Christians have an utter landslide of reasons to believe the most outlandish of complete nonsense, but I’ve always been a fan of science, facts, and reality.

So I thank you. <3

Yeap, I was going to suggest that the runaways went on to produce such fine masterpieces as Sigmund and Cha-Ka & friends.

I may be missing something here

I would guess Larson wasn’t a fan, and thought that “new age” practices were mainly performative and non-productive, leading practitioners to get stuck in repetitive little circles, getting nothing done in the end.

If so, it’s a pretty cynical take IMO, and certainly one of his more personal, brassy ones.

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I… am both dumbfounded and grateful that you appreciate our community, Rolando. <3

Hahaha… I’ve pointed that out so many times that I’m glad it eventually stuck, i.e. the ‘cardboard cutout’ thing and the windows built out of physics from Flatland.

I needed to preserve that NAPGism.

I know I’m frequently complaining about Gallagher’s consistency of professionalism, but it really is sort of wonderful the way he’s such a huge slacker in that way. So much more interesting than the consistent but totally banal ‘production type’ comics of some of his colleagues.

Highlights for me:

• Grandpa Nutmeg hovering next to a tree, not actually sitting on a branch
• In something of a fratboy move, Grandpa has decided to shave the left side of his moustache off, altho keeping the right
• Grandpa’s new eye in the edit intrigues me. Seems like I’ve seen that look before in the Egyptian section of the local art museum.

Side note: another example of Gallagher more and more seeming to disregard his model sheets for the characters.

I mean Iggy, here. He looks like sort of a bigger, redneck version of the character. Or maybe it’s just his stunt double and they goofed up the take.

Really cool to see Caspar Milquetoast utilised as some grist for the mill. (and Magritte of course)

The Timid Soul is super-dated in some ways, but I think speaks rather eternally to the neurotic in all of us.

Waaaaiiitaaminute…!

So who’s saying “snort snort” exactly (the birds, concealed), or is it a sound effect?

In my desktop Chrome, it does say “not secure” next to the link, so possibly the website is being auto-rejected by your browser for safety reasons.

So then, I’ll just upload one of the three pics and copy-paste some text:

Through the years living in Japan, I heard many non-Japanese friends complain of staring in public. One such incident inspired this, a book cover for a fictional book called Why Do Japanese People Stare At Foreigners? by fictional author Masao Suzuki (coincidentally the ex-president of department store Matsuzakaya shares the same name).

The idea is simple, print out this cover and wrap it around a suitable book. Then once you get stared at in public to the point of discomfort, take out the book and start reading with the cover facing the starer. The person is then made aware of the situation in the most Japanese of ways, through non-confrontation.

I’ve actually seen photos of this technique used on Japanese trains, where it’s evidently super-common for people to stare at foreigners for minutes on end without an ounce of self-awareness.

Couldn’t find any photos of such via quick search, but did find this: http://reykjavik.jp/tsb/

Some guy very kindly created a cover for people to print out and slip over whatever books they’re reading. XD

The act of looking changes the reality.

You’re a big help.

World collapses and all maps of New Zealand are destroyed.

That made perfect sense to me for a moment because I’ve read several times now that NZ seems to be the preferred location for global billionaires to build their ultimate survival bunkers when collapse happens.

Plus, I imagine they’d want people topside to hang on there reasonably well for several reasons, such as a labor pool, genetics pool, testing pool, and possibly to grow some food on the surface.

Well then, everything and nothing makes sense with and without Heathcliff.

It’s the unifying theory behind quantum mechanics and general relativity, they just didn’t know where to look!

I paid around US$700-800 for a nice Neumann mic that I’d researched pretty well, but like a dumbass didn’t realise that it required power, meaning I couldn’t just hook in to my amp like your basic Shure.

So later on as a solution, I got myself a Focusrite powered amp-interface that has a bonus of being able to route guitar and mic input in to USB. Spent hours trying to get everything working and kept running in to problems. IIRC the USB signal was barely received by my computer, and the only way the amp received a signal is if the computer was powering the thing, which shouldn’t have been a requirement as it already had power.

I just went back to my Shure while that fancy stuff gathers dust. Similar thing with my Ableton.

What would be some commonly unused features?

Actually the last three before this made little sense without Heathcliff. Unless you believe in magic puppets, I guess.

Thank you for these thoughts & interesting perspective. :-)

Maybe your experience was like mine in class. It just wasn’t the right format for me, and I needed to find a different way to unlock the door.