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CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 21:37:59 UTC 
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Meanwhile, in Smash Bros land, Bayonetta stands off to the side, frumping over how she had her guns with her since she was introduced in Smash 4, yet this little punk shows up and now everyone's falling over themselves to point out how he has a gun.
Someone NEEDS to make this fanart. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 22:50:00 UTC
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Always hilarious when you're writing unit tests for something you wrote weeks after the fact, and those tests prove that thing has actually been somewhat broken this whole time. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2019 21:44:51 UTC
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FUN HINT: If you ever find yourself thinking that the :nth-of-type() CSS selector is a good idea, you're either doing something really super fancy or you're making a grave mistake. Choose wisely. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2019 00:56:59 UTC
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I'm starting to lose all hope that GNU Social will ever actually update, even to the point of any new commits entering their Git repo whatsoever. So if this instance suddenly becomes a Mastodon instance out of the blue, you'll know why and may need to re-add me.
Though I'd have to make sure my GNU Social widget works with Mastodon beforehand. Last I knew, Mastodon blocked script access to a key XML file it needs to read. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 20:55:03 UTC
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Y'know, that's one of the problems of having an older monitor. Durn thing's too heavy for cheap monitor stands.
Oh, and as a side note, if your monitor is somewhat heavy, don't count on the Amazon Basics stands to support them. I've tightened the bolt that should compensate for that to the point where it's stripped such that the included allen wrench can't grip it anymore, and it still can't hold a steady tilt. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 20:07:58 UTC
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For anyone wondering, yes, I'm still en route to getting the comic rolling again. Work's just been a bit hectic lately. I'm trying to make sure I've grinded through the tricky-to-visually-plan parts before I start uploading. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 01:25:38 UTC
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See, this is why I should keep track of CSS developments. Last I knew, custom properties and calc() were experimental features in browsers. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 00:02:16 UTC
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At some point I'll have to start posting sketches of some of the background characters I managed to overdevelop for just one single appearance. Like this one wax museum proprietor who we're only going to see once from the back. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2019 07:44:27 UTC
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So I tells ya what you do. You start with a rather stylized, cartoonish art style. Kinda like what I got. Then you get the bright idea to have a single strip of your comic involve walking past a wax museum with some example dummies/sculptures visible from the street. Then you realize you just suckered yourself into somehow coming up with a way to make your already-not-realistic style look uncanny, *in that style*.
Arrg. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 20:40:47 UTC
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I am certain that at least SOME casino somewhere has used a facade of a stack of oversized poker chips as a brazier of sorts, so while what I just drew for a DoM strip probably isn't perfectly unique, it's at least not completely insane. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 21:56:42 UTC
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*slides up to girl at bar*
"Hey, babe. I just gotta say, *suddenly and loudly hums The Lincolnshire Poacher* *recites a sequence of numbers in a monotonic voice* *hums The Lincolnshire Poacher again*"
*silently gets up and leaves bar* -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 02-Feb-2019 01:00:44 UTC
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I sometimes wonder what it would take to make the DoM's website more friendly to mobile users, but I keep running into the same problem: There's not much to DO on the site other than read new comics (whenever they happen). Sure, there's static information and data, but for the most part, the comics are about it. And, grabbing new comics in a mobile context is a problem already solved by an RSS reader (the DoM does have an RSS feed, of course). Hrm...
(this is of course ignoring archive navigation, which I might agree could use some CSS magic for mobile devices) -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jan-2019 22:28:42 UTC
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All right. I think I've got a general direction now for the next chunk of the comic. Art is underway, further planning is coming relatively smoothly. Once I've got a few ready to go, updates will resume. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 22:26:23 UTC
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That fact that Broadway isn't a *proper* boolean annoys me. The way the method looks, you'd think should return either on-broadway or off-broadway, but there's the third state of off-off-broadway that makes implementation a pain. But, it still puts on a great show with under 100 seats. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 21:43:49 UTC
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It's amazing how much you can learn about storywriting from MST3K movies. Or, for that matter, most sources of just plain bad writing. You can look at it and realize to yourself, "right, I shouldn't do that". It'll do you good in the long term. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 21:41:34 UTC
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I'm getting closer to having the next immediate part of the DoM planned. I just have to make sure it means something on its own. If I can help it, I try to avoid blatant plot cul-de-sacs, as the MST3K crew put it. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 19:33:41 UTC
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I realize now I had a couple more major beats to hit in the current DoM chapter, but I still don't have a way to smoothly get there from where I am now. I wonder if I can add another beat somewhere...
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