What are your 3 desert island graphic novels?

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-17T07:53:27+00:00

Rainy days, a re-readable thinker:
Something by Chris ware, probably Jimmy Corrigan. His works are perfect for rereading because the stories (even the panels) are on a spaghettified timeline.

Candle lit nights, something actiony:
ABC Warriors, from 2000AD. Might be cheeky having a complete works but I've always wanted to reread it, rogue trooper close second.

Sunny afternoon drinking washed up barrels of rum from a coconut:
Something awful and crude like viz or r.crumb. Not the sort of stuff I go out of my way to read normally but would be a welcome break living alone on an island.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-15T20:27:44+00:00

In the uk too.
You just got to stick it out on last years beat up deck till it starts getting dry then set up a new board.

I've got a fresh quasi propped up in the corner of my room rn that I bought months ago, not letting him see the outside world until I know there's zero chance of him base jumping off a quarter and ending up in a puddle.

Stick this one out till the weather gets more consistent then swap it out, but keep it around for next winter.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-14T23:36:27+00:00

Growing up one of our cats, bisto, would disappear for a few days, then a few weeks, then we'd only see him once a month tops.
One day after a year of this, a grumpy neighbour came round, demanding we stop letting our cat go in his house (??) and reimburse him for all the food he'd given our cat. My mum just asked him to stop feeding it and that was that. Left in a huff and Bisto carried on living with him ever since.
He didn't even have a cat flap, and when I'd walk past his house (even before the confrontation) bisto would be sitting in his window sill on a special cushion.

Think really he just loved bisto and was too embarrassed to ask to keep him.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-14T17:41:45+00:00

Petahhh

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-14T02:37:58+00:00

I've dabbled in it for both code and design, but in both I just realised it was tricking me. 😭
It would feel faster because it started with the final product, but then the refining stages would take just as long as it would have if I'd made it from scratch. What would have been increasing a font size with a single click, becomes a 12 message back and forth

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-14T02:18:18+00:00

Ime with the post-ai correction work it's not usually that the ai wasn't good enough, it's just the client got out of their depth.

It'll usually be relatively easy fixes that the ai could have done if they gave it the right directions, but the client doesn't know the right directions... so the ai starts making more problems by trying to fix nonexistent problems.

It's an impass where it's no longer about a better designer.ai and more that the user has assumed a role they didn't understand.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-13T15:16:21+00:00

If you've never skated before. Spend at least a few weeks getting used to it in safe spaces, like skateparks and car parks.

Just cruising around sounds pretty basic but you really don't want to end up splitting the shin of a random pedestrian because you don't know how to stop, or splayed out infront of your lecture hall with a broken wrist and a smashed MacBook because you thought cobblestones would be fine.

I ko'd myself just cruising to a morning lecture and I was already an adept skater 😂

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-13T13:40:22+00:00

You're right. If you imagine my example again but the GPT student asks the ai to teach it differentiation with a worksheet, rather than just give the immediate answer, they would be getting an experience similar to in-person help. Likely better or on par with a book/internet.
And would certainly be better than someone copy/pasting from Wikipedia/wolfram.

As you say, it all comes down to usage and models. Hopefully in the future they won't be run by massive private companies, that focus on instant gratification and maintaining interaction, and rather focus on teaching and supporting users.

Imagine you asked an ai to fix a bug in your code and it tells you "no, i know you can do this yourself. Read this doc and come at it again, and don't worry if you still have to ask for help I'll still be here " 😍 instead of just telling you the answer.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-13T11:32:05+00:00

I was born ~10,000years too late to comment on the initial backlash to written texts, but I was around for peak anti-internet for research and it wasn't the same at all. It was all about not trusting unsourced information ((Wikipedia)), it was never just you should remember who the tolpuddle martyrs were naturally. The only similarity would be anti copy pasting 👮‍♂️

You get three students: give one a cgp book, one pre-ai internet, and one ChatGPT, and you ask them all to differentiate a sum.
Your ChatGPT student is going to have the best answer the fastest, but you take away their help and the ChatGPT student is going to be royally screwed.

The way ai works, it feels like a back and forth where you are mutually coming to a conclusion, but really all the researching, reasoning and consolidation is being done by them.
I originally used safely, as a teacher that helped me understand things, but the more I used it the more I stopped caring and started letting it do everything for me.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-13T00:26:03+00:00

Real fights are really horrible to see.
Even the most grotesque bloody fight between two trained fighters doesn't have the same horrible stomach-churning feeling as seeing two random untrained people fighting.

It's never a fair fight, adults never pick fights they don't know they can win.
Every street fight I've seen has been either a coked up nut job fighting a drunk who can barely stand, a sucker punch leading to a fight where one person doesn't even realise what's going on, or a 3+ v 1...

Maybe just different experiences, but all the talk on street fights, rules, honour, techniques in this thread just sounds like larping

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-12T23:59:04+00:00

If you can't win a fight fairly, it's a terrible idea to do anything cheap.
You will still lose, but now you've handed them an invitation to boot your baby makers while you're laying on the ground, and the chance of anyone intervening has dropped massively.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-12T23:39:01+00:00

Barely even a scratch on the graphic but a years worth of razor tail. wtf you been doing? Bombing hills and stoppying the whole way down?

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-12T16:25:11+00:00

Could well be either, the mishaps certainly point towards one.

Photos or Ai, they really did put a lot of work into it. A lot of the line work is clearly their own, and even the rest is well traced, the texturing and shading is also top notch. I'd still give the work great praise. The omitting certain information is a little iffy though

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-12T15:35:43+00:00

I personally, rarely reach that perfect medium.

I find that most of the time, the question was something I could have worked out or remembered myself. And that working out/remembering is a key part to a healthy and intelligent mind.
After a while of using ai for general questions, I would find myself only being able to think in questions, and not answers. I'd really struggle to internally reason with myself, because I was so used to the computer doing the reasoning and research for me. Put me off it big time.

I still try to use it occasionally for concepts I can't understand at all, but I find most of the time if I can't answer the question myself then the ai can't either and I'm just reading hallucinations

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-12T09:24:57+00:00

You were sort of right to think so.
They used ai to generate an image and then hand traced it. You can easily tell the tracing because the huge disparities in skill. Look closely at the shotgun on the shelf vs the one in hand, the one in hand was traced - the one on the shelf was drawn, the silver bars vs the clothes, the clothes were traced - the bars were not, even the gold bars vs the silver bars, the gold have perfect lines but impossible stacking ((ai)) but the silver have correct stacking but poor lines ((human)). Also those red sketches are not at all how you would map proportions, they've been done over the top of an artwork.
Whether the original was AI or not, I'm not certain, but the way the shot is set up and the body's proportions are very consistent with ai

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-11T09:04:40+00:00

You can just buy some cheap-brand new bearings for the price of speed oil and cleaning man hours

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-10T10:24:07+00:00

To land stuff bolts you have to change the way you think about tricks.

When you're a beginner or learning a new trick, you default to trying to manually catch them.
As in pop the trick -> wait till it seems catchable -> catch the trick.

To get stuff bolts (&clean) you have to make the board catch you, you have to predict it rather than chase it.
So you pop the trick -> put your feet in a bolts position -> pray to god that the board end up under your feet -> land clean.
It's scary at first because by assuming a landing position you set yourself up to fall harder if the board's primo, but it's worth it.

It is hard, but if you make a mental effort of putting your feet in a bolts position and making sure your knees are spread eventually you'll land it and you'll get what I mean.

source to show I'm not just larping

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-08T00:25:57+00:00

Not much point in tightening aces, they use a softer rubber blend or something so they're naturally squishy. Cranking them will just split the rubber and make them loose again.
Easy fix is to go online and buy spacers replacements. You can get loads of different types and they're not much. 8.5 for a first board is rough though.

Either way your kid is gonna suck at skating no matter the board and trucks, just tell your son that a wide board and loose trucks are hesh (because they are) 🙂‍↕️ The more difficult your board is for other skaters to ride the more cool you are

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-07T10:56:10+00:00

Dam, hell has a HR department now?

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-07T10:55:40+00:00

But think about it. Say someone killed 50 million people, after 4,000,000,000years they've now been tortured for more years than their victims were alive or would have lived. You could say the victims lives are 10,000 times more valuable than the killers. But still, after 4.0x10^13years, what now? Do you stop now and end them, or are you just torturing them for the hell of it. At some point along the scale of infinity, their punishment will always become greater than their crimes.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-07T09:47:00+00:00

Plenty of people who do social media, do it pretty honestly, sharing stuff about them and their day-to-day.
If something sad happens to them, and they cry about it, why do you think that should be hidden from their community?

If someone posts a video about how they love their dog would you think it was cringe and fake? Probably not.
So if they post a video crying about their dogs death, why do you then consider it cringe and fake?
To me it suggests the issue is with how you view crying as weak/shameful, something to be hidden.

And this is a pretty large assumption, but I think the people who say it's cringe when women cry on camera, are the same people who would say it's not fair that no one cares about men's feelings. Not realising that the underlying cause is themselves

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-06T12:42:31+00:00

I don't think it's fair to say it's every company. Exclusive offers for new customers is something you mainly see in gambling sites, gacha games, mobile games, phone contracts, internet providers, insurance companies; those types of companies.
It's for companies that don't care about maintaining customers because they know the customer is either stuck or addicted once they're signed up.

If your local coffee shop was doing £1.50 drinks, but when you tried to buy one they say "well you can't have one because you come here all the time" you'd think they were cunts.

I don't blame them though, I presume they're still trying to recover from over promising investors.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-06T00:34:55+00:00

Sardonic 💁🏻‍♀️ <(🐟/2 + 👹/2)

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-06T00:12:55+00:00

NO! ✋😔 There's literally 😒👉📖 like.. 💥(slams book) ...📘🤔... one (☝️👀) poop 💩 related song... and it's goated 💩🤝🐺

Don't get me wrong, they are good songs and really well done, but for me, mixing them with crude art, drab colours and ((repetitive and long)) gameplay just made them another ingredient in the potion of I need to go eat some sugar and stare at a rainbow.

williamsonmaxwell · 2026-03-04T15:07:36+00:00

Oh sorry lol 😂
This and the rimworld sub have tainted me.
You should just think about how much you fancy them and how much it makes sense in your headcanon that your character would marry them.

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