based on something that happened actually to someone other than me. Somebody who didn’t trust doctors in the past due to legitimate bad experiences more recently had issues discontinuing a medication at the same time as getting caught up in a misinformation vortex meant to discredit scientists so to funnel support toward republican political candidates with no regard for people who actually need help and aren’t ever going to vote for scumbags, now distrusts doctors harder than ever and keeps getting worse mentally due to not trusting doctors so to get help with the medication issue but then also cannot be guided out of that due to continually getting stuck with doctors who seem less than trustworthy. In fact it is rather an ongoing matter but i think, i hope, the worst is over with, so i can justify posting the comic strip in the absence of anything else remotely coherent.
Now I need to take this computer apart to try and replace the “thermal paste” within it due to my other ongoing crisis that people getting paid loads of money could have prevented and saved trouble for countless common folk but didn’t. If I succeed at this I still will only have scrappy website updates but will have a substantially reduced chance of blowing up the computer and setting my home on fire if I ever get back to attempting to create better updates.
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ah nope, worse than ever. i definitely have to pay somebody to fix it or buy another one now. which i partially expected but i was never psychologically prepared to deal with. taking that thing apart and especially putting it back together, then dismantling it and remantling it again and only getting this is more than i can do a third time and potentially STILL get… this. plenty of videos showing how to take everything out but you are mostly on your own when it comes to putting stuff back in.
most of your screws are just not in or the wrong place. one is wrong and ruined and unremovable and thus the power port will forever after be lopsided AND i didn’t even need to remove that one
the screws DO NOT WANT to go back in. they want to stick to my fingers. they want to fall into different places and roll around unvisibly. they want to get stuck sideways and then fly to oblivion when freed.
and after all that, when it simply shuts off after a few seconds, it gives no indication of what thing that i did wrong was the culprit. I have been doing things wrong my whole life, possibly even beans on toast, i can’t work with something that needs all things done correctly.
i have my data, but i can’t do anything with it on this crummy backup computer that i bought for my mother that my sister then commandeered. it has TWO (2) usb ports, and i need 3, for mouse, keyboard, and tablet, not counting the one connected to the
hard drive toaster thing. and i also “have to” go on a week long “vacation” and nothing is less relaxing to me than being stuck in some other place on someone else’s conditions and not about work on my personal stupid nonsense. there certainly isn’t time to order a new machine then and i don’t trust any place to fix this fast and not charge moreforfeoieroufreefropfrupidorfrupefrupefrupelope
was trying to use ptm 7950 instead of paste like reddit dorks insisted was better the problem? would it be working now if i had just used paste? is someone that i pay $200+ just going to use paste? I don’t know. any time i open it up another screw goes missing and every time i have to reconnect the blorks to the wifi card i think i lose a year off my life.
i swear this comic strip is not about me. I have ISSUES but they aren’t new or freshly medicated.
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ah! it lives! I had not screwed the fan in tightly enough. One of the guides I looked at warned against screwing the fan in too tightly and as usual i drew the wrong conclusion from advice that i probably would have been fine without receiving. Good thing i dared to look back inside; i almost had a nervous breakdown when i resigned myself to using GIMP on a backup computer for the next twoish weeks. How do I move a selection? I don’t know! I thought just KRITA made that stupid. I am glad it doesn’t have to be my problem.
I don’t know if i actually solved the INITIAL problem of overheating but i seem to have alleviated the apparently more serious problem of me touching the computer inappropriately. It has more screws outside of it than in and the keyboard is on my bed since I got tireder and tireder of hooking stuff like that back up just for nothing to happen. Ideally I will sort that out before getting on an airplane because this thing presently looks almost as dangerous as four ounces of water with its insides and wires exposed.
and my mind state is like I have been “away” from using the computer for a week or longer when it was just a single day. Maybe this is a sign of mental illness. I will add it to my collection
GREAT. It’s about time. We’ll finally have Hitler on the ropes.
I like The Guardian, generally, but why is this news? Modern technology being able to beat up less-new technology is not impressive and is not related to any of the reasons that this particular technology is noteworthy or criticized
I don’t think anybody assumed present artificial intelligence couldn’t do that, or even PONDERED if it could, and that it CAN doesn’t justify its rampant undesired incursions where it doesn’t belong, much less the obscene amounts of electricity that it wastes.
What is AI doing about our present 2025 nazi problem apart from generating meme videos, self-published book covers and fake “evidence” against perceived enemies for them?
the actual article seems to be about showing how far artificial intelligence has come since its origin but as often happens, the headline makes it seem more sensational and obnoxious. Although sometimes that isn’t possible
in a different story about a totally ludicrous circumstance presented as if it is normal that i already saw being mocked before the guardian reported on it,
If it is “ai-generated” it is NOT evidence. That is called forgery. Fabrication. Fraud. It also has nothing to do with the incredibly absurd and creepy “victim impact statement” that this story is actually about, and this proves it isn’t just the headline-smith making things stupider.
I don’t understand how a legitimate newspaper can be pro-ai-generation or even neutral on the topic when that’s precisely what the right wing creeps they generally report on the flagrant immorality of want to use to put true journalists, if not all writers and artists, out of business. Though admittedly some should be easier to put out of business than others.
are you making beans on toast wrong? And also speaking IMPROPERLY? How is it even POSSIBLE to put beans on to toast and have it not be correct if any way is correct? That seems even harder to screw up than beef stew over biscuits. And if i like it that way, why is that anyone else’s business? Or news? Unless you take money to run trash stories like this? And if you do, how much are AI creeps giving you, and will it have been worth poisoning your very livelihood?
perhaps some people simply enjoy being poisoned
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!
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.
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!
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.
i suppose heart throbs is a better name than heart stabs, or myocardial murder munchies. Maybe “bleedies” would have worked
wah calm down please don’t shoot me with your alien ray gun, unfamiliar shouting person. This seems to indicate that your name is “Coco” but were that the case I can think of numerous other cereals that ought to have offered you endorsement deals.
not this one, though i would certainly welcome it if it meant keeping that creep bee away from My Kids.
i saw this plush effigy of the stop and shop “marty” robot in a bin with horrible elf legs decoration and thought they deserved each other.
apparently i have only mentioned marty one time, which may be too many. It is impossible to go to a stop and shop and not see one. what it does is slowly roll around the edges of aisles to try and block potential shoppers from entering or exiting. it searches for the tiniest, least consequential scraps of paper on the ground, then stops in place and starts calling out “Hazard, detected” forever until someone comes along and presses a hidden button on it that makes it shut up until it encounters another such obstruction. It is also able to trigger “clean up needed” announcements throughout the whole store if nobody presses the button soon enough. I presume its deployment has been used as justification for terminating employees. But fortunately these cheap pieces of trash ensure that a few additional sweat shop kids can earn three cents a day assembling them in the nearest country with no child protection laws. I think that is Trickle Down Economics.
I was surprised to see one in a half price bin since they tend to linger on designated shelves at full price after other similarly-themed merchandise would have been shuffled out of there and replaced with the next seasons’.
I call them “cheap” in the metaphorical sense. These full price pumpkin martspawn being from november 3 doesn’t PROVE my statement but apart from them christmas merchandise was already being rolled out in this section and there was no apparent inclination to get these out of there. They seem to be vying for the title of World’s Most Notorious Pumpkin
OH well pardon ME
other less prestigious positions may yet be available
these are going to be collector’s items one day. specifically, on wednesday, when a big truck drives around town gathering things like this, provided they have been deposited into the appropriate curbside vessel.
with that dorky facial expression and yellow helmet Dong Cheng seems more like Bong Cheng. I am not entirely surprised that his belt-inspired assassination attempt failed.
also it took me over nine years to mention this. despite a more html-named and internet-shrunken version appearing in the offline “nev” folder that i used in 2018, It is not in the online “nev” folder! What are you hiding from, Bong Cheng? nothing is beneath me now
ah ha sometimes i forget that a few other people still have standards
fortunately i do not feel like giving any right now!
elsewhere, Romance of the three kingdoms 8 is channeling my old phonics book
coincidentally, Lu Bu met Cao Mao in China, the same place where
Monki met Popeye, an event whose depiction may as of 2025 may no longer be considered bootleg, though presumably will continue to be nipple-legged.
january
february
march
april
may
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july
august
september
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november
december
that is everything which happened last year, thankfully.
Chen Gong, I would feel a lot safer if you stopped shouting at me
chen gong was fairly reasonable for most of existence but once he touched that pile of scrolls he lost his mind
yes, maybe you should TALK to them instead of what you are presently doing! or even better ask someone else to do it.
Pang De was also fairly reasonable for most of existence but then lost his own mind after considering he is perpetually living and reliving mostly the same role in the bloodiest civil war in history for the entertainment of others
it now costs more money to buy ten pieces of chicken and five biscuits than it did to buy fourteen pieces of chicken with five biscuits a few years ago before points were introduced. And this is the COUPON; the regular menu price is worse. And consider that biscuits are essentially just a glob of dough with salt that they tossed in a microwave for 20 seconds and probably only cost them two cents to make. That is the nature of inflation; prices go up and never down. I accept that it happens but I ought to have a choice about whether i LOVE it.
I also guarantee you the re-election of trump isn’t going to make points or anything else any more lovable.
some things are destined to be hated
12-7-2024 i have made this dice matter far too complicated. maybe i should just post the graphics!
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12-6-2024 i am doing something with dice that I thought would be ready within the fifth of december but that did not occur
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a commission drawing for division71 (from reddit of all places) in which a roommate (who might be called magikdragon) stays behind and abruptly transforms and eats a bunch of snacks, and then becomes transfixed on a fishtank.
I do not totally understand but it was within my capabilities to draw. I was also asked to treat it as four separate compositions, hence the file size is much larger than usual and the detail level possibly looking especially mushy when scaled down
I absentmindedly titled it “snackin’ dragon” and am not sure if I named it after the worrisome arcade game “Snacks ‘n Jaxson” or the totally horrid unlicensed nes game “Tagin’ Dragon” but neither way is it good. Also the internet is so full of people with no value to their lives who deliberately seek out and record themselves playing the worst video games, sometimes not even poorly, that there are plenty of pictures available of both and thus I do not need to put any here, mercifully. I need only say what is necessary to get through this.
life is complicated enough!
no sir, I do NOT
I am not sure how I avoided putting this picture anywhere since I used one of its counterparts ten years ago and I generally think this one is funnier.
the musicien de rock detester may not have a choice about being in such close proximity, but the television detester is deliberately standing right in front of the television. He could turn the thing off! Unless this drawing is more literal than I assumed, and this person has no arms or body and cannot move. In which event he should aim his detestment at whoever placed him there.
trump does not directly affect me much. The anti-science, anti-feminism, anti-empathy sentiment that he depended on for victory and that has frustratingly affected some people to whom I was once close was not created by him. He is an exploiter, not a creator. But in 2016 he still seemed unusual and likely to at least gut some of hypocrisy in government that didn’t directly benefit him, and by 2020 it was clear that in practice he isn’t much different from standard crooked wearers-of-suits. His regressive policies are their regressive policies. He is impervious to shame, publicly bragging about deeds that other politicians would resign to keep from going public, but he also knows that as hard as he wanted to be respected in New York, where he had his biggest, most audacious campaign event, he still didn’t win and still lost business licenses. He knows and dislikes that he is seen as a redneck president.
This friggin guy lives in essentially luxury hotels for his entire life, treats his employees like pets or worse, chums it up with literally the wealthiest person in human history, and is somehow regarded like a champion of the downtrodden, when just about nobody is more symbolically associated with trodding-down. Some people believe, without any evidence, because trump has also trained them to be anti-evidence, that he will reduce food prices. The people inflating the prices for pure profit all donated to his campaign! (probably) During my brief brush with election coverage last night I inadvertently saw some goofus in an enormous plantation house that almost certainly was built and furnished with slavery money, with a bust of Ronald Reagan behind him (similar to the television detester, except bronze) being interviewed, swelling with swill about how Trump takes down “the elites.” The only elites he took down was Rudolph Giuliani! If Hillary Clinton hadn’t run against him in 2016, Donny and Bill would probably be best buddy old pals like they were back in the Epstein days. I am not optimistic but I think there is a pretty good chance big D will slip on a banana peel down the steps of the capital building or detach his arms during a golf swing which might at least be interesting to read about.
A Kamala Harris presidency wasn’t going to improve my life, nor anyone in Gaza’s either (I voted for Jill Stein again, since in Connecticut it doesn’t make a difference), but I could have had marginally more optimism about who might not get hurt by it. I understand why they believe it. Trump says he will hurt people. He never drained “the swamp” and he never got mexico to pay for “the wall,” so he probably will continue not doing what he said he will do, but he hurts people spontaneously in the present. You can’t trust his promises, but you can’t know what he will do instead.