Cartoonist, programmer, English professor, Newfoundlander living in Korea. Hamster herder. Creator of GearHead. Lead penguin of Polar Bear Comix. He/him. Old.
Finances are extremely rough right now but im already way loaded up with work for the moment so any little bit helps if anyone is feeling generous Ko-fi.com/iceghost
Obviously we don't have 4th of July fireworks in Korea, but I wanted to mention this weird animal thing. Moopsy, my hamster, has no fear of thunder. Possibly she can't even hear it bc hamsters can't hear low frequencies. OTOH my plecos, Dora and Donut, freak out every time there's a thunderstorm.
Just thinking about how this was built into AD&D- once your characters got high enough level, it was assumed their gold would go into building castles and towers. Plus they'd start attracting followers to form their own kingdoms or cults or whatever.
SnowCone City #2: The Price of Fame is now available at @itch.io . Super penguins! Villainous Canadians! Reality TV! This comic has one of everything and a bit extra. 50% off for the itch Summer Sale. #Comics#Penguinsgearhead.itch.io/snowcone-cit...
To be fair, Newfoundland has a long and illustrious history of kleptocracy. But yes. The best time to oppose kleptocrats was probably 100 years ago but the second best time is now.
Working on a cute scene for Jessica and Kurt because they didn't really get one together yet, in which Kurt talks about why he became an orthopedic surgeon and the two of them talk about working out, then Jessica info dumps about teeth until unintentionally saying something completely inappropriate.
In Newfoundland there was talk of privatizing the NL Liquor Corporation. The fact it turns a profit was listed as a good reason to privatize it, as that'd make it attractive to investors... When your stated goal is to save money + first plan is to sell the dept that pays for itself, the mask is off.
Seconded. Coin cells can power multiple LEDs for a nice long time. I don't have as much skill or experience as Chris, but the fact that they work very well for me despite my shocking ineptitude is definitely evidence of something. The coin cell is under the hood.
Back from work. Still have some migraine postdrome. Gonna cook supper, give the fish tank a partial water change, and collapse. But what I really want to do is comics.
Tetsuo Hara just doesn't draw nipples. It's like he has an allergy or something. Unlike Korean cartoonist Sechi, who always draws them on everyone and everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qajv...
Obviously we don't have 4th of July fireworks in Korea, but I wanted to mention this weird animal thing. Moopsy, my hamster, has no fear of thunder. Possibly she can't even hear it bc hamsters can't hear low frequencies. OTOH my plecos, Dora and Donut, freak out every time there's a thunderstorm.
CodeManu and Kronbits have a bundle with a bunch of #GameDev assets and apps. Lots of useful stuff; as far as I can tell most of it is also individually discounted if you don't want to pick up everything. itch.io/b/2552/gamed...
Christian Miller aka silverspook has a bundle with both Neofeud and Decolonators at 70% off, including the Neofeud soundtrack and fiction collection. Postmodern cyberpunk noir adventure game in which you play a social worker for robots. Absolutely brilliant. itch.io/s/124851/neo...
Sophie Houlden has a selection of games at 70% off. The bundle price is worth it for Safecracking Simulator alone. Also, I hate to go all 90s on you but Sophie's Dice is possibly the most extreme dice rolling app ever created. itch.io/s/127519/sum...
Caves of Qud and the soundtrack for Caves of Qud are both on sale for 10% off. They'd be a bargain at 10% above normal price. They'd be a bargain if you had to travel to @unormal.bsky.social 's house and fold his laundry for an access key. itch.io/s/127053/sum...
Voles of the Dusk, my post-apocalyptic cute but horrible rodent epic, is currently 50% off for the @itch.io Summer Sale. As is everything else in my shop. #comics#SummerSaleitch.io/s/126696/sum...
Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here.
Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
Terra Randoma entered 1.0 release recently, and we are working on our next major update: base building ๐๏ธ We will release it in time for the upcoming #Tacticon 2024!
Caught me by surprise. I think it's similar to what happened to a lot of Americans after 9/11- a turn to absolutism, us-vs-them thinking. Fear leads to authoritarian thinking (in the psychological sense of the word). Burning bridges leads to digging in and getting more extreme.
So I'm only five sales away from a total of 420 downloads on my Itchio page AND the 2024 Summer Sale is here! For a few days you can download my latest horror comic The Vanishing Farm for free! (come on y'all 420 downloads would be so fucking funny)