let's see on my computer the color looks all right, on another comic hosting site the color looks all right, but here it looks all bleached and over exposed. So do I adjust the color just for The Duck and have it be dark everywhere else or just go with the good old PS filter like last time. It fixed a myriad of ills with those Aryans and their masks will it fix robofemoids? Don't you believe it. And with all the zombie killing I'm doing via internet gaming any and all goals of finishing anything are receding into the distance.

Posted at 3:02PM, Feb. 20, 2012

Has anyone else noticed?

First, Kroatz says the rhino's back.

Then Ironscarf, evil twin brother of bravo, POSTS! Says he has -Dun dun DUN - a rhino virus. (sorry to read that, Ironscarf, lots of fluids - plus some non-brandy ones, too)

And then bravo posts and welcomes back his brother, and then comments about not seeing well.

I can only hope that means I will be soon be inheriting the major stockholding shares to a large chewing gum corporation. When I do, I will finance Drunk Duck's rcovery.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 20, 2012

Ironscarf wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:
Young men go on holiday to get away from parents and "get laid". stay at cheap hotel, corrupt developer wants to close hotel to build a resort (or something), young men vow to help save the place. They DO save it and nerdy man finds his true love/lust partner, everyone parties.
This sounds awesome and the part about the corrupt developer - who saw that coming?
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I have the worst cold ever, since the last worst one.

I wanted to come up with something clever to say to welcome you back, but I couldn't think of anything. Welcome back!

Also, I sent you a hello message, but notifications for pqs still don't work. : (

Posted at 6:02PM, Feb. 20, 2012

Thought I'd go and share one of my current favorite music tracks from a game I'm playing on my new Nintendo 3DS…

"Whoa! I'm in Space Cuba" by Jake Kaufman

Now if I can only get past level 10 of this thing… freakin' complicated platformer with a protagonist cybernetic female police officer named Patricia Wagon…

Posted at 9:02PM, Feb. 20, 2012

Banes wrote:
NO FLIPPING!

NO FLIPPING! ^_^

I finished all the online epps that site had- up to series 4… I think there are two more seasons so I'll either have to go looking or just get the DVDs :(

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Hello Scarf! How's the weather?

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 21, 2012

Hippie Van wrote:

Also, I sent you a hello message, but notifications for pqs still don't work. : (

PQs don't work either, or I'm doing something wrong. Do I need to delete the contents of my inbox to see it? There's probly 100s of old pqs.
Thanks for the warm hellos everyone - Ozone, the weather has warmed up considerably, which no doubt explains why we are all under attack by mutant viruses. Funny really - we're all locked in a never ending battle with these terrible mutant parasites, but we don't give it much thought, cos they're so ickle. Now if they were the size of let's say, wombats…

Posted at 6:02AM, Feb. 21, 2012

Then we would love them and cuddle them!
Like wombats :)
You must be a teeny be curious about What Happened While You were Away?
If so we have a convenient recorded digest so you can catch up ^_^
http://www.drunkduck.com/quackcast/episode-62-the-substitutes-or-assistant-editors-week/

You're a Terry Thomas style villain now don'tchaknow old chap?

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I did some life drawing tonight! At a burlesque lifeclass called Dr sketchy. I think they have them in different places around the world? Anyway, it was pretty cool. Very tricky to get back into life drawing. I will try inks next time, pencil is just too limited and scratchy.

Posted at 2:02PM, Feb. 21, 2012

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!

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Bah - my army print underwear made scant impact - curses!

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Ozone, why not try the dreaded charcoal, or even pastel? Great for quick broad gestures. Charcoal is great cos you get lost in the drawing and afterwards look like you've been working in a coal mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsoa1wHJT2E

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 21, 2012

I did consider it… (good song BTW), but it's just sooooo messy for a venue like that… I didn't fancy exiting a club and catching the train home, getting black over everything, plus that's better for a bigger drawing book.
But who know? Ink might not fit the bill either! Going back to pencil after being digital for so long is like losing most of your senses :(
Idiotic I know, but it's just soooo limited compared to the freedom you have- your stylus is a whole art studio worth of tools in one device.

Posted at 8:02PM, Feb. 21, 2012

Ironscarf wrote:

PQs don't work either, or I'm doing something wrong. Do I need to delete the contents of my inbox to see it? There's probly 100s of old pqs.
Thanks for the warm hellos everyone - Ozone, the weather has warmed up considerably, which no doubt explains why we are all under attack by mutant viruses. Funny really - we're all locked in a never ending battle with these terrible mutant parasites, but we don't give it much thought, cos they're so ickle. Now if they were the size of let's say, wombats…

It's also entirely possible that I'm just retarded and never sent it. Actually, that seems most likely.

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Went with my little sister to my old(and her new) middle school tonight for an open house thing. I got to talk to my old drama teacher, which I was happy about. But for whatever reason I can never seem to stop myself from trying to impress him. And then afterwards I feel silly and immodest for having bragged about myself.
He's always very matter-of-fact about everything. I was talking to him about my starting university, and he was the first person to ask me so far what my grades ended up being in high school. And when I tell him something he disapproves of, he says "Why?" (The university I'm going to, I never did any drama in high school, etc) I told him I got top mark in art all through high school and he said "You get top marks in everything."

Posted at 10:02PM, Feb. 21, 2012

Great…. last time my tire went flat I brought it in for repair. It went flat because it got nailed. Today it goes flat AGAIN. Why? Because this time it got SCREWED!!! Of course I don't have it as bad as one Statesider (someone who originates/lives in the mainland U.S.) the repair guy told me about. He had a ratchet extension puncture his tire and ruin the rim it was on too. I'd love to know how he managed that… Also I…

*can't say anymore as he's attacked and devoured by several random zombified DDers…*

Posted at 6:02AM, Feb. 22, 2012

Punctures on the tread are no big deal. It's when you shred the tire after going over all kinds of weird stuff under two feet of snow that really gets me. What did they do sow tire spikes all over the road with the sand and salt mixture?

When I worked in a service station the hardest part often was finding where the nail/screw had gone in and then there was the mechanic who forgot to bolt the wheel back to the car. Off the car drove and within 30 feet the wheel and tire came off and *CRASH* *GRIND* Messed up the whole axle. But the tire and rim were fine.

So the wifie was nagging me to go to bed yesterday because I was up late doing playing some games I discovered on line. (2PM, working nights I keep exactly opposite hours from most people. Maybe I'm on European time or something) "They might call you in!"

Wouldn't you know they did. I forgot the regular overnight guy always calls out on Ash Wednesday. Three years in row now.

Posted at 6:02AM, Feb. 22, 2012

Hippie Van wrote:
It's also entirely possible that I'm just retarded and never sent it. Actually, that seems most likely. —

Well it's definitely the thought that counts anyway so thanks for those lovely unexpressed sentiments! :)
And since PQs can't be trusted, here is my sincerely held reply to your imagined post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=051_taCenfU&feature;=related

Posted at 4:02PM, Feb. 22, 2012

It's hard living in the middle of nowhere here. There are only two universities I can go to without moving, and they're both really shitty. I don't want to go to either but I'm neither financially nor mentally prepared to move away. And I'm sure I could get into any university in the country with my grades. I don't want to go to a crap university. I also just found out today that because I took one freakin year off to figure out what I wanted to do, I'm not eligible for entrance scholarships. So there's $2000 down the drain.
I don't know, my future isn't looking all that hopeful right now.

Posted at 12:02AM, Feb. 23, 2012

Most people move to go to college. When I was applying Rutgers was considered a shitty college. In NJ it is, but everywhere else it's considered quite good. So "shitty" universities can be a relative thing. A "shitty" school for one dicipline can be first rate for another one.

Posted at 2:02AM, Feb. 23, 2012

My advice would be to move, daunting as that may appear. Living away from home for the first time and in a college environment - this is the most freedom you will ever experience in your life. You can discover the real Hippie, or just do lots of drugs, or both.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 23, 2012

It's important too to not believe the myths about collage/university life too!
-When I finished High School I went straight to a well regarded art school. That was a very free and easy environment where you were treated as a mature adult and indeed there were a lot of much older adult students there and many practising artists.
-I went to university afterwards and that was a very, very stark contrast. It was like being back in highschool. And every uni I've visited has been the same: a much more regulated environment were the students are often quite immature.

The thing about a tertiary education is that you are mainly there to get the degree. Getting those qualifications means more than actually learning in most instances, because you could realistically do the learning anywhere (from the net, on the job, whatever)
And the important thing about degrees is that you really have to get post grad stuff if you really want them to carry any weight on your CV. Post grad degrees anywhere tend to mean more than a graduate degree from a prestigious university. So it doesn't matter so much where you go as long as you stick it out long enough. ^_^

At leas in my experience…

Posted at 10:02AM, Feb. 23, 2012

bravo1102 wrote:
Most people move to go to college. When I was applying Rutgers was considered a shitty college. In NJ it is, but everywhere else it's considered quite good. So "shitty" universities can be a relative thing. A "shitty" school for one dicipline can be first rate for another one.

Most people don't move to go to university where I live. In places like Ontario they do, because it's only a couple hours by train back to whatever small town they're from. It would be at least a day driving to get to the next good university from where I am.
Our universities here are mandated to be crap, in a way. The provincial government is desperate to keep young people here, and since there are so few choices for post-secondary school, the universities have to accept just about everyone who applies.

Thank you for the advice, guys. : )

Posted at 3:02PM, Feb. 23, 2012

ozoneocean wrote:
It's important too to not believe the myths about collage

Good collage skills make you attractive to the opposite sex: it pays to know your way around a glue stick.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 23, 2012

Ironscarf wrote:
ozoneocean wrote:

"It's important too to not believe the myths about collage"

Good collage skills make you attractive to the opposite sex: it pays to know your way around a glue stick.

XDDD

Posted at 8:02PM, Feb. 23, 2012

My little sister is pretty clever, although she's mean sometimes. I told her about a lengthy discussion I had with an old man at Festivale about toothbrushes in the days of the voyageurs, and she said "Yeeeeah. And that's why you're not going to get a boyfriend."

Unfortunately I think she's right.

Speaking of Festivale, I liked when we all shared stories about our local myths. Let's share more stories in the thread I just started! (I tried to link to it but couldn't figure it out.)

Posted at 12:02AM, Feb. 24, 2012

You had the discussion with an old man not a young prospect. Of course I once met a girl when discussing firepower on the 17th Century battlefield. She liked how lively and witty I got as I discussed it, not the topic. It is what the discussion shows about the person not the topic.

The sexes usually only interact when they discuss something that interests both of them. Women usually don't like historical minutae. So if I ever heard a woman discussing it I'd be right there listening enraptured. However, I took psychology in college so I know how to make a woman think she's the most interesting person in the room no matter what she's talking about. Small wonder people seek me out to talk to. I know how to listen and that is more important than what anyone is talking about.

That's the secret; learn how to listen. People love to discuss what interests them not what you have to say so when someone comes along who shows intense interest in what they have to say, you're ahead of everyone unless a supermodel with a Ph.d walks into the room. That rare someone who is beautiful and intelligent and well-spoken as opposed to the absolutely gorgeous bubble head.

Posted at 2:02AM, Feb. 24, 2012

I don't know if I agree with your Bravo… being a listener isn't that difficult, but it can get quite boring and they will get bored listening to themselves eventually.

I find that if someone is being a "listener" to me it makes me feel like a pontificating idiot and I run out of steam. I prefer the give and take of conversation and discussion.
I can have a discussion on pretty much any topic. One sided conversations however are not too enjoyable, from either end.

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@Ironscarf and Ayesinback-
OK, when I went and got my bachelors at the "montage". Yes, life being a student studying at a decoupage is quite different to life outside, you're in your own little world.

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 24, 2012

The trick to being a good listener is not just hearing but understanding you need to show you're not only listening but are also interested. I keep telling my eldest there is a difference between listening and hearing, it's amaing how many adults don't get this.

Posted at 5:02AM, Feb. 24, 2012

The trick to being a good listener is LISTENING.

Duh.

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In other news, the Rhino hasn't been sighted for a while. I guess he's hiding.

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In other, other news, I have many, many hats. But not a lot of news right now. It's not like I've been working on a secret project that will bedazzle and amaze the Duck. I'm not working on a comic or something. I'M NOT ALMOST FINISHED WITH THE FIRST CHAPTER or something. Really.