Category: annoyance

they tell me PvP is more fun?

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I’ve had this one in the “personal favourite” category on the site for a long time. There aren’t a lot comics from the Eurocom / Windows Journal era that I can actually say I like the artwork for, but this one turned out surprisingly well.

I just realized I often use the phrase “turned out” as though good artwork was an accident, because with the Eurocom tablet PC it almost always was. That was a finicky piece of hardware to say the least. It had a screen protector that made slow movements extremely difficult, so almost everything had to be done in quick strokes. It also had a habit of…how to explain? Pretend you’re carefully drawing a line and somebody behind you nudges your elbow. Basically, this PC would randomly simulate that effect. Something to do with the touch screen, I’d imagine.

So yes, it was a pleasant surprise when I could gently coerce that machine into producing a comic with artwork that was actually any good. Shortly after writing this I got a Wii, and then canceled my subscription to World of Warcraft; I had some fun while it was on, and I’ve been tempted to go back a couple of times but I would definitely never do PVP again. Awful.

Oh, and here’s a fun fact: that is supposed to be a sinister mist wreathing the feet of the giant character UGonnaDie. You know, so that you would never actually see his feet move and he’d just drift ominously around the landscape. [May 3, 2011]

another thing would be “comic ideas, un-had”

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This comic doesn’t make a lot of sense. I completely acknowledge that. What inspired it was this: at the movie theatre I used to work for there were spice containers for your popcorn. You could buy a nice bag, head over to the spice area and load them down with things like white cheddar and BBQ flavours. These containers periodically needed to be refilled and cleaned.

The notable thing about them was that they were paradoxically harder to open if you tried harder to open them. They were twist-off lids. If you grabbed and wrenched they wouldn’t budge. If you adopted a light touch and a minimal amount of twist, they’d slide right open. THAT’S what I was trying to get across. Maybe I should have just stuck with trying to tell that story. Well, what’s done is done![May 22, 2011]

me and Lucas are tight, I call him G-Luc

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Actually, I never did end up buying the DVDs I was talking about. The problem was that I had finally caved in and bought that silver DVD boxset after holding out forever, thinking that if this was the only way I was going to have proper Star Wars DVDs then I would make my peace with it. Weeks later, the DVDs come out AGAIN with 2nd discs containing the original theatrical versions (which was what I wanted all along – I don’t foam at the mouth with hatred about the CGI-enhanced updates, but I have no love for them either).

As of this writing there is a Blu-Ray release on the horizon, but I don’t care. I don’t. As special as these movies are to me I am done paying for them like a sucker. If somebody gives me the set I won’t throw it away, but I feel like I’ve sort of moved on. [May 22, 2011]