I have been getting SLAMMED with spam comments over the past two days. Woke up to 50 comments queued for moderation that all said generic things like “This makes everything so completely panliess.” (actual quote), and link to Bing or Google or Yahoo or Facebook, and after I got back from classes today there were 70 more of the things. Somebody is using me to falsify link traffic I think. >_<
I wanna let you guys know that if a comment you made is not showing up, I may have accidentally triggered it during my berserker fury on the Delete button. So just let me know if there’s any issues.
On a happy note, I got my first homework assignment of the semester. I am taking an Art for the Web class, and the assignment is to create five internet meme images. I’d like to run a sample of my Belle Quotes Neitzsche series by you:
I think a class that starts the semester by asking you to google internet memes holds promise for being a fun time. 😀
I have to say, it’s nice to see a webcomic where the male character has body hair. Looking at most of the other comics, you’d think everyone was a swimmer.
Agreed i like the hairy mens. <3
Hahaha, it could just be the hour but that meme made me guffaw like a moron. xD I like this page, you’re very good at the little day-to-day interactions between people. ALSO:
“Dads, whats does T ands A stands fors?”
“Uh…truth! And…and, uh, adventure. Yeah.”
“Dads. what does T and A stands for?”
“‘Todd and Andrea’. Before I adopted you, I had a girlfriend named Andrea – well, Andi – and she’s a tattoo artist.”
“Ohs. Can I haves a tattoos?”
“… not until you’re older.”
Todd + Andi
Aww, really well-done expression for Selkie in panel 2.
I bet Todd regrets that back piece.
That’s why my mom has a rule for tattoos: NO NAMES. XD
Rule 2: No portraits. Those never turn out well. Okay, somewhat rarely, but would you want to take that chance?
Perhaps you should start a meme park? *rimshot*
Oh thank you Dave, I needed a laugh like this, waiting for MagickChicks to update is soooooo dull without WayWardSons and Selkie.
😛
Heh. Way to gross out your new daughter! Thanks again for the fan art, Dave! It’ll be up around midnight Pacific time!
When do we get to see more the Todd/Andi dynamic? I’m really interested! And Selkie’s facial expression in panel two is to die for!
Welcome to the world of bots. I had actual conversations of spam bots answering to each other in my webcomic. The worst is that at the beginning I didn’t know about them and thought they were real people. I was so happy finally somebody was reading the comic, so I was doing all that work translating for something!
It’s unfair, they play with my feelings >.< For the same effort I could have been translating the comic into bot language ¬¬
Btw, if any real person here wants to have a look and leave a comment I'll be really glad 🙂 All the bots are deleted now.
Anyway, nice page, like always, Dave ^^! And good luck with the spam bots!
I rather hope that back tattoo was a youthful mistake, rather than something he wears proudly.
On spam: Welcome to what the internet has become. I was just forced to clamp down on forum registrations on account of something like a dozen junk registrations PER HOUR, with one or more attendant posts each–and that was with email verification and a basic image captcha.
Even with ReCaptcha and enough manual effort that any activity is almost certainly a real person, I’m still seeing at least a couple of spam registrations and posts a day–apparently at this point it’s worth paying people in underdeveloped countries to bypass tests and post adds for illicit prescription drugs.
There are days when I find myself thinking that somebody should start a global vigilante posse and do bad things physically to spammers to scare the rest of them into another line of illegal business. Then I remind myself that I’m a pacifist and that is entirely inappropriate. Hard to argue that the world wouldn’t be a better place, though.
I’d sign up for that posse. I could specialize in doing hurtful things to male spammers especially. *evil*
To be fair, the back-piece is something I rather enjoy… makes things a lot simpler. I see it no differently than someone getting a rainbow tat or a bi-flag. Being proud of what you are and being true to yourself should never be inhibitors, especially if you maintain a professional view to the people who’d whine otherwise.
Talk about good qualities in a parent, depending on interpretation.
Also, the smiley faces seem like the Drama/Comedy masks… in emoticon form. Something of the sort? Seems like there’s history and such in small ways, and I really like what it could (will?) do for the comic.
And yes, I agree fully on the class. There’s a degree of understanding between peers that can be lost based on what society you’re a part of, so I always preferred the geeky teachers when given the choice: people who get Star Trek jokes get gold stars, as the story goes~
I dunno, it’s less like a rainbow tattoo and more like a tattoo that says “Cocks!”
I love the look on his face in the last panel. LOVE!
selkie´s “eeewwws” gets me every time XD
Akismet was having server problems the other day. I, also, woke up to ONE MILLION SPAMS (although just on one blog, not the others I have, WHEW). I turned off comments for awhile, and then went looking for new captcha solutions.
If you search for wordpress plugins, looking for captchas, there are some invisible ones. Instead of prompting commenters to answer a question like you have (like a lot of people have– thank you for having one so easy to read, btw), they insert a tickybox that PEOPLE can’t see but that BOTS _can_ see. The bot checks the tickybox, and that gets the comment marked as spam and you never have to deal with it.
The blogs I have that didn’t get the influx of spam? All had invisible captchas.
I’m intrigued, how can the bot see something a person can’t? Is it coding imbedded but not shown? Or just text in the background colour or what?
The bot can see the code, since it sees the code and not the pretty front end formated text/images/etc that a human eye sees. So it sees the code for the ticky box, and selects it, but that ticky box does not show up for people visually looking at the page with their eyes.
I love the word tickybox. Thank you.
Sounds like Todd is discovering the true joys of fatherhood. Namely psychologically torturing your children. 8D
At least he didn’t threaten to have her change his diapers when he gets older.
But he well could have! “You’ll have to do _x_ gross thing for me when I’m old and senile” is all too common a parental threat.
Hey, Todd really is an awesome/average parent after all, huh? XD
He has his and Andi’s initials tattooed on his back?!
Probably been regretting it for months. xD
Well, a good tattoo artist could probably cover it up with something better.
Or he could hope that he´ll find another girlfriend whose name begins with an A…
…why does everybody think it’s Andi? Isn’t his adopted brother named Antoine? It’s not like the tattoo is all hearts and flowers…
I just block certain words at my site. It clamps down on much of the spam. Anything with BBCode or http links gets blocked too.
Aw, the word “Dads!” brought a tear to my eye. And I am pretty darn macho (pauses to eject quid of tobacco, “p’ting”).
Selkie says it without a hint of self-consciouseness, and no, I’ve no idea how Dave conveys that.
Neitzsche? Bit unsympathetic for my tastes. Like the incongruity of the image and the quote, though.
XD Oh, Selkie… it’s true, you know.
o___o Although, even I can’t touch my parents’ tweezers… (Gags) DX
Oh, incidentally. Biology question!
Can Selkie grow nose hair?
Easy answer there: Yes. She has hair on her head, therefore she’s a mammal and would have hair in her nose to prevent dirt from getting in there like us.
But she’s also cold-blooded and has gills, unlike other mammals.
A chimera perhaps?
She also didn’t say she had no nose hair, she just went ewww. Therefore she must have nose hair.
-eye twitch- why did he have to say the truth on parents and there children!!!!!
Wait…what are you going to school for? ’cause that beats my “Come up with solutions for pretend customers” roleplay all to heck~
Graphic design/visual arts/digital art.
Also, I must point out that I love how you took a quote that justifies feeding trolls, and worked it into a meme. Brilliant!
When is Selkie going to stop sprinkling her words with incorrect S’s?
When Todd arranges for her to go to a speech therapist who understands the peculiarities of her lips, tongue, palate, throat, and gills.
Bother- meant my comment below to be in reply to this!
I dunno personally I like her speech. It’s distinctive and pretty cute sometimes haha
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You have a class that tells you to google internet memes. I’m a freshman with four lecture courses. JEALOUSY!
Also, my first comment here. Yay. And Selkie’s face in panel 2 is hilarious.
She might just grow out of it. A lot of mono-environmental kids have lisps until they lose their milk teeth, or until their tongues/larynx/sinuses reach a particular size. Bi-environmentals like Selkie might shed their teeth rather like sharks, in which case the first few sets might be too big for a young mouth.
Oddly enough, Selkie doesn´t do the “s” thing when she talks in her own language, so I think it is at least in part some sort of accent or trouble correctly pronouncing sounds that her native language doesn´t have – I know *I* have plenty of trouble pronouncing the “th” sound, and I´m human!
Good luck to anyone under Irene. Stay safe, people.
I second that motion.
On spam: Remove the “Website URL” field and they will go away.
On Comic: I love Todd. Cans I keeps him?
I’m so behind! Finding out he has tattoos adds something to him. I want to know why he got them and stuff. And they were unexpected!
Nice to see them getting along so well! Also, I loved that dream sequence. <3
God it’s been too long since I came here. And the first thing I though while reading this page was “Oh go, she said ‘I have to go’! She’s a mini Sheppard, so cute!!” Yeah I’ve been playing Mass Effect to much lately ^^
I love the EEEWWWSSS at the end, very cute ^^
You see this? THIS is why I want to be a dad! MWAHAHAHA
Oh ugh… as far as classes and memes go. I hated that I had to take “Digital Literacy” in my college. It required me to sign up for a google account and a facebook account.
I have, in the past, worked in IT; I learned nothing of use in that class. The only things I did learn is the newer Mac UI… the last time I used a Mac on a regular basis was when OSX was first introduced.
I don’t need to know memes. I am not exposed to memes on a regular basis, the last meme I think I was aware of was the “All your base are belong to us”. I don’t want to know, and I feel no particular use to them.
Still, I’m not studying to be any kind of artist. I major in Psychology, minor in Business Administration, and am also simultaneously working toward an Associates degree in Criminal Justice.
I will be qualified to be and create super villains, it seems. =D
What’s really fun is when you’re finally getting over a week-long nasal infection and have to do some ‘mining’ so you can finally BREATHE PROPERLY after 6-8 miserable days.
On a related note, I wonder just how Selkie’s nasal cavity works?