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.
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.
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).
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.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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.
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
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.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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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.
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.
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
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.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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.