Ominous. by Hissyfit. Forum: General.
user 3 posts 2007-05-05 04:11:29 |
At last, I said to him, "What if I were to make a webcomic?" He contemplated this, and then said "Ok, it's a deal. You have one month to come up with a decent webcomic and get at least fifty people reading it. If you fail to complete this task satisfactorily, your existence will be terminated." I could register 37 alts... (Nice FAQ.) |
administrator 467 posts 2007-05-06 03:58:41 |
That only works if you have 37 alternate personalities. Because, you know, in the US Government, they make sure not to discriminate against the insane. (Thank you.) |
administrator 879 posts 2007-08-27 12:38:24 |
I'm not sure about the total population of my skull, but I suppose I could get about 3-4 of us to read and enjoy this; it fits most of our tastes. :P (More seriously, I've linked here in one other forum already; they'll love it - xkcd was popular there too.) |
administrator 467 posts 2007-08-28 05:08:57 |
Oh my god, wow. I feel like I've been sitting in the shallows of a wide river for a long time, waiting for the current to catch hold of me and pull me out, and now I feel like my patience has paid off and I'm starting to float downstream. =) So glad you like the comic! |
user 3 posts 2007-09-03 06:24:53 |
hmmm, this is an unusual situation, a beautiful smart and witty girl of my age, on the /Internet/ ah I might as well just read the comic and never post again. :) |
user 17 posts 2007-09-03 07:12:33 |
hmmm, this is an unusual situation, a beautiful smart and witty girl of my age, on the /Internet/ I'd say the same thing, except this is already my sixth post and said cartoonist is not a beautiful smart and witty girl of my age. Now to actually do the work I sat down to do... (DAMN YOU, COMICS OF TEH INTARWUB!) |
administrator 467 posts 2007-09-03 07:12:39 |
hmmm, this is an unusual situation, a beautiful smart and witty girl of my age, on the /Internet/ Obviously I'm actually secretly fifty, and just using this webcomic as a means to attract children whom I can lure to my lair and EAT. With barbecue sauce. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-09-03 08:03:13 |
Well, clearly. To be a sting operative in the FBI you'd have to be at least four years younger. :P Though this does raise a question: Your target group - are you sure adolescent nerdy guys (who are probably pimply too) are that tasty, even with barbecue sauce? Ew. Not even mentioning that you would net at least a few other people who are secretly fifty. Joke's on both of you! Joke aside, I'd also say the same thing as win minus the "of my age" part. With horror, I just realized that passing the second decade mark not only means you can no longer say "lol" with impunity, but also that you are moving toward the right of the bell curve in gaming and webcomic audiences. I'm so ancient. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-09-03 16:52:07 |
I just re-read th FAQ and noticed something I had overlooked before. Sinister indeed.We like readers. Readers are good. Especially with barbeque sauce. Shh, you didn't hear that. What do you think you're doing with that skewer? O_O HEY! Arrgh--- |
user 1 posts 2007-10-11 03:57:14 |
Ha! I have not yet crossed the line into the territory of the post-teenagers! Should the zombie-apocalypse come this year(emphasis on the time, not the boolean statement of truth.. fulness? Apologies, English is my second language.), I will be able to a) survive and b) tell my fellow survivors that I have predicted the downfall of every single zombie resistance group because 1) there are cliches psychology students have to fulfill and 2) it will happen. Man is Man's greatest predator AND prey. Uh. Yeah. Because I obviously have the permission to say these things: lol and lulz to the comics. Also, Miss Webcomic-Creatress, will you marry me? I've heard I taste great with barbecue sauce. You could also try garlic, lemon grass, red chilies, salt and.. Unfortunately I have misplaced my curry paste packaging and cannot recite the yummy stuff thats in there from memory. Curry is good. On another note, I was surprised that this question is not in the FAQ already. It's nearly six AM, I've gotta wake up early on Friday, my post here may very well be inspired by something not-quite-myself(Can't getcha outta my mind.. Aran, gimme that skewer(These ARE poking instruments, possibly abusable to remove memories from minds, right?)!) and I've still got some things to read from late afternoon which I will now finish, instead of browsing and surfing around and finding webcomics of awesomeness which I will then proceed to read and spread around, giving them to all the people I was talking with. Gah. Good night, morning or whatever is appropiate in your time-zone and sleep cycle. |
administrator 195 posts 2007-10-12 00:21:40 |
Also, we now have your fifty readers. |
user 122 posts 2007-10-12 02:15:00 |
Well, at least Darcey won't be dying any time soon. That would be unfortunate. She has a webcomic and a nubile teenage body. Though, at this point I'm not sure which I value more, I'm probably going to lean toward the former. |
user 347 posts 2007-10-12 13:37:02 |
"Also, we now have your fifty readers." ...that doesn't mean you can stop, though. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-10-22 00:48:48 |
I'm probably going to lean toward the former. But against the latter? Haha I'm so hilarious. >_< |
user 641 posts 2007-10-24 10:06:46 |
She has a webcomic and a nubile teenage body. I think I'd have to say that I also value the webcomic more, because the webcomic actually gives me something to do, while the nubile teenage body just reminds me that unfortunately I will probably never meet Darcey and get to know her better. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-10-24 11:28:09 |
I've seen this phenomenon (which may be a corollary to the Pix Law) several times in other communities when a girl published pictures of herself. The community as a whole - or rather, the fraction of single males of marrying age (ie. the overwhelming majority) - formed a kind of dense cluster, swarming around the female in question quite like a pack of suitors. Which was on one hand very funny, because the average distance between them and the center of their attention was around a thousand kilometers. And on the other hand a grave concern, because usually they didn't stop until their mark was freaked out enough to never come back. It was also occasionally creepy, because the youngest girl this happened to was fifteen. |
administrator 467 posts 2007-10-24 18:58:32 |
*is not creeped out* I /submitted my picture to wetriffs/. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't want to be looked at! Also, jib (and everywhere else), I don't know where you live but if you live around here... I should totally have a Decorum party once I get enough people reading it. That would be SO COOL. One of my main motivations in writing a webcomic was to get more friends. |
user 122 posts 2007-10-24 19:42:56 |
>.> Uhm, whilst I am of the disposition to be attracted to Darcey, I do not know as she would like that, further, I am taken (despite my age). The webcomic (and by proxy Darcey's mind) is much more interesting than the body. So, yes, against the latter, if you must see it that way. |
administrator 467 posts 2007-10-24 19:54:45 |
=P I don't mind you being attracted to me. I just feel bad because I'm not also attracted to you. Although that's true for quite a few people who are attracted to me, so... =X |
administrator 879 posts 2007-10-25 00:06:14 |
Well, that's all right then. :) Although I hope you don't feel too bad about it. The combined desire (which need not be sexual) that we all exude is a cloud that may reek a bit, but perhaps not a bad thing to bask in. Free admiration coming your way. :P |
user 347 posts 2007-10-25 02:51:52 |
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user 122 posts 2007-11-23 23:35:47 |
The bugger is that? And, that's fine by me Darcey. As stated, I'm not going to lust after you any more than is necessary as per your mandatory-love-slave rules. |
user 347 posts 2007-11-25 15:20:06 |
The truth: there were some really nasty wildfires in california that did a lot of damage. That's a picture from SPACE of the smoke those fires were producing. Get more info here: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/news/wildfires/index.html The fiction: it's the cloud of combined desire for Darcey that Aran mentioned. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-11-25 23:55:16 |
Redefining the term "smoking hot". =P The red bits on the surface look weird. Is the entire photo unedited, or is there some image overlay? |
user 158 posts 2007-11-29 04:17:55 |
Did you know that a percentage of threads are destroyed by someone posting an irrelevant statement in them. |
user 241 posts 2007-11-29 18:02:26 |
Do they get consumed by the ___________________(insert mystical term here) from whence all threads came from? If when I click the button for this thread again will my mind be sucked into some horrible whole leading straight to the __________________?(insert that same mystical term here, unless you really want to confuse people) I actually think Darcey's avatar is hot. But I can't figure out for the life of me what the hell it could be. |
administrator 467 posts 2007-11-29 22:16:52 |
*winces at 'from whence all threads came from'* That better have been deliberate and sarcastic. |
user 122 posts 2007-11-29 23:48:15 |
Redundancy is usually accidental, unless there are multiple redundancies. Under such circumstances they are either immune to recognizing it or are doing it deliberately. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-11-30 03:07:49 |
A question for the valiant defenders of the English language: Can "whence" be used to ask for a destination as well as an origin? "Whence are you going" sounds intuitively wrong, but my intuition has sometimes misled me. Does the same rule apply to "thence" and "hence"? --- Funny, I thought it was the closing proposition, not the redundancy, about which you were complaining about. (Sorry.) |
nobody 17 posts 2007-11-30 03:10:27 |
'Whither' is 'to where'. Ok, basic rules: things plus 'ence' are from. Things plus 'ither' are to. whence - from where thence - from there hence - thus (literally: from here) whither - to where thither - to there hither - to here Also there's 'forth', which is from some time on. whenceforth - from what time on thenceforth - from that time on henceforth - from this time on |
nobody 17 posts 2007-11-30 03:11:58 |
And I was complaining about a number of things. - redundancy of multiple 'from's - clause ended with preposition - redundancy of 'from whence' |
administrator 467 posts 2007-11-30 03:14:28 |
No, /I/ was complaining. You != me. You can take your grandiose delusions off my fora or be frozen for impersonating an administrator. |
nobody 17 posts 2007-11-30 03:19:00 |
You can freeze me all you want, but that won't stop me from standing outside your window watching through the curtains. |
administrator 467 posts 2007-11-30 03:23:22 |
You know, I traveled into the future and purchased a phaser for a /reason/. |
nobody 17 posts 2007-11-30 03:25:46 |
Oooh, a phaser. I'm so scared. Look, I know you're not a suicidal person, so I'm not really worried here. |
administrator 467 posts 2007-11-30 03:37:31 |
Conveniently, as I've already stated, you != me. Thus, I can shoot you with my phaser without having to fear for my own safety, so long as you're at least three feet away from me and not standing right in front of an essential pillar. |
administrator 879 posts 2007-11-30 03:43:57 |
'Whither' is 'to where'. If you're not Darcey, you're surprisingly good at impersonating... :tinfoil hat: |
nobody 17 posts 2007-11-30 03:49:13 |
Thank you Aran. =) |
administrator 879 posts 2007-11-30 04:13:24 |
And yet, disturbingly, my judgment of identities fails me again. |