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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack The issue with these appliances seems to be less that they're not secure and more that they're sentient, and malevolent. Julet Esqu posted:Guy programmed these shits. They're intentionally not following his programming. That shouldn't even be an option. He SHOULD fail his thesis. (I mean, really his thesis should be about how he invented AI, but I guess AI is no big in this universe.) yeah, this!
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amigolupus posted:Holy poo poo, how is Holbrook so bad with computers? The problem is that you're giving it way too much credit for intentionality and coherence. What happened here is that there were no problems with the code because the concept of autocorrection simply locked the concept of computer bugs in a literal cage. The vehicles of these particular metaphors are so far from their respective tenors that they can see the curvature of the Earth (figuratively).
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Going by this terrible visual metaphor, Guy's thesis only worked because he hid how buggy the entire thing was by turning blocks of code into multi-line comments. Any half-decent thesis committee would poke around the code and fail his sorry rear end for trying to submit an incomplete program that doesn't even work.
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Transmodiar posted:Classic Working Daze These both really throw into stark relief how godawful the current Working Daze art is! Miller in particular has a sort of breezy 90s clipart style that's fairly pleasant to look at. (Also presumably helps that the classic strips we've seen so far are just fairly generic office humor and not nerd_thing.txt on repeat...)
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Julet Esqu posted:
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Manuel Calavera posted:Rose is Rose there's no ñ in "habanero", you milquetoast motherfucker Transmodiar posted:CLASSIC Working Daze I think one reason classic WD seemed better initially was that it hadn't started treating Roy, the worst character in an extremely competitive field, as some sort of "breakout star" yet.
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack very kind of holbrook to take time out of his final panels to explain what the hell the setup was supposed to be when the art has utterly failed to do so
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft and the clock ticks ever closer to an Extremely Serious (but wry) storyline about the horrors of aphasia
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Hoover Dam posted:My alma mater shitcanned football in 1997, but does any university do letter jackets anymore, and does anyone wear their full sports uniforms (like cheer ones) outside game day or like the activities fair? At my high school everyone wore letter jackets and the cheer and dance teams would wear uniforms on Fridays but [I]high school[I]. College everyone just wears hoodies or track jackets with their name/number/sport on 'em. no, the Evanses have no idea what college is like and seem to think it's basically just "high school but you don't live at home, unless you do"
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Darthemed posted:Dick I'm impressed by the incredible dedication writers of the past had to always punctuating the villains' names as "Steve, the tramp" and ""Stooge" Viller".
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amigolupus posted:Maybe instead of just giving the guys she dated cards, Luann should have gone on actual dates during Valentines Day. But I guess Good Girls never go on dates ever. The Evanses have spent years and years slowly aging Luann and her peers after writing her as a 13-year-old for the first 15 or so years of the strip, and now they've gone through the rest of middle school and high school and have been in their first two years of college for the last six years, but even when they show flashes of actual age-appropriate behavior the characters always end up snapping back to acting like they're 13, Luann especially. Imagine a college sophomore (who doesn't display any of the other common cultural signs of being egregiously sheltered) ruminating about how many "Valentine's cards" she's gotten from "boys" over the years. If your matches are wet it's because your dipshit writers keep turning the hose on them, Luann! Also you shouldn't spend too much time thinking about Pru's girlfriend, real or ex or whatever--guaranteed that's just a throwaway line to remind readers that she's a lesbian and the Evanses have not put any thought into expanding this character beyond her one dimension.
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Zereth posted:So you say this man works as a All slang terms and nicknames are quarantined in double quotes to keep respectable newspaper comics readers safe from their malign influence.
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amigolupus posted:I don't think pro football teams even have cheerleaders oh, they absolutely do. and they have abysmal working conditions!
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Johnny Walker posted:Pooch Cafe here, I fixed your needlessly wordy comic strip: 
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Holbrook how do you think [autocorrect, dyslexia, the act of reading, spoken language] works?
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PetraCore posted:Who leaves mid-semester like this? She's already on the hook for the tuition. Based on some quick research into the Luann mythos (yuck), I don't think Pru is in school; she works at the Fuse and lives with Luann's parents, which is where Luann, who is in
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Calaveron posted:I hate Adam, I hate his dull daughter and his even duller home life I'm getting increasingly irritated by their constant heavy-lidded expressions!
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Darthemed posted:Dick Can't wait until we get to the classic Dick Tracy villains, like "Murder" Walker and "Crime-Doer" Jenkins and "Antagonist" Rafferty.
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Professor Wayne posted:Pickles Who? Oh, you mean your brother Leon who writes the Pickles comic strip based on you. I was confused for a minute after only having had it explained in full every day for the entire previous week.
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curtadams posted:Heart and her friends are drawn with very thick limbs. They don't just look like adults, they look like adult rugby players. Yeah, the problem is less that the art is busy and more that everyone is just big and bulky and crowding the panels. (Also they have horrible Muppet faces, but that's a separate issue.) I had criticisms of Tatulli's older-kid art--huge little-kid blob heads on stretched-out bodies never quite looked right--but it still had much more going on than this does.
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BigDave posted:Heart Of The City Good lord, those first-panel faces.
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Johnny Walker posted:Popeye's Cartoon Club is still going Didn't think it would take too long before the classic Randy Milholland overwritten dialogue started to peek out. you broke my grill posted:Everett True knows how to treat the police Hell yeah, Everett.
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Just Dan Again posted:It's been said before, but having both Les and Cayla's lives be permanently wrapped around the Martyrdom of Saint Lisa is unpleasant in a way that I don't think Batiuk fully appreciates. Grief is haunting, and there's no "right" way to grieve, but having so much of the lives of these two people devoted to the death of another feels like a bridge too far to me. Especially when one of them hardly knew the person whose death they have to constantly keep alive in their home. In strip time Lisa died over twenty years ago! It's such terrible writing--either Les should've been able to establish some emotional closure by now or the story should be about how he somehow hasn't. This bizarre middle road where everyone's lives still somehow revolve around Lisa's death in a clearly emotionally fraught way but also everybody just acts like that's normal is unsettling.
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riderchop posted:Did the user that had the wolf from It Hurts!! thinking about itself going "me smart" change their av or have they not posted in a while, just asking Hi
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riderchop posted:hi i love your av Thank you! Professor Wayne posted:Speaking of which, Mr. Boop's therapist is totally Katie from It Hurts!! right? Oh man, she totally is.
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maltesh posted:Oh man, she totally is. I'd been generally assuming she was Daria, but I didn't see a name on my readthrough. [/quote] Yeah I don't think it's literally her (not least because Daria is more likely!) but there's certainly a resemblance.
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Now I see where the Frazz guy learned how to depict human bodies in motion! Also, assuming Batiuk hasn't just completely forgotten this part (which, to be fair, is a dangerous assumption), Les is explicitly not writing the script for the new version of the Lisa's Story movie:  This is one of the few things about the largely-botched depiction of this whole process that has made even a little bit of sense, given that Les's complete incompetence as a screenwriter and unwillingness to make any changes for film bore most of the responsibility for derailing the first attempt at making the movie.
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Green Intern posted:If he's not writing it, why is he there at all? He came for the pitches, sure, but he apparently has no official input beyond that. Good loving question! Here's the in-universe answer:  Note Les pulling an obnoxious pouty face at the very first opportunity. For some reason this attitude (which hasn't abated!) has not caused Mason to react in basically any way--not halting the project, not telling Les to gently caress off because he signed away his rights and all of these opportunities for input are only being extended as a courtesy, not even changing anything in light of Les's complaints. The non-Les characters aren't really to blame here, even--Batiuk seems to have no idea how any element of the Hollywood process actually works or any idea what story he's actually trying to tell. (Les clearly and thoroughly sucks poo poo and always has, which for Batiuk is an unusually consistent, if perhaps unintended, display of characterization.)
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens If you're recording videos why would there be a signal delay. If you're trying to host a livestream q&a from space, why the gently caress would you do that, because of the signal delay. Please for the love of god Holbrook think for one second before you slap this poo poo down or I will have an aneurysm Green Intern posted:Do you think Les is getting paid for this? Does he have a credit as a Character Consultant or something? Like I realize that he could easily just be classified as a Producer and just be a completely extraneous name attached to the credits, but it's just so weird that his official role is apparently "Les Moore." Can't wait till we see him hold out for Executive Guy Whose Wife Died. (The characters are ultimately to be slightly excused for their obsessive focus on the utterly unremarkable death twenty years ago of an utterly unremarkable woman, since the endless recurrence of this story is all transparently Batiuk channeling his inability to match the high of 2007 by making anyone continue to care about the spectacle of a comic strip character dying of cancer.)
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Green Intern posted:Someone tell me, because I am not looking back at however many Funky strips to find out: is there any reason Mason’s girlfriend (wife?) is so incredibly jealous of all the women doing reads with him? She was initially introduced (many years ago, in the strip's first incarnation) as "the most popular girl in high school", and despite several decades having passed is often lazily reduced back to the trappings of that, because Batiuk is a hack writer who sucks.
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Still holding out hope for a good outcome for the forums (user takeover? viable offsite replacement?), but regardless of what happens this is as good a time as any to express my appreciation for this delightful little community. Thanks especially to all the people who do the tedious work of actually posting comics so cranks like me can show up and yell about them. Love you all.
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Johnny Walker posted:Popeye's Cartoon Club All of Randy Milholland's S*P characters speak in the exact same wordy-snarky register and it's a bit uncanny seeing all the Popeye characters do it too!
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Gnoman posted:Most of his characters are assholes, and Popeye lends itself well to rear end in a top hat characters. Sure, the problem is that they're all the exact same kind of rear end in a top hat.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I like that from roughly the thighs down, Madi is a Tetsuya Nomura character.
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Zereth posted:I'd like to remind everybody that when this storyline started, the actor guy explicitly stated the deal was that Les wouldn't have any control this time so he couldn't torpedo it like he did the last attempt at adapting the book. Yes and no--I posted the two most relevant strips here before but I'll drop them again. He's not allowed to write the script again, because that's what he specifically ruined last time, but for some reason he gets intimate input on literally everything else. His input to this point has ranged from pouty doubt to outright antagonism.
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Zereth posted:Batuik has a pretty shaky grasp on how hollywood works. And, uh, most other things, as I recall. Yeah, this was really remarkable! In the real world a "kill fee" is what a writer gets paid when their work isn't used, through no fault of their own (usually in the context of a freelancer being commissioned to write an article that is then canceled by the editor or publication or whoever). In Batiuk-Hollywood, however, it was a clause in Les's contract that meant that he could kill the production at any time he liked--for, if not "any reason", then at least a list of reasons that included "having to make any changes at all during the process of turning a book into a screenplay is damaging my pure, precious writerly psyche"--and somehow collect money for it. To be fair, in an insane world where this sort of clause exists, Mason is at least making the correct decision by forbidding Les from having anything to do with the scriptwriting process.
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readingatwork posted:rear end in a top hat Charlie Brown beats sad sack Charlie Brown every time. Yes! One of the many reasons I appreciate this thread is because it's where I was exposed to early Peanuts--the first five years are so are brilliant, so much better than the next 45. Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons I still don't like the art or most of the dialogue, but I can certainly respect insane poo poo like this. FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Didn't this (mer-)idiot just get a professorship at an Earth university or something?
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Oh yeah, the green kid. Holbrook really leaning into the body horror today, huh.
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I'm just shocked that a Luann story arc is coming to something resembling an actual conclusion, instead of suddenly lurching off into a couple weeks of the Adventures of Knute before resolving anything.riderchop posted:Overboard Protip: "beat the heat" by not wearing full suits of quilted pajamas when it's hot out EasyEW posted:Saint Lisa: The Movie Then maybe don't sit there watching every second of it, you rear end in a top hat!
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