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Carthag Tuek posted:tbh its weird that it didnt get invented more often How stuff gets invented- it's just fascinating. I can see why a lot of cultures attribute the invention of bronze-working to gods, because it seems virtually impossible to discover such a complex operation "by accident." Anyway-  -this is the Phaistos Disc; it was made in Crete around 3500 years ago. By the looks of things, some bright spark invented movable type printing (for clay tablets, at least) 35 centuries ago. Like you said, I find it hard to believe that this idea never occurred to anyone else over the long centuries! e: geez what a snipe. Uhh, it's a spiral, so maybe there's some kind of Junji Ito connection we can make? Or I could re-draw Heathcliffe in the style of Minoan logograms if you want
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Tree Bucket posted:How stuff gets invented- it's just fascinating. I can see why a lot of cultures attribute the invention of bronze-working to gods, because it seems virtually impossible to discover such a complex operation "by accident." Anyway- Looks like they used seals or stamps to me.
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Hello I was going to post some hell was full earlier but I was too busy screaming. Now I'm done! So here they are. If dogs ever realize this there will be no end of trouble  
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Something to be said about how the most prescient science fiction isn't from people who understand how technology works, but understand people's relationship with it and how they use it. Even simply extrapolating from current trends. Speaking of on the printing- you gotta remember, 'inventing' isn't like the mad science shows, you need to have the right prerequisite technologies, the right materials and some room to play around with them to come up with new inventions, as well as having an education and free time and equipment. (Reminds me of that one thing where tons of Anglican pastors were inventors because they had a required college education, and a job that gave them lots of free time) And a lot of labour-saving inventions often only come in when it becomes impractical or expensive to just brute-force it with human labour. We're used to the rapid pace of innovation from the 20th century because there was a particular explosion of technologies and literal arms races to improve them. Not to mention the sharing of information widely allowing for more ideas and discussion across the world. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 08:05 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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KennyMan666 posted:Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something It's strange... There's been quite a bit of unashamed horny anime drawn by this person, yet... I dunno, I feel like it's kinda similar to Juicika or Arlo and Janis in that it's horniness is somehow endearing? Also, scribbled Beaton comics are still tres good.
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is he into Myst because it's a work of art or is he into Myst because he just got castrated and we already established this arc that dudes with no gonads love Myst
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Samovar posted:It's strange... 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:is he into Myst because it's a work of art or is he into Myst because he just got castrated and we already established this arc that dudes with no gonads love Myst behind all the surface level "gamer" jokes they're clearly establishing that having or lacking a penis does not define you or your gender no one needs to rush to the hospital to surgically have a penis attached to them because their masculinity would be lost otherwise; that is a fake idea getting immersed in groundbreaking environmental puzzle game Myst is an obvious better use of your time, portrayed as a comical nerd exercise, but the underlying message is that they are not wrong because literally anything is
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Emzedoh posted:You're not the first to say so, though I'm no judge. Is it just the phonetic accent that's wrong or is it also the vocabulary? It's the phonetics. This one's good, though. A Glaswegian would never say "fookin'", but would more likely pronounce it with a short 'u', so "fuckin'" Here's one of Glasgow's finest exponents of the phrase, giving you the lowdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaqsOL-Nv24
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     And that's it for the first run of Malky Dungeon! I hope you've enjoyed reading it as much as I've enjoyed posting it. It's kind of messy and a little amateurish in a few ways, but it's stayed with me in the years since I first read it in a way that a lot of more polished media hasn't. From the author's commentary: quote:Whit a send aff! The guy wae the guitar is based on someone I had a chat with outside the Lismore. I swear to god that link to his Patreon was broken the first time I tried it. I'd been assuming Simon wasn't making comics anymore, but it seems he's been turning out hundreds of pages on a historical webcomic, The Hogback Saga. Chapter One can be read here https://www.patreon.com/posts/49154164 Chapter Two can be read here https://www.patreon.com/posts/58863413 I do know there's a little more Malky Dungeon after this: a more serious story involving Malcolm and a Halloween short featuring the Weegie Wizard taking revenge on a drunk idiot for queue jumping him for a taxi. I know where the first thing is, but I've got no idea what happened what happened to the second, it seems to have gone missing in the transition between sites. I'm down to post the next story, or I could give it a try and post something else for a bit. What do people think?
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Frazzbo posted:It's the phonetics. This one's good, though. A Glaswegian would never say "fookin'", but would more likely pronounce it with a short 'u', so "fuckin'" Interestingly, he goes back to spelling it with u only two pages later. Skimming back through my imgur file, that actually seems to be the preferred spelling. Incidentally, up until I started posting Malky Dungeon I assumed Billy Connolly had a generic Scottish accent, not specifically Glaswegian.
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It's Halloween, and I have a little time, so how about you join me on a re-read of one of my favourite horror comic artists: Emily Caroll. You've probably seen 'His face all red' before, so let's start with an earlier, less well-known one-shot: All Along the Wall (2014). Side-note: Because the comic is hosted in a way that takes advantage of the blackspace/whitespace of the website background, I'm just going to preserve that as best I can.    
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Carthag Tuek posted:tbh its weird that it didnt get invented more often it's understandable why the scribes drew so many dicks on the margins
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Jeez, I went hunting for the Halloween comic I mentioned and found out that Malky Dungeon was still updating in 2017. So either it isn't half as old as I was making out or it was just super slow. Jeez, I must be getting old.
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Trixie Slaughteraxe for PresidentHempuli posted:Scheming 35  Malachite 5  Malachite 6  Malachite 7   Talking character deaths: 39 (+4) Deaths altogether: 78+ (+4; Torgeir's family) Destroyed relationships: 2 (+1) 
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Dang, when Lyndon touched that scepter and "didn't see a death" I almost said something about everything afterwards being an extended vision of the future, but it went on so long I stopped believing it until the yellow guy's spiel just now.
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Tree Bucket posted:How stuff gets invented- it's just fascinating. I can see why a lot of cultures attribute the invention of bronze-working to gods, because it seems virtually impossible to discover such a complex operation "by accident." Anyway- Whats this got to do with movable type?
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Fagtastic posted:Whats this got to do with movable type? It's like the very very earliest tiniest seed of the idea of movable type. Some bronze age guy/gal thinking, "writing these symbols takes a long time, wouldn't it be rad if there was some way of making it quicker?" Then getting ignored for the next three thousand years
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rollick posted:Sherlock by Jordan Piantedosi from Perfect Stars, pt2 of 3 The thrilling conclusion of Jordan Piantedosi's Sherlock, from the comic Perfect Stars          Emzedoh posted:Also I wanted to say, the art in this is really cool! Yes! It's the main reason to read it. The archive is mostly one-offs, with original characters (and Oscar Wilde). Maybe I'll post my favourites -- this one seemed nice and self-contained.
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Splicer posted:A font of misery
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Ditocoaf posted:Dang, when Lyndon touched that scepter and "didn't see a death" I almost said something about everything afterwards being an extended vision of the future, but it went on so long I stopped believing it until the yellow guy's spiel just now. Ohhh, is this a butterfly in a bell jar situation? The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch covered this in that book's version of time travel. If you encounter someone who's existence is the cause for your current reality (a time traveler, in that book), then you want to cage them up and keep them alive as long as possible. Here, if Lyndon dies, the scepter vision ends and that current reality goes away.
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ah, how did Ronnie describe my home life so well?
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Chainclaw posted:Ohhh, is this a butterfly in a bell jar situation? The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch covered this in that book's version of time travel. If you encounter someone who's existence is the cause for your current reality (a time traveler, in that book), then you want to cage them up and keep them alive as long as possible. Here, if Lyndon dies, the scepter vision ends and that current reality goes away. you put a spoiler for a different piece of media inside the spoiler text 
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because that different peice of media may also be the plot they think it's spoilering and don't want to expose it Wait, is it because they spoiled a different o e outside of this one. I guess they could also include the other title outside the spoiler? This is getting dumb World Famous W has a new favorite as of 15:27 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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That's basic setup for that other book, it's not really a spoiler. It'd be like spoilering that Harry Potter is actually a wizard and not some normal kid living in his relatives attic or whatever.
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Chainclaw posted:That's basic setup for that other book, it's not really a spoiler. It'd be like spoilering that Harry Potter is actually a wizard and not some normal kid living in his relatives attic or whatever. What the gently caress? 
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Ditocoaf posted:Dang, when Lyndon touched that scepter and "didn't see a death" I almost said something about everything afterwards being an extended vision of the future, but it went on so long I stopped believing it until the yellow guy's spiel just now. Awww, what? We're inn Lyndon's vision? Like in The Phantom comic strip? Daaammmmnnn.
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Today’s Hark! A Vagrant has some Hamlet spoilers, so beware. Well I mean, if the Greatest Hamlet was in town, what would you do? Sit on your hands? Here is a bit of time back in the limelight for Edwin Booth, whose brother hogs the national memory as to what was a-happening back in the 1860’s. Now before anyone asks, because I have a feeling they will, I do indeed know that Edwin Booth saved the life of Robert Todd Lincoln. For those of you who don’t know it, pick up some Sarah Vowell, it is a dang good story.  Of course, Elizabeth could not help but be a fox with like a throne  Get ‘em Bess  I love how people went straight for figures from the Heritage Minutes. I think we are on to something.  Kite flyin’ Ben Franklin didn’t get a shirt yet, so I made him a comic.
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"You'll believe me when the star thing happens" god what a good comic
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Grün Bæla        Malgra's brewing up some chaos. I'm sure this will go exactly to plan and not get out of hand at all.
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haha it's like demon world version of Shirley. kinda amusing.
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:LAST TIME ON BACK    even though i've ready this comic several times the dead man still creeps me out. just the feeling of being watched at night something primally unsettling about it.  creepy loving monster!   
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I'd be lying if I said I never did this to my cats at least once a week for the last 8 years
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Last time on Joey's Special Experience by Hirohiko Archie: Joost and God burst through the burning roof of Jodocus Manor! God breaks several of Joost's ribs by crushing his ribcage between his knees, forcing Joost to lose his grip on God, then sticks his fingers into the wall to arrest his fall! He bids Joost farewell, and Joost notices the bent and broken spear that was stuck in his shoulder is falling along with him! Read right to left:       I can't begin to describe how much I love this whole ridiculous back-and-forth countermove-countermove-countermove jojo-fight-while-falling-in-a-burning-building scene 
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Emzedoh posted:
I would like to read as much malky dungeon as there is available thank you
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i was worried i wasnt gonna get my daily allotment of joost! my fav panel is I'M BACK BOYS!
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