Thread "2016 Rant/Share/General Discussion Thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 7:01PM, Jan. 6, 2016

Better talk to Mother Nature about the rain. Seems she decided to raise it up a few lattitudes. I'm gettting a LOT of rain out here… O_O

Posted at 9:01PM, Jan. 6, 2016

As of the 6th, I've been a Drunk Duck member and webcomic author for 12 years!!! I completely forgot until Nick reminded me yesterday so I spent the entire day making my annual thank-you poster. Thank goodness for icy hot, I slathered it all over my arm, but my thumb inverted into the shape of my tablet pen! (I'm out of cotton balls so I couldn't bandange one to it like I usually do when I don't wanna give into pain like a TOTAL WIMP!)
Oh… maybe I should link that if anyone is curious… Here ya go
What's funny is I only remembered because my wedding anniversary is the day before, and i FORGOT THAT TOO, because I've just been nonstop working for weeks. ಥ﹏ಥ (by choice though work is never over!!)

Posted at 9:01PM, Jan. 6, 2016

I just saw that on Favebook Amelius!
Happy anniversary! Lovely pic if the gang in their super formal duds. I was wondering how long and how much work it would've taken to make that!

Posted at 2:01AM, Jan. 7, 2016

Great poster. Love those cast pictures artists do for special occasions.

Books. With coming in at 0600 these days watching TV or movies has become harder. So I've gone back to reading. I reread a pile of books I had forgotten I had and have started going to the library again. The first group of books caused a $3 fine because I forgot to renew them in my hectic schedule. I read a recent work on Lorenzo the Magnificent and Savaronla in early Renaissance Florence and another on England's King John written for the anniversary of Magna Carta. It supports the story from the cool movie Ironclad.
Now I am reading another book on the Norman Conquest.

Posted at 10:01AM, Jan. 7, 2016

Thanks both!! :D
It took me pretty much from 10:30 am to 11:40 pm before I just had to declare it finished with enough to post BEFORE the day was up! I miraculously even took a break to eat! (Usually I forget) but only because the gorilla-grip I keep on my pen when I have to draw faster forced me to take that break for a bit. It freckin hurts!
When i had advance warning (as in, wasn't so out of the loop pulling self-inflicted 16 hour work streaks that I remember what days are!) last year I pretty much included everyone on the poster. I was tempted to include the dead-dead ones too! Maybe one day…
I also had one I was drawing on posterboard but my cat destroyed it because the desk is in front of the window, and because it's an art desk it has that incline. He likes to slide down it. I can't leave art on it, so right now there's just laundry on it, but that'll end up on the floor too eventually thanks to this cat. There's just a pile of avalanched art supplies I need to pick up in front of it when I can be bothered to do more than comic work all day every day! (I'm procrastinating right now because my arm still hurts)

Posted at 12:01PM, Jan. 7, 2016

Congrats Amelius on the 12 years!! (and the wedding anni too). That's amazing, I love the duck and love seeing people stick to it for so long!

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 7, 2016

12 years… that's a long time. pretty much double my time here on the duck. well done for sticking with the duck through thick and thin.

Posted at 6:01PM, Jan. 7, 2016

*sigh* I didn't think it would take so long… I ordered a replacement PSP screen for my PSP (PlayStation Portable). Used ones in stores are VERY hard to find and the ones online tend to be very overpriced. Luckily, the replacement parts (not including the motherboard) are cheap. The backlit LCD screen itself is $15… which is not bad.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VEL34RA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Lots of videos on how to do this, such as this one…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXxbSicXp8

Only one slight problem… I will be getting that screen near the middle of the month (20-22 of January). It's gonna be a long wait for me as I was just getting into one of the games I got for Xmas…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EkAB0m0EgA

Oh, well… patience is a virtue, right?

Posted at 6:01AM, Jan. 8, 2016

Hey… I just realise 2016 make 12 years of Pinky TA on DD too!
I'm in great company with Amelius, with 10% of the pages…

I saw my sister today before she flies back home after an operation to remove kidney stones. I hung out with her and my dad. They're such a weird pair! They're always looking at their phones and they only time when they DO really talk is about 4x4s, truck engines, motors… Bloody hell. Nothing in common with these people anymore…

Posted at 7:01AM, Jan. 8, 2016

ozoneocean
they only time when they DO really talk is about 4x4s, truck engines, motors… Bloody hell. Nothing in common with these people anymore…

Sounds pretty interesting to me. But then with my over active mind most everything is interesting. At least you no longer live with them.

Posted at 8:01AM, Jan. 8, 2016

Talking about trucks was the ONLY thing that got them fired up. Army trucks, off-roading etc.
Then back to looking at phones and one word responses.
Strange people, not very whimsicale, and way more in comon with each other than me.

They're the sort of people who always complain about being short of cash and needing to borrow money and then go out and buy expensive meals every day and not even finish eating them. My sister was complaining about being broke and then wet and spent $40 on a crappy magazine, a book and some choclates at the airport shop- she's only going on a short 3 hour flight! Probably won't even read that stuff.

Posted at 8:01AM, Jan. 8, 2016

All I have to do is imagine my sister's reaction when my brother and I talk tanks and history.

Posted at 9:01AM, Jan. 8, 2016

I am not a fan of phones and texting in a social setting.

I was standing on a train platform enjoying a breakfast burrito when the train conductor tells me that it is a non-smoking platform. Then he noticed that I was not smoking and that it was a really cold morning and he mistakened the steam as cigarette smoke. Then he started apologizing.

It pays to be a square.

Posted at 10:01AM, Jan. 8, 2016

If I ever dare to discuss my writing or comic creation it is certain those I am addressing will retreat to their phones.

Maybe we should all face up to the fact that what we say just isn't as earth shatteringly important as we think it is and take the hint that we're just not that worth listening to. I know that my conversation is often boring and tedious and that many would rather hear themselves talk than me. Why do you think my marriage has lasted so long?

We have two ears and one mouth so we should listen at least twice as much as we speak.

Posted at 12:01PM, Jan. 8, 2016

What a weird thing to say Bravo… Old Bravo crazy time again. Chill and take your meds man ;)

Speaking of trains Kawaii- when the train finally got to my stop this afternoon the door wouldn't open and it was about to leave, so I shoved my hands in and wrenched them apart till the system engaged and they opened the rest of the way. Lots of people were watching and didn't think I could do it. I got to be a tough guy douchey showoff for once. ^_^

Posted at 12:01PM, Jan. 8, 2016

Wait… people actually text the people they're talking to? While physically in their presence??? Have we gotten so lazy that we no longer use spoken language to communicate?!? The modernized world has really sunk below my expectations… O_O

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 8, 2016

If one texts someone, it is a private conversation since no one can over hear. So you can call Uncle Ted a douche while sitting across from him because he can't read your text can he?

Like he's going to run up and demand to see your phone? Unlikely. And as for me and my meds, don't take it so seriously. Just a little curmudgeonly whimsy. ;-)

Posted at 2:01PM, Jan. 8, 2016

Many thanks for the kind felicitations everyone! (つ✪ᗜ✪)つ☆☆
Oh yeah, Oz congrats on 12 years anniversary too! Haha, but your pages always looked so good, sometimes things just take time!

Haha, cell phone talk, I don't even have a phone. Too much anxiety! Plus I don't have anyone to text with anyway… (つд｀)

I'm kinda pleased right now, a song was stuck in my head that I wanted to find but had no idea how to. Looked up net history a few months back, took a guess, it was the right guess.
b(━ᗜ｀ｰ´ᗜ)d

At least it can stop being stuck on a repeating 5 second loop, now I can remember how the rest of it goes!

Posted at 10:01PM, Jan. 8, 2016

bravo1102 wrote:
If one texts someone, it is a private conversation since no one can over hear. So you can call Uncle Ted a douche while sitting across from him because he can't read your text can he?

One of my best friends and I do this occasionally. Often it's about boys - sometimes positive (omg his accent) but usually not (what is up with this guy). It's like when I was a kid and we would speak in French in front of the English/non-French immersion stream kids (or "English muffins" as we called them). Equally childish but still fun. And sometimes useful when a team effort is needed to get out of an awkward situation (help, this guy won't stop talking to me).

I just watched The Man from UNCLE with said friend. It was so terrible/awesome - the perfect movie to watch and make fun of with a friend. It's unclear to me whether it was meant to be satire, but it is hilarious either way. The American spy was exactly like the main character from Least I Could Do (does anyone else remember that)? Super ridiculous. And it had a handsome broody Russian, which is pretty much all I need to enjoy a movie.

ozoneocean
I saw my sister today before she flies back home after an operation to remove kidney stones. I hung out with her and my dad. They're such a weird pair! They're always looking at their phones and they only time when they DO really talk is about 4x4s, truck engines, motors… Bloody hell. Nothing in common with these people anymore…

Aww, that's a bit sad. With family members who I don't have much in common with I usually just talk about things we did together in the past. It's more difficult with extended family. I have one great uncle who was some kind of specialist doctor and is quite wealthy. They once travelled halfway across the country to visit and spent the entire time talking about their new baseboards. With them I usually just keep quiet and let the older folks do the talking.

My grandpa has become more and more exclusive in his interests as he's gotten older. My entire life he was mainly interested in books, but now he doesn't seem to have any interest in anything else. Conversation with him is actually easier than with my grandma, though…I just tell him about whatever book I happen to be reading and he's happy.

Posted at 11:01PM, Jan. 8, 2016

I guess I'll mix things up again. One of my Star Trek Online characters just made rank, so I got a new ship for him.

Introducing the Nebula Class Science Vessel, the U.S.S. Prince Valium!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B7Y3mnuZl0

Yep. Anyone who's watched Star Trek: The Next Generation will have seen this ship class. Why the name? Because the ship looks like such a pill…

Posted at 5:01AM, Jan. 9, 2016

Well I have no one to text nor have I seen any thing on a phone to arrest my attention. So I am stuck listening to people. My life has been one of constant interruption. All my thoughts are strung together with ellipses. Any wonder that at times I can't put together a coherent sentence.

And I just realized that one if my previous posts was a paraphrase of some of Churchill's thoughts on conversation and marriage.
I have got to finish up some projects so I can get back to comic-ing. Just bursting with stuff I want to do.

Posted at 3:01PM, Jan. 9, 2016

finally finished the third story of Lore. It's taken over a year and clocked in at 93 pages and I'm glad to have finished making it. Now for the next one.

Posted at 7:01AM, Jan. 10, 2016

Congrats Genejoke! That's an amazing achievement!

I finished my tank fanart for Pitface's Putrid Meat:
http://ozoneocean.deviantart.com/art/TREDD-TANK-583540195
It was pretty cool to do an X-ray view of it and imagine the internal structure.

Posted at 8:01PM, Jan. 10, 2016

I have a grand total of one exam this year, and managed to get sick the day before. :( My throat started hurting last night and is terrible today.

Posted at 11:01PM, Jan. 10, 2016

Sorry but that's actually kind of funny.
Damn, David Bowie has died. I'm pretty shocked and of course, saddened. I also have Starman stuck in my head now.