it is redrawn from a 2003 picture (on that page, but also immediately below on this page) which various recent circumstances of my existence unrelated to utterly unnecessary federal aviation control funding cuts made me think of.
sorting out the roofs is the hardest part. i am never quite sure what all the nonsense on roofs IS. I don’t know that I did enough to make the turbine vent stand out since it is hard to communicate how stupid those look when I can’t show it in motion, even with a bird on it.

WHAT a STUPID bird! That looks like the world’s dumbest bird. Except there are numerous videos of birds doing that and they can’t all be the single dumbest bird but they are likely in the dumbest category of birds

ideally its past appeal didn’t in part come from its cheapo 2004 pixel rendering or the absence of that obnoxious WAH creature in one of the windows. i like to imagine that knowing the building was inhabited by those makes the thought of a flaming aircraft bumping into it less worrisome

WHAT??! i REFUSE to WAIT for dopes! If they have a house, I evict them immediately, and failing that, i throw a helicopter at them. ARRRRGHF and i already wasted it on the dumb wah beasts! What a fool I’ve been! This isn’t right, having to choose between the dumbest birds teamed up with the third dumbest imps and the unquestionably dumbest imps. And with helicopter prices what they are now I can’t afford a second one.

this has not literally occurred, at least not in this exact manner, but mostly because I know people react this way and I generally do not want to make my dumb problem into someone else’s bigger problem with me, however ridiculous the thought process behind it is. i do not believe i could ever say “i have an agender identity” aloud without putting an insulting inflection on it. nonetheless that is something which i WANT to express.

This previously featured additional dialog that i worried was excessive. And so i removed it, but i still think about what i removed. i like some of the dropped poses and some of the dropped dialog isn’t even redundant with what i have put in past annoying pathetic snake comic strips.

too many dumb snake comics these days. i have let the dedicated side-site for them fall out of date again (now amended), and still without investigating the elephantitis of its navigation links (still still)

I do not think “rollercoaster” is a proper assessment; that would require going back up before going down again. Trump policy forgoes laws of physics, among others

b-b-but it could WORK!YEARS from now and only for american bilious billionaires who are already proportionately, uncomprehendably more affluent than the rest of the population compared to the wealthugs who benefat in the 1980s.
the fault (regarding this communication) might be with the headline writer. it often is. the headline implies with “it could work” that a net positive outcome is possible, whereas it merely means that those who already control pretty much everything MIGHT get to control slightly more of it.

they have no love or happiness (and possibly are quite dirty) and so only “win” by depriving others further. they can’t use what they deprive you of, but it is more important that you don’t have it.

march 31 supposedly was “trans day of visibility,” and as it usually goes I did not know there was one or that it was coming, and so was unprepared.

I also do not know if i properly qualify as “trans” but i absolutely have trans-like issues via preferring ambiguity, on account of not believing that i would be accepted as a full trans person, which a good many people and systems who don’t know me [and a few who sadly do believe that they know me would] still scorn me for, and i also hate to be seen, perhaps in large part due to those issues, so here comes this

on further reflection it isn’t all that different from this idea except i spent substantially less time drawing it and no longer share a bathroom with other people’s toothbrushes

Today’s might have communicated its message better if i showed the creature driving and going to a store to obtain the potion ingredients and emphasizing how it fares poorly when seen amidst doing that, but I have shown that before also! It didn’t communicate its point well but they never do. I would almost hate to break from tradition if I knew how.

this is just the sort of non-divisive, clear-purposed thing i need to put on my you tube page after inexplicably reaching more people than usual with the last one

unfortunately this still isn’t as funny to me as a regular insultinator but i had to see it to know.
The GALL of that DUMB little machine calling anyone else “obNOXious” makes me laugh just to think about. i tried to imitate its inflection as much as possible but it does not suit some of these words. By the end it turned into something that wasn’t quite anything, as often occurs.

An earlier version of this just showed pictures of that one person’s hand pressing the buttons and then two other dorks holding the things up while pressing buttons but i could not get a reply from one (the other had seemingly been missing for quite some time) and once i replaced that person i decided to replace all the stolen clips except for the initial one that establishes how the actual device works. i never got a reply from that person either but since I have only stolen video of his hand i am less paranoid about causing problems.
I also did not in my requests clarify that I don’t actually think these are good or valid insults. Because i thought it was obvious. Even though I consistently and constantly overestimate anyone’s ability to have any idea why I do anything. Especially just the sort of people who would think these insults were good would also think a machine which emits such insults would be good.

And stupider me, I forgot that there is an actual doom level with a large iconic object that shouts something weird then shoots out monsters that most casual players of doom would be familiar with, and I could have just pasted the insultinator graphics over that, though it wouldn’t have hitler sky visible. Ideally the hellknights’ lawyers won’t send me any threatening letters about this like the last time I deployed sky hitlers.

march seems to be unofficial pathetic snake month. which counterintuitively means the creature must fare worse than usual since its existence is dependent on it having negative experiences

as usual, based on a few different people who remind me of each other. and as usual the snake is meant to be laughed at rather than with. I thought that was obvious, but I have very little grasp on what is obvious, “obviously”

yes you must definitely click on it to get a larger version if that is desirable to you.

another item based on my experience of not feeling like i belong anywhere. I shoddily added the first “frame” after the other two when i felt like, as usual, I was failing to put forth the intended point with the initial upload, but that the layout for a change allowed me a chance to also fail at rectifying.
the POINT: is my taste too old? No, because taste older than mine is still being imposed both by the same entities who did when i was a child and also by newer ones now younger than me, and sometimes even are paid to do it. Taste is subjective and can be neither “correct” nor “wrong.”
maybe THAT should be the comic strip, but that sort of thing is not funny to me! Stern didacticism pretending to be comics is something that I make more annoyed comics about that i have to over explain afterward.

as often happens, i am not entirely sure who i am angry at. actual personal acquaintances? contemporary media saturation? magazines publishing pompous lists to proclaim that human creativity peaked six decades ago? internet dorks my age or less? but complaining, even in a way that appeals to no one, theoretically helps me be less bothered, at least for a little while.

point of view: being kidnapped by Mr. Clean
“loving hands” refers not only to his love of using hands to commit crime, but also his strong platonic fondness of a clean getaway

does it really count as a “recipe” if the instructions are essentially “follow instructions?” If they can be summarized by “see title?” Is it just not permissible to have blank, nonsense-information-free space on a product label?

I have beef stew
I have biscuits
but how can i get beef stew OVER biscuits?

WELL it goes like this:
get your beef stew
get your biscuits
put the beef stew over the biscuits

I refuse!

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several page bits of this
the comic strip prologue sketched in 2016 i finally took the effort to sort out and place in the actual comic strip section
there are probably yet details to be cleared up on it. Do let me know if anything seems particularly objectionable and I will be sure to leave it unchanged.

steve moraff’s vision comes ever closer to reality. In a sense we are all “super entrap”ped by our kind’s environmental ravaging and pillaging.

a stupid video that wasn’t supposed to take me hours to assemble.

i knew higher quality samples were IN the rom i just didn’t realize they were so accessible until recently when i tried to look it up and came across this page from a forum. i assumed there were already videos exhibiting this since that forum post is from 2011, but there weren’t, at least not under the search terms i tried.

I tried to explain within the video how to pull these sounds out of a rom, since it isn’t complicated, and in fact can be easier than that page even says, but it did not fit gracefully into the first few
seconds and looked worse than what I replaced it with. maybe i will try to add more information to it later before un-unlisting the video, or maybe I will just forget it for another week.
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eh no I just added the words “straight from the rom” and hopefully implied the simplicity of it without saying much. most likely nobody cares whatever the case and this is a non-issue!

2-22-2025 oh borf was that ten days? too many dumb projects, i lose track of days.
there is a weird crisis in my house right now, someone else’s problem for once.
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They don’t make ’em like they used to
maybe you even think pit fighter makes it redundant oh ho ho ho

i realize it has been common for cleaning products to label themselves as “grease fighter” or “stain fighter” for a long time but I feel like this presentation would have neither been approved by the product company’s own research much less the primarily FOOD-selling store displaying it on shelves in the not terribly distant past. I suppose that is pre-emoji thinking; visual depictions of it have been on adhesive bandages for over six years by now. ALSO apparently one of the pictures on that site entry has been broken and not showing up for an equal length of time and my comment about “spot cleaning” beneath it totally incomprehensible, and nobody noticed despite this site actually having a few readers I hadn’t personally alienated back then because my comments have always been incomprehensible.

[more] Useless information! the “pit fighter” image is seemingly randomly mirrored depending on the whim of its user/no reason. so i wondered: which version is forwards? Assuming the money hands weren’t digitally inserted, the more common orientation seems to show BACKWARDS vintage $20 bills!

It is hard to tell since the picture is somewhat blurry, US currency tends to be symmetrical in layout and a backwards 2 can resemble a 5, or even itself when the slanted part is obscured. However only $20 units have the column/scroll effect on the left and right.

Proving the foreground hands are part of the original photograph rather than added and possibly cloned later is more complicated since Pit Fighter is so cheap that it can be difficult to believe the set director had TWO handfuls of twenties lying around

I forgot I made this stupid rom hack and consequently assumed I had no kid icarus screenshots whatsoever rather than pictures from this one and was about to look up a youtube video from which to take a picture of this text. It still looks better than most ports of pit fighter. I have a stupid life.

there isn’t enough bad news in the world so i made some of my own

you can click on it to try and get a better look if you need one, but you probably do not need one
sometimes i worry that it is not my place to criticize contemporary entertainment offerings since that is not made for me. But a long time ago it WAS, ostensibly, made for me, and i STILL didn’t like it

A scene perhaps not a whole lot more inspired than the envelope art sections in the magazines where I used to see these characters but probably more ambitious

If you recognize all or most of these there is something seriously wrong with you, but hopefully not enough for you to draw a similar picture.

i thought about having a contest to see who could name the most, but no reward I can offer would make up for the trauma you would have to go through in order to be able to do that

I had to exclude humans and post sega-saturn-era characters to ensure that I could eventually stop, though a few mild exceptions may have slipped through anyway.
I like a few of the characters and a few of the games even, not necessarily at the same time, but by and large they deserve what they get. They probably have some extra lives lying around anyway.

three substitutions occurred:

globmeister is easily the dorkiest claymate but i swapped in the mouse, instead since the only reason it exists was so the phrase “faster than a hedgehog” could be used in promotional material, Despite this speed being about as practical as a hedgehog’s at best, and usually less so. The gopher’s fire power is much more useful, from what i recall of claymates.
still i should have approached this with the expectation that most people who see this will not know most of the characters, and yet less will they know the hokey calculations behind any of the worthless beasts’ creations.

Initially I included both the terrible 1993 skunny that i wrote an appropriately terrible 2003 webpage about and also the 1995 “special edition” skunny that i did not learn of until years later. eventually i merged them into the left side figure so there would be space to draw in aero the acro bat. i decided that despite having insulted aero on previous occasions, again any person seeing the picture might well never see any other picture i ever made, and my disdain for aero and its games soars above most of the other characters, especially when i was refreshed on how much aero 2’s cut scene artist wanted aero to look like mickey mouse. and is certainly more LIKELY to be recognized than either skunny, so why have two of them? i also shortly afterward remembered that donk the samurai duck bears a D and that i could place it beside the other two to spell SAD. wonderdog has a W but while i can spell SAW and the stupid puppet from saw looks SORT of like one of these characters, I do not know it from its association with video games and so it would not qualify to appear.

bronkie health hero/the bronchiosaurus looks like croc because both of them are bare minimum creativity character designs. bronkie came several years before croc but who else knows that? the second health hero character “trakie” looks less like other better-known characters and so is more difficult to be mistaken for one, and so I added that one instead. In addition to removing the floating eyebrows from radical rex. As awful as they are, they interfere with the next lame dinosaur’s space.

i also used the blue character the one time that i played the game. i think the game is substantially better than aero the acrobat and the protagonist much less loathsome, even the one which looks like croc. Though it raises the question what my criteria is for inclusion, if I put characters I hate everything about amidst ones that I think were just stuck with a crummy company or set of directives. I didn’t add the cool croc twins either, and their game is probably worse than aero’s. Not because it is too limited in scope, as “zoom” also has extremely little for the player to do and I tossed that game’s moron in as soon as I remembered it existed.

And it wasn’t about space constraints because I added in billy the shell (Rmadillo), spanko, sally the blind cave salamander, who doesn’t even star in its own game, and psycho fox AFTER that. The only thing I can say for certain isARRHRHRHRHRGHH I’VE BEEN OUTFOXED

It is funny to think of people who never heard of me (or it) trying to identify the dope. All it does is cause problems.

this is not funny at all!

and LATER i added those dumb crocs anyway. it probably doesn’t need BOTH but I couldn’t choose one and had gotten it into my mind that they were really small so they seemed to both “fit.” Quik the Thunder Rabbit, while looking rather inflated in game still probably shouldn’t be so LARGE but its oversize was less apparent when there were fewer characters. Curiously i made both Brian the Lion and Oscar the [thing] smaller to accommodate WHIZZ, yet didn’t think of reducing quik. until now. oh fiddle dee dee.

after this i look forward to drawing more characters who do not have clown noses, buck teeth or eyes that touch