JohnnyEnzyme

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Late reply, but this was such a crazy match. Karpov looked like he was running away with it via four wins in the first nine games, then Kasparov managed to draw 21 of the next 22 games to stave off defeat, before finally winning in game 32.

The draws continued, and the stress of the match seemed to be getting to Karpov. Kasparov won games 47 & 48, and that's when the FIDE president swooped in to abort the match. Really awful interference IMO.

Karpov made the public statement that he wanted to keep going, but behind closed doors, one suspects he was desperate to have the match aborted. Thankfully, that was pretty much the end of his champion days. He later had the gall to say that if he'd won 6-0, Kasparov never would have been champion, which is utterly ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is from 1969:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQcuhoZD0Y

I wouldn't be surprised if the original joke goes back to the silent movie era.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Understood; just wanted to add on.

My point is more or less that this doesn't have to be a closed-book situation about fish oil. Maybe it can help in some other way, and/or maybe it really can work as 'advertised' in conjunction with other substances. Certainly wouldn't be the first time, if so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Best webcomic I've read in a while. The intrinsic hilarity of the situation was ridiculously refreshing compared to the usual 'straining to come up with something funny / clever.'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Most fish oil is completely ineffective:

I've personally noticed some powerful effects from fish oil: 1) it can act as a neotropic booster, particularly in conjunction with SRI's and similar meds / substances, 2) it can cause me significant insomnia (no arrhythmia) if I take ~6-8 capsules.

Is that germane to this thread? Probably not, but something seems to be going on. Maybe fish oil has been studied so far on too limited a basis.

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

A modern Israel never would have been necessary if Jewish people hadn't been unfairly persecuted for centuries and then genocided in WWII, a good bit of that due to bullshit literature like "PEZ," that sought to find external scapegoats for internal, national difficulties.

Regardless of all these comments, there's simply no good reason to start slinging shit in a post examining interpersonal conflicts within Israel. You are breaking the simple rules of this sublemmy (follow "netiquette"), and I don't appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've seen him do a lot of variations of the central figure, but what I love about this one is/are the background color gradients. The blues, greys, yellows and browns. Really cool!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

OMG, thank you for explaining that. I get kind of emotional at times, but what you said was... schön?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

posts dehumanizing pro-genocide propaganda

I never did, so don't you dare put that on me. Neither did the post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I see you've learned absolutely nothing, and likely never will...

Oh, well?

 

So... unfortunately, this is going to be very 'ME'-based, and I'm not a big fan of that in general. Oh well. Eat your crow, Johnny. Gobble it up, please.

So, so, so-- I had a bit of a meltdown here last Thursday, ranting a bit and posting generally useless threads. First and foremost, I apologise to the community, and hope I haven't harmed its reputation too terribly much. I also want to talk about what happened to cause that, and what's going to change, going forward. Fact is, it was a killer-combo of things that day, so maybe I'll just list them out:

  • BURNOUT: For a long time now I've been aiming for a 'post per day,' because I wanted to stock up the community with lots of content, such that users could dive in to it whenever they liked and have a good, long, fun read. As a matter of fact, after hitting the one-year anniversary mark on August 1st, we actually did average over a post per day, in large part thanks to my co-pilot Nacktmull. At this point, however, I think it's time to retire that goal and NOT artificially push myself as hard on that stuff, anymore.

  • PERSONAL HEALTH: I happen to have CFS/ME, which tends to be an incurable, fatal disease. In effect, I'm fairly-exhausted 24/7, and have a fraction of the stamina that most people my age do. My wrists, feet, and lower back regularly ache, and I spend about 95% of my awake-time lying on my couch. I'd love to do lots more (including exercise, which I adore), but unfortunately when I DO, I tend to get something called "PEM," just like others in my boat. Anyway, this disease is hugely & regularly frustrating to me, and it literally (not figuratively!) seeps in to almost every part of my life. For some quick examples, I had to end my career at around ~30yo, and various relationships are just too hard to maintain, sadly.

  • BOOZE: To be perfectly honest, I was having some vodka drinks that day. I'm not proud of it, but one thing alcohol crazily, wonderfully does is to temporarily mask my pain, as well as artificially boosting my blood sugar. And of course, too much can obviously get me off the track of 'production mode.' Yeah, whoops......

  • FLAWED: One of my other frustrations here is that I get the impression that people wrongly conceive of this place as my personal blog, with the occasional brilliant guest appearance, but that's not something I never aimed for, nor wanted. I think my posts are generally good, interesting and informative, but I'm not some super-human-production-machine here, and frankly I rather resent being looked at that way. So in a sense, I don't mind letting the mask slip at times, revealing that I'm just as much a flawed, troubled doofus as the poor chap down the road, who lives in a makeshift tent on public land. I mean, say what you want-- but I'm sure that guy/gal has their talented qualities as well. At least, that's how I'd like to think of such things, y'know?

  • DISAPPOINTMENT #1: Honestly, I'm disappointed in the readers here. I've repeatedly welcomed anyone to post any sort of thought or material related to BD, and yet the more the subscribers seem to grow, the less prone they seem willing to do so. Almost as if everyone's waiting around for ME to furnish my content, read as they like, then move on to something else. Wellsir, that is definitely NOT why this community was founded. Indeed-- I still haven't had a single response to the volunteer requests I made last month. And please understand-- these are light volunteer jobs that require a very small amount of effort on a weekly basis.

  • DISAPPOINTMENT #2: Altho I LOOOVE my host & instance, I really can't say that I'm super-happy with the Lemmy community au total. As in-- when a bunch of us broke away from Reddit over a year ago (and note that I'm straddling the line under my same username there, haha), to me I thought the main idea was just beautiful, specifically involving a P2P, open, volunteer-based alternative, free of corporate greed. Well, as of now, the future of the FV (including Lemmy) still seems unclear, and frankly I'm a bit gobsmacked by the relative-lack of community-spirit here, in which I thought there might be far more common affection for the whole project. Not from the people who made real sacrifices (because they DID!), but moreso from a theoretically involved, knowledgeable userbase. Instead, no-- it's almost like Spez' freakout from a year+ ago, plus the way Reddit just doubled-down on extracting value from their userbase, essentially never happened. To me that's both creepy and weird. Shame! Shame on everyone here for thinking 'they had no personal responsibilities, nor gratitude for the new place.' And shame on you all who bought in to that.

  • SHAKY PROFESSIONALISM: Despite everything said above, this indeed is my self-appointed volunteer job, and I don't think it's good to have little meltdowns very often, and I doubt this is really the place for making "a cry for help." So again, I apologise to everyone, and... tell you what-- I'm going to be looking after my own health better from now on, which immediately means retiring the 'aim for one post per day' mentality. Indeed, let the record show that this is YOUR community now, and no longer my 'personal blog.' Now if you're wondering how I am as a moderator? I've had almost 25yrs of experience as a mod, super-mod, admin & head-admin across a variety of sites, the most recent one pinball-simulation-based, with hundreds of thousands of users. In any case, my general aim is to listen with kindness and find amicable solutions, where possible.

Hey, thanks for reading, folks!
Haha, I guess sometimes you just have to embarrass yourself sufficiently in order to make the proper course-change, mais non?

EDIT: oof, I forgot the pic. This seems to be from outside a prison in Gdańsk!

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A riff on an old joke, but a relatively safe place to start, I guess. Things will only get weirder.


https://i.imgur.com/qBJcot0.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/H3i2VBl.jpeg

Artist Herr Seele ("Mister Soul," did I get that right?) was born in 1959 as Peter van Heirseele in Torhout, West-Flanders. His father was an office clerk and his mother a professional painter, who stimulated her son's artistic interests. His grandmother Valerie Haesaert was also an artist, and once won a national award for amateur painting. As a child, van Heirseele already drew complete comic book stories. --Lambiek


https://i.imgur.com/BcHL2Yl.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/xsznHSp.jpeg

Writer Kamagurka, real name Luc Zeebroek, was born in 1956 in Nieuwpoort, a town near the Belgian coast. He came into the world with a bad Achilles tendon, which left him with crooked feet. The boy was bullied and suffered tremendous pain until an operation solved the problem. In the hospital, a young patient in the bed next to him died. All these traumatic experiences gave Zeebroek a combative attitude. In his opinion, life is so absurd, tragic and meaningless that it's best to not take things too seriously. Growing up, he therefore wanted to turn everything into a joke, even severe tragedies.


https://i.imgur.com/cSfvqcS.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/GpyHhf4.jpeg

More (and I mean more):
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seele.htm
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kamagurka.htm

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"Fromage!" (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

It's by Tintin pastiche-artist Harry Edwood!

(and just like Beldar the Conehead, he comes from France)

The pic is of course a tribute to arguably the most famous album cover of all time. (it's also in our banner, if you can pick it out)

Side note: There's two people who I can't quite figure out at the moment. They're both in the 3rd row, 4th from the right and 4th from the left. Both have grey-white hair, and are wearing shades (prescription sunglasses). Anybody know..?

 

Credit to my genius Reddit friend-- u/dunkelbunt235.

Theme song: Charline Mignot, et Dormir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTx7Skm30uQ

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I think this Spanish webcomic is worth mentioning, so let's do just that.

Now, as with great webcomics, like the ingenious, thoroughly-awesome Back, as well as Aethernaut), this one has a unique, undeniable charm for the ages. ('he said, hoping to sound unpretentious,' lol)

First off-- the author ("Inky") doesn't want the content shared around (see the bottom text?), which is part of why I'm only offering a few stills:


https://i.imgur.com/MiVyIFF.jpeg

Anyway, what we have here is a naughty, gentle, light-hearted comic about two young women spending a funny, adventurous summer with their cousins (the two boys). They're about 20yo, so I shouldn't really call them "boys" and/or "girls," sorry.

To be clear-- it's naughty in nature, but playful and clever; a thoroughly unique delight.

------> https://inkdolls.com/comic/0100/ <-------

Grandma?!?
https://inkdolls.com/comic/0304/#comic

...I also find it kind of cool and interesting to me (I'm middle-aged), thinking back about those days... about the silly, ridiculous, and (haha) sexy fun we once had.

Oh, and our theme song, "Frisco Blues" by Ofman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpCOGyh9YFE

 

"C-H" is an outrageous, absurdist Flemish-Belgian comic published for over 40 years.


https://i.imgur.com/UKWjSM4.jpeg


https://i.imgur.com/FtxBmFT.jpeg

Believe me, the three above are the barest, most-kid friendly examples that still contain some chuckles that I could find at the moment.

Also, and I hesitate to say this, but-- CH is also about shitting. I mean, the characters delivering excrement and making jokes out of it. I don't think I'm going to post that stuff, but if you like, you can search on all that.

(even "Mr. Hankey" from Southpark is somehow more appropriate XD)

. . .

[WARNING] [MATURE] [WARNING-BELOW]

. . .

The lead comic from the Dental Floss tome is this:

 
 

That seems to be the only image released so far.

Also, there seems to be a new film: Astérix, the Kingdom of Nubia launching the year after. [news link]

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Just bumped in to this artist's work the other day, and I find them both hilariously pleasing and pleasingly hilarious. A bit like Lewis Trondheim's style.

Check out all the goodies:
https://www.tumblr.com/caloucalou
http://caloucalou.unblog.fr/

TAGS: Lucky Luke

 

It's a non-standard vampire-thriller (4 tomes) by a great writer-artist duo, Jean Dufaux & Enrico Marini. [BDT]

Just before the above, our two detectives leap for their lives:

https://i.imgur.com/AIPNTa6.jpeg

While two raptors comfortably watch, a brother and sister:

https://i.imgur.com/S18uBSo.jpeg

Hundreds of years before, a ruling council of vampires decided that in order to better manage humans, they should embrace the light, renouncing their traditional, raw meat & blood-loving ways.

Now, one member of the council vehemently objected, the father of the two we see above. He was destroyed, and his children became bitter enemies of the 'new-age' vampires, who went on to rule humanity in secrecy.

Over time, the new-age vampires developed vulnerabilities that the raptors used to assassinate them, conducting a vendetta-based campaign of terror. Meanwhile, detectives Lenore & Spiaggi are assigned to investigate...


https://i.imgur.com/xIqqr5A.jpeg

...later, Lenore somehow manages to straggle home. (just above)


https://i.imgur.com/DkYoZzW.jpeg

On top of the fact that this was a cool, movie-like thriller, I enjoyed the added historical and political elements, plus the existential questions posed against the two vampire factions.

I also found the ending shocking but satisfying, in which there's a tragic, yet uplifting 'changing of the guard.'

It's a minor classic I'd say (it's really good), and another feather in the cap of Dufaux, who consistently churns out fascinating series. Same for Marini, really.

 

That's Black Bittern above, which represents the bird.

Sheyenne's from Alberta, Canada, and their art reminds me just enough of certain Euro art that I think it's worthy to be added here.


https://i.imgur.com/nCcVMyz.jpeg
We stare into each other's eyes


https://i.imgur.com/zl5RNSc.jpeg
Banana Deer and friends, from the game Fin Fin: On TEO, the Magic Planet


https://i.imgur.com/hxZzKCV.png
Ocean Procession


https://i.imgur.com/jDTOdP8.jpeg
This Moment in Time


https://i.imgur.com/q5EVXd8.jpeg
"Fast Food!"


https://i.imgur.com/48smKFz.jpeg
Kestrel


https://i.imgur.com/mowcXpn.jpeg
Snake in Grass (can you spot all the bugs?)

Oh, and they are also known as "Uzon":
https://www.tumblr.com/uzon
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/uzon/

 

"I'm fearing the worst, but hoping for the best!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pif_le_chien

I mean, seriously-- walk in the water, and... suffer the consequences?

Oh, HEY, my old 80's favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12bM1CqHoBY

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