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Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Lemon on December 28, 2013, 09:55:04 pm
with Boots Raingear, Acierocolotl, Bunnybread, Frank West, and Lemon.
Content for this episode was compiled by Cheapskate and Matt, based on a tip from Djeser at Something Awful
Edited by Lemon.
The artist leads a difficult life. Struggling to make sense of the world around him, he must create what is in his heart, then endeavor to show the world the truth he believes they must understand. Of course, the artist is a sucker. What he could be doing is putting together a massive wiki talking about himself, performing the same function with a lot more clarity. We're looking at Dozerfleet Productions: One man's quest to get somebody, anybody interested in what he has to say. This week, we're made to feel a little uncomfortable around purple pens.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: advancedclass on December 28, 2013, 10:44:25 pm
I was so excited when I saw this in the doc spreadsheet, because Dozerfleet is the sort of thing that I can't convince other people exist without the help of the F Plus. You provide a valuable service, ridiculists!
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on December 28, 2013, 11:29:40 pm
There truly is so, so much content on that wiki that you could make episodes entirely out of different portions of it. Chronicling his life alone would make for an episode, and you'd get to see the slow, impersonal newspost drama as he creeps out girl after girl and rants about liberals making him watch bad movies in film class.
When he writes, and if there's one thing he does it's writing, it's got this Markov chain quality to it, like they were strung together from a bunch of young adult fiction novels. I can totally see this guy reading those Left Behind books.
Dug up the SA thread where he came up (through TV Tropes, because someone who loves writing incessantly about their own material makes a great troper) and someone in the thread had actually met him:
I went to college with this dude and interacted with him many times as he was in the same program as friends of mine. He's one of the most threatening and disconcerting people I've ever met in my life and the picture painted by his "work" gives a pretty accurate picture of what he's like IRL. He has profiles on his wiki detailing the lives of random people from his collage program who never said more than a few things to him, and keeps records of girls who touched him +10 years earlier.
Been morbidly obsessed with his output since first meeting him.
Horror Hints: Read everything involved with "Dozerfleet music" for mondo serial killer shudders.
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Post by: Zsa Zsa on December 29, 2013, 12:44:49 am
A story about a pencil that runs really fast has, in fact, been thought up before. It turned out like this:
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Cheapskate on December 29, 2013, 02:00:58 am
Hey, y'know that Philippine woman who took his attention away from Carly?
The Dozerfleet founder began Facebook dating Filipina model Wilgrace Bation Rodolfo. While the two would eventually go their separate ways, the Dozerfleet founder would remain good friends with her sister Whitney.
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Post by: KingKalamari on December 29, 2013, 01:49:56 pm
This dude's biggest problem (Aside from his women issues, religion issues, political views, interpersonal issues and general idiocy) is that he seems to completely lack the ability most people have to look at his own ideas critically. I think any sort of creatively minded person has probably had brainfarts as stupid as Stationery Voyagers (Lord knows I have). But the difference between your average person and this guy is that your average person is able to look at that brainfart and say "Wow, this idea I had was really stupid and no one is going to give a shit". In contrast our pal at Dozerfleet seems to just be under the impression that any idea that has ever popped into his head is solid fucking gold and obviously something everyone in the world needs to know about.
You don't just fart out good things: You have to sort through mountains of neural misfirings to find ideas that are actually something other people care about. And then you have to actually put forth some effort to actually put them into a form that people will actually care about, but as we have learned from the internet that's hard work and posting on a wiki is way easier.
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Post by: count_actuala on December 29, 2013, 01:52:53 pm
This dude has dedicated hundreds of thousands of words filled with freshly bleeding pain to a time in life that I've almost entirely obliterated from my memory. Ho lee shit.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Haydon on December 29, 2013, 01:56:00 pm
This guy is wonderful - I've been stumbling around his wiki and related websites for an hour or so and it's just so consistently amusing
Starting with July 23rd of 2012, no new EA software will be purchased for use with Dozerfleet Comics for the purposes of doing storyboard work for its properties. This is in protest of the company’s efforts to overturn DOMA, calling it bad for business. ... The result of this is that Dozerfleet is currently looking into alternatives to using Sims software for storyboarding and promotional art for The Gerosha Chronicles and Stationery Voyagers. ... No new Sims software will be purchased by Dozerfleet staff until EA reverses its decision and supports the Defense of Marriage Act in its entirety. ... Unfortunately, this also means that the rumored The Sims 3: Seasons, even if EA came out with it, would not be supported here. The Dozerfleet founder was originally very excited about the release of Supernatural.
A satirical terrorist group exists in season 3, dubbed the "Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against all Possible Criticism" (GLAAPC,) which demanded total immunity for everything it did; while resorting to terrorist violence to punish the Bindaf 3000 crew for refusing to get on board and endorse their lifestyle behavior choices.
The Evil Hair Maiden once stated in acting class at Ferris that "straight" is not an appropriate term for "heterosexual." To which the Dozerfleet founder countered: "It is very much appropriate. The other should be called 'Crooked' to make everything consistent."
Emeraldo's name is probably the most recycled. When this green Metallic Gel Pen character was rejected from the canon, his name was recycled in Ciem for use as the last name of Donte McArthur's half-brother Khumar. Eventually, Khumar and Lindsay's last names were changed to Hamilton, recycling the Hamilton surname from Replox: Abstract Foundations. By changing the name to Emeraldon, it replaced "Captain Emerald" as the superhero name of Donte McArthur. For the 2008 initiation of Stationery Voyagers, the Metallic Voyagers are referred to as: Technitel, Rhoxter, Bluxtin, Esmeralda, Pinxta, etc. The liberty of replacing Emeraldo with the feminine Esmeralda came at the cost of merging Emeraldo's part with that of Purellia.
Really great episode as well - material was excellent and the riffing was spot-on (anything about condoms in particular). Keep up the good work!
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Post by: count_actuala on December 29, 2013, 02:06:29 pm
Also memorable are the peanut bags that were handed out to students participating in the Christmas Eve service.
This man's life is a featureless goddamn wasteland.
ETA:
An earlier speech was given about night terrors that she had from the age of 12 to the age of 15. Most of these episodes involved a creature that liked to attack her legs. She dubbed it the "Tinkle Tinkle" after the sound it made when grabbing at her legs.
She described her final encounter with it being in the hallway of her house in Holt. It was "mostly gray and black, with the body of a snake and an elephant-like trunk for a mouth, with long, devilish ears and a muscular body of a man
oh no.
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Post by: Odd on December 29, 2013, 07:23:03 pm
My apologies if there were any earlier hints that I missed, but the very second the "Stationery Voyagers" name was mentioned I was fucking 100% certain it was going to have a religious message.
There's no fucking way somebody would obsess over an idea like that unless Veggie Tales influenced them and they had a dearth of other stimuli growing up. All other things being the same he could have grown as obsessed/inspired by any other shit they were exposed as a kid, like StarTrek or Transformers, but you can only become obsessed with ideas like this one if Veggie Tales was a big influence in your life and you weren't allowed to play with anything more controversial than HotWheels cars. Only like that would you think that cartoons about boring inanimate objects are a good idea, and then the religious message is perforce. Like Portaxx ranted elsewhere, some people are obsessed with the idea that cartoons need to have a lesson in them.
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Post by: Runic on December 29, 2013, 07:28:35 pm
Veggie Tales wasn't bad, at least compared to the other Official Jesus Brand Entertainment Products (tm) available to Evangelical kids. At least they put some effort into it. Compare with, say, Bibleman. Fucking Bibleman. Who was kind of like Batman minus everything that makes Batman interesting and fun.
Man, fuck Bibleman so much. You guys don't even know. The only circumstances under which a child might consider Bibleman entertaining are if they were systemically deprived from any non-Jesus Brand (tm) media ever. There is an entire industry out there of Jesus Brand (tm) knockoffs of pop culture for people who fear that any exposure to normal people culture will send you to hell or something, and Veggie Tales is pretty much the top of that industry, quality wise. Or at least it was before the original owners had to sell it, it's a long story. Fuck, I should wrangle up John and start a support group. You just don't even know.
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on December 29, 2013, 07:43:20 pm
I do know Runic, I do know. I was forced to watch two episodes of Bibleman every sunday from 1997 to 2004. It was miserable and it made me really dislike sundays when I was a kid. Children forced exposure to Jesus Brand (tm) media really do need a support group.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: cube abuser on December 29, 2013, 07:59:40 pm
oh man. i was browsing the wiki and found this...
Dolphinformia was a bi-weekly newsletter that was sent by the Dozerfleet founder to Emily Brynne Kincare, a former romantic interest of his, between the years of 2001 and 2002. It was created in a similar spirit to Yo-Splaz!, but with a simpler format and less-exhaustive content.
Cancellation Dolphinformia soon came to an end in the summer of 2002, when Emily's mother advised the founder that Emily was dealing with some issues that were very serious. The mother didn't want the Dozerfleet founder ending up in harm's way, and encouraged him to break up with Emily for his own safety. Compliance was reluctant, but it happened. Only about one or two more issues of the newsletter were issued, before it was finally discontinued entirely.
Death of recipient The Dozerfleet founder and Emily were in talks and considering meeting up in 2013 to talk about their lives, and what had happened since the breakup. They were good friends on Facebook in the mean time.
On Tuesday, April 2nd of 2013, Emily announced that she had recently been hired at a new job. However, she never got the chance to share details. She was found dead the following morning on Wednesday, April 3rd of 2013.
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Post by: Odd on December 29, 2013, 09:17:13 pm
I too experienced a bit of Religious BibletertainmentTM and I know shit can suck more. The vegetables in Veggie Tales at least seem to have adventures that involve Pirates, travel and other activities not exclusively about praising the lord. But there are a fucking million better alternatives for characters in a cartoon than just giving legs to the stuff you find in the countertop of your kitchen or desk and any kid who enjoyed something more than Veggie Tales would know that.
Now if you excuse me I have to continue my "Adventures in Odyssey" R-18 fanfic about divorce and second marriages. Because Eugene should have married Connie not that whore Katrina.
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Post by: chai tea latte on December 29, 2013, 09:31:23 pm
Man, think about how terrible it must be to be part of this dude's life. Every job interview for the rest of your life, on dates, you have to explain 'okay look if you google my name I need to explain some stuff about this terrifying creepy dude I accidentally made eye contact with once'. Beyond the cartoonishly anti-gay/woman/liberal stuff that's one of the standouts for me here.
I grew up largely secular, so I can't echo the Bibleman et al sentiments, but from what I've seen in the few bible study groups I've done it's not just an American phenomenon.
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Post by: count_actuala on December 29, 2013, 09:43:45 pm
Now if you excuse me I have to continue my "Adventures in Odyssey" R-18 fanfic about divorce and second marriages. Because Eugene should have married Connie not that whore Katrina. Odd, December 29, 2013, 09:17:13 pm
I'm working on a gritty retelling of Super Book myself.
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Post by: montrith on December 30, 2013, 12:56:08 am
You guys made me curious, so I check Bibleman out on Wikipedia.
Josh Carpenter. The second Bibleman after Miles retires. He never understood the Bible until his darkest day (when his parents were arguing)
Coats. Miles Peterson's best friend who is an African-American. He first appeared dressed up as a security guard before switching to a rapper-like outfit.
Madam Glitz A self-centered woman in Back to School. She captured Miles Peterson (Bibleman) because she wanted the fame Bibleman had. However, Bibleman tells her that it is the Word of God that everyone desires and needs to hear. She was placed inside a TV set by God.
Super Pro Gamemaster 3 This robotic leader of the Evildoers Club, played by Eric Pasto-Crosby, was Super Pro Gamemaster 2's successor. He has powers similar to his predecessor and developed the video game "Big Bad Bully."
The videos and live show have been well received by children of evangelical parents.[citation needed]
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Post by: A Meat on December 30, 2013, 03:36:11 am
I honestly felt sorry for this guy until the part about his stalky behaviour.
He doesn't seem to understand that his life is just his, and isn't interesting to other people. It's seriously as if he thinks he's in the Truman Show.
Anyhow, great episode, and you guy's shouldn't have edited it down to be this short, I could listen to much more of this.
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Post by: Cheapskate on December 30, 2013, 03:57:10 am
Dolphinformia soon came to an end in the summer of 2002, when Emily's mother advised the founder that Emily was dealing with some issues that were very serious. The mother didn't want the Dozerfleet founder ending up in harm's way, and encouraged him to break up with Emily for his own safety. Compliance was reluctant, but it happened. Only about one or two more issues of the newsletter were issued, before it was finally discontinued entirely.
It happened one day in July. The 19th, to be exact. The Dozerfleet founder wanted to touch base with her, since it had been a while (since the prom) that they'd been up to much together. Even then, she mostly just used him as a taxi and then spent the evening with other friends and ignored him.
What he got when he called was something else entirely. Her mom, Patti, claimed she was "really into gangsters," and that the Dozerfleet founder should "stay away from her," for his "own safety."
This led to the eventual breakup, which he was not happy about at all. He was one of the only positive influences in her life, yet he was the one being told to leave it. He knew things would not end well in the Kincare family.
On the plus side, it meant getting to begin college life with a clean slate. Nobody at LCC had to know anything about how patient the Dozerfleet founder had to be with all the scandals and instability at SML. What his eyes had seen, nobody needed to hear it. He could be as open or mysterious about the past as desired, with nobody else needing to be any the wiser.
Dolphinformia discontinued
On July 24th of 2002, the last issue of Dolphinformia rolled out of the assembly line. This issue was different from the others. Unlike previous issues, which were romantically-inclined and aimed at Emily only, this one was more platonic, and addressed the whole Kincare family. A lack of response made it very clear that Emily had only marginal respect for the Dozerfleet founder, whereas Patti had no respect at all in spite the good things he'd done. A family of losers was destined to be losers, and there was nothing he could do to change it.
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Post by: Acierocolotl on December 30, 2013, 04:50:58 am
Emily goes bust
Thank you for this.
There was ample evidence he was a really awful person in his own way, clinging to conservative religious beliefs and the baggage that comes with it--that he had little idea about how sex worked and was desperately in love with his own (perceived) achievements, and yet I kind of maintained a soft spot in my heart for him, as gormless but almost loveable.
That quote knocked reason into my thick skull. I was in danger of being almost as oblivious as he is.
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Post by: Odd on December 30, 2013, 06:52:40 am
Dolphinformia discontinued
On July 24th of 2002, the last issue of Dolphinformia rolled out of the assembly line. This issue was different from the others. Unlike previous issues, which were romantically-inclined and aimed at Emily only, this one was more platonic, and addressed the whole Kincare family. A lack of response made it very clear that Emily had only marginal respect for the Dozerfleet founder, whereas Patti had no respect at all in spite the good things he'd done. A family of losers was destined to be losers, and there was nothing he could do to change it.Cheapskate, December 30, 2013, 03:57:10 am
Truly they had no empathy for him.
Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor… I am Pagliacci.” Doctor responds, "I'M A BIG FAN OF YOUR WORK! DO YOU WANT TO HEAR SOME JOKES I THINK YOU CAN USE? CAN I HAVE SOME TICKETS FOR YOUR SHOW?"
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on December 30, 2013, 01:30:42 pm
I looked up Evil Hair Maiden, because apparently I never fucking learn. From what I can tell, she "ruined" his summer because she got badly creeped out by him to the point where she called the cops and his school advised him to get counseling. To this day he still writes her into his shit as attention-seeking villains who are somehow aligned with militant gay--oh, excuse me, "Crooked Rainbow"--terrorists.
"Crooked Rainbow" is its own jolly circus of fun. Because apparently "straight" is the right term for heterosexualls for reasons, and "gay" is an incorrect term because all those filthy homoseckshuls are REALLY unhappy, therefore "crooked" is what people with same-sex attractions should be called. And damned if he doesn't strut around using that term as often as goddamn possible.
My theory is that Evil Hair Maiden heard him ranting about queers and Muslims and/or read his writing, and feared he might shoot up or burn down the school. I do not blame her one bit and I bet her hair looks great.
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Post by: Cheapskate on December 30, 2013, 02:54:36 pm
Emily goes bust
Thank you for this.
There was ample evidence he was a really awful person in his own way, clinging to conservative religious beliefs and the baggage that comes with it--that he had little idea about how sex worked and was desperately in love with his own (perceived) achievements, and yet I kind of maintained a soft spot in my heart for him, as gormless but almost loveable.
That quote knocked reason into my thick skull. I was in danger of being almost as oblivious as he is. Acierocolotl, December 30, 2013, 04:50:58 am
I'm not sure I can call Dozerfleet an awful person because his thought processes aren't like that of a person at all. For instance, it seems that at one point in his life, someone told him that abortion was wrong. That leads to this:
I believe anything unnatural that kills a zygote after it is formed is murder, even if it doesn't get implanted in the wall of the uterus. I do not feel that about those contraceptives which ensure that the zygote never forms. Those, at the very worst, are just cowardice, but that depends on the circumstances of the sex partners.
Even if the mother were endangered by complications, it is her duty like a pelican's to be willing to rip her own chest apart and die to protect her children. A woman unwilling to sacrifice herself for her infant children is a nature-derelict.
That kid… is inhuman.
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Post by: AlbieQuirky on December 30, 2013, 02:55:34 pm
"Evil Hair Maiden" was a classmate he clearly had a thing for, and so he went to get his hair cut by her at her job, until finally her coworkers did her a solid (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/What's_Hot_This_Year/June_2007) and warned her he was coming so she could skip out. Then she clearly grew the ovaries to speak to someone at the school about his bullshit.
I sort of imagine the hair-cutting with him being all Vincent D'Onofrio in Platoon and grunting unnervingly from under the salon cape.
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on December 30, 2013, 03:02:38 pm
In case you feel any remaining bit of sympathy for him, there's this, about the Evil Hair Maiden.
This marked the second completed work in the Dozerfleet collection that [the Evil Hair Maiden] inspired somehow. The other two were the Every Ape songs "Slaughterized" and "Die Die Die!!!," with the latter song specially re-tooled to be a "take that" against her.
Won't be / the next victim / for you! / I'd prefer / to think that / I can / run you through! /
So what / you hate me? / No more Real Nice Guy! / Baby / die die die!!! /
(Die die!!!)
Dragged me / deep into the / mud enough! / Now I'll / make my comeback / and I'll / strut my stuff! /
Time for payback, / gonna / make you cry! / Then you'll / die die die!!! /
The one silver lining is that he's so busy chronicling his life that there's no way he has time to wear anyone as a skin suit.
eta: His fictional band is "Every Ape And His Brother" which is a pretty good indie rock band name.
This is a synopsis for another parody song he made:
This song was written first in early 2006 because of the ease of switching the word "trigger" with "Tigger" in the chorus.
Instead of a song about cheating, despair, guilt, and suicide; the parody is about two psychopaths, a man and a woman, who invade the Hundred-Acre Wood, and systematically murder Winnie-the-Pooh and all of the Pooh characters that were created by AA Milne.
They find that somehow, because Gopher was the idea of Walt Disney rather than AA Milne, that Gopher is immortal and invincible. They brutally massacre everything except for Gopher, since their bullets simply go around him rather than piercing him. He laughs at them and taunts them, hopping around like a crack-high Bugs Bunny. In the end, they reside in a mental institution, laughing about how they killed almost everyone.
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Post by: Lemon on December 30, 2013, 04:08:05 pm
On the subject of Every Ape, one of the things that got cut out of the recording (due to several reasons) is his parody of Rick Springfield's Jesse's Girl.
Except his version has a slightly different theme. Rather than the jealous musings of an idealized girlfriend, his song Sandy Twirled (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Sandy_Twirled), is a celebration of human beings losing their lives and homes. Reasoning being that the East Coast is liberal, so therefore they deserve to have God smite them.
And then they / got to witness / Sandy twirl! / Hope they liked / watching / Sandy twirl! / It hardly gets / more divine / judgment / than that! / Sandy Twirled
In summary, Cheapskate - you have quite a lot of work to do if you want me to get on board with your "I'm not sure I can call him an awful person" ponderance.
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Post by: advancedclass on December 30, 2013, 04:51:40 pm
On the subject of Every Ape, one of the things that got cut out of the recording (due to several reasons) is his parody of Rick Springfield's Jesse's Girl. Lemon, December 30, 2013, 04:08:05 pm
Was one of the reasons the difficulty in editing out the sound of Ridiculists vomiting in disgust? That's some sociopath-level stuff there.
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Post by: Acierocolotl on December 30, 2013, 04:57:56 pm
I'm not sure I can call Dozerfleet an awful person because his thought processes aren't like that of a person at all. Cheapskate, December 30, 2013, 02:54:36 pm
I can, and I will. There is nothing distinguishing his thoughts from that of any hard right christian conservative. Point for point, you'll not find a single deviation from protestant-conservative thought. I haven't read any of his website beyond skimming through the submissions and the actual reading, and I'm not a betting man normally, but I would bet on this.
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Post by: Runic on December 30, 2013, 05:11:38 pm
The scary part about this is that ten years ago, there was about an even chance I could have broken this way. Okay, maybe not that high of a chance, but having the 'spergers I get a real "there but for the grace of God" vibe from this kind of thing. Chris-Chan too. If people like me don't have the support we need and don't make the effort to reach beyond ourselves and really make an effort to understand other people, this is the sort of thing that results. You can retreat into your own little world, and you can see why that prospect is equal parts comforting and terrifying.
It's comforting because it's easier to deal with the version of the world that exists in your own head and that runs according to your rules, Ulillillia style, than it is to deal with the actual world outside of you that has other people with their own thoughts and motivations that you are not neurologically equipped to really properly understand. It's terrifying because if you do that, if you go down the rabbit hole you can loose all perspective and become this.
I guess this is why it pisses me off so much to see all the "Aspie Posers" that have sprung up on the internet over the past decade or so. (Just around the time I was becoming active on the internet, fuck. Had I gravitated towards asperger's forums instead of PoE heaven only knows what strange paths my life could have taken.) You haven't done an episode on those guys, but you should. These are folks, and I'm sure you're all familiar with them, who probably don't have the 'spergers, but want to act like they do because that gives them an excuse to be horrible nerds who don't have to actually learn appropriate social skills. There's probably some overlap with Tumblr Social Justice types to. I guaren-fucking-tee you there is someone out there who has written a lengthy list about Neurotypical Privilege out there and deserves to be punched in the face for it.
Sorry for turning this into my Tumblr or whatever, but I think about these things, you know? And I've got it way better than most. To some extent I think maybe we should pity this guy. Yeah, he's terrible, but it's not entirely his fault. There but for the grace of God go I.
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on December 30, 2013, 05:46:56 pm
Even if he has the 'spergers, that doesn't exempt him from being capable of necessary soul-searching, or at least some reflection on how to use the urge to categorize things to a productive end.
Ulillillia comes across as charming (at least to me) because he's open and honest about the fact that the way the world works and the way his brain works are so different. He's not resentful or egotistical (yes, his pages are self-centered, but not in such a way that they radiate entitlement or scorn for others). He's not insistent that everyone pay attention to him all the time. He's just documenting how the world looks through the Uli-lens, without anger or vanity. He's clearly aiming for some sort of genuine self-awareness, and that just happens to take the form of webpages and a unique cataloguing system.
I don't know what kind of support Uli has gotten for his brain weirdness, but even without support people with strange brains and issues can use the urge to document as a way to acknowledge their problems rather than amplify them. Over on the comments for this episode someone compared Dozerfleet to Henry Darger. Darger's work may be dense and bizarre, but he recognized that being denied a happy childhood had a huge impact on him. There are at least glimmers of understanding that his experiences with abuse were not unique--that he had real empathy for the suffering of others.
Personally, I think it's absolutely Dozerfleet's fault that he's so horrible. Not because he may or may not be a sperg, but because he's taken his inability to understand the world and turned it into "everyone owes me personally something very specific and when I don't get it they'll all be really sorry". And he never stops once to question why he deserves that kind of accommodation.
tl;dr I hate him and if I had balls I'd email him pictures of them
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Post by: KingKalamari on December 30, 2013, 06:49:10 pm
While I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if he did turn out to have Asperger's I really got more the vibe that he just had an incredibly, ridiculously sheltered childhood
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on December 30, 2013, 07:11:08 pm
My bet is some combination of the two. Maybe having a sheltered childhood meant he never really got any diagnosis or help with his issues. It's pretty clear from the What's Hot This Year pages that his family is conservative Christian, so we know where that came from at least.
Here's something that I'm upset didn't make it into either of the docs. Lemon will get a kick out of this I'm sure.
I'm here to tell you about DVD-Storybook Hybrid Webcomic Format (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/DSHW), or as the internet might know it, "webcomics".
A DVD-Storybook-Hybrid Webcomic, or DSHW, is a special format of online comic, the term being coined by the founder of Dozerfleet on Friday, May 23rd of 2008 around 10:50 PM EDT. A few Dozerfleet works were created using the format. In 2013, further pursuit of the format was put on a shelf, as complications in its improvement and development came to a screeching halt in late 2012. Promotion of the format became even more complicated in April of 2013 with the announcement by DeviantArt of having teamed up with MadeFire to produce the MotionBook format, which was seen as more marketable.
With all the problem-solving skills of AHHHA, he set out to fix the problem of webcomics not having enough hyperlinks.
As stated above, the DSHW format was first inspired by The Sims 2 Story Exchange. That system is pejoratively dubbed "DSHW 0.1," since it has some features in common with the DSHW format but is not true DSHW for the following reasons:
While all three versions (0.05 [The Sims 1], 0.1 [The Sims 2], and 0.2 [The Sims 3]) have the basic functionality for storytelling and carry the 3.0 standard of value switching as a replacement for actual HTML navigation, none of the Exchanges have DVD-like menus.
Stories on the Exchanges do not possess the option for multiple chapter navigation within a story. Instead, chapters must be published as separate stories.
The absence of a DVD-like Main Menu and lack of DVD-like menus for sub-features to a story defeat the purpose of the DSHW 1.0 standard.
Cursors cannot be customized
Resolutions beyond 600 x 450 are not yet realized, making comparison with versions of true DSHW beyond 1.0 difficult.
No option for rolling credits pages for any Exchange story.
No navigation automation options, though page value transition effects are possible and cross-browser-compatible.
Use of Flash for technology other than video embedding/streaming
This is the frontier of modern web design. (http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110416201632/dozerfleet/images/7/79/Ciem2-ch2p1scrnsht.jpg)
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Post by: KingKalamari on December 30, 2013, 07:49:12 pm
As stated above, the DSHW format was first inspired by The Sims 2 Story Exchange. That system is pejoratively dubbed "DSHW 0.1," since it has some features in common with the DSHW format but is not true DSHW for the following reasons:
While all three versions (0.05 [The Sims 1], 0.1 [The Sims 2], and 0.2 [The Sims 3]) have the basic functionality for storytelling and carry the 3.0 standard of value switching as a replacement for actual HTML navigation, none of the Exchanges have DVD-like menus.
Stories on the Exchanges do not possess the option for multiple chapter navigation within a story. Instead, chapters must be published as separate stories.
The absence of a DVD-like Main Menu and lack of DVD-like menus for sub-features to a story defeat the purpose of the DSHW 1.0 standard.
Cursors cannot be customized
Resolutions beyond 600 x 450 are not yet realized, making comparison with versions of true DSHW beyond 1.0 difficult.
No option for rolling credits pages for any Exchange story.
No navigation automation options, though page value transition effects are possible and cross-browser-compatible.
Use of Flash for technology other than video embedding/streaming
Man, imagine what a spyware infested wreck this guy's computer must be...
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Post by: Sherlockian on December 30, 2013, 08:03:21 pm
I guaren-fucking-tee you there is someone out there who has written a lengthy list about Neurotypical Privilege out there and deserves to be punched in the face for it.Runic, December 30, 2013, 05:11:38 pm
I have seen that and I promise it is as awful as you think. (For example: http://allisticntprivilege.tumblr.com (http://allisticntprivilege.tumblr.com))
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Post by: Runic on December 30, 2013, 08:32:16 pm
Even if he has the 'spergers, that doesn't exempt him from being capable of necessary soul-searching, or at least some reflection on how to use the urge to categorize things to a productive end. Cuddlekrampus, December 30, 2013, 05:46:56 pm
Oh I'm not saying that it does, believe me. It's not all his fault that he thinks the way he does, but that doesn't make the things he believes any less toxic and hateful. Everyone's beliefs are a reflection of the environment in which they were raised, and that doesn't excuse holding onto worldviews that oppress and marginalize other people. But at the same time, I just see myself in him. I understand his thought processes in a way that I don't think normal people can.
I try to keep up on research regarding autism, and one theory that has gained some prominence is that Autists do not form a Theory of Mind in the same way that normal people do. Theory of Mind is, essentially, the ability to attribute mental states to other people. It is the understanding, on a fundamental instinctual level, that other humans are living, thinking minds in the same way that you are. There is a good amount of hard neurological evidence that high-functioning autistic people are impaired in this way. It is inherently harder for us to understand the mindstates of others, and that is certainly in evidence with this guy. It's something that has caused me no small bit of worry. I like to think of myself as a fairly empathetic person, but I don't know to what extent I view people as people in the same way most folks do. (One related theory is that theory of mind exists along a spectrum rather than being a binary trait that you either do or do not have.)
I don't know what point I'm trying to make here. Maybe I'm just organizing my thoughts. Certainly this guy has a responsibility to not be such a choad, but I'm inclined to not judge him quite as harshly as I judge normap people creepers like Roosh et al, or normal homophobes like Bryan Fischer or Scott Lively. He's operating at a disadvantage. You don't know what it's like. From my perspective, other people almost seem like they can read minds. Other people's thoughts and motivations are largely opaque to me, and I'm pretty high functioning by Asperger's standards. I've spent years and had extensive professional help dealing with autism, and I still have a hard time telling if a girl is flirting with me, knowing if someone I am talking to is engaged in the conversation, knowing if the people I think are my friends actually value my contributions or are just tolerating me. When you are impaired like that it really can seem like the whole world is structured specifically to exclude you, and it can be hard for even a well intentioned person to know when they are crossing over social boundaries that they simply cannot see. What this guy is doing is not okay, and his horrible behavior isn't right, but I pity him. I pity him because I know just how easy is to fall into that same trap.
And I'm going to say that the most important thing you can do for someone with a social disability when you see them crossing the line between what is acceptable and what is not is to tell them that. I'm sure tumblr would have all sorts of nasty things to say about this advice, but it's damn true. The very worst thing for a person like this is to put them in the hugbox. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I might have been a different person if I hadn't come across PoE and other internet communities like it. Even a well intentioned autistic person can cross social boundaries because we don't know that they're there at all, and we won't know if someone doesn't tell us. So tell us. God knows I didn't always like it, but having people, both online and in real life, who were willing to tell me when I fucked up even when I didn't want to hear it ultimately did me a world of good. Becoming accustomed to criticism and learning to modify your behavior in response to it is the number one most important skill people like me can develop, because without criticism we will never learn how to deal with people. And we need to learn how to deal with people. Because there are seven billion of them and one of you, and while it is right to expect reasonable accommodation for disabilities the flip side of that is that you have to be willing to make an effort as well. Why should they help you if you aren't willing to make an effort? I want to inscribe that on a sheet of iron and bean my fifteen year old self over the head with it, but I suspect that wanting to kick younger-you's ass is not a sentiment that is confined to the autistic. Younger me was kind of a cunt.
So that's my thoughts on the subject, I guess. If I'm sharing too much, then please tell me. After all, how else would I ever learn?
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Post by: Runic on December 30, 2013, 08:34:52 pm
While I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if he did turn out to have Asperger's I really got more the vibe that he just had an incredibly, ridiculously sheltered childhood KingKalamari, December 30, 2013, 06:49:10 pm
I'm almost positive he's on the spectrum. Once you hang around Asperger's folks you can tell. No, really! I've had acquaintances walk up and ask me if I've got it, because they have family members who do and they spotted me a mile away. Reading this guy's stuff, it's like looking in a fun house mirror. It's so familiar it hurts.
My bet is some combination of the two. Maybe having a sheltered childhood meant he never really got any diagnosis or help with his issues. It's pretty clear from the What's Hot This Year pages that his family is conservative Christian, so we know where that came from at least.EYE OF ZA, December 30, 2013, 07:11:08 pm
Got it in one. A sheltered childhood can take this problem and make it into a clusterfuck. Like I said, asperger's people need people who are willing to give out honest and uncensored criticism. This is what happens when they grow up in a culture that is designed to never ever allow their beliefs to be held up to honest criticism.
Ulillillia comes across as charming (at least to me) because he's open and honest about the fact that the way the world works and the way his brain works are so different. He's not resentful or egotistical (yes, his pages are self-centered, but not in such a way that they radiate entitlement or scorn for others). He's not insistent that everyone pay attention to him all the time. He's just documenting how the world looks through the Uli-lens, without anger or vanity. He's clearly aiming for some sort of genuine self-awareness, and that just happens to take the form of webpages and a unique cataloguing system.
It also helps that he is not a huge asshole.
Fuck man, this is cathartic.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Acierocolotl on December 31, 2013, 01:14:33 am
I've got a much simpler theory. Take it or leave it, I'm not deeply attached to it.
He's about of the age where it became standard practice to give medals and awards for everything, so EVERYBODY got some special little prize; we don't want the little ones to feel like losers. Case in point: I went to a jiu-jitsu techniques tournament for beginners, and we were supposed to demonstrate a technique--an escape and counterattack from a hold, for instance. Most of my fellow competitors were in their young teens. In there, I scored dead, utter, unquestionably last. I deviated from what they were looking for, they scored me poorly, and that's fair and perfectly acceptable and a fair cop.
Yet! I still got a medal, as did everyone else there. Mine was for "bravely participating". I gave them such a weirded-out look. (Whaddaya mean, bravely participating? I fake-kicked a guy who fake-grabbed me and I love an audience.)
Now what I'm getting at here is if everybody gets a prize every time, no matter the level of ability, everybody starts thinking their contributions have intrinsic value. If kids don't learn the value of losing at an early age, they'll think everything they produce yields gold. Case in point being the Founder of Dozerfleet, who probably got a lot of medals for "bravely participating" for his early contributions, and came to the flawed conclusion that everything he's made is valuable.
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Post by: 🍆 on December 31, 2013, 01:16:35 am
You guys should sell an F Plus outtakes digital download someday. I would absolutely listen to 2, or 3, or whatever hours of this shit. Amazing.
It's scary to think that you could be some guy you met a few times in middle school's Carli.
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Post by: chai tea latte on December 31, 2013, 02:22:19 am
In defense of the 'everyone gets a medal for showing up' thing, I just want to point out my generation weren't the ones buying the damn things.
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Post by: Acierocolotl on December 31, 2013, 02:30:00 am
In defense of the "every generation buys the damn medals" counter-argument, I just want to point out I'm in neither generation, I just wanted to learn how to boot people in the head better and my teacher was like, "You should totally go to this competition," since he generally liked the cut of my jib. I was F+ing martial arts, maaan, all terrible kicks done with enthusiasm.
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Post by: chai tea latte on December 31, 2013, 04:01:35 am
Fair enough! I did aikido for like six months and then stopped because I was too clumsy. Sensei sighed a lot.
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Post by: Cheapskate on December 31, 2013, 05:47:13 am
In summary, Cheapskate - you have quite a lot of work to do if you want me to get on board with your "I'm not sure I can call him an awful person" ponderance. Lemon, December 30, 2013, 04:08:05 pm
I'm not arguing against the "awful" part. I think he just hasn't displayed the capacity for rational thought, which I think was one of the things Data had to prove he had in order to get rights in Starfleet.
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Post by: KingKalamari on December 31, 2013, 11:21:32 am
I just wanted to highlight something from the doc, as it's the most hilariously crazy thing ever:
It's obvious: Obama wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire. He wants Kenya to be annexed to said rebuilt empire. Everything he does is about rebuilding the Ottoman Empire – with the most corrupt of the corrupt bands responsible for its original downfall to be put in charge. It's petty revenge by that faction for not being allowed to have total control of the empire a century ago. Blaming those Muslims who were not interested in being controlled by the Brotherhood for the empire falling apart when it was really the Brotherhood's fault all along. The Brotherhood is trying to once again shift the blame for something they did wrong over a century ago. And this rebuilding effort is little more than them seeking validation of what their ancestors did over a century ago. They cannot tolerate history judging them and deeming them unfit for rule because they backed Kaiser Wilhelm.
Of course!
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Post by: Psammetichus on December 31, 2013, 12:07:41 pm
Haha, that's where I remember this guy from! Someone posted his "Obama --> Ottoman Empire" thing in the FreeRepublic thread on SomethingAwful. Also, he was brought up in the TVTropes thread too.
This was one of the best F Plus episodes of all time, in my opinion. And Dozerfleet is such a rich vein of content. Like WikiHow-levels of content. He's got poetry, he's got super-reactionary, quasi-fascist political screeds, he's got crazy hyper-fundamentalist religious stuff, he's got everything. You could get at least (at least!) two more episodes out of his wiki and create the Doverfleet trilogy.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on December 31, 2013, 12:17:14 pm
I can't wait to read the Dozerfleet wiki article on this episode and ballpit.
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Post by: Odd on December 31, 2013, 12:50:17 pm
I can't wait to read the Dozerfleet wiki article on this episode and ballpit. Cuddlekrampus, December 31, 2013, 12:17:14 pm
(http://i42.tinypic.com/2r7sviq.png)
I do not mean to imply he is going to kill any of the Ridiculists, but I just want you all to know that if he outlives you then he is probably going to document your passing.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Psammetichus on December 31, 2013, 01:33:36 pm
Haha, I literally laughed out loud.
I call dibs on reading the poem at Lemon's funeral.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: count_actuala on December 31, 2013, 03:52:42 pm
I've got a much simpler theory. Take it or leave it, I'm not deeply attached to it.
He's about of the age where it became standard practice to give medals and awards for everything Acierocolotl, December 31, 2013, 01:14:33 am
Ditto. Not crazy.
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 01, 2014, 10:02:33 am
hahaha he refers to Nelson Mandela as a terrorist and thinks the suicide epidemic in Michele Bachmann's school district was caused by kids learning about evolution, not, you know, being constantly bullied for their perceived sexual orientation
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Post by: STOG on January 01, 2014, 11:49:42 am
I do have to warn you beforehand that my eulogy poem is actually just going to be me imitating Fred Schneider of The B-52s for ten minutes in a really sad tone.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 01, 2014, 12:23:12 pm
I do have to warn you beforehand that my eulogy poem is actually just going to be me imitating Fred Schneider of The B-52s for ten minutes in a really sad tone. STOG, January 01, 2014, 11:49:42 am
I will give you fifty dollars to write and record such a poem for my birthday. This is not a joke.
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Post by: Psammetichus on January 01, 2014, 10:07:52 pm
The People's Republic of China vs. the New Ottoman Empire.
Just as Assyria took over ancient Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood will take over the eastern US. Just as Babylon invaded the Kingdom of Judah, China will invade the western US. (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Non-Biblical_Reasons_to_Oppose_Gay_Marriage?t=20130821200522)
The "United States of Islam" will attack and seek to annex America, immediately following Israel's destruction/marginalization/Islamicization. They will conquer the East. China, to not lose out on its share of ownership of American debt, will annex the western USA. As America dies, China and the New Ottoman Empire will fight each other bitterly over its spoils. (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Notes_on_2016?t=20120904214337)
I am hoping the two will merge (both Islam and Communism are already inherent in Obama, am I wrong, GOP?) and we can finally have the People's Republic of the Pan-Islamic Caliphate.
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Post by: 🍆 on January 01, 2014, 10:37:31 pm
The term "Crooked Rainbow" has its origins in Stationery Voyagers. A satirical terrorist group exists in season 3, dubbed the "Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against all Possible Criticism" (GLAAPC,) which demanded total immunity for everything it did; while resorting to terrorist violence to punish the Bindaf 3000 crew for refusing to get on board and endorse their lifestyle behavior choices.
The Evil Hair Maiden once stated in acting class at Ferris that "straight" is not an appropriate term for "heterosexual." To which the Dozerfleet founder countered: "It is very much appropriate. The other should be called 'Crooked' to make everything consistent." (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Stop_the_Crooked_Rainbow_Campaign)
This troper once told off an evil bitch. It was sooo cool.
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Post by: count_actuala on January 01, 2014, 11:03:50 pm
Crooked Rainbow's drummer punched me in the face after a show once.
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on January 02, 2014, 08:50:53 pm
Dozerfleet's deviantart does not disappoint.
This is in response to the anaklusmous99 journal entry "homosexual 'sin' and logical fallacies." He contends it's "childish" to oppose the Crookedist agenda, along with other bits of slander. I'd beg to differ.
(Translation: This is why I think gay rights is dumb.)
1. Are you an earthworm? No? Then why live like one? 2. If in Adam's fall, so did all (which used to be a mandatory part of teaching children how to read), then... 3. The human mind would be prone to curiosity AND rebellion against a pre-ordained order. Which is exactly what we see. 4. Therefore, the temptation to violate boundaries that one KNOWS produce no good results will always be there. But some will be more prone to certain harmful tendencies than others. Which is also observable.
(Translation: ????scholasticism??)
7. There is no such thing as sexual "orientation." There is male and female sexuality, and then there is perversion of it. Which is a spiritual AFFLICTION. The reason "orientation" started being used as a term in the 90s was to serve as a more effective political battering ram. This is because the term used before the writing inf 1992's "After the Ball" was "preference." But "preference" implied a choice on whether or not to act. Except, there is always a choice. If a pretty lady walks into the room, I have to make a choice to disrobe with her. It's not an automatic response. I can always choose to keep my clothes one and resist her charms.
Now, I also have a preference for Asians and Filipinas. This might be called a "fetish." However, I can, with time, choose to override it and replace it with a fascination for some other type of woman. However, the Orders of Creation are in no way usurped by liking the visual appearance of an ethnicity other than my own. That's still man-woman according to God's plan, and within variations of one created kind. So I don't see a POINT in trying not to find such women interesting. Also of note: nobody's politicizing my interest here, the way that Anaklusmouse's intrigues have become a tool of political manipulation. At least he is honest when he says he has an agenda, even if not honest about whether or not it is a worthy agenda. I commend him for whatever honesty he is willing to give.
"I can always choose to keep my clothes one and resist the pretty lady's charms." -A situation Dozerfleet is highly familiar with
8. It is unfair to say that there is "no connection whatsoever" between Crookedist depravity and pedophilia.
"Gays are pretty much pedophiles." -A person whose opinion is to be taken seriously
And just to prove that Dozerfleet truly is the gift that keeps on giving, another of his journals, How to cinematize a Sims 3 shot.
I've received some compliments for how I make my screenshots from Sims 2 and Sims 3. Many act like it's some "great marvel." All it really is, in the end, is the result of a cumulative three years'-or-so worth of instruction in Photoshop, along with a good eye for color correction.
Getting your shots to look like mine by having the same training may take a long time and cost a lot of money. (ARTS 102 at Lansing Community College, ARTS 151, ARTS 171, ARTS 228, several TVPR classes in the TDMP program at Ferris State, etc.)
But since I realize most of you don't have that kind of time or money, I'll summarize as best I can:
4. Check for rough joints. The more extreme a pose in your image, the greater likelihood there is that your Sims' poses will result in gross distortion of anatomy. Even in Sims 3, the articulation on Sims is not up to par with what it should be. It can, at times, be about as bad as the articulation on free software like MakeHuman 3D Alpha 6.0. Dresses and skirts are especially bad at this, and are prone to the "No Flow in CGI" trope.
5. Once your shapes and dimensions look natural, poke at little details. Do the eyes look passable, or are they way too cartoony? Do you want to see pores on their skin? This tutorial isn't about that, but feel free to search for tutorials on making cartoons look life-like. One is very likely to mention skin pores.
6. When your image is passable on its details, now we get to tweak with the lighting. For starters, take a look at the Sim's skin. If it looks a bit too saturated to be real, then that's probably because it is. In fact, virtually EVERYTHING in Sims 3 has the saturation up too high, making it a tiny bit cartoony. Sims 2 is a little better about this, but has a bigger problem with too many shiny surfaces. When adjusting a Sim's skin to not look so saturated in color, try using a low setting of the Sponge Tool set to desaturate mode. Don't remove ALL color, just enough that it doesn't overpower the character.
8. Highlights and shadows. Sounds easy enough, right? Try to use the Dodge Tool a little on your highlights, and the Burn Tool on your midtones and shadows. Some training with these tools may come in handy. Occasionally, you may need to dodge a midtone. This is not usually recommended; but every situation is different.
9. Adjustments or Selective Colors. Both are about color correction. But one is a little more sophisticated than the other. By separating the RGB channels in Levels and editing individually, or doing the same in Curves, you can also manipulate the overall color tone of your work. Many Sims 3 shots by default are too magenta, but not red enough. They are usually too blue and not enough yellow. Adding the right amount of red or cyan or the right amount of magenta or green or the right amount of blue or yellow to either highlights, shadows, or midtones, makes a huge difference.
(Side note) In my TV Studio Operations class in the fall of 2008, it was emphasized that a regular NTSC signal is in amplitude modulation because, at it's core, it's a luminance signal. That's why the original framerate was exactly 30 fps. It was 30 fps of varying shades of gray, with 0.7 something being the "black line" and something below 255 something being the "white line," so that the signal never got too weak to die out but never got so strong that it'd bleed its signal into another channel's frequency bandwidth. The FCC's strong enforcement of bandwidth measures are the reason that NTSC-"legal" became part of the TV studio lexicon. NTSC was THE standard right up until the latter half of the first decade of the 21st century.
Chrominance slowed the framerate down to the 29.97 fps we're familiar with; because it used a tiny bit of that signal to create what I called the "syrups." Through some sort of Pythagorean algebraic formula, the "syrups" reduced white to green, and then balanced it out with red and blue. The result was color television. The two syrups were traditionally dubbed "R-Y" and "B-Y." These together were the "paint filters" by which someone could custom-color an NTSC signal. Balancing them out against mathematically-defined color bars helped ensure that color timing remained mostly consistent from one broadcast to the next. (End Side Note)
Optional: 16. Add a white inner glow to the image for flashback scenes. Adjust the size and range of your inner glow to suit something that looks like a flashback haze.
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No one has ever been so conservative and so into Sims at the same time.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Bobalay on January 02, 2014, 09:15:55 pm
What is it with Michigan churning out hilarious crazy people so consistently?
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Xenomantid on January 03, 2014, 06:07:52 pm
The hypotheses about Dozerfleet's possible autism spectrum disorder are incisive. On the other hand, when I listened to this episode, I thought the Dozerfleet founder sounded more like a narcissist (http://psychcentral.com/disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder-symptoms) than anything else.
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Post by: Cleft Uppercut on January 03, 2014, 09:25:46 pm
The scariest thing about this guy is that I feel like we all have considered being him at some point in our internet lives. I mean, eventually, everyone stumbles onto wikia and realizes that they could theoretically make their own wiki all about their awesome ideas and non-conformist views, so that some day someone else would be like, "wow this person is brilliant." Or am I just a huge narcissist for having had that thought at one point?
Also I really like the fact that he took down his idiotic Sims page because he thought it would send a message to EA that supporting gay marriage was unacceptable. I like to imagine that the people at Maxis found out and it broke their morale and that's why the new SimCity was so messed up.
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Post by: zmonbobbo on January 03, 2014, 11:34:08 pm
This guy screams "overly sheltered shut-in" to me, personally. I went to a conservative Baptist school in Louisiana, and there were a few people I know that went there that could've written this wiki (assuming they weren't too lazy to figure out how a wiki worked). The Ridiculist were on the ball this episode and had me laughing as usual, but I think the most shocking thing about this episode is how it didn't shock me much at all.
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Post by: Triggerhappy938 on January 04, 2014, 02:18:10 am
The scariest thing about this guy is that I feel like we all have considered being him at some point in our internet lives. I mean, eventually, everyone stumbles onto wikia and realizes that they could theoretically make their own wiki all about their awesome ideas and non-conformist views, so that some day someone else would be like, "wow this person is brilliant." Or am I just a huge narcissist for having had that thought at one point?
Also I really like the fact that he took down his idiotic Sims page because he thought it would send a message to EA that supporting gay marriage was unacceptable. I like to imagine that the people at Maxis found out and it broke their morale and that's why the new SimCity was so messed up. Cleft Uppercut, January 03, 2014, 09:25:46 pm
Bold added for emphasis.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Xenomantid on January 04, 2014, 08:42:45 am
The scariest thing about this guy is that I feel like we all have considered being him at some point in our internet lives. I mean, eventually, everyone stumbles onto wikia and realizes that they could theoretically make their own wiki all about their awesome ideas and non-conformist views, so that some day someone else would be like, "wow this person is brilliant." Or am I just a huge narcissist for having had that thought at one point?Cleft Uppercut, January 03, 2014, 09:25:46 pm
Having had one such thought doesn't make you a narcissist. Almost everyone likes to imagine dazzling others with one's wit and/or profundity occasionally. Most people don't turn this desire into a way of life or wish death on an entire region of a country, however. (Regarding the latter: I attended high school with someone who came from a sheltered "Christian" household, and he opined that Hurricane Katrina was a divine punishment for New Orleans residents' hedonistic lifestyles. A secluded, intensely religious life may be enough for someone to divide all of humanity into "worthy" and "unworthy" categories for arbitrary reasons [thus the callousness toward one's fellow man in the event of such disasters], but the sheer glee with which Dozerfleet mocks hurricane victims is, indeed, sociopathic.)
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 04, 2014, 08:21:22 pm
Holy shit. His description of Take Back the Night is... it sure is a thing: http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/FSL:_Show_6
He's like some grotesque caricature of a human being, shambling around in a skin suit.
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Post by: montrith on January 05, 2014, 02:28:11 am
I gave into my curiosity and checked the "forum" bit of his wiki.
Notice how all the "saved replies" that oppose him are like one or two sentence long, while his side gets to go on for several paragraphs.
By sending the DNR and other agencies to Tombstone, AZ to make sure it dies of thirst rather than repairs its water supply, Obama has made it clear he cares nothing for the rights of states. The same can be said of his contempt for Arizona's immigration law, which is actually more lenient than the "non-racist" immigration laws of Mexico that say "all Gringos are to be shot."
Damn, even our immigration only says "Never trust a Ruskie".
Since repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the navy reports three sodomy rapes per day. Obama's solution? Put on lewd sex plays funded by the Pentagon. Since then? The rape rate has only gotten HIGHER! Solution? More of the same. Is this what we elected Obama for?
Curse you Obama! All those gay rapists were just waiting for the day when they didn't have to hide the fact they were GAY rapists.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Zsa Zsa on January 05, 2014, 11:36:12 am
I keep looking through the wiki for pieces of original artwork (rather than his ubiquitous Sims-rendered pics). Most recently I found this (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventurous_Adventures_of_Redundant_Man). (http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110906023807/dozerfleet/images/thumb/2/21/RedundantMan.png/250px-RedundantMan.png)
He is believed to be a man named Barry who suffers brain damage, but nobody is really entirely certain what his issue is.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: KingKalamari on January 05, 2014, 11:55:50 am
Is that a description of the character, or the artist?
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Psammetichus on January 05, 2014, 03:34:26 pm
Ugh, Dozerfleet wiki creator is just a far-right talking-point-repeating machine. To take ZA's selection previously quoted:
1. Are you an earthworm? No? Then why live like one?
Creationists like to repeat this line from some textbook about how humans are distantly related to earthworms by evolution and then claim this is the reason there are so many school shootings: evolution teaches that you're nothing! Upon hearing this, students instinctually grab the closest gun and shoot people. Obviously, the problem is biology class, and not readily available access to firearms.
2. If in Adam's fall, so did all (which used to be a mandatory part of teaching children how to read), then...
This is from the New England primer from 1777 (http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/nep/1777/). Children were taught the alphabet using Biblical couplets. In modern time, we have A for Apple, B for Ball, etc. But back then they had, for A, "In ADAM's Fall, We sinned all" and for C "CHRIST Crucified, For sinners dy'd," etc. So it was for teaching the alphabet, not to read, and it wasn't mandatory. And he got the quote wrong and mangled the theological message (If in Adam's fall, so did all? He shouldn't have added the qualifier if, which casts the whole couplet into theological doubt.)
3. The human mind would be prone to curiosity AND rebellion against a pre-ordained order. Which is exactly what we see.
Maybe God shouldn't have made humans with the ability to rebel against His perfect order but hey, I'm not God. (Also, this bit of chicanery would make mafiosi proud. God makes humanity with the ability to sin and then has His Son as the only way to escape that sin. Oy vey, what a racket!)
4. Therefore, the temptation to violate boundaries that one KNOWS produce no good results will always be there. But some will be more prone to certain harmful tendencies than others. Which is also observable.
No.
7. There is no such thing as sexual "orientation." There is male and female sexuality, and then there is perversion of it. Which is a spiritual AFFLICTION. The reason "orientation" started being used as a term in the 90s was to serve as a more effective political battering ram. This is because the term used before the writing inf 1992's "After the Ball" was "preference."
"Sexual orientation" was first used in 1967, and After the Ball was published in 1989. Also, no.
But "preference" implied a choice on whether or not to act. Except, there is always a choice. If a pretty lady walks into the room, I have to make a choice to disrobe with her. It's not an automatic response. I can always choose to keep my clothes one and resist her charms.
As if panties could stay in position when Dozerfleet creator walks into a room!
Now, I also have a preference for Asians and Filipinas.
Hahaha
This might be called a "fetish."
Nah, more like racism based on a fundamental misunderstanding of both American and Asian cultures and hinging on the (previously absent) manifestation of ethnic and racial stereotypes.
However, I can, with time, choose to override it and replace it with a fascination for some other type of woman. However, the Orders of Creation are in no way usurped by liking the visual appearance of an ethnicity other than my own. That's still man-woman according to God's plan, and within variations of one created kind. So I don't see a POINT in trying not to find such women interesting.
ok you totally side-stepped the question here
8. It is unfair to say that there is "no connection whatsoever" between Crookedist depravity and pedophilia.
I'd say the problem is depravity, not homosexuality.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Odd on January 05, 2014, 04:37:43 pm
Obviously, the problem is biology class, and not readily available access to firearms. Psammetichus, January 05, 2014, 03:34:26 pm
Man, you should know that is the kind of declaration that sparks debates that totally derail threads. Don't be a buzzkill when we are all enjoying Dozerfleet.
Now back to Dozerfleet, I think the most cringe worthy page Dozerfleet has created is his LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsdozerfleet (http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsdozerfleet) I dislike LinkedIn but either this person totally fucking doesn't understand it or he is actually listing Dozerfleet Productions in his CV and saying he has worked in it for "19 years and 4 months". I don't think he gets what normal people mean by exaggerating your CV.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Lemon on January 05, 2014, 05:42:19 pm
From the non-biblical reasons to oppose gay marriage page...
Sticking a penis in anyone's mouth, man or woman, has never been conducive to the benefit of anyone Dozerfleet Founder
Unfortunately, homosexual activists are operating under the assumption that someone's day could be improved by getting head.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Adept on January 05, 2014, 05:48:57 pm
From the non-biblical reasons to oppose gay marriage page...
Sticking a penis in anyone's mouth, man or woman, has never been conducive to the benefit of anyone Dozerfleet Founder
Unfortunately, homosexual activists are operating under the assumption that someone's day could be improved by getting head. Lemon, January 05, 2014, 05:42:19 pm
Just to be safe, we should go lesbian.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 05, 2014, 10:36:31 pm
Sticking a penis in anyone's mouth, man or woman, has never been conducive to the benefit of anyone Dozerfleet Founder
This dude has never gotten a blowjob and I have zero sympathy or pity for him.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: zmonbobbo on January 05, 2014, 11:36:32 pm
From the non-biblical reasons to oppose gay marriage page...
Sticking a penis in anyone's mouth, man or woman, has never been conducive to the benefit of anyone Dozerfleet Founder
Unfortunately, homosexual activists are operating under the assumption that someone's day could be improved by getting head. Lemon, January 05, 2014, 05:42:19 pm
A bulb for you, sir.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Ansemaru on January 15, 2014, 08:05:00 pm
Even if the mother were endangered by complications, it is her duty like a pelican's to be willing to rip her own chest apart and die to protect her children. A woman unwilling to sacrifice herself for her infant children is a nature-derelict.
Arrives in this thread several pages late to declare that PELICANS DO NOT ACTUALLY TEAR UP THEIR OWN BODIES TO FEED THEIR YOUNG. This is a myth in the vein of "ostriches bury their heads in the sand" and "lemmings commit mass suicide", but specifically one that has been filtered through CHRIST-O-VISION.
Mother pelicans hold their bills close to their chest while feeding their young on regurgitated fish, as this position is the most effective for emptying the pouch and insuring the young eat their food. To an observer, this may appear to be the pelican wounding her own chest to feed the young on blood, but any blood is disgusting fish slurry in reality. This apparent act of self-sacrifice was of course leapt upon by Christianity as a symbol representing Jesus- which is kind of hilarious, given what the pelican is actually doing.
Dozerfleet Dude's context for quoting this myth is repugnant even without his complete misunderstanding of how pelicans work, but the misunderstanding really pushes this into new levels of idiocy.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: A Whirring Bone-White Gleech on January 15, 2014, 08:55:02 pm
Even if the mother were endangered by complications, it is her duty like a pelican's to be willing to rip her own chest apart and die to protect her children. A woman unwilling to sacrifice herself for her infant children is a nature-derelict.
Arrives in this thread several pages late to declare that PELICANS DO NOT ACTUALLY TEAR UP THEIR OWN BODIES TO FEED THEIR YOUNG. This is a myth in the vein of "ostriches bury their heads in the sand" and "lemmings commit mass suicide", but specifically one that has been filtered through CHRIST-O-VISION. Ansemaru, January 15, 2014, 08:05:00 pm
To say nothing of the fact that the whole argument is a big ol' naturalism fallacy even if his facts were right.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: A Whirring Bone-White Gleech on January 15, 2014, 09:36:56 pm
Won't be / the next victim / for you! / I'd prefer / to think that / I can / run you through! /
So what / you hate me? / No more Real Nice Guy! / Baby / die die die!!! /
(Die die!!!)
Dragged me / deep into the / mud enough! / Now I'll / make my comeback / and I'll / strut my stuff! /
Time for payback, / gonna / make you cry! / Then you'll / die die die!!! /
To borrow from Toast in an earlier episode, it's like somebody was exaggerating way too much in a story about a serial killer. Like to the point were I'm not even sure this guy's for real anymore.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: EYE OF ZA on January 17, 2015, 03:56:05 pm
In some other thread on here, I think, someone mentioned a theory about how Sonic, as the coolest thing a kid in a hyper-controlled environment might be allowed to play, ends up as a common ground for so many people with issues. Thinking about that and the "no one has ever been so conservative and so into Sims" made me realize that's probably what's up with Dozerfleet's relentless fascination with the game. Given his super strict religious family it's not a big stretch to think that they were probably against violent video games but fine with ones like The Sims.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Tiny Prancer on January 17, 2015, 05:38:37 pm
the sims is pretty benign except for the fact that gay relationships can happen in it and people can be naked and have casual sex, which I'm sure boils his parsnips to the highest degree. I'm sure he and his family have done absolutely everything to make sure that doesn't happen in his games, though. (unless maybe he legitimately doesn't realize those are possibilities in the game).
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 17, 2015, 07:42:36 pm
Won't be / the next victim / for you! / I'd prefer / to think that / I can / run you through! /
So what / you hate me? / No more Real Nice Guy! / Baby / die die die!!! /
(Die die!!!)
Dragged me / deep into the / mud enough! / Now I'll / make my comeback / and I'll / strut my stuff! /
Time for payback, / gonna / make you cry! / Then you'll / die die die!!! /
y'know, people always say the misfits went down hill after danzig left.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Navigator on January 19, 2015, 03:30:08 pm
(unless maybe he legitimately doesn't realize those are possibilities in the game). Tiny Prancer, January 17, 2015, 05:38:37 pm
Holy fuck, thank you so much for making me do that research. I decided to take a look at whether Utterly Sims (A production of Dozerfleet Labs) was a site where he created downloadable mods, or just a site where he posted screencaps of his sim stories. As it turns out, he created downloadable mods, most of which were initially posted on a site called Mod The Sims (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Mod_The_Sims).
Mod The Sims was the site that I myself spent a disproportionate amount of time on during high school, since they had clothes for my sims I could actually stand to look at. However, Neither I nor the overwhelming majority of people on MTS lean quite so conservative as Mr. Founder, and indeed he ended up throwing a fit and leaving MTS after a while. (He later went back, probably because it's the only sims mod site anybody pays attention to anymore.) Among the skyscrapers of text, he lists some of his reasons for leaving.
The Dozerfleet founder in particular found it more pragmatic to create Utterly Sims (later DzMD) at The Dozerfleet Forum as an alternative to having to constantly try to force every single download and screenshot to meet MTS standards.
Mods were still primarily hosted at MTS2 at this point. However, negotiations were beginning to break down when [a Moderator] began intercepting more and more uploads, finding increasingly arbitrary reasons to reject uploads. The Generation: Hot Coffee (http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Generation:_Hot_Coffee)T-shirt was rejected not because the joke of a single literal coffee mug was ruled weak; but because the screenshots were "underwhelming." Attempts to re-upload with much better screenshots also failed, with other reasons given.
MTS standards basically boil down to "we need to be able to see what we're downloading, and also we'd appreciate it if your mod didn't look like complete shit". Also, the Generation Hot Coffee shirt page blew me away, because it's a shirt he made to make fun of the lawyer who tried to start that shit about a GTA mod/nudity in the sims that wasn't really there back in 2005.
The page has almost nothing to do with the shirt, and instead spends three paragraphs defending the Sims mod communities, and then he lists every mod in existence that can be used to add sexual content to the game, and the usernames of the people who made them.
Pubic hair only exists when skintone default over-rides by artists such as Helaene are installed. The "woohoo" animations are not very graphic, as Sims become (mostly) invisible when they have sex in any setting. They will always magically slip into their underwear. They will only get naked for sex if hacks by the likes of TwoJeffs and Squinge are installed. The "make out" animations are most often used for sex scenes by storytellers, who avoid showing anything below the stomach line as the legs never align properly to imply anything else. As of the University expansion pack, the bug patch released by Maxis disables the censor cheat. The only way players can get around it is with a censor hack, such as the one generated by Dave Luv’s SeeThem 2.31 from SimSky. Maxis was very careful to code children in the game so that while hackers can make children nude, children have no concept of romantic interaction.
So, yes. Yes, he absolutely knows those are options in the game. And he doesn't seem to have too big of a problem with it.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Muffinator on October 27, 2017, 11:32:31 pm
So uh, he seems to have written his own TVtropes page.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: SHAMBA~1.SBB on October 28, 2017, 12:55:23 am
That's actually what first brought him to our little corner of the Internet. Someone posted a link to that page (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=421380825#post421380825) in one of the last big TV Tropes threads at Something Awful, and that's how Cheapskate (echopapa over there) and everyone else there found out about Dozerfleet.
Edit: I just realized that it was just under two months between that and the first F+ Dozerfleet episode. Impressive.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Sherman Tank on October 28, 2017, 01:12:24 am
God, I remember when that thread first discovered Dozerfleet. I kind of skipped over the first few mentions then there was a sci-fi story about pens and I was confused and scared.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Vinny Possum on October 28, 2017, 03:30:56 am
Candi takes pity on him, and after the couple succumb to their sexual desires a few times, Candi begins questioning why they haven't married yet. Donte also reveals that he promised a friend that if that friend and his wife both died, he'd adopt their son. But a pesky gay couple that's stalking Donte won't let that happen, and the judge will only rule in Candi and Donte's favor if they agree to marry.
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Lemon on October 28, 2017, 09:35:07 am
Donte?
Title: Episode 121: A Not At All Brief History Of Dozerfleet
Post by: Vinny Possum on October 28, 2017, 09:59:52 am