samutara.bsky.social
Rides a bicycle.
Knows a few things about a few things.
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Not seriously (but not 100% unseriously either): the Welsh?
For real, though? I feel you on that irritation of a term being (mal-)adapted when used out of context.
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"Higher than a Georgia pine"
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1. You are not alone in this feeling.
2. Patabot designed a DEEEElightful shirt about it!
www.patabot.com/product/pre-...
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But it's a big ol' human endeavor! With human strengths and human failings and definitions of success with human contexts.
(Any notions of canon or continuity or what any character "would really do" probably ought to be taken with that in mind.)
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Of course folks are going to have some feelings about some parts of it - it's a giant mosaic made by multitudes! Not each piece will work equally well for everyone.
(And not each piece will have been created, presented or received equally.)
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But this time they aren't trying to make a cake, or a shelter or a product pitch, or whatever.
It's a story.
A story with decades of details, subplots and side characters.
All those different contributors with different constraints are trying to add on to a big old sprawling story.
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Collaboration is hard. Collaboration under time limits is even harder.
That's why it comes up in all those reality shows.
When people cooperate under pressure, sometimes they disagree and the finished product comes out wonky.
That struggle is understandable & compelling.
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...like Sluggo. Sure, he's a happy-go-lucky lil' roughneck with a heart of gold. But he's also an orphan living in an abandoned house.
So for Nancy to hear Mr Charmer say "put her in a home" in that 1930s context? For a kid that would have been a real, bone-chilling threat.
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... Also, it was a lot easier to just ditch a kid back then. No national CPS yet, and social security numbers weren't an at-birth thing until the 1980s.
If a specific grown-up didn't see and take an interest in you, there wasn't really anything to stop a kid from falling through the cracks...
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There’s an old Slavic expression:
On average we live well. Not as good as last year, but definitely better than next year
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1. Delightful comic! More Sota, wee-tiny and murderous or otherwise, please?
2. Possible correction: I reckon "pustule" is the more common spelling for a lesion, pimple or grody-yuck skin blob.
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See also: store.ironcircus.com/products/poo...
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I feel you, pal.
For what it's worth, there are aging copy editors who have similar feelings regarding
literally ≠ really
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I wonder if that brief shining 90s moment was even really comics paying well?
For instance, Image sold 1.7 million copies of Spawn #1, but did Todd McF make money from drawing? Or from owning the publisher & selling the rights for movies and games and toys and cartoons and t-shirts?
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When you prompt AI with a vague prompt, it will not push back. It will not work through edge cases and suggest improvements to the requirements. It will only do what you tell it to and say "this look right, boss?"
At *best* you now need a long QA process to understand what the AI actually made.
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Damn, that Skrawl cover makes me wish I was a commissioning editor!
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Seriously!
Say, did you ever see that Bruce Timm drawing of all the things they were never allowed to show in Batman The Animated Series?
Funny, but also kinda shocking how hard they had to work to give that show the impact it had at the time.
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Wait... are you talking about Millennials or Boomers?
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This was from an era where TV expressly limited "behavior kids could duplicate". It might have been fighting (hand-to-hand stuff in particular).
(BTW, those no-imitate rules are why lots of 80s action cartoons had shoulder-chops & pew-pew energy guns instead of closed-fist punches and bullets.)
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That bit was a gimme for folks who read the official Home Office book and saw a factoid in the religion section that said "the UK includes many smaller denominations, such as 2% Hindu and 1% Jewish worshippers."
Most of the rest of the book was about what benefits you couldn't qualify for.
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I read a UK citizenship test around 2010 - there was a perplexing focus on written grammar in trick questions even back then. Things like:
Religion: Which of the following best describes the UK population's ratio of Hindus to Jews?
1. 1:2
2. 2:1
3. 1/2
4. 50%
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How did this picture summon the best kind of Adam West energy?
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What a great connection to work from your mom!
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How about all the trains in (and under) Tokyo?
minitokyo3d.com