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.
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.
America was rocked to its core by the death of a hate-mongering sociopath that i have only barely heard of the same day as yet another school shooting in Colorado that America managed to be barely informed about and completely numb to
violence is exactly who you are, political violence is who your boss is in particular, and these are the principles you teach to children and advertise to the rest of the world. I assume America’s core is like the ones inside tootsie pops that are hazardous to bite into
DJ Taco Trump is not quite the king of political violence compared to some international competitors but he is like a scheming regent or a feudal warlord perhaps
This is still the number one issue in connecticut, where that monster isn’t from and his influence, ideally, holds less weight, because the murder-authorizing and sexual-assault-doing president ORDERED it. for DAYS.
yeah we only allow native born white male americans to glorify violence and hatred and then institute national mourning for them and then vow to add more violence and hatred when they get taken down by it. “Free speech! free speech! Whoa my dude that’s only for me and my pals”
when someone who advocates prayer in place of science gets murdered, I feel like, at best, that proves prayer DOESN’T work. And worse for snarky xenophobic bullies with a national platform would be if prayer does work but not the way they think it does.
I am surprised by this reaction from my usually tough guy family member E who tries to laugh off criticism of his own insensitive remarks, called covid-19 a hoax and hassled journalists over pizzagate nonsense, who wrote an entire song glorifying Alex Jones, who made a fortune over inflammatory tirades, which includes mocking victims of gun violence. And also the selling of snake oil dietary and “masculinity” supplements, one of which I found in my basement after E stayed at my house for a few weeks in 2023. I didn’t realize Kirk was such a big deal, but I guess he is like a civil rights leader for people who hate civil rights. A Malcolm
, if you white. Pardon, will. Although apparently to E’s credit he did untag himself from someone else’s post about what a “hero” Mr. Kirk was, it is also possible he didn’t untag and I just can’t see that post now because someone who isn’t me tried to argue against the notion that a progress-halting nation-damager was a hero and the posting account went private and cried of victimization by The Left but I don’t have proof so
hey speaking of foreigners endorsing violence
What’s his problem? Millions of people leave in peace whenever he takes over.
We don’t want violence. By the way, death penalty. By the wayer, ignore anything not told to you by us.
“death penalty” of course implies they intend both to catch the guy and not kill him until after he has been interrogated
at 31 years of age Kirk could very well have had enough time ahead to become a decent person and use his influence for positive ends but he had been given absolutely no incentive to do so and I find his life substantially sadder than his death.
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then a day later, the shooter “turned himself in” coerced by his incredibly churchy and NON-leftist family perhaps aware that police would shoot him dead rather than arrest him, or perhaps hoping to get the $100,000 reward offered by the DOGE-gutted fbi that had been utterly unable to find him.
He was shot by a white twerp from the place where it happened, you dumb toilets. The “race war” people like Kirk convinced you exists is only being fought from your side. Note that there is no official us government acknowledgment of abuse like this or retraction of accusations against leftist for the murder they had no part in. Because unlike George W Bush, Donald Trump DOES care about black people, in particular them being subservient and afraid.
How does having a full-time job condemning anyone who isn’t hetero-normative and caucasian make you a “political activist who rallied young voters”? I can understand, begrudgingly, if a republican governor describes him like that, but a news article about what the governor said should not.
praying for thirty three hours is not leadership. AFTER the thing already happened you PRAYED to retroactively alter how it might have occurred? Like as long as you don’t have information you can change what the information is, Schrodinger’s rifle or something*, That is preposterous, and you think it reflects well on yourself to admit this. You have a problem where hetero normative whites who fetishize guns victimize and collectively punish non-white, perceived-foreign and lgbtish people for crimes that hetero normative local white gun fetishists are committing, or really any remotely blame-worthy thing. Stop praying and THINK for a while or maybe even better take a nap before you give statements. Assuming you actually want to solve this; admittedly I don’t get the impression that anyone does.
*or the injured scientist in Cave Story who DIES if you talk to him but recovers and gives you the jetpack later if you simply ignore his mangled body. This is probably not a helpful point of reference for many people
oh grapety purple there is ONE evildoer responsible for killing him who is IN JAIL in Utah now. battle-crying around the world is unnecessary. And the folks who made sure he had guns and knew how to use them voted for the mutants you thank and heap praise upon. Nothing about this sequence of stories makes sense. How does it eat itself but keep getting bigger?
gorf I would love to not keep talking about this creep. I much preferred when the main thing I knew about him was that he LOOKED like a scumbag who would be set in his ways and smugly imposing them on others by the time he got to high school. But his acolytes including apparently the entire executive branch who don’t want their own crimes and abuses to be news means this is the world’s biggest and dumbest story for as long as they can keep it that way.
preferably into the sunset, though if they think the earth is flat so they’ll believe the sun is actually there and will set them on fire and thus will avoid it
moderate pog update
unfortunately since there is massive lag if certain monsters are present it is difficult to show what i intend to show here. There is also massive lag from certain types of structures, from loading any large graphics, and also from recording video. Additionally the video editor itself lags so i cannot always be sure if the video i already recorded shows lag or doesn’t.
FURTHER, most of the sound effects here are dubbed since the massive quantity of pog feet and the obnoxious WAH creatures were making too much noise in the initial video i managed to get, and also the scripts to open and close those doors is presently silent. And the variants of the metallic door (the one that is misaligned and in an incorrectly sized space) all use the same exact script right now anyway and thus would make the same sounds if they made any sounds. but they CAN. also the spiral door’s scale corrupts after the first frame. The important thing is that any of this works at all or is in a position where it potentially might since for years almost nothing did.
another comic strip based roughly on my life even though my life is the least interesting thing about me. Other projects are yet ongoing; as i have stated in the past, none of them are dead, I will probably die first, and maybe I can even hurry that along with the help of enough crispy birds.
the important thing here is that it is now possible to turn the weapon pog into the obstruction pog, and back again. which there is little practical reason to do, but being able to is fun. the two explosions are equal in destructive force right now but if i made the standing pog do more damage (as it presently LOOKS like it should) a player may have a reason to try and set one up and deliberately detonate it on the ground.
this also means now if you throw one too close to a wall it won’t blow up in your face, though surprisingly i found myself trying to do that as a means of resetting the situation, and not being able to. the minimum explode distance can be brought closer.
less apparent but no less tedious to set up, i reduced the standing pog explosion lag somewhat so that it is now actually possible for me to record a video of that happening which i previously could not do, and even now it lags, just substantially less so than previously.
I also want these to change color after taking a certain amount of damage so you know how close they are to exploding before trying to convert them into carryable ammunition, but for now the game tells me call to unknown function “getactorproperty” so i will probably need to ask for help with that, which means i might not be able to get help with that, which means i should PLAN on being able to proceed even if that never happens.
the weapon grab sound effect, THAT can be replaced easily; i didn’t much consider that i had not until writing this. In fact the sound was off when i took the video!
it also looks like the right-hand-lowering doesn’t have any animation. in fact i knew that and had gone to recycle the left hand lowering animation for it and then probably had to go to bed and forgot about it. I usually only forget important things so even that is a positive change.
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no skrint i DID replace that sound; i specified a DIFFERENT sound to play but it was ignoring my SNDINFO lump after a certain point so doubtlessly that is screwing up other things as well but meepwhile moving the new definition to the top fixes it. i STILL don’t know how to change the text that just says “[freep] died.” i hate the word “died.” i much prefer “erred” or “got dead” or “became ill” but it seems to be an unlisted string since it isn’t connected to a specific source of demise and it isn’t in the original doom, obviously.
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a replacement video is now in place which no longer has that noise but those explosion sounds are probably even worse and i can’t blame anyone else for those
Worst Selling Video Games edition nine
I had been thinking it was too soon to make another one of these but upon review it looks like i didn’t post one in nearly two years so this is probably a roughly adequate time to do it.
maganitsu
race dividin’
covfefe ii: the mental aging
jdvance wars
noem: total blowhard
twinkeir starmer sprites
twinbee netanyahoo
aid convoy no gaza
the settlers: bandit rage of thugs
dogerunner
musk: an evil shifty failure
go! go! tank the economy
red dead recession
ire ‘n ice
quorums: ahm-a-gettin’ (out-of-texas)
secret of jeffrey’s island
leisure suit jeffrey
wolfepstein 3d
prince andrew of perversia: the sweat glands of slimeball
five nights at jeffrey’s
oregon chemtrail
kim jong-unjammer lammy
p diddy kong raping
who slapped chrissy rock? (this still in the queue should have been all the proof i needed that i had not made a 2024 post)
plastered bastard
ori hatch and the will of utah voters
mitch mcconnell madness
margaret snatcher
banal blandtasy xiii: lightning returns a library book
mario is pissing
rush’n dressing
pacman arkham asylum
heroes of might and maybe not
junkie kong
knuckles neurotix
dracula x: randy of quaid
sunset spiders
clay biter
lunch at demonbread
There in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Duck Shunned
Effort Zero
Zoey Duncan Joe and Mac
gunstar hearing loss
conker’s bad check
rival terf
i fear it has a bit of a theme at points. in fact i removed some that i thought were funny in favor of attempting to ensure that theme was contained here and prevented from drifting into part 10 instead. No I am sure i will dumb things will stop happening in and I will thus have no interest in making annoying “topical” references to them ever again
thanksh a bunch, reid
oh ah ha this thing again because i spent too much of july drawing other people’s characters in an endeavor called “art fight” that is definitely made for younger people than me, which is most people these days, and yet it still was better than the last time I did it so i cannot reasonably expect it to improve
hm the head part does not move enough in the southeast angle and thus that carries over to its mirrored draw-over northwest angle. and possibly moves too much in the south/north angles. however, those two make it hardest to see movement on the slingshot so putting the motion elsewhere may be an effect distraction
the lemon would simply bop a target and then fall on the floor and be collectable for a largely worthless bonus that would thus not encourage players to stand around letting lemons get flung at them, similar to the pine cones that are already implemented. i am yet unsure if i really want a potted cactus to be the third object and if so how i would implement that and so the in-flight version is yet non-drawn
the large mist blast i thought might actually be too large and non-loopable to work so i made three smaller ones that perhaps can be deployed in groups and then stretched and faded out with internal functions. what a heap load of nonsense for one projectile from a silly creature that was only meant to be a mobile decoration at first
there! look! he is right there! Only part 1 but presumably his torso and legs are nearby
Just one week ago I posted a tiny picture of Hulk “can I stop paying Marvel royalties for my first name now?” Hogan on this website and today he is dead. Let that be a lesson for you: believing in omens, curses and general superstitions lead to delusions and terrible judgement.
once he finished lying to children that they could get success like his through legitimate means, he spent the rest of his life burning bridges, stepping on former friends, using clout to get his way, long past the point where there was any personal practical benefit to getting his way, and shilling for garbage, all stemming from his ability to pretend to be good at fighting weirdly back in the 1980s, and in the end the only people with anything nice to say about him are right wing wealthy (at least in this obituary which may be picking and choosing whom it quotes) and or oblivious scumbags and even they rarely have any point of reference from the 1990s or later.
Really he might as well have been dead 30 years ago. (presumably I am still talking about Hogan; thankfully Carrot Top has never been socially relevant). I can only be grateful he was never able to become US president, bare his full awfulness to the world and have the entertaining parts of his legacy become completely sickening in retrospect the way trump’s did
i saw this line in shining force 3 and could only imagine it being spoken in the same voice hogan used in No Holds Barred to say the same thing and that is still funny for me to think about.
and for years I believed this (since I only had a wav file) was from 1991’s Suburban Commando but it is actually from 1989’s No Holds Barred, again failing to supercede the 1980s True enough, the 3 ninjas hogan I posted last week was from 1997 but as noted it was also incredibly tiny and I don’t know a single dumb line of dialog from that nor have even mis-attributed one to it.
a bonus, I was looking for Hogan-related lines in my quotation file to use as the header here and saw this one but I liked my dumb little comment on it too much to post without context. I wonder who that product would even have been for; even by 2006 Hogan was over 50 years old and probably not considered a profoundly energetic figure and if he was it wasn’t from drinking branded bad dubious soda
anyway with this event the last surviving person who was allowed to call me “dude” is deceased so I can be much more emphatic in my requests to not be called that going forward.
this ought to do/undude it
just today (april 3, then i forgot i wrote this until july) i saw an electronic sign declaring “put the phone away or pay.” Meaning to not fiddle with a little mobile device while driving, which is a good idea; with all the vibration and divided attention, the operator should use a larger electronic tablet while driving instead. But this reminded me of “click it or ticket,”
from when the department of transportation was trying to raise seat belt usage, and rather than saying “you will be hassled by police and forced to pay money if you refuse to take basic safety measures in a motor vehicle” they said something less clear but that was cutesy and stupid. For as I declared back in 2008, I never do anything unless compelled by a grammatically questionable rhyming threat. But the declaration was in a mouse-over text tag so that message may not have been adequately emphasized, hence taking 17 years for the next great moving violation couplet to confirm that in fact the department of transportation also can’t issue an edict unless the command rhymes with the punishment for disobedience. so to help this proceed before 2042, i considered some new ones
stoplight or hoplite: it you fail to adequately respond to a red intersection light, ancient greek soldiers with gold helmets come out and poke you with lances
yield or garfield: disregarding a yield sign requires you to watch a garfield movie, and you won’t know which
buckle up or knuckle up: similar to the above but you know that you will have to specifically watch Three Ninjas: Knuckle Up.
Also don’t be confused since Garfield has only seen 3 Ninjas High Noon at Mega Mountain.
On account of that confusion it was proposed that rather than watching a specific 3 Ninjas film that violating parties be kidnapped by North Koreans same as Three Ninjas: Knuckle Up director Shin Sang-ok had been in the 1970s but that plot was considered too niche and implausible to have a sequel
litter or twitter: proposed but scrapped when it was determined that the people who still use twitter are the same ones who think human environmental abuse doesn’t actually damage it in any way
one-way or nunway: driving in the wrong direction on a single lane street will be require the violator to attend a fashion exhibition at a convent
meter or skeeter: failing to properly pay for a vehicle’s parking spot will imperil you to paint your skin blue, speak in a falsetto voice and honk anytime you approve of something. see also the civilian infraction Look both ways or Patti Mayonnaise
slow down or hoedown: those driving at speeds beyond the posted limit will be forced to wear overalls and take square dancing lessons, EVEN IF they already know how.
wiper or diaper: failure to maintain optimally functioning windshield-clearing equipment will be met by incontinence control devices tossed at your vehicle. If you manage to ignore that as well you risk being forced to wear a diaper. In the event you enjoy that your car will need to wear a diaper also. In the event you enjoy that as well then your life is probably difficult enough already.
you seem to be taking it well