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Post by Brother_Spartacus on Sept 25, 2014 23:21:05 GMT
Brother_Spartacus - saw your comment on the Sandra and Woo board. I was surprised to see the name, then I realized that you have an avatar here from there anyway haha. What do you think of the recent arc? Yet another example about what I love about the comic: old-fashioned situation (cartoon animals playing pranks on humans) with modern/adult-humor twist (Jokes about furries, bestiality, and bdsm) |
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Post by Daedalus on Sept 26, 2014 18:44:50 GMT
Brother_Spartacus - saw your comment on the Sandra and Woo board. I was surprised to see the name, then I realized that you have an avatar here from there anyway haha. What do you think of the recent arc? Yet another example about what I love about the comic: old-fashioned situation (cartoon animals playing pranks on humans) with modern/adult-humor twist (Jokes about furries, bestiality, and bdsm) See, I have actually disliked Sandra and Woo recently. It seems to have gotten too...judgmental and a tiny too vindictive for my tastes. I hear what you're saying, and I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that this guy did nothing (knowingly) wrong, yet the animals are punishing him severely regardless. And the end result is severe for him, albeit different than what the gang intended. Anyone else here read Girl Genius, btw? If Tom wouldn't have a problem with it, we should have a thread for chatting about other webcomics (all inferior to GKC, of course). I'm curious to know your opinions! |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Sept 26, 2014 19:45:06 GMT
I dunno - we could always just talk about webcomics here for a page or two (on that note, y'all should check out Demon's Mirror, apart from the godawfulness of how tumblr handles sequential art, I like it); I think it would depend on how many people want to talk about how many comics. If we've got 15 people talking about 200 webcomics, things could get hectic. (I've been liking "part 2" of Girl Genius. Really, anything that's not Castle Heterodyne.) |
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 26, 2014 20:03:10 GMT
Anyone else here read Girl Genius, btw? Been reading it for a few years now. Found it via example links on TV Tropes, skimmed through a few pages forward and backward from those points, and finally decided I should probably check it out from the very beginning. The steampunkish setting and lovely Miss Agatha already had me interested, but it was the introduction of the jägers that made me decide that yeah, this is definitely my kind of comic. |
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Post by Brother_Spartacus on Sept 26, 2014 21:18:40 GMT
Yet another example about what I love about the comic: old-fashioned situation (cartoon animals playing pranks on humans) with modern/adult-humor twist (Jokes about furries, bestiality, and bdsm) See, I have actually disliked Sandra and Woo recently. It seems to have gotten too...judgmental and a tiny too vindictive for my tastes. I hear what you're saying, and I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that this guy did nothing (knowingly) wrong, yet the animals are punishing him severely regardless. And the end result is severe for him, albeit different than what the gang intended. Anyone else here read Girl Genius, btw? If Tom wouldn't have a problem with it, we should have a thread for chatting about other webcomics (all inferior to GKC, of course). I'm curious to know your opinions! It's not different from other punishments in S&W, except that this time the person being punished isn't a straw mustache twirler this time. It's a silly webcomic, not hammurabi's code, and we shouldn't act like its trying to teach us morals and ethics, it's just trying to create funny situations. The undeserved punishment was very funny to me (literally being tortured after taking a mildly embarrassing picture) because of how over-the-top it was. |
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Post by KMar on Sept 27, 2014 0:24:50 GMT
Anyone else here read Girl Genius, btw? If Tom wouldn't have a problem with it, we should have a thread for chatting about other webcomics (all inferior to GKC, of course). I'm curious to know your opinions! Yes. The grand plot advances... so... painstakingly... slowly... (despite regular update schedule, that is. How long they were in the Castle Heterodyne? Si Vales Valeo operation?) But finally the plot feels like it is going somewhere. |
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Post by Daedalus on Sept 27, 2014 17:16:22 GMT
Anyone else here read Girl Genius, btw? If Tom wouldn't have a problem with it, we should have a thread for chatting about other webcomics (all inferior to GKC, of course). I'm curious to know your opinions! Yes. The grand plot advances... so... painstakingly... slowly... (despite regular update schedule, that is. How long they were in the Castle Heterodyne? Si Vales Valeo operation?) But finally the plot feels like it is going somewhere. See, I loved the Castle Heterodyne arc...when binge reading it. I would have hated to live through that when it was updating, though... Have you heard of the travel itinerary that was published forever ago? |
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 28, 2014 4:49:42 GMT
See, I loved the Castle Heterodyne arc...when binge reading it. I would have hated to live through that when it was updating, though... Aw now, I did read it while it was updating and I liked it perfectly fine. |
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Post by fwip on Sept 28, 2014 5:38:51 GMT
See, I loved the Castle Heterodyne arc...when binge reading it. I would have hated to live through that when it was updating, though... Aw now, I did read it while it was updating and I liked it perfectly fine. But then, you read too many webcomics to get impatient over one. |
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 28, 2014 6:52:31 GMT
Aw now, I did read it while it was updating and I liked it perfectly fine. But then, you read too many webcomics to get impatient over one. It's quite true, I spose! Rare is the day I check my comics list and there hasn't been at least one of them updated.* I don't even have a problem with Dresden Codak's update "schedule"! *It helps that The Mansion of E at the very least updates each and every single day and has done so for years with only the occasional technical issue causing any major disruption. And since the second in-universe day stretched over the course of many of those years, I obviously have copious amounts of patience in waiting for things to move on in webcomics! |
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Post by KMar on Sept 29, 2014 9:40:10 GMT
See, I loved the Castle Heterodyne arc...when binge reading it. I would have hated to live through that when it was updating, though... Aw now, I did read it while it was updating and I liked it perfectly fine. Oh, I didn't dislike it, I'm not just sure if the balance was perfect (compared to how much time some other subplots we given to). |
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Post by sidhekin on Sept 29, 2014 10:00:48 GMT
Castle Heterodyne was not a subplot. It's a character.
... and a setting ...
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Post by sapientcoffee on Sept 29, 2014 15:32:06 GMT
We were in the castle from the end of 2007 until mid-2013, almost a full SEVEN YEARS of non-stop panicking and emergencies and frying pan into fire into explosion. I don't have a quibble with any one bit, but (IMO) as a whole it's too much of the same thing for too long. Almost everyone I actually know who reads Girl Genius dropped it during that arc, though most came back after the soft reset.
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Post by Daedalus on Sept 30, 2014 3:12:41 GMT
We were in the castle from the end of 2007 until mid-2013, almost a full SEVEN YEARS of non-stop panicking and emergencies and frying pan into fire into explosion. I don't have a quibble with any one bit, but (IMO) as a whole it's too much of the same thing for too long. Almost everyone I actually know who reads Girl Genius dropped it during that arc, though most came back after the soft reset. I'm with you on the new speed of plot being better now haha. But I do miss Tarvek and the rest of our frozen cast. |
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Post by fuzzyone on Sept 30, 2014 3:30:49 GMT
My webcomic reading list is pushing ever closer to 90. I'm also a Longtime reader of Girl Genius...I picked it up a couple times before its entirety was free online, got as far as I could, and stopped. Then again, I've also been Reading Sluggy Freelance since the very late 90s... Yeah, pretty sure it was then. I started reading it in the middle of the Stormbreaker arc. I remember writing down the address, so I could return to my place in the archives to get caught up. I have my comics kind of segregated into a bunch of different categories, mostly on update schedule... Unsurprisingly my "Odd Days" folder had to be cut in two to make it digestible (and so it wouldn't cause too many problems trying to load all the tabs at once). I have to admit,I felt kinda lost when things in GG started back up again... but not so lost as to go back and slog through the archives.
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Post by Ophel on Sept 30, 2014 4:24:37 GMT
I love Helios (have you listened to his other projects?) and like Jon Hopkins. *listens to Chicane* Oh yeah, I could like this. Have you heard of Pantha du Prince, Tycho, Apparat, Lusine, Port-Royal, Bibio, Eluvium, Floex, Hammock, Markus Guentner, Ólafur Arnalds (might be a bit slow), Prins Thomas... *takes breath, stops typing*
Ok, one each from my favorites:
I love the video for this one:
I just got round to looking at these (ha, latepost. sorry)). I didn't prefer all of them, but hot dang! Floex and Bibio were nice! And I definitely enjoyed "A Walk", "Coastal Brake" and "Epigram" by Tycho. I also came across the lovely "Melanie" earlier, which was also delicious. Thank you very much for these. (sorry again latepost) Edit: Also, if there was ever a Gunnerkrigg feel, that Floex video is definitely one. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Sept 30, 2014 5:07:16 GMT
That's alright - there were a LOT of videos in there. Floex is Tomáš Dvořák, who did the music for Machinarium and Samorost 2 (which is how I found him), so you might also like that. (I think this would fit Faraway Morning) And a link to By The Wall, such a good track that they put out a bonus soundtrack because it wasn't on the main one. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 2, 2014 17:28:42 GMT
Floex is Tomáš Dvořák, who did the music for Machinarium and Samorost 2 Machinarium and Samarost are some of those special games that change your psyche. You can finish them, but they're never quite finished with you. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Oct 2, 2014 17:59:05 GMT
Amanita's working on Samorost 3 now. Awyeeeah.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 3, 2014 19:09:22 GMT
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Post by Ophel on Oct 4, 2014 1:16:17 GMT
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Post by keef on Oct 4, 2014 9:47:38 GMT
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 23, 2014 20:36:19 GMT
Hey ( Per or anyone else) does anyone here follow Dresden Codak? I am curious to discuss with anyone what they think of the recent pages. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 24, 2014 21:26:59 GMT
Hey ( Per or anyone else) does anyone here follow Dresden Codak? I am curious to discuss with anyone what they think of the recent pages. Dunno if I'm following. I check the site twice a year to binge on three or four updates at once. But yeah, in context I'm guessing the unblinking eye is the jack that hooks a cyborg's brain into the matrix that everyone's in or the wireless light-based equivalent or something like that. And in saying that I think I've sort-of explained what I think dark science is. Happily unsure what will happen if they put the hooded wright and 500k of stolen first silver into the same space in Unsounded, though. Hoping for Silver Surfer meets Edward Scissorhands version of Dwane. Suck on that, Crescian scum. |
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Post by keef on Nov 3, 2014 23:18:51 GMT
These robots don't seem to realize that they could just tell each other these things in 1/25ths of a second if they had a communications port installed. Sloppy. So if you could have a communications port installed.. the internet straight to your brain, every book ever digitized searchable, every cute animal video as close as your own memories, and instant communication with everyone else with the same implant... would you? |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 4, 2014 6:57:34 GMT
These robots don't seem to realize that they could just tell each other these things in 1/25ths of a second if they had a communications port installed. Sloppy. So if you could have a communications port installed.. the internet straight to your brain, every book ever digitized searchable, every cute animal video as close as your own memories, and instant communication with everyone else with the same implant... would you? Hmm...well, it might make me hackable...but it would be so helpful, even ignoring the cute animals I could see on a daily basis...and all facts would be available, removing the need for memorization... Probably? If I could acquire a good neural antivirus? Even better (imo) would be a closed, non-networked system where I could do complex calculations and store data, but without connections to outside servers. |
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Post by fwip on Nov 4, 2014 7:04:07 GMT
So if you could have a communications port installed.. the internet straight to your brain, every book ever digitized searchable, every cute animal video as close as your own memories, and instant communication with everyone else with the same implant... would you? Hmm...well, it might make me hackable...but it would be so helpful, even ignoring the cute animals I could see on a daily basis...and all facts would be available, removing the need for memorization... Probably? If I could acquire a good neural antivirus? Even better (imo) would be a closed, non-networked system where I could do complex calculations and store data, but without connections to outside servers. I doubt defending yourself would be an issue. Hypnosis might be a problem, but a couple of simple systems like a deadman's switch and such would keep out simple neural attacks, and I find it difficult to imagine anyone constructing a virus to run on the human brain if you were the only specimen. Edit: Alright, let's figure this out. How many ways could you attack a mind directly via such a port? Hypnosis, or more malignant, related techniques like those described in Snow Crash immediately come to mind, but I don't think that the scenario presented there is viable in the near future. Overloading the connection could be prevented using very, very simple electronic mechanisms. The main issue would probably be attacks on the computer interpreting the data fed into your mind. It really depends on how it links up... I've been assuming that it connects directly to the visual cortex. |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 4, 2014 7:07:32 GMT
Hmm...well, it might make me hackable...but it would be so helpful, even ignoring the cute animals I could see on a daily basis...and all facts would be available, removing the need for memorization... Probably? If I could acquire a good neural antivirus? Even better (imo) would be a closed, non-networked system where I could do complex calculations and store data, but without connections to outside servers. I doubt defending yourself would be an issue. Hypnosis might be a problem, but a couple of simple systems like a deadman's switch and such would keep out simple neural attacks, and I find it difficult to imagine anyone constructing a virus to run on the human brain if you were the only specimen. I assumed I would not be the only specimen, so there would be a very lucrative path for blackhats to hack minds. I don't know how a deadman switch would help here, but I'm curious to learn  |
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Post by fwip on Nov 4, 2014 7:09:36 GMT
I doubt defending yourself would be an issue. Hypnosis might be a problem, but a couple of simple systems like a deadman's switch and such would keep out simple neural attacks, and I find it difficult to imagine anyone constructing a virus to run on the human brain if you were the only specimen. I assumed I would not be the only specimen, so there would be a very lucrative path for blackhats to hack minds. I don't know how a deadman switch would help here, but I'm curious to learn Edited my previous post. A deadman switch would be essential. If you were attacked with a static image (I.E. one inducing an epileptic seizure) then this would prevent it from recurring as soon as you regained consciousness. |
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Post by fwip on Nov 4, 2014 7:10:38 GMT
How were you thinking it would connect to the brain? I assumed it would be like a computer screen, but in your head.
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