Comic for Monday, August 3rd
Err… yes, Peter the unregulated part is what makes it smuggling. Plain boring vanilla inter-dimensional smuggling. I mean, why even both track something like that, don’t you have better things to be doing Tyler?
Poor Tyler.
Yes… the tool is called “SuperComplicatedDimensionalDectector”. Yes, that’s incredibly loose map of Malsa. No, I don’t guarantee it will look exactly like that in the future. No, computers are not all in black and white in this world, I’m just indecisive on how to draw them, so go for the low detail vague approach…
I think we are beginning to see why the IDS is not thrilled to have Peter running around being Peter.
I’ve developed a new tactic to talk about the art of the comic. I type up a commentary where I spend most of the time complaining about the art. Then I delete it. Then I type up another commentary. You’re welcome! 😀
Also, yes, I totally lied about the last comics format probably not setting a precedent. Once freed from the cruel tyranny of page sized comics I don’t see going back consistently. We’ll see. Let me know if they new format bugs you too much and I’ll take it into consideration.
Loading ...
One caveat : variable format will bite you to the rear when you ever want to do a dead tree version.
A dead tree version seemed pretty unlikely at the time, and I think the assumption on my part is if I ever do that, I’d probably redraw the pages being printed (or hire that out). Currently not in scope, but it does go back to normal (if much larger) page formats eventually. I like the scroll format, but it had it’s own problems.
Well, there you go! There’s the reason Peter’s program is so rough and unfinished-looking with questionable color choices–it’s a Beta! ^^
Now when you redo the map of Malsa, or make other changes, just blame Peter’s quick-and-dirty coding. Problem solved. 🙂
Be careful what you wish for, Tyler. 🙂
After all, what’s a little unregulated nuclear material exchange between friends? ^^
It would probably help Tyler if Peter could color-code the incursions by type. 🙂
I have no problem with your more free-form approach to pages as long as you don’t go double wide, and I miss something. 🙂
Haha, while I am mostly a UI programmer, I suspect Peter has rather little respect for details like GUIs; we are probably lucky it’s not outputting into a terminal window. He probably made Mium make that part.
Tyler will definitely have to re-calibrate his assessment of the situation.
The pages will stay fixed width, and just be variable length with probably more white space (though more total page overall). Some mediums work a lot better like this imo (like the chat conversations with Miku) and I think it will allow for better layout someday (as well as just slightly more content per update)
Does Peter mean he has all the filters *off*?
That’s a good point. I had to think about this for a bit, but I think that makes more sense.
All the boxes are checked, so I thought “on” was more natural, but filters usually filter things out, so “all on” would be nothing, eg everything filtered out…
I changed it, thanks 😉
And thanks for the comment 😀