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ayesinback wrote:
So, a nice-to-do suggestion for upcoming DD improvements: An "oh yeah" button for posts, ala Facebook's "like".
Because so many posts ring true and it would be fun to acknowledge them without being redundant.
I want like buttons on everything.
And include actual Facebook likes for the comics and newsposts, Quackcasts etc.
We need it!
I had a meta, meta, meta dream the other night.
It started out with me musing about an idea for a TV show (in the dream):
-So what would it be like if he flimflam merchants who led people astray and took their money with their fake cancer cures and bulshit evangelicals like the Bakers and Jimmy Swagarts of the world were actually demons?
Not talking the crazy bastards who really believe in their own mythology, no, I mean the cynical bastards who know very well they're conning people.
What if they were literal demons in human form and I could spot them and get them to stop?
Just by looking them in the eyes it would break the spell they had over people and no matter what they said or did after that no one would be fooled anymore.
Next thing I know I'm in a situation where I'm helping out this poor woman who found herself mixed up in a dodgy real-estate scam. She's working extra shifts as a nurse trying to pay off the money that shoe owes, thinking that she'll make it all back. I go with her to the office of the guy in charge, look at him in the eye and it's all over- the office closes, his staff go home, he sublimates to his true form and slinks off. The woman is left broke and sad, but relieved.
Then I'm in the TV version of the show idea:
I've gathered a group of misfits around me, friends with weird hair and sexy punk clothes, we walk the streets like a gang looking to fight for justice. With our individual powers we can see the elemental evil spirits possessing people in rival gangs who we fight. The fights are vicious, we have to beat the possessed people to a pulp or else they will kills us, but if you manage to damage them enough then the spirit creature escapes from their body in a glowing form- maybe a little bird, maybe a snake with a human head and spider legs- then we have to catch and crush it before it can get away… then take the poor ex-possessed person to hospital…
That was violent and hardcore, it left me exhausted.
Next thin I know I'm in the house of a bunch of people who love the show and want to be in it! The uncle of the guy who I'm apparently friends with wants to represent me as my manager… Then we bond over a shared love of 1980s toys and I show him my highly detailed inked Robotech drawings and Valkyrie jet toy that I have from when I was a kid and he loves it (In reality I never had any of those things).
If I'd have slept longer instead of waking up with an agonising growing pain like ache in my lower leg I suspect that dream would have kept going forever!
ozoneocean wrote:
Bravo was in the army so I think he means "Golll-leeee"!
Lonnehart wrote:
Oh, my goodness… so that's where the "Gomer Pyle" thing came from…
ozoneocean wrote:
Sgt Bilko became Top Cat, one of the greatest cartoon characters ever!
There was also Mikail's navy. Good old Earnest Borgnine. :D
Just an "official" video game I miss playing. It can only run in Windows XP (which I still have but I don't like dual booting my system). I'm sure I can download the video game digitally, but still…
Anyways… to me it's just a very epic vid made by the guy who composed the song for the game, Baba Yetu. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A
Aaand I find out the song is religious in nature… sort of… It's the Lord's Prayer translated into Swahili.
@Guntervallace- I am terrible with names und nationalities!
@Lonne- Civilisation right?
I loved those RTS games: the first Age of Empires, StarCraft, Warcraft 3 etc. That was the golden age.
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Why did you guys choose your avatars?
There are two reasons for mine:
1. The reason I have it now is so that I can be recognised everywhere easily, all over the web. It's a logo I made for Pinky back in 1998.
2. The reason I started using it as an avatar was emo- it was only a few years ago, I got sick of people treating me as if I was some mechanical representative of the site that they could abuse with impunity, not thinking of me as a person. So I decided to embrace that and depersonalised my avatar and my bio page etc, not using photos on anything or having personal and info or links.
@Lonne- Civilisation right?
I loved those RTS games: the first Age of Empires, StarCraft, Warcraft 3 etc. That was the golden age.
I still love Civilization I and at times really miss it. Played that for hours but never beyond the easy mode. Too addicting so I unloaded the game time and again trying to kick the habit.
I was relieved to find that it wouldn't load after updating my operating system. That year the number of models I finished skyrocketed.
ozoneocean wrote:
Civilisation is great! Far better than barbarism.
Gave my first ever conference presentation today! It couldn't have gone better and I'm on a real high of success and self-confidence right now. People even laughed at the funny bit I threw in at the beginning! :D
ozoneocean
Why did you guys choose your avatars?
There are two reasons for mine:
1. The reason I have it now is so that I can be recognised everywhere easily, all over the web. It's a logo I made for Pinky back in 1998.
2. The reason I started using it as an avatar was emo- it was only a few years ago, I got sick of people treating me as if I was some mechanical representative of the site that they could abuse with impunity, not thinking of me as a person. So I decided to embrace that and depersonalised my avatar and my bio page etc, not using photos on anything or having personal and info or links.
bravo1102 wrote:ozoneocean wrote:
Civilisation is great! Far better than barbarism.
It was great playing a game where your purpose is building stuff up, not tearing it down.
I had a dream last night that I was in America somewhere- in some tropical area. I was part of some secret group… I don't really remember all the reasons and story set-up, but for SOME reason I shot a guy to death with a very large pair of silver semi automatic handguns, and then had to hide his body in an abandoned building that was under construction (I think he was a bad-guy flunky).
I hid all my blood stained cloths and the weapons and took his smaller silver 22 pistol for self defence because I could hide it easier…
But as I was getting into a more populated area I started to think how dangerous it was to have a concealed gun. It was empty of bullets but I tried to set it to safe anyway, but it had about 6 settings and I didn't know what was what… Then I realised I didn't have a license for it, and couldn't get one anyway because I was an Aussie citizen in the US.
Then I realised that I don't agree that people should be able to carry firearms in public ANYWAY, concealed or otherwise…
So what was I doing???
And on that contradiction I woke up.
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