That, and there's also the old notion that seems to still apply in many cases: men think with their penises, not their brains. Not naming names, but I do know some people who function like this, and even frequently commission NSFW artwork.

NSFW isn't necessarily about what head a man thinks with. It could be an attempt at social commentary or just being sick and tired of the ridiculous lengths other work goes to keep things covered up.

LOL no

“Men think like, women think like…” No. This is still part of old sexist patterns.
Even if you say “Oh, women have superior reasoning and empathy…”

It's still the same old sexist patterns.
Yes there are certain biological differences that have an influence and certainly cultural stuff but realistically we don't think that differently at all. Even on sexual stuff guys.

Most of what we think are differences are just perceptions and culture, not reality.

Definitely culture. However at the present time we are stuck with it and Western cultural ideas of gender identity are rapidly supplanting other models.

Males are raised differently from females and that leads to most of the perceived differences. They're perceived, not real beyond a certain point, but that point does exist. But it's a field that is constantly changing and developing.

They are rapidly tracking down the actual alleles that activate certain proteins to determine sexual identity the whole nature versus nurture is sliding back the other way. But then I'm always wrong because I'm a man and as any post feminist married man knows if a man speaks in the woods and there is no woman listening, is he still wrong?

Undoubtedly any single man inevitably is. Lol.

RIP Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman.

J_Scarbrough wrote:
RIP Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman.

I grew up watching Pee Wee's Playhouse. This legit made me sad.

PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE was just a little before my time, but PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE pretty much already become a cult film, and it was not uncommon to see it being broadcasted on cable when I was growing up, whether on Disney Channel or HBO . . . I can even remember when TV Land began branching out into airing movies instead of just reruns of classic TV shows, it was the first movie they ever aired.

Peewees playhouse was the best part of Saturday morning. It came on after the other cartoons. Me and my friends tried to recreate the playhouse in our yard. We even filmed it. Good times

It's sad he died. He was a very clever man. But for everything he did weirdly I love him for his silly turn in Buffy The Vampire Slayer most. the movie, not the silly spin off TV series.

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It's so annoying how little the rest of Australia thinks of Perth. We're an extremely isolated capital, even in global terms, we're thousands of kilometers away from the rest of the capitals (they're all SUPER close together), but the size of our state is almost half the size of the entire continent. Multiple countries could fit inside this state.

Anyway, I was reading an article headline about “Why is Australia experiencing a warm winter, a climate scientist explains”.
Well my state, the biggest in the country has NOT been experiencing a warm winter, in fact temperatures have been bellow average by a significant margin and the coldest on record in some instances.
It would be NICE of them to acknowledge that fact.

Yes climate change is a thing and global warming is real, but it doesn't happen uniformly and some places will cool down because of shifting ocean currents and things. It would be cool of them to acknowledge that instead of just going on with one flat simplified narrative that ignores reality.

Here in Central Europe, we currently had a cold and rainy July, with resumption in August. Some children have never experienced anything like this, after all the hot summers before. Global warming is happening elsewhere, for example in Norlisk, Northern Siberia. It's ten degrees warmer there than here. And let's not even talk about Texas and Baghdad.

That's why I persist in calling it climate change. The general trend worldwide is warming but there's plenty of other things changing because of the warming trend and it's not just hot weather.

New Jersey has always been known for triple H summers (hazy, hot, humid) but not where you can't breathe. Part of it is me aging but they put up that heat advisory and I stay inside.

Yes, I've also heard the Climate Change Not Global Warming sermon a time or two before, but I have to say it's real AF.

Last week is so far the only week this entire summer season where the temps have risen over 90F (32C) . . . and the thing of it is, that actually used to be normal for us up until about 2007 or so; since then, the new normal has been consistently over 90F (32C) for a vast majority of the summer season . . . there were even a few summers in the early 2010s where we saw temps rise as high as 105-110F (40-43C) - one day, it even got up to 115F (46C), which was the highest temps we've ever had.

But it's not just the temps that have been a problem with us, it's the durations of the seasons as well: spring has been coming earlier and earlier, and summer has been lasting longer and longer, which has been diminishing our fall and winter seasons steadily. 2019 was the worst: 90+ degree (32+) weather persisted not only through the entire month of September, but even well into the first week of October, which was insane, because those months, the temps usually drop well into the 80s (26-31) and the 70s (21-26). Our fall seasons are not particularly colorful anymore, and the foliage will start turning green and blooming even by Valentine's Day. I have to tell you, as a fall and winter lover, this really sucks . . . I honestly cannot remember the last time we had a normal/average/seasonal winter season where it actually stays brisk and nippy for the duration of the months of December through February.

The problem is our politicians . . . here in Amurka, our politicians rule with an iron fist, especially the far right GOP, who have been screaming for years the Climate Change is nothing but a liberal hoax . . . then again, they also said COVID was a liberal hoax . . . honestly, just about everything is a liberal hoax to them. Either way, this is why nothing will ever be done about the climate, at least here in the U.S. of A., because as long as the science-denying politicians call the shots, we're basically screwed.

When empirical data is seen as an opportunity to build powerful machines, no one complains.
But when empirical data are somehow seen as threatening, there are recently influential “think” tanks that declare them a (liberal or whatever) hoax. To my knowledge, this did not exist in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and I consider this tendency a clear sign of the breakdown of a science-based society.

@J_Scarbrough my contention is quite different. We all know that climate change and global warming are real here, but reporting on it should not be simplified in a way that cuts out and ignore the experiences of millions of people.

It's like saying that during WW2 there was fighting and war everywhere… While in reality almost no action took place in most of Australia, all of the Americas, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Yes some notable but isolated actions took place in all those areas but comparatively they were nothing compared to the real hotspots. By saying that though it doesn't deny or minimise WW2.

Same with Global warming. It's an extremely complex system. Both winters and summers have been notably cooler in my part of the world over the last few years- which is probably part of how things are rebalancing… perhaps all the melted ice from Antarctica is cooling the sea currents that drive the weather here (Antarctica is directly south from me and the weather in this part of the world travels from west to east).

If that's the case it'd be good to know how many years that will continue or if it will suddenly get massively catastrophically hotter when a balance is reached. That's the sort of very important info that's cut out by people who simply advocate for a simplified message.

We've gotten into the discussion of animals around here before, and sometimes I find myself wondering something . . . do you think different animals can understand each other regardless of the way they communicate, or are their different forms of communications akin to different languages among the human race? For example, could a cat understand a dog's barking and a dog understand a cat's meowing, or would the barking be like a language that only dogs can understand, same with cats' meowing?

Very sad about Paul Reubens’ passing - he was apparently a wonderful guy. A funny guy as well - I was never a PeeWee Herman fan, particularly, but still appreciate Reubens’ comedic chops and character creating.

I liked him in the Buffy movie (classic death scene) and as The Spleen, I think his name was, in Mystery Men.

RIP, sir!

Got up early to do a little drawing before work and my PC is boned. Suddenly just doesn't boot, not even BIOS. Possibly a RAM issue. I hope I can fix it when I get home. If not, I've probably lost loads of stuff.

Either that or you've been on one too many sketchy porn sites. :P

Okay, question about silly string: I've never used the stuff before, so I'm curious to know what exactly happens after you use it? I know the stuff squirts out the can, but like does the string dissolve, does it harden, is it permanent, does it break down, what?

J_Scarbrough wrote:

Okay, question about silly string: I've never used the stuff before, so I'm curious to know what exactly happens after you use it? I know the stuff squirts out the can, but like does the string dissolve, does it harden, is it permanent, does it break down, what?

Silly string is this colorful, foam substance that dries quickly once it is exposed to air. When it dries, it has the same texture of air dry clay, but in thin strands, making it relatively easy to clean. Perfect for party antics.

So the string itself doesn't actually dissolve or break down or anything like that? Sounds like what I might need then. . . .

What the hell are you planning, J ?

You gonna use it for puppet hair?.

Instant pubes! XD

Lol




So I started getting into making my own fonts. It's pretty fun. It's a good alternative to hand lettering everything cuz I don't like using off the shelf fonts. Anyone else make fonts for their comic or whatever?

lothar wrote:
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So I started getting into making my own fonts. It's pretty fun. It's a good alternative to hand lettering everything cuz I don't like using off the shelf fonts. Anyone else make fonts for their comic or whatever?

I have considered it many times… I just haven't looked into the right program to do it.

lothar wrote:
So I started getting into making my own fonts. It's pretty fun. It's a good alternative to hand lettering everything cuz I don't like using off the shelf fonts. Anyone else make fonts for their comic or whatever?

There is an iOS app that allows you to draw a completely hand-lettered, customized font and has you draw 26 letters and miscellaneous punctuations (.,:;). When it is all compiled together, a generated font txt file is created to install in a font folder.

The main purpose was to create individual, digitally hand-drafted letters in my own style because drafting letters is highly repetitive.

Is it caligraphr?

lothar wrote:
Is it caligraphr?

The name of the app escapes me. I also may have paid $1.99 in app to create the custom font. =/

Caligraphr

I used it a few times… So far, it seems likely there's no catch. Totally free. It creates a file that you can install in your fonts. I guess the only catch is that you can't do a full keyboard layout with the free version. It limits you to 75 characters so you need to skip some stuff. I just omit @;/& etc to bring it down to the limit. There cool thing is you can basically make anything.. like wingdings n stuff

I was today-years-old when I figured out that in order to mark a reply to a comment of yours on this site as read, you actually click your comment as it appears in your notifications list (where “Comment Link” is otherwise located in your comments notifications).

Yeah. . . .

Admittedly, ads like what we have ATM brings to mind something that my friend Kevin Magpoc once addressed on his comic IDGet many ages and moons ago, and that would specifically be item #1 in this specific strip:

http://idget.keenspace.com/d/20091207.html

Yeah, this was actually one of the things I miss about both Smack Jeeves and ComicFury, that they were ad-free for the most part.

I know anyone's allowed to advertise and promote their comic on this site, and I'm not at all complaining about that before anyone uses that as an argument to counter my point, it's just these kinds of ads make me concerned for my readers outside of DD (which I'm sure is a little greater than readers on DD) who may think I'm linking them to a sketchy (or NSFW) site.