Tragic! T_T
This vid about Tumblr reminds me of what you guys said about the community at Comicfury:
http://youtu.be/yKC6XmsLWVQ
…also why I dislike Tumblr.
There's good porn there, but original content generally is very low, and there's almost zero commentary, just a gigantic a list of people who shared the posts, which is compltely meaningless and unimportant.
Now onto something that IS important: Pinky TA has updated. ;)
- https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/Pinky_TA/5462133/
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Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, ETCETERA! 2013/2014
Lonnehart has a point–A week ago, I spent a weekend hanging out with my well-to-do college friends, who all have very high tastes in restaurant cuisine. I decided that it would be the best economic choice to load up on carrots and water before going out so I would end up spending less on food and more on other fun things. Well, after the second day I started getting odd looks because of my choice to eat nothing but veggies and water. The joke of the whole thing was that I felt more energized and less lethargic at the end of each day. When I went out dancing later that evening, I actually got to enjoy myself without feeling that full feeling that happens after a heavy dinner. So this whole carrot experiment taught me two things: 1) Three large carrots are sufficient enough for each meal as long as there is an adequate amount of water. 2) The cost of food is ridiculously expensive especially when it goes through and leaves your digestive system within 24 hours. I still have some carrots in the fridge that I need to blend up to make carrot juice soon. It has just been hard to even think about eating carrots after eating them for
fifty hours straight.
So I started unpacking all the boxes and furniture that I had in storage for one year. It is amazing how much nice stuff I have accumulated over the years. I finally have my desktop computer up and running and the monitor is much larger than I remember. I did buy a pretty slick wi-fi USB drive that is so small, I forget it is even attached to the machine. No more CAT5 or CAT6 wires running through the house! After using a tablet all this time, my computer feels so foreign. I am determined to get better at drawing directly on screen with my old wacom tablet, but the learning curve is pretty high compared to drawing on the iPad.
Other than that, I have been spending the last two weeks driving, going to the beach, and hanging poolside. I am trying to fix my uneven tan lines I started earlier in the summer.
ozoneocean wrote:I finished the series. It isn't creepy what you mentined was one of the main points of the series. That these people are cold and have troulbe with interpersonal relationships even if they aren't with conditioned gun toting cyborgs. And just how do you define person? And what is condiditoned behavior and what isn't? Cultural conditioning? How much of our behaviro is conditioned like those cute little cyborgs that need to please everyone and just want a kind word? All kinds of stuff about childhood development and adult-child relationships going on that could get lost behind the guns. But then some readers only got the creepy doll fetish out of the Robofemoid series and didn't get the satire and insight into objectification versus empowerment and male-female relationships.
I still find it creepy.
You know that could be a Quackcast topic. Subtext and meaning in comics. Do your comics mean something more than just a story?
Red delicious. They can be huge but you have to live where they grow them. I love Granny Smiths the best. I grew up in apple country NJ with Red Delicious and MacKintosh orchards nearby in Colts Neck. I used to get full-size Granny Smith not the bite size ones you see imported from Washington and Australia. But the thing about exporting fruit, a lot of times growers keep the good stuff local and the bad stuff gets exported. Even if they tell you otherwise ain't necessarily true. I've been to local farm markets and seen these great huge firm tomatos and the same grower sells to the local supermarket and the tomatos are tiny and squishy (as opposed to juicy)
Skullbie wrote:I can confirm that Cynthia has gone to the great web in the sky: thanks for all the kind words guys.
She died as she lived- a spider
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That tumblr vid is hilarious. The righteous venom these people spew out reminds me of crazed religious extremism, but without the dress code. On second thoughts, they probably do have a dress code.
You're opressing my cisgengerality!
You know, apparently Mavel have made Thor a woman now. :)
I really do think the pro comic scene is totally fucked. They say that the idea is to be more open to female readers… no, it's absoloutely not. If they wanted that they would create a new character. They're falling back on their stupid old marketing tactics of strirring up controversy by messing with an established character to get the blogs buzzing and a few press inches.
Will it work? I don't care, I don't read that stuff… the transparency of the marketing ploy is anoying though. Mainstream pro comics seem to have to jump the shark on a pretty regular basis just to stay on people's rader hese days. That's pretty sad.
I heard something about that - from my 7yr old. The lack of vision and willingness to take a punt on something original is pretty depressing, a cynical marketing ploy as you say.
If they were serious about female readers they'd be studying the boom in young adult fiction, which is largely driven by female readers. I'm not saying we should have a slew of Twilight styled comics - there's plenty of good stuff out there as I've found from the books my daughter is bringing home. Hunger games was great, considering the hype - we need some heroines like that, not sex change superheroes.
Some would argue that sex-change super heroes is precisely what is needed. There is the whole subgenre of transgender supers so might be Marvel going for that. There are plenty of hardcore Norse female characters out there without changing the gender of Thor. Do it to appeal to the LBGTQ and upset the bloggers? Tempest in a teapot to get readers?
And whatever happened to Ms Marvel and She-hulk? They were great female characters. Why transgender unless it's to be transgender and specificially not female.
I think that the whole reason for people "crossplaying" characters like Thor is because it's transgressive and interesting, simply making the character female doesn't do anything at all to adress this aspect
I mean, when people go to watch a proffessional drag show, it's not because what they actually want to see is performers who ARE the gender being impersonated.
On a complete tangent from that, it reminds me of a discussion I had with my dad years and years ago… My dad is all about "real expereince" (as are most people).
Basically his idea that reading a book or watching a movie of some interesting expereince like traveling on a sailingship or scaling a high mountain can only ever be a pale, pathetic, distant reflection of the real thing (my words, not his), and not as "valid".
MY own contention is that the expereinces are different and non-comaprable, but both are equally valid: you get something very different from reading about an expereince as opposed to participating in it, and niether is superior to the other, they are different activities undertaken for different purposes.
-One example I gave was the expereince of voyaging on a sailing ship as crew, which I've done a couple of times- Reading about that sort of thing or watching in a movie is exciting and cool; watching that ship cut through the water, seeing the crew up high in the rigging furling sails, seeing the big ship tack an manouver to the wind, seeing the ships master issue orders and be obeyed, crew dashing about purposefully, hard at work etc.
-Doing it for real your perspective is completely different; you almost never see the ship swooping gracefully through the waves because you're always ON it. All that beautiful imagery is completely cut off from you. Working in the rigging is hard and exhusting. You don't get orders from the captain or master, you get them from the bosun or bosun's mate… And really the most fun times tou have are eating in the galley or a few snatched moments lying on the deck in the sun doing nothing but staring up at the sky.
ozoneocean wrote:At least they're being a little more honest about it this time. 'Black spider-man' was initially advertised as a complete reboot - what did it end up being? The first issue was an unintelligable flashback to peter parkers deal with the devil or whatever the fuck. Basically you could not read that issue without knowing the last 40 clusterfuck issues of amazing spiderman. Last thing i've heard was they made miles so retarded everyone hates him and brought back peter. gj
You're opressing my cisgengerality!
You know, apparently Mavel have made Thor a woman now. :)
I really do think the pro comic scene is totally fucked. They say that the idea is to be more open to female readers… no, it's absoloutely not. If they wanted that they would create a new character. They're falling back on their stupid old marketing tactics of strirring up controversy by messing with an established character to get the blogs buzzing and a few press inches.
Will it work? I don't care, I don't read that stuff… the transparency of the marketing ploy is anoying though. Mainstream pro comics seem to have to jump the shark on a pretty regular basis just to stay on people's rader hese days. That's pretty sad.
ow…
I really want to play Star Citizen. It's not exactly an MMO in a traditional sense. Rather, it's a large multiinstanced universe where players can dogfight their ships all they want. So why am I not able to play it?
Very high system requirements. Way too high for me to afford. I thought I bought a nice beefed up video card, but the required card for this game will set me back wayyyy too much. Then again the game is in development still so hopefully that will go down. Still need more RAM and CPU power. 2 cores and 4 gigabytes is not enough for this beast of a game. I think this is due to the game physics engine it uses though.
Dogfighting promises not be like other space sims. You take into account your ships mass, inertia, and your ships own engine power to make your ship go anywhere.
Even better, there's TRADING!!! I can make traderuns like I used to in Freelancer and your own surivival depends on your own skills (and internet bandwidth) instead of your gear like in EVE Online.
Since I don't like dropping actual currency in any game, I'll just have to put up with working for someone else 'til I have enough ingame currency to buy my own… And the ship selling for $35 (the cheapest) looks really cheap, though it does come with 6 months of insurance (if it's destroyed you get a new one until the 6 month is up).
As for comics… I stopped reading anything from the Big Two a long time ago. Superhero comics are nice, but there's too much…. superhero in those… And they like jumping the shark just as much as trainers love Pikachu, Charmander, and Jigglypuff…
Oh, my desktop computer was giving me quite the scare yesterday when I thought it was on its last legs. I even had my bow ready for a Nordic Viking-style burial at sea. The problem I encountered was that each time I turned on the machine, the monitor would start up for a split second, blink off, then say the phrase "monitor going to sleep". After finally waking it up long enough to revert to an earlier update point, it shut down again with red vertical lines across the screen. I was devastated because this computer has been my most powerful to date and has become an extension of me.
Well, after unplugging all the cords and falling asleep, it turned on this morning long enough for me to install the lastest update of anti-virus software. Go figure that after one year of not using my computer, my anti-virus software was so obsolete that the machine was susceptible to all sorts of malware on the Internet. Fingers crossed that no more problems come up so I can start using it for webcomics!
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Now here is a serious question for the users with more life experience–At what age do people stop playing the one-upping game of trying to be the best/most successful person in the room?
I believe that life is a series of priorities and there are certain goals to be reached in order to feel accomplished like getting a degree/advanced degree, starting a career, buying a house or a car, yadda yadda. It is ridiculous to try to boast about anything because people prioritize differently and what may be important to one person might be unimportant to the next. I have come across so many people in their late-twenties who have been playing this game of "topping" others and it is exhausting trying to entertain them because it is all relative. I am quickly learning the benefits of hanging out with individuals that elevate self-esteem versus anchors who do the exact opposite.
For some, it probably will never stop. My evidence? Well… cars, sports, computers, and in online games where you grind your life away trying to get a sword that's larger than the ones wielded by the warriors around you and perhaps shoulderpads that are even more spikey and gigantic… Some people have this really bad need to stand on a pedastal that's higher than anyone else.
Not something I would want. That attracts more attention than I'd want…
Well, found out I can upgrade my CPU to an AMD FX 8350… with 8 cores. Flashed my motherboard bios in prepration. I'm not sure if there are any programs that will use all 8 cores… except for Star Citizen… But the 4 ghz clock speed makes me think it's the best I can get. I can probably get it and not have to worry about upgrading this thing for a decade. Now if only I can figure out a way to keep those Intel fanboys away from me who keep telling the more expensive Intels are MUCH MORE SUPERIOR for gamers. They're probably right, but I'm not that rich…
@kawaii - I think people compete and it's in our genetic makeup to do so, to better ourselves and measure where we fit into our society. We compete for betterment in our careers and for mates…
I guess that's not what you're talking about though; you're probably right to connect people who boast or try to one-up others with the self esteem thing. People puff themselves up to feel better, and it's maybe the less mature who do it in a graceless and materialistic way that makes you roll your eyes or feel unhappy around them. It's understandable. If I'm getting what you're saying, these are folks who suck up the emotional energy around them rather than adding to it.
We've all got some narcissism in us, and everyone has potential to grow out of that behavior…but choosing who you do and don't spend time with is probably the best defense. Be diplomatic (if these folks are fixtures in your work or social circle, that is) but don't burn your time and energry on 'em!
And maybe watch out for sabotage from those types in social/work situations.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:Never for some, much sooner for others. And those that have given it up love to one up you by bragging how they've given it up. Smile, agree how wise they were and talk about the better grades your kids get in school even if you have no kids.
Now here is a serious question for the users with more life experience–At what age do people stop playing the one-upping game of trying to be the best/most successful person in the room?
Or you could do what I do and live a life of hopeless self-denigration. Yes, you are so superior to me and I'm just so utterly worthless. In fact I'm more wothless than any other worthless person! Yeah even there you're one-upping him. Quite a conumdrum.
It's an inescapable part of dealing with humans. Find a good way to cope with it and maintain your own well-being. People are who they are and it's not your duty to change their behavior. See it as a game and enjoy playing it without concern for the outcome because your ego is just fine without one-upping anyone about anything.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
Now here is a serious question for the users with more life experience–At what age do people stop playing the one-upping game of trying to be the best/most successful person in the room?
When they are dead, or are no longer in possesion of their mental faculties - whichever comes first. What you describe here is pretty much the whole basis of human society, as far as I can tell.
I think it's traditionally the poorer and/or less educated who were more known for that. When people from more humble beginings aquired wealth they would show it off in a very symbolic and superficial fashion- a lot of hiphop is based around that: Look at my ferari, look at my Louis Viotton handbag, look at my "fat stacks"…
It's also something that Americans were pretty known for in the old days, hahaha, there's a lot of British humour written around that trope in books and films: the "brash" American boasting away… I don't know how real that was though.
The more cultured way to go was not to mention any advantage, to down play achievements and successes.
That's pretty old fashioned now though.
It's something you see in clothing styles: "Expensive" brands that apeal to the brash "one-uppers" are ones that promenantly display their gouche labels and designer names. Whereas truly highquality clothes and things would have very subtle, discrete, non-visible labeling.
Many people will always boast about jobs, success, degrees, cars, grandchildren, holidays, houses etc. The polite thing to do is congratulate them on it (even though you porbably don't care a fig), and let them prattle away.
Good thing your grand kids are such awfully decent fellows!
You know, the funny thing about bragging is that if you don't do it much, you fall out of practise and it's very, very hard to pick it up again.
And if your feilds of interest are at variance with that of most of your peers it's pretty pointless anyway!
"Look at this great pair of vintage hussar trousers! Fishtail back, buttons for bracers, flared cuffs, leather stirups with original brass buckles, and four real silver bullion double vellum stripes that I sewedon myself!" :D
"…wha…?" -_-
T_T
ozoneocean wrote:Depends oftimes on the audience: If you were talking to costumers they'd all praise you and hold you in great esteem. The same as talking about model kits to non-builders can result in blank stares. But sometimes show them a built kit and they're like "it's so cool" I get that from contractors coming to the house. The plumber ocmes in and marvels "Did you build all those?"
You know, the funny thing about bragging is that if you don't do it much, you fall out of practise and it's very, very hard to pick it up again.
And if your feilds of interest are at variance with that of most of your peers it's pretty pointless anyway!
"Look at this great pair of vintage hussar trousers! Fishtail back, buttons for bracers, flared cuffs, leather stirups with original brass buckles, and four real silver bullion double vellum stripes that I sewedon myself!" :D
"…wha…?" -_-
One of these days I'll start replying "Yes, you want one?" Disperse the built kits to people all over because I'm running out of space. I offered one lawyer who represented me a SBD Dauntless model because he was into the Battle of Midway but he declined. Heck I'd have given him kits of all three US carriers and representations of the US carrier planes for a job well done representing me. Now he's a judge and he tried my workman's comp case.
You know I hate the signature editor for the forums. It hasn't worked right since the site changed names. Can't get thelinks to work and I played with the images for an hour to try to get them in line but no go. Guess I gotta resize them.
Will he have his old name back? :)
Finally got a tablet. Pretty low cost too. The Samsung Galaxy 4, 7 inch screen version. Not sure how it stacks with other tablets, but at least I can say I'm finally catching up with my nieces (they all own their own tablets). Now if I can figure out how to use this thing…
Any recommendations for art software? I think this quad CPU thing runs Android or something…
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