Thread "2015 Rant/Share/General Discussion thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 1:11PM, Nov. 14, 2015

Yeah seeing some dumb ass posts online enquiry after Paris, but also a lot of reasoned ones too. Faith in humanity not all lost.

Posted at 2:11PM, Nov. 14, 2015

Honestly… I pray for the people of France. This is just terrible. I can't really say anything as everything's been said already…

Well, I saw this video…

Flappy Bird Game in Seven Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXQQWjgJBg

And I think I'll try making one. Except it won't be a clone. I'll just take the basic mechanics and add to them.

And now I'm starting to wonder… what if Drunkduck expanded out from webcomics and also started hosting free (yet monetized via ads) indie games? Except it would be on a site with the old Drunkduck name?

Don't mind me. I'm just speculating…

Posted at 4:11PM, Nov. 14, 2015

"We have always been at war with Eastasia" – George Orwell, 1984.

Posted at 7:11PM, Nov. 14, 2015

I am currently at a theatre waiting with anticipation for Neil Gaiman to talk. I know this will be an incredible experience, so I am decked out in all black and his character, Death's, make up. I have no inhibitions because I will never see any of the other patrons again and I want to have a good time.

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 15, 2015

They should make a drug that motivates you. I don't need energy or focus or whatever, I just need something that gives me the ability to actually do what I'm supposed to be doing. This weekend I taught myself cyrillic rather than doing my Russian history homework.

Posted at 3:11AM, Nov. 16, 2015

I want to be back to work on a comic. Instead I am doing some models because that fits better in my work schedule. I'm trying to write but just can't get a handle on the next Tales of SIG installment and have been pumping out bits for Belle's Best. Well that's when there's a moment I can string three thoughts together. Which is not very often.

Instead I have been watching some anime a friend recommended. It's a bit of everything so long as it's a limited series and not some endless mainstream stuff that never ends. I just finished Code Geass and Gosick. I highly recommend Gosick as a good period detective series with a genius girl who sucks on a pipe to think.

Posted at 8:11AM, Nov. 16, 2015

That's fantastic Kawaii! I'm glad you dressed up! People should use any chance they get to do stuff like that.

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@Bravo- I may check out that Anime. Recently I've been getting through "Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad"
It's a pretty realistic take on a stuggling band and a highschool kid learning to play guitar and trying to get through school. A lot of the people's faces are drawn very realistically (not the main characters) so I suspect many of them are based on real people… They're actualy drawn to look Japanese!!!!
The depeiction of how people act is refreshingly realistic too. The girl the kid likes says "fuck it" a lot and acts just like a punk band girl would, when someone gets beaten up they don't get magically saved at the last minute or develop superpowers, they just get beaten up…
And for a show about bands and music, the music is actually GOOD! Not J-pop shit. It could be music by REAL strugling indie bands.

The only bit I hate about the show is it goes in for relationship melodrama.

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My new microphone worked GREAT for the Quackcast. Unfortunatly it was hot and I had my fan on the whole time which is ALL OVER the recording. I asked my fellow Quackcasters if they could hear it when we were recording and the said they couldn't… Damn…
The noise reduction function of Audacity gets rid of it but makes my voice sound more mechanical as a consequence. 1 set forward, one step back.

The Quackcast videos did NOT blody work, it stopped recording after less than a minute… This is three vids wasted now. UGH! These thngs can be worked out but it just takes so bloody long to do. Trial and error over a period of WEEKS and months is not workable.

Posted at 5:11AM, Nov. 17, 2015

I introduced one of my friends to GTO (great teacher Onizuka ) and he's hooked. Have to find the live action series as he says it's really good. And here I am, a 12 hours shift my port-a-potty taken away and a probably broken foot. Got to love this stuff.

Posted at 6:11AM, Nov. 17, 2015

Well, posted some of my game making activities on Facebook. And while at work I admired what I had done via a video on my tablet. However, one of my coworkers keeps telling me by using my creativity I am using company resources (that would be ME, the individual) to create a product and therefore I'm breaking some sort of company rule. But from what I read somewhere, I thought individuals CANNOT be treated as resources, and I'm not using any company knowledge to create any games either.

Is there any logic to the idea that the person as a whole is a company resource?

Posted at 7:11AM, Nov. 17, 2015

You're doing it on company time. You are being paid by your employer for your labor and ideally undivided attention to that labor. There are certain caveatsituations and exceptions die to the nature of your job. So at your supervisor 's discretion you could be occupying yourself doing other things so as long as you keep your main attention on your job.

For further elucidation on this topic consult an attorney.

Posted at 7:11AM, Nov. 17, 2015

Actually I'm doing this when I'm not working. On my own spare time at home. Unless my time at home belongs to the company as well… I made the video to show off at work, but any game creation I do is always at home. Yet I'm apparently using company resources even though the skills I'm learning are not related to security work.

Posted at 8:11AM, Nov. 17, 2015

No you are not unless you are using company materials to do your video. Like my using a company computer to type a script a ND company ink and paper to print it is using company resources. Otherwise under US labor law it is not. However if you are using company materials to show your video that is different. But if no expendable company goods are being used it is no big deal and this guy should turn his attention to more important matters.

Like it really matters in the grand scheme of things.

Posted at 10:11AM, Nov. 17, 2015

Considering how often I've had to work late at my company I consider their stuff mine! So I never do stuff on company equipment! ;)

Posted at 5:11PM, Nov. 17, 2015

Yeah Lonne, Like Kim and Bravo said you've NOTHING to worry about. Tell your co-worker to shove his fist up his arse to stop the stupid words blurting out, the man is obviously less than a moron.

Posted at 6:11PM, Nov. 17, 2015

I personally want to see him fired. But he'd have to do something real dumb and the boss has to catch him in the act. That's becoming more likely over time, though. Not that it matters. I will most likely be moving to the mainland USA sometime next year at the request of my younger brothers. Probably won't stay there forever though…

Posted at 7:11PM, Nov. 17, 2015

As long as your boss captures him self fisting, that'll do it :D

Posted at 7:11PM, Nov. 17, 2015

@Oz- Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad. I have not thought about that for ages! My old anime club used to air the fansubs during its original run from 2004-05. I thought some of the songs were delightful with their heavy use of Engrish. "Fuuuuuull Mooooooon Swaaaaay…"

@Bravo- The live action GTO gets a little dark, like one of the teachers is a stalker who has an entire wall filled with pictures of the female teacher love interest of Onizuka.

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I am starting to watch Inside Out. I will report back if Pixar decides to drown me in a puddle of my own tears for this film.

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Yup. Inside Out turned me into a blubbering mess. Thanks, once again, Pixar. Never fails to turn on the waterworks. This movie would have really applied to ten-year-old me when I moved from the Midwest to California and had to deal with all sorts of emotions.

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 17, 2015

I'm loving the dubbed version! Surprisingly enough the english voice actors are good singers and the english versions of the songs are pretty good. You'd think that with translation and stuff they'd be shiz, but no :)
The relationship stuff is reaaaaalllly weaaring at times though. Faaaarrrk.
Well waddaya know? There's a live action version of Beck! Wow.

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Well now I know how to get barcodes put on products. Add that to the knowledge stores I have. Also, it seems to be one of those few cases where it's way cheaper to deal with a third party than the actual issuing regulatory body. Usually those middlemen crop up for everything in order to snatch businessfrom the main agency that isn't allowed to advertise (they're so clever that way), and they're shitty- all charging way too much money and locking people in to contracts and things, (visa facilitators, shipping expiditers, URL sellers and so on), but this seems to go the other way.

Posted at 7:11AM, Nov. 18, 2015

Anime tends to throw in stalkers a lot or at least certain characteristics for the behavior. They seem to have made it a comic trope or a phase people go through as opposed to some great dark psychosis . Speaking as someone who went through an obsessive phase I can see their point.

Posted at 8:11AM, Nov. 18, 2015

bravo1102 wrote:

I can see their point.

Through your 200x telephoto lens and 50 pinhole spycams cleverly secreted at all sorts of angles in every room of the house? :)

Posted at 10:11AM, Nov. 18, 2015

ozoneocean wrote:
bravo1102 wrote:

I can see their point.

Through your 200x telephoto lens and 50 pinhole spycams cleverly secreted at all sorts of angles in every room of the house? :)

Yes, but that also includes free WiFi and satellite TV.

Posted at 7:11PM, Nov. 18, 2015

I'm currently working on marking the first major assignment for an intro history class. Oh man, they are worse than I expected. I find that I'm less annoyed by things like informal language or weak argumentation than I am by misspellings, grammar mistakes and citation errors. The former come with practice, so I can't be too tough on them, but the latter are just a matter of proofreading. There have been a few where the English is so bad that I went and checked the person's name to see if they might be an international student. So far all but one of those have had names like "Smith."

Assigning grades to not-so-good papers is tricky too. It's always obvious when you're reading an A paper, and then minor differences can make it an A- or A+, but knowing what a C paper looks like versus what a B paper looks like is kind of hard.

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This ad annoys me every time I see it on the site, because her bra is CLEARLY the wrong size. If the band of your bra is riding that far up your back, the band size is definitely too big. Plus like half of the side of her boob is exposed, so the cup size is definitely wrong as well. A tip for male artists: learn about boobs before you start drawing them. Talk to some girls, do some googling.

Edit: Now she'll be more comfortable.

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 18, 2015

Also, I just saw a thing saying that cow tipping is an urban legend because "cows don't sleep standing up" and "they can get up when then they fall over!" Uh, yeah. You don't tip a sleeping cow, you push over an awake cow. And then you run away really fast, because they get mad. Sometimes it's stupid kids being stupid who do it but mostly it's used as a prank ("That cow is totally sleeping! No, I swear, they sleep standing up! Push it over!") Obviously the person who wrote that never spent any time in rural Saskatchewan. Anyways, I hate it when the internet gets things half right and acts smarmy about it.

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 19, 2015

HippieVan wrote:

Assigning grades to not-so-good papers is tricky too. It's always obvious when you're reading an A paper, and then minor differences can make it an A- or A+, but knowing what a C paper looks like versus what a B paper looks like is kind of hard.

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This ad annoys me every time I see it on the site, because her bra is CLEARLY the wrong size. If the band of your bra is riding that far up your back, the band size is definitely too big. Plus like half of the side of her boob is exposed, so the cup size is definitely wrong as well. A tip for male artists: learn about boobs before you start drawing them. Talk to some girls, do some googling.

Edit: Now she'll be more comfortable.

OR just watch the anime Chu-bra. It actually goes over all of that within a cute story of a girl who wants to be a designer of women's underwear. Lots of boob jokes and fan service but all within a practical framework of getting the best fit and wear out of clothes.

Posted at 2:11AM, Nov. 19, 2015

HippieVan wrote:
A tip for male artists: learn about boobs before you start drawing them. Talk to some girls, do some googling.

They are too nervous to talk to girls and they already do way too much googling on the subject! I would recommend a cold shower and a course on structural engineering.