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

Posted at 8:06PM, Jun. 16, 2022

I retired that way of life for a while, haha! Massive slowdown on the social front. I'm very much keeping to myself.
Though you're right- I've been madly and obsessively sewing stuff for my 18th outfit for a convention next weekend, usually getting to bed well past 3am and not eating after breakfast (getting by entirely on tea and toast) . So yeah, the cognitive issues were my own fault.

Ironscarf wrote:
A massive thank you to whoever has been reading Ghastley Heights.

Congratulations! You deserve it!

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Big changes coming to the look of DD soon, finally! Alexey has some stuff ready to go and he's ready to start work. I'll post info about it soon and try and disseminate it to the community so they know what's happening…
I think I'll have to make a newspost and re purpose the unused ads, I'll even have to delve into the murkiness of the discord maybe o_o
People really will need to know about this.

Alexey has started to implement Emma's designs from a couple of years ago.
It doesn't change site functionality really (apart from usability via changed placemet of elements) but it updates the look of the site a lot!

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 17, 2022

We've had the site like this for so long I can't imagine it looking any different. Although bigger thumbnails would be nice.

Btw, I came across some old comics on my hard drive that are no longer online. My old website went dark a few years ago and I realized these may be the only copies of that story. Something I made almost 20 years ago and I honestly think it's better than the pulp porn comics I've been making for the past decade and a half. I will probably post it to the drunk duck under my retired alter ego's account.

Posted at 10:06AM, Jun. 17, 2022

lothar wrote:
We've had the site like this for so long I can't imagine it looking any different. Although bigger thumbnails would be nice.

Btw, I came across some old comics on my hard drive that are no longer online. My old website went dark a few years ago and I realized these may be the only copies of that story. Something I made almost 20 years ago and I honestly think it's better than the pulp porn comics I've been making for the past decade and a half. I will probably post it to the drunk duck under my retired alter ego's account.

You mean Bazil? It was something like that I'm sure…

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 18, 2022

Ozoneocean wrote:

Big changes coming to the look of DD soon, finally! Alexey has some stuff ready to go and he's ready to start work. I'll post info about it soon and try and disseminate it to the community so they know what's happening…
I think I'll have to make a newspost and re purpose the unused ads, I'll even have to delve into the murkiness of the discord maybe o_o
People really will need to know about this.

Alexey has started to implement Emma's designs from a couple of years ago.
It doesn't change site functionality really (apart from usability via changed placemet of elements) but it updates the look of the site a lot!

Exciting news! I feel as if we've seen the designs, but can't for the life of me remember what they look like.

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 19, 2022

Ironscarf wrote:
Exciting news! I feel as if we've seen the designs, but can't for the life of me remember what they look like.

Kawaii should be posting links later today I think :D

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At 47 years old I finally realised I have one very significant personality flaw XD
I probably have lots more but this is the big one: I have an innate sense of superiority. NOT a "need" to feel superior, just a feeling that I "am" superior, for whatever reason, naturally… because that's the normal order of things.

I'm pretty sure that comes from being immersed in British pop-culture when I was little- all old stuff from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s from the end of the empire. Characters ALWAYS had that sense of superiority. It informs how they think and deal with people and you can't properly understand it without knowing that. Everything from Lord of the Rings to Murder on the Orient Express, to The Goon Show.

It's very hard to chip away at and change. It helps in a leadership role but is pretty bad for anything else.

Posted at 10:06PM, Jun. 19, 2022

Face it Oz, you are superior. It's not a feeling, it's a fact. (Low bow)

Take it from someone who is like the gentleman Churchill described as "being modest and having a lot to be modest about " :)

Posted at 10:06AM, Jun. 20, 2022

bravo1102 wrote:
Face it Oz, you are superior. It's not a feeling, it's a fact. (Low bow)

Take it from someone who is like the gentleman Churchill described as "being modest and having a lot to be modest about " :)

Haha, Thankyou, that's very flattering XD LOL

But it's not the best for dealing with other people

Posted at 1:06PM, Jun. 20, 2022

I can't say I've ever noticed that Oz. You always struck me as very approachable, a regular stand up fellow and a jolly good egg.

Mind you, I'm British so I might not be the best judge. 🧐

Posted at 6:06PM, Jun. 20, 2022

Aw, that's nice to say :D
Maybe I don't do it with everyone? I hope so

Ironscarf wrote:
Mind you, I'm British so I might not be the best judge. 🧐

Haha!
British culture from the 1960s onward seemed to back right away from the superiority angle I think, regarding it more sardonically and self deprecatingly.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 21, 2022

I'm normally pretty even tempered, detached, and flippant… but I tell ya… the instant something breaks through that thin shell of serenity the tears fall XD
It's weird. I just have to think of a couple of lines of poetry, song lyrics, hear a tragic story, remember a dead pet's name etc and if the emotional resonance is sharp enough it slays me.
I've never been a really emotional person so that's unfamiliar to me.

Anyone else get that sort of thing?

Posted at 12:06PM, Jun. 21, 2022

Ozoneocean wrote:
I'm normally pretty even tempered, detached, and flippant… but I tell ya… the instant something breaks through that thin shell of serenity the tears fall XD
It's weird. I just have to think of a couple of lines of poetry, song lyrics, hear a tragic story, remember a dead pet's name etc and if the emotional resonance is sharp enough it slays me.
I've never been a really emotional person so that's unfamiliar to me.

Anyone else get that sort of thing?

Oh yes, I've noticed this and I'm sure it's a symptom of ageing. I think this is why old people buy a lot of handkerchiefs

Posted at 4:06AM, Jun. 22, 2022

Studies indicate it is part of aging as the brain has accumulated experience that evoke sentimental responses. There are also some changes in body chemistry.

My case though, having major biological based depression, it hits all the time.

Posted at 5:06AM, Jun. 23, 2022

So I've been working on another song the past week or so. I was inspired by the awful case of Lacey Fletcher for this one. It has been a pretty challenging composition considering all the tempo changes (sometime in the future I want to do a song with time changes as well). Let me know your thoughts.

Hellhole in the Sofa (Test Mix)

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 24, 2022

I can't offer deep insightful comments as the technical aspects of music elude me, but I like what you're doing with this one and seems to work well.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 27, 2022

A guy on another forum asked me to provide vocals to a cover song he was working on. This is the result.

Synd - You Spin Me Right Round (Dead or Alive cover)

Posted at 9:06AM, Jun. 27, 2022

Interesting. I wouldn't have imagined you singing that song but I like it.

Posted at 6:06PM, Jun. 27, 2022

I was at a popculture convention all weekend cosplaying and now I have to catch up to real life again. Oh dear…
I'm very tired still.

Posted at 5:06AM, Jun. 28, 2022

Sounds like a good weekend though.

I'm still trying to get back to reality after my holiday, easier said than done.

Posted at 5:06AM, Jun. 28, 2022

Great part of my schedule is I only work four days a week. Monday I do a double shift but half is the overnight where nothing happens at all for eight hours, so it's almost like another day off. Sit and watch YouTube. You know all of McHale's Navy is on YouTube? Carol Burnett full episodes, Dean Martin show and celebrity roasts. And tons of old movies and old time original serials.
Also highly recommend the Fall of Civilization podcast. Amazing well researched and detailed accounts of all kinds of past cultures.

Posted at 6:07AM, Jul. 2, 2022

Famous 1940s trumpeter and bandleader Harry James wrote:

1. It's easy – just set the rhumba to work cleaning one section of your room at a time and let it do it's thing.

2.Remove any large or heavy objects from the room that the roomba might hit while cleaning.

Wouldn't it be better to remove the large heavy objects first? I'm not sure I want to get into a fight with a Latin American robot while I'm trying to drag bookcases tables and a sofa through a small door.

Posted at 9:07PM, Jul. 3, 2022

Ironscarf wrote:
Famous 1940s trumpeter and bandleader Harry James wrote:

1. It's easy – just set the rhumba to work cleaning one section of your room at a time and let it do it's thing.

2.Remove any large or heavy objects from the room that the roomba might hit while cleaning.

Wouldn't it be better to remove the large heavy objects first? I'm not sure I want to get into a fight with a Latin American robot while I'm trying to drag bookcases tables and a sofa through a small door.

Hahaha! Oh our creative spammers… XD

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Oh dear, the US is really rolling towards that Handmaid's Tale future… I'd much rather Star Trek myself :(
If there was any future I could choose to head towards, Margaret Attwood's dystopia would NOT ever be my choice.

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One of the most prevalent ads on free podcast services and free internet TV and even YouTube here are ads for online betting.
I find most forms of gambling so sad. It's so unbelievably pathetic and lame. I feel so sorry for the poor people caught up in it.

Something like a lottery where it's a small outlay for a potential massive reward that you know you're very unlikely to ever win is ok because the stakes are realistic and upfront and it doesn't encourage addictive behaviour or run-on spending in the vast majority of people.

Posted at 4:07AM, Jul. 4, 2022

Ozoneocean wrote:

Oh dear, the US is really rolling towards that Handmaid's Tale future… I'd much rather Star Trek myself :(
If there was any future I could choose to head towards, Margaret Attwood's dystopia would NOT ever be my choice.

Sad to say but before Zephram Cochrane makes his historic flight mid century there will be a complete social breakdown in the USA as well as a world War. So we could see Margaret Atwood's dystopia before the Star Trek First Contact April 5, 2063. I'll be 98. I plan on being around. Lol. I'll be the really old bearded guy who's in the crowd in the scene in the movie. ;)

Posted at 2:07PM, Jul. 7, 2022

It's true what they say about covid leaving you with brain fog, I tested || in early June, almost a month later my remaining brain cells are only just starting to rub together to make sparks. I'm still coughing throughout the night, as if my sleep wasn't crap enough already. Oh well, gotta be alive to complain.

Posted at 3:07PM, Jul. 7, 2022

yup it does that. Although I'm always hearing how it's just a mild cold.

Posted at 8:07PM, Jul. 7, 2022

I think it depends on whether you caught earlier or later variants of covid. My wife has friends who lost family members early on and a non-smoking friend suffered lung damage. I caught it in december and couldn't get out of bed for a week. Took another month to shake it.