🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

[Ti-99/4A]

Jigaboo Junction huh? Racist much?

 

[Pikonic]

Howdy friend! Sorry to break it to you but the socialist nation of Europe lost its only redeeming quality a few years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digita...le:Worldmap_digital_television_transition.svg

How do I give multiple likes?
Seriously, Greece is making the change this year.

 

[Holdek]

...I'm better off going backwards in life and establishing my beachhead firmly in the past.

All I'll say is, how's that been working out for you?

 

[Pikonic]

Another two years of Barry-boy and St. Shelley in power, and we'll pretty much be Europe...except that nation hasn't been forced to convert to DTV. Staying with analog is the one thing they've done the hell right over there.

You could go to a country with analog TV that isn't planning on switching over, there's two of them.
One is North Korea

Good bump of a dead thread.

Threads never die. They just go to sleep for a long time.
Unless you lock them, then ok, they're dead.

 

[John Titor]

For someone who likes Married with Children, you seem to miss the point about Al Bundy; all he cares about is his past glory of four touchdowns but the harsh truth is, nobody around him cares.

Which brings up our next point: You may want to live in the past, but the world around you will keep marching on with or without you.

 

[Major Josef Ecker]

...I'm better off going backwards in life and establishing my beachhead firmly in the past.

Iconoclast confirmed as Jay Gatsby?

 

[Golly]

Iconoclast confirmed as Jay Gatsby?

Motion to change his title to "Old Sport"?

 

[Ti-99/4A]

I have one. I hate it. I was barely getting a dozen channels to begin with, and then I lost the remote. So I've been stuck on one channel--at least it's one I like, but how many times can you watch the same episodes of Gilligan's Island over and over?-- for weeks on end now. If not for DVD's and shows streamed free on the Internet, I'd go mad....

How the hell can you stream shows on a Win98 box? My XP machine from 2004 can barely do that

 

[The_Iconoclast]

I met Sir Pikonic at a bar, we've been together for two and a half years

Blob met Barf at a bar, and look how well that turned out.

Why's gay marriage and gun control a sick joke? ...[M]aybe there's something funny about them I am missing. Care to elaborate?

Have you not heard the story of the Pop-Tart gun? I took it to the next level and wrote a story about a boy threatened with suspension from school for defecating a turd shaped like a gun. (Yeah, I know, you're thinking: "Oh, Lord, the guy's doing more feces jokes". But I figured South Park-level satire was in order for this stupidity, and they did two whole episodes about poop.)

The same-sex marriage story was particularly inspired... It's about a young lover who, to win a girl's heart, starts an Occupy-style rally for lower-class rights. For the speeches I took actual lines I've heard from gay rights supporters and simply changed a few words here and there. For example: "I was taught all my life being poor was a source of shame. I even prayed to die, I was so miserable. I dream of the day I am able to walk down the street holding my upper-class partner's hand and not be stared at like some freak". The joke being that the city literally grinds to a halt because all its workers have walked off and joined the protest, when you know no one in reality would take such a movement seriously, and the kid would be arrested for trespassing in twenty minutes.

Jigaboo Junction huh? Racist much?

No, just grew up in a really lousy neighborhood.

For someone who likes Married with Children, you seem to miss the point about Al Bundy....

No, I haven't. The point is, despite countless failures and the breaking of every bone in his body-- twice-- he never gives up, never surrenders. He's unapologetically sexist, ornery, old-fashioned, politically incorrect, and doesn't bow to convention. He likes "Psycho Dad", beer, and Big 'Uns. Al's a man's man.

You seem to dislike your brother. Why are you under his thumb?

It's complicated. You know the one about the frog and the boiling water? One day I woke up and realized I wasn't in control of my life any more. He got mixed in with the wrong crowd, acting out, smoking dope... pretty soon he's stealing to support his habit. Plus he's built like a goddamn bull moose, that helps his case a lot.

You may want to live in the past, but the world around you will keep marching on with or without you.

Sure, you get a lot of good momentum flying off the edge of a cliff, but you aren't going to like where you land. Sometimes running blindly forward isn't the best thing.

All I'll say is, how's [living in the past] been working out for you?

It's working juuuuuuust fine. When the changeoids all fall screaming off the edge of the cliff, I'll still be standing somewhere at half-past 1997, laughing at them.

But you keep pining for idealistic days that never existed. A chick that didn't love you and a job where they were waiting to fire you. How is that better?

I was allowed the illusion of control. I guess that's really all life is--thinking you have it all.

Also your site is impossible to navigate. Between the broken links and the shitty mouse images it's like 1999 decided to die there.

That's not my fault, is it? I don't control my own money right now, so I can't really afford some fancy candy-ass webhost, can I? I take care of what little I anm allowed to have. I'll fix the broken links, just be patient.

How the hell can you stream shows on a Win98 box? My XP machine from 2004 can barely do that.

I bought a new modern computer a few years ago. My Win 98 OS is mostly for storage, writing, and coloring comics. However, I do want to upgrade soon. I just need to burn the files and programs I want to disks, and I need to find a computer somewhere between the jet age and the biplane to bridge the growing progress gap.

 

[José Mourinho]

We seem to get quite a lot of guests recently.

Hey there, Iconoclast. Welcome to the forums!

 

[atomik fyre]

It's complicated. You know the one about the frog and the boiling water? One day I woke up and realized I wasn't in control of my life any more. He got mixed in with the wrong crowd, acting out, smoking dope... pretty soon he's stealing to support his habit. Plus he's built like a goddamn bull moose, that helps his case a lot.

I know about the frog and the boiling water, not sure how that's applicable. Literally and figuratively, you are not a frog. You are a man. You can up and leave. If we're going the fable route, I find that the tale of the scorpion and the frog works better for your situation. He got mixed in the wrong crowd. He started acting out. He started doing drugs. He started stealing. He is built like a bull moose. What about You? This still doesn't answer why He has power over You. Are you his slave? Why do you have to answer to him? Is he the one behind the identity theft that wiped clean your accounts? If so, holy shit he is powerful and evil and you need to get out of there! If not, leave anyway, you're not doing yourself any favors by staying. If you don't leave, change for the better. No one has power over you that you don't give to them.

I understand all the excuses not to leave or to change, I used to make them myself.
"I don't have the money to move/change."
"If I move won't know anyone wherever I settle down."
"What if I change and nobody likes the new me?"
"The devil I know is better than the devil I don't know."
"I can't leave my family! I love them too much to leave them!"
"Shitty things happen everywhere, might as well stay here where I'm comfortable."

I changed. You can change. Being a conservative is not rejecting change and constantly harkening back to the "good ole days." It is about being prepared for when the world does change and how it may unexpectedly alter your life. My father taught me that. Very conservative man, fought in Nam. Perhaps shockingly to you (and anyone who believe the cliches and fairy tales we tell about the political sides in this nation) he was in support of Occupy Wall Street and only owns a single gun, passed down to him from his grand father and no ammo. He taught me the value in myself, and that it was in myself not in political parties, other people, other scenes or cliques. It took a while to sink in, but I eventually got it.

You know, I keep typing, but I know it isn't sinking in. It can't, you won't let it. You've set yourself up as a modern day Prometheus, a champion of manly men, who's been unfairly chained down by the Liberals of the world as the eagle of reality returns each day to rip you open and tear out your liver to make you pay for trying to help the common man in spite of the gods. Give it up. Change. It's only as easy or hard as you'll let it be.

We made gods and jailers because we felt small and ashamed and alone. We let them try us and judge us and, like sheep to the slaughter, we allowed ourselves to be... sentenced. See now! Our sentence is up!

 

[Pine Tar]

Life goes on. You can't stop the world from changing. Sure, maybe others are running over a cliff (and they're not), but at least they want to make themselves better. You want to stay where you are because your misery is comfortable and that's what's most disturbing of all. Well, at least it would be if you hadn't compared a forum member and her boyfriend to Borb.

 

[Pikonic]

Blob met Barf at a bar, and look how well that turned out.

Yeah, they were married for the rest of Bob's life. They were shitty people, but they stayed together despite the fact both could have gotten divorces as they both had before. With that last pipe are you implying people who meet at bars wil have autistic children? That's fucked up bro.

And you know, don't comment on my valid post about the analog to DTV switch, it's fine.

Life goes on. You can't stop the world from changing. Sure, maybe others are running over a cliff (and they're not), but at least they want to make themselves better. You want to stay where you are because your misery is comfortable and that's what's most disturbing of all. Well, at least it would be if you hadn't compared a forum member and her boyfriend to Borb.

This. Every time we say something he gives one excuse.
"DTV converters are like 40 bucks."
"Yeah I lost the remote. It sucks."
"Buy another?"
"…………"

"I met someone at a bar and it worked out."
"You're kid will have autism!" (Icon, if you reply to thing don't bother saying that's not what you meant because you piped an article about Chris in your response)

"You shouldn't pick up college girls."
"But my ex does it."


It's like when a child comes up with any argument (no matter how pointless) just to disagree with their sibling.

 

[EI 903]

He's got a lolcow thread for a reason. Don't expect much in the way of rational communication or basic reasoning skills.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

This. Every time we say something he gives one excuse.
"DTV converters are like 40 bucks."
"Yeah I lost the remote. It sucks."
"Buy another?"
"…………"

"I met someone at a bar and it worked out."
"You're kid will have autism!" (Icon, if you reply to thing don't bother saying that's not what you meant because you piped an article about Chris in your response)

"You shouldn't pick up college girls."
"But my ex does it."


It's like when a child comes up with any argument (no matter how pointless) just to disagree with their sibling.

He cant admit to being wrong otherwise his "woe is me" illusion dies. Pretty socialist of him.

Also not everything leads to an Occupy style protest. Really seems to be a crutch in your storytelling. Welfare leech levels of lazy. Oh yeah...

 

[The_Iconoclast]

I have a strategy for debating: wear down my opponent with every conceivable counter-argument so they tire and lose focus, get them screaming and red-faced, and then record their angry responses for use later. Thus, people get a change to see what gibbering buffoons my enemies are, and they become that much easier to take down. If I do this enough I can get more fellow patriots rallying behind me to turn back this nation I love from the cliff. It's time for retrogress in America, not progress. By getting the wrong people out of power we can start the Herculean task of dialing back twenty years of poison change (like the TV ratings system that caused all my problems to start with).

I have already spent enough money on that worthless DTV box, including a second antenna when the first conked out. I've done everything I can to milk more channels out of it. I'm done. I'm not buying another remote. I'll just save my money and buy a dish, or simply watch my shows online. So, Europe is switching from analog to DTV, huh? Big mistake. Wait until they realize they're going to lose most of their favorite channels. France will be on fire again. Plus ca change? The essence of liberalism. La changement est mauvais.

I don't buy the argument that failure is somehow noble and should be embraced. Every time I've screwed up, my punishments got worse and worse. After my journalism career tanking and two shops folding, I'm afraid to try for another job because I can't imagine how bad the punishment for failing will be this time. Deeper debt? Fewer freedoms? More beatings? Jail? Maybe wind up crippled for life, or even killed? No, I don't think so. If I do move on, it will be on my terms, knowing every rule, learning every angle, eliminating every possibility of loss or failure. That's the only way.

Look, the bar scene may work for some, but it isn't for me. I don't drink, I don't have the money to go to such places even if I did, my voice is very scratchy and broken due to ill health, so I don't want to have to try and yell over a bunch of bar noise, and even without all that I couldn't go out anyway, as my brother only allows us to use the car on Sunday mornings. Besides, for every one successful bar hookup story there must be ten bar pickup horror stories. not worth the odds. (Admittedly, Chris is a worst-case scenario, but Bob could have found a better place to meet women.) That's why I like college relationships. They're perfect. Since they're mostly conducted by phone, you get to stay in, you don't have to take the girl out and spend money on her, or even speak to them if you don't want to. You can go three, four hours and not say a dozen words to one another, if you know what I mean. After six months to a year of phone fun, you agree to meet in person. That's the college system. It's how we men lived, and how we were taught. And it generally works, even if the girl they paired we with was a little off. I think I'm ready to try it again. Now that I know the rules, I believe I can make it work.

 

[EI 903]

Thank you for spending four paragraphs underlining my last comment.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

And life has worked out so well with these strategies.

 

[Pikonic]

Ahem, if I may.


The Iconoclast admits he debates like a child.
He blames Obama for losing his remote.
He thinks going to bars to meet people will make your children autistic.

 

[Marionette]

Kittentits-- cite a for instance? I'm always trying out new layout tricks, and some work while others don't. I'm working on a couple of trade paperback reprint collections, and I want to make sure the image resize and compression doesn't make the text too hard to read. Any input is appreciated.

Inconsistent shading, poor layout of text or too much text, lack of color scheme, bad frames, confusing depth perception, characters going out of frame, wonky backgrounds, little to no solid lines and an odd painting method which shows no use of layering or very, very poor layering.