I must be living in the proverbial cave…I think I've heard of Adele but never heard any of her tunes. Just noticed a parody of one of her songs on YouTube and thought "oh…this Adele must be popular." (I didn't watch it though; I'm ok in the cave).
Good analogy with the Star Wars fans, Genejoke. Much as I enjoy movie forums, I don't care for the Star Wars online community…way too nerdy. And I LIKE nerdiness. But I'm psyched for the movie! Should be a good time.
I wanted a grey haired Chewbacca so much…but that's ok, haha.
EDIT: I don't mean the online community here; DD is the best! It's elsewhere where it's so nitpicky and…y'know…insane.
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That's impressive Banes. I thought I was doing well but I have to bow to your superior caving skills.
I'm in something of a pothole as far as Star Wars goes on the other hand. I've seen the first three of course but nothing else and that is unlikely to change. I do know an ewok from ROTJ though, so I use that as an excuse - the franchise was never as good without her!
Are, cave living… It was years before I found out what a Kardashian was and even then that was only from parodies and it seriously took me a while to work of the difference between them and the Deep Space 9 aliens of the same name. It is a nerdy cave.
I've never listened to Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber, I still don't know any gaga songs apart from a snippet of pokerface I heard once… Oh and "Telephone" which I know from an amazing cover by Pomplamoose.
Actually I know more tunes and current popsingers through paroday and covers than I do from direct expereince! The comedy stuff is usually always better too which is telling.
For example, recently Wierd Al Yankovich did a whole bunch of comedy covers of songs I didn't know and they were awesome. Foil was my favourite. I since found out that was a "Lourde" song. I listened to it and was disapointed. :(
Also, stuff by The Lonley Island, who's comedy songs aren't direct parodies but often in the style of what's popular at the time. Theose are always very good.
Aaaaand Epic Rap Battles of History. Those sometimes have pop figures parodied. That's how I learned of that guy who does dubstep… Skrillex
(god I had to look up all the electronic music styles in wiki to find the name of that style and try and find that guy's name. The whole thing was wiped from my memory).
The fact that you rarely hear any Taylor Swift is actually a good thing. I used to get into close call accidents when Bad Blood was released because I was fumbling trying to turn off my car radio. The girl is whiny and the tunes are too catchy, I know most of the lyrics to her songs unintentionally.
"Christmastime is here. Happiness and cheer!"
I am getting into the holiday spirit, and I really needed it this year. It was really fun walking around searching for the right gifts. I picked out a cool set of Minecraft animal figurines for the girl I tutor. My coworkers are also doing a Secret Santa gift exchange this weekend, and Friday is the annual holiday party with a potluck and White Elephant gift exchange. I have been trying to figure out the best item to bring for under $5. Any suggestions?
Choclate is a good general gift. I got my Co-workers all choclate.
Though I was just now thinking that it would be HILLARIOUS if you sent everyone you knew Taylor Swift albums- mp3s, CDs, Records, Tapes… Oh god HAHAHAHA!
Nah, too expensive even as a joke and you'd be giving extra money to her for no reason.
Now a comic character doing that would probably be better. Penelope from Typical Strange! She has to do this. BANES! Get on the case man!
I did the whole Lindt chocolate for coworkers five years ago and those sweets add up! I ended up spending around $30 for ten people. (LOL)
According to the Gen Discussion/Rant Thread from last year around this time, it was just Bravo's birthday about two weeks ago. It must have coincided with the Caribbean cruise vacation. So once again, HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY, Bravo!!
I'll take all those Taylor Swift records as belated birthday presents. I love her. And I can listen to Adele without any side effects. It's a girl singing the blues with a great set of pipes. It beats the vast empty waste land of the remainder of the pop music scene. It's so bad that I find myself listening to Country -western because many songs are already a parody of themselves. Really a song about a plastic cup?
And then there's Classical. Ah such wonderful fulfilling music. And Opera is full of ladies singing the blues just in Italian or French and I don't know the words.
I know what you mean Bravo, but there's also a point where you get a bit cheesed off by stuff that's SUPER promoted at you through all chanels of the media so that it finds you out no matter how much of it you shut away from youself.
The thing is that a lot of the stuff that reaches that status and gets the promotion GETS there because it was actually pretty good to begin with. like Led Zeppelin, Cream, that sort of thing. Or it gets a really good clean-up job so it's made into something fantastic. Mo-town happend that way, the Beatles, Kate Bush and so on.
The stuff that tarnishes it are all the masses of crap that get pushed to the top and promoted because they look or sound a little like something that is generally popular, and the crap munching producers and promoters like that cockmonkey arsehole Simon Cowel can fake them into being hits using promotional tricks, money, and manipulation of the media - which simply cheapens ALL pop-music without exception.
-not the tricks and maipulation, rather the fact that something was faked into the same status as something great. Like:
"You like that awesome authentic band Orange? Well you'll LOVE this new band called Blorange that we're promoting, they're made up entirely of sexy models!!!!"
Everything popular, no matter how legitimately great and fabulous it is, gets indelibly infected by the hard to remove, persistent smell of catshit that the Cowelites smeared accross the industry.
From Pink Floyd to Leonrd Cohen the suspiscion of the smell is there almost imperceptably… "ewwww, popular, ewwwww, mainstream… EWWWW! People like it so it MUST be bad, it's all the same."
Conversely, that makes things are are obviously less polished, stuff that's a bit rougher and cruder (singers that really aren't very good, musicians that aren't very skilled etc), seem SO much better than they are because they're more "authenic", more "real", less fake and artificial…
Which is mainly a psychological thing, but it works. And if it works well enough that TOO gets subsumed into the mainstream.
It gave rise to Punk, which got polished into Billy Idol… Rap, which got polished into horrible R&B, It gave rise to the Grunge and Alt rock movement, which got polished into Filter, Creed, Limp Bizket…
Yeah Billy Joel wrote a song about that and I say the same thing: it's all rock and roll to me. It's a business and that means promotion and promotion and popularity out quality nearly every time. When doing a pitch they always want to know what is it like and the first step is market research to figure out how to package and promote. Quality don't matter only catching a fad and riding a wave of popularity.
After all I have done so many things and been greeted by the chorus of crickets and someone else copies my idea and it's the most original thing ever.
True.
It's best not to bust a gut trying to make something you think people will like.
But also, you can't ever just sit back and expect people to realise how good somehing is and have them find it themselves.
What you have to do is learn to SELL the thing you've made in a way that's understandable and apealing, then get out there and promote the buggery out of it till you manage to grab that particular audience who LOVES that particular thing. :)
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Drawing at the moment and getting very introspective.
I just saw the action packed anime Spriggan. The charracter arives in Istalbul by plane, but it's quite old fashioned there with people in traditional clothes and old cars and souks and… Well, let's just say that Istanbul hasn't looked that way since the 1940s. Very stupid version of modern Turkey.
But that reminded me of a guy I met there. He was one of those steely eyed people with a thousand yard stare who shakes your hand in a rock grip. looks right throuh you and doesn't say a word… till you get uncomfortable and start to bable a bit.
Thinking back on that, and then thinking of all the other steely eyed people I've ever known who do exactly that I realised something: All those people without exception were idiots. When I got to know them I found they never had much to say because they just weren't very bright. They were unreliable, foolish, and inept. Basically the steely look was all they had.
You automatically think they're judgig you with a wise, knowing mind, but the reality is hat they can't think of anything to say so they're just stalling for time while their brain tries to get around to understanding langauge again.
Same sort of phenomenon with cats: They stare with seemingly wise, knowing eyes, but in reality there's not much going on behind those looks. Much as I LOVE cats, they have no secret thoughts beyond the best way to steel your chair.
ozoneocean wrote:Is it something like this?
Thinking back on that, and then thinking of all the other steely eyed people I've ever known who do exactly that I realised something: All those people without exception were idiots. When I got to know them I found they never had much to say because they just weren't very bright. They were unreliable, foolish, and inept. Basically the steely look was all they had.
You automatically think they're judgig you with a wise, knowing mind, but the reality is hat they can't think of anything to say so they're just stalling for time while their brain tries to get around to understanding langauge again.
Same sort of phenomenon with cats: They stare with seemingly wise, knowing eyes, but in reality there's not much going on behind those looks. Much as I LOVE cats, they have no secret thoughts beyond the best way to steel your chair.
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or more like this?
tupapayon wrote:It's Blue Steel…!!
ozoneocean wrote:
Thinking back on that, and then thinking of all the other steely eyed people I've ever known who do exactly that I realised something: All those people without exception were idiots. When I got to know them I found they never had much to say because they just weren't very bright. They were unreliable, foolish, and inept. Basically the steely look was all they had.
You automatically think they're judgig you with a wise, knowing mind, but the reality is hat they can't think of anything to say so they're just stalling for time while their brain tries to get around to understanding langauge again.
Same sort of phenomenon with cats: They stare with seemingly wise, knowing eyes, but in reality there's not much going on behind those looks. Much as I LOVE cats, they have no secret thoughts beyond the best way to steel your chair.
Is it something like this?
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or more like this?
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Or is it Magnum…?!!
My thought about that all knowing cat stare was always "you are just lucky you're so big or I 'd tear you up. Rip, rip and munch, munch. I'm going to sleep now because I can get away with sleeping 23 out of 24 hours dumb human. And when I wake up my water dish better be full again. If you were rodent man i'd show you. I'm going to sleep now. Walk in a circle here to get comfy. .."
Tupapyon- sort off! LOVE Zoolander too, can not WAIT for the sequel. Who cares about Star Wars? Give me Zoolander!
This is a better example:
There is noting going on behind that gaze. When someone looks like this it's likley they're contemplating a bowel movement… Actually very little babies sort of get a look like that before they crap themselves.
@Bravo- That's the sort of thing people atribute to cats but it's nothing so advanced really. Cats are the same as dogs. As they gaze at you with lowered lids they're thinking "Cushion is warm… I like warm. I sleepy now… I go sleep."
Where cats are smarter than dogs is that they usually have a better sense of self preservation, and that's as far as it goes. I luv 'em, but your average raven or parrot is way smarter than a cat.
Heh, heh, I'm really not giving cats any more intelligence than you are. I just give them a touch of resentment as the mighty predator forced to depend on a hairless ape for food and shelter. Kind of like Bucky katt from the comic "get fuzzy"
Ravens and crows even recognize the "Hail Odin!" salute. ;-) Hail them all as you never know when one carries the eye of Odin.
Call Me Tom wrote:Popcorn butter, waste salt and Coca-Cola syrup. It is a theater after all.
I cut my finger on some broken glass what was in the medical wast bin behind the operating theaters.
You have the cancerAIDS now. Better get vaccinated before it turns into killerherpes and you become a buttzombie.
It's not fun. Seriously. When it happened to Bravo and me we cried for days.
If I were you I'd be slurping the strongest antibiots by now and dipping my hand in bleach.
ozoneocean wrote:It was terminal for me. If it wasn't for the special reanimator treatment at Miskatonic University I'd still be dead, as opposed to undead .
You have the cancerAIDS now. Better get vaccinated before it turns into killerherpes and you become a buttzombie.
It's not fun. Seriously. When it happened to Bravo and me we cried for days.
If I were you I'd be slurping the strongest antibiots by now and dipping my hand in bleach.
I am getting ready for the annual holiday party for my work and I want to be festive, so I pulled out the red dress that looks as new as the day I bought it. Today marks the first day of this year that I am going to be wearing red and black. I will be humming Red and Black from Les Mis in my head the whole night.
Also, I have just prepared gorgeous all vegetable collard wraps for the pot luck and I am very proud of them. Potlucks for women tend to turn into a competitive sport, and I am hoping my contribution delivers.
Our image server is offline so all our images on the site are showing as broken links.I apologise for that. Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to fix it right now. These things always happen at the very worst time: weekends.I've emailed Brian Altounian who has access to our Amazon S3 servers where our images are hosted because that's where the issue is. That's all I can do for now. I will look for other ways to contact him.
The problem is fixed now and our images will work fine! YES
I sweated many buckets and sat on my comp with about 15 tabs open tryng to contact people through all of social media, working through help lines and account pages, ringing people on skype etc but it's finally done now after 4 hours of work.
It means we're going to have to pay another $40-$50 a month for our imag hosting now that Brian isn't handling that. Our advertising will JUST cover that but we can't save any cash for programmers… So that means we will HAVE to raise all of he payments for fixes ourselves through Kickstarter or I'll just have to take on more freelance work…
But whatever. The site is working and we control the image server fully. YES! We didn't have that before and we do now so that means fixes in future will be easier and we may even be able to get the images OFF of there and onto our Linode server, which will be cheaper.
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