Those beard toboggan hats… I'll never that out of my head!! Now I have a migraine haha!
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kawaiidaigakusei wrote:And you know you could get yarn that's a perfect match for your facial hair even down to a few gray strands. lol. I prefer to look ninja-SAS-esque with my watchcap and balaklava. Every year someone says something to the effect "I didn't know security hired ninjas."
@ozoneocean-
There is a simple remedy for that empty feeling you have on your face where the experimental beard used to be. Just get a crocheted wool beard/hat combo!
hehehe… I just got a wierd idea I want to try when I can finally buy Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (the free version of this software is usable, but is severely limited and will only publish in HTLM5). How about a Five Nights at Freddy's clone? Except in full daylight in the offices of Drunkduck? Your mission? Guard the fridge behind you and keep on the lookout for a green duck wearing a white shirt. Otherwise your beer party will be ruined for the weekend and you could get fired. :)
I've had a grand total of zero submissions so far, so in all likelihood whoever sends me something by tomorrow will automatically be the winner. :P
Kroatz wrote:Musta been! That was so weird…my thumb seems to be okay now, although I definitely wasn't imagining that because it's still slightly sore. I think I must have been flailing in my sleep and hit it on the metal bars on my bed, and that probably woke me up.
Thumb Vampires.
Skullbie wrote:
So I havent been in the webcomics scene in a while and weatherby was complaining about the trend of ‘girls with social anxiety who are tired’ comics. I'm like wtf thats oddly specific and he just starts clicking the random button on taptastic. Not even trying to find them:
http://sarahcandersen.com/
http://tapastic.com/episode/111052
http://tapastic.com/episode/71442
http://tapastic.com/episode/105586
http://tapastic.com/episode/109016
These are all by different people . Like I guess this is the ‘in’ thing on taptastic.
I think they might be based on the success of that Sarah C Andersen one. Hers has been around for some time, and a few of her comics have been sent around a lot on the internet.
I just want to crawl under a rock for a little while…I'm at the point right now where I have so much on my plate that I just kind of feel anxious all the time, and none of the things are optional. And it's really important that I take care of my mental health, so this is not a great situation for me. When I get overly anxious about what needs to be done I tend to freeze up and stop doing what I need to do, too. Good job, brain. Nice solution.
I know that feeling hippie, I recently had a nervous breakdown and I'm still not fully recovered, although i am back at work now.
New BASO page is up with guest art from Banes. Go look, NSFW though. you are warned. not majorly bad but enough to get a warning.
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/BASO/
The provious page has art from Skreem too.
I just had an hours long conversation with my core group of college friends on Google Hangouts earlier tonight. Several of us had big updates to share including one friend who is probably going to deliver her first baby next week and another friend who is in preparations to get married next month. The best part of all is that we still share that common bond of having all been students at one time at the same school regardless of all the milestones each of us has experienced.
It also validated that Time heals all trials and tribulations between friends. We brought up a topic tonight that was a source of a ton of inner friendship tension that we have not spoken about in detail for two years. The way it was brought up tonight was in a light-hearted manner and all the people who were present during the traumatic event were able to laugh about the sheer obsurdity that happened that night. It was a fun night and I really enjoyed catching up with my group of friends.
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This afternoon I discovered a newly open Game and Comic Shop less than a mile away from my house. In fact, it is in an area that I frequent daily. I thought it was going to be a typical manga/anime cute shop judging from the outside facade, but after walking in, I saw shelves of multi-sided dice, a wall of board games, a wide variety of card game packs, and an empty room with long folding tables set up for weekly game board nights or card game night. I was floored. I had no idea this type of hobby shop would even exist in my hometown.
I wonder if it would be possible to find out if there is a community of people who enjoy making comics in my area. I think this game store would be the perfect location for 24-hour Comics Day if that is still a thing. I would really want to be part of a group of people who met up to draw comic-related art all day. I was in a type of club like that in University once and it was one of the most intriguing group settings of a bunch of eclectic individuals partaking in an antisocial hobby while sitting in a social place.
Nice beard hats! When it's cold enough here something like that could be interesting. :D
I could always get away with using an actual fake beard too… if I ever go crazy.
@Hippie- try and find others to take on the responsibilities temporarilly. Everyone needs a break from time to time and no matter how critical the task other people can usually handle it if they have enough info. You and Kawaii were GOD-sends with all the stuff you've done on DD as co-admins!
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Long term friends… I gradually stopped meeting up with all my long term friends from uni, though I did stay Facebook friends with serveral. In the last couple of years though I've caught up again with a few. Surprisingly they haven't changed too much, just become more "Them" I suppose. I mean, the things that were distinct about their personalities and made them notable have become stronger. Exactly the same with myself I'd imagine!
But god-damn it though, I can become so STIFF and formal in social situations, even with friendsI've known a long time. I don't know what it is, but mentally I just stiffen up sometimes and find myself reduced to formal responses to conversation, it's embarrasing.
All passion and fun removed from my speach, just a stiff, distant, manner.
That happened today while hanging with an old friend, his wife and baby son down at the beach. Ironically that is pretty much how HE used to be in a lot of ways! Now he's become way more passionate and warm (and a little bit dumber), and there I am being so wooden, intelectual and distant.
ozoneocean wrote:
@Hippie- try and find others to take on the responsibilities temporarilly. Everyone needs a break from time to time and no matter how critical the task other people can usually handle it if they have enough info. You and Kawaii were GOD-sends with all the stuff you've done on DD as co-admins!
Wish I could - DD stuff is just about the only thing I can hand off to other people right now, and it's not really one of the big stressors. The main things are doing two final papers, studying for and writing two final exams, and finding a summer job.
I'm glad we've been able to help! I don't know how you kept things going on your own for so long.
HippieVan wrote:Oh God… Papers…!! I so feel your pain…! My first semester in grad-school I literally had every single hour of every day mapped out to allot my time - it was that tight!! …for three whole months!!! The only solace anyone can give you… that tunnell really does have an end, and there really is light at the end of it!!
ozoneocean wrote:
@Hippie- try and find others to take on the responsibilities temporarilly. Everyone needs a break from time to time and no matter how critical the task other people can usually handle it if they have enough info. You and Kawaii were GOD-sends with all the stuff you've done on DD as co-admins!
Wish I could - DD stuff is just about the only thing I can hand off to other people right now, and it's not really one of the big stressors. The main things are doing two final papers, studying for and writing two final exams, and finding a summer job.
I'm glad we've been able to help! I don't know how you kept things going on your own for so long.
KimLuster wrote:
Oh God… Papers…!! I so feel your pain…! My first semester in grad-school I literally had every single hour of every day mapped out to allot my time - it was that tight!! …for three whole months!!! The only solace anyone can give you… that tunnell really does have an end, and there really is light at the end of it!!
Ugh, yep. I don't even mind writing papers, but deadlines are the worst! Thanks, though - it does help to remind myself every so often that things WILL calm down…eventually…
Actually, this is probably the busiest I'll be for at least a couple years. I'll only have to take three courses next year to graduate (plus directed readings over the summer) so that should be a little bit calmer. Still hard work, but hopefully less omg how am I going to get this all done. And then I think I'm going to take a year off before more school.
Poor Hippie. I hated that aspect of work at uni… Well I actually loved it too I suppose. Having every second of your time have to count like that and being so massively focussed felt pretty good. I mean it was always exhausting and draining but also exhilarating.
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I've shared more of Welcome to NHK and it's just as good as Kawaii said! The poor guy… Falls in with a suicide cult, gets addicted to online gaming, gets conned by a pyramid scheme… Drags his friends into it. It's hilarious and loveable. Such a pathetic character :D
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I fiiiiiiinally finished the hussar pic I was doing:
http://ozoneocean.deviantart.com/art/Hussar-finne-521555522
YayYay!
Now I'm working on a Pinky model for the DD fashion show.
Noooo, not them D:
Their whole themed album came out some time after I got my hussar stuff done, I was very irritated that popculture was revisiting the hussar theme (more that just My Chemical Romance) just as I as putting my masterful outfit together. Unlike them and their copying from each other my kick-off point was seing a raggedy old antique hussar jacket on e-bay and missing out on it.
I think the theme with their album was a sort of dark marching band, so a bit of a different take on the idea.
BUT, you're very right in that they have the whole back and silver thing AND the death theme that would remind you of a totenkopf hussar.
ozoneocean wrote:I've also been watching Welcome to the NHK. It is very relatable and mirrors a lot of my own life experience. I lived a lot of that or at least found myself in similar circumstances. Me and my interesting but pathetic life. True pathos. Except you don't need three doctors to get that many mood-altering drugs. Anti-depressant, modd stablilizer and anti-anxiety to help you sleep is the standard cocktail for someone with depression and social anxiety.
I've shared more of Welcome to NHK and it's just as good as Kawaii said! The poor guy… Falls in with a suicide cult, gets addicted to online gaming, gets conned by a pyramid scheme… Drags his friends into it. It's hilarious and loveable. Such a pathetic character :D
I also watched Generation War again (German title: Unsere Mutter Unsere Vater) A recent German miniseries about World War II. If you can stand 4 and a half hours of subtitled German definielty worth a watch. It has some of the best depictions of Geman World War II infantry uniforms (that is what they really looked like) and a cool minor detail for period vehicle fanatics. The German vehicles before 1943 are shown in grey and after 1943 in sand, brown, green camouflage as is COMPLETELY accurate. For once. And wartime German uniforms with plain pockets, field grey collars, dull colored insignia and gaiters. Hey you doing WWII comics take note!
bravo1102 wrote:Yes, Bravo, nice to see you on the NHK train. Sometimes I suspect that the whole series is a cautionary tale geared toward a person who watches too much anime in the form of an anime (almost like giving an addict a remedy in the form of a drug). It makes me wonder if the entire show itself is a conspiracy created by the NHK to help people who deal with similar issues addressed in the story.
I've also been watching Welcome to the NHK. It is very relatable and mirrors a lot of my own life experience.
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I went on a more challenging walk than usual yesterday that involved multiple steep hills, crossing a bridge over a freeway, and passing through neighborhoods I have never been on foot. My main goal was to walk to the pier from my house and return before sundown and I was successful. Few things compare to the feeling of standing at the far edge of the pier and staring out at the grand Pacific Ocean and its vast openness. The water was aquamarine with a more greenish hue accompanied by a stark blue sky. On my way home, I stood at the highest point of a hillside and watched the afternoon glow of the sunset cast on the sides of the Camp Pendleton mountain range in the distance and it was perfection.
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I caught James Corden's debut on The Late Late Show before falling asleep last night. He seems like a very friendly and personable fellow, which is a good thing. His show just seems to have too much energy and loud noises for its time slot and would probably only feed my insomnia if I stayed up late to watch. I will probably be going to bed at a reasonable time now. I still really miss Craig Ferguson + Geoff Peterson. Ferguson's Late Late Show had a formula that really worked for me.
Well, just managed to buy Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (Standard Edition). As I've worked with its grandfather program, Klik 'n Play this should be a breeze to use. Now maybe I can make a game similar to this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhwIPPCQeY
It's an old NES game I played long ago when I had a working Famicom. However, this time the game I make will have Drunduck characters in it. %)
If I remember the original game correctly, some entity was invading Konami's game universe and kidnapping its characters. The two characters available in the game (Konami Man and Konami Woman) are tasked with rescuing them. As you do you gain access to use them and their abilties as well. And you get to fly their famous ships at the time (Vic Viper from Gradius and Twinbee from the Twinbee shooter game). That was a fun game to play. :)
Oh… one of the bosses creeps me out. He's the one with very long spine…
James Corden was great in Gavin and Stacey and even better in Horne and Corden!
Gavin and Stacy was a fun story about a relationship progressing to married life between the English Gavin and Welsh Stacey and all the problems and hassels that ensued with the little culture clash and the commuting… the side plot with Corden's character and his kickarse ladyfriend was fantastic.
Horne and Corden was a fantastic sketch comedy series, where Corden stars with Horne who played Gavin in Gavin and Stacy.
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I've been limiting my exersise to the mornings because it's been too hot here… but it's cooled off a bit now so I'm doing a proper job of it! Yesterday I just went for it, then even though I was buggered I decided to shift around the furniture in my office, taking the big TV off the wall, sticking it on my desk so I could attach a new 5.1 sound thing to it, then spend ages under the desk rearanging cords and cleaning up the spaghetti a bit.
I was SUPER buggered at the end of it but it was worth it, the room WORKS now. The sound is better too. The whole office looks bigger and I even cleaned up the awful tangle of things on the desk that connect to my laptop.
But now I have a big, empty non-fuctional firplace that's open and no longer cooncealed by the TV… what to put in there?
ozoneocean wrote:One thing I hate is we still have to deal with cord charging. I mean we're sending people to mars and have a bionic exosuit for fully paralyzed people and then you come home to your rubber wires like you're on a life support machine.
I've been limiting my exersise to the mornings because it's been too hot here… but it's cooled off a bit now so I'm doing a proper job of it! Yesterday I just went for it, then even though I was buggered I decided to shift around the furniture in my office, taking the big TV off the wall, sticking it on my desk so I could attach a new 5.1 sound thing to it, then spend ages under the desk rearanging cords and cleaning up the spaghetti a bit.
So coding is pretty fun. Like id say it's a 50/50 mix of super fun and super shitty. Here'smy main game screen.
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