Notices by Matt (zeldatra), page 52

Matt

so maybe a weird question, but is there a term for people who... kind of don't care about their gender identity? like, not gender neutral. i've always been comfortable being a man, and I still am, but as i get older my gender (and to a certain extent my sexual orientation, though my tastes are still pretty geared towards feminine-looking people - but not necessarily exclusively women) is something that matters to me less and less, to the point where, if I weren't so obviously male, i could see myself being pretty tolerant of just about any pronoun anyone wants to call me. gender agnostic?

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Ah, railroading.

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Playing Metal Gear Solid again... I bodyslammed Meryl while she was disguised because I recognized her walk cycle and I wanted to see what would happen. Nothing happens, she just sprints into her next cutscene to prevent you from impeding her any further. And then she still claims to have gotten the jump on you.

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I was today years old when I learned that Twin Shadow is black.

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“Your honor, with all due respect, have you noticed that I physically shrink in size when the plaintiff addresses me?”

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you know, that thing that gave me a mental illness. That thing.

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content creators should be more like me: deathly afraid of talking to women because of that thing that happened to me in high school

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Danny Sexoffender

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That’s basically the approach they took in GTA, they had a President in GTA IV in 2008 who was supposedly a parody of Bush, he was a bumbling idiot whose father was also President, but then in GTA V, which took place in late 2013, he’s still President and the in-game internet implies he’s closer to an Obama clone in terms of actual policy (and, maybe because GTA is a British game, his tenure as President is nonsensical in the real world because he’s served at LEAST two full terms and he’s still running for re-election in 2016.)

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Kind of makes me wish I’d introduced a fictional “President” character in like, 2019, while Trump was President, and then kept him as President after Biden took office so that nobody could say he was a clear analogue for either. Just say in an episode that New Jersey DIDN’T vote for this guy - so he’s a Republican, right? But no, wait, he also sponsored a tax hike and there are ads on TV about impeaching “the socialist”. Which party is he from? Neither. This world is fictional and real life political norms don’t apply, dummy.

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I hate to “both sides” this apple but whataboutism is rampant on both sides and it seems like you can’t make fun of Joe Biden without somebody telling you the last guy was worse. Yes, we’re aware.

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sure do hope we can still do jokes about Joe Biden being a jackass without somebody screaming at me for being a “Republican”.

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I’ve been getting more and more fed up with the bullbatcave that I have to deal with at work and have been planning to quit, but the only thing I could do is go do the same job with a different company which I’m sure would be just as applety, I’m an art school dropout who’s not qualified to do anything else. I can’t keep going on like this, one of these days I’m gonna hit my Potato Knishesing limit and go jump into traffic

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Go ahead. Call the corporate office and tell them I refused to serve you for not wearing a mask. I’ll be waiting.

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NOT based on a true story, but honestly, with the price of rent these days, would you be surprised? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875858

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I’ve gained 30 pounds since 2019 and I’m starting to think the fact that I spent a solid month eat two double quarter pounders for dinner every day had something to do with that.

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The President got fired before me

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my first day of work was the day after Donald Trump got elected President so in a way it really IS all his fault

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i feel like ive stagnated as an artist over the last two years so i'm trying to do away with a lot of my old crutches, and change the way i do things in small but effective ways that make the characters seem more alive. one of those things is that after having done this for ten years the characters' chins FINALLY move when they talk instead of staying static. another is that i'm letting myself get a little sloppier with my lineart so that i can put more focus into adding more frames, make characters a little more dynamic... I'm going back to doing a Squigglevision-inspired line boil, this time using an After Effects preset so that I can just apply it universally to the entire cartoon all at once when i'm done. that i can afford to be a little looser with the lineart which lets me put more time into making the characters move around a little more. Like a less-nauseating Dr. Katz or Home Movies, but with characters that move around about as much as The Simpsons. That's what I'm going for

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finally retiring the "South Park blink" where a character's eyes just close for two frames before suddenly opening again on the third frame. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875857

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what cruel joke is this that the biggest drinking day of the year happens exactly two days before I'm safe to partake in RESPONSIBLE, SOCIALLY DISTANCED public activities

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i have a few monthly subscriptions to things that i need to cancel but keep forgetting about

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humble bundle monthly is a scam, i pay for it every month and they trick me into forgetting about it for long periods of time so that i have to spend three hours activating months of games on steam

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I WANT to do it like the way Doctor Who or Buffy does it, where most episodes can be watched by themselves but still contribute to a seasonal myth arc, but people APPARENTLY don’t even like that very much.

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Kind of a huge bummer that the average watcher-of-cartoons doesn’t enjoy serialized storytelling as much as I do, because that was the direction I wanted to take Swole Foods into, but every time I poll it people tell me they essentially want negative continuity like what Family Guy has.

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Wonder if he knows that his ex who he mistreated is writing them with me!!

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I recognized the name of a guy who follows my work now as someone I went to high school with, which is really weird, because he appleing hated me in high school.