Comic for Monday, February 12th, 2018
Page, page, at long last we have a page sighting!
I think the last 1/3 of the page is probably best described as “the scribbling of a caffeinated racoon that got into a meth dealers trashbins” but it’s not really supposed to be too clear what’s going on. Anytime the panel count becomes more fragmented than a shattered mosaic it means “chaotic things happening quickly”.
…now that I think about it, I could just save a lot of time by scribbling squiggly action lines.
On the bright side, I think it would have been worse to put this page up Thursday/Friday than miss Monday’s page, as this way the cliffhanger of sorts there doesn’t last twice as long? I dunno. Speaking of which…
Sorry about Thursday’s page; in the end there just wasn’t a good a way make it up out of time that I didn’t really have.
Last week some people decided to do some dumb stuff involving tools that can bulk update databases. Sort of like how we don’t give babies driver’s licences, I reckon there should be some sort of license for being allowed to use any computer tool that can update more than say… 5 files a time. The test for the licences would be two questions:
- Is it a good idea to use this tool if you don’t really know how to use it? The answer is No. Please select one from the following answers:
- [Yes]
- [No]
- Is it a good idea to move tools that aren’t done into production environments “because you want to close user stories”? Please note the answer is the same as the above, and also No. Please select one from the following answers:
- [Yes]
- [No]
I reckon probably only about 35% of business software users would fail the test, but really, it only takes one.
The short version is there was a night where I got ~2 hours of sleep, and the rest of the weeks sort of snowballed from there, because I didn’t really get to make up the sleep for a few days, so the world was tired and cranky (not me, of course, I would never be tired and cranky, the world, though, it can be tired and cranky…) and had a lot of work to do, as I still had to do the normal work. Now that’s not to say I worked 24/7, but there’s a lot of stuff I’ve committed to in the average week (including the comic) and something had to miss, usually I try to make sure it’s not the comic, but this time things just didn’t work out.
For example roughly half way through the page, my computer crashed. As I’ve lost like 10 pages this way over the course of the comic, this made me assume that I’d lost the page as I hadn’t saved it (I know, I know) and so I stopped working on it that day in a fit of annoyance (as, remember, the world was being tired and cranky). Than I loaded the program the next day and it turns out the newer version that I just recently upgraded to DOES save the page when it crashes, so I didn’t actually lose anything, beyond the time I’d wasted sulking about it.
…anyway. New week. Sorry for ranting! I can’t help it, it’s a empty ranting box that needs to be ranted at. If you have Patreon sketch/painting requests for the month, get them in soon! Month time is ticking 😉
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Page’ll be up tomorrow. Of course. At least, it will up tomorrow, so not going to miss the page this week 🙂
While I appreciate you telling us for impatience people that refresh the page every few hours like myself, technically speaking it is not a late page if you update tomorrow. The update schedule has been Monday and Thursday for more than a year, and tomorrow is Thursday.
Looking forward to it!
Well, at least it seems Tyler has survived the first barrage. At least that’s what I’m assuming the freezing blood means. Still think he’s in trouble.
(PS: “Middle of a business park”, I think…)
Who’s wounded how badly?! Cliffhangers suck. If I ever had to literally hang off of a cliff, I’d be so screwed…
The blood froze, so Tyler’s wounded, but not immediately fatally. Also, Marc didn’t have his shield up, and the blood froze, so Marc’s probably feeling the betrayer’s cold coming on rapidly. I’m not sure he thought this one through. (Somehow, I don’t see Tyler pulling his safety for the rat who exposed him more when he was supposed to be exposing him less…)
My guess at this point is that Tyler will survive the next page. Marc… I’m not so sure about. Probably if he does, it’ll be due to it being someone else’s page tomorrow.
I’m trying to figure out if the timing is such that it’s likely shield-boy was about to say something and an assassin showed up to silence him, or if this was an elaborate lead-up to, “I’m sorry; I’m betraying you.”
Sorry, I’m betraying you. You should not have blocked my opportunity to make full family mage.
I love linux.
If you have root access, you can tell the operating system to go kill itself, and it will do it.
If you don’t have root access you can only wipe out your own files, and the rest of the computer doesn’t care.
Add to that the fact that it’s insanely difficult to bring down. As in you have to actually try. Don’t turn your computer off for 6 months? No problem.
rm -rf /; turn in your notice; chuckle a bit when their first instinct is to reboot;
Don’t try this for real. There’s this thing in most countries called a legal system that *really* doesn’t like it when you do this.
Sure, if you’re working for a small enough company, you might be able to take them down, but chances are, you won’t. Also, while it might be nice to imagine their face when they find out, they get to imagine your face when you find out that you will never be able to find work in the computer industry again. Because one thing about the legal system? It generally produces public documents to say what shit people were found guilty of, unless the person has more clout than someone who would be tempted to pull something like this. Also, news agencies love reporting self-destruction stories.
Just saying, so you know.
Also, if you’ve found a country which lacks one of these so called ‘legal systems’, then you put yourself at even more risk… every moment of every day. I really recommend moving to someplace with one, because as inconvenient as they can be, in an area with no laws, there’s no law against a lot of things that you really don’t want people doing to you. I’m not going to be judgemental and try to claim I know what you don’t want done to you. But everybody has something. Like… Rovak doesn’t like being bored. Though… I don’t think there’s actually anywhere that has laws against boring people. I guess it’s not a perfect system.
So, if I am reading those last panels correctly, Tyler probably got shot, and the wound froze over? I count five bangs and three bullets that seem to have been frozen out of the air, so maybe shot twice?
I’ve heard of the song “Cold as Ice”, but this is ridiculous!