a 2013 sketch that I thought had an important message and so i have adjusted it to be more presentable. The title “partillery” is unfortunate but I am lacking both of adequate knowledge and further interest in both warfare and golf to come up with a better merging of relevant terminologies than that.
breaking: Netflix announces prequel streaming series Dogtales: The Legend of Bronco Henry to debut in 2023. Viewers will meet new friends as well as a few familiar faces in the exciting and uplifting latest chapter in the Power of the Dog universe, or “Doggoverse” as it is sometimes affectionately known, with all the fun and adventure they’ve come to expect early next year.
nothing but destruction in the news these days. the numbers may not lie but i wish they would be more discreet.
I’ve heard of this one, it’s called using a toilet.
Hours worth of vague twit-feed allusions to it some days ago eventually gave me enough information to realize Christopher Rock got smacked and yelled at on stage during a recent award ceremony I was otherwise glad to not be watching, and after looking up the story and going to bed, the question my mind kept coming back to was “when did he shave off his beard?”
the joke that prompted the response was over “the line” but attacking the man for the joke was overer the line, but I can’t stand any of those people anyway so why does it matter? They’re already millionaires and they get paid to be there getting filmed while getting praised by each other for how strong and beautiful and talented they are and giving awards to themselves, it’s disgusting. The whole building should be slapped and yelled at, and that wouldn’t be nearly enough.
I was watching episodes of the hbo series “Succession” that night. I can only enjoy the most entitled hollow misanthropes on earth when I know they aren’t real people.
Obviously they are PORTRAYED by real people, but evidently the in-character, on-set, following a more plot-driven script layers of separation are enough for my personal disbelief suspension.
I was even able to get past the involvement of Adam McKay, whom I had a gripe with due to for some reason having him confused with T. Sean Shannon over an especially lame sketch called “Harold” that the latter was written-and-directed-by credited for on Saturday Night Live during a period when I found it particularly gripeworthy but not yet enough to conclude watching it, and both personages must have been on the writing staff. Consequently the gripe isn’t necessarily relevant, but it is meaningful that I was able to overcome the gripe before realizing it was irrelevant. I am grateful whenever that is possible! It is entirely feasible McKay was solely responsible for other work that I hated or would have hated as much or more than Harold, but he didn’t write any scripts for Succession and only directed a single episode, AND I haven’t consciously been aware of anything else that was directed by him while watching and hating.
It is bizarre that I have been to this park, Great Escape in Queensbury NY, but don’t have a single picture from an angle close to one used on “Succession.” I remember those silly colored houses because my niece was more interested in pretending in those than going on rides.
I also didn’t realize this shot was meant to show common folk being barred from entering while the company owners’ families had a birthday party because this is NOT ACTUALLY THE ENTRANCE to the park.
This is “timbertown;” the show didn’t bother to change the sign logo!
This is noteworthy because because because 1149pm now and this turns into a different topic and then another topic and I can’t finish the matter right now, and so I either post the part I did finish or probably never post any of it, so it probably isn’t really all that noteworthy, and I have done so anyhow because I am too old to change my habits, only manage them and their consequences better.
a robision, possibly finished, but not necessarily. for Grom-PE (keeper of the blue lizard) and Casas (with regard to the green, and who may also have drawn the pose sketch and later showed me what furniture should go where), because that is in fact the most coherent thing I have this week that I might exhibit here without needing to explain it further. In which lizard people do something strange, because lizard people rarely do anything sensible, if their choice of frameable folk did not make that clear.
a marginally less than complete and half-sized robision animation for a person known only as nafradorf fumblewip, in which a strange imp poses on some blue orb creatures that are strange in a different way, because that is what I have to show this week.
It may need to slowly crawl through all 42 frames before it will play at a reasonable speed. That is your chance to check for blemishes and mistakes that I missed!
my life is screwy lately. not aggressive neighbor nation shooting bombs at my soviet-era concrete housing brick then telling me I am free to leave if I don’t like it but shooting at me as I try to leave screwy, but enough to make me confused. I didn’t get to my computer until 7pm yesterday, which through the simultaneous unannounced updating of the firefox internet perusing device and thunderbird email sorting mechanism plus a bizarre disk hiccup left me unable to access email nor be permitted to recreate the account through which I accessed it,
and then was greeted with this once the website browser finally decided it was ready to load pages.
There is a cartoon character that I cropped out of the image. it will appear in here later and I don’t want to look at it, much less in two places.
This is such an embarrassing attempt to pander to the adult child with money demographic that is hard enough coexist with when there isn’t media aping it. Or SHOULD I say “panda-ing” to and “foxing” it no.
Products do not have emotions and brands do not live “w/” anxiety. They do not “live” at all and they do not have feelings. Meanwhile anxiety has always existed, and just because people didn’t always personally introduce themselves with “um hi um gee I uhhh have anxiety I guess? ha ha blush norly sorry not sorry omg” doesn’t mean it’s new in people or in media.
Likewise Disney did not in 2022 invent Asians.I welcome non-Anglo heroes, but not every time there is one having that be incessantly pointed out like Look how BLACK this princess who turns into a frog is! and how ASIAN this quirky nerd who turns into an A.fulgens is! And how LATIN this grimacing also nerd’s whole magic house family is! And hey isn’t this huge-mouthed perpetually barefoot kid who turns into a fish just SUPER Mediterranean?
If you want to normalize multi-cultural identities in film you have to let them be normal, and let their presences speak for themselves.
yes I know barefoot kid is officially a fish person who turns into a human but in the end it doesn’t make much difference. these characters all relate to the world and other people the same way and aspire to the same things as all the white and casually non-white characters from American cartoons before them who may or may not spontaneously become animals if they aren’t already. And consequently I don’t relate to any of them, which allows me to see that each new iteration giving press-jobs to themselves over how different they are as gratingly disingenuous. AND ALSO, as indicated by the word being circled in red earlier, their RELATEability is their greatest asset. We don’t make movies for people who can’t relate to our characters because people buy merchandise of relatable characters, not good stories.
I do not know if the latest plot’s transformation is triggered by deliberately improbable circumstances like in Ranma or emotions like The Hulk or violent trauma like in The Pagemaster, and I don’t want to know, and am glad that I have not been made to know against my will by anyone in my company so far. But that is only because my niece for the time being is more interested in watching shorter-form braindead videos on her personal tablet than feature films on the big television box that I witness more easily. I increasingly have blocked disney-themed keywords on twitter-sorts of sites as it saturates more and more discourse space it isn’t entitled to, and maybe firefox picked up on that, both wanting to get disney bucks and prevent anyone from being unaware of it.
irefox isn’t bothering to lie about not advertising (apart from boasting about how “independent” it is), i suppose, with no attempt to explain how this trash is justified, unlike back in november when it promoted its VPN at me and presumably other users, and accompanied that with a message about how it doesn’t promote products. it did not attempt to convince me that promoting a disney movie is not promotion, but that could also be due to the general hubris concept that EVERYBODY likes Disneyandpixare so NOBODY WOULDN’T want to see an ad for it!
because LOOK at how GOSH DARN ADORABLE it is! except it isn’t even that. its face is tiny but its head is huge, its body is chubby and I literally can’t tell if this is the front or the back since it is so amorphous.
it looks like dom deluise’s character from the Fievel movies, except without discernible feet at the ends of its limbs because pixar artists are more inclined to fetishize human feet. The only thing I like about the newer character is that it doesn’t look like zootopia, and that is really more of a hate less sort of assessment.
when I was sixish years old a friend of my father gave my family a bunch of bootleg movies on vhs, including An American tale, but it didn’t have the opening credits and I couldn’t read anyway so for years I had no idea it was called that, and I still prefer not to call it that since the word “tale” always bothered me, even when not being punished into “tail” whenever there is an animal-related concept involved. Every episode of “are you afraid of the dark?” was “the tale of…” something or other. Even as a child unconcerned with what anyone else thought about anything the word and its pretentious air irked me.
the only way this film would defy expectations would be if it wasn’t annoying, and it already is. Defying stereotypes by announcing you are doing that is already a stereotype. Ever since princess Jasmin did a pole vault and then I had to look at how SURPRISED Aladdin was and hear the dumbest kids in the room who already saw the movie 50 times say “I’m a fast learner” in synchronization, Disney has been pushing this “look at our TOUGH and competent ladies!” narrative without simply letting them BE tough or competent, and still selling merchandise emphasizing their prettiness foremost. And much like with the racial composition of the characters, if you simply let that BE normal you won’t rile up the rightwing bro brigade to try and ruin the product based on how “woke” they perceive it to be. But I think that is also deliberate, to some degree, like with the shoddy ghostbusters movie some years back, or Black Panther or Captain Marvel. It’s GREAT publicity if you can prove a bunch of morons are trying to pre-emptively censor your product, and also allows you to dismiss any legitimate criticism as coming from that moron bunch. I am not a moron bunch! I am but one moron. Evidently. I think I had mild covid in january and apparently it is related to “grey matter reduction” so I am stupid now, but still not enough to be fooled by disney.
ALso don’t ask me what the gwok a vpn is because I am still not sure despite evidently first trying to find out in 2015. I couldn’t even figure out what the letters stood for. Virtual Private Network but that is no longer relevant to my situation. Using one is supposed to protect you from being caught if you pirate stuff or be tracked by marketers trying to charge you extra money for what you acquire more legitimately, but then you have to pay to get the vpn, and everybody selling one is vague and unclear about every step of it, often using mismatched figures and paper towel math to explain their prices and or requiring longterm subscription agreements, and it comes across like scam marketing in itself. ESPECIALLY when the company selling the vpn is also getting money from the company controlling most of the media and marketing, including subscription services. Imagine you use the firefox vpn to download the “turning red” film –i won’t, hence this scenarior being imaginary– the dollars probably go to the same place, and then they’ll also try to fine you $5000 for piracy in the event the vpn isn’t the magnificent sorcery it purports itself to be.
After I started writing today’s page, firefox stopped working entirely, with this error among others, like it thinks I’m going to apologize and say “wait the image wasn’t THAT bad, come back, please?” I expect it already has its own angry post about how it blocked another hater and it doesn’t even care about all the haters it keeps mentioning. It reminds me that I started using firefox years ago after netscape was purchased by the america online company, and it become bloated and unusable. Since all software is bloated now and Disney for the moment does not desire to own firefox, which is evident through disney not already owning firefox, it settled for simply becoming unusable.
I am for the moment using a very similar browser called Libre Wolf that fulfills the basic criteria of displaying webpages and having a stupid animal name. If it goes well then I will absolutely not say so.
thanksh narc. I’m embracing my true self by not trusting opinions from strangers with memes and declining to watch it while I yet have the freedom not to.
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addendoy for march 13:
entirely unsought bits of information on twitter from people who say things like “not gonna lie” and “bro” indicate that menstruation is what causes the gimmick transformation this time, hence the “red” in the title, and isn’t it PROGRESSIVE that d-d-d-DIZNEE would DARE to do this? Yeh whatever similarly unrequested data indicates that disney declined to release a Ghibli movie from 1991 that it had rights to over the film having menstruation references in it. Because if Disney doesn’t do something first it doesn’t count. Meanwhile the obnoxious firing squad of bullet points firefox showed me did not include “bleeds from vulvic orifice” and I have to see
this grating smugster stupidimposed on my roku front page, trying to get kids to watch it, with no indication that sort of topic is going to come up, and if anyone in my family is going to have a problem with that it would be my mother foremost, and not “men” as twitter’s insufferablest disney shills prefer to gripe. Whatever I am, that is content to dislike this at any time of the month. I don’t consider the mere allusion to blood as unpleasant as having to hear and often “see” flatulence in every cartoon since Ren & Stimpy 30 years ago but I’m not going to praise big D for doing it either as all signs indicate the production is utterly typical apart from that.
3-8-2022 was one of those days when everything seemed to need to be fixed at once but i will ATTEMPT to post a proper website for 3-9, I know this is very important to me that I do this.
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decisions, decisions!
In the end I could not resist a good old fashioned crispy hormone, but I had to send it back because while the preparers remembered to include the pickle chips I requested for the frites, they neglected to leave the weird slimy aioli off the main event sandwich, although the server insisted “I told them no aioli!” Officially it is supposed to be a sauce made of garlic, olive oil and salt but in trendy american restaurants that charge $15 minimum for a sandwich that is a code word for “disgusting mayonnaise to disguise the lack of flavor on everything but meant to sound fancier than mayonnaise.” The Popeyes restaurant chain also puts mayonaiz on its sandwiches by default but those cost about one third the price, are comparable in size and are actually properly seasoned if you succeed in getting your request for no mayonaiz heeded. I don’t know if the sandwiches are hormone or aren’t, admittedly, and they don’t come with french fries but I didn’t ask for french fries! And when I get them anyway the quantity I receive is lately not outstanding. Though it looks marginally less silly in that bowl than essentially the exact same order the last time I was at a Friendly’s joint, evidently in 2016
am I supposed to be impressed by this cage on a stick? it also looks as if I was denied a complementary pickle on this occasion, even though friendly’s was at one time the only place that would give me such material.
another “artisinal” restaurant, another nearly identical chicken sandwich, another underwhelming quantity of french fries in a weird bowl, plus pickle fragments that I probably had to request. Word has gone out within the past decade that potato scraps must be limited and not touch sandwiches and brined cucumber scraps must be yet more tightly rationed, even at locations that dare be properly lit and not have dark wood tables. I think this establishment was called Haywire. Haywire is of course a well-known informal terminology for a situation that is completely under control. Think about it, rectangular plates are much more spatially efficient than circular ones. Since this is USAmerica, we can’t solve a problem without immediately filling the void with another problem that we charge premium prices for. The space made efficient is remade inefficient by putting extra sets of spaces within it that don’t need to be there. It’s like those “hatchdimals” and “lol surprise” dolls my niece was so obsessed with for a while, that came in huge expensive packages which mostly contained more layers of packaging, and then in the middle would be a tiny little doll that possibly would be one she already had, because it’s not legally underaged gambling if their parents have to buy it for them, I suppose. For stuff that I buy for myself however I would definitely prefer they stop directing the money toward the acquisition and cleaning of funny serving vessels.
ah that’s more like it…no! That is NOT more like it! I mean put more food on the plate, not make the plate smaller!
I assume the serving size is based on how many fries this guy can fit in his jacket pocket.
but it could be worse
does this look like eight dollars worth of soup to you? this same dining zone also provided me with a refill on my iced tea without me requesting it, and then charged for an extra cup of iced tea on the receipt. and it was UNSWEETENED iced tea. I had to do the work of making it actually taste like something myself, QUITE for free. I appreciate that they totally filled the cup at least, why that was two bowls of soup worth of liquid!
on another occasion, since for the time being I end up taking someone to restaurants that I don’t necessarily want to be at weekly, or more, depending on how susceptible to guilt I am, I noticed several of these chairs outside the building, and an employee came out and asked me why I was taking pictures of them. I thought they looked neat. They did. on the day when i was overcharged for soup the chairs were very cheap but I was concerned about being seen taking pictures of them. My guess is the staff are aware of the detereorating furniture and were looking to get me to admit that but i hadn’t noticed it then! And you know what I don’t care about using crummy furniture if the eating experience is enjoyable, and it rather wasn’t. If you think I order too many chicken sandwiches, this place only has steak and fish sort of junk and it is worse and costs twice as much. just a trashy dumb defensive place all around.
it even has a perimeter wall like it is expecting invaders. however we have much more effective modern ways of averting needless warfare
I actually made this dumb little image edit days ago –after this extremely popular twitter post that isn’t necessary to look at, the link is just to keep me from posting a picture of it– but abstained from posting it, unsure if it was only funny to me because I was completely out of touch with the world. Or if it looked more like Richard Nixon than Vladimir Putin. All Jack Kirby men have a bit of Nixon in them. But maybe sanctions actually WILL work? Or maybe they’ll just, as usual, punish everyone except the autocrats who always remain quite well taken care of, who if they need anything just grab it from someone beneath them, and blame outsiders imposing sanctions and act yet more erratically. can anything REALLY be done?
ah jolly good I feel better now.
because I do not manage my time at all well lately, spending too much of the past week drawing and adjusting bells on the subject of the past week’s website post, and have yet to conclude that task, here from several weeks before then is
a robision drawing for a person called Kynikos of a creature also named Kynikos[s] who seeks the attention of fish in an unorthodox manner while wearing a strange hat. Kynikos has also helped me to locate several more archive pages whose formatting had gone totally screwy once entries on them migrated from the main page, which is evidently less pedantic about unclosed < center > tags, and I was able to correct that formatting. I cannot verify that they were also hiding in a puddle or required a special hat to find, but that would explain how I missed them until now. Few of my hats are special.
I seem to have neglected to state that “the wizard of squawk” from several weeks ago was also a robisioned piece! I have now added text to explain that, but I felt it prudent to explain that I failed to explain that. In fact I initially failed to explain it altogether; I only remembered to add an additional comment that was meant to follow the bit that I forgot wasn’t there yet. But now it is.
this idiot again. still not done, even with these frames, with additional motions yet to be started on, but I am no longer concerned that the object being carried is too boring or looks too much like I think it looks like a gun. A trumpet plunger with bells or hershey kisses hanging off the back is indeed preferable, yes.
I presume the fired-out bits will be similar to the old version, but I think that every time and change my mind after I already started trying to keep it like the old version.
An earlier attempt that is less like a plunger but I was concerned it might instead be compared to a body part popularized in a famous Kurt Vonnegut illustration.
holding a frosting tube
like I drew in cholesteronslaught (except too small and not riding a pie) after making the very old sprites, but then forgot about until after I had already started on the new sprites. this looks alright for the moment but I would need to redraw the arms for every angle, rather than creating a stringy monstrosity that needs to be drawn around the arms and that unlike a tube has no real world counterpart so that I can never know if it really looks correct or doesn’t and may spend an indefinite period trying to bring to that point.
armless (and yet toeless) variant, wearing something more like what the less violent, tattooed version of this creature had on in my december 2006 website header, and as is typical i didn’t bother to consult what that was since I was surprised to see that I included such a classy flower all those years ago when I finally got around to checking, and I only checked so I could have the correct link to it.
the first head variant. i thought i could include a leg variant also, that makes the creature slightly shorter. Neither really works! If you look closely, I mean. Most people never look at anything closely, but I cannot help doing so. I can try and fudge their positions in the sprite assembler but if nothing else and I can’t ultimately recycle any parts inside the game it is a foundation for a separate idiot. what is the fun of giving two different foes the same weapon? because they aren’t meant to be different, they are meant to be of equalish rank but look different despite that.
The line weight looks different simply because my drawing tablet of 4.6 years told me last night that it was done so I did this up to now with a mouse again. I’m worried this might actually look better and I have made things worse by freaking out so much lately when the tablet increasingly refused to work without being done, so that I needed to stop and restart the whole system, wasting time and rage in the process, but for any other sort of drawing the non-rodenty way is preferable.
a fancifully-colored commission for MordecaiPants of a contrarily-dressed sorcerial bird-person
because, as is increasingly the case, that is what I have this week, not because there is anything especially noteworthy about it. I am “glad” I can say it is because of spending a majority of my time trying to but not necessarily accomplishing anything, at least not of personal benefit, rather than simply because I am lazy. My laziness is very complex!
2-2-2022 oh beets I had some incomplete code in here yesterday, but now I don’t!
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A lot of dead celebrity news lately. I assume they are dropping all the time and I merely rarely learn about them until afterward or don’t know who they are.
I learned a lot from Betty White, primarily that Woman’s World goes to press further in advance of distribution than People does
hm WELL I can admit when I’m wrong!
then was Bob Saget’s death
I evidently saved this on july 26 1999, from an already concluded photograph editing contest I saw on some America Online page, possibly. The stupid face manipulation was always funnier to me than the context. I remember I would show this to my sister to get strange reactions.
I believe the “ha! ha!” is meant to be pronounced like an early south park or simpsons parody of Saget, who force-laughed in doubled bursts of “huh!” but i like imagining it being more like The Count from Sesame Street. Not empty and phony, but legitimately entertained, just in the manner of a vampire who likes sequential numbers too much.
I also have this gif from the same contest. It doesn’t amuse me nearly as much but it does hearken back to a more innocent time when people had no idea how to save images properly.
while trying to determine what show the “huh!” Saget was from, I ascertained that while Saget may merely have been MENTIONED on the Simpsons, the simpsons wiki administrator still considers him an important enough figure to the franchise that he has a mortality box, for which harder evidence of his demise is required than “news” that it occurred for the box’s status to reflect that. or maybe
this seems an odd length to go to cope with that.
Our hearts go out to the entire Loaf family
I felt bad about this remark for some reason and followed it up by saying:
I don’t consider a death at 74 years after achieving enduring multi-decade success without any major scandals to his name to be as tragic as they come so I figure he can handle a stupid joke at his expiration’s expense. I didn’t feel any better even though that is true! It doesn’t help that reports of his death consistently cite his appearance in Rocky Horror Picture Show as a defining moment in his career even though it only lasts about three minutes. Did none of these writers see Spice World? Meat Loaf is all over that, even if his character avoids being murdered off-screen.
the next night one of my subconscious dreams involved me discovering an elaborate Doom engine total conversion based on the 1994 historical drama Wagons East Exclamation Point, best known for being so bad that John Candy dropped dead before filming had wrapped.
wikportedly, Candy disliked the script but agreed to appear anyhow as he was one million dollars in debt and still under contract from a previous, presumably better film that was cancelled. Ironically, the movie company got $15 million life insurance money. THAT’s a tragic death!
and Carolco STILL filed for bankruptcy the very next year, despite having released the most successful action movies of all time up to that point.
something I didn’t considering until I cropped the above image, Wagons East also featured Charles Rocket, a former Saturday Night Live actor best known for getting fired from the show for cursing during a sketch about someone having shot him, and then decades later slicing his own throat, subsequently only getting a 3 second silent still image tribute on the program, which presumably had never invited him back for any of its incessant self-indulgent tributes to itself but had mocked his existence at least once during the period when I was watching it. That’s also pretty tragic! Despite having a major role in Dumb and Dumber, a very widely known Jim Carrey film. Fellow comedian Richard Jeni appeared in another 1990s Jim Carrey stega-hit, The Mask, and also killed himself, with a gun. Jim Carrey is one of the highest paid actors of all time and still living, and I don’t know that he made any comment about either of those deaths.
oh alright that explains it, nevermind!
shortly afterward I learned of Louie Anderson’s recent death. I felt bad for him so I made no jokes about it! I made plenty while he was alive. Not here, though, apparently. The closest I appear to have come was trying to put him in that “Hamiltwins” image but not being able to get the drawing to look like him, and casually citing his name in 2014.
not long afterward I saw news about Neil Young and assumed he was dead. He isn’t dead, just having a quarrel with spotify.
why is anybody surprised that a company which can afford to pay for the right to distribute so much commercial audio is turning a massive profit and in the business precisely to do that? it should only be a shocking revelation when one does NOT put money first.
oh give me eight breaks. spotify didn’t invent music nor the concept of listening to it. what happened to all the ipods and pandoras and whatnot that were so faddy with visible people before this? Who was buying new albums on vinyl records in the 21st century if not them? Why would any “music lovers” let someone else decide what music they get to hear? Because the harder someone wants you to know how great their taste in music is and how REAL they are because they like music, the dumber and phonier they are.
I presume this is just the sound of somebody splashing in a bath tub.
a gift commission from a person called RelaxingDragon1 to a person called QuentinCoyote (but drawn by me) featuring a stylishly-hatted individual also named Quentin Coyote at a somewhat less stylish location, pondering whether a round trip is in order.
truly divisive, replies to this picture on various websites have run the distance from figuring I don’t know about the slide and explaining it to me, talking about it like everyone knows about it, and explaining to me that the slide absolutely could not exist as if ’twere my idea, sometimes immediately beside each other.
If the scene looks barren of attractions and unlike a proper amusement park, I should clarify that the real Action Park that I was instructed to evoke did in fact look like this, at least as best I could tell, since I was unable to turn up a photograph of the ostensibly notorious loop slide from any beneficial angles.
At the end of the slide was what appears to be a piece of dark plastic or rubber in a shallow hole, with water running off into the grass, which creates an unpleasant marsh like environment, which is why that helpful plank has been placed beside the plastic. Truly, no expense was cared. I don’t know how the water gets up to the top of the slide platform to go through the tube; a garden hose seemed a reasonable guess, given the production quality. I probably should have made the ski lift chairs bigger but than I would have had to actually detail them and I wasn’t asked to draw them, much less paid to do so! Yet I felt inclined to make this as accurate as I was able to until late in the process, by which point the only area that felt safe to mess with was the mountains and to a lesser degree the trees, since the best way to do that would have involved having them not be green, which seemed somehow less appropriate than faking up their shapes did.
I personally thought it was funnier for the protagonist to approach the slide willingly and smiling, but humor is subjective and not always beneficial to horror narratives. I do wish however that I had remembered about that “achtung” sign idea; I only remembered it just now when I sought these early sketches. I had at one point meant to incorporate it into the setup that was eventually chosen, since I don’t like all the plain unadorned brown and troublesome straight lines here, which are a natural byproduct of me having no intuition or references for a wooden structure I have only seen from the side in tiny, pixelated photographs. a few more props could make the space more interesting without requiring unremarkable fake trees. I also finally see that my difficulty with the perspective on the slide that makes it look more like an enormous shofar than a tube of consistent circumference was that I didn’t diminish the shadow beneath it as it went up. Ewps. The ride attendant was also supposed to be wearing sunglasses, and those DID look like sunglasses at one point but I failed to notice when my layer shenanigans left them no longer doing so. Maybe I will fix such issues if I ever feel sufficiently wronged by the owner of the hat-wearing figure here. Unfortunately he didn’t ask me for the picture and never watched any of my pages, meaning he can’t unwatch those pages either, so I would have to direct both of us quite out of our ways to facilitate all that, which means even more extra work! oh
because this is what i have this week
another old thing being redrawn, and as usual I cannot help making the job more complex than it needs to be. I have “designed” the new version to have separate parts that can be customized, possibly including species/racial traits, though i have not made any alternates for that yet. note, however, the present lack of toes that allows me to later give more than that. which I tell you to note because in fact I almost don’t, so maybe i won’t bother adding any. the way sprites get clipped to the ground, depending on what settings “players” use, which I have no way of predicting or controlling, they may never see the feet at all anyway!
the hat, jacket and scarf currently are separate, though there really is no reason to have the scarf without the jacket, and this particular hat complements them, and I might do well to merge them all and have any replacement outfits be complete in themselves (in frap on january 20 in the a m I did so and have updated the gifs from what was here previously). “complete” in a partially dressed sort of way, I mean. ironically, parts that get covered, like the arms, I drew in more detail than the toeless feet that don’t.
the old version, from 2003, has not aged as poorly as some others, and unlike a lot of 4 frame doom monster animations, actually looks like it is walking from the side angles. at least inside the game it does. Right here it looks like it is dancing poorly to whatever music you have playing, and if you aren’t playing any then I imagine the creature looks even stupider.
the new “gun” is simple since I am not really any better at creating convincing imaginary guns than i was in 2003, considering how easily this one is mistaken for a mario pipe in its present state and placeholder color, but i also think i might give a custom embellishment even to that. BUT considering the way it is held more or less requires this shape and likewise precludes the creature carrying a differently shaped object i might save myself some effort to merge?? I think I accidentally uploaded an incomplete version of this text since I remember removing that sentence since it was redundant and went nowhere, yet here still it is.
OF COURSE at this point i have evaluated the idea of guns in this “universe” more so, and imagine that they should be rare, so should a creature so numerous that i want to give it customizable features so as not to appear TOO monotonous, have guns at all? or does these not being very powerful guns excuse their proliferation?
I had also in the past resolved to entirely remove any monsters from the comic strip, such as lope and nemitz, since they are too conspicuous to have hundreds of violent clones, yet I left in pog, and obviously the dopes. A version of this thing does appear over there, and exhibits no aggression whatsoever. However it appears quite briefly, and was never important enough to have a name, and it is almost less “real” of a character than the [gz]doom one is. despite rendering its bell in greater detail than required, I abstained from drawing its forehead tattoo, which you will find is present any other time I have posted drawings of it, and maybe that particular variant belongs to a cult that preaches non-violence, but perhaps also encourages some worse activities, such as delivering unmarked packages, tolerating bow tie impeciles or having toes.
you will as typically is the case need to click at it to make it bigger for the letters to have any chance at being legible
amitz my making of that video it became apparent that I had last year produced more of these spiteful “commentary” comic strips than pages in the real one, and that is even without this here, which I sketched in February and then considered might not be fair or valid. “influencers” are scum but since I instinctually avoid scum, I have never paid attention to one, and all my experience is from artist dorks I semi-know who may be attempting to emulate influencers without success, and consequently almost nobody knows who they are, and even fewer people see my comic strips that are criticizing the behavior, who aren’t necessarily any of the persons who have also seen the behavior. still, i saw this anew last week and it was funny to me then and so i finishedish it. people who have bitcoinery probably don’t get “imposter syndrome” but in this scenario the creature claiming to have it is an insincere creep, regardless of whether the real people I have seen doing this were. In frap, when I read stories of actual influencers, they seem even less realistic than this blatantly bootlegged dork. Possibly I am not spiteful and petty enough.
1-6-2022 ehhhhhhhdit:
I was not thinking clearly and labeled the month of June “June Balboni” as a placeholder name until I thought of something better to call it, and then neglected to think of such a thing. from first through third grade I shared a class with another student named John Balboni and years later found that he was in contact with my younger brother for some reason, and apparently subconsciously I thought his name was funny. I cannot say for certain if that is the case, only that I treated it as if it was on this occasion.
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2021 in pictures
januwanumary
febumebuscary
marchobarch
aprils of wrath
maybe mays can also be of wrath
june balboni
jul regret writing weird month names
august i should stop
sep tempting me
oct foncer
captain novolinber
decline of month gag name culture
