Somehow still sick. This is going on the third week and getting a bit ridiculous.
We haven’t run out of buffer, but I realize that I haven’t quite finished the next page that’ll go up (it’s drawn, but needs to go through the photoshop steps of adding bubbles and frames and what not. I have the next page after that mostly drawn to, so despite the whole sick thing it’s not like we are getting behind, just that I didn’t quite do the order of operations correctly and lost track of time. It’ll be up on patreon tomorrow when I get a chance after work to finish it. I will be missing away from my tablet 2ish weeks in November, and 2ish weeks in Feburary, so my plan is that I will only go back to 2 per week once I know that I have the buffer for those (4-8 comics depending the rate). My thought (after the schedule slippage mayham we had for a bit) is that I want to be able to post consistently above all else.
Despite being sick things are going okay. House troubles and car troubles are full sorted out. The job has no mercy for things like sick leave though – they say “you can take as much as you need”, but as soon as I head for the door I can see them prep’ing the shit catapult and pointing it right at the fan, and as we are at an important point of a project, I haven’t dared let them out of my sight for a full 24 hours.
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….did you not pretty much have Query as a social crutch because you sucked at actually talking to people that badly?
Still. Their banter is great. “Oh right, I forgot you’re not normal at all.” … “Of course, I forgot you’re what passes as “normal” around here.” … “No, you can’t go eat people.” ‘Not even the Korish guy?’ “…okay, maybe him.”
@PastUtopia:
Just idly wondering if you’ll be correcting the page-title later…?
…because Monday is the 14th, not the 13th.
Time runs funky for Past. Or he lives in an alternate reality. One of the two.
Not mutually exclusive.
…& now I’m even more puzzled, because my computer’s clock says that while I’m typing here-&-now, this is currently Monday, Oct.14th, but your webpage says that my previous posting was made on Oct.15th.
Am I missing something, here?
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I Just saw [Jindra34]’s post, & now I suspect “Time-Zone” type hijinks.
The page is on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) which is +0. It is still the 14th in US, but it’s the 15th in Europe already. Not sure where PastUtopia lives though, as their schedule is pretty incomprehensible.
We have seen Past do this “one day off on the title” thing numerous times. Likely just to confuse us and it’s clearly working.
I was under the impression your job is kind of like one of my old jobs: Every day, three of my coworkers would load stuff onto the catapult, and I’d take it off. Most any day I didn’t show up to do my part of the job, they pulled the lever that launches it at the spinny thing. It didn’t matter much about who else might have been out, because there were three people doing the other job. This would also happen if I was too slow at the unloading bit.
It’s a big part of why, when I was asked to design a software development process for this job, the first thing I put in was a review process which required two people to review anything. I wanted to have more people, but didn’t think I could swing more. I did not, for what it’s worth, push for agile development, because while that works very well if you have a good team, it’s an amazing catapult if you don’t.
That’s part of my problem I think. I really, really like catapults. Every once in a while I find myself writing a sign that says “I did it”, taping it to the back of a catapult loader, and (quietly) cheering them on.
It never ends well, of course. And that’s enough to dissuade me. For a while.
Two questions:
1. Did Fluffy make the ketchup joke on purpose or by accident?
2. Did PastUtopia make the ketchup joke just now…or has he been secretly planning this joke for years and made permanent constructs red just so he could hit us with the ketchup joke?
1. Pretty sure dragons just like ketchup. It’s instinctive more than deliberate.
2. Secretly planning for years. Even if he claims otherwise, I’ll know it’s because he his the joke from himself. Al la Zaphod Beeblebrox.
You know me. All about those long set ups. Everything has been leading up to the fact the Kor’s World Soldiers are pre-ketchup’d. It is the fatal flaw that leads to the downfall.
Who would have thought that ketchup-based technology would have such a fatal flaw.
…hmm. I suppose I shouldn’t laugh to hard. We’re currently fatally vulnerable to EMPs, lightning elementals, digimon, and telekinetics who can freely manipulate silicon or gold.
Sure, most of those don’t exist. But then Kor’s World probably thought the same about dragons.
“and as we are at an important point of a project,”
You have projects with unimportant parts? You know you don’t have to do the unimportant parts, right? They’re not important.
My experience is that they’re unimportant until the point where you decide to treat them as unimportant, then somehow they suddenly become important.
Unimportant parts of the project are the parts you believe your underlings can handle on their own….or parts that can’t be screwed up too badly.
But the problem is you should never underestimate the intelligence of fools. They can screw up anything in ways you never dreamed of.
The difference really boils down to how many people are going to sqwabble at me per hour until something is done. But it is almost never zero. I am pretty tired of people sqwabbling at me. Yes, sqwabble is made up word. Something like squabble + babble + warble. Needs that element of warble for the shrill keening pierce of it.
I wish we could see more of Minus Years (though I know you have more than enough on your plate). Knowing more about Peter and Kally’s relationship would be interesting, considering that they both struggle with being any sort of normal.
It would be also interesting to see more of Naomi interacting with friends. It seems like that group could produce enough interesting content to be a comic themselves (Arkady, Mione, Lisa, and Naomi… each of them have quite a bit interesting going on with them).
Arkady has proven to both a more powerful and mage and more level headed person than most. Lisa has only shown up a few times, but obviously his more going on with her, with her likely being a spy, having representing some degree of the conflict between designer children and “normal” children, and Mione is almost as curious as Naomi herself in her power set, having almost Mium like powers.
The little pieces of this world we see always leave me wanting to know more.
I would like to make more stuff, but I struggle sometimes with making the stuff I already make. Unfortunately we leave in a world where pushing pointless projects along is better at paying ones bills that dubiously drawing comics 🙂
Panel 1: She’d assume i was an impostor or had a concussion. Panel 7: -(Not even the one you don’t like? what about the one in red stuff?)-
Fixed; thanks 🙂
I left the second one, as I think it’s on purpose (the difference); he’s being general with the first half of the statement (any human she doesn’t like he could sample) and then offering a specific in the second half of a human that maybe he could snack on without her minding. Unless I’m misunderstanding the correction 🙂