I Am The 1337 Master
Anyone else see how quickly this Modest Medusa thing just took off? I've actually never seen someone's comic get that popular that fast. It occasionally happens with features, yes but not usually at this level.

It's interesting to me.

It's unheard of for such a small comic to rise so quickly. Googleing the comic I found that the author is a colourist for some other comic, that may have helped. He also seems to be a bit of a manic plugger on various websites, including craigslist.

Also, I WAS READING THIS COMIC BEFORE IT WAS COOL!
And I only clicked on it after the author posted a story in the forums about him pooping his pants.

I had fun last night. Just me the wife, and another couple out at this martini lounge. I had two drinks, we sat around for about 4 hours. It was great. the sad part is we were all old and were ready to leave at 9:30.

one of my best birthdays in a while, but mostly due to work not having me in town on it. and it's one of the first to fall on a weekend in several years.
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@leet, start your own sisterless band.

research, research, research…

Now I'm looking up types of hammers and preparing to start practicing drawing horses… how fun :P

BffSatan
It's unheard of for such a small comic to rise so quickly. Googleing the comic I found that the author is a colourist for some other comic, that may have helped. He also seems to be a bit of a manic plugger on various websites, including craigslist.

Also, I WAS READING THIS COMIC BEFORE IT WAS COOL!
And I only clicked on it after the author posted a story in the forums about him pooping his pants.

We don't usually see such big jumps unless someone is running a successful ad campaign or has been plugged by someone really big. (Last Place Comics did break the top 10 by having one of his comics made popular on Digg, I think.) I don't know if he's bought any ads, but Googling the comic doesn't turn up any “high traffic” links or reviews that coincide with the jump, so I'd suspect it's ads or a high-profile plug. He's taking advantage of all the social media stuff he can, so that must be paying off in some way, but I admit I'm a little curious about where the sudden traffic came from. It doesn't seem like facebook or anything would quite be responsible for that, not suddenly.

Anyway congrats to him. :] It's nice to see the top 10 get a shakeup, and he's working hard to get the comic noticed.

ozoneocean
Well, thankfully I seem to have come to the end of a marathon migraine session.
I went to bed early on Friday night and had a beautiful 14 hour sleep. Woke up on Saturday morning nice and refreshed…

[and then stuff about Nasty migraines!}

not to haha on the headache horrors — horrible stuff — but I'm guessing that I was writing about a very annoying laugh when you were beginning to clock in your 14 hours of sleep. (14?!! You don't go by halves, huh?)

I've had a weekend of irony. Maybe more than “a” weekend.

sigh

rokulily
sigh

Awww.

My mom trusts me way too much…-_- It's making me feel even worse than if she did realize i'm lying.

Why are lying to her?

ayesinback

ozoneocean

not to haha on the headache horrors — horrible stuff — but I'm guessing that I was writing about a very annoying laugh when you were beginning to clock in your 14 hours of sleep. (14?!! You don't go by halves, huh?)

You psychicly killed me with your deadly laughter story! >_<

I just wrote a massive essay about how Genejoke gets slaughtered by a rabbit dropping… That was fun. ^_^
Writing can be just SO fun sometimes.

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Gah, my head is still not in order… Take a long time to get all those medications out of the brain.

Warpedwenger
Why are lying to her?

So i dun get in trouble

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My bank angers me so much…there's a fee for every. little. fucking. thing. and i'm so tired of it. Like i was trying to withdraw 10$ of this “rewards” program “free trial period” and do you know what they charged me? 40 fucking dollars!! Are you kidding me? I got it taken off but jesus christ i didn't see that disclaimer anywhere.

I also hate how they hide fees in wording. I read over this essay long page 5 times and still couldn't tell if they were going to actually charge me or even how much. It was like DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER and i finally learn never to trust them.

Wells fargo sucks ass.

On a positive note that christian seller who put all the psalms in his item description(yes the one i was kind of making fun of, i'm so nice) gave me a really nice price on a rare hat. :)

I sat up all night animating and messing around in flash with this.

I set an alarm for 8pm which was only two and a half hours away but I slept past it and now Im late for college. Ive just missed graphic design and woodwork.

ozoneocean
You psychicly killed me with your deadly laughter story! >_<

I just wrote a massive essay about how Genejoke gets slaughtered by a rabbit dropping… That was fun. ^_^

Meh - the story was a cautionary tale of what Could happen due to sleep deprivation, and apparently You were the psychic one, clocking in all those sleep hours.

And now Genejoke knows to be wary whilst gardening — just can't tell when there are airborne bunnies up to no good (truly an epic story :) )

@skullbie
It seems like you and your mother have an uncommonly good relationship

Go see SAME's flash animation!

HERE!!!

Just showing you how to plug, SAME.


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I played Castle Crashers last night. It was an awfully fun time.

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I also have determined my list of to do this week that seems to be the SAME list I make every vacation I get:

1. Rewrite Infection (a novella I wrote that I want to be a novel)
2. Make an album of demos
3. Update a comic
4. Get off the computer
5. Change my life

As usual none of these will happen.

research research research…

it's funny how two documentaries I found on youtube on the same topic share a lot of scenes. I always thought stock footage meant old films, not modern 3d renderings of battles and costumed scenes. Now I'm stuck wondering whether show #1 took these from show #2, or was it the other way around.

Still, I have mostly finished the design of the main character in the graphic novel project (just couple of tweaks here and there, for example, what kind of boots should I give her?) and been making random doodles of clothing and other stuff.

So it looks like the next few days will consist out of sketching and watching and making notes and so on… And I have to find time to draw couple more short ones.

This research is turning into serious business, but I want this thing to be the best looking book by me so far :D

Damn, even my PC caught the virus! Took me six hours to catch that sucker and get everything running properly again - not that I know what I'm doing, I just pretend my computer is a person and try to prop up it's ego..

I ran a central heating system like that in a rented flat for years. Nobody else could make it work: me and that old boiler had an understanding.

Aurora Borealis
research research research…

it's funny how two documentaries I found on youtube on the same topic share a lot of scenes. I always thought stock footage meant old films, not modern 3d renderings of battles and costumed scenes. Now I'm stuck wondering whether show #1 took these from show #2, or was it the other way around.

if it's on US military, we actually give footage to people doing authorized documentaries. it's basically political censoring. it makes sure that nothing makes us look bad. so everyone gets a stock set of footage.

skullbee
Wellsfargo sucks

my wife had wells fargo for a while. the final straw with them was when her debit card got stolen and was charged several times for over a thousand dollars. every time the card was charged, they charged her a 40 dollar over draft fee.
when we found out it was stolen, we contacted the bank, and they paid back all the stolen money but tried to make us pay the over draft fees. we canceled the bank account, and after several months got them to drop the over draft fees. they was dumb.

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It was nice this weekend, so why is it snowing now?

Ironscarf
Damn, even my PC caught the virus! Took me six hours to catch that sucker and get everything running properly again - not that I know what I'm doing, I just pretend my computer is a person and try to prop up it's ego..

You know what would really have helped? Shamanic healer. Probably caused it in the first place after psychically realizing you were dissing him earlier.
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I have so much work to do, but I just got a game I've wanted for a really, REALLY long time. By “a long time” I mean “over a decade,” it's haaaaunting me D:

Ironscarf
Damn, even my PC caught the virus!

My great big main PC is dying ever so gradually. I know what I should do is just get a hyper powerful laptop and then rebuild the big old bastard into a super cyborg of godlyness…

But I just can't be bothered. It all seems like too much work. Maybe it'll be better just to wait for the inevitable collapse and then struggle to deal with it when it finally happens?
Like Climate change. ^_^

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It's getting hotter and hotter here. This has been the longest smurfing summer I can remember and it's really getting me down. The smurfing heat is giving me the smurfs! I'm getting sick of this relentlessly hot and dry city.
I'm not built for a hot climate… too fair.
I'm getting sick of wearing shorts every single day!!!
I'm getting sick of smelling my own sweat.

Too hot and the weather forecast predicts hot days stretching for miles… Every week it's the same- 5 day forecast is hot, with maybe a cool day on Sunday.
But when Sunday finally gets here, it's hotter than ever. And so on.

Aurora Borealis
research research research…

I did a comic once where I knew that if I did too much research, I'd never get to the actual project- so I cut it short very, very quickly. 100 pages later, I realized I'd been drawing completely unrealistic loincloths the entire time (and everyone was wearing one). Awwwwwwwkwaaaaard.

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My birthday is almost over, which means it'll be safe to change the date on facebook soon. I always switch it a few weeks ahead of time so I can avoid a deluge of wall spam. I spent the day putting in thirteen or so hours into my new project. I'd say how many pages I finished, but it wouldn't sound realistic (or like the quality would be really low). I'm aiming to have it finished by Friday- just in time to get new material ready for FAIL as the first book finishes up.

In other words, nothing too extraordinary about the day- except instead of eating Ramen while I worked, I upgraded to steak. That qualifies as a win ^_^

Aurora Borealis
research research research…

it's funny how two documentaries I found on youtube on the same topic share a lot of scenes. I always thought stock footage meant old films, not modern 3d renderings of battles and costumed scenes. Now I'm stuck wondering whether show #1 took these from show #2, or was it the other way around.

You'd be surprised how much stock footage of the World War II eastern front is actually culled from 1960's Soviet war movies. There's something weird about those Tigers… yeah it's because they're T-34s wrapped up in sheet metal.

Also in every feature on Pearl Harbor the same footage of US Navy Dauntless dive bombers repainted as Japanese planes is used. It's from the “Why we Fight” wartime documentary series on the Day of Infamy.

lol! You don't use youtube documentaries for research. You'll end up with tartan wearing Medieval Scots or every British redcoat with blue facings. Find the model builder or reinactor forums and ask them. Armorrama or Missing Lynx are good starts. They live, eat and breathe this stuff. There's a difference between putting something in that “looks cool” and portraying it how it really worked.

bravo1102
lol! You don't use youtube documentaries for research.

Most info everywhere is suspect to some degree- wiki, books, people's memories, archives, archaeological studies, records of first hand impressions. You can only ever get a sort of a weird amalgamated snapshot.
The deeper I go into even the recent past for things the more visions of them I get and have to reconcile.

But yeah, Youtube could only help so much.
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The heat reeeeeeaaaaaaaalllly is getting me down.
I don't think I want another year of this here.

seventy2

Aurora Borealis
research research research…

it's funny how two documentaries I found on youtube on the same topic share a lot of scenes. I always thought stock footage meant old films, not modern 3d renderings of battles and costumed scenes. Now I'm stuck wondering whether show #1 took these from show #2, or was it the other way around.

if it's on US military, we actually give footage to people doing authorized documentaries. it's basically political censoring. it makes sure that nothing makes us look bad. so everyone gets a stock set of footage.

Interesting. Although kinda predictable. No military wants to make themselves look bad (unless they want to make themselves look badass, heh)

ramlama

Aurora Borealis
research research research…

I did a comic once where I knew that if I did too much research, I'd never get to the actual project- so I cut it short very, very quickly. 100 pages later, I realized I'd been drawing completely unrealistic loincloths the entire time (and everyone was wearing one). Awwwwwwwkwaaaaard.

Yeah, too much research and you won't get anything off the ground, distracted by side-topics.

bravo1102
You'd be surprised how much stock footage of the World War II eastern front is actually culled from 1960's Soviet war movies. There's something weird about those Tigers… yeah it's because they're T-34s wrapped up in sheet metal.

Also in every feature on Pearl Harbor the same footage of US Navy Dauntless dive bombers repainted as Japanese planes is used. It's from the “Why we Fight” wartime documentary series on the Day of Infamy.

lol! You don't use youtube documentaries for research. You'll end up with tartan wearing Medieval Scots or every British redcoat with blue facings. Find the model builder or reinactor forums and ask them. Armorrama or Missing Lynx are good starts. They live, eat and breathe this stuff. There's a difference between putting something in that “looks cool” and portraying it how it really worked.

Ahh, but see, that's the thing. I'm not depicting history but alternate history. That is, I choose an event that happens in the past and change some crucial element and head off in a different direction.

In this case, the veering off point is the campaign of Boudicca against the Romans in which she wins and drives them off. Thus the britain as we know it does not happen, the Roman influence is negligible, Londinium is not rebuilt etc. etc.

So technically there's no research for what I want. The action of the actual story happens at least a couple of hundred years later, the fates of both Britain and Rome went different course and I'm trying to simply cut out as many “romanisms” as possible but without dwelling too deep into “Celtisms”, especially no typically Celtic/Gaelic names.

I did get stuck on stupid names though haha. What do I call England? Obviously not England since that name comes from Angles/Anglo-Saxons who came after the Romans left. Oh, it's easy then, Albion, right? But no, this appears to be a “Gaello-Roman” name according to wiki which means it most likely wouldn't be used there.

So I'm thinking Brythu… from Brythons (Brittons) where the word Britain comes from. And also a nice nod to Robert E. Howard's Brythunia in Conan stories. :D

Or I could say whatever and stick with Albion saying "oh yeah, the name caught on during the short Roman rule and got stuck) or whatever.

In the end it's meant to be more fantasy than reality so it's all about making the background somewhat feasible.

As for the Romans, I have not figured out the whole history yet but they're meant to be sort of a post-christianized roman empire with a slightly strong teutonic knight slant in their looks (crosses and all). I'll read/view on that more later. :D

In short: it's meant to be an illusion of a functional alternative world without any gaping logical holes in it :D

Aurora Borealis
So I'm thinking Brythu… from Brythons (Brittons) where the word Britain comes from. And also a nice nod to Robert E. Howard's Brythunia in Conan stories. :D

That's cool. I love Howard's Conan stories!
There's also his Cormac Mac Art and Bran Mac Morn stories about Celts and Picts in Britain during the Roman occupation, driving Romans out and so on.

Britain without the Anglo Saxon influence would be unrecognisable though… You could probably use Ireland as the best model in that case since it had less influence from them than the rest of the UK.

With the Romans, don't forget the Greek influence! That was MASSIVE back then, it's what created Christianity as the movement it was- as well as still being the prime influence over many of the eastern Slavic Christians through the Orthodox church.

Exactly one year ago I was in my Toyota proceeding through a green light when another driver hit me on the passenger side. She claimed her brakes failed as she was heading down the slight decline the road takes at that point, traveling 35 mph, through a red light.

The contact was so violent that my car was swung 270 degrees and the back of my car ended up hitting hers for a 2nd collision. Both of my air bags discharged, the windshield cracked, and a hole was opened up about two feet in diameter above the front right tire so you could see the engine without opening the hood. When the tow truck arrived, they lifted the car up and the chassis simply fell to the ground.

It occurred at 5 PM near the train station, and blocked four direct lanes of traffic, four turning lanes, and the sole exit route from the train station parking lot.

Oh - I could go on. Physically I recovered pretty quickly, emotionally took longer, but it wasn't until today, a year later, that it finally feels over.

How do you feel now? Lucky to be alive, or unlucky to have been in the path of such an idiot?
I had a lucky escape a couple of years ago and although it was caused entirely by a crazy driver (Polish articulated left hand drive lorry on the motorway, with no mirror allowing him to see us when he pulled out on his right at 80mph) the feeling is definitely good luck not bad.

Ironscarf
How do you feel now? Lucky to be alive, or unlucky to have been in the path of such an idiot?
I had a lucky escape a couple of years ago and although it was caused entirely by a crazy driver (Polish articulated left hand drive lorry on the motorway, with no mirror allowing him to see us when he pulled out on his right at 80mph) the feeling is definitely good luck not bad.

The more time that passes, the luckier I feel. But I really wanted to smack down all the well-intended who told me I was lucky a year ago. If I were lucky it wouldn't have happened in the first place. And so how lucky I am, now that it didn't happen again 365 days in a row :)

an aside: this was the 3rd accident in a 4-year period. The first one, a kid drove through a stop sign. The second: a kid drove through a yield sign. But now that we've gone through all three of the traffic signs, I should be good.

Sorry that you've had the same experience. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I remember when I used to come to the DD front page and only see a small advert in the top corner. Maybe even 2 under the news but it wasnt that annoying. This recent advert for game surveys is just horrible. It looks like its backwards aswell. It looks like whoever designed it just threw 2 screenshots into it and a bunch of logos at the top. It doesnt even give any information on what they're advertising. I get it that its a website and not a product but still. I just went to the homepage and thought I was on the wrong site. Advertising is fine but theres such a thing as over advertising.

I went over another friend's and played Castle Crashers again.

I can't help it but I love Yugioh The Abridged Series.

I also can't help it but I have the hiccups.

I also can't help it that I'm lazy and should be running the dishwasher right now.

I also can't help it that I don't believe salsa/bffsatan are pro-townie in the new mafia game.

I also can't help it that I have not crossed anything off my to do list yet.

…Granted it's been a day.

I come home after a stressful and time consuming morning to find my lardass cat has
a) knocked over several hundreds of card onto the ground
b) knocked over my plushies
c) left me not one, but two treats of her cat food vomit pools beside my bed

She was on my bed all like ‘meew weeeeuw OwO’ and i just pet her. -_- Blaugh I'm going back to bed.