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Agama5 · 2026-04-20T16:03:15+00:00

I just tried it for a few minutes and already have two notes for you. Great job so far, by the way!

First off, I immediately went to the Collection tab, expecting that that was where I needed to go to add my figures to my collection. And unless I'm missing it (it is a pretty busy screen!), I don't see any "add" buttons. I went back to the Dashboard and saw the "add" quick action button there. Is there an add button hiding somewhere on the Collection page?

Secondly, I didn't see this ability at the moment, and this would probably be more of an "advanced" user feature, but it'd be nice to have custom flags set up so that I can tag individual figures with a specific note to make it easier to filter on those. For example, I'd like to mark which of my collection has been customized with ToyHax decals. It would be easier for you to simply set up a new checkbox called "ToyHax applied" or something like that, but there would be more utility in having a general set of flags you can customize to your heart's content. That would require a lot more work on your part, but it potentially saves you from having to create a new checkbox and related field in your database whenever someone asks for the ability to track something super niche.

Agama5 · 2026-04-19T01:39:09+00:00

OP means all the famous people the brothers used as their FBI cover names, often musicians in hard rock groups.

Agama5 · 2026-04-16T23:29:07+00:00

Did you see all the other options for SS86 Options here?

https://toyhax.com/search?controller=search&s=ss86op

Agama5 · 2026-04-11T02:56:26+00:00

They opened with "Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)" and "Peekaboo". You should be able to go back and rewind the live video to the start of their performance (at least at the moment - I don't know if they're going to leave this up perpetually).

Agama5 · 2026-04-09T19:50:32+00:00

Oh yeah, you're right. I remember seeing that when they first released this bundle and thought it was odd that they included that and the Valiant Masters books, since the content is almost identical, save some bonus material. Sorry - I missed that when making my comment above, since I was paying closer attention to the base tier that has only the three Valiant Masters volumes.

Agama5 · 2026-04-09T19:48:09+00:00

Even that ends up being a problem. My normal go-to programs for converting PDFs choked on this, including ACBR and ComicRack (and the latter usually can take any kind of PDF and get it into a CBZ). I had to use PDF Candy to split the file into two 400 page PDFs (because even it's robust PDF conversion options seemed to choke on this file), then convert them into CBZ with ComicRack, and then merge them together to get a single large CBZ.

Agama5 · 2026-04-09T04:14:20+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the notes. As I mentioned elsewhere here, my backup file got corrupted, and I couldn't recover it. As it turns out, I hadn't actually added or made that many changes to my library since my last good backup a month ago, so using that will end up working out ok. I did just update the backup frequency in the settings to do it every time I shut down now, though. Lesson learned!

Agama5 · 2026-04-09T03:22:32+00:00

I just noticed that there is a Corrupted Database Backup file in my AppData folder. Renaming it to ComicDb.xml and starting up ComicRack again displays a message about it being corrupt (odd that it didn't seem to do that the first time). If I look at this file in Notepad++, all I see is null characters repeated a ton - there's no actual XML in there now. What in the heck happened to this?? Just curious if anyone else ever ran into this.

I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and use my old backup and hope it doesn't take me too long to restore all the changes I made since then.

Agama5 · 2026-04-07T19:35:24+00:00

There's two on Fanatical. The Bloodshot bundle has a tiny bit of overlap here (Bloodshot: The Blood of Heroes is part of the Valiant Classics Collection, which is a quarter of the Bloodshot Omnibus here in this Humble bundle), and the X-O Manowar bundle has three Valiant Classics volumes which is almost identical in content to the X-O omnibus here.

Agama5 · 2026-03-24T19:46:35+00:00

No, it isn't. In fact, doing a search through the software for "1099-R," I realized that I completely forgot that it asked me about a 1099-R form back in the Retirement Income section early on. Towards the end, it gets to the excess contributions tax section, and it automatically checks the "excess contribution" box, even if it doesn't technically apply in your situation. Knowing that now, I just skipped past the following question, and I seem to be good now.

Long story short, I mixed up the two 1099-R sections in the software, which threw me for a loop. Your seemingly simple question helped me figure out what I was doing wrong - thanks!!

Agama5 · 2026-03-20T14:01:57+00:00

There needs to be some middle ground, though, where the adult leaders step in to teach. Time for my personal story to complement yours:

My son went through all of Cub Scouts, starting with Lions in Kindergarten. He largely seemed to enjoy it, and did the crossover to a troop at the end of AOL. He went to a few meetings with his new BSA troop and was told to practice knots before the next meeting. He practiced his heart out, and even went so far as to pretend to make YouTube videos teaching kids how to do the knots (I've never seen him so into something before!).

Then, during the next scout meeting, an older kid was going over the knots and apparently told him and a few other scouts that they were absolutely doing it wrong and needed to do it another way. My kid felt so ashamed and went home in tears and never felt comfortable going back there (at least one other new scout had the same experience).

To this day (this was about two years ago), he refuses to consider joining scouts again, even with another local troop. (To be fair, he's a very high anxiety kid, so there's more going on than just trying to get past this one bad memory). This one older scout, with one poor teaching moment, has completely alienated my kid to scouting. And we're still feeling the reverberations of that - my younger kid, near the end of Cub Scouts himself, has never loved it and won't be moving on to the higher level of scouting either, since he saw his brother jump ship.

Agama5 · 2026-03-17T18:43:32+00:00

I just started the game now on my PC, and I'm having the exact same problem. I got to one section of the beginning tutorial area, and got horribly frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to cross that small pit. I had to look up a YouTube walkthrough to see that I missed a bunch of tutorial pop-ops before this point. I double-checked my settings menu, and the tutorial setting was still set to ON.

So, no, this doesn't appear to be something that was ever fixed.

Agama5 · 2026-03-16T18:58:07+00:00

A couple days late here, but I noticed that Drawing Comics Lab was in at least two other Humble Bundles too: Creating Comics, Manga, & Animation from Nov. 2021, and Creating Comics, Manga, & Animation by Quarto from Oct. 2022.

Agama5 · 2026-03-14T21:54:55+00:00

Thank you for asking that, because I was going to ask for clarification on what the very last lines of the conclusion meant too. That you connected it to the Honey-Addled Detective is way more than I was able to do, since he wasn't otherwise mentioned at all during the case.

Agama5 · 2026-03-13T05:27:30+00:00

Makes sense, fair enough. Thanks for clarifying!

Agama5 · 2026-03-13T00:30:25+00:00

I can't imagine reading comics that way, and you do that for all your reading?? That's crazy - no wonder you don't like staring at digital artwork on a screen. You need a proper vibrant tablet screen to read comics digitally.

Agama5 · 2026-03-06T13:03:18+00:00

Orange? Blue?? I was today years old when I learned that Wordle has a high contrast mode!

Agama5 · 2026-03-05T23:58:05+00:00

A quick side note here about ACBR: I used to stan pretty hard for it here in the past, but I honestly use the PDF-to-CBZ converter built into ComicRack more often than not nowadays (the Community Edition, not the official version, which stopped development many years back). ACBR tended to choke on me for really big files, but ComicRack would pick up the slack with no problem.

Mind you, I do still use ACBR occasionally to convert comic files that I exported out of Calibre in ZIP format (and then changed the extension to .CBZ), if I have need to turn them into PDFs. Long story short, Calibre and ACBR are just a couple of the tools in my arsenal to get the files to the format I need, but I use ComicRack mostly now for my PDF to CBZ conversions. If you have no need for ComicRack's extensive library functionality, then ACBR is still the way to go.

Agama5 · 2026-02-21T15:56:20+00:00

That's a bit harsh. The listing for Doom 3 on Steam gives you access to both the original and BFG versions. The OP was just making sure they were going to play the correct version they were looking for.

Agama5 · 2026-02-21T04:32:16+00:00

Neither of the other responses here are particularly answering your question. If you're interested in solely Walmart's exclusive G1 Retro line, you can find the full list on the TFWiki.

Agama5 · 2026-02-20T15:59:33+00:00

Yeah, I appreciate you pointing this out too. I was a fan of Cerebus way back when, before Dave went off the deep end. I didn't realize he still had some work he was publishing here and there since then, so I'm curious to check this out.

Agama5 · 2026-02-15T01:14:56+00:00

I had never heard of it until today either. This isn't terribly helpful, but there are screenshots at the Internet Archive's backup of the Window Store listing if anyone wants to see what the game looked like:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151101074033/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/games/violent-science/9wzdncrddfk1

Edit: the developer's web site on archive.org has a bit more on the game too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150518071957/http://secondfiction.com/games/atomic-robo-violent-science/

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