4-16-2024 whoopf i forgot i have a website this week. fortunately it is rarely remembered in general. i have another redrawn old dumb monster to show, when i get around to showing it.
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maybe too much greebling for the amount of content here. i felt mentally drained after the stupid animation and posting it to all the websites, and sought a sketch that I could computer paint over. and that was too much, so I went after this one instead, which was also too much, but since I had already dumped two days on the first one I stuck with this. the stages of production as far back as I have proof of can be viewed over there since I lack the energy to deal with them here. Yes that is an obnoxious paywall site. Somehow or another 11 or 12 still people actually pay me small bits monthly through that, out of pity or whatever other reason, and I will take that. This particular post is “unlocked.” Others are not, more so the people paying money don’t feel slighted than because I think anybody wants to steal them.
I believe it to be the picture that made me realize I was not cut out for water-color painting on physical media. I will sketch and resketch elements for ages to get them in functional balanced positions and next I will be reluctant to place colors that I might change my mind about. And so this lingered unfinished for years but still with blue tape on it as if I thought I might finish it. Obviously I FORGOT most of that when I decided to bring it out for this. At least five years had passed. It was supposed to be straightforward and mindless, and mindless often means irrelevance. but there are also always stupid challenges that need to be thought about that most people would not encounter. what is this thing swimming in? anything i want. but what then IS that any thing?

only THIS part is truly mindless.
obviously, the dope is awful. the dope is scum. nobody is denying that. yet they also will not take steps to do anything about it. the GREEN dope in this picture, does it think i will think it isn’t a bad dope since it isn’t blue? what a horrid dope! just look at those ears! it is JUST as bad as every other dope. i doubt it even KNOWS what color it is! maybe it even thinks it IS a blue dope! but i do not want to say anything appropriately abusive to it since i don’t want it to look at and smile at me.

really stupid idea i had years ago but only believed i had the means to execute this year and it still took longer than was remotely reasonable.
years before that I messed around with ripping my own spc music out from super nintendo games, and observed that I could play save states from the emulator “zsnes” as if they were spcs, even though sometimes there was stuff wrong with them, such as tunes playing with the wrong instruments loaded. That is is how I ended up with the screwy mario paint music which reminded me of dopes. somehow or another i ended up with a version of this options screen tune from the super nes game sparkster which only had this single sound channel active, and it made enough of an impact on me that I continued to dwell on it for long afterward. I thought for certain it must be an error, but the snes plugin for winamp allowed me to disable individual sound channels on a properly created SPC of the tune, and indeed that corny organ is in there just like that, buried under the audible instruments. I hadn’t run winamp in years but I had to dig it out again to export the different layers of the tune for this dumb cartoon. Imagine, if winamp had only been more shoddily coded and unwilling to run on windows 7 this whole mess might have been prevented.

the yeep and meteor were added late when I realized someone might assume this was just a dumb loop of the first pose and turn it off early if I didn’t show something else non-cyclical happening. they need to see that it is a dumb longer sequence than that.

but i also have to consider the organ grinder’s situation: you are trying to encourage people to give you money but then some dumb DOPE comes along and starts doing some STUPID DANCE. it is hard ENOUGH to attract customers when your only skill is spinning a handle to make corny music come out of a box, but NOBODY is going to come with a DOPE there, even WITHOUT the horrible dance.

what are you looking at? me? do you think i am going to bail you out of this? it is not my fault that the music is corny and decided to degrade to its base corniness. if YOU choose to degrade and TRANSFORM into a regular dumb old corny animal that should not be my problem.

a pointless drawing in which nothing happens showing bulma from the early dragon ball comics and unfortunately nemitz from stupid garbage comics. it didn’t seem worth fussing too much over since i never finished the comics and the anime based on them apparently was largely skipped in the US in favor of the Z episodes and more people are familiar with that but i am not and i refused to become more familiar with them without finishing what happened before that story, which as stated I never did. i TRIED but i got the books as gifts, and eventually the gifters forgot which ones I already had, and I am too cheap to buy my own books, AND the various torrents i found are highly irregular, mixing in various inconsistent fan-translations (some with MIRRORED artwork) which were probably in circulation long before the official printed ones I was familiar with amidst bits OF the official printed release.

what the heapdedeep, I know much more about dragon quest than dragon ball, which is also illustrated by the lately dead Akira Toriyama, i should have drawn some dopey monsters from that. (just not healie) (ALSO I forgot I mentioned the Journey’s End Motel and it made me laugh harder today than when I wrote that)

with that in mind i added the annoying blue thing on the left, which appears in the first dragon ball chapter but also is cognate with the “vampirus” monster from dragon warrior 2.

Vampirus, perennial adversary of the Phantom Force

although vampirus is of course best known for participating in the decoration of a worse lizard’s apartment.

with that in mind, get those dumb vampiruses OUTTA HERE

I think you will definitely need to click on this in order for the text to be legible. apologies for not making it permanently unlegible!

when I show nonsense like this, it is crucial to not make viewers uncomfortable and think I am looking for [ity compliments or trying to intimidate them into sharing posts that they don’t want to, and resenting me, since the character in these dumb comics on many occasions shares my experiences but is not meant to “be” me. As much as I have dwelled on why they do or do not, I have never asked somebody to share one of my posts! And I do not reckon I will. Hopefully changing the character to the jerk fish form I have used a few times before limits that somewhat. I only call its usual shape a “snake” because before I did people would call it a worm, and worm is an extremely vague animal name. Earthworm seems to be implied, which is an entirely different phylum from snakes and other commonly anthropomorphized animals, lacking what we think of as faces and limbs entirely, and non-annelid “worm”s are even further from that, and I am not comfortable with that manner of inaccuracy.
also the “normal” comic strip has not been cancelled. I do not know that I have ever cancelled anything. except for minor works like “goldilocks and the berenstain bears” which only existed on school computers when I did not have a home computer, I have been thoroughly unable to cut my losses in life, creative-ish or elsewise or elpsewise (though never nemitzwise since nemitz is highly foolish).

one of those funny things I sometimes find, possibly deliberately left in a conspicuous place so I will see it, while sharing a home with a child who attends a public school. I do not understand why this duck considers itself fully dressed in a coat and a stupid hat but requires swim trunk garb otherwise. A snorkle however I consider a valid fashion choice.

As always I take issue with cartoon duck as rendered by someone who has never seen non-cartoon ducks. Perhaps this is what a turducken looks like in the wild.

good job saving water, but can we talk about your toothpaste wasting? You shouldn’t even HAVE teeth, dumb bird!

more importantly, what is in this duck’s toilet, what did this duck EAT that smells SO bad that calls for both nose pinching and this worried expression? this is why they shouldn’t have teeth. they have no self restraint.
you might feel compelled to go further and declare that ducks should not have toilets but plainly whatever is in this one is an environmental hazard that transcends conventional natural disposal.
the duck dresses more appropriately for space travel but has obviously stole someone else’s body.

the company who put these out have rather a slew of unscientifically drawn characters who want children to think more realistically, and also shouldn’t have teeth.

And ALSO mess around with toilets but this one seems more in control about it.

that’s great duck. Now we know has breaking into homes and neon-coloring people’s toilet water lately. I thought this garb was foolish but “wendell” seems much less afraid of toilets while wearing it, with and without buttons, not even enormous toilets with unfathomably complex plumbing.

according to videos too many of which seem to have been uploaded by the same guy, wendell rather resembles the 3d character used to market toilet duck products in countries which thankfully, to my knowledge, aren’t this one, but more because this is an extremely lazy design than because Project Energy Savers LLC ripped off SC Johnson [a family company].

there is also another package with the duck again, more consistently dressed but still utterly dismayed by excremental affairs. This is a coloring book, yiokes

fiddle deep feep enough about toilets! that’s probably why the original artist quit and got replaced by a terrible adobe illustrator hobbyist. note that penelope/wendell wearing a wig and false eyelashes is wasting water in this picture.

in yet another booklet, wendell flagrantly mocks the no shirt no shoes rule, and is talking about toilets again, concerned that one of us might be drinking out of it. the sole human being i have seen up this point looks uncomfortable with the size discrepancy here. Even the medication bottles are at unnatural scale. Why am I worried that they contain unsolicited stool samples?

in another picture the duck has seemingly stolen a human body’s proportions to wear a space suit, but if the duck is so substantially larger than a human, who was this space suit made for? Why is the american flag emblem on it backwards? Ultimately this does not matter since the space suit isn’t tethered to anything and this duck is going to drift helplessly and die in outer space if more competent parties do not intervene.

Leaving this interloper free to waste water and whatever else

this is getting too dangerous for me.

this has been going on for years

2024’s edition is yet un resolved

some bits i forgot to check on until just now, not worth mentioning since I can fix them silently later. the point of this was to change things that other people WOULD notice.
I think it is superior to the old version, though possibly only because it is a substantially less compressed video. back in 2006ish I considered it secondary to the swf version. now websites will not play the swf version at all so this is all there is

and even the swf is huge now due to all the “brush” lines in it rather than the ugly “pencil” lines with bucket fills from before.

I fixed some of the issues but then I remembered that I need to re-match the beet herald (internally known as “lactorp” but i never truly decided on that)’s mouth to the re-recorded audio even though some of those mouths I only drew a week ago since the replacement “it’s heeyah”s I only recorded this week.

LATER! I made more changes, including text outlines like the other two videos. There are still some pencil-tool-drawn objects remaining, maybe they can stay. but after repeatedly being disrupted by hearing it I realize I need to re do the voice right before “come look, come and see” again. It no longer sounds like greegorp, the character with big glasses, but it doesn’t sound like this character looks, either. oh what a life, oh what a house.

yet later i recorded it to sound more nasal. I hope that is all.

another unfortunate appearance by the dope vending machine

i would ask who was paying nemitz but i know it isn’t necessary for someone to be paying nemitz for mit to be doing something this stupid.

in the sketch it is a generic imp but when digitally handling it I was trying to warp it into the first imp I ever showed getting angry at a dope dispenser. However back when I drew that (several years before the video) I was less diligent about having a creature appear consistent between two frames, and more recently wondered if this creature was likely to be recognized by anyone even if I did come to an ultimate compromised between its two shapes. The important thing is that it disapproves of dopes. I do not think having a tantrum is going to solve the dope problem, OR the nemitz problem, but I never claimed it wasn’t stupid, just smart enough to not want dopes.

I read too much weird garbage about people who I do not understand

i inadvertently rather like the little red-cloaked creature

regarding some distressing imagery I have mostly had on my hard drive since 2012:

Tails HAS to stay outside. Tails is not ALLOWED in the house on Christmas.

it is imperative to keep tails as far away from your drink as possible, especially if tails is wearing a bowtie.

do not exert yourself to help tails out of peril, no matter how corny his facial expression gets; tails can FLY and is just doing this for attention.

do not follows tails’ instructions. tails is not a member of the technical support team. Tails has been cursed for his deeds and imprisoned inside the computer. If you do what he tells you there is a risk of transferring the curse to yourself. if you must talk to tails do it by telephone, away from your keyboard, or at least while wearing protective gloves that prevent precision key presses.

be sure to keep those gloves on when disciplining tails since foxes, even meeply ones, are known to carry rabies.

trying to gain retribution against tails by blocking his vision in an aircraft will needlessly endanger yourself and not affect tails since he doesn’t look where he is going anyhow. also as has been previously noted, tails can FLY without aid of a vehicle.

tails is not even authorized to pilot mine carts.

also do not respond if tails attempts to pull you over in your own aircraft. tails flunked out of sky patrol academy. if he shows you a badge it is counterfeit. regardless of the lettering on display,

tails is in fact illegal in japan. do not be fooled!

tails also cannot dance. reports are yet unconfirmed as to whether he will steal your money but I think it is safe to assume that you should not give him any.

ALSO unrelated to tails but if you listen to that song, cut it off after the second verse; that chorus is NOT good enough to hear twelve times

and as weird as the video is, Will Vinton studio isn’t creative enough beyond the novelty of using clay to to do anything but simply animate mouths in increasingly creepy ways if there are no further written instructions.
is there anything else to be concerned about?

no I absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge this

page 3-64 of the bimswellian comic strip. the last row likely requires more coherence and hopefully it will be within my power to give it some before anybody sees this. but greeps it would sure be nice if I got stuff right the first time and also that trusting in obscurity giving me extra time to fix problems wasn’t the only thing that allowed me to meet imaginary deadlines.

at what point does it become 4-1? i am uncertain. i might need to show the next page checking back in with the gnomes in the apartment first. as usual, as always, i am not entirely sure what is coming next, but now that i have passed through i think the last of my 10 plus year old semi-scripted sequences I am less sure than before even. There are still some semi-scripted sequences but they are merely 10 minus years old.

speaking of the system cheating consumers while telling them they’re actually cheating the system,

an obnoxious bit coin converter machine at this semi-ghetto convenience store. I guarantee you nobody shopping here has any business buying bitcoin, which is precisely why it is here. to give false hope to the hopeless, encourage gambling among the people most at risk from gambling habits, those least likely to be listened to when complaining about what a deliberately exploitative scam this is.

whoa you mean in exchange for my real money i get to pay a fee, be associated with racists terrorists rapists and or kidnappers, AND possibly lose it all to market volatility while the sleazebag I paid can afford to ride it out while absorbing the investment I lost? Where do I sign up???? oh right here in the place where I buy paper towels great.
I would go further and say nobody shopping here has any business shopping here where all the prices are marked up and all the quantities are smaller than at a proper grocery store, meaning the price per-item is higherer, a much longer-term con against people without much purchasing power. in that context bitcoin fits right in so while I am disgusted that it is here I am most definitely not surprised that it is.

thankfully I have not been driving around the person who INSISTED I go to this store since april 2022 however

there has also been one at my local stop and shop store for several years now. Not quite the hopeless dump of that other store but still well below the comfortably wealthy and can afford to throw $10000 into a hole and hope it comes back with friends level.
It momentarily amused me recently when this cardboard sign was added and I thought the art department had decided to give earmuffs to andrew jackson, but upon looking closer I saw it was just edgy glitchy recoloring that happened to have gone red at approximately jackson’s ear zones. I do not understand why you would want to indicate that the device is malfunctioning when encouraging people who already don’t have much money to put their money inside of it and just hope you aren’t lying to them about how great the device is. but plainly they do it anyway; else this misery box wouldn’t be here and eating electricity.

it’s just like going broke in a dream where I can’t read any text because it keeps changing, except I really did lose all my money and the words really are written for me to not ever understand.

whell i am glad one person is comfortable with this arrangement.

sorry and life, “rivals edition.” or “selling same bad old game at same price but with less stuff in the box edition.”

games like this are already extra stressful and boring when played with fewer people, particularly if one of them is a small child who can feel particularly targeted in a game like “sorry” where the primary choice a player ever encounters is “which other player’s piece do i banish from the board,” and I can’t exactly fathom adults in 2024 playing this game otherwise, unless they are using such mind-altering substances that ANY bad game would entertain them as much, why emphasize that? the same reason as always, to make more money for less value at the expense of non-cheaters.

monopoly cheaters edition. regular monopoly is already cheaters edition. i suppose this is a millennial-targeted concept. we can’t put a joke in a movie without some character or the background music pointing out that it is a joke, probably while saying “dude,” so we can’t cheat without pointing out that we’re cheating either. dude. I just took $500 when i wasn’t supposed to because the rules said i was supposed to. I do appreciate not swapping out the 19th century tycoon character Uncle Pennybags with another figure Hasbro determined less in need of having its image protected, as historically prior to the modern era of near-trillionaires and companies like hasbro trying to replace artists with robots trained to copy artists, nobody cheated more prolifically than Pennybags’ monopilkmen.

Although it is arguable whether the decision to replace his dot eyes with detailed retina-iris-pupil eyes while still leaving his hairless plastic mustache, nostrilless nose and nailless fingers was intended to make him creepier.
also observe the $35 price label; this costs more than twice as much as regular monopoly! Hasbro cheats consumers in exchange for the right to perpetuate cheatitude with only themselves as victims.

in fact there is a “bonus” version that costs nearly double that apparently just gets extra money and tokens. or you can buy a cheap regular or cheaper used monopoly game, assuming you don’t already have one in your house, and plunder resources from that. And you’ll STILL in the end just have a depressing board game that is too complicated if played properly according to the rules, much less cheated properly according to the rules, for the target audience to have any fun with.

ALSO:

it felt improper to accuse the sorry rivals edition of costing the same as the regular game. i looked it up on amazon and found that selling regular sorry for one dollar LESS than the real store.

with even creepier eyes.
but more alarming, an ADDITIONAL “rivals edition” of monopoly. which admittedly DOES cost less than the regular monopoly than the regular monopoly on amazon, but only by one dollar. Additionally amazon is an even wickeder company than hasbro and has much bigger-picture access to ripoff victims than relatively well-off american consumers.

if these people have such empty lives that they buy every version of monopoly and obsessively “vote” on the few unnecessary changes hasbro allows to be voted on, including to revert previous vote-changes, despite hasbro ALSO selling

and charging double for “vintage” versions that presumably don’t have those changes taken into account to begin with, except subtler ones that buyers aren’t told about for the sake of political correctness and the latest corporate ownership labeling, content nobody cares about the irony of Monopoly producer Parker Brothers and its biggest competitor Milton Bradley now being owned and disacknowledged by the same larger company but it ultimately doesn’t matter because it’s dumb old MONOPOLY and if you REALLy want to play an unchanged old version you can probably get one for $2 at a local yard sale, maybe they deserve to have empty bank accounts too.

beet 2, again, with marginally redrawn visuals that took much longer than is justifiable for the level of evident difference, with very quickly altered audio that is substantially more obvious
possibly not quickly enough, since though I changed my mind about some of those percussion effects, then my electricity went out in a storm so i could not post upload a video at all and the sound program fl studio responds yet less favorably when my computer machine only feeds it battery power.

this gif attempts to show the state of a largely empty section of my music compositional space in the 2017 version of the music versus the 2024 version of the music. The only thing limiting me from piling in even more was me subconsciously not wanting to go beyond the vertical extent of this space and thankfully I did not think about it hard enough to consider: I can extend this space infinitely. Most critically affected seems to be the “they come from far off distances part” because I must have thought the singing sounded worst there, and so as much distraction from that as possible without blocking it entirely (or singing it better) seemed to think it was in order.
I could add proper sound effects to the cartoon but it seems like i would rather add every drum noise possible to the music, with my typical level of organization. since I am just dropping them on the time line rather than assigning them to a drum slot, it is difficult to keep track of which ones I have used, and likewise difficult to control them if they turn out to not be in the composition’s best interest. if I can’t quickly find one to replicate I will often just add a new one from the collection of 5000 or so that I downloaded back in 2015. Ideally I would use my own recorded noises, since I have just as many or more of those but since those aren’t integrated into the flstudio interface and my hard drive is organized worse than this timeline I generally give up searching after adding in about 3 of them. Very likely I could have them integrated into the software but aRRRRRRRRRHHH I’VE BEEN PEGGIOED
it is the beet 1 cartoon that really needs help, and especially to have its comically low-resolution youtube edition replaced –at the time it was the most I could upload on my crummy internet and I encouraged people to watch the native vector infinitely upscalable SWF flash video instead and HAW HA HWA that used to be possible– but I had wanted to reupload this one since the original export had some idiotic setting applied accidentally that for whyever reason I needed years to notice. i could have simply disabled that setting but I seem incapable of doing anything simply.