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Tesla's the one who kept making doomsday devices.
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Lurdiak posted:Tesla's the one who kept making doomsday devices. Or lied / bullshitted about it. Tesla was an underappreciated genius for years but some people (hi Oatmeal) are overcorrecting.
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Jan 28, 2018 12:55
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The Oatmeal getting overly excited about something, you say?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Or lied / bullshitted about it. Yeah, Tesla wrote "Death Ray! (maybe from space??)" on a napkin and suddenly he's a steampunk hero Meanwhile Edison invented a relatively painless instant execution method for an elephant already condemned to die and that gets spun like he just loved killing elephants
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Jan 28, 2018 14:03
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Our prisons are overcrowded with condemned elephants and I dont see Tesla out there doing anything about it.
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Jan 28, 2018 14:27
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Guy Goodbody posted:Yeah, Tesla wrote "Death Ray! (maybe from space??)" on a napkin and suddenly he's a steampunk hero Wow so I decided to look up more about the elephant. I thought it was another part of the Current War but that was later misinformation. That being said Edison didn't invent a painful way of killing an elephant. He just got involved to add to the spectacle. Oh and to record the whole thing so he could profit off it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant
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Jan 28, 2018 15:11
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If you're going to kill some elephants might as well make some dough of it.
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Jan 28, 2018 16:28
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That elephant was going to die no matter what. Edison gave it a better death than the hanging that was planned.
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The dollop did an episode on Tesla and Edison http://thedollop.libsyn.com/acdc tl;dr: Basically Edison was an out-and-out huckster who was constantly searching for an easy way to make a buck and Tesla was essentially a certified lunatic
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Jan 28, 2018 18:00
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But nevermind actual history, what if I glue a bunch of plastic gears to a fedora?
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Guy Goodbody posted:Yeah, Tesla wrote "Death Ray! (maybe from space??)" on a napkin and suddenly he's a steampunk hero Edison wanted the electric chair to use alternating current because he wanted it to be associated with death (he also secretively funded the building of the thing). The first time the chair was used William Kemmler was electrocuted for 17 seconds, this didn't kill him so they had to electrocute him again causing his blood vessels to burst.
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Jan 28, 2018 18:59
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Tesla was a hardcore eugenicist shithead and while that wasn't particularly uncommon among intellectuals of his period it's always been funny to me in a bitter way that of course that brand of softboiled "scientific" racism is the kind of thing 21st century Tesla fanboys are ok with handwaving away.
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Guy Goodbody posted:That elephant was going to die no matter what. Edison gave it a better death than the hanging that was planned. There is no way even old timey people were stupid enough to try to hang an elephant. I refuse to believe that.
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Jan 28, 2018 20:39
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They used a crane.
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Jan 28, 2018 20:48
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Lurdiak posted:There is no way even old timey people were stupid enough to try to hang an elephant. I refuse to believe that.  The poor jumbo. 
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Jan 28, 2018 21:18
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JFC just shoot it in the head you morons.
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Jan 28, 2018 22:20
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Were the Monkees comics ever collected since they came out in the 60s? I'm sure they aren't great, but my wife loves the Monkees and comics and it seems like she'd enjoy reading them.
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Jan 28, 2018 23:15
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Hey. You wouldn't expect the Monkees movie to be true art, but it is. Maybe there's something to the comics.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Were the Monkees comics ever collected since they came out in the 60s? I'm sure they aren't great, but my wife loves the Monkees and comics and it seems like she'd enjoy reading them. No idea, but I want to use this opportunity to mention that the Monkees movie was titled Head simply because if they ever made a sequel they could print "From the People Who Gave You Head" on the posters.
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Jan 28, 2018 23:23
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So they were Dell comics. Tough luck there :/ edit: 'The Archies #4' has The Monkees guest starring. That only came out a few weeks ago. https://www.comixology.com/The-Archies-4/digital-comic/619119 Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Jan 28, 2018 |
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Skwirl posted:No idea, but I want to use this opportunity to mention that the Monkees movie was titled Head simply because if they ever made a sequel they could print "From the People Who Gave You Head" on the posters. Definitely worth mentioning! I think both their movies were kind of weird, but the one had Frank Zappa in it. Teenage Fansub posted:So they were Dell comics. Tough luck there :/ Were Dell comics never reprinted with no hope of it ever happening or something?
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A Strange Aeon posted:Were Dell comics never reprinted with no hope of it ever happening or something?
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A Strange Aeon posted:Were the Monkees comics ever collected since they came out in the 60s? I'm sure they aren't great, but my wife loves the Monkees and comics and it seems like she'd enjoy reading them. I don't think any of the celebrity licensed comics from the 60's have ever been collected. Not even the issues where Jerry Lewis fights The Flash.
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Random Stranger posted:I don't think any of the celebrity licensed comics from the 60's have ever been collected. Not even the issues where Jerry Lewis fights The Flash. But...Goody Rickles!
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Endless Mike posted:Basically, the license for Monkees comics is held by the Monkees unless there's some insane person out there that purchased them from them again. In theory whoever has them could sell them to another company and they could reprint the Dell ones if they could get ahold of either the original art or high-quality scans (these are more likely and would probably require a lot of touchup work). I won't say there's zero chance, but unless there's some huge Monkees revival, I wouldn't hold my breath. I'm sure the first few issues are probably a fortune, but maybe I could track down some random ones for a reasonable price. I'll check the comic book store downtown, they have a poo poo ton of old stuff, I could see them potentially having some Monkees comics.
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Jan 29, 2018 02:11
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Books, Comics and Things in Fort Wayne Indiana had at one time the largest selection of Dell back issues in the country. It might be worth contacting them to see what they have on hand.
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Jan 29, 2018 04:03
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Do Gold Key/Whitman comics count as Dell?
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joehonkie posted:But...Goody Rickles! Never got his own book, sadly.
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A Strange Aeon posted:I'm sure the first few issues are probably a fortune, but maybe I could track down some random ones for a reasonable price. I'll check the comic book store downtown, they have a poo poo ton of old stuff, I could see them potentially having some Monkees comics. The issues on ebay didn't look too expensive. Just one of the genuine article would probably be a cooler gift than a reprint collection anyhow.
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Lightning Lord posted:Do Gold Key/Whitman comics count as Dell? They continued the numbering so sort of. BCT had a fuckload of those as well. In the late 90's they were well known for their selection. I know they still have an enormous inventory so if that's your thing hit them up. They also had a very large number of 50's humor books.
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https://twitter.com/noesunverbo/status/957823181619900417 I'm with Zdarsky on this one.
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RIP Grawlix https://twitter.com/TheJulieBenson/status/957686707817668609
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Comics are in a weird place where they can have like, graphic beheadings and torture but not say poo poo or show a boob
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Guy Goodbody posted:Comics are in a weird place where they can have like, graphic beheadings and torture but not say poo poo or show a boob
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Jan 29, 2018 14:31
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We participated in a genocide, Miss Buxley
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Jan 29, 2018 14:42
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Guy Goodbody posted:Comics are in a weird place where they can have like, graphic beheadings and torture but not say poo poo or show a boob Truly, we are lucky that freedom fighters like Jim Balent are courageously are tearing down this wall of oppression.
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Vincent posted:Truly, we are lucky that freedom fighters like Jim Balent are courageously are tearing down this wall of oppression. Honestly, I'd prefer it if they toned down the violence in mainline superhero comics. I just remember the last page of the first issue of Green Lantern for the New 52 was a big full page of a couple of beheaded corpses, neck stumps pointed at the viewer. It's like, why? You couldn't get away with that in an actual Green Lantern movie. It was so off putting and unnecessary. Don't get me wrong, I love tits and gore. I would never want to see an end to tits and gore comics. I love Murcielago. But for something that has a kid's show on the Cartoon Network and kid's toys in the toy aisle at Target, there's such a thing as too much
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Skwirl posted:
That is generally a good idea.
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Lurdiak posted:JFC just shoot it in the head you morons. You pretty much needed a purpose built gun in the early 20th century to be able to kill an elephant.
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Archyduke posted:Tesla was a hardcore eugenicist shithead and while that wasn't particularly uncommon among intellectuals of his period it's always been funny to me in a bitter way that of course that brand of softboiled "scientific" racism is the kind of thing 21st century Tesla fanboys are ok with handwaving away. It's pretty much the elephant in the room regarding steampunk. The whole "height of imperialism backed by white supremacy which the science of the day was happy to enable" thing gets conveniently left out.
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