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Hey here's one, how are they gonna keep the animation cell fan industry going when everything is all digital?
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 03:59:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Three answers: The first is that The Simpsons didn't switch to digital animation until the mid-2000s, so there's always about fifteen years of that to go through (and Disney not-withstanding (they've been doing digital since The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), the rest of the industry was also pretty late on that train), the second is that a 22-minute program averages around ten thousand unique drawings (more than that if it's a Simpsons, less than that if it's a Flintstones or Jetsons) so there's a LOT to go through, and the third is, and you didn't hear this from me, a lot of those animation cels you see on eBay are actually reproductions or pieces of promotional artwork which have been created expressly to be sold, so they quite literally will be able to send you Itchy's arm for decades.
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@mrmattimation I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a Bakshi cell some time, but something else always ends up seeming more fun
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this frame took five minutes to render and it ain’t even from a finished environment, that’s two hours a second, can you believe it? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875749
Saturday, 16-Jan-21 09:00:41 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Why aren't you overclocking to the point you need buckets of liquid nitrogen noob???
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@scribus The crazy thing is I DO have what one would consider “professional” hardware for this sort of thing, AND I was accelerating the render with a ray tracing-capable graphics card. It’s the METHOD I used to get that painterly look that kinda screwed with things, I’m pretty sure what I did (which I did on accident) was not on the list of things the developers of the program intended designers to do.
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@mrmattimation So long as you're not still overnighting Polaroids of the day's frame back to HQ I guess
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Michael Bay’s new movie is about a bizarro alternate universe where the US government is mishandling a pandemic, but I did the math and I’m 95% certain the virus would have died out by killing all of its hosts too fast to find new ones under the conditions portrayed in the film.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 10:23:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, really? Not that he'd botch the math, that I super-believe... But the whole-ass movie??
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@scribus yeah, look up “Songbird” sometime. Written at the very beginning of the pandemic and filmed almost entirely by the cast with cell phones, it takes place in 2024 in a world where COVID mutated into a deadly super virus which kills 50% of the people it infects, anyone who gets it is automatically reported to the government via smartphone tracking, and they’re quarantined in a concentration camp until they either die or get better. I’m no virologist, but I’m pretty sure that under those conditions, the virus would have been dealt with a long time ago.
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@mrmattimation I mean considering what a 3% mortality rate did to us, I must be inclined to agree, one way or another...
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Sunday, 10-Jan-21 19:13:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Y'know I'm starting to suspect it's less mental gymnastics, and more like mental scoliosis
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@mrmattimation And also, just, everything is on fire, why not
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One day I’ll have to answer for a few of the people I used to associate with and I can’t really think of anything better than “I had bad character judgement skills when I was 19”
Sunday, 10-Jan-21 01:44:52 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I mean, I really don't see (especially after time has passed) why people can't accept "saw what they were, told them to split/split myself." The whole "Crap the uprising failed, uuhhhh Sowwy?" move is obviously weak, but I mean really! 19! NOBODY is good at 19!!
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@scribus The one I’m really worried about does backend stuff now for a certain wildly popular (especially with teenage American girls????) animated web series and I don’t wanna be the dickhole who sets that team back again so I’ve been thinking about getting in touch with the current show runner to let him know what I know so that it doesn’t bite ALL of us in the ass at some point in the future.
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So you can imagine how I, someone who lives twenty minutes from where that all went down, wish I had worn brown pants today.
Thursday, 07-Jan-21 09:40:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation That was a hell of a thing
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@mrmattimation Also, not sure the miles to minutes ratio outside of CA, but damn dude
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@scribus honestly, it's twenty minutes to get to the metro station which takes me into the district proper, longer if you try to drive into the district. I live really, really close to the city BUT there's pretty much only one bridge going into and out of the city on the Virginia side, not sure if it's the same story in Maryland. And traffic on that bridge is always, always terrible. I used to drive into Alexandria once a week for school - Alexandria being one of the two cities that borders Washington on this side of the river - and even THAT is a complete nightmare. Definitely not as bad as going from, say, Glendale to Los Angeles, based on photos I've seen, but still pretty bad.
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Don’t worry/I’m sorry, I didn’t die in the mass shooting that just happened here
Sunday, 03-Jan-21 00:39:32 UTC from web-
@scribus Not as bad as some we saw pre-pandemic - the police were already nearby because of a robbery that had occurred in the same plaza earlier in the day - but the Wal-Mart I do some of my shopping at a few minutes down the road just got shot up.
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@mrmattimation Only thing Google showed me was "In 2020, there WERE no Mass Shootings!"
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@scribus How unfortunate that it took a global pandemic to get our first shooting-free year in two decades
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Back to the Future’s most egregious presumption was that Marty McFly would need entirely different money to buy things in 2015, as if money from 1985 would be no good thirty years later.
Tuesday, 29-Dec-20 00:01:37 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I've worked alongside cashiers who were suspicious of money old enough to be of a design they didn't remember. I, myself, have been taken aback by the changes when I come across an old bill.
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@scribus Maybe it’s just because I, being the guy who counts the money at the end of the night, see bills from back when we only had 48 states more often than one normally does.
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@mrmattimation My mom used to keep small bills on hand at work for when something neat or rare came through, so she could swap them out and bring it home.
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Any conspiracy theorists here who believe this who Covid-19 thing is a contrived event?
Saturday, 26-Dec-20 20:46:30 UTC from web-
@ricd personally i think Covid is a hoax created for and by the Chinese to make American business less competitive /s
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@mrmattimation And *I* think that hoaxes themselves are psychic virii developed by Russian mystics, but you don't hear me going on about it
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Man animating Among Us characters is kiwiin easy, I wish I coulda done this instead of ponies and skeletons
Tuesday, 22-Dec-20 22:58:27 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation How's the Pac-Man fan scene?
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@mrmattimation Some properties just don't need a third dimension
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Increasingly difficult to write letters to politicians when you aren't allowed to say "kill yourself"
Saturday, 05-Dec-20 17:16:57 UTC from web-
@scribus Around the time of that school shooting in Broward County, I had a cartoon written (and a background painted!) that was just Marco Rubio listening to a bunch of voicemails from constituents telling him to kill himself, it was like four straight minutes of just that, and then the punchline was that he... kills himself. I decided not to do it when I realized it would probably get me a friendly visit from some federal prosecutors looking to ask me some questions.
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@mrmattimation Well, I hit my limit break, lllooolll
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it is time to discuss the butt
Friday, 27-Nov-20 16:56:48 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira my butt isn’t worth discussing. :(
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@liquidusmira The whole butt, or just the butthole?
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Rudy Giuliani saying that Trump “probably won” Virginia is making me question whether or not Rudy Giuliani’s head is on straight. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875696
Thursday, 26-Nov-20 14:32:15 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Golf scoring, lowest total wins
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@scribus Evidently, seeing as how people are also saying he’s the legitimate winner of California
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The new Animaniacs series slaps.
Sunday, 22-Nov-20 10:06:45 UTC from web-
@scribus I just watched all the 13 episodes. It's good. Not overwhelmingly good. Good good. Some jokes and segments were not to my own taste but the rest was good 'ol fun.
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@adiwan @scribus I enjoyed it quite a bit, although I definitely thought the Pinky and the Brain segments were generally the better parts of the episodes they were in. Not that the Warner Bros. segments were bad at all, they were pretty funny, I just thought P&B had waaaaay less misses.
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@mrmattimation Pinky and the Brain operate from a well-established formula and it s not very surprising that their segment is the more consistent one. I still agree that they were mostly the better part of the show.
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Like wouldn’t it be fun to just place hundreds of cans of beans on this shelf and make my real-time render engine kill itself?
Monday, 16-Nov-20 00:03:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I used to build Age of Empires maps on my buddy's Windows 98 machine with bird spawn points enough to just barely not melt the motherboard
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@scribus This is really just a bad habit of mine. Any home console games where you could manipulate things on-screen usually ended up getting pushed to their very limits by me. Special mention goes to Fallout 4 where my game was perpetually running at sub-20 any time I was in one of my settlements.
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if there was any doubt that I’m a tremendous papaya, my mind is currently on cinematic parallels between this election and the one depicted in Citizen Kane.
Sunday, 01-Nov-20 23:30:36 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation A blowhard egomaniac trying to buy popularity and power? Gee, I don't see it...
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@scribus Well, that, but also... http://rainbowdash.net/url/875657
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@mrmattimation Outright depressing how familiar the present can be
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An actual-factual Pinkerton, huh?
Sunday, 11-Oct-20 14:55:37 UTC from web-
@scribus suddenly remembering that the Pinkertons sued Rockstar Games over their “unflattering” portrayal in Red Dead Redemption 2.
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@mrmattimation Well if they hadn't left themselves an unflattering history. . . .
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Anyone with an opinion on my next undertaking? https://twitter.com/jlbesq/status/1314279634880479233?s=20
Thursday, 08-Oct-20 19:24:15 UTC from web-
@scribus man if I knew ANYTHING about Final Fantady romhacks (well, anything about Final Fantasy, really) I’d actually give my opinion. As it is I don’t even really know what a “Shinra” is.
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@mrmattimation No worries; Shinra are from 7, not 6.
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Mike Pence might be even more infuriating than Papa Spraytan
Thursday, 08-Oct-20 02:30:58 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation You were just swatting that fly, weren't you?
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I keep thinking about going radio silent for a week, then killing myself when nobody cares that I've gone
Saturday, 03-Oct-20 23:01:37 UTC from web-
@scribus now that would be no good, and also now that you’ve mentioned it it’ll always be in the back of someone’s head
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@mrmattimation Yeah, I know... I'm just so tired. Things were going badly enough before 2020 landed. I was supposed to get things together this year. Everything has just become such a drag, I don't even remember hope.
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For the self-reported healthiest and smartest (don't call him that) it's highly sus.
Friday, 02-Oct-20 14:36:46 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oh. That's a bit of an overreaction? I don't know.
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@scribus It'd be very ironic if he died from COVID. Who would be the one running for the presidency?
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@adiwan By my understanding, Pence, by default. If Pence is unable, and the Party wins, or if the Party wins and then the candidate is rendered unable, then the Party gets to just appoint someone from their ranks. I think? Never really been in the position, myself, haha
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Well, I got off the phone with some dork local politician. Told him four times now I'll never vote for him; might still, haven't looked into his positions. But, he needs to be punished for daring to spam me. E-mail, said "Leave me alone." So he calls, I say "Seriously, no." So he has some rando volunteer text me. Like I said, maybe he is the best guy for the job, but he's still an asshole and mango him for that!
Saturday, 26-Sep-20 22:24:29 UTC from web-
@scribus my former congresswoman’s grapety grandkids or nephews or something kept coming to my house and telling me to vote for her. That’s why she’s a former congresswoman.
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@mrmattimation Politricksters, man...
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Like not only did i find out who wore the pants in that relationship, I’m pretty sure I found out who wears the leash.
Monday, 07-Sep-20 20:49:40 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation I have known way too many people who wore a leash in their relationship for that to mean what I think you mean it to mean, lol
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@mrmattimation Indeed... It has been a weight to bear.
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So who are these people who are politically invested enough to watch the conventions, but have yet to decide how they'll vote in November?
Thursday, 20-Aug-20 01:33:39 UTC from web-
@scribus to be fair, I feel like undecided voters (as few of them as there are this year) should be who the conventions are for. It comes off as super self-indulgent otherwise.
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@mrmattimation I suppose, in a normal year, that may be the case...
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I love when Dan Harmon says something mean about Trump and people start bringing up that time he humped a baby doll in a Channel 101 sketch ten years ago.
Friday, 14-Aug-20 23:55:20 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation people have tried to cancel him like every single year but nobody cancels Dan Harmon better than Dan Harmon himself imo
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@tiff I really thought he’d have left or been ousted from Rick & Morty by now but watching Roiland’s solo show helped me realize that Dan Harmon isn’t the hero he asked for, but he’s the one we deserve
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The plan was to finish it and then sit on it until the announcement so that I could release it that night.
Tuesday, 11-Aug-20 22:36:13 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation It would still have worked if he chose someone else, just do a South Park Canadian job with a photo coverup, fill in the dialogue with obvious Simpsons Superbowl overdubs, it'd be a riot!
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@scribus I’m going to /probably/ have two mostly-similar cartoons sitting unlisted on my channel come November, one for a Biden win and one for a Trump win, and then I’ll just release whichever one matches up with reality. Would be nice to finally be the topical one.
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“We will win at least a few states, some of them perhaps by decent margins!” -President Trump
Friday, 07-Aug-20 21:19:53 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation 50% of white people, per Newsweek, :eyeroll:
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@scribus eh, that's not exactly uncommon for a Republican, if anything it's a little low. McCain had 55% of whites in 2008, and he lost the election by a bigger margin than any candidate of the 21st century. No Democrat has carried the white vote since at least 1964, and maybe even before that, the data only goes back to 1976.
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@mrmattimation Yeah, but I'm not really concerned about the historicity of the GOP, though. This jackass may be lower than other old white jackasses have been, but when 50% can agree, even in a straw poll, with (vague sweeping arm gesture)? It's more the revelations about the national psyche than it is old stats and current prognostications. I just grew up inherently skeptical of The System, but still -- I used to be able to believe in People, as a whole. This administration has shattered my faith in anything other than entropy. I always kind of knew I was "Brown eyes watching from a White perspective," but the other white faces used to only sometimes let their hatred show. Now, they seem to be hiding even their former pretense of humanity in favor of letting their hate flag take full mast. And... damn, man. Just... damn. I want it over. And I'm almost ashamed of what I'd be willing to do to End it, capital-E.
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And I feel bad, sometimes, because I say "religious nuts." I don't mean to say all religious folk are off in any way. I mean specifically to refer to the subset of religious people who take it to a nutty degree.
Saturday, 01-Aug-20 22:50:51 UTC from web-
@scribus I was raised catholic and still to this day abide by a somewhat Christian lifestyle and i know 100% what people mean when they say “religious nuts”
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the president’s new “serious” leadership style lasted literally 24 hours, I’m dead
Wednesday, 22-Jul-20 22:34:13 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I think I missed the entire thing
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@scribus he gave a very “somber and serious” press conference where he refrained from blasting the media, and he stayed off of Twitter for about 48 hours where all he did was retweet campaign and White House statements and, in one instance, encourage the Senate to pass a bill that the leaders of both parties already publicly endorsed. His next press conference was, of course, a total appleshow. I imagine his new campaign manager was behind the changes and I imagine he’ll be fired very soon.
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there was an old person fight today and we had to call the police, and I’ve only been at work for half an hour
Wednesday, 22-Jul-20 20:29:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Mask v Virus or ?
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@scribus two people, straight-up eighty years old, start scuffling when the get off the bus. Idk who started it but they were each saying the other one shoved them. They were yelling and pushing each other and one of them started demanding we call the police and then when the police came suddenly the dude didn’t speak English and we had to get a Chinese-speaking cashier to interpret and at some point in the translation his story changed and he said nobody shoved anybody, she just fell. Nobody got arrested but I’m pretty sure the lady’s gonna press charges cos they’re neighbors and they have to see each other every day.
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@mrmattimation Yikes
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