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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 1:51 pm

Eh, that trend gave us Tiny Toons, so all is forgiven.

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 2:02 pm

I kinda wonder if "Tiny Toons" counts as a spinoff baby, because technically they didn't age-down Bugs Bunny and other LT characters, instead introducing new characters that were based on their traits. Bugs and co. appeared as their usual selves in several episodes.

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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 2:03 pm

but also looney tunes babies or whatever it was called
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 2:11 pm

It occurred to me that they did the opposite of this with "Rugrats", where its spinoff featured the main characters as teenagers.

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Post by Auxiliatrix (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 6:10 pm

Bird rights? :flutterhat:
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Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 7:26 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote:
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but also looney tunes babies or whatever it was called


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Post by Geomancing (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 7:29 pm

So is Baby Looney Tunes better or worse than

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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 7:54 pm

I think they came from the exact same place, a dimension of poorly designed cartoon ideas based on existing IPs
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Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon May 21, 2018 11:54 pm

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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.

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Post by Madeline (?) » Tue May 22, 2018 2:28 am

Bleh, this post was badly thought out and sounded different than I meant it to

Have a picture of a bird instead

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Post by Pocket (?) » Tue May 22, 2018 5:48 pm

Any AI smart enough to not fall for trolls would by definition be smarter than most humans.
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Post by West Filly (?) » 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"
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Post by Pocket (?) » Sun May 27, 2018 1:16 pm

I don't know if there are a lot of people out there who just eat a bunch of marshmallows for dessert sometimes, or if full-sized marshmallows are bought almost exclusively for roasting and s'morifying.
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Post by Geomancing (?) » Sun May 27, 2018 4:44 pm

My sister sometimes buys a bag of marshmallows just to munch on, but it's always the little ones. And she never gets through a bag before they become tiny stale blocks of calcified sugar so I dunno.
She also sometimes buys sliced pepperoni and dips them in ranch dressing as a snack so I REALLY dunno.

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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Sun May 27, 2018 8:19 pm

West Filly wrote:
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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"
Impossible, the poor grammar of TGT would prevent any sentient AI from being capable of drawing any meaning from it.
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Post by Geomancing (?) » Mon May 28, 2018 12:10 pm

I've been trying to work out/find an art style for drawing people that I like and can take inspiration from, but I don't really have much to look at. I never read superhero comics, I don't want to do an anime style like I used to watch, and I haven't found an online comic that really speaks to me. I was drawing idly last night and it struck me that the face I was drawing looked a lot like Modesty Blaise, since I read those all the time in the BSS newspaper comic thread.

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon May 28, 2018 5:50 pm

:skeptical: "I got a shoutout in Deadpool 2 and I'm not sure how to feel about it."
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Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon May 28, 2018 7:09 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:
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:skeptical: "I got a shoutout in Deadpool 2 and I'm not sure how to feel about it."
I think just the name drop would've been fine. Calling out the show felt... indulgent.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon May 28, 2018 10:39 pm

"Indulgent" pretty much describes all the humor in Deadpool media, dunnit?
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Post by West Filly (?) » 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?
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue May 29, 2018 9:50 pm

West Filly wrote:
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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?
I hope humanity just goes full Dwemer
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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue May 29, 2018 11:37 pm

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?
Then at least it'll be interesting! Maybe your remains, like those of the Pompeiians, will help future scientists learn about the disaster and how to avoid the next one!

Not my concern though, I've always known I'll die in a blender accident.
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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed May 30, 2018 5:49 am

Speaking of Pompeiians, I imagine I’ll be like the dude who escaped the volcano and got crushed by a rock instead

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Post by PhoolCat (?) » Wed May 30, 2018 7:54 am

I thought another Pink Floyd member had died

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West Filly wrote:
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Here's a new random thought to wash that one away :starity:

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.
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Post by Weird Autumn (?) » 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

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:44 pm

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
The art has genuinely improved, at least. I still really don't like how Buckley draws humans, especially their faces (they all end up looking like weirdly proportioned douchebags, I dunno what it is) but he's at least actually resembling a decent artist now. Good on him I guess??

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Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:34 am

loss had a ten year anniversary?

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Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:05 am

My Prime renewal comes up next week, and I’m trying to figure out if I have enough time or enough games left to sell to get $99, or if I should just let it expire. On one hand, I use the video streaming a lot, but on the other hand, it would probably be more responsible to just let it go, because it’s already too late to throw anything up on eBay and expect to have cash in time :-I

As you can see, even when I am being a responsible adult, foreplanning is still not my strong suit. At least it’s funny and relatively harmless, instead of forgetting my phone bill or car insurance or something

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Post by Weird Autumn (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:12 am

I have a monthly Prime subscription specifically because while I can manage $100 a year things aren't always going to line up for me where the month where I can make that payment is the month where it's due and making sure I spare the $15 a month is just easier for me to manage even if it costs more in the long run.

Funny how being poor makes things more expensive in the long run :-I

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Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:52 am

For sure. Businesses will squeeze every penny they can get out of you when they know you don’t have many options.

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Post by Adiwan (?) » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:04 pm

Today I learned that no matter how many times you measure it'll end up different than expected.
I 3d printed an enclosure for an Arduino Mega with a TFT display shield but I measured it wrong such that the enclosure's inner dimensions are 1mm off. It doesn't fit.
Also the holding pegs are fatter than anticipated but these can be slimmed without a problem.

At least I know that my printer can do straight bridges of 22mm without support just fine.
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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:03 pm

Random history question:

Just how did Britain finally pay for the Seven Years’ War?
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Post by West Filly (?) » Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:10 pm

If I could design the afterlife, there'd be a special place you all have to go.

Every time someone ignored a task that needed doing, or said "ah, fuck it, someone else can deal with that" would be replayed in this special place. Before accessing the rewards of the afterlife you'd be made to carry out every menial task you put off one after the other, no rest. Then you'd get to go to the viewing gallery, where you could watch the people who left things to you, and you can shame the heck out of them.
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Post by Pocket (?) » 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.
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Post by Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:41 am

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.
Turns out this all happened years ago, it's SA.

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Post by West Filly (?) » Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:25 pm

Then you sell banner ads to political lobbies that say "Hate that poster from that [group of people you disagree with]? Why not make a donation in their name to [our lobby] and help to better [cause you agree with]"
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Post by Pocket (?) » Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:19 pm

Pfft. I'd sell ad space directly to Russia. Along with all the users' personal information. Clearly that's where the real money is.
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