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Episode 548 - Foreign Influence

Ozoneocean at Sept. 14, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Foreign Influence and localisation, Gunwallace, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 548, Speaking in Tongues, Tantz Aerine, The Last Aviatrix, Webcomics hosting

Translating cultural concepts so they can be understood in a different country can be really tricky, most people never bother. Often the audience is just left to guess what's behind certain concepts and idioms.
As an Australian, growing up as a little kid we were bombarded by media from everywhere, but mainly Britain, the USA, Canada and New Zealand. There was so much about American media that was utterly alien to us and we were just left to puzzle it out, especially American high school concepts: The level of seriousness with which they regard team sports in schools, cheerleaders, jocks, jockstraps, school kids driving cars, homecoming, pep rallies, summer camp, proms, tick or treating, thanksgiving… We just had to make sense of those things ourselves. Some we could work out from context but others I never really understood and never really will.

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Episode 547 - Franchise fail

Ozoneocean at Sept. 7, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Franchise fail, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Phantasos, QUACKCAST 547, Tantz Aerine, The Follower, Webcomics hosting

There seemed to be a lull for a while after the 1990s and the massive sequel craze of the 80s, but nowadays we're back in full swing again with sequels, reboots and reinvisioning of film and TV franchises.
Banes noticed a distinct pattern of behaviour that occurred around bad or failed franchises: The makers would chose to go against what existing fans liked about the property in the fist place, usually in order to appeal to new fans. When both new fans and old ones dislike what they do, they attack the fans and blame the fans for failure of their version. Then they'll search and find a new franchise to mess up. It's rare that people own up to or admit to failures anymore, it's usually always the fault of the fans for being too “toxic”.

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Episode 546 - The bad-arse dandy!

Ozoneocean at Aug. 31, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 546, Tantz Aerine, The Anaether, The bad-arse dandy!, The War Below Us, Webcomics hosting

Why aren't there more prettyboy bad-ass characters? Pretty girl bad-asses too! This character type is often a hall-mark of Japanese and Korean fiction more than anything else though it DOES show up in Western media occasionally. There is no age-limit to the type, what distinguishes it is that the character is tough and a very good fighter while also being very obviously concerned about their appearance and looking good- they don't just look good and fashionable naturally, they actively work at it.

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Episode 545 - tipping point to become a fan?

Ozoneocean at Aug. 24, 2021, midnight
tags: Conscripted, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 545, Tantz Aerine, tipping point to become a fan?, Webcomics hosting

We're all fans of something, but when does that happen? When do we transition from just following and liking something into being full on fans and is there even a difference?
I think there definitely IS a difference. I became a fan of Star Wars after watching the first film but I'm not a fan of The Witcher even after watching the entire show. Henry Cavill as Geralt is super amazing but the show itself is just blah to me. I've seen about 200 or so episodes of One Piece but I don't think of myself as a fan. I became a fan of Ghost in the Shell after seeing a poster from the Manga. I became a fan of Farscape after watching reruns of the series over and over.

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Episode 544 - Horrorrorrrorrrrr

Ozoneocean at Aug. 17, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, featured music, Horror, Missjudged Gunwallace, ONE BIG SHOE, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 544, Tantz Aerine, The PynkFL, Webcomics hosting

We have a special guest today, myEx, Miss_Judged. She's onboard with the whole group of Tantz, Banes, Pit and I because she's super duper into horror like Pit and Banes, AND it just happens to have been Friday the 13th last week. Why horror? Well, this is what I want to know too! Why do people like it and what do they like about it? The reason we're talking about it at all is because of the DD horror anthology comic that is all horror themed and has many great contributions from great DD creators here. Please buy a copy to help fund new improvements to DD!

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Episode 543 - Men writing women writing men writing hilariously badly

Ozoneocean at Aug. 10, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic and music, Gunwallace, Men writing women, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 543, Tantz Aerine, The BirdBoys, Webcomics hosting, women writing men

Angela frowned in disappointment. Her boobs seemed to grimace in displeasure, nipples pulsing with abject fury. As she walked the heaviness of their bounce echoed her anger. She sat down at her desk, opened the document she had been working on and began to type.
She was halfway through her romance novel, “Pirates of pleasure”. Her boobs swelled and seemed to glow, echoing her happy mood as she worked. She typed…

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Episode 542 - Anthology team interview!

Ozoneocean at Aug. 3, 2021, midnight
tags: Anthology team interview, Dame Helsing, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Generation Bad, Gunwallace, Lullaby Tales, Mal, Pit Face, QUACKCAST 542, Webcomics hosting

Mal (aka Bluecuts), Alice (aka DameHelsing), and Pitface are all together in the Quackcast to chat about all the things involved in making the DD anthology! They get a bit kinky with their symbolisim and analogies haha! So be warned. The language gets a little spicey… It makes a fun listen!

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Episode 541 - Masks

Ozoneocean at July 27, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Erin's Space, featured comic, Generation Bad, Gunwallace, Masks, Ozoneocean, pitface featured music, QUACKCAST 541, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

No, not surgical masks, this is about the kind superheros wear, also gimps, masquerades, villains and robbers! Inspired by Pitface and her deep and abiding love of gimp masks. We talk about how common it is to find masks in comics and how comic characters probably wear masks more than in any other media. And most media where characters wear masks is based on comics anyway.
What are your fave masks?

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Episode 540 - DD crash update and tests of character

Ozoneocean at July 20, 2021, midnight
tags: Crash update, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 540, Quantum Festival, Tantz Aerine, tests of character, The Magister Records, Webcomics hosting

On Friday the 16th the site was down for a while. Nasty, but we fixed that and chatted to our programmer Alexey about starting the update program on DD. The DD Anthology is also out now too, so you can buy a copy and help support the upgrades! Pit and Banes were MIA today but as a special treat you can meet my Russian hatted Ex, Miss-Judged, who's with me and Tantz in this cast. And as a super extra special treat you can see us ALL in our pateron video which is free to ALL this week! In the links bellow.

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Episode 539 - Schemers

Ozoneocean at July 13, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 539, Quantum Festival, Schemers, Tantz Aerine, The Magister Records, Webcomics hosting

Schemers can be part of some great stories when they're done well! When they're done badly though they're very annoying! Schemers, plotters and planers have become a super annoying trope in anime: at the end of the first or second episode a person will show up in the shadows and say that they're amused how things are all going as predicted and planned…. They'll appear again at the half way mark of the series and again 3 episodes before the end in the run up to their climactic battle with the protagonist. It's a trope and a formula. Sometimes it works, often it doesn't.

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Episode 538 - Fashion and Trends in Webcomics

Ozoneocean at July 6, 2021, midnight
tags: 24Hour Cake, banes, Drunk duck, Fashion and Trends in Webcomics, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Patchwork and Lace, pitface, QUACKCAST 538, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

We chat about the styles and trends in webcomics and what causes them, whether it's people copying stuff they like, working with the limitations of the technology they're using or other reasons.

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Episode 537 - Historicity

Ozoneocean at June 29, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Chatterbox, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Historicity, Ozoneocean, Patchwork and Lace, QUACKCAST 537, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

We have a chat about historicity in this Quackcast. What IS historicity? It's historical authenticity basically but a nicer way of saying it! It's pretty important for a lot of reasons to make the best effort you can with historical authenticity- it increases immersion of the audience, gives you a better understanding of the story and the world you're looking at (because things will make sense), and leads you to better understanding of your own history and where we came from.

BUT, that doesn't mean you always have to be strict. As long as you as a creator properly understand historical context then you've got a lot more leeway to play without creating something stupid. Playing fast and loose with history is ok as long as you know what you're doing, not just being a moron and faking it (hey, many of us are guilty of that). Historical fantasy, myth, classics, fiction, biography etc are all different classes of story where it's more or less forgiveable to mess around.

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Episode 536 - #heroesdon'tdothat

Ozoneocean at June 22, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, #heroesdon'tdothat, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 536, Staff and Steam. featured music, SweetGum, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

There was ALL sorts of kerfuffle on the internet centred around the phrase “Heroes don't do that”.
It began with an interview of two people involved in the production of the Harley Quinn TV animated series. According to them there was a sex scene between Batman and Cat Woman, including a scene of cunnalingus. They claim that a representative from DC told them to cut that scene, saying “Heroes don't do that”… But what is the REAL story?

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Episode 535 - the teachcast

Ozoneocean at June 15, 2021, midnight
tags: Drunk duck, Fatman, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Necroblivion, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 535, Tantz Aerine, the teachcast, Webcomics hosting

Webcomicers need to learn to draw and write in order to become webcomicers. There are many other skills and also different ways to make webcomics, BUT most of us draw and or write. Here Tantz and I talk about terrible teachers of these skills and better ways to learn :)
(Also, Jason from Friday the 13t is a big fat buttface)

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Episode 534 - Biting off more than you can chew

Ozoneocean at June 8, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Biting off more than you can chew, Cosmic Safari, Drunk duck, featured music and comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 534, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Taking on more than you can handle - i.e. James Cameron and JJ Abrams are good directors and writers but neither could handle the demands of a complex Sci-Fi project that needs full world building and internally consistent logic etc (Avatar and Star Wars). They're great with more simple SciFi that's based on 21st century earth and simpler stories, but epic SciFi was clearly a long way beyond the capabilities of either. We're talking about when WE have been caught taking on stuff we couldn't handle, how we dealt with that and also how other creators dealt with it too.

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