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  1. Story, Friday September 2, 2016

    Panel-by-panel analysis. Panel 1: Probably a good idea to tell those people, then. Also Nanase and Edward are about the same height (depending on what shoes they're wearing). Panel 2: Probably a good idea to not wander around at night. Panel 3: Probably a good idea to not wander around with a target painted on your back. Panel 4: Probably a good idea to avoid the thing that might kill you. Panel 5: Probably a good idea to stop digging yourself into a hole, Edward. Panel 6: Probably a good idea to see my previous point. Commentary: Probably a good idea to draw Diane in a sheep dog form.
  2. The Grammar Thread

    Ah, yes. That too. Didn't think about that. I guess it's okay for that kind of narrator.
  3. The Grammar Thread

    If you ask me, what's appropriate to use in writing depends on whether it's used in dialogue or in narration. And even then, it'd be different between first-person and third-person. Basically it's whether or not it's a character using such-and-such. Slang. Pauses. Misspellings to indicate either a deliberate or accidental mispronunciation. Using the wrong word. Emoticons and abbreviations in texts. All of these I consider acceptable to use for dialogue and in-character writings. Dialogue between two characters? Three? One? They can use those. Feel free to write them like Jeff Goldblum. It's fine. As long as it's in dialogue, go for it. There's a text message conversation in your story? Show it in full, with all the s and LOLs intact. It's fine. First-person narration? I'LL ALLOW IT! Let the narrator narrate the way they want to narrate. If that means showing all the pauses or self-interruptions or excessive profanity or imitating Charlie Gordon because that's how the character would narrate? By all means. Don't let me stop you. Third-person narration? NO. You cannot. It is forbidden. A third-person narrator is not a character in the story. Their narration should obey grammar, spelling, and punctuation as much as possible. This may also apply to second-person narration. (that said, unreliable narrators might get away with it. unusual word choice to suggest that the second-/third-person narrator might be a character after all...)
  4. EGS Strip Slaying

    Here's a few old ones of mine. Pretty much every slay I'd made before the Crash is dated October 27, 2013, 2:22AM on my computer. I think that's just when I copied them into their current folder. We've all been there, haven't we? Also, how did Tedd manage to put hyperlinks in spoken dialogue? (I think at one point I considered making that into a bunch of different images where the ones that were the links actually linked to places. Would've been a mess of a puzzle, though). Someone mentioned cake and lying and this arc on one of the other threads a little while ago, so I figured I'd bring this back. Nanase reading manga. The pages I picked were carefully chosen. That's probably a good idea, Susan. And this thing. Next batch: something about barrels.
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  7. Things That Are Just Annoying

    I don't really have a lot of problems with the blue painter's tape. Sure, it does stick to itself and sometimes it tears down the middle when removing it from the roll, but it's been very workable in my experience. There was this one time when my grandma got something I think was labeled as painters tape. What it actually was was crap. All the sticky was on one edge, so it was like a sticky note in roll form, and with like a third as much stickiness. If you breathed at it wrong, the whole thing would come off. Forget laying long strips of it down to protect things. And we'd cleared out that room to put down new carpet and paint the walls while we were at it, so we had to delay even further just to get painter's tape that didn't suck.
  8. What Are You Listening To?

    Thor OST - "Science and Magic" Very tranquil. Recommendation: Type the name of the song. If you just use a hyperlink or an embedded video, and the video gets taken down, nobody will know what song it was. This way, though, people can look for it even if the linked video doesn't work anymore.
  9. What Are You Listening To?

    Undertale fan music: "Alphys Takes Action". Combines elements from the following Undertale tracks: Alphys, Stronger Monsters, Heartache, CORE, Memory, and Spear of Justice.
  10. (+/-Bad) Jokes Thread

    When is a door not a door? | | When it's ajar. A rabbi, a boy scout, and the President walk into a bar. The bartender looks at them and goes, "Is this some kind of a joke?" Wait wait! I got another one. I saw it on an Undertale comic dub on YouTube. Okay, so a guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says... "I'll give you a drink if you can tell me a meta-joke." And the guy replies... "Okay, so a guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says... "I'll give you a drink if you can tell me a meta-joke." And the guy replies... "Okay, so a guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says... "Here you go." So he gives the guy a drink." So he gives the guy a drink." So he gives the guy a drink.
  11. What Are You Doing Right Now?

    That Pokemon Phylogeny project? Just put up what I did on mammals onto the Brawl in the Family forums. Here it is, if anyone wants to take a look.
  12. What Are You Listening To?

    Nimbasa City! It's just so catchy! Most of Pokemon Black and White's soundtrack is awesome. Driftveil City is the only one I outright dislike.
  13. Things That Are Just Annoying

    (fortunately the power shortage didn't last long. still annoying) The application's education section has, in order: School Attended (singular tense; there's only one field); City/Stage; # Years; Degree (a dropdown menu that contains years of college (presumably if you attended but didn't get a degree yet), college degrees (BA, Ph.D, etc.), high school diploma, and GED); Highest Grade Successfully Completed; GED Completion Date; and Graduation Date. ALL of those are required, INCLUDING GED Completion Date, which makes absolutely ZERO sense as most people don't HAVE a GED. What?
  14. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Out of power because money. This means I can't work on my cover letter, which I need for a job application; on the "attachments" page, I could attach my resume, which is NOT required, but "other" IS required. Oh, and don't even get me STARTED on their "education" section. Why is the GED Date required? Most people don't have a GED! <i>Why is it required to say when you got one when most people never did?</i> <i>And</i> this power outage means I can't work on that Pokemon Phylogeny project that I finally decided to start posting openly on that other forum. (the <i>Brawl in the Family</i> webcomic forum, for the record) Speaking of said other forum: it does not handle nested spoilerboxes well.
  15. Story: Monday, August 22, 2016

    Reaction time. Panel 1: So, in the meatspace, you're safe, but she's totally giving you nightmares. Panel 2: Scene's about to end. Panel 3: "You already hit the activation sequence and it can't be stopped? Stop it anyway." "Nope." Exit, stage up. Panel 4: beat Panel 5: Wizard's not fooled. Meh. I'm tired. Save the better reactions for tomorrow.
  16. Videogame Thread

    Pff. Are you kidding? My laptop's from 2009. I have to use minimum settings just to make sure Minecraft runs at higher than 10 fps. Portal is barely playable. Forget about something with a realistic physics engine and frequent explosions. I have played KSP on the family computer, though. Borrowed it from a friend's steam library. Back when air friction was based on weight rather than shape. I recreated the Sputnik and Apollo missions, shooting several probes into space and landing Jeb on the Mun. Jeb is still on the Mun last I checked since I didn't wanna risk killing him trying to dock with the command module, which happened to my second Mun landing.
  17. Videogame Thread

    Even if it isn't finished, it still looks pretty nice as-is. Maybe when I finally get a computer that can run it, there'll be more to it than just "Minecraft with space travel." I wanna name some of the planets using the names from xkcd's Exoplanet Names comics. Kerbal Space Program is also on my wishlist. And a few Pokemon games, a DS Lite, and a 2DS.
  18. Videogame Thread

    My brother got No Man's Sky. Watching him play, I noticed the Galactic Trading robots look a lot like the cores from Portal 2, and I remembered one of them had the same eye patterns as the trading robots. So I looked it up. Guess which core has the same eye? The Space Core. There is no way that wasn't intentional. This game looks amazing. I'd get it myself, but I think my laptop would melt.
  19. Story Friday August 19, 2016

    Panel-by-panel analysis time! Panel 1: You missed it! That's what happened! Aw man, it was pretty great. There was a cheerleader and a cat thing... You really had to be there. Panel 2: Seems like Pandora knows that Cheerleadra is Tedd's friend. She has been keeping an eye on Tedd, so this probably isn't news. Panel 3: So... "So A Date at the Mall", TL;DR version. Panel 4: Pandora facepalm. Panel 5: Can't react. The giant words in the next panel are distracting me. Panel 6: Er, Pandora... You got something going on with your eye. And teeth. It's... You know, whatever, it's fine. Commentary: T-shirt and boxers, no, no, yes, no, yes, Gandalf robes, magic, glasses arms, more magic, Quebec City.
  20. What Are You Ingesting?

    Cinnamon Toast Crunch, the taste you can see!
  21. The Association Game

    Coffee filter.