@J_Scarbrough my contention is quite different. We all know that climate change and global warming are real here, but reporting on it should not be simplified in a way that cuts out and ignore the experiences of millions of people.
It's like saying that during WW2 there was fighting and war everywhere… While in reality almost no action took place in most of Australia, all of the Americas, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Yes some notable but isolated actions took place in all those areas but comparatively they were nothing compared to the real hotspots. By saying that though it doesn't deny or minimise WW2.
Same with Global warming. It's an extremely complex system. Both winters and summers have been notably cooler in my part of the world over the last few years- which is probably part of how things are rebalancing… perhaps all the melted ice from Antarctica is cooling the sea currents that drive the weather here (Antarctica is directly south from me and the weather in this part of the world travels from west to east).
If that's the case it'd be good to know how many years that will continue or if it will suddenly get massively catastrophically hotter when a balance is reached. That's the sort of very important info that's cut out by people who simply advocate for a simplified message.
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We've gotten into the discussion of animals around here before, and sometimes I find myself wondering something . . . do you think different animals can understand each other regardless of the way they communicate, or are their different forms of communications akin to different languages among the human race? For example, could a cat understand a dog's barking and a dog understand a cat's meowing, or would the barking be like a language that only dogs can understand, same with cats' meowing?
Very sad about Paul Reubens’ passing - he was apparently a wonderful guy. A funny guy as well - I was never a PeeWee Herman fan, particularly, but still appreciate Reubens’ comedic chops and character creating.
I liked him in the Buffy movie (classic death scene) and as The Spleen, I think his name was, in Mystery Men.
RIP, sir!
Either that or you've been on one too many sketchy porn sites. :P
Okay, question about silly string: I've never used the stuff before, so I'm curious to know what exactly happens after you use it? I know the stuff squirts out the can, but like does the string dissolve, does it harden, is it permanent, does it break down, what?
J_Scarbrough wrote:
Okay, question about silly string: I've never used the stuff before, so I'm curious to know what exactly happens after you use it? I know the stuff squirts out the can, but like does the string dissolve, does it harden, is it permanent, does it break down, what?
Silly string is this colorful, foam substance that dries quickly once it is exposed to air. When it dries, it has the same texture of air dry clay, but in thin strands, making it relatively easy to clean. Perfect for party antics.
lothar wrote:I have considered it many times… I just haven't looked into the right program to do it.
Lol
So I started getting into making my own fonts. It's pretty fun. It's a good alternative to hand lettering everything cuz I don't like using off the shelf fonts. Anyone else make fonts for their comic or whatever?
lothar wrote:
So I started getting into making my own fonts. It's pretty fun. It's a good alternative to hand lettering everything cuz I don't like using off the shelf fonts. Anyone else make fonts for their comic or whatever?
There is an iOS app that allows you to draw a completely hand-lettered, customized font and has you draw 26 letters and miscellaneous punctuations (.,:;). When it is all compiled together, a generated font txt file is created to install in a font folder.
The main purpose was to create individual, digitally hand-drafted letters in my own style because drafting letters is highly repetitive.
Caligraphr
I used it a few times… So far, it seems likely there's no catch. Totally free. It creates a file that you can install in your fonts. I guess the only catch is that you can't do a full keyboard layout with the free version. It limits you to 75 characters so you need to skip some stuff. I just omit @;/& etc to bring it down to the limit. There cool thing is you can basically make anything.. like wingdings n stuff
I was today-years-old when I figured out that in order to mark a reply to a comment of yours on this site as read, you actually click your comment as it appears in your notifications list (where "Comment Link" is otherwise located in your comments notifications).
Yeah. . . .
Admittedly, ads like what we have ATM brings to mind something that my friend Kevin Magpoc once addressed on his comic IDGet many ages and moons ago, and that would specifically be item #1 in this specific strip:
http://idget.keenspace.com/d/20091207.html
Yeah, this was actually one of the things I miss about both Smack Jeeves and ComicFury, that they were ad-free for the most part.
I know anyone's allowed to advertise and promote their comic on this site, and I'm not at all complaining about that before anyone uses that as an argument to counter my point, it's just these kinds of ads make me concerned for my readers outside of DD (which I'm sure is a little greater than readers on DD) who may think I'm linking them to a sketchy (or NSFW) site.
I noticed another new piece of grammatical incorrectness that has become popular in recent years is to use the word "based" as an adjective in a sentence, i.e. when somebody says, "That's such a based comment." Can somebody explain to me just what "based" is supposed to mean in this context? It almost sounds to me like when in the mid-2000s when everybody used the word "gay" to mean something was weird or crazy (i.e. "Dude, that's so gay!").
J_Scarbrough wrote:
I noticed another new piece of grammatical incorrectness that has become popular in recent years is to use the word "based" as an adjective in a sentence, i.e. when somebody says, "That's such a based comment." Can somebody explain to me just what "based" is supposed to mean in this context? It almost sounds to me like when in the mid-2000s when everybody used the word "gay" to mean something was weird or crazy (i.e. "Dude, that's so gay!").
It's just another way to say "cool". Depending on the context, it can even mean "anti-woke". I got this from KYM, but that sounds about right.
J_Scarbrough wrote:
I noticed another new piece of grammatical incorrectness that has become popular in recent years is to use the word "based" as an adjective in a sentence, i.e. when somebody says, "That's such a based comment." Can somebody explain to me just what "based" is supposed to mean in this context? It almost sounds to me like when in the mid-2000s when everybody used the word "gay" to mean something was weird or crazy (i.e. "Dude, that's so gay!").
The way I've heard it, it meant someone just not giving a fuck about it. Doing his thing without a care, that makes it seem cool or impress people.
J_Scarbrough wrote:I've never liked the term "woke", not for what people mean by it but because of the way it's used, it's such an awkward use.
There's an actual term for anti-woke: "sleep". It makes sense when you think about it.
It's like how everyone used "pivot" now… it's just so awkward and stupid. They use "pivot" to indicate radical change, which is moronic since the term means to turn slightly on an axis so it can never indicate a radical change. The change has to be to something related, and not that big.
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Speaking of things being incorrectly used, I've been watching the series "white collar". One of the leads is a very pretty looking man who's supposed to be a conman, art thief, and expert and every illegal thing ever- a bit of a Mary Sue to be honest, but that's not the issue: He's supposed to be very stylish and has a penchant for wearing a hat.
But it is a VERY unstylish hat!
It's supposed to be stylish, other characters marvel and compliment him on his hat styles but they just aren't.
He wears a fedora style with a rather narrow brim and a tapered, almost pointed crown. This is the style that old alcoholic, red faced, sad old smelly guys used to wear down to the betting shops here. A generation who're all dead now, but that was THEIR style. It never looked smart.
Also, in a scene it shows him buying a panama version in straw from an expensive hat shop- the weave is huge. It's NOT an expensive or good hat. The costume people for the show clearly had no idea.
To be fair, fedoras have been pretty trendy again in recent years, particularly among the younger crowds; I see a lot of people from teens up to people my age wearing fedoras. Meanwhile, I've also observed that in recent years, hats with wide and somewhat floppy brims seem to be the popular headwear of choice for bisexual hipster women.
When I was a kid growing up in the 90s, the cool thing to do was wear baseball caps backwards - we all did that, but it wasn't until many years ago that I learned that the backward ballcap originated as a gang symbol - it was apparently how you could identify a gangbanger from an everyday joe by if he wore a backward ballcap.
My problem is fitted hats never fit my head . . . I have one of those weird protruding foreheads (think Dory's dad, or Lee Arenberg), so the circumference of my head is more oblong and oval shaped as opposed to round, so it's very difficult to find a hat that I can get to fit over my whole head and get over my forehead slope. My hat size (by the American sizing charts) is 7 5/8, which is right on the border of an XL/XXL for fitted hats; L/XL for hats that have some stretch fit, but too big for anything marks as "One Size Fits All/Most."
The whole backwards baseball cap thing always irritated me. The point of the brim is to shade your eyes. I always wore mine milspec (two fingers above the nose, glasses permitting) because I even then I was light sensitive.
I also need a large hat size and fluctuate between a 7 5/8 and a 7 1/2. I have a wonderful classic fedora Panama hat that I got in Hawaii. Such a magnificent hat.
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