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Posted: **Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:45 pm**

Octavia wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 07, 2018 3:19 pm
Then you too can learn to draw skeletal-skinny anime girls with giant hats

She kinda looks like Magilou. Which is the video game anime version of Trixie.

And she's amazing and perfect.

Posted: **Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:52 pm**

Octavia wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 07, 2018 3:19 pm
Then you too can learn to draw skeletal-skinny anime girls with giant hats

But can I make my SouthParksona to use as my avatar with it?

Posted: **Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:28 pm**

Now we know the answer to the question, "how far can LeBron James drag 11 corpses?"

Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:26 pm**

Hey nerds, I have a tabletop game going over in O&O. It's a strategy game where you shuffle pieces around a map and get conquered by Rome. Or as Rome. Whichever works. I only need one more so someone sign up. Please.

Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:55 pm**

The cashier at Walgreens saw my Pinkie Pie keychain and started singing Smile Smile Smile

Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:08 pm**

Semi-related, just yesterday I saw a food delivery guy wearing a BronyCon lanyard. I was able to briefly congratulate him and say "see you in Baltimore" before he went on this way.

Posted: **Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:30 am**

Anyone remember the "Baby Blues" cartoon that aired for a short-time on the WB (and later Adult Swim)?

I guess this is a good example of taking a source material and turning it into more edgy adaptation. In this case, they took a (relatively) family-friendly comic strip and turned it into an edgier and sexier prime-time sitcom.

Not that the show was terrible, but having read the strip, the contrast is a bit stark. Also, the show had a whole cast of characters that never appeared in the strip, most notably the Bitterman family.

(in spite of that, though, this was probably one of the most tame series to ever air on Adult Swim).

Posted: **Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:43 am**

SEASON SIX OF NEW VOLTRON LANDS FRIDAY!!!

PRINCE LOTOR CAN DO NO WRONG!

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2018 2:33 am**

The new coloring method seems to be working. I managed to color 10 comic pages in 5 hours, and they seem to look nice to other people.

(still got 9 more pages left to color. You can do this, Big

)

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:48 am**

I have it sitting on my shelf at home but look at this nice pin that Octavia got me.

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:29 pm**

TIL Big Bang Theory can actually do things well. Not very consistently, but at it's some thing.

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:02 pm**

I don't know what this guy is on about. I remember plenty of fairly deep cuts in the early seasons. There were entire episodes centered around Age of Conan (which he literally shows a clip from) and the 1960s adaptation of The Time Machine, among other things. Not to the extent that it would have alienated the audience—since Penny gave them an excuse to explain all the references—but the effort was there. It made the jokes about the characters being losers feel more like self-deprecation on the part of genuinely geeky writers.

In a way, that's even worse, though, because it means the token female character is treated as the dumb one for not getting all the references. Kind of like exactly how geek culture operates in real life.

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:17 pm**

What I'm saying is, either you're meant to laugh at the nerds for being nerds or you're meant to laugh at Penny for not being a nerd. I don't think there's a workable middle ground.

Posted: **Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:02 am**

This was really cool

Definitely attending more Psytrance events in the future. Psy-fi festival (5 days!) coming up in August!

Posted: **Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:38 pm**

Yesterday I was taking my the-weather's-nice-for-a-change-and-I-need-some-freaking-exercise walk, and I saw a skunk crossing the street right in front of me. Never seen one IRL before. It was cute.

Also, I now have a decent-sized TV. My second-cousin gave it to me saying it was busted but I could keep it if I could fix it. As I suspected, it was just a dead (and visibly bulging) capacitor. PSA: Knowing someone who owns a soldering iron can save you a lot of money replacing electronics.

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:46 pm**

I've been flipping through older pages of my "Fuzzy Princess" webcomic for references.

Holy shit, the artwork is so cringe-inducing awful. What the hell was I thinking?

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:32 am**

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:54 am**

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:46 pm
I've been flipping through older pages of my "Fuzzy Princess" webcomic for references.

Holy shit, the artwork is so cringe-inducing awful. What the hell was I thinking?

Sometimes I think about various pieces of old art that I once posted on the forums, years ago, and I have to stop myself for a moment or two and remind myself that it's in the past now. Yes, it was something of a mess while I was finding a consistent style and when I was simply not as good, but that was then. What matters is that, hopefully, I've learned from it.

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:55 am**

also, just because you improved since doesn't mean the old stuff loses value and purpose! people still enjoy that stuff too even if you largely see the flaws and nothing else now

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:20 pm**

Yeah, there are people who still find the comic and read through them, so they're not going anytime soon.

I guess the plus side is that it's proof even I improved over the years

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:06 pm**

I would guess even Leonardo da Vinci used to look back on his old sketchbooks and say “What is this shit” (in Italian).

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:01 pm**

He'd probably also be kind of upset that the only painting of his that most people have heard of is some 9-inch portrait he did on commission for some random guy one time.

Posted: **Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:02 am**

Mechanical Ape wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:06 pm
I would guess even Leonardo da Vinci used to look back on his old sketchbooks and say “What is this shit” (in Italian).

"Cos'è questa merda?"

Posted: **Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:30 am**

Mad Surge wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:02 am
"Cos'è questa merda?"

If Romanzo Criminale taught me anything it's that you may wanna throw a "cazzo" in there somewhere

Posted: **Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:16 pm**

SlateSlabrock wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:32 am

This is extremely impressive. There's a sense of pure energy to all of these covers that I really enjoy.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:18 pm**

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Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:35 pm**

Hahaha what the heck Butch Hartman

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:41 pm**

let’s make Netflix, but it works like YouTube

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:43 pm**

what makes Butch Hartman of all people think he totally got this media businessman thing figured out

he DOES know that it's very different from designing a cartoon, right

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:49 pm**

I didn't realize watching TV counted as quality family time? It's like something Homer and the kids would agree to in The Simpsons but then Marge would get mad.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:20 pm**

I mean, "quality family time" could be literally anything; why does it have to be something as unengaging as television?

Posted: **Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:25 am**

Auxiliatrix wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:16 pm
This is extremely impressive. There's a sense of pure energy to all of these covers that I really enjoy.

I was at the Champaign, IL show where they did "Stuck in the Middle With You", and it was great. Al can be energetic even when he's sitting in a chair (he did the whole show seated, pretty much) and his voice is stronger than ever.

Here's another straight cover:

Posted: **Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:00 pm**

Quanta wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:20 pm
I mean, "quality family time" could be literally anything; why does it have to be something as unengaging as television?

All you need to do is look at tumblr or Archive Of Our Own to put the lie to the notion that television is necessarily unengaging or passive. You just need everyone to be huge nerds about it

Posted: **Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:34 pm**

Got a new bookshelf. Turns out I bought a ton of extra books over the past few years that needed to be shelved.

(Kat doll by princess-starship)

Closeup of the contents on the shelf:

Posted: **Sun Jun 24, 2018 4:06 am**

I accidentally stumbled across the solution to creating authentic OPL2 music (as heard in late '80s-early '90s PC games, similar in sound to the Sega Genesis): an actual program from the era called AdLib Visual Composer. It pretty much functions like the piano roll editor from any modern MIDI editor, albeit with a few limitations—no changing the time signature mid-song, no triplets or dotted notes, and of course only one note at a time per track (since that's all the OPL2 could do). And it runs fine in DOSBox, so I don't have to hunt down any vintage equipment just to use it.

Posted: **Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:27 pm**

My dad asked me if I had a copy of the movie called The Barefoot General, because he saw a clip of it on Youtube. I told him I had never even heard of such a movie. He said that I had to, because I had the comic of it. I told him I had no such comic. He brought the comic to me to prove it.

It was Barefoot Gen

Posted: **Sun Jun 24, 2018 11:05 pm**

that's a good pin, aramek

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:23 pm**

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:26 pm**

Lots.
Dark Roast.

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2018 1:48 am**

Why is Jar Jar Binks trending on Twitter?

*clicks*

....oooooh

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