>i saw mid 1990s reader rabbit games for the first time recently and this is what came of that
the interface imitation is an afterthought and so the words do not work very well with it, if they work at all.
i was already too old for the original versions of reader rabbit that i was occasionally near during what legally qualified as school for me, so i missed out entirely on the later versions that actually had characters and animation. hence why i cannot read. however my “audience” tends to be 10-20 years younger than me and not necessarily aware of how young i amn’t
Initially I just wanted to draw the dumb mouse misbehaving,
ruining everyone else’s day while calling out “see me!” and i wondered what else was going on. oddly enough while within the target demographic i probably would not have. possibly i was smarter then than now.
With the book theme and the large amount of small, hostile words that dominate official government messaging, i pushed the drawing toward the specific act depicted.
maybe reader rabbit isn’t a fascist but i lack any attachment to the character so i do not mind implying nefarious things.
and ideally this will not lead to any real person meeting the fate reserved for rabble rousing revolutionaries
before leaving i would like to point out that in the old macintosh game i saw in the past, i was under the impression that reader rabbit worked in a mine, but apparently actually OWNed the mine and has acquired a luxuriant dwelling, which includes a custom-made carrot-themed toilet. the branding is appropriate since rabbits don’t actually eat carrots often so possibly if they did it would cause them indigestion and as I know from reading the historical case study Watership Down, rabbits also don’t have very good long term memory so a toilet like this might one them remember the association. That also explains why Reader Rabbit has been repeating first grade for two decades. The only question is why there is so much space between the toilet and the sink. i suppose that means you don’t need to worry about your toothbrushes if you neglect to close the lid before flushing but that is generally a good habit to get into regardless of space allocation.
shining farce: the lunacy of reprobate intervention
i mostly made and personalized this in 2015 for someone that i don’t think cared so i de-personalized it except for the parts that would seem functionally surreal if not removed
but then over thinking it was too sparse i crammed it full of details that are somehow both vague AND distracting. and that is what i have this week.
now that i have put it somewhere where it counts as essentially finalized, i cannot make sense of how the laser eye could shoot out the ground beneath someone without also shooting whoever fell following that happening with a blast of the same power level that was strong enough to destroy something strong enough to have supported whoever fell.
doip having a problem.
i do not like to “kill” things but this may be even more gruesome a fate. eh it probably is not permanent.
a yet more gruesome fate would be me trying to draw that happening from 8 angles and i am not going to
yes that is all! After spending months on and off and off and off and off trying to alleviate this computer’s overheat issues i finally resigned me to buying a replacement which also turns out to be a multi-week process. Some ebay merchants don’t like to answer questions, but they don’t like to accept returns or present all pertinent information or use a consistent format for that information across their offerings, and the older i get, the more i have felt burned by bad purchases and the more annoying and particular my questions seem to get over cheaper and cheaper items.
but when i can’t make a routine grocery trip for less than $120 i do feel uninclined to drop that or double that or triple that on a computer unless i know the computer is going to do the job I want it to. or at least believe i can make the safest assumption possible that it might.
We had no idea how good we had it when cheap chicken was still around
now cheap chicken is branching out and has left us behind
and of corpse i did not finish the year end video before the year ended. did you think i would? i did! i don’t know why.
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i made a sketch in 2012 and then periodically looked at it in later years and tried to remember what my plan for it initially had been but never did.
so this year i tried to sort it out on a few occasions and only got this far. i have its various stages of production already in my year-end video but generally i do not put works-in-progress in there. and also i should prioritize finishing the video over finishing up this one picture that only occupies one second within it and is not clearly discernible as unfinished but i also do this for free and nobody asks me to so i can leave it in there if i want to even IF i complete it later and want to put that in a later video, OKAY? no it does not MATTER if you approve my decision as being oll korrect!
another weirdo stomping around that i do not know what to do with apart from that. shooting fireballs from its eyes seems TOO obvious but is certainly an option. i have “wanted” for a while to have a wizard type creature that launched magic from its feet instead of its hands and this one looks sort of like a wizard, but i already drew the dumb sandals on it. Perhaps it just stares at foes and makes them uncomfortable.
its coat-like garment does not match the original drawing as well as the hood does because i had indecision about whether i should have green sleeves and purple cuffs or purple sleeves with green cuffs to be consistent with the hood. and so i switched them to totally different colors which can be swapped in-game to either way (and probably won’t work very well).
based on a dork from a 2018ish picture that i moderately renovated and reposted various places recently. i could barely remember drawing it so i imagined people who had seen it would barely remember having done so if they had. I changed the orange creature’s cowboy guns into candy canes because I was annoyed at the cognitive dissonance of frightwing pro-gun discourse persisting even as one of its adherents was gunned down by an alt-right-meming imbecile with weapons that their policies made sure were available and that their own constituents purchased, but I don’t find guns interesting anyway, just amusement in some gun-adjacent aesthetics like texas belts. you can’t tell that they are candy canes at this size and it didn’t seem worth adding extra layers to make sure the stripes were coherent but I know at least that they aren’t guns now.
thanksh a bunch, reid
Initially I was making a picture picking on a stupid old sonic the hedge character named “hershey” for this setup. Although I think Mars makes better candy, they also seem mildly less concerned about child slavery in their supply line,while m&ms in particular are overpriced, and anyway this is a truly horrible character even without the dipwit patriotism advertising it appears in. I added confederate imagery based on the attitude alone but sure enough while hershey in a pennsylvania company, mars is headquartered in virginia. only as of 1984 but that certainly gives plenty of time to soak up local sentiment, considering how many racists are on the internet who were only born in 2009 or so.
a few years ago i saw a supermarket display that proclaimed something like “m&ms are for americans” and i wish i could find a picture that i probably took of it but i sure couldn’t find it for this website entry. o hwell.
I was reminded of it less than a month ago when I saw this package for sale…how DARE you put the stupid all american hat on this scumbag mascot when you know child slaves harvest your beans? It doesn’t matter how many.
I had hoped to get the drawing out by july 4, and didn’t quite do that but it is entirely possible that americans have bigger new bad stories in scumbag patriotism to worry about this independence day.
that character is SO awful. Aye dohKNOW, I never MYET the guy! awful
i hate the line “proud to be an american where at least i know i’m free.” the grammar is totally wrong and stupid. It doesn’t come across as a stylistic choice, just a stupid one, and is utterly uncalled out (that i could find, apart from http://www.amiright.com/names/bad-grammar/greenwoodlee.shtml) despite the song’s higher profile under the likes of trump, in line with other emperor’s new clothes elements of his political career. sure boss, as long as you codify persecution of alphabet people into law I’ll pretend you’re a genius even if absolutely everything gets worse for everyone who isn’t a billionaire but by a slightly lesser amount. It’s like nfts but for old and poor jerks instead of just the young rich ones.
It is also plausible that this creature simply does not know the correct words to the song, and there is no logical system whereby a person might assume the correct ones actually are since grammatically they aren’t.
I wouldn’t trust the horrid character change the line deliberately but ME using the word “where” here would imply that chocolate bean harvesting happens in the US, but if it did a lot more americans would know that children are being used for it and have long since prepared excuses for why that is good for them and better than free medical coverage.
ALTHOUGH my setup confounds the story a bit since while there are some legitimate 100% trafficked children doing the work, many of them “merely” toil on farms owned by their own families and aren’t necessarily being threatened with violence beyond what is inherent in hard labor done with massive maiming tools and the sort of encouragement and disciplining that might come from impoverished parents who would require their children to do that and probably had to do themselves as children. In america we only feed them fatty sugary poison made from the crops. It’s about time they had to WORK for it!
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.
will 2025 be better? I set the bar low in 2024 to guarantee it. In fact it may be lower than I expect since the video stops hard at 1 minute whenever i try to test to make sure it uploaded properly and that i didn’t accidentally break something right before the final save.
I will probably be having that stupid music echoing in my mind for the next few days. the dopey sound effects help a bit but I only added those in the last few hours and almost certainly in excess.
janiaury 2 updorf:
the video is done-ish but the higher bit rate or whatsit picture is taking substantially longer to render which means I can’t check it and notice stuff wrong with it as quickly and then try again and notice more stuff wrong with it. indeed much of today and yesterday was spent dealing with capturing moving bits of “watch out for dopes” in Open Broadcasting Software, and it still looks bad. I may need to revert to recording gzdoom at 1024×768; (I tried 1280×720 for this) and rendering at 1280×720 (this time was 1920×1280) until some point that will not occur when I have a more powerful computer since I am not interested in windows post-7 and having a non-portable computer is not an option under my general circumstances. fiddle deep feep. for everything else I do it is plenty capable enough.
obviously i don’t need the final render size until it is the FINAL render but part of my personal broken process is continually thinking I am done when i am not. It doesn’t work if I KNOW i am not done.
and at this point it doesn’t reduce the render time much, if at all, since I have used larger input files that in the past due to my expectation of exporting larger, so they still struggle to get squeezed through the mixer.
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january 1 2025: ah noip i definitely did not finish, but it turned out to only be about 87% my fault
if I work on something for too long, the task becomes somewhat abstract and i forget what my goal is. in this case it is, or SHOULD be, to show what i already made, not to show anything new. but since i put new stuff in it previous years, i thought if I can’t put something equally interesting in here it should at least be equally new, and then i have spent too long on that even though it isn’t impressive, just new.
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december 31 2024 updeh: my year end video definitely will not be ready before the year handover, and far too much of the contents are garbage, but it would be culturally inaccurate otherwise.
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a rather annoying picture featuring characters that I historically have not exhibat here but also have decreasingly put effort into distancing myself from, considering their regular, if hurried appearances in my last few year-end “art” videos and being directly visible in a recent pathetic snake comic strip based on an absurd event that might have featured different heap leaps of logic than it did if I had still cared about hiding them.
As I have mentioned in the past, and which is still true: my “normal” characters are agendered, not male; gender doesn’t necessarily exist where they come from, and neither does christmas, so my winter-themed images lack specific allusions to it. People assume those beasts are male since they have been conditioned to see male as default in the absence of any specific labels, and I do not take enough actions to distance those creatures from normal expectations. And i surely do not help that perception with this mob of heavily stereotyped figures. However I have created the problem of pictures of them existing and this one is almost socially acceptable despite that and I have nothing else new since I have set to assembling my year-end video (which will, as before, featured hurried glimpses of these leg-emphasizers) so there is little sense in not using it. Likewise, my previous areligious winter gathering pictures are presumed to be christmas themed, but that is not a problem I invented. Or if it is, I do not remember it. It may even be the case that I have received money for pictures featuring half of these characters, which isn’t necessarily true of individual drawings of my once regularly-appearing weirdos. And it would be more if I included similar “characters” here that only got drawn once. Which doesn’t mean it is right, but does prove that I can get away with it. The me of 2006 would be ashamed, but the me of 2006 also could not drive a car and assumed it would be famous by ten years before now doing what it was then doing, and was just as likely to be told it was sexually attracted to something that it wasn’t and unworthy of life on account of that by sociopaths sometimes not even over the internet.
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
11-29-2024 oh flops I forgot to update this two days ago
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a questionable flying beast has a new slime it would like you to try
a long time ago I completely disregarded and forgot about this ugly monster sprite in dragon quest 5.
more recently I noticed the 3d version from the playstation 2 remake, and tried to draw one, and then the picture went screwy so i added some slimes to distract from that, but then they went screwy as well. And then this week I needed a website entry but was too mentally drained to prepare one, and so instead tried to force out a completish version of this drawing and pass the mental drainage on to someone else.
i wonder why these slimes are always professing their lack of badness, and I now must consider if it is because of the profound horridity of dope slimes.
you should have thought of that before you were blue and perpetually smiling! about 17 years before, by my reckoning.
it must be said that despite all that went wrong with Tecmo Secret of the Stars, at least its slimes own their badditude and don’t try to emotionally manipulate me with their facial expressions, even if they aren’t sure what color they are.
While this dragon quest 6 remake slime APPEARS to confess to being not good, it STILL has a BIG SMILE, as if it THINKS it is good, and EXPECTS me to reassure it! I shan’t! It also self-narrates its own sound effects. Verily this slime is awful.
In which a gang of weirdos annoy a perpetually morose person by smiling
I recently learned not only that Pierre Gilhodes had gotten made a Goblins part 5, he had a kick-starter for Goblins 6 and it bothered me that I never made an elaborate piece about this series despite taking inspiration in one way or another from its strange attitudes and art work for just about 30 years. I remember that I memorized the pixels on fingus (the one riding a bubble) and replicated it on school macintosh computers back before they had internet or microsoft paint would save files that apple computers would read. I stopped after realizing people didn’t recognize the character and thought I was drawing little monkeys but I have had this garbage deep in my mind for a long time and it needs to be released, that is the point. Similarly inappropriately big smiles have found their way into many of my drawings.
There is probably more context to be supplied but right now I want to prioritize getting this posted so I have website piece at the top which doesn’t mention trumpDRAP well maybe next week.
good gawrd he is literally putting sycophants from tv and the internet into his government. I didn’t think he would. He really is going to be worse than last time. Kids being obnoxious on social media and stupid forums aren’t all that important.
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i have heard that birds are jerks
this might be my least popular upload in years. presumably in part due to it not communicating my opinion on its message well, or even the
message at all, and also that i posted it during one of the most discomforting election days that I can remember. I almost didn’t want people to see it since I was so dissatisfied with the result, but then I also disliked when fewer people than seemingly average reacted to it.
Maybe its meaning would be more clear if i drew the birds like the three stoogers, since there were actually four, but I don’t actually like the stooges and i don’t believe they are known for assaulting women.
maybe the message itself: all organized religion has this at its core has baked-in lack of appeal. I kept making pieces like this since I was annoyed by the support (not enough to matter, only enough to be noticed) I had from racist, misogynist creeps who assumed I shared their viewpoints since I complain about some of the same stupid garbage as, presumably, whatever higher-tier idiot they take orders from.
it took this one (same person, different icon) until last week to realize I’m not being ironic or dog-whistling when I reject his anonymous insincere klanny memester values.
I wondered who this person was and I saw it using a particular ugly horrid arbitrarily racist “reaction” picture, like 30 times in a short period against different people in petty arguments, and I really didn’t want it, or anyone similar to it, thinking I was on whatever they think their “side” is but I didn’t want to directly engage with it either.
After I wrote that, the person in question saw it and has insisted that my remarks misunderstand and or misrepresent the behavior. Maybe I am just too old. Most of the people putting forth the snarky racist culture though are plenty older than me and know exactly what they are doing. Whatever variety there might be among his fans or what they get out of it, Mr. Stone Toss himself is a bad guy.
pardon me, you aren’t a white supremacist, you just believe people who don’t have light-colored skin are intrinsically inferior to you
And that was months before a deranged child-leg-fixating sex-cyber-stalker whom I want even less to engage with used the exact same insult against me, even. I can however change what topics I prioritize among the numerous undrawn comic strips I already have little scripts for.
of course I have complained about Stephen Colbert trying to reinvent himself as an unmistakable democrat party and perceived like-aligned media shill, even changing his signature glasses to underline that he is boring and “network” now, especially after idiots who took the act seriously threatened to cost him money while he was still on cable, but “thankfully” I do this for free. Although unfortunately I also do this for free so no pro-shill sponsors are encouraging me in any direction.
how can you be shocked? trump got elected before. T won with a wider margin, the first time he actually got more votes than his competitor, but you also have both people who won’t vote for a woman AND people who won’t vote for a non-white person contributing along with the usual reasons any 0-integrity criminal slimemound gets elected to office. Unfortunately,
that is America so how can we? Don’t disregard that even when T lost clean he did it with over 74 million votes. This year the democrat party forced Joe Biden to quit the presidential race over media nitpicking his ability to look good on camera, replaced him with a candidate people hardly know anything about and who comes across as insincere, while continuing to ignore the most prominent genocide of the day, against an established career dirty trickster that for whatever reason a massive quantity of the populace seemingly tolerates the tricks of, some even enjoying it, and most importantly urinates standing up, even if directly into a diaper at this point. They went with the crook they trust to be utterly untrustworthy at the expense of someone else in their favor.
And I can find humor in how extremely stupid this is without making telling people that they are stupid in the nastiest, least constructive ways possible my foremost passion in life