a video of pictures I made last year set to some suspicious music.
I hope you hate pine cones, since three or four of these pictures don’t have one.
It took a ridiculous amount of time to make this considering that it is 95% comprised of stuff I had already made. My trashter plan to display gzdoom-engine material from within the gzdoom engine rather than as gifs of the source material did not help like I thought it would. I opposed gifs since while I design the graphics grouped, I have to separate them to put them into the game, and I refine them after separation, so I didn’t want the less-refined versions. and some pieces, like the launched yeep parts mentioned (but not yet drawn and so not shown) previously, were separate to begin with. howEVER, since I draw the stuff at ten times the 1993 game’s resolution, and my computer is less than top-of-the line, those graphics need to be reloaded each time the game is started, and then I am having it load extra graphics and generate extra objects on top of that, IN ADDITION to me running video capture software, which means loading all that tomfoolery in an extra window while simultaneously saving a copy of it all, the game can’t help but choke up for a few moments when stuff is exploding. and SO I spent an extra day, two days? trying to reduce that, just a few seconds of the dumb video. And I already spent an extra day drawing all those dumb letters and setting up the circumstances under which they appear and explode. originally they were to use the same explosion frames as the launched yeep globs, hence my using the same colors, but those explosions looked too uniform, unless those were themselves launching more globs, but more globs meant more lag. and SO i drew EXTRA explosions for the letters I and O that would prevent them from needing to launch globs.
but that still means loading extra graphics so it doesn’t reduce THAT much lag. I also had the letters L and F turn into I and G into O as they explode, and that still wasn’t enough! For the yeep section near the end, I had all the pertinent graphics pre-load before I started recording, but that wasn’t an option with the letters because they FALL FROM THE CEILING as soon as the level starts. I COULD have preloaded all the graphics if I had thought to suspend the letters on disappearing floors or had them teleport into the room, but I was too busy to be thinking! I also forgot to set the level to change the colors to something other than orange, so that the aftermush looks less like a nickelodeon logo family reunion but if I had, I would probably still today be trying to optimize or fix it in some way and I am glad to not be doing that.
I can’t even show this picture without needing to explain it. the level editor shows a 2003 dope rather than a 2018 dope because it assumes the player character uses PLAY-named sprites, but the newer dopes have DOPE-named sprites, and I simply never took out the old sprites. the weird background is irrelevant; it is the first graphic in the definition file, since for some arcane reason that graphic shows up invisible in the game, but not in the editor. I needed it invisible so that the background shows through it. there are other hacky ways to make the ground and walls invisible but everything I do is already hacky so I preferred something that worked consistently.
these are off-center relative to the player character’s viewpoint because they seemed to my own viewpoint to be showing up offcenter when I placed them IN the center. However by the time I made the video that seemed to no longer be the case but I was too tired from the endless re-records hoping for less lag and more interesting random splat locations, then inserting that into the video, cropping out the wrong takes, then moving it to the front, then dumping it all that since I wanted to go back and change something else in the setup and then need to re-record again, that I left the positions alone.
“AASCREBO” will go to the top of most lists. It is not necessary for the list to be alphabetical, but I was trying to amuse myself. Regular Doom2 calls it
which I dislike seeing in the list, and regular regular Doom calls it
which I hate even more, and not just because the base-2 display system means you aren’t actually ALLOWED to make 24-length wall textures! Even if that worked it wouldn’t work! screbo is stupid garbage that nemitz says, and I had already changed the poison logo to feature nemitz, so it fits. I placed it over the pile of skulls that is shown by default after coloring them purple. I don’t want any of the base game’s graphics in this, even edited ones, and nemitz endorsements of rubbish are anachronistic within this project’s complex chronology of being set before nemitz, but as noted previously these don’t actually show up! but even THESE are a problem since floor graphics are backwards on the ceiling. If I want to control invisible objects that it is possible to move beneath, I risk seeing not only a backwards S but a backwards nemitz inside the level editor’s 3d view mode. What could be worse than that? I probably won’t find out until I try to make next year’s video.
and after all that, I today realized: the ORDER of the primary content is terrible. It starts on a snake comic strip that nobody cared about and then ends on generic wall textures that nobody SHOULD care about. I should have started and ended on stuff with meaning. I too more concerned with irrelevant nonsense to consider the marginally more relevant nonsense. There is probably an important life lesson there but I am too concerned with complaining to process it right now.
my scanner is old, like me. It gets upset if you try to have it do something without advance notice, however I wanted to show this in the absence of better things to show.
or perhaps it objects to the subject matter. Certainly, a dope vending machine should not exist. But if you SEE one, do not put money into it if you do not want a dope, even IF it has a “no dopes” button. ESPECIALLY if the no dopes button says “out of order” on it. It almost seems like these idiots secretly WANT dopes. Not me; I just deliver the news about dope-related wrongs. I presume the first and second dope-protestors are different characters, unless dopes really are so dumb that they can cause people to transform into ludicrous imps like them.
lately this website also gets upset if you try to have it do anything, but that is for no reason.
which fits in with my other content rather well, I suppose.
12-29-2022 504am all I want to do is eat and eat and eat. That isn’t what I am doing, but I think about it often.
I spent several days trying to get around having to use the bad gifs from earlier in the year to show my gzdoom monsters in the year-end video. the video has other problems that I should have been dealing with instead of that because while what I did makes a positive difference it is only about 4 seconds worth of that.
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oh jolly good the image gallery “works” again. despite the latest update posted on the coppermine website’s front page saying 2018, the downloadable items are in fact from October of this year, and seemed to go in with my existing contents fairly smoothly. Despite the one error in one file I got when it broke, replacing that file just meant I got the next error in the queue. Heaps of files were now causing errors and refusing to work with each other. Only a full installation of the latest version would suffice. I worried that would be inoperable in a different way. So far it isn’t.
This seems particularly helpful as more internet art “communities” stigmatize themselves and alienate users by allowing artificial intelligence-generated imagery trained [to imitate and integrate pieces of] its own human users’ actual art to be uploaded and credit taken by smirking scumbags who just told the machine what to copy, and then twitter looked at those art sites and said “ha, amateurs! THIS is how you scare off your users.”
my gallery there is still awkward antiquated junk that was designed to show photography but it is not going to sell me out. It can’t; nobody is offering to buy from it! possibly “themes” introduced since my initial 2014 installation are more glamorous but checking on those and making them look slightly less like default settings is yet beyond my willfulness to investigate. However now seemed to be the time to set up yet one more image-displaying system for the comic-strips-that-don’t-have-nemitz-in-them that will be linked to from the “normal” comic strips so it doesn’t look like I have just been doing nothing since August. There OUGHT to be a way of controlling all four of these: talking, illustrations, regular comic strips and irregular comic strips, from the same system, but as generally occurs I am incapable of long term planning well enough to figure that out. I even tried to look it up, and it’s the same old business of click here to found out how, which has its own collection click here to find out how, each of which with their own bunch of click heres on it and it’s too much for me. 50+ megabytes of space wasted for this latest word press. Because that is what I know how to use, but only just sort of. For now it just has a copy of the other comic strip’s visual theme. Some of my custom formatting occurred outside the designated theme files, so I will need to figure out which files those WERE and copy them over also. I didn’t just copy the entire folder structure because that is just the sort of thing that won’t work when I do it, and I’ll spend hours trying to figure out why before needing to wipe the whole thing and reinstall it anyway. Weird server screwiness from my webhost today, yes of course the one day I do this, hasn’t helped my perception that stuff goes wrong for no reason but that it’s somehow my fault anyway, nor my ability to actually upload and format many of the comic strips, but that’s a much better use of my time in the next few days than buying christ-massy gifts for people, right? I usually don’t even have an excuse. I will make another mention of it if I finish uploading all of those. I am definitely too tired to do it today.
and just to clarify, as much as I hate to directly acknowledge my irrelevant title text, baby dope is NOT in my house and NOT WELCOME in my house or any location i have been in or shall be in either. baby dopes don’t even exist; dopes are generated full size. they potentially scale up as they get dumber but they do not mature or develop in any way. a new dope is just as stupid as an old dope. none-the-less even nonexistent dopes aren’t welcome, because they are too stupid to know that they do not exist. The fact that it makes no sense for a baby dope to exist, much less be in my house is precisely the reason one might try to get here.
I can’t tell if this decoration is meant to be ironic or is just ugly. I am however definitely concerned that I plausibly believe people might decorate their homes ironically.
I instinctively read “doing” here like a sound effect that rhymes with “boing”
yes, like that. Wells Fargo, the bank of almost an evil wrestling clown.
Are you having a tough time financially? HAW HAW CAPITALISM GOTCHA!
I recently determined that “Hazbin Hotel,” mentioned occasionally by a few people on twitter whom I have mild awareness of but don’t understand, is not the same thing as Habbo Hotel, a terrible casual game best known by me for at one time being repeatedly disrupted by gangs of “ironic” racists who I assume spend their their free time making christmas decorations now.
not a bean: despite this new found clarity I still don’t know what it IS, only what it isn’t.
whatever you say, wolf man
Matlock looks disgusted that I get to watch his show for free. Gunsmoke looks like he is daring me to refer to him as if “Gunsmoke” is his name, or possibly is hurt that I already did.
a yeep floats in five directions
a yeep has a problem in five directions
a yeep explodes in five directions
its tentacloids and eyeballs disappear because they launch as separate objects that are not necessarily coherent in gif form. the body dissolves since i want to have an all-directional mass of glop appear in its place, since non-moving, irregular objects can look really awkward with extra angles. Which I know because several monsters larger than this one DO have multi-directional bodies when punished and can look quite awkward. And I will likely leave them like that, but I can be cautious about creating more like them. sometimes
this latest yeep differs from past yeeps in that it lacks a darker colored midsection. I tried to sort out what that was and how it worked and could not, and so now it is not there at all. Much like several components of this website, except for once I took out something I didn’t understand on purpose.
the old exploding yeep did not need to launch the tentacloids since it only exploded from one direction and did not need its body to dissolve and be replaced. In trying to solve one problem I continue to create one or more others. And I yet do not know how i will sort out the tentacloids. The present single one in the south-east angle may not be viable since it does not take into account the possibility of the yeep exploding while off the ground. ALthough the old yeep didn’t actually finishing exploding after being beaten and launch its eyeballs until it landed, so perhaps this way IS viable. i think overall whatever result i get this time will be superior to what I had.
the old exploding yeep is actually not nearly as old as its other sprites; I drew the explosion in 2017. prior to then its body only had a single dissolve frame and i considered the pink blobs launched from it to be sufficient. I actually changed that because it looked really depressing if the sprites were browsed outside of the game, or pog forbid if somebody warped to level 30 and tried to force the original doom 2 monster roll call to appear, where none of this stuff looks right, that one would look especially not right.
NOW if somebody tries that the game will show sprites too big for the screen, or just show the regular game’s monsters, or crash completely, so REALLY I can get away with doing LESS for the yeep now instead of more. But I seem unable to do less unless it truly matters that I don’t.
a commission drawing for sigarette fawn teeth of a deer like creature with angel-like features. I was concerned I would not be able to execute it adequately but I may have.
The large version of this picture currently linked is from an embarrassing website but that is reliable for such hot linking because its code is notoriously outdated and its security features notoriously absent.
because I still have not looked into replacing the “coppermine” gallery display software. I probably didn’t install that, but I do not expect that would help with something that waited until 2022 to break down, and so it MIGHT. When I will get to a position where I can look into checking on trying out attempting to figure out what I can do with that is similarly ambiguous.
it is more probable I will work over my lower right unused pose suggestion before I do anything useful.
I avoided knowing or caring who Elion Muskzales was for years, and he suddenly became relevant enough that psychopaths I was within the pretend internet social radius of started talking about him and I still don’t understand what is special about him because there are a lot of shoddily managed businesses out there. Yale New Haven hospital is full of nonsense like this; it bought every other hospital, and then had freedom to make everything worse, charge customers more, give them less, promote more boneheads, cut benefits to and assign absurd shifts at random psychologically damaging hours to the actual good people working for them, and all that sort of thing. And as far as I can tell that is the ultimate goal of capitalism and it is all the rage hatred and fury right now. Any business entity that ISN’T that WISHES it was that. It just doesn’t always have a singular funny-looking billionaire mascot with a stupid name at the top to adoringly attribute every asinine and or misanthropic decision to. Of COURSE Trump fans love that creep. They WISH they could have that much money and so little regard for humanity. I don’t understand that at all either, but again it appears to be common.
I am not sure what the rainbow grunk is. Initially it was all green, then I added more colors, and wondered if I should change it into gummy bears, but I don’t think i could make anything that small read as bear-shaped if I dumped the time into trying. but this is progress, for me, since in the past I WOULD have dumped that time and had nothing of value to show for it. Which is not to say I have time to spare, now. I merely incurred less time debt.
I still haven’t fixed the broken image gallery system. I suspect that I cannot. The descriptions for how to do that, as is typical, assume I didn’t just run some automated installer years ago and then edit stuff AROUND that in order to just barely get it to work, and actually understand code or am paying someone else who does. Does this LOOK like a website that has enough going for it that its owner can afford to pay people?
I also don’t have time to keep making these dumb little comic strips. When am I going to be able to get back to my dumb big comic strip if ideas for these that seem manageable enough to try and make keep coming to me?
i was for some reason thinking of the remake of the old 1989 Capcom Ducktales NES game that i guess is itself fairly old by now, evidently having been released in 2013. I have long been of the belief that old games like that worked specifically because they had cheap graphics and text only dialog, if any.
systems and gimmicks that function in corny old low budget video games just make me uncomfortable when the graphics are high definition and voice actors are yabbering on constantly
I thought it was stupid when I first saw internet dorks hyping up the concept before it was released, but I did relent a bit maybe a year after it was released and watched a few minutes of that game and it made me uncomfortable. I have not checked on it since then or if the villains make any direct spoken acknowledgement of Scrooge trying to plunge the end of his cane into their craniums, and it may yet be some time before I do, if I do. What I know does go on is Scrooge saying nonsense about Mrs. Beakly’s baking skills while he is jumping 30 feet into the air and being chased by mummies, because one of the power-up items happens to be a cake. I can accept a dumb CAKE in a crypt in a stupid 8bit nintendo game that gets instantaneously absorbed by the protagonist with a bleep noise, but not if that protagonist starts talking about what a great cake it is. Then I wonder why a cake is there and how even an enchanted talking duck-humanoid is able to consume an entire cake that fast and actually be better off for having done so.
this attempt at a Final Fight version doesn’t quite work since I can’t draw haggar without meticulously copying the sprites and depriving them of energy with my unintentional vampirism
also clicking on that won’t make it any bigger because
the system I upload large artwork pictures to, whose code bits have NOT BEEN TOUCHED since ever, possibly jealous of my several-years inoperable “recent comments” box on the sidebar, broke down for no reason between when I started this website entry and now. All the pictures are still there but the sub-website they formerly could be uploaded to and more importantly browsed through on became just that text there. This website is so dysfunctional that it causes computer programs to get depressed and kill themselves.
Also consider that Hulk, transformed by magical gamma radiation into a being of monstrous size that common people are afraid of, is still smaller than a city mayor elected by them who presumably is too busy going to meetings and managing budgets to work out at all.
as always, it needs more refining, but is far along enough now that I was able to remove the sketch and tracing paper layers for this part which allows me to get more control over the rest of the layers since flash has an appropriately outdated interface on which losing track of numerous layers is quite easy. The next section does not involve these two dorks sharing space with each other and more importantly doesn’t have them both in front of and behind any detailed scenery that I need to break into pieces and across yet more layers so ideally that will require 3 and a half months instead of 4 to get through.
I recorded, hopefully, better voices a few weeks ago but have not had the proper mood to go into the music editing program recently to attempt to implement that or check its adequacy for implementation. I may also have said that weeks ago. I no longer have the energy to verify what I said when since I use so many stupid websites now. I try to keep this one as the most special but it tends to get the scraps, unfortunately, though these days my scraps are often more dignified than my finished pieces.
Nobody should ever talk to this serpent
the depicted dialog is simplified for brevity and exaggerated to make the orange creature seem more pathetic; the interview proposer in reality was humble and cordial about the matter and I talked too much to be understood easily so that I seemed like I was claiming to have never done anything as an artist when in fact it was recognition and a sense of validity that I worried was lacking. It just FELT like this.
I decided against this conclusion because:
I, whom this character shares many traits of, do not own a gun
I cannot draw guns well
a lot of people don’t have the background to find an implied suicide attempt of an immortal fictional character funny, and they may be better off for it.
I encountered an old nemesis while walking outside a few nights ago.
I want to ask how Norm intends to give Connecticut residents equal access to the Rush Jet but I assume his staff don’t deserve to put up with that.
I am grateful to have gotten to spend time with New Haven Connecticut’s historic first electric toilet this weekend
realizing that a dirk is essentially a dork has profoundly changed my world view.
my first experience with this was in the Batman Nintendo ES game. somebody with access to the instruction manual proclaimed the disk-like weapon that splits into 3 a “dirk.” that really isn’t what a dirk is but sure enough the manual really does call it that. which means batman is pretty much throwing dorks at his foes. imagine how close he must have come to using Burt Ward as a weapon back in the 1960s.
a few years later while playing final fantasy threex my elder brother had the hero Relm use the “sketch” attack against Hidon and totally screwed up the game, resulting in multiplicity of rare items like gem box and illumina, but more importantly HUNDREDS of dirks. which as we know MIGHT AS WELL be hundreds of dorks. think of the damage you could inflict with THAT much unrepentent corniness on your side.
players these days apparently gripe about the heroes Cyan, Gau and Umaro, but at least they have honor enough to REFUSE to use a dirk.
Sabin also doesn’t use dirks either but he also spend s a lot of time rushing bums and in most cases I consider that disreputable.
Although in this specific instance Sabin engages a foe who used to be a regularish person who was SO greedy that he transformed into a lizard, that is not always the case.
(I don’t know what chief programmer Kan Naito is talking about here, I just think the way he says the title at the start is funny)
The sega genesis game Landostoka contains, as a clue, the poemoid
What happens when dorks get dangerous?
I mean that “skeletons” is the correct answer, not that skeletons themselves make wise decisions. You solve the puzzle by ignoring all the skeletons except the one that isn’t white, then beating it up. In skeleton lore, having a dumb color makes you a dork, which is a sin against God requiring your immediate termination. Skeletons have also historically been racist. that is just history. In fact all these skeletons reveal themselves as dorks just by the way they JUMP without extra animation frames to go up stairs, but since that doesn’t come across in a screen shot I cannot for the moment effectively criticize them for that.
initially I misremembered the skeletons here as being knights possibly due to this corny line being permanently enshrined in my consciousness
and consequently referred to knight lore rather than skeleton lore.
This is important because my next point referred to the Ultimate Play The Game game “Knight Lore,” which involves no knightly deeds or insults whatsoever, only slowwwwly traversing a castle named “knightlore” which is itself pretty dorky, without even the assistance of any dirks. instead your fragile traverser becomes a werewolf who seems to be no less fragile but does waste an extra 3-6 seconds of his life and yours changing to and back after the approximate amount of time it takes to walk across five rooms. All times are relative because any moving objects apart from the protagonist in a room slows it down considerably.
this game achieved massive critical acclaim. From dorks.
I cannot confirm a rumor that the werewolf’s appearance and ill-acclimation to video games inspired Paul “TX Critter” Fusco to create ALF, I can merely start that rumor right now.
complete freedom to pick up objects and drop objects, unless touching them destroys you
COINCIDENTALLY, there is another nearly identical game called Batman that involves Batman doing the exact same thing, just in a cave. Batman no longer needs to use dorks as weapons; verily, he can’t use weapons at all and is victimized by everything, for he has become the dork.
Don’t read that. The story is that a bunch of characters you won’t see are somewhere else because batman can’t keep track of his stuff and apparently is so clever that he placed fatal duplicates of his stuff as traps for, apparently, himself, in his own cave
they DARE to make THIS the box art for such a game.
People associate disappointing licensed games with the nes, and it seems like a miracle that Batman got a good one, dorks notwithstanding, but he actually beat the simpsons and ninja turtles to point-missing nonsense by several years
1980s computer software companies were just cranking this trash out. Since Ultimate Play The Game pioneered this isometric interface amidst a crown of minimalist black-void background side-view games people were in awe of it even though the computers of that period were too wimpy to do anything interesting with it, and apart from that Ultimate Play The Game’s developers were more about abusing players than entertaining them. This was made plain when with access to more powerful Nintendo hardware and calling themselves Rare Ltd, a self-labeling improvement, I admit, rather than making a GOOD isometric adventure game they made Roger Rabbit, Wrestlemania and Battletoads instead. Also Snake Rattle n Roll which actually is isometric but I don’t known enough to hate that enough to complain about it. However they licensed Knight Lore to Jaleco who made an even worse version of the game than they did.
I can’t remember what I was talking about. Stay away from video games. They will ruin your life even if you don’t have time to play them anymore.
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10-28-2022 updating this website may not be feasible again before novemeber. do you care? somebody told me you did.
I was trying to sort out what prints I had, and saw an old picture that I thought was funny but could be improved. It wasn’t this one, but when trying to find the image file for that one I found this one first. As with that, I thought it was funny, and finally saw what was wrong with it that I couldn’t make sense of years ago: the two primary figures have different line weights. ha I know how to fix that, just make the lines thinner on the bigger character. BUT since I saw the resolution was lower than my present standard, despite being more than high enough to make an 8.5×11 inch print, and me not INTENDING to print this anyway, I redrew the whole thing, but still couldn’t be at peace with my way of using lines from years ago, and so started blending it up, and the more it changed the less what hadn’t changed still worked, and now it is a mess. And it is the only thing I worked on today. a FEW parts are better but the primary part is not. Bad bad bad.
this also reminds me
An unimportant non-player character in some dragon-warrior-looking nes (I think) video game proclaims “Good good good.” when talked at by the player, possibly after some objective has been met. I thought this was in Star Tropics but that seems not to be the case. Whatever was it?
am concerned it might be Ultima Exodus. I don’t think I have it in me to seek out all the inanity-spouting imbeciles of that Sosaria in the near future.
I last played Ultima Exodus so long ago that the blue-armored dork here is literally the first time I used the name “Elpse.”
Inexplicably a text dump of supposedly all the dialog in the game has been made, and “good good good” was not in there,
though this is almost as dorky a thing to say. Within the context of the game, surely I am too BUSY failing at saving the realm to read books. Within the context of somebody playing a game, obviously I am not reading books nor likely to any time soon if I expect to complete this game without cheating. Though I question if it is possible to play “properly” and not lose. There may be a larger message here, but I am not playing real life properly and such a message may seem like an excuse. But even trying and failing to improve one’s singular, limited skill is more productive than trying to crack NES ultimas or regular ultimas. Unfortunately I already determined that nearly ten years ago, so even learning from that I haven’t really gotten better at.
I had hoped to present this as printed art-work for the october art show i keep worrying about but not really doing anything solid to prepare for, if anything can be done at all, but it may need to be reconfigured as a horizontally oriented piece, or a thoroughly print-incompatible square, since it continually mutates. When it started it only had five characters!
if you had told me that including final fantasy auron would have made this picture take so much longer I would have believed you, but I wasn’t going to ask you about that! but his shiny belt trinkets give toejam something to look at once I finally looked up its original game and realized it is not a prankster sort who would be tripping whirloxandra (pitchfork-bearing swamp beast) on purpose, at least not without making it look like an accident. Not that anyone knows Auron has belt trinkets but he certainly looks weird enough to be accepted as having belt trinkets if you didn’t know he did. But does shining force domingo fit in here? Not really. but having domingo small on the left (where shining force gaiden’s pink clone amigo presently is) just because I thought of it late didn’t seem right since I like Shining Force more than most other video games. Maybe I will think of 12 more mouthless video game heroes and hero-adjacents that will make this setup totally dysfunctional tomorrow and that will save me from believing it can work.