Thread "Happy 2022! General Discussion Thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 11:01PM, Jan. 14, 2022

bravo1102 wrote:
Ironscarf wrote:
I'm surprised so many of us have had this. Comics must be a much more strenuous activity than I thought.

All the frustration and stress of the creative process.

And you know when they say "it only hurts when I laugh"?

In part, they're referring to hernias. It really does hurt when you laugh.

We're all hernia brothers XD

Yup, going to the toilet is awful…
I had my opp on Tuesday afternoon. I woke up in my hospital room, took the painkllers they gave me and didn't sleep… Like Lothar. I SHOULD have, those opiates were making it impossible to do anything but I didn't :(
So I stayed awake most of the night.
I should've left before 10am the next day, but it took the doctor ages to come and see me. I was able to walk out slowly when I was able to leave.

They INSIST you pee, but getting all the stuff out of your swollen stomach makes you feel better haha!

Thank goodness it wasn't the same sort of surgery Bravo had. That would have been a nightmare O_O

Posted at 3:01PM, Jan. 15, 2022

I hope the hemia heals quick and complication-free, and 2022 will become a great year for the DD and it's admin!

Posted at 12:01AM, Jan. 16, 2022

Othosmops wrote:
I hope the hemia heals quick and complication-free, and 2022 will become a great year for the DD and it's admin!

Haha, thankyou! ^_^

Posted at 2:01AM, Jan. 24, 2022

Ozoneocean

We're all hernia brothers XD

Funny you should say that. Just found out my older brother has a hernia and is going for his surgery middle of February.

Posted at 11:01AM, Jan. 30, 2022

I did this song recently. I think I need to mess with the vocal levels more, but tell me what you think. I have two more songs to record before this album is done.

Babylon Machine (Rough Mix)

Posted at 7:01AM, Jan. 31, 2022

SpamBots be workin overtime

Posted at 7:01AM, Jan. 31, 2022

lothar wrote:
SpamBots be workin overtime

You're good at spotting them :D

Posted at 8:01AM, Jan. 31, 2022

An Indian moving company too. Top five in India.

Posted at 8:02PM, Feb. 3, 2022

bravo1102 wrote:
An Indian moving company too. Top five in India.

We get a lot of Thai spam too for some reason. XD

DD has the stupidest spammers.

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The trend for tribalism and cultural polarisation on the net is so toxic and gross. Running into that on Facebook again. It's sad.

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In other news… CoVid-19 has finally managed to breach my state of Western Australia. We're getting about 14 to 18 cases a day.
We're just lucky that by this stage most people are vaccinated and we're all wearing masks mostly.
It's better than NSW. The poor guys tend to have over 1000 cases a day and more deaths in a day than our daily cases. It's shocking that there are STILL people pretending that CoVid isn't a big deal.

Our state will open up to the rest of the country soon, which isn't a good idea at all.

Still, all the masks on people do look cool.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 4, 2022

So after a couple of years of promoting my comics on Facebook (it's Meta!)

They finally noticed they have nudity. ROTFL.

Guess I'll reactivate the Deviant Art account.

Posted at 3:02PM, Feb. 4, 2022

So I have a weird thing that just happened. My monitor's LED on/off light blinks blue/orange (the on and sleep lights respectively) and when I switch off the computer completely it STAYS ON and displays the word "burning" in a red square that floats around the screen like a windows 95 screensaver.

I have no idea what to do or what it means. And googling hasn't helped. Any ideas (except possession)?

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 5, 2022

Tantz_Aerine wrote:
So I have a weird thing that just happened. My monitor's LED on/off light blinks blue/orange (the on and sleep lights respectively) and when I switch off the computer completely it STAYS ON and displays the word "burning" in a red square that floats around the screen like a windows 95 screensaver.

I have no idea what to do or what it means. And googling hasn't helped. Any ideas (except possession)?

Make a circle of salt around it, get some things into a suitcase and f*ckin leggit mate.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 5, 2022

Tantz_Aerine wrote:
So I have a weird thing that just happened. My monitor's LED on/off light blinks blue/orange (the on and sleep lights respectively) and when I switch off the computer completely it STAYS ON and displays the word "burning" in a red square that floats around the screen like a windows 95 screensaver.

I have no idea what to do or what it means. And googling hasn't helped. Any ideas (except possession)?

Weird! Try and record it on your phone and post a video. That sounds amazing.

I hope your computer hasn't been hacked :(

Posted at 6:02AM, Feb. 5, 2022

skreem wrote:
Tantz_Aerine wrote:
So I have a weird thing that just happened. My monitor's LED on/off light blinks blue/orange (the on and sleep lights respectively) and when I switch off the computer completely it STAYS ON and displays the word "burning" in a red square that floats around the screen like a windows 95 screensaver.

I have no idea what to do or what it means. And googling hasn't helped. Any ideas (except possession)?

Make a circle of salt around it, get some things into a suitcase and f*ckin leggit mate.

LOL I'm not going anywhere the spirit can get bent.

@Ozoneocean: here is a video of it! https://youtu.be/3qYCgTPSHiY

Posted at 7:02PM, Feb. 5, 2022

Tantz_Aerine wrote:
@Ozoneocean: here is a video of it! https://youtu.be/3qYCgTPSHiY

Wow! It looks to me like a built in error message for the LCD screen.

I'd guess that it's something like one of the LED lamps burning out.

Posted at 1:02AM, Feb. 6, 2022

Ozoneocean wrote:

Wow! It looks to me like a built in error message for the LCD screen.

I'd guess that it's something like one of the LED lamps burning out.

Yeah that's reasonable. Everything is dimmer today. Hope it won't show on the update.

Posted at 12:02PM, Feb. 6, 2022

My latest Buskers album, Kaijugoogoo, has finally been released.

Posted at 6:02PM, Feb. 6, 2022

elektro wrote:
My latest Buskers album, Kaijugoogoo, has finally been released.

Congrats!

Tantz_Aerine wrote:

Yeah that's reasonable. Everything is dimmer today. Hope it won't show on the update.

Oh dear! Well I'll contribute to replacement costs if you need a new one ^_^
I remember when one of my fave old monitors started to burn out its LED back-lights it smelled like burned magnesium. It was alarming and weird XD
It lasted a while before it started to go weird.

Posted at 12:02AM, Feb. 7, 2022

@~~lothar~~ @skreem (it was from skreem, thank you @Ironscarf!!)- the Circle of Salt suggestion had me laughing just as much as @Tantz_Aerine’s response!

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As per OzoneOcean’s suggestion that reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy is more preferable than the films—I finally reopened The Fellowship of the Ring today (first time since fourth grade) only to observe how beautifully J.R.R. Tolkien understood the musicality of the written word.

I get a thrill when an author uses a surplus of italics, dashes, long-dashes, parenthesis, symbols, and semicolons in a single page.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 7, 2022

Ozoneocean wrote:
elektro wrote:
My latest Buskers album, Kaijugoogoo, has finally been released.
Congrats!

Tantz_Aerine wrote:

Yeah that's reasonable. Everything is dimmer today. Hope it won't show on the update.
Oh dear! Well I'll contribute to replacement costs if you need a new one ^_^
I remember when one of my fave old monitors started to burn out its LED back-lights it smelled like burned magnesium. It was alarming and weird XD
It lasted a while before it started to go weird.

I've replaced the screen twice on my ancient laptop. Just love the thing. I know it's going and the operating system has a few weird bugs, but I work around them. With no money to run an ad for my comic how she think we'll swing a new laptop?

Posted at 5:02AM, Feb. 7, 2022

kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
@lothar- the Circle of Salt suggestion had me laughing just as much as @Tantz_Aerine’s response!

The Circle of Salt suggestion was actually from Skreem. He's forgotten more about the demonic possession of domestic circuitry than most of us will ever know.

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Finally testing negative after a stretch of Covid. It was mostly flu-like, but seemed to get deeper into the lungs than most. A good excuse to drink brandy on a week night though, so I can't complain.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 7, 2022

Ironscarf wrote:

The Circle of Salt suggestion was actually from Skreem. He's forgotten more about the demonic possession of domestic circuitry than most of us will ever know.

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Finally testing negative after a stretch of Covid. It was mostly flu-like, but seemed to get deeper into the lungs than most. A good excuse to drink brandy on a week night though, so I can't complain.

For some reason I see Lothar and Skreem as the same person XD
So Kawaii isn't alone hahaha!

Lothar is the amazing porn guy who lives in Japan and Skreem is the sardonic British artist of so many comics, but they're both similarly guarded about themselves I think as well as both being quite smart with the same sort of dark humour.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 7, 2022

Ironscarf wrote:

The Circle of Salt suggestion was actually from Skreem. He's forgotten more about the demonic possession of domestic circuitry than most of us will ever know.

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Finally testing negative after a stretch of Covid. It was mostly flu-like, but seemed to get deeper into the lungs than most. A good excuse to drink brandy on a week night though, so I can't complain.

Thank you for that @Ironscarf! (Fix’d)

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I am glad you tested negative. Stay strong.

Posted at 2:02AM, Feb. 8, 2022

My wife had COVID19 a few weeks ago. Tested myself coming and going, negative every time. Week later had some sniffles, tested again– still negative.

Not like I don't have the sick time, but I remain healthy. Well as healthy as the rainy, cold weather allows. Lots of joint pain and sniffles. And some mornings feels like a long steel needle through the eye where I had the surgeries. Face it, I'm old and beginning to feel it. Lol. Lol a lot in fact.

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 8, 2022

Have you had your booster? Bravo and also scarf?
Gotta be triple vaxed at least now :/

BTW, anyway seen what happened to DJAB? Man turned into a crazy antivax conspiracy theorist. It's insane.