The Round Stable

Pocket wrote: ↑

Mon May 21, 2018 12:53 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote: ↑

Mon May 21, 2018 2:03 pm

but also looney tunes babies or whatever it was called

West Filly wrote: ↑

Sun May 20, 2018 5:15 am

I'm not sure which Brad Bird style this was supposed to refer to. He had this really detailed style and he also had this other style that was kind of abstract and angular, almost cubist. Both of them were more detailed and less cutesy than this new beanface style.

West Filly wrote: ↑

Wed May 23, 2018 3:49 pm

What if sentient AI learns about trolling from the internet and begins to apply the new understanding "they can't troll you if they're dead"

Mechanical Ape wrote: ↑

Mon May 28, 2018 5:50 pm

"I got a shoutout in Deadpool 2 and I'm not sure how to feel about it."

West Filly wrote: ↑

Tue May 29, 2018 3:36 pm

Pompeii scares the heck out of me. Not because I'm scared of the possibility of a pyroclastic flow: we understand volcanoes now. Pompeii is terrifying because it's an historical example of the possibility of encountering a disaster we'd only be able to understand much later in science.

There's all these disaster scenarios we've envisioned based on things we understand like nuclear war, pandemic, meteor strikes, climate disasters and the list goes on. But what about something we haven't even imagined yet; something that science will be catching up with afterward?

West Filly wrote: ↑

Tue May 29, 2018 3:36 pm

There's all these disaster scenarios we've envisioned based on things we understand like nuclear war, pandemic, meteor strikes, climate disasters and the list goes on. But what about something we haven't even imagined yet; something that science will be catching up with afterward?

West Filly wrote: ↑

Fri May 18, 2018 10:59 am

Here's a new random thought to wash that one away

If you've ever seen How It's Made, or the bits they'd show in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood where they show you a factory line:

I was thinking it'd be cool to see a feature length one of these. Instead of showing just one factory, it'd start at the raw materials being excavated from the Earth and then follow them all the way to the final product.

I think the success of this would hinge on them picking a really goddamn good narrator.

Weird Autumn wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:29 pm

Tim Buckley went back in time and edited Loss for its 10th anniversary and anyway that's how I wound up learning CAD has 938 patrons and now appears to be several concurrent ongoing comics including one where Ethan and Lucas are superheroes and Lucas is gay

Pocket wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 12, 2018 3:08 am

It's no secret that some methods of communicating online are inherently more prone to leading to lengthy, angry arguments between users than others. If I were an evil genius, I'd analyze the various communities and social networks and figure out what combination of features would maximize that potential, while still coming across as innocuous to outsiders. Because I'm the social networks we have are already close to that platonic ideal, but I suspect we're not quite there yet. Then I'd pitch such a network to investors, specifically citing that as my reason, because arguments means engagement and engagement means more traffic and more traffic means more revenue through the ads that we won't introduce until we're already big and successful because that's the one part of the winning formula I don't have to be a genius to figure out.

If I were as much of a genius but not evil, I'd still do that analysis and draw up a design doc, and then I'd reveal it to the Internet as a warning to avoid any site that matches it, because I'm sure someone somewhere has the same idea and is plotting to unleash it on the world as soon as possible.