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Questionable artwork and pedantic miscellany
October 30, 2021
In 2006—10 years after Eileen was stolen—MOBA was contacted by the purported thief demanding a $5,000 ransom for the painting; no ransom was paid, but it was returned anyway.[29]


a stylish, though perhaps a tad suspicious dragon creature robision for Rabbit, or Habit, whoever wants it. admittedly I am unskilled in depicting non-suspicious beings.
the idea here was of the subject as a blank “canvas” on to which paint of two specific pinkish tones had been splattered. the background is also primarily drawn in those pinkishes.

the person who bought this also asked if i planned to print any further comic books. the “plan,” as much as the comic strip ever had one, from the beginning has been to print the whole thing, but I have not made any progress toward preparing the fourth book, apart from switching things around to make book 3 conclude more cleanly. in fact i haven’t touched new pages either since june or july. unfortunately i seem only able to progress on one unending niche-interest project at a time, and for much of this year it was the gzdoom business that I had accumulated much anxiety about leaving unfinished for years, not considering that it was not a bit closed to being finishable. the comic strip and beet cartoons also aren’t but they at least have progressed linearly enough that I could release bits of them in arguably finalized forms. beet part 1 being most arguable since I had started on a redraw of that, even, which also lingers unfinished, while the initial finalization of part 3 also does.
I suppose it is “progress” that I recognize a finalization to be “initial.” I suppose it is better to accept a habit you can’t break than live the rest of your life continually being freshly disappointed by your failing to break it. I suppose frequently. I suspect I am not supposed to. I also suspect frequently, hence perhaps my illustrating of suspicious-looking beast-folk.



October 22, 2021
the passion for knowledge spread intelligence and wisdom on the winds


hey whatever happened to old Eddy?
are you talking about ED U. Dead?
yeah that guy
he’s dead
obviously
no i mean his life concluded
oh I see. is he buried nearby?
I don’t know! he had such a stupid name they put the gravestone into the coffin with him!

this brief scene seems to indicate that the second speaker is knowledgeable about the locations of numerous individual graves, which is unusual, but not impossible.


these remind me of the stuff I thought was clever when I was seven years old. at the back of every school bus was a so-labeled “Emergency Door.” I would point at it and say something like “get it? ’emergen-KEY door!” I can absolutely imagine myself drawing a gravestone that says “ED U. Dead” into one of my incomprehensible comic strips, and understanding so little about the world that I thought it might as well be inside a coffin.
A popular “joke” of the period was to refer to a non-existent book titled “The Yellow River,” ostensibly authored by a person named “I.P. Daily/Freely” but I presented a more accurate version by “P. Din Creek.” It didn’t matter to me that I had never heard of anyone named Creek or, outside of the Phantom Tollbooth, Din. A joke didn’t mean the same thing to me as anyone else, and nobody informed me of that, and I had to figure it out across 20 or soish years of being a complete loser, and bloom into a partial loser. I should feel inspired that somebody can live fully into adult-hood without determining what a joke is and still accumulate the competence to be able to afford and maintain a home. Or perhaps feel worried that there may be many of these people voting leaders into office, potentially being those leaders. Possibly I have even experienced unhinged, emoji-saturated lectures from some of them on facebook and youtube.

this one seems too rooted in reality. It isn’t dumb enough for it to be funny how funny it isn’t.



that is a bit worse, and consequently better, although I personally would have opted for “eatum bullet” or “biton bullet” or, if space permitted, “gottum shottum byum bullet”

oddly enough two weeks prior, the ED U. Dead stone was out in front on the ground next to Bob D. Headed and I was dismayed that it was gone when I returned to take a picture of it, then could not contain my amusement when I discovered it again, then more so after considering where it had relocated to.


this jovial grim reaper and meeply illustrated grave marker are disturbingly inspired, given the context. Unless I imagine that the skeleton handled all the decorating and wants to watch and see who is impressed, and then it all works. I accept that they are boneheads.



October 16, 2021
OY am the god of hell foyah. and i BRING you… foyah


pog explodes. must be tuesday.


unlike the case with the walking animation, I have no difficulty letting go of the old version



here is an attempt at a video showing what this looks like. A particularly annoying sound effect in there, which has been there since always, that I never realized was annoying until I put it into a video is presently meant to only play a third of the time but I don’t hear its two partners in here at all.
i neglected to show how easy it is to get trapped by the pogs. that should have been the main idea; why bother shooting them otherwise? in fact they DO destroy the player right after the first clip cuts out. why did i cut that out? I don’t remember, but it would take another twenty minutes to put that back in and I need to go for a walk outside good night. maybe i will put up a better video later!
the snikpels are unusually aggressive for a doom-engine monster. in the final “game” I won’t put so many of the shooting type into the same room. probably. This isn’t a real level anyway; just a test zone because none of the existing levels were designed for… well none of them were designed.
I THINK i can make the explodo-pogs create a circular blast impression directly on the floor, drawn as part of the floor, rather than a distracting sprite, but I haven’t attempted that yet. that is why I don’t like to make videos; there is always something that isn’t ready yet that I feel like is just about to be ready! Also the video capture and video editing softwares fight me every step of the ways, and they usually win, but I don’t ever remember that they are going to do that so that is not an effective method of discouragement.
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yes I can in fact make them leave a mark on the ground but it doesn’t work pleasantly on inclined floors. it stops in the up direction and floats over the down direction, both looking silly and allowing other objects to be partially underneath it. from what I understand “flat sprites” simply don’t work on ramps and probably won’t ever. Ramps are a novelty anyway and I usually prefer the orderly appearance of stairs!
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10-17 456pm also it seems that the microphone i have been relying on the past few years no longer functions, and I don’t know if that is because its function has been compromised or because computer manufacturers became prejudiced against microphones that aren’t attached to “headsets” and made them much more difficult to get working. I bought some weird port merging device which allowed the microphone to work on the previous computer but as this machine is newer it may have awareness of my present method and require a different purchased object to get past the latest unnecessary obstacle. unfortunately basic functionality is a bit more than a novelty!



October 8, 2021
1-Ups give you an extra life. They look like little gold dudes.

10-16-2021 1201am: i thought i would make a quick video for today/yesterday so of course it isn’t quick at all but it is already late so i am not going to not do that to save time either.
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the new snikpel graphics seem to be “working.” there is still plenty to do, though!


for example something urgently needs to be done about THIS.



these monsters I still have yet to begin redrawing/redesigning. I forgot I made so many of them! the nemitz and lope became too specific of characters since I originally inserted them into this mess and no longer seem functional in these roles, particularly since they condone dopes so much.

the new pog can walk at least, and doesn’t need to do much more than that, mercifully.


only five angles now but I do not think the asymmetrical highlighting was necessary.
There is something very determined and stupid about the old version that I still like, particularly on the east-facing angle,, and maybe I shall use it as a base for another imbecile eventually. Because why would I allow for the possibility of this ever being finished?



September 30, 2021
Years ago, a Central European man’s polite comments in a Lego forum made me realize that this character is not well-known outside of North America, and my name could be mistaken as a sign of actual Nazi ideology.*

most of a certainty you will not be able to read this comic strip without clicking on it to enlarge it. Do use that information to your advantage when deciding whether or not to click on it.


My mother notified me of her alarm at the swear words in this. Indeed I don’t like them but at some point amitz its production I stopped noticing the vulgarity since I find hostile emoji usage (especially with blue used to color bodily liquid sources) so much more offensive. I realized recently it has been twenty years since I first observed an association between jerks in arguments and using smile icons to show how NOT SAD they were, plus enough typed out laughter abbreviations to be mistaken for a batman villain, appropriately enough on the DC comics message board, albeit the Mad Magazine section of it. I wondered how best to commemorate that and what I did probably wasn’t it.

in order to further facilitate not-reading, clicking on the following image will do nothing:


people talk trash about facebook when they aren’t on it, but I didn’t get any condescending comments about the comic strip when I posted it there, only from someone on an embarrassing “furry” website I really should have given up on ages ago who has no business talking down to anybody. but to be fair my reach on facebook is less than if I stood outside my house holding up the computer with that image displayed on the screen until the battery emptied out.

Another of my observations is that self-identified “furries” who are also self-identified “writers” tend to write the worst things [that don’t have smiley faces and lols in them].

that doesn’t mean it’s good!



September 23, 2021
The US Department of Agriculture has required the recall of some products with undeclared Worcestershire sauce.[7][8]

a helpful person from my web host asmallorange was able to, as far as I can tell, alleviate the total breakdown afflicting the “art” gallery website subsection. It will probably break again if whatever broke it this time happens again, and it well might since I still don’t know what broke it this time, but for the MOMENT it is unbroken. a different person with a different approach took on my comment form issues:




That is certainly different! I looked around, the only file that seemed to have been altered was “php.ini,” which I had not noticed there previously, but inside it was only


fix errors by hiding anything that has an error in it, ungenious! I should have suggested that when I had my car brakes checked the day before.

Admippedly the brake check and pad(s) replacement cost me more than the web hosting does in four years and the car people weren’t able/going to fix another problem in the catalytic converter without doubling the price and implementation time it was originally expected to be.

from that perspective my not getting the assistance I required from this source makes sense. Thus I would prefer the support person to have said “it isn’t my job to fix your code even if it isn’t your fault your code broke,” rather than “magic! all better! happy now.” I would still complain but it would be a more evolved complaint. I am an idiot about php but that doesn’t mean I am simply an idiot. Whatever does mean that is much more complicated to hide.

und so today I “fixed” the comment form by replacing the troublsome “ereg” with the somehow less objectionable “preg_match”… I found another person’s webpage indicating that I should do this weeks ago, but it includes so much extraneous information that I figured there was more to it than I could grasp and didn’t mess with it until I had checked on the possibility of undoing whatever caused this mess. Unfortunately this present comment form doesn’t alternate the colors on each comment anymore. Or did I never get the color alternating to work to begin with? Or that stopped working at some other point? I can’t remember. Whatever I have now at least is better than the default comment form and heaps better than having an obnoxious error there, and yes it is even better than there simply being nothing at all because the error got hided.


why am I able to see this?



September 17, 2021
Its body is mostly skeletal and has no legs, while it appears to also wear a cape.


Howdy. Mystic Ark here. But you can call me Mark. Now i know what you’re thinking: “hey you’re not THE mystic ark, you’re just some weird giant face above a doorway on the box art.” that is true, but it still synecdochely makes me THE face OF Mystic Ark. And now you’re probably thinking “okay whatever synecdochebag” which shows even more ignorance on your part since synecdoche isn’t actually pronounced like that! But we’re getting off-topic. In fact I hadn’t even introduced a topic because your presumptuous arrogance prevented me from doing so. you know what, I don’t even want to talk to you.

You can talk to that tiny lady coming through my doorway to stab you. what that’s a man? man. I can never tell with Japanese sword-grasping hero types. Yeah I came out (not the GAY way, I’m no homo) in 1994, it was WEIRD for men to wear skirts, okay? In my personal opinion men belong in trousers and women belong in the kitchen, ha ha know what I mean? Now don’t ask me what the game Mystic Ark is about, I don’t speak foreigner. I got to the part with the kitty pirates but couldn’t figure out where to go next. Too bad I never met any of those naked little fairies on my shoulders phwoar know what I mean? Wha? there’s been an English translation patch since 2009? Well of course I didn’t know that, I’m a goldurned FACE on a gate. I don’t get out much. Also I don’t support copyright infringement. If you downloaded a Mystic Ark rom I WILL send our lawyers, with swords, through my gate, to get you, and if you patch the rom with unofficial content that’s even illegaler pal, in which event you can NOT be my pal. You can’t even be my NTSC. ha ha ha yeah too inside, I know. You don’t get to laugh because you aren’t my pal. In fact you can’t even call me Mark anymore.


hey calm down, Kitty P! Like take a chill pill homeslice, know what I’m sayin’? Because I sure don’t know what you’re sayin’! Fa ha ha. This is the best entry ever on this website.



September 9, 2021
However, Magic Pot is a friendly monster, and pleasing it will allow the player to reap its rewards.


This isn’t wholesome, this is loathsome. I hate any company trying to turn a profit by selling cutesy pandemic-complacent garbage. To be fair almost everything on the wholesome memes page is cutesy and or complacent but I think this one is excessive. Even the specific wording “the smile beyond your mask” puts me off. What kind of weak-willed subjugated dork would buy this?

eh it’s no one I admit to knowing.

ALSO the most recent comment gidget on the sidebar is still broken and the actual comment display is still ugly. I expect they will be for a while!

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9-10-2021 yeoiks the artwork posting sub-website is even totally broken. What HAPPENED here?



September 1, 2021
this is a case of weird weather creating even weirder water

9-5-2021 3isham oaf now the comments aren’t working? I don’t expect them but I happened to glance down there on another entry that already had some and nothing but errors there. what a dumb few weeks!
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9-5-2021 329am the comments work now but they are in the ugly default style since I had to copy code out of the “default” theme that updated itself during the overall wordpress “update” that I didn’t want but thought would fix the site when it was broken, which it didn’t even do! hopefully I can work out the syntax of whatever “ereg” got replaced with since that suddenly being “deprecated” is what broke the comments form and have slightly-less-ugly comment boxes again but I am tired and have other things to do! and I just noticed another broken thing in the side-bar. beets
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this is one of the more eerily fake-looking “photographs” I have encountered. Have you ever seen water which looks like this? The blue is as if somebody dumped a load of toilet bowl cleaner pods upstream. This looks like an amateur colored pencil drawing or a video scene from a playstation game. This looks like the ghost of deceased water.

i tried turning it grayscale and and the substance still looked like glowing crest toothpaste more than water, particularly on the left. which makes me more inclined to believe this picture initially had no water in it, rather than more naturally colored water. and yet where it makes contact with standing water on the lower right looks real. the web page it came from only identifies it as “free stock photo” without any context of where it might have been taken or what was done to it.

the links at the side of the page indicate that for a fee you too can try to put water where it doesn’t belong and color it unnaturally. I don’t know why you would, what satisfaction you would get from making an ugly fake scene from elements of real ones, but other people are already doing it and likewise looking to charge for access.

even the blatantly blue-dyed water at one of the numerous inexplicably pirate-themed miniature golf courses I saw in Queensbury, New York didn’t look that queentoony.
this PHOTOGRAPH is terrible; I may have taken it from across the street or behind a fence. it was the same day as this borage. I didn’t use this photograph in fact because the result wasn’t as cartoony in the picture as it was in person. Stock photography vendors clearly see this as a pressing problem.

AND I was looking up pictures of water tumbling down mountains because to make a long story spork i couldn’t solve my computer problem with what I ordered and waited for, so have ordered and need to wait for something else. Consequently I am still using the backup computer, and consequentlier STILL haven’t finished that rygar picture, of which a tiny, almost irrelevant part of the drawing features just the category of scenery that I was speaking of, and consequentliest I wanted references for it.
for really no good reason I thought I should try and incorporate less-cartoon-looking scenery even though every figure amidst the scenery is exactly as cartoonesque as in the dumb nintendo game. ultimately it comes down to I never developed an instinct for what corners of realism can be cut and still have a corny fake drawing represent the real version. this applies especially heavily to blue-colored water which always looks bad and fake to me except where it naturally occurs.


Notice how the recent changes don’t improve the image but does make the characters present that are more important yet that I have not gotten around to checking on now look worse than before compared to the increase in background detail.

I thought I wasn’t doing justice to THIS. Even though the whole reason I like Rygar imagery is because of the specific weird, often stupid look it has. Why shouldn’t I interpret it literally? The answer to that doesn’t matter since I already didn’t and am more likely to spend another day working around a bad decision than revert it.


some bad decisions I have spent decades working around.



August 25, 2021
It’s 2 A.M. and time for the monsters to awaken

a picture that truthfully I cannot work on for the moment since my regular computer has taken ill and my regular image editing software objects to me trying to use it on a backup computer

but you probably won’t notice a big difference between this and what I hope to make it into once I can open it for alterations again. And indeed the website has also suffered a bizarre injury I yet do not understand. I was thinking about replacing the creature getting punched in the face with a nemitz suspiciously soon before this all broke down, however.

936pm EVIDENTLY the mere presence of an irrelevant index.html in the publichtml folder was screwing it up. It had been there since 2007 and not been an issue until the wordpress update, and I only updated wordpress since something totally unrelated was broken, since I couldn’t tell WHAT was broken.


I had to ask someone at my web-host to get this sorted out.

Their site also doesn’t work. on their TWITTER page they have a different, newer chat link than is on their actual website that I erroneously assumed would get priority.

which also doesn’t work.
I had to ask directly, at which point I was suggested to do some silly things that didn’t work, and then took it upon myself to try in another browser.

A very stupid day!
Once that indork was gone the thing read index.php properly and loaded the site once I removed the word “beans” from it. I only added “beans” earlier in the day to see if that would do anything, which it didn’t, until the index.html was gone, at which point the beans generated an error, but a proper responsible error that identified itself instead of unplugging everything and going to hide. WHICH is probably just what nemitz would do. Or more likely nemitz would stand there being proud of mitself. Even if rygar never gets around to punching mit I stongly advise anybody else to.



August 17, 2021
Meanwhile, Hoppus, as a result of the single’s success, began introducing himself to people as “that guy that wrote, ‘duh nuh nuh nuh nuh duh nuh nuh nuh nuh, he fucked her.'”[7]

844pm jeepers big animated gifs sure are rough on my slightly older computer. I forgot about how insufferable this used to be!
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8-25-2021 353pm and TODAY my proper computer’s battery is dead and it won’t start even on direct electricity so now I need to deal with all that involves. My hard drives are fine, just impatient.
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8-24-2021 1149pm hello this site wasn’t working at all, giving the “apparently that’s not allowed” error when i tried to access it or any other page around 11:27. for a few minutes? a few hours? days? I have an important rygar update but it won’t be feasible to present effectively in eleven more minutes. that is just how things are these days!






snikpel the snokpeal runs in five directions, gets hurt from 8 and then flops over in a needlessly difficult to draw fashion from 8, because that is what I drew happening the past week. The angles aren’t evenly spaced but they follow from the standing pose well enough and ideally nobody will spend much time walking around staring at the “corpse” to check on how consistent the angles are. I made the little orange bits that splash off dissolve instead of stay on the ground anyway, as much as I hate to remove any detail, since those would definitely mess with a coherent rotation.

I also expect to draw it flopping over in a less complicated manner because I already drew the legs for that in an earlier botched version of this flop. Like seems to be usual, I make something more difficult for no real reason on a whim and commit to finishing it rather than cutting my losses once I realize I have made it harder. there may be yet more defeat types related to the more upright agony poses, because my life has no meaning.
actually getting these sprites all into the game and programmed to appear properly will probably also take more days, and I still haven’t given it attacking frames! in fact the original low resolution snikpel from 2003 simply played its running frames out of order for attacking and “dying,” with a single flat on the ground pose.


some of the fun of a game like this is beating up dumb little beasts and having goop fly out of them so I ought to have at least one melting animation also. I would like to have little marshmallows fly out of it when it takes a regular hit, but that stuff is even harder to control than my ability to not do needless things. I am fortunate I still haven’t made myself give toes to these things.
I had terrible tools then and was much more easily pleased. I have not yet become displeasable enough that I force myself to properly animate the “pain” sequences; i can make them jump in the air when hurt as I did with dopes and wah beasts previously, but after excusing this awkward full rotation flop it may be more difficult than previously to not excuse any additional tediosity. So many of my endeavors end in flops that maybe it was inevitable that I would make flopping a full time endeavor for my-self.



August 8, 2021
Obi-Wan Kenobi went to the pens where Utapaun wranglers corralled native winged and wingless lizards for use as transports. He selected an obliging and brave lizard named Boga,




ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I am TIRED of DUMB LIZARDS stOMPING all over the place doing TERRIBLE DANCES and shoving their STUPID FEET into my business thinking that they are talented and welcome.

They aren’t!


AND that stupid box highlighting where the feet are is quite stupid enough without the zoomed in shot of it. Who do these reprobatiles think they are? I am fortunate I haven’t ever had to deal with-

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGHGKGKGKGJGFheap



August 1, 2021
Laverne and Shirley are convinced that they are in danger from a werewolf due to some confusion with a new recruit. Every time they turn their heads from her and look back, a wolf-like animal appears in her place, and they think that she has turned into it.


Like whatever you want buddy but I don’t need to know about it.


Also this is apparently the greatest statement I ever made. Which is still not enough to matter because I don’t actually have much in common with most people who even understand what the “joke” is there, and perhaps more than i would like identify with finding wolves sexually attractive rather than think a sign warning about you possibly doing that is funny, thus it won’t reach anyone who wants to see anything else I have done because this system of “engagement” is garbage even when I inadvertently trick it into working. but I will take what i can get when it doesn’t involve accepting money to draw something that will prompt the general sort of person who retweeted this to giddily hope I am exceedingly into the subject matter despite never drawing it UNLESS someone gives me money.

if you are seeing this now I am not complaining about you! And if indighost is stiil out there he only read the first and last sentences anyway.

apart from that i personally think this maneuver was superior



after pondering it all, this “sherlock bones” display from the same Denver Colorado museum is now funnier to me, considering that it wastes serious truth museum space with that ridiculous hat which has nothing to do with bones and that Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes never actually wore. But it isn’t retweet material except possibly among people who find hats erotic or have had bizarre exchanges with people who do but none of them know me. and as before, if you do, it isn’t necessary to clue me in to that!



the initial concept, it reminded me of those “warnings” people use as jokes or potentially seriously without realizing it makes them look like the bigger joke either way


How about “warning: my occupation is hauling clowns” ?


this creature seems unsettlingly content about all this despite the warning


WARNING: inexplicable military stencil font in needlessly edgy red on black and also not bothering to identify self in paid promotion.


actually this warning might be appropriate, for what that is worth. These do seem to mostly be furries, I suppose.


they aren’t, entirely, but this was on the website deviantart which was furry-zone #1 for years and at times came across like it would gleefully burn itself down to be known for anything else.


likewise was this from deviantarrrrrrrrgh. i saved it in 2014 as “WARNING don’t criticize me for being an empty, semi-human being.png” but I think now that it speaks well enough for itself


this warning is to the home owner


meanwhile this had NO warning and consequently I vomited all over my screen and thus can no longer see what I am typing. Goop day.



July 23, 2021
The YM3812 was used in many arcade games, but was especially popular on home computer sound cards from the late 1890s to the mid-1990s,

a robision drawing for a person called Draque of a mysterious creature performing a tarot card reading. ordinarily I do not show robisions here, as I believe I said the last time I did so, but as was also likely the case last time, this is what I have this week and so here it shall go! and NEXT week I won’t be here at all, so I may have less to show than this.

the sun symbol on the decoration is from the arcade game “3 wonders.” Initially I was trying to draw the circus emblem from shining force but couldn’t remember if i had a screenshot of it available but I knew I had this one since I used it on a web page back in 2003 and it actually made less sense than this does.

draque suggested a “seedy bar” as a setting. I very much hate bars and felt intimidated by that until i realized there wouldn’t be much room to show scenery. then i looked up the phrase “seedy bar” and was reminded that a lot of bars and restaurants that for whatever reason fancy themselves as being bar-like tend to have framed monochrome photographs of famous patrons or people that they wish had been patrons, so that provided a simple way of suggesting there was more going on than just bricks. Just the thought that they might be PROUD the dope came there, or even worse WISH the dope would but couldn’t persuade it to do so must surely mean this is among the seediest of all bars.


although suspiciously two of my pose sketches indicate that the dope is in the bar as this scene is taking place and I am uncertain if I would have put something else in the picture frame knowing that. What if dopes are this bar’s ONLY customers? That place should go out of business IMMEDIATELY. not just because instead of buying drinks dopes just wander around smiling at people, allowing them on the premises at all is most certainly a mental health code violation. Although I am sad to say they still probably would not make for the most annoying experience I ever had in a bar, I can yet blame the dopes for reminding me of that!



July 16, 2021
get your smart on with a new episode of scorpion


forget just for men hair paint phony ads, now THIS is realistic.


I know when I personally snayack i also balance a plate with a sandwich on one knee while simultaneously holding another sandwich in a hand and continuing to shove popcorn into my mouth with the remaining hand even while stating that i have problems when i do that, instead of chewing it, thereby causing the popcorn to tumble out of my mouth. How is that the bed’s fault that this guy is a moron? I appreciate that the adjustable bed owner is both aware of and gloating at his counterpart, whom he only refers to as “that guy.” Perhaps that guy’s name is That Guy. He LOOKS like That Guy. In a still picture it looks like his head has been edited onto someone else’s body as a gag to make him look stupid. But this is all natural! I don’t know who he thinks he is fooling with that napkin, he looks like he just hurried over from a dentist appointment, leaving in disgust after being told to cut back on popcorn. Perhaps that’s why he didn’t feel like chewing.

notably, the dork in the craftmatic bed doesn’t have any popcorn, he has a banana! Somewhat more nutritious, much less messy. He also went and got a tray, which definitely isn’t part of the package being sold here. Maybe the problem isn’t so much what bed you buy, more how much of a slob you are. Which isn’t to say I recommend That Guy take up bananas because I am convinced he would find some way to slip on its peel while still in the bed and then blame the bed for it.
even with the disdain he still refers to the product as a “quality flat bed.” Craftmatic ads always use that phrase, consistently, and I never had any clue why. Is the idea that hey, we’re not comparing this electric monstrosity to a RINKETY DINKETY flat bed. The people in those things are so worthless they can’t even get the popcorn in their mouths before dropping it, much less possess the poise to hold a plate on a knee, why would we trust them to complete the payments on one of these?

a “good night’s sleep” is only the THIRD perk mentioned of having a craftmatic bed, even though it is rare to see somebody actually sleeping in one of these advertisements, as they are too busy doing other things that you shouldn’t do in a bed anyway.


The real reason That Guy can’t sleep is because he just drank a bottle of soda and the bed is covered with sandwich crumbs and popcorn. The plate is probably still in there. In fact Craftmatic Guy doesn’t even say he sleeps in the bed, only that he’s “no dummy.” Because dummies advertise hard wood furniture and are slightly more convincing actors because I at least expect them to look unnatural. Then he takes off his glasses and lies back, as if he is going to sleep but obviously he isn’t because the light’s still on and the covers are still off!


years later craftmatic ads still emphasized the fact that you can buy your own eating tray separately even though you can use that tray in a regular bed. You can even use that tray if you don’t have a bed at all! Although more curious is that this man is so well organized that he keeps the bed immaculately made in the absence of his wife nagging him to do that, and is able to climb on to the bed AND set up a tray without disturbing that, yet he also WEARS SHOES in the bed!


there’s that dumb tray again! and the user is actually under the covers for once (presumably entering… to Win!) and so I cannot check for shoes.

the real problem with this advertisement series however is that it fails to disclose the full implications of the curse attached to using one of these beds.


curse in progress. the text calls it a massage and claims it to be optional but I would be curious to interview those who have experienced its effects.


Alas they rarely have much interesting to say afterward. I reckon they didn’t get much CHOICE about turning into dopes! Yet they should have known! Your body doesn’t turn all purple and featureless with lines rapidly going through it when you are being massaged! Right? Well MINE sure doesn’t.


the guy with the shoes, instead of saying “because i already have one” he should be saying “because i do not want to turn into a dope!” i will praise craftmatic for accurately representing how annoying and pushy their unsolicited calls probably are, but transforming people into dopes without their consent is hard for me to get past. And doing it WITH their consent is probably even worse because whoever wants to be a dope obviously deserves to be in jail and Craftmatic should pass that information along.


Hello! I’d like to be turned into a dope? thertainly, thir!
NO! Don’t go along with that request!

Turning into a dope is right up there with transforming into a skeleton, really.

although at least there is no item combination in castlevania circle of the moon which causes the hero to transform into a dope. for one thing since that game was released several years before dopes began appearing in my business that would mean I owed Konami royalties on dopes.


I hypothetically REFUSE to pay! Even IF that would allow me to blame somebody else.

More questions i pondered recently, were craftmatic adjustable beds designed to turn people into dopes or was that an unexpected side effect? and is it worse to BE a dope to begin with or to get turned into one?
AND, assuming it is possible to revert a craftmatic’d dope back into a “normal” dumb old imp person, what would happen to a natural dope if the same process were used on it? and what GALL for dopes that weren’t people at one point to assume they are natural, they aren’t. I can’t believe it oh pardon ME dope, do craftmatic dopes FAIL the dope purity test? i can’t stand it who do those dumb dopes think they are? dopes?!


they think they are the MASTER dope race? dopes are so dumb they LOSE every race because instead of moving they just stand around at the starting line smiling at people. that’s right (wrong) KEEP smiling, like you ENJOY this, like you planned it all along, which I doubt you are capable of.


you would need a butler to do it for you! and you have no money to pay one! only the original rich people who transformed into “inferior” sub-dopes have it! ha-ha, ho,ho, teehee humperdink.
actually obscene affluence and servants is the only way all those weird trays, perfectly made beds and pajama-clad freakadoodles who never seem to be out of them make sense. Maybe we SHOULD change them into dopes and kick them out.


I have PROBLEMS when I transform into a dope in this quality flat bed!

ARRRRRGH of COURSE you do! Turning into a dope IS a problem! The QUALITY of your bed prevents it! WHY are you trying to do that and WHY are you telling ME about it?! Maybe you’re a dope already!



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