@Bravo- I'm uploading the new ones now. No script, but I'm talking better and have a slightly better camera position. Still not the best but way better than it was!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9Uw8TwOps&list=PLG4b8RVwdVQr1Vm2dqW0m8BoOuB_L7DAf&index=6

@Ironscarf and lba-
Brilliant suggestions. Please write detailed proposals along those lines. I'm serious here.

It's better than it was? Yeek. Tripod. You have to get a tripod. I don't know anything about hussars, but the soles of your shoes are really nice.

And storyboard, notes, cue cards, anything. Still too many ahs and pauses. This isn't a Quackcast for heaven's sake.

:P
It's informal.

I'm not re-doing all the vids again, but future ones will have a better angle.

There is this great video I saw on Patreon about how to do a promo video. Really opened up my eyes on what I need to do before I put something together that'd I be willing to put my face on.

Here I am the author of some the worst unreadable drek and I would be ashamed to be attached to what you put up on YouTube.


I have determined that my digital camera hates me. Either that or I totally buggered the settings. Everything no matter what lighting comes out completely washed out. I put it on auto and still overexposed. I'm too much out of practice I guess, I haven't done anything in over seven months.

Maybe you can do videos about uniforms yourself, Ozone. And maybe get a Patreon account just in case you get a ton of subscribers. :)

ozoneocean wrote:
@Ironscarf and lba-
Brilliant suggestions. Please write detailed proposals along those lines. I'm serious here.

It wasn't actually a suggestion, just a statement of what I've learned working in website assessment. It just seemed appropriate to add as lba hadn't mentioned it. If you're looking to shoot the messenger, that's definitely the guy to aim at!

I FINALLY finished the prologue for the comic I've been talking about for forever. I have so many half-finished comics sitting on my hard drive, this is the first time I've actually finished an issue in years. Not very impressive compared to all the people around here who update regularly for months/years at a time, but I'm still feeling pretty darn accomplished.

Yay! New Star Trek! Even better, they're using the starship design Gene Roenberry had planned on using for Star Trek Phase II (it's the show he was never able to get off the ground). And it's going to have a female captain. My hope is that there's not so much technobabble in it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHUOty8-Ty0

Ironscarf wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:
@Ironscarf and lba-
Brilliant suggestions. Please write detailed proposals along those lines. I'm serious here.

It wasn't actually a suggestion, just a statement of what I've learned working in website assessment. It just seemed appropriate to add as lba hadn't mentioned it. If you're looking to shoot the messenger, that's definitely the guy to aim at!

I just kind of assumed that'd be something you'd do along with that sort of site re-structuring and didn't think about it. To be honest, I had kind of assumed DD already had a mobile version. I never checked.

I can write a proposal, but like Banes kinda pointed out, it's probably a major undertaking. I'm not a well-versed enough code monkey to know precisely how much misery I'm proposing to dump on someone. I'm pretty swamped with work at the shop right now, but I can slowly figure out how to explain what I'm thinking if you really want me to.

@Hippie- Finally! I remember all the designs you went through for her rocket!

@ironscarf- With a mobile site it will need to be a total redesign. Every single part of the site will need a new mobile shaped version…
OR we can do what Shadowmyst suggested and make all of DD modular and adaptable so it can resize to ANY screen size.
That is complex, but probably the best way to go.

@lba- The thing is with DD now that we all manage it pretty much, I just have the ultimate control switches, but if big ideas need doing and people have them them they can work on them. I'm just a regular bum with all the same commitments and busyness as the rest of you guys.

You DON'T need to write a super detailed thing, I didn't word that well enough.
But a general description of how things should function would be good. A document that we can easily expand from. -Rather than broad ideas or suggestions I mean, instead you can write a “roadmap” explaining how things should go.

Like say, how I'd explain a nuclear reactor:
Rods of fissionable material naturally produce heat as they radioactively decay. They're put in a cooling fluid to slow down their reaction and remove the heat. That heat is transferred to water, which turns to steam and drives a series of turbines. That kinetic energy is used to generate electricity.

HAHAHA, perhaps not quite THAT simplistic, but I hope you get the idea :D

Schools in my district are now back in session and I am overwhelmingly happy to be working with children again. They bring with them this amazing energy that rejuvenates and adds positive energy to my life.

Last Tuesday, I subbed for a Spanish class at my old high school. It turns out that the the teacher was in a major car accident that occured at the local freeway that morning. Today I signed up for a job with a kindergarten class (currently on my lunch break). The kids are all so bright and adorable.

In order to balance out my other job on base, I now work from 0300-1130 in the morning. I really love the early morning day shift, get to work while the world is still sleeping, no traffic on the highway or on base, clock out of my full 8 hour day before lunch time. It is pretty spectacular.

kawaiidaigakusei wrote:


In order to balance out my other job on base, I now work from 0300-1130 in the morning. I really love the early morning day shift, get to work while the world is still sleeping, no traffic on the highway or on base, clock out of my full 8 hour day before lunch time. It is pretty spectacular.

And I have a full 8 hour day before breakfast. I like seeing the sunrise everyday.

@Lonne: most if not all of the Star Trek Phase II scripts were used in Star Trek: The Next-generation so in a way we've already seen what that series would have been. But this series will focus on an event that was mentioned in the original series that happened before Kirk took command of Enterprise? And remain within canon? Lots to play around with and after seeing the loving recreation of the original series in ST: Enterprise two part mirror universe episode it'd be nice to see them adhere to that design style.

Good on you Kawaii! You sound so busy. :D

It's Friday here in my part of the world. When I finally get home for the evening today I'm thawing out a peperoni pizza, adding juicy kalamatta olives to it and cooking it till it's crispy. Then I'm gonna watch a fun anime movie.
I did that last week and it was glorious. Best thing to do when You're feeling a little flat.

Loved doing that back in the ‘90s- going over to a friend’s place, eating a tasty peperoni pizza, renting some anime vids and some games… Joy!
We used to have Streetfighter, Killer Instinct, Bomberman, and Goldeneye tournaments. Bomberman was the best.

I figured I was waiting too long to start on any projects, so I figured hey, remember that comic you started 6 years ago and never drew a second comic for? What if you suddenly just started working on that again? Hilarious, I'd update with a “Sorry for the lateness of the second page” and then start updating it regularly.

EXCEPT I APPARENTLY DELETED IT COMPELTELY A WHILE BACK. Something about staring at that one page of shame that never had a followup I guess got to me. Really ruins that joke, nice job pissing in my corn flakes, past me.

Whatever, I'll just remake it anyway.

Heeey croty! Pivit Comics or Portal Shark? I can delete what we have listed in the admin section so you can work on i again.

I just took possession of a lovely suit of satin silk striped pyjamas AND a silk dressing gown!
I'm a gentleman now…

I haven't had actual pyjamas or a dressing gown for many, many, many years. I can't stand to wear much besides undies and a T-shirt in bed in winter and just throw on clothes when I get out of bed.
But now I will dress in sartorial bedroom style when I get out of bed… at least on the weekends.

ozoneocean wrote:
I just took possession of a lovely suit of satin silk striped pyjamas AND a silk dressing gown!
I'm a gentleman now…

I haven't had actual pyjamas or a dressing gown for many, many, many years. I can't stand to wear much besides undies and a T-shirt in bed in winter and just throw on clothes when I get out of bed.
But now I will dress in sartorial bedroom style when I get out of bed… at least on the weekends.

I'm the same way! I own pajama pants for the sole reason that I live with other people and can't just walk around pantsless until I feel like getting dressed.

(P.S. What do people who call pants “trousers” call pajama pants? Pajama trousers seems really silly.)

HippieVan wrote:

(P.S. What do people who call pants “trousers” call pajama pants? Pajama trousers seems really silly.)

I call them PJ bottoms. #asyouwill

HippieVan wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:
I just took possession of a lovely suit of satin silk striped pyjamas AND a silk dressing gown!
I'm a gentleman now…

I haven't had actual pyjamas or a dressing gown for many, many, many years. I can't stand to wear much besides undies and a T-shirt in bed in winter and just throw on clothes when I get out of bed.
But now I will dress in sartorial bedroom style when I get out of bed… at least on the weekends.

I'm the same way! I own pajama pants for the sole reason that I live with other people and can't just walk around pantsless until I feel like getting dressed.

(P.S. What do people who call pants “trousers” call pajama pants? Pajama trousers seems really silly.)

Depends. Who's wearing them? I mean, in your case they're still pants. Only men wear trousers.

The quintessential British term I am told is “jim-jams ”

I saw Patrick Stewart speak and he used that term to a mostly American audience and we were clueless.

In Britain “pants” are ONLY underpants. Long pants are trousers, it doesn't matter whether it's for men or women.
Jimjams is a cute term that parents use when talking to their kids. Sir Pat was just being silly :)

I thing Ayes has the right of it, they're PJ bottoms.
But I LOVE to call everything trousers because that's such a funny word and it's even funnier when you use it awkwardly for stuff that it doesn't fit with… like pyjama trousers ^_^

Stockings, tights, thermals, leggings, wetsuits etc, all that can be made better by trouserfying them!

ozoneocean wrote:
In Britain “pants” are ONLY underpants. Long pants are trousers, it doesn't matter whether it's for men or women.
Jimjams is a cute term that parents use when talking to their kids. Sir Pat was just being silly :)

He was quite proud of having designed the jim-jams he had worn in Star Trek TNG. He was amazed that we Americans had no idea what he was talking about until someone suggested pajamas.

And Shatner had the last laugh as he said he didn't know anything about it as he doesn't wear anything to bed.

The whole exchange was wonderful silliness. :-D

The Shat is far too sexy for PJ bottoms… XD

Great. The developers of the game Subnautica put out a new update and some new equipment… It's called the “Pressure Re-Active Waterproof Nanosuit”. In other words, it's the P.R.A.W.N. suit. Suddenly I feel like the main course of a seafood meal.

I kinda wonder though… would Ozone look good piloting this thing (as opposed to wearing it… not sure why it's still called a suit if it's not worn)?

http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Prawn_Suit

No way man! My mecha suit would have to look MUCH cooler than that! And it'd have to have a cooler nickname too. :(
“The prawn man” was a name for a guy who could suck his own… ewwwwww T_T

Speaking of the unspeakable, there is something I came across (absolutely NO pun intended at all), on a porn site (not prawn site BTW), quite by accident I'll have you know.
Anyway, I was shockingly reminded of that nasty comic “Craving Control” everyone used to love and fetishise over on this site.

I was going to link to the vid, because it's quite safe for work, but the rest of the site that it is on though is definitely NOT, so no links for you!

I will describe it though:
A reasonably attractive woman in hotpants and a boobtube who is slim apart from her very round belly (probably pregnant), is voraciously chowing down plate after plate of food forced at her by too chubby women.

Obviously that gets people off, probably those same strange people who liked Craving Control. I just had to share that here because of that connection. :)
I had no idea such things existed.

Rule #34: if it exists, there is porn of it.

Infinite probability; infinite diversity of fetishism.

True, which is the main reason I didn't put up a link, The other fetishes were much worse. People are awful.

Speaking of awful people; celebs in the news. Anything involving a celeb is pointless to me.

This morning I woke with such a sore throat that I couldn't talk. My son was just at the doctor's yesterday and was diagnosed with a sinus infection. It began with a sore throat.

Regardless, I have to talk at work and I can't today. So I asked my daughter to call and let them know they needed to find someone to cover my shift this evening. She did, and afterward remarked that they seemed really confused, like they didn't know who I was.

So after a nap, I made an appointment for next week and when I was checking the calendar I saw I wasn't scheduled for work tonight.

Confusion explained, illness confirmed.

Speaking of awful people; celebs in the news. Anything involving a celeb is pointless to me.

So much this.

ayesinback wrote:

So I asked my daughter to call and let them know they needed to find someone to cover my shift this evening. She did, and afterward remarked that they seemed really confused, like they didn't know who I was.

So after a nap, I made an appointment for next week and when I was checking the calendar I saw I wasn't scheduled for work tonight.

Confusion explained, illness confirmed.

Whew! I was afraid you were going to find out your entire job was an hallucination, or some elaborate ruse, like in Total Recall. I feared what was coming next: A recording of yourself saying “ayesinback…get yo' ass to Mars.”

sorry to hear of your illness - hope it doesn't hit you too hard.