the monster that used to be nemitz changed into a monster that looks like it used to be nemitz, but which is and has been sprite-named “spof” either way. why i think i need more when i can barely run the game now as it is is mostly the fault of obsessive compulsion, as usual.

in fact the latest version of the gzdoom engine is now “uzdoom” after the former maintainer whose name supposedly coincidentally is abbreviated “gz” was ousted for being precisely the sort of person who usually has administrative roles in “communities” related to old nerd interests and runs even MORE worrisomely than before. if i become again willing to take this computer apart and try to replace its “thermal paste” again i can check on if a properly functioning computer can feasibly run this in levels with more than 2 monster types active at once without overheating and shutting off out of presumed rage at how stupid the monsters are. i suspect my hardware is, as usual, as always, woefully inadequate for what I want it to do, even when, perhaps especially when, it is something incredibly old fashioned and stupid. the older something is, the more people selling the new ones want to make it difficult to use. you know that, i know that, but I rarely adapt to it effectively.

to clarify, the “story” i have with this watch out for dopes business< has it taking place before the comic strip in which it is established that whatever elpse and nemitz are is not native to this location so there should not be hordes of them as the dope's adversaries. although elpse also says "we were here first" and elpse is highly ignorant and might not be aware if there are in fact plenty of them still there. i briefly considered making it look like nemitz with elpse coloration with that in mind. and this is all made up nonsense anyway and i can do whatever i want. nonetheless i did not want this monster to look like nemitz and waiting for me to sketch an alternative was not effective. after deciding last week on the "nonsense anyway" option, only AFTER i started redrawing it i finally had solid ideas for how to change it, as often occurs. i do not mind if it looks like it USED to be nemitz, only that it does not look like it is nemitz now partway through sketching in angle 4 it struck me that the purple and green color scheme looks like barney the dinosaur, who has been getting blown up in doom add-ons since doom add-ons have existed. but that is somewhat in character with nemitz, to try and pass mitzelf off as a different character and end up resembling one that is even more likely to deserve to come under attack. i do not know yet if i will also include the flower. in fact i do not even have a longwinded reasoning explanation for why i did or did not include it yet.

something to do with elon musk. it was deleted, as is the ideal and natural way of things.

lamentably the source was located, but that is not important.

this is also not important. Although it is striking how the passage of two decades has made MySpace and its operators seem relatively non-evil by comparison to what followed them.

this is important

or for any prototype fans

page 3 of part 4 of this solves nothing but it doubles my new page output for the year so that is statistically significant.
I do not like mouth-emitted particles but this is mild. It bothers me that i came up with this resolution but i don’t think this will be a problem for anyone else like it is for me and i can ensure it won’t get worse than this. i COULD explain it away as instead being force-of-air-based but that would contradict the not-pog being able to smash the bubbles together on the previous page.

i can think of NOTHING more ENTICING than a SACK full of MEAT. I would betray an oath of loyalty and my past livelihood and risk execution should I be recaptured for that, but not otherwise, sure. I think a lot of people would. If glorious leader Trump is so worried about foreigners he should forego the illegal thug deportation ice gangs and just drop sacks of meat into whatever countries he is worried about. Gosh maybe the rest of us will even leave to go after it and he can have america to himself. The president can afford better food than that.

yes very much so. this is just the level of artistic quality and inspiration that i expect from someone who doesn’t know how to spell crayon.

meatwhile this guy is really han de to have around

of course not, obviously i was vaccinated

one thing that is funny to me about the japanese video game production and publishing company Koei’s longstanding obsession with Romance of the Three Kingdoms is that they refer to the famed hero Cao Cao as “Sousou.” With no space in the middle, presumably pronounced like Susu. Even in games that have been translated into English and the name outwardly presented as “Cao Cao” you might be able to find “sousou” labeled on the game’s internal data files. Even when we call him Tsao –or Sow or Cow; silly farmbred livestock, sure, but still bulky and formidable– he remains Susu on the insisiside. This guy is supposed to be the most treacherous and fearsome warlord of his era, if not all history, and he has the same name my sister got called as a baby. I like especially when it is combined with another word; a spinoff game called Legend of Cao Cao is just “Sousouden.”

however, i take freddy readiness very seriously

This song is NOT on that playlist and I will not be suggesting its inclusion even now that i know who it is about.

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ALLLLLLSO i just moments ago realized that last night i accidentally “published” an unfinished post about moraff when i thought i was editing the previous week’s post about moraff to say that i wasn’t ready with a post for this week yet and also had not yet decided what that i was working on i would try and force into being a post for this week, which turned out to not be the one about moraff. if you saw it and wondered why it seemed unfinished, that is because it was! and if you saw it and didn’t notice it was unfinished, then this website is terrible!

It takes me so much by surprise to see anyone talking about moraff that I miss the point and the context if it is the slightest bit below the surface.
oh no comments are disabled on the post so i cannot even go over there and acknowledge my error. now this person who never heard of me and already forgot i quote-posted that will never know that i now know i misinterpreted it.
“pc-98” is a japan only computer system known for high quality pixel art, at least outside of the main sprite graphics, which tend to be pretty crummy and minimally animated, even when they aren’t cursed. I know this, I think about dumb falcom games all the time, and how they got away with recycled game engines, awkward monster battling, lack of things to do apart from battling, and the total absence of special effects that they get away with rereleasing over and over forever due to the strength of their background music and also their unusually detailed shop-keeper portraits and opening cinematics. But usually I do not think about this at the same time as moraff.

but this did manage to remind me

of a recent Moraff sighting on the Great British Sewing Bee program. a less fantastic British sewing bee could never handle such an occurrence. I also have ANOTHER moraff update but it is getting complicated and I would like to stop looking at these eyeballs immediately so maybe I will try that another time.

they tried to make the sandwich seem more dangerous by referring to the range as “point blank.” you can’t THROW a sandwich from a range beyond that and have it still be a sandwich after half a second. A long distance sandwich projectile would require a high powered launching device that would probably hurt more than a blank point throw. This reminds me of the time some guy tried to get richard simmons arrested for slapping him, and indeed in that case the charge presser was also an oaf with a height and weight advantage who failed to inflict the intimidation he thought he was entitled to and so whined about it to a higher authority. like when me and my older brother were children and we would try to get our younger brother in trouble for stuff less bad than what we did, except we were children acting like children.

what are the charges for, then? To put in his place the way-too-gay guy who managed to succeed despite people like you? I remember this because the “victim” Chris Farney despite being unnamed in initial reports got to be a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Live television program over this a few days after suffering the assault.

You might not be old enough to remember or trash-entertainment-aware enough to care but a long time ago Kimmel (and his owner, Disney) despite being pretty much the same as now actually passed for fairly conservative and regressive and had this guy on just to laugh with him about how absurd Richard Simmons is. The fellow also casually said “fuckin” during the interview and it was only after that point that the show ceased to actually be live and instituted a tape delay. funny to listen to this now and hear that attempts WERE made to censor the farnster in real time but then they missed the big moment.
I might also mention that in those days several minutes of every show would be just laughing at how stupid the Mexican crew member Guillermo Rodriguez’s voice was but i think they might STILL do that, but that then also makes Guillermo one nationally visible, non-native born american citizen who won’t get deported by sandwich-averse icicles and if an attempt is made to do that it will be harder to sweep under the radar.

Of course Richard Simmons ALSO made news for surreptitiously placing his tongue inside a hamburger that Roseanne Barrrrr was eating while filming her own talk show which is PROBABLY more legitimately offensive, though according to Simmons Roseanne actually shoved the hamburger in his mouth first, so then he shoved the burger into Roseanne’s mouth and exited the set which isn’t actually what happened; both of them bit the hamburger willingly and pretend-groped each other and then had 18 more minutes of interview after that. People like that just have absurd exaggerated personae, almost like real life cartoon characters, that should not be taken too seriously. UNLESS they try to run for public office, because if they think they’re qualified, and voters also think such persons are qualified, then they are surely out of their minds and not safe to have also out of prison.

I do believe Trump has met some of these victims already and that is part of the problem

why is this news? south park has been why-is-this-newsing a lot lately but this instance seems pretty typical and quarter-century-ago by south park standards. if the plan is to make trump try to prove he is heterosexual by pointing out all the minors with x chromosomes that Eppy J linked him up with, he might well be stupid enough to do that but remember that this is the guy known for buying teen beauty pageants just so he could perv around backstage and who said he can “grab em by the pussy” to Billy Bush and Billy Bush got fired, while Trump got a substantially superiod job. The people who vote for him are absolutely not concerned that he himself is a sexual predator, only that he covers up for other ones, and then only ever for about a week at a time before picking on people like Guilermo and Richard and [women apart from] Roseanne became priority #1 again. Trump shills are already desperately trying to reclassify sexual relations between old white guys and minors as not necessarily actionable pedophilia based on [reason] after years of insisting biden was a pedophile just for smelling his granddaughter’s hair or something.

not all the expected parties are dismissing it, but I think they will once the time comes to do that. And by thinking this I can be pleasantly surprised when they don’t rather than SHOCKED when they do.

gorply borpity it’s The Democrats’ and B-b-b-BIDEN’s fault you put the wrong picture of Trump’s rubber stamp signature on a website? This is like Gargamel blaming the smurfs when he got caught stealing a Snickers bar from a gas station. for one thing we have very scant evidence that democrats actually exist. It is rumored that they have magic powers and come from france.

there the sandwiches are small enough to not cripple you if a protestor tosses one at you and the little bag keeps the evidence all together. If only national unity was so simple!
So sick of these morons and the north vs south BS in america.

I wanted the fish to be able to attack from a distance if necessary, and without needing to stop, like doom engine monsters generally do, but i may have made too big a project of it. the fish’s animation needs to be substantially more smooth and consistent than it was so that if the lizard turns while shooting, which is already difficult to make it do, its upper body does not visually detach from its legs. While trying to facilitate this i discovered that in the existing walk cycle, the fish’s left foot stepped faster than its right foot and that i had made that error on EVERY angle since i would use whichever i drew first as a guide for the rest. correcting that might make it subconsciously less unsettling than it was before, but also might not.
while close up i imagine the fish might start jumping like the werewolves from castlevania 2, who do not gain power or extra animation frames from jumping, only become more disturbing. i do not have the power to program something people have never seen before in the past, but i can make things nobody else would want to do in the future.

now this creature can bang its eyes together and theoretically launch the merged eyeball at adversaries, but why would it ever do such a thing? earlier i might have claimed that an eyeball themed attack would be too obvious, but the lumps going through the stalk-pipes seemed like an opportunity unlikely to present itself again.
I thought about how all the “weird” stuff people do with eyeballs now totally grosses me out but i never had a problem with the eyeball-enemy-enriched Guardian Legend years ago, and any projectile in a game heavily reliant on projectiles flying around that isn’t a fireball makes it seem marginally less conventionally boring, so perhaps i will try that.

page 2 of part 4 of that
yes i DID post page 1 almost a year ago and then nothing after that but i had every intention of continuing; this part here was already sketched. i DO know what will happen next but have not sketched THAT and am yet uncertain if it will continue to have three-row pages or if i will revert to not being able to handle 4 once i no longer need to depict 8 characters in the same panel for a while.
Some crucial details like the hat rack and sky swirls remain to be filled in but you know how i am with the appearance of one update per week even if most of it legally occurs the next day. Sunday tends to be busier than i expect since it is everyone else’s day off so they treat it like my day off, too. no! i have IMPORTANT imaginary deadlines to keep! I will update this again once it is the proper update. Unless I already did!

i was indecisive about the final frame since it took me two years to bother finishing the sketch since I can’t draw like this very well, and it seemed like the police state object of exaggerated bogeyness is now bullets of dubious origin with mysterious writing of dubious authenticity. ALTHOUGH maybe you can’t actually tell that is what this is here since I made the edit so hackily.
the supposedly “engraved” bullets that somebody wrote on with a pen and then kash patel took a phone picture of and posted to twitter outside the usual protocol for handling evidence at a crime scene. and our biased liberal media ran the story of this bullet’s magical discovery without questioning it at all.

However the issue is mostly mootly since Blue Bloods was apparently cancelled in 2024 and most people i have access to have never heard of blue bloods to begin with, since they didn’t have sickly/elderly parents who just watch basic cable reruns of syndicated garbage all day in the mid 2010s and people who ARE that or share its mindset aren’t watching my art pages, at least not at this point, except for the purposes of trying to determine my own weaknesses and intermittently sending what they consider examples of it at me. However my real weakness is that i talk about my weaknesses too much. Nobody would know if I didn’t tell, and I get nothing out of telling, yet i continue to do so.

the fellow in the distance, presumably his weakness is hats

it often talks too much for its own good but it thinks too much about completely worthless topics for anyone’s good also

We “should” not be scared at all. We PERHAPS should refuse to give money to whatever uses it and otherwise live our lives like it doesn’t exist, because it doesn’t. It has a specific, if terribly generic appearance and stupid name, as unlike “normal” uninvited ainterference, it WANTS us to recognize its interference and choose to have it, so we can easily not do that.

I hate when [typically, jerky] persons see and respond to this trash like “this must be how horse breeders felt when cars came along lol cope, luddite.” No, it is not like that, because automobile manufacturers didn’t spend billions of dollars trying to fabricate a device that looks like a horse and the catastrophic environmental impact of automobiles took decades to manifest, while the catastrophic environmental impact of generative artificial intelligence we knew about before this happened. Yes you save a few days of filming because your “star” is a digital puppet but it eats an entire coal power plant for every minute of video so you haven’t saved a ding dang thing.

Additionally, motorized transportation actually does stuff that horses can’t and has the capacity to improve life for some people, and its negative environmental impact and inefficiency can be reduced. That impact only is NOT reduced because of the same sort of shortsighted, unimaginative greedy slimeballs who want ai actors. Meapwhile “ai actors” will only waste more resources and inconvenience more people, a few of them even actual actors, if more of this is used. The only person who benefits is the aspiring pharaoh the top of the pyramid who, trusting in AI information sources, possibly thinks pyramids were thrones for pharaohs rather than where their dead bodies were hidden until they could be looted and displayed in a museum centuries later.

I don’t even care about the cults of actual boring conventionally pretty celebrities unless they massively screw up. Why should I pay attention to a fake one pretending to be real, that can’t screw up in an organic fashion? This is thankfully someone else’s problem for now. Until my niece’s friends get her watching it and she brings it into my house, like every other obnoxious target-marketed thing I have had to endure excess awareness of the past decade, but she also binge watched “finger family” videos, and sometimes even just hands opening up plastic eggs and fiddling with slime. I could imagine ai-actors being massively viewed by people with no taste and who simply watch WHATEVER the ai-video sorter conspires to send at them, but getting viewers to PAY to watch one is entirely different. You might get business from some “own the libs” sorts who go to chick fil-a exclusively out of spite for marginalized groups that Chick Fila funds further marginalization of, but Chick Fila does, perhaps surprisingly, have customers outside that range also since it sells a product at least as appealing as those offered by others in the wasteful no-longer-cheap, no-longer-fast food business, and Chick Fila also doesn’t, generally, advertise based on its anti-humanity component.

this thing, it will never have a “difficult” opinion, it will never complain about sexual harassment, it will never say no. That appeals to sleazebag producers–

and apparently appeals to a strange subset of sleazebag viewers who aren’t necessarily ai themselves– but actually mixing it in with real actors, even ones with no taste or who just need money so badly that they will be second to it, is more difficult. It thus requires a full cast of fake actors, and I think if that cast already existed they would have debuted together rather than this being announced however this was. ideally that means money is running out for whatever is funding this and it is badly needing for further investment sooner than expected. rumor has it that other ai-masses-of-pixels interact with it in this video i refuse to watch but if they haven’t been given names then they probably aren’t finished yet.

and who the heck is this guy? none of the text on the article explains who he is. This is the artificial human I am scared of. Since Silly Borwood doesn’t exist it can’t actually profit from being terrible but this sleazo sure can. He probably hired/generated whatever shill wrote that “virgin onscreen” rubbish.

I sure am and that has not contributed to my suitability for screen appearances.

some people you just can’t take anywhere

I spent far too long on this considering that I couldn’t even tell if it made sense. Which is consistent.

generally mario is only seen on adventures in hostile territory where jumping and shouting a lot may help in defeating or frightening foes, but perhaps like veteran soldiers or freed prisoners mario has difficulty outside of the dangerous situations he has adapted to survive in. but then as i spent longer [needlessly] refining certain bits of it I considered that I would not far too well either if stuff kept bumping into me and THEN I hit myself with a meatball, though still better than this.

and a truly masterful unrequested, non-preventable artificial intelligence assessment from faceboof. I am so glad the entire United States economy was force-fixated on to cramming this technology inextricably into everything.

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.

what a great time to be alive
in case clarification is required, this didn’t happen, to me, recently, but it has happened recently, though generally in the form of being TOLD rather than asked or even accused, and it has happened to me, and it can happen again, and even when it isn’t happening to me i know it would if it was aware of me. These attitudes are much older than touchy trump and precious kirksy’s influence on american culture; i have been called “faggot” since I was twelvish and “retard” before that. Trumpism and Kirkism and general racial supremacist creepism merely told adults who were abusive as children that it is acceptable to continue being abusive as adults. They saw that kind of garbage from the likes of the taliban and instead of thinking “we’re better than them because we don’t do that” they preferred “HEY why can’t WE do that? We’re better than them!”

the “i don’t talk about my problems” creature was based on someone reacting to the first three frames and it bothered me enough to add the fourth frame, and then i looked at that person’s youtube page and was reminded that he voluntarily uses a normal man’s name and is comfortable being filmed with a beard while wearing baseball hats and short sleeve shirts and I considered that i really don’t need to defer to this person’s experience since it is utterly different than mine but i already drew the character fairly vague and just added the beard which doesn’t look like the person’s actual casual shab jd vance beard and round sunglasses because he had those in one video and i inadvertently made that character more stylish than i intended to, so it has that going for it in the event my characterization is otherwise unfair.

Shortly after I posted the earlier version of that comic stripzoid without the fourth frame –it had been three frames across and I only turned it into a box to appease insta-gram’s irritating cropping system which could not be done properly prior to the additional frame balancing out the first one– I received this curious anonymous message on tumblr, where I had never mentioned any of these issues. I asked one person who enjoys sending me incomprehensible messages under varying identities who denied having done it on this occasion. “greener pastures” is such a gosh darn hokey phrase i assume it is either a regressive older person raised on hokey television or someone who listens to hokey older people talk on television a lot, and they’re usually condemning someone they don’t understand for extremely minor transgressions that they don’t want to understand.

And i know they know how to use websites to some degree since this is in place and presumably got money out of somebody. The world was not better and simpler when you or i or anyone was “growing up.” You were just better insulated against how crummy it was and knowledge of who was suffering the most for that, and you can’t “go back” to that, except mentally, by reinsulating yourself, because it doesn’t exist, and you can’t force anyone else to “go back” to that since they never were that.