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Lurdiak posted:My favorite make a wish story is the dying cancer kid who loved the hell out of World of Warcraft so he got to visit the offices and voice an npc and was given a rare in-game mount so that he could fly around and stuff. Ezra Chatterton. Last I heard his father would occasionally log into his account and play his character. And every once in a while he'd get offers from people who want to buy the mount.
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Lol @ myself forever. Bought Jem and the Holograms #1 because I love Sophie Campbell's artwork. 
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Mar 27, 2015 06:55
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There's no shame in buying Jem, bud.
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Mar 27, 2015 08:02
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I read Jem too, its got a tad bit of whiplash at the sheer pace of it but I guess they just wanted the premise out the way. The art was gorgeous though. Ive been looking at getting some comics for a school club my son goes to and I'm definitely putting this in the pile for them. I've also grabbed the first two comics of Sparks Nevada, they seem fun all age fare but I haven't really listened to much of 'The Thrilling Adventure Hour' is it likely to stay kid friendly or is it it likely skew a little older later (the kids are 6 - 9). I'll buy em regardless anyway because cowboys punching robots on mars is something I fully endorse and want to own.
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Mar 27, 2015 10:29
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SynthOrange posted:Lol @ myself forever. Bought Jem and the Holograms #1 because I love Sophie Campbell's artwork. It owned though. Outside of maybe Multiversity it was easily my pick of the week. Campbell can do no wrong 
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Mar 27, 2015 10:37
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SynthOrange posted:Lol @ myself forever. Bought Jem and the Holograms #1 because I love Sophie Campbell's artwork. I'm old enough to have watched the cartoon, and I loved it.
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Mar 27, 2015 10:49
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Waterhaul posted:It owned though. Outside of maybe Multiversity it was easily my pick of the week. Campbell can do no wrong Anything with her name on it is an instant buy for me. She's real nice in person, too!
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Mar 27, 2015 14:18
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Skwirl posted:Also, assuming it was for a kid, possibly with a terminal disease, getting caught up in continuity quibbles seems like dictionary definition missing the forest for the trees. Continuity nothing, as far as I'm concerned this man is canonically the Batman of Earth Prime. He uses his great wealth to dress up as a bat and make the world better, and it actually works.
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Mar 27, 2015 17:55
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Lurdiak posted:My favorite make a wish story is the dying cancer kid who loved the hell out of World of Warcraft so he got to visit the offices and voice an npc and was given a rare in-game mount so that he could fly around and stuff. There's a "famous" post someone made actually asking Blizzard to give him the mount that's on the kid's account because it's "going to waste" Yeah
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Mar 27, 2015 19:29
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Literally The Worst posted:There's a "famous" post someone made actually asking Blizzard to give him the mount that's on the kid's account because it's "going to waste" Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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Mar 28, 2015 13:38
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Literally The Worst posted:There's a "famous" post someone made actually asking Blizzard to give him the mount that's on the kid's account because it's "going to waste" Remember when My Little Pony made a special character for a Make-A-Wish kid, then specifically asked Bronies not to make porn of it? Only for the Bronies to get pissed off and make disabled kid Make-A-Wish pony-porn just out of spite? Until today, that was the worst Make-A-Wish story I had ever heard. gently caress.
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Mar 28, 2015 21:19
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:Remember when My Little Pony made a special character for a Make-A-Wish kid, then specifically asked Bronies not to make porn of it? Only for the Bronies to get pissed off and make disabled kid Make-A-Wish pony-porn just out of spite? Until today, that was the worst Make-A-Wish story I had ever heard. I dunno, that still seems worse.
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Mar 28, 2015 21:21
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Lurdiak posted:I was messing around in the Horde area like 2 years ago and saw a lil' cow dude that I couldn't attack and it was his npc and I got kinda sad. I can never bring myself to do that quest cause the loving character is voice acted by the kid and it just weirds me out/depresses me
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Mar 28, 2015 21:43
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WickedHate posted:I dunno, that still seems worse. ...yeah, you might be right.
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Mar 28, 2015 21:58
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So far, I've found eight copies of Hawkeye #19 for my wife's upcoming Media and Disability class (including two today), and my buddy in South Florida just texted me that he found two more. I took some of your advice and tweeted to Matt Fraction, Steve Wacker, and Bill Rosemann, but none of them ever responded. Oh well, it was a great idea to try. Classes are small at her school, so ten should be fine for a class set. The students loved the issue when she used it last fall (in a slightly different class, Critical Disability Studies), so it should be a bigger hit this time around, after they've all seen Hawkeye speak a few lines in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Unfortunately, she only has two students signed up so far, and they'll cancel the class if she doesn't get a minimum of eight. It starts in May, so at least she has a full month to meet enrollment, but she's really worried. At the very least, she will offer Critical Disability Studies again in the fall, and she'll use the comics again there, regardless. Meanwhile, I learned about Chris Ware's Building Stories, and how it's largely a story about a woman living with a disability, so I bought a copy on Amazon, and that arrived recently. The set is huge and heavy and somewhat intimidating, but we're looking forward to figuring it all out together, and possibly incorporating it into her curriculum. She has never been into comics (aside from liking Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo), so this has been neat, showing her how my favorite art form and her scholarly interests intersect. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Mar 28, 2015 |
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Mar 28, 2015 22:23
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:So far, I've found eight copies of Hawkeye #19 for my wife's upcoming Media and Disability class (including two today), and my buddy in South Florida just texted me that he found two more. I took some of your advice and tweeted to Matt Fraction, Steve Wacker, and Bill Rosemann, but none of them ever responded. Oh well, it was a great idea to try. Matt fraction quit twitter, try his tumblr. This is very much up his alley
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Mar 29, 2015 01:26
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Blockhouse posted:I can never bring myself to do that quest cause the loving character is voice acted by the kid and it just weirds me out/depresses me Wow, that's cool of them. Is there video of the character/mission? I haven't played WoW in ages and will never resub again for ~reasons~ so I can't check
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Mar 29, 2015 02:15
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:So far, I've found eight copies of Hawkeye #19 for my wife's upcoming Media and Disability class (including two today), and my buddy in South Florida just texted me that he found two more. I took some of your advice and tweeted to Matt Fraction, Steve Wacker, and Bill Rosemann, but none of them ever responded. Oh well, it was a great idea to try. BRO I took two copies in on a trade this week. Lemme know if you need them, I'll just stick them in my pull file.
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Mar 29, 2015 02:30
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Maybe the trade thread wasn't the best for this, so I'll try here. I'm working on a project to display my signed books. It's coming along well, except I've run out of Mylar cases and the top and bottom row keep leaning forward. Anyway how do you display your signed or special books?
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Mar 29, 2015 02:51
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:Remember when My Little Pony made a special character for a Make-A-Wish kid, then specifically asked Bronies not to make porn of it? Only for the Bronies to get pissed off and make disabled kid Make-A-Wish pony-porn just out of spite? Until today, that was the worst Make-A-Wish story I had ever heard. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEdDMQZaCU (I miss the days that this was a punchline instead of a legit reaction)
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Mar 29, 2015 03:12
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Shawn posted:Maybe the trade thread wasn't the best for this, so I'll try here. I'm working on a project to display my signed books. It's coming along well, except I've run out of Mylar cases and the top and bottom row keep leaning forward. That's a really cool way to display 'em! I've just been slapping them in 8x11 frames and calling it a day so far, but I don't have a ton of signed and/or special copies I feel like displaying yet.
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Mar 29, 2015 03:18
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I've got 46 more display worthy books, not counting the stuff my mom framed for me as a kid. I've only been doing cons since 2006. This was definitely the cheapest way to display in bulk. Initially I was just going to do two rows and alternate books out every now and again, but they turned out so well I decided I could keep going.
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Mar 29, 2015 03:38
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Shawn posted:Maybe the trade thread wasn't the best for this, so I'll try here. I'm working on a project to display my signed books. It's coming along well, except I've run out of Mylar cases and the top and bottom row keep leaning forward. I love it! Very classy. Are those all Maguire signatures on the Justice League books in your top row, or others?
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Mar 29, 2015 03:41
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I love it! Very classy. Are those all Maguire signatures on the Justice League books in your top row, or others? All except Justice League Antarctica is Mark McKone, and the two Generation Losts also have the colorist as they were at the table next to him when I met Maguire... I have yet to find Bart Sears to get JLE 1 signed. Where is Bart Sears nowdays?
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Shawn posted:All except Justice League Antarctica is Mark McKone, and the two Generation Losts also have the colorist as they were at the table next to him when I met Maguire... I have yet to find Bart Sears to get JLE 1 signed. Where is Bart Sears nowdays? I met Bart Sears at an Orlando MegaCon over ten years ago and got all my Justice Leagues Europes signed by him. No idea what he's done lately, though. I met Maguire when I was a teenager, and Adam Hughes at another early-00s MegaCon. (Hughes wasn't friendly at all, but he was still cool enough to sign my Justice League Americas.)
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I got two issues signed by AH too, one is framed and the other is in my stack waiting for more cases. I decided to do the Maguires since they fit a theme of that team pic style he does. If anyone is interested in what I used I put together a product list for someone on /co/: Mylar Cases http://amzn.com/B004C53XR6 Mirror Clips http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?productId=3306430 And a trim, but I think the one I got was 1/4 inch instead of 1/2, but I can't find it on the website now. http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?productId=3058181
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Mar 29, 2015 04:52
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Shawn posted:Maybe the trade thread wasn't the best for this, so I'll try here. I'm working on a project to display my signed books. It's coming along well, except I've run out of Mylar cases and the top and bottom row keep leaning forward. I like what you've got here, I think it's a cool way to display your collection. I think you may want to do another hanger clip in the middle of each row to prevent bowing. Comics aren't very heavy, but that looks like 10 feet of aluminum that you're using to hold them in place and just the length alone might cause a little bowing. As for them leaning forward, what about a piece of clear plexiglas or other thin plastic that was attached to the wall with some kind of hinge? Just a 1in strip a little longer than your bottom bar. A hinge on either end would allow you to lift it up so you could pull individual comics out, but should also keep them from leaning forward. Failing a hinge, just using a piece of plexi as a bar slightly off the wall would also keep it from falling forward, but might have more potential for bending when you remove them.
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Yeah I need to use more clips and actually measure it out. I did that all by eyeballing it. The only issue is that the clips and screws are too thick for books to be placed in front of them so there will be gaps. I was thinking 2 more clips each trim would keep it from bowing and also tilt the books back, I think just more clips would actually be the best fix. If the books still lean forward I was thinking about just gluing some plastic strips to the bottom of the trim.
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Well I thought I was doing all right, reading Ms. Marvel and not being put off by memes and such, but looks like I'm officially out of touch with kids these days.
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Mar 31, 2015 03:45
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Lurdiak posted:Well I thought I was doing all right, reading Ms. Marvel and not being put off by memes and such, but looks like I'm officially out of touch with kids these days. I'm 19 and I don't get it either.
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Mar 31, 2015 07:16
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Lurdiak posted:Well I thought I was doing all right, reading Ms. Marvel and not being put off by memes and such, but looks like I'm officially out of touch with kids these days. is this kamala's alternate reality tumblr or are you just complaining about kids these days
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I don't get what's not to get.
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Mar 31, 2015 08:26
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Teenage Fansub posted:I don't get what's not to get. some kid got a letter with a sticker instead of a stamp? idgi, how does this realte to Ms Marvel or memes? Is this a meme?
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Mar 31, 2015 08:31
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Soonmot posted:some kid got a letter with a sticker instead of a stamp? Yeah. If my aunt did a cute stupid thing I'd probably post it on Facebook or something too  e: as a 31 year old. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 08:34
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WickedHate posted:I'm 19 and I don't get it either. This suddenly explains so much. But I don't get it either. Is it not actually a sticker but a stamp? I haven't mailed a letter since 2001.
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Mar 31, 2015 10:51
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Soonmot posted:some kid got a letter with a sticker instead of a stamp? idgi, how does this realte to Ms Marvel or memes? Is this a meme?
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Mar 31, 2015 11:17
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Nah its a sticker, so the letter got sent for free. I actually recognize the sticker book it came from. It is this book just filled with 70's rock stickers, mostly stuff like Lynyrd Skynyrd. Yup, that is a free bird.
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Mar 31, 2015 11:18
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Our collective sense of humor has been absolutely defeated by kinkshamer69 and poopjokesanonymous. A sad day.
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Mar 31, 2015 11:36
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I only trust poopjokesiknowthisguy
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I just don't understand why it's supposed to be funny, and yet it has hundreds of reblogs and people posting "I can't breathe" and such. I've never felt so out of touch. It's just a mildly amusing anecdote. It's like laughing at a chair being askew in the cafeteria.
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