Rural problems #554: A Lady Fox announcing she’s in the mood for some dick sounds almost exactly like a child is being murdered somewhere in the woods and my sole extant paternal instinct keeps waking me up out of dead sleep every time she screams.
This entire Switch disaster has a recipe for a perfect horrible failure. The Switch does not allow you to backup saves to SD or cloud and worked fine with most 3rd party devices until now. A new update from a few days ago causes the system to brick when attached to any number of things (power bricks, unofficial docks, USB-C cables) and we have no details or full list of things that can completely destroy everything.
People have over a year of saves that are often completely unrecoverable because the Switch masqueraded as a true USB-C device. Now Switches are breaking because the peripherals people attach assume the Switch…does what it implies. That it works with USB-C and is a USB-C compliant device. The Switch is actually just a Nintendo device with a port shaped like USB-C.
I love Nintendo and have forever and risked my health and safety to purchase this product on launch and will play Nintendo until I die but YIKES
Switches have been bricking widespread for the past few days. Prevent this by ONLY charging using the Nintendo official charger, and ONLY docking using the official Switch dock.
I don’t understand the sentiment of denying comparisons. If you were inspired then you were inspired. If you never heard of what your work was compared to it gives you the opportunity to check out something new. I cannot fathom why it would be irritating…
1. It’s always something inescapably popular, so I’m not being introduced to something new 2. The similarity is always so small and vague that the implication I had to be inspired by someone else to think of it is kind of insulting – like, what, you think Arin Hansen invented brown hair with a blond streak? 3. it’s kind of like admitting you were too bored by the artist’s work to engage with it so you started thinking about something you like better 4. even if it is something I hadn’t heard of, about the worst way to introduce someone to something is via implication that this thing is their direct competition and they are the losing party in that head to head match. It’s like introducing someone to another person by being like “hey this is Jane she’s prettier than you”
Much better would be, “this seems like something you’d like” “you make things like this, I bet you’d like it”
Also I mentioned the idea of comparing people to historically important works or asking about inspirations in the very post you reblogged, I’m not denying the idea of inspiration in general I’m just, to be blunt, saying a lot of people suck at identifying inspirations and are doing the equivalent of telling people wow, you wear shoes, did you get that idea from Beyonce – like it’s just incomprehensible and as an artist my options are make fun or be constructive and give information about how to do better. I did both!
Also, it can sound like “your thing looks like this other thing, did you base it off this other thing instead of making it yourself?” even when it’s not intended to.
when I was a little kid (we’re talking 6 or 7 years old) I was REALLY into The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes and we owned like every The Far Side collection in print so by 2nd grade I was determined to be a cartoonist but my sense of humor was pretty warped and from time to time my “art” would draw (arguably justified) scrutiny from my elementary teachers but none so much as this piece that I tried to recreate a few months back in my childhood art style for full effect
I don’t remember getting in too much trouble over this one, but I also don’t remember it getting the praise I KNEW it deserved and if you ask me, this is still pretty hilarious coming from the hand of a 7 year old. If these are directly taken from Gary Larson, I don’t know, but I really remember thinking these up myself.
This one was captioned “Katie’s fun day at the pond comes to an abrupt end.”
Who is Katie? I have no idea. Where did I learn the word “abrupt?” Probably Calvin and Hobbes. The original version of this is actually framed in my uncle’s kitchen; he and my dad were my biggest fans.
There was another instance where my teacher asked us to illustrate our favorite part of an earlier field trip, and I drew us having lunch at the McDonald’s playground, and while everything else was in good order, there happened to be a skeleton buried in the ball pit.
“Why is there a skeleton in the ball pit” people would ask.
2nd grade me shrugged, “stayed in there too long.”
AAAAAAAAHHH I LOVED ALL THOSE COMICS AS A KID AND GOT IN SO MUCH DAMN TROUBLE DRAWING CARTOONS TOO.
I love your “Biggest splash”. That’s delightfully Maccabre.
My favorite ancient gallus comic was the page covered entirely in black marker and crayon called “Cat by Helen Keller”.
My regular teacher grounded me at recess for that one but Mrs. Krants the art teacher fell out of her chair laughing and paid me five whole dollars for it.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look alike contest to a fucking drag queen.
Charlie Chaplin once failed to even place at a Charlie Chaplin impersonator contest.
Hugh Jackman went to comic con as Wolverine, only 2 people noticed him and one told him he was too tall.
Christopher
Reeve use to go to a restaurant in costume when filming Superman. When
he went in the Superman costume he was mobbed by people all the time.
When he went in the Clark Kent costume no one realized he was
Christopher Reeve.
• Robert Downey Jr. got second place in Tony Stark look-alike contest.
No. I don’t have alternative words to use in their stead.
Touch starvation is a concept that applies to all humans, and probably all social beings. Infodumping is a word that tends to be used for autistic people, but also applies to ADHD people.
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