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THERE STILL IS AN ATARI? Like the last thing I remember was seeing their name attached to the first neverwinter nights about fifteen years ago. Also when are they releasing the Jaguar 2?
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WampaLord posted:Sadly, Prester Jane is afflicted with Cassandra syndrome, destined to be right but never believed. yes i can't imagine why Prester Jane posted:Because what I am talking about is directly related to what is occurring in Trump's base and the Alt-Right. Also a shitload of Alt-Right guys have started going on lone-wolf sprees recently, which is something I have been cautioning about for over a year now because of my experiences in the Otherkin community. I have literally sat in a room full of booze and guns and survival supplies with a bunch of deluded assholes who thought TEOTWAWKI was going to happen that very night. I have seen the lengths that delusion can drive an individual too and have also seen how some people become so desperate for TETOWAWKI to start that they convince themselves that they are firing its first shots e.g. Dylann Roof. helter skelter but for otherkin lol
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Feb 17, 2018 00:36
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Teal posted:This is terrifyingly accurate Calvin and Hobbes is quite literally the only actually-funny newspaper comic I've ever read. I've seen some that are occasionally "kinda witty" or make accurate political points, but not very consistently or at the same level. edit: Like I remember some years back I thought "I bet Calvin and Hobbes actually wasn't as good as I thought it was as a child" and went and read some of the strips and was surprised to find out that it actually was that good.
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Feb 17, 2018 00:37
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Crowsbeak posted:THERE STILL IS AN ATARI? Like the last thing I remember was seeing their name attached to the first neverwinter nights about fifteen years ago. Also when are they releasing the Jaguar 2? kinda? the company is dead but someone still owns the brand
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Feb 17, 2018 00:37
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logikv9 posted:Costco is good They really are. https://www.snopes.com/politics/business/costcoceo.asp quote:Mr. Sinegal begs to differ. He rejects Wall Street’s assumption that to succeed in discount retailing, companies must pay poorly and skimp on benefits, or must ratchet up prices to meet Wall Street’s profit demands.
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Feb 17, 2018 00:42
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logikv9 posted:Costco is good Welcome to Costco I love you
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Feb 17, 2018 01:23
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Ytlaya posted:Calvin and Hobbes is quite literally the only actually-funny newspaper comic I've ever read. I've seen some that are occasionally "kinda witty" or make accurate political points, but not very consistently or at the same level. Wallace The Brave is probably the closest anyone’s come to recapturing that magic: http://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave It’s still not quite as good as C&H, but literally nothing is. Fake Edit: Spirit of the Staircase isn’t bad either.
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Feb 17, 2018 01:24
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i remember wizard of id and hagar the horrible being kind of funny
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Feb 17, 2018 01:29
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Shear Modulus posted:i remember wizard of id and hagar the horrible being kind of funny Zits is p good, imo
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Feb 17, 2018 01:38
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Ytlaya posted:Calvin and Hobbes is quite literally the only actually-funny newspaper comic I've ever read. I've seen some that are occasionally "kinda witty" or make accurate political points, but not very consistently or at the same level. 
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Feb 17, 2018 01:40
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Far side approaches C&H but lacks the depth that Waterson delivers. Also Costco is awesome, and gently caress amex
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Feb 17, 2018 01:44
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Teal posted:
Calvin and Hobbes definitely set the stage for my leftism
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Feb 17, 2018 01:54
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Ytlaya posted:Calvin and Hobbes is quite literally the only actually-funny newspaper comic I've ever read. I've seen some that are occasionally "kinda witty" or make accurate political points, but not very consistently or at the same level. 
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Feb 17, 2018 01:58
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theflyingexecutive posted:Calvin and Hobbes definitely set the stage for my leftism seriously, I grew up absorbing C&H and it had a huge impact on both my politics and personality watterson should be sainted
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Feb 17, 2018 02:03
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The government let the economy get so bad that any dipshit fuckbrains could come into office and win over everyone with throwing out a couple hundred bucks  also apparently MTV has woke up to class war 
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Feb 17, 2018 02:04
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I'm mixed on Costco because they fired me for being late and bad
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Feb 17, 2018 02:09
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I’m going to do that thing Calvin’s dad did where I tell my kid he came from Kmart because I was too cheap to shop at Sears. Then I’m going to watch their expressions change as they Google wtf Kmart and Sears are.
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Feb 17, 2018 02:19
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/108238747530829825
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Feb 17, 2018 02:31
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while costco is good that costco GBS thread is extremely weird but i assume they're attempting to be ironic
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Feb 17, 2018 02:46
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Reading these again as an adult is a whole new experience Calvin and Hobbes, goddamn
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Feb 17, 2018 02:52
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theflyingexecutive posted:Calvin and Hobbes definitely set the stage for my leftism
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Feb 17, 2018 02:57
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doesn't he basically literally do this anyway with his art
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Feb 17, 2018 02:58
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nah posted:doesn't he basically literally do this anyway with his art He is supposedly good friends with Berkeley Breathed, so I keep hoping that B.B. coming out of retirement will bring Waterston out too. edit: now that I think about it, Waterston might have done something for the BC revival. There was a C&H based strip where Opus and Calvin traded cats, but idk if Waterston did any of the art.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Reading these again as an adult is a whole new experience Yeah, people always say this poo poo about various children's media, and they're usually just referring to things that aren't particularly funny or interesting and more or less amount to dumb "lol marriage amirite?!" type jokes, but C&H actually has a lot of genuinely good stuff in retrospect. I've been truly shocked to reread some of these and see how good they were. I'm honestly not sure how they ever managed to get published in a newspaper alongside all the other dreck that ends up on the funny pages. Is there some specific reason he stopped making cartoons? I seem to remember this being the case, and his reason being something that was good and made sense. WampaLord posted:Zits is p good, imo Eh, it's mostly "truisms about parenting/life that make parents reading nod their heads and think 'haha yes this is certainly a thing that reminds me of the common teenage/parenting experience.'" It's better than most comics, but that isn't saying much.
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Feb 17, 2018 03:42
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I think Watterson didn't want C&H to end up being just another comic page zombie series like Garfield or Marmaduke.
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Feb 17, 2018 03:45
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Newspaper spiderman was and is fantastic
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Ytlaya posted:Yeah, people always say this poo poo about various children's media, and they're usually just referring to things that aren't particularly funny or interesting and more or less amount to dumb "lol marriage amirite?!" type jokes, but C&H actually has a lot of genuinely good stuff in retrospect. I've been truly shocked to reread some of these and see how good they were. I'm honestly not sure how they ever managed to get published in a newspaper alongside all the other dreck that ends up on the funny pages. He ran out of ideas, and figured that's the time to stop. Which is astounding given comic strip creators. the only time he's really done anything comics related since is I think an Opus strip and I believe he did something for the ended-too-soon (because the creator got Parkinson's) strip Cul-de-Sac, which he basically considered the spiritual successor to C&H.
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Feb 17, 2018 04:58
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Watterson really hates capitalism in general and how comics turn into merch zombies like Peanuts and Garfield, iirc. He apparently stopped signing C&H books because they kept showing up on Ebay.
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I'd had the complete Calvin and Hobbes in an Amazon wishlist for a while and this thread reminded me to look at it and it was less than $50 for the paperback version so I grabbed it. I had all the books when I was a kid but I have no idea where they are now.
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The Cameo posted:the only time he's really done anything comics related since is I think an Opus strip and I believe he did something for the ended-too-soon (because the creator got Parkinson's) strip Cul-de-Sac, which he basically considered the spiritual successor to C&H.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlz8DVn1Mjc
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I try to not own any physical media with the sole exception of the c&h set and I'm really pumped for when my little kid gets old enough to read it himself and if he doesn't love it I'll immediately disown him
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You realise your kid is going to see Calvin as a role model to emulate right
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Inescapable Duck posted:You realise your kid is going to see Calvin as a role model to emulate right in this hosed up hellworld calvin is a good role model
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Feb 17, 2018 15:09
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Calvin is a stirnerist imo
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Antwan3K posted:Calvin is a stirnerist imo Calvin and Hobbes are both Rousseauian. Teen Calvin is an anprim
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Inescapable Duck posted:You realise your kid is going to see Calvin as a role model to emulate right how is that bad in any possible way
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mastershakeman posted:I try to not own any physical media why, just out of curiosity
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