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ChronosCat
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https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2022-007
I wouldn't be particularly fond of this if it were just the image, but I like the story, and the image is a good illustration for it.
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8 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:Either Elliot's insecurities are well entrenched or this is a comic from "Last Summer"
Ellen has pigtails, so unless that's a style she tried out "off panel" long before we first saw it, it has to be after Sister 3.
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22 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:I am surprised you knew it was a comic first. I've never seen the comic for sale. TMNT timeline:
Comic: Published 1984 to 2014, appears to have been licensed a few times to others.
RPG: 'Active' 1985 to just into 2000 -published by Palladium books. I've seen this in my gaming store, back in the day (1980s).
I didn't know anyone that purchased it. There was a line of lead figures for it, the store carried them, and I've seen them on ebay occasionally.
Cartoon: Began in 1987, so, not long after, and then it really took off. Lots of action figures and play sets. My kids were never really into this.
Movies: Began in 1990.
Franchise: They've had many iterations of the cartoon, films, and toys. Still has a fairly strong following.
I've never gotten into them myself, (probably why my kids did not gravitate to it) but I like the basic early concept. I like Splinter. The April comic art in the original comic is more ethnic than April in the cartoon. I did not realize Casey Jones was an ally, I figured he was an antagonist.
Well, I didn't know there was a comic when I first started watching the show. However, I was enough of a fan to buy several issues of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magazine", which occasionally had articles about the real-life origins of TMNT. I then went looking for the original comic, and instead found Archie's cartoon inspired "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures" comic; in retrospect I'm glad that was what I found, as it wound up becoming my favorite incarnation of the franchise (it captures the mood of the cartoon with much better writing, and most of the run had really good art).
It wasn't until I started visiting comic shops in my late teens that I was finally able to find back issues of the (by then ended) original comic. I enjoyed them well enough, but they didn't resonate with me the way many other incarnations of the franchise have.
I still consider myself a TMNT fan, though unlike when I was a kid I'm no longer rushing to consume every bit of TMNT media I can.
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53 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:Rocky & Bullwinkle?
The first season had just two stories. Box Top Robbery which had twelve segments spread over six episodes. And Jet Fuel Formula with 40 segments over 20 episodes.
6, 8, 10 & 12 segment stories were most common with some stories having as few as 4 segments.
Huh. So I guess the showing I saw couldn't have always had the entire story in a day. Still, I definitely remember getting the entire story at least some of the time, and if they played episodes out of order I never noticed.
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12 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:I think Voltron and Transformers came about as awareness grew of using the cartoons to market toy lines. While there were toys of earlier shows, these new shows were designed hand in hand with the toy line to market it. G.I. Joe was changed from a 12" scale doll to a line of action figures that corresponded with a cartoon show.
Voltron started life as two anime series, entirely unrelated other than being made by the same company and featuring a lot of similar themes, "Beast King Golion" and "Armored Fleet Dairugger XV". Some American TV producers decided it would be a good idea to combine the two shows with entirely new scripts (they didn't bother hiring a translator) and the worst of the violence censored. I don't know how much selling toys factored into this idea, but there certainly were a number of toys released.
Transformers was indeed made to sell toys from the start; each episode was essentially a twenty-minute advertisement. Despite this, they managed to tell a lot of fun stories, and even occasionally managed something with a bit of depth.
The original TMNT cartoon was also designed to sell toys, despite TMNT having started life as a (teen-to-adult oriented) comic book. However, they had so many more episodes than toys, that most episodes wound up not advertising anything in particular besides the main characters. In retrospect much of the series is pretty poorly written and animated, but I'm still fond of it.
12 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Star Trek TOS was ground breaking when it originally aired. After a decade of science fiction shows dominated by Irwin Allen, which all quickly devolved into silly and/or cheesy, it took itself (at least somewhat) seriously. It has not aged well, and it is difficult to find a fan of Bill Shatner's acting. TNG had trouble finding their way at first, they spent the first season trying to imitate TOS, even to the story level, but once they broke out and became their own show, they had some of the best episodes in the Trek setting. Playing with Data's personhood was brilliant.
There is a somewhat obscure Star Trek animated series that ran on Saturday mornings after TOS ended. Roddenberry helmed it, it used the TOS actors as the voice actors, and remained a serious Star Trek show. I've only seem a few episodes, but they were pretty good. It's been largely forgotten since TOS aired. The weirdest thing about it was airing it on Saturday mornings.
I've always preferred the characters in TNG, but I like TOS too - Shatner's acting and all. (When I first encountered TOS, the low production values and dated special effects bothered me a bit, but these days I consider them part of the series' charm, much like I enjoy the same qualities with Godzilla films and Doctor Who episodes from the 60s.)
Oddly enough, I've actually seen a couple of episodes of the Animated Series; a Boston station was playing reruns of them when I visited my grandparents in Massachusetts one summer in the early 90s. I liked what I saw, and it is on the long list of TV shows I'd like to check out more of one day.
12 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Rocky and Bullwinkle was brilliant, but used more topical humor; also the show had story lines that spanned episodes, and if care was not taken to play them in order, the episodes would loose much value (like what happened to Firefly). I can see a sub-par station picking the show up for syndication and being clueless about how to air it.
I know they usually did multi-part storylines (I think something like four parts per story); luckily the station I watched it on played "episodes" that contained all the parts of a story (along with segments of other things, such as Peabody and Sherman). There wasn't any particular continuity between different storylines, was there?
12 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Did you watch Bill Nye, the Science Guy?
I was getting a little beyond the target audience age wise, but yes I did, and I loved it (despite knowing the vast majority of the things he was teaching).
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1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:Born in 1954.
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How many years apart are we?
A few decades actually (which fits with what I thought I remembered from other discussions); I was born in 1980.
Now I'm a little confused by your saying you were "pre-teen or teen" when seeing Eisner hosting; as far as I can tell from Wikipedia his first hosting job was on "The Disney Sunday Movie" in 1986. Are the articles I consulted missing something, were you perhaps older when you saw him hosting than you remembered, or is there time travel involved?
1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:My earliest TV recollection is seeing Dennis the Menace when it first came on, because my parents hyped it. Also recall Leave it to Beaver, which featured no actual dam building rodents, and I Love Lucy, which may have been in reruns already. Much three stooges, much Popeye cartoons. I caught Ruff & Ready, but it must have been a NYC station, because when my parents moved from NJ, metro NYC to Philly suburbs, I never saw it again. I recall the debut of Huckleberry Hound, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, The Alvin Show, Lost in Space (started out good, but quickly got silly), The Addams Family, Probably more if I thought about it. I was a bit late with Star Trek, picking it up about the third episode.
My earliest TV recollection is watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; I also watched Sesame Street at the time. At various points in my childhood, my favorite shows included Voltron (the first English version) , Transformers (the original cartoon), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (also the original cartoon); I also watched a lot of other 80s cartoons. My introduction to Star Trek was The Next Generation; it's only thanks to reruns that I've seen the original series at all.
Incidentally, while I wouldn't count it among my all-time favorites, I used to love watching reruns of Rocky & Bullwinkle. (Another show from before my time I've always enjoyed was the original Scooby-Doo.)
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5 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:I wasn't that much older, pre-teen or teen, but my recollection is that he acted like he was trying to imitate Walt Disney, and in my estimation at the time did not cut it.
So if you aren't much older than me, you can't have seen Walt Disney on TV when he was alive. Had you seen reruns of stuff he hosted? If not, how did you know Eisner was imitating anyone?
9 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:To me, Michael Eisner as just a fat cat that used his position to place himself as the face of Disney to the public. There were plenty of others more suitable, folks that had been with Disney much longer, including Walt's brother Roy; I'm not sure how aware of that I was at the time, but I was aware that this was a slick corporate type projecting himself, or as Trump would say, 'building his brand'. (Hopefully, we won't see Eisner steaks nor a goofy school.) ((Especially not a Goofy School, I'm sure he no longer has access to the Disney characters.)) He was not egregiously bad at it, just somewhat disingenuous.
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But to each his own. If you enjoyed him, good for you.
Knowing what I know now about him, I feel a little bad about having liked him so much back then. But it's not surprising; as a kid I had a tendency to take a friendly persona at face value.
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On 6/11/2022 at 10:45 AM, Darth Fluffy said:In contrast, do you real the show that Michael Eisner hosted? He was trying to play the Walt Disney role, and came off as a smarmy imitation. I believe it's been slide downhill in the decades since he was at the helm.
I saw some stuff hosted by Eisner when I was a kid (looking up the timing on Wikipedia, it would have been "The Disney Sunday Movie" and maybe some of the late 80s "Magical World of Disney"). I liked him a lot at the time (based solely on his hosting), and for many years he was the face of "Disney" (as in, the company) to me, perhaps more so than Mickey Mouse (who I've only ever seen a handful of cartoons starring) and definitely more than Walt Disney (who was before my time). I didn't notice him being "smarmy" but then I've never been great at reading people (and obviously I wouldn't have had any context to know he was imitating anyone). I do vaguely recall him being a bit stiff, but honestly that sort of person/character has always appealed to me.
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5 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Is it established canon that Canada is a separate country in EGS? Maybe they did not have an American Revolution.
I seem to recall a strip where there was a joke about seeing Canada "from here". (There definitely was at least one about seeing Mexico.)
1 hour ago, mlooney said:That was in "2nd life", not EGS Prime.
True, but the fact that the Uryom participation was presented as the strange thing implies that said revolution occurred. (Plus as you mentioned, Arthur's pro-USA attitude only works if there is a USA. There have also been other references to "America" or the US over the years, such as the obnoxious tourists who visited the museum where Abraham's statue used to be displayed.)
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14 hours ago, mlooney said:Ranting about languages aside, if Ashley is a wizard, she doesn't get spells of her own. She can learn other people's spells, so I expect that once she has a enough power to cast it, she will get Elliot's Cheerleadra spell and probably a few of Ellen's beam spells.
I believe the fact that seers can't get their own spells is one of the things that sets them apart from other wizards, implying that other wizards do get their own spells. (This was one of the things Pandora mentioned to Heka that led to him telling her about seers. I seem to recall it being mentioned mentioned at some other point as well, with the implication being stronger that time, but I don't remember where.)
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9 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:The look of surprise on Edward's face makes me wonder how or if this new information will affect his relationship with Lavender.
I highly doubt every Uryuom on the other side, let alone every one (if any at all) on the main cast's side, participated in this attempted conquest. Edward rejecting Lavender because of this would be like someone rejecting an American of German descent because a certain German and his followers tried to take over the world that one time...
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On 5/23/2022 at 7:52 AM, mlooney said:So, does Edward need glasses or are they like Tedd's? Also, yeah, here to be diplomatic or chew bubble gum...
I think it was previously established that Edward's glasses were for vision correction, though I don't remember when.
Also, Tedd's current glasses are corrective as well (as established when she put them on during Ashley's party, continuing a story thread about Tedd's nearsightedness, a thread which began during the Card Tournament if I remember correctly).
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Since my theory that the Griffin world is the Uryom home world is looking even more plausable, I suspect Dwight's hatred of technology (or of Virginia having it) is tied with the laws (and the religion inspiring those laws) that would make it illegal to buy or sell the TFG on the Uryuom home world.
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On 5/12/2022 at 9:22 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:So my sick and twisted deviant fantasies that bring shame to my family and divine wrath upon my soul really aren't unusual?
The way I figure it, what my family doesn't know won't hurt them, and if some divine being really cared about what I thought they'd put more effort into convincing me they exist.
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57 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:Second, it's Friday the 13th. Shouldn't we follow tall buildings' example and jump to Friday the 14th? Skip the 13th day?
But 13 is my lucky number!
58 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:The most interesting thing in this comic are the last two panels. Virginia shows up and speaks, we don't see her, but Grace is in shock. She looks like another cast member. Guesses:
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Has to be someone Grace knows, [snip]
It would be quite the plot twist if someone Grace knew secretly had contact with the griffins, but I assume you're actually saying it's an alternate of one of the existing cast. I doubt that would be the case; my understanding that since the griffin world is "the other side" of the main EGS world and thus technically they are both the same world, there shouldn't be any alternates of people from one "side" native to the other. I believe the worlds with alternates, like that of Magus or Lord Tedd, are far more separate from the main EGS world and each other than the main world and the griffin world; in fact probably each of those alternate "dimensions" has its own griffin side, with alternates of Tara, Andrea, Liam, etc.
My current guess as to why Virginia's appearance surprised Grace is that Virginia is a Uryuom or a fellow Seyunalu. (This ties in with my current suspicion that the griffon world is also the Uryuom homeworld.)
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I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but based on your previous output I can confidently state that as soon as I sort out my current computer issues I'll be buying my own copy.
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I'm a bit more concerned with his shoulder issues; I haven't been keeping track of how often they delay production, so I can't say if they're getting worse, but they sure don't seem to be getting better.
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5 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Will Virginia be human? Will she remain on this side as a liaison? Most compelling evidence against this: who do we ship her with? The characters are essentially spoken for, except for Susan, and that would be an abrupt change of direction.
While Susan may not be part of a relationship in canon, plenty of fans ship her with Elliot and Ashley - and per the current NP arc, apparently so does Ashley.
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On 5/2/2022 at 1:24 AM, Darth Fluffy said:The best kids show that I've ever seen, I used to turn it on for my kids and watch with them, was Bill Nye the Science Guy. Hands down hard core educational and entertaining.
One I remember seeing occasionally as a toddler was Shari Lewis, she was still on thirty years later, and my kids watched it.
I loved Bill Nye, though by the time he was on TV I already knew most of what he was teaching; I watched it more for the humor than for what I could learn. (Then again, that was probably why most kids watched it. I've always been interested in learning, however, and have watched shows like "Nature" and "Nova" since I was a little kid, as well as various other PBS documentaries.)
I never watched much of Shari Lewis, but my younger sister loved Lambchop's Play Along.
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21 hours ago, Zorua said:There's a chance that a baby Zombie will appear while riding a chicken, a chance referred to as a Chicken Jockey. If the player gets too far away, the baby Zombie will despawn, but since the chicken itself is a passive mob, it won't. Chickens also lay an egg every 5 to 20 minutes. Since this chicken exists in a pitch-black dark cave, it exists in the same darkness level that Zombies can spawn.
Zombies have a low possibility of being able to pick up items that are dropped on the ground, such as...eggs dropped by chickens. If a Zombie is holding an item it picked up, it will not despawn on its own, meaning it will persist in the world. And since this particular cave is entirely closed off, I didn't find it by running around lighting up caves, meaning it had been entirely ignored. In a cave close enough to areas I spent a lot of time in that there were plenty of chances for Zombies that could pick up items to spawn. The result was a horde of zombies some thirty-or-so strong just sitting there in a cave.
This sounds like some of the strange things that happen in quantum physics. In particular, it reminds me of a layperson-friendly explanation of Hawking Radiation.
(Note: I say this as someone who is a layperson themself in regards to quantum physics, though I'm interested in it enough to be far better informed than the average person.)
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On 4/29/2022 at 10:16 AM, mlooney said:I sorta miss not being the right age for Sesame Street when it started out. I remember "The Electric Company" when It came out as being designed for my age group, but I don't really remember watching it. Of course when I was in Germany on my first tour there was a betting pool as to what the "sponsored by the letter" letter of the day was. Of course in that unit there was a betting pool for damn near everything.
On 4/29/2022 at 5:23 PM, Darth Fluffy said:I missed all of that. I remember Capt. Kangaroo, Bozo the Clown, Gene London, Sally Starr, and Chief Halftown; the last three were Philly area hosts. Oh, yes, and Wee Willy Webber when Philly got an independent UHF mega-station. None of them were primarily educational, but could, for the most part, be counted on for having something to say about values on each show. I also watched American Bandstand with Dick Clark, because 'nothing else was on', which probably meant soaps, and why wasn't I outside, playing?
I saw a little bit of The Electric Company in reruns when I was really young, but I don't really remember anything about it (in fact, looking it up just now I realized I was attributing some of my memories of 3-2-1 Contact to The Electric Company). I did have an issue or two of the magazine as a kid, but even there pretty much all I remember is the Spider Man comic strip in it.
I also saw the PBS version of Captain Kangaroo in the mid 80s, but I didn't like it much. (I remember feeling several of the characters were too mean, to the point it made the show stressful for me. Ironically I found action shows with outright villains easier to handle.)
While I did watch Sesame Street, my favorite show up until age six or so was Mister Roger's Neighborhood. Other kids shows I was in the target audience for and enjoyed included Voltron, Transformers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first English-language cartoons of each). However, I've never stopped watching shows "for kids" (I almost stopped in my teenage years, then decided to ignore societal expectations and just watch what I liked), so the number of such shows I've seen over the years is far too huge for me to even attempt to list them all.
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On 4/27/2022 at 9:08 AM, ijuin said:Just what is a Snuffeluppagus anyway? My best guess is that they’re supposed to be some sort of wooly mammoth.
When I first started watching Sesame Street, I'm pretty sure I just figured "furry elephant" without questioning it. A bit later (at around age five or so), I started learning about prehistoric animals, and immediately concluded Snuffy was a tusk-less woolly mammoth.
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I'm a little disappointed the scientist and assistant look so similar. Only one should have glasses, or their glasses should be distinctly different (except at such time as they need to wear safety goggles). Their hair styles could use to be more different as well; in particular they shouldn't both have the same sort of ponytail. If their coats are supposed to be lab coats, I suppose it makes sense they would look similar; otherwise they just add to the similarities between them.
On the other hand, I like the test subject.
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Well, Ashley already knows that Grace is comfortable being naked, and even witnessed Grace naked during the Introduction to Magic party. But unless I'm forgetting something, she doesn't know Sarah and Tedd have accidentally wound up naked around one another and Grace. Furthermore, based on the fantasies we've seen, that would be right up her alley.
Comic for Monday, Jun 20, 2022
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Uryuom origins are currently a mystery with conflicting information having been presented (even just within "Balance"), but the fact that the inhabitants of the Other Side of the World also think Uryuoms came from another planet at least maintains the possibility that Uryuoms are space travelers. That being the case, there could still be a planet they consider their "home world" even if the Emissary of Magic's revelation suggests it isn't really their place of origin. (It's also possible they really are from outer space, just the space on the Other Side, and what the Emissary of Magic meant was they weren't from "our" outer space.)
As a side note, it has occurred to me that if the Other Side of Earth was really the Uryuom Homeworld Will was talking about, either he's been deceiving Mr. Verres for years, or Will himself was somehow deceived about the nature of travel/communication with the Homeworld. The problem gets even worse if other Uryuoms have had contact with the Homeworld in recent decades as well.
Well, she was still looking for entertainment, but Pandora's primary goal at the time she gave Rhoda the spell book was making magic public. Not that giving someone a means to better control their magic is the best choice for that goal either.