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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:02 pm
by Dal
Octavia wrote:
Fri May 24, 2019 8:06 am
Nice.
Edit: :fluttersmith:

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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:16 am
by Logicgate
Your style comes through clearly enough that if I'd seen it with no context I would've assumed you worked on it!

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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:17 am
by Aramek
Dal wrote:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:02 pm
Edit: :fluttersmith:
hahahaha

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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:30 pm
by Octavia
The US Women's National Team won their first World Cup match 13-0. :starity:

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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:27 pm
by Aramek
Octavia wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:30 pm
The US Women's National Team won their first World Cup match 13-0. :starity:

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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:34 pm
by Octavia
Goal differential is the first tiebreaker in group play, so keep piling up those goals. :dwi:

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:33 am
by Mr. Big


I'm legit excited for these. They're doing 1,000 minutes of new Looney Tunes cartoons of varying length (this one is only 90 seconds, for example). They're doing it in the spirit of the classic shorts, and the samples shown look GREAT.

Can't wait to see more :yay:

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:00 am
by PonyHag714
It fooled me...when I first saw it on Twitter, I thought it was old. Image

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:44 pm
by The Ghost of Ember
gotta say one thing i wasn't expecting to see again was bugs with his yellow gloves

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:35 pm
by Aramek
The Ghost of Ember wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:44 pm
gotta say one thing i wasn't expecting to see again was bugs with his yellow gloves
Pee glove.

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:25 pm
by Princess Flufflebutt
Mr. Big wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:33 am


I'm legit excited for these. They're doing 1,000 minutes of new Looney Tunes cartoons of varying length (this one is only 90 seconds, for example). They're doing it in the spirit of the classic shorts, and the samples shown look GREAT.

Can't wait to see more :yay:
how was this only 90 seconds there was so much happening wtf

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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 2:46 pm
by Gloomy Rube
Mr. Big wrote:
Mon May 27, 2019 10:51 pm
Whoops! Here's the correct link
This link doesn't work either because Washington Post thinks that because I'm not using one of the main 3 browsers that I'm in 'private browsing mode' and it wants me to spend money to subscribe in order to read their website :-I

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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 2:51 pm
by Mr. Big
Gloomy Rube wrote:
Fri Jun 14, 2019 2:46 pm
This link doesn't work either because Washington Post thinks that because I'm not using one of the main 3 browsers that I'm in 'private browsing mode' and it wants me to spend money to subscribe in order to read their website :-I
Yeah, news sites are gung-ho on paywalls lately (because, let's face it, journalists need food, too).

Here's the article copy and pasted:
What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls?
By Shannon Hale
October 10, 2018

I’m on book tour for the latest installment in the chapter book series “The Princess in Black.” A woman asks, “So when are you going to write a series like this for boys?” I say, “These books are for boys. And girls. For anyone who likes to read about a monster-battling hero.” The woman looks skeptical. She is certain that no boy would be caught dead reading a book about a girl, let alone a princess.

I publish the graphic novel “Real Friends,” an autobiographical story of my elementary school friendships. Book bloggers and online reviewers begin to recommend it but advise against giving it to boys since most of the characters are girls.

A school librarian introduces me before I give an assembly. “Girls, you’re in for a real treat. You will love Shannon Hale’s books. Boys, I expect you to behave anyway.”

At a book signing, a mother looks sadly at my books. “I wish I could buy some for my kids, but I only have boys.”

A little boy points to one of my books and exclaims, “I want that one!” His father pulls him away. “No, that’s a girl book.”

I’ve published 30 books over the past 15 years, and I’ve heard all this and much more in every one of the 40-plus states I’ve toured.

It’s clear that our culture assumes:

1. Boys aren’t going to like a book that stars a girl.
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2. Men’s stories are universal, while women’s stories are only for girls.

After all, books about boys (“Harry Potter,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Holes”) are for everyone, but books about girls (Judy Blume’s novels, “Anne of Green Gables,” “Twilight”) are just for girls.

I wasn’t always sure this assumption was incorrect. Early in my career, I was publicized as “the author of Princess Academy,” my most well-known book, and predictably, only girls and their mothers attended my signings, with just a few brothers lurking in the back or the occasional forward-thinking home-schooled guy.

But after my book won a major award, teachers began reading it to their classes. Dozens of teachers reported to me the same thing: “When I told the class we were going to read a book called ‘Princess Academy,’ the girls went ‘Yay!’ and the boys went ‘Boo!’ But after we’d read it, the boys liked it as much or even more than the girls.”
“The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate,” by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Candlewick)
“The Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare,” by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Candlewick)

For the first time I had evidence that contradicted everything I’d been taught about boys and reading. I started to pay more attention and found I did in fact have many boy readers — most likely hundreds of thousands of them at this point, but they’d been reading in secret because they were embarrassed. I got better at noticing the myriad ways adults teach boys that they should feel ashamed for taking an interest in a story about a girl, from outright (“Put that down, that’s a girl book”) to subtle (“I think you’ll like this book even though it’s about a girl”). There is peer shaming as well, but it starts with and is supported by adults.

I’ve now asked thousands of kids the same question: “What kind of books do you like?” They answer: fantasy, funny, comics, mystery, nonfiction, etc. No kid has ever said, “I like books about boys.” Yet booksellers tell me that parents shop for their sons as if books have gender: “I need a boy book. He won’t read anything about a girl.”

Not only does this kind of thinking prevent boys from learning empathy for girls, it also prescribes narrow gender definitions: There is only one kind of boy, and any boy who doesn’t fit that mold is wrong.

Stories make us human. We form bonds by swapping personal stories with others, and reading fiction is a deeply immersive exercise in empathy.

So, what happens to a culture that encourages girls to read books about boys but shoos boys away from reading books about girls?

What happens to a boy who is taught he should be ashamed of reading a book about a girl? For feeling empathy for a girl? For trying to understand how she feels? For caring about her? What kind of a man does that boy grow up to be?

The bias against boys reading about girls runs so deep, it can feel daunting to try to change it. But change can start with a simple preposition swap: When talking to young readers, we can communicate that a book is about girls without prescribing that it’s for girls.

The goal is to encourage lifelong readers, and the more we try to tell kids which books are for them, the more reluctant the kids are to read. I have four kids, and I am terrible at predicting what books they will like. The best I can do is fill our house with lots of different genres and styles of books — and then make sure we have a mix of books written by male and female and non-binary writers, writers of color and from other countries and backgrounds, writers of different abilities and beliefs. When I offer these books without shame or judgment and let my kids choose for themselves, they read broadly and voraciously — and we have great conversations.

At a recent school assembly, I asked students from kindergarten through fifth grade, “If a book is about robots, does that mean only robots can read it?”

“No!” they yell.

“Is a book about cats only for cats?”

“No!”

“So, if a book is about a boy, does that mean only boys can read it? How about a book about a girl?”

Kids get it. They just want a good story. They have the potential to be lifelong readers of all kinds of books, learning empathy for all kinds of people and gaining all kinds of experiences different from their own. They’ll be fine. If we adults would just get out of their way.

Shannon Hale is the best-selling author of more than 30 children’s and young adult novels, including “Real Friends,” and the “Ever After High,” “Goose Girl” and “Princess Academy” series.

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Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:13 am
by Madeline
In “the internet of things is still shit” news:


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Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:59 am
by Fizzbuzz
It was so terrible that Samsung deleted it. I only saw the tweet via this Discord preview.
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Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:02 am
by Gloomy Rube
"malware viruses"

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Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:23 am
by Mechanical Ape
Mr. Big wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:33 am


I'm legit excited for these. They're doing 1,000 minutes of new Looney Tunes cartoons of varying length (this one is only 90 seconds, for example). They're doing it in the spirit of the classic shorts, and the samples shown look GREAT.

Can't wait to see more :yay:
This is so good it actually makes me a bit angry. Like, you guys could have been making quality stuff THIS WHOLE TIME. :glare:

Do we know anything about the (obviously very talented) team making this? Are they relative newcomers to the animation scene?

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Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:06 pm
by Mr. Big
Mechanical Ape wrote:
Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:23 am
Do we know anything about the (obviously very talented) team making this? Are they relative newcomers to the animation scene?
I know that a lot of people are working on this, in addition to the ones listed in the end credits. Michael Ruocco is one of them, for example. Mike Milo said elsewhere that he worked on some of the shorts as well.

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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:56 am
by Mr. Big


Somehow I found out about this.

I can never tell if Andy Kaufman intentionally planned this, or he really did get into a fight during live television unscripted.

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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 7:48 pm
by Aramek
It's actually both, I watched a documentary about him once, and they interviewed Richards about that. Andy and the producers knew about it, and nobody else did. As Michael put it "I suddenly found myself...getting up and bringing over the cue cards."

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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:43 am
by Octavia
Welcome to SUMMER


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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 2:18 pm
by Gloomy Rube
I wonder if Solstice is what all the people who make modern 8-bit soundtracks like VVVVVV got their inspiration from.

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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 3:12 pm
by Mr. Big
So I came across this comic newspaper from 2013 that had my name on it. I VAGUELY remember submitting something to them, but I don't remember them saying anything about accepting it for publication. So I ended up ordering the copy on Amazon (the last one they had), and it was some comic involving a black cat that I forgot I've drawn.

At least I have a copy of that publication now for my archive, 6 years later :-I

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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:49 pm
by Mr. Big


Holy shit I love this animation.

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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:12 am
by SlateSlabrock
What did I just watch? Image

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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:18 am
by ToastGhost
Discord is down so I am going to PANIC!!! :qaugh:

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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:14 pm
by Mr. Big
Mr. Big wrote:
Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:49 pm


Holy shit I love this animation.

Just want to reiterate that "Bluehilda" is an example of a cartoony "anything goes" animation that is WELL DONE, with good pacing and great sense of humor

I sat thru "Cans Without Labels". Worst mistake of my life.

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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:59 pm
by minty
It's not only more energetic than Cans Without Labels, but it actually tells a story in its time frame, instead of "some guy gets mad". And it doesn't make me feel dead inside.

"Cans" felt like that scene in a Ren and Stimpy episode where Ren found that his cousin and Stimpy ruined all his stuff and just kind exploded and then calmly said what he was going to do to them. Makes me wonder if John K was in charge of that episode without any help, it would be nothing but that.

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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:22 pm
by Mr. Big
The fact that it took 7 years to make astounds me.

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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:49 pm
by SlateSlabrock

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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 7:21 pm
by Angel Beat
Image

:ponder:

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:07 pm
by Mr. Big
Bought some collections of comics published in the 1970s. I was kinda struck by just how many cartoons made fun of second-wave feminists in a single book.

(Why yes, most cartoonists ARE male :-I )

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 7:48 pm
by Mr. Big
With the death of animator Kaj Pindal, I have to share this film he wrote and co-directed at the National Film Board of Canada: "What on Earth!"



The idea that it's a documentary from Mars looking at life on Earth, mistaking cars as Earthlings. Was nominated for an Oscar.

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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 3:02 pm
by Adiwan
Quote after my D&D bard character was very emotional when his rival confronted him that my character's tavern was crashed by drunk people (and my character's wife is still held hostage by a green dragon) and wanted initially do a skill check (performance or persuasion) to enhance the probability to induce some empathy in his rival:
Emotional breakdown is not a skill.
:-I

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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:28 pm
by Mr. Big


:-I

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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:16 pm
by Pocket
How It Should Have Ended: The Invention of Lying

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 9:10 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
RULES OF NATURE

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:09 pm
by Octavia
USA Women win the World Cup! :dwi: :jingo:

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:13 pm
by DaikatunaRevengeance
yay

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:45 pm
by Quanta
Tailspin has a postcount, gross.