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hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

I'm not a prolific editor, or even a great one, but while we're posting edits, I must say I'm still proud of this one from the last year:

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hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

rodbeard posted:

Crichton was a bitter hateful anti-intellectual, so I'm willing to bet in the original novel, you were supposed to hate the little girl too.

You were, but for a different reason: see, in the book, the boy is the computer hacker and the girl is there for him (and by extension, the reader) to get annoyed at for not understanding the boy's inner monologue which states basically "THERE ARE RAPTORS THERE, STOP MAKING NOISE, I HAVE A loving PLAN" and of course a good old dose of "WOMEN AMIRITE" because in the middle of being pursued by loving raptors she has to pee.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Samurai Sanders posted:

Any idea what study this is referring to?

edit: maybe I'm giving it too much credit assuming it is referring to ANY study, even an awful one.
I want to say that there was a talking point from misinterpretation of actual studies of "Most sea ice in 16 years, suck it libs!" from last year and then they just ran it through the talking point izer again, adding a generation of fuzz on top, like a bad VHS copy---from "if sea ice, then why climate change" to "no change, suck it some more" (and added another year on top because 2014 isn't 2013.)


VVVVV Right, that. I just seem to remember "16 years" being a specific reference to a right-wing sea ice talking point.

hexwren fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 7, 2014

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

lowercase16 posted:

I recommend the book The Benghazi Hoax. It's fairly short and it breaks down the events in Benghazi and the subsequent attmpts by Republicans to make politcal hay out of the tragedy into a really easy to follow timeline. And it's packed full of footnotes. Two or three per paragraph. So if you're reading some of the poo poo Republicans have said and you literally cannot believe they said that, you can look up the source.

It gets a little partisan name call-y at times, but you can hardly blame the authors for getting upset. And it's only a buck for the Kindle version.

The one-star reviews on that page are amazing.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Shadowed Bacon posted:


Still not as bad as the Ebert one, but still bad. Remember when Apple ruined live concerts somehow? sereioulsy :wtc:, does Rall think the artist sells the song to Apple for $0.99, and Apple makes all the profit?

Actually, I've just been reading about this in David Byrne's "How Music Works", where he goes over the breakdown of who gets what money from record sales in various formats. Without getting into weird stuff like the difference between performance royalties and mechanicals, the short version is that Apple gets 30% of a sale off the top, and the artists are generally left with the traditional 14% royalty rate, even though digital distribution means that they should be able to argue for more. But record companies are still fuckers. Apple's not totally guilty, but they're pretty complicit.

Though having typed all that, I'm realizing you may know all that already. Also I'm tired. Sorry.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Jedit posted:

Not only does Apple demand a 30% cut for distributing, they also mandate that people cannot sell anything distributed by them anywhere else for less.

That I was not aware of. Those fuckers.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

The Ape of Naples posted:

Is he implying that those are contradictory statements?

Yes, because "terror" implies elaborate plots, not "some guys flipping their poo poo."

Shrug?

e: Oh, hey, Zippy got political. Thanks Wanamingo of the comic strip thread -

hexwren fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jan 11, 2014

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Samurai Sanders posted:

Is there any particular reason that he died now, when he's been in a coma for so long? Did they decide to pull the plug now for some reason?

He apparently had renal failure on the 1st and died earlier today.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Domattee posted:

It's going to be a pretty heavy and expensive grate.

I can imagine that it wouldn't actually reduce bird fatalities either with smaller birds deciding that the grates make great nesting places and throwing their chicks into the blades
EDIT: And eagles would still fly into the grates and kill themselves on those

A grate the size of an entire office building.

You don't really grasp how huge those windmills are until you end up in traffic (in my case, on a motorcycle) alongside an eighteen-wheeler hauling one blade for one of those things. It's longer than a city bus and about as wide. When it had to turn left at a light to get onto the service road to enter the interstate, it had to go to the far right lane to start out and literally blocked the entire eight lanes of intersection as it passed through. I popped the visor up on my helmet and just gawked.

VitalSigns posted:

Nuclear power needs to be in every DnD thread's Things We Can't Handle list.

I keep forgetting this thread is in DnD. I'm generally of the mindset that I just don't go to DnD because politics aaaaaaaaaa I'm just a drummer, I'm going back to NMD where it's safe. But I like cartoons.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

euphronius posted:

Oh god if Hillary is President we will be hearing about Benghazi until 2024.

Nah, they'll invent or find some other thing to blow out of proportion. If this thread existed in 1993, we'd be wondering when we'd hear the end of Whitewater. (Answer: when Bill got his pole smoked)

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

colonel_korn posted:

Rob Tornoe (of Joe Paterno getting kicked out of Heaven fame) had a good take on it.



Did they not watch that last play before that interview happened? I can understand the guy being angry.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Mellow Seas posted:

I know he probably thinks it's compassionate or whatever, but the way that Allie always draws unemployed people as frowning, colorless husks who can't take their eyes off the ground seems kind of dehumanizing to me.

To be fair, we do feel pretty :smith: a lot of the time.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

This is literally all I could see from that cartoon:

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Rebochan posted:

10

"You must be at least 35 to get this cartoon" = I have failed as an artist!

I'll bite. I'm 32. What the gently caress is going on here?

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Chantilly Say posted:

Golf is a boring, wasteful, and terrible pastime. Miniature golf, on the other hand, is amazing, and more places should have it and let you drink and smoke on the course.

I was about to say literally this. Miniature golf needs to make a comeback. We've got technology now! Put LEDs in the windmills!

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

What is the field supposed to say? I know the top line says NATO, but the way it looks, it says
NA
OT

quote:



Uh, I think I need some context here, because otherwise, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this one.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

carry on then posted:

I think it's NATO written both ways.

HAIL OTAN

I still don't get it.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

JaggerMcDagger posted:


I didn't edit the text in this one because the message is so great!

Take a moment and think about 1969's music scene. The hippies of `67 finally control their destiny, the Beatles are breaking up, but putting out Abbey Road, Woodstock and Altamont are the high-water mark, where the revolution falters and becomes the introspection of the 70s singer-songwriter...album-wise, we have Aoxomoxoa, Trout Mask Replica, Led Zeppelin I and II, The Gilded Palace of Sin, Let it Bleed, Songs From A Room, Arthur, Tommy, Hot Buttered Soul, Nashville Skyline, Odessa, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, THREE CREEDENCE FULL-LENGTHS...

...then remember what the biggest selling single of the year was.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Fulchrum posted:

My favourite is always the people who bring up Kanye West being an egotistical idiot as proof that music today is trash. Because Elvis and the Beatles never said anything controversial or self aggrandizing.

The word I think they're looking for there is "uppity."

e:

The Ape of Naples posted:

1969 was an insane year all around and I wonder what it was like to live through it.

I'm tempted to think it's just as insane as being alive right now, but for different reasons.

hexwren fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Feb 9, 2014

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Warcabbit posted:

I still maintain that is one of the best bubblegum pop songs ever. It's pure, got a good hook, catchy, and fun. It's not Houses of the Holy, but it stood the test of time pretty well, honestly.

I know this is a few pages back, but I totally agree. As pop songwriting goes, it's a seminar. It's just not what you generally associate with the music of that year. It's often the losers that get to write the pop music history, not the winners.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

I just slept for like twelve hours because of the work-week, then napped a bit more with pills in my system to try and get rid of this migraine, and then I start catching up on my threads and I get the terrors of Australia. Ugh. Maybe I should have gone back to bed. :smithicide:

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

crowfeathers posted:

At first I couldn't tell if this was an edit. So good job.

Old joke, but, of course it's an edit. It doesn't mention Jonathan Pollard.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008




Wait, poo poo. Wrong thread for Dobson edits. It's reflex at this point.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

cafel posted:

Of course the real chilling part is how it's a reminder that every person dies alone and once you're gone the core of who you are fades away and all that's left are distorted memories and views of you.

You motherfucker, I was about to try to go to bed. Welp, no sleep for me, too terrified of non-existence.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

vyelkin posted:

MacKay is boldly tackling the big issues:



For context, Ontario is increasing distracted driving fines through a judicial order from the Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, given that the Insurance Board of Canada says that distracted driving now kills more Ontarians than drunk driving.

Just makes me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txoCOebILZk

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008


Definitely agree, easiest good cartoon ever, but I'm telling you now that in probably a day or two we're going to start getting cartoons where the President is criticized for cutting the defense budget while WAR IS WAGED IN EUROPE. (Ugh, this Ukraine mess is giving me agita.)

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Sandpuppy posted:

The Destruction of an Arm at the Zoo's Chimpanzee Enclosure.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

The Wizard of Oz posted:

How could they rip off his meme, everyone knows that the definition of a meme is something only one person does. Now look at these shameless plagiarists, stealing from Ted Rall:



As a FOR this makes me sick.

Because of the conversation, I read that one circle as FRIENDSHIP FOR RALL.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Internet Webguy posted:

2
Again, what?

Man, Gonzaga as a Cinderella school is so ten years ago. Now they're just consistently one or two and done.

Also, Liechtenstein as the #2 seed? Come on, man.

hexwren fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 16, 2014

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

I can see where you're coming from (stalagmite), but, yeah. Not a classy pick, dude, sorry.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

It's in last year's OP.

e: VVV Yeah, I was planning on linking it, but...archives. Maybe we'll be able to search them properly?

(we will never be able to properly search archives)

hexwren fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 8, 2014

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Darkman Fanpage posted:

C+O2+L= COOL
e=mc HAMMER

Pretty much tells you all you need to know about the amount of contempt Rameriz has for the field of science in general.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

VitalSigns posted:

Maybe I didn't understand that comic...is he bitching that once their slaves were freed, the Cherokee had to treat them like anyone else in their community rather getting to just throw the freedmen out with the clothes on their backs now that they don't get to own them anymore?

Because I thought TwoBulls usually had good opinions...am I A Bad Cartooning this? Someone help :(

I think the thing is that descendents of freedmen were formerly able to claim tribal membership, while the tribe itself wants to make membership based solely on blood relation, and that a forthcoming judicial decision will back the tribe's (and Marty's) opinion, or make it so non-blood-relations can remain in the tribe, thus reducing citizenship in value in their eyes to a wad of paperwork.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Nessus posted:

I think Two Bulls is summarizing the issue and is implying this is an rear end in a top hat thing for the Cherokees to do, and that (in his opinion) they are in the wrong on the matter. I don't know the facts but it seems to be An Informative Cartoon.

See, I took it as him backing the Cherokee stance.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

zoux posted:

She's right though.

All of a sudden Africa is a problem because some women there are now being affected in a way that bougie white women in America can identify with. Thousands of African women have been raped and murdered and hundreds of thousands have been displaced (so yeah no Western-style education for them either) in the CAR since 2012 but I bet you most of the #bringourgirlsback people even know there is such a thing as the Central African Republic.

So what is middle-class America supposed to do, though? Obviously in a perfect world, they'd be way more tuned in to what's going on outside their HOA, but if the pushback from picking up on one story thread that's made it through the gates of media is that they're bad and wrong for not being aware of more of what goes on, that would seem to me to be counterproductive. People need to be invested in one social issue before they can be invested in many social issues.

e: basically, you're going to have middle-class Americans involved in one or more social issues or in none at all, and I'd prefer the former.

hexwren fucked around with this message at 18:14 on May 13, 2014

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

zoux posted:

Short of destroying neo-colonialism which thrives on the exploitation of the labor and resources of the developing world that causes the lion's share of problems there, there's not much they can do. The issue I have here is that the Boko Haram kidnappings are ostensibly a solvable problem. It's a local, small time African problem that Western democracies can easily leverage their diplomatic influence to reach an outcome. It's not going to take any real sacrifice from anyone outside of Nigeria, and so when this problem is fixed, the women are found and freed, then the Western world will pat itself on the back and say "good job us" while all of the deeply systemic problems affecting Africa will remain and be cheerfully ignored by the rest of the world, because actually fixing Africa's problems would require massive sacrifice on the part of the rest of the world.

That's actually a pretty reasonable response. I can't say I'm happy that, yes, when this is over, it will result in back-patting and continued ignorance and all that, but I definitely agree with your conclusion---and the fact that there's basically no out for people not in (political or economic) power already (as usual)...well, that's just depressing. (also as usual)

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

forbidden lesbian posted:

You pretty much did, you know.

That's the joke.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Ammat The Ankh posted:



Someone posted this in the webcomics thread. No idea what the context is, but I think it belongs here.

It's an April Fools' strip for a comic that I end up scrolling past every time it gets posted, since it seems to consist solely of furries yelling incomprehensible medieval-ish dialogue and having swordfights. The guy who posted it posted a bunch of this guy's April Fools' strips in a row to try and simulate a thunt-style breakdown, but it didn't really work.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Erenthal posted:

That lumpy torture porn Goblins comic guy finally snapped? Haven't thought about that one for ages, since the YCS-threads.

Oh, yeah. I don't want to derail too hard, if you want the full saga, check the Terrible Webcomics Thread---this is the short version. In February, he missed an update. Then, radio silence. Then, a promise that there would be an update about the update. Then a month goes by. It is assumed that Thunt is Dead. Then Thunt comes back saying he's going to update his blog. And he doesn't, for another month. Obviously this is because he's dead. He ends up posting two incredibly whiny screeds and one incredibly deranged piece of feeeeeeelings art. The first screed ends up only on his internal forums and is mostly about 'ugh these bitches on twitter calling me out for saying I'm fetishizing rape and then getting uppity when I sic my fanbase on them, I didn't really MEAN to be an awful person'. The second one, entitled "I Quit", is up on the front page of the site and is a Randian nightmare of "I'M SAD" and "I DON'T DO THIS COMIC FOR YOU (even though your kickstarter money bought me a goddamn house)" that goes on for like 8000 words and includes the personification of guilt in the form of Darth Vader riding a mythological laserbeast.

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hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Things the thread can't handle: Things that got posted three pages ago.

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