JoeL_CQB wrote: i think the influx of those posts is because what happened in Santa Barbara,CA over memorial weekend. :S
I know about that, my feeds were filled up with people needing to soapbox about gender issues looong before that narccisist psycho killed those girls, and i'd daresay the majority of posts ive seen recently did not even mention the killer/victims. :/ It's still posts preaching to the choir or dumb knee-jerk garanteed reply images/comics that exist for stirring up drama(on both sides) —————— My dad brought out tubs of my old manga from the shed. Most are now yellowed looking from the cheap paper they used. I just put them back in. Tbh i could never find a way to display manga that didnt look cheap.
Skullbie wrote: My dad brought out tubs of my old manga from the shed. Most are now yellowed looking from the cheap paper they used. I just put them back in. Tbh I could never find a way to display manga that didn't look cheap.
I spent all my babysitting money in high school on building a manga collection. At $10 a piece, it easily cost over $500. If the books do not get destroyed from occasional wear and tear, and yellowing of the pages like you mentioned, the silverfish will happily eat the glue in the spines. It happened to a few of my signed ones even though I took the necessary caution to place them in plastic sleeves.
I think that is why I love reading webcomics and have stuck with them long after I stopped collecting manga.
The social media has been getting a bit of a typhoon on that subject for a while now. They get so hyperbolic and confrontational, condescending, angry… But the sad, horrible part of it is that the the other side, the mysoginists, they really do exist and their fucking horrible; cro-magnon, knukle dragging shit-eaters who make you want to leave the planet.
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That Izzy pic rules Hippie! I never really mastered markers. You're right, they transfer very well to the screen. Suprisingly well. That alien costume should make an apearence in every scifi, like Robbie the Robot or the Wilhelm screem!
*sigh* I was never able to get a manga collection. Well, all the manga I had (before a supertyphoon blew it away) was translated. I can get a ton of manga here on Guam (there are several stores that sell it), but I can't read any of it. I will buy some as art reference though… you can only look at a computer screen before your eyes start complaining about all that light.
Okay. I think I'm going to do something weird. I hardly use any "offensive four letter words* in conversation. Even when angry (I go silent instead). But now that I've been to Minecraft's version of that fiery place that ministers and priests claim where bad people go, when the conversation warrants it I'll just tell them "You can burn in the Nether". Or maybe not. I'll end up weirding people out that way. X_X
Cheap paper that turns yellow and falls apart is a sign of success - that's what American comics had back when they were popular entertainment for the masses too.
When they start printing comics on glossy paper with multiple variant foil embossed covers, you know the party's over.
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My head hurts. I hope this is a bug, but I suspect it's time for new glasses
Lonnehart wrote: "You can burn in the Nether". Or maybe not. I'll end up weirding people out that way. X_X
People will think you're telling them to burn in your genitalia as in "nether regions" referring to the crotch. I recommned getting some Gold Medal powder. It relieves that burning in the nether regions.
Most of the space ship effects in Twilight Zone were directly lifted from the movie Forbidden Planet. They also reused the costumes and props including Robby the Robot. It wasn't effects driven but writing and acting driven. Even the supposedly huge technical time machine in No Time like the Past was done minimally with a few controls as opposed to the banks upon banks of instruments used in Outer Limits.
Less than 4 hours away now for the Live phone in show on Quackcast 170!
For Quackcast 170 we're doing a live phone in thing where we take questions from people! I don't know who wants to be in on this but it'd be lovely if you were able to skype call in to Banes and I as we record on Saturday the 31st! At 11am New York time. That's 11am in the Easten Timezone in the US. And that's also 3pm GMT (or 15:00 GMT)
That japanese store hasn't gotten back to me about the unprocessed payment. Jeez, this wasnt a cheap item figure sent to me, either. Can this effect my credit…?
I couldn't imagine that would affect your credit rating or whatever. They sound like an arsepain to deal with.
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I was watching a semi-interesting documentry on Youtube yesterday about the history of swords. It wasn't too bad, appart from all the silly generalisations and the same innaccuracies everyone always makes: calling every Euopean sword a "broadsword"; saying swords in the medival period all looked like this or that, as if there was ever any time when there was only one type of sword used by everyone in every country at the same time… outside of Jappan…
And THAT was the big problem with the show and almost all shows on swords; They're prepared to be scientific and hostorical (to a fault) with the stuff from everywhere else but when it comes to Jappan al that goes out the window and it turns into a stupid mythalogical fantasy- "Oh the metal is folded over and over, oh they're so amazingly fantastic, oh the blacksmith abstains from sex for a week, oh the steel talks to us…" NO. Shut the fuck up. Katanas are exactly the same as any other sword, no better or worse, ditch the fucking exoticisim, it's embarrasing. They use medieval techiques for working with terrible quality steel to try and make a good sword- Stuff which was surpassed hundreds of years ago when people learned how to mine better.
The worst part was when they interviewed this kendo master and he kept on going on that what makes a good kendo swordsman is "someone with a good heart", which he repeated that about 8 times in a mystical, magical priestly type tone. Probably been hit on the head with one of those stupid kendo swords too often.
More and more I find that adding layers of mysticisim to things prevents us understanding them properly.
Like I would say that coming up with good graphic design is an "art"; not because it IS but because I don't understand how I do it because I'm not clever enough. So if anyone says "you need a true heart", or "the materials speak to me", or "It's instinct" about anything it means what they're telling you is useless. They might have expert skill but they don't understand what they're doing or why they do it well enough to be able to communcate it.
Two famous restaurants will be opening here soon. Applebee's, then ihop…. er… International House of Pancakes, not some electronic device that lets you make short jumps.
Lonnehart wrote: Two famous restaurants will be opening here soon. Applebee's, then ihop…. er… International House of Pancakes, not some electronic device that lets you make short jumps.
Now just one question….
Why isn't STARBUCKS opening here yet?!? T_T
I was excited about ihop when it first came to my town, ended up being hella gross, like eating textured styrofoam… dennys waffle edition. Go to applebees if you want the runs. But starbucks is the best. I can get my sugery chocolatly fix and look mature doing it. ADULT MILKSHAAAAAKES
OMFG! I always wondered what "ihop" was about. I thought it was some sort of retro dancehall or something. I'm not joking. It sounds like a rockabilly themed place people go to dance… men with that pompador greesed up hair and silly sideburns and women with overstyled hair, bobbysocks, polkadot dresses and lots of peticoats etc.
Finally finished downloading Battlefield 3. Origin/EA was (and probably still is) offering the standard edition for free, so I took that offer. And I can apparenlty download it to my PC any time I want (at least until those EA servers shut down… nothing lasts forever). I can see it now… I'm probably gonna wanna buy Battlefield 4 as the single player campaign for 3 looks interesting enough…
Ihop happens to be the wife and I's fav resturant around here. They have great burgers and of course pancakes. The real rube redneck place with bighair is Wafflehouse. How you can make waffles that greasy is a true talent. Oh yeah biscuits and gravy with a side of homemade grits and a slab of Virginia ham.
But I want a bagel!!!!
IHop coffee is better than anything in Starbucks. Starbucks is wussy poser trendoid coffee. That's why it's so overpriced and even the ones in Hawai'i didn't have Kona coffee or even decent Brasilian roast. Brown dishwater with a lot of froth and foam to hide the crappy taste.
But then I like tanker juice. Coffee out an urn that hasn't been cleaned since Patton and coffee so black and thick the stirrer sticks up straight.
bravo1102 wrote: IHop coffee is better than anything in Starbucks. Starbucks is wussy poser trendoid coffee. That's why it's so overpriced and even the ones in Hawai'i didn't have Kona coffee or even decent Brasilian roast. Brown dishwater with a lot of froth and foam to hide the crappy taste..
That's true, but Starbucks is better than the percolator coffee I end up drinking. And you can buy it and take it out. Not sure if IHop will let you do that…
That's one thing I really noticed about the US- icky percolater coffee everywhere. No wonder people like Starbucks, it's one of the few places that seem to make normal coffee… But I only used it for internet though. The best coffee I had was in New Orleans at Hyena Hell's coffee shop Zotz.
@bravo: you must not have the real bohemian coffee places where you are if you think Starbucks is poser coffee! I have one near my university back home that says "no wifi - talk to your neighbour." That makes me roll my eyes every time. Anyways, I always see those places with all the complicated coffee beans as being more insincere than Starbucks. Which I personally like because I need caffeine but don't like the taste of coffee very much. Also it's about 100x better than Tim Horton's, which everyone is inexplicably crazy about in Canada.
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Tomorrow is my last full day here. As happy as I am to see my family and pets and so on, I'm a bit upset to have to leave. Both the city and my tiny apartment feel like home already. Obviously the upside to feeling like this is that this has been a successful experiment. I feel like if I decide to go away for grad school (or whatever else), I have the necessary confidence in myself to do that now.
I had a dream/nightmare yesterday afternoon where I was walking around an outdoor garden party venue and old male classmates from kindergarten leading up to college were pulling out engagement rings and proposing to their current girlfriends. Suddenly I imagined my facebook newsfeed filling up with notifications of engagements and weddings. The real kicker was that near the end of the dream, two guys from my high school (both that I know are straight, one is married) ended up engaged and immediately held their wedding at the same venue complete with a room full of elderly grandparent types.
And so begins the relationship (more like, lack of a relationship) panic attacks of my late-twenties. It is true that news of my old classmates or coworkers getting married has been growing in recent years and people tend to pair up as if they are trying to board Noah's Ark and finding opposite gender versions of themselves and procreating. In fact, the latest wave of marriages from this weekend alone were reminders that I need to get started on that whole marriage thing.
And now I am reminded of my favorite Shel Silverstein book from childhood, "The Missing Piece", a story about a commitment-phobic shape who spends its life searching for the one missing shape that could makes it whole again. In the story, the shape learns that the missing piece was not the answer to its problems and that it was better off alone so that it could smell the flowers and notice the little things. When I read that story now, I feel like I am that shape and that searching for a person to complete "me" may not be the answer to everything. It is true, I do not want to be the last person in my group of friends to get hitched, but I am reminded of middle school when my main goal was to get a boyfriend, then after finally having a boyfriend, I was met with the reality that it did not solve all my problems and that I would have been better off spending more time studying for classes.
Most of my dreams and the situations I found myself in long ago are a reminder to me that I WILL be alone… which is partly the reason I chose my current username. I also don't like the idea of being the only one of my group of classmates to be single even in the endgame, but life is like a game of poker. You take the hand you get and deal with it…
ow… had my tetanus shot earlier… and only now is my left arm going sore. x_X
Lonne, You HAVE to listen to the latest Quackcast- Our fake chatcast. Banes and I did fake versions of everyone phoning in, including you! -Don't take offence at the voice please, it's one of our standards that we use, it's not meant to be a parody.
@Kawaii- I know what you mean, all those prople in my friends list hooking up, having babies, babies, babies, babies… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo TOO MANY BABIES!!!! Hook up with me, if you're prepared to go bottomless! …hmm, maybe that's why I'm not popular with the ladies? Pfft, never!
I liked that portrayal! Thanks! :) Though I don't actually speak like that, but funny nonetheless (even though it wasn't meant to be a parody). :) Oh… and you did get it right the first time. Pronounced "lawn-heart". Y'know… to further distance myself from the numerous "lone hearts" out there. :)
HippieVan wrote: @bravo: you must not have the real bohemian coffee places where you are if you think Starbucks is poser coffee! …Anyways, I always see those places with all the complicated coffee beans as being more insincere than Starbucks.
It's all about the beans just like wine is all about the grapes. A good perculator adds a richness to the coffee that those with unsophisticated tastebuds can't appreciate. But I haven't had it except in diners in some time. But again it's about the beans and changing out the grounds regularly and not letting it get stale.
That Quackcast was funny. But Skoolmonkee was right. And poor Banes killing his voice doing Bravo all the time. He does it so well but it must be very tiring. The others were scary. real. I can imagine Skullbie looking for her ruby slippers.
One day I hold out hope that someone will pronounce rotten-fem-cruds correctly. If not I'll just have to shoot the next three scripts I have based on the robin-remf-nuts series. There is a series based on some characters from Battle of the Rob's-fur-crocks that is progressing nicely. I've collected a lot of graphics and designs for sets so I'll start building soon my version of a Star Trekkie interior. The model of the ship is done and I'm decaling it.
Coffee is only useful for flavouring walnut cakes old chap! Great to finally hear your voice and others on Quackcast 169 - you and Skullbie are exactly as I imagined you but Lonne was a surprise! Who was doing that dreadful impersonation of Banes though?
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