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Episode 623 - Arrogance vs humility

Ozoneocean at Feb. 21, 2023, midnight
tags: Arrogance vs humility, Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Kirth Space Bounty Hunter, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 623, Simple Complications, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Arrogance is a fun subject. Related to cockiness, hubris, assertiveness, self confidence and pride.
It's a fantastic trait for a villain and it's really fun to write. Heroes are often arrogant too when they need to learn a lesson in order to become a better person, it's super common in stories. We're all a bit arrogant ourselves about our skills, our knowledge, where we come from, what we look like etc. It's a universal trait! It often strikes when we think we know better or know it all on a subject: the human tendency to over-reach and to speak for others.

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Episode 622 - Whaddaya take me for?

Ozoneocean at Feb. 14, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured, Featured comic and music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 622, schmuckbait, Tantz Aerine, The Return of the Old Gods, Webcomics hosting, Whaddaya take me for

This is when the writer leads you to think something big has happened in the story, like a character dying or falling in love or winning a big prize or something, only to have the character alive in the next part, or the prize or love never mentioned or addressed- this is “schmuck bait”.
The writer gets you invested and excited for something but cops out, leaving the audience frustrated and cynical. This was common in older episodic things where the episodes are intended to be seen in any order, so the writers couldn't have continuing arcs and development across a season. It's also common in bad writing where the writer builds things up a lot for an events but then loses their nerve or just doesn't posses the skills to properly resolve things.

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Episode 621 - Live Laugh Love

Ozoneocean at Feb. 7, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Live Laugh Love, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 621, She Used To Be Fractal, Succubus, Tantz Aerine, toxic positivity, Webcomics hosting

Toxic positivity can take all sorts of forms, but I think it's most easily recognised by someone telling you to be happy about something when you just don't feel it. It's a really odd, nasty, weird feeling when a person tells you you're basically not allowed to be grumpy or even neutral, you MUST be happy. How many times have we all been told to “smile” by someone?

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Episode 620 - losers are human too

Ozoneocean at Jan. 31, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Explorer Chronicles, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, losers are human too, Ozoneocean, Prince of the Moonlight Stone, Quackcast 620, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

My idea was to talk about social pariah characters, people who it's socially acceptable to laugh at, despise, or even hate. They can be the uncool people, the dorks, the dags, the idiots, the overweight, the ugly, the old, the out of touch, the over the hill… On the extreme end they could be monsters and criminals. Generally they're written pretty two dimensionally as a collection of cliches, but when the writing goes beyond that to lend them humanity is when it goes to the next level.

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Episode 619 - Artificial culture

Ozoneocean at Jan. 24, 2023, midnight
tags: American Pantheon, Artificial culture, Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Meatware, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 619, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Talking about AI again but this time our subject is different: Does it have a negative influence on culture?
AI creative tools in the hands of an actual skilled creator opens up amazing possibilities. Real creative people will be able to use them as the tools they are, to mix and match with their own knowledge, talents and many different creative sources to produce novel and interesting things!

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Episode 618 - The grass is always Greener

Ozoneocean at Jan. 17, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Envy, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Jealousy, kawaiidaigakusei, Meatware, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 618, Silences Echo, Tantz Aerine, The grass is always Greener, Webcomics hosting

The Saying goes that The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence. Envy and jealously are destructive, negative feelings that either lead to bad outcomes or just make you feel pretty crappy. It especially affects creators! We get down about our artwork, our writing, the popularity of someone else's comic etc and we wish WE were as good as them and wonder why we aren't… maybe we're just not as good? If we could only just have their talent, their luck, their skill then WE'D be awesome too. it's just not fair…

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Episode 617 - Adventuring we go!

Ozoneocean at Jan. 10, 2023, midnight
tags: Adventuring we go!, Arkin Blade, Banes, Bottomless Waitress, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 617, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's one of my favourite genres and this is what we're chatting about for the Quackcast. What IS adventure? I think it usually involves a whole lot of different things like exploration, action, discovery, heroic protagonists, rivals, travel, exotic places, fights etc. It can be set in the past or in the modern day. Good examples are The Mummy, Indiana Jones, the original Tomb Raider, the two new Jumanji films, Strange World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ducktales, Tailspin, Jungle Cruise, Uncharted and so much more. I'd love to know your faves!

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Episode 616 - Happy New years!

Ozoneocean at Jan. 3, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Happy New years! happy 2023, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pit Face, QUACKCAST 616, Short Changed, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting, Withdrawn

Happy 2023! This was the last Quackcast of 2022 and the FIRST Quackcast of 2023! I was recording during 2023 while Tantz, Banes and Pit were still stuck in 2022 because of the time difference between us, so we straddled the years!
We had the full crew here of myself, Banes, Tantz Aerine, and Pit Face! We chatted about what we did with comics in 2022, what movies we saw and the issue of “AI Art” and how it impacts actual artists. It was a really cool talk!

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Episode 615 - Happy Christmas!

Ozoneocean at Dec. 27, 2022, midnight
tags: Banes, Christmas Specials, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Neville Magicians Rabbit, Nocturne 21 Volume One, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 615, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Happy Life Day! Hahaha!
Merry Christmas for 2 days ago… This week we're talking about the “Christmas specials” that populate entertainment media this time of year. No particular reason for it, it's just because it's seasonal! It's not always Christmas focused there are the occasionally hanukkah things as well, and in the northern hemisphere this is the season for traditional winter festivals afterall.

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Episode 614 - Super groups!

Ozoneocean at Dec. 20, 2022, midnight
tags: Ark Hunters, Banes, Caveston, Domestic HellLand, Drunk duck, Eva of Asgard, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Into the Bookwoods, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 614, Rat Test Blues, Super groups, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Inspired by Banes we did a Quackcast on SUPER TEAMS! You know those groups like the Justice League, the Avengers, the Suicide Squad, or even Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy from The Journey to the West (Monkey Magic is my fave version). These are super powerful characters on their own but together they're even more awesome because their strengths and weakness complement each other in interesting ways. DD had its very own super team in the form of the Heroes Alliance, where a lot of DD creators got together to work on a shared universe. And back in the 2000s DD had a “Civil War” even with Keen Space (AKA Comic Genesis), where a huge number of our creators and theirs participated in something like a DC Vs Marvel crossover battle.

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Episode 613 - 1930

Ozoneocean at Dec. 13, 2022, midnight
tags: 1930, Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Nocturne 21 Volume One, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 613, She used to be fractal, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

The 1930s were quite a uniquely influential time for a number of reasons. The 1930s were the very last days of the old world before the new one was born in the apocalypse of the 1940s. Old empires, kings, colonialism- forces that had shaped the planet for decades were about to be shattered for the good, thankfully. New technologies were on a rapid rise as things were spiraling closer and closer to global war, Air travel was becoming a reality even as the old ocean liners were still the main means of transportation connecting the continents, people were building cites around the realities of car travel. Cinema had changed drastically with the advent of the talkies. and so much more!

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Episode 612 - Comfort food for the brain

Ozoneocean at Dec. 6, 2022, midnight
tags: Banes, Comfort food for the brain, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, House of Other Worlds, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 612, The Return of Jake Sunrise, Webcomics hosting

There are times when you need to give your brain a bit of a break, that's when comfort shows come in handy! Movies and TV shows you can watch again and again- you can appreciate them every time and they don't get old. The tension never gets too much for you because you already know what's going to happen. You can just relax and enjoy the familiar story, revelling in the company of characters you know and visiting their world once more. They're great for creating to as well because you don't have to worry about missing anything important.

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Episode 611 - Doppelgängers

Ozoneocean at Nov. 29, 2022, midnight
tags: Banes, City of the Sun, Doppelgängers, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 611, Silences Echo, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Doppelgängers was the subject of our Quackcast today. What are they? Generally they're evil duplicates of people. Originally if you saw one it was supposed to be a portent of impending doom, but they've since evolved through pop-culture to be mirror people who envy the originals and want to kill them and replace them. There are MANY other kinds of Doppelgängers too now: Future versions of people, clones, robots, virtual copies, alternate universe versions, spirits, demons, helpful lookalikes, and more.

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Episode 610 - Beauty!

Ozoneocean at Nov. 22, 2022, midnight
tags: Banes, Beauty, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Phineus Teen Wizard, QUACKCAST 610, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, so the saying goes but it's absolutely true. There is a layered subjectivity to it based on personal preference, the cultural standards of your community, the ethnic traits of you and your peers, prevailing global fashions in appearance, the dominant archetypes in the media and so on. All these things combine to form our personal subjective ideas of beauty. You can see this yourself if you look at paintings, statues, masks, frescoes and other artifacts that have been produced by all the diverse cultures on earth over thousands of years: there IS no standard, eternal, objective of beauty.

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Episode 609 - The Cringe

Ozoneocean at Nov. 15, 2022, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Eternity Dreams, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 609, Stick Figure Apocalypse, Tantz Aerine, The Cringe, Webcomics hosting

So how do you like comedy that makes you cringe? You know that really awkward humour where you feel embarrassed for those involved and almost in physical pain for them? You feel really bad for them… It could be cruel pranks, or jokes based on lies or misunderstandings that are just carried way too far. Personally I find them hard to take. It CAN be great like in the original version of The Office, but even that was REALLY hard to watch at times.

This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Stick Figure Apocalypse - Relaxing, cool funk groove that cruises along dreamily, hitting turbulent waters hallway through, with a wildly discordant patch of sonic confusion, startling us out of our revere, before slipping back into the same quiet groove again and fading to silence.

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