You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i haven't listened to more of ryo/supercell/egoist's music so i can't say whether i like that composer, despite one of his songs being an all-time favorite
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
get rid of the windows 8 sticker but the rest doesn't matter that much in the end. (neither does the windows 8 sticker but peel that shit off imho, i did; you can also buy an ssd when you get money. might have to completely upgrade for a bigger screen but w/e)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
my laptop is like 5 years old w/ a 1366x768 display and it's slow & buggy as hell and it also sometimes shuts itself down for no reason when i'm in the middle of something
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
my laptop is like 5 years old w/ a 1366x768 display and it's slow & buggy as hell and it also sometimes shuts itself down for no reason when i'm in the middle of something
if we're talking about shit laptops
You win.
I'm guessing you're not planning to get Windows 10. :P
This is why I don't have an SSD yet. My HDD is 750 GB and finding an SSD of comparable size would cost almost as much as I paid for the entire computer.
apparently he is the same character as the Jackson in the strip you see tacked to the wall in every school counselor's office
His name is Franklin, and yes.
He was always kinda bland and mainly just characterized as "Charlie Brown's non-neurotic friend" but at least it was a stab at diversity and it certainly wasn't a bad portrayal of an African American. Also Schulz got some heat for showing him sitting in class with the other kids.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Schulz made Franklin basically just another Peanuts kid who happened to be black
And, given the attitudes of the era, that's probably the best he could have gotten away with, diversity-wise
apparently he is the same character as the Jackson in the strip you see tacked to the wall in every school counselor's office
His name is Franklin, and yes.
He was always kinda bland and mainly just characterized as "Charlie Brown's non-neurotic friend" but at least it was a stab at diversity and it certainly wasn't a bad portrayal of an African American. Also Schulz got some heat for showing him sitting in class with the other kids.
I meant in the Dennis the Menace cartoon
there is a later strip where he reused the character, in that strip he looks like an actual person and Dennis says "We're a lot alike, but there's only one difference between me and Jackson. He's left handed!"
so it's like almost exactly the same joke but not as racist
apparently he is the same character as the Jackson in the strip you see tacked to the wall in every school counselor's office
His name is Franklin, and yes.
He was always kinda bland and mainly just characterized as "Charlie Brown's non-neurotic friend" but at least it was a stab at diversity and it certainly wasn't a bad portrayal of an African American. Also Schulz got some heat for showing him sitting in class with the other kids.
I meant in the Dennis the Menace cartoon
there is a later strip where he reused the character, in that strip he looks like an actual person and Dennis says "We're a lot alike, but there's only one difference between me and Jackson. He's left handed!"
so it's like almost exactly the same joke but not as racist
Oh.
I guess this serves as a Goofus and Gallant situation on how to introduce a black character into your 1960s comic.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh my word, I am a dork.
The gate at a nearby railroad crossing is broken--it came down as a train passed but it won't go back up.
When discussing this with a truck driver, I motioned with my arm (mimicking a crossing gate) without even realizing I was doing it. @_@
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hey Tachyon, what do railroad crossings look like in the UK?
Here's an American one, not far from where I live. This is actually a pretty elaborate one, with overhead lights and a crossing gate!
Later on, when Franklin was introduced into the strip, the little black kid—I could have put him in long before that, but for other reasons, I didn't. I didn't want to intrude upon the work of others, so I held off on that. But I finally put Franklin in, and there was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, "Well, it's been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time." Again, they didn't like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, "We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school." But I never paid any attention to those things, and I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?" So that's the way that ended. But I've never done much with Franklin, because I don't do race things. I'm not an expert on race, I don't know what it's like to grow up as a little black boy, and I don't think you should draw things unless you really understand them, unless you're just out to stir things up or to try to teach people different things. I'm not in this business to instruct; I'm just in it to be funny. Now and then I may instruct a few things, but I'm not out to grind a lot of axes. Let somebody else do it who's an expert on that, not me.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
A less elaborate one: just lights, no gates:
Though this has fallen out of favor becuase gates can fail safe (i.e., they fall into the down position if backup power fails) and lights alone can't
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Later on, when Franklin was introduced into the strip, the little black kid—I could have put him in long before that, but for other reasons, I didn't. I didn't want to intrude upon the work of others, so I held off on that. But I finally put Franklin in, and there was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, "Well, it's been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time." Again, they didn't like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, "We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school." But I never paid any attention to those things, and I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?" So that's the way that ended. But I've never done much with Franklin, because I don't do race things. I'm not an expert on race, I don't know what it's like to grow up as a little black boy, and I don't think you should draw things unless you really understand them, unless you're just out to stir things up or to try to teach people different things. I'm not in this business to instruct; I'm just in it to be funny. Now and then I may instruct a few things, but I'm not out to grind a lot of axes. Let somebody else do it who's an expert on that, not me.
That's about the most reasonable position a white man in the 1960s could have possibly taken, really.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I notice the gates go all the way across the road...American ones specifically don't do that, so that you can still get off the tracks if you happen to be on them when the gates go down.
Also it looks like yours have an amber light too, which ours of course do not.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It never occurred to me that the word "railroad" was an Americanism, somehow.
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if not, then it's shit, and you should be proud that it is shit
Jesus Christ, this is an actual Dennis the Menace strip.
what do you mean purity?
if we're talking about shit laptops
although tbh i considered downloading it but decided not to risk it
i remember reading several newspapers threatened to stop running Peanuts because of Franklin
there was one arguably racist strip w/ Franklin, hold on let me find it
I guess this serves as a Goofus and Gallant situation on how to introduce a black character into your 1960s comic.
Or a Deku Scrub.