[03:23:17] [discord] I feel really proud of myself, I managed to stumble through rigging up a javascript function that gets the end user's date and time and adds/removes css classes to the body of a html page, synced up to Pokemon Black/White's seasons and times of day, to change a few graphics when the page loads. [03:25:43] [discord] It's probably going to need a LOT of streamlining but right now I'm just happy that I got it to work (and the funny thing is that some of it I learned from fighting an infobox on a wiki) [03:42:20] [discord] That's extremely cool! Great work! [03:54:12] [discord] Thanks! [10:07:20] [discord] good job [10:23:18] [discord] https://mobile.twitter.com/CWUnews are taking some very good photos. When we drove past the Royal Mail picket line near me, they were 4 of them stood chatting covering up the CWU banner. [10:23:19] [Twitter] The CWU (@CWUnews) ✔️ | United Kingdom | http://www.cwu.org | 408 friends, 93,637 followers | 44,258 tweets, 10,090 ♥s | Joined: 2011-06-15 - 09:55:55UTC | No worker is unreachable | Donate to our strike fund https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3EVU686A9QKZ6 | Yma O Hyd [12:13:31] [discord] how do you guys celebrate christmas? [12:17:57] [discord] Play video games all day, same as every other day. [12:17:59] [discord] (And going online, since I have Internet access. Which I didn't have for 2017 to 2021.) [12:28:45] [discord] how did you survive quarantine without the internet 😱 [12:30:49] [discord] Playing video games. :p [12:30:50] [discord] [12:30:51] [discord] I could use my phone for some Internet, but. It's not even a smartphone, and most sites are inaccessible on it, so. At best, all I could do was post on one of my forums. [12:50:36] [discord] how were you doing school or work then? [15:14:23] [discord] Unemployed. (27 until 21 November next year.) [16:06:04] [discord] having no computer at all is worse than having no Internet [16:06:52] [discord] when I was in school I somehow messed up my desktop (still had no Internet that time) and haven't touched it for a year :pupCoffeeMH: [16:07:44] [discord] until son of my mother's friend said what should I do ... and it worked [16:07:44] [discord] since then I decided to not be a lamer [17:42:02] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056265507055095848/27.png [17:42:03] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056265507352870994/30.png [17:42:30] [discord] ere [17:44:46] [discord] ahahaha man, I'd have memorized a lot more flags in my history classes if you were my teacher's assistant [17:45:32] [discord] Cool flag trivia and funny cats was not something I expected to discover on Xmas eve but that's made my day [17:46:02] [discord] I am currently tryna plan the next comic in it's own server, but we are currently on hiatus until new years 'n stuff. [17:46:03] [discord] [17:46:05] [discord] I am actually writing a online flag book involving these goofballs and for the past 2 weeks i've been drawing various flags for it. [17:46:31] [discord] ooooh. You got a link I can bookmark? [17:46:56] [discord] Server or where I post my stuff? [17:47:19] [discord] Either, really, though I have chronic lurkeritis [17:47:58] [discord] I have posted the link in #server-invites [17:47:59] [discord] [17:48:00] [discord] we have a tumblr simply called "nationcats" and I sometimes post the comics to my twitter which is @BlinxCat [17:48:03] [discord] bruh [17:48:06] [discord] i didnt mean to [17:48:08] [discord] tag myself aaa [17:48:13] [discord] @/BlinxCat* [17:48:42] [discord] I appreciate your artistic ability and passion @Blinx [17:49:04] [discord] ahahahaha that's okay, it's still a step up from atting a whole 25k+ server instead of just your friends [17:50:34] [discord] Like, everyone deserved to discover Let's Game It Out but maybe not with the attached "JOSH NO NOT THE TOMATOES" in the middle of a Pokemon disassembly server [17:53:08] [discord] I like to design the characters in random references to the region/state/nation etc, here's ohio for example, ears are reference to the state flags unique shape. [17:53:08] [discord] [17:53:10] [discord] Again, I had issues with the ball/countryhuman people acting like "this is our character design now" naww this is MY character i designed them, not yours, i'm not releasing my stuff in the public domain for anyone to use. [17:53:11] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056268302298648617/Ohio1.png [17:54:29] [discord] Yeah, a lot of people need to understand that not *everything* out there on the internet is now there for everyone [17:54:38] [discord] I aim the content towards vexillologists and actually do try to make sure nobody weird enters the community or tries to tamper with it. [17:55:00] [discord] I had some questionable people the past make questionable remarks about specific characters and it resulted in various rules on our profiles being enforced [17:55:06] [discord] I had some questionable people in the past make questionable remarks about specific characters and it resulted in various rules on our profiles being enforced (edited) [17:56:44] [discord] I get thinking a design is cool but that's why you make fanart, if you like it that much: I've yet to see a creator who isn't happy to get a surprise gift of their own characters. [17:56:44] [discord] [17:56:45] [discord] Personally I tend to be adamant about asking first before I even do fanart [17:57:08] [discord] But just taking a design and running off with it is not cool [17:57:32] [discord] I'm fine with fanart completely, i'm not fine with those stealing my stuff and refusing to acknowledge who actually made it. [17:57:46] [discord] I'm fine with fanart completely, i'm not fine with those stealing my stuff and intentionally refusing to acknowledge who actually made it. (edited) [17:58:59] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056269774209945680/24.png [17:59:24] [discord] That's a very reasonable take. Credit isn't even that hard to give! [17:59:29] [discord] Yeah Polandball/countryhumans/etc. acts as a gateway drug into broader history/geography/vexillology nerdship...Which for better or for worse means a lot of pre-teens and teens that don't know how to behave online 🙄 [18:00:15] [discord] I been a vexillologist for almost my entire life and i can say those communities are hellfire mixed with dumpsters completely, mostly countryhumans which is founded on shipping. [18:01:11] [discord] In me and my gf's sparetime we do silly stuff like this lol [18:01:11] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056270327107305582/Plushes.png [18:01:46] [discord] My heart did a lurch at "flags" and "shipping" in the same sentence, given I've had to share a platform with Hetalia fandom [18:01:55] [discord] OH GOD NOT THEM [18:02:37] [discord] I was on LiveJournal when they were there and basically kept showing back up in all the fandom news with drama all the time [18:03:03] [discord] My experience comes mostly from sharing spaces with the Polandball/Hetalia fandoms. At least Hetalia has become much more bearable in recent years (at least for me) [18:03:22] [discord] Plus the creators of both are drowned into the void of the unknown thanks to the internet and that's why i also put me and my gf's names on nationcat stuff, wikifur also mentions me as the creator of the series as a whole. [18:03:27] [discord] Hetalia brings back good memories [18:04:00] [discord] I think it's because all my once-fellow-16 years olds are now over 30 so they probably grew up enough to realize the ship wars were silly [18:04:24] [discord] My Gf's proposal for an Ameri-Cat plushy [18:04:24] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056271137849491528/Americatplushy.png [18:04:52] [discord] as someone who is extremely liberal on content/usage rights, yeah, this is a perfectly reasonable minimum and if people can't follow that, dick move [18:04:54] [discord] Also BlinxCat, thank you for introducing me to the word "vexillologist", I didn't know what you call someone who studies flags until now [18:05:04] [discord] no problem lol [18:05:28] [discord] vexillology and heraldry [18:05:48] [discord] they go together like bread and butter [18:06:04] [discord] oh this is so cute, the plushie collector in me is just making grabby hands and high-pitched sounds of "I want one it's cute" [18:06:23] [discord] I took the idea of interpreting the missisppi state flag as overalls to make her lol [18:06:24] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056271637034573904/Mississppi.png [18:06:25] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056271637428834314/255px-Flag_of_Mississippi.png [18:06:57] [discord] lol that's funny [18:07:09] [discord] creative interpretation [18:07:16] [discord] I can definitely see it [18:07:18] [discord] Never would've thought of that but can't unsee it now [18:07:28] [discord] Often we would also celebrate international holidays/evens too and make stuff like this. [18:07:29] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056271911283331092/Canada_day.png [18:07:34] [discord] Often we would also celebrate international holidays/events too and make stuff like this. (edited) [18:07:36] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056271911283331092/Canada_day.png [18:09:07] [discord] This is amazing and I'm not just saying this as a Canadian [18:09:31] [discord] Then we've got Minnesota here and as a Minnesotan, I had to give her a sweater, a redesigned version of her using the proposed state flag known as the "North Star Banner" got noticed by the movement that is pushed for it. [18:09:33] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056272426595528834/Minnesota_Ice_Cream.png [18:09:34] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056272426952052766/Minnesota3.png [18:09:35] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056272427354693722/Minnesota_North_Star.png [18:09:51] [discord] You've got an eye for character designs and your style makes me feel super nostalgic for old VGCats [18:09:55] [discord] do you do nationcats of fictional countries as well [18:09:56] [discord] BRO [18:09:58] [discord] NEO [18:09:59] [discord] THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION [18:10:04] [discord] FOR THE STYLE [18:10:24] [discord] mmmmmaybe [18:10:25] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056272648784592956/Fictional.png [18:11:11] [discord] THEN YOU DID A GREAT JOB. [18:11:11] [discord] [18:11:13] [discord] It's evoking the style, but you've put enough spin on it that it's not copying the style but going its own way! [18:12:12] [discord] Dude so that's why the style rang a bell [18:12:17] [discord] Conworlds has a lot of althistory and worldbuilding projects, some countries having custom flags. I'd love to see your takes on them if you're ever interested 👀 [18:12:18] [discord] It all makes sense now [18:12:28] [discord] Liechtenstein [18:12:28] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056273168223965314/Liechtenstein.png [18:12:39] [discord] Crown on the flag gave a good idea for me and my gf when designing him. [18:13:36] [discord] A event in the NationCats server me and my buddies did where we turned some of the members who had personal flags into personal nationcats [18:13:37] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056273453780586507/Servercats.png [18:14:19] [discord] So rare to see Liechtenstein in anything vexillology without Haiti. Feels like everyone goes for the "their flags were the same" story. [18:15:11] [discord] All those Pan-African colored flags without stars are tricky to distinguish/identify [18:15:30] [discord] Well Hello there.. excuse the sloppy lining, this was a quick little comic [18:15:30] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056273930526150718/19.png [18:15:46] [discord] lol yea [18:17:33] [discord] Thankfully Latin America doesn't get as bad with the blue and white, but I still double take if looking from a distance sometimes [18:18:58] [discord] For some reason, we made the west indies federation have one of the fewer unique-ish designs in the series. [18:18:58] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056274803348221992/West_Indies.png [18:19:10] [discord] I got taken away with too many ideas that night. [18:19:51] [discord] I think the only flags I can actually remember right are Canada and Quebec, and that's mostly because one of them is also just the Ontario hockey team logo with red filler and the other is just... well, I grew up in a strong separatist wave so it was all over the place [18:20:18] [discord] rip the West Indies [18:20:21] [discord] I live in Minnesota but sometimes i come across canadian flags once in a while. [18:20:25] [discord] I know Germany is "a fat bee with a bloody face" but that's all the mnemonic I remembered [18:20:33] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056275201463160902/West_Indies_Fire.png [18:21:16] [discord] I like the wiggly striples [18:21:21] [discord] ....*stripes [18:21:42] [discord] One of the more complex/historical comic, this being about the slow demise of the Federation, I added the context between the panels due the fact not many people really knew much about the federation. [18:21:42] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056275491537047632/31.png [18:21:45] [discord] wavy lines are a less common vexillological feature but always a welcome one [18:22:19] [discord] Flag of St Louis is a good example [18:23:32] [discord] Oh wow, never seen it before, looks pretty good [18:29:52] [discord] Very much so! [18:33:08] [discord] well if you have a computer at least you can play solitaire 😭 [18:33:14] [discord] or that one arcane game that was in windows xp [18:33:27] [discord] or that one game that was in windows xp (edited) [18:33:39] [discord] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1056278500149043260/thejockspot_cheat_codes_for_windows_xp_games.png [18:33:42] [discord] real ones remember this [18:35:08] [discord] Hahaha, this was my go-to when I was sitting around donating plasma in my college years. [18:35:58] [discord] Oooh, the space cadet board from *Full Tilt*. [18:36:21] [discord] Kinda wish the other levels were also available on Windows XP, haha. [18:39:49] [discord] damn that game was the best lol [19:00:10] [discord] I've been editing a Terraria mod for the past hour [19:00:29] [discord] Good lord, it was tedious [19:02:44] [discord] Although I was able to get most songs to properly loop, so it was worth it [19:24:38] [discord] Properly-looping songs!!! I have a lot of Feelings about songs looping correctly and they're mostly "YES PLEASE" at various volumes [19:25:36] [discord] Is Terraria touchy about when it loops its songs, or were the songs not cut properly? [19:28:49] [discord] The OGGs I used didn't have proper looping [19:29:13] [discord] I manually edited them so they did [19:35:26] [discord] An hour of manually editing the OGGs to loop... that makes me tired just to think of it [19:49:32] [discord] fuck man [19:49:33] [discord] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64087315 [19:49:34] [url] Faithless lead singer Maxi Jazz dies aged 65 - BBC News | www.bbc.com [21:26:02] [discord] well to be real with you 99% of fandoms is about shipping [21:34:00] [discord] Depending on the definition of yaoi (manga/anime slash, or like... wonky yaoi hands and really NC17 abusive dynamics that for some reason teens *really* like), it might not be that the shipping is the problem but rather a very specific kind of Bad Writing mixed in with "uwu faschy-kun is so adorable kyaaaa~" [21:35:10] [discord] (I was in another fandom that had The Yaoi Tropes when I was like 15 so I kind of know the kinds of shipping someone can stumble onto in a fandom like Hetalia) [21:35:34] [discord] no but hetalia is especially weird to me bcs its very clear that these characters represent fascist states, its even called 'axis powers' or something, idk how this has following at all [21:41:52] [discord] I don't get it either (or rather, I get a *small* bit of it, in that the uniforms were designed by a fashion guy in one case and it shows), but teens are kind of known for really bad takes when they don't understand what on earth is going on. [21:41:53] [discord] [21:41:54] [discord] As for why it was made, Japan has a *weird* relationship with its history and its westernization era and has a bad habit of pretending it didn't do the bads it did, which means the people don't get the perspective they need *there* unless they look for it. [21:43:09] [discord] axis power yeah [21:43:09] [discord] I just never really was into fandoms and shipping and realised the nazi stuff ages later, my very same friend outgrew hetalia [21:43:28] [discord] axis power yeah [21:43:29] [discord] I just never really was into fandoms and shipping and realised it has the nazi stuff ages later, my very same friend outgrew hetalia by that time too (edited) [21:43:55] [discord] whats scary is that there are still grown ass people who watch and like it [21:44:06] [discord] japan has an insanely good pr [21:47:17] [discord] japan has insanely good pr (edited) [21:48:14] [discord] man, I still think about a - third reich cutesy blog following my art blog on tumblr - for some reason??? [21:48:15] [discord] it had like, the person who run it def found them hot and was shipping them [21:48:16] [discord] can't you like blond guys who aren't nazis??? [21:48:26] [discord] man, I still think about a - third reich cutesy blog following my art blog on tumblr - for some reason??? [21:48:26] [discord] it was like, the person who run it def found them hot and was shipping them [21:48:28] [discord] can't you like blond guys who aren't nazis??? (edited) [21:48:36] [discord] dman [21:48:44] [discord] damn [21:48:46] [discord] butch [21:48:53] [discord] bitch (edited) [21:49:03] [discord] several times i had a situation where i stumbled onto someones art blog and was like 'damn nice art!' and then im hit with dudes in nazi uniforms [21:52:41] [discord] The Unexpected Nazi Uniforms seriously annoys me. [21:55:53] [discord] And I say "annoy" mostly because it seems to be in the same field as the people who inexplicably think Jeffrey Dahmer and the Columbine shooters are hot who also get on my nerves. [21:56:16] [discord] oh thats annoying af too whats wrong with people [21:56:33] [discord] or like girlies who were writing letters to ted bundy when he was in jail [21:56:38] [discord] took 'i can fix him' to a whole new level [21:57:08] [discord] It's a mental illness-- and I'm serious, I can't remember the name for it but attraction to criminals is a legit disruptive paraphilia [21:57:22] [discord] true crime girlies in shambless rn [21:59:31] [discord] I'm extra annoyed by the true crime criminal fangirls, given that I *love* crime documentaries-- the actual documentaries about the investigation and forensic methods, and not this... *voyeuristic* kind of BS like that Dahmer... whatever tf that "biopic" was that made him sympathetic and led to a new round of "oh poor man he had it so haaaaard" [22:01:47] [discord] (sorry for getting a bit sweary, I have... *feelings* about people turning real suffering into cutesy entertainment and excusing abusers.) [22:04:11] [discord] But to steer myself back to Hetalia, it's just. I looked at it once and tried to give it a go and it was just. Bad? [22:05:59] [discord] yeah it was kinda just silly and goofy [22:06:04] [discord] with no actual plot but gags [22:06:10] [discord] There's plenty of much better slice of life anime even from that era and before [22:06:42] [discord] (and I say this as someone who doesn't even like that genre outside of Bananya) [22:08:16] [discord] NOW i may say something potentially controversial... but i feel sort of similar about attack on titan. i was really into it but as soon as they introduced those armbands, i dropped it like hot potato. like this was unnacceptable to me [22:08:19] [discord] Asia is like really weird around WW2 in general [22:08:20] [discord] Japan acting like it did nothing wrong [22:08:21] [discord] All the countries they invaded still asking for an admission of war crimes [22:08:22] [discord] And then you have weird old conservatives in places like Taiwan going "actually Nazi Germany wasn't that bad they sent us military advisors" [22:09:43] [discord] oh yeah at the very least germany owned up to most of the things they did whereas in japan they just pretend this didnt happen look at our cute maid cafes [22:14:43] [discord] Yep, that's the main reason why I can't get into Attack on Titan even though the premise and art look great. Just. Yyyyyyyeah no I don't care if there's a deep deconstruction in there or something, the closest to WW2 I'm willing to go is autobiographic stuff like Barefoot Gen or demons rigging events in history so that humans would have opportunities to do horrible things like in Devilman. [22:17:10] [discord] i dont think aot is stricly a wwii analogy, its just that the message of the story is kinda strange, its basically about how || this very heavy handed analogy for jewish people used to have an empire that was genociding everyone around them for centuries and they lost all of that and immediately were closed into ghettos by the people they formerly colonized and the main character is like you know what i will a [22:17:30] [discord] so you know, theres MANY wrong things about that 💀 [22:17:55]