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by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:50 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Persecution (Dec 2)
Replies: 219
Views: 30991

I wonder how modern Protestants would react to attempts by the Catholics to control the US government, the way they have. Imagine another Troubles situation. :(
by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:04 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

I should point out that binding a comic is very not a cheap process and I doubt he'd be willing to do a one-off.
by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:52 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

Scripts are Chinese to me. What I was going for in another thread was some way of translating Ennias Longscript's Journal into the Racconan alphabet (Lovecraft's Diary) as a novelty book from Ralph that I would pay 20 bucks for. No scripts necessary, just patience. Turn book over, scan page, let Om...
by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:47 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

So sometime in the near future you will be able to 1) Scan all the journal pages on the CDs 2) Recognize all the letters A-Z 3) Replace them in the image with the Lovecraft's Diary equivalent character 4) Print out the result 5) Three hole punch the pages and put them in a ring binder 6) Ship the r...
by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:44 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

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by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:34 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

Can you replace the characters with another font you downloaded (like Lovecraft's Diary)? Sadly, yes, and this is just another new front opened up in the ongoing jihad between spammers and sysadmins. Making images un-OCRable is a pretty big part of it. However, due to the way statistical filters wo...
by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:18 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

I read antispam programs are starting to use optical character recognition on images that contain the spam message in my paper today.). yep, that's been going around. I hacked together a script to do that just the other day, in fact. :) works pretty well, adds information for the statistical filter...
by Rbos
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:11 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

Then there are people who read your comic, but put up with the crap because TotQ is genuinely a good comic, and would genuinely prefer that you leave the overt politicizing out of it. C.S. Lewis had it right; the story comes first, the Christianizing comes second. Your ministry will go better if you...
by Rbos
Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:55 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: politics and HO
Replies: 50
Views: 10298

politics and HO

Putting politics into TotQ means that the forum is fair game for political responses. Unless you plan to separate your political comic strips from your real comics, I don't see anything wrong with your readers assuming the same.
by Rbos
Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:08 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: Persecution (Dec 2)
Replies: 219
Views: 30991

One group grumbled, wrote letters and speaks about it on the internet. The other group rioted, killed people and burned down buildings. I would submit lumping the behaviors togather is in and of itself less then smart. I wasn't talking about that; I was talking specifically about Ralph's reaction: ...
by Rbos
Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:11 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: Persecution (Dec 2)
Replies: 219
Views: 30991

addendum to previous post: you'll probably bring up the fact that it was government-funded. Probably a grant. Grant givers rarely know what the artist will do with the money, and they don't generally specify things like "don't trash Christians with it". The artist, while I think he was a troll, was ...
by Rbos
Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:59 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Persecution (Dec 2)
Replies: 219
Views: 30991

I think it's a little silly to claim that Christians in the USA are being persecuted. Prejudiced against, certainly. They're a big target, and big targets, all things equal, will get a proportionately larger number of attacks by people dissatisfied with their lot in life, or trying to make a stateme...
by Rbos
Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:38 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: TotQ challenge
Replies: 18
Views: 13531

Oh, and I'd dearly love to see a Questor a week. Say, Friday. Then a buffer can be built up. It's hard to resist the temptation to post them in advance, I'm sure, but I think I speak for a lot of readers that regular is better than often. :) Although irregular posting is a good way to pump up ad rev...
by Rbos
Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:34 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: TotQ challenge
Replies: 18
Views: 13531

Liberals in this forum have nothing to fear unless they cannot restrain themselves from insulting other people or aggrandizing themselves beyond all reason, in which case they tend to receive insults and mockery in return. I've been reading this forum on and off for a while, and it doesn't take muc...